EB p.2 The Dark Times

[Morty]

Lulu panted, blood dripping from her mouth. She'd unfortunately encountered a foe that didn't take too kindly to being gnawed on.
What's going on out there? chimed Jack excitedly. Are you keeping score?
That's Leucrocuta 3, rebels 0, seeing as I'm still alive. Lulu thought back in a disgruntled voice. Her right eye lit suddenly as she spied a fire dragon and his elven rider leave the cover of the trees. "You..." she growled lowly, "I recognize you..."
What's going on, Lulu? Oh my gosh, is that who I think it is? QUICK! KILL HER! Jack yelled in her head. Not caring about code of conduct, Leucrocuta lunged, black claws extended, blood-spattered jaw snapping.

((SIMON SAYS "KILL!" <'D))

[Midnightmoon]

Firen was going to jump into the fight when a huge ball of black fur came shooting out of the battlefield and right at them. Firen leaned away to skid under the mass and at the same time Amber slipped off and rolled to the ground. Amber stayed down till the black dragon had flown over then hastily picked herself up blade out. Firen had righted himself by now and safely behind the dragon. Making a quick bound he was behind his rider, crouching and snarling, tail whipping about.

[Morty]

Leucrocuta skidded to a halt and turned, her tail lashing, bony spikes growing out of the tip with a series of sickening crunches and cracks. A pair of tusks slid with a schnnrrrk out of the corners of her mouth. Lulu snarled viciously, her one eye glowing yellow in the dark. That's it, Lulu! Break a few bones for me, will you! chorused Jack. Lulu was hardly paying attention. "Remember me?" she snarled, lunging to rip out the younger dragon's throat.

((If it says anywhere in my older posts that Lulu has 2 eyes, ignore that. ))

[Midnightmoon]

Amber jumped to the side rolling upon impact to stand again, out of the claws reach. Then she followed up with a slash at the dragons flank. Firen, still fresh, batted at the head of the oncoming dragon with his claws while dancing out of the way. "We've fought and defeated many member of the dark clan in the past few years." Amber said. "How could we remember a single dragon." Firen finished.

[Awesomoman]

A demon rider and dragon were charging straight at a few archers, when Targus jumped in front of him. Targus grabbed on to the dragon's neck and swung up, swords out, the dragons head fell clean off. The rider was stunned long enough for Targus to behead him as well. "NOW!" Targus jumped and flipped off right as Agate smashed into the dragon body, throwing it right into another line of riders knocking them over. "Can we do that again?" Agate laughed. "With our luck, no. but i like the hard way the best any how." Targus replied smiling.

[Morty]

Leucrocuta ploughed ahead, unmindful of the blows to her head nor the cut in her thigh, her dripping fangs biting empty air. "You'd think," she said, hot breath blowing from between her slavering jaws, a faint ember flickering in the back of her throat, "The General of the 4th Division would not be an easy face to forget." She exhaled, a bright blue flame engulfing everything before her at over 2000 degrees celsius.

[Midnightmoon]

Amber hopped away from the flames, covering up her expression with a blank. Firen grunted. Being a dragon of fire it didn't hurt as much as it would any other type but the temperature still heated his scales to a uncomfortable heat. In retaliation he opened his snarling muzzle and blasted a flooding flame of his own. Blue and orange flames battled with each other and where the two collided white flame was born. Swallowing her anxiety Amber added a fireball to the mix with a flurry of hand movements. Still her courage failed her once the flame was sent on it's way on the enemy dragons blind side. After that she held back to wait for stand off to break.

[Morty]

The fire in Leucrocuta's throat guttered out, smoke trailing from between her teeth. Her fur was singed where her own fire had burned her, and where a fireball had struck her side. Water pattered down and soaked the ground, a product of the hydrogen flame's reaction with the air. Leucrocuta's yellow eye flickered. She carefully began to draw crude oil from beneath the surface of the earth, the black puddles mimicking the pools of water that dotted the distance between her and Firen and at their feet. She shuddered and began to back away as convincingly as possibly. "Aargh, that fire really hurt. You'd better not use that trick again." she said, her mouth twitching at the hidden connotation.
Move over, I wanna see this. snickered Jack, fighting to gain control over Leucrocuta's remaining eye.

[Midnightmoon]

Firen looked at the dragon with curiosity and suspicion. After all, why would a creature that can breath fire be hurt by it's own flame? With slitted eyes be began to circle forward with cautious steps. After a few steps one of his paws ignited upon impact with the ground, same went for the other paw on the next step. Amber was close at hand. She couldn't take on a dragon one on one so she would have to just contend with getting some lethal strikes in. Firen ignored the puddles and there was too much smoke and sulfur from their firefight moments ago to warn him about the concealed trap. A inflamed claw dipped into the liquid- an the entire quantity erupted into flames as fire consumed the oil.

There was a massive chain reaction and before they knew it the bonded pair were surrounded with the flames closing in fast. Stared at the feral fire and found her hands shaking. Firen roared, throwing his wings around them. "Can you throw the fire at the dragon?" "Hold on..." Amber raised her shaking hand and whispered a spell that would collect up all the flames into a single ball. The orange glow that seeped through Firen's wings still danced strong all around them. "Sorry-" "It's ok. I got another plan." Firen's tail came snaking in and wrapped around Amber's mid-section. Then with a flap the pair traded stiffing hungry flames to the open air. Firen took a few seconds to twist his tail around to place his rider on his lower back for a more secure position. Shakily she got into the saddle.

[Awesomoman]

Targus was trying to have fun. two demons ran up to attack him but he ducked, causing one with a long sword to kill his friend. "Hey, do we get points for causing them to team kill?" Targus asked Agate. "No, they just lose points." "Dang." "We should do this more often." Agate said as he turned the ground upside down burrying a dragons and rider. "I know, i mean, were getting fresh air." Targus replied crossing his blades to trap the demon's and then knocking it out of his hands. "Plenty of exercise." He brought his swords back stabbing the demon right in the chest. "And were doing it together." "Yeah......your getting bored to eh?" "Ugh, id rather be stuck listening to one Aquariah scoldings. Then there would be a challenge of trying to get away." Targus shifted to dodge a warhammer that slammed right in front of him. "Hey, look at that." Agate pointed to a rider and her dragon. "What about em?" He sliced the demon's arms off. "They're yelling at the troops, giving orders." Agate flicked the demon, sending him a long way from the battle. "You dont think?" Targus was getting a smile. "If thats their leader, then she obviously will be at least some what of a challenge." "I know but..." "Look, worst case sinario, she can only think and calls a bunch of guards over to fight us for her. We kill them and then her and the dragon and we win easily." Targus thought about it, then asked. "Best case?" "She can beat her men anytime anywhere and she is actuallya real leader." "I like that one." "so waht do ya say?" Agate leaned next to him. "On 3, we run. Ready. 1....2.......3!" They both charged, cutting down any in their path. Once they got right up to the demon leader, Targus held up his hand. "Ill do that talking, you just sit back."He told Agate. He walked up and knocked on the dragon's leg as if it were a door. "Excuse me, is the lady behind you home?"

[Kauria]

Athvesa snarled, swiping out with armored claws and dropping one wing to the ground by Maela. "We're not accepting well-wishers at the moment, halfblood," he growled, catching sight of the swordsman's rounded ears.
Following her bond's mental cue, Maela raced up Athvesa's lowered wing, leaping into the air with her axelike halberd held high over her head.

[Morty]

Leucrocuta grinned satisfactorily a safe distance away as Jack's laughter filled her head. "Guess I should have used that trick right off the bat." she said in her guttural voice. Her attention was then caught by an earth dragon and his rider wreaking havok among the demon troups. She squinted. "General?" she said uncertainly, but her attention was quickly returned when Firen and Amber burst from the blazing forest, apparently unscathed. She frowned.
"Ttill breathing, are we?" growled Lulu in distaste, flapping powerfully. Cursing, she flapped harder, a useless endeavor. "Ugh." ((Lulu: T_________T"))
Heeheehee, maybe you should cut down on the buffalo, Lulu. teased Jack, laughing at her efforts.
Shut up, you're lucky you're not here right now. said Lulu, standing on her stout back legs to snap at the airborn pair.

Jack wiped a tear of mirth from his eye as he turned back to the fire clan prisoners. "Aah, that was rich. Now we better get on with the interrogation, or I'm gonna miss out on a patrol again." he said happily, clapping his hands together.

((LET'S JUST SAY THE INTERROGATION HAPPENED OFF-SCENE cause I'm tired of the word "syringe" and I don't know what questions would be asked. ))

[Midnightmoon]

(OOC: I suck at interrogation too. just look at my pitiful excuse for one in Ninja Wars. -_-' we should get tips from kauria. ^-^)

Firen circled around in the air far out of reach of the snapping dragon below, who seamed to be having trouble getting off the ground, while dodging the occasional battle s taking place in the air. Taking another deep breath Amber finally stopped shaking. "You ok now?" "For now." Amber chuckled dryly then added, "How ironic, eh?" "Think about the irony later. Hold on tight." Firen instructed, then folded in his wings for a steep dive at their opponent.

[Morty]

Leucrocuta grinned like a cheshire as Firen began to dive. She braced for the impact, a bony unicorn-like horn spiralling from her forehead to point directly at the incoming dragon. "Lights out, buddy." she laughed, her thick skull poised to impale.

((Leucrocuta used Horn Drill! ))

[Awesomoman]

Targus jumped back to dodge Athvesa's attack. "Well-wishers? No no no, im here to file a complaint." Targus rolled to the side to dodge Maela's jump attack. "You see, i was told that the demon army was Deadly and Challenging. But from what i've seen." He pointed over his shoulder with his thumb at the line of carnage he and Agate made. "They're anything but. So i was wondering if you could do anything about that, you know, train them more or something." "id you seriously just come to complain?" Agate gave him a look. "Hold on im getting to the real thing." "But even then." Targus continued. "You still need to make up for the disappointment that i got from this fight. I was wondering if YOU could make up for your men?"