Chapter 23: Flight of the Phoenix
"Dranzer that's an order!" Kai yelled once more, trying to get his bit beast to listen. Dranzer stared shocked at her master, she couldn't disobey him, but she also didn't want to do what he was asking of her.
"Dranzer please" Kai pleaded while trying to hold back more coughing, everything went silent around them, a single crystal tear fell from Dranzers golden orbs falling to the floor it made a small splash, closing her eyes she stood back and spread her wings, quickly going through her mind trying to think of a different way for things to end,
"What? NO!" yelled Tyson when he saw what happened next, Dranzer had no other choice with a soft chirp of forgiveness she dove forward towards Kai, the teen yelled out in pain as the phoenix sliced through his body pulling away whatever life he had left. On the other side of the room a loud crash was head as Slifer was thrown into the wall, realizing what was happening Black Dranzer flew over to Dranzer, in a blinding flash of red and black light the two phoenixes joined along with the new power. Slifer looked up and with a high growl of shock became furious that the phoenix had gotten to the boy before he could. As the light faded the teens began to look around, on one side of the room stood Slifer surrounded by five bit beast which he seemed to be ignoring at the time, and at the other end of the room was a magnificent beast, spreading her great wings Dranzer let out a cry of victory. She seemed to glow with new power as streaks of black light flashed across the red, which surrounded her body. Just below the mighty red and black phoenix lay a motionless figure, his chest never rose or fell with the rhythmical movement of breathing, he just lay there blood still slowly trickled from some of the wounds covering his body. His light blue gray hair blew softly in the breeze created by the flapping of Dranzers powerful wings.
"No Kai" whispered Tala as he got up off the floor to stare over at his friend, the red haired teen took a step forward then another, he was about to sprint forwards till Slifer came flying past, with a roar of pain and a loud cracking sound the dragon burst through the stone walls, Dranzers large red black shape blew past Tala as the phoenix pursued the dragon, talons bared she was ready to strike again. Slifer picked his body up off the floor, turning his dark blood red eyes on the bird he growled deep in his throat, teeth bared the dragon lunged forward only to miss the phoenix as she dodged. Tala and the others all had to quickly jump back or risk being injured by the fall of the black beast.
With a mighty roar Slifer spun round only to see Dranzers mass fly into him, the phoenix gave a screech as she pushed the dragon further down, scraping her long sharp talons across his body. With another roar Slifer pushed himself back up, as Dranzer flew backwards Slifer slashed at her with his claws, Dranzer was already far enough back to miss being hit, which angered the dragon greatly. Galma, Galzzy, Tryhorn, Trypio, Unicolyon and Wolborg all returned to their blades leaving the phoenix to battle the black dragon.
Dranzer gave a loud screech as she dodged the river of fire heading towards her, as she flew backwards a sharp pain caught her in the back between the shoulder blades, screeching she fell forwards to the floor. Slifer gave a menacing roar as he stood over the phoenix, just as he was about to strike again Dranzer shot up and pinned him to the ground. Bursting into flames Dranzer's red-hot body scorched the thick hide of the dragon. Slifer screamed out in agony as he struggled to his feet. Silence fell upon the room, the large black dragon stood looking around the room searching for the majestic phoenix who had disappeared after the shower of fire she had created. A deep growl shattered the silence for a few seconds before fading into nothing, the teens stood against a wall scanning the room for the firebird, but found no signs of her. With a glass-shattering screech the mighty phoenix materialized, with a roar Slifer lunged forward only to fall to the floor with a crash.
"Come on Dranzer, you can win, I know it!" Tyson shouted words of encouragement to the phoenix,
Dranzer glanced over at the dragon blader before turning her attention back onto the black beast that was now getting up. Standing up tall Slifer arched his long neck while he hissed at the phoenix, opening his mouth fire streamed out, burning all in its path. Dranzer flew upwards to dodge the blast, flying higher and higher it wasn't long before Dranzer burst through the abbey roof. With a low growl Slifer followed suite, soon the two beasts were battling it out in the sky. Dranzer flew this way and that, dodging each stream of fire that headed in her direction. Slifer was becoming furious, with a roar of victory he speed forward knocking into the phoenix, with a surprised shriek the fire bird fell from the sky, with a loud thud and a shower of dust Dranzer hit the ground. The teens still inside the abbey were unsure of what to do, they were becoming worried about Dranzer but couldn't bring themselves to run out and find her because of Kai, he still lay lifelessly on the floor near the shattered glass tube. Taking the opportunity the Bladebreakers plus Tala ran forwards to join their fallen friend,
"KAI! Kai are you Ok!" shouted Tyson as they got closer, reaching the teen the five of them knelt down by his side,
"Kai come on Kai" Max urged the Russian teen to move in some way but it never happened,
"Kai" whispered Tala as he pulled Kai's body onto his lap, wrapping his arms around Kai's shoulders Tala gave the blue haired teen a little shake in the hopes of waking him. The White Tigers, All-Starz and Majestics all ran forward to join their friends, just as they did so a loud crash and a high pitched screech sounded as Dranzer burst through the stone wall, with another crash she hit the wall on the opposite side of the room,
"Umm guys I suggest we leave, the abbey is becoming extremely unstable" spoke Kenny as he looked around the room with worried eyes.
"The chiefs right we should get out of here," said Michael,
"But what about Kai?" asked Max,
"What do you mean what about Kai, we take him with us of course" Michael shot back,
"Right" responded Max with a nod of his head as he looked back down at his leader.
"Come on" whispered Ray as he pulled Kai off of Tala's lap, placing one arm under Kai's knees and the other under his shoulders Ray lifted the Russian teen off the floor,
"Gee he's not very heavy," said Ray as he and the others made their way out of the crumbling abbey.
Upon reaching outside Ray scanned the area around him, till he found a large tree walking over he placed Kai down on the ground, the others all sat nearby. Looking up Dranzer and Slifer were back to battling in the sky. With a screech Dranzer fell, then with a loud crash she landed in the ruins of what was once the abbey. Pressing his black wings close to his body Slifer shot down, with a stream of fire and a loud explosion what was left of the abbey burst into flames.
"Dranzer!" yelled Tyson trying his hardest to see into the flames that engulfed the stone building,
"She'll be ok, her element is fire" said Emily,
"Yeah but still" replied Johnny,
"What I don't get is how can a stone building catch fire?" asked Kevin,
"Well you have to remember it's not ordinary fire, it's from a bit beast" explained Kenny,
"I guess," mumbled Kevin,
With a high-pitched shriek Dranzer burst up through the fire and smash into Slifer, with a short sharp roar of shock Slifer was pushed backwards, charging forwards again Dranzer continually threw herself into the black dragon till he began to tie. Pulling back she spread her large wings, glowing with a bright red and black glow red hot flames began to form around her wings, flapping her great wings a shower of fire fell upon the weakened dragon, who roared out in pain, backing off Slifer used the second to recover as best he could. Anger flashing in his eyes Slifer gave a mighty call, lunging forwards he pushed all his weight into the phoenix. In a mass of black and red feathers along with jet black scaly skin the two creatures plummeted to the earth below, with a ground shaking thud and a shower of brown dust and sand the bit beasts his the earth,
"DRANZER!" shouted Max watching the two tangled creatures, as they lay motionless on the ground,
"Come on Dranzer, get up come on" whispered Emily praying that the great phoenix would rise before the dragon, a muffled roar echoed around the teens catching their attention, the mass of feathers and scales twitched, moving about the two creatures soon became untangled. Struggling to stand properly Dranzer screeched out in fury, arching his neck Slifer towered over the phoenix, lunging forwards the dragon clasped his jaws around Dranzer's throat, reeling backwards Dranzer shrieked out in agony, spreading her wings Dranzer hovered a few feet above the ground, with another glass shattering cry fire spread across her form, burning Slifer's mouth the dragon let go in a roar of anger, soaring higher Dranzer lengthened the distance between herself and the black dragon staring up at her. With a low growl Slifer spread his own great wings and followed after her, once again taking the battle to the skies. As Slifer flew upwards Dranzer stopped in mid flight, talons bared she lunged forwards into the dragon, taken by shock with the attack Slifer was hit full force and with a roar of pain Slifer dropped to the ground like a stone. Dust flew off in all directions as the dragons large black body made contact with the earth, seizing this chance Dranzer headed down in his directions, wings close to her sides Dranzer quickly closed the gap between herself and the dragon. As she dropped down Dranzer once again burst into flames, from far away it would have looked as though a large fireball was going to connect with the ground. Just as Dranzer neared Slifer he looked up only to be blinded by the bright red lights, closing his eyes a sharp burning sensation spread throughout his body. The teens standing by the tree had to block their faces from the sight before them, bright flashes of red and black light shot across the ground, and the area around them quickly heated up. With one last roar the dragon was engulfed by the flames, dust blew around from the force of impact. When the smoke and dust cleared, the teens looked over to see only a small ring of fire with black ashes scattered around, blowing about in the wind that had just recently picked up,
"Hey where did Slifer and Dranzer go?" asked Steve,
"Umm, you think he's been defeated," spoke Mariah,
"Let's hope so," said Enrique,
"Well then where's Dranzer?" asked Max,
"You think she died too?" asked Gary,
"But she had become immortal, so it's impossible for her to be gone," said Emily,
"I hope," she added,
Suddenly the sound of sirens could be heard, looking down the street they saw two fire trucks, an ambulance and a black limousine.
"Hey they must have found out about what was happening here!" shouted Tyson, waving his arms around.
The two fire trucks immediately set to work, getting out their fire hoses they began to put out the flames that had covered the abbey. From the black limo stepped Mr. Dickinson and Judy,
"Mr. D!" shouted Kenny calling the old man over,
"Mum!" Max yelled running forward,
"Are you all Ok?" asked Mr. Dickinson,
"Well not really" answered Ray,
Looking over to the tree the two adults saw Kai lying by the tree trunk,
"Oh my" gasped Mr. Dickinson.
"Get the ambulance over here!" shouted Judy looking over her shoulder,
Quickly coming over two men dressed in white shirts and pants came to help, placing the stretcher down on the ground next to the teen the men lifted his limp body onto it before carrying him off to the ambulance,
"One person can ride with him" spoke another man as he came over,
The teens all looked around at each other before their sight landed on Tala, with a nod the red haired teen followed the man back to the ambulance,
"Are you sure that the rest of you are ok?" asked Judy,
"Yeah were all fine," answered Ray,
"I still wonder where Dranzer is though?" Tyson asked no one in particular, as if answering his question a bright flash of red light surrounded the ambulance as it drove off then slowly faded away,
"I guess that's your answer then" said Lee,
"Well come on boys we can make it to the hospital to see how Kai's doing" said Mr. Dickinson,
'Some how I don't think he's doing to well' thought Ray
"And girls" shot Mariah,
"Yes sorry" replied Mr. Dickinson as they all went over to the limo, the group made their way into the limo and drove off after the ambulance (I really don't see 18 people fitting into one limo but hey, they do now)
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