"Oh shit!" Y muttered in front of Wylie. And that was the state of his mind too. The exit to the tunnel was blocked by two dragons, and unlike the ones they had seen earlier, this ones were plain scary.

The one on the right was blazing red, with orange and yellow flame-like scales folded on its huge yellow belly. Its wings, unlike the guard dragon's wings, were huge and definitely would hold up their weight.

The one on the left was purple and yellow. Its huge purple body was covered by deep yellow wings. It wings were huge, and would envelope an entire human with ease.

Another shifter, with blonde hair, and a scar running down her right ear to neck, who was standing between both the dragons, and hand in each of their necks, said with a sadistic smile, "Ah, W. Didn't think I would do this, would you? How sorry. What will you do huh? Kill your best friend?" 

"Tikha" she said softly to the red dragon, "Tikha, remember me."

"It won't make any difference," the shifter said with a smirk, "F's potions never fail."

J, who was on the back, and was not yet visible to the shifter, whispered to Grizel beside him, "Kill this shifter. We will somehow find a way to handle the dragons, without hurting them."

Grizel nodded, and in the blink of a moment she had retracted a small inch long dagger from her waist and it was engraved with perfect accuracy in the shifter's heart. 

The shifter's eyes widened, and closed her eyes making to transform, but Y darted forward and pressed her thumb hard in the place between her eyebrows.

Wylie remembered that they said, it stops them from transforming for a few seconds. Tikha, apparently still under the potion's effect, blew a torrent of fire in Y's direction. Y's clothes got scorched and she rolled down into the mud, stamping out the fire. 

Sophie gave a push to her feet and with a leap landed on the other side of the tunnel, giving her an open space and simultaneously taking the attention off Y.

It worked, and both the dragons turned towards Sophie,  blowing fire. But this time, Maruca was ready. A shield appeared in front of her and the fire encompassed the entire shield. When the dragons stopped blowing, Sophie looked amazed, but unscathed.

 In this time, Wylie made a rope our of pure light and sent that tying around Tikha. The dragon thrashed, and more it thrashed harder it became for Wylie to keep control. 

In the mean time, Jason took out his gladiator, and Annabeth her drakon bone sword. Some damage had to be done to the dragons of they wanted to survive. 

They skillfully dodged and thrashed at the dragon, giving it a few wounds on it's legs, but nothing serious. Meanwhile, Sophie stood with her two fingers on her head and closed eyes. A frown appeared on her face and after a few minutes, when Fitz realized what she was trying to do, sent a burst of strength to her.

After a while, Tikha stopped struggling, made a sound that was close to a gasp and shook his head, like a horse would shake his mane and spoke, "Y! Thank you. Help. Lady. Heroes."

Y smiled, moving a hand on Tikha's neck, "Yeah, I brought help."

Sophie did a similar thing to the other dragon, whose name, they learnt was Sandra. 

Sophie said, "Their brains are surprisingly complex. Like Silveny." 

"Yeah." W said, now moving a hand on Sandra's neck. 

"What do we do now?" Linh asked.

"The alarm has surely been spread. We have two supporters of K down. You guys killed three of our people, I am not holding you responsible for that, by the way, and ten more for K's party to die."

"Wait, we are supposed to kill 12 people to save one Lady's life? That psychotic."

"They will come back, eventually. And this is the only way. If this war between the shifters keep going, dragons will be caught in the crossfire, and they don't get revived to life." J said.

Coach Hedge nodded, "Sometimes a little evil needs to be done to prevent a larger evil." 

"That was deep." Frank commented.

"What? You thought the only thing I am capable of saying is 'die!' ?" Coach Hedge said, raising his eyebrows. 

"So..." Sophie said, distracting them, "What now?" 

Y said, "Well, there are three main heads, without whom the others will probably scatter. " Everyone nodded. "They are R, the influential one, F, the guy who made the dragon's potion and of course, K." 

Y went on to explain who lived where. From Y's memories, Sophie showed everyone who the bad guys were. They came up with a plan, which so many loopholes that it would look like a mosquito net.

To where Percy and Keefe were distracting people:

Percy stood where Nico had shadow traveled them behind a cluster of trees they had seen earlier. 

"Remind me to never shadow travel again." Keefe said.

"Guys, by now they must have smelled us." The voice of Biana said, somewhere to his right.

"Right ok." Leo said, and ask planned, Leo and Dex took an obscureser each and went in opposite directions towards the patrolling party. Biana was supposed to stay with them, and kill a shifter when it comes close. 

Keefe and Percy were being the 'smelly objects' much to both of their objections. And sure enough, two dragons that they had seen earlier and a shifter came into view. 

"Now for the fun part." Keefe said in a low voice so only Percy could hear, rubbing his hands together. Just as the dragons came close, Keefe levitated himself into the air.

His levitation, Percy noticed, was a lot more smoother than Sophie's. It might be because of his stay at the Neverseen. 

Percy too, manipulated the water molecules in the air to lift him in the air. He could do it a lot easier since they were on an island. 

The dragons looked at them, and then turned to the other dragon behind him and said, "Fly."

The dragon shook his head and said, "No. Scared."

"Scared. No. Brave. Fly."

"You. Brave. Me. Scared."

"You. Fly. Me. Stand."

Percy had enough or their one word argument and said, "Come on chocolate cake, fly up if you can." Percy noticed from the corner of his eyes, the shifter's leg bleed out of thin air and smirked at Biana's tactics.

The chocolate cake dragon, narrowed his eyes at Percy and tried and failed miserably to fly up.

The red dragon shook its head and said, "You. Stupid. Call. Help." And both the dragons hurried off in the direction where the others were patrolling. And just then, a dagger appeared out of the shifter's heart and he dropped dead.

Keefe and Percy came on the ground and Biana appeared. She took Percy and Keefe's hand and all of them disappeared. So, that was when the 'help' came. Another shifter came running towards them. 

Percy felt Biana pull him towards somewhere, who was being pulled by Keefe. They went close to the shifter and the shifter suddenly giggled, putting his elbows close to his stomach. Ticklish much?

And Percy took that opportunity to run Riptide through him. Biana and Keefe appeared beside him. "Some lousy fighters!" He commented.

"Lousy, is it?" Another shifter said, suddenly behind them, as all around them, dragons more dangerous looking than old chocolate cake appeared. 

"What? Thought you were the only one who could disappear?" Percy, and Keefe drew their swords and Biana drew her daggers. They decided not to levitate, because that would be stupid. These dragons' wings looked very fly-able.

Mindful of Y telling not to hurt any dragons, they turned into defense mode. It wasn't very hard for Percy, he had his Tyson shield. But Keefe and Biana, were not as good with weapons as him, and were without a sword. 

They just had to pass some time until,

"BOOM"

"BOOM"

"BOOM"

"BOOM"

"BOOM"

"BOOM"

Percy grinned. Dex and Leo at rescue. The air filled up with fog. Percy gave a dash towards somewhere, hoping he didn't bump into a dragon. It was a good fifteen minutes of chaos and lot more BOOMs that they found the fog disappearing. 

Imagine their surprise when they saw that they were surrounded by dangerous looking dragons, who had a bound Leo and Dex with them.

"Surrender, or they die."