Dragon's Challenge - D. R. Rosier Page 0,36

held still by Nysa’s magic, so it was the body that rolled away as the dragon collapsed in death.

He snapped his eyes up into the sky, more than ready to kill another of the fuckers. He knew he was acting a little bloodthirsty, but that was normal and more than acceptable in the case of lesser dragons. It was a miracle he could even fight them in human form without succumbing to the desire to change, so he wasn’t about to complain about it.

Unnoticed by him at the time, with his eyes on the fight above, his Nysa and Tansya were both looking at the large outline of his hardened cock beneath the leather armor with a dreamy lost expression on their faces. His wild and potent ferocity and battle rage had them drowning in lust.

One of the dragons had a smoking wing, the one Shar was trying to ground, but there were no holes burned through the wings yet. The other dragon was in full defensive mode, as it kept dodging balls of red and blue liquid fire and firing lightning over its shoulder as its sinewy neck looped around.

He watched for several long moments with a raptor’s gaze and a burning raging desire to see them dead, then channeled more fire magic and sent a huge fireball arching up into the sky. He watched with bated breath as the dragon didn’t even seem to notice, all his attention on his pursuer.

He’d timed it and guessed right, as the fireball neared, and was obviously going to miss, Cinder sent another ball of liquid fire at the bastard.

The black dragon dodged it, but he’d studied the pattern and guessed right, and the lesser dragon dodged right into the path of his fireball. The fireball exploded as it hit a foot or two from the edge of its wingtip, and a blast of fire encompassed a full third of the hundred foot wing span, causing the dragon to scream in rage and pain.

Cinder shrieked as the fireball dissipated, and part of the wing was burned through. The wing still had some lift, but it was forced into a corkscrew turn, and she dove in an intercept course and spat another ball of liquid fire that hit the dragon right in the snout as it turned in her direction. She flapped her fiery wings, and she arced up above the dragon with a victory shriek. There were just a few feet between them, as the dragon roared in agony and fell for the ground.

He grunted in annoyance, there was no point running after it, it was already dead, it just didn’t know it yet. The head and scales protecting it would be completely melted from Cinder’s fire. There was no coming back from that, it’s why phoenixes were so damned dangerous to dragons. That liquid fire was some dangerous shit. It wasn’t really liquid, it just acted that way, as it clung to the target. They were capable of much lesser fire as well. That fire was their most dangerous kind.

Shar was a lot more maneuverable on her wings, but the dragon she’d been harrying was faster, and had so far avoided being taken down. With the death of the other two dragons, and his wings on fire, the dragon’s morale broke and he ran for it. He whipped his wings hard, and he took off toward the north.

Which, was a mistake, travelling in a straight line like that.

Shar’s ball of white-hot fire exploded even more powerfully than back at the caves, and he felt the blast of concussive hot air from at least a quarter mile away. The dragon’s wing was nothing but bones and tatters, and the dumb beast pumped its other wing hard in desperation, putting it into a wild spin as it crashed down into the ground.

He stared for a minute, fighting the irrational need to run after it. It’d come down a long way off, and Cinder was already in a dive with her burning wings flaring. He’d never get there before her, and he shook his head firmly and took a deep breath. He forced the insane rage and need to kill to back off, the black dragon was as good as dead.

April asked, “How are you standing there?”

He laughed, half humor and half annoyance, “Cinder’s got it. There it is.”

Another ball of liquid fire exploded from her beak, and she shrieked in victory one more time as she turned sharply and regained altitude. She was