The Dragonkin Twins

Ch 27: the tide of war

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PHEW, this is a long chapter. Now your probably wondering, "what's her excuse this time?", well, today my excuse is 1) procrastination, 2) finals, 3) writer block(?), and 4) I started a new book :3 More details on that later.

I'm planning on finishing this book before January, so let's see if I stick to that plan or just completely ignore it.

Lloyd POV

I stare at my sister in disbelief.  I have no words.  For a second, I almost forget the throbbing sensation running through my body.  Almost. Katelyn's smile fades the longer she looks at me.  Guilt takes over her and she rushes over to me.  She helps to me sit up, since I'm still in a daze, lifting her tail up behind me to use it as a back support for me. She grabs my shoulders firmly. "Oh my- Lloyd, I'm so sorry!" She cries. Tears form in her eyes.

I look at her and immediately start to support myself when sitting up. I'm not badly injured, I'm mostly just sore. Now that I think about it, I probably looked dead back there, but I was too dazed to know what was going on! I tell her I'm fine, embarrassed I couldn't defend myself, and release myself from her grip. She's never going to let this go... I internally groan.

She gives me a look of uncertainty. The longer I actually look at her, the more questions explode into my head. "Wait- how did you get here?" I ask in utter disbelief.

She smiles. "Mr Finch found an old boat in the maze caves that the first settlers of the Dark Island used to travel around the ocean! It was incredible! They were huge! And they moved so fast, we got here in no time!"

"Wait, we?" I ask her. "He's here with you?"

"Yeah! He's hiding away though. We can go back and grab him after we defeat that shadowy low life sone of a-". Before she can say anything else, we hear a yelp next to us. We look at the source. It's Cole.

"As sweet as this reunion is," he says, out of breath and struggling to fight several stone warriors. "We could really use your help!" I jump up from the ground, ignoring the fresh bruises all over my body, and I summon energy into my hands and shoot it at the warrior, who nearly got a successful hit on Cole. A small explosion is heard and he's knocked back several feet away from us.

"Nice of you to return to the party dragon boy," he jokes. I scoff, smiling at his humor during such an intense time.

"What, the man with super strength can't defend himself against an army of warriors by himself?" I say.

"Says the one who just got mauled by a group of Jays." He says, using his element to deal with a handful of the warriors.

"I'll have you know, I'll be seeing that in my nightmares for the rest of my life." I use fire on a warrior. He stumbles back from the intense flames and falls on the ground. "I mean, how would you feel if you experienced an army of Jays beating the crap out of you."  I say.  I send a roundhouse kick to a warrior coming at me from the side.

"The fact that you let Jay of all people beat the crap out of you is just sad." He says.

I scoff. "Whatever."

After we all deal with the enemies around us, Cole, Katelyn and I are able to breathe for a split second. But, it doesn't last long, as more warriors break away from their other battles and charge towards us.

"Ugh, this is never ending!" My sister says, tying back her brown hair into a low ponytail to keep the hair out of her face. She summons dark energy into her hands and looks intensely at the stone warriors charging for her.  She shoots the dark energy at the warriors, the blast causing a wave of explosions to knock several other warriors down who weren't even in range.