Dragon Tale - Chapter 6.2 (Patreon)

He dropped down from the sky like an anvil, coming down with both feet extended and crashed feet first into the skull of one of the huge dinosaurs.

Its skull caved in from the force of his drop, its body crashing into the ground and going limp.

Dead.

The reaction of the others were instantaneous. They instantly turned to him and their first instinct.

Was to attack.

A trio of large streams of fire erupted towards him from multiple sides, they didn't waste even a second.

The heat seared his skin without even reaching him. That was how hot the flames were.

With a flap of his wings, he shot up above them though and easily dodged, before shooting through the air towards another and smashing his fist into its snout, clamping its mouth shut and cutting off the flames it was spewing.

Before thrusting his hand out in a knife blow, straight through its eye and into its brain, killing it instantly.

As big as they were, and with access to fire magic.

They weren't on the level of the green wyvern.

Kicking off of the snout of the beast as it toppled backwards and crashed into the ground, Brody flipped backwards through the air and then spun around, shooting himself towards another with a powerful flap of his wings.

Before it could full turn to face him, he was upon it, wrapping his arms around its throat and dragging it to down with him as he continued with his spin.

And broke its neck.

Leaving only one.

With a roar, it stomped towards him at a swift spring, large, powerful legs thundering powerfully against the ground.

It was fast.

Faster than something its size had any right to be to be honest. And it was upon him in near the blink of an eye, massive mouth coming down to snap him up whole with razor sharp teeth.

Too bad for it though, he was much faster right now.

Before it could reach him, he lashed out with a thrust kick that caught it in the throat. It gagged in pain and buckled backwards, stumbling back a few steps and struggling to breathe, hacking and coughing, shaking its head.

"…This could be a good time to test it out." he mused, hand going to his pocket and retrieving a familiar gleaming silver key, "Open: Gate Of The Canis Minor!" he declared, feeding his magic into the key.

There was a flash of light, and then a very familiar little cute blue spirit popped into existence in front of him.

"Balooo!" Blue cheered upon being summoned, before blinking as he saw his surroundings and looking around at the variety of huge corpses, "Baloo..?" he looked back at Brody in askance.

"Hey buddy," Brody greeted him with a casual wave and grin, "How about we try out that battle form of yours with this guy? Think you can take him?"

While he'd been recovering, that didn't mean he still couldn't help out Blue, and before facing the green wyvern, he'd more or less finished the form for Blue, all that remained was seeing if he could take the form.

And after a few days, he could.

And he was pretty damn strong in that form, easily a match for one of those Gorian's by his estimates, if not stronger. But, how strong was he really?

This would be a good chance to check Brody thought.

Blue blinked and turned around to look at the Raptor Rex, tilting his head up and up and up to look at the beast that towered massively above him.

"Baloo." Blue shrugged his little shoulders, before closing his eyes. A puff of smoke erupted from around his form, before the smoke was split by a howl and gleaming drills.

A massive black and blue furred wolf now stood in Blue's place, gleaming drills adorning his body and blades jutting from various parts of his body, razor sharp teeth poking from his lips and claws that could tear through stone erupting proudly from his paws.

He looked, utterly badass. It was as if he'd summoned a dark enhanced Dorulumon to fight for him.

As the transformation finished, and Blue revealed his battle form, the Raptor Rex regained its breath and bearings.

And was not intimidated at all, as it roared angrily, threateningly at Blue. It did after all, have a good ten feet, and a bit more on him.

And no doubt, had a lot more battle experience than Blue. This was pretty much, his first fight beyond him getting used to the form over the last few days before they left Onibus Town behind.

With a roar, the dinosaur thundered towards Blue, flames pooling in its mouth as it did and fired off a gout of flame towards Blue.

With a growl, Blue jumped to the side narrowly avoiding it, letting the flames splash into the ground and set the grass alight.

It wasn't done though, it moved as it fired the flames and got in close, spinning and lashing out with a massive, thickly muscled scaled tail and aiming to slam Blue and crush his bones with it.

Blue however, was faster.

Quite a bit faster actually.

He nimbly ducked under the tail strike and got behind the huge and powerful fire breathing dinosaur. As he did, the drill atop his forehead, usually his nose, whirled rapidly into life and he jumped thrusting the spiralling horn into the beasts back.

And piercing straight through its scale, into its spine and drilling through the bone. Blood flew, splashing over Blue's currently furry blue and black face while the Raptor Rex shrieked in agony, before its body went limp.

When it did, Blue blinked and pull his horn out and stepped back, allowing the huge dinosaur to topple to the ground, body limp, breath shallow and eyes glassy.

'He paralyzed it.' Brody blinked, 'Note to self, drill horns to the spine, are not fun.'

…He'd really only picked that form because Blue knew how to spin his drill nose and thought he could apply it to other drills formed on his body. He hadn't really thought of the true implications of it.

Brutal, but awesome.

Blue turned towards him then, "Balooo!" a cheerful howl erupted from his fanged maw and he bounded over to jump onto Brody.

Not taking into account his current massive size and slamming him into the ground.

Brody laughed it off though, even as the air was almost driven from his lungs from the sheer size and weight of him and reached up to pat him on the head, "Good job buddy, that was amazing!" he praised the spirit.

"Baloo baloo!" he howled excitedly and happily.

A puff of smoke erupted from around his form and he returned to normal then, landing on Brody's chest with a confused blink, "Baloo…?" his head tilted to the side and he pouted.

"Don't worry, you'll get there, just need to work on your magic more." Brody continued petting his now much smaller head and consoled the little spirit.

That was the biggest issue with his Battle Form. Blue could only hold it for around thirty seconds at most right now.

That, and it took a lot of concentration, so when he got overly excited, he could end up undoing it by mistake.

Standing up and setting Blue on his shoulder, Brody took a look around at the assembled corpses.

Four huge Raptor Rex's, and of course, the twenty three giant roasted pig corpses. Well, one of them was still alive…for now.

Hodras belonged to the animal soul category of Take Over magic. But, eh, while they were right there in front of him, it would almost be a waste not to grab them up.

'First though.' Brody turned his attention to the bodies of the Raptor Rex's and made his way over to the one still barely clinging to live.

He'd go with it first and put it out of its misery.

He placed his hand atop its snout, "Take Over." he declared, light erupting from his palm and suffusing the giant fire breathing dinosaurs body.

In moments it was gone, barely even putting up a fight at all as he crushed it mentally right after and forced it to submit.

It got easier with every single one.

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Later, after taking over the corpses that littered the area, Brody with Blue on his shoulder, decided to take to the skies once more.

Dusk fell, and before long, the sky turned to the dark of night as he continued on his journey, taking breaks every little while to rest and regain some of his magic power.

Before having to stop for the night and sleep. And then the next morning, after he got up, he was off again, travelling on foot and flying through the air as he went.

'It's a real pain in the ass though.' he mused to himself as he flew, once again, the sky having turned dark as night once more, 'If I didn't need to keep stopping to rest and recharge, I could have probably made it here on the first day.'

…well, he would have probably gotten even further, if it wasn't for the fact that, like a kid in a candy store.

He'd played about with the newest ability he'd gained from the Raptor Rex's. Fire Magic.

He was officially capable of using actual offensive magic now and not a summoning or transforming one!

'…Well I can breathe it at least.' he chuckled to himself sheepishly. Well, he could generate it, but he had no training with it right now. The best he could do, was use it in the same instinctive way the Raptor Rex's could. Since he took them over, he knew how to use their abilities the same way they did.

But that was the best they knew how to use their fire magic. So, learning new spells from it, would be a learning or creating process for him.

But hey, who cared, he could breathe fire. He was a real knock off dragon now!

Granted, it was no Fire Dragon's Roar, but it was still badass. Besides, if Laxus Dreyar was anything to go by, it was less draining to use normal elemental magic over a dragon slayer element, so would still be good to learn regardless to use for magic saving purposes.

Speaking of fire magic though…

As Brody ascended past a vast hill, his eyes widened as he found himself staring into the distance and seeing a huge, burning bonfire in the distance, illuminating a village of titanic buildings.

"The Sun Village!" Brody gasped, before a wide smile spread across his face. Finally, finally, finally!

He'd arrived.

With a flap of his wings, he picked up the pace and raced towards his destination, a corona of wind forming around his body and his ears popping from the sheer speed he accelerated at.

Within moments, he was within the range of the town and caught sight of multiple massive individuals, each easily fifty feet tall going about their lives in the village.

The giant race and those who worshipped the Eternal Flame.

Otherwise known as Atlas Flame, the Hellfire Dragon.

Instead of racing right in though, Brody touched down on a large hill overlooking the village and sat down, dispelling his partial Wyvern form, his wings disappearing in motes of light.

He'd had plenty of time to think how he'd approach this, and he didn't want to do it while the giants could take notice.

"…So I'll have to wait till they're all asleep." he said to himself, crossing his legs and preparing to wait, "In the meantime, I guess can read." he mused, holding his hand out and summoning one of his books from his Requip space.

He opened the book to the last page he'd left on, and didn't bother with pulling out his Gale Force Reading Glasses as well, it would just be a casual read to pass the time until he could make his move.