Obsidian's reverie
was cut short as she realized her own grave error. “Pyre watch out!” She
yelled.
Pyre snapped his head in the direction of
Obsidian's frantic yell, but indeed he had been too late. A flurry of white
feathers slammed into his right flank sending him spiraling out of the sky.
His talons ripped into the side of the
feathered beast, which returned the gesture in kind as their forms, a ball of
red scale and white feather continued their less than graceful dive.
“This ends now dragon!” the feathered one
hissed in a feminine voice as her talons dug into Pyre's flank.
Pyre growled low in his throat as he finally
shook the Anjyl off. “Why are you doing this?! Your kind and mine are
practically cousins. Why turn on us like this?”
A laugh akin to the tinkling of bells left the
feathered dragon, her gray depths burned into the dragon's with malice.
“Your kind is thorn in our sides. We cannot
fully control the 'God' fearing creatures with you around.”
Pyre had heard enough, he flew at the Anjyl
and gripped her left wing in with his front taloned paws, his back ones came to
land on the feathered female's underside where his talons dug deeply in. His back legs gave a sharp kick outward as
his front legs pulled the wing toward his own body.
The Anjyl's eyes widened. Her sleek feathered
head shook vigorously back and forth causing the thick standalone whiskers on
either side of her muzzle to dance in the wind. Then, she gave out of a blood
curdling screech of pain as the sound of popping bone, tissue, and feathered
flesh broke through the howl of the rushing wind.
A smirk crossed Pyre's maw as he released the
now useless wing. “Your kind will never be better than us Anjyl. If you
survive, tell your Oni we will not fall prey to you... Hunt us again and it
will be the Anjyl's that become the prey!”
He kicked out once more letting his wings
unfurl to catch the upward current of the wind. His talons mucked with
feathers, flesh, and gore, he gave a shrug knowing he had wasted his breath.
Even as he watched, his wings giving the occasional flap to keep himself aloft,
The Anjyl was falling. When she hit the water head first and did not resurface
he knew it had been an wasted effort.
Above him, where the rest of the fighting
sectors of the horde were, he heard growls and the clash of talons. Angling
himself he began his ascent back to his brother's side, dodging the many
breaths of acid, and the falling of Anjyls.
“I'm glad you're okay Pyre.” Oceanus grunted
as Pyre came up beside him.
Pyre latched his maw on the neck of the large
Anjyl male that was trying very much in vain to knock Oceanus from the sky. “I
told you I can take care of myself.” Was
the muffled reply as the male went limp in Pyre's jaw.
Pyre let the Anjyl drop to join his kin in the
bottom of the ocean. Pyre's amber depths noted the purple hue to the once blue
water and had to wonder to himself if it would ever return to normal after this
fight.
As the last Anjyl
fell to its final resting place, Oceanus let out a strong bellow. The children,
Rose, and the others lifted from the small island to rejoin the ranks of the
horde. Oceanus knew the browns were a bit miffed at being left out of the
fight, He also knew that Rose's Xosha required every brown dragon there to be
found.
“We no longer have time and distance on our side.
I'm sure that horde were not the only ones. Their leader was not among their
numbers. We must make haste to our new home now. We cannot afford another
battle. Many of you are injured now and the will to carry on is diminished, but
you must continue forward! We all seek the freedom and peace of Rose's Xosha,
we must stay together to achieve it!” Oceanus' voice was strong, though as he
looked over his small band of dragons his heart grew heavy. They had lost at
least three in that fight., they could not afford to lose any more.
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