Chapter 11: War again
The Dragonoid Kremlings charged like stampeding wildebeests, all the while baring their sharp teeth, claws, and horns. Some took to the wing, some hiked around on the ground, and others clambered through the trees like malevolent reptilian primates. Link, Sonic, Donkey Kong, and K. Rool would be lucky to get out of this alive.
One burly Kremling Dragonoid took a good swipe at Sonic only to miss by a mile. The blue hedgehog hopped onto the beast's head and kicked off, jumping onto the next one in the process. He repeated the process three more times before landing on solid ground and speeding off in a wheel fashion, bowling several of the lizards over.
A slimmer Kremling inhaled deeply and vomited flames at Link, who rolled out of the way. The green-clad hero spun as he got up, slicing through one of the Kremlings' abdomen and spilling its intestines. Link spun on his feet and caught one behind him just when another charged to meet him from behind. However, the one behind him loomed up behind him, but only met a huge fist. DK had socked the dragon in the face and spun to smash another one in the face. He was about to punch one when multiple sharp objects buried themselves in his arm. A Kremling had snuck up behind him and bit him. Strangely, someone peeled the Kremling off and DK was left with a few puncture wounds. King K. Rool had actually helped his sworn enemy and proceeded to flatten this dragon-like creature under his massive weight. As he got up, he bounced one away on his stomach and socked another one down.
"Nobody, but ME gets to beat up Donkey Kong!" King K. Rool said angrily as he plowed through his ex-troops.
Sonic was hopping on these new Dragonoids faster than a frog on lily pads, racing for Green Salamander faster than most of the troops could even run. Link was also hacking his way through these reptilian soldiers at a phenomenal rate. Within seconds, Sonic was soon within striking range of Green Salamander.
"Take this, lizard boy!" Sonic shouted as he leapt high into the air and used his spin attack.
The minute Sonic was within ten feet of him, Green Salamander sidestepped the attack, his sly grin still on his lizardlike face. He cackled as he put up his black claws, which began to glow blood red and then brought them in a vertical slash. Four vertical waves of fire shot in the same pattern of his slash and Sonic barely got out of the way. However, the minute Sonic jumped away, another fire claw was there to meet him and caught him in midair, catching him in the front and sending the speed demon tumbling to the ground. Salamander snorted in disbelief.
"Pathetic mammal, how do you expect to win when you fight like that? AAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Green Salamander taunted.
Green Salamander barely had time to respond, seeing as Link was already within striking range. Before the green dragon had time to react, a light arrow buried itself in his chest. Green Salamander kneeled, clutching the spot in his massive hand just as Link pulled out his sword at the same time Salamander put up his claws. Both struck, but the results were impact sparks and clanging metal. Salamander's claws were so strong that Link's sword didn't even penetrate them. Link didn't have time to respond as Green Salamander simply batted him away with his other hand and sent the Hylian hero tumbling to his right.
"So, you're the almighty 'Hero of Time'? I would have expected you to be faster! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Salamander said, easily as insane as ever.
"Y'know, that laughing is getting on my nerves, lizard-breath." A voice said.
Green Salamander turned around to have a spinning blue saw-blade collide with his chest. The great green dragon stumbled back one step and barely had time to recover when Link's silver Master Sword came up to meet him and put a rather sizeable gash on his right shoulder. Blood seeped out of the cut as Salamander simply touched the spot and licked the blood right off. He simply smiled.
"Just a scratch. Would've expected you to do far better than this! HEHEHE…" Salamander said, gesturing for them to bring it on.
THIS was going to harder than Link and Sonic thought.
Donkey Kong and K. Rool weren't having the time of their lives either. They had to work together to fend off these reptilian soldiers and K. Rool was probably having the worse part of it.
"I don't get it! They're going after me just because I have a stupid banana?!" K. Rool asked out loud.
"Banana? What Banana?" Donkey Kong asked, scratching his head.
"That Dragon-thing told my troops to search the whole jungle for it, but little do they know that I have it." K. Rool said, triumphantly.
Just then, another Kremling Dragonoid leapt onto the crocodile king's back and reached under his scarlet cape.
"HEY! I'm in NO NEED of a back rub!" K. Rool said as he flailed his arms.
A big, furry hand seized the Dragonoid soldier by the back of the head and peeled him off K. Rool's back. DK saw one approaching his front and reached out with his foot. An ape's feet are like a second pair of hands and DK used this to his advantage. His foot's "hand" grabbed his attacker on the nose and pushed backward before he brought the attacking Kremling smashing into the other. King K. Rool suddenly noticed that many were downhill and curled into a ball before tumbling down the hill. The big crocodile went rolling down the hill and bowled his traitors for troops.
"Strike!" K. Rool shouted in victory.
Green Salamander was still in pitched combat with Link and the two appeared to be evenly matched. Link's sword, after a hard work's of parrying, finally caught Salamander across the chest. Salamander clutched his wound, but was more than smart enough to not look away from THIS opponent for too long. He quickly spread his wings and took to the sky. When he was in the air, the Kremling Dragonoid flew up to meet him and gave him a kind of banana. This banana wasn't yellow, but the color of platinum. Salamander's smile broadened so much, it could have spread from one ear to another.
"Yes. The DK Isle treasure belongs to the Dragonoids! VICTORY IS MINE! AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Salamander said, as though he were holding a precious gem. He then looked at the Kremling Dragonoids and said, "As for you, you're no longer of any use to me, so HA!"
Salamander vomited fire onto the Kremlings and they lost their wings, their horns, and their red eyes went back to yellow. The one that gave him the DK Isle treasure looked down, tried to fly, but ended up falling to terra firma, some hundred feet to the ground. Salamander then flew up high and disappeared in a dimensional portal.
When Salamander disappeared, the Kremlings got up, moaning like zombies and one of them asked, "Hey, what'd we miss?"
Sonic pounded the ground with his fist and cursed, "SHOOT! Another Key Item lost. This time, they're not going to get away!"
DK looked at King K. Rool and scowled at him.
"Way to go, K. Rool, they took that banana you were bragging about and you thought they were giving you a back-rub." DK said, his arms folded across his chest.
"Uh, hehe…Oops?" K. Rool said, sweating profusely.
"One more thing. You better get outta here, fatso, before they come back." DK threatened.
King K. Rool, fearing those Dragonoids more than anything now, ran off with what was left of his troops trailing behind him.
DK turned to thank Sonic and Link for their effort, but they vanished. He looked around and they were still nowhere to be seen.
"Great. Now I'll never thank them." DK said before leaping into the trees and swinging off, "I hope they know what they're doing…for all our sakes."