The Battle of Detroit (Steel Dragon Book 13) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [Mclaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885415071
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

One of the agitators growled as he blew smoke from his nose. Another lashed out with his tail. Still another sent a small ball of fire at them.

Kristen’s dragon fighters held their position. They ignored the smoke, dodged the tail strike, and deflected the fireball. They knew to not break ranks but they also knew the dragons would continue to test them.

“What the hell is this?” Diamontus bellowed as he emerged from the catacombs beneath the ruins of the castle and took his dragon form.

He was absolutely huge, so big that she thought he should be measured in elephants. It was the only conceivable standard. The big fucking dragon was at least as large as three elephants.

Worse were the blueish, crystalline formations that covered his entire body. She wanted to think that the spikes jutting from his shoulders, the backs of his elbows, and the ridge down his back and his head were as strong as ice. But the dragons’ name—Diamontus—spoke of stronger stuff.

“This mage is going about without a cuff,” a dragon told him. “We were working to fix that.”

“She’s in a contract with her master,” Diamontus said and nodded at Kristen. He looked pissed about it but he was a Council member, after all, and knew the laws better than most dragons.

“But, sir, no one on her team—no one—was hurt,” a dragon explained. “What if they were working with the humans who shot their missiles at us?”

“It’s an interesting thought,” the large dragon growled. “That would of course make them traitors to dragon kind. Where were you prior to the attack?” he demanded of Kristen.

“She was with me, you big buffoon.” Shimmerclaw appeared from the clouds, her platinum scales glowing as brightly as the sky itself. “She’s tried to stop this war, unlike you, Diamontus. She’s not allied with the humans any more than you are.”

He grumbled but before he could say anything, she spoke again. “This is not the time for bickering. A real enemy has revealed itself. It is time to rethink our defensive capabilities before we are struck with such devastation again. We ought to thank Lady Steel’s mage for our lives, not threaten her.”

“Not everyone made it out with their life,” the dragon with the neck frill pointed out gruffly.

“None of us would have made it out with our lives if not for the Steel Dragon and her team. I was in the air when this all happened. I saw it play out. She and her mage offered sage advice—take cover—which those of you who survived all heeded. Thereafter, the mage stopped five of the six explosive projectiles the humans in their airplanes launched at us.”

“Do you speak the truth?” Diamontus asked. “She stopped five of the weapons that did this?”

“Well, Lady Steel might have helped with one,” Shimmerclaw said wryly.

“All this death was caused by only one of their missiles?” he demanded.

“No, sir,” Emerald said. “There were two volleys and six missiles each. The second time, only one hit but that was when we suffered the most casualties.

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