Dragon's Challenge - D. R. Rosier Page 0,35
the three dragons, who dove at her from three different directions. She aimed her body at the middle one, but then she suddenly turned sharply toward the one on the left and slightly lower, as all three of them roared and shot lightning her way. Her body flared brightly with fire as just one of the three bolts hit her while the other two missed. Her return attack was almost immediate as she shot glowing liquid fire as she shrieked in rage from her beak.
Her fire compared to Shar’s when she’d accidentally killed the two bugbears and turned most of them to ash, was like comparing a candle to a forest fire. The fireball splashed into the black dragon who let out a mighty roar of anguish, as the liquid fire clung to and melted all the black scales it covered. Turning the bright shiny ebony scales to a dull bubbling black as the fire ate into it.
The other two dragons took the opportunity afforded and dove for Cinder with their mouths open.
He channeled his own magic even as he cast the candle lighting cantrip, and he fired a ball of fire at the middle one’s wings, while Shar fired at the wings of the third dragon. Both their attacks missed, but at the same time they were effective in making the two dragons dodge to avoid the attack, which forced them to abort their own attack on Cinder and circle back around. Their fire would never burn through dragon scales like Cinder’s could, but the wings of a dragon were much more fragile in comparison.
He shuddered, when Cinder’s fire burned off the wing of the dragon she’d hit. The dragon roared in fear, and in pain as the rest of the fire continued to eat through the scales and into its body, as it fell toward the ground.
He barked, “Get up there and help her down the other two, we’ll finish them.”
Shar’s voice was sultry, and very seductively heated, when she said, “My pleasure, master,” then winked, unfurled and flared her wings, and leapt into the sky.
Of all the times to have a hard on for the god’s sake. He knew violence got her excited, but apparently his firm growly order had multiplied that heat inside of her, and he found that… hot. She’d also never called him master before, and he had a feeling she’d been deflecting with humor by fucking with him.
Regardless, he got his head back into the battle and ran toward the trees that the wingless black dragon had fallen behind. Some of those trees were already on fire. Both Tansya and Nysa were on his heels, as they sprinted in that direction.
The black dragon roared in pain and confusion, and as soon as it saw them it opened its mouth and released lightning.
He laughed like a madman, as the bolt harmlessly coruscated around his earth shield and grounded into the earth below them.
“Hold him still!”
Nysa’s water magic flowed. Normally a dragon’s magical scales would make them highly resistant to any magic, but with almost a third of its scales melted and ruined she had no problem finding purchase inside the dragon’s body with her magic.
The black dragon’s head slammed into the ground, forcing its jaw shut, and holding its head still. Nysa probably couldn’t do it for long, dragons were very strong, but she could hold it the two seconds he needed her to.
An arrow flew by him and went into the dragon’s eye like a stick into water. He grinned as he leapt and jumped the last ten feet as he shifted a two handed lochaber axe from his armory, and he screamed as he held it over his head and chopped down with all his might. At the same exact time, he channeled more magic and shifted it to earth magic. He made his blade temporarily sharper and more durable, while at the same time giving the steel even more momentum and weight behind it than he was capable of in his perfect and very strong human body.
The axe blade’s whistle through the air was loud enough to challenge his deafening war cry, as the blade sunk into the dragon’s neck. He continued pushing it on with his earth magic and a torrent of magic, so instead of getting stuck just a foot or so in, it cut through like a hot knife through butter. Blood sprayed and soaked him, as the dragon’s head was severed from its body.
The head was being