Tamsin jolted awake to the sound of thuds echoing through the cave. For a moment she tried to get her bearings before she felt the ground begin to vibrate. "Get up!" She yelled, knocking Bo's shoulder.
Bo, who was still half asleep, rolled towards her aggressor, "What? Why are you hitting?"
"Something's coming! You can't hear that?!"
Jane and Maura began to worm out of their sleep with the commotion.
Bo sat up, now hearing the noises loud and clear. "We need to move!"
The quartet made it to their feet and looked in time to see fire shoot out from deeper within the cave. "What was that?" Jane yelled, ripping her gun from its holster.
"It can't be," Maura said, shaking her head in disbelief.
"Can't be what?" Jane was clearly in a panic.
"A dragon," Tamsin said, tearing her shirt open to access her weapons.
"Let me guess, we have to defeat it to accomplish this mission?" Bo's face clearly lacked excitement.
"That'd be my guess," Tamsin replied, her throwing knives in hand.
"Get behind me," Jane ordered as she quickly pushed Maura backwards.
Maura complied, grasping Jane's shoulders and peering around her as a child would. "How big is this thing?"
"I think we're about to find out," Bo pulled her dagger from its sheath and got into a fighting stance.
The ground beneath them shook as the beast neared the face of the cave. Another moment passed before yellow eyes were visible.
"Oh shit," Tamsin said in disbelief. "It's gotta be at least ten feet!"
Jane, seeing the beast clearly, took aim and fired a round to its chest. To everyone's surprise, the bullet ricocheted off the beast like a ping pong ball.
"Get back!" Bo yelled, "It's useless! You should take cover!"
Knowing that she was defenseless with only her gun, Jane turned around and retreated behind a nearby tree with Maura by her side.
Tamsin readied herself before telling Bo, "The closer it gets the better chance we have of killing it."
"Yeah, and the closer we are to getting fried!"
"If that's the case, it's been nice knowin' ya," Tamsin remarked sarcastically.
The dragon opened its jowls and belted out a gut-wrenching screech.
"Here we go," Tamsin whispered to herself as she drew back her knife. She took aim between the eyes of the dragon and whipped her fist shot. The knife's tip struck the beast right where she'd aimed, but it bounced off just as the bulled had. "Shit," she took a step back to let Bo have her try.
Bo, unsure of how exactly to approach the behemoth, charged as fast as she could. With her dagger drawn, she attempted to slit the belly of the beast, but was nearly blasted by the inferno escaping its mouth. Knowing that attacking the beast from the front wouldn't work, Bo turned to Tamsin, "I need a distraction!"
Tamsin nodded and began to run around the front of the beast, yelling as if she was going to charge. It only took a moment for the dragon to become bored and let out a large fireball. Tamsin rolled out of the way, her arm hair singed in exchange.
Bo had circled behind the beast and stabbed at its tail to see if she could permeate the hard exterior, but it was no use.
Outraged, the creature swung its tail, violently sweeping Bo off of her feet.
"Hey!" Jane ran out from behind the tree.
The beast screeched and stepped towards here.
"Jane! Get back here!" Maura screamed in fear.
Jane noticed Tamsin's knife on the ground and quickly bent to pick it up and aimed it at the beast. She trembled in fear as Tamsin ran up behind her, "What are you doing?"
"I have no clue," Jane stated fearfully, "but it was going to stomp your friend."
"I have an idea," Tamsin quickly ran back around the beast.
Jane, more fearful as the dragon continued to advance on her, took aim and threw the knife, striking the beast directly in the eye. The beast screeched in pain and swatted at its eye with its front paws.
Bo finally got to her feet just in time to see Tamsin scaling up the spine of the dragon, carrying her dagger. Not wanting to call her out and attract attention to her, Bo watched helplessly.
Upon reaching the head of the beast, Tamsin lifted the dagger high over her head with both hands before letting out a vicious war cry and sinking the dagger deep into the skull below. She grabbed hold as the beast screeched and began to plummet to the floor. Everyone backed away as the monster came crashing down, tossing Tamsin off in the process.
"Tamsin," Bo screamed, as she ran to her side. "Are you alright?"
Tamsin coughed as she tried to gain a breath, "I'm just great."
"You're crazy," Jane said, running up. "You could've been killed!"
"And so could you," Maura scolded before grasping Jane into her arms.
Bo turned and looked at the dead creature beside her and realized the eye with the knife through it was still glowing yellow. "This must be a sign." She got up and pulled the knife, plucking the eye from the socket, "I have a feeling we'll be needing this."
"Gross," Tamsin said, slowly making it to her feet.
"Is this the type of thing you deal with normally in your world?" Maura asked.
"No. Not exactly."
Maura nodded, "Well, I'm glad you knew what to do."
"Lucky guess," Tamsin shrugged off the compliment.
"We need to get moving," Bo reminded them as she walked to the mouth of the cave.