Chapter 252: Dragon (1)
Evanna sheathed her sword and started readying a bow. Her hands trembled as the giant beast was almost close to the icy lake. Would it blow fire? None, besides Axel, had a shield.
"That will never cut through dragon scales," Garrett grunted, pulling his overly large seraph blade out.
Evanna knew he meant well, but she was unable to control her voice as she snapped back. "I didn’t intend to hit its scales." Garrett glanced at her then his lips twitched into a smile.
"Spread out!" Arawn commanded; everyone besides Evanna followed his command without complaint, figuring it was the best procedure.
The princess remained where she was, aiming her arrow and taking slow controlled breaths even as the dragon’s large claws looked as though they might grab her face and squish her. That was when she released the arrow, knocking another three simultaneously in the same direction.
The creature growled, its wings expanding to stop itself from landing as the arrows shot directly at its green-blue eyes. But it closed its eyes, the eyelid shielding it and bouncing the arrows off it. Then the magnificent being proceeded to land.
The beast’s weight crushed through the ice Arawn formed, breaking it and splintering it further. The ground shook, making everyone lose their balance. Axel slipped over, as did Ronan and even Evanna. She was the closest to the dragon, and its weight caused her to slip forwards and slide on her front closer to it.
She managed to hold onto her bow and used the speed of falling towards the beast to flip onto her back, manoeuvring another arrow into place and cocked it back. As the arrow released, her foot caught on cracked ice that dipped her forward. The dragon roared just as Evanna rolled to the side out of its range of cobalt blue fire.
"Evanna!" She heard the others calling her name. She was the closest and in the most danger.