It was awful. Bloody awful.
The entirety of the universe suddenly decided to dip and swing out of focus.
The tower of the Nether Fortress shook as a minor earthquake randomly started and spurred on by the motion the slender sleek form of the Enderdragon slid off the tower lurching both its riders' forwards in their hastily made saddles. Instead of delving into the deep Lava moat Cregg eventually spread out large wings and the membranes bulged outwards as they caught the wind and he swooped back up into the night sky. Henk tugged on the reins and titled Cregg to the side starting him in a wide circle around the Nether Fortress. The place was more alien and eerie from above a deep blood red blot on the otherwise pristine green landscape.
"Now what was the rest o' yer' plan now were up 'ere?" Henk called back hardly turning his head against the cold wind
"Down there" Creeps desperately tried to call through it, internally cringing every time he opened his mouth letting vast gulps of icy cold air in
"Down where!?" Henk yelled back, Shuffling in the saddle Creeps did his best to push his body forwards and craned his neck close so that he was almost burying it into the skeletons shoulder blade
"The pigs!" He yelled "Make him go to the pigs! Along the open top pathway!"
"Those!?" Henk finally turned his head a little further to ensure his voice was carried over to the Creeper, he had to take one hand of the reins to grip onto his hat pushing it down tightly over his cranium
"Yes! Get him there!" he squawked, it didn't matter if Kenzo had pushed them out, it shouldn't matter too much anyway he was almost certain he'd get the reaction he wanted either way. Cregg's long slender neck turned before the rest of him and the steady beat of his wings skipped a beat then changed tempo as he curved gently downwards. Nudging the back of Henk he pulled the reins again swerving the beast a little to the left, one of the corridors spearing out from the central pathway of the Fortress had had its roof stripped from it and most of its walls had crumbled away, teetering next to a slow molten dribble of Lava gentle snarls escaped long dead throats as the large porcine zombies gripped their swords as if frozen from a battle long since forgotten. Swooping close Creeps knew it'd only be a matter of instinct for their great dumb steed to lash out at them believing them to be its usual living food source, Clenching his eyes shut he wasn't looking forward to yes there it was that god-awful noise that loud deafening squeal as the oversized pig was snapped up by large jaws, jerked off the ground it dropped its sword and screeched it's unbeating heart out
"We got one! We got one! Eh… What did we even need this for?"
"Soosh! Don't let him eat it!" Creeps snapped and pushed into Henks spine making him tug on the reins again pulling Creggs head back his snarled displeased letting the pig slip from his salivating jaws Creeps yelled a pre-emptive screech as the zombie tumbled from the dragons serrated teeth only for it to be cut short into a sigh as it's tattered rags remained snagged in the dragons jaws. The sudden motion and notion of falling raised another piercing wail from the zombie echoing around the immediate area he earned a low rusty wheeze
"That's what we want him for!" Creeps joyously laughed, Henk not so much. The repeated squeals had caught the attention of the now ignited towers of fire heading towards them
"Blazes!? What in the Nether are we doing luring Blazes!?" He mostly gasped eagerly snapping at the reins trying to force some speed into the slow beast "They're gonna char us!"
"Not if we keep ahead!" he laughed back "Now hit him!"
"What!?"
"You heard me! Hit the dragon!"
"But why!?" Henk hardly took his empty eye sockets off the Blazes who drew trails of smoke in the air as they sped along in hot pursuit, three of them in total.
"You hit him, he'll hurt, he'll wanna go back home to where he gets his comforts from and that will be off the guy who raised him! He'll want his 'mommy' to clean his wounds off for him won't he? Just like every other animal he'll run off back to the nest to have his wounds licked clean"
"Well yeah that makes sense, but how in the world do you know he's gonna go searchin' out your buddy!? He might just turn right around and chuck us off! Even if he don't how the heck is he gonna find him!?"
"I'm counting on the one thing I've tried not counting on for a long while"
"Whats that?"
"The fact this dragon is bloody moron!"
"And I hope your bloody moronic plan is gonna work, else it's a long drop back down for us!" He sighed reaching up to his back he pulled an arrow from his quill but left the bow wrapped around himself. His free hand gripped the reins tight and he angled the sharp flint tip of the arrow down, he drew it up and attempted to stab it down but he faltered and muttered odd noises to himself before holding it closer to the drakes scales he decided against stabbing and directed it against the flow of the scales levering it underneath the many tiny scale plates powerful muscles twitched underneath them in a subconscious movement. Henk left the arrow stuck in there and returned to the issue of the reins he decided simply holding onto them wasn't enough and he wrapped it tightly around his lower arm instead. He swivelled his skull back again and gave a look to the Blazes, they formed an fiery arrow shape in the sky and the point was slowly gaining on them, he then turned back down to Creeps who snarled at him
"If I had working arms I would've rammed that thing in for you by now!" He hissed in a menacing manner and Henk nervously ran his finger through the cloth round his neck and placed the palm of his hand over the feathered pulling back he turned his gaze away from it and slammed down as hard as he could slamming the arrow in right up to the base of the feathers! Almost immediately it was pushed back out a couple of inches as a high reaching short-lived jet of pale purple blood hissed out coinciding the long deep bellow from in front of them which cracked up into a high pitched screech as the entire body lurched and shook. Cregg mewled pitifully and beat his wings faster than before.
