DRAGONS

“He will be alright!” yelled Alanna, trying to reassure Krom so he could get back in the fight, “I will take care of him! They need you up there! Go!” Confident that Liu Cheng would be fine with Alanna, Krom flapped his wings forcefully to fly back up to the Fury as fast as possible to help his fellow earth dragons. Three earth dragons attempted the almost certain suicidal attack flying through the body of the Fury, but only one of them came out the other side, covered in the tar-like substance that the ancient being seemed to be made of. A couple of water dragons created another long waterspout that rose up from the ocean to meet with the earth dragon in the air, hoping to wash the gooey and sticky substance off his body. But it was too late for him; his body began to disintegrate as if eaten away by the unnatural substance he was covered with. In the end, not even a corpse was left of the once powerful dragon. The Fury then directed its attention to the water dragons it had neglected so far. Several dragon heads popped out from the bottom of the creature floating above the ocean and began spitting their green fires at the serpentine dragons below. The dragons’ first reaction was to dive and use the water as a shield, but that failed to protect two of them who were caught in the magical fire and got disintegrated. Krom flew up to face the Fury once again and called telepathically on what was left of his brothers to join him, ‘follow me!’ Starting from the very top of the Fury’s amorphous body, Krom began to fly in a big circle around it; the earth dragons followed him. Then, they opened their mouths and began to spit their fires at the Fury from all around it, as they continued descending in a circle, like a coil. The dragons’ fires burned some of the Fury’s body away, but their numbers had decreased too much and could no longer affect the enemy substantially enough. Following the dragons’ lead, the Fury began to turn on its own axis, becoming an enormous twister, a tornado of epic proportions that pulled all the dragons in toward it. Even the waters below were pulled up with the dragons in it. Krom lighted himself up on fire and was able to escape the Fury’s pull momentarily. But, as he flew away from the massive rotating creature, he watched as his brothers and sisters fought hopelessly against a force so great and unstoppable that it seemed like everything had come to an unavoidable end for them.