Roar of the Dragons (IV)

Red words angrily flashed before him. At that moment, he felt a burst of power surrounding him. A horrifying screech rang throughout the Draconis Village. Everyone outside froze. Intimidating black energy seeped from the Crystal flower into the water. Bubbles rose from the water as dark shapes began to form in the water.

Black dragons with red eyes erupted from the water and rushed out. Like a ghastly apparition, they flew out of the Draconis Library and into the sky. Everyone stopped to see the strange scene before them. Twenty black dragons with a variety of sizes spread outwards like a shroom. Each one of them twirled and dived downwards towards the invading army. At the very last moment, the black dragon spirits would open their enormous wings, causing a gust of wind.

"Gahhh!"

"Nooo!"

"Monsters!"

"It's the demon! Run for your life!"

The soldiers screamed out in fear at what they saw before they were dead. Soldiers began to panic, causing chaos. With gaping jaws, the black dragons soared down and passed through the bodies of the living. When their ghostly body went through the living, their claws grabbed hold of the living souls and yanked them out of their bodies. With sharp teeth, they shredded the soul into pieces, while the others were swallowed up by the black Dragon's spirits. The lifeless bodies of the soldiers collapsed onto the ground pale, their spirits destroyed.

Their rage and anger could be felt in their air and black fire. They swooped and ravaged the soldiers that tried to flee or fight. Their magical and physical attacks did not harm a single scale of the ghostly black dragons. The soldiers were dwindling quickly in numbers, causing massing panic.

Anger! Revenge! The voices of the Black Dragon Spirit continually rung out through the field. The young dragons fighting were affected by the toxic energy of the Black Dragon spirit. Every single one of them went berserk, killing every soldier in sight. The soldiers that breached through the gates desperately tried to escape the greedy claws of the Black Dragon.

"No!" Russ cursed, but when he saw the black dragons coming after him, he ran.

Russ stopped and noticed that coming towards him, two shades with gleaming red eyes were coming after his life. "No! No! No! I can not lose like this!" In anger, he pushed aside the soldiers in front of him. In the confusion of the mess, Russ broke a magical scroll that teleported away to safety, leaving behind the army to their death.

The Black Dragon Spirits completely obliterated the remaining soldiers. Not a single soldier was left alive, either in spirit or body, with everyone being killed in a short period.

Revenge. Revenge. REVENGE! All the Black Dragon's voices called out in unison, chanting the words repeatedly. They dove into the soulless body of the soldiers, trying to possess them. Each one failed, and the body crumbled into black sand. The human body could not house the Black Dragon Spirit's soul and rerelease them.

"Begone dark spirit!" Bishop Anglo held up his amulet, and a bright light erupted outwards. A barrier slowly expanded around the people from the contaminated Black Dragon spirits.

Nooooo! Noooo! We do not want to go back! We want to live again! The Black Dragon Spirits reeled back in pain, squirming away from the bright light that Bishop Anglo had put out.

"You who have been contaminated by darkness are not welcome; go back and do not harm any more of the living! Go back to the dimension that you have come from!" Bishop Anglo spoke with strength, and the power of light around him multiplied.

The Black Dragon's Spirit cowered away, flew back into the Draconis Library, and headed straight towards Zero instead.

Alarmed, Zero shifted into his dragon form. Even though he did not compare in size with the black dragons before him, he was not going down without a fight. So they circled Zero like a vulture and cried out in unison.

We want to live! We want to live! Give us a body! Give us a dragon's body! Give us yours!

"You have done what you are summoned for. Go back to where you have once come from!" Zero spat out Holy Fire around him. All the Black Dragons pulled back, trying not to get burned. "You have protected your loved one. Now leave!"

The Black Dragons swarmed around him and attacked. Their claws outstretched, they dove in to take Zero's soul. Zero ducked and continually blew out Holy Fire. He even covered himself with the Holy Fire to make contact.

His claws grabbed hold of the nearest Black Dragon's neck and slammed it down onto the Crystal flower. A hissing sound erupted from the Black Dragon that made an impact. Turning around sharply, Zero's tail whipped a Black Dragon against its face. A fierce battle between the dead and the living was underway.

Zero did not back down once and instead continued to push forward. Every time the Black Dragons attacked, Zero fought back twice as viciously. He could not afford to back down, or his body would be stolen.

"Zero!" Agnis appeared from the entrance.

"Get back, Agnis! What the hell are you doing here?" Zero was spitting out fire every time he spoke.

"We're here to save you!" Agnis' face is hardened with dedication. She was summoning Holy Magic onto her arrows. Then, lifting her bow, she fired.

Revenge! Give us Revenge!

The Black Dragon Spirits were lost in their world and could not tell from foe to allies.

"Damn it, Agnis!" Zero jumped into the water and quickly swam.

The Black Dragons swooped down towards her with their claws outstretched. Agnis fired another arrow, and it hit its mark. One of the Black Dragons fell in rage as it came crashing down. The Holy Fire burst into rampant flames, covering the Black Dragons. Its body melted, and it stumbled towards Agnis.

"Agnis!" Zero was out of the water and running towards her. The fallen Black Dragon opened its gaping jaws wide, ready to chew on Agnis, trying to take her with it.

A bright blinding light erupted from behind her, and Bishop Anglo appeared. "From the power vested in me by my God. Go back to where you came!"

The Black Dragons screamed in rage, flew towards the breach in dimension, and disappeared. However, the rift between dimensions was still open.

"We need to close the tear, Zero! Blow your Holy Fire upon it!" Bishop Anglo yelled. He had begun chanting a strange language that even Zero did not understand.

Inhaling a deep breath, Zero breathed out a torrent of Holy Flames. The dimensional tear slowly became smaller and smaller. Then, a black dragon escaped at the last minute and shot up into the sky. A black stream of light disappeared like smoke as it flew to the east.

"No!" Bishop Anglo screamed. "One escaped!"

Zero continued to blow Holy fire. The tears finally disappeared. Zero let out a relieved sigh as he flopped down on the ground.

"Thank you, Anglo," Zero said with relief. "I was worried about how to close the tear in dimensions."

Bishop Anglo shook his head. He finished chanting his verse and clasped his hands into a prayer.

"Next time, you must not summon Dark creatures, especially a Black dragon that has been

contaminated by evil energy. You let one escape."

"I didn't know this would happen."

"Now you know, and you could have released something that shouldn't be here in this dimension." Bishop Anglo angrily stated.

"He only did it to protect all of us," said Agnis.

"This is something you should have never attempted. It could cause something worse than before."

"I can't take back what has been done." Zero felt annoyed that one had escaped and Bishop's Anglo nagging.

"I know." Bishop Anglo sighed. "What's done is done. Welcome back, Zero. We feared that you had left us."

"I thought so too." Zero quietly mouthed.