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Chapter 2 - Kill

Kill,

Kill him,

murder,

revenge,

slaughter,

kill,

rage,

burn,

eradicate,

execute,

kill.

The blue that had flown through my veins and the veins of my ancestors stopped. The deep ocean blue corrupted… the warped colour shifted with the blood running through my mind, a pure red crimson flowing across my scales… the new fire blossomed from my sides a new set of wings burst from my body, the dark red and blood stained limbs showered across the sky as i stared down at the hero, the moon red behind me.

The smiling man just stared back, his mouth full of flesh, his grinning teeth wrapped around the heart of a child, his arms stuffed through thousands of corpses.

"Oh, you're still alive… now you're getting it, a much cooler dragon to fight, blue dragons… I knew there had to be something better than this."

My voice had disappeared, when I opened my mouth to speak a new unfamiliar voice spoke through my words, the scratchy and cracked words struggled through my throat.

"I… will… kill you." my neck twisted with each word, my red eyes glowing through the darkness, each syllable struggling to get out.

"Ho ho ho, now you're acting like a villain!!!! A true hero should kill an abomination like you!!! Don't worry my friend, I'll save you."

His face twisted and contorted in delusional fantasy. My heart felt still as I lunged out with a claw, the blood in my body streaming out to wrap around the talon slicing across the sky, the hero pulled across with his sword, the grin on his face growing bigger. But there was only silence as he stared forward and then eventually down.

"I… will… kill…you"

Tears formed in his eyes as he stared at the stump where his hand used to be, a sickening cry set free from his mouth.

"My arm!!!!!" tears streamed down his face as he looked up at me, agony twisting across his face.

I felt nothing, no pity, no remorse, no mercy… this monster surrounded by the corpses of my children deserve nothing, no second chance and no mercy… even in my state of fleeting sanity I knew this much, I hated him… I do not know his name but I hate him and will break every law of this world to ensure he dies. My feet pressed against the ground as he stared up at my flared nostrils, the shining bright red still beaming through all other colours as I unlocked my jaws.

The intense heat came swelling through my lips again, just like the first breath of my life, and perhaps my last the flames rolled across the soft skin inside my body, a raspy burn swelling with the inferno. Fire spiralling into a blaze of crimson flame suddenly burst from my mouth, the man standing in front of me, still clutching his bleeding hand, tried desperately to block the attack but his legs bucked and the flames licked and lashed at him like whips, cutting away at his flesh and leaving only shrieks of terror and pain.