by Doc 42 » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:41 pm
moments before he made his move, the shadowy image of Dynamo across the chamber caught his eyes. He froze. his eyes met Dynamo's, the other soldier holding up a hand as to say 'stay put'
After a few moments he jerked his head to the side, Jacob following where he had gestured towards....
The slightest of purple aura's emanated from the tunnel... two orb like eyes remained within, staring at Juliane and Rick, who still had their guns pointed at each other.
Jacob nodded at Dynamo, who slowly acknowledged him. His friend held up 3 fingers, barely visible in the shadow... Then only held up two.... then only one....
Jacob got ready.
The two soldiers slid out of their cover in unison. Jacob opened fire, bullets zipping into the tunnel and spitting up rocks and dust from the walls. Dynamo spun around, firing a grenade in after the shots. An explosion burst open, lighting up the dark cave, throwing rocks down from its roof as the whole structure seemed to shake. Rick cursed, stumbling slightly, Juliane staring at the explosion wide eyed and confused.
Jacob shouted out, weapon still trailed on the dust covered entrance "Did we get it?"
A gurgling static laced voice chattered through a radio "Yeah you gooot it!"
The soldiers span around, finding themselves staring at Richard, suspended in the air behind Dynamo, a clawed hand holding him the chest, its index finger against the back of his skull. The finger bounced the head up and down in time with the voice coming from the radio, making it look like Richard was speaking. The hand wobbled from side to side, causing the dead man's arms to flap comicly. His head lolled to one side, Jacob watching on in horror as he noticed richard's eyes, or more so, the lack of his eyes.
Still, they held their fire out of sheer disbelief
Thats when another hand extended out of the darkness, two eyes impaled on two claws held up in a V. The radio spluttered out "IIIIII SEEEE YOUUUU" Richards voice from the fight earlier, slurred and pitched out of recognition.
Juliane suddenly screamed out, firing madly into the dark, as did everyone else a moment later.
The hands clapped together, blocking the bullets with the corpse, the free hand's claws shredding through his waist and spliting Richard's remains in two. Thats when the Shadow Dragon Tsu'shin came into full view. The beast seemed to twirl forward, compressing its body into an impossibly small shape. Dynamo fell back from it, spraying shots into its body, while many of the bullets pass straight through, the odd spray of shattered scale plinked up from its cloaked body. The beast swung out of its ball like shape like a spring. Its arm flipped out, a long blade like claw from its wrist. With the horrible slushy scrape, the blade swung through Dynamo's thigh, slicing the limb off with ease. The tip of the blade hit the wall, smashing a cloud of dust out. Dynamo screamed, toppling back, blood spurting from the stump that remained.
Rick stepped forward with his grenade launcher, and raised to his shoulder. Just then the Shadow dragons head flipped up, eyes boring into his. Rick pulled the trigger, a loud thump ringing through the chamber. The shadow dragon cast its arms towards its chest in an X pattern, the monster blinking out of existence. The grenade exploding where it was moments before. The dragon appeared with a flash, floating curled up, right behind Rick. It unfurled and kicked down, its massive clawed foot stretching out of place and pinning the human to the ground. Jacob turned, directing his line of fire at its new position. The Monster's wings spread out and beat down in a powerful thrust, lifting it into the air. With a smooth movement, it kicked out and let go of Rock, sending the soldier hurtling into Juliane, crashing into her and sending both of them sprawling away across the cave floor. The dragon clapped both hands together, slowly drawing them apart, purple lightning connecting both of its palms. Desperate, Jacob pumped a grenade and fired it at the monster. Then its shoulder exploded in a flash of blue. At first he thought it was his grenade that did it. Then he whipped around to see Andrew staggering into the chamber, covered in blood and grazes, one of his arms missing from the elbow down. He was wheezing and didn't look like he could stand. The shadow dragon let out a shrieking pained howl, blue flames clinging to its body. The dragon looked up and swung one hand skyward, the lightning bolt lashing after it like some kind of whip. At the apex of its lash, it gained substance and blasted through the roof of the cave. The rock and soil gave away, being ripped away and flung out over ground. overgrown parking area outside the Lab, the ground burst open, a plume of rock, ash and soil rolling skywards. Out of it, the shadow dragon rose, twisting out of the column and letting loose a whisteling screech. Its wings spread wide, catching the wind. The approaching Wyverns suddenly turned at the monsters appearance, letting loose warning calls to their breathern and turning away from the American jets approaching them...
Davis was busy trying to contact the jets over various damaged radios when he saw the monster rise out of court yard in front of the control tower. It wasn't big, infact it was small as most dragons were concerned, but that shriek put such a sense of dread in his heart he felt like just running. He turned and shouted to one of the other men in the control room "Get the defence system online!"
For a moment the soldier looked reluctant, half pointing at the jets. Then he thought better of it and got to work.

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