"We have been walking for days Foxe!"groaned Nox dragging his feet through the dirt,"Where the hell are we going?!"
Foxe slowed his pace so Nox was right next to him. Alex only a couple steps behind looking in amazement at all the destruction and still hugging Genovia close. He wrapped an arm around Nox's shoulder and pointed at the tower up ahead.
"Right there Nox. Every sector has a tower in it used to be X-Terms outposts. Figures an X-Terms doctor wouldn't really know of them, they're used by us soldiers."
Alex came running up to them,"By the way Foxe that guard called you Captain..I didn't know X-Terms had a ranking."
"Well what did you think X-Terms was a mercenary outfit?"laughed Foxe,"We are the only military that Astos has because of whoever is doing stuff like this,"he motioned at the destroyed buildings,"We are its only line of defense and yes I worked my up to Captain, I'm probably the youngest to do it."
A couple of blocks later and they were standing in front of the tower. Each tower was made the same way, hundreds of feet tall and a few hundred in width. All stone except for the metal sign above the door reading "X-Terms Facility 067", this building was actually the shortest one at only two hundred feet tall.
"I'm guessing there's no elevators is there?"Alex asked in dismay.
"Nope. It's stairs or Shadow Port."said Foxe,"Personally I'd like to be more careful and take the stairs."
Second led to minutes which led to hours, and the stairs just never stopped. Their journey up was a crazy puzzle of jumping and wall climbing, every 3 floors was some obstacle of missing sets of stairs. But finally they had made it to the top and all four of them laid down on the stone floor and stared up at sky through the completely missing roof.
"Sweet gods above we finally made it!"yelled Nox happily.
They all just laughed together not even noticing the giant shadow flying towards them from the clouds now colored in oranges and pinks and reds as the sun moved towards setting.
With a loud thud and scraping of claws the shadow landed and growled at the group. Immediately Foxe sank into his own shadow as the other two stood up and stared at the massive dragon standing in front of them. It was massive standing as tall as the gate to sector 67. It was scaled in a bright yellow and shined beautifully.
Nox looked to Alex in fear,"Where the hell did Foxe go!? Are we gonna die!?"
"Shut up and fight Nox!"Foxes voice came from above.
Pushing out of the shadows of the wall above the dragon was Foxe, scythe at the ready and he fell towards the creature. He landed on its back and in one bright flash of his blade severed a wing. The dragon one body part short howled in pain and started trying to buck Foxe from its back in rage.
"Yee fuckin haw!"yelled Foxe.
He stabbed in his scythe and slid down the dragons side slicing it clean open. As he landed Alex ran up and launched fireballs into the new wound. Nox just stood and stared not sure what he could do with his measly water. The dragon seeing Nox frozen in fear and doubt ignored the other two and drew in a deep breath, and let go a massive lightning bolt that hit to the right of Nox causing the floor to explode and sending Nox flying into a wall.
"NOX!"yelled Alex and Foxe in unison.
Seeing Nox flung sent Foxe into a rage, he slammed the butt of his scythe into ground and another blade shot out of it in the opposite direction of the other. He yelled loudly and swung at the dragon. In a series of jabs and twirls the scythe carved into the dragon who continued to launch lightning breathes at anything it could see.
"You will not hurt my friends and live!"yelled Foxe.
He used his Shadow Port to get above the dragon again, it started taking in another deep breath as hell fell towards its head. Foxe pushed shadows onto his scythe and called on his minimal fire control to cover it in a shadow like flame, hooked one side of the scythe to the dragons mouth and landed on the other blade using his full weight.
It was a beautiful thing to watch as Foxe's scythe cut through the dragons lower draw and down its neck, releasing the lightning breath the dragon held. It was like watching a lightning chase a shadow as the lightning spewed from the dragons throat as it was cut open. Foxe and Alex ran to Nox as he sat up.
"Nox are you alright!?"Asked Alex checking him for wounds.
"Yeah and you know what?"groaned Nox.
"No buddy what?"asked Foxe.
"Salamander are easy and dragons just fucking suck!"yelled Nox.
The three of them laughed for what felt like hour. Genovia came padding out of the stair well and over to the group,"I think it's time to set up camp after that big guy."
YOU ARE READING
X-TERMS
FantasyFoxe Leonard is an interesting young man with a terrible past, he is one of the few people with special powers, these people are known as X-Terms. X-Terms are in charge of clearing out the populations of monsters that threaten to destroy the human r...
