Dragon Dung and Flame Throwers
"Okay Dragonfly, hit it. The Dragons have created a distracion!" Daine yelled.
"Can do hawk eye, roger that, over and out." Daine rolled her eyes and landed swiftly in the HumV's cab and switched to human form.
As soon as she was safely inside, Dragonfly rolled up the window and stepped on the gas. The horse trailer had been disconected and hidden in the bushes. The horses were waiting for the all clear from Daine.
"Let's do this thing!" Eva yelled they went through the wall.
The girls quickly pulled out various weapons. Dragonfly grabbed her pistol and a flame thrower. Eva pulled a shotgun out, and Liset grabbed a rocket launcher.
"Where did you get this stuff?" Numair asked.
"When your dad works for the government, you can get anything." Liset replied.
"Most of this stuff is illegal." Dragonfly stated matter of factly.
"That explains why you like it."
"Shut up before my itchy flame finger kicks in. Offensive head out. We'll cover your backs. Well, Daine and Kitten's backs, I can't guarentee I won't take out Numair." She grinned evilly.
"Concentrait on fighting the ENEMY Dragonfly, then you can take out Numair." Eva repremended her.
"Awww, do I have too?"
Kitten suddenly runs into an ajacent room and squeaked in pain, came out a minute later and continued walking.
"I'm not even going to ask," Dragonfly said as she rolled her eyes.
"Trust me, you don't want to know," Daine replied. To Kit she said: "You know better than to do that inside Kit!"
"SHHHH!" Numair said as he crept across the passage leading to the dungeons. "If anyone hears us we're dead!" He slid down the stairs and peered around the corner at the Scaran keeping guard over one cell, and six keeping watch over another.
Numair motioned for Dragonfly to take them out. He needed to save his gift for freeing Alanna from the chains she was undoubtedly being held with.
Dragonfly crept up and pulled out her pistol. She fired all six shots, one into each guard and blasted the last one with her gift. She then lifted the bodies magically and flung them into an empty cell.
Everyone walked into the corridor; Dragonfly locked the door after them.
"Kitten, I believe these locks are your line of bussiness."
Kit whistled her agreement and then let out a long, low note. Followed by several short high ones in rapid succession. Every lock in the room flew off and landed, smoking, on the floor.
"You would be priceless if you ever wanted to break into fort Knox." Eva said as she gave Kit a quick pet. The dragon smiled smuggly.
"Dragonfly! I'm going to need your help with this! Numair yelled from inside the closest cell. She walked in to find Alanna and George wrapped in chains and gagged.
"How many times did you two escape for them to tie you up like this?" Dragonfly asked as she melted the chains and pulled off the gag.
"Six, one for each guard." Alanna and George both grinned and stood up as the last chains fell away. "You have no idea how good streaching feels." George said
"You realize of course that you all owe me big time don't you?"
They just rolled their eyes and ran outside to help Jon and Thayet.
When the last person was freed, there were over a hundred people standing in the once empty corridor. The Scarans had captured all the knights, pages, and squires at the castle so that no one could come to the rescue. From their majesties to Alanna to Raoul to several lesser mages. Everyone of importance had been captured.
"Dragonfly and company, Tortall is forever in your debt and."
"Stuff it Jon. You can give us the thank you speech when we're safe and happy in Corus. Or when El Creepo's son's head is detached from his body, which ever comes first."
Everyone ran outside after Dragonfly. She then opened a closet and pulled out all confiscated weapons, or rather, the weapons fell on her out of the over stuffed closet.
"George, I assume at least a quarter of these are yours?"
He nodded and began to stuff daggers and other nasty looking weaopons into various places on his person. Alanna grabbed her sword as the rest searched through to find their lost items.
It was then that the Driads came. They were tall, reptilian beasts with snake like heads. They walked upright and they were sort of a emerald color. There were about ten of them.
Dragonfly whipped out her flame thrower and began to blast the creatures. Several burst into flames and were soon piles of magically powerful ashes. The other five were unfazed by the others untimely demise.
"Some of the younger ones do not know how to block flames as we can." Said the largest of the group. "Surreennnnnnddddddddeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr nnnnnnoooooowww and wwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeee wwwwwiiiiiiiillllllllll nnnnnooooooooottttttt hhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuurrrrrrtttttttttt yyyyyyyoouuu." He said in a hypnotic voice.
Everyone elses eyes went out of focus and they began to put down their weapons. "OH NO YOU DON'T!" Dragonfly yelled as a large crack opened up in the floor and the large one fell in.
Everyone imediately came back to the real world and picked up their weapons again. Dragonfly then whipped out her rocket launcher and began blasting the rest of the driads.
After she was done, only one remained. "Now you have a choice, you can lay down and I kill you fast, or we do it the hard way and I shoot you with a chain gun, either way you're goin' down Dude."
"I shink mssss. It ithss you thatsss going down."
"Okay, we'll do this the hard way then!" She yelled as the large gun began firing in rapid succession. When she was done all that was left was the smoke.
Now came the regular guard. Swords out they were all running after them.
"Okay split up! Numair and Daine take the pages! Eva get the squires and knights! Liset cover my back and everyone else get out of here ASAP!!!" Everyone followed orders. Dragonfly blinded the guards long enough for everyone to get away. She then ran into the same room that Kit had relieved herself in earlier. She pulled out her flame thrower yet again and hit the dragon dung. There was an immensely large fireball that erupted. The three guards that were outside the door were crispy. Dragonfly walked out just as Numair was passing with the pages. Numair shoved the pages out of the way and wrapped his arms around Daine to protect her.
"Mental note for future reference: Dragon Dung is highly explosive." Dragonfly said as she walked out. She looked right out of a cartoon with her blackened everything.
Those pages who had not seen her before stared.
"Don't worry, she's harmless. Unless you provoke her of course." Numair said, smirking at her.
"Oh shut up."
Daine giggled.
They ran down the hall, Dragonfly in the lead, followed by Daine and the pages, with Numair bringing up the rear.
When they finally reached the courtyard where they had "parked" the HumV, they found Maggur's son standing in front of it. There was a huge explosion and Daine and Numair were flung into a large brick wall, the pages were thrown clear into the forest.
"D*** it! Why do you people always go after them! Daine and Numair never did anything to you!"
"No, they didn't, but you did."
"You look just like your father, Maggur's son, only slightly less ugly."
"For the record, my name is Oran. And for posterity, I give you a chance to surrender."
"Whatever Maggur's son."
"Oran" He said as a bolt of aqua fire flew out of his hands toward her.
"Maggur's son!" Dragonfly yelled as a shield of magic formed around her. When he stopped firing, lime ice began to wrap around him.
He quickly subdued it. "You are no match for me, you worthless, pathetic, weak, bratty teenager!"
"WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS CALL ME A BRATTY TEENAGER?????!!!!!! I'm a %^&##@& American teenager! There's a difference between the two! I'm not sure what it is. But there's a difference! I'm by nature a knuckle dragging barbarian!" She yelled as her eyes began to flash. "You will pay for kidnapping all those people Maggur's son!" Her hands made several rapid movements before Oran disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Where'd you send him?" Eva asked.
"The White House. Where else? He'll fit right in! D*** Hitler wannabees! He can't screw the government up anymore than it already is."
"How very true."
It was then that she realized that there were several very angry Scaran guards bearing down on them. Dragonfly looked up and whistled. Tigress came bolting out of the trees, followed by Cloud and Spots.
Go ahead Tigress, you haven't had any fun today.
The mare snorted and began to chase after the guards, who were caught off guard at being attacked, not in the way they were accustomed to, but by a horse.
It was then that Dragonfly's eyes happened to wander over to the stone wall where Daine and Numair were lying unconscious and bleeding. "Not again!" She yelled as she ran over to them. She carefully pulled Daine off Numair and laid them on their backs. She gasped. Numair was going to be fine, he hadn't taken the full impact, Daine had.
She was white as chalk and bleeding profusely from a wound in her head. She was covered with gashes and bruises and it looked like she had broken both legs and her left arm.
"ALANNA!!! Duke Baird!!! Neal!!!" She yelled at the top of her voice. All three came running. When they saw what a state Daine was in they immediately got her onto a stretcher and took her into the castle. No one challenged them, they had no king to defend. They took her straight to what looked to be the hospital wing.
"Okay Dragonfly, hit it. The Dragons have created a distracion!" Daine yelled.
"Can do hawk eye, roger that, over and out." Daine rolled her eyes and landed swiftly in the HumV's cab and switched to human form.
As soon as she was safely inside, Dragonfly rolled up the window and stepped on the gas. The horse trailer had been disconected and hidden in the bushes. The horses were waiting for the all clear from Daine.
"Let's do this thing!" Eva yelled they went through the wall.
The girls quickly pulled out various weapons. Dragonfly grabbed her pistol and a flame thrower. Eva pulled a shotgun out, and Liset grabbed a rocket launcher.
"Where did you get this stuff?" Numair asked.
"When your dad works for the government, you can get anything." Liset replied.
"Most of this stuff is illegal." Dragonfly stated matter of factly.
"That explains why you like it."
"Shut up before my itchy flame finger kicks in. Offensive head out. We'll cover your backs. Well, Daine and Kitten's backs, I can't guarentee I won't take out Numair." She grinned evilly.
"Concentrait on fighting the ENEMY Dragonfly, then you can take out Numair." Eva repremended her.
"Awww, do I have too?"
Kitten suddenly runs into an ajacent room and squeaked in pain, came out a minute later and continued walking.
"I'm not even going to ask," Dragonfly said as she rolled her eyes.
"Trust me, you don't want to know," Daine replied. To Kit she said: "You know better than to do that inside Kit!"
"SHHHH!" Numair said as he crept across the passage leading to the dungeons. "If anyone hears us we're dead!" He slid down the stairs and peered around the corner at the Scaran keeping guard over one cell, and six keeping watch over another.
Numair motioned for Dragonfly to take them out. He needed to save his gift for freeing Alanna from the chains she was undoubtedly being held with.
Dragonfly crept up and pulled out her pistol. She fired all six shots, one into each guard and blasted the last one with her gift. She then lifted the bodies magically and flung them into an empty cell.
Everyone walked into the corridor; Dragonfly locked the door after them.
"Kitten, I believe these locks are your line of bussiness."
Kit whistled her agreement and then let out a long, low note. Followed by several short high ones in rapid succession. Every lock in the room flew off and landed, smoking, on the floor.
"You would be priceless if you ever wanted to break into fort Knox." Eva said as she gave Kit a quick pet. The dragon smiled smuggly.
"Dragonfly! I'm going to need your help with this! Numair yelled from inside the closest cell. She walked in to find Alanna and George wrapped in chains and gagged.
"How many times did you two escape for them to tie you up like this?" Dragonfly asked as she melted the chains and pulled off the gag.
"Six, one for each guard." Alanna and George both grinned and stood up as the last chains fell away. "You have no idea how good streaching feels." George said
"You realize of course that you all owe me big time don't you?"
They just rolled their eyes and ran outside to help Jon and Thayet.
When the last person was freed, there were over a hundred people standing in the once empty corridor. The Scarans had captured all the knights, pages, and squires at the castle so that no one could come to the rescue. From their majesties to Alanna to Raoul to several lesser mages. Everyone of importance had been captured.
"Dragonfly and company, Tortall is forever in your debt and."
"Stuff it Jon. You can give us the thank you speech when we're safe and happy in Corus. Or when El Creepo's son's head is detached from his body, which ever comes first."
Everyone ran outside after Dragonfly. She then opened a closet and pulled out all confiscated weapons, or rather, the weapons fell on her out of the over stuffed closet.
"George, I assume at least a quarter of these are yours?"
He nodded and began to stuff daggers and other nasty looking weaopons into various places on his person. Alanna grabbed her sword as the rest searched through to find their lost items.
It was then that the Driads came. They were tall, reptilian beasts with snake like heads. They walked upright and they were sort of a emerald color. There were about ten of them.
Dragonfly whipped out her flame thrower and began to blast the creatures. Several burst into flames and were soon piles of magically powerful ashes. The other five were unfazed by the others untimely demise.
"Some of the younger ones do not know how to block flames as we can." Said the largest of the group. "Surreennnnnnddddddddeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr nnnnnnoooooowww and wwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeee wwwwwiiiiiiiillllllllll nnnnnooooooooottttttt hhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuurrrrrrtttttttttt yyyyyyyoouuu." He said in a hypnotic voice.
Everyone elses eyes went out of focus and they began to put down their weapons. "OH NO YOU DON'T!" Dragonfly yelled as a large crack opened up in the floor and the large one fell in.
Everyone imediately came back to the real world and picked up their weapons again. Dragonfly then whipped out her rocket launcher and began blasting the rest of the driads.
After she was done, only one remained. "Now you have a choice, you can lay down and I kill you fast, or we do it the hard way and I shoot you with a chain gun, either way you're goin' down Dude."
"I shink mssss. It ithss you thatsss going down."
"Okay, we'll do this the hard way then!" She yelled as the large gun began firing in rapid succession. When she was done all that was left was the smoke.
Now came the regular guard. Swords out they were all running after them.
"Okay split up! Numair and Daine take the pages! Eva get the squires and knights! Liset cover my back and everyone else get out of here ASAP!!!" Everyone followed orders. Dragonfly blinded the guards long enough for everyone to get away. She then ran into the same room that Kit had relieved herself in earlier. She pulled out her flame thrower yet again and hit the dragon dung. There was an immensely large fireball that erupted. The three guards that were outside the door were crispy. Dragonfly walked out just as Numair was passing with the pages. Numair shoved the pages out of the way and wrapped his arms around Daine to protect her.
"Mental note for future reference: Dragon Dung is highly explosive." Dragonfly said as she walked out. She looked right out of a cartoon with her blackened everything.
Those pages who had not seen her before stared.
"Don't worry, she's harmless. Unless you provoke her of course." Numair said, smirking at her.
"Oh shut up."
Daine giggled.
They ran down the hall, Dragonfly in the lead, followed by Daine and the pages, with Numair bringing up the rear.
When they finally reached the courtyard where they had "parked" the HumV, they found Maggur's son standing in front of it. There was a huge explosion and Daine and Numair were flung into a large brick wall, the pages were thrown clear into the forest.
"D*** it! Why do you people always go after them! Daine and Numair never did anything to you!"
"No, they didn't, but you did."
"You look just like your father, Maggur's son, only slightly less ugly."
"For the record, my name is Oran. And for posterity, I give you a chance to surrender."
"Whatever Maggur's son."
"Oran" He said as a bolt of aqua fire flew out of his hands toward her.
"Maggur's son!" Dragonfly yelled as a shield of magic formed around her. When he stopped firing, lime ice began to wrap around him.
He quickly subdued it. "You are no match for me, you worthless, pathetic, weak, bratty teenager!"
"WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS CALL ME A BRATTY TEENAGER?????!!!!!! I'm a %^&##@& American teenager! There's a difference between the two! I'm not sure what it is. But there's a difference! I'm by nature a knuckle dragging barbarian!" She yelled as her eyes began to flash. "You will pay for kidnapping all those people Maggur's son!" Her hands made several rapid movements before Oran disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Where'd you send him?" Eva asked.
"The White House. Where else? He'll fit right in! D*** Hitler wannabees! He can't screw the government up anymore than it already is."
"How very true."
It was then that she realized that there were several very angry Scaran guards bearing down on them. Dragonfly looked up and whistled. Tigress came bolting out of the trees, followed by Cloud and Spots.
Go ahead Tigress, you haven't had any fun today.
The mare snorted and began to chase after the guards, who were caught off guard at being attacked, not in the way they were accustomed to, but by a horse.
It was then that Dragonfly's eyes happened to wander over to the stone wall where Daine and Numair were lying unconscious and bleeding. "Not again!" She yelled as she ran over to them. She carefully pulled Daine off Numair and laid them on their backs. She gasped. Numair was going to be fine, he hadn't taken the full impact, Daine had.
She was white as chalk and bleeding profusely from a wound in her head. She was covered with gashes and bruises and it looked like she had broken both legs and her left arm.
"ALANNA!!! Duke Baird!!! Neal!!!" She yelled at the top of her voice. All three came running. When they saw what a state Daine was in they immediately got her onto a stretcher and took her into the castle. No one challenged them, they had no king to defend. They took her straight to what looked to be the hospital wing.