The Ice Dragon had come!
A NARROW ESCAPE
V
aeludar and Charity were looking at the Ice Dragon with its glaring blue-and-red eyes looking at them. It was and snarling and growling with saliva dripping from its icy fangs. With each drop of saliva, an ice glacier was formed.
Vaeludar had never seen a Dragon in the shape of a large snake. He knew what a Sea Serpent looked like, but he never knew one would walk on land and with skinny legs. The Ice Dragon needed to be a hybrid: half dragon half Sea Serpent. But seeing how it was on land with legs and very thin wings: it’s a Dragon.
He spread out his wings as far as he can. Vaeludar was going have to fly fast as he could to get away from this dragon serpent, and he also didn’t know how fast this snaky creature could fly.
“Now would be a good time to fly,” said Charity, putting an arm around his neck.
“Way ahead of you,” stated Vaeludar, taking to the air. He grabbed her with his open arm and took off.
The Ice Dragon leaped its heavy body off the castle’s walls and glided faster than Vaeludar’s flying and landed in front of him. Its wings pounded a wind blowing that felt cold as ice during a harsh winter storm.
Vaeludar’s wings weren’t able to move or flap them. He wasn’t able to maneuver without the control of his wings. So Vaeludar had crash landed to the ground.
Charity landed on the ground as Vaeludar plumped into the ground. She was standing headstrong and wasn’t going to fall easily. Then she ran over to the fallen hybrid. “You really need to learn about how to land when it comes to retreating.” She found him with his wings frozen solid in a hold he made from the fall.
“Then maybe you can teach me how to land properly then,” said Vaeludar, getting up without taking a starch to this skin. He was still holding the Crystal Sword in his hand.
The Ice Dragon limped closer to them. It raised its curvy head and upper body up and blew glaciers of icy winds upon.
Vaeludar heard ice coming and blew a blaze of blue fire against the blue icy waves. Both blasted winds of heat and cold waves, which both blasts ended up in dead center. Vaeludar felt the cold air from the Ice Dragon, and the Ice Dragon could feel the heat waves coming from Vaeludar.
“Can you hold out until I can get your wings unfrozen?” shouted Charity.
“Util I ruan ou’ of breaf, yeah,” answered Vaeludar, with his mouth wide open exhaling his fire-breathe.
She placed her hands and his wings.
Vaeludar could feel both extreme heat and extreme cold running throughout his body. He eyes were tearing with a very strong presence running in his body.
The Ice Dragon was advancing forward, still blowing with all its icy might at the two escapees.
“No one shall escape,” said the Ice Dragon.
“We shall see, won’t we?” shouted the princess.
Shredding her hands off Vaeludar’s wings like ripping a paper, the ice on his wings came right off. They started to flap again.
Regaining control of his wings, Vaeludar crunched them up and widened them out once again.
“Now, we can get oat of heare,” said Vaeludar, still blowing wind power from his mouth.
“I’ll blind its eyes,” said Charity.
She lifted up high a finger. A light ignited from her tip and her eyes.
The Ice Dragon blinked and turned its eyes, stopping his blowing in the process.
“Now let’s get out of here,” yelled Vaeludar, being able to speak clearly. Vaeludar turned to Charity and placed his left arm around her waist. “Ready?”
“Go!” she shouted.
Vaeludar took off like a cannon fire. Flying faster than a bullet being fired, Vaeludar aimed for the mountain passes.
Charity held her arms around his neck while he blasted off into the air. She guided her flying rescuer through a narrow mountain pass. She pointed her finger instead of speaking in words. With her pointing finger and his flying jet speed, they both were working together to get out of the place.
Flying in the mountain pass was like flying in a cave, it was dark and rocks and edges coming in at high speed. It was narrow about fifteen feet in diameter. The light behind them began to fade into dark. The sky was barely to be seen.
Sounds of the Ice Dragon’s roar could be heard behind. Shouts of roaring could be heard through the mountain pass.
Charity saw looked upwards and saw a snowy avalanche coming down from the mountain tops. The Ice Dragon was running on the upper parts of the mountains, throwing down chunks of ice.
“Vaeludar,” said Charity.
“I know, I know,” said Vaeludar, hearing the sounds of dropping ice. He can’t both see where he was flying and look at the falling ice at the same time. He was flying with an avalanche closing in behind him. He could only see forward, so that he was doing.
Flying from one mountain corner to another, dodging rock ledges and pointy edges, and curving his wings away from the rock, Vaeludar’s flying was to and fro in different directions.
“Turn up,” shouted Charity, looking and pointed at a bright crack up above of them; it was where the Ice Dragon was going also.
Vaeludar saw it and his flying turned with his gaze.
Flying faster with a heart pounding like a heart attack, blood overflowing with great anxiety, a falling avalanche caused by a single Dragon, and the Ice Dragon was flying faster than the flying hybrid, Vaeludar was breathing hard with one nostril and the other blocked.
The light was drawing closer by the second. It
