PART WELL! YOU HAVE AT LONG LAST GIVEN ME THE RICH MEAL THAT I FOR MANY CENTURIES SOUGHT! BUT YOUR USEFULNESS IS NOW PAST. I WILL SOON CONSUME YOU ALSO. I WILL BE THE LAST AND ONLY DRAGON! WITH MY RENEWED STRUCTURE I WILL AGAIN BE ABLE TO DRINK THE ENERGY OF STARS AND DESTROY THE LIFE THAT HAS SPREAD AMONG THE PLANETS. THEN I WILL DESTROY THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE!"
"NEVER, CORRUPTED ONE," said Jewel. With that she turned and attacked the great black male dragon. She dared not use green fire for fear of destroying Freedom, but she landed with crushing force atop the Dark One's shoulders and bit into his neck. She was very small compared to the male she fought, however, and her teeth could not even penetrate his thick scales, scales greatly strengthened by the absorption of structure earlier from George.
As the Dark One sought to twist around to vanquish the annoying and foolish tiny female dragon that attacked it, Pip on his swift whisk circled high above, collected lightning from thunderclouds high overhead, and blasted white bolts of elf power at the Dark One's head. As she rode her dragon Jewel, Mary meanwhile focused the power of her amulet to dissipate the cloud of Evil that surrounded Freedom.
George then dove straight at the Dark One and did something totally mad and unexpected; he flew straight into the Dark One's open mouth and down his throat, and deep into the belly of the beast! George's companions and a billion human onlookers across the planet gasped in shock, for it seemed like the young Chosen had committed a suicidal act of total madness!
Deep inside the Dark One a hidden internal battle soon raged! Cascades of Evil enveloped the Chosen again and again but were dissolved away by the Chosen through the perfection of his structure and the purity of his unicorn amulet!
The Dark One was astonished! He had defeated hundreds of dragons and unicorns, but never the two in combination! Always his superior dragon strength and focused, concentrated Evil had together overcome every foe that he faced! But the Chosen One inside him combined dragon strength, unicorn purity, and an extra added element: elf power! The Chosen drew his elf sword and sliced away at the Dark One's insides with it, rocking him with pain that he had not felt for many thousands of years! Convulsing in agony, the Dark One desperately withdrew all remaining Evil from the White Dragon to focus it all on the Chosen that was eating away at his insides!
Freedom felt the debilitating blanket of Evil lift away from him and immediately began to come out of his paralysis. He still contained the energy of exploding stars, and finally unhampered by the Evil that had constrained him, he began to convert it to dragon fire!
Sensing that his foe was recovering, the Dark One backed away from him and tried to destroy him with his own green dragon fire, but found that the Chosen deep within him prevented most such flame from even being formed. Only a weak gust of green flame issued from him to lightly singe the White Dragon, while a much stronger burst of green flame belched from Jewel over his head and neck, dissolving his scales and exposing him to the Sister Dragon's teeth and claws.
"FINISH HIM!" George told his dragon. "HE IS WEAK!"
With a great snort Freedom rose to his feet and shook himself. He ached all over from the burn of Evil and green fire but he was still mostly intact. Great quantities of green fire built up within him but he could see that his Chosen inside the Dark One, Jewel, Jewel's Chosen, and the elf mage were all in harm's way were he to now envelop the Dark One with his flame.
However when the Dark One spread his great wings to flee, Freedom blasted them totally away, along with his two front legs. The remainder of the Dark One collapsed heavily to the ground, convulsing in agony. His head had also by then been nearly sheared off by Jewel.
George shot out from out of the mouth of the fallen behemoth, glowing white hot as he burned away remnants of the Dark One that covered him. Straight to his dragon he flew at last, to sit on his neck behind his frill of horns that glowed white with power. Sensing what was to come, Jewel, Mary, and Pip also withdrew from what remained of the Dark One. Assured that all of the little company of heroes was free of the mangled Dark One, an astounding volume of green dragon flame erupted from Freedom, sweeping over the Dark One and dissolving the enormous Evil host forever!
Mary flew herself to the smoldering remains of the Dark One and with her amulet quietly obliterated the modest remnants of Evil that remained, while in true dragon fashion Freedom lifted his head to the heavens and with a triumphant roar that could be heard for fifty miles, belched red flame thousands of feet into the air! Thousands more windows and glassware shattered as a result, but as the sound of the roar died away there came an answering joyous shout from the people of the City, who had witnessed the Battle of New York on televisions, smart phones, and other devices, and listened to a blow-by-blow description given by Dr. Henry Cross. To the sound of millions of human joyful voices the sound of sirens, boat whistles, church bells and car horns was soon added!
As the hoopla began to die down the great White Dragon sank down to doze in the Park as he healed himself, while George, Mary, and little Pip flew about the surrounding city, rescuing people from fallen buildings and wrecked cars and healing them from injuries they had suffered due to the Battle, and from any other ailments that they suffered from. Super-hero stuff, Dr. Cross called it, over the news networks. They couldn't save everyone, but they did what they could.
Meanwhile Charm touched her horn down to the ground and began to heal the Park itself. Healing life was the true business of unicorns. Trees regrew so fast that videos recorded by astonished onlookers were often mistakenly thought to be time-lapse recordings. New York onlookers were astounded when within an hour the new trees reached pre-Battle heights of a hundred feet or so, and even more astonished when they soon reached more than double that size! Some trees were oddly formed and purple in color, but people were reassured that those were Narma tree types that were perfectly harmless and would soon bear delicious fruits.
"This Park will in time grow to become a convenient location for a Portal to Narma and other worlds," the unicorn confided to George and Mary. "That is the sort of thing we unicorns do; we nurture life and the peaceful interaction between sentient life forms, while our cousin dragons defend our little corner of the Multiverse against malevolence."
By afternoon the heroes were shaking hands with the President, the Governor, the Mayor, and dozens of United Nations ambassadors, and answering many anxious questions. By the time Freedom woke up in mid-afternoon George knew it was time to go home. Charm and Pip had already quietly teleported back to the Portal and from there to Narma. They bore glad tidings that the Dark One was no more! Across the Portal connected cosmos Freedom and Jewel would hunt down any remaining Horde killers and Evil. With the help of the unicorns Narma and countless other worlds would be fully restored to life. Dragons would repopulate themselves and make sure that they would never again be tainted by Evil as the Dark One had been.
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