126 Island of the Dead (2/2)

'I'm glad you enjoy it, maybe I should bring you out more often to fight' Phoebe said.

'Indeed, I can't be letting my body get rusty by staying in that tattoo' Faith said. 'Watch out!'

A tail appeared out of nowhere, it was ridged with spikes as it furiously moved through the air.

Lachlan's eyes widened with surprise, but fortunately, to him, the tail was moving rather slow. He held out his hand and ice formed around it, the ice had small spikes covering it. Grabbing hold of the tile he squeezed tightly and yanked hard.

The tail appeared to be floating in the air but Lachlan felt the rest of the beast's body when he yanked it towards him.

Lachlan prepared his next attack, his fist was covered in pale blue flames that were burning brightly. He smashed forward to what he predicted was the body, the sound of bones snapped and flesh tearing echoed as the beast's invisibility was disabled. Lachlan had punched through the beast's head.

Lachlan already knew it was going to be a lizard, he didn't expect anything else. When he pulled his hand away from the corpse it set alight, the blue flames burnt it to ash before dispersing in the cold and haunting wind.

”Sure hope the others are having just as much luck as us,” Lachlan said. Although he knew they probably wouldn't, considering the fact that they're heading right to the centre where the temple is. It's probably heavily guarded.

...

”Burn these fucks to the ground!” Simon shouted as Wildfire used intense lazar beams to set all the ents on fire.

Joe and Sandy were spewing out fire behind the two, burning everything to the ground without hesitation. Joe was happily using his fire control, shooting out a trail of fire.

”Don't worry I got this!” Joe shouted before turning to Sandy. 'You know what to do'

Sandy smiled before sprinting into the most concentrated part of enemies, it abruptly halted before howling at the sky. Flames began to surround Sandy before spreading, burning everything to the ground.

The earth began to crack, lava started pouring out onto the ents and other enemies no one ever saw. It was a massacre, as Sandy almost singlehandedly wiped out an entire army of undead soldiers. After finishing its special ability it swiftly returned to Joe's side.

'Master, there's so many of them even my ability would have trouble finishing them off; we need to get to the centre quickly' Sandy suggest quickly with a tone of concern. They were slowly getting surrounded, and although the ents were easily taken care of there was also the invisible lizards and possibly other invisible beasts.

'Right' Joe nodded as he hopped onto Sandy, turning to the others he shouted. ”Let's stop wasting our time here and just head straight for the temple at the centre!”

”Then why waste our time running!” Georgia shouted as she hopped onto Kyle whose wings were spread out wide. The darkness beneath his feet extended to the surroundings, merging with the shadows everywhere, devouring beast whole. ”Let's just fly there instead!”

The others nodded and ran up to the birds, Joe joined Georgia on Kyle while Simon hopped onto Wildfire. Chloe went onto Tempest and Zoe hopped onto Dusty. Zhang was still injured and Brianna was taking care of him on the island. His recovery was sped up when he began eating and drink the coconuts and water.

The group shot into the air, they headed straight towards the centre of the island where a small hill was located. They quickly caught sight of the temple, it was shrouded in a dark purple mist; a completely black liquid surrounded the temple.

They landed on the ground and took a closer look at the temple, its exterior was completely black with white outlines. A tree shot through the centre, its leaves were purple with blacks stems. Its branches twisted and tangled with its black bark.

”The air feels heavy here making it slightly difficult to breathe,” Chloe said. The group agreed, they felt their chests heave when breathing as the air felt heavy and stale. It was lacking life, as though it had everything sucked from it.

”Now that I think about I don't see any other beast in sight,” Joe said as he searched the surroundings for any life. There wasn't anything, not even a tree in the nearby environment.

*Roar!*

A roar that shook the surroundings and caused the ground rumble. The sound of clinging and clanging was heard from the temple, the group saw the outline of a tale sway through the darkness, purple eyes stared at the group from the far side of the temple.

*Stomp!*

It took a step forward, its strength forced the ground to shake. The eyes swayed as the beast walked forward slowly, a purple air came out of the beast's mouth. It large scaly claw reached out of the darkness and slammed onto the ground. The other followed soon after.

The beast's head escaped the darkness, allowing the group to see in its entirety. The beast's wings extended wide, there were holes through the wing membrane. Its tail slid across the ground, clinking against the stone floor.

Its body was tall, the information the turtle gave them was correct. It was 5 metres tall and 9 metres long. Granted, the turtle didn't account for the beast's wings that extended 10 metres wide on each side.

”I really didn't think I would ever see it,” Simon said in awe. ”It's a goddamn dragon.”

*Roar!*