The Red Dragon bounded across the street, Rick on one side, Odette on the other side. Rick leapt upward, spinning his tomahawks like cowboy guns, and sliced the Dragon across the side, making it roar as blood splattered, neck turning to snap at him. Odette threw her arm out from her side, which wrapped around its neck, said arm buffing up and pulling the Dragon's neck back, making its teeth snap in the air. Rick's eyes glinted with his purple Irises as he put his tomahawks together in an X shape, slicing its softer underbelly open, letting its organs spill out. It roared loudly, before its eyes became lifeless as it slumped to the ground, slobber slamming onto Rick as it tongue flopped about.
"AW EW!" Rick shouted, wiping off the stinky smelling drool from his vest. Odette covered her mouth as she tried not to laugh. Her buffed up, long arm stretched back to her, receding to normal shape.
"HAH! You look like you got licked like a Lollipop hahaha, your look so gross!" Odette wiped a tear of laughter from her eye. Rick growled at her.
"LISTEN you should've still held it's head so it wouldn't have done that!" He comments. "And what the fuck was that! I didn't know you could do that shit! I thought you could just make blades from your knuckles or be buff, not stretch like a Rokurokubi's neck!" Rick comments.
"Oh please, I can have my own secrets if I want, just as you, and I assume, have your own." Odette comments, tossing her ponytail back with a snort of her smug, grinning face, pointy nose pointed at Rick. He hated her nose, it made her look like a bitchy bird.
"You know, I'm getting really tired of your shit, Odette." Rick comments, pointing at her.
"Funny, I was thinking the same thing." she comments, eyeing him with her glowing eyes, arms crossed.
"HEY DUMBASSES, DRAGON!" Burger shouts. Both look to the left, a Yellow Dragon leaping at them. Odette bulked her arm up while Rick simply flexed his arm, both of them punching the Dragon in the face with a whoosh of air, breaking it's teeth and snapping it's upper jaw, ripping the skin as they made it's brain bleed, blood shooting out of it's ears before it flew back, rolling like a wet noodle across the ground, crashing into a car and making it explode. Odettes arm de-bulked as both shook their hands, fingers out.
"Oooowwww, That skull is thick." Rick comments.
"Yeah, usually I absorb damage but Bulking nullifies it a bit." She comments.
"Well, we best get going before more of them show up." Odette comments, taking a step. Rick's eyes flashed before he reached for her.
"Wait there's-!" As Odette turned to face Rick, a dragon suddenly shot up from under the ground, grabbing her in it's big frontal fangs, making her eyes go wide as she was shaken around, pink blood gushing around. Rick's eyes turned dinosaurian as he clenched his arm back, turning pure black as he slammed the mutated arm into the Dragon's throat, ripping a hole clean through it's scales and out the base of the neck, leaving a gaping hole it's it's spine dangling and some flesh, making it's Iris vanish, before it felt over, dropping Odette's body, which wetly slapped face first into the ground, a gaping hole with pink-covered organs sprawled on her back and a few poking out from under her. Rick turned, looking at her body….his heart thumping louder….and louder…..was it…really like last time?
The little boy looked on at the cabins, a burning blaze of orange, bodies strewn about….screaming into the sky.
He blinked, shaking his head. That day….Odette had been so tough…and now she laid on the ground as a lifeless corpse, entrails out.He turned around, pulling out his flask and downing a lot of it. He smacked his lips, screwing the top back on and putting it back in the sewn-pocket inside of his vest. What was he going to do no-
"Oooooouuuuugh" Rick heard a loud groan from…Odette? He turned quickly, eyes wide. Odette pushed herself up on her right hand while her elbow helped her stay up straight.
"...WHAT THE FUCK!" He ran over, grabbing her leaning arm and lifting her up, making her organs flop around, her suit covered in pink blood.
"Holy shit you're alive!" Rick comments, stepping back to avoid being touched by her entrails.
"Ugh, nooo really? That fuckin HURT a bit though" Odette looked at her holy stomach, sticking her hand through it from the back and wiggling her fingers in the front.
"Oh hey, that's kinda neat" This made Rick facepalm.
"Well, we gotta go to a healing mage and-" She shushed him with a pink-stained hand, making him spit some out, wiping his mouth.
"Stillhet…watch" She then grabbed her organs, shoving them back in messily, piling them onto one another. Her suit and skin then suddenly began to…suck inward? They wound started to close up, and he could hear her organs rearranging themselves, before the hole was gone. She had a smug look on her pointy-nosed bitch face.
".....You seriously could do that the whole time! You could've told me so I wouldn't freak about writing for a dead body report!-" she punched his shoulder lightly suddenly, making him grunt and wiping the blood off his shoulder.
"Rellllllax, it's not like you gotta know everything about me. Like I said, secrets are secrets for a reason!" She comments, tossing her ponytail back and smacking him in the face.
"Now let's hurry up, yeah?" She began running, heels clicking loudly. Rick groaned, following after. Odette squatted down before leaping over a large pile of flaming vehicles. She put her legs up and tucked in an almost M shape, before she spread her arms, flaps of skin spreading to let her glide like a squirrel, as she flew over the pile, legs pointed straight now. Rik grumbled.
"Burger, shadow walk" Rick comments with a mutter, as his eyes glowed purple. In the shadows of the flames, he fell into them, spinning around, before he expelled out the other side of the wall, the shadows erupting like water as he exited the Shadow realm. Odette swerved back around, tucking in, wing flaps vanishing as she rolled, heels skidding before she stood next to him.
"Wow, I didn't know you could do that" She comments at him with actual surprise.
"He can't. I let him" Burger comments, floating between them as he materialized.
"What do you mean?"
"His people gain special abilities from the Spirits they bond with. My special thing is shadows, the devouring of other spirits, and Negative energy expulsion. Like spirit lasers kinda." Burger states.
"Woooah, lasers are cool" Odette comments.
"You are such a child" Rick comments, as he hoists her onto a roof by her legs, Odette grabbing the edge before kicking off the wall to flip over and onto the roof. Rick shadow walked through her shadow, rising up straight this time.
"Hey how come you didn't roll this time?" She inquires.
"Flame shadows move too much, or water ones, though those are harder because the shadow is not 'thick' enough. But the more shadows move,the harder the exiting, people shadows don't move as much, or light poles, so I'm able to rise out of them much easier" Rick explains, before pulling out a cigar, putting it to his mouth and pulling out a silver lighter. He flicked the wheel once, twice, CRACKLE! The fire ignited, before he held it to the tip of the cigar, taking in a drag, flicking the lighter shut, as he blew out a puff of smoke with the cig still in his mouth. Odette waved her arm back and forth, coughing and gagging.
"Jesus, I hated how you kept smoking up the place, it's so annoying and bad for me!" Odette complains.
"I'm the one inhaling ninety-nine percent of the smoke, you just get the blow out, mind your business on what I put in my body" he comments, blowing a puff, on purpose, in her face, making her frown.
"You're such a dick" she harumps, crossing her arms as she walks away from him, Rick shrugging and following, hands in his pockets. As they walked, a Dark elf, with white hair that flowed in the wind, leaned on a tower with a straight pole, leaning away from it, two small yellow Dragons gripped onto the sides. He licked his lips.
"Well well well, A human sack of shit and a woman who's species I can't figure out, but quite human looking. They seem quite strong though, killing all those Dragons. Best I get rid of them now so the plans of my clan leader shall fall into place~" he whistled, the two yellow Dragons leaping off, going onto building, making tile fall as their claws dug in to slide them across as they leapt. Tied to the Elves belt, was a Staff, shaped like a serpentine dragon, with a floating blue gem in the middle that glowed, almost like a dragon eye, with two side protrusions almost like wings, coming from the top and near the engraved Dragon head.
"Hm? I heard some-" Rick turned, only to get slammed into by one of the two yellow Dragons, getting flung off the building, gripping its front legs as he moved his head to the left and right, avoiding snaps of sharp teeth. Odette couldn't see him but she heard the crash of them landing on a Rune car. She turned, seeing a second one stop, growling at her.
"Oooooh that's not good" she comments, sideways crab walking with the Dragon as it proweld in the unsaid circle, like a surface world panther. Odette bit her lip, thinking. These ones were small, so it'd be a bit hard to hit it if it moved so damn fast! Her suit bulged at the legs as they morphed into Satyr-like legs, hooves obvious as the back of the heels sucked into her body. The Dragon struck! It opened its mouth as it leapt at her. She flexed her newly made legs, leaping to the side with a lot of force, cracking the roof, and dodging the Dragon. It turned on a dime however, claws sparking, before bounding towards her as she landed on another building, Odette jumped and tucked into a ball shape, making the Dragon miss by a hair's-breadth as its claw hit her ponytail, cutting some of the hair. Odette un-tucked, landing and sliding on the hoofs, ass hitting the part of the roof people would sit on, tilting backwards dangerously.
"WOAHWOAHWOAH!" Her arms spun around, before she turned one foot into a Giant-Roc's talon, stabbing it through the roof, stopping her from falling, before she tugged herself forward. The Dragon leapt at her, making her eyes go wide, before she suddenly bent her back at an inhuman angle, almost like the Z block from tetris, but backwards, her spine (if she had one) completely straight backwards, making it look down at her, surprised, as she stuck her tongue out, flipping it off in slow motion, before it fell off the roof, flipping upside down, and down to the ground it fell, crashing into a rune car, breaking the car and crushing the roof in. As it got up, a tomahawk suddenly embedded itself into its skull, making it flop like a wet noodle, dead. Odette's body snapped back to normal shape quickly, giving a grunt and rubbing her lower back before turning around quickly. She leaned on the edge of the roof, looking down. She saw the dead Dragon, then turned to see Rick wrestling with the other one, holding its mouth open, tongue slapping the living hell out of his face.
"Ohp, that's gross!" Odette then front flipped off the building, her ass enlarging as she broke her fall with it comically before it shrunk, making her land on her heels. She ripped the tomahawk out of the dead Dragons head, before aiming and throwing it at the other one, smacking it in the side of the head with the blade and making it fall over, Rick spinning to grab and rip his tomahawk, delivering a furious strike through its neck, chopping it's head off. Its mouth was still agape as it wetly thudded the ground along with its body. He huffed, wiping his face off. Odette ran over, picking up his other weapon and handing it to him.
"That was kinda cute, your first kiss" he joked at him, elbowing him in the ribs.
"Ah fuck off-ooff" he smacked her hand away, rubbing his side.
"What's up with you?" Odette comments.
"He broke a few ribs," Burger comments, floating next to Rick, who then grabs his throat, making his eyes bulge out of their sockets.
"It's nothing, he's full of shit, let's just hurry it up, we gotta find that staff and-" As Rick turned, he suddenly flipped rapidly, kicking Odette in the face and making her take a few steps back, rubbing her cheek, heels clicking.
"AGH BITCH!-"As she turned, annoyed, Rick landed…an arrow in his shoulder. He looked pissed, snapping it in half. An Elf had an elegant black bow, made of some unknown wood. Odette noticed one next to the ground where she had stood…he kicked her with a kick so she wouldn't have got hit! It wouldn't have hurt that bad, but it was…sweet, in a way….wait…that …..that smell!
"Is that…Silver?" Odette commented, taking a step back, sweating a bit. Rick grunted as he ripped the arrow out of his shoulder, blood dripping.
"Yep. Figured you being you, it would've burnt your flesh. No need to thank me" He comments sarcastically.
"Ah, so she isn't human…I'll only feel a little more bad when I kill her for killing a fellow non-human….yooooou on the other hand" he pointed the top of his bow at him, grinning, his pointed ears flicking, with his almost purple-skin glinting in the dim alleway.
"-You self-centered fucks who think your the dominant race, and put us Elves under when we should be the rulers of the surface, I'm going to enjoy your screams, it'll be music to my arms!" He knocked an arrow, the arrow glowing as he fired it, the arrow splitting into dozens of arrows. Rick flipped out his tomahawk, swiping them rapidly in an X pattern, creating a ripple of air, making the velocity of the arrows zero as they flew away, harmlessly falling to the ground. Rick ,touching his shoulder. Too much force, it would damage his tendons and injury…and his ribs.
"Odette stand back" Rick demands, with a different tone of voice.
"Wah-you can't boss me around-?!" Her eyes vibrated…in fear, as she took a step back, as a Dark miasma emanated from Rick's body. He growled loudly ,drool dripping as his teeth fell out, sharp fangs erupting. His skin turned a voidless black, as his nails fell out, claws erupting out, as three bird-like feathers popped out of his head, eyes glowing red, as his bones cracked.
"G-Groh-GROOOOH!" his bones cracked loudly as his mouth became a snout, before he roared into the air, blood exploding as a tail erupted from his pants, lashing around. He huffed, steam blowing from his mouth, looking at the Elf with a tilted head.
"Ohoho, you're a spirit shaman! And an advanced one at that, able to infuse your spirit into yourself! I thought you all died out!...well, you'll officially be extinct when I'm done with you!" The Elf comments, cocking an arrow back before letting it fly. Rick looked at it, and as it was about to stab into his eye, he blurred, before vanishing, the arrow slamming into the headless Dragons corpse.
"Huh?-" As the Elf had to comprehend Rick vanished, Rick slowly appeared out of a shadow against the wall, his mouth agape. The Elf turned in slow motion time, jumping backwards as a claw strike nicked his cheek. Time resumed to normal speed, as he landed on a wall, kicking off it and slamming down on Rick's head, landing on the opposite side of him.
"Tch" the Elf licked the blood that leaked from his face.
"To be cut by a human…disgusting!" He pulled out another arrow, pulling it back hard. It radiated a dark magic to it. Rick got on all four, tail lashing about.
"GROOOOOOOOOOOOAH!" he roared at the Elf who shot out the dark arrow, which expanded with dark magic, turning into a shadowy-eastern Dragon, its lower jaw slamming into the ground, ripping through the concrete. Odette watched, taking in the sight. If she ever needed to kill Rick, it'd be good to watch how he fights as this….beast. Rick's mouth swirled with negative energy, a pitch black ball of nothing forming. Nothing, as in it was devoid of life, of color…and of meaning. The Elf freaked out from it, backing up.The Dragon arrow was only a couple feet from Rick when Rick blew out the ball in a whistle, the ball floating lazily to the arrow. The Dragon head snapped down on it…..and then sucked into the ball, ceasing existence as the ball swirled, appearing in the torn Dragon energy arrow's mouth, the air rippling around it…before it shrank, ceasing in on itself. Odette and the Elf were shocked. The Elf shook, from fear. How could…a human have such….power! The Elfs hand shook as he reached for an arrow on his side quiver, making the arrows rattle as Rick walked over, lurched, eyes a menacing red, like blood. The Elf drew an arrow, hand still shaking, his whole body rattling, down to his very soul, as Rick was up in his face, snorting out smoke from his nostrils. He looked at the Elf with one of his eyes, the red eye with a slit of an iris peering.
"..Mmmmmmm, maybe I should devour your soul" Rick states, however, it wasn't Rick's voice…it was Harbingers. The spirit let out a silhouette from the snout, showing his face, flickering.
"Y-Your the…You're the Dark one! The-" Burger-Rick put a clawed finger to the Elf's lip, cackling.
"Hush now, you shouldn't go spilling titles others don't have the right to know~" Then he cocked his fist back, slamming it into the Elfs gut, sending him flying and breaking a few ribs with a loud crack sounding off, as he flew and slammed onto the ground, coughing and rolling. Burger-Rick's silhouette of Burger's face vanished as he grinned, walking over to him. Odette watched as he picked up the Dragon staff, before holding it out and snapping it in half, a magical burst of energy exploding out.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!" The Elf shouts, as the aura goes through the city. Officers fired arrows at Dragons crawling on one of their cars. As the Dragon prepared to fire a blast of fire, the aura touched it. It froze, before its eyes dilated. It then looked around, before turning, tail swishing over the vehicle, crawling to a hole, climbing back down into it. Others did this too, turning away from people, crawling into the holes, vanishing into them. Burger was then expelled out of Rick. Bones cracked back into place, as the snout returned to a normal mouth, eyes turning back into Rick's eyes, sharp teeth falling out and nails falling to the ground, before regular human nails and teeth appeared. The tail sucked up into Rick's body, his skin returning to its tan color. This made him fall to his knees, puking out some strange black liquid. Odette ran over to him, actually putting a hand on his back.
"Woah, dude you ok? That was…terrifying, even by my standards" Odette comments, patting his back. Rick looked at her, wiping his mouth. She was back in her jersey and jeans. Seems there wasn't a need to keep the suit on, and her eyes were normal now, not glowing.
"Ugh, yeah….doing that for more than a minute puts a lot of strain on my body, since I never was taught how to do it properly." he spat out some remaining black stuff.
"Burger gets tired from that so he's sleeping right now. As for me, I could really use a drink, so let's grab the Elf and-" Both looked, seeing the Elf…gone.
"Eh" both said.
As the day went to 'night', and the city started to get lively again, with people helping move corpses of Dragons…and citizens, the only place untouched was the much richer area, aka,The Elven city of Nar. One of the skyscrapers sat near and against the wall of the humongous super cavern, blue lights glowing, Elven guards up front at some gates to keep unwanteds out. In the tallest part, sat the Council of Elves, 6 powerful Elves of their respective species. One chair sat empty…a 7th. The Dark Elf queen smashed her fist against the table, her hair rising angrily. The Elf that had fought Rick and somewhat Odette grimaced, afraid.
"Not ONLY…did you fail to kill that human, and his ally who's identities you didn't get…..you ALSO had the staff of Dragon domination broken and destroyed….so now we have one less artifact of old to help us in our plans….I am very much so…not happy, D'ro" The Dark queens hair floated down to normal, putting her gloved hands together. The other clan leaders said nothing, watching. The queen snapped her fingers, two Elves appearing from shadows grabbing D'ro.
"Wait wait, what are you doing!" The queen spun her hands together, purple magic emanating, before she flicked her hands out, a purple portal opening up behind.
"You failed us….and I especially do not take failure lightly…toss him" she snapped her fingers. The elves ragged D'ro towards the portal.
"NO NO PLEASE I'LL DO BETTER, I WON'T FAIL YOU AGAIN, PLESE!" His feet slide across the ground. The queen put her hands together, squeezing them together and un-squeezing them.
"Oh I know you won't fail me again…." With that comment, D'ro knew his fate.
"N-NO PLEASE-AHHHHHHHHHHH!" he was tossed into the portal, his body vanishing into dust, being sent to gods knows where. The portal then closed in on itself with a shine, before vanishing.
"Now, brothers, sisters-" The queen pushed up from her seat, ears flicking.
"-Let us discuss plans to find this Problematic man and woman…so we can get these thorns out of our sides, and take what is rightfully ours…the surface" She comments, fists clenched tight.