Sharrag roared a warning at the red dragon charging at him. It let out another loose roar in challenge again. Sharrag growled and tucked in his wings, diving down towards the forest. The red dragon followed without hesitation.

‘Talismen! Found the dragon,’ he yelled in the Shrrg’s mind.

Suddenly something ferocious attacked his mind, followed by something else, and then another. He growled in surprise and hardened the walls around his mind, looking back at the dragon. As far as he could tell there were only two beings capable of mind manipulation that he could see.

The dragon suddenly opened its mouth and spewed red fire at him. He flared his wings and dodged out of the way. The red fire hit the forest below; the trees catching alight easily under the heat of the red dragon’s flame. He saw a bird’s nest go up in flames easily as the fire began to spread through the valley.

The red dragon flew past him and into the air. Sharrag could swear that the dragon had grinned at him as it passed through. The human on its back had taken out a bow and was now knocking an arrow into the quiver, and all the while several different minds were attacking his, making it impossible to think straight. He roared and shot a stream of green fire after the dragon. It dodged easily.

Sharrag was on the move again, shaking his head from side to side trying to rid himself of the other minds. He looked up just in time to see the red dragon coming at him on the side, and he narrowly dodged to the side. This fight was a lot different from most other fights he had been in, for one he had never fought an enemy who could reach him in the sky before, or had the ability to breath fire back at him.

He started to fly up into the sky trying to ascend above the dragon. It ascended with him and the two dragons began circling each other. Occasionally the human would loose an arrow at him, which would either miss or clamour harmlessly off his scales, and the whole time the minds were still there.

Sharrag suddenly darted in towards them, breathing his fire. With a smile he realise he had scored a hit on the other dragon and it screeched. With a flap of its wings it was out of the barrage of fire seemingly unharmed. Sharrag frowned, maybe dragons were fire proof? The thing was the human was unaffected as well, and he knew that they weren’t fire proof.

Another arrow clattered against his scales, just below the eye. Sharrag growled and stopped, shaking his head. His lower body seemed to suddenly heat up by a thousand degrees and he roared in pain, desperately flapping his wings to get out of the red flames that were burning him. The pain dissipated as he got free but the part of his body that had been burnt was now a little more sensitive then before.

He looked down at himself to make sure that he wasn’t badly injured in anyway. It didn’t look to be so. He looked back at the other dragon, which was now circling away from Sharrag, ready to attack him again. As it got further away the constant rattling of his mind lessened allowing him to think a little clearer once again.

He watched the other dragon carefully. He could sense that it hadn’t been hurt by the fire he had sent at it, only blinded. He swung left as a fireball shot towards him from the human’s hand. With a growl of surprise he dodged to the side and the fireball passed harmlessly by him. The dragon growled a curse. They had magic. This fight just got a lot harder.

He decided to pull into a dive once again, and get near the forest. He knew this terrain better then this other dragon and new how to fly it. If he could get them around a small cluster of mountains he may be able to catch this dragon by surprise.

The dragon dived after him as Sharrag expected. It wasn’t the smartest dragon of the lot that was for sure. He slowly levelled out his flight as he went and flattened it out just above the forest, keeping a constant lookout at the other dragon. The green dragon then banked sharply towards a gap in-between two mountains where he knew a cave was at the other side.

As soon as he got around the mountain he quickly landed at the cave and ran inside. The other dragon flew around the mountainside at speed, not even realising that he had landed. It flew over and Sharrag smiled, taking off after it. He quickly rose in height until he was above the red dragon before tucking in his wings and diving towards it. He knew that if he managed to get the dragon onto the ground he would have the small advantage of being able to get through the forest on foot without effort. Angela had told him that most dragons couldn’t get through a forest if their lives depended on it.

The human looked up at him just a little to he late. He gaped in surprise and yelled something that was lost in the wind. Sharrag opened his maw and unleashed his green fire at the dragon and rider, before crashing into them. For a reason he was unsure of it felt more like he was crashing into wall. The wall broke easily however and he drove the two of them into the mountainside.

They crashed through the trees and Sharrag thought he heard a crack. A force hit him in the side and he went flying to the side, crashing into three trees. With a groan he forced himself to his feet. The red dragon was lying on its back; its wings and feet sprawled helplessly, and to Sharrag’s delight one of its wings were bent in an odd direction.

The human had somehow managed to through itself free of its dragon before the crash and was now standing up, a sword clutched in its hands. Its bear face was streaked with blood, probably from the amount branches it had hit on the way down. The red dragon was now getting to its feet as well. It looked at its wing and growled, gazing back at Sharrag.

Sharrag smiled and issued a growl, telling them to give up now. A dragon with a broken wing wouldn’t be able to fight for much longer. He knew that all to well. The other dragon just snarled back and looked to its rider. The human walked over to the broken wing and placed two hands on it.

“Waise Heill!” It yelled in the language of magic.

The wing snapped back into the place and the dragon let out a small groan of relief. Once it was done the human sung itself back onto the saddle on the dragon’s back and it snarled, taking a few flaps of its newly healed wing.

Sharrag sat there dumbfounded. He didn’t thing a human could heal a dragon’s broken wing that quickly. When Angela had healed his it had taken a minute or two and a lot of energy. This human hardly seemed to be affected at all. Sharrag quickly got back into an attack position. At least he had the dragon on the ground now.

With a roar the two dragons jumped at each other, snarling and clawing like wild beasts. Sharrag quickly became aware that this dragon seemed to be holding back a little for fear of hurting the human on its back, while Sharrag could go all out. Just another small advantage in this fight.

Sharrag jumped back from the red dragon and breathed fire at it, blinding it and the human once more. He jumped at it, landing on the dragons back and forcing it to the ground. That victory didn’t last long however as a sharp pain erupted in his left foreleg. The dragon then through him off.

Sharrag landed on his feet and snarled at them. The human smiled, his blade covered in dark red dragon blood. Sharrag took a moment to examine the injury. He looked back at the two. Maybe having a human on his back wasn’t such a bad idea after all. He put some more weight on his leg and snarled again. This injury was going to make him sloppy on the ground. He looked at them, studying them, it seemed it was time to take the fight to the sky once more.

With a roar he jumped to the sky, flapping his wings and rising quickly. The red dragon took a few moments to follow as it was caught a little by surprise. As Sharrag tucked his legs underneath him he realised that the wound would get a little annoying. He just had to be careful when using that leg.

With a growl he began to fly higher into the sky. He decided that if he couldn’t win on the ground then he would try to take the dragon high into the sky. He had flown above the clouds before, yet he doubted whether this dragon had any reason to fly that high before, and would take a bit to get used to it. The only problem was that high in the sky if one or both of the dragons managed to injure there wings there would be nothing stopping them from plummeting to the ground and to there deaths.

Sharrag pumped his wings harder as he neared the top of the mountain, and looked down to see that the red dragon and his rider doing the same. The green dragon smiled as he broken the layer of cloud that covered the Beor Mountains and welcomed the cool breeze that flew up here. It certainly soothed his burnt lower body.

The red dragon took a little longer to reach this height and by the time it did Sharrag could see that it was exhausted. The rider placed a comforting hand on the red dragons head and it looked at the green dragon, glaring at him. Energy seemed to flood it somehow and its wing beats became more controlled. It snarled at him once more.

Sharrag frowned, there was definitely something going on. From what he had seen the dragon and rider seemed a lot stronger then they should. He snarled again as the minds that had been attacking him before came back to him. It seemed they preferred to be low to the ground. Focusing on the dragon and rider he flew towards them, fire coming out of his maw.

The red dragon charged as well, meeting Sharrag’s fire with its own. The two different coloured fires met in the middle in a huge explosion, followed by the crash of the two dragons. Sharrag roared as a claw found its way over the left side of his face and the red dragon was given a gash down the left side of its neck. It seemed the invisible shields had worn out.

The two dragons began to fall towards the mountain, snarling and clawing each other determined not to be the first one to draw out of the crash. The human on the red dragon’s back slashed and hacked at Sharrag’s side, breaking through the scales in multiple areas. Sharrag snarled in pain as all of it came together. The red dragon attacking his front, the human attacking his side and the strange minds attacking his own. He snarled and drew back, taking a faulty flap of his wings to steady himself. His mind nearly broke at that point but he managed to hold on and reinforce it again. He flew upwards towards the clouds again.

He looked back at the red dragon to see the rider lean over and heal the wounds he had caused. He groaned. There would be no way he could win this fight, not like he was. He was outnumbered and outmatched. The only thing that had kept him alive so far had been his quick whits.

Once the red dragon had been healed it flew towards them again. It seemed to realise that the fight had nearly been won as well, for it was approaching slowly yet eagerly. It growled a question at Sharrag, asking if he was ready to give in. Sharrag looked helplessly around, trying to think of a way around this. His gaze came to a Shrrg on the ground. Talismen. The large wolf gave a nod to him and Sharrag smiled. He looked back at the red dragon a gave one last roar of defiance. He tucked in his wings and shot towards the ground. It was time for reinforcements.

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