144 Dragon Wars & The Trident City Of Atlantis VIII : Io Reyes (1/2)

I didn't hesitate as I shifted into my dragon form, ignoring the pain that always accompanied the shift. I saw the dragon lady's eyes widen in shock and rammed into her, my horn stabbing into the taut muscles of her right forelimb. She gave a small grunt, bubbles escaping from her clenched jaws as she flexed and I felt something stab into me from behind. I turned around to see that she had a tail a little similar to mine, but hers was like a mace with massive spikes butting out of it.

However stabbing me didn't seek to be enough as she dragged her tail downwards, splitting open skin and shredding scales as she left a rather nasty wound on my back. Pain or not there was no way I would let her injure me like this, I roughly raised my head up and shook my body, dislodging her tail from my back, but tearing into her forelimb as my horn did the same thing her tail did and dug a bloody ravine into her flesh. She roared out in pain, shaking herself loose from the entanglement, only to get a face full of flames from Zareth.

At first it was just a controlled blast that pushed her backwards, but then it was a stream of flames that boiled the water round us, rapidly raising it's temperature to boiling. She brought her wings around herself, covering it and creating a purple shield that defended against the flame breath attack. Knowing Zareth won't b able to keep it up indefinitely, I surged towards her, my body moving through the ocean at a speed that might even put most water dragons to shame.

I swam up and summersaulted in the water, my momentum spinning my massive body rapidly as the blade on my tail sliced down with a vengeance, lightening dancing on it. (LIGHTNING BLADE) The attack smashed into her barrier and dug a bit into her wings, but she quickly spread them, stopping me from completely shredding said wings, and then she opened her jaws, and right at my unprotected body she released a breath attack of her own that was colored the red and black of blood and death.

(You Have sustained critical damaged from the Sin Dragon Avatar of Wrath! Io Reyes! Health in critical condition! All Defense reduced by 40%, attack and speed reduced by 70%)

If it says I've take critical damage, then I've taken critical damage. I felt pain, a lot of it I might add, and looking down on my chest, I could see a bloody and very garish wound. The entire section of my chest looked like someone had dragged a massive cheese grater across it. My scales and my skin was hanging in strips and I could his my massive draconic ribs. LDO was not an 18+ game for nothing, and while the pain wasn't as obvious as it would have been in reality, this shit still hurt like a bitch.

Zareth sent out another blast of flames at her, she raised her wings, using it to defend against the strike, however it seemed like it was only a feint from Zareth ad his claws glowed red and shredded through her wings. It was an unexpected strike, and without her wings, movement would be a bit difficult, however she didn't seem to be that worried as she began spinning rapidly, her wings became akin to blades as she created an underwater tornado with the power to shred me and Zareth to pieces.

Zareth moved back and got under me, then using all his strength he shot out of the water, carrying my injured form as best as he could before moving back towards the Acheron. We could beat her, but she's had more experience and training with her dragon form, and as opposed to Hell Rain, she was a more powerful and smarter fighter. Because of the injury I sustained, I couldn't maintain my dragon form, so within Zareth's grasp I shrunk back until I was back in my normal form.

My health was regenerating, but it was painfully slow. As opposed to the normal hundreds of HP a second, I was only getting a single HP every 3 seconds, whatever she used to hit me, it was slowing down my healing. Io was dangerous, in fact she's probably the most dangerous opponent we've ever had to face since we started our journey. The water blasted upwards, spraying every which way as she came up out of the water, but right as she did so.

*Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!*

*Splash!*

Qitar did not afford her any sort of breathing space as the guns on the ship accurately sent blazing balls of energy smashing into her. Honestly, this was probably the only way we could match up to her, in a personal fight, I doubt Zareth and I would be able to get an upper hand. But regardless of what this seems like, it was a very massive loss for me and the crew, so far we've been running rough shod against every opponent, but right now the two most powerful members of my crew just had their asses handed to them.

*Splash!*