Chapter 10
"Well, this is a lot to take in." I said, sitting down on the sand next to Arthur. We had set up camp and were now just sitting back and relaxing before we went to bed. And what a place to do that!
"This has to be some sort of a bad dream." Arthur said, shaking his head. We sat in silence for a moment when Arthur suddenly clicked his fingers and stood up causing me to jump. "That must be it! When you touched that god damn amulet it must have knocked us out and that is what all of this is! A dream! Here look, pinch me there." He demanded, crouching down next to me and offering his arm and pointing to a spot on it.
"Arthur, this is just too real to be a dream! It…"
"Just do it!"
I rolled my eyes and pinched him on his arm. Hard.
"Ow!" he exclaimed pulling it back. "Okay maybe this isn't a dream."
"Damn right it isn't!" I said as he sat back down next to me.
Suddenly we heard loud inhuman wailing coming from the direction of the house.
"What on earth is that?" Arthur asked, grabbing his sword and jogging to the stairs that would lead us up to the villa.
"There's only one way to find out." I muttered, jogging after him. In no time at all we had reached the base of the stairs that were embedded into the cliff face next to a stripe of black ground. Alan had previously called it a runway. Then, with a terrible roar, the cliff began to sink. Arthur and I froze in terror as we watched it sink all the way into the ground to reveal some sort of giant cave. We were then startled by yet another deafening roar but this one sounded more like thunder and was coming from inside the cave. Arthur gave a little yelp and jumped behind some shrubbery and I followed. Then I saw the most terrifying thing I had ever seen in my life. An enormous green dragon about 250 feet in length slowly crawled out from its lair. It appeared to have no head, feet or wings and had two legs that it wasn't using sticking out behind it. It was so terrifying even the palm trees fell out of its way as it almost glided past them. It didn't notice us and instead kept crawling like a snake to the end of the 'runway'. There it stopped and the ground shifted beneath it like it could control the elements. Soon it was pointing upwards and then it blasted fire out of its two back legs and shot off into the sky.
We were so busy watching this that we didn't notice the second dragon until it flew straight over our heads. This one was a lot smaller and faster. It was sliver and shaped like an arrow. This to also sounded like thunder. Within mere seconds, it was out of sight along with the much bigger green one.
Soon we heard Alan's voice calling our names. I wanted to reply but my voice wouldn't come. Instead all we could do was wait. When he found us all he could do was laugh.
"Somehow I find this is another suitable time to welcome you to the 21st century!"