In the last chapter...
"If you will not come with me by choice, then you'll come with me by force!", Dragas said. "Skrag! Aquoe! Terros! Take her and bring her back to the Dark Mountians!"
"You got it, Boss!", Terros said as the three dragons flew down towards Nerissa.
'Somebody! Please help me!', Nerissa prayed as she got ready to fight the trio of dragons that were flying at her.
Suddenly, a large ball of water came from out of no where and trapped Skrag within it and suddenly froze as cold air hit it!
"What the heck?", Aquos questioned as the ball of ice, Skrag was trapped in, dropped to the cliff.
Before he and Terros could do anything, Terros was hit by a massive fireball and Aquos was hit by a huge blast of energy! They both then felt a telekinetic force send them crashing next to Skrag, knocking them out! Seeing this, did not please Dragas.
"Who dares?", Dragas demanded with anger in his voice.
Nerissa looked up and smile as she saw who came to her aid.
"Guys!", Nerissa said happily!
Dragas looked to see the other five Hybrids land next to Nerissa while glaring at Dragas.
"I should of known!", Dragas said. "So, looks like the gang is all here."
As the Hybrids looked up at Dragas, glaring, Joel and Micheal moved in front of Nerissa.
"If you want, my sister...", Joel began to say.
"... then you'll have to get past us!", Micheal finished.
"Gladly!", Dragas said as he changed into his Hybrid form, surprisng the Hybrids. "Let our battle begin!"
Chapter 24:
First was Cassidy, who called up a massive thing of water and hit Dragas with it! Dragas then smirked as he began walking towards them. Micheal then blew a cold wind at Dragas, freezing him in his tracks. Cassidy and Micheal then combined their powers to freeze Dragas some more! When they were done, Dragas was trapped in a thing of ice.
"That should hold him!", Micheal said proudly.
Suddenly, the ice started to melt off of Dragas quickly! The Hybrids watched, in shock as the ice melted of as quickly as Cassidy and Micheal froze him.
"How can he do that?", Joel questioned.
Once the ice was got, the Hybrids saw that steam was coming off of Dragas.
"Young fools!", Dragas said. "I am like my brother, Dragano! I have the powers of all the elements!"
"Oh no!", Cassidy said.
"Big deal!", Angelo said. "We won't give up!"
"Oh really?", Dragas questioned.
"Yeah, really!", Joel snapped as he began charging a large amount of energy in his hands.
"Let's see what you got, boy!", Dragas saids with a smirk.
Suddenly, Dragas felt himself sinkinto the ground a little! He looked down to see his feet sunk into the ground.
"All yours, Joel!", Dragas heard Angelo yell.
Dragas looked forward to see Angelo knelt down with his hands on the ground.
'Just like with Skrag.', Drags thought with a smirk as he looked from Angelo to Joel, who had a massive ball of energy in front of him.
'Now what will he do with that?', Drags though to himself.
"Take this!", Joel snapped as he held the ball of energy forward.
Suddenly, a powerful beam of energy shot out of the ball of energy! As the beam was firing, the ball of energy was getting smaller. Once the attaack was done, the Hybrids looked to see that Dragas was standing there as if nothing happened to him.
"Nice try, young ones.", Dragas said as he brushed his shoulders off. "But you'll have to do better than that!"
Angelo and Alchemy looked at each other and nodded. Angelo saw some rocks around the cliff and used his powers to lift them up and make them float above Dragas.
"Do you think that dropping some rocks will hurt me?", Dragas laughed.
"No!", Aneglo said.
"But this might!", Alchemy shouted as she raised her hands towards the rocks.
Alchemy then began to focus her powers at the rocks. Dragas looked up to see the rocks turn red and begin to melt! Once they were melted enough, Dragas now saw that there was molten lava above his head.
"Impressive.", Dragas said as he looked up at what Angelo and Alchemy were able to do.
"Now, Angelo!", Alchemy said as she dropped her hands.
"Good!", Angelo said as he let the lava drop on Dragas!
The Hybrids looked to see Dragas covered in lava. Seeing this Micheal used his powers to blew a cold wind at the lava covered Dragas, cooling the magma quickly! After a few seconds. Dragas was trapped in stone!
"We did it!", Alchemy cheered along with the others.
Suddenly, Dragas busted out of the stone prision he was trapped in.
"If that's your best, then you all are in trouble.", Dragas said.
Next was Cassidy and Nerissa, who combined their powers to hit Dragas with a blast of electrified water! Once they were finished, they saw that Dragas was only wet from the attack.
"Now that was shocking.", Dragas said as he walked towards them.
"Everyone together!", Angelo said as he sent dirt, rocks, and stones at Dragas along with plenty of telekinetic blast.
The others then began to fire their elements at Dragas in full force! At first, it seemed hopeless as Dragas was still walking towards them. But a few seconds later, Dragas began to be forced back a little as the Hybrids were hitting him with everything they had.
'What is this?', Dragas questioned as he felt himself get pushed back a little. 'Haven't felt something like this since... Draganos!'
Suddeny, the Hybrids began to feel tired as slowly but surely they had to end their attacks. And once again, Dragsa was standing there. Only now he was further back then when he was before their attack.
"We... We pushed him... back!", Joel said as he was panting.
"I don't think... I can... fight on... anymore!", Alchemy said in between breathes.
"Me... too!", Cassidy said getting tired.
"Looks like you all used to much power.", Dragas said as he was walking towards them slowly. "But I must say, Draganos has taught you all well. I must thank my brother later. But right now, Nerissa will be comingh with me to the Dark Mountians!"
"Never!", Micheal said as he used the last of his strenght to turn invisable and jump at Dragas!
Seeing theis coming, Dragas backhanded Micheal back towards the others! Micheal landed among the others knockedout cold as he turned visible!
"Micheal!", the Hybrids shouted as he landed hard.
Nerissa was the first by his side as she knelt down next to him and laid his head in her lap.
"Are you okay?", she asked as her eyes began to water.
"I'm okay.", Micheal said weakly with a weak smile.
"So, does anyone else want to be a hero?", Dragas asked with a smirk.
Angelo and Joel both stood ready to fight Dragas with all they had.
"We're not done yet!", Angelo said.
"You won't win!", Joel said.
"STOP!"
Abgelo, Joel, Cassudy, and Alchemy turned to see Nerissa as she still had Micheal's head in her lap as she was looking at Dragas with tears running down her face..
"No more!", she cried. "No more fighting!"
"Nerissa?", Joel questioned as he looked at his sister.
"Promise that you won't hurt my brother and friends and I'll... I'll go with you.", Nerissa said as she looked at Dragas.
Hearing this, Dragas smilied in victory, thiking he had gotten what he wanted.
"You have my word.", Dragas said. "If you come with me, I shall not hurt your friends."
"Okay then.", Nerissa said. "I'll come with you."
"No way!", Joel said.
"You can't!", Angelo said.
"Who knows what he'll do to you!", Cassidy said fearing for her friend.
"Don't go, Nerissa.", Micheal said weakly.
Nerissa smiled down at Micheal before bending down and giving him something she'd never thought she'd do.
She kissed him!
This not only surprised her and Micheal, but it surprised the others as well.
"Thanl you for being there for me.", Nerissa said as she gently laid Micheal's head on the ground and stood up.
She then hugged Cassidy and Alchemy.
"Thanks for being my friends.", Nerissa said.
"Don't go.", Alchemy pleaded.
"We can fight him together.", Cassidy said.
"I don't want to risk seeing you all get hurt.", Nerissa said sadly.
Cassidy and Alchemy then returned the hug.
"We'll go get Draganos and come for you!", Alchemy said.
"And nothing will stop us!", Cassidy said.
After their hugged, Nerissa walked up to Angelo and hugged him.
"Thanks for all the adventures.", Nerissa said.
"I'm not giving up.", Angelo said returning the hug. "We'll get Draganos, like Alchemy said and kick Dragas' tail."
Nerissa pulled away from Aneglo smiling, who gave her a sad smile. Nerissa then walked up to Joel and hugged him.
"Thanks for being a great brother.", Nerissa said as she hugged Joel with tears running down her face.
"Nerissa... I...", Joel began to say.
"I know.", Nerissa said. "I love you too, big brother."
Joel sadly returned the hug before they pulled away from each other. Nerissa smiled at him before walking towards Dragas.
"I'm ready.", Nerissa said sadly.
"Good.", Dragas said as he fired a beam of energy at Aquos and Terros, who were still knocked out.
The beam of energy gave them the strenght to wake up. Dragas then fired a powerful flame at the ball of ice Skrag was trapped in, melting the ice. Once melted enough, Skrag broke out of the rest of the ice and shook it off! Dragas then grabbed Nerissa by her arms and looked towards his three minions.
"Take them down.", Dragas said with a sinister smile. "But don't kill them. They'll be useful in the future as my warrior dragons."
"With pleasure!", Skrag said as he, Aquos, and Terros walked towards the five weakened Hybrids.
"NO!", Nerissa cried as she tried to get free of Dragas' grip. "You said that..."
"I said that "I" wouldn't hurt your brother and friends!", Draga said. "I never said anything about my warrior dragons doing the job!"
"You tricked me!", Nerissa said as she glared at Dragas as tears were flowing down her face.
"And I'd do it again!", Dragas said with a grin. "Now let us go!"
"No!", Nerissa snapped as she tried to pull herself free.
Dragas then raised his right hand/claw and was about to strike Nerissa, when a silver fist/claw struck him in the face. Dragas then lost his grip on Nerissa and was sent frlying back down to the cliff hard! Skrag, Terros, and Aquos turned around to see their master laying on the ground.
"Master, Dragas!", Skrag yelled as the three of them ran towards Dragas.
Dragas quickly got to his feet and looked up to see his brother, Draganos, in his Hybrid form, looking down at him with a steely glare!
"Hello, brother.", Dragas said to Draganos with venom in his voice.
"Dragas.", Draganos said calmly as he and Nerissa landed in front of him, Skrag, Aquos, and Terros. "I see you're up to no good. As usual."
"And I see the special pineapple, I had Tarka slip in your other pineapples, didn't last as long as I thought it would.", Dragas said with a smirk.
"Leave now.", Draganos said in a calm yet stern voice as he narrowed his eyes at his brother.
"We can take him, master!", Aquos said.
"Maybe.", Dragas said. "But there's a chance that Nerissa could get hurt. And I can't risk that. We're leaving."
"Yes, master.", Skrag said.
"But master...", Terros began to say.
"Don't question him, Terros!", Skrag said. "Let's just go!"
The trio then took to the sky and hovered there, waiting for Dragas to come. Dragas then transformed into his twenty foot Chinese form and look down at Draganos, who was looking up at him, in his Hybrid form.
"You've trained them well, brother.", Dragas said. "I'm looking forward to the day when I have them join me."
"I don't think so!", Draganos said.
"We shall see, brother!", Dragas said as he flew off with Skrag, Aquos, and Terros. "We shall see!"
Once far enough away, Draganos let out a sad sigh.
"How I wish for you to return to the brother I once knew, Dragas.", Draganos said sadly.
Draganos, suddenly felt Nerissa hug him. He looked down to see her shaking while hugging him.
"Oh, Draganos!", Nerissa cried. "I was so scared! I thought that if I went with Dragas, he'd leave the others alone!"
"I know, Nerissa.", Dragas said as he hugged Nerissa. "What you did was noble and brave. Dragas used you caring heart to get what he wanted."
As their hug ended, Draganos wiped Nerissa's tears away and smiled at her. Nerissa returned the smile as she stopped crying.
"Now, let's tend to Micheal.", Draganos said smiling.
"Micheal!", Nerissa said as she remembered whan had happened.
Nerissa then ran up to Micheal as he was still laying on the ground.
"Are you okay, Micheal?", Nerisa asked in concern as she helped him sit up a bit.
"I'm okay.", Micheal said with a smile. "I'm just glad that you're still here."
"Me too.", Nerissa said as they shared a hug.
They then shared a kiss. The others smiled at them as they were happy to be together.
"Well, it looks like you two are a pair now.", Draganos said. "I figured this would happen."
"You did?", Micheal asked.
"Of course.", Draganos said as he fired a beam of energy at Micheal, healing him. "The way you two were around each other told me so."
Once he was done healing Micheal, Micheal was able to stand up fully healed.
"Now let's go back to the den.", Draganos said. "There's much we must talk about."
The seven of them took to the sky and flew back to the den. Draganos knew that this was going to change things, but he also knew that his future plans for the Hybrids weren't in to much danger. If anything, this experiance was going to make tham stronger.
'I am proud of you all, young ones.', Draganos thought as they all flew through the skies. 'Very proud.'
A/N: They Hybrids faced Dragas and survived. And Nerissa showed true courage with what she did. Good thing that Draganos showed up when he did! But what's going to happen next? Find out in the next and final chapter in the series.
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