The Cloak Guard

The Sculptor, Part 5

Luke wished he could say that things were going well, but that would make him a liar.

He had done his best to keep his fight with the dragon swarm outside the city, but that plan had gone out the window the second the dragon had managed to swat him midair with its tail all the way through the window of one of the skyscrapers.

He grunted, feeling an ache all over his body. He'd managed to use his telekinesis to absorb as much of the impact from the strike as he could, as well as the impact of hitting the window and then the office desk, but that had only done so much.

He checked his chest wound and was glad to see that it hadn't reopened, but if he kept this up, that could soon change.

"Ok, dragon bastard," he muttered, walking towards the window. "Let's..." He stopped, watching the massive shape coming right for him. "Oh..."

The dragon crashed right into the building, shattering half the floor with one strike with the offices and furniture going flying. Luke shot up into the air as much as he could, doing his best to avoid all the debris. The dragon kept coming, shoving its snout into the building and demolishing the upper floor.

"Hey! This is public property you know!" Luke yelled. He tried to shove it back with his powers but it was too big and powerful. Instead, he grabbed whatever he could with his mind and sent those towards the dragon. An assortment of chairs, tables, water coolers, desks, office walls, computers, and everything else he could grab smashed into the dragon. Luke knew it was basically like throwing candy at a grizzly bear but it was distracting the thing at least.

He reacted faster than he thought he could, hearing the crashing sounds coming from the side and reaching out with his mind to grab hold of the smaller dragon before it could attack.

"Here, go to mama!" he yelled, sending it along with the rest of the stuff towards the big dragon where it was promptly crushed to bits in the giant jaws. The big dragon seemed to know what it had done somehow and roared in outrage, redoubling its efforts to get at Luke. The bottom floors crumbled away under the onslaught of its legs while the spikes on its head tore the upper floors apart.

That actually gave Luke an idea. He took a quick look around, spotting what he needed. He was no engineer, but he was pretty sure when he ripped the support columns away, the rest of the roof would come crumbling down, trapping the dragon in the debris. That should buy him a few minutes at least.

He focused and grabbed hold of the nearest column, tearing it apart with his mind. He moved onto the next one and the next, finding them easier to destroy than he would have expected. Soon, the entire upper floor began to crumble and shake. Just as the dragon was about to close in, the floor collapsed on top of it, which only began a chain reaction as all the other floors above it crumbled down as well. Luke blasted his way to the side, dodging through all the debris and shattering the windows to soar out before he could get crushed.

He breathed out in relief as he made it out into the open air, looking down at the now partially collapsed building. The dragon's bottom half was still on the outside, its feet digging into the lowers floors as it tried to gain traction.

"I'm going to get sued for this aren't I?" Luke muttered to himself. At least no one was hurt. He didn't know why, but it looked like the city had been evacuated in time. Hopefully that meant his family was far away from here. "Alright, well that should buy me..."

He froze, seeing the collapsed part of the building begin to glow and smoke. "Oh no," he said to himself before flying off as fast as he could right before the whole top of the building exploded in a fiery inferno so hot it melted parts of it. The dragon emerged from it, screeching in rage, before flapping its wings and taking to the sky after him.