Myrkron (Volume Two of The Chronicles of the Myrkron) by Woods Timothy

Author:Woods, Timothy [Woods, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-10-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

The Garolith returned its scythe to a resting position and scanned the shore. All the men were gone. There were far too many and too widely spread for any wizard to have transported them all at one time. A tendril of fear invaded the Garolith’s mind. It was an unfamiliar and maddening feeling. Only a Myrkron could have transported them all, and a Myrkron meant danger to it and its kind.

A thought crossed its mind; why did the Myrkron not slay it? Perhaps it could not, or perhaps it does not know how. The Garolith’s thought turned to the destruction of Kantwell and her magi. It was still quite a distance to travel and best begun. It started to move toward the cliff, but paused as it heard a great roar from the sky. Scanning the clouds above the cliff, it saw no immediate threat; but as it resumed its movement, one of the dragons it had encountered out in the ocean crested the cliff venting a ground shaking roar.

The dragon had its wings tucked back along its massive body as it dove, like an arrow loosed from an elvish bow, straight at the Garolith. The Garolith stopped and raised its scythe to a ready position. Dragons of this size were stupid and direct. It would breathe on him and attempt to bite.

As the dragon came within range, the Garolith swung its scythe in a scathing arc aimed at the outstretched neck. As the strike was about to connect, the dragon retracted its neck, turned its head and bit down on the scythe, shattering the shaft and causing the great blade to go spinning off. It landed thirty feet away, standing point down in the sand.

The Garolith was surprised by the action and, as it tried to recover from the momentum of the swing, the dragon hit it with its full weight, causing both to roll and tumble toward the ocean. The Garolith lashed out with its tail and coiled around the dragon’s neck. The dragon’s head reared and struck, catching the Garolith around its torso in its great mouth. Both monsters began to squeeze their opponent. The Garolith struck several times with its taloned hands at the armored plates on the dragon’s face, causing great gashes and rupturing one of the massive eyes.

The dragon planted its hind feet in the wet sand and, ignoring the pain shooting through its face, raised its upper body, with the Garolith still coiled about its neck, up off the sand. The dragon grasped the Garolith’s serpentine body, just below its robe in its front claws and with the massive power of its body gave a great heave. The upper body of the Garolith was torn from its scaly tail. The dragon slammed the Garolith’s upper body to the ground like a hound shaking a snake. Spitting the body out of its mouth, the dragon reared its head once again and struck at the Garolith, driving its massive snout like a battering ram down on the Garolith’s chest.

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