Something New in the Shadows

Chapter 4

Dragon's POV (I'll give it a name soon, but please bear with me for a little while ^_^) 

I watched as the small group of people came by I recognized them as the people that I saw earlier, and then I saw the offspring and I hissed in anger before shooting to a different spot in the junkyard, before diving from the new area directly at the offspring and connecting with the sound of someone screaming a phase...

"Magnus, NO!" 

...before flying through a large pile of scrap-metal and stopping on-top of it with my teeth bared and growling. I tried to bite off it's head, but it disappeared from under me, and appeared now in-front of me. I rather liked the new size of a semi because I was still bigger than my enemies, stronger than anything, more dangerous than anything in any dimension, and I was still faster than anything, ever, period. I stalked around the offspring as it put up a protective shield around himself, and I bashed my head into it, cracking it and creating a web of cracks, and a seemingly larger dent in the area effected. 

"What do you want with me" it said and I laughed, terrible and evil sounding, but still a humorless laugh that I let out. 

"You want to know what I want, really?" I said growling and cutting up the ground with my tail in anger "I want you dead, you are the offspring of the very Demon that I loath the most, and I have not loathed anything before the two-hundred thousand years that I was in capture and torture from your sire." It seemed truly shocked and I laughed again. 

"You really don't know why do you, fine I'll tell you" I said and I sat down swiping my claws through the shield and making four large gashes in it that weren't sealing or able to repair themselves due to the poison on my claws. 

"You see three-hundred thousand years ago I--" I stopped smelling the shifting air, before looking behind me at the speeding vampire that was running towards us, and I growled and huffed making the air form a wall that the vampire ran into, effectively breaking all of it's bones. Though it would heal, I smirked as it groaned in pain on the floor. The rips punctured the lungs, not the heart, but only the lungs, with all the points that shielded the organs inside. Suck a stupid formation having the ribs being pointed and flexible, but whatever, that's what God decided to do, and it seems to suit their kind well enough. I turned back to the offspring to see that he had disappeared. I looked around and then I saw the angel-blessed, Clary, as they called her, run up to the vampire and touch him gingerly. Then I saw the others and the offspring was behind them with a protective formation around him and another, different leader of the female tribe of warriors. 

I ran at human speed up to them and they just pointed their spears at me and the angel-blessed stood up and stood in-front of the vampire in rage. I huffed and prepared to be bored as she spilled out her anger into meaningless words at me. I sat there drawing a rune in the sand as I listened to her talk, and she was done as I was done and the rune light up with a beam of sun-light as pure as angel's light. The angel-blessed looked at the light like the others, but she seemed to know what it was. The vampire recovered as the light stopped and the angel-blessed lent down and helped him up, and I bowed my head in apology. 

"I am sorry vampire, but you harbor a creature that I cannot allow to live due to past history with their father" I said glaring past the warriors at the offspring who was standing calmly behind everyone with the male at his side, holding his hand. I huffed in interest, a male human in love with a male demon, very interesting indeed, but it still didn't push down my hatred for him. 

"Well thank you for apologizing, but Clary has something she wants to know by an oath bind" I was a little surprised, an oath bind was ancient. Something that not even I could escape death from, and it made me a little nervous, until I saw the rune that she used for it. It literally made me laugh and roll around on the floor because of it. I stopped and wiped away the rune that she just drew like it was nothing, and then I turned around and sat down as I felt the familiar glowing pain on my back as the rune activated. A rune that I haven't use in a long time, not since I pledged my services to the King of Demons, his name since birth actually. Demon King was his real name in the Demon language and it was very ironic because he wasn't a very good king at all. I wrote it in the ground with my tail out of memory as they seemed mesmerized at the fact that it was on my back as well, but sadly it didn't last long because as I got to the last line, the angel-blessed reacted first. 

"What is that? Why is it on your back? Why did you attack Magnus? And What are you?" she said going around my tail to face me at my head. I finished the last line and the rune on my back stopped glowing and the one on the ground started glowing, and I formed a shield around it. I picked the angel-blessed up with my tail as I turned around to face the others, and I put her in-front of everyone on the other side of the glowing ancient rune across from us. I put my claw in and it bonded me to the rune, and if no one else put their hands or limbs on it then I would just wipe it away and continue to try and rip apart the offspring of my tormentor. 

"Put your hand on the rune and you'll get all the answers that you want" I said and she looked torn between whether she should trust me or not, and then before the others could protest and tell her not to she bend down and put her hand on the rune. It bound us by ancient law and a mark formed on the back of the angel-blessed hand and the back of my paw. I lifted my paw up from the rune and so did she, and then I wiped it away with my tail, and looked at the smoke rising from my paw. 

"Okay ask away. If I lie then the mark will glow, if I am telling the true nothing will happen, and if you want to be done then say it, but if you want me to pledge to something. Then say it and ask me to repeat it while the rune is glowing white, and if you want it to do that then you'll have to say an ancient phrase that only I know, and only I will agree to and share if I like what I am pledging to, okay" I said and she nodded before immediately asking her questions. 

"So I guess I'll start slowly then" she seemed to be thinking for a second before she spoke again "What are you?" 

"I am a Dragon, the last of my species, immortal creatures that can only be killed by losing the will to live, being killed by another of our species, or a creature of higher power than us. Which no longer exist thanks to me" I smiled rather evilly and it seemed to unnerve them "I am the king of Portals and Dimensions, the Warrior of Dimension Nine, the Assassin of Hell, the Keeper of Ancient Knowledge and Runes of old, I was once a beautiful creature, but sadly that was taken from me over a coarse of many many thousands of years, and I am the Creature of Hell's Torture" I huffed breathing a small plume of flame through my nostrils, aimed directly in the offspring's direction, as an eternal threat. 

"What can you do?" she asked and my mood plummeted at the thought of the many creatures I've killed, the Dimension's I've torn apart and destroyed, and the powers that I had making me so dangerous, and I looked at her with a cold stare, my assassin and warrior setting having been activated for a short time. 

"You don't want to know" I said and then I growled "next question" 

"What do you have against Magnus" she said and I bared my teeth in anger, growling loud enough to shake the earth and cause them to stumble smelling of a little fear and wariness.

"I guess that I'll just have to tell you my life story to answer that one, and maybe others" I said and conjured silver chairs behind everyone, and I sat down as well. 

Thanks for reading and I'll have another one out soon, please comment and vote if you liked.