The jaws of the terrazor split open with a loud crack, the stench of decaying flesh escaping out of them. The rider leans into the bills, streamlining himself, aiming to beat air resistance, he gets a little faster but the jaws get closer and soon he's between them.

The jaws close around him, with a last-gasp effort he glides past the jagged teeth, escaping the monster's teeth . It opens its jaws again, and in seeing this tries for a burst but Bill is far too tired, the beast snaps its jaws, he sees them closing around him, he guides the bill left, slipping through the jaws again.

He darts upwards as the terrazor spews an inferno burning the air about them. He barely dodges the blast, as the bill's tail feathers get caught, it burns a little before the winds douces it.

The beast raises his head to eat I'm, he quickly pull the Bill's wings in, letting the rush of air push them backward, tossing them back beyond the monster head towards its back, he pull the bill wing out and lands on the back of the monster cling to the scales bill claws, he hold on to the bill tight.

The Terrazor continues flying forwards at great speed, its large wings propelling its great mass. The spec of the black rider comes into its view. It's heart chilling growl, curling the feathers one bill, the blue eyed rider looks up

The terrazor spews another inferno, in front of itself, then flies directly into it the fire rushes past its body, storming towards the Bill , he pulls the Bill out escaping it, but he stays away from the monster field of view in the middle of its back.

The black rider sees the monster inch closer and closer to him.

I've got to lose him, - then it occurs to him that he has nowhere to run to, not with the monster on its tail - I can't lead it back to camp, which means I'd have to lose it somehow… but I could just lead it to the enemies base… Hmmm….we could wipe them out, in one fell swoop and I'll be commended for it, he chuckles, then changes course.

The Terrazor follows the black rider in its new course. The blue eyed rider, trying to fly while keeping out of the view of the beast, he lands the bill on it back hitching a ride again, he wonders about the new course

What is he up to, is he trying to lose it or,wait a minute, this, this leads back to the base..That Bastards.. He's doing this on purpose.

He screams, at the black rider

Hey!, hey!, he's screaming gets drowned in the beasts flapping giant wings

Dammit, he hits the bill on the back, stomping his fist in anger. and this stupid bird won't go any faster!, the bill jerks from the hit and because of this the Terrazor releases another inferno, flying into it again, he pull out and maintain anonymity

I've got to do something, whatever it takes. If only I had a dragon or something. takes out another tube from the pouch by the saddle, the substance in it, is glowing red

If I don't stop him, he stares into the red vial. The captain forbids this but, luiza, everybody, I can't let it get close to them. He turns the vial around revealing a written letter that reads “agent M”.

But this, this could kill me.

The monster growls as it inches closer and closer to the shrouder, the black rider pulls back his handle jolting the beast forwards and faster.

The blue eyed rider, opens the vial and pours the substance on the bills back it, he watches it seeps in the body, its feathers let out a red glow, a jolt of energy hits him. His vision blurs for a couple seconds,the Bill squawks very loudly, flapping frantically as smoke-like gases simmer on Bill's body.

The cord slowly turns red, then the eyepiece on his mask turns red too. He feels heart beating faster and faster, he could hear the bill heart, the rhythms begin to match. He could hear fire forming in the Terrazor core, Terrazor moved at lightning speed but everything seemed to slow down, he waves his hand before his eyes as fast as he could, but it appears hazy and slow. He chuckles triumphantly.

He pulls back on the saddle, and the bill runs forward on the monster's back, the terrazor roars and breathes a gust of fire, it flushes past its head as he moves into the fiery blaze. The blue-eyed rider rushes towards the fire, bill running on the back of the monster, he pulls up at the last minute and glides smoothly into a burst. A great blast of energy burst out the scales and digits of the Killbill legs , propelling it forwards, its acceleration almost knocks off the blue eyed rider of its back, he clips himself to the chain on his saddle.

It propels him, far beyond the reach of the monster in the split of a second and in no time, he gets close to the black rider. A loud whistling sound cuts through the air space as they accelerate, mirroring the appearance of a comet.

The black rider hears the whistling sound, he looks back and, in that instant the blue eyed rider pulls back his arm, with the all his speed behind him, he lands an air shattering blow on the black rider’s head, knocking him of his dragon, he's held back from falling by chains binding him to the saddle, but the force of the punch pushes the dragon of course as it veers downwards, it's master outcold.

The Terrazor, seeing its prey fall downwards,changes its course and goes after it. The blue eyed rider chases after the beast matching its paces. The Bill starts releasing steam from its body, the blue eyed rider doesn't mind this , but continues to push its limits further, reaching more and more speed.

The Terrazor is closing on the falling rider, about ten feet from him. The black rider continues falling in a spiral, the shrouder can't control its movement as its rider is in complete control, it simply watches itself falling towards Heldaroth, screeching in terror.

The blue eyed rider flies parallel to the monster, dwarfed by its immense size, he sees it open its jaws as it closes in on black rider. He draws out his nox, shaping it onto a spear, he grips it in his hand as he guides it closer to the body of the monster.

He hanks out his cord, disconnecting from the bill, the loose cord wraps around its neck automatically, almost like it has a mind of its own. He jumps off the bill and in mid air he reshaped the nox into a giant four pointed star with bladed edges. He spins it over his palm as lands on the beast, immediately going into a run.

Since the beast is flying downwards at an angle to give him a bit more acceleration, he sees the beast about to eat the black ride, he throws the spinning star at the head of the monster, it's cut through, making a faint whistling noise. It hits the beast dead in the center of its head, the force pushing its further cutting through scales like leaves, it growls in pain, it's thick scales bringing the noir star to a halt.

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The Terrazor turns it's attention away from the falling rider, pulling itself into a row, trying to through the blue eyed rider off its back, he falls of his back but the bills swoops in and catches him by the hands, it's flies him out of harm's way, the monster turns it's attention back to the black rider. The throws him into the air and onto its back he lands and chases the monster down.

The turbulence jerks the black rider on his saddle, shaking his head back and forth, he opens his eyes dazed from the punch, he looks on blankly, like he doesn't know where he is. He's shaken awake by the constant turmoil of falling, his head jerks down, he see the forest fast approaching, the turbulence jerks his head again but this time upwards, he see the bloodied face of the feral beast, the turbulence jerks his head forward, then he get himself together, he screams enraged.

The shrouders legs kick back at the wind,its wings spread wide open, the wind pushes them upwards closer to the monster,its large jaws open, the black rider tucks the shrouders head in causing it to spin wildy, into the jaws of the beast.

As they get between its large teeth, he spews fire into the monster's mouth, the force from the fire pushes the shrouder backward, out of the reach of the jaws.

He ducks its wing in letting the wind push them upwards into another spin, he brushes past the upper jaw of the monster, but the shrouder hit the top part of the beasts head, breaking the spin, it's puts out it's wings trying to regain its balance but the wind pushes it back, pulls out it's claws, trying to find a footing on the monsters back, the force pushes it further back, it's claws scratching on the monster a scales, sparks fly, it's grips unto a scale, stopping itself.

The beast and it's rider pants heavily, the black rider immediately looks to his left, part of his face peering out of his broken mask.

You!, he says in anger. The blue-eyed rider, hovering a few leagues from them. His hoarse voice is gone, due to the damage on the mask, he sounds almost like a regular teenager.

The blue eyed rider waves at him, like like his saying hello, this enraged the black rider, draws at is black noir reshaping it into a sharp pointed lance, with spikes all around it. The blue-eyed rider pulls up darting away, the terrazor growls it's start tipping into a rowl, the black rider flies of its back after the bill.

He chases the blue eyed rider down, he is slow and he catches up to him in no time, the terrazor lunges it's jaws at them, the bill slip away from harm, flying by the edges of the monsters teeth, the black rider chases him, flying in between the jaws, gliding past the giant pointy teeth after the bill.

He inches close to the blue eyed rider, the shrouder spews fire at him, the blue-eyed veers the bill away from harm. The black rider pulls back, pushing it faster, closing the distance between them, he lunges his lance at him, he glides the bill to the side, dodging but it comes close enough, with the spikes grazing his arm. He wraiths in pain, he looks back to his assailant, he sees the fury burning in his eyes. Jolts on his saddle, the stripes on his mask getting redder.

The black rider lunges his lance, but he uses another burst, pushing them far out of his reach. The bills feathers begins to smokes

Oh no, it's burning up, he says.

The Terrazor comes from under the two, it growls unleashing a hail of fire upwards, the black rider gets engulfed in the fire, but flies out mostly on harm, the fur on his shoulders blackened, The Terrazor let's out a powerful roar,drastically altering the air current, pushing the riders of balance, and as they try to regain their balance it goes for the kill.

I won't make it out here alive, not on this bill, I've got to kill that thing. the bill smokes even more

The potion, it's, it's taking its toll, with the bill losing feathers, as its size seems to be smaller than before. it slows down.

I will have to make the most, he breathes heavily, of this dumb bird.

Damn it, catching his breath, I can't die here, if only I had a shrouder or something, he sees the black rider in the distance.. Lucky bastard

He dart downwards with the bill straight at the terrazor, as they get close he pull the cord out, the black rider fight the terrazor, evading it's jaws, while attacking it's with blasts of fire,the jaws almost get him and he darts away toward to the back of the monster.

He sees the pair dash in, the blue eyed rider leaps into the air. As he falls the Bill flies in front of the terrazor blocking the beast's view of him. The Terrazor, seeing the bill close, goes for it. The blue-eyed rider commands the bill, having it fly off to the left, drawing the monster's attention away from him. Timing he's decent, he land on the Terrazor snout and sprints towards the embedded noir star.

He gets close enough, he stretches out his hand, calling to the noir, it shakes violently but the thick scales hold it back, then it gets loose and flies toward him, cutting through the air. With his attention split, he could barely control the bill, the Terrazor moves its giant head around trying to eat the bill, this knocks the blue eyed rider off balance tossing him in the air.

The black rider rider charges at him, flying over the monster's back. The spinning fan heads direct at him as his unbalanced, falling on his side, in mid-air and unable to stop it, but with potion his sense are at their peak, he see the star in slow motion, he grabs it by the middle rim, stopping it's spin but the blades nick him on the chest.

The force from the star pushes him back, he rolls over in mid air and lands on his feet, he breaks into a run, down the head. He spins the star, even faster this time, the Terrazor lunges for Bill, it gets it, trapping it in its jaws. The blue eyed rider throws the spinning star.

It hits the Terrazor, it roars in pain,blood gushing from its eye. The bill flies out of its jaws, the monster's shriek tosses him in the air but he manages to land on his feet. black rider stretches out his lance aiming to him, seeing the black rider he tries to call back his noir but the terrazor rolls over trying to toss him of its back, in a flash he sees the sharp end of the black lance, he spins his body in mid are, pushing the tip of the lance away with his right hand.

The shrouders head hits him, he grabs on to something, he doesn't know what, but he hangs on by the fangs of the shrouder. It flies them aways from the terrazor with the blue eyed rider hanging on between it's jaws, the beast tries to close it's jaws on the rider, he pushes back open barely holding its upper jaw with its sharp teeth just above his chest. the shrouders lower teeth piercing into his boots.

The black rider reshapes his noir, turning the lance into a spear. He thrust it at the blue eyed rider. He dodges, shifting his head to the side, he thrusts the spear again, he moves his head to the other side, his strikes at the middle, the blue eyed rider ducks down dodging the spear.

The black rider get annoyed. The blue eyes rider looks around for the bill

Where is that dumb bird gone he says to himself.

He feels his boots getting hot, he immediately jumps off the shrouders, the black rider plunges his spear into him mid-air, it hits him as he falls, fire spews out of the shrouders mouth. He barely escapes the fire, he quickly puts his arms on his sides falling with his face still to the black rider above, he goes into a dive downwards, trying to make himself fall faster, so the black rider won't get him.

He looks down and sees he's falling directly into the terrazor jaws

Why does everybody wants a piece of me, huh, you know maybe I don't want to be the top ace anymore.

He looks to the left, he sees the Bill in the distance

He won't make me in time, he Streach pit his hand trying to draw out his noir from the monsters eyes with the black rider closing in on him

He concentrates,blood gushing out of his wound, he finds it hard to focus as he falls. The black rider follows him down, with the jaws still open it seems the black rider will get to him first, controlling his noir the black rider reshapes his spear, making it long enough to reach him.

He thrusts the spear at the blue eyed rider and in a flash the bill darts into the jaws, from the left side, smoking heavily. The blue eyed rider reacts instantly grabbing onto the Bill as it sprints them out of the black rider's reach, but the Bill gets nicked as it slips between the monster's teeth, this causes them to spin, he grabs on tightly to the bill.

The black rider pull up the shrouder at the last moment, dashing out of there but, it's tail gets caught between the monsters teeth, it's tosses them around as it shrugs his head, the black rider has no choice, he cuts off the shrouders tail with his noir and flies them out of the monster reach.

The Bill stops spinning as it finds its balance, the blue eyed rider pokes his head from the back of the bill wings, he looks around, seeming in disbelief, at his surviving yet again, he screams triumphantly.

He chuckles, I made it!

The Terrazor spews an inferno at the riders, moving it's monstrous head around, trying burn them down. It flies at the black rider, the black rider outruns it easily but soon realizes he's losing speed, he looks at his shrouder, and sees it's losing tons of blood, with cut too close to the end of the tail, the shoulder is unable to burn the wound.

The Terrazor won't let up, its chases him and him alone, he maintains his distance from the beast. Then he turns sharply leading it in the direction of the blue eyed rider but he darts away with the bill. With his beast slowing doing he has no other choice but to resort to his last trick, he vanishes into thin air.

Wild fires still burn across the forest as the terrazor rages on. The bill catches its breath, it's releasing so much steam now, the blue eyed rider can barely see beyond it, he takes off his mask, and puts pressure on his wound.

Not enough for a return home, he says,

there's only one option now, I've got to take the his shrouder, that's the only way I'll survive this.

The Bill squawks. Now how would I do that?

The Bill squawks again

He sighs.. Shuuut up

He looks around, he realizes something

Where'd he go? He sees the terrazor turn towards him.

Oh no,

He immediately puts his masks back on. The Terrazor charges in his direction, he quickly pulls away. But the bill isn't fast and the monster catches up in no time, the bill get slower and slower, it's feather burning up, the blue eyed rider tries to use a burst, the scales around the bills legs releases a few sparks but nothing more, the Bill cough up blood, the Terrazor inches closer and closer, he turns back and glances at the abyss of the monsters jaws.

He pulls out another tube from the pouch, more of the agent M, with no hesitation he spills it on the Bill. The Terrazor roars just behind them ruffling the bill's feather, nothing happens as the bill continues to burn up from its forced evolution.

The blue eyed rider punches the bill on the back, come on!, he yells. The monster jaws surround him, he is almost between them, he could feel the steam simmering on the beast's tongue. The Bill loses speed, he falls into the jaws, he quickly veers Bill left to escape, as the jaws crash down on him.

He makes it out of the jaws in time, and aims to fly out of reach, in a flash he gets hit by what looks like a gust of wind, but it feels like another body's crashing against his Bill. He sees a single red dot, it disappears in a flash, the force from the wind tosses him backwards into the monster's jaws, they slam shut.

The black rider reappears, his face pale peeking through the broken side of his mask and at the other, his one red eye glows brightly.