Dragon's Rage
By Youkiyra Solar Alias Krystal Fox
Disclaimer: Nothing of J.R.R. Tolkien is mine. Only the characters made up are mine and other peoples.
Chapter 13 Final destination
The sun was now quite low; it was turning all the hills to a beautiful orange. It seemed to paint the hills a deep red, a foreshadowing of what was to be coming. The shadows drew long and the clouds grew dark. This was it the moment and last battle for the dragons of Middle Earth.
Kakia stood with Aragorn on her left and Legolas on her right. In front of her the huge monstrosity of a malformed dragon stood there and frowned. If you could call it a frown. It seemed to be more of a melding of the lips in a permanent downward direction.
"Are you going to fight me or are we going to wait till time ages you to an older age? One more suitable for fighting." The Balrog taunted as they stood there.
She did not say a word, she simply closed her eyes and let all her memories transferred to her from her mother and father about war enter into her mind. When she opened her eyes again she had a determined look on her face. One that declared she was out for someone's blood.
The balrog finally began to charge them, they were ready. Kakia parried with the Balrog deflecting his sword, causing a flash of sparks to fly from their blades. While Legolas fired some arrows which embedded themselves into the monster's shoulders. He growled. Then fiercely drove her back, she quickly stepped back so as not to be over run by him.
Aragorn charged with Kakia as the Balrog took one step back, they fought him, barely gaining any ground. Legolas was trying to get a good position by which to fire a deadly shot into the eyes of this Balrog, but he wasn't getting the opportunity.
The fighting grew fiercer. The balrog stabbed his large staff into Aragorn's stomach causing him to gasp and bend over, then he turned to Kakia and tried to stab her but she blocked and nicked his elbow. The Balrog didn't like that, and in retaliation took his staff and thwacked Aragorn's head like one would a baseball. Aragorn's head jerked away and red splattered everywhere, and Aragorn fell to the ground unconscious from that vicious blow.
Legolas jumped from his perch and went running to help save Aragorn from being trampled and help Kakia. He went swiftly over to Aragorn and hauling him over his shoulder hurried him over to the side of the wall where he would be safe for the time being.
Turning back to the battle saw that Kakia was doing well but she was going to start losing if he didn't help. Kakia swept low to the ground avoiding a sword swipe of the Balrog's. As she did she brought her knife down upon the Balrog's foot and he screamed a deafening yell.
Legolas attacked with his knives from behind literally climbing the balrog with his knives. The balrog defiantly swung round thinking he could reach the elf on him my moving swiftly. By his distraction legolas watched Kakia regain her composure and charge once again.
This time the Balrog was in a frenzy he was slashing and dicing faster than even Legolas could keep up with. Kakia was holding her ground but from his position on the Balrog's burning back he could see her sweating up a storm, streams of wet water dripping down her face and dirt accumulating over everything. Legolas looked at his hands and realized something, "My hands have gotten burned." He didn't even feel his hands getting burned they had burned so quickly. In that moment of distraction he lost his balance and fell literally into the palm of the balrog's grasp. The balrog looked down at the elf in his palm and screamed, it reminded him of the elf that had killed him so many years before. (Glorfindel)
And, if you could say, took a baseball pitcher stance and threw him, he landed and skidded a few feet landing quite near to Aragorn, and didn't move again.
Kakia stood before him and said, " That is the last straw, you have kill my family, hurt my friend and nearly now killed my new friends. I will not let you live any more."
She was about to charge with all the rage in her body and would have destroyed this demon but a voice stopped her.
"Wait!"
Glorfindel and the twins along with Nacheska had just reached the surface once again there they witnessed a horrible sight of Legolas being thrown across the room where Aragorn lay on the ground not moving either. Glorfindel looked up and saw the thing that plagued his dreams and tortured his own sanity.
The Balrog.
"WAIT!" he yelled taking up his sword walked out. Kakia turned and saw a welcome sight the two twins together once again, as was in her dreams, and her dear best friend Nacheska. Though she did notice right away that there was red on her clothes, red enough to match the red of her hair. She was also very pale. She would care for her friend when all was safe. Looking at the twins gave a look that ordered them to keep safe.
They both nodded and walked towards Legolas and Aragorn.
Glorfindel meanwhile had walked up to the Balrog and stood there. The Balrog seemed to be shaking in rage. Glorfindel looked up at the Balrog with tired eyes.
"Must we fight again? Or would you kindly give up?" Glorfindel asked, a smirk now on his face.
The balrog screamed and then said, "I will kill you this time and you will not get off so lightly."
"Lightly." Glorfindel said scoffing him, "I died just as much as you did, just I came back sooner than you did…Unfortunately for you."
Kakia stepped back, realizing this was not to be her fight. But the age-old enemy of her Uncle's. The elf Lord, Glorfindel of the Golden Flower. Her mother knew that family and now she recognized this elf, he was the one that her mother had brought up a visual picture of when she was telling the tale of when she had ventured to the city of Gondolin.
This was to be to the final end to the fight between these two, given fair and level ground the fight would be "fair" and the winner would be decided and as someone said, "You can win a battle and lose the war."
Kakia turned to the others, "We must get these wounded back to the cave with your fathers. Then I must fly and get my grandfather to come with help."
Nacheska touched her friend's shoulder gently, "They already are coming…."
Kakia turned looked surprised then smiled knowing then what she had done and looked at her friend and smiled, "Thank you friend, you seem to think of every one but yourself. Now come let's get you better."
They headed away from this battle and back to the caves while Glorfindel began to fight and end the torment that would torture his mind in nightmares for years upon years now.
IN the south a battle was beginning to rage. Dragon's seeing blood went on a blood craze killing all in their paths, even other dragons had to avoid these dragons for fear of being attacked.
The orcs were dying with pieces of their bodies disconnected. Heads lolling on the ground, blood coated the dirt.
The dragon king stood with a soldier as they looked at the carnage. It was evident that they would win, they had had the moment of surprise totally getting the orcs off their guards.
"Sergue, split your unit up and give it to me, I am heading north, when you are done here, I want you to join me." He said to the blue-gray dragon beside him.
Sergue nodded and flew off, in a short moment 20 dragons were in front of him and the king took off knowing no words were needed.
These twenty were the friends of Kakia and Nacheska, that is why he wanted them, for if a fight began they would have the rage of their friends to spurn them on, plus the desire to keep their friends safe and well.
Kakia walked slowly so that her friend could keep up, she was breathing heavily from her wounds and looked tired. Ellandan and Elrohir looked very concerned at their new friend's condition but could do nothing about it for the time being they had to get back to the cave soon or small problems would get larger.
Ellandan slowed down to talk with his brother.
"Elrohir, exactly how did you happen to meet her?" He asked motioning to Kakia.
"She and her friend there saved my life. After that fight and all where we got separated." Elrohir said smiling at the two dragons.
"So that legend is and has been proven true." Ellandan said to his brother.
"Yes it has. There still are shape-shifting beings in this world and they are the last of them." The brothers looked at each other then continued to carry their other brother and friend back to the caves.
They were nearing round a corner when Kakia stopped and motioned them to put their burdens down. She looked as though she was concentrating on something very important.
Whispering she said, "Loosen you weapons, I believe that your fathers are in trouble." She said with a seriousness that could mean death to something.
Thranduil stretched, he had been standing there for a very long time. He looked at the sky, it was dark as if it knew of an impending doom that was coming. Looking at his friend saw that he too was bored.
"Elrond, why don't we take a walk in the fresh air so that we don't fall asleep and allow for our enemies to creep upon us." Thranduil said to his friend.
Elrond stood, "Are you sure that their aren't anything dark and dangerous out there?" He said with a slight smirk on his face. "What if a scary spider comes upon our path or a long legged one or Vala forbid! A daddy-long leg spider comes along!"
Elrond started to laugh as the rage in Thranduil's face was evident.
"Fine if you desire to stay in this stuffy and dull cave for dwarves so be It.!" He said stomping off.
"Oh, Thrandul! Don't leave me alone!" He said as if he would die.
As he laid back down on the grass, he had just laid his head upon the grass when he came blubbering up like a man drowning. Elrond looked up and saw that Thranduil held a bucket of water in his hands and was looking quite pleased of himself.
"Why you no good, elfling!" He said charging the elf king. Thranduil just started to jog away laughing.
"Oh sorry Milord, I didn't know that you were going to a meeting soon otherwise I wouldn't have done it." He said laughing escaping the enraged elf.
Elrond tackled the elf and they tumbled to the ground. Elrond was about to push the king's face into the dirt when he froze.
Thranduil felt him freeze and looked where Elrond was looking and froze himself.
There but 6 feet away was an entire pack of wargs, and they were huge!
Elrond stood and pulled Thranduil up, then reaching back for his weapons cursed as he found that he didn't have them. He had left them back at the cave. Taking a look at Thranduil saw that he too had done the same as he had. They were weaponless against a furious group of wargs and they didn't and couldn't do anything.
They stood there and didn't hear the bushes move as another prey was watching them.
Kakia motioned the twins to go around back.
"If I change shape, I warn you, you had better get your father's and get out of there." She told them before they left. They nodded and left.
Within min. the battle began.
Kakia put a protective spell over the wounded and followed the twins as they circled around the wild dogs.
They were vicious, each one had huge 1-inch teeth, and you could see that they were starving. Ribs showing and they saw the two elves before them as food. They in their want for food did not notice the danger coming and appearing behind them.
As they began to crouch and Elrond and Thranduil prepared for the onslaught they there was deafening roar. The Wargs shivered and turned and saw a huge beast of an animal. A Large green dragon.
In the distraction both of the twins ran forward and grabbed the wrists of the fathers and pulled running swiftly away from the wargs, the wargs were now too startled to deal with the elves as they saw this huge beast that reminded them of the Balrogs with out the constant fire.
Kakia saw the fear in their eyes and struck, pouncing she landed on two of the wargs necks breaking them instantly, the other wargs tried to run off but she cause them between her claws and slaughtered them.
Satisfied with her work went back to the invalids and took two of them (the guys) in her claws and then took her friend gently up by the cape around her into her mouth. Then took off flying, if the twins obeyed her they would be waiting at the cave for her.
When she arrived they were waiting and the Elder fathers were very glad that their children had been coming home early so they weren't slaughtered.
"Elves," she said still in her dragon form, "Take the human and elf, I have my friend to take care of." She said slightly muffled as she still held her friend in her teeth.
Elrond gently picked Estel up and carried him inside the cave and started to work on him as Thranduil followed with his son. The twins began to work on the Prince and one or both would also work on Estel when their father went to check on Legolas. The two invalids were soon groaning as they woke up.
"What in blazes?" Estel asked as he woke up, he was quickly explained all the recent events that had happened. While Estel was being told Legolas woke and heard some of it too and understood. Both of them had been bandaged up from their wounds so that they would heal properly.
Once everyone was awake and okay they went out to see where Kakia had gone to with her friend Nacheska.
Outside Nacheska was lying on the ground and seemed to be begging Kakia not to do something.
"Please Kakia, don't do it, I don't want you to feel this pain. Please…Don't. I won't let you, you feel too much pain. I'll be alright."
"Yeah right, Nacheska, alright, you are dying from the inside out, you know as well as I do that I have healing blood, if I do the healing switch then you will live and I will destroy the pain with my blood. Now please let me heal you, I couldn't stand to let you die and leave me behind." Kakia said with tears in her eyes.
The Twins exchanged looks something serious was going on and it seemed life or death.
"What is the matter?" Ellandan asked kneeling on one side of Nacheska.
"My lady refuses to let me go." Nacheska said quietly.
"I will not loose my best friend just because she said she won't let me heal her. She has no choice." Kakia said matter-of-factly.
All watched as her hand glowed green as she pushed it upon Nacheska's chest and they watched as all her wounds seemed to just vanish.
They were so intent on watching this healing process that they never noticed 21 large shapes coming their way.
Once Kakia was finished she looked dazed and when she stood she shook, then started to fall.
A noisy swooshing sound filled the air and a grandfatherly type elf/man appeared standing now holding a sleepy looking Kakia.
Ellandan and Elrohir both saw the crown upon his head, looking back at Estel and Legolas and their fathers, decided it would be better to kneel before this regal dragon.
They knew he was a dragon because 20 fierce looking different colored dragons were behind him glaring at the small group before them.
In a very rich and deep voice the dragon king spoke to them, "Well, now I would like to hear what you all have to say for why my granddaughter ran off to save some elves, tell me your story." He said sitting down beside Nacheska.
Krystal Fox: Sorry for being so very long in getting this story updated, I just have lots of things I needed to get done, school work, tests, argue with my boss about my hours, and so on. My list is never ending. Hope you enjoyed the update. I will try to update more often.
