"Atregos!"
Ren yelled my name as the air around her exploded into spell smoke as she turned back to her real form. Her standard dragon armour shifting and expanding, covering her body fully as she got ready for a fight.
She didn't try lifting off though, she was smarter than that. They had the energy advantage. Trying to get into the air would be outright stupid.
Three of them. They were riding some sort of… twisted looking wyverns.
Well, I wasn't about to fight those in this form!
Channeling my magic I turned back and half spread my wings for balance as my armour shifted, growing out along my wings and along my legs, growing and flowing.
The first one dove towards me and I threw myself to the side with a snarl, avoiding it's claws before lashing out with my right wing, the razor sharp front end cutting through it's wing.
The first flying wyern thing went down screaming, it's rider going flying across the ground. Ren let lose with her breath, frost flowing across the second and it went down, crashing to the ground and it and it's riders going rolling.
The last one bowled her over and they both when down.
Ren!
Throwing the wyvern off, she roared and then pounced, ripping into the beast with her armours adamantium claws.
I should have known better than to be worried about her.
She was a better fighter than I was!
The riders were getting up, pulling longswords out of… somewhere. Hmm… spells or enchanted?
Those swords weren't normal. Not unless they literally pulled them out of their arses.
The first one lunged at Ren and she ducked back only to respond with a blast of frost, blowing him off his feet.
The second attacker was luckier.
He charged at her and struck, his blade sliding through her side and she roared in pain, stumbling to the side before falling.
No!!
Surging forward, I cast a spell of force, sending the three attackers flying backwards along the stony ground as I rushed ovaer to her.
"Ren!"
She didn't move but her armour suddenly collapsed slightly against the ground. Smoke and fire flowed from the satchel attached to her armour and she reformed from her soulstone next to me.
She stumbled and collapsed again with a whimper and a growl.
"Ren!" I asked and nosed.
"Side hurts," she groaned and struggled up.
Jumping over her, I checked. She wasn't bleeding, but there was a thin line along her scales. Which was literally impossible because her entire body had been reformed. Only way anything at all would have transferred is if…
That sword had cut her soul as well as her body.
Those motherfuckers.
The… wraith things were approaching again, their swords held at the ready.
Snarling, I nuzzled, "Go, you can't be hit again."
She growled at me and struggled up again, wings half spread but she stumbled again.
"Go!" I growled at her as I shifted back to mortal form, spell smoke spreading out around me.
Those things would pay for hurting her.
I couldn't fight them in my real form, they were too… if one hit would take me down, I couldn't get hit. Breath and spells clearly didn't kill them so taking off and strafing wouldn't work.
My armour clearly wouldn't help.
I don't know why I even bother.
"Not leaving you," Ren growled behind me.
I wouldn't have either.
Damn it.
"…Stay back and throw spells," I growled back and turned to face the wraith things, "And you can go get fucked," I snarled and pulled my dagger, casting the spell to let me see magic.
They changed. From hooded figures to glowing walking corpses with sunken skin.
I had been right, they were wraith things, twisted undead abomination of magic. If there were any doubt that the ones that were attacking the city were the bad ones here, it just disappeared.
Dropping the spell, I started towards them, shifting my dagger into a spear, stabbing the first one straight in the chest.
"Fool, dragon. No man can kill me," it hissed at me as it stopped moving, just standing there with my spear in it's chest.
"Really? Good."
Twisting my spear, I shifted it, the spear head jabbing thick spikes of metal out through the sides of it's chest, enchantments forming around and inside it, as I set up a power siphon, pulling natural mana.
Letting go of my weapon, it activated and twisted, the handle whipping around and stabbing into the rock below to anchor in place as it started to send thunderbolt after thunderbolt of electric energy into the wraith from the inside.
The wraith screamed and jerked, stumbling and falling.
The other two hesitated and I pulled the next dagger from my belt.
AN\\ Unbetaed because some strange derp. First time I sent it, it didn't get sent and I didn't notice and I kind of have to post this tonight as I have a early morning tomorrow. Will update with fixed part later.
