Chapter 67

Husk

After a few long hours of sleeping, the newborn instantly woke up, and began shouting a bunch of random sounds, and all in combination. This annoyed Akaz, but it did not convince him to shut his mouth with his front claws. The newborn would begin jumping around, as if he was on a spring, or something else that was bouncy. He could see the expression of pure joy, but then, he stopped, being completely still. He backed up, and looked at the same thing, as leaves rustled in front of it's gaze. Once he was close enough to Akaz, He wrapped my tail around him, and prepared for the danger ahead.

He guessed that it was one of the opposing sides, but it was not. When it came out, a pair of red eyes appeared between the dark gap. It slowly walked forward, revealing himself as a Sevawing with black armor that was mostly outlined with gold, and it's back was razor sharp. It's tail was enveloped by the smooth,but flexible plates, all ending with a glorious golden spear head that looked like it was capable of slicing trees with one swing. The infant cowered behind Akaz's leg, trying to get out of sight of the stranger, but Akaz stood his ground.

"What the heck was that..." The stranger said in a feminine voice. "It's definitely not from around here, I would know."

He did not say a word, and the newborn triceratops came out from hiding, now standing alongside Akaz, who was confronting the female. He knew that the female stranger was right, that it was not from around here, and something must have gone wrong. He looked at the newborn, who was still concerned about this stranger, and realized that he also forgot about Elise and Sernos. Where were they, probably being interrogated by the Sevaeric, that's for sure. However, there was no possible way to escape the island now, he had already tried in his time of rest. "Are you with the Sevawings and their objective to catch and kill the assassin?" Akaz questioned. "If you are, then his name is Rhenka."

"What? you mean the immigrant Rhenka? He was the one who started all of this? Is he the one who calls himself the Agusi?" She asked. "I really thought it was the Tyrant, who swore revenge on his dying breath."

"I am afraid that my father is that person, and I would despise to have anybody try to kill him..." Akaz said. "He must not be in his right mind right now.. What is going on?"
"There is still a chance of him not being sane, probably because of digesting one of those Belruuns." She suggested. "Ugh, that was the worst trip through time and space.."

"Time and space?" Akaz said, being confused. "How does digesting something make you go through time and space? That does not make any sense at all."

"I meant it felt like you were going through time and space while the effects were still in action." She replied. "After the fact however, I found out from one of my comrades, that I almost killed a sentient, and was sentenced to a month of freezing within the Basalisk's domain. That is how I know I did something that I did not have any knowledge of."

His eyes widened, almost as if he was eating one right now, but he was not eating anything. "Wait a minute, are you not a Dragon?" She asked. He snapped out of the trance he was in, and asked her to repeat what she said one more time, but she refused to do so. She made her move without warning; jabbing him at the sides of his stomach, and hard. The impact pushed him over a short distance, and he felt something coming up from him, and fire came out of his mouth, out of control. "Yes, you are. We normally would attack you by now, but since you know this assassin well, as you claimed he was your father, I will spare you." She said, causing a dark blue aura to go around her.

She staggered back, as she held her hand across her head, and grimaced with such a great angst, that she was practically vulnerable right now, except that with the armor she possesses, he is probably not going anywhere. "Are you alright ma'am?" Akaz asked while the newborn nudged her lightly at her right leg. She did not answer, making a brief silence, and her aura began dissipating, causing her to regain her strength once again, as she shot up right at him, and threatened to tear his wing off. He quickly stepped back, fearing her, but any sudden hostile acts was going to be met with retaliation.

She slapped her plated tail onto the ground, causing a weak, but widespread earthquake across the island. It did not reach the edges, but it was certainly almost halfway there, as if that was the Dormand barrier in action, but spreading across the ground. Even the ground showed it, cracking under the force of her tail, with a very slim gap between the soil underneath them. "There is little to no time for talking, and there is only a matter of time, before he finds his next victim." She stated. Suddenly, a laser shot her right at the head, most likely coming from a area of dispute. However, the beam did not pierce through her armor, but reflected off of it. Without having any regrets, she began controlling the beam, causing it to arc upwards, and then down onto the approximate location onto the dispute. The impact of the beam, caused a very large radius of a destructive blast, causing rocks and shrapnel to shoot in every direction.

"There they are!" A random voice shouted out. "Lets get them!"

Akaz looked behind himself, and saw that they were being followed as well. The armored Sevawing somehow noticed them, and got right in front of Akaz, commanding him to run. He was reluctant to run away at first, but given the recent capture that matched his expertise, and the overwhelming numbers, as fast as he could, he dashed off to safety. He kept on thinking about her, how she would handle the Sevaeric who could actually defeat him.

Then a flurry of explosions and cold fog rolled in throughout the island, as ice began to grow onto the trees, and without warning, a Basalisk attacked him out of the blue, already blasting it's freezing breath on top of him. He struggled to get up, but he did not give up. The cold air was making him slow down, while ice began forming onto him. The Basalisk then decided to start slicing at his scales, as he knew that the black dragon was a huge threat to his kind, once scorching their brethren. Each swipe he did, only emitted a hot spark that lashed out on the overgrown lizard as his claws scratched his scales, and burned him. Akaz then knew that he had a weak point, right about near the bottom of his jaw, so Akaz tried every single part that he had, but almost all of them were pinned down, except for his tail. He doubted that it could curve around the Basalisk, even though that it could, but then he tried, and whipped him right at the side of it's mouth. It did not do much, but it only angered the beast even more, causing the Lizard to start attempting to drive him through the ground, but since the ground was hard, and he was not strong enough to break stone, his efforts were futile. He then pushed him off with his tail, causing him to get flung towards the trees and lose his control.

He knew that there might've been some other barrier that might affect him if he would kill somebody, especially the reoccurring consequence of what happens when they find out, so he ran back to the Sevawing, hoping that she was alright. "Gahhhhhh!" The familiar voice said, that was unlike the Sevawing's voice. He quickly checked to see if he had the newborn around him, and then he noticed that he was not present, which meant that the voice was it, and who knows what just happened.

He dashed towards them with anger, and then slid right next to her, who was in front of a inanimate platoon of troops, as heir bodies were laid down on top of each other in a massive human pile. The female was alright, as she was sighing over and over, because of the Sevaeric. He guessed that it was already over, and then the newborn triceratops came over to Akaz in desperation. However, a claw from above swooped down quickly and snatched the poor child, separating him from the island. She then tried to fly up and cut the wire, but then a wire strangled her in midair, as a giant mechanism pulled her in, and held her by the stomach.
The grasp was tight onto her, as the biped robot tried to choke her with it's other arm, but there was something coming out of her arms, some kind of red lightning, almost like she could manipulate it as well. The pilot of the vehicle decided to try and get a even tighter hold onto her, but then, a blast came out from her armor, spreading a very dark blue cloud that literally tore the bi-ped to shreds. Akaz saw the Sevaeric pilot, and all he was, was just a corpse of bones and flesh, being exactly half and half. He never felt so helpless in his life. She turned around at the pilot, and ripped it apart with her own claws. "Useless Sevaeric scum." She said while flinging the remains of the bipedal robot.

Akaz was surprised that she could actually do that, despite his recent futile efforts to eradicate one of the Sevaeric. The claw however, already abducted the new one, knowing that it will be up there for a long time. He felt like going up there, and hopefully being early or just in time to get Elise, Sernos, and the newborn out of there. The thoughts put him into a deep trance, causing him to start walking around, and randomly slamming into trees. The armored Sevawing knew that it was just temporary, so she called him out, and bumped him intentionally. Suddenly, he was out of the daydream.

"Hey tough guy, why dont you go back where you came from?" She asked. "Wait a minute."
"Yea, I am going up there. And you are not going to stop me either." Akaz stated, preparing to take off into the skies. The Sevawing approached closer, and slapped him in the face with her claws. "Not without me, you don't." She demanded, sending a red shock wave through the ground. "If I can find my last sister, then I will be satisfied."

Akaz warmly grinned at her, being ready to take to the skies, but without warning, a huge quake shook the island, and everything became cooler, but somehow it was all amalgamated, as if there was two earthquakes occurring at the same time. Her eyes became attracted to each noise around her, one way to another, trying to take everything in within seconds. "We'd better move... I guess that the island is moving underwater and the Dormand barrier is expanding..." She warned Akaz. "At the same time."

She quickly flew up, and quickly flapped her wings in a orderly fashion, while speeding like a lightning bolt. Akaz was now a laggard in her eyes, but then he quickly caught up to her, as they headed for the departing Sevaeric mothership. Once they got near the outside of the barrier shielding the island, they hovered, and quickly blasted a flurry of destruction towards one area, but it did not work. Each attempt only reflected onto something else, as they were seen by the Basalisks that were relatively close. "Hold on for a moment." She suggested, lashing her tail right at the spot where they tried their hardest, and within seconds, a hole expanded for them. Akaz then put both of his claws in between the gap of the hole, and attempted to pry it open, until it was wide enough for both of them to fit through. The Dormand barrier was almost there, with the urge to take another life away with it's powerful energy. Both of them sped right through the hole, and when they saw a opening inside the mothership, they went inside it.

"Whew. That was close, but hey, at least we made it in one piece." She sighed in relief.

"Nobody is here. Amazing." Akaz guessed, being silently excited for their fortune. "Now we can have some hope in getting them back!"

"I wont lie, that one Sevaeric was easy, but now its time..." She responded. "to make my father proud after what I did."

"Wait a minute... Why do you hide yourself?" Akaz asked. "Can you please tell?"

"Well, alright, since you kind of want to help me here." She replied."You can just call me Pride, and what I am going to find, is Husk."