Chapter 6
POV: Omniscient
Blake was still sitting at the railing of the ship, by herself as per usual. She had felt eyes on her sporadically for a while now. This time, it got on her nerves too much. She spun around, sword out.
Blake: Who's there?
She saw a cloaked figure duck away, a second too late. Finally, she had at least seen her stalker. That brown cloak... It must have been the blur of brown she had seen before. But still, who would be following her? The white fang? No, they should have any interest in just following her like this. If they've been following her since the fall, than they would have had plenty of chances to kill or capture her, but they haven't tried. Before Blake could investigate further, though, something stirred in the water around them. The boat shook violently, and a serpentine figure rose up in front of the ship.
Captain: By the gods…
The alarm was raised, and people began frantically running all around the ship.
Captain: All hand to battle stations!
First-mate: Sir! We've never fought something this big!
She was right about that. The dragon was longer than the ship.
Captain: We've never even seen something this big… but we'll give her a fight, nonetheless!
As the cannon began thundering around her, Blake ran forward and jumped off the front railings to fight the dragon. It wasn't expecting an individual attack and actually got hit. Unfortunately for Blake, her sword could barely make a dent. She threw everything she had into her attacks, but it still did nothing. She landed back on the decks and recovered. She had hurt her shoulder during one of the attacks, when a crew member hadn't seen her, and consequently almost hit her with a cannon.
Captain: Prepare the heavy cannon!
Suddenly, part of the deck opened up, and a massive cannon was revealed. The dragon responded by tucking in its fins, and opening up wings. The aerial battle began. It started by dodging the cannon fire that started immediately after it transformed. While the cannon was reloading, it flew straight at the front of the ship, where Blake was. It opened its mouth, and began charging some sort of laser. Blake stood up a little straighter and got ready to fight. Right before it fired, something jumped on her shoulders and used her as a springboard. Luckily, she had recovered enough, meaning it didn't do any further damage. She looked up, to see that cloaked figure she had seen earlier. The cloak fell off, revealing Sun. He summoned his light clones, which each grabbed a… whisker? I don't know what that is, but they grabbed it and used it to pull the dragon's head up.
Blake: Sun?! What are you doing here?!
Sun was now riding the dragon like a very incompetent cowboy.
Sun: Oh, you know. Just hanging out-
The dragon finally threw him off, and he was sent flying directly at a rock poking out of the water nearby. Blake saw his trajectory and quickly reacted. She grappled off the top of the ship and swung herself to intercept him. She caught him and landed.
Sun: My hero-
Immediately, she dropped him.
Blake: You're not supposed to be here!
Sun: Oh yeah? Well, it looks like you could use all the help you can get.
Blake: Just shut up and fight.
Sun stood up and quickly saluted.
Sun: Yes ma'am!
Blake got back on the ship, and managed to overhear the first-mate-
First-mate: Sir! We can't land a hit, it's moving too fast. We've lost the starboard defenses as well.
Captain: No good news?
He thought about the situation, before deciding on a plan. When he looked outside, he saw Blake about to get blasted by another laser. Right before it fired, though, Sun blocked it with his staff.
Captain: Huntsmen! It's too fast. If you could clip its wings, and draw it out towards the bow, we can take it!
Blake glanced at Sun, trying to think of a plan.
Sun: I mean… you're the one with the sword.
The dragon flew back around, right in front of them.
Sun: It's now or never!
He summoned more clones. The first three sprang him up into the air, then went up themselves. The last one judo-threw Blake straight up. She ran into another one midair, which threw her into another clone, which finally threw her at Sun. He got ready to throw her, but instead got a foot to the face as she landed on his shoulders and jumped off. She stopped moving upwards, and time seemed to stop, as she realized how high up she was. Sun might have gone a bit over-kill on the height… She started going down, but the dragon realized she was there. It turned upwards, and let loose a barrage of lasers. All of them missed. Blake pulled out her sword, and land on one of the dragon's wings. Running down it, she dragged her sword the entire way it, ripping it. The dragon, suddenly losing thrust from one side, lurched. This motion was just enough to throw Blake off. Sun saw her fall and quickly calculated trajectories. He ran out to a chain of rocks and got ready, slicking back his hair. He caught Blake. The force of her fall caused the rock underneath him to crack. She looked up.
Sun: This is the part where you say it.
She just glared. She didn't get to for very long, though, since the dragon crashed into the rocks, which they now noticed were just stacked somehow. The rock underneath them started to go down.
Sun: Ok, maybe later!
They both started running as the dragon knock out rocks beneath them. They jumped and barely landed on the last rock, which wasn't on a physically impossible rock stack. The dragon stopped level with them and charged it's thunder breath. Blake and Sun braced for the pain when the ship suddenly ran into the dragon. The front had actually pierced the dragon's skin, but it wasn't dead ye-
Captain: Fire!
The heavy cannon fired, and the dragon was split in two by a massive explosion. Blake and Sun both breathed a sigh of relief. Sun raised his hand for a high-five.
Sun: Yah! Up top!
Blake spun around, her hand already up. The thing is, it wasn't aimed at Sun's hand.
Slap!
