Pint-Sized Prompt Challenge - December 2016

by Hokee

Written for the pint sized prompt challenge on r/fanfiction. Multiple shows involved. Multiple pairings/characters! NCIS, Emergency, Psych, The Sentinel. Each chapter is a separate drabble. All can be read alone. Warning/Tags in each chapter. There will be 31 drabbles, one for each day of the month. Full of warm Christmas fuzzies! Will be updating tags/relationships/etc daily.

17. To Slay the Beast (Emergency!)

December 17th: Winter Wonderland - 400 words - No, the other kind of Wonderland. What surreal (possibly theoretical) rabbit hole do your characters fall down today?

Fandom: Emergency!

Warnings: N/A

Disclaimer: I don't own Emergency!

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To Slay the Beast

"Johnny look out!" Johnny turned around suddenly looking for his partner. Roy's face scrunched in panic, eyes wide.

Johnny didn't see the burn victim's friend with a 2X4 beam appear behind him aimed to strike at the paramedic. He did notice when the pain blossomed in the back of his head and his vision narrowed to pinpricks.

When he came to, a huge fire breathing dragon was in front of him. Its huge body curled up in cave, guarding its treasures defensively with an easy blow of smoke.

John knew he had to slay it. If he didn't, it would burn the village to the ground. He looked around for something, anything he could use. He didn't see anything save for a basket of healing herbs. That wouldn't do, he'd just have to find something inside the cave.

As he tried to walk, John found that he couldn't move, he was being held back. He looked down and saw rope and attached to the rope were the villagers. They were yelling at him and he couldn't understand the language. He tried to calm them down and explain. That he needed to slay the dragon, but the villagers only yelled louder and held him stronger as he tried to push the rope of him.

Don't these people know that they were in danger! The dragon was waking! He could see the explosive fire from the dragon's throat. He could see the hate the dragon held. In the way it curled around the cave, burning anything that got too close.

A person morphed out of the group of villagers and he sighed in relief. Roy! He would understand what he had to do, he may even help him in slaying the beast. He was worried not having backup.

"Roy! Ya gotta help me! The dragon! It's going to burn the village! We gotta stop it!" Johnny looked towards his partner, concerned brown eyes looking into worried blue.

When Roy spoke, John cursed his luck. The man spoke in the villager's language and seemed to be trying to soothe him. He tried to tell the Roy look-a-like that he was the one supposed to be trying to calm them. The man just held the rope tighter, pushing John to the ground, murmuring soft words.

The next time he looked to the dragon, it was dead. The flames coming from the cave no more.