Chapter 15: Dragon vs Wyvern

Raven was kneeling on the ground with her upper body dangling from the silver chains. The room wasn't bad looking comparing the dark stone cell Aaron and Garfield was held in, no. The room Raven was chained up in was painted in a light gray colour and had light brown fabric around on every furniture. There was dark wooden sky bed behind her, a few chairs and a dark wood closet.

Raven jerked her body to the side, the chains clinked together but showed no sign of loosening. She looked out the one window in the room, the window was barred with iron that shaped small diamonds to let the little light from the outside in.

Malchior's servants had been ordered to dress Raven in 'proper' royal wear. A long black dress that reached the ground around her feet, a thin white belt hung around her waist and trailed far down to her knees. Wide open arms hung around Raven's shoulder since her arms pointed up. Small white leather slippers covered her feet.

Raven jerked her arms again before getting to her feet, her knees were weak and damaged from being forced to the stone floor.

"You're up I see." Raven turned and growled as Malchior entered the room.

"What do you want?" She spat at him, she took a step back but kept her guard up.

"I needed to make sure you were okay… The next few events will be very painful for you…" Malchior's wings rose slightly and his tail flickered back and forth like a happy dog.

"What do you mean?" She asked with an angry glare.

Malchior laughed. "You'll see…" He lifted his hand and chanted a few words not even Raven could understand.

Suddenly, Raven felt pain grip her body. She fell to the floor again, she wanted to hold onto her side as it felt like they were being ripped apart. She screamed in pain while Malchior watched Raven transform.

Her body morphed into the same for of a dragon, only not. The form Raven took, was one of a wyvern. Her arms grew long leather wings, her body grew white scales and at the end of her spine grew a long thin tail with a sharp diamond knife at the end. The room grew too little for Raven as she bursted out through the wall. Her still purple hair fell short against her long neck, her teeth had grown and sharpened. Her purple eyes sharpened like a cat's eye in shock.

"Ah good." Raven's huge claws barely fit inside the room anymore and she had to lean against the building. The claws on her wings, that once were her arms, clawed at the castle as she tried not to fall to the ground. "You survived and got custom to the form quickly." Malchior flapped his wings and flew over to her shocked face. "You'll see soon." He began to glow in a black magic and transformed into his own dragon.

The huge black and purple dragon climbed the castle next to her. She saw he was heading her way fast, in panic she jumped from the building and gripped one of the towers.

Malchior laughed behind her. "You don't want to meet your fate?" Raven looked at him with one eye. "Well too bad." He jumped forwards her. His claws dug into her scales and dragged her down the tower, her own claws was dug into the tower making huge rifts in the walls.

Unlike Raven, Malchior was a full dragon, which gave him the advantage of free arms. He grabbed hold of her hips and almost got her off the wall. She tried to use her tail to stop him, she whipped him in the face that created a scar. Malchior lost his grip on Raven and tumbled to the ground.

Raven climbed to the to of the tower, pain struck her body again and as she looked at her hips she saw huge claw marks.

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"What was that?!" Garfield yelped as he fell to his butt after almost flying at a huge impact that suddenly hit the castle.

"Raven." Aaron focused his energy and brought flames to his hands, ankles and neck, the metal melted.

"Why didn't you do that earlier?" Garfield asked as Aaron melted his own chains.

"I couldn't, Malchior had a spell on them, but now that he is in dragon form, he can only focus on one thing… Raven." He firered a huge blast at the doors that blew open. "Marie and Rose will have to wait. Malchior only went into his dragon form for one reason."

The two ran down the dark hallway at high speed. "What?"

"He transformed Raven as well, you'll have to use your beast to bring her back. I think that's the only thing that can stop it, just let her kill Malchior first."

"How do know she'll do that?" Garfield yelled.

"Raven won't stop fighting when she's so close to winning." The two ran into a hallway that was completely broken, huge craters and holes were in the walls.

Suddenly two huge creatures fell into the room. The white wyvern had her teeth clamped around the dragon's neck while the dragon roared in pain and clawed at her back.

"What the-?!" Garfield started.

"Come on, she'll need help." Aaron grabbed Garfield's hand and dragged him towards one of the remaining towers.

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Raven hit her head against the stone of the throne room, Malchior was on top of her and laughing, thinking that he had won.

"Sweet Raven… You can't possibly defeat me, you'll always be the weaker one. I'll always be stronger than you!" He began to laugh.

"No you won't!" Aaron's element blast shot Malchior in the chest, forcing him off Raven and a few feet back. "I lost Raven once and I will not let it happen again!"

"Aaron?" Raven's voice was weak, the hit to her head had taken a lot out of her.

"Raven, Garfield is up in the tower, get to him. He'll tell you the plan." Raven nodded weakly before starting to climb the tower.

By this time, Malchior had gained his senses and threw himself at Raven. He grabbed her waist and pulled her away from the tower slamming her into the ground.

Aaron summoned a huge burning sword and jumped. Bringing the sword down hard on Malchior's back, it was too small to make real damage, but enough to take him out for a few minutes.

Aaron jumped onto Raven's shoulder as the two climbed the tower. When Raven was at the top she saw that Malchior came back.

"What's it going to take to kill him!?" Aaron cried. "Over there." He pointed to the small little figure waving at them.

Climbing further they reached the worried Garfield.

"Thank gods! Okay, Aaron… I forgot what I needed to say…" Aaron face palmed himself.

"Just jump on. Raven, fly away from the castle. Garfield did you get the others?"

Rose and Marie stood a few feet behind him. "Yes, but I couldn't find Alice, I think Victoria has her."

"Mother will be fine, she knows more magic than we're letting on. We got to go!" Marie cried as she carried Rose in her arms.

Raven nodded, her eyes narrowed with worry. "But I don't know how to fly."

"You do, your new instincts will tell you how. Come on!" Everyone jumped onto Raven's back and got ready to jump. Climbing onto the roof she made herself ready, and just a few feet into the air she was dragged to the ground.

Malchior had grabbed her tail at the last end and forced her to the ground, Raven just managed to turn her back up so nobody else was hurt. Gaining her footing she ran. Running towards the gates of Nol, Malchior was still on the tower and seem to have gotten stuck in something as he couldn't move.

Just then Alice ran out the building, or she walked really fast. Raven saw her and lowered her wing and scoped her up lifting her to her back.

They ran out of Nol, but suddenly Raven hit a wall. Clawing the air she saw a forcefield. She cursed loudly along with Aaron.

"You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" Raven turned her head and saw Malchior standing on the walls. "You can't escape me Raven!" He jumped and Raven just got out of the way before he hit her. He fell face first into the forcefield.

Raven ran back into Nol and looked for any way out, that's when she noticed up. The forcefield was just walls without a roof. Cursing she began to climb the walls.

Malchior looked around for Raven and saw what she had discovered, he growled and ran after her.

Raven was on the top of the castle and quickly jumped. She flapped her wings a few times and had to gain her balance a few times before she got into the air. She looked down and saw Malchior taking to the air.

Shifting her wings she gained speed and flew over the force field and fled Malchior, but not for long. Just as she had gotten to land she was pounced. Landing on her side, she felt everyone fall off, which gave her the stability to fight again. She clawed at Malchior's chest forcing him off her.

Suddenly, everything became red. Raven's eyes narrowed and she threw herself at Malchior full power.

Everyone was stunned and hurt watching the scene. Raven was making huge damage on Malchior's body. He was almost covered in blood by all the scars Raven gave him.

"What is she doing?" Rose yelled.

"Aaron?" Garfield looked around for him, when he found him, Aaron was laying in a small puddle of blood. Running over to him he yelled. "Aaron!"

"Garfield." Aaron gasped. "Let it happen…" Aaron had a huge scar over his side, the scar was definitely fatal.

"Are you?" He couldn't finish.

"Yes…" He coughed.

A loud bang made both turn. Malchior was laying on the ground unmoving and unbreathing. Raven stood there for a second before limping over to the two boys. As she did, they saw her body become smaller and smaller until she was back in her human form. Somehow she still had clothes on, but they were ripped everywhere.

She sat down next to Garfield and placed her hand on Aaron's wound, but he stopped her. "Raven, no…"

Raven broke out crying. "But I can save you! I can't lose you! For all you have done for me! I can't just let you die!" She started to push on her hand, but Aaron used the last of his energy to stop her.

"Garfield help me…" Aaron pleaded.

"Aaron, I don't want you to die…" Garfield whispered.

"There's no turning back, Raven… I love you, forever… Garfield, take care of my baby sister…" Aaron's eyes started to fade in colour.

"Aaron?!" Raven began to shake him. "AARON!" She screamed, when he didn't wake up she fell over his chest and sobbed. Garfield wrapped his arms around her and hugged her, tears streamed down their eyes.

"G-Garfield?" Raven asked after a while…

"Yes, Raven…" He hugged her tighter.

"He didn't want to lose me… But I lost him…" She cried.

"I know…"

A bright light erupted from Aaron's body, red, blue, green and yellow. The colours swirled around before spreading out in the sky. The colours swirled around the two before the red and blue colour went into Raven and the green and yellow into Garfield.

"What?" Garfield touched his heart where the magic had gone in.

"He shared his powers…" Raven whispered. "He gave it to us so nobody else could take it." She looked at Garfield, eyes still full of tears. "I want to go home…" She finally whispered.

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Aaron's body laid in the middle of a circle of stone on a bunch of wood. Raven had started the fire, she knew that if they left Aaron's body under buried it. The magic would not stay in them. The magic would and could be taken by anyone who found his body. So they did the next best thing, even if Raven hated it.

They burned his body. More magic erupted from his body, but this vanished into the sky.

Raven cried the whole time, her face was buried in Garfield's chest.

"I'm sorry Aaron…" She whispered right before the last flame vanished.

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I'm so sad! But! This is not over yet! I have one more conflict to get through… Hehe...