GT: I finally figured out how to do that document thingy so now I can upload faster. Which is good cuz that means I can update my fic faster. And now Gil(my love) will do the disclaimer.

Gil: GT does not own Dragon Knights but she does wish she owned me.

GT: On with the show. ^_^

Chapter 3: Earth and Fire

Fedelta swiftly moves out of his way, quickly countering with a blast to the back, point back. Thatz's sword snaps under pressure and he hits the ground knocked out. "Thatz!" Ringleys shouts flying over to the fallen knight.

"You have to be ashamed of yourself, a demon traveling and siding with our enemies." Fedelta hisses approaching Zoma and Nohiro, who are cornered.

"Thatz! You need to wake up! Zoma and Nohiro are in danger! Faeries are in danger!" Ringleys cries slightly moving Thatz's head.

"Ringleys?" Thatz asks groggily, slowly getting up. His eyes adjust to the leveled Inn. The waitress watching the one-sided battle.

"Fedelta! Why haven't you beat the knights before? They seem like pushovers!" The waitress asks proving that she truly was a demon.

"Only this one is a pushover, the others are much harder. But after I destroy this one, it'll be simple." Fedelta says to the demoness as he raises a sword.

"I'm not the only pushover," Thatz says as his sword cuts through the demoness and then through the fire demon.

"You think that'll kill me, human." Fedelta says as his sword goes through the Earth knight's chest.

Meanwhile...

"Lord Lykoulean, there appears to be a disturbance in a nearby village. Do you want me to send some officers to take a look around?" Tetheus asks standing in front of Raseleane and Lykoulean as they sat in the garden.

"Is it an immediate danger?" Raseleane asks the black dragon officer.

"It appears so, the entire village is leveled and we don't have any knowledge to what is happening." Tetheus replies as Lykoulean nods silently and Tetheus leaves.

"Immediate danger? Raseleane, are you hiding something?" Lykoulean asks as Raseleane looks up to him and smiles. "You never tell me anything good do you?"

"There's a demon attacking the nearby village. We have to go, just don't tell Rath." A light-haired officer says to another as they run down the hall to where all the other dragon officers are.

"Really? Fire, let's go fight a demon." Rath says hiding behind a column as they run off into the forest. *Master, is this really okay?*

"Fire, why are you asking a question to which you already know the answer to?" Cesia asks as the two stop and look beside them.

"Why are you here?" Rath asks the wind sorceress as they stand at the foot of the hill.

"Zoma is missing and if he's where the demon is he could be in trouble." Cesia explains as Rath rolls his eyes.

"You can come, just don't get in my way. I don't want you to get hurt or caught, do you understand?" Rath says, Cesia nods taking Fire so he won't get in the Fire Knight's way. The trio climb the hill to the blank battlefield. Someone lays in the middle completely blood soaked. Zoma and a guy that could pass as Rath's twin brother stand up.

"Zoma! Are you alright?!" Cesia asks running to the small demon that's covered in mud and dirt. Cesia hugs him then stands to look at the human.

"Hi, I'm Nohiro. Who are you?" Nohiro asks as Cesia studies him.

"I'm Cesia, Rath you better come and see this guy!" She shouts as Nohiro gets a headache at the sound of the knight's name.

"No! You better come see this guy!" Ringleys shouts quickly flying past her head diverting her attention to the person in the middle of the battlefield. Rath kneels down next to the fallen warrior, who appears to be dead. The Dragon officers climb into the battlefield following Tetheus and Ruwalk, the only remaining of their inner circle.

"Rath! Cesia! What are you doing here?" Ruwalk shouts as the light-haired officer who talked about the whole thing seems to stop in his tracks. Ruwalk notices the fallen warrior, Zoma, four faeries, and the other Rath. "Um? What happened?"

"Thatz was on an important mission to find a demon for some reason and we found a demon, unfortunely it was Fedelta. And well, they fought and Thatz got really hurt." Zoma explains as Ringleys looks down at the warrior.

GT: Who won the battle? Did Thatz finish his mission? Will Zoma ever get to eat? All this and more will be answered in the next chapter of Dragon's Demon.

Nohiro: Why am I always being called the other Rath?

GT: Have ya looked in the mirror lately?