A new chapter has come and a long fight is here... yeah it took me a while to write this calm down.
Really i don't have a lot to say, except sorry for the wait and hope you enjoy this chapter.
Now let's get on with it!.
CHAPTER 7 START.
So the dragon that we just found is sinh the poisonous grey lizard that breaths poisioned fire, maybe we should shoot the fireballs now.
"naofumi!, fucking fire!" i screamed while throwing a meteor half-charged at the dragon's face, naofumi followed my example and used the twinbellows shield to launch two fireballs, our attacks impacted... and did jack shit.
Pretty sure the dragon snorted a flames with some kind of green in them, like telling us why use fire on a FIRE breathing lizard... well this is bad then it reared it's head bac- OH SHIT!.
I jumped to the right dodging the spew of green-ish flames while naofumi rise his shield and took the great stream of flames head on.
He managed to block it but his eyes were slightly redened, oh right this asshole is poisonous.
"hey boss you should use something with poision resistance!" pretty sure naofumi base defense can can handle the fire but not the poison.
Not bothering to hear his response i changed to the primal bringer, and used brute force raising my attack at it's highest and made a mad dash towards a dragon, you know like a dumbass.
Then our friendly chiken went right past me, damn she is fast, jumped to the face of the big fucken dragon and delivered a kick to it's head it definitly harmed it but not a lot i just saw like a drop of green blood and a tilt of his head, the dragon decided to headbutt firo back to the ground.
I was a little worried for her, but the giant murder beast was my priority, i decided to go for the gaping chest that still has the injury that the sword hero did to sinh.
Sinh probing to be a whole lot smarter than i expected, took a step back and threw a tail swipe to crush me to the ground, me since i didn't have a lot of defense decided to punch the incoming limb.
Wich resulted in me getting thrown all the way back with the team, but atleast i'm in one piece.
"ok so this thing is really fucking though, any ideas?" i asked while getting up and shacking my head, cause this fucker hits hard!.
Naofumi nodded to my surprisse "the dragon knew you were going for it's injury, while that shows that it's smart it also showed that it doesn't want us to go for it" okay seems like a start.
"well give you an opening flint!" said raphtalia and unsheated her sword and she charged along with naofumi and firo, we all know i'm the hardest hitter of the team so okay this could work... or blow up in our faces.
I rushed right behind them still using the primal bringer, pretty sure the dragon did some grunts that almost sounded like a laugh, well fuck you too buddy.
Naofumi was using a green shield, that i swear looks like a slime to block the dragons flame's raphtalia was trying to gouge sinh's eyes out while confussing him with ilusions but the dragon was fending her off with just it's tail and was battering firo aside with it's claws.
But that also means that i can land an actual fatal blow, or atleast i hope i do.
So i was getting pretty close to my objective then, sinh reacted to me almost instantaniously and tried to bite my head off, "oh SHIT!" were probably going to be my last words.
"air strike shield!" then again naofumi just comes in to save my ass, pretty sure the dragon cracked the shield but it did it's job, i reared my right fist back then...
*CRACK!*
GRAAAAAAAOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!
I was about to follow up my attack, but sinh moved his wing in one action it pushed all of us away and took flight too he was really high up too.
"so... is he escaping?" that was firo just as confussed as us... then it came diving down FAST.
"everyone get on firo!" pretty sure i could make a dirty joke but it's not the time, so i jumped behind firo, naofumi was in front and raphtalia in the middle... i could also make a dirty joke out of that.
I chnaged to my devil bringer "now wh-" before i can finish my question, a jet of green-osh flames striked right behind us.
"okay, faster please!" i exclaimed in a little fear.
We are in a pretty bad situattion, firo is fast but it's only a matter of time before it catche's our asses, and we don't have a way of getting i'm from the sky, doubt that phantasmal hand can reach the damn lizard.
But maybe...
"naofumi can your air strike shield be used as a plataform!?" my voice came out with more high than i expected it to.
"yes!, why?!" well good thing that i'm not the only one lossing my shit.
Raphtalia glances in my direction "is it really the time for pointless questions!?" oh raphtalia, this may save us all... or kill me in horrible fassion.
"okay, so naodumi you make a plataform for firo to use and she'll get as high as she can, then i'll jump and use my hand to ride the fucking lizard" i wasn't screaming anymore so that's a good thing.
"are you craz-!?" before naofumi could finish another jet of flames cae making firo leapt to the right to dodge.
"we don't have time!" i screamed back at him.
Without responding back she grabs firo reigns and turns her around, firo who also heard my plan and started going faster we we're going back towards the dragon, god this plan is so dumb.
We were getting closer...closer... and...
"naofumi..." i said feeling nervous of how close we were getting and the fire the damn lizard is throwing at us is not helping.
"shut up, if we are doing this we are doing it right" he said completely consentrated in the plan i just told him.
"don't die..." i really don't know who said that i was too focused in the dragon.
Said lizard spewed anothe flame attack, then the show begun.
"air strike shield!" naofumi exclaimed and a green shield appeared in the air, firo leaped above the flames and in the plataform the leapted again, i was in reach.
"phantasmal hand!" with that the giant blue arm flew againts the first thing i could grab of the dragon, sinh probably noticed what we were doing so he tried to go higher up, but i managed to grab his tail.
And up we go!, this is a really bad idea and the dragon doing barrel rolls or whatever the hell they are actually called is not helping!.
"focus flint, focus" i tell myself and pulling with my right hand i go to the back of the dragon, so i could try to hit a wing an- is the dragon looking at me?.
Yes he is... damn that's a flexible neck i saw a flicker of flames, DUCK!.
A jet of flames passes above my head, okay... OH SHIT JAWS!, i roll to the left and grab his wing to not fall of, kinda hard considering that the wing is moving up and down.
I saw the dragon reading another flame attack and since he is fire proof i quickly use phantasmal hand against the tail again to dodge the torrent of poisonous heat.
Hummm... the end of his tail looks like a sword, o yeah i got an idea, i use my left hand to grab the tail then the phantasmal hand and my right hand grab the end of the tail and i start pulling with all my strenght.
The primal bringer may hit the hardest but to handle great presure or weight the normal devil bringer is the one to use.
It was working but sinh wasn't just gonna let me do this, he started shaking his tail and spinning like fucking crash, but my grip was good eneough to keep me on...
"BLEEEEERRRGHHHHH!" doesn't mean my stomach did the same, that's fucking disgusting but i was still pulling, i can see a little blood started leaking from the tail, so that's a good sign.
I pull one last time and the sound of flesh ripping visits my ears, but i ignored it, that was really fucking hard to do and the fact that sinh didn't scream in pain isn't giving me any good vibes.
No use to think about it, i think i have something to go through it's scales more easily, it's tail just like any darksouls player would do... i think.
Grabing the tail tip with my phantasmal hand i pull with all the strength of my left arm and go to sinh's back again, the head of the dragon was staring at me in what i guess it's hate.
"can we talk about this?" i asked already knowing the answer, guess what? more flames i go to the right but the flames managed to graze my shoulder, so the extra weight is more of a problem than i tough it was.
But i'm close to the right wing, fuck it i'm going for it i dash at the wing raise my right hand and the phantasmal hand... also my left side hurts a lot.
Two things happened my weaponised body part went trough the begining of the wing right in the muscle and bone prompting agrunt of pain of the dragon and it's wing to stop moving, but the grunt i heard was to close to me i turn to the left and see the jaws of sinh digging deep in my left arm.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" i screamed in pain while we were falling i stoped grabing the ripped tail of the dragon and started punching the damn lizard like a madman, but like a dog who found it's favorite toy it wouldn't let go.
And then we hitted ground i could feel how my left arm was teared of me, the force of our fall was probably the reason it happened so quickly i was laying in the grass not far from sinh clutching my new wound with my right arm while gritting my teeth, cause HOLY FUCK IT HURST!.
Good thing the dragon is almost as damaged as me but pretty sure the moving shadow was of sinh, so the lizard can take a lot more punishment than me.
Well shit.
I feel something grabing me from the back of my coat and lift me up away from the still recovering dragon, i take a small glance behind me, firo and riding her are naofumi and raphtalia.
"oh no..." that was naofumi pretty sure he just noticed my lack of an arm.
"f-flint!" yeah raphtalia that's me.
And firo didn't say anything she was staring with way too much intensity at sinh.
"yeah i fucked up" that's the only thing that came out of my mouth before firo gently put me in the ground and naofumi grabed me from the shoulders and started using minor healing like there was no tomorrow.
The bleeding stopped but he just kept going, then i just grabbed his left arm with my only hand left and put it down "i'm fine now" i said with a little pain.
"the hell are you talking about!? you are missing your whole left arm!" yeah naofumi i can see that, it's called lying to yourself.
The dragon was starting to move towards us going faster with each step it took.
"boss!, it's coming back!" with that all of them except firo who was staring at the dragon from the begining.
"damnit!, firo get flint on your back and keep an eye on him!, raphtalia with me!" he gave the orders and the two of them did as told i felt firo grab me again and tossed me behind her, hurt a little but i really don't feel like complaining, and a saddle doesn't feel good on my stomach.
While naofumi and raphtali went againts the dragon i saw that it still had the ripped off tip of it's tail was still stabed in his... wing shoulder?, don't know what it's called.
"firo?" i called to the big bird.
"uncle?" she responded pretty sure she is worried.
"the thing stabbed on it's right, that thing can go through it's scales like they were made out of butter" i told her "so leave me here and go for that thing".
"but..." why is she hessitating?, wait no she can't left me here the slave mark wouldn't let go againts naofumi orders...
I sigh in exasperation "look if you don't want to leave me, then go for it anyway that thing is our best bet right now" she still seemed unsure for a moment then nodded in my direction i straighted myself up and grabed her reing with my right hand.
And of we go!, i hope that i don't die...
While firo was running, i was looking at naofumi and raphtalia the shield hero living up to his name while using the guerra shield to throw sonic roars at sinh's face and raphtalia was slowly but surely making the injury on it's chest bigger and deeper.
But the lizard was not slowing down it has come scarily close to crushing raphtalia or poisoning naofumi, i feel years of my life leaving me every time that happens, jesus christ...
"okay firo naofumi and raph are keeping the dragons attention, and i'm barelly able to move so you have to do this" i started i waited a little to see if she had anything to say, she didn't.
"you need to snatch that grey thing from it's right side, theN stab him on the head that should end the damn thing" after my explination firo nodded, it's a little weird seing her this silent.
A claw rose ready to smash raphtalia, she rolled to the left then sinh used his jaws ready to maul raph but a air strike shield stoped him, then firo jumped and i grabed the reigns with the little strength i have firo landed on the green floating shield looking at the lizard to the eye then jumped to the left to the dragons right shoulder and plucking out the tail tip from it's wing.
GRAAAHH...
The dragon grunted in pain but still turned around towards firo about to shot flames at us still mid air, and stopping looking at naofumi and raphtalia big mistake.
Pretty sure both of them wanted to scream at us but they first took the opportunity, raph stabed her sword deep on the wound of the dragon and dragged her sword upwards, snapping the sword but a fucking geyser of green blood came, and before it shooted it's flame's ignoring the pain.
"shield prison!" naofumi covered the dragons head and made it take it's own flame, the prison lasted for only a moment, and that's all that firo needed she jumped with the tail tip on her beack then the moment the shield prison broke she stabed the thing on sinh's head.
GRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
Sinh's head snaped back throwing firo back and making me fall from her back right to the ground, how are you doing my old friend?.
He trashed and roared in anger and pain, then just stopped moving... then like the typical dark souls boss dissapeared in ashes all except for the tip of his tail.
"yaayyyyyy... victory" i said with my back on the grass and throwing my right hand up with little energy, boy i'm fucking tired... i stared at my missing left arm for a moment then slowly got up.
Just to fall on my ass.
"yeah. no. not getting up" i said to myself.
"what the hell were you two thinking!?" and irate naofumi now too, joy.
"flint!" and a worried raph, god damnit.
"uncle" yeah i get it firo raph already had the worried part covered for you.
I shrug my shoulders tiredly "on killing the damn thing..." jesus i wish minor heal restored my stamina.
Naofumi starts to carry me on his shoulder just to put me on firo's back "first well go back to the village to see if none of us have any poison then you'll go to a fucking doctor" i don't know if he is angry or worried and i'm too tired to figure it out.
"oh don't forget the tip of the dragon's tail we could make a sword out of that" yeah i know he is angry but i'm pretty sureraphtalia needs a new sword.
He just shakes his head and carries the tail tip on his back.
Pretty sure i'm the one who took out the worst, not that the team didn't get their asses handed to them, firo had bruises and some sooth on her plumes, raphtalia was covered in the probably poisonous blood of the dragon so that thing she is drinking is probably a medicine made by naofumi, and the shield hero and our leader is pretty bruised and is bleeding a little from the mouth.
"this was one heck of a cluster fuck..." i murmured to myself then we starting moving back to the village in tired silence.
"flint?" oh raphtalia want's something, i grunt at her too done with today to say anything else.
She played with her fingers a little "how... how are you soo calm?" me?, calm?.
I shake my head and stare at her, or as much as i could while lying on my stomach on firo's back "i'm not calm, i just know that it could have been worse".
"like?..." why are you asking me this firo?.
"i... really not want to think about it" even i have a limit of how many jokes i can make in a serious situation, my pretty fucking close dead is one of those moments.
After that conversation we wnet to the village with the random question of firo or raphtalia if i was okay, wich i probably wasn't.
back in the village.
"How are you alive?" was the question of the brown bearded doctor while staring at me like i was some kind of freak of nature.
"what do you mean?" asked a concerned raphtalia who was also on an hospital bed, just like veryone in the team, firo included in her human form everyone had bandages but none had more than me.
"internal bleeding, fractured bones, damaged organs and blood loss, how is he even alive is beyond how is he healing this fast too, but he won't be leving this bed for atleast two or three days" said the somewhat anoyed doctor, that got all that information of my injuries through magic.
"holy shit..." i heard naofumi murmur after hearing my injuries.
"well i have other people to look after so if you excuse me" an there goes the doctor, everyone except me can leave this place tomorrow.
"well... shit" what else can i say?.
"that's it?, you lose an arm wound yourself beyond normal understanding, and that's all you can say?" asked naofumi incredolous at me reaction of all of this.
I just shrug my shoulders no knowing what to say.
"... i'll love to have your attitude" was the only thing he said before leaning back on his bed.
"so firo, raph how are you two holding out?" i asked them since they were injured too, none of us were wearing our armors... not that firo wielded any kind of armor.
"we are fine... unlike you" yes raph we already stablished that.
"uncle is really though" of course firo i'm really hard to kill, like a cockroach.
"and don't you forget it" i said then smack my right fist on my chest... i regret it.
"fffffffffff...!".
"oh you dumbass!".
"flint!, why!?".
"uncle that wasn't smart!".
Yes i'm in pain, but i don't care it's good to be alive and no one can take that from me... not even a fucking dragon aparently.
CHAPTER 7 COMPLETED.
DEVIL HUNTER RANK: B+.
Most of this chapter was a fight it was also not as long as the others chapters just a little bit shorter .
And again nothing to say... except that i just learned that sinh was always poisoned and it didn't came from the lance so yeah, i'm a dumbass.
I'll see you all in the next chapter... hope that this time it doesn't take me that long to write the damn thing.
