Running as fast as he could, five had made sure to avoid the giant of a red dragon who has continuesly chased after him throughout the town.
Behind the Spartan, the dragon soared over a bridge. It gazes down at five with nothing but hatred, pure hatred and the hunger for blood in its very eyes.
"Well, he doesn't look very happy," Deha muttered.
"Agreed," five responded.
As he neared the front gate the spartan was getting closer to it in one more step, sadly the dragon saw this and opens it's maw. And as it does a torrent line of flames shot forth as it aimed for five.
The fire did not strike its intended target, but it did destroy the front gate in a burst of woods and falling debris, followed by the burning remains of the people who were too late to run away.
Five understood that he could no longer afford to remain here in the town, or else more lives will be at lost. As passes through the gate the spartan can see from the bottom right corner of his eyes that man struggling to reach for his wife while to the mother's right was her young girl who was obviously their daughter.
His eyes moved from the three of them and up to where he saw debris, it was large and wide enough to fit a family when standing on it. But he knew what was about to occur and pulled out one of his two remaining bubble shield and quickly girls himself towards the family.
Without even looking up five just pressed the button on the device and sent it smacking on the ground creating a hexagon shape energy dome that appeared out of thin air surprising both the wife and husband. They thought of why someone like that of the spartan was doing that until the young girl look up and pointed whereas her parents did so too.
The debris came falling down and the family all wrapped themselves out of fear for their impending end. However it never happened when a sound strange to them occurs, for they did not know it was the energy shield that protected them.
They heard the spartan telling them to get to safety. The father was calling out to the large armored man, but to no avail the spartan seemed to have ignored him and continued running towards an open field of grass.
"Deha, how far is the jet?!" Five asked as he ran.
From uptop he could see the dragon soaring after him. Koa or five that is sped forth hoping he wouldn't be too late.
The loud roar of the dragon can be heard when suddenly a string of missiles struck the dragon on its right side.
Assuming whoever that was five thought that it might've one of the unsc jet's. However to his dissappointment it turned out to be an aircraft vehicle, one that he knew of, but certainly does not belong to the unsc.
The aircraft was that of an MI-28 Havoc attack helicopter. It was clear to five that the flying metal contraption came from that of the twenty first century worlder's.
The dragon let out a loud roar out of a painful cry from that of the missiles being fired at it. It tried to change its terms tidy by flying up, sadly, the beast made a fatal mistake when one of its wings exploded in a rain of both flesh and blood while pieces of its torn wing were raining down on the land.
"Koa, there's something you need to know!" Deha told him gravely.
"Yes, the attack helicopter, I see it," Five said responding to her.
"No got damn it! It's that. It's the other one, there's a second dragon!" Deha told him in an alert tone of her voice.
The wounded that had fell to its injury moved it's head up and breathes it's fire at the attack helicopter, the man or pilot saw the torent of flame and swerved to the left when from the side of it, a second dragon came barroling down straight for the center of the heli. But before it could come into contact with the rollar blades of the heli it hovered up above it and breathes in a deep air and flames exited as it destroyed the attack heli's tail.
Five could hear the audio logs as the pilot desperately tried to keep his bird flying; however, it never happened because he failed to do so when the dragon breathed down on it once more, with only the poor pilot and his partner's voices being cut off as they succumbed to the burning fire as the heli exploded.
The previous dragon that had attacked town slowly got up from the ground. It spreaded it's wing and tried flapping it up and down again and again. But seeing that there was fairly large hole in its right wing the dragon understood that it couldn't do the one thing it was used to, to fly.
"Deha, that jet. You said carly had requested an air support. How far is it?" Five asked.
"They're on the way. You just need to keep those dragons distracted... Try keeping their attention on you, we don't want anymore dead in the town," The A.I. Told him.
"Copy that,"
The spartan watched as the second dragon gradually landed on the ground and trekked towards the wounded dragon.
It's head lowered as it came merely inches to the downed dragon. The spartan can see that the two creatures seems to be communitcating in a form of deep huffs as they opened their mouth slightly.
The blood red scaled dragon then moved and faced it's head at where the spartan stood and let out a deep yet lowly growl. Behind it; it's wounded partner got up on all fours and joined it's partner, and altogether the two of them were now focusing for their target which was none other then the spartan himself.
"We should run," Deha said glad that she was not the spartan at the moment.
"Yeah," Five responded as he fires at the injured dragon.
The other one saw its partner's hurt by the bullets that were tearing through its torn wing. Angered by the scene it roared at the spartan so loud that the very grass he's standing on were all blowing backward due to the immense power with just one roar.
Afterwards the dragon and it's partner immediately sprinted towards him. On the other hand the blood red scale'd dragon took to the air as it knows best to act as a watcher from the sky. Though, that doesn't mean it's only intent was to just fly as it fires various ball of flames that somewhat meltes the spot it landed on while the fire lit on till it dies evantually.
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He knew that staying in an opened field would give him a disadvantage since the dragons would've gotten him very easily. So coming down to the best solution, five understood that he would need to force the two beings to chase him somewhere else which would have to be the forest.
It was the perfect place to hide in, sadly he could not get there in time due to how far it was from he is now. However that mean the spartan didn't have zero ideas in his head.
In his right hand he held onto the second plasma grenade, one he had gotten from the unsc armory he'd found during his time in vahrian.
As he ran the spartan turns around and continued firing at the flying lizard behind him, though it's partner wasn't so far behind. Five sheath his rifle in the back where the magnetic holster held it for him.
As the flying dragon soared down for him, five quickly slid to a stop and then counted the many seconds within his head. As the dragon reached him the spartan leaped up at two meters and landed on its back.
The other dragon saw its partner struggling to shake off the tick of an armored man from its back, but to no avail, it could not succeed in its effort.
Five was about to activate the grenade until from behind him he heard a familiar sound, one he now knows of. He turned around and sees the other dragon loading up and breathes fire at the back of its own partner engulfing the spartan and the other dragon withing it's flames.
The dragon proceeded to breathed down on the target, till evantually it ceased in its effort to burn the armored man.
The second dragon glanced at its partner giving her a look of disatisfaction for the decision she went and did. The female dragon just huffs at it and just as they were about to leave for the town again the smoke dissipated and on the back of the second dragon stood five shocking both lizards for they hadn't expected the spartan to have survived a fire hot enough to melt metal and steel.
The second dragon went to bite down on the dragon, to its surprise a large explosion occurred whereas the scales on its back seems to have either been blown apart while some melted leaving it's red and charred skin exposed out for the world to see.
"That should piss it off even more," Remarked deha.
"Any news on the jet?" Five asked.
"Not very long, uh oh!" Deha muttered as if she probably picked up on something.
"What is it!" Five questioned as he was swatted aside by the female dragon's tail.
Deha winced as five had busted right through a tree so hard that it's only remains was the bottom part. However five hadn't stayed down long enough as he suddenly spun up grabbed the other half of the tree and swung it at the side of the dragon's maw.
The female dragon felt how hard the tree had struck her and almost lost her footing. Nevertheless it sprung it's head back and looked at the spartan with fury and then began firing at him hoping that she'd melt the annoying being for good.
The other dragon who was obviously the partner of the female joined in on the act as it assisted it's mate.
On the other hand five looked at the percentage of his energy shield where it was slowly lessening down to ninety eight perecent.
"Koa, eyes out. We got visitors!" Deha says knowing the situation the spartan is in.
"Who's it!?" Five responded as he could somehow feel the immense heat of both dragons flames.
"One of the twenty first century folks, it seems like those groups of soldiers had called in reinforcement," Deha said answering him.
From afar the spartan could hear the sound of Rollerblade belonging to two attack helicopters about five miles away from his area. surprisingly a jet, one that he recognized had flew right past the two attack helicopters and was headed towards the town.
"That's one of ours. Why isn't it helping?" Five said pondering on the reason why the unsc pilot isn't assisting him.
"Apparently, it is helping in exterminating one more dragon that is actively burning the town," Deha told him.
The spartan then halted in his talk and bursted out of the spot the dragons were breathing down on. To the two creatures shock they watches on as five ran towards them without fear of them.
Usually warriors such as knights barbarians and others wouldn't be so careless of their life. But this being infront of them had done the impossible by simply surviving their flames and injured both, and secondly it refused to die. And now it chose to rush at them starightly.
One of the dragon's went to bite down on the armored being, however it couldn't do so for how fast the spartan was moving, which it gave the small man an advantage over both of them.
The being wore armor that could've for sure give even the best knights and warriors trouble due to the amount of weight they have on. Yet these man was showing feats that the two dragons were starting to question its sanity. They both wanted to know if it was trying to prove itself to some kingdom, or maybe it was just asking to die. Sadly, the two of them had been trying to do that very thing.
The spartan dodged a swing from one of the giant lizards wings by sliding under it, afterwards he bursted off at ten to sixteen miles per hour, and at that short amount of range he tackles it to ground and struck his target with his knife and sticked something inside it.
Five heard the other dragon coming from behind him. As he turned the dragon took a swipe at him, and to its anger it manages to lay at least a hit on its target where the spartan was sent smashing deep into the ground as he created a small trail of dirt.
Although they weren't as brutish as the covenant, five could feel how hard the red dragon had struck him with its hand. It reminded him of the fist of rukt, its power was great that when the wielder swings it the target would either die from it, or second he or she would've been a dead person.
For as strong as that hit was it never caused the spartan to give up, as he stood up five watched the two dragons both trekking towards his position. Five right hand reached for his last remaining plasma grenade as his thumb pressed a certain button. In his head he knew that the decision he is about to show would be displayed as suicidal, but to him the spartan it was just like any normal day he's in.
Yet, regardless of that the spartan eyes moved upward where he can see the two attack helicopter beginning to fire down on the two dragons.
He deactivated the plasma grenade and sticked it on his right magnetic holster and watched as two of the attack helicopter continues raining down m230-mm cannon rounds at their two targets. Two of the dragon's could not move to attack due to one of the who was clearly wounded badly.
The other one, the red scale dragon understood that if it attacked the new arrivals, it would've wounded its partner greatly, or to its fear of watching her die. It knew of one other thing that it must do.
The female dragon sees its partner struggling to keep the enduring bullets, it tried to attack one of the two heli with its fire but the red dragon moved it's larger wing and shielded it from three 2.75 inch-hydra 70 rockets.
It's scale had not only spread on its body but it also covered the outside of its wings, though with only less of them for its body had more. Nevertheless that doesn't mean it was unbreakable. The third missile had struck the back where the spartan had broke it due to his action.
The red dragon roared out and fired various numbers of hot fireballs at the two heli. Still it did not come into contact with the two metal birds.
Meanwhile in five's perspective, he watched as the scene played out and could see that the bigger dragon, the red one was defending its partner while also enduring the punishment till finally one missile struck the bigger dragon causing it to slump to the ground.
Nevertheless the female one stepped over using its own body to shield its downed partner. It moved every inch of her body to block any missile strike and rounds from striking without letting a single hit touched her mate. Even though she did her best to protect the downed dragon the female could no longer keep up with the amount of firepower that were bombarding down on her.
And so she did something that causes a surprise to both pilots of the attack helicopters and the spartan. The female dragon lowered her head and all around her skin red lights began emitting all around her body, then next after that a barrier-dome of red energy had materialized outward and continued on to the point that the dome reached a height of thirty six feet that had surrounded them.
After the female dragon had summoned the shield she slowly and deliberately began shrinking whereas her partner had done the same thing she has done.
This made the spartan questioned the things he hasn't seen since his time being spent this unknown world.
The two helicopters had ceased their attacks and were probably as surprised as five was. Though as they continued to remained in the air behind the two of them was that of another helicopter, yet these one was slightly bigger and looked like the ones that transports troops.
In the dome five looked on as the now two turned humanoid dragons stood up with the female one helping her partner up with his right arm over her shoulder.
The woman, or dragon that is saw turned her head sharply to the left and saw the spartan was walking towards her and her partner. She moved her mate behind and stepped infront of her to face the armored being.
Though before he came into contact with the shield his hand reached up and slowly went to touch the dome as if to check if it was going to hurt him or not. The female dragonoid doubt that the dome of energy would even hurt the strange being seeing as how it is as hot as her fire. She'd seen how it had withstood the immense heat of her power and knows when not to push her luck against these being.
"Stand back you scoundrel!" She said in a hissing tone nearly identical to that of a snake.
Instead of listening to her five put one boot forth and with three to four steps he enters the dome leaving only himself inside it with the two dragonoids.
"What is your name?" Five said speaking in deep voice that the dragon turned woman couldn't seem to understand.
"I don't know what you are saying?" The woman said replying as she didn't wish to answer the armored being.
"Hold up Koa, I don't think she understands you. Here let me give you some help," After deha had said that she took only seconds to search in her systems for a certain language. "And there it is, I've already brought up the language translator on your audio speaker,"
Deha was glad that she had forced Koa to sneak into one of the libraries within arenian city to steal any books that might have anything to help them further understand both the languages of these world.
Once again five readied his voice and spoke again. "What is your name?"
"Why should I tell you monster!" The dragonoid woman said in a refusal to his inquiries.
"I'm simply asking you for it. Cause I do not know what to call you, unless you prefer dragon or lizard," Five said catching the dragonoid woman to scowl at him for even uttering the word lizard.
"I am lexria. Now what is it you wish to get from me. I will not give you anything," She said responding to him.
"The reason I'm asking you it is because of them. And trust me when I say this, you will not like it... but the one thing I want to know, is why did you attack the town; when it has done nothing wrong to you," The spartan said questioning her.
"I am angry. Angry at the fact that my eggs was stolen from me, so I burned down the town in search of my babies," The dragonoid said with a hint of hate towards the people who stolen her kids.
"Wouldn't you burn the eggs by accident from your fire?" Five said asking her pondering on rather if that idea of hers was smart or not.
The woman dragon chuckles and she leaned her head towards the spartan to smile. "The shells of my eggs is harder then that of normal rocks. Even with it being on fire will do nothing, so I doubt my fire will do harm to it,"
"Then why attack the town, the people there has done nothing to you and your partner," Five said questioning her on the matter.
"Heh, those weak flesh beings are nothing to me. I've never done anything to them, and haven't harm their town. But after the people took my eggs, I followed the scent of my babies... It led me to that town," The woman said replying to him.
"That does not give you the right to kill those who hasn't done wrong to you... Some of those people you've slaughtered were mothers and children as well. I'm sure you as a mother would've understand that. But I doubt you wouldn't understand that, do you dragon," Five said looking at the dragon woman.
The woman began breathing in and out as she seemed to have been angered slightly by the spartan's comment at calling her that name.
"She does understand human," The voice of that of the male dragon as he stumbled to his feet.
"I'm sure she does. But those people didn't have to die for something they did not know of," Five said replying to man dragon.
"We of our kind had long since stopped caring about the lesser race. We tried leaving them be, but over and over again, they continue to steal our eggs... So yes, what she did was right," The male dragon said to him.
"With the way you are acting, you are no different then the humans themselves," Five said straightly.
"We have no time to speak with someone lesser as you... So step aside and let us leave!" The male dragon says with authority in his tone of voice.
"And go where?" Refused five as he stood his ground.
"Where else, to burn the town till we find our eggs," The male dragon said.
Uncrossing his arms five stepped forward as he stopped six feet away from the two of them. "Then I'm afraid I can't let you do that, you will not hurt those people," Five said sounding serious.
"And how will you do that?" The woman said smuggly.
"That's for you two to find out," Five said in reply to her.
Though they may not have been able to see the expression on the man's face due to him wearing the strange and metal helmet the two dragons knew that fighting this person would not turned out fine for them.
"What will you do with us human?" The male dragon says as he eyed him.
The spartan didn't respond to him and looked back to see the third helicopter lowering itself to land. As it does the right side of the door slid opened as two heavily armed men hopped out guns ready.
Then after the two troopers a third person exited the Chinook helicopter. The person was that of a woman who's hair was a colored of dirty blonde tied up into a ponytail. Her outfit was that of someone who looked like they work in a militarized building. Only exception was that she wore a long sleeve blue jean jacket.
The spartan stood there scouring every single hiddened weapons that the three individuals were hiding within their own clothes. Regardless of thar the spartan didn't blame them for it.
The woman and her two guards walked towards him till they stop four feet away from the red energy dome. From where the three of them stood five could discern that whoever this lady was, she seemed to have been quite surprised to lay her eyes on the two dragons turned humanoids, until her eyes landed on him. Though he watched as she had to tilt her head up at him from how tall he was.
"So you must be five," the lady said in greetings.
"I am, what do you want?" The spartan replied asking her.
"My name is Kate laswell, I work within the special region as the UN stationed chief... May we talk," Kate laswell says as she couldn't even step into the dome uncertain of what it might've do to them.
"That's for them to decide," Five said referring to the two humanoid dragons.
"V'yllorian, lower your shield," the male dragon said.
"Fine," the woman said as she raises her hands and moments later the dome of energy dissipated into thin air.
"And may I know of your names you two?" Kate laswell says as she eyed the two tall scaled humans with clear apprehension.
"I am kellos of the black dragon flights, this here is my partner, v'yllorian," The male said answering her.
"Well then Mr. Kellos, I'm afraid I'll have to bring you two in for questioning... You two were responsible for the death of two of my men, and not only that, the both of you had burnt down a town full of people," Kate said to the two earning a scowl across the female dragon.
"You would dare bring us in. You insolent human!" Vyllorian said as in her right hand seemed to have electricity of red energy.
Though as she was about to do something she know she'll regret the female dragon's eyes glanced towards the armored spartan gun aimed at her head with the barrel inches away from her forehead.
"I'd stop your mate from doing anything stupid if I were you dragon," Five said clearly talking to kellos.
"Cease yourself V'yllorian," Kellos said stopping his partner.
"We will not go into some cage, not again... And these human will not order me to do so," she said replying.
"Then I'd advise you to stop yourself from doing something foolish, unless your partner here will lose a mate," Five said responding to her.
For as powerful as she was vyllorian understood that even a human gun could kill her at this close of a range. Especially when one who's power could clearly punch through her skull. Evantually she breathed in a sigh of relief when and lowered her hand as the red electric energy disappeared.
"What will you do once we arrive in your place of home," Kellos says as he couldn't allow both himself and his mate to be thrown into a cage.
"Questions, though I don't know about the others. They will be angered when they fund out thar it was you who killed one of our own," Kate says as she then turn to face the spartan.
"I'm assuming you'd want me to come as well," Five said.
"Yes," Kate replied though she couldn't help but feel like the spartan had other things in mind.
"I can't come with you ma'am, me and a few others are on an important mission to find some missing kids," Five answered.
"I see, I won't force you to. But thank you, for at least saving collon... He has been a great agent for the US. I wouldn't know what to do when his family finds out his dead," Kate said as she reached forth for a handshake.
The spartan peered down at her hand and accepted her handshake. "Understood ma'am,"
"It was a pleasure meeting you in person spartan, may we once again see each other another day... Would you like for a ride back in town?" Kate told him at least wanting to help the armored man.
"I think flying is better then walking back, or running that is," Deha said.
"Yeah, seems like a better one," Five replied as he took on the offer upon deha's suggestion. He then turned his helm where it faced the woman and spoke. "Sure, I'll go with you,"
"Excellent! Though, you'll have to forgive me. Once you enter the heli, some people might give you looks," Laswell says as she nodded for her guards to escort the two dragon turned humans.
Carly P.O.V.
The Oni agent trekked through the street hoping to fund the man she had saw earlier during the aftermath of the dragon thar had been slain.
She had already spoken with the unsc outpost the ones who responded to her request in taking down the dragon. One of the people there had said that one of their own was seen battling two other dragons. Carly had feared the worst for the spartan, she knew he was the one who had led the other dragon out and away from the town. Though she had been relieved to hear that three helicopters had arrived in time to assist five.
As she was walking the oni agent heard footsteps belonging to that of collon and the others walking beside her.
Zallar noticed that the residents were assisting one another, while others watched the slain dragon laying in the middle of town, where a water fountain used to be. Up above, he and those nearby watched the unsc Fss-1000 fighter jet gradually descend into the clear grass, where there was much more space.
The people who were near where the jet had landed quickly dispersed from the area where the unknown metal contraption is. And for a while the folks stood there gawking at the sight of the jet. Some can be heard murmuring calling the unsc jet a beast of metal. One of the citizens had named it the dragon of steel that had come to their rescue, while others were terrified of it after witnessing the metal bird quickly and easily killing the dragon with its powers.
However their fear never came to be when from the windshield of the jet popped opened. However, just as that happened, the sound of the rollar blades was heard loud and clear throughout the town, causing them to all react in surprise.
Collon saw that it was one of his people. His head tilted slightly upward to see that it was a chinook, one of the many aircraft of the united state military. With that kind of heavily looking helicopter variant, it can carry up to more then twenty troops along with one or two vehicles. Though, he doubt that there was any inside it.
The people tried covering their eyes due to the strong pressure of wind that was pushing against their faces.
Some of the folks cursed at the arrival of chi oil calling it names, ones that neither carly and collon couldn't seem to understand. And as the chi oil made land the side of its door slid as a woman exited while from the hangar the spartan and a few of the NATO soldiers were walking towards them with the Spartan in the lead.
It didn't take long that when the newly arriving people made land, the pilot of the unsc jet hopped down to the grassy land and made her way to the spartan and greeted him.
Five noticed the pilot approaching and wondered who the woman could be; however, he received an answer when the pilot reached up and removed her helmet, revealing herself to be someone the Spartan had not expected to see.
"Five! It is good to see you!" The pilot let out in a cheerful callout happy to see him alive and well.
The two soldiers were about to step forth and stop the woman but was halted by Laswell for she had a feeling that the pilot knew of who the spartan was.
As the pilot reached five he had expected a handshake or a salute of some kind, yet instead she reached forth and wrapped her arms around him though, her hands could not even come close to touching due to how big he was with the armor and the weapons he had sheathed in the back of his magnetic armor.
"Carol, I was not expecting you to be here!?" said the spartan.
"I could say the same thing about you... Tell me, how's life treating you here?" Asked carol.
"Same as always. Though I have to say that it is not as bad as it was during the covenant war," Five said responding to her inquiry.
"Yeah, me too big guy," Says carol glad that the war with them was over with. Though as she was reflecting on the matter she couldn't help but notice Laswell standing besides them.
"Sorry, I don't mean to intrude. But may I know of who you are?" inquired Laswell.
She turned away from the spartan and shook hands with the woman in greetings. "Forgive me ma'am. I was just catching up with five here. My name is carol rawley. Pleasure to meet you,"
"The pleasure is all mine, I've got to say. That aircraft of yours is quite the sight," Las well said smiling as she admires the jet.
"Thank you. The big girl is still kicking it in the twenty sixth century, old girl by the way. I thought I bring her out to the world once more," Carol says as she looks at the aircraft effectively.
When laswell heard the word twenty sixth century she didn't think that these people were actually from that far out in the future. Though she understands that this wasn't the right time to be bombarding her with questions of who the spartan and she was.
"Perhaps we can spe-
"Laswell! Is that you?!" a familiar voice said out loud.
"Adler, it's good to see you alive and kicking," Las well said in response.
"I'm doing fine. Besides, someone's gotta find belle. Forgive me for asking, but why are you here?" Adler said as he and his team stopped in their steps.
"I was on an important matter with one of the neighboring kingdoms, and I was about to return to base when we received word of a dragon attack. Sadly, two of our guys were killed," Laswell responded, knowing that the news would be upsetting for the families of those two pilots.
"Then they shall rest from the heavens as we do the fighting for them," adler commented in respect for the fallen pilots.
"Yes we will adler. Tell me, how's the mission with finding belle going?" Inquired laswell.
"Well, you know. It is not as bad as it is. The previous people I and the others got news from, he says that our rogue operator had left this town a day before we arrived. How about you, how's the issue with the neighboring kingdoms going?" asked adler.
"Nothing that wasn't much of a problem for us. I had news that some of the kingdoms are preparing to go to war with each other," Laswell said in response.
As the two of them were conversing, a woman in black can be seen walking towards them, her crew trailing behind her, and a man and his townspeople standing next to them.
When she reached them the woman went forth and shook hands with the spartan and those around her in greetings.
"Spartan, it's good to see you again," Morgana says as she gave him a genuin smile.
"You two morgana," Replied five.