King of The Dragons (Wings of Fire X Monster Hunter)

Part 2: Chapter 22, 23, & 24

(3rd Pov Glory)

Glory lunged forward, bared her fangs and seized the closest spear in her talons. She yanked it toward her, throwing the guard off-balance, and shot a jet of venom that missed his face but sprayed across his wings and back.

He let go of the spear and stumbled toward the cave entrance with a shriek of pain.
The scarred dragon dropped his spear. He shot out of the cave, shoving aside his injured tribemate as he went by.

Glory whipped toward the last two guards and tried to turn the spear on them, but her wrapped talons were clumsy and she fumbled the weapon. They darted toward her, stabbing for her neck. Glory hissed a spray of venom at him, but to her surprise, one of them dodged and rolled under it, but the venom hit the smug guard in the neck. A moment later, the other guard knocked her over and pinned her facedown, and the smug guard was on the ground, motionless. The NightWing shoved her snout into the rocky floor and pressed the points of the spear into her neck.

"Nice try, RainWing," he snarled. "But it's not that east to fool a YYWWWOOOOOWW!" His weight suddenly disappeared from her back as his howls echoed around the cave.
Glory leaped ho her feet and found Kinkajou beside her, with her front talons pressed over her snout.

"I can't believe I did that!" Kinkajou yelped. "Oh my gosh, look at him!"
The NightWing staggered into the wall, clawing at his neck. Kinkajou had only hit him with a few droplets of venom, but those were smoking and bubbling on his scales. He turned back to the two RainWings with pain-crazed rage in his eyes.

"I'm sorry!" Kinkajou cried. "Oh, that looks like it hurts so much!"
Glory yanked the spear out of the guard's claws and shoved him over the drop-off at the back of the cave. She could hear him flapping and blundering around in the dark, still yowling.

"But-" Kinkajou said.
"He'll be fine once he remembers he had fire," Glory said. "We should be gone by then."
"I didn't realized you meant escape now," Kinkajou said. "I mean, like, right now. That is so crazy. You're crazy." Her voice was edge and manic, but her scales were bright yellow with excitement.

"Tone it down a bit, can you?" Glory said, nodding at the little dragonet's wings. "We don't need to alert the whole mountain as we escape. Try looking like them." She turned her own scales the same gleaming black as the NightWings outside. "And I'm Glory, by the way."

"Got it," Kinkajou said, flipping her tail. Inky black spread across her scales as if someone poured the night sky onto her. "But how do we get you across the lava river?"

'Whoops.' Glory had forgotten about that. Or rather, she hadn't thought that far ahead; she'd seen an opportunity to use her venom and took it without thinking. 'Who am I, Tsunami?' she scolded herself.
Worse yet, she knew the scarred NightWing would be back any moment with reinforcements.

She clamped her teeth down on the canvas that covered her talons, With a violent shake of her head, she ripped at the cloth until it tore loose. As soo as her claws were free, she seized a spear and turned it on the ropes wrapped around her body

"The guards are coming," Kinkajou said anxiously.
"Pretend you're a NightWing dragonet and stall them," Glory said. She jabbed the spear point awkwardly at one of the ropes and stabbed herself in the underbelly. With a hiss, she hefted the weapon and tried again.

"Yes. All right. Stall them. No problem," Kinkajou said. She darted toward the cave entrance. The first NightWing Glory had attacked was lying halfway across the opening, moaning softly and writhing as if her were trying to wriggle out of his own scales. The smug NightWing now had ragged and shallow breaths. He was lucky to have survived the venom hitting his neck.