Death of the Flame Dragon
A/N: Everyone, I fucked up. Remember when I mentioned I keep all the plots and details in a notebook I recently found? Turns out, I do have vague memories of the overall story but mistake is that the plan was to have RCT3 stay at the Elven village longer and as a result, the Dragon attack Coda Village which also means no Rory to help.
But with some last minute changes, I got all the Gate girls to help out in some ways minus Yao for obvious reason. But their are still the offsprings to deal with.
I also wasn't planning to drag out the fight for so long.
Call it the Samurai Spirit or suicidal tendency. The former Black Knight rushed the flame Dragon with little regard for his own life.
"Over here!",Itami screamed with pure rage. He fires all his mid and long-range weapons at the Dragon and stops once he felt he was close enough.
The flame dragon was nearly knocked over by the kinetic energy of the shoulder mounted flak cannon. The rest of Itami range weapons meant for small single targets, both from long distance and cluster of ground forces are ineffective against the Flame Dragon. The flak cannon is the closest weapon capable of hurting the fiery beast. Even so, The dragon treats the rounds like a person being punched. Meanwhile, the bullets from the 50 cals bounce off its skin.
The other knightmares aren't fairing as well but were able to elicit a reaction out of the beast as their weapons were meant to deal with the squishy forces of Sadara.
Overall, His Knightmare and none of RCT3 are meant for Knightmare on Knightmare combat nor is it equip to fight a dragon. At best, They can slaughter an outdated army with ease.
Itami strategist the idea of using one of his chaos grenades.
He discards it immediately. The dragon is still in the heart of the caravan. He took a quick glance at the ground to see people are still trying to flee. Some of which are too injured to escape the carnage as fragmentation base rounds would get them caught in the crossfire.
Which bring Itami to his split-second decision to engage the Dragon in close quarter combat. The MVS blades are designed to cut through dense armor.
"DIE!", He fires a slash harken at its chest and struck it dead center, knocking the Dragon off its feet. Itami was close to gutting the Dragon, but it flaps its wings. The red beast flew back avoiding the Knightmare completely. It now hovered several dozen meters off the ground.
Itami heard a thud on the shoulder of his knightmare. He looks over to his onboard camera.
"Rory?", He was shocked to see the lolita standing on the shoulder with Halberd ready, "What are you doing?!"
He blushed realizing beside seeing her face, He also could have a good look underneath her skirt. The former JLF turns away immediately, not having the guts to explain to her what he could see.
"Bring the Dragon back to Earth-," Rory's eyes widened as the Dragon breathe in and fire exiting its jaws, "Dodge!"
Itami jerked the knightmare to the right as the Dragon spray it flames over a wide area until they came behind the beast thanks to its superior speed.
Rory held onto dear life and was finally able to use the cockpit as a stable platform.
"Itami," She ordered, "Hold it steady!"
Itami didn't know why he complied, but he listened.
Rory reel back and launched her halberd like a javelin. It spins in the air like a wheel. The aim was perfect. Rory targeted the base of the right wing, while the halberd didn't sever, it was enough to cut the Flame Dragon ability to fly. The halberd firmly lodges itself into the base of the wing.
The Flame Dragon found itself failing toward ground and brace for impact. The dragon was uninjured by the fall but felt an intense rage burn inside it. The enraged Dragon struggled to see past the dust cloud.
The beast of nature instinctively swing its tail in a wide arc and struck something metallic.
"SHIT!",Hiretsuna was sent flying away.
"ITAMI/LIEUTENANT!", Several members of RCT3 yelled and continue to keep their distance.
The Hiretsuna rolled on the ground for several seconds before hitting the wall of a small cliff.
A faint blue hue surround the Knightmare body before fading.
Nearby, Lelei fainted from using her magic to softened the impact. They stood far away but close enough to observe the fighting. Lelei saw the metal giant was able to take a powerful strike from the Dragon and reflectively cast a long distance spell.
"Rest apprentice," the sage laid down the weakened mage on the wagon," That was an impressive long distance shield spell."
"Thank you."
The JSDFAC Pilot was shaken but overwise fine. He wastes no time checking his Knightmare and is glad the damage is superficial. The dent on the chest piece is negligible.
He was expecting it to be worse.
The fighting continues as the Dragon was now on the offensive using its imposing size to crush the Knightmares that dare to get too close. The Humvee's kept its distance since many are carrying noncombatant onboard.
"How the fuck did I not see it coming?", Itami recalls despite having the most advanced long-range surveillance system on hand. It should have notified him ahead of time.
The few possible conclusion is the Dragon fell low to the ground and came in fast. Faster than expected of a beast of its size.
The other...
Itami glare at a doujinshi next to him.
Pushing those thoughts behind, He rushed back into the fray.
Rory Mercury hopped off the Hiretsuna at the last moment and ran up the Flame Dragon tail and over its shoulders.
"Mines!", She grabs ahold of her halberd. In quick succession, she got both feet planted on the small of the back and dragged the halberd downward; with great difficulty even with her superhuman strength.
The Dragon notices the intruder and tries its best to shake her off. Yet, She hanged on tight as the blade of the halberd slowly tear into the dragon flesh. Blood poured out of the back and onto Rory as the surface become slick with the dragon blood. Part of the spine and muscles are exposed as the halberd slowly tear into its flesh.
Kurata felt someone shouting behind him and notice the Elf has just woken up. She screamed at him in her language and pointed at her eyes.
"OH!", He realized and contacted the rest of the team, "Everyone aims for the eyes!"
Rory leap off the Dragon back and ran away as bullets of all caliber started targeting the beast eyes. It reeled back in pain as a few struck one of its eyes.
To the Flame Dragon, the few 50 cals round hitting the eyes are like sand being blasted at a person's eyes. The Beast was lucky that none of the knightmares is equipped with the real heavy duty ammunition that could piece bunkers and battleships.
The Flame Dragon knows that it can no longer take flight and felt the painful sensation of an open back wound; it went into a frenzy.
It charged like a raging bull at anything perceived to be a threat. One of the first casualty was a friendly knightmare being too slow to escape the jaws of the Dragon as it shoved a humvee driven by Kurata out of the way.
Luckily the pilot ejected on time.
"STAY AWAY FROM MY MEN!",Itami is enraged seeing his soldiers being endangered because of his moment of incompetent. The Dragon stood up to examine what left of his food while tossing the leakage of the Knightmare away.
Itami was approaching from behind when he spotted the open wound on the beast back. He tossed a chaos mines at it back. Once it activates and showered shrapnel all over it exposed wounds.
The white-hot and deadly shower elicit a painful roar as it struggled to keep itself up. The beast quickly turns to the offending knightmares and attempt to swipe it with it tall again. Only this time, the result wasn't as expected.
Hiretsuna held onto the tail even as the Knightmare is lifted off the ground and is nearly thrown off. He is holding onto it for dear life at two-thirds of the full length. The MVS knife and sword making its home in the meat of the tail.
Itami then dragged the sword and cleaved off the section of the flame dragon tail, dropping it and the knightmare on the ground.
"That confirms it," He realized," I have to hack that kaiju to pieces."
Now missing a good third of the tail, blind in one eye, losing its ability to escape, and filled with shrapnel across it back; the bane of Falmart felt a new feeling, fear.
For once in its thousand years of living, it considered the possibility of dying to a bunch of lowly food.
The beast focus on a single iron giant, The one responsible for taking off its tail and filling it back with shrapnel is the prey the Flame Dragon now committed itself to kill. If the calamity of Falmart fall today, it could at least destory the iron giant that cause the most damage to itself.
Itami charged with MVS blades ready.
The Dragon stood up painfully.
He zigzagged to trick the Dragon knowing it intends. He didn't want to test how fireproof his knightmare is.
A stream of white-hot flames shot out like a precision laser beam and Itami did everything he can to avoid it.
Finally, the flames stop and Itami was within striking distance. He first uses the knife to send a deep slash into its underbelly. Itami leaps back as the form of the Dragon falls forward.
He then proceeded to use his slash harkens to rocket himself forward and jumped; avoiding a swipe with its arms. He retracted the slash harken quickly and swing the MVS sword behind him.
For a brief moment, Itami remembered a specific manga about people fighting oversized humans. Except, he's not going for the nape, but full on decapitation.
He fires the slash harken again and embeds it into the ground, retracting it once again to use as a boost in speed.
The Dragon didn't know where the one-eyed giant. It felt the small tremor caused by the Slash harken landing around its long neck.
The last moment of it life is feeling it head it the ground but not the body. The Flame Dragon still has a few seconds of consciousness left, felt the presence of a giant next to it.
'Bested by a mere cyclops,' The Flame Dragon cursed before it closes its eyes, 'How embarassing.'
Itami stood over his defeated foe and chuckled to himself.
'Welp, The spirit of the samurai must be rejoicing at this level of beheading. Especially with how clean it is'
A/N: Pardon the short chapters but this is because I'm still trying to get back in tempo with the story. It been so long and my train of thought on how I want things to happen is all but derailed. Hence the shorter chapters.
R&R
