Dark Weapon Rising

Chapter 7
The Time Has Come
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Mal flew around the battling factions of Ape and Dragon that he was supposed to be fighting with. He could hear the chants of "Malefor!" as he passed the Dragon ranks over to the Ape's side a few miles away out of the range of attention. He didn't know what he was doing or where he was going exactly, but he knew that something was going to change because of this. Anger, fear, and regret welled up from within him slowly to the point that it nearly overflowed into action, but he kept it in check.

He remembered what the council has done to him; no longer would he be allowed to become a full-fledged dragon in their society. They had stripped him of his right of passage, and there was nothing that would allow him to bring it back. He decided that he would get his revenge upon his race and take back the right of training at whatever the cost. Perhaps this destiny of his the apes had been telling him about wouldn't be so bad, and maybe they were right. They wouldn't betray him anyhow it didn't seem like the dragons had.

He found a small, rocky ledge to land upon and did so resting his wings, "So are you ready to take your destiny at last Malefor, my master?"

Mal turned around and looked at the large hairy mass behind him, "Yes, I believe that I am, I just need to rally some others to our cause, and I think everything will work out just fine,"

Ignitus dropped his horns into the top of an ape, crushing it's skull below his massive blow, before throwing his head towards the line of on rushing apes. The dead corpse knocked the mass to the ground and only a few got back up to see their body's slashed in half by his tail. Yet, they kept coming in massive hoards.

The next group came towards him and one launched an arrow towards his chest. He turned on his side and skirted the blow before he ignited a column of flames before his noes that burnt a row of the things into ruins.

A claw slashed Ignitus's leg forcing him to pull it up and drop it back down on the debilitated gorilla crushing it.

Bodies piled up before Ignitus, all of them ape. It seemed as though the city was safe and that the attack was repelled, so the sound of an enemy horn and their retreat didn't seem unusual. However once the dust had settled it seemed all the more peculiar. Draconian bodies lined the ranks and ape bodies laid beyond the dragon's line having broken through. They could have rampaged the city once they got by, but they chose to continue attempting to kill the dragons that they were pitted against. Nobody could quite grasp why.

Why had they been chanting Malefor too weighed heavy upon the minds of most as they tended to the wounded and a few mourned the dead.

The large white elder walked the way behind the ape's bodies where there was nobody, "Emergency Council meeting now!"

Terrador beheld the massive piles before him in wonderment while on a course to find his father; he was nowhere to be found to the point and he was beginning to seriously worry when the white elder, Shandra's dad, called the emergency council. People began to move aside to allow passageway through the crowd to the meeting place, and thankfully he caught the sight of Helgar, Mal's dad as he made his way through.

"Helgar!" Terrador called after him urgently taking to the skies, "Where's my father?"

He turned to his side and found his friend's young heir, "He's alright, Terrador, he's already on his way to the meeting, he said that he was attempting to stop the meeting from happening. Have you seen Mal?"

Terrador breathed a short sigh of relief only to find himself tensed up once more, "I haven't seen him."

"Ok, he probably didn't have anything to do with this, and I don't think he could have, but we need to track him down so that he isn't banished for this. If he doesn't show up he will be banished immediately, Terrador, you need to find him."

"I will, Helgar," replied Terrador proudly as Helgar turned back to leave.

Terrador did the same, but was suddenly stopped by the voice of the head of the city council, "Terrador, I need to you come to the council, and testify."

Terrador turned around disappointedly, "Oh."

"Now young one, I understand your feelings coming in here as a member of the youngest generation. This has got to be a strong burden upon you with none of your fellow year mates to accompany you in this venture, but what leads you to believe that Malefor may be practicing with dark elements?" a youthful Ignitus asked him intently.

"Sir," he replied to the stranger, "I have no reason to believe that he is. There have been no signs and he has seemed almost the same as he always has, but I don't want to get in trouble for misleading the Advisory Council."

Ignitus chuckled at him; probably in self-apprehension. "We only ask you to give you your observations. As long as you don't tell us you saw things you didn't you will be fine, Terrador."

"Do you know where Mal is right now after the attacks where apes were chanting his name?" another dragon asked his rigidly.

"I don't know where he is, but it has only been a few moments since it happened. He may still be at the battle field for all that I know."

Well, I think that's all we need from you for now, take a seat and if we need you in the future we'll call upon you. Feel free to correct us on our facts with Mal as well. Thank you for your time."

A/N: Well, now that it's summer I finally have the time to write this, my least popular of running stories. With Mating Season coming to an end I hope that this gains a little bit of attention anyways. Thanks for reading, and it's uplifting to know I'm not writing to a huge audience when I write this. Less pressure anyhow.

I think there 2 more chapters. If there are more this may not be complete in a while as I've only got it scheduled on my writing schedule for two more chapters.

Reviews are the drive of this story as there are very few viewers.

Thanks for reading, don't be a stranger,
Cornys