Knights of the Nine - Beginning of the End

Chapter 12: Evil Doing

"Try and aim for their bloody wings, lads!" One of the guards called out.

"Aye, get 'em to land!" Another agreed.

The eight dragons flying around, causing havoc amongst the tiny village known as Green Springs. Ciri and a handful of guards attack from the ground, trying to get the dragons to land. Derek, nowhere to be seen. The beasts spewing fire in the skies, not killing the guards.

A bolt from a crossbow connects to a teenage dragons neck, crashing down into the hot springs below. All the others see the dragon fall and the dragons begin to fly away. Ciri, already dense into the woods where the demon crashed, rigged her blade with another premade oil. She saw the dragon, a fury sickened over it.

Ciri faced, one on one, with the teenage serpent. The dragon trying to bite and Ciri trying to cut. Ciri teleported behind the snap of the dragon and cut its head clean off. One of eight has finally died.

The mother of the dragon still flying in circles, gagging up goo around. The guards shot at the dragon but it's scales were too strong and resisted all arrows.

"Tha fucks tha crossbow man?" On guard called out to no one in particular.

The dragon looked down at the group of men and dove straight into them, killing four of seven. The dragon was slow to recover from its bombing. She kept twitching her head and gagging up small bits of fire and goo. Something was inside her throat.

"NO! YA WEENIE LIL CU-" The dragon threw down her claws and murdered the guard.

Ciri ran back to inform the group of men but she saw the dragon, squirming it's head around. She jumped onto her back and began stabbing her blade in and out in different spots. It was pure scales and hide, no blood. Her sword was not long enough to cut through. The dragon swung her tail up and smashed Ciri off. Ciri was launched over into the forest.

She was hit in the back, chest, stomach, legs, crotch, and head by branches and stumps. She was knocked clean out.

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Derek was cutting faster than ever. It was like free training only he was bound to die if he did not cut the skin quick enough. Every minute or two Derek looked at his skin, black bubbles were forming. Immense pain followed. His head began spinning and his vision blurred. All Derek knew was keep swatting at the skin.

Next to be affected was his stomach. It felt like his stomach acid was being boiled and splashing up. He vomited more than once. Derek's legs wore out, he crashed into a pool of blood. He was being tossed around by the dragons head shakes.

Derek's whole body went numb, he was out cold.

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Ciri woke up, a young boy watching over her. He was looking up at the sky. Ciri shifted onto her back and groaned from the bruises.

"What happened?" Ciri asked moving her arm to scratch her forehead.

"Don't ye move! Me pops has magic to help ye." The young boy said holding Ciri down.

"Ow! You holdin' me down surly doesn't make it better. You know where your father is?" Ciri cried as she pulled the boys grip off her shoulders.

The boy shook his head. "No. He went followin' the dragon. He was trained with a crossbow and knocked ye dragon out the sky like in ye fairy tales! He's at most stronger than ye, ye know." The brat boasted.

Ciri sat up but the boy tried to push her back down, Ciri refused to go back down. She later stood up and looked around at the damage she had done to the trees. Ciri began walking back to Green Springs, the boy following her.

Once the two got to Green Springs, it was nothing but a mess. A bloody mess. The bodies of the guards made it a lot worse. A rustle in the ruins made the boy jump, it was his father.

"Bad. Kalliah's doin' no?" The father asked looking at the bodies.

"I don't follow your Gods. But this is the work of a Darkened Dragon. Eight of them." Ciri responded stretching her legs.

"Seven now," The father looked over at Ciri. "Ye one hot mess, if I don't say. Let me take ye down to the cabin for a hot bath and some food, rest."

"No... oh no! Was their a body with a red flower on its chest plate?" Ciri basically yelled at the father.

"No, lass. Just these bodies. Ye can trust me, been here for five hours."

Ciri did not believe a word out of the guys mouth. The dragons been gone for five hours. All the death followed in those mere five hours.

"What way?" Ciri asked.

"I'm sorry, but ye in no shape to be huntin' a dragon and it's children. Come with me and Gilbert to the cabin, get you rested. Then ye can hunt the beast."

"No, no, no. That dragon can end the whole world! What fuckin' way!?" Ciri yelled back.

"It's pure suicide, but ye look like ye have a death wish. It went west, in the direction of the labyrinth. Ronin or some town like that."

"Damn!" Ciri kicked at the logs. "That's along ways away. Never make it there in time to save the town."

"Oh, no, dear. Ye see, Ronin was destroyed by the Gondortians four years ago. It's an absolute hell hole, girl."

"That's good news for a change. Well, thank you and thank you, Gilbert, for protecting me. I'm off to Ronin." Ciri teleported off.

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Hey! Dylan here doing a little author note or whatever. But I'm trying to get chapter 11 - chapter 16 out in a quick period of time so if your wattpad is blowing up, ya know why! Anyways, please don't forget to vote (as always) and thank you for reading! Hopefully Ciri and Derek save the world like Derek did four years ago.

P.S: Derek is not me, if you had an idea that he's me just because his nickname is Dirge, well he's not, okay!? Get that bullsh*t out you damn head fool!

-Dylan