And Also With You ~The Tooth And Claw Books #3

Chapter Twenty: Lover's flight

After my scream of fear, I clamped my eyes shut, fully expecting to feel the cold chill of Kenkyona's portal open up, but it never came. I hesitatingly opened my eyes and looked over to where Akio knelt, now standing over her protectively was someone I didn't know directly. Dressed head to toe in armor of a sorts, the Demon stood around eight foot tall in it. Rather than being made of metal however the armor was comprised enterally of scales of pure gold which weren't even phased by the Destruction-Magic striking at it, those scales didn't have a look of metal to them at all, instead they appeared almost wet, they were akin to the healthiest of snake scales, sprouting from his back where a Demons wings would normally be were instead massive set of reptilian like wings, the bones of the wing covered in the same shimmering golden scales while the skin in between each bone seemed to be weaved strands of sinew like silver. His helmet had a a lizard like shape, with eyes like pools of liquid bronze, spanning around the the head in ivory the color of platinum were spikes which almost gave the appearance of a crown.

"Sorry I did not intervene until the last second Akio," a voice spoke emanating from a silver crystal ball upon the armors right hand, much like the one in the center of my shield. "my current host is still learning how to channel my powers, so it took us a little while to break free from this damned spell."

"Drago... my love... you arrived just in time..." Sanziun almost panted.

"Yeah this reunion is all well and good," I growled, my own strength starting to fade, and my shield starting to break with it. "But can it wait we have a bloody battle to win here!"

"Right," the Demon wearing the armor began to speak. "What do you need me and Drago to do?"

"Me and Kiem can handle the leader of this little rebellion, but we can't do so as long as we are under this barrage."

"Right...." He looked around. "You Calum!"

"What Angi!? A little busy right now!" He called out fighting his own battle across the battle field, I could only hear him through Angi's comm.

"I'm not exactly sure how this works, I know Sammy normally grants me a trait for a game of right."

"With her incapacitated the Senior most ranking Demon of our Dynasty present would have to do it."

I shut off my shield, knowing I'd need to conserve my strength and barely dodged out of the way of the next magical volley that came our way, diving behind Angi. His Dragon armor, was in fact just a strong as my shield. As God of all Dragons Drago had every trait of every Dragon, which when she was alive had included Changxi's nearly impenetrable hide, in fact only the tail of her brother Xithe could do it easily, and that was why her power as a shard was my Custodian's Shield. The only powers he didn't directly have from any dragon was those that were thanks to a Custodi-Dragons Custodian side, in Changxi's case that meant her ability to sense emotions and danger. Angi's armor was thus almost impenetrable, although to a lesser degree than my Shield, it was closer to Sanziun.

"King Raphael, I request that I be given the role of a Vanguard for this fight." Angi requested.

"I.... I do not.... not know what benefit that will be but with my authority as the head of your Dynasty hereby grant you the roll of Vanguard until this fight has passed."

"Good," Angi spoke, reaching over and touching a hand to each of us. "Do you two have any magical energy left to use those shields of yours?"

"Its not that simple but we do have a way of protecting ourselves, we just didn't have to to do it while under assault like that."