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Glittering particles littered the ground, and wherever they touched, it turned to a shiny marble like orb. Pellets fell from the sky in a gleaming hail.
Auryn folded his wings against his side, smoldering with light vapor as the light receded from the ruined planet’s surface, but the cracks remained, having been fired like clay and now left shining and glossy, with his lattice pattern baked into everything.
Right. My Distant Star was a demigod.
Forge-Breaker.
We were the cosmos’ extermination team, here to literally scorch the planet.
Butwhy? Just use an asteroid.
“Now,” Auryn said, voice like liquid light, very soft but very far away, “we can go.”
Keon whipped his head around.
**HOWL**
Akoni raised his head and snorted fire and metallic dust. “Or perhaps not.”
**HOWL**
I flinched and tossed my head, but the null spot in my brain remained like a spot in my field of view. But with another…thing… flapping towards us…
Akoni clicked his jaw. “Normally, I’d say we stay for the fight, but I vote we run for it. Keon.”
Auryn and I flapped into the sky, and Auryn ignited his wings to attract the monster’s attention. Akoni launched behind us. Auryn said, “Take the point. You’re slower than us.”
Akoni was a serviceable flyer at the best of times, having decent stamina and nimble, but not being much faster than Keon on the flat.
The monsters flew as gracefully as a thrown shovel, but they werefast. Current company no exception.
I flapped after Akoni while Auryn brought up the rear, swirling through the air as his ropes tried to grab hold of the creature, and to lob shards of light at it. The light shards burned it, but didn’t seem to do much to slow it down.
I gathered myself, dipped under Auryn, and smashed it with the tip of my tail. The strike made a shattering sound, and the creature staggered in the air. It whirled on me, but Auryn grabbed it with his claws, wrapping his own tail around the creature, and buffeting it with his wings while biting at it with fangs made of molten light.
His starlight gaze told mego.
I ducked in to snap at the creature as they struggled, tumbling and writhing in the sky, but Auryn yanked his mouth free to shout, “Go!”
The sky shook. The holes in the clouds were far behind us, and Auryn couldn’t summon the spears through the cloud cover.
“Go!” He shouted again, angry this time.
I streaked towards the others and the Gate. The sounds of the fight clacked and thundered in the air behind me.
Had to get the soldiers through the Gate. Had to get to the other side. If Sorren pulled the power core, it could crash the Gate and damage it beyond my ability to repair. And wecould not let these things get to Lemuria.
I caught up to Akoni and Keon. The temple complex was coming into view. I streaked ahead, burning my wings until I shot through the sky fast enough to melt my face off, and I damn near hit the temple complex like a comet when I plunged in.
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!
I flailed my wings in the general direction of the Gate.
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!
Behind me, Akoni shone like Jupiter on the horizon, and behind that, Auryn’s bright ball of light.
The soldiers understood “flailing panicked Chaos dragon gesturing at Gate”, formed an orderly line, and proceeded to disembark from Homeworld.
