Demondred set sail from Ardonia to the lands called Alagaesia. He knew little of this land other than it was full of savages and free dragons and elves. Even slaved elves were no better, they deserved death, but dragons disturbed him more. Next to him and his massive battle ship was Argos, the golden dragon lay curled up like a dog. Demondred was determined to make the dragons of this land act as obediently as Argos and his fellow dragons of Ardonia. The battle ship was massive, able to hold up to two hundred dragons if need be. Several cannons were on its side, twenty on each side along with massive fire catapults. The banner of Ardonia was raised up to the sky, a large black flag with twelve stars circling around a dimming sun. Several workers were on his ship who led it, only a few soldiers aided him. He wasn't out to conquer yet, just to see this strange primitive land. He watched steadily as the coast of the country called Surda approached. Ignoring his captin (though the man was captain of the ship Demondred still had authority over him) shout "Land ho!" he ordered Argos up, the dragon jumped up as a dog to a snack. Claimbing onto the dragons back he kicked his side as if he was a horse and the dragon flew into the air.
Where are we going master? Argos asked.
"Straight on to the land Argos. Be silent while your there and do exactly as I say."
As you command. Argos said humbly.
Once Argos reached the shore Demondred jumped off of him. Argos stared at as fondly as any pet would to its master. Demondred smirked, several humans stared at him that were nearby, each terrified, they had seen nothing come across the sea.
"Who are you?" one asked
Demondred said nothing, jetting out his hand he shot both dead with fire. He had no time to talk to them, even if they were human. This savaga land would have to be tamed, he was sure of it. Jumping back onto Argos he ordered the dragon on. He stared ahead, guiding Argos north towards a large cliff. He wanted to see what he could make out of this land. Though he had no plans for conquest yet, if he did, he wanted to find the best place to start his colonial empire. His first goal was to find dragons, capture them, and tame them. Dragons weren't meant to roam free. Their life was only to please the two superior races, shape shifters, and humans.

Flying through Surda Equinox landed for a nap. He had flown for over two days and was already tired, not to mention hungry. Catching a quick deer he chomped on it and sighed. Everything had been peaceful for the past few days it seemed. He hadn't ran into Crimson, Galbatorix, or any other evil one walking these lands for awhile. Finishing the deer he lied down his head for sleep. Staring south he over a cliff head he thought he could make out a distant gold speak from the ocean headed towards him. I am tired... ah well I guess I should spend my time wisely. True, he supposed he should be back with the rebellion, but it didn't matter, they could get along without their leader for awhile.

Crimson walked the rocky beaches of southern Surda. Though his armies were achieving great success in the north, he hadn't bother going south yet. Perhaps he would have a surprise invasion of Surda? No, he shook the thought from his head. He didn't want to split his lands up so. He had heard that Equinox had been spotted down here, which was much to his surprise. He suspected the green fool up north with his so called rebellion. He had no need to gather more followers, but he came here anyway. Perhaps Equinox or one of his friends were here so he could kill them. He had to keep his promise to Equinox, to kill all those he loved.

OOC: I will join with Lucas and Circe later today, just wanted to let you know =).

OOC: And I want to join as well, since Elcyon would be very interested in this (of course, because Equinox is in it! rofl) But I have a lot of rps to finish posting to. Once I finish doing that, I'll come back here and I'm going to keep updated with all my rps, it shouldn't take me longer than two days to post I promise!

OOC: Whoo! Time to get Phal involved in another epic battle!

IC: Phalynx flew high above the encroaching enemies, a low growl rumbling in her chest. She had sensed the growing darkness to the south for a few days now. Now that it was here in Alagaesia, she could sense where it had come from. The silver was getting better at detecting danger and darkness across oceans. At past times, it had happened more by accident: she had suddenly gotten the sense that she was needed somewhere, and had simply flown. But now, she had a faint sense of where the greatest evil was in many more regions than she previously had.

She observed the large golden dragon fly off the deck of the huge warship, a rider on his back, and wondered why he was allowing this. The man was clearly evil, but there was no dragon and rider link of magic between them. Phal continued circling, willing herself not to dive for an attack when the two dockmen were killed. She had to wait for allies first, and find out more about this man. Where had he come from exactly? What was his land like? Why did he have so many people under his control? Was he the ruler of his homeland? She needed to find these things out before she could plan out what to do.

As Phal made her way down the coastline, she noticed a green form atop a nearby cliff. It was Equinox. She dove a few dragonlengths in alarm. Equinox! You need to hide yourself! I'm not certain, but I believe the man atop that golden dragon, and possibly the dragon, to be evil. I can sense a great darkness from him, she called down to her friend in a warning.

OOC: Hmmm.... just got another idea. How do you think Demondred would react to Ecco? Might be a little interesting.

Equinox was startled for a moment until he noticed Phal fly down and give him a warning. It took him a moment to understand what she said until he glanced away from the cliff and out to see a gold dragon with a rider heading towards them. He stared out and stood up next to Phal You think they're evil? he said. He watched them for a moment and knew to trust her, Phal had many powers he knew of and some he wasn't too sure ofWhat do you mean about them? Do you know where they're from?

Demondred watched the two dragons for a moment as Argos flew closer. An angry snarl formed on his face, but he watched and observed. So there were the dragon's of these lands? Nothing but savages, they all were. Green and silver, both would be good slaves once he took them.
"Argos! Head for the dragons!" Demondred ordered.
Yes master. Argos replied obediently.

Crimson walked down the beach, something was flying up there, it seemed to be a gold dragon, he knew of only one gold dragon, but that dragon hadn't been seen in awhile, and this one was too small anyway. Interested, he headed off towards them.

OOC: Hmm, that would be interesting.

OOC: Well, should I bring her in at some point? She's a shapeshifter like Demon, but her two main forms are dragon and elf... lol. I'll think more on bringing her in possibly.

IC: Phal swooped down low until she landed swiftly on the cliff, wings still half-raised in anticipation of taking flight again. She shook her head. I know they're from the south... I can sense great darkness to the south and slightly west, and some of that same darkness... I can sense it in the man on that golden dragon. We have to take flight before they reach us, she hissed urgently, backing away and raising her wings further. In less than a second, her huge wings power-flapped down, stirring clouds of dust and gusts of wind, and she was lifted backwards off the cliff. Phal gave a few more power-strokes until she was up in the air, and then darted higher. She twisted her lithe body around to face the oncoming dragon, who was heading straight for them. Who are you? What business do you have in our lands? Take your darkness back to the south! she challenged, her voice ringing in the mind of the rider. His magic, now that she could see it, was strange. She didn't quite know what to make of it, so she kept a wary distance for now.

OOC: Yeah that's fine. You can bring her in when you want

Equinox flew after Phal and stopped next to her, staring at the gold dragon and rider. Something was odd about the pair. He had seen dragons give rides to others who weren't their rider, he was one of them who had, but this was different. The gold dragon seemed submissive to this new comer, why though he wasn't sure. He shook the thought from his head, no, it couldn't be so. Who are you? he asked both of them.

Demondred snarled at the two dragons, they dare act as if he was their equal! With rage he pulled out his sword, but did nothing yet, he just glared at the dragons with hate, he raided magic in case they should attack. Inferior beings, all of them. To the two dragons he said, Dragon, you may call me Demondred. I may enter any lands I wish without your consent. You are nothing to me." he glared at Equinox [i]Fool! Thinking you can ask question of my pet! Argos, do not communicate with them.
As you wish master. Argos replied.[/i]
Equinox glared at Demondred with hate, Dragons are not slaves! with and angry snarl he said Just who are you! Where are you from!
Demondred snarled at Equinox and shouted loudly, "Do not question me inferior being!"

OOC:
I'm going to be busy for the next week and a half, but I will try and join this Wednesday. No promises, though.

OOC: Gah! Everyone's only promising to join! lol

IC: Phalynx's low growl started up again as the man spoke. The gold dragon was somehow under his control, submissive, almost like a horse or other riding beast! You may not enter these lands if you intend to cause harm to their inhabitants, which I know you do. You are not welcome in Alagaesia, she hissed, eyes burning with green fire and voice cold. She could sense the man's evil, almost radiating from him. His magic oozed it; manipulation and greed. Tendrils of it were briefly latching on to other magics, as if seeking control. Phalynx continued hovering in front of the man, refusing to move. You. Are not. Welcome. Take your superiority complex somewhere else, because the dragons of this land will not tolerate it, or you, she spoke up again, teeth bared. Tension hung in the air, ready to explode at any moment.

Ecco blinked awake, moving her arm from where it rested over her eyes. She sat up, looking for the disturbance, and saw it immediately. Two men lay dead further down the docks, their bodies charred. Magic fire had killed them. Ecco's eyes narrowed in anger. She could sense the minds of many further out to sea, but her view was blocked by docked ships. She ignored this for now and stood up, striding down the dock with quiet steps, hands resting on her dagger hilts. She looked down at the dead dock workers, her suspicions confirmed. Whoever was responsible for the deaths of these two innocent people would pay. Ecco glanced upshore towards the cliffs, and saw three dragons hovering, facing each other. One had a human on his back. She frowned, trying to decide whether to confront him or the people out to sea.

Demondred glared at Phal and shot a small jolt of electrcity through her. Not enough to do any harm, but enough to jolt her and just make her feel pain. "You dare order me around dragon! I don't take orders from the likes of you." he blasted more jolts of electricity at her and turned to Equinox, "You, do you no better than your friend?"
Equinox glared at Demondred and snarled Leave this land. You will not harm any of us! he ordered. He dove at Demondred, but to his surprise he leapt off the gold dragon and landed on the cliff. "Argos, kill or subdue the green dragon, I'll handle the silver one." he said.
As you command master. Argos said.
Argos angled towards Equinox and bashed him to the side.

Surprised, Equinox flinched back as Argos rammed him. He snarled in pain and turned for Demondred, but as he readied to attack he felt Argos ram him again. What are you doing Argos? You are his slave! Kill him to get freedom!
Argos stared in confusion at Equinox and said My master tell me not to speak to free dragons. Free dragons are dangerous, dragons deserve to be kept as so.
Equinox stared, his eyes staring in disbelief. He snarled, who ever made dragon's, or any creature, think like this was evil. Still, he faced Argos, he knew Argos would try to kill him. He dove at Argos and both dragons fought in the air. Still not sure what to do, Equinox didn't go full out on the gold dragon, not sure if he should kill or not.

As he walked down the beach, Crimson saw as two dragons begun to fight, one green the other gold. He saw a man it seemed attacking a silver dragon. Heading up to the cliff for a closer look he stared for a moment, recognition and hate crossing his face. Equinox and Phal, those were the green and silver dragon. Whoever the gold dragon and the person was didn't matter, he would aid them. Focing himself into the air with magic, he blasted ice shards at Equinox.
Equinox lurched back as the shards bounced against his scales, some pierced through. He turned around in amazement to see Crimson Crimson leave! This doesn't involve you! he spat.
"Oh Equinox, you should know by now that anything that threatens you is my ally." Crimson said, Equinox snarled.

Demondred leapt into the air as the dragon poured made a strangy starry substance pour onto the ground. He could over power her in his 'dragon' form, but he wouldn't use that yet, he would stick as he was. In teh air he angled towards her and made swirly winds swarm around her and shot out flying stones at her from the inside. The winds picked up the substance on the ground and added it to them.
"You do not question what I do! Your race is not pure, you do not deserve to live freely in this land!" he spat.

As a large dragon descended in front of their ship, the capital stared with shock. Instead of answering the dragon he ordered, "Fire at will!" Archers on the ship instantly began to fire, and they launched giant burning boulders at the dragon.

Cornered by Argos and Crimson, Equinox did a roll down towards Crimson. Crimson leapt away as Equinox blasted lighting down at him. As Argos dove at Equinox he did a flip and struck the dragon's back with his claw. He felt a strange force strike him and he slammed to the ground, magic from Crimson he was sure. As Crimson swung his sword at him, Equinox darted into the air, hitting Crimson with his tail. He turned around to see the war ship attacking another dragon. Hopefully we can drive these invaders off our land before they get to far. he snarled. He turned towards the gold dragon and shot lighting, it road as the lighting struck it in the side. Argos dove at Equinox but he did a long dive up, just avoiding a massive fire ball from Crimson.

Crimson begun to add more barrages at Equinox when he noticed other beings walking towards him. Turning around he saw a witch and a werewolf approach. He just had time to block another lightning bolt from Equinox. He glared up at the two dragon, and back, he was sure this fight would turn out the way he didn't want it to. As Equinox fired a lightning bolt at him, Crimson did magic to make the bolt fly towards the pair headed towards them.

color=#BF0080]Circe frowned as the lightening bolt came at the two of them. She continued to look at it, and just as it was about to hit them, clapped her hands. The lightening split into two parts and went around them, and the sound of her clap sounded like thunder. She frowned again and her appearance began to become more and more birdlike. Soon, she looked exactly like a Roc and was flying for the dragons and the man.[/color]

Lucas, on the otherhand was not overly worried. All of these other creatures were less than important. He contorted his face into a snarl as he saw something silver. A silver dragoness, with silver fire. He growled angrily and bore his yellowing teeth menacingly. His three and one-half inch canine teeth menacingly shone in the light. Then, he was running. He ran faster than any human ever could, and faster than most elves, toward the man fighting the dragoness.

OOC:
Okay, I'm here.lol

IC:
Johdzsia flew along by herself, growling out a stream of curses in the draconic tongue. Zeke had forced her to leave him, as he had been charged with a dangerous mission from the Varden. He had forbade her to join him, and had driven her away. The gold-amethyst dragoness jerked, startled, when she heard the din of battle. Jia bared her teeth in a snarl; she would help whoever was the victim. That's how her older brother had raised her over the last few months. She looked down to search for the fight, and quickly found it. She vaguely recognized Equinox from Zeke's description, but that is not what sent a jolt of anger through her; it was the sight of a very familiar silver dragoness. Jia roared and dove from her height. Her gold-rimmed-with-amethyst scales glittered with their own light, and she felt proud of herself for that; she had been practicing that for weeks now. Her teal-aquamarine eyes shone brightly with green-gold light as she beared down on the man. Protecting Phalynx was her priority. She drew in one wing and spun, her tail swinging out behind her to catch the man. She tried for the millionth time to exhale flames, but all that escaped her jaws was over-heated breath, as usual. She hastily flapped over to Phal's side. No time for pleasantries; what's going on here? she growled to her friend. She looked over to the wolf running toward the man and wondered what side he was on.

OOC: first roleplay on here!



IC: kilev has been travleing to surda to speak with a man about some things. When he saw the fighting. he watched from a distance, trying to figure out what it was about. There were ships comeing in from the sea, and a lot of dragons and a frw other creatures were fighting. hmm, this is strange he thought. no matter, I wonder what is going on.. he watched the fighting for a bit longer. there was something he noticed after a while, a certain gold dragon was fighting against the other dragons. who is the traitor? he asked a gold female dragon. ((she is gold right?)) as he watche the battle from the ground, he was still trying to figure who was on what side. and which side he should help.

OOC: Welcome to the rp, zelf. Are you talking to DragonSlayer4's charry? lol

IC: Phal easily navigated the swirling winds the man swept up at her, her powerful wings used to tough weather. The stones she dealt with in another way: she syphoned off magic from their trajectories so that when they hit her, it was with the force of a small tap. It was at this point that Jia suddenly swooped in and attempted to attack the evil man. Jia! First of all, I cannot control you, but I will advise you to stay on the outer fringes of this battle. Secondly, as for what is going on, this man is from the south, from another continent. I can sense his evil, and the evil from his land, and he considers himself superior to dragons, she explained very quickly, and darted forward so that she was mostly in front of the young dragoness. Brave she might be, but also foolish. Phal knew she had been the same way, but she wouldn't let one of her best friends' young sister get hurt. She turned back to her enemy and let out a fierce snarl at his latest words, her temper finally rising to the surface, and abruptly shot several dozen starfire missiles towards him and around him, all in quick succession. All during this, she kept one eye on the strange werewolf-like creature, suspicious of him.

Ecco growled at the men on board the ship as one shouted to fire at her, and immediately dove into the ocean. Fire at this! she cried, streaking under the ship. She stopped beneath the hull of the enormous warship, wondering whether to try and crack the keel or go for just any area. Well, I guess it's better to start with a hole, she thought with a smile, and began to rip and tear at the wooden sides of the ship. Despite being in dragon form, she still had a small connection to her magic, and was able to use it to damage the wards around the ship. Once she had weakened them enough, she could start in on the hull itself. Under the ship as she was, no human could see her. Her long, narrow claws, good for catching fish, were also perfect for destroying ships, as she had discovered quite recently while attacking a pirate ship out to sea.

OOC: Hmmm.... Thought of other possible charries to add... we shall see if they will fit nicely into the plot... heheheh.

OOC: Glad to have you in zelf =) Draco, tell me if that's too over powered. I want him to be powerful and stuff, but I'm not sure if that's over dueing it.

Demondred smirked as the starry missles came. Foolish dragons they were, nothing like those he fought during the conquest of Ardonia. He leapt into the air and drew his sword. Using Sensory he could tell the silver dragoness could see in UV lights, x-ray, and gamma ray, and the ability to see shadow and magic. He had to admit, she had some powers, but he was sure he could take advantage of them. Using heat energy he made an exact copy of himself of heat and made it go around her. Also he used complex magic to melt into shadows and used what he could reverse magic so if she tried to see where his magic was from or where from the shadows, she would only see its inverse. That left heat, but now he would have to heat signatures moving around. He jumped up from the shadows and launched an ice blast at her and sunk back in again.

"We're taking on water!" a man shouted from below deck. The captain cursed and ordered them below, but some to stay on top. he knew the dragon must be somewhere under water, "Drop down the poison!" he ordered. Tons and tons of poison were dropped into the sea. If consumed to long everything in a five miles radius would die. As some people went into the lower area of the hull they tried to bail out the water, magic users used magic to seal it up before the hole got to large, but they knew unless they could kill the dragon the hull would eventually be breached.

Equinox watched as the witch turned into a roc as it flew towards him, Argos, and the others. He snarled and looked down, he had to convince it to fight for them, he touched its mind and said I don't know who you are, but if you want to kill, take out the dark elf, or gold dragon. He left contact as Argos smashed him into the ground. As Crimson ran at him he leapt into the air, twisting around and blasting lighting at Crimson. Crimson bolted out of the way and leapt up with magic and grabbed onto Equinox's leg, planting his sword into it. Equinox roared, but was able to shake Crimson off.

OOC:
If you are talking to me, Jia is mainly a gold color, but with amethyst lining around each individual scale.

IC:
Johdzsia rolled her teal-aquamarine eyes in exasperation. Have you ever known me to stay out of a fight? she asked dryly. She looked over in surprise at the elven being. I'm not exactly sure, all I know is who I'm fighting for. she answered hastily before drawing her eyes back to where the man had disappeared. Her gold-amethyst scales bristled along her back; she hated being unable to see her adversary. She stayed beside Phalynx, her wings half raised. Fear touched her, but she shook it away. Fear paralyzed your thought process, leaving you defenseless to attack. She had to stay focused and calm. She closed her eyes briefly, and when she reopened them they were emitting soft green-gold light. She scanned along the shadows with her power. Untrained though it was, she had a sense for what it did. She had a feel of where people were and what they were thinking, feeling, or any of the other senses. She could tell without her silver friend saying it that this man was powerful, but sometimes with great power came ignorance. Maybe this man would slip up and the present dragon's could finish him off. Although, the way he was attacking, slinking away, striking hard once, and then retreating again, over and over, was a good strategy for wearing down a dragon. Her eyes caught a slight movement in the shadows, and she focused on it. Her irises instinctively sent beams of light toward the vague shape in the darkness. It startled her, but not enough to sway her concentration. She wasn't even sure if what she saw was real, but she responded anyway. There! she cried to Phalynx, the light beams from her eyes intensifying with the urgency in her tone. Her vision turned red with anger, and she bared her teeth. Hiding like a startled rabbit is the way of a cowardly two-leg. she hissed venomously to the shadows. At the corner of her eyes she saw the ice blast coming. Her stomach roiled and seemed to heat up to an almost unbearable amount. She knew Phal could defend herself, but she had to concentrate on the man, not all of his attacks.

Jia tore her eyes away from the shadows and focused on the ice blast. Her belly burned hotter than ever, and she felt the unbelievable heat coming up her throat like a tidal wave, like she was going to vomit. But that is not what billowed from her jaws when she opened her muzzle. Golden fire streaked with amethyst poured from her mouth like a molten sun blast, and nearly as hot. The power of the flames startled her momentarily; the ball of writhing heat was at least two times bigger than a dragon, especially one of her size, should be capable of producing. The seething wave clashed with the ice blast and almost instantly disintegrated into vapor. She closed her jaws, ending the stream, and turned back to the shadows. She couldn't help smiling a little smugly; she had breathed fire for the first time! And her throat suddenly burned like a thousand hornets had stung it at once. She swallowed, and that helped, but only just.

OOC: yeah, thats who he was talking to


IC: kilev noticed That the people the dragons were fighting were not from this land. and here was also a werewolf. he could tell the newcomers were evil. and there was a certain man among them who seemed to control a certain dragon like a dog. oh this looks like it's going to be fun he thought. the instant he found out what they were up against he wanted to help them. but he knew hecould not just charge in there, that would mean certain death. he thought about it for a minut, then had an idea. he snuck around to the back of the fighting, untill he was just below the dragon he had spoken to.

OOC: Is there an order to this RPG? Because if there is, both draco and myself were skipped. It is no real problem, but I figured I should ask and make sure before I post.

OOC: so I go after dragonslayer?

OOC: Maybe you should make it a bit more vague, dark. Like he knows she can see different forms of light, but not what they are exactly. After all, I doubt many of the people in this world know about infrared/ultraviolet light, and probably none but Phal know about gamma rays or the more extreme types like that.

IC: Phalynx narrowed her eyes as the man tried to trick her sight. She wasn't much converned about that. What she was concerned about was how he knew about her powers. She would have to be careful not to underestimate him. She quickly flapped up and out of the way of his strange heat-copies and distortions. As much as he was trying to trick her, she could still see the most basic of his magic which was creating these spells, and she had far too much practice with these forms of seeing than he had in tricking people with them. She located him in seconds, and flapped up higher in time to avoid his powerful blast of ice.

Before she reacted to his presence, she glanced towards Jia. The young dragoness was searching for the man, too, and Phal smiled when she saw the light of recognition come into the gold and amethyst dragon's eyes, quickly followed by an exclamation that confirmed what Phal had thought. Good job, Jia. Cleverness is often an underestimated weapon, but you weild it well, she told Jia with a grin, which faded in surprise as the dragoness produced an enormous ball of fire. Was that your first flame? she asked, astounded.

Phal wasted no more time with talk, though. She saw the boulder hurled at her from the werewolf, and dodged it quickly. Apparently he was an enemy as well, which was rather disappointing, since he didn't seem affiliated with this man. The silver then dove towards the man without warning and burned away the shadows with her starfire, hoping to cause some damage to him as well. She wouldn't be worn out by this two-leg's sneaking attacks.

Ecco darted away from the ship when she heard some liquid splashing into the water. Logic told her it must be a weapon against her, and this she confirmed by probing it with her mind. She frowned and paused for a moment, thinking. She had to make a choice, now. She made it rather quickly and swam away from the ship and up, getting even with the poison in the water. She quickly took a gulp of air from the surface and dove down again to avoid the human's projectiles, and began working to cast a simple spell. Even in dragon form, she still had control over ice, and in less than a minute all of the water that had been polluted was encased in ice. The ice floated to the surface and Ecco charged out of the water, flapping away from the ship to get out of range. When she was, she breathed out a small stream of ice to make a platform of it, and retransformed back into an elf.

Now having reestablished her connection with her magic, Ecco spoke the words quickly to nullify the poision in her ice and all that she sensed on the ship. She was exposed out here, and no longer doing damage to the ship, but she couldn't allow these idiotic humans to pollute the ocean. She would pay them back later.

OOC: Ok =)

IC: Demondred staid in the shadows as the fire the younger dragon blasted hit the ground. He could feel the heat, but it did no damage to him. He analyzed the situation and noticed the werewolf attacking the silver dragon. He looked again and gave a dark smile Another shape shifter, and a werewolf. He jumped out of the shadows and targeted the smaller dragon. To the werewolf he said in the Ancient Language "Fellow shape shifter for now I asked a temporary truce against these others." Done with that, he targeted the young dragon. She just breathed fire, he could tell since he studied fire breathing in dragons and how the aged. Using a blast of air he blasted towards her and smashed her in the side, the gold dragon being so young would be able to shove with is blast. As he struck her, he let himself fall to the ground and said in the Ancient Language, "Take the dragon from the sky!"

The men on board stared as the dragon turned into an elf... a shape shifter. Running to the edge of the ship the capital shouted, "Shape shifter! We mean you no harm, we did not realize what you were!" True, she could turn into an elf and dragon, but they still was above pure dragons and pure elves.

Crimson readied for a counter attack against Equinox when he noticed the Roc headed at him. Snarling he jumped aside as it flew towards him. He wove his hands out and the air around it begun to shimmer as small bolts of lightning begun to fly at it. He made the air around it grow heavy to make it more difficult for the Roc to breathe.

Equinox whirled around as Argos slammed into him. Snarling, he shoved the gold dragon to the ground. He bathed the dragon's side in fire, but her managed to shove him off. Argos leapt back into the air, and Equinox grabbed his tail and slammed him back to the ground. You have much to learn. Equinox said to him. It shocked him just how poorly the gold dragon fought. He snarled in disgust Perhapse Argos is more of a pet than a warrior. He turned away from Argos and saw Crimson fighting the witch that turned into a Roc. Snarling he dove at Crimson and shot lighting at him, forcing him to halt his magic and jump away. Releasing a stream of fire than lighting, Crimson was forced to put up a shield, but Equinox smashed against the ground as Argos slammed into him.

kilev's eyes fell on the man who had been floating and was not asking for help from shape shifters. kilev jumped across onto the ship and landed behind him, drawing my sword. "you are not welcome here, as you can tell"kilev said coldly. "you have already anger the dragons, that is clear enough, what els do you plan to do? wage war on this entire place?" after he said that, he relaized it was mos likely true. "tho it may disappoint you to find out. I side with the dragons in this one, they are more ineligent then you think" my father was a rider. I said to jia in the antaint language.

OOC: is kilev the elf person he/she is going for?

OOC: Circe is a she, and no, Circe is after Ecco?

OOC: oh ok, and if I say some first person thing, like "I did something" instead of "kilev did soemthing" it's ebcuase I have been doing ONLY roleplays with first person for the last year and a half and now am suddenly getting back into third person. anyway, lets get back to the story.

OOC: That is totally fine, not everyone RPG's the same way, and so long as you work on it, the Mods will overlook it, all of them are really nice, so no worries man.

OOC: lol yes it's fine, zelf. You'll probably get the hang of everything really quickly.

IC: Phal roared in anger as Jia was blasted from the sky. She saw the young dragon's ribs crack as she hit the ground, and Phal immediately began to heal them. She had healed broken and cracked ribs far too often for her taste, but it allowed her to do so quickly for Jia. She finished a few seconds after Jia rejoined her in the air, and then struck. She dove towards the man, scales bursting suddenly with starlight and eyes glowing with fierce gold. She stopped over the man, and began beating down ferociously with her wings, stirring up huge gusts of wind and clouds of dust. Her wings were large enough that she was blocking the man from nearly every direction, and she began striking out with her claws and teeth and letting out blasts of starfire. I will not let you hurt anyone I care about! she cried, her teeth bared in a fierce snarl.

Ecco finished her neutralizing spell in time to hear the words of the men on the boat, and she looked up, confused. Why did they not mind her, now that they knew she was a shapeshifter? Before she could reply, she sensed something coming from her left and looked over in time to see a familiar shape flapping towards her. It was the shapeshifting witch she had fought before! Ecco's eyes narrowed and she allowed her body to dissolve into light, which reformed as a large, bicolored dragon. She flapped into the air immediately. I have no time for this! This ship carries enemies! It is a warship! These men and their leader up there are probably looking to take over Alagaesia! she called angrily towards the approaching roc, though she didn't expect her enemy to stop, and so brought up her talons to meet her.

Demondred laughed at them all, snarling "Inferior beings. Nothing but trash, all of you." He blocked Johdzsia claw with his sword and put a slice through one of her claws. He smirked at them than noticed the half elf speaking to him. "A half elf? Who in the right mind would bring themselves to mate with elven trash?" As kilev spoke about dragons being smarter than him he only laughed, "No dragon can match the intelligence of shape shifters, even humans. You obviously do not know who you are speaking to half breed!" He ran towards him and blocked his sword, using wind magic to knock him back. Before he could stab him with his sword he was forced to dodge away from Phal's attacks. He jumped away from the star fire, though he had to hit the ground in a roll to do a full dodge. It was then he noticed another elf, a pure elf, on the ground. He snarled at the elf. "I'll will deal with you fools later." he said coldly and leapt from the cliff aiming a strike right at Crimson.

The people on the ship still stared out as Ecco even as she changed back to a dragon. The capital shouted out in a loud voice, "We're sorry we attacked you! Let us talk to you, we didn't know shape shifters also lived on this land!"

Crimson dodged to the side as Equinox blasted fire at him. The gold dragon seemed to be aiding him which was good, two against one would easily over come Equinox. As Equinox and the gold dragon fought each other on the ground Crimson ran over and sliced Equinox back. He roared out, knocking Crimson away with his tail and shoving Argos off of him. Crimson readied to use magic when he noticed something, a man jumping off a cliff with his sword out. Crimson threw out his sword and blocked the blow just in time, the other man glared at him in pure hatred.
"So, you elves think you can make a resistance here?" the man said.
Crimson glared at him, "You obviously don't know who you are talking to. You will learn your place."
Demondred laughed saying, "I am Demondred, a shape shifter and your superior. No my place! Ha! You elves will be the one to know. Once I bring my army and take over this land you elves shall be slaughtered!"
Crimson laughed and replied, "Oh, I'd like to see you try."

Equinox stared in confusion as Demondred attacked Crimson. Unable to think of what to do he just hovered in place, fending off Argos when he came. The dragon was strong, but he didn't know how to fight well. Shoving Argos once again to the ground Equinox watched Demondred and Crimson fight. Who should I aid? he said to himself. His sworn enemy who was a threat to Alagaesia and to his friends, or just a strange intruder who treated dragons like animals. Thinking it over he continued to hover in place.

when kilev was thrown back he righted himself in the air and landed on his feet. then he launched a mental attack at the man he had been talking to. it did not suprise him when he hit a barrier. But he was determined to find out what he was thinking, he batterd against the barriers, trying to find a weak point. hey would you mind helping me out here? he asked one of the dragons. quckly exsplaining to them what he was trying to do.

Demondred felt as the half-breed and the silver dragon attacked his mind. He smirked, they would find an iron shield in his mind. In Ardonia he had made it near impenetrable due to his manipulating and Compulsion. Even so he had to blast two mental attacks at them to drive them away. Then he turned back to the elf named Crimson. Striking at Crimson's side the elf parried it and the two exchanged sword clashes. Jumping to the side he glared at the elf and fired an air blast at him.
Crimson dodged snarling, "You have no chance against me outlander."
"You call me outlander?" Demondred barked, "You will die soon thougn inferior, and this land will be mine!" Slashing his sword he caught Crimson on the hip, but the elf knocked the main part of the blow away and countered a second attack.

Equinox continued to watch in confusion, still unable to find who to help. When he saw the half-elf attack Demondred he went into action. Demondred was an invader, but Crimson was more of his enemy. When Kilev tried to attack Demondred's mind Equinox snarled and fired a lightning bolt at Kilev. Then when he saw Phal attack Demondred he gave a confused look saying to her, What are you doing? You're helping Crimson! Equinox was forced to dart away as Argos dove at him again. He really did have to do something about the gold dragon.

Crimson glared at Demondred as he struck at him again. The fool would soon learn what he faced by attacking him. Snarling Crimson did a complex sword stroke, but Demondred blocked it. Jumping back he blasted an ice wave from his hand. Demondred shot out fire to melt the ice and it continued through, forcing Crimson to dive away. It was then he noticed Phal and snarled, another one of his enemies. Both her and Equinox in one area, and this fool targeting him.
To Demondred Crimson said, "For a time lets be allies and kill the green and silver dragon."
Demondred laughed viciously, replying, "I will never ally with a being so unclean and inferior! Die elf!"

kilev grinned I think I can manage that he replied. kilev decided to help a bit and started muttering a spell that would put protective wards around the gold dragon. if the spell held it should protect her against most physical and magical attacks. but magical wards only last so long, as my father and old mentor had constantly drilled into me. but then again he was famous for haveing amazeing skill in defenseive spells. ok, that should help a bit, I would do the same for your freind but he/she is too far away.

I have not.

OOC: Well then. I shall post. I don't think Leo will have a hard time rejoining, though. He just has one character, and she's not in the main fight now.

IC: Phalynx gave a stern glance to both Johdszia and Equinox. Both of you, calm down. Equinox, I am certainly not helping Crimson by attacking this man. Think about it: if we let this man into Alagaesia, we will not only have Crimson, Galbatorix, and our other enemies to worry about, but him as well, and judging by his warship out there, I'd say he poses a significant threat. We need to repel him immediately before he can get a foothold. And Jia, it is much more than a personal feud. He has a right to hate Crimson for what he did to him, but more than that, Crimson is a huge threat to our homeland, and has killed friends. Very dear friends, Phal said, rebuking both dragons so there would be no misunderstandings. They needed a strong central force right now to survive. Unfortunately, all of this had interrupted Phal's mental attacks on the new enemy, and she was forced to simply block her own mind from his attacks. Her attacks had given her some new knowledge, though: this was no mere human. He had mental strength like a dragon's. There was something more to him than she had seen, yet. She glanced back at Jia when the young dragoness made her suggestion. That sounds like a good plan, Jia, she replied quickly in agreement. She would have to wait to resume her mental attack, she supposed.

Ecco flapped her wings hastily, hurrying towards the ship. She wanted to find out exactly what was going on here. Hopefully she would have a little time before Circe caught up to her, if she decided to press a fight. The black and white dragon circled the warship once, looking for a good spot to land where she wouldn't be too vulnerable. If they decided to attack her, she had plenty of escape plans. Ecco quickly folded her wings and dropped onto the deck, near the edge of the prow. So, anyone wanna start talking, or will I have to start asking questions? she declared loudly, muscles tense.

Demondred activated his sensory for the brief pause in the combat. Instantly he could read the powers of the ones around him. The half breed didn't have anything out of the ordinary, just skills at magic and being hidden. The silver dragoness he already ready. The green one could shoot and breath lighting. The youngest dragon had a strange ability; it seemed she herself wasn't too aware of it. But she could sense things similar he thought to his own Sensory. It seems she can have what some may call an out of body experience. The elf was a great magic users, but that wasn't out of the ordinary, what was was his powers to take control of the mind. Demondred smirked at that, at a different time he would break the elves mind. Jumping into the air, he shot short jab attack at each of them, not stong, but enough to activate the wards around the ones the half breed set up. Running towards the half breed, and clashed swords with him and whipped around as the elf attacked. Using air magic he blasted both of them back and shot up for the dragon. With a complex spell he directed a lightning bolt from the green dragon to the silver dragon. Then he fired a massive fireball at the gold dragoness.

The captain of the ship glanced up at Ecco. Though she was in her dragon form, being a shape shifter put her above pure elves and dragons. He did a deep bow, the show of respect all humans were to give shape shifters, "I am sorry for our earlier attack. We did not know you were a shape shifter. Are there many others on this land?" he asked.

Equinox listened to what Johdszia said. He was about to make a retort when Phal replied. She was right, that he knew. Demondred was more of their enemy right now, especially with so many others out, they couldn't afford another man mad in Alagaesia, especially when it seemed all to possible he would have an invading army at Surda's and the empire's shores. I understand. I will aid Crimson... just this once. Equinox replied and flew into the air, he was faster that Argos, so it wasn't hard to out speed him. Still, it was annoying that he kept following. As Demondred targeted Crimson and Kilev, he shot a lightning bolt at Demondred. He snarled as it was directed at Phal. To the other two dragons he said I have a feeling a mental attack won't work on him. Phal, you remember how hard it was when you attacked Crimson's mind. Demondred's mind seems even more powerful than Crimson's.

Snarling, Crimson leapt back from Demondred. It was a surprise to see Equinox and Phal aiding him, but he didn't mind even to his surprise. At least this fool would be gone. Jumping back, he tried to distract Demondred from the dragons. Crossing sword, he made it so Demondred would have to fight him to his front, and Kilev to his back. Even so he blocked both their attacks with ease. "You will not invade this land! Not what it is mine to control!" Crimson snapped.
Demondred laughed coldly. With a glare he retorted, "You elves and dragons are pathetic. I will rule over you all. And put each of you in your proper place."

kilev had never fought anyone this powerful before. he seemed to deflect every attack they threw at him. he decided to save his magic, as it was obviously not going to do much good. jia released a jet of flame at demondred. it reminded him of when his fathers dragon did the same when they tried to fight off galbatorix. unfortuneantly that had been the last time his father and his dragon fought, becuase they died in that fight, tho they did hold their own agains tthe dark king and survivedfor two days before they were defeated. in a moment kilev realized he had been so disracted he had let jia see his memory of that event. he quickly closed that part of his mind to her and once again foucased on the fighting.

OOC: Alright. Hopefully he gets back soon from wherever he's been.

IC: Phal glanced towards Equinox. Think of it as him aiding us, Equinox. After all, we did attack this man first, she remarked with a laugh. She watched as the evil not-quite-human directed one of Equinox's lightning bolts at her. It wasn't even worth deflecting magically; Phal had long ago figured out how to deflect electricity with her scales while flying in lightning storms. She simply turned her shoulder into the bolt and let the scales raise slightly so that their angle would be right to reflect the bolt of electricity away. She then turned her head for Jia to call out a warning to Crimson. When the young dragoness did, Phal swept down after her and came on the other side of the man, stopping to hover across from Jia, who had started her flame already.

Phal then opened her own jaws and let a massive burst of fire explode outwards. What appeared to be burning starlight swept over the ground and completely engulfed the man. Phal infused the flame with a slight amount of gamma radiation. She couldn't infuse it with enough to do anything more than make him nauseous and dizzy, but since there was no magical defense against gamma radiation, it would help lower his defenses. The starry dragoness then angled her wings as she hovered, sweeping the tips in such a way that her fire, and Jia's, roiled back inwards instead of spreading out, so the flames tumbled and swirled back in on themselves and only became more concentrated. Phal's wing movements also served to add extra oxygen to the flame. She had devised this method of hovering only a few months ago, while at her home in Unity.

OOC: Dragon fire power!!!!!!

IC: Ecco snorted and narrowed her eyes at the man who spoke, keeping her muscles tense in case she had to make a quick escape. She knew of a whole village of elf-shapeshifters, the Shamans, but decided to play dumb. I don't know, probably. It's a big continent, and there are all types of strange magic around. How 'bout you guys look for all the shapeshifters first before you go and start making war? she said back snidely, giving an irritated glance down to their warship.

OOC: Oh draco, you will learn the error of your ways. Prepare for Blood Lust!

IC: Demondred snarled with pain as the gamma rays struck him. He used magic to block the brunt of the attack, but was still blasted back, he could feel his defenses lowering. "Not bad pack mule." he snarled towards Phal. He jumped up, his eyes already glowing when he felt a crackle of air and just had time to defend himself as a lightning bolt struck him. He was blasted back, but managed to shield himself. He glared up at Equinox, his eyes glowing a deep red, he gripped his sword and parried a stroke from Crimson. With a low voice that ecoed through all of them he said evilly, "You primitives will learn the error of your ways!" His eyes turned pure red and his body shimmered with the power of blood lust. Running towards Crimson he grabbed him arm, and sung him to the ground. As Crimson used magic, Demondred jumped out of the way and blasted Crimson back. Turning he targeted Kilev and blasted him back with a strong kick to the chest. Then he focused on Phal. Jumping into the air he smashed into her back and smashed her to the ground. Grabbing her tail he swung her with great effort into Jia. And jumped up grabbing Equinox's wing and smashed him to the ground. Snarling, he looked around and smacked all three dragons over the head with a tree he pulled from the ground. Glaring with evil hatred he ordered Argos down with a flick of his hand. In a voice that went through them as an icy coldness he said, "You now have learned what you faced by defying me. I will spare you all this one time. Though be warned, next time you won't be so lucky." He jumped onto Argos' back and ordered him away from the battle scene and headed deeper into Surda.

The captain glanced at Ecco and replied, "We cannot make sure everylast being here is a shape shifter. Besides, in Ardonia shape-shifters are rare compared to humans and dragons. It is likely the same here. Once we start, we will a call out to all shape-shifters and humans to join us."

Equinox managed to stay conscious even with the large tree striking him over the head. Staring he was just able to move, but couldn't pursue Demondred while he flew away on Argos. What was that? he said to himself, the almost human was powerful, but what he just did was something he had never seen before. He had taken all of them down in just a few minutes. Managing to get up he went towards Kilev and Crimson first. Using healing magic he made them both come back to consciousness though it weakened him to do so. Glancing at them he asked, How are you doing?
Crimson glared at Equinox, "Why do you speak to me. We are not allies! Or did that bunp on the head screw up your brain even more?"
Equinox snarled, We do not have time for this Crimson, a larger threat is out there now.

Crimson glared at Equinox, he knew the fool dragon was right. Still he hated having to side with those who was his enemies. Managing to stand up he healed himself the rest of the way. Whatever that man had done it was stranger and more powerful than anything had ever seen. "Dispatched us all in just a few minutes." he grumbled to himself.

kilev jumped off jias back at the lst second, rolling so the impact wouldent do as much damage. he noticed jia was hurt and wonderd if he had enough energy to heal her. he decided he would regret it if he didin't and began muttering a complicated spell. he had a diamond on his sword that he had spent years storeing energy in, that helped alot. but time was not on his side, and he was ready to stop the spell and start fighting if he needed to. and in this case. it was very likely he would have to start fighting again.

OOC: Oh, the error of my ways? We'll see about that.

IC: Phal saw the immense amount of magic that suddenly streamed into the man, flaring his energy exponentially. She had time to brace herself for the impact, closing her wings and arching her back so the impact wouldn't jolt her spine as much. As soon as she hit the ground, the air was knocked out of her lungs, and she didn't have enough time to escape the man-no, monster- seizing her tail and flinging her at Jia. Phal tried to jump over the smaller dragoness, and managed to do so partially and lessen the impact a little, but she knew she had still hit Jia fairly hard. Phal was fast enough to avoid the impact of the tree, for she had landed relatively lightly (she had a great deal of training in crash landings) and so was not too dazed to see it coming.

When she turned to her right and saw the little gold-amethyst dragon's broken bones, a low growl emerged from Phal's throat. Tendrils of starfire were dripping by themselves from her jaws, laced with gamma radiation. Phal could feel her gamma ray fire stirring within her. If it came to that, she wouldn't hesitate... but she couldn't use it yet. Instead, she turned to Jia and stole a great deal of magic from the enemy man, turning it into healing magic to help the half-elf, who had begun a spell to repair her broken bones. Phal gave his spell some of her own energy, and also directed it into place so that the healing would not take as long.

When the healing finished, Phalynx glared in the direction the man had gone. With no more than a glance to her friends, and Crimson, she was in the air, powerful wings surging her forward. If she could get him off his dragon, she might be able to use her gamma ray fire. They would be alone out there, where the radiation would not hurt anyone else. Unless they were over a town or group of people... Phal wouldn't take that risk. She was still intent on catching and attacking the man, though. He had threatened her friends, and now her home, and he would learn to regret his actions.

Ecco's eyes narrowed suspiciously as the men continued to speak, answering her statement. Start what? she asked simply, removing all the suspicion from her voice so that she sounded merely curious. She was good at sounding purely curious, for most of the time she was. A few loud noises and bursts of light and movement from the shore caught her attention, and Ecco looked towards the shore in time to see the man who had flown in on the dragon send all of his attackers towards the ground. The black and white dragon managed to avoid looking stunned. She didn't want to give any sort of impression like that to these sailors. But the display of power was shocking; this man and his people were truly a threat. Maybe a good boat sinking could help after all.

OOC: Come draco, Demondred dares you I have a nasty surprise ready for Phal if she continues to follow him

Demondred flew on Argos away from the battle scene. Leaving his Blood Lust state. He couldn't stay in it too long unless he wanted to lose much of his strength, not to mention it was useless when he wasn't fighting. Arrogant fools, he laughed at them. Just like his conquest of the continent to form the Ardonian Empire. All the other lands especially the Ceridel Empire so arrogant of their power. Thinking Ardonia was no match for them. He gave a mad laugh. Just like Ceridel this arrogant land would fall. Fools they were. Heading towards a large port city he ordered Argos to a land. Master, the silver dragoness is following us. Argos said.
"Pay her no mind Argos." Demondred said, jumping off the dragon adding, "Now be a good boy and stand patiently by those horses until I return."
Yes master. Argos said meekly and stood by the horses staring down at the ground. Going over to the shipyard Demondred observed the port. This would be the perfect place to start the invasion. A large port town, not to well defended. The city seemed to be all humans, good, at least this place was full of one of the superior races. Heading over to a small tavern he went in to learn what he could about the town.

The captain watched Ecco for a moment. He wasn't sure if he could trust her totally. True, she was a shape-shifter, but she was of this land and likely loyal to this land not to her race. He gave a few hand motions to his crewmen and they saluted him, knowing instantly what he wanted. To her he replied, "To start the purging. I don't know if Emperor Demondred plans to conquer this land, he never told us. He only spoke of purging the world. Maybe he does want to start a war, but whatever he plans he serve him loyally."

Equinox glanced around, making sure the others were fine. It was then he noticed the war ship again he couldn't be sure, but he was sure the ship and people on it were up to no good. He was sure Ecco would know what to do, even so he did glance back at it. Something about it seemed odd to him. Not believing he was doing so he asked Crimson Do you ships have strange openings on them with what seems like hooks of a sort coming out? Or where normally fire catapults would be?
Crimson snarled at him and replied viscously, "Their called dragon harpoons fool! And yes, some of my ships have them."
Equinox sighed but remained silent. He wasn't sure if they planned on attacking Ecco with them, but Equinox had to warn her just in case. Flying towards her he said to her Be careful, that ship has dragon harpoons on it.
Once done relaying his message to her he glanced back at the others. Heading over to them he said I think we should follow Demondred and Phal, but some should stay here with Ecco and the ship.
"I'll go with Phal." Crimson said.
Do you really think we trust you Crimson? This is over, why don't you leave?
"There is a larger threat to my plans than you now Equinox!" Crimson snarled, "Haven't you heard? The enemy of my enemy is my ally."
Then shouldn't Demondred be your ally?
Crimson laughed, "You really are dense dragon. Demondred means to destroy me just because I'm an elf, which means my puppets die also, and he wants to take over my empire I'm carving up in this land. You just want to stop me. Besides he's a bigger threat than you."
Find! You can stay for now! Equinox snapped. I'll go after Phal and Demondred. Now, who wants to come with me and who wants to stay with this fool? Equinox asked.

Crimson glared at Equinox, than at Jia, than Kilev. Maybe he should have left them now, but there were larger threats out there. Besides, it maybe he'd have a chance to kill two or more birds with one stone. He looked back towards the war ship ignoring the others. It did have dragon harpoons like Equinox noticed, but this seemed even larger and grander than his own ships. If there was only a way he could steal it.

OOC: I have no ideas right now, skip me this time.

OOC: I'll have to come up with a "nasty surprise" of my own, then... heehee.

IC: Phalynx chased after the man and his dragon, her eyes burning with green fire. The gamma ray starfire was getting difficult to restrain, and she snarled in frustration when she saw him land in the port city, his gold dragon effectively a horse as he waited for his "master" to return. There was no way she could let loose with gamma radiation here. Even if it would kill the man, or whatever he was, it would kill countless innocents. Phal closed her eyes briefly and swallowed back her rage. She was good at that; controlling her emotions. She needed to calm herself now, despite the enraging attitude and infuriating plots of this creature. She made it over the top of the tavern he had entered, only about a minute behind him because of the speed of her flight. Come on out and finish this fight! she called recklessly, knowing his dragon would probably warn him that she had caught up anyway.

Ecco's deep indigo eyes widened slightly in surprise at the sailor's words. Purging? Purging of what? she asked, once again restricting her voice until it contained no more than curiosity. She couldn't let these humans think she was a threat, yet. When she had gotten as much information as she wanted, she would sink their ship. She glanced towards shore at the voice that suddenly entered her mind. Thank you. I have dealt with things such as them before... they will not be a problem, she replied in a business-like tone to the green dragon, giving him a very slight nod. Her talons were digging small furrows into the wood of the deck.

OOC: Oh, well see about that lol

Demondred heard Phal's calling. He smirked, he would answer the fool dragon later. First he went up to the man behind the counter. Walking to him his eyes glowed white for a moment and he stared back at Demondred, "You will convince the people in the city to get their bows, harpoons, anything than can use to hunt down dragons and get it ready. You will have them shoot down any dragons they see." Demondred said. The man nodded as eagerly, "You will remember nothing of this conversation and act as if it is your idea." With that, Demondred stride outside. To Phal he said through mind, I'm ready to fight you now. It was a simple statement, he watched with the corner of his eyes as the people from the tavern begun to tell the soldiers what to do and persuade them. To Phal he said You will learn your proper place dragon.

The captain stared in surprise at Ecco that she didn't know what Purging was. Sighing he replied, "The purging! We will purge this land of elves. Destroy all those sub humans along with those short hairy men called dwarves. And dragons will have their rightful place at the bottom of society." he said proudly. Glancing back at the men behind him he said, "We come in peace to shape shifters and humans though."

Equinox glanced back at Jia. Though he wasn't sure if Phal would be alright by herself, she didn't trust Crimson with Jia and Kiev. Glancing back at the ship he worried about what it would do. He walked over to Jia and used some magic to help cure her even more. Though he wasn't the bet at healing, he gave her what energy he could.

OOC: kilev was not a rider. his father was. But kilev knows some things about being a rider and alot about dragons. just not the really secret stuff that only true riders know, most of the stuff he learned about dragons was from his fathers dragon.


IC: "yeah, like I am going to stand here and watch everything" kilev mutterd. he had done things his own way for several years now. it would be nearly impossible to get him to change now. But he also knew just chargeing in like a maniac would only get him killed. besides the last time he acted without thinking he only survived becuase his fathers dragon was close by. so, kilev began to think of how he could help without makeing himself too obvious. There was the ship, and demondred flew of on his dragon being chased by one of the other dragons. but which one should he take care of first?

OOC:
Sorry, sorry, I forgot to put in that I was talking to Crimson. Sorry for that.

OOC: Just to let you know draco, when others are under Compulsion they aren't under Demondred's control from his mind, its just the magic he used on them ordering to do it. He no longer controls them unless he uses Compulsion again.
Demondred smirked at Phal, standing up and staring at her. His eyes widened with pleasure, he hadn't had a fight like this for some time. With magic, he made her come to the ground. He had never used Compulsion on a dragon. His eyes glowed red and he swiped his hands. To Phal he said, "You will lave this city and act as if nothing has happened. If asked by your friends what you did to me, you killed me and freed Argos." He could tell she had a strong mind, but Compulsion wasn't about breaking into the mind totally she he by passed it without worry. Besides, none in this land had a clue what his Compulsion was.

Glancing at Ecco and the other dragon, the men fidgeted, unsure if this new dragon was a shape-shifter or not. To Ecco the captain said, "Because, elves are inpure. They are a cruel vile race of savages, wanting nothing but their own personal glory. They are a sub species of human, they don't deserve life. As for the dragons, they are just animals, mere pack mules. You see, dragons need to be controlled. Without it, they will go wild. Pure dragons are nothing, nothing but pets to us. Don't you want power? You can have the power you want, fame, glory, anything Ecco. You see, we are a giving people, if you aid us, you can have as much land and money as you want. We will give you anything you wish if you tell us more about this land." The captain said. He wasn't as skilled at manipulation as Demondred, but he at least wanted to try.

Equinox stared at Crimson for a moment and him back. He could see the hatred in his former rider's eyes. Glaring, he stood up and stalked away from the two towards the ship. He hid himself in the shadow of the cliff to watch what was going on. If Ecco and Jia got into trouble, he would be there to aid them in a surprise attack. In the distance he could see something headed towards the shore. Intrigued, he leapt into the air flying high so he would just seem like a bird. Flying over he stared with alarm, three more war ships were headed at them. He thought he could glimpse dragons on them. Alarmed, he quickly flew back. Extending his mind to Ecco, Jia, Crimson, and Kilev he said, Be careful, I saw three war ships in the distance. With nervousness and disgust they said I saw dragons too on them. I don't know what they plan, but we can't defeat all of them. Ecco, get what information you need and sink this ship. We all should get going.

Crimson smirked at what Equinox said. Normally he would pay no mind to the fool dragon, but this time he knew Equinox was correct, this could be dangerous. He brought none of his mind slaves with him, and his nearest ship was in a port he was making at the spine and a few at the islands. He grabbed his sword and eyed the ship, stalking towards it, he had his own plans. His fleet needed more ships like this.

kilev saw crimson walking towards the ship. "what is he doing?" he mutterd. either crimson was an idiot or he had something in mind kilev did not know. But kilev pushed that out of his mind for the moment. he was paying more attention to the ships that were comeing in. He had never faced something like this before he douted even the king could handle these invaders easily. Kilev continued watching the ships as they came closer. he also kept an eye on the other ship. ecco and jia were tlaking with the captain. Kilev was amazed they hadent killed him yet, with the way he insulted dragons.

OOC: I'll remember that, dark. She did see the initial magic, though.

IC: Phalynx watched as Demondred picked himself up, an arrogant smirk on his face. She stared back calmly, green eyes drilling into him as she waited. She saw his magic working its way up on her, drawing her lower. It was very powerful, so she decided that fighting it would be pointless. She would flap back up when the men began to shoot at her; for now she didn't want to waste her strength. But then, his magic changed, into the form she had seen it take when he spoke to the man in the tavern. She tensed herself, waiting for him to speak. When he did, she felt the sudden urge to leave, to do as he said. She quickly stripped away as many layers to his magic as she could before it could get a firm hold on her mind, though she was forced to expend energy to do so.

Phal growled, still feeling the urge to leave but resisting it. His mental strength was like a dragon's, though, and she knew that it would be much harder to resist a stronger "attack". You underestimate me. Despite what you think of dragons, could a mere beast have such a powerful mind? Far more powerful than a human's might I add? You can't control me like you can your little pet, she stated, her voice calm. Even if his mind was as strong as a dragon's, hers was among the strongest a dragon's could be. She would not be made a slave to him, like his poor dragon Argos.

Ecco had to fight very hard to control the rush of intense hatred flowing through her. A little more information, she told herself, then I can sink their ship. She glanced over at Jia as the young dragoness spoke. We will have to be most cautious of him, then. Careful not to anger these sailors, also. They might yet get fed up with our questionings, she warned, both to Jia and herself, for her anger was threatening to bubble over. She glanced back to shore when Equinox contacted her mentally. I will sink all of these ships. Dragons or no dragons, she hissed back. She waited for the men to respond to Jia before responding. Guess it's time to try out my acting skills, she thought. I do not thank you for insulting my two most-used forms. I do have a concern for you, though. Both of these forms of mine, and the actual creatures themselves, are extremely powerful. Even with this force of humans, and possibly shapeshifters, I don't think you'll be able to defeat all of the elves and dragons of this land. Free dragons are much more powerful than enslaved ones, and elves are more powerful than humans. How do you expect to succeed? I do not wish to join the losing side of a war, after all, she spoke calmly, an air of haughtiness to her voice.

OOC: Ok

Demondred sneered at Phal and pulled out his sword. His eyes begun to blow again, but this time not with the use of Compulsion or his Sensory. His sword grew much larger and he grew taller and his skin turned to scales. Soon he resembled something as a bipedal dragon. Several people around him screamed in terror. He towered over Phal and snarled at her, "You are correct, a dragon's mind is more powerful than humans. But not shape-shifters, some shape shifters minds are weaker than dragons while some are smaller. And yes, back during my conquest I met many of you brutes who could resist my Compulsion." With that, he dove at Phal, Lifting her with his claws he slammed her to the ground putting his sword to her neck. "Now listen young dragoness. If you value your life you will do as I said. You are powerful, I am not a fool who refuses to recognize other's strengths, but I have met dragons in Ardonia who could crush you."A snarl hissed from his teeth as he stared down at Phal threateningly.

The captain glanced at Dela he replied with a sneer, "I am a human, only a shape-shifter could truly tell if another is a shape-shifter, but for now I will believe you." Then he noticed Kilev heading towards the ship. He snarled saying, "A half-breed!" glancing at him he was about to order an attack, but didn't. Maybe he could get Ecco to join them. He'd kill off the vile half-breed another time. To Ecco he said, "Lord Demondred has done it before, he conquered all of Ardonia with a force of humans and shape-shifters. Strength doesn't matter in battle as long as you have skilled tactics. Besides, Shape-shifters can out strength elves, ad dragons cal still easily be killed. We have done it before, and we will do it again.

Crimson managed to hid in the shadow of the ship as the man spoke. Snarling at his words he used magic to hoist himself onto the ship. Surprised, two men stared at him about to attack until he shot them down with magic. Heading over to the capital, he stabbed them an through the chest, then stared at Ecco, Jia, and Kilev and smirked. Behind him a man shouted, "A savage is attacking us! Fire the dragon harpoons!" At the order people across the ship begun to attack, preparing dragon harpoons fore fire.
Glancing at them Crimson said, "I'm taking this ship." With that, he charged deeper into the ship ready to fight the crew that awaited.

Equinox snarled at Crimson foolish action. Watching him he said to himself And that is why one does not every trust a fool. Taking off into the sky he fired lightning bolts at the other three ships trying to scare them off but stopped as several dragons flew towards him. It would take them still a few minutes to reach him. Staring at the ship, he was shocked at the order to fire dragon harpoons. As they begun to fire he dashed forward. He rammed into Jia to shove her out of the way and with his tail knocked Ecco off the ship as a dragon harpoon fired straight at where Jia just was. As he splashed into the water he rose back up shaking the droplets off of him. Landing on the deck he snarled, shooting several archers off the crows next with lighting.

OOC: Was Ecco in her dragon or elf form?

OOC: appaerantly kilev is walking towards them now, even tho I do not remember saying it.

kilev climbed onto the ship. his old leg injury made it harder then it should be but he managed to get it done without being noticed. he hoped ecco could keep the captain distracted long enough. he wanted to make sure he destroyed anything demondred might want to salvage when the ship was sunk. He couldent le him have anything that could be of use. he was also going to disarm the dragon harpoons, if he could.

"Oh, don't worry dragon," Demondred snarled, "I won't be killed by you." He leapt into the air after making sure not to get in front of her head to avoid her attack. He couldn't be sure of what, but from his experience he's learned when something's eyes glowed it wasn't good. Flying around her and above, he sunk his claws into her tail, getting a firm grip and feeling the blood flow out of her tail. With that, he swung her towards a building. "You speak bravely for one so young. Dragon, I've faced others of your kind far more powerful than you." Around him it seemed the city had started to go into fighting as it begun to split apart into what could be considered a civil war in the city. It made him laugh, these fools really did not know what was coming for them.With his massive sword he slaced through several humans who were attacking those either made loyal by compulsion or those who were brought over by them.

The men on deck quickly hurried over to other dragon harpoons or begun fighting those already on deck. A few magic users melted the ice and begun to fire at Ecco. Not far behind them the other three ships approached, and the massive dragon force flew towards the ship that was under attack. On them were mostly archers or magic users.

Equinox watched as the battle unfolded, he could tell they couldn't win this alone. Even so it seemed as if Ecco and the others thought it could be one. He snarled and flew away towards the Hadarac, hoping to get there in time before those on shore were overrun. Flapping his wings as hard as he could he flew northeast than stopped. He wouldn't make it in time. Flying high into the sky he watched the battle take place on the shore. Crimson did say he had a few ships further up the cost. Quickly he soared towards them, it didn't take too long until he saw a small portion of Crimson's fleet. Descending down towards them, he braced himself for the arrows, opining his minds he shouted Crimson hasn't warned you fools yet! Listen! But those bent stick shooters away and follow me! Crimson's in danger and the only reason I'm telling you that that treacherous fly swatting fiend is in trouble is because some of my friends are too! Now stop staring at me and get your cursed ships on the move! With that, he flew back towards the battle.

Jumping to the side, Crimson parried a strike to his side and leapt back, kicking the man in the chest and blasting him down with magic. Getting back to deck, he ran towards the wheel of the ship to take command. He was its new captain now. Though there was still fighting, he'd take control of the ship. He made a small shield go around him as several men charged him. Firing at them they went down and he turned the ship towards the other three ships. At once they begun to open fire with fire catapults as they saw the ship headed towards them. Crimson smirked, if he couldn't take the ship at least it would be damaged beyond repair for these fools to use.

kilev mutterd a line of curses, he knew from past experiance how pwoerful dragons could get. and now they were going to have to fight a lot more then just one. he fineshed of the man he was fighting and went to find the others. killing anyone who got in his way. he found Jia and crimson at the wheel. those dragons are going he cause some problems he said. kilev dd not want to kill them if he did not have to. But he could see no oher way around it. with his past life, killing a dragon was not on the top of his list of things to do.

Demondred leapt into the air after her, he wouldn't enter Blood Lust again, and even so he was sure he could defeat her without it. Flying towards her he knew she was faster than him so he did a log complex swipe with his massive sword to at least strike her. On the ground soldiers already loyal to him were aiming their bows up at Phal though some had to fight against those who were not loyal. "Dragon, just surrender. Even if you do manage to drive me off your land I'll come and attack this primitive heap of trash with the combined force of the Arnodian Empire!" Normally he did not let himself get overwhelmed with pride and arrogance, but he at least wanted her to know his land's strengths.

Several of the dragons snarled, staring down at where Ecco had went. A few of them ordered by the saliors dove into the water after her. Water dragons were rare in Ardonia but they would experts at under the sea. The four of them quickly swam after Ecco, launching sound waves of their own at her or super heated water that vaporized some of the water around it as it flew at her. On the sea the ships begun to open fire with their catapults at the one Crimson had control off. He was unable to due much since he didn't have a crew.

Crimson snalred as the dragons flew towards them. To Jia he said, "Finish off any more enemies still on this ship and fast! Once done combat the dragons. Kilev, command the dragon harpoons that weren't destroyed." He glanced into the air looking for Equinox. Snarling to himself he said, "The green fool is never around when you need him." Crimson snarled to himself. Glancing in the distance he could see something on the outline. He gave a dark laugh, "So that's where he went." He reached out his mind and said to his fleet captains, I want three of you to fire your catapults at the dragons. The rest of you four fire at the other ships. He wished he had more of his fleet, but these seven would have to do.

Equinox looked down at Crimson's fleet attacked the enemy dragons and ships. He wasn't sure how well they'd do, but he hoped they would defeat the invaders. And maybe if I'm lucky they'll manage to get themselves destroyed. he said to himself staring down at the ships. He knew once this was over Crimson would likely turn on them. He forced the thought out of his head and flew towards one of the dragons unleashing lightning bolts onto them.

steven watched the fighting between the strnanger and the draogon ((demondred and phal)) from behind the croud of people. he could not speak even if he was not mute. he had nver seen anything like this before. but he hoped the dragon got out alive. he wanted to ask her if she knew kilev and also where he was. His father was a rider so a dragon would probably know him. he also wanted the dragon to win because the stranger fighting it did not seem too freindly at all. he wanted to use magic to help the dragon. but being mute he could not use the antaint language and that meant he had to use amgic in a different and very dangouras way. so he used it as little as possible. all he could do was watch with frustration.
klev reluctantly obeyd. he had spent all his life doing things his own way. But he knew it was neccsesery and he would have done this if crimson had not told him to do it. But he still did not like it. but also at the time he was thinking of his brother steven, how was he doing? what would demondred do to a half elf who was also mute and was trapped in the body of a child?

OOC: Just so you know, dark, the sound wave thing is something only Ecco can do (it's part of her shaman-elf abilities: they have magical powers related to the animal they can turn into, which in Ecco's case is a dusky dolphin). You don't have to edit, though, lol.

IC: Phalynx swerved around Demondred's slashing attack, winging her way far to the side and then abruptly diving down at him. She slashed along his back with her claws before quickly flapping out of the way again, getting higher than him (and also too far away from the archers below for their aim to be very accurate). You can only bring your Empire here if you are able to escape, she called down with a mocking smile, green eyes flashing. She positioned herself in a way that she could see all of Demondred's weapons, ready to move and dodge when he struck again. There was no way he could beat her physically; she was just too fast. (Though, she didn't have much hope of beating him physically either.) She sent down more starfire at the beast, the roiling silver flames lighting the sky. They would be hard to look at from the ground when coupled with the brightness of the sunlit heavens. She then strafed rapidly to the side to avoid any "surprise" attacks, her wings ready to change direction in case Demondred attempted to catch her offguard. She would keep this fight up as long as she needed to.

Ecco was far ahead of the other dragons who had dove into the water after her, too far for their long-range attacks of heated water to reach her. She knew they would catch up when she started in on one of the warships, but for now she had a little time. She reached the nearest ship in seconds and began ripping and tearing on the hull around the keel. If she could crack the keel and open holes in the hull near it, the warship would be damaged enough to sink to the bottom of the ocean (where higher pressure would do even more damage to it, though not enough for Ecco, since these coastal waters were still relatively shallow). When she had clawed a few holes in the wood of the keel, she stuck her snout in and breathed ice into the cracks, expanding the water inside and creating even more cracks and breaks. She already had three good-sized, water-friendly holes in the hull and a few nice cracks on the keel (though not truly through it yet) by the time her pursuers reached her. You've been slaves your whole lives, or at least part of your lives. It's time you saw how a free dragon, practiced in getting out of desperate situations where she is outnumbered and all hope of escape is seemingly lost, can fight. When a free dragon fights for something we believe in, nothing can stand against us, Ecco warned, her razor-sharp, needle-like teeth bared in a snarl. She had fought many underwater battles, and was used to fighting for survival. She rushed at the dragons, rolling to avoid their jets of heated water.

OOC: Ok

Demondred smirked, he darted away from the star fire attack, though be so large it was hard to maneuver. Glaring back at her he had another idea. Flying to her front his eyes glowed red again. Using Compulsion again he said, "You will fly away from me. You will warn your allies that I am attacking a port." He hopped that by using that last part it would make her more willing to obey since she would likely want to tell her allies, "You will lead them here, there will be no ambush, but you will lead them to me. If they refuse to come, you will force them to." As he went with Compulsion he noticed a young half breed, it didn't seem as if it could speak. To Phal he said, "Kill the Half Breed first."

The dragons darted around her, and went to surround her in a circle and close in, each darting around her in the circle to she couldn't get too far away. Sailing towards Ecco they blasted more heated water. One sent a shockwave through the water which would electrocute her. Not enough to kill, but enough to bring pain and distract her.

Turning the ship to face the other three, Crimson knew even with Kilev commanding the dragon harpoons, they were still in bad shape, due to the fact they lacked a full crew. Smirking, he watched as Equinox led the portion of his fleet that had been nearby. To the fleet commanders he said through mind Half of you fire at the dragons! The other half, divine and conquer the enemy ships! His fleet came in as some fired at the dragons and the rest at the ships. Using magic he made the tip of the bow of the ship turn to steel. Rushing towards a ship, he smirked, it was time to ram them.

With lighting crackling around him in a shield, Equinox dove directly at the enemy dragons. Some of which headed towards Jia, some towards Crimson's ships, and some towards himself. Smashing into one of the dragons, he grabbed it with his claws, forcing electricity through its scales. It roared, but shoved him away, and two more smashed in to him. He had to struggle to escape them. He snarled at them, It seems these slave dragons know how to fight.

when demondred noticed him steven decided it was time to get out of there. he sheilded his mind and slipped away. he had one hand on his sword ready to fight at any moment. he was used to people trying to kill him. But noone like demondred. steven did not even know how powerfull he was. he hoped he could avoid fighting with magic. it was possible for him. But being mute it was dangouras and he wanted to avoid useing magic as much as possble. so he usualy jsut used he sword and his mind to fight his battles. his feet did not make a singal sound when they hit the ground. and he did not look back. he just kept running.


not matter how many dragons kilev shot down. another seeemed to take it's place. there seemed to be no end to them. one of the dragons landed on the ship. kilev drew his sword and slashed at it. trying to drive it back. But.drveing back a dragon is not an easy thing to do. espeshily when you are already tired.

Demondred snarled as the half breed ran. He would deal with the savage later. Glancing back at Phal he snarled, "I would like to see you try primitive!" Snarling, he flew under her, and wrapped his claws around her underside, turned upside-down, and slammed her against the ground. Staring down at her he snarled into her face, "You will submit to me dragoness of the stars. If you do not, I will give you hell." An evil looked formed on his face as he glared at her, "And if that doesn't work, Ardonians have always enjoyed dragon flesh."

Some of the dragons Ecco hit snarled, but continued to circle her, blasting their attacks at them. One flew up and dove down at her while others flew from the side. Snarling, they continued their attacks.

Crimson glanced back at Kilev as he shot down dragons with the harpoons. He'd make a good fleet commander or at least a good captain. Glancing back to the battle, he rammed the ship in front of him and the bow crashed through the wood of the other ship. Several of the crewmen snarled at him, but as they went to pas, he raised his hand and shot fire balls out at them. Glancing up, he saw several dragons fly at them and start to blast fire at them. Snarling, he put his hand into the air to block some of the flames, but a large section of the ship was still on fire.

At seeing the dragons swarm towards Crimson's ship, Equinox flew above them and launched more lightning bolts. Suddenly, he felt a force go over him. He winced in pain, something was overwhelming him. His lighting seemed to want to come out on its own. Roaring in pain he cringed. What's happening to me? painfully he glanced and saw a indigo dragon near him using a strange magic it seemed. Roaring at him, Equinox went to dive, but bolts of lightning flew from him. Jia Kilve watched out! That dragon's controlling my lighting! As he said that, two lightning bolts flew at them. Before he could act, he targeted the water and unleashed a massive amount of electricity towards the water, to the water he said hoping that Ecco would hear Ecco get out of there! I can't control it! With that, he sent the massive bolt of electricity into the water below.

steven feltlike he should help the dragon. so we went back. but another way. he approached them from behind. he had to dstract demondred long enough for phal to do something. he launched a mental attack at demondred. it as the safest distraction he had from so far away. This was the moment he wished he could talk. ebecuase the moment he launched the mental attack he knew he would have to use magic.


I have nothing for kilev. other then the fact that he jumped out of the way.

Phalynx snapped out her wings as she was flung toward the ground, straining her muscles and flapping the large limbs downward. A few quick flaps and she hit the ground with the touch of a feather. She let herself sink down a little more on her hind legs before jumping back into the air with a massive downthrust of her wings. She zipped away from Demondred and spiraled back, getting back into the air above him (but not directly above; she was about his own body-length in front of him and above him). A few of the archers below had shot at her, but most arrows had bounced off her scales and three punctured small holes in her wing membrane. She blasted more starfire at Demondred and dove suddenly at him, slashing across his side as she darted past and behind him. In mere seconds, she was hovering again about his body length behind him. She didn't show it yet, but she was starting to feel the strain of this fight. The effort of the first battle and now this next one were slowly wearing on her.

Ecco continued attacking the other dragons relentlessly. Her claws were long enough that one slash was plenty to knock a dragon out of the fight if she hit a large vein or artery. That much blood loss would quickly remove a dragon from battle and possibly render it unconscious. Her ice armor was suiting her well but it wasn't thick enough to block physical attacks (she focused its strength in the magical area). For that reason, the black and white dragoness was slowly accumulating small cuts and scratches and bite-marks. At Equinox's warning, she rapidly strengthened the magical protection of her armor, knowing she wouldn't be able to get away in time. The blast of electricity coursed through the water, catching all of the dragons around Ecco. A few were killed, and many left unconscious or near-unconscious. All were at least momentarily dazed. Ecco used the opportunity to go after the ship again. Her powreful forearms dealt heavy blows to the keel, extending the cracks and deepening them. At last, she heard a mighty, earsplitting crack as the keel finally split, destabilizing the ship. Ecco smiled, eager for the massive warship to sink. She turned around to deal with the recovered dragons.

Demondred snarled as Phal struck his side. About to counter attack, he felt the half breed attack his mind. To Steven he said though mind Do you really think you can penetrate the mind of a being beyond that of a dragon half breed?" Diving towards him, he swatted Steven away with his tail, but focused back on Phal. She was more of a threat and if he wasted time trying to kill the half breed it would allow Phal to attack him by surprise. though his wings were slightly damaged from the star fire along with a burn mark on his chest, he could still fight. Flying towards her as if to strike at her with his sword, he made to slash, but threw the massive sword straight at her, than blasted streams of fire in her direction. "You will learn the price for defying your superiors dragon! he snarled.

The crew of the ship that both Ecco and Crimson sunk begun to struggle to try and escape as they went on the sinking ship. From his own position, Crimson set the ship above so the crewmen would burn alive or drown in the waters. The few water dragons that managed to recover dived out of the sea, two of them carrying Equinox's unconscious body. Both begun to fly away towards the third shiop which was fighting Crimson's ships.

The dragon snarled and glanced back towards Jia who bit him. Snarling he replied, You will learn your place hatchling. We are nothing buts savages, we diserve to be enslaved. the dragon said and used his own magic on Jia. You don't have any powers I can exploit easily, but this will have to do. Using its magic, the dragon made Jia go into her out of body experience. Though he couldn't kill her with it or harm her allies, he could try best to weaken her.

Equinox blinked, he saw the deck of a ship coming closer. Roaring, he managed to break free from the two dragons by tearing one's wing off with his teeth and slashing wildly. The other let him drop. Turing towards it, he was forced to dart away as a large flaming catapult rock soared at him. Glancing over, he saw the same indigo dragon which was using his powers do so to Jia. Snarling, he flew towards them, and struck the dragon in the side forcing both of them to collapse to the ground and making his attack on Jia cease.
Slamming the dragon into the water, both he and Equinox fought, the area around them turning red with blood. Finally Equinox was able to get his jaw around the enemy dragon's neck and snap it.

At seeing the ship sink, Crimson turned for the remaining two vessals. Both were engaging his own ships. Several of them had been destroyed by both the war ships and dragons. Sailing it onwards he motioned for a wave to sweep into one of the ships, but it was blocked. Magic wards must have been placed around it. Suddenly, he nearly fell down as something rammed into his own ships, "Dam it! A fourth one!" Technically third though sense one had been sunk. Snarling to himself he turned his ship to face the other one. Readying fire, he was prepared to sink his own ships if the enemy should bored. Snarling, he wished he would have brought some terra birds.