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I had just finished with the second pocket of air, coming up to fix my own air bubble, when I felt the other dragon at my back. I turned to find the tool being held gently out the side of the mouth of the dragon. It looked like a normal small handsaw but at the end of the blade, a layer of diamonds made the teeth glitter. It was a tool they likely used to cut rock or tile in a merchant store.
It was small, but as long as it was effective, I didn’t really care.
I dove down and got to work. There were twenty strands of netting that I would need to cut in order to get the dragon free. I had given him two pockets of air but knowing the size of lungs the beast had to have, I wasn’t sure that had bought us more than a few more minutes.
I fused my magic into the saw, willing the blade to snap the iron, though I wasn’t sure it would work. Iron seemed to negate my Enchantment entirely.
I was not about to watch this dragon drown. Knowing everything my father had put them through, knowing what it felt like to be trapped by iron, I couldn’t stomach it.
The first strand of iron broke free.
The free dragon, whose name I still did not know, looked to me and I to them. It would be a race against time to get the dragon free, but with this saw and my magic, we could do it.
I kept sawing and sawing, breaking each thin circular strand of iron free. I soon had ten done, getting the dragon’s tail fully free when my air bubble burst. I was using too much magic and too concentrated to keep my air pockets up for long.
I started swimming upward for air, but then the other dragon was there, lifting me higher and higher, swimming me up.
I took three or four gasping breaths, breathing deeply. I noted the queen flying circles above us before I formed another air bubble and gave the dragon a nod. The free dragon used its head to glide me there faster, a far more efficient swimmer than me. As easily as the dragon queen flew, these land dragons swam.
I immediately went back to sawing at the iron netting, infusing my magic into the saw again. I had not used this much magic since being in Dra Skor, even counting the times I poured magic into the water vials. This was a physical workout having to use an air pocket and physically drive the saw into the iron. Thankfully I was in decent shape from training the Nerede men these past three months.
At the second to last spot, the dragon before me started drooping his eyes.
Hurry,the other dragon sent me.
I nodded.
I kept going. And going.
One more.
My air pocket again burst. I needed air. The other dragon moved forward to swim me to surface, but I shook my head no. By the time I got air and back down here, the dragon stuck in the netting would be dead.
I surged forward, sawing, sawing, sawing.
He was not going to die. Because I was simply not going to allow it.
And then it broke. The netting was cut in half, all we had to do was pull it aside, and the dragon was free.
I used my magic to do that, bending the iron back. I couldn’t break through iron with my magic no matter how hard I tried, but I could still move it.
And then as my lungs started to burn and I realized I still had a hell of a long swim up to the surface of the water, I felt the head of a dragon toss me half of the distance upward. I swam like hell, but knew I was seconds away from blacking out.
I had needed more air when my air pocket broke, but we were out of time. Could I send my magic to the surface to bring me more, would that even work?
Before I could truly panic, the land dragon was there again, pushing upward at my feet with its head.
As soon as I broke free, I began taking huge gulps of air.
I waited a few beats but saw neither of the beasts. I dove back down to see the free dragon shoving the other dragon upward, but he was so lethargic and out of it, that he was dead weight in the water.
So I used my magic to wrap around the dragon and help.
I was on the brink of exhaustion. I took breaths of air and swam for the shore, dipping my head under and following the dragons as they slowly headed toward that direction also, sending what magic I had left to help.
The moment the trapped dragon’s nose came up out of the water, still forty or more feet from shore, multiple roars of victory from the shore were heard.
I sent one more burst of my magic at the dragon, helping to shove him toward shallow water.
