We were flying over Ohio, the sun was setting, and all was fine. Carmen and I were flying side by side, Shade behind me talking with Carmen, and I couldn't hear anything they said. Happily oblivious, in this case, none of us noticed the drakon coming up on our rear. That is, until we saw the fireball. "AH!" Shade screamed, a fireball veering right past us. I looked behind us, and saw a huge, flying drakon, venom and embers dripping from its mouth.
"Drakon!" Carmen yelled.
"No duh!" I yelled back, swerving around next to the Drakon. "Shade, what do you know about flying a Pegasus?"
Shade looked alarmed. "N-nothing!" I handed her the reins anyway.
"Just keep us in the air." I said, and with that, our conversation was over. I pulled the Master Bolt from my back-sheathe and morphed it directly into a shining white long sword. The guard pulsed with blue energy, and the blade crackled with electric energy. I swung at the dragon-excuse me, drakon- with the Bolt Blade, but it just bounced off. "Seriously?" I exclaimed, annoyed. I looked down to see how wide the gap is, then jumped onto the drakon's back.
"Carson! What are you doing?" Carmen yelled at me. I shrugged and moved towards the wings, which matched the drakon's scales perfectly, not giving any indication that the drakon had any wings at all. I chopped at one, attempting to cut it off, but nothing happened. Before I could attempt it again, the drakon bucked into the air, sending me up but not off of the drakon's scaly back.
"You're going to have to do better than that to take me down, drakon!" I exclaimed, chopping at the wing one final time while simultaneously sending a huge surge of electricity down into the drakon's wing. The wing cut clean off, turning into burning embers on its way down to the ground.
The drakon bellowed, spewing fire everywhere. Carmen and Shade were somehow staying in the air besides the drakon, and the drakon wasn't doing as well. The drakon attempted to turn its head to shoot a fireball at me, but to no avail. I rolled next to its wing, and when it shot again, I rolled backwards, the fireball hitting the wing joint. The drakon bellowed again, and I rolled back to the wing. "Let's finish this now, drakon." I did a huge downwards cut towards the burning limb, and cut it clean off. Only then did I realize what I just did.
"Oh, crud." The drakon and I started falling out of the sky, and plummeting towards the ground. "AAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Carson!" Shade and Carmen yelled simultaneously. They swooped down and began circling me, closing in to catch me, when a fireball came out of nowhere and nearly burnt us to crisps.
"Shade! Can you run interference?" Carmen yelled at Shade. Shade nodded and swooped down near the drakon's head.
"Hey, drakon! Can't touch this!" Shade taunted, goading the drakon to rage. FWOOSH! A fireball shot out from the drakon's mouth at Shade. "Ha-ha! Missed me!"
"Carson! Grab my hand!" Carmen ordered. I happily obliged and grabbed onto her, letting her pull me onto her Pegasus.
"Thanks. Now, let's go help out Shade!" But, it looked like we didn't need to. Shade was doing perfectly fine on her own. Right then Shade messed up. She got to close to the drakon's head, and watched as the drakon charged up a fireball shot.
"NO!" Carmen and I yelled out simultaneously. On instinct, I pulled out the bolt and shot a blast of lightning at the drakon's head, disorienting it long enough for Shade to get clear of the drakon's head. Then, POOF! The drakon turned into a giant could of ashes, except for a few scales, talons, and what looked like a purple vital organ.
"All right, let's land." I ordered. We landed a few yards away from the drakon crash site, and went to go retrieve the spoils of battle. We took the scales and talons and put them in one of the packs and wrapped up the organ, which we guessed was a poison sack, in a cloth baggie.
"All right, let's set up camp here. I'll go find out where we are; Shade, Carmen, you guys set up the camp." And without further ado, I took off in the general direction of civilization. Not three minutes later did I find out that we were in New York, just not anywhere near Manhattan Island.
I came back and found the camp fully set up, the Pegasi feeding, and Shade and Carmen talking by the campfire. I sat down across the fire, so they could talk, but also so I could at least overhear their conversation a little bit. I heard nonessential tidbits, which was mostly what it seemed like they were talking about, and I was not at all interested. That is, until I heard Shade say this.
"I-I'm just not sure if he's right for me." I tried to inconspicuously lean forward so I could hear her as she continued, "What do you think?"
"Just listen to your heart, Shade." Then, finally then, did my cover get blown. "Carson are you listening in on us?"
"N-no! What are you talking about?"
"GASP! You were!" Shade gapsed.
"No! What are you talking about?" I said, walking backwards a bit to get to my Pegasus. "Um, I'm just going to… go… yeah." I sprinted and jumped onto Astrapee and took off before they could get mad at me.
"HEY! YOU COME BACK HERE!" Shade and Carmen yelled at me at the same time. They hopped onto Carmen's Pegasus and took off after me, screaming at me as I flew away. "WHAT DID YOU HEAR!" I swooped down into a dense part of the forest where Astrapee and I had the advantage. We went normal-horse style and galloped into a huge clearing.
Carmen appeared overhead, range and intent-to-kill splattered across her face. Shade jumped off of her Pegasus and rolled to avoid breaking her bones. "You've got some answering to do, Carson! Now, tell us! What did you hear?" Shade drew her sword in rage.
"Nothing!" I exclaimed.
Shade, however, found this answer unsatisfactory. She attempted to slash at me, yelling "LIAR!"
"Whoa!" I exclaimed, quick-drawing the Master Bolt and parrying her attack with ease. She slashed at me again, and again I parried it away.
"TELL ME!" Shade yelled out again.
"I didn't hear ANYTHING!" All right, all matters aside, I was getting frustrated. Then, to make matters worse for everyone, Carmen started firing on me. I rolled to evade the arrows, but that put my attention away from Shade and her sword. She attacked me again, and nearly cut my foot off.
"All right, ENOUGH!" I yelled, turning the Bolt Blade back into the original bolt, and smashed it into the ground. That did two things. First, I created a shockwave that knocked Shade off of her feet. But, that wasn't the most interesting thing.
I had created visible field of electricity that fried each and every one of Carmen's arrows and electrocuted Shade whenever she tried to attack me. "Whoa!" Carmen exclaimed, "Carson! Can you hear me?' Carmen landed and approached with Shade towards me, giving me the universal hand signs for surrender.
"Yes" I answered. My energy was draining fast, and I knew that if I kept up the shield for much longer, I would burn up. Literally. I let the shield drop and I dropped to one knee.
"What was that?" Shade asked.
"I think I just got a new power."
Author's Note: Whoa! A new power? Wonder what else he can do? Anyway, R&R, hope you liked it, and yeah. Until next time, rainstorm24 OUT!