Rosch was dashing towards the dragon with all his might. This was the time. Probably his only chance.
The wings were extended to its limit and his head a bit raised. Inhaling and then exhaling air, as well as withdrawing the wings would cost much more time now.
Rosch dashed forward, extending his bone blades which were chipped and cracked everywhere. He just hit the scales of the dragon a few times and his blades are already more like a saw than a real blade.
Rosch jumped at the front leg of the dragon, who just followed Rosch with his eyes, as Bardoth seemed to be genuinely interested in what would happen next.
Rosch knew he would get underestimated and that needed to be taken advantage off. Bardoth thought that Rosch would try to find an opening on his body and waited. But Rosch already knew where he would attack. He suddenly jumped up with all his might, getting eye-leveled with the dragon.
Bardoth looked a bit surprised even more as Rosch suddenly spitted out dirt and smaller pebbles at Bardoths eyes. He almost swallowed some after the waves of snow, air, dirt and pebbles hit him.
"Not bad, he isn't dumb at least. On my entire body the eyes are probably my weakest part.", Bardoth thought amused.
He closed his eyelids, while starting to speak.
"Litt....", Bardoth tried to say, but got interrupted by something slamming into his mouth.
"I... It can't be? He went into my mouth?", Bardoth thought trying to surpress his laugh.
Rosch was about to go through the upper jaw into the brain of Bardoth, as he heard a voice.
"Small guy, you didn't think it through, if my scales are that hard how hard should my bones be?", Bardoth said laughing out loud at the end.
The kid in front of him was truly amusing him.
Rosch looked shocked and stopped for a moment. But he than wanted to attack anyway. He is already inside and hadn't anything to lose. Maybe his enemy would lie to. It was now or never.
Rosch attacked and cut through the gums with ease, it was only a centimeter deep, as sparks came off of the bone beneath the gums.
Blood dripped down, as suddenly Roschar's started to shiver.
It wasn't fear or pain. It was a freezing cold sensation that made him shiver. Down the throat of the huge dragon a bright blue shining light started to emerge and the brighter it got the colder it got.
Roschar's skin started to get a layer of thin ice on top of it. His wounds that were bleeding froze slowly up and his legs were about to freeze on top of the wet tongue of the dragon.
"Right.... They can spit fire.... No, this dragon seems to be able to spit ice...", Rosch thought shocked looking towards a bright shining death.
He didn't know how to win this fight, if he even couldn't win from the inside, how else should he be able to. Even the dragon's bones couldn't be pierced.
Rosch was on the brink of collapsing. How could something be that powerful. That was his only thought.
"Not, even from the inside.... Ho... How..... I... I... His bones..... Need to run.... With the females.... But who..... They can't move... Can't save them all.... Who..... Fuck..... No....", Roschar's pupils wear shaking, as he thought horrified. He couldn't decide what to do. Or who to save.
" From the inside..... From the inside.... Skull to hard..... Thraot means death... Another way inside!!!!!!!!!!",Rosch suddenly thought as he had a crazed expression.
He suddenly turned around the thin layer of ice breaking off of his skin.
He dashed outwards without hesitation.
Bardoth was surprised, as Roschar didn't seem to have given up. He was sure that the small creature was about to give up.
Bardoth stopped his breath of ice, starting to smile instead.
He was an apex predator and hadn't got any fun in years. Right now he felt entertained.
Rosch, who was still midair didn't know why Bardoth stopped his attack. Rosch even prepared to take the attack head on jumping away as far as possible out of the mouth of the dragon.
Rosch was about to land on the ground, readying his legs to blast him forward towards the dragon with all his might.
But before Rosch landed a loud scream sounded shocking everyone.
"STOP IT. BOTH OF YOU.", A loud dragon like voice sounded. It was powerful and strong, but still feminine roar. It was Draconia's dragon voice and you could see it strained her strongly. It was her dragon part that she awoke for a moment, but her body can't handle the might of a true dragon, even if it was just some words.
All of them looked surprised at the panting Draconia. She even broke the pressure of Bardoth. All of them could move normally again. Bardoth could counter it, but he was genuinely surprised that his cousin was able to use a dragon's voice.
"Draconia, you have grown very much. I am surprised. Truly.", Bardoth said with a smile.
"Okay, I will stop. I had enough fun for some time. You aren't so bad. I liked how you entertained me. If you would have disappointed me I would have killed you. Nobody takes a dragon in his harem without showing strength himself.
But tell me... Why didn't you succumb into despair. You didn't have any options left. I mean the idea to attack from the inside wasn't bad, but my bones are even harder than the scales. You must have felt powerless and depressed. ", Bardoth said in the common tongue. Rosch didn't know what to say. But he decided to be honest, he can't do anything against such a powerful being anyway.
" I... I was about to lose my mind. I thought about running away. But I still couldn't move, since non of my females were able to run. I had to choose, who to save and even than it wouldn't be that likely to escape against you. I just couldn't decide, who to save, how to react or even how to counter attack... Everything was to much till a weird idea popped into my mind. Which gave me new hope. ", Rosch said, looking weakly at his females. He didn't want to think about that moment again.
But the females reacted completely different. They were shocked, but happy. Some of them had a bit anxieties about Rosch liking some of them more as the themselves. Now even though they would have all died, they felt better, because the idea of him trying to save one of them would hurt the rest. They didn't even want to think about it. They felt that Rosch truly loved them all equally and that made them extremely happy. The only one a bit grumpy was Suz, but she didn't show it that much.
"As I was about to give up, an idea popped up inside my head....", Rosch said, but didn't know if he should talk further.
Bardoth looked surprised and suddenly got annoyed.
"I wanted to know that part. What gave you the courage to go on. Not that lovely dovely shit before. Come on spit it out.", He said getting a bit angry, because Rosch made him wait to long.
"Soooooo, yeah..... How should I say it. When the front door didn't work... Their is always a back door.... Right?", Rosch suddenly said becoming a bit embarrassed. In the moment were it was about do or die, he didn't think about anything else but now he knew how embarrassing such a way was.
All his females looked in shock. He wanted to crawl into the dragon's butt to slice him up from the inside.
Even the dragon looked shocked and unable to say anything for a moment.
But after a while he suddenly started to laugh out loud, without holding back.
"Krahhhhkrahhhhkrahhhhhh you krahhhkrahhhhkrahhhhh..... You truly wanted to kill me targeting my butt.... Pfffffffffttttttttt krahhhkrahhhhkrahhhhh. So good. Small guy, you have guts.", Bardoth laughed out, which sounded more like a terrible growling of a hungry beast.
" R... Rosch, really? That.... That is a bit extreme b.... But to think you would shatter your own dignity and pride for us.", Draconia said. She was still part dragon and she would rather die than lose her pride and dignity. This was one of the reasons she was so absent minded after she lost the battle for the alpha position against Rosch. But she was still happy. She didn't know if she could do it, fighting so shamefully. She would probably fight till death but never letting something destroy her dignity.
Bardoth nodded. He too knew he couldn't use such a way to win.
"Yeah, we are to proud for such a way, but...", Bardoth wanted to say more, but got interrupted by Rosch.
"Hey, it was the last way. It may have been dirty or below you guys, but you are born powerful. I came from the bottom and would do anything to save my family. Even if I had to use dirty tricks. As long as my family is save, nothing else matters for me. What would pride and dignity be worth, if I was standing on the dead bodies of my females and children. ", Rosch said with all of his beliefs behind this statement.
This time even Bardoth was shocked.
"He stopped my sentence... I wanted to say that for a lower being to use such methods wasn't disgraceful, as almost everything that faced me did such things. Traps, deceptions, poisons and many more. But that little creature didn't do such things for his own sake. He fought till the end and even only at his last way tried to use such a move.... And that only for others not to save himself. I like that little guy... At least something new than usual.....mhhhhh....", Bardoth thought, while looking at Rosch. He still couldn't fathom the idea of sacrificing ones pride and dignity. While he himself would fight for his loved one, he couldn't understand how or why fight for his loved one while losing his dignity. Just fight till death, like they usually do. The winner gets all.
Rosch looked at they faces of Draconia and Bardoth even more.
"I think that is something you will never understand... I.... If you are weak and at the bottom of the food chain, everything can happen. Some would need to crawl on the ground begging for forgiveness, since the others you met may have no pride or dignity at all. They don't have to be stronger than you, they just need to find your weaknesses. Maybe grabbing your child, holding it hostage or threatening to kill your family. Malice, envy, hate, jealousy, greed, anxiety and much more are such negative emotions. Those can bring out the worst of any creature alive. You at the top can't even fathom about the hardships of the weak. Everyone else is a potential danger. You are born powerful and everyone else around you is powerful. You guys can't understand the concept about fearing everyday as it could be the last.", Rosch said with a sigh, believing that it was his mistake for even getting a bit angry at the beginning. How would someone, who never had any negative feelings in the world know what normal creatures went through. Maybe boredom is the worst emotion a dragon would feel in his life.
Draconia changed her expression a bit.
"Yeah, you are right... What I saw on my journey was truly eye opening. I have seen tragedies and evilness, I have never seen before. In the dragon valley everything is different as honor, pride, dignity means everything to them.", Draconia said a bit sadly.
"Hmmmmm.... That maybe true. We have such long lives that we care about dying a good and honorable way. That our tales will be told long after our life has ended.", Bardoth said realizing the huge difference about their upbringing, mindsets and maybe even culture.
" Anyway sorry for bringing something depressing like that up. I just found you so interesting little creature. If you were a female I would have tried to get you into my harem, immediately.", Bardoth said out loud, while turning his body smaller. He was now around 3 meters big, but in humanoid form. He had scales all over his body and a dragon head, with tail and wings, but stood on two legs.
Rosch shivered as Bardoth said that and went a step back.
"Wawawawa why did you say that. Th.... That's somehow making me more scared than actually fighting you.", Rosch said a bit scared.
"Hahaha. Rosch that is a complement. He just meant your soul is beautiful. I liked your soul, too, that's the reason I followed you. That's the reason I fell.....", Draconia said but didn't finish the sentence as she became completely red.
Bardoth had to laugh again and this time it sounded much more normal. Not a beast like growl in it.
" You guys have to tell me how, when and what happened. To think that the first dragon to go into a harem of a non-dragon would be you Draconia.", Bardoth said, walking towards his liar showing the rest of them the way.
While the atmosphere changed from bad to good, the females of Rosch were shocked and didn't know how to react. Since the change was so suddenly. First it was serious and now they just talked as if nothing happened before. They shook their heads sideways as if not able to believe how easy going the situation became. They just sighed and followed Rosch.