章節 568: Dragon-kun

Her hand grips the scaling tip of its wing as it flies past, almost wrenching her arm out of its socket from the sudden change in momentum. Somehow she manages to keep ahold of her blade as she does this, but the dragon instantly notices her presence and makes efforts to throw her off.

It spins in the air, performing barrel rolls, abrupt twists, and once even breathing fire at its own limb... Fortunately, she's able to duck out of its view and use its own body as cover from the fire.

Once she gets more accustomed to the flight, she focuses on the wing itself, the building muscles and tendons underneath its scales. She's become well versed with the physiology of many animals during her time with the Companions and in Hammerfell, allowing her to easily locate the vital areas of the limb.

She rears her sword back and stabs it just under the bone, severing the tendons and allowing the dragon to extend and contract its wing. As soon as she starts to make the cut-

*SNNNAAAP!*

Like a rope under immense pressure, the tendon snaps with great force, causing the wing to contract in on itself and sending the dragon unwillingly spinning through the air as it tries to regain control.

Saeko ends up being flung from the dragon, sending her spinning through the air without any means of controlling her unintentional flight. She sheathes her sword and spread her arms out to mimic a parachute, buying her more time to solve her problem.

This also allows her to watch as the dragon crashes into the cliff face below the Temple of Auriel, the sound of bones and scales breaking from the impact has her wincing in pity, but that was soon replaced with satisfaction as it slumps against the floor, writhing in pain.

Something catches her eye, and just as she's about to slash at it the thing barrel into her...

"Shame dogs can't fly." Serana remarks in her Vampire Lord form, flapping her anorexic wings despite the fact that they wouldn't work without magic being involved.

"Dogs can bring down dragons though." Saeko huffs in response.

"Just be quiet and let me have this... Also, should we help Michael out? He's been underwater for a while no-"

*CRASH!*

A dragon's head gets shoved through the ice and stays frozen there in a daze.

"Nevermind..."

"Let's get down there and finish our dragon off! Let's sees the look on his face when we beat him to it!" Saeko presses.

"Fine..." she says dropping Saeko not far from where the dragon had landed and returning to her human form.

Hearing them arrive, the dragon looks up from where it's huddled and growls, attempting to get up and half-failing as it puts weight on its broken wings, almost face planting... "Sahlo ulfah, Zu'u fen ag hi fah daar!"(Weak creatures, I will burn you for this!)

Saeko sniffs and drops into a stance, ready to perform a draw-cut with her katana. "I don't know what you said, but I assume it was along the lines of 'You are weak, I am better'. Which doesn't make sense given our positions."

The dragon growls in a rage at her words, "WULD NAH KEST!" it shouts using Whirlwind Sprint catching Saeko off guard at the stupidly effective strategy...

For regular human-sized enemies, them slamming into you at hundreds of miles of hour wouldn't do much to the superhuman inhabitants of Tamriel... But a dragon?

*SLLLAAM!*

Saeko's reactionary attack is rendered null as the dragon's body slams directly into her at ridiculous speeds. It's as if she'd thrown herself onto a highway only used by Semi-trucks... Needless to say, her sword is blasted out of her hand and skitters along the ice while her body is almost flattened as she's sent on a short flight.

She lands with a squelch due to most of her bones being shattered, and her flesh already all bruising... The only light in this tunnel was the fact she was unconscious, allowing her reprieve from the pain she'd undoubtedly be feeling...

"S-Saeko!?" Serana exclaims in surprised horror, never having expected the dragon to do something so random yet powerful. She runs over to her, ignoring the crippled dragon for the time being.

Meanwhile, said dragon was looking over at its twin which had its head slumped to the side with lifeless eyes... Michael was crawling out of the water, slick with its brethren's blood... "Krivaan do dii fron, hi fen aus ourbos erei hi los filanni bolaav prife ko dinok!"(Murderer of my kin, you will suffer endlessly until you are finally granted reprieve in death!) it roars, the winds picking up as it continues to speak. "VOS HIN SIL AG!" (LET YOUR SOUL BURN!)

Michael had just clambered out from the ice when fire explodes around him, the raging inferno quickly enveloping him in its grasp, attempting to burn him entirely... He quickly Blinks out of the way, but the flames follow, so instead, he casts Cold Embrace, encasing himself in powerful ice that blocks the attack for the most part.

Derflinger assists as well, using his Frost Breath shout to enforce the ice and prevent it from melting, his voice seemingly having a far better effect than a mere change in temperature would imply.

The crippled dragon attempts to continue its attack, but has its head snapped to the side by Serana who'd fired a lightning bolt into its cheek.

*Thud!*

A shadowy foot slams atop its head, bringing the beast to the ground as Darth tries to keep it there. He's somehow successful too, allowing Michael to escape from the ice and stab Derflinger into the beast's neck, killing it.

"Fucking dragons always pulling shit outta their ass..." he half mutters and sighs before looking over to his friends, then Saeko who'd been grievously injured.