stride toward the dragon who he saw standing against a
wall.
Luca
was startled for only a moment, until the situation dawned on him. Then he
began to smile.
“Well, Well,” Luca said as the King emerged
from the forming pool, “I knew you would come someday, Omni, but it is too
late. See all these eggs?” The dragon pointed toward dozens of thousands of
eggs. “These are my children, my heirs. Soon they will hatch, and I will have a
family of my own!”
“You
can enchant, Luca, but you cannot create. These,” King Omni said pointing to
the eggs, “are still my children. You can only lead them to destruction. I will
break your curse! I am here to take back the magic Dragon’s Eye!” King Omni
raised his shield and pointed his sword.
“Come
and get it, if you think you can,” said the dragon, blowing a puff of fire out
of his nostrils and raising his large wings.
King Omni lifted his shield just in time to escape
the flames being spewed at him in red, yellow and blue array. As Luca tried to
gather more air to shoot fire at the King, King Omni moved forward with his
sword and stabbed the dragon near his heart. It should have hit his heart, but
after all this time, the dragon’s heart had shrunk and was hard to reach.
They fought savagely. The dragon breathed his
fire. The King held up his shield in defense. King Omni tried to knock the
dragon down with his sword. The dragon tried to knock down the King with his
strong wings, and in doing so, he tore a hole into King Omni’s lower right arm
that held his sword. Then the dragon tried to scratch the King’s face, but King
Omni brought up his shield and the dragon caught the King’s shoulder instead. Around
and around they fought. Finally Luca saw his advantage. Picking up his feet and flapping his huge
wings, Luca kicked at the King and knocked King Omni to the ground. The King
lay weak, bleeding from the slashing of the dragon wings. Luca pinned the King
down with his back claws. Then, using his wings, he reached down and tossed the
sword from the King’s right hand and the shield out of his left. King Omni lay
under the dragon’s massive bulk, arms outstretched, weak, and fighting for
breath. At that moment, the dragon brought his snout with nostrils flaring down
to the ground near the face of King Omni, wanting to gloat over him.
“I am the strongest,” the dragon
exclaimed, “Look at yourself, weak and frail. I am the most powerful of all,” The
dragon raised his proud head toward the ceiling of the cave and filled it with
flames.
While
the dragon was engrossed, he did not feel the blood-soaked right hand of the King
slowly slip out of the dragon’s claw. Quick as a flash, King Omni put his hand
to the dragon’s neck, and snatched the amulet.
The
dragon screamed and moved off King Omni so he could reach for the necklace. Luca
had lost his power.
“Give it back Omni!” Luca shouted.
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