Charlie grew, grew and grew. He grew so largely even Dan started to worry.
BOOOM!
Two giant front legs shook the ground as they landed on the ground. ( he is a four legged dragon with a giant tail, use your imagination! I'm feeling kinda sick!)
The only thing that seemed wrong was that he did not have wings of any sorts. A giant behemoth with strong powerful legs that looked like it could flatten a Savannah just by landing on it.
If Dan was compared to it size wise then it would be like an ant vs a turtle. "What happened to him?" A voice asked Dan.
He turned around to see who it was.
"Why are you naked?" he asked.
"My clothes ripped during the transformation." Crion answered. "You did not answer me, I rushed here after after feeling the immense mana crashing down on me."
"So you did not see what I did?"
"What did you do?"
"I tipped over the jug, made him reach his breaking point. Now we have the perfect training material. We just keep fighting him until he turns back, he gets stronger, we got stronger, it's a win win!"
"That's a dragon! How do you expect to win against it!"
"Well it's his first time transforming so we have a huge advantage, but then again he has a giant advantage on us, his scales are near indestructible and give him a huge defence."
GRAAAAAAAH!
As Dan was explaining Charlie let out an indescribable roar that made Crion twitch! Crion was having doubts about fighting a dragon. Even if it was a child, it's mana was heavy and scary!
Charlie rushed forward, his steps shaking the ground. He swiped at Dan only for Dan to dodge him easily while carrying Crion by the neck!
"What are you doing! Do you want to be killed! Don't just stand there and fight back! Do not hold back!" Dan shouted at Crion as he threw her to the side.
Charlie turned his huge body around and came charging at Dan once again his mouth wide open hoping to swallow him whole. Only that did not happen, Dan moved once again and Charlie took a giant chunk out of the wall. His teeth crushed the wall.
Dan raised his hand. "Explode!" Several explosions took place on Charlie's abdomen. It did not seem to do any damage at all as Charlie just seemed to swallow it.
Charlie turned around quickly and let out a roar, it was not a roar of pain but one of anger and agitation. Charlie opened his mouth and seemed to be charging up some sort of breath attack. Without dismay a stream of steady black fire left his mouth.
Dan quickly called upon fire. Bright red flames left his hands clashing with Charlie's black flames. The clash seemed to to last for 30 seconds before Charlie's fire seemed to die down due to lack of breath. Dan saw this as an opportunity and continued with his fire.
Just like before Charlie took zero damage. As the fire continued to burn Charlie charged through it. When he reached Dan he did not stop. He hit Dan with his horned head.
CRAAAASHHHH!
Dan flew back and into the wall. Charlie was charging towards Dan only to slowed down for some reason. Dan saw Crion holding a gigantic piece of web that was attached to Charlie's tail. As she pulled back on it Dan could see her struggling to keep hold. Dan stood up and charged towards Charlie. Once he reached he jumped high into the air and landed an uppercut on the giant beast. His attack did not stop there, he cast lightning over and over.
Charlie's scales were not for decoration as they protected him from the immense damage that Dan was inflicting. Had this been a normal creature of any kind they would most like be dead! As if to mock Dan he was not even staggering a little. He thrashed his tail shaking of Crion. Crion decided to let go for her own safety.
The fight continued for several hours without stop and with no end in sight. Dan was doing everything to keep up. His agility and his magic was the only reason why he was still alive. Dan was really tired, so was Crion. Crion had already left and was resting somewhere else as per Dan's orders. His shadow ability was also a huge lifesaver.
Anytime that he was caught off gaurd or could not dodge an attack he would turn into a shadow and move somewhere else.
His senses were sharpened to the max, every part of his body was tingling. His body was aching in pain but that pain was mere pleasure for Dan. His blood flow increased drastically and Dan felt a sensation that he thought he would never feel again.
His 2 other hearts were beating!
They were beating faster than usual but that was good as usually they would beat only once or twice a minute. But now, it was beating around 30 or 31 beats per minute.
His human heart was on the verge of destruction as it had been going over 200 bpm for several hours.
Despite having all his senses sharpened a lot he failed to notice a shadowy humanoid figure watching in silence. It did not move at all, not even a centimetre. It did not even seem to be breathing at all.
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"Pant.... pant.... pant..... pant!"
Dan once again dodged a fire breach from Charlie. Although Charlie was really dangerous at the moment his movements were basic. He would charge and attack with his claws, head or mouth, if that did not work out he would use a fire breath and if that did not work then he would use his tail.
The battlefield was utterly different from what it was before. Hundreds of broken ice particles were lying around on the floor. Giant earthern pillars with metallic spikes were all over the place. It was practically small scale terra forming.
Lava had collected in many of the giant holes in the ground that were a result of Dan moving the earth and his explosions. The heat was so stifling but it was nothing Dan could not handle. This was just a normal amount of heat in Dan's book. He had a giant advantage as he had just sealed one of Charlie's eyelid shut.
"I'M BACK!" Crion shouted.
"Good, restrain him, I want to try something!"
Crion formed a giant web and threw at Charlie's mouth. She swung on twice on his snout shutting it close. She then landed on the ground and held it with all of her strength.
Dan tucked both of his hands in, his elbows on his kidneys and his eyes shut. For a few second he seemed to have shut down his entire nervous system as he could not hear, feel, think or even smell. Dan was on Charlie's side. He concentrated and when he opened his eyes he had the results he wanted.
BOOOOM! BOOOOOM! BOOOOOM!
Three giant explosions went of on Charlie's side, these explosions were on a completely different scale compared to the others. Had some kind of terrorist group or military saw this kind of firepower they would do anything to get there hands on it.
As soon as the third explosion went of Dan raised raised both of his hands. His hands were covered in darkness, swirling and rotating freely without any restraint.
PSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
A beam of darkness travelling so fast that it broke the speed barrier left Dan's hands and headed towards Charlie's side.
GRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!
For the first time in several hours Charlie let out a scream of pain. The web on its mouth was not strong enough to contain him. As the dust settled, it was easy to see why!
The scene was straight out of a doctor's worst nightmare. The once harder than diamond scales had been completely destroyed. His entire left side was absolutely demolished. Dan did not even need to stare hard to see the damage he had done as he could see Charlie's organs displayed in full view.
As if replying to the damage done Charlie's healing factor kicked in a few seconds later as it slowly closed the wound while he thrashed around his tail, trying to claw Crion and Dan. Dan quickly moved away from where he was standing only for a ginormous tail to hit where he had been standing a second ago.
"Dear God, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for blessing me and making me such a badass!" Dan whispered to himself.
Fifteen seconds had passed and his wound was healed as good as new. It was as if nothing happened.
A normal person would be filled with dread at the sight of this, but not Dan. This was good for him, he didn't have to hold back since he knew Charlie could regenerate.
From his inventory Dan summoned his sword and unsheathed it throwing the scabbard away.
Dan touched the hilt of the sword and moved his hand along the metal sword it changed colour. The once brilliantly bright silver blade was coated in darkness. Darkness magic! Dan did not know why he did not use it on a regular basis. It was powerful, fast and had zero drawbacks, not that any magic had drawbacks that he knew of.
BZZZZZAAAAAIIIIIII!
Dan's body moved instinctively without even thinking to dodge a laser beam of light. Dan quickly gave his full attention to Charlie whose head was moving frantically without any direction.
As his head moved, so did the laser. It hit the giant ice pillars on the ground and on the walls carving into it. The ground was almost collapsing as it seemed like it could not no longer handle the damage done.
"Finally the one trick pony learnt a new trick!"