(Book 1) Legends of the new world: The snow empress and the horned king

Chapter fourteen: a glimmer of hope

Velkhana was struggling to breath with the amount of pressure being applied to her body. After being tortured by Shara ishvalda for what seemed like an eternity, she felt the verge of death breathing down her neck. Velkhana tried once more to free herself from Shara ishvalda's grasp, only to be met with more agonizing pain. Velkhana's vision slowly began to blacken. As Velkhana's eyes were about to close, she heard an ear splitting roar, and then found herself on the stone floor, glancing at a recoiling Shara ishvalda. Her eyes looked up to see a panicked Valomyr rushing over to her. "V..va...Valomyr?" Velkhana weakly said. Valomyr used his wing to gently lift her head up, so that it was facing his head. "Stay with me Velkhana, do not look away from me!" Valomyr said, his voice drenched in fear. "W-why did.... why did you come here?" Velkhana weakly said. "I cannot let you fight that monster anymore, you'll die if you do." Valomyr said, his voice beginning to break down. "V....Valomyr....listen to me, I.... I told you.... I can take care.... of myself." Velkhana said, a burning pain shortening her words. "Yes, you did but-" Valomyr said, failing to finish his sentence before Velkhana interrupted him. "Please..... Valomyr..... leave.....before he kills you...." Velkhana said. "No. I'm not going to stand by and watch you kill yourself velkhana, you were the only thing that genuinely cared about me. Ever since I first entered your home and learned what you suffered from, I will protect you, no matter how dire the situation is." Valomyr said, a tear forming in his eye. Velkhana was touched by Valomyr's words. She had only known him for three days, and yet he had done nothing but treat her as an equal. "Thank you....Valomyr..." Velkhana said, weakly raising a wing to touch his free wing. The two elder dragons smiled at eachother, before hearing the horrid voice of Shara ishvalda. "How adorable, it's funny to watch pathetic creatures like you waste your life on eachother, rotting away as you deny the inevitable. Soon, lord alatreon will spread the power of the elder dragons from the new world, to the surrounding lands. We will purge the land of heretics like you. And I cannot wait to watch." Shara ishvalda said, it's crazed eyes staring at the two elder dragons. Valomyr and Velkhana were both equally confused and shocked. They were confused as to why alatreon wanted to go on a genocidal crusade on anyone who didn't join them. Valomyr, trembling with rage, let out a roar of pure anger and shot forward, only to be swatted away by Shara ishvalda. Shara ishvalda chuckled as it Prepared to stomp on Valomyr's head. However, Shara ishvalda suddenly felt a searing pain, and roared in agony as it felt bolts of electricity surge through its body. Once the voltage stopped, it whipped its head around to see namielle standing behind it, with electricity crackling in her claws. "You must be delirious if you honestly think that this little stunt that you and this "alatreon" will actually work." Namielle said, glaring at the demon. "You underestimate the amount of power that we have you filth." Shara ishvalda said, slowly walking up to namielle. "What's more is that you forgot the one thing that everyone knows." Namielle said. "Oh? And what would that be?" Shara ishvalda said. "Never let your guard down." Namielle said. Shara ishvalda took two moments to process what this meant before turning around, and immediately getting head-butted by a now conscious Nergigante. Shara ishvalda fell backwards, blood spraying from its a large gash on its face. Shara ishvalda then righted itself, only to then feel a horrible pain as Valomyr fired his frost breath straight into its neck. Shara ishvalda screamed as a small portion of its neck began to blister. Shara ishvalda then felt a new pain as it felt namielle sink her jaws into the blistering part of its neck, drawing blood. Shara ishvalda threw her off its neck, only to then see Velkhana rise to her feet. During the onslaught that Shara ishvalda had been enduring, Velkhana had felt her broken ribs beginning to repair themselves, giving her the strength to fight once more. Velkhana had no idea how this was happening, considering how she had been stabbed and nearly crushed to death. Velkhana decided to question this later as she shot forward, and swung the sharp end of her tail at one of the wings of Shara ishvalda. The bladed tail cut straight through the limb, effectively severing Shara ishvalda's wing. Shara ishvalda roared in pain, blood spraying from the bloody stump that was once it's wing. Shara ishvalda then felt it's other wing become detached from its body, Velkhana having severed it. Shara ishvalda recoiled in agony, glaring at the four elder dragons. It tried to fight back, only collapsing due to blood loss. The four elder dragons stared down at the monster. "You have lost Shara ishvalda. Without your wings, you cannot manipulate the earth we stand on, rendering you useless to alatreon." Nergigante said. "We would kill you right now, but your probably going to die from blood loss anyway." Namielle said, smugly grinning. Shara ishvalda weakly growled in response. "Well, I think it's time we go our separate ways Velkhana. I would kill you, but I have better things to do right now" Nergigante said, turning to leave. Velkhana rolled her eyes, knowing he would be a future problem. Velkhana then noticed the hunter sneaking away. The two locked eyes, with Velkhana nodding for the hunter to leave. The hunter then slipped through a crack in the mountain, disappearing from sight. Velkhana turned to see Nergigante flying off into the horizon, hopefully not intending to be a bigger nuisance to Velkhana then he already was. Velkhana, Valomyr, and namielle all turned to leave, spreading their wings. However, They then heard a roar of fury. "NO! I HAVE COME TO FAR TO FAIL MY MASTER! ILL KILL YOU! ILL KILL ALL OF YOU!" Shara ishvalda screamed. Shara ishvalda sprang forward, it's jaws preparing to clamp down on Velkhana. However, Velkhana's reflexes were much quicker. In an instant, she fired her frost breath into the gullet of Shara ishvalda. Shara ishvalda recoiled, as the frost breath began to freeze its body. Shara ishvalda attempted to roar, but nothing was heard, due to its vochal chords being frozen. Shara ishvalda's eyes took one last look of hatred at the three elder dragons, before its golden eyes became an Ice blue. In that moment, Shara ishvalda had become a frozen corpse. "Well, I guess all that is left to do is to do this." Namielle said. Namielle walked up to the frozen Shara ishvalda, and used her tail to push it over. The frozen Shara ishvalda hit the ground, and shattered into dozens of bloody, frozen pieces. Shara ishvalda was finally dead, and could no longer carry out alatreon's plans of conquest. Their mission completed, the three elder dragons took to the sky, ready to return to the hoarfrost reach, the frozen wasteland that they called "home".

Nergigante had flown for a few hours before reaching an entrance to the rotten vale. He landed, and walked inside to be greeted by Val. "Glad to see your not dead." Val said. "Well, it takes more than a giant rock to kill me." Nergigante said, smiling at Val. "Well, I might as well heal you up. I know a place where we can hunt some apatonoth. You want to join me friend?" Val asked. "Gladly" Nergigante said. As Nergigante and Val started off to find this apatonoth herd, Nergigante and Val now considered themselves friends, ones that would look up to each other as brothers.