Chapter four: The knight and the dragon.
He decides to try it on a large leaf on the ground by the river. "Ok." He says only to quickly look through the book. "Hmm….. Ah!" He finds a page that looks good to try.
Nate looks over Mihael's shoulder to see what he has come across.
Mihael turns with a smile to Nate and holding the book as well as the stick in one hand he raises his other hand only to pet the underside of Nate's jaw on the opposite side than the one closest to him.
Nate makes a pleased sound as Mihael pets him like that for a moment in which he must admit doesn't feel that bad.
Mihael stops and lowers his hand turning to the leaf as he grabs the stick with the hand that was petting Nate. He raises it and concentrates.
Nate watches wondering what is going to happen.
Mihael closes his eyes taking a deep breath before opening his eyes with a look of determination. He moves the stick in a small motion before gesturing in the direction of the leaf.
A small ball of light zips out of the tip of the stick that hits the leaf.
The leaf bursts into a small flame.
Nate looks slightly disappointed knowing that Mihael was trying to make the leaf float or change color as that was what the page was talking about. He looks to Mihael only to smile when he sees Mihael looks amazed and happy about it doing anything at all.
Mihael turns to Nate as the two share a smile with each other.
Nate lowers himself inviting Mihael on as he knows they need to get going.
Mihael gets up kicking some dirt onto the small flame though the ground is damp so it wasn't really in danger of catching fire. He puts the two items back into the bag that he makes sure is safely on his back and hesitantly gets onto Near's back once again. He puts his arms around Nate's neck to not fall off.
Nate spreads his wings and takes to the sky as he finds he is getting better at this flying thing.
Mihael finds that though it's not as bad as the first time it's still scary so he doesn't let go of Nate's neck as they fly off to find the spiral mountain.
Nate keeps flying and a little later as the sun is setting making the sky orange he sees what looks like it could be spiral mountain up ahead. He lands on a cliff pretty well this time.
Mihael raises and digs the book out of the bag to look for the page so they can confirm that this place is spiral mountain. He finds the page and looks at the drawing only to lower the book to look to the mountain. "Well this is it. Spiral mountain." He let's Nate know.
Nate spreads his wings.
"Whoa! Wait!" Mihael says quickly making Nate pause and glance back to him. "It says that it is guarded by dragons. Maybe we should be careful."
Nate blinks then looks back to spiral mountain. He knows that Mihael is right that they should be careful since if this place is protected by other dragons they might be in trouble if they have to fight.
Mihael puts the book in the bag and makes sure he is ready if Nate does try to fly again.
Nate takes to the air as he swoops down to the ground at the base of the mountain to see if they can get close to it first.
Neither notice the person in armor watching them from pretty the ground by the bottom of the cliff.
The person grabs the bow and arrows that the person brought along and the person gets ready to try to hit Nate.
Nate is about to land when the arrow sent by the person strikes his wing making him roar in pain. He begins falling and quickly grabs Mihael moving him into his arms to protect the other from the impact that will happen.
They crash to the rocky ground with Nate taking the hit since he is protecting Mihael.
Nate let's Mihael get onto the ground and he turns, careful of Mihael, to get up.
They both turn when they hear someone approach only to see the man in armor.
The person in armor has the bow and arrows put away on the horse that is over by where the person was standing when the person shot the arrow.
Mihael thinks quickly and grabs the stick from his bag. He doesn't know how much magic this stick has so he tries to defend Nate by flicking it which sends a small ball shooting towards the armored person.
The person leans to the side making the ball fly past him and hit a moth making it burst into flames that makes it fall to the rocky ground. The person raises the sword only to use the side of the blade to knock Mihael away.
Mihael is thrown to the side landing on the ground as the stick is thrown off to somewhere but he didn't see where.
Nate growls and gets up quickly moving in front of Mihael with a roar in warning to the armored person to back off.
Mihael is a little surprised at this but then turns around looking to the mountain.
Maybe if they can get closer to the top that appears to be the way in then they can get the protectors to come after the armored person.
He turns rushing to start climbing only to get to the first ledge since there is a spiraling ledge so you can walk up and down the mountain on the spiral ledge. He turns seeing Nate snap at the armored person who jumps back to avoid it.
The armored person slashes at Nate who turns his head just in time to make it become just a cut on his cheek.
Nate growls and opens his mouth blasting fire at the armored person who quickly moves back to avoid being hit by the flames.
Mihael whistles making Nate stop shooting fire and turn to look at him. He gestures for them to go to get up the mountain.
Nate turns and joins Mihael as they begin climbing since Nate's wing is hurt making him unable to fly at the moment since he doesn't want to risk it. He pauses at the ledge only to turn around to look at the armored person.
The armored person notices that the two are going to climb the mountain as the flames die out with really nothing to keep it going. He races towards the mountain to begin climbing it hurrying as fast as he can up it.
Nate turns and nudges Mihael to let him know to go quickly.
They climb the mountain together with Nate following Mihael and to climb it quicker they are going straight up instead of on the spiral.
The armored person is a little behind but is right on their tail.
Nate scoops Mihael to be on his back only to continue to climb the mountain.
The armored person moves around to the side seeing a quicker way.
Nate makes it to the ledge and turns not seeing the armored person so he hurries as he begins to head to follow the spiral now.
But the armored person gets onto the ledge quickly raising his sword as Nate skids to a stop.
The armored person slashes Nate hitting him right where the brooch is but manages to make the slice reach on the underside of it as the slice is deep as well as a little long.
Nate roars in pain as he rears his head back then turns quickly moving up the rest of the way up the mountain as his strength starts to weaken.
That slice was very damaging.
The armored person continues his following but is accidently knocked to a lower ledge when Nate swings his tail when he turns.
Nate reaches the top feeling weak only to slip down the side skidding on his stomach as Mihael holds onto him.
Lauran had flown to a rock no other dragon was at to watch what happens when she saw that the two will be reaching the top of the mountain.
The great dragon council watch as Nate hits the pathway leading to the crystal making Mihael be knocked off.
Nate whines as one of his front legs get a little pain as his eyes closed tightly getting ready for impact and now he lays there on the ground.
The armored person reaches the top and looks down into the mountain.
The great dragon council all seem to agree to watch what will happen for now.