As Zesper tried to find his way through the all the dust in the air, the monstrous head of the dragon ripped through the the dirty fog, jaws agape. Zesper had little lime to react, and before he knew it, was in the jaws of the monster. The dragon lifted him into the sky above, and began crunching down on him, severely denting his armor and trapping his right arm inside the beast's mouth. Zesper roared out in agony as the beast increased the pressure. The dragon was sooner or later going to puncture his armor if Zesper didn't do anything. But thinking logically didn't come easily to him, considering all the pain he was in. The only parts of him that weren't already in the beast's jaws of death were his upper torso, and his left arm that still tightly gripped the longsword. The outcome of him surviving this was looking bleak. "Well... looks like this is the end for me..." Zesper thought grimly as he struggled underneath the dragon's jaws "Though I can't say I had a good life..." And with that, he started to give up, as his body slowly went limp.as Zesper's head rolled backwards, giving him a view if the now starry sky. His life started to flash before his eyes, starting with his earliest memories of becoming a wyvern rider. Then other memories of his friends and family started to flood in. Then one memory in particular drifted into his head. One dreadful memory of the day he lost his beloved mount to a scaled beast that only Satan had the sick mind of dreaming up. A dragon.

He let it sit there in his mind for a few moments, the one day he always tried to forget. The reason why his life had become what it was. He had long since given up on revenge, but now the poisonous idea seeped back into his brain. He let it stay there until he could bear the thought no longer. Then something inside Zesper snapped. He was suddenly filled with a rage that nothing could be compared to, an immense hatred for the monster holding him. A anger that was the exact opposite of his usual cold and quiet personality. His body suddenly filled with a energy he had not felt for a long time. With his right arm and his legs inside the dragon's mouth, he started thrashing about like a madman, ripping at the roof of the dragon's mouth, and kicking at teeth. In his mind, the only objective he had now was to kill the dragons. Then with his left arm, still holding the sword, he aimed for the winged beast's eye, and stabbed at it, letting out a beast-like roar in the process. If he was going to die, so be it. But he would take the dragon with him.

OOC: Please don't kill me. I don't wanna die!

Lex, looked to where Leon had pointed and spied a glowing light. "Well, it'd save us the energy of building our own. Sure, let's see what's over there." He kept his eyes trained on the tree, but followed Leon nonetheless. There would come the time when he found out if the stranger meant harm or none.

After a minute of examining the strangers, he decided they had no idea he was there. He smirked and shifted his position again, moving the tree branch quite a bit. While shifting positions, he went to far onto the weak end of the branch and it started to crack. Reacting quickly, he jumped onto the thick end, trying to keep his balance. He tried to grab the branch, but he moved too much, and it fell to the ground. s***. Now they'll know where I am...The nearest branch was too far to jump. All he could do was stay there, staying as still as he could.

Leon and Lex headed in the direction of the glowing light, the group ignored the archer, leaving him to just sit in the tree. It didn't matter to them what he did unless he was hostile.

"Wouldn't be able to get it to work?" Julius remarked. "If it wasn't for you and your magic, i'd be dead. Your a pretty good mage, wether you believe it or not." He looked over to J and then Charisma. "Your sure? It could be pretty convenient."

Tekun did not listen to Nechis, he had to help this man. With a quick attack, he swung his blade and hit the dragon, hard in the neck, there was penetration, but it was not as effective as it should have been because of the rock hard scales. In pain it clenched down harder on Zesper, there was a loud cracking sound, one fang pierced through the armor, biting into his shoulder. Zesper struggling with his arm did very little, however, when he slashed at the dragons eye, scaving it, the dragon winced in pain, it's fangs retracting, but still holding on to Zesper.

Eton rushed to the scene and began foucsing on the neck as well, digging his dagger into the gash on it's neck.

The remaining dragon reared it's head back as it spyed Tania's pegasus, it was still considering it's options yet.

Occ: Um. J and Julius got into a bit of an arguement, not much else has happened with your group.

Making sure that Rana was secured to her body, she pulled Windy into a dive, and they flew directly toward the ground near the pillar of burning fire. The flames still leaped up wildly, burning the flesh that still remained to cook send a horrendous smell in the air around it. They flew around the pillar of flames hoping that their scent was masked by the smell and flew toward a tight alley formed in between two of the rundown buildings, she didn't want to have to fight while and unconscious Rana got in the way of any attack or manoeuvres she could possibly pull off. Tania and Windy, did not move fearing that a single jingle of their armour would give their hiding place away.

The large dragon had watched the whole time, where they were going, in silence, seemingly unnoticed despite it's side as the younger smaller one took a beating as it clenched its teeth biting the cavalier. Despite their attempt to hide in a tight ally, it would be in vain. The dragon followed silently, to the other the end of the ally, it stared for a moment and reared it's head back. With that, it lunged forward and gave a hard ram to the pegasus and Tania on it, sending them both out, by some miracle, Rana was not left behind.

(OOC: Your choice if you fall of the mount or not kiki)

OOC: Quick question, is the dragon small enough to fit in the alley?

OOC: Not much of an ally to hide in, it's able to ram and bite, though it can't fit in completely.

Lex wandered closer to Leon and whispered to him. "Hey, are we just going to leave that man? He seems rather clumsy, but was able to conceal himself well. What if he's tailing us? At any rate, I think we should introduce ourselves." Before Leon could open his mouth to protest, he had taken a couple steps back toward the tree and exclaimed "Ahoy, stranger! Are you alright?" It may have seemed extremely strange that Lex had said ahoy when it was a very uncommon term for a land dweller.

OOC: Epic Wall of Text Mark II

Rana saw flashes of light around him. He hated light. He saw swirling colors, everything beautiful... He hated it. Rana was sure he was dead until Tania's delicate face and careful hands tore through the mess and hoisted him into the air. Rana tried to move but once again faded away. The colors took their places another time, surrounding him. Choking him with fear. The light would kill him, he was sure. Light was... absolute absence of protection. Lack of any shelter. He twitched and cried and begged himself to wake up. Rana heard a sound and turned to see the dragon's face push through the colors. But it was impossible. He had killed the dragon, destroyed it utterly. Its flesh had been burned, its soul had turned to dust in front of his eyes. There was no more dragon... Unless the others hadn't left.
Rana struggled against himself barbarically as colors and light and warmth filled everything around him, so unlike his familiar shadows and shades of grey. He pushed and clawed at his comforting, agonizing chains. The others would die for their stupidity. They hadn't ran. Tania, Eton, Tekun, the shadow-mage, the insane one... none of them had left. He knew they hadn't. They were finished.


Gabriel watched in horror as the dragons fought the group. It was all a big mess; the hooded man had made some kind of evil magic and killed a whole dragon, then everything went to hell. Gabriel shuddered and ran for cover near a batch of still standing storage huts. They were low and compact. Gabriel curled up in the middle, his eyes darting wildly from one sight of destruction and chaos to another.
"Gabriel." Lucifer's imaginary hand reached out and touched Gabriel's.
"Not now, Lucifer, there are more... more monsters..."
"We should fight them, Gabriel. The others are."
"Lucifer, I don't want to! They will eat me!" Gabriel scratched his cheek. He began to giggle until an earth-shaking roar rattled the wood he was surrounded in and forced him back. "Lucifer..."
"The group is our only way out, Gabriel."
"Way out of what?"
"Of here, Gabriel. Everything here is bad. We... we don't even remember how we got here in the first place." Lucifer whispered before promptly disappearing as Gabriel turned his head.
"I know, Lucifer. But I don't want to fight."
Gabriel stood up and ran out into the open. He gripped his heal staff in one hand and his dagger in the other, tripping over his feet again and again as he hustled closer to the monster. He wouldn't fight, but he had learned a long time ago how to heal his allies. He grinned widely, remembering those days, remembering that priest, remembering his lessons, remembering the priest hurting him, remembering being taken advantage of, remembering carving the priest up and taking his robe..
Gabriel's face turned sour before he realized he was too close to one of the dragons. Far, far too close. All he could see was the dragon flailing about and crashing into things, screeching and blowing fire. The heat made Gabriel wince and shiver before he hurled his knife with expert precision at the beast's somewhat exposed underbelly, then sprinting off in another direction.

Kevin cursed again quietly under his breath. He took his quiver, which was holding all of his arrows, and let go of it, letting it hit the ground. He did the same with his bow. If I"m not armed, maybe they won't kill me.. He looked down, looking at the Swordsman closely. He smiled nervously and quickly jumped down, balancing himself as he hit the ground. He back a few steps away, and turned his head up to the man. "Go ahead." He said quietly, keeping his hands behind his back.

Leon glared over to Lex, before he could speak, he was already shouting at the man. He could have just stabbed him in the back of the head right there for being stupid like that, but he held himself back and sighed instead. "I don't want a large group. Also, he's hiding with a bow for a reason, we noticed him on the way out, he clearly sucks at what he's trying to do."

"Go ahead."

He heard a voice and then turned to look at the man who had his hands against the back of his head, unarmed. annoyed he just turned around and kept going.

"He's even as dumb as what I thought his idea of hiding was. Let's go."

(will do more of the dragon vs group battle when more people post)

He put his hands down quickly and looked at the person the swordsman was traveling with, smiling. "What I was just doing there, it wasn't hiding at all. Even if I did try, it still wouldn't be hiding. There isn't ANY place to hide here, and that tree was the best anyone could do." "I'd like to see you try any better." "And also, I'd rather not fight at all, which is why.." He nodded toward his fallen arrows and the bow. He again turned to Lex, smiling nervously again.

Windy neighed piercingly and stood up on her hind legs as they were rammed, Rana stayed on her back but Tania was shaken off. She closed her eyes, bracing for impact, her hand gripped firmly on her lance, she gave a short "Oof!" as she hit the ground and rolled over quickly and got up. "Windy!" she yelled commandingly throwing and catching a stone she had picked up from the alley's ground "Wing shield manoeuvre stat!" Windy trotted back to where Tania stood and they backed up together, she folded her armour covered wings so that they were in front of her and then Tania lobbed the stone at the dragon's eye, hopefully it would respond as she hoped, she gripped her lance anxiously.