As it charges at him, Roman uses his technique once more, disappearing from plain sight with a black mist and reappearing at the dragon's head. He mounts it as he attempts to pierce its through its scales. He makes a chip in one, however the dragon lets out another bellow, stunning him in the process.
It shakes its head wildly as Roman looses his balance, falling down onto the ice, managing to land on his feet.
The dragon is distracted by a fireball directed by Raymond towards its face. He stands there with the Edison twins on each side of him, each of them is fully armored, Grant wielding his war hammer and Gideon wielding a spear.
Roman takes the opening, heading towards the tail of the monster and stabbing it deep. It roars in pain as it swings its tail towards Roman, which allows him to open the cut a bit more before losing his footing and slipping, pulling his weapon out of its tail. The rest of the group rush towards the dragon as it slowly regenerates the wound on it's tail.
Gideon makes a dash towards it's chest, yet it flies upward staying above the ground before letting down a torrent of frost breath. Raymond rushes towards him, grabbing him and carrying him to safety.
The beast lands, as they all adjust their positions. Raymond draws out his weapons and makes a dash towards the beast, faster than the normal eye can see.
The dragon pulls back its head in time and releases another torrent, with Raymond jumping over it on the first however, it shifts its head upward, catching him in the air, freezing his lower half.
As he falls, Gideon had made a dash towards its eye as Grant carries Raymond to a safer position. Gideon penetrates its eye, bringing the beast immense pain as it begins to bleed.
Now enraged, it stands on it's hind legs and uses its front legs as hands to grab him and slam him down onto the frozen lake, creating a large crater in it. Roman comes rushing towards it, however it lets out yet another bellow before snapping at him with it's jaws, missing by a mere foot.
He puts down his weapon and lands a hit to it's jaw powerful enough to cause it to recoil. Roman picks back up his sword and stabs the beast where he had striked it, as now he is able to penetrate through the scales. It roars in pain once more.
Fortunately, Raymond joins in bringing the beast down. Having used his flaming spiritual aura, he had broken free. He stabs the dragon's tail as he pulls both swords through it.
Roman pulls out his weapon as he aims for the dragon's open eye socket. It releases a burst of frost breath before he could reach it's brain, pushing him back.
It swings it's tail violently, slamming it on the ice, causing Raymond to let go. Grant carries his brother, giving him a bottle with a red substance.
It stands on it's hind legs as it holds it's tail in it's front feet, functioning like hands.
It shoots a beam at it's tail.
The group gathers as they witness what is happening before their very eyes.
"Is it hurting itself?", Raymond asks.
"I believe this is what those A Classes used to speak about", Roman states.
"Healing breath," Grant remarks.
The dragon stops as it gets on all fours once more, but not for long. It lifts it's upper body up, as it releases another torrent of frost breath.
The group back away as it begins to glow, the breath becoming more concentrated, until it glows like a crystal in the night.
It moves it's head in an upward motion, slicing through the thick ice. The group of four split up as the beam separates them.
The beast stands up on its hind legs as it moves it's head horizontally. The group ducks down, and although missing it's mark, the dragon managed to cause massive destruction to the forest, eviscerating trees and wildlife.
It pauses it's beam. The group assumes they are safe until they look back, where they bear witness how much damage had been done with those two beams alone.
It charges up another when a man can be heard yelling at the beast.
"Hey there, you overgrown bastard!"
They all turn to their left, the dragon to it's right, as they see a tall, armored man wielding an heavy axe. His armor is accented with in gold.
He appears alone. The dragon steps back when it is struck in the eye. A small blast of blue energy, although a minor inconvenience nonetheless. It looks to the direction from which the blast originated from where it sees a tall silhouette, cloaked in darkness.
It's face appears more visible when it fires up yet another blast. A woman.
The tall man fires a ball of heat and radiance at the beast. It connects, stunning the dragon as the next blast connects.
The man throws up a sign, raising two fingers.
Roman rushes towards the beasts legs, slicing them open with relative ease. Raymond catches up, leaping up and stabbing it's abdomen. It roars in pain as it makes an attempt to grab him. Roman leaps straight upward. The dragon makes an attempt to crush him with its front feet.
He shadowsteps, thrusting his sword into the dragon's neck. It roars in pain as he pulls his weapon downwards. Grant gives his brother a boost enough to reach the abdomen. As he is about to fall back down, Roman catches him by his hand and throws him up to where the dragon's chest is.
The pierces deep as he hangs onto his spear. He reaches the heart. The dragon falls back as Gideon drives his spear deeper and deeper.
The ice cracks as beast lets out it's final breath.
Gideon pulls out his spear which is now bathed in the blood of a dragon. The two people emerge from the forest.
The group turns around to face them, with Gideon jumping off of the corpse. The Marcellus twins tower over them all of them.
The Edison twins look at the woman in recognition.
"Sage!?", the two exclaim.
"How do the two of you know my name?"
They remove their helmets. "It's us!"
"Gideon! Grant! Thank the gods you two are still alive!"
The man removes his helmet.
"Samson!"
"Indeed!" He turns his attention to the Marcellus twins. "So, I'm guessing you're Roman, with the odachi and you are Raymond, dual weilder"
They nod in unison.
Raymond sheathes his swords reaches out his hand, a soft smile emitting on his face, "A pleasure to meet thee, Anders. The twins spoke highly about the two of you."
He shakes his hand. "Nevertheless, they weren't lying when they said you two where massive. You dwarf everyone here"
"That's what Titan's blood does," Raymond responds.
"And Roman, I heard you aren't that talkative."
"Well you heard correctly"
"The twins also said you had no spiritual energy but based off what I've seen, that is false. That seemed like the technique of shadowstep."
"Damn it", he mutters under his breath.