Looking towards the flying object that cast a shadow onto the Colosseum the Dragon king clenched his fists tightly in anger. His fist was shaking at the sight of his castle getting further and further away. "Those bastards, so this is how they're going to take back their treasures. Tsk, smart, but not smart enough."
"Tachichi! Hurry up, take to the airs and take me to my damn Castle!" The Dragon King shouted loudly, his voice echoing through the Colosseum, reaching the ears of everyone here whose eyes widened with surprise and shock at what they just heard.
The races looked to one another trying to confirm which one did it, most of them thought that the dwarves were most likely the culprits due to their advanced creations. Some of which, including machines that fly through the air without the use of magic.
Tachichi, the Dragon King's Dragon spread its wings wide, covering all the participants in its shadow. Moving its wings down at a fast speed the dirt picked up and a torrent of wind was created in the Colosseum as Tachichi flew up.
The Dragon King leapt from his balcony, grabbing onto the saddle on Tachichi's back and harnessing in. When he made it above the Colosseum he gulped, truly surprised that someone would actually steal his entire castle rather than just the treasures. His eyes wandered towards where the castle was originally, a figure was flying towards him, one he was very much familiar with.
"Hello brother, care to explain how the entire castle ended up being stolen?" Akiri asked with a furious voice, his anger seethed through his words. They were targeted towards Akira, who was currently on his own Dragon.
It was roughly 5-metres-long, its scales were a metallic black, they scraped against each other producing an ear churning noise. Its wings were thin but had blades across the spine. The dragon's eyes were sharp as it stared towards Tachichi, it snorted with disdain due to Tachichi being weaker than it. Although only slightly, it was still something it would boast about.
"How do you think brother? I got my ass handed to me on a golden platter, my subordinates were all knocked out in an instant while he immobilised me. That's how the castle ended up being stolen," Akira responded in an arrogant manner. That was the only way he was able to talk to his brother who was so prideful with his strength.
"What about all the treasures? Were they stolen along with the castle?" Akiri asked with a frown at the knowledge of his brother and his subordinates losing to someone. Although prideful with his strength, he knew he was no match for his brother, nor the subordinates that work under him.
"Don't fret brother. It seems the one which stolen the castle didn't want us to lose our strength, so he allowed us to live while giving us our important treasures. Granted, he took all the other race's treasures and he demanded some dragon eggs as well as the dance manual," Akira explained as he raised his hand in a gesture to tell Akiri to relax.
Akiri felt as though he had an extreme headache coming along. "Oh brother, that castle is also a representative of our strength. The impenetrable walls which our ancestor created and the grand splendour of the castle were created to showcase our might and power. They aren't something that's easily replaced, we have to get it back."
Akira brushed Akiri off as he waved his hand through the air in a gesture telling him to go. "Do it yourself, I already got my ass handed to me without him breaking a sweat. But I suppose you'll probably think you'll have a different outcome since you're the Dragon King. So, go ahead, be my guest, try to get the castle back."
"Tsk, fine, I'll do it myself." The Dragon King couldn't be bothered dealing with his brother anymore and commanded Tachichi to follow after the castle. Fortunately, it was going at a rather steady but slow pace as it drifted through the sky. Allowing the Dragon King to catch up.
Lachlan was currently at the back of the castle, he had one gravity stone in his hand as he looked towards the Dragon King and his Dragon. He was planning on making his move here, but that might be rather disrespectful. Not the part of making his move, but completely decimating the Dragon King in battle above the city.
However, the Dragon King decided to make his move without a care for anyone that might be underneath the castle. Tachichi raised its head high, inhaling a mouthful of air as it radiated an intense head. Aiming downwards a golden flame pierced through the skies, flying directly towards Lachlan like a spear.
Lachlan shrugged his shoulders. 'Oh well, since you want to do it here, I suppose there's no stopping it.' Raising his hand with the stone he gave a quick command. The stone disappeared and the flames were immediately dispersed as the stone pierced through it.
The Dragon's eyes widened with shock when it felt a sudden and powerful forced smash against its chin. The force was too powerful for it the resist, its body arched as its head flew backwards, dragging the rest of the body with. The Dragon King was shocked by the sudden event.
"Tachichi! What the hell are you doing? You're supposed to be getting the damn castle back!" Akira shouted loudly at his dragon as fury built up in his body. He looked towards what he assumed was half breed standing on the edge of the castle grounds, a grin across Lachlan's face as he looked down on them.
Tachichi snorted angrily at the Dragon King, twisting its body the Dragon King was forcefully removed from Tachichi's back before getting slammed into the ground. Tachichi was annoyed at its master for not asking about its condition, it had been thoroughly injured from that weird attack. It felt as though its throat had almost been crushed, yet its master was still ordering it to go after the attacker.
"Tachichi! What the hell are you doing? Why are you attack me?" Akira shouted angrily as he threw a punch into Tachichi's stomach. Tachichi squinted from the pain before spinning its body, slamming Akira with its wings and throwing him to the ground.
Tachichi then descended onto the ground, its tail raised high before slamming down heavily onto the Dragon King. Akira felt as though he was going to spurt blood from anger, first, his castle was stolen, then his brother wouldn't help, and now his very own dragon decided to go against him.
"Tachichi, that's enough!' Akiri came down to protect his younger brother. Akiri's dragon flew down and pinned the tail onto the ground before grumbling towards Tachichi. Tachichi roared back in a deep and low voice before turning away and sitting down, facing the Dragon King.
Akiri turned to his brother who was currently in a state of shock as his eyes were widened, staring at the clear blue sky. "So, do you understand now brother? That's the reason I got my ass so easily whooped, and for someone who is no stronger than me, you were bound to the same fate."
"Tsk, I hate you," Akira mumbled under his breath as he turned his head to the side, avoiding all eye contact with Akiri and his dragon as he crossed his arms, pouting in annoyance when he saw his castle drifting away from him.
Akiri chuckled loudly as he placed his hands on his hips. "And I love you too brother."
Back where the castle was originally, Drate was just standing there motionless as though her spirit had left her body. The crown, currently in her right hand as her eyes were focused on the fleeting figure of a floating castle. She felt as though she's had a long day and has seen some things that really don't make any sense to her.
'How on earth am I supposed to report this?' This asked herself. Her mission was to participate in the raid and inform her elders of any changes. Except, how is she supposed to explain how the entire Dragon King's castle lifted off the ground and floated away.
"Oh well, at least I have the crown back, I'm probably going to be rewarded quite handsomely. Granted, I don't see what they're supposed to reward the queen of the Demon Kingdom but oh well, hopefully, my husband isn't going to be so abnormal," Drate muttered beneath her breath.
That's right. Drate was the current queen of the Demon Kingdom, and the one chosen from the trials will become the new king of the kingdom. However, how exactly was she supposed to get married and crown a king when they don't have a crown. Not to mention she's heard many stories about the Dragon Kingdom, so she decided to come check it out.
And that's also the main reason as to why she isn't able to join Lachlan on his journey. She can't exactly just ditch her kingdom, she'll go down as the worst queen in history if she does that, not to mention without at least leaving an heir to the throne. Her family, the royal family would go ballistic in their attempts to find out.
'Welp, hopefully you consider my deal and visit the Demon Continent one day' Drate told herself before shrugging her shoulders and walking off.
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Back on the island, Lachlan had summoned his four tames who were all glaring at him angrily. They were all annoyed that Lachlan didn't summon them to help, Catastrophe especially who was seething at the thought of not being back to have a match with the Dragon King and his Dragon.
'Aha, I just happened to forget, and I was in the moment, but I had the gravity stones which I used so I decided not to summon you all because I had things under control' Lachlan explained swiftly in a messy sentence as his tames got closer and closer to his face.
'But father, we were going to all team together, we were going to summon our lightning while Aaron was going to amplify its power. That way, we could have easily one-shot the dragon' Disaster explained in his still slightly childish voice, making it rather funny despite him being annoyed.
'Yeah, we should have fought him above the Colosseum, really decimated him in front of his citizens and the representatives of the other races' Catastrophe explained arrogantly as he frothed at the thought of battling such a powerful opponent.
'And master, might I add that you really shouldn't be so trusting towards the demoness. Judging from the number of treasures she possessed as well as her strength I'm guessing she's actually quite high up in the Demon Kingdom, possibly having the title of Archdemon' Aaron said.
Calm down, calm down, seriously. Just because I trusted her doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to react to her if she decided to backstab me' Lachlan responded. 'Also, sure, you might have been able to beat the Dragon King and his Dragon but without the stone, we would have been surrounded by strong dragonkin as well as dragons. Do you realise, how many special abilities they could set off which might kill us instantly?'
Lachlan remembered he was basically talking to a couple of hotblooded teenagers when it came to his Rocs. Fortunately, Calamity was the mature one, resting by the side, enjoying the view of Dragonia as they drifted further and further away.
Disaster and Catastrophe grumbled angrily but didn't know what to come back with. So instead, they decided to join Calamity. Aaron, on the other hand, flew up to the top of the castle to enjoy the view instead. He could see just about everything from up there.
"Sigh, now, onto the taming." Lachlan looked at the three dragon eggs in his arms. One was dark blue with black lining, another was light green with brown lining, and the final one was black with a red lining. "I wonder what you will all hatch into."
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On Earth, the group have managed to settle business in Jackson, Mississippi. It wasn't that difficult; the people were rather accepting on their business as it created a cycle that needed workers. People hunting beasts, skinning and dissecting beast, and cooking the beasts.
Finally, once satisfied with their work the group left the city to move on to the next. Montgomery, the capital city of Alabama. However, Marie informed them beforehand to expect there to be nothing in Alabama, as they haven't gotten into contact with anyone in the state in months. And the last time contacted, the people were mentioning large groups of beasts, tearing down entire cities like it was nothing.
The group was expecting a fight once they reached Montgomery, however, what they received wasn't that at all. Currently, they were floating above Montgomery, just above the outskirts and away from the central part of the city. Granted, there wasn't a central part of the city anymore.
In front of them, a large ant mound had been constructed, reaching roughly 70 stories high it towered over everything else and swallowed all buildings close to it. Larges, 3 – 4 metres ants were crawling all throughout it, creating entrances and caves. Their bodies a dark red, as their fangs radiated heat. The ants' eyes darted towards the island and it roared loudly with full might.
The group, standing on the edge of the island were surprised by such a mound but it also wasn't entirely out of their predictions. When thinking about it, hive-like beasts are likely the scariest currently due to their ability to tear through human cities like it's nothing. Certain ants are at the top, alongside bees and wasps.
The group noticed the ants which were originally minding their own business peacefully sprout wings. Their wings thrashed violently towards the ground, causing a great deal of dust to rise up from the sudden commotion.
The group was surprised at the sight of several dozen ants taking to the skies, the ants' speed was fortunately not so fast, however, it brought upon immense intimidation at such a sight. After all, they weren't the military, they didn't have cannons at the ready to blast those ants down.
Or do they…
Anne, who usually doesn't come out of her laboratory, brought them a new weapon which acts in a similar manner to a cannon. It uses the gravity stones to propel solid rock balls forward, these rocks can be found just about anywhere on the island. But the most compact and dense rocks are found in the centre, alongside the other gravity stones.
"Suppose this is a great time to test out the new weapon huh?" Anne said in a questioning voice when she noticed the horde of ants flying towards them. Although they could just as easily leave or use their beasts' special abilities to get rid of the ant horde. What fun would that be?
"Well, at least this way we can test its effectiveness. If it truly is a great weapon then we'll station them around the border of the island as the first line of defence, alongside the intensive gravity across the island of course," Flynn said with his arms crossed. In front of him was the first prototype. They wouldn't mass produce it until all imperfections are gone.
The prototype was a think cylinder tube, on it was a computer attached to the bottom. This computer acts as the control panel since they wouldn't be able to manually target these weapons once they're mass-produced, they decided to immediately have the control panel put it.
Along with the computer at the bottom was a stand, it had long 2-metre pikes that stuck far into the ground. Attached to the end of those pikes were gravity stones, to allow for easy manoeuvrability and to act as weights for the weapon.
Anne was currently squatted down in front of the computer, furiously typing away at the keyboard as targets appeared on the screen. Slowly locking on to every ant in the sky. Anne stood up proudly and placed her hands on her hips. "And this, is the power of science."
"Yeah, yeah, controlling gravity with a stone is really the power of science," Flynn said as he waved his hand through the air, brushing Anne off. Anne pouted angrily because Flynn wasn't wrong; however, the weapon was created through science and the uses of gravity were also discovered through scientific experiments conducted by Anne, so it wasn't entirely an incorrect statement either.
The rest of the group were surrounding the cannon, staring at it as they waited for it to fire. Anne walked over with a stone floating above her head, it was roughly 8 inches in diameter which was the perfect size for the barrel of the cannon.
"Alright, let me show you all my great creation." Anne placed the ball inside the barrel and took a couple of steps back. The rest of the group did the same. Anne pulled out a trigger from her pockets and grinned widely, pressing the trigger she shouted loudly. "Piss off you fuckin bugs!"
Anne secretly hated the thought of those bugs making it to the island. Even if they had an impenetrable system called a gravity wall, she hated the thought of them being on the same island as them. Especially since they weren't tamed as well. So, she'll blast them to bits with the excuse of this being a weapon test.
Anne gave the gravity stone some rather specific commands. When hit with a sudden and great force from behind it'll activate its 200 times Earth's gravity in the radius which perfectly fits inside the cylinder. Once activated, it'll move 1 metre, aka, the length of the cylinder before halting and returning to its originally position. It was a complex process that Anne spent weeks on, testing if those commands are able to be done, especially the first one.
Fortunately, his effort wasn't in vain. Two loud thump-like sounds came from the barrel of the cannon, a rock shot forth from it at a speed close to the speed of a bullet. Its force tore through the air, targeting the ant which flew at the front centre of the ant horde.
Anne stared proudly at the projectile fly through the air, she had her arms crossed and a wide grin. But that grin soon disappeared when she noticed the speed of the rock slow down, its momentum was disappearing as it lost height. Slowly but surely eventually falling towards the ground.
Anne's legs collapsed as she felt her soul leave her body, her invention failed on the first trial, it really failed. "But how? I swear I checked for everything that could affect the projectile's trajectory, wind, shape, and weight. Why didn't it work?"
"Probably because the normal wind doesn't count towards the wind those beasts are giving off," Simon said as he squatted down to Anne's height. "Not to mention there's a possibility those ants are able to control the wind as well, creating a possible wall that slowed the ball down."
"Wind, that's right!" Anne shouted as she stood up abruptly. She was currently under the effects of low gravity so doing sudden movements wasn't so painful anymore. She felt rather youthful again despite her heavily degraded body. "Boy, hand me one of those unused high-grade wind stones and some string or rope."
The group's eyebrows raised when they heard the passion in Anne's voice. She turned her head and stared at Flynn, opening and closing her hand. "Hurry up now, we don't have a lot of time and I still want to continue testing now that I have a new idea."
Chloe sighed loudly before complaining grumpily. "Alright, I'll go get them Anne. Remember, we don't carry unused stuff on us, everything we have has been taken control of by us otherwise it'll serve no purpose but to weight us down."
Chloe took the skies at a rapid speed, the rest of the group decided to get a better view, taking a few steps closer to the edge before sitting down. Allowing their feet to dangle off the edge as they looked directly at the incoming horde of ants.
They weren't fearful; if they wanted a few of them could easily take control over the skies in seconds and dominate the ants. After all, it was only a small horde created out of several dozen ants, if there were several hundred or even thousands that would be another story.
"So, when do you think Lachlan is going to get back?" Phoebe asked nervously. Ever since Lachlan left to journey in the other world, she's had trouble bringing Sarah to sleep, she was constantly sad and mopping around the hut whenever she wasn't playing with the other children. It was rather difficult taking care of Sarah singlehandedly, so she got the support of Maddie.
"I reckon he should be back in a few days, maybe even a week if we were delayed. However, since it's Lachlan I'm going to assume he would have dealt with all the issues rather quickly," Simon said grumpily as he laid back and placed his hands on the back of his head. Talking about Lachlan made him grumpy, not because he's never won against him, but because he decided to go alone and not bring any of them with him. If it weren't for Maddie, he would have followed right behind Lachlan.
"Who knows, maybe he'll be back tomorrow. It's already been close to a week, and if he's spent roughly 1 day on the continent getting himself a tame then he might even be back today. Just calm down Phoebe, it's not like he's going to die in there," Georgia said nonchalantly. The group had undeniable trust in Lachlan's abilities, not to mention he wouldn't take a fight he couldn't win. And with the help of his eyes, he will know if he can't take the fight.
The group continued their small chatter as the ants started to get closer and closer. Now, the group was constantly keeping their eyes on the horde, even summoning their own beasts just in case Anne's bright and brilliant idea doesn't end up working.
Finally, Chloe returned with a long piece of string acquired from the orphanage and an unused high-grade wind stone. "Here you go Anne, show us that bright idea of yours, I really hope this works out alright."
Anne smiled widely as she took the stone and rope, swiftly tying it around the end of the cannon she dropped a bit of her blood of the stone and gave it very specific commands similar to the gravity stone where it was a process.
Taking a few steps back she hit the trigger and the cannon fired off the shot she just placed it before Chloe arrived. The ball hurtled through the air, however, the group managed to notice that there was a faint but still noticeable shape around the ball created out of air.
"Haha, surprise?" Anne asked proudly. "I commanded the wind stone to wrap wind around the ball once it passes in front of it and to take the shape of a spearhead. The direction that wind will go is along with the ball, that way, the wind can not affect to ball and it gets a pretty good power boost."
The group watched as the ball sailed through the air, this time it was still rather high. Unfortunately, it was too high, the ball easily went over the horde of ants. Anne stood there motionless for a couple of seconds with her mouth agape. "Shit, I forgot to adjust the targeting system to work with the wind stone!"
Anne dashed to her invention and started typing away furiously on the keyboard. The group watched silently, some attempting to hold back their laughs. Finally, the ants were roughly a hundred metres away and the group was ready to pounce on them.
Anne stood back up, placed a ball into the barrel before shouting proudly, pointing towards the ant horde. "Now taste the weapon created by the hands of a genius!"
The cannon fired as a ball flew out of it, the wind formed into the shape of a sharp bullet, allowing the ball to easily traverse the distance and land its first hit on an ant. With the current momentum, the ball continued forth, blasting through the bodies of ants before making it to the other side of the horde.
Over a dozen ants were easily slain just then. The group nodded in approval, rather surprised by the effectiveness of the weapon. That was until they noticed the ball kept flying, going perfect through one of the mound entrances and being consumed by the cave's darkness.
A loud roar was heard before a hundred thousand ants rushed out of the caves, sprouting their wings they took to the skies and thrashed violently. Making their way towards the island at a much faster pace. And similar to those ants, the ones that were making their way to them first sped up.
Anne stood their motionless holding onto the trigger. "Well, damn."
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