Steel Dragon 5 by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [McLaughlin, Kevin & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Seven

The air was still above the storm. It was almost frightening how rapidly Amy’s pulse dropped and how quickly her breathing returned to normal. The clouds didn’t look like a storm of destruction. They didn’t look like something straight out of the apocalypse. Instead, they resembled a sunset spread below them. They glowed with reds and oranges and yellows, and the crevices where they weren’t filled with fire were rich with dark purples and blues.

It was horrifying that a creation of such violence—a force that was able to destroy a city almost as an afterthought—could be so beautiful. Like the mushroom cloud of a nuclear weapon or the clean lines of a fighter jet, there was an elegance to this force of destruction.

She wanted nothing more than to obliterate it.

“Do you see anything?” she asked Lumos.

“I’m afraid not,” the old dragon replied. His eyes were stronger than hers and as they doubled back toward the center of the city, he had kept them trained on the clouds below.

“If he’s in the clouds…”

“Then this will never work,” he finished for her. “We need to attack without notice. Otherwise, he’ll simply strike me with lightning.”

“I can stop a bolt of lightning.”

“I believe you. But what about two? Or ten? Or a hundred?”

Amy didn’t bother to reply. She knew she had limits and although she’d never tested them against lightning, she wasn’t particularly optimistic.

A clue she needed distracted her before she could refocus her thoughts.

“Look at those clouds down there. Do you see that?”

“They’re beautiful, yes, but that doesn’t help us, does it?”

“No, look. They’re moving in a pattern—do you see? It’s like they’re circling a drain or something.”

Lumos stopped focusing on the space directly below them and looked farther out. She could tell he’d noticed when he almost hiccupped in surprise. “My dear, I think you solved our problem.”

The golden dragon adjusted course and his new trajectory took them directly to the center of the swirling clouds.

As they approached, they seemed to rise like foam. He flew above them and a moment later, the two of them stared into a tornado.

At the center, resting atop the clouds like a vulture gliding without flapping its wings, were their targets.

Stormwing’s scales were the color of bruised clouds. Rivulets of electricity crackled and popped from his scales. Every time the dragon made a micro-adjustment to his wings, electricity surged from them and lanced the clouds around him. The roar of thunder was constant and deafening.

On his back sat Havington, and the mage truly frightened her more than the dragon did. His robe, normally well-pressed and perfect, was half-burned away, and a horrible tube of flame issued from each hand. These extended past the dragon and were sucked in opposite directions to join the horrible counterclockwise swirl of wind that both swallowed the flames and made them larger. He laughed maniacally as he flicked his fingers to send balls of fire at the other dragons who tried to distract this godlike combination of warriors.

“Should we knock to let them know we’re here?” Amy asked.

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