Chapter 104: Dragon

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My eyes wide as paupers, I stood frozen as I looked at the dragon flying above me. From a glance, it looked like it was several dozens of meters long, about two meters thick, and it was coiled on small clouds to fly.

Moreover, I could see dark clouds quickly gather above us, following the dragon's roar.

Looking around, the member of the Akatsuki was nowhere to be seen, while the dragon's eyes were focused in me.

It opened its mouth wide, and with another roar, multiple blades of wind formed in front of it, heading my way much too quickly for my taste.

Using the Body Flicker, I quickly moved away from the spot, dodging the attacks, and appearing beneath the dragon.

Moulding my chakra, I instantly used the Water Severing Wave, letting out a beam of water.

However, to my shock, the water only splashed harmlessly against the scales of the dragon. It looked at me mockingly and sneered in a rough voice, "Using water against a dragon… you must be stupid girl."

As it said that, a bolt of lightning suddenly fell from the sky, heading for me. And while I may be fast and have a good reaction time, I barely saw a flash and move a large part of my chakra toward my head.

The next instant, I was smitten down by millions of volts, my bodily functions coming to a stop for a second as I stood there. Above me, the Dragons looked ready to dish out another attack.

Through sheer will, I controlled my chakra to rapidly go through all my Tenketsu Points, giving me back control over my body as I disappeared from the spot, dodging a large beam of water.

Looking where I was, I noticed that while the beam was much larger, it was also less powerful. Staring at the dragon, I understood he had tried to copy my technique, and make the beam larger, thinking it would be more powerful, but the whole point of the Water Severing Wave was to contract water into a powerful beam.

The dragon looked angry at the attack. I was ready to continue attacking it, even though water did not seem to work against it, it wasn't my only weapon.

But as I was about to attack, I spotted a man covered in fiery red chakra quickly run our way. The dragon turned to look at him, and tried firing the wind blades, but a giant hand made of molten lava was manifested from the man's body, and punched the dragon across the face.

The punch was powerful enough to knock the dragon into the ground, and make some of its facial scales fall off.

Seeing this, I prepared myself to run, but Jashin warned, "If you can kill that dragon, you will receive more than enough vitality to form your Blood Tattoo, and transform all of your stored up killing intent."

I took a second to think, before I sped toward the shadows, merging with them as I watched the fight.

The lava guy, whom I recognized as the Jinchuriki of the Four Tails, Son Goku, was called Roshi, if my memory doesn't fail me.

The dragon tried defending itself against Roshi, but the later manipulated lava, which deeply hurt the dragon with every strike.

Dragons may be immune to water attacks, it seemed to take every bit of damage from the lava. Seeing this, and failing to find me, the dragon started flying away, and I immediately followed after it.

Surprisingly, Roshi did not let go, and was hanging onto the dragon's back as it tried fleeing, burning deeper into it.

After a moment, the dragon dived into the water with strength, sending large wave flying as Roshi was finally forced off of its back, the water around him turning into steam because of the high heat he was emitting.

With a roar of the dragon, the water around Roshi turned into a giant whirlpool, trapping him in while a bunch of wind blades came for him, stopping him from leaving.

And above him, I could see the clouds rumbling with thunder, a telltale sign of what was to come. At that, my eyes focused on the dragon, who seemed to be channelling the energy with nothing but mere thoughts.

Putting my hand on my blade, I watched on carefully as I gathered power on my legs, every muscle in my body taunt, ready to act.

And right as the flash from the lightning appeared, I jumped from the root I stood on, destroying the part I stood on from the power of my jump as I flew toward the dragon with stupendous speed.

The lightning was first to reach Roshi, but I couldn't see the damage it did to him as I arrived next to the dragon in the next instant, my sword in the middle of being drawn out.

I saw the giant eye of the dragon slowly turn to try and follow me, but as I fully drew out my sword, its eye was no more, and I landed on its back, a long bloody gash following me.

The dragon roared in pain as I stuck myself to its body with chakra. This was difficult to do, because the dragon was a living being and thus there was a mass of chakra actively fighting against my own chakra as I tried to stick to it, but my control was good enough to keep myself stuck.

Not waiting for the dragon to try and fling me off, I ran across its body, delivering several cuts every seconds as gallons of blood fell into the water below.

"DIE!"

The dragon roared out in anger, while the clouds above us started spouting out bolts of lightning. However, I was now moving, faster than sound might I add, and while the lightning was even faster, the dragon, who was the one aiming, wasn't.

So the lightning only struck the dragon, and seeing how it quickly stopped, it would seem that lightning did affect it.

But as I was busy ripping open the dragon, I saw a giant hand made of lava come my way, so I quickly dodged.

Back where I was a moment ago, the hand made of lava grabbed the dragon strongly, and with a pull Roshi jumped on top of the dragon too, the area where he landed burned.

He and I locked eyes, both prepared to fight, but the dragon turned our way and fired multiple wind blades.

Breathing out softly, I rushed toward the dragon's head, parrying each of the wind blades fired my way. Roshi tried to stop me, but I passed by him easily, and quickly reached the dragon's head.

Parrying one last wind blade, I slashed at the dragon's neck with all of my momentum, and made the cut.

As I did that, I coated my blade with chakra, a technique generally used by the Samurai, giving my blade more cutting power.

The injured dragon's neck resisted, but in the end, I was stronger. My blade went right through the neck, almost severing it as I landed on the water below, making a great splash.

Looking up, I saw the dragon doing its best to remain in the air, but its life was quickly slipping away. I did not want to leave it to chance though, so with a flex of my thigh muscles, I jumped right back up, and cut whatever was left of the dragon's neck, properly decapitating the dragon.