–furrkkllllllrrrckkk!♪
The chair drags itself chipping away the dry brownish red flakes of stale blood encrusted on the floor surrounded it,
furrkkllllllrrrckkk!♪
Pinoki conjures a shadowy fist cautiously, Aki has put some bladed nunchaku, and Shiryu braces himself for anything, still feeling a passive sting in his chest…
furrkkllllllrrrckkkkkkkrrrrrrrrrcccchhhkk♪
The thorny throne stops and begins to collapse in on itself, a dark aura beginning to surround it
“Whatever is happening, doesn’t seem to be good,
A tactical retreat would be good right about now.” Suggests Pinoki,
“I–” Aki opens her mouth to speak but pauses upon seeing what the throne becomes…
…
Shangh♪
Shanng♪
The dark curtain dissipates and behind a transformed throne
Shanngg♪
A spiked boot steps forward slowly
Shanngg♪
The other foot comes down
Both shiny almost reflective black and spiky, all the way up are thick black steel spiked armored legs, even the torso a broad steel black, extending out of it broad shoulders with of course spiked fists at the end,
And sat on top of it all a horned head–no a horned helmet akin to Viking headgear, black and shiny like the rest of the hollow body,
“A golem?” Aki takes a few steps back swapping out her nunchaku for kunai, and magic stones for explosives
“Duurraaagoonnn!”
A hollow voice echoes out of the suit slowly inching toward Shiryu,
“ME?”
(It can tell I am a dragon?)
“It can tell you are a dragon.” Aki tells what he’d just thought
“Duuuraagoon”
“Who are you!?” Shiryu tries to question it,
“Are you Ginobelucci?”
“Ginobelucci?
That is the name of the human that fed himself to us so we could be revived,
I am Ginobelucci but I am also many others,” the voice booms still slowly stepping toward Shiryu,
“What do you want from me?” Shiryu takes two-three-four-five-six-seven huge steps backwards
“You are duragon, you have to be consumed by us, become whole with us,”
(What?)
“Years ago all the dragons were cannibalised by one, that gained all their combined strength,” Aki growls
“I think that thing wants to add you to the collection of dragons it’s consumed.”
“Why?” Shiryu directs his question to the armor
“Because we love it,”
(Love it?)
“I think this thing is like the main brain of the dragon,” whispers Pinoki,
“Maybe if we take it out the dragon will not awaken, or at least the draining will stop.”
Shanngg♪
The hulking armored body comes to a halt
“I don’t know if we can take it out…” Shiryu steps back a bit more feeling an incredulous amount of unease
“If it’s this slow than I have a few strategies that we can–”
–Whammp!!
As the words escape her mouth the black suit suddenly dashes up to Shiryu knocking him hard across the underground room, its hard spikes pressing into his scales, if that were a normal person then that would have been instant death,
…
“I only moved slowly to drop your guards.” The suit grabs the young man up but–
–Whammp!!
Pinoki’s shadow hand comes through with a whack of his own that only makes the suit move a few centimetres back
“What?
That was by hardest hit,” Pinoki reforms a shadow fist this time rocketing into the suit
WaBlammm!!
The suit tanks the hit easily,
“Hyuhn!”
Aki however was on the attacks since the first move slides down near the suit with a chain she wraps around it’s
“Come on!” she grabs Shiryu away while simultaneously pulling the chain from under the armor’s feet
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Crrcksh!♪
It breaks instead of flipping the thing over
“I anticipated that” grimaces Aki blowing out a stream of gas at he suit
In-between the crevices of the chain some fire magic stones were set, and as the gas touches them–
BOOM!
The ground under it’s feet breaks sinking the suit,
“Buck up Shiryu!” Aki shakes him
“Sorry,” he shakes himself up, “That one caught me off guard.
“Pinoki try to hold it while it’s sunk!” orders Aki and the little man complies at once creating shadow whips around the thorny suit,
“Shiryu you chip away at it I need a big enough opening to blow it from inside out!”
“Right!” Nods Shiryu jumping to the armor
Shhhlingk!♪
Shhhlingk!♪
His claws swipe at the steel not doing anything but scratches,
“Uelrggh, I can’t hold it back!” Struggles Pinoki,
Brrrcckkk–BRAMM!
The suit breaks free leaping high up creating a loud tremor on the floor as it comes down
“Duragon,
We are in hibernation right now,
This body cannot consume you,
All we can do is restrain you for now…” the suit raises both it’s arms up pointing them at the trio
“MAGIC EATER!” it’s hollow voice rings and a dark aura begins radiating all over them
….
...
But to no avail…
None of the three seem affected by it,
“You have immunity to dark arts?
We will restrain you then hard way”
Fwang!
Fwang!
Fwang!
Fwang!
Then suit begins detaching spikes off itself and tossing them
“Still think we can defeat this?” Pinoki continuously slaps back the projectiles with his shadow hand
“I can use my requiem to turn myself into explosive gas and go inside it myself,
I need you to toss a fire magic stone at it to set it off though.”
“Your what to what!?” Pinoki confused as to the woman’s requiem
“I posses a requiem I don’t need to say more than now–”
WHHUUNKK!
“Aki!”
The suit suddenly charges with incredible speed at the woman,
Shiryu reflexively jumps in the way to shield the woman from what would have been instant death,
Gabbummp!
Both their bodies still smack into a wall behind
“Echhl!”
The suit doesn’t stop and rushes up again at Shiryu griping him by the throat
“You have to be restrained until our hibernation is over dragon,
Sleep,
Hibernate right now.”
“No.” Shiryu struggles out.
“Shi…. Shiryu, we are out of sync!” coughs Aki stumbling up from the knock back
(Oh shit I feel weaker myself…)
“I think this calls for a retreat then–hhyyughh!”
Shiryu uses his feet to push against the thing’s chest leaping awa–no, it immediately snatches his leg out the air
WHHAMMM!
It swings him down to the floor
WHHAMMM!
Again
WHHAMMM!
Again
WHHAMMM!
Again
WHHAMMM!
“Stoppp!” Pinoki’s shadow hand has been avidly pushing at the suit the whole time barely affecting it
“errjskldjdm” slurs Shiryu laid on his back sunk into the ground
“Escape–
Unnghh-ahh-ahhh-awww-awwwhghgh!”
The suit drops one massive knee on the young man’s stomachs breaking all of his ribs instantly,
“Hibernate, until our body, the dragon King Geedorah, awakens.”
BLAAMM!
One spiked fist punch to his face cracks his scales off
BLAMM!
Another splits his head wide open
Kcskss!♪
His blood sprays up like a clogged hose
“Ughnn I’m…c.dmjjjgonnahfkffjfndie..” His words bubble
(I have to hibernate or die)
“Idhfiff. Escape!” Shiryu musters one last yell as his vision goes blurry red from all his blood leaking into his eyeballs that now shut tight into hibernation
“Shiryu!”
Aki’s yell is the last thing he hears before it all goes blank.