Chapter 9
Running through the forest, His scaled feet softly touched the soft snowy ground, avoiding everything in his path. Beau's heart was pounding. He clearly knew that something or someone was around in the trees surrounding him. Sensing dark auras through his bonemark, he knew he had to follow his senses. As he ran on the loud bangs were becoming much louder. The small cloud of smoke was getting bigger. Voices began to pierce through Beau's mind. He began to slow down his speed; his bonemark has started to react again. Beau's body was turning darker, his elaborate markings returned. His teeth turned sharper. He completely stopped to try and stop this transformation. Shaking his head profusely, trying to get those voices out of his head. Growling and snarling, he started to shake his head on the ground. He knew without Iolene around in bad auras he can no longer have his old conscience of his old self but mutated.
But he could not help but to continue, it felt like something was pulling him from the inside. He ran on, the aura was getting closer and closer. Then as Beau ran the aura suddenly eased, his mind still remained intact. All of the bombing noises have faded.
Then suddenly from above the bushes a dragon jumped out. The dragons claws fully stretched out landed directly onto beau's side. Beau crashed to the ground, the force of the landing, made the ground around them crack. Beau roared in pain, the dragon on top of him struggled to get back up. Beau was forced to roll on his back, to try and let the dragon past. But the four legged red dragon could not lift his two back legs up, the dragon repeatedly screeched in pain. Beau tried not to listen to the dragon's high pitched cry; he looked closer at the dragon's two back legs. They were both tied by ropes that lead into the bushes that the dragon came from. Beau was begun to lose consciousness, the hard impact and the dragon's high pitched squeal, started to make it unbearable. His vision was becoming blurry; He heard voices but could not understand it, the echoes just made his head hurt more.
Then suddenly there was silence. The dragon had suddenly quietened it had stopped moving. Beau looked upwards, his blurry vision made it harder to see what it was and all he saw were multiple shadowed figures looking at him. Beau quickly realising this he tried to get up quickly, shuffling the other dragon off him. Beau blinked his eyes several times but slowly he regained his vision. The shadowy figures came clear.
There were two and dragons and humans standing side by side. The two dragons both were standing on two legs, they had dark black scales with bright purple markings, simular to his. But he noticed something the dragons did not have bonemarks on their foreheads. Beau looked surprised, they have finally come here. The Beau looked at the humans; they did not have elaborate armour. It was just normal human kind armour and they seemed to be young humans. Beau immediately thought that they were scouting soldiers.
"Look at that another black draconium dragon...." The boy quickly said, holding his spear directly towards beau. Beau looked at his right to look at the other dragon. An arrow was pointing directly out at the back of the dragon's head, noticing that the dragon is dead. Beau looked at the young girl who was holding a bow and arrow. Beau began to growl at the small girl; she lifted up her Bow and arrow preparing to shoot. The two dragons began growling showing their extremely sharp teeth and getting into battle positions, by leaning forward and spreading their legs apart.
Beau gave out a large roar, which the whole forest could hear. "WHY ARE YOU HERE?!" Beau snarled towards them, he began scratching claws on the ground. The girl and boy looked surprised. The small and slender girl puts down her bow and arrow. "Well dear dragon. You have the gift of human speech".
The boy lowered his spear just like his sister does "In order for you speak human tongue. You must have a bonemark am I correct?" The boy softly smiled at him. Beau immediately roared back at them. Both of the kid's hair flew back from his mighty roar; in reply the other two dragons roared directly back at him. The two human children still stood there smiling, they looked impressed. Beau's mind was starting to go hay wire again, his bonemark slowly started to reveal itself again.
Beau doesn't know what is happening; the children's and dragons aura is not powerful or influencing enough to take him over. But the aura he sensed earlier was much stronger. But vanished when the other dragon arrived, he cannot feel but confused. Beau began shaking his head and scraping it on the ground. The dragons and the humans were wondering what to do with him. The girl and boy quickly grabbed their weapons, preparing to attack.
Then Beau completely transformed, ran towards them. He was trying to aim at the girl; she pointed her bow and arrow towards Beau. She shot the arrow; it hit Beau's leg he winced in pain. But he still kept on running towards her. She squealed and ducked down, her dragon ran to her defence slamming into Beau. The boy looking scared for the girl's safety he quickly pulled her up from her ducking position and pulled her to a tree, watching the 2 dragons fight. The boy threw his spear towards Beau but narrowly missed his body.
Beau slashing his forward claws all over the place, trying to hit his opponent, the other dragon bit him on his back. Beau as a retaliation bit the dragon's tail pulling it. They were moving around in circles, not looking at they were going. They were heading towards the tree, the children quickly fled on the other dragon. "MOVE!" The boy quickly commanded, the dragon quickly moved away from the scene. "We have to find Max!"
The black dragon and Beau were still entangled with each other. The other dragon sunk his teeth deeply into Beau's Back. Beau screamed and let's go of the other dragon's tail. The other dragon let's go of Beau. They became separated they circled around slowly in their area looking at each other in the eyes. Both snarling at each other, showing their incredible sharp teeth. Beau was bleeding all over his back, not noticing of how much pain he was in, he kept on scraping his claws on the ground. The other dragon had massive scars on his tail and his face was completely covered in Beau's blood. Breathing heavily they both stopped and started to prepare to charge again. They both quickly ran towards each other.
Then suddenly a man in black draconium armour appeared lifted both of her arms up and magged both of the dragons in different directions. Both crashing into the trees, "What is going on here?" the man looking around, he noticed the dead red dragon on ground. He placed his hand on it, stroking his back and pulled out the arrow from the dragons head Minerva he quickly thought. The man quickly head rustling in the bushes, both of the dragons have gotten back up. The black two legged dragon ran towards the man and stayed at his side.
Beau shook his head softly, and growling in pain. "Well....well. If it isn't Beau, I know you large head from anywhere. That priestess still around?". The man quickly walking towards him, his dark armour shined in the sunlight. Beau growled at him and slowly backed off as he walked closer. "Why are you here?" Beau quickly trying to find out his motives, he stumbled over a rock hurting his left foot. The man stood still and crossed his arms; the large blades from the side of his arms and legs were clearly visible. He looked at the red dragon corpse "We were looking for more dragons's to turn into soldiers. We caught most of the herd, alot fled in fear. Just like what your herd did". He softly giggled, but his face mask was completely covered so his facial expression is hard to read. Beau growled even angrier towards him, the other dragon still kept a strong eye on him.
The man lifted up his arm, the large elbow arm blade, sparkled in the sun. Beau started directly charging at him. The man jumped and flew with his arm directly in front of him. Beau spread out his claws and gave out a large swoop. The man ducked, with his arm swipers he slashed beau across the chest. Beau's other claws slashed across his body. The man hesitates and flips backwards; he grabbed something from behind where his large spikes are. Beau stopped he realised that it was a smoke bomb. Beau ran towards the other way, knowing that it was the smoke and noise causing. The armoured man slammed the bomb on the ground.
BANG!
The large noise could be heard from all over the forest. A cloud Smoke began to seep through the forest. Beau running as fast as he could to try and avoid the smoke, he needed to go back to the cottage. He knew that the smoke makes the opponent unconscious; he needed to tell Iolene immediately. The dragon notices all the trees around him started to die around him. The Armoured man and the other dragon ran off into the other direction in a massive mag shield. He needed to find the kids; he rode off on the dragon as quick as possible, to try and find them.
Meanwhile the children were still riding away still thinking that the danger was still around. The dragon noticing that the forest edge was near. It ran even faster. The girl was holding on to the boy tightly on his waist. They finally reached to the meadow, a soft breeze was blowing. "It's pretty here" The boy looking around at the hills and small flowers. The dragon makes subtle noises and looked at the kids. "What's wrong boy?" The boy began patting his dark neck. The dragons head turned and points to a cottage. "I don't think Max is around here..." The girl looking around at the lush surroundings, all the snow has finally disappeared.
The girl quickly gets off him and runs up the slippery hill to the cottage. The boy shouted her to come back. But she kept climbing up. "Maybe this place has food" She shouted back to him she opened the door. To her horror of what she saw, she screamed her lungs out. The dragon and the boy quickly raced up, to see what happened. When they approached, they were shocked of what they saw. The mysterious stranger............
