Wild (An Inheritance Fanfiction)

Chapter 15: Fire in the Sky

Sharrag roared a warning at the red dragon charging at him. It let out another loose roar in challenge again. Sharrag growled and tucked in his wings, diving down towards the forest. The red dragon followed without hesitation.

‘Talismen! Found the dragon,’ he yelled in the Shrrg’s mind.

Suddenly something ferocious attacked his mind, followed by something else, and then another. He growled in surprise and hardened the walls around his mind, looking back at the dragon. As far as he could tell there were only two beings capable of mind manipulation that he could see.

The dragon suddenly opened its mouth and spewed red fire at him. He flared his wings and dodged out of the way. The red fire hit the forest below; the trees catching alight easily under the heat of the red dragon’s flame. He saw a bird’s nest go up in flames easily as the fire began to spread through the valley.

The red dragon flew past him and into the air. Sharrag could swear that the dragon had grinned at him as it passed through. The human on its back had taken out a bow and was now knocking an arrow into the quiver, and all the while several different minds were attacking his, making it impossible to think straight. He roared and shot a stream of green fire after the dragon. It dodged easily.

Sharrag was on the move again, shaking his head from side to side trying to rid himself of the other minds. He looked up just in time to see the red dragon coming at him on the side, and he narrowly dodged to the side. This fight was a lot different from most other fights he had been in, for one he had never fought an enemy who could reach him in the sky before, or had the ability to breath fire back at him.

He started to fly up into the sky trying to ascend above the dragon. It ascended with him and the two dragons began circling each other. Occasionally the human would loose an arrow at him, which would either miss or clamour harmlessly off his scales, and the whole time the minds were still there.

Sharrag suddenly darted in towards them, breathing his fire. With a smile he realise he had scored a hit on the other dragon and it screeched. With a flap of its wings it was out of the barrage of fire seemingly unharmed. Sharrag frowned, maybe dragons were fire proof? The thing was the human was unaffected as well, and he knew that they weren’t fire proof.

Another arrow clattered against his scales, just below the eye. Sharrag growled and stopped, shaking his head. His lower body seemed to suddenly heat up by a thousand degrees and he roared in pain, desperately flapping his wings to get out of the red flames that were burning him. The pain dissipated as he got free but the part of his body that had been burnt was now a little more sensitive then before.

He looked down at himself to make sure that he wasn’t badly injured in anyway. It didn’t look to be so. He looked back at the other dragon, which was now circling away from Sharrag, ready to attack him again. As it got further away the constant rattling of his mind lessened allowing him to think a little clearer once again.

He watched the other dragon carefully. He could sense that it hadn’t been hurt by the fire he had sent at it, only blinded. He swung left as a fireball shot towards him from the human’s hand. With a growl of surprise he dodged to the side and the fireball passed harmlessly by him. The dragon growled a curse. They had magic. This fight just got a lot harder.