Author's Notes

Hihi all! Clem is here to write the next chapter! Another new chapter! I'm enjoying writing these parts! Enjoy guys!

Aztec 13 - I'm glad you found it awesome! I'm also glad you enjoyed Dwayne's clothes scenes, they are so dwayne eh? Quest time hehe ^^

lordgemini - I'm glad you enjoyed the story advancement. There's a lot of questions still to be answered ^^

TheMoonIsCheese - Montages are fun. Interesting guess you have there ^^

Guest - Very powerful indeed-

Dwayne yawned and opened his eyes. He was in his bed, still a little tired.

Ah.. morning is here

He smiled and got up, outside it was still quite dark, it was early morning. He looked at the clock and saw it was 4:30 am. He smiled and walked into the bathroom to give himself a quick shower.

As he showered he kept thinking of today's events that are coming up. The dragon, the dangers and the fight. He was nervous. He wished he had a bit more time to get used to everything including using his bow.

He didn't want to disappoint anyone either. He felt a similar kinship with the gang like he did with junior. A need to impress and make them accept. As the oldest in the group, he felt he has responsibility.

He got out of the shower, dried and put on his clothes, he popped his head out of the bathroom and saw it was 5 am. Perfect time.

He smiled and walked up to Noah's bed and shook it.

To his surprise, no one was there.

Huh..?

He checked the clock a second time to make sure that he didn't wake up late.

Nope… still good hm-

He heard something outside, the sound of footsteps, Dwayne looked a bit concerned but stood his guard up as he curiously walked outside.

He glanced out and sighed a bit of relief, Noah was just jogging.

"You're up early" Dwayne whispered.

Noah looked at him. "As are you."

"Well, you know when I get up, how come you're awake? Couldn't sleep?" Dwayne blinked.

"No... I just needed to train one last time. To make sure we win." Noah blinked.

"Hmm.." Dwayne looked unconvinced. "You're still worried huh?"

"Eh..." Noah frowned.

"Want to talk about it?" Dwayne asked.

"I'm good. Sometimes just leaving yourself to your thoughts is fine." Noah said.

Dwayne gave a soft smile. "Well whatever alone time you need, just know I'm there for you son. I'll make you some breakfast ok?" He smiled. "I can't go on a fight on an empty stomach after all!" He walked in.

Noah blinked and gave a little smile.

He's very odd but... He's alright.

As the morning came Noah walked back into the place, he could instantly smell some bacon and eggs. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the smell.

Wow… that's good.

He walked into the main area and saw Trent and Leonard were awake.

"Morning." He said.

They looked at him.

"Hey there!" Leonard was reading his spellbook.

"Morning Noah." Trent smiled and continued tuning his guitar.

"So. Today's the day huh…" Noah blinked.

"Yeah, is it weird to say I'm kinda excited though?" Trent said. "We've been building to this day for weeks now and it's just something new you know?"

"I can't wait to see the dragon!" Leonard smiled. "I wonder what colour it'll be, I hope it's black! I like black dragons" He smiled.

"Red ones are pretty neat," Trent said.

"They are cool but black ones are more mysterious," Leonard smirked to himself. "But there is a fun fact about red dragons actually! They never attack first. They only fight with a challenge of first strike from the attacker"

"Wow, interesting, I hope we get that then" Trent smiled.

"Indeed" Leonard smirked.

"Anyway… off to the kitchen." Noah blinked and started walking to the kitchen.

"Oh, I wouldn't try going in there," Leonard said.

"How come?" Noah frowned.

"Sir Dwayne put a curse on the door, saying… 'He who enters shall be banished from the kitchen'" Leonard put on an older voice.

"..." Noah raised an eyebrow. "right… anyway." He opened the kitchen door and walked in, he saw Dwayne in an apron, finishing up cooking some bacon and eggs while Scarlett was already eating a sandwich.

"Hey, son!" Dwayne smiled. He put the food on a few plates and offered them to Noah on a tray. "Can you please pass two of the plates to Trent and Leonard?"

"Uh… sure." Noah blinked and put the tray down on the side. "But first... when are we going?" He looked at Scarlett.

"mmm.." She was still eating, she put her index finger up and swallowed. "ah… ok well, I created a little map for you guys, it's over there." She pointed to a sheet of paper on the side.

Noah walked over and picked it up, he glanced at it and raised an eyebrow, it was entirely in crayon. "Uh…"

"Look, I'm not an artist, ok? It's close enough" She raised her hands. "As you can see, it's a map to the cave."

"What about inside it?" Noah asked.

"Well, that's the issue. I've never actually been inside. So… you guys will have to figure it out." She admitted.

"Ooo exploration! How fun!" Dwayne squealed in excitement.

"Great…" Noah groaned.

"Just think of it like one of your MMORPGs or something I don't know. I'm sure you'll do fine." She said.

"Yeah, but unlike those, if we die, we're dead for good," Noah grumbled.

"Lively today aren't you?" Scarlett gave a reassuring smile. "You'll do fine. You trained after all. Now." She waved her hand away. "Shoo and get ready, you got a dragon to fight."

"So eager to get us going already… what's up?" Noah blinked.

She shook her head. "Nothing. Just thought it would be good to get it done and over with you know? Plus the faster you do it, the faster we can encounter Staci." She smiled.

"Hm…" Noah didn't look convinced but he didn't press further. "Alright… Anyway" He picked up the tray of food. "I guess I'll give these and get ready then." Noah walked out.

"You should get ready too, Dwayne, I'll clean up," Scarlett said.

"Oh, I don't mind cleaning up when we get back." Dwayne offered.

She shook her head. "It's fine, It's not much anyway." She smiled.

"Oh, ok then, thank you." He smiled and walked out also.

When Dwayne walked out he saw Trent and Leonard eating their eggs and bacon.

"Wow, you make some good bacon Dwayne!" Trent smiled and continued munching on the bacon.

"Thanks" Dwayne smiled and started to collect his things. He grabbed his bow and quill as well as his bunch of arrows. He felt a little nervous. "I believe I'm ready to fight." He looked down to see Perdi sitting by him. "awh…" He picked her up.

"It'll be ok buddy." he kissed her nose. "I'll be back soon ok?" He nuzzled her and put them down.

Perdi relaxed a bit.

Leonard burped. "ah… I see the energy is preparing itself."

"Pretty sure that was just a burp dude," Trent said.

"nono, It was energy releasing from my body." Leonard smiled and finished.

"Right." Noah blinked and got his rapier and shield. He felt a bit more powerful as he held the items. "Hmmm, we need a bag."

"Oh, I still have my backpack with me." Trent grabbed his backpack. "I'm guessing for the horn?"

"Pretty much yes. Maybe whatever other things we find too." Noah said.

"Ah yes… Picking up items for our adventure is useful for our inventory…" Leonard smirked.

"... yes what you said." Noah blinked. "I'm ready I guess."

Leonard walked and put his plate away and then grabbed his spellbook. "I have joined the party."

Trent put his guitar around his shoulder and put on his backpack. "I'm all good to go."

Noah nodded. "Alright then." He cupped his hands and put them over his mouth. "We're leaving Scarlett!"

"Good luck!" She shouted from the kitchen.

The boys walked out to begin their adventure towards the dragon's den.

In the kitchen, Scarlett sighed a bit. She saw the door open slightly as Perdi walked inside curiously.

"Oh hey there" Scarlett smiled at Perdi.

"mew…" Perdi blinked and stared at her.

"I know… I should've told them of the situation with the masked man and Ezekiel." She admitted.

Perdi just stared.

She sighed more " But… I didn't want to give them any distraction for the fight."

Perdi stared even more.

"I'll tell them when they get back ok?" She frowned.

Perdi then proceeded to lick herself.

"Why am I arguing with a cat…" She facepalmed. "I need to go out more…"

They were walking towards the front entrance of the town to leave, Noah looked back at Dwayne and raised an eyebrow.

"uh… Dwayne…?" Noah blinked.

"Yesss?" Dwayne looked at him.

"You're still wearing your apron." He frowned.

"What…?" Dwayne looked down at his outfit, he was wearing his white apron still. "Oh uh, should I go back?"

"Nah it'll be fine," Trent said. "Just consider it extra protection or something."

"Oooo It'll be my lucky apron!" Dwayne smiled.

"Ah yes, an enchanted piece of cloth, good for quests like these" Leonard smirked and suddenly grabbed the map off Noah.

"What the-" Noah frowned.

"I require this…" He inspected it. "I can use my magic to track down the cave"

"What- that's what the map's for. We don't need your magic. You're even looking at the map!" Noah complained.

"Don't worry." He smirked. "Mappicuuusss!"

…

Nothing happened.

"Oh." Leonard blinked.

Noah took the map off him. "Let's just use the map." He continued and walked out of the Aendrikard grounds with the gang, they soon entered the forest.

"Ah, memories." Dwayne smiled and looked around at all the trees and fauna in the area. "Hey Noah, Trent, remember our time here?" He smiled.

"Yes… I'd rather not remember" Noah frowned.

"It wasn't that bad" Trent smiled. "We met again here after all."

"I hope those purple cows are ok," Dwayne said, concerned.

"I saw a few purple cows while in Aendrikard, long before you guys were here," Leonard said. "I like their milk" He smiled.

"Is the milk purple?" Dwayne curiously asked.

"It's more like a white with a purple tint," Leonard answered.

"What does it taste like?" Trent asked.

"Oh it's weird, its kinda like milk and soy milk mixed together. It was actually interesting because I'm actually lactose intolerant so usually it would've got me bad but all the milk products here are from those purple cows and there's like nothing reacting for me, it's great" Leonard rambled a little while going through branches.

"Ohhh! I got to try sometime!" Dwayne smiled.

Noah kinda drowned out the conversation behind him as he continued on looking at the map. He went off the path towards a plateau that was nearby, in the plateau there was a crevice, it was just rocky and devoid of grass and foliage. It was however a little wet, it seems part of the nearby river dripped into this area.

Noah stopped, the boys suddenly bumped into him as they were distracted.

"gh!" Noah frowned and looked back. "we're here."

Dwayne blinked and looked at the crevice. "Woah… this is big."

"Yeah…" Trent glanced over. "So we're going to go into that?" He blinked.

"I guess so…" Noah watched as water dripped from the top of the crevice.

"It seems so… ominous…" Leonard commented.

"Well!" Dwayne spoke up. "No point staring, we must head in and fight that dragon." He smiled and started walking inside.

Noah frowned a bit and followed. "This crevice only leads to an outside opening as we can see. I don't see specifically a cave."

"Maybe we'll find one within the crevice," Trent said.

"Hm… True…" Noah thought as they walked, he put the map in his pocket. "Just so it doesn't get wet."

As they walked, their feet splashed a bit in the little puddles of water that formed within the crevice. They tried their best to avoid them.

"Don't worry, if the map gets wet, I'll be sure to use my great tracking powers!" Leonard smirked and continued on.

"Tracking powers… right." Noah frowned.

"This is quite a large crevice huh," Trent commented.

"I'm sure some kind of earthquake created it." Noah thought.

Leonard frowned. "In my time here, I haven't heard a single earthquake."

"probably one from millions of years ago or something" Noah shrugged. "Similar ways is how volcanoes, mountains and islands are formed."

"You're way too smart for us Noah" Dwayne chuckled.

"That's just basic geology really." Noah blinked.

"Or just a quick google search" Trent smiled.

"That too." Noah blinked.

"Speaking of geology, I once watched a documentary on geology and mountain formations. I hear even the slightest of disturbances can cause things like collapses and cracks…" Dwayne said as he tapped on the wall of the crevice.

Trent's eyes widened. "Jeez dude, after saying that, I don't think that's a good idea." He looked very worried.

"Eh… I don't think a bunch of taps will do mu-" Noah was disturbed by the sound of rumbling.

"uh… I think you spoke too soon man." Trent's eyes widened.

"Mother nature is mad….!" Leonard was shaking in fear.

Noah tried to keep his composure.

The place was shaking a little but not too much. It started to slowly slow down until it came to a halt.

Noah sighed in relief. "See… all good," Noah smirked a bit. "No-" suddenly more rumbling was heard, the place shook like it was a medium-sized earthquake.

"Uh oh uh oh! What have you done Dwayne!" Trent shouted as he almost tumbled over.

"Ah! I was just lightly tapping!" Dwayne tapped his feet around in panic.

"Stop talking and let's find shelter!" Noah shouted as he ran.

"Can't we just get out?!" Leonard followed.

"We're too deep now!" Noah looked around and saw a little mini area to squeeze in. "Over here! Just in case any rocks hit us!" He ran over and squeezed into a little spot.

Dwayne ran but slipped over some wet floor, he slammed his knee into the ground. "Ack!"

The area around kept on rumbling, some small rocks crumbled down.

"Dwayne!" Trent ran over and helped him up.

Trent looked around and saw where Noah and Leonard were, Leonard jumped out of the little hole to help with Dwayne. Noah was nowhere to be found.

Leonard grabbed Dwayne's other side and helped assist him to the hole, allowing him to go in.

As Trent got him in a rock hit him on the head. "Ack!" He rubbed his head and squeezed in after Dwayne.

Leonard finally squeezed in after Trent.

They stood there and watched as the rocks fell until the shaking stopped.

"phew…" Trent breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's finally over…" Leonard smiled and looked at Dwayne. "You ok Sir Dwayne?"

"Gh.." Dwayne pulled up his trousers and saw his knee was bruised. "I'll live, don't worry" he chucked to himself. "How are you guys doing?"

"Good, head hurts though." Trent rubbed his head a bit, he then looked behind Dwayne. "Huh… Noah? You there?"

"Back here." His voice was heard deeper within the little hole.

"Well, you heard him" Dwayne smiled and started squeezing through the little passageway.

Trent was making sure he didn't hit his head anymore.

Gwen really would hate this, it's so packed…

As they continued, they could feel the area getting bigger and bigger until they reached a bit of an opening. It was a dark cave. Noah was stood there waiting.

"Woah… is this the cave?" Dwayne stumbled into the open area.

"I'm not sure, but it's the only one we know of so far so… yeah." Noah blinked.

"It's a bit dark, isn't it? I feel like we should've gotten a bit of light, like a torch or something" Trent looked around a bit.

"oh oh! I know!" Leonard smiled.

"What…?" Noah sceptically asked.

Leonard got out his spellbook and started flipping through the pages, he used the entrance of the little hole to give him a little light to see the words. "Semper lux!" he shouted, suddenly around his finger a little flame appeared, it lit up the room a bit. "It's not much, but it'll keep us bright!" He smiled.

Noah blinked. "I… I'm genuinely impressed. good job."

"Way to go!" Dwayne smiled.

Trent nodded and smiled. "Shall we get going?" He looked ahead, it seemed the cave just continued on going forward. "Hopefully the dragon is close."

"onward and outwarddd!" Leonard said as he led the group with his little flame.

"I wonder how the dragon even got here, must be a back entrance," Noah said as he started moving.

"Must be cosy at least" Dwayne commented.

"I just hope we don't find bats down here." Trent said. "not a fan of bats."

"Bats are indeed scary… They may turn you into a vampire" Leonard commented.

"Vampires aren't real Leonard," Noah said bluntly.

"In this world they are!" Leonard exclaimed. "I saw one turn with my own two eyes" He pointed to his own eyes but immediately flinched as he realised he put the flame a bit too close. "Gah!"

"Yeah, don't forget about the flame" Noah sweatdropped.

"Mhm," Leonard nodded and trodded forward.

Noah looked at the walls and noticed a few markings. "interesting…" He stopped and inspected them, the markings showed scratch marks. "I'm curious what made these marks."

"bats?" Trent's eyes widened.

"Maybe it was the dragon?" Dwayne suggested.

"I don't think a dragon would fit in this area." Noah blinked. "Odd.." he caught up with the group.

"I hope we don't see any bugs down here… Not the biggest fan." Trent frowned.

"Worst you'll probably find is flies really. Not many will go this deep" Noah said.

"Well that's good then" Trent smiled.

As they walked, they noticed a fork in the path. Both directions looked equally accessible.

"Well." Noah blinked. "Which way do we go?"

"Uh… Maybe right, it's always right after all!" Dwayne chuckled to himself.

"Hmmm left is always a good way, in my opinion, I can sense the dragon's presence from there," Leonard said.

"Maybe we should split up" Trent suggested. "Two go one way, two go the other."

"Eh... How would we alert the other?" Noah frowned.

"Easy" Trent smiled and looked at the wall. "It looks pretty thin so… We could probably shout."

Noah blinked. "Fair enough" He looked at Leonard. "What about the light? Whoever isn't with Leonard won't have a source of light."

"That is true…" Leonard stroked his beard.

They thought for a moment.

"Oh!" Dwayne perked up. "I know." He got out one of his arrows and pointed the end to Leonard's finger, letting it set alight. "It's a torch!" He smiled.

"Wow, good thinking" Trent said, impressed.

Noah blinked. "Let me guess. Another documentary?"

"Actually this is from scouts back in the day," Dwayne put his hands on his hips in triumph.

"You had arrows at scouts?" Trent questioned.

"No, but we did burn sticks and that's what gave me the idea" He smiled.

"Now that we got more light, who is going where?" Leonard asked.

Noah raised a finger. "wel-"

"Oh-oh! Trent and I will go left, you and Leonard go right!" Dwayne smiled and walked left before Noah could argue.

"Well, I guess that's the group then, good luck guys!" Trent smiled and followed Dwayne.

"ll... " Noah frowned and looked at a grinning Leonard.

"I guess it's us two eh fellow party member. Are you ready to hear the grand stories from my ancestors?" He grinned more.

Noah blinked.

Of course, I'm with him…

Dwayne and Trent walked along their path, it seemed a bit wet, they noticed the walls were dripping with water.

"Odd," Trent commented and walked over to the wall.

"Oh, I'm thirsty actually" Dwayne walked to a wall and cupped up the water to drink. "Ah…"

"Uh, I'm not sure you should be drinking random liquid. Who knows what's in it." Trent said.

Dwayne smiled. "Ahh! But it's refreshing though, come on, try it." He smiled.

"hm… I don't know." Trent hesitated.

"Come onnnn" Dwayne pressed him.

"Hmm... Alright alright heh…" He drank some too. "Ah… ok that is surprisingly impressive." He looked up. "I wonder where the water is coming from…"

"Somewhere like a river, ooo It might be that river me and Noah traversed." He smiled to himself as he reminisced the old memories.

Trent also splashed some on his face to soothe the light pain he got from earlier. "Ah..."

"Oh yeah," Dwayne pulled up his trousers and proceeded to watch his wound too. "Good idea actually" He smiled.

"I feel next time we should invest in potions or something like that masked guy," Trent said.

"Hm true." Dwayne blinked. "been a while since we've seen them actually… I wonder who they are."

"I'm sure we'll find out soon," Trent said as he finished splashing his face.

"True true, I'm glad they were there though, you guys could've died!" Dwayne exclaimed.

"True, I'm grateful, I still want to say thank you" Trent smiled. "But anyway... "He continued along the path with Dwayne.

"And that's how I managed to escape the depths of Carzegon with only a toothpick and a ladle" Leonard smiled.

"Great… Proud of you…" Noah sarcastically remarked. He felt extremely annoyed by Leonard already.

"ooo ooo" Leonard perked up as they walked. "I can tell you about my fight with Azgar by the mountains of Petila!"

"Please don't" Noah said.

Leonard smiled. "Oh I know, once upon a time-"

"Leonard-" Noah frowned more.

"I was in the braculius grounds and-"

"Leonard….." Noah gritted his teeth.

"It was-"

"LEONARD! JUST… SHUT UP FOR A SECOND!" Noah went over his limit and outbursted. He started breathing heavily as he let out all his breath. "Gh…"

Leonard just stared at Noah, he sniffed a bit.

"What are you-" Noah blinked.

"I… I need to be alone." tears were forming from his eyes, he suddenly ran off.

"L-Leonard!" Noah shouted, the area started getting darker until all Noah could see was nothing.

Great…

Dwayne and Trent continued on, they could feel a bit of cool air inside of the cave.

"huh… a bit cool." Trent blinked.

"Maybe there's a way out, I read in a magazine that usually cool air means we are closer to the surface" Dwayne smiled.

"So we found an exit?" Trent looks intrigued.

"Maybe… or where the dragon may be," Dwayne said.

"Should we alert the others?" Trent said.

"We should probably go see it first" He moved his legs faster. "I really want to see it! It's going to be so amazing!" Dwayne smiled to himself as he trotted forward.

"Hey! Don't go too fast now" Trent followed at a faster pace. "We need to keep our stamina."

"Trueee!" Dwayne suddenly stopped. "Maybe we should rest or something."

Trent shook his head. "Nah, just keep it slow, I'm sure the others are doing the same"

Noah was tapping against the wall lightly as he was moving in the dark.

of course, I got myself in this mess… me and my mouth.

He made sure he didn't end up cutting himself on any sharp parts of the wall.

He looked ahead, hoping there was even the tiniest of light to guide him.

It's so dark down here.. jeez. I'm not even sure if I'm going the right way.

Suddenly he tripped over a rock on the ground and fell over.

"Ackk!" Noah winced in pain a bit as he bashed his arm.

Great…

He struggled up a bit, almost falling over again and continued to walk slowly while feeling the wall.

I'm sure Leonard will be fine… I hope anyway.

Noah blinked.

Probably should've just said what I needed to say more calmly honestly… Guess sometimes my anger gets the better of me.

He sighed.

He walked for a good few minutes until he saw it getting lighter.

Ah! Here we go.

He picked up the pace and saw the path was opening up a bit. He eagerly walked over to a slightly different path. "huh…"

He looked around a bit, it felt familiar, he then turned around

He saw the same fork in the road.

Noah groaned.

Goddamnit…

Trent looked at the ground and saw that the water level was increasing the more they walked "uh… I feel we're getting to that water source."

"Hm?" Dwayne looked down. "Oh! Well, should we go back?"

Trent shook his head. "Might be something back here still." They walked.

After a while, they reached a dead end, they saw a mini waterfall that came from a random crack in the wall.

"Oh." Dwayne blinked. "Well, that's anticlimactic."

"Let's hope Noah a-"

"DRAGONNNN!" Leonard's voice was heard really loudly.

"Ah!" Trent's eyes widened. "Looks like they found it!"

"Let's go then," Dwayne said as he started running back.

Trent nodded and followed.

"Legs don't fail me now!" Dwayne ran.

Meanwhile, Noah was still where the fork was, he knew he couldn't follow the path to Leonard even after hearing his cry.

Come on guys… come on

He tapped his foot and crossed his arms.

I should really apologise to Leonard when I get the chance…

He can be annoying but…

He sighed.

Still wasn't right what I bursted out.

He frowned.

Jeez, I feel like me from a year ago would look at current me and make his own sarcastic remark.

anyway…

He looked a little determined.

Next time I see him I'll say something.

After a moment he saw the light of Trent and Dwayne's arrow torch.

"Noah?" Trent raised an eyebrow. "What are you-"

"I'll explain later, let's get to Leonard" Noah interrupted.

Dwayne nodded. "Let's go then!" They ran through the other path.

Leonard was staring at the beast. He was in an open area covered by red crystals and stalactites. There was a small lake nearby as well, the area itself was quite large.

The dragon stood there, inspecting Leonard's movements. It was huge, the size of a double-decker bus with red sharp scales. Large beautiful wings. It looked a little damaged and older. They just stared more with their orange eyes. What caught Leonard's eye was the horns on its head, what they intended to gather.

Leonard couldn't move, he was shaken in fear. On every adventure he's been on he's never actually encountered a dragon before and now here it is. He thought he would've been excited but knowing he was also intending to fight the beast gave him shivers down his spine.

Leonard held onto his spellbook tightly.

"Leonard!" A familiar voice was heard.

Leonard looked back as he heard his name. "Ah, Sir Dwayne, Trent the bard, other guy."

Noah rolled his eyes. "look Leonard-

"Not now sarcastic mule." Leonard crossed his arms.

"How are you do- Ahh!" Dwayne fell onto his butt as he saw the dragon ahead.

The dragon growled and looked at the group.

"How come it's not fighting yet?" Trent blinked.

Leonard smirked a bit. "Well...in dragon legends of this world, dragons are respectable creatures. They will only fight if they are challenged, so we get the first strike." He smirked.

Trent looked at the dragon. "It really is a beautiful creature, a shame we have to kill it..."

"Maybe if we ask nicely they can give us their horn." Dwayne smiled.

"Know dragon language?" Noah frowned.

"No…" Dwayne looked down.

Noah looked at the dragon who stood there. "We need to do a very calculated first strike then… I think I-"

"No." Leonard frowned. "I'm going to do the first move." He looked a little mad. "No more Noah show."

"Wait what do you mean." Noah raised an eyebrow.

"You heard me. I'm taking the lead. I know more about dragons than you sarcastic mule." Leonard frowned.

Noah blinked. "Look I know you're mad bu-"

"No buts." Leonard glared.

"Uh.. are you ok Leonard?" Trent asked.

"I am, fantastic" Leonard smirked and started reading his spellbook. "Prepare yourselves."

Noah sighed in defeat.

I guess after the fight then… no way to get to him at the moment.

The guys got their weapons out and faced the dragon.

Noah held his rapier and shield eagerly.

Dwayne stood back a bit with his bow and arrows.

Trent stood on the sidelines with his guitar.

Leonard looked at the gang. "Alright then…." He stared at the dragon. The dragon knew the challenge was about to happen.

…

"fulmineum…!"