Desert Dragon

by Michael Rogers

  Rosemary: *She stared at the tower sized sand sculpture with widening eyes.* "Impossible-"

  Zazark: *He looked behind him and noticed he landed in the dragon's side.* "What-?"

  Trevour: "Dragon's Claw." *A wave of sand rushed up like a river, causing Lezard to roll away from it.*

  Lezard: "Wowza!-" *He shouted, as the mass volume of sand made brushing-like noises.*

  Luna: "I can't see properly-" *She glanced across the beach, watching the entire shore warp.*

  Nathan: "It's the Astragons and Neurons! He's somehow..." *He watched the sand ripple in waves, as if it was water.* "Somehow added so much into every grain of sand-"

  Destiny: (It's masking how I can see things-) *She latched onto Luna's head, as if she was afraid.*

  Zazark: "Controlling sand, what a useless element to master!" *He bent his knees and blasted himself into the air, watching swirls of metallic liquid form themselves into steel poles.*

  Trevour: "You think so, sir?" *He looked up, staring at Zazark in a condescending-like manner.*

  Champion: *She noticed the area grow darker, emphasising the size of the sand dragon.* "Oh my, this is even larger than my strongest Divine Tornado-"

  Zazark: "STEELIGHT RETENTION" *He threw several steel poles towards Trevour, causing lines of sand to follow them.*

  Trevour: "..." *He stood on the spot and watched the dragon head extend and bite into the poles before it reached him.*

  Zazark: "Huh?" *He landed on the ground, watching the dragon crunch into the poles, as if it was chewing on them.*

  Trevour: "Heh heh." *He looked down to his feet and smirked, as the dragon's head extended far into the sky.*

  Zazark: *He looked up and frowned.* "I will find the Neuron's weak spot in the sand and-"

  *The dragon swallowed the steel poles and suddenly shot them out of its neck above Zazark.*

  Zazark: "Ah-" *He quickly flashstepped to the side, watching the ground explode where he stood.*

  Blake: *He flashstepped into the area and glanced at Zazark.* "Wazzup, bitches-?" *He paused, taking another look at Zazark.*

  Zazark: "Blake.."

  Blake: "Eww, wat happened to you-?"

  Trevour: "If you value your life, leave now, madam." *He spoke to Blake with an emotionless face.*

  Blake: "Leave now? Bitch, please! I'm gonna get it started!" *He giggled and held a blue pearl, causing a blue glyph to spiral by his side.* "Go, Skuxx!"

  Skuxx: *A small blue, fat lizard flapped its tiny little wings.* "Skuxx!-"

  Trevour: *He casually waved upwards and a streak of sand sliced through Skuxx.* "...-"

  Sluxx: "Skxx-"

  Blake: "Aye? Wat's up-?" *He watched Skuxx's body slice in half, before disintegrating into tiny blue orbs.* "M-My sexy bitch!-"

  Trevour: "Dragon's Tail." *He waved his arms upwards in a fluid-like manner and watched half of the shore swirl upwards, as an enormous tail slammed directly into Blake's face.*

  Blake: "Hyah!-" *He blasted off into the distance and slammed straight through a thick tree, causing him to spit out strings of blood.*

  Zazark: *He glanced to his side and watched the tree fall down, causing the ground to rumble.* "STEELIGHT RETENTION"

  Trevour: "..." *He waved both arms over his shoulder, causing the entire sand around him to take shape of a dragon, as it leant over him in a protective-like manner.*

  Zazark: "Harh!" *He shot several steel poles directly for the dragon's head and watched it explode with spirals of sand, causing him to chuckle with a computerised voice.*

  Rosemary: *She watched the dragon's head decompose, as it stringed back into the ground.* (That attack destroyed Trevour's Grand Rost-)

  Trevour: *He flicked his fingers, causing the sand to effortlessly form back into the head.* "...-"

  Alan: (A self-regenerating Rostical?!)

  Zazark: "Grr-" *He flashstepped at incredible speeds and appeared directly in front of Trevour, ramming a steel pole into his stomach.*

  Champion: "Oh my! Trevour!-"

  Trevour: *He watched Zazark twist the steel pole into his stomach.* "That hurt, sir-"

  Zazark: "Fufufufu-"

  Trevour: "Twin Draco Wings." *He waved his arms towards his chest, as if he didn't care that a steel pole had struck him through the stomach.*

  *Two waves of sand collided on each side of Zazark, causing a violent rumble to pulse the sand around him and Trevour.*

  Zazark: "Ah-" *He staggered back out of the falling dirt cloud and noticed an object fall from the sky, landing next to his feet.* "Fufu?" *He stopped laughing, realising the object was his arm.*

  Rosemary: "What are these techniques?"

  Felipe: "I don't recognise any of these Azure Bursts!"

  Champion: "Some Grand Rostical come with their own unique set of Azure Bursts, sometimes even Ougis."

  Rosemary: "Trevour could always do this?" *She spoke to herself in disbelief.*

  Zazark: "My left arm?! You dirty lamp! LIFA BLOSSOM" *He shouted with an echoing computerised voice and watched vine-like branches pierce out of the ground, towards Karol.*

  Nathan: *He stared at the vines, causing him to tightly hug him.* "No!-"

  Trevour: "Negative, sir!" *He shouted and the sand dragon responded by slicing all the branches into splintering pieces of wood.*

  Luna: *She gasped, feeling pieces of bark rain on and around her.* "H-Huh?"

  Zazark: "Fufufufu! STEELIGHT RETENTION" *He quickly faced Trevour and waved his right arm, shooting several steel poles towards him.*

  Alan, Felipe and Rosemary: "Trevour!"

  Trevour: "Pardon me?" *He looked away from Karol and gasped, surprised, as three steel poles stabbed him through the chest.*

  Rachael: "Trevour!"

  Zazark: "Fufufufu, I knew you'd focus your resources on your guild members!"

  Rosemary: (He planned this!)

  Trevour: "..."

  Zazark: "Your over protectiveness got you killed! I've punctured your heart! Fufufufufufu!"

  Lezard: "No..." *He spoke with desperation, as if he knew it was a serious wound.*

  Rachael: "Heal him now, Lezard!"

  Lezard: "I..."

  Rachael: *She looked at Lezard in a helpless-like manner.* "What...?"

  Champion: "Radiatons can't heal the heart or brain.. It's out of its power."

  Rachael: "What does that mean?!" *She screamed and looked to the side, noticing Nathan crying as if he already knew what it meant.* "No..."

  Luna: "You're bullshittin' me! Just win already, Rusty!"

  Trevour: "Heh heh! Dragon's Spire."

  *The desert dragon suddenly shrunk in size and a skeletal-like crystal grew in the sculpture, giving it a sturdier shape.*

  Rosemary: "Oh my gosh." *She watched crystal spikes shoot out of the dragon's back.*

  Felipe: "What is it, sister?"

  Rosemary: "Our parent's dream..." *She watched the faint sunlight sparkle beautiful colours through the dragon's crystal bones and spikes.*

  Alan: "..."

  Zazark: "You can't beat me!" *Seven small nail-like strings of sand shot out of the ground underneath him, bursting out the other side through his back.* "Karh-"

  Felipe: *He watched the nail-like strings of sand twiddle like fingers, causing the sounds of Zazark's bones to crunch.* (Trevour's attack pierced straight through the Scoldrant's body!)

  Champion: "The quality of Trevour's Neurons.. He's far surpassed that of a captain levelled warrior."

  Zazark: "STEELIGHT RETENTION" *He held onto a steel pole and shouted in anger, ignoring black blood which oozed out of his mouth.*

  Trevour: "..." *He lowered his hand, causing the sand around the nail-like strings of sand to puff into the ground, revealing crystal claws.*

  Zazark: *He gasped in shock and waved the steel pole, smashing the claws to one side.* "Fufu-..." *He tried to laugh but coughed out black blood instead.*

  *The dragon threw its extending arm towards Zazark, spreading its crystal nails.*
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br />   Trevour: "..." *He motioned with his hands and the dragon started to slice the crystal nails at Zazark, as it lunged its arm into striking distance.*

  Zazark: "Grr." *He hit the dragon's claws back with his steel pole, causing sparks to flash to one side.*

  *The dragon moved its legs at incredible speeds, causing the sand-like body to move, revealing its crystalline bones.*

  Zazark: *He jumped up, as a stream of sand sliced his toes off.* "Dirty lamp!-"

  *A tail of sand waved along the ground, knocking Zazark off his feet as soon as he landed on the ground.*

  Trevour: "Ougi."

  Zazark: *He slid across the shore and dug his toes into the sand, causing him to instantly stop.* "How-?"

  Trevour: "Heh heh." *The air around him started to become heavy, catching the champion's attention.*

  Zazark: "Impossible! How did someone as weak as you get as strong as Cameron?!" *He screamed in desperation and pointed the steel pole at Trevour, watching it suddenly burst into three slices.*

  *Zazark gasped in shock and threw the broken steel pole to the side, frowning at Trevour with his eerie, glowing yellow eyes.*

  Trevour: *He leant back and held his breath, causing the sand dragon to do the same.* "Roar of the Sands."

  *Trevour and the dragon roared out of powerful, tight, swirling stream of black sand towards Zazark.*

  Rosemary: "Black sand?!" *She whispered on her breath.*

  Luna: "It sounds and looks like somethin' from a fucking blender!" *She covered her ears, as Destiny hissed with discomfort.*

  Destiny: (Our heightened hearing!-)

  Zazark: *He attempted to flashstep, causing him to look down to his feet in shock, watching his legs sink in quicksand.* "No!-"

  *The black sand hit into Zazark's stomach and started to tear open his body, causing him to scream in pain.*

  Zazark: "No! You dirty lamps! I want my revenge-" *He coughed out a fountain of blood before his arm and legs ripped off.*

  Luna: "F-Fuck-" *She listened to fleshy rips echo in her ears.*

  Rosemary: "Gross-" *She watched Zazark's entire body rip into shreds, causing her to look away in disgust.*

  Trevour: "There we go, heh heh." *He coughed out blood and sighed in relief, watching the area revert back to normal.*

  Nathan: *He watched pieces of Zazark's body suddenly pulse into tiny white orbs, causing him to look slightly more relaxed.* ".. He did it?"

  Champion: *She stared at the dragon sculpture in amazement.* (I never would have thought to see a Rostical of such power-)

  *The dragon roared in a victorious-like manner and suddenly pulsed into nothing.*

  Champion: *She squinted her eyes, as the dragon left an enormous falling pulse of glittering sand, which blew across the entire shore.* (Oh my-)

  Trevour: *He watched the entire guild cough due to the powerful pulse.* "..."

  Destiny: *She shook the sand out of her fur and hovered over Karol.* (His heart, it will stop any moment!)

  Luna: *She gasped at Destiny's thoughts.* "Oi, Lizard! Get here now! His heart is gonna stop beatin'!" *She screamed.*

  Nathan: "No!-"

  Rachael: *She crawled across the sand without moving her legs and respectfully pushed Luna and Nathan away, as she started to do compressions on Karol's chest.* "Crud, crud, crud-"

  Lezard: "HEALING IMPLOSION"

  Champion: *She slowly stood up and quickly hobbled towards the guild.* "How is Karol? How is he?!"

  Trevour: *He turned around and smiled with watering eyes.* "He'll be fine."

  Rachael: *She looked up and watched small white orbs float off of Trevour's shoulders, causing her to momentarily stop the compressions.* "No..."

  Nathan: "..." *He stared at Trevour with an emotionless face.*

  Luna: "Rust... Ee?"

  Destiny: "Yeu..." *She dropped to the ground, as if she didn't have the morale to float any more.*

  Champion: "What do you mean he'll be fine? His heart-"

  Trevour: "Heh." *He swayed his arm and small strings of sand spiralled into Karol's mouth.*

  Lezard: *He thought to himself with a pant, as he continued to focus the light on Karol.* (Why isn't my Remenistal healing him?!)

  Trevour: "Keeping healing, sir." *He started to open and close his hands, causing Karol's chest to move in and out.*

  Lezard: (Keep healing?) *He nodded his head and continued to focus on the light.*

  Rachael: "W-What?" *She looked down, staring at Karol in confusion.*

  Karol: "Kaerh-" *He started to cough and wheeze.*

  Luna: "Y-You did it-"

  Champion: "How?" *She whispered to herself in amazement.*

  Destiny: (He streamed sand into Karol's lungs and manipulated the Astragons, expanding it.)

  Luna: (Wat?) *She thought to Destiny, as if she had no idea what she was saying.*

  *Rosemary, Felipe and Alan all ran towards Trevour, staring at his transparent arm.*

  Alan: ".. Desert Dragon." *He spoke softly to Trevour, as more orbs started to float high into the sky.*

  Rosemary: "Little brother..."

  Trevour: "I'm sorry, everyone."

  Felipe: "You idiot! You stupid bloody idiot!" *He dropped to his knees and accidentally brushed Trevour's arm, causing it to scatter into tiny white orbs.*

  Alan: "You.. Were you... You're stronger than me."

  Rosemary: "You were able to create a Rostical, that hasn't been seen before.. And beautiful.."

  Trevour: *He turned around, causing his tears to sparkle to the ground.* "You're always too kind, sister.. In the end, I was never able to master solid rock or lava-"

  Alan: "What fools have we been!" *He shouted, causing all three siblings to remain quiet.* "We were trying to pressure you, to meet the expectations of our family! Not knowing you possessed this much power by pursuing your own goals!" *He spoke each word while trying not to cry.*

  Trevour: "Brother?" *His knees started to buckle and become transparent, as the white orbs grew in size.*

  Rosemary: "Please.." *She looked at Lezard.* "Is there any way to heal-?"

  Lezard: "SOOTHING LIGHT" *He shouted with an echoing voice and threw his arms downwards, causing a ray of light to burst on top of Trevour.*

  Champion: (Is this the price to pay for using such a Grand Rostical? Or was it the wounds he endured trying to protect us?) *She thought with quivering lips, watching the steel poles slip right through Trevour, hitting the ground underneath him.*

  Luna: "No, Rusty.. You can't leave all heroic-like, aye.. You've been the biggest nerd I've ever known and-"

  Trevour: "You'll just have to find someone else to make you stop swearing, madam. Heh heh." *He chuckled, showing the blood in between his teeth.*

  Luna: *She quickly wiped her tears, as soon as they ran down her cheeks.* (Fuck..)

  Destiny: *She looked at Luna, as if she felt how sad she was.* "Yeuw..."

  Nathan: "No!" *He mumbled in anger.* "You can't go!"

  Lezard: "SOOTHING LIGHT" *He shouted in exhaustion and raised his arms and dropped them, watching a ray of light burst on top of Trevour.*

  Trevour: "Sir?" *He spoke with an exhausted smile.*

  Nathan: "I.. You're my best friend." *He hesitantly revealed.* "You can't leave a bro hanging."

  Trevour: (Best...-) "Best friend..?"

  Luna: (Nath?) *His words caused my silent tears to run down her face.*

  Rosemary: (I feel-) *She held her stomach and suddenly bent down to throw up.* (Trevour. My little brother.. You can't!-)

  Rachael: *She stared at Trevour with an emotionless face.* "..."

  Luna: "You can't die you dumb shit! Lizard, heal Rusty already-"

  Trevour: "Luna.." *He purposely interrupted her, causing her to instantly look at him.*

  Luna: "Wat?"

  Trevour: "We know you're tough, but we also know you're soft inside.. Don't be afraid to show it."

  Luna: "Shut the fuck up." *She started to cry in a manly manner, causing her to drop he
r face into the sand, causing her cries to become muffled.*

  Trevour: "Please take care of her, Destiny."

  Destiny: "Yeu..." *She meowed in agreement, as she watched the white orbs continue to float off Trevour's fading body with watering eyes.*

  Trevour: "Lezard.. I'm afraid I won't be there for you in your time of grief-"

  Lezard: "Please, terrifying Trevour, stop-. SOOTHING LIGHT" *He squeaked his words, as if his throat was tight and dropped a beam of light, watching it burst on top of Trevour.*

  Trevour: "I know you like your jokes, so.. I made one up for you.." *He smiled, as his other arm suddenly burst into tiny white orbs.*

  Lezard: "I don't like this joke.." *He struggled to stand on his feet.*

  Champion: "Lezard, you've exceeded your limit-"

  Lezard: "SOOTHING LIGHT"

  Trevour: "A gentleman came in to see his village's healer.."

  Lezard: "Ooo, that could be m-m-me." *He spoke with a saddening stutter.*

  Trevour: "The healer noticed the man had a carrot sticking out of his nose, across berries hanging from his ears and a cucumber eroding out of his ear, he goes, I've located the issue."

  Lezard: "That was a fast diagnostic."

  Trevour: "It appears you've been eating the wrong way."

  Lezard: "Bwarharharh.-" *He looked down and watched his tears and sweat drop onto the sand.* "SOOTHING LIGHT"

  Trevour: "It's been an honour being your friend."

  Lezard: "Thankies.." *He sniffed.*

  Champion: "Lezard.. You could die if you keep that up-"

  Lezard: "We can't be family without the terrifying Trevour by our side-" *He mumbled the sentence, as he struggled to keep focus on Trevour.*

  Trevour: "Nathan.. I was never fond of drinking or doing anything naughty.."

  Nathan: *He chuckled with growing sadness.* "Leaving our rubbish on the table isn't naughty-"

  Trevour: "But when I did those things with you, it was fun.. You were the first to make me feel like, even someone like me, could have a bro like you."

  Nathan: "Dang it." *He covered his eyes with his arm, as he visibly cried with his mouth.*

  Trevour: "Champion.. It's been great knowing you, too.. But may I ask something please?"

  Champion: "Of course.." *She hobbled closer to Trevour and leant in, as if she knew he wanted to whisper the question.*

  Trevour: "What's your real name?"