The soldiers follow the command of Alvino. They're taking out one of the enemies legs so they can easily knock them unconscious. While the Fairies using their fairy dust to knock them out.
The unconscious civilians was being carried to the tent, for Odette to heal.The wounded weren't just laying down in a wooden bed but in a bed made of leaves with a soothing effect to keep them comfortable, it also has an effect for faster recovery. If you look around the tent right now, it looks like a jungle to put it into words.
Odette was using a special herb to stop the bleeding and tying it down with bandage.
They don't know if knocking them unconscious can wore off the manipulation but its the only choice they have right now.
Meanwhile in the outside...
"Hurry up and bring them inside!... The plan was going smoothly, the soldiers can knock them without causing severe injuries. Your soldiers weren't bad at all."
"We're honored to be complemented by you, Sir Alvino. However the numbers of enemies was still high. Right now they still have strength but The soldiers will eventually be tired soon. Do you have any plan for it."
"Yes. We just need to buy some time until the Fairies finish wiping out the dragons. This would be easier with the help of the two rays and the veteran Fairies."
He looked back to where the fight between the Fairies and dragons are...
Alvino's eyes widened all of the sudden upon turning his eyes on that direction.
"Sir Alvino! What's the—"
Leonel, after seeing the shocked expression on Alvino's face. Look at Alvino to ask him. But his sentence cut out after looking in the same direction.
"What in the world is that?"
For a while they are both in that state. But Alvino pull himself together and run back to the battlefield.
"Signal them to retreat!" He shouted.
A soldier wave the flag, signaling them to retreat.
The soldiers get the message and along with the Fairies they go back to the tent. But there enemies didn't want to just let them go and chase them up to the gate.
After all of their soldier pass through the gate. Alvino, having put in a tough spot, can't do anything to help the situation but to grit his teeth.
"Close the gate!"
Even though they're hesitating, because Alvino is in command at the moment they force themselves to roll the pulley dropping the gate down.
Some bodies that's attempting to cross the gate, had been crashed, squeezed, and split.
"What's going on?"
"Why are we retreating all of the sudden?"
"Is there some kind of problem?"
The soldiers having doubt of their own start on mumbling.
"Look! In the sky!" One soldier shouted and pointed in the sky then the rest of them followed.
Same as the reaction of Alvino and Leonel, all of the soldiers, and the newbie fairy soldiers had been shaken by what they saw.
But the one who seems more surprised was Albericht.
"What's that thing doing here?"
"I don't know. But staying here won't do us any good." Alvino said, then he look at the soldiers. "All of you listen! Carry as many wounded as you can! If you need to unload the corpse from the carriage do it! Go back to the castle and order the people there to go away from the capital as fast as they can!... Hurry up!"
"What about the people outside are we just going to abandon them?"
"We got no choice, we can't delay the evacuation even for just a minute."
"I understand."
That being said the soldier unloads the corpses on some of the carriages to replace them with the injured rebels. The soldiers just contain their anger while dropping the bodies of their comrades. Only tore place it with the body of the very same person who kill them.
The first one to go to the capital was the Fairies, led by Albericht. Since they quickly reach the castle, they set off to start the evacuation in the capital.
"What's going on here? Some of my patients weren't ready yet?" Odette whose busy treating the injured, get out and asked.
"Look in the sky."
She looks up at the sky, and of course, she is surprised too.
"A Dragon Kin Emperor!"
"Yeah." He sighs, "This is going to be one long night."
***********
The fight in the sky between the Fairies and the dragons was still going. So far they eliminated most of the dragons and what's more is there's no casualties yet on the Fairies.
They're luring the dragons by firing an arrow formed dust and letting it chase them. Leading it to the other Fairies who combine their fairy dust and blast it with a huge explosion.
Unlike human magic, the tiny fairy dust can enter the gaps between the dragon scales making the explosion directly effect its flesh.
Slaying a dragon usually require a squad. But It'll only took a single member of the eight rays of light to take down one.
"Come here!" Fiery said while taunting the dragon to go over his way.
The dragon headed towards his way, just as he wanted. The dragon wide open its mouth and breathe a furiously strong fire. Instead of evading it,Fiery took it on.
Inside the fire, he was enjoying the pressure of the raging hot flames.
"Incredible! Its so much hotter than the others!" He said with a wide grin on his face.
The breath of the dragon ran out but the Fairy scorching inside it didn't even have a single bruise. His green hair rise up, his eyes glow crimson red, while the skin all over his body turn into bright red.
The dragon tried to breath again but upon opening its mouth, Fiery flash to the dragon. Stepping his feet on the lower part of the dragon's teeth and his left hand on the upper. He use his right hand to produce flames that rages towards the dragons throat.
Fiery's blessing depends on the temperature around him. When the temperature is high it'll allow him to make his body hotter and if the temperature surpass a certain amount he'll be able to use fire.
The dragon tried to flew away but in every move it does, an explosion always break out in his large body.
"Sorry pal! But I'm producing fairy dust earlier while you feed me with your fire... But seriously who would have thought that dragons was still impervious to fire."
"Idiot, It's because your burning its internal organs." Gerald who pass over him said.
"Huh?!"
The dragon stop on struggling indicating that its already dead.
"That's eight for me!" He loudly said so Gerald can hear.
But Gerald ignored him instead hecasted a spell. A tornado appeared, trapping the three dragons in front of him inside it. Next from the dark clouds on top of a tornado a lightning draw its way at the very centre, striking all of the three dragons altogether. The lightning not just burn them, it also shred their body apart.
"Did you say something?" Gerald look back to him and ask again.
"Tch. Show off!"
Fiery turn his attention away from Gerald. He look around him with a delighted expression on his face. Seeing that the fairies are executing the plan nicely and without a single casualty is what makes him happy.
"You should stop that personality of yours."
"What?!"
Gerald whose fighting a dragon at them moment, out of nowhere, blurted out those words. What he said triggered Fiery.
"You should keep your emotion out in a battlefield."
"Huh? Are you jealous that my squad was doing a much better job than yours?"
"I'm annoyed. You should be aware that anything can happen in a battlefield. I don't want you to be so pleased right now and if anything bad happen later you'll take out your anger to us seniors."
"What are you saying?!"
"I'm saying that you should remember what you pledged to the king. Your not here to care nor be sentimental about your comrades. Your here to achieve the dream that we fairies want to achieve. Not just you but all of your comrades too. Our bond was not for love or friendship but towards that one goal we share. I hope you get that."
Fiery didn't answer and just turn his eyes away.
Upon turning his eyes away he noticed. Even though they already killed lots of dragons that there corpses was all over the ground.
The number of dragons attacking them was still the same as it was before.
"I think we should find where this dragons coming from. If we'll just stay here and defend this will take forever for all of them to be wiped out."
"I agree... All of you! Stay here and defend! Me and Fiery will find where this dragons coming from! Don't do anything rush, just keep them at bay! Understand!"
"Yes sir!"
Upon noticing this strangeness, Fiery and Gerald flew down.
The surrounding bellow was so dark that they barely see anything. Even with the fire in Fiery's hands.
"This is bad. Your flames aren't enough to light the surrounding around us."
"Do you want me to cover myself with fire?"
"No. We need to conserve our mana specially when we'reabout to come across with a large number of them—"
"Wait! The temperature change!"
Fiery sway his left hand which have a flames in it. To have a view in that area.
"Fiery!" Gerald yell.
A large mouth with sharp teeth was wide open ready to crunch Fiery.
Fiery didn't have time to think, power up the flames in his hand and incinerated the mouth of the dragon. The fire incinerated the throat of the dragon but unfortunately the dragons last strength was put on his mouth biting Fiery's hand off.
The dragon died in return of his hand.
Gerald was about to come to his rescue but another three that's hiding from the darkness flew up high and breath fire to them.
Gerald pick up Fiery and flew up high in the air.
He produces a large amount of fairy dust on the top of the dragon. But they cover themselves with their wings before it explodes.
BOOOM!
The explosion was still enough to slam the dragons to the ground and rip their wings. Even after covering themselves.
"Biyaya ng kalikasan, Na ipinagkaloob sa akin.
Ipamalasangiyongkapangyarihanlimitasyonko ay wasakin.
Kidlat sa langit, Ipakitaangyunggalit!"
Hundreds of lightning, strike the dragons on the ground. Even though not all the lightning hit the dragon's body, those that hit it tore it apart.
"You can let go of me. I can fly."
"You should just leap away from the dragon."
"It's not my fault! I didn't know that a dragon can be like that."
"Your right the, other three too. They are smart enough to cover themselves before I can blast them. If I haven't produced that large amount of fairy dust, they could've survived that. It seems like they are a pack of..."
"What's the matter."
Gerald suddenly fell into silence. It seems like he has some mixed thoughts in his brain. Then a grim expression appeared on his face.
"Say. Wasn't it a full moon before we came here?" He said in a frightened tone.
Gerald immediately looks up to see what's in the sky. And saw a dragon with a humongous pure black body that matches the night sky. Its body was big enough to cover the sky above them.
Gerald immediately tensed up. He traces the body of the dragon to its face. Their eyes came across each other striking fear throughout his body. The terror inside Gerald rises up after the large mouth of the dragon let out a wide grin.
The dragon turns his attention toward the Fairies whose fighting the dragons.
It's just playing at them.
That's what it seems to Gerald.
Fiery who has the same expression as Gerald till now realized what the dragon was about to do.
"You guys! Runaway!" He shouted.
But because he was
So far for them to hear the black fluid from the dragon's breath headed towards the fairies and dragons, melting their bodies up to their bones.
"You damn lizard!"
The horrific scene makes the blood inside Fiery blow. And by the anger he was feeling, he gritted his teeth and flew high to reach the dragon.
But he suddenly stops when he sees that the dragon change its form. Making his body smaller but longer and his wings bigger. The dragon charged into him with the full speed that even the clouds on its path were disappearing.
Even his body was trembling, the fire on his remaining arm rages. He continued to fly high and clash with the dragon.
The wind came from the impact and reached even Gerald whose still in the sky. Alvino, with a golden dust body, stopped the dragon with both of his hands.
"Old man!" Fiery said
The one who clashes with the dragon was Alvino. While lots of vines restrain Fiery from moving.
"Idiot!" Said the woman behind him. While she pulled Fiery back to her.
BOOM!
An explosion breaks in between Alvino and the dragon.
The dragon backs up a bit while Alvino stays in his position.
Meanwhile, Fiery's still flailing in the vines that were bounding him.
"Odette, is that a dragon king emperor?"
"Yeah. The abyssal one."
"Why is it here? And why is it aiding the human?"
"Those humans were under someone else's control. The reason why that dragon's here was still unknown." She explained.
"There are under control? What do you mean?"
"The only one who know the answer was Alvino... You there! what happened to your arms?"
She pointed out Fiery's hand which had been cut off earlier.
"It doesn't matter to you! Just let me go!" Fiery said while pulling the vines out of his body.
"No. Come here, I will treat you so you can get away from here. You are no match for that thing."
Odette pulled Fiery close to her. She was inspecting Fiery's hand.
But instead of being happy with what Odette is doing, what she said earlier ticks off Fiery.
"Hoy, don't you dare underestimate us!"
"I can't believe you can say that in your current condition."
"I don't care! That thing killed my squad and the other soldiers! Do you think I can just ignore that!"
"So what are you gonna do? Charge into your death? Do you think that'll change anything?"
"At least I did something!"
"Something? What?"
Fiery silence.
"Your troops weren't just the ones that had been killed, all of our troops. But at the first time, we step into the battlefield we should be ready to say goodbye to them." Odette said. She gets back Fiery's hand. "If you want to do something for them, make sure that their death won't be in vain."
She continues sealing the arm.
"Odette! The dragon attack the commander again!"
The treatment for Fiery's hand finished. While the fight between Alvino and the dragon starts once again.
"You two help the evacuation in the capital, me and Alvino will fight that thing."
"What? If you're going to fight that thing it's better if all of us will fight together!" Fiery contradicted.
"We don't intend to defeat that thing we'll fight it until you get the people far enough. Also, the dragons are heading toward the castle. Only Albericht and the new recruit are there, they'll need your help more than we do."
Fiery stop on questioning. He and Gerald headed to the castle.
Odette after treating Fiery's hand heads to Alvino and aid him.