Dragon Child Of Thunder

Chapter 26: Death

WorldSerpent:
Alrighty second chapter as promised, Enjoy

Seeing Lucius choking, not leaving anything to chance and in a last ditch effort Xiaxinia closed the distance in the blink of an eye and gripped Lucius' throat as he stopped it midway during the swallow! Xiaxinia then followed up with a quick controlled blow to his stomach that forced all the air out of his lungs and forced the orb to come shooting out of his throat and sent Lucius flying into the wall. It was a heavy blow that at the very least broke some of Lucius' ribs but it was a gamble Xiaxinia had to take.

**CRASH**

Instantly they all showed a look of relief, Veranathus had tears of joy as he had just courted death. Everyone was relieved except for Xiaxinia.

"The darkness.....it's not in the orb..." Xiaxinia said as fear crept unto his face, instantly he knew what happened.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Lucius screamed in agony as he fell on his back, his hands gripped tightly on his leather armor, his fingers scraped the armor as if he were trying to dig into his body, Venastrasia's face was filled with horror as well as the other dragons.

She turned and looked at Veranathus who dared not raise his head as he himself was scared and did not know what to do, his carelessness had just caused a catastrophe and he knew this! She bit her lip as she knew it wasn't his fault but she still could not bring herself not to blame him, she fell to her knees in front of Lucius and started injecting Divine Power into Lucius' body, but she could feel no abnormality, then she had remembered what Lucius had told them. Any magic besides lightning will not pick up the abnormality, and there was nothing lightning could do to resolve this situation.

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!"

He once more screamed out as his eyes became red and his finger nails scraped at the armor even more intensely than before, Lucius felt this pain before, it was the same sort of pain he felt when his divine core had merged with the Thunder Rites. Blood began leaking from his eyes, nose and ears. It filled Venastrasia with dread as she covered her both ears and tears began leaking from her eyes. Whenever Lucius had been in danger she was always there and there was always something she could do but now all she could do was watch and worse she had no idea what was happening inside Lucius' body and therefore had no solution.

She cradled him, that was all she could do, Lucius' screaming had not stopped, in fact it was even more intense than the beginning.

Lucius could feel the darkness slowly moving towards his heart, he had no idea how to stop it, violent thoughts and hatred filled his mind, he could feel it urging him to engage in non stop bloodshed.

'KILL...KILL..KILL..KILL....KILL..KILL....KILL...KILL..KILL...KILL'

The darkness had been screaming in his mind, Lucius could feel it attacking all the way to his soul trying to corrupt him and turn him into a mindless beast, Lucius was becoming more and more terrified as his screams rung out and made the dragons flinch and turn their faces. They truly felt sorry for him. They thought they had grown quite accustomed to Lucius' screams because of his training and his abnormal conditions but today, they had seen him under a new level of pain.

Lucius tried using mana to force the darkness away from his heart, but it failed, he tried using lightning and he realized it only made it move faster, he was terrified and he had no options, however he knew he had to get it out or at least away from his heart to which it was moving at a steady pace.

Finally he came up with an idea, it was stupid and it might kill him but it was better than being a puppet for the man he hated the most in the world, it was either life or death, he wasn't going to choose an in between.