A Dragon's Heart

Two dragons colliding

Opening his jaws, Smaug's chest and throat was glowing red as the fireball traveled up to his throat and darted from his mouth out between his teeth. It came toward Myra but didn't hit her directly as she was able to dodge it. Although she was big, Myra was surprisingly agile in the air. She started to growl creating an earthquake-like sound as it emerged from the depths of her chest getting stronger. Then Myra took a deep breath releasing a blue fireball toward Smaug.

The heat of the blue dragonfire was horrendous causing great pain as it hit Smaug in the chest making him scream. His scales fizzled and popped, twisted in the extreme heat some of them falling off dropping with a thud into the ground in front of Bilbo who stared at them stunned expression on his face.

Smaug halted while shaking his head trying to cover from her attack when he heard whistling sound of the wind and lifting his gaze he saw just in time that Myra dove heading straight toward him. Sneering at him Myra hit directly at Smaug sinking her enormous claws into his chest causing Smaug to fly backward because of the sheer force of the impact.

Below them, dwarves were gasping clamping hands to their mouths as they watched two giant creatures tangling each other while allowing themselves to drop into deadly freefall. Thorin was little further behind everyone else eyeing the dragons above him crafty look on his face. He knew if Smaug was killed, Erebor would be free from him and everyone in Laketown would come and try to claim their share of the treasure. But what the other dragon would do after Smaug was dead? Trying to take the mountain to herself, burn the dwarves to ashes? Thorin's mind was starting to get blurry, he couldn't think straight.

"Think she can defeat him?" Bilbo's quiet question snapped Thorin out of his daze and shifting his gaze toward the hobbit he merely huffed.

"Does it matter? We will still have a dragon in our hands even if Smaug is killed," Thorin's voice was dead, it showed no emotion of any kind and his eyes were dull as Bilbo turned to look at him.

"You're not serious?" the halfling asked making others turn to look at Thorin too.

"Of course I am, and on top of that, it's much bigger than Smaug, we will have difficult task to kill it," Thorin growled glancing briefly up to the sky where Myra and Smaug were still fighting.

Everyone was utterly speechless when they heard that. They could not believe that Thorin would actually plan on killing his One.

In the middle of the fall, Myra turned around pushing Smaug beneath her pressing her claws into his sides pulling her wings against her body so they would fall like a dead weight. Smaug flapped his wings ferociously to slow down his fall but Myra was too heavy. He bent his neck like a snake and bit his teeth to her throat making Myra shriek from the pain and shock causing her to maul with her claws Smaug's sides. His blood splashed to her claws but her own blood was streaming with trickles down her neck. She tossed her long muscular tail hitting Smaug's wings and then his snout to get his jaws off of her throat.

But instead of letting her go, Smaug's teeth sank deeper into her flesh making it difficult to breathe. Myra was starting to feel weak but out of the corner of her eye, she saw the lake's surface approaching fast and with one big hit with her tail straight to Smaug's head he finally was forced to let her go as the hit was so powerful. With a growl, Smaug released his grip on her throat and saw that at that very same moment Myra expanded her wings with haste leaving her hover above him. Then suddenly Smaug felt his back hitting the surface of the water his eyes widening just before he sank under causing the water to rise into a huge tower.

Above the surface Myra was breathing heavily, looking down on herself seeing the blood streaming from the bite wounds earning annoyed growl resurface from her. Looking around she circled the lake waiting. She knew it took more than just a dunk into the lake to kill Smaug so the fight wasn't over yet but it allowed her to take a breather and make a plan how to get rid of the arrogant firedrake.