"Everyone, scatter! Dragon!" Someone called out as everything turned to chaos.
I looked down and my eyes widened in fear as a mountain dragon's face entered my view, roaring loudly before lunging for the closest tents at the bottom of the stairs. I couldn't make out if anyone got out of the way or not.
"Where are the ballistas?" One of the guards cried out as they started to run behind the gate.
"They're meant for flyers! Look at the damn thing!" The other guard cried as they desperately tried to close the gate before the dragon could get up the mountain and reach the fortress. Luckily it had decided not to fly up and eat us just like that. Unfortunately none of the ballistas on the walls or ledges were able to aim low enough to strike at the red psycho dragon below.
I looked down at the abnormal dragon, inspecting what looked to be golden scales on the underbelly, and half of it's face... if you could even call it that... was frozen in a state where it seemed as if it was melting off. The dragon had several stab wounds on its front, surrounded by some green and clear liquid falling down off their face, while the wings seemed to have been ripped off. It looked as if precious jewels and gold had been embedded into the dragon's scales originally, but now the jewels were fused together with its flesh and deep into the dragon's melted face.
As I was inspecting, I turned around just in time to see the guard that had greeted me shove me off towards the ramp, a ramp where the waste was being drained leading directly down to where the dragon was starting to crawl up. I quickly grab him and hold him tight to prevent my fall but the momentum is too strong. "What are you doing?" I cry as we start to fall.
"I'm sorry, but if you get eaten, I can buy myself some time now let go!" He said as he tried getting me off him, kicking me in the stomach and attempting to free my hands, but they refused to let go.
"Three moons! You're insane if you think I'm gonna let go!" I say while struggling as I turn myself around him so I'm top as we start to fall.
"If you don't let go! We'll both-"
"I'm not gonna let some deluded tosspot toss me without taking you with me!" I yelled.
"We'll both die!" He screamed back.
"Good, I won't be alone!" I shoveled his face into the brown liquid as we tumbled and fell while people were yelling and running everywhere, before we finally reached the edge of one of the turns of the drain pipe, right above the dragon.
"What the... Wait! NO! PLEASE-" He wailed as he fell.
My eyes watched in terror as the dragon's head whipped up and its teeth quickly sunk into him and promptly chomped him in half. The dragon with scales of blood then started to let out a hiss as its good eye then dilated when its gaze turned to face me.
I landed with an audible grunt as I fell on the dragon's scales on their back ,where I saw one of its crippled wings, and what was left of the other wing. The wings appeared as if something much bigger had managed to tear them off. I quickly jumped to my feet and tried running off of the dragon's back, only for the dragon to suddenly throw itself to the side of some of the mountainous terrain as it attempted to get me off, but I held on for dear life onto one of the horns on its back. It let out another roar as it then let itself roll down the mountain towards the delta.
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I let out a yell of pain as I was flung into a nearby tree next to the water. I looked down towards the rest of my body and saw my body was twisted slightly unnaturally and there was blood pouring down the cuts on my hands. I hissed in pain as I managed to crawl to the water and started to wash my cuts till I was interrupted by a growl.
I whipped my head back up as I heard the draconic giant hiss above me. I weakly lifted my head and met her eyes and all I saw was pain, hunger, and a storm of rage. All of those emotions visible in that singular eye, as she was practically frothing at the mouth as she looked down at me with a menacing growl emanating from her throat. She then opened her maw, getting ready to finish me off. My eyes then lowered and I managed to notice all the stab wounds on her chest and stomach, how they were still bleeding heavily and letting the red liquid spill onto the ground.
I watched as she then suddenly fell to the side with a pained groan, causing a small rumble in the ground as her weight landed on the floor as it panted in either pain or exhaustion, seemingly too weak to get back up. She suddenly didn't seem so strong and terrifying anymore, especially as I noticed her eye starting to flutter shut and her body curling up against the ground.
I looked back up at the invincible city, now miles away, not even mentioning the years it would take for the stairs.
I looked back down at the creature, its panting was rough and harsh as it desperately tried to breath despite the wounds it had sustained.
I took a look around, this was the Delta, one of the most dangerous parts of the entire continent. There weren't a lot of trees and if any other dragons caught sight of one like her, let alone with all those shiny materials embedded into her, then more would come wanting to claim that treasure for themselves. One dragon alone could completely destroy a town, let alone a small and measly human like myself. I have to get that dragon out of here, or I could run, but I most likely wouldn't make it far.
"Can't believe I'm doing this." I mutter as I then pick up some herbs and move to the dragon's wings.
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The red dragon was just angry, but all she could do was think aloud to herself, "I've lost everything! My kingdom! My weapon! Even my damn wing! And now I'm gonna die alone with no one but a stupid scavenger!?" She let out a roar as the small scavenger approached, but her head quickly fell back to the ground with a loud thud, unable to hold her own weight anymore. 'What is it gonna do to me, is it going to carve me up, use those herbs it's holding to serve my insides on a silver platter, do scavengers eat dragons? It doesn't matter, I'm not going to die this way, I'll just turn it into a bloody piece of mush!' She thought as she raised her tail and was about to squash the small critter flat. She was just about to slam it down, until the scavenger placed the herbs on one of her wounds to which her tail drooped back down as she growled in relief.
***
It let out a bunch of growls as it then turned its head back to me, her eyes half-lidded as she looked down at me and growled something I couldn't understand as I continued to apply more herbs. She actually seemed to relax as she started to move herself closer to me, sniffing at my herbs.
"That's it." Keep following me..." I mutter as I get in front of the dragon and dare to go close to her snout, as it started to slowly get up and crawl deeper into the nearby forest where we were out of clear view. I continued to heal her, even though I had done all that I needed to keep her alive for now. I could just leave her for dead finally, yet I just continued to apply the herbs to her wounds, till I was interrupted by some drops of rain. I looked up and jumped at the sound of thunder, this time I had no tent to hide under. Suddenly though, the dragon's one good leathery wing then moved to block the rain, followed by the sensation of my body being scooped closer to the red dragon.
My heart stopped as I then noticed her snout was facing me, she looked terrifying up close, her teeth were sharp and each seemed taller than myself. It didn't exactly ease my fears as blood of the guy who pushed me was still dripping down the right side of her jaw, but instead of opening her jaws and devouring in one go, she just let out a soft rumbling sound as she then moved her head closer to nuzzle me as I continued to heal her wounds. Her head then landed near my side. She just growled one thing, and despite not knowing her language, I understood it clearly. "Thank you..."