The Antigod glared up at Phenor with eyes ablaze with hatred. Phenor returned the dragon's gaze, and all the gods could wonder was why? Why was this dragon so vengeful? And where could it have come from?
The Antigod raised his wings, and with a single beat, he exploded into the air towards Phenor. Phenor backed away, then exhaled and a blast wave of wind slammed into the Antigod, slowing his approach, and then Phenor spun about and slammed his tail across the dragon's head, knocking him out of the sky and careening down before crashing into a flaoting island.
"You may be strong, dragon, but you are no god." Phenor rumbled.
And then dark, red-violet energy began to seep out from the Antigod's body as he rose to his feet. His eyes were wide, contorted in an expression of pure rage as the ground at his feet began to crack. And then, he raised his talon, before tapping it down. As soon as the talon touched the earth, the entire floating island shattered to rubble, and then a massive force of energy shot towards Phenor. It was too fast for the Dragon God to avoid, and when it struck him, it cut cleanly through his wing, severing.
Phenor gave a roar of agony as he tumbled out of the air, crashing to the earth below. The limbs where the wing had been severed bled profusely, and the pain was nearly unbearable. All of a dragon's mists sensitive nerves are in their wings, meaning any damage to their wings would hurt severely more than anywhere else.
Phenor forced himself to his feet, barely being able to stand as his entire body shook with agony. The Antigod was slowly walking towards Phenor, the same strange energy from before still circulating about his body.
"Mountainous creation!" Phenor roared, opening and snapping his jaws shut, and as he did, immense pillars and mountains of stone shot up from the earth, each and every single one of them the size of a mountain, reshaping the landscape.
The next moment, the earth began to tremble, red-violet energy rising into the air and turning the sky a dark shade. Then the entire side of one of the newly born mountains blasted open in an explosion of rubble and chunks of earth.
And then, as the Antigod stared down Phenor, he raised his talon… and brought it down.
— — —
Sephtis was watching Dagon, his anxiety rising with every passing moment, fear of how the war was going, or if it was going on at all. And then, startling him, Liorria suddenly lurched forward, giving a groan of pain.
"What is it?" Sephtis asked in shock, raising his head.
"I…am not sure…" Liorria spoke.
"What do you mean 'not sure'?"
The dragon goddess's eyes turned to meet Sephtis's. "Phenor…"
"The dragon god? What of him?"
"He's dead."
— — —
King Elmond awaited the dragon's first move, holding his sword at the ready as he stood over his throne. He would not back away. Nor would he cower in fear of a single dragon.
The dragon gave a hiss, then launched forward, bolting at Elmond, who lazily stepped aside as energy focused into his sword.
"Too slow." He said in a bored tone as the sword cut clean through one of the black chains.
The dragon hissed again, getting more irritated, as it spun about and swung its talons at Elmond, who swiftly leaned away from it, but he could not dodge the second one. The dragon brought its other talons careening at him from the side in a wide arc, and he had no choice but to block, and that he did, raising his sword and deftly catching the blow as it sent him skidding back. The next moment, a large tail came whipping around and slammed into him square in the chest, the sword unable to absorb the blow fully.
Elmond was sent through the air, slamming into a wall, which cracked on impact. But he did not falter as the dragon came at him once more. He stayed on his feet, leaning to the side as it ran at him. He cracked the butt of his sword's hilt against the dragon's head, then grabbed it's horn and pushed with all his might, slamming it's snout into the stone.
Elmond then danced away, going around the dragon as he severed yet another chain. The black armor began to loosen.
The dragon began to stagger back, a talon clasping its head as it hissed and whined in agony. It seemed the fact of the armor being loose was making it so the dragon could retain some of it's actual self.
While the dragon and the black armor were fighting for control, Elmond ran around as fast as he could, severing each chain one by one, until the armor came loose, and clattered to the floor.
The dragon gave one last whine of agony, then slowly tumbled to ground, collapsing as it lost consciousness. Elmond moved to the side of the dragon's head, placing a hand in it's snout as he met it's fading gaze.
"Fear not. You are free now." He said with a kind smile.
Then, when the dragon's eyes closed, King Elmond's eyes turned harsh and his expression wrathful. 'Mourtas. This… is the last of your little games. From this day forward.. my only goal will be to bring Annagon to it's knees!'
— — —
Bella and Ellira burst through the air, flying across the thunder as the soared low to the ground, the earth exploding behind them from bolts of lighting as they careened towards Abyss.
Abyss raised his talon, then brought it down where he assumed Ellira would be, but the dragon swiftly banked right and crashed her talon into his head, slamming him to the earth before bolting through the air again up into the sky.
Then came Gena, flying like a meteor towards Abyss, who swiftly shot into the air after Ellira, and so, all three dragons and the two riders took to the sky. Abyss and Ellira were both much faster than Gena, who struggled to keep up.
Abyss and Ellira would zip through the air in mere blurs of electric light, one silver, one gold, and as they bolted across the sky, they would periodically clash into one another, each impact sending shockwaves across the tundra sending snow flying into the air.
After some time of this, Gena vainly attempting to keep up with the other two as they clashed, Ellira finally managed to gain the upper hand over Abyss, and as she pressed her weight onto the dragon, she and Abyss came careening out of the sky straight towards Gena.
Gena opened her jaws with a hiss as flames enveloped her body, and then she reared back her talon, and shot it up ahead of her towards Abyss as she flew to greet them. Myru had fallen from her saddle and was now being whipped through the air like a rag doll, and in a mere moment, in a massive explosion of flames and electricity that set a scarlet glow across all of the tundra and caused a shockwave to blast outward that caused even the walls of the Kingdom to tremble and crumble, Gena collided with Abyss, her talon pounding through the dragon's back and shattering his spine before bursting out of is ribcage in a spray of blood.
"THEY ARE ALL YOURS!!" Ellira roared, spreading her wings and stopping her descent. Gena retracted her talons from Abyss's body, then used her wings to shift in the air so she was on top.
Then then Gena's scales became almost impossible to look at as the flames around her body made her glow a molten gold, and like a shooting star crashing down from the heavens, she and Abyss below her crashed into the earth, the massive impact sending out tremors through the earth as a crater was forged into the landscape.
Ash and smoke rolled up into the pale sky in waves, coming down like black snow. Ellira landed beside the crater, Bella looking down into the pit with wide eyes. "Gena!" She called, "Gena!"
A faint figure could be seen rising from the smoke. At first, Bella's heart dropped as she thought it was Abyss, but as the smoke cleared, Bella could make out ash and charcoal covered golden scales.
Gena looked weakly over at Bella and Ellira. She seemed as though she was about to collapse right there and then. But she held strong, gritting her teeth and glaring down at her enemy lying at her feet.
Now that the smoke had cleared, they could clearly see Abyss. His body had been brutalized to the point that he was almost unrecognizable, certain limbs completely crushed into nothing while his ribs had caved in and a massive, gaping hole was in his chest. Beside the dragon was a desperate and fearful looking Myru, her eyes wide with terror as she looked up at Gena, who towered over her.
The Kin began to desperately fidget with the latch to her saddle, and, absolutely uncaring of her dragon, began crawling away from both Gena and Abyss, barely able to move with shattered ribs and a broken arm.
"A-Abyss! Get up! Get up you useless snake!" Myru cried as she crawled away from Gena, who slowly walked after the Kin, glaring down at her with an expression of contempt. "Save me!"
"No one.." Gena growled, "is going to save you."
And just as Gena said that, she came to regret those words. The alert horn resounded from the behind the Kingdom walls.
"Are you so certain of that… Gold Valkyrie?" Came a cold, sinister voice.
Gena slowly looked up as she felt her heart drop. There, in the sky above them, was Zickarys and Mourtas.