Metal rotor blades cut through the cold air, lifting the heavy chopper over towards the island that was covered by the rippling black mists. Inside the mechanical vehicle were groups of scientists. Some were murmuring to each other, while others stared from the gloomy scenery as far as their eyes could reach.
One of them, a middle-aged man wearing black, was staring glumly at the island, as he tried his best to control the many emotions that were rampaging inside him. His youngest daughter was kidnapped, and something will happen to her if he will not fix the nightmare that he had brought into the city and into the island. He was going against the government's plans of running this chaos around the city, with goals unknown even to him.
His gaze on the island was broken however, when the uniform noise of the chopper's rotor, being carried by the chilly air, was broken by a loud explosion from a distance away. Turning, he and the scientists saw a large explosion from the long bridge that connects the island and the mainland. Large red and yellow bright fumes of flame rose up, followed by a dragon that roared and soared up from the fumes.
“Jay”
I looked back from the explosion, but as I did so, the blue dragon roared once again. It caught my attention, and I saw it charging up another beam, and judging from how angry it's eyes were locked on us, I have a feeling that things will not look very very pretty...
“Incoming beam!” I shouted at Xilfer's direction.
Another roar, and I felt the hair on my back stood as I felt a very nasty cold shiver. Before I could react however, a very loud and weird noise was rampaging from behind me, and before I could close my eyes and gulp, Xilfer sharply turned the motor bike to the very edge of the bridge.
And before I could even get a breath to shout, a thick black beam struck the middle of the bridge, and continued running all the way ahead. The bridge shook violently, causing Rainbow and I to hold on tighter as Xilfer had a hard time balancing the thing as large chunks of debris flew around us.
I heard loud snapping noises around us. Looking up, I saw the thick suspension cables were snapping, and then the road shook violently and felt like it was waving in a random way. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the bike hit a ramp and we flew in the air. It was a small jump, and we were heading back to the concrete road, but before the bike could touch down, the road below us broke up and fell into the sea.
Acting quickly, I grabbed Rainbow Dash below her armpits, at least I think that's what they are called, and it's the closest that I could think of at the moment, and I threw her up towards solid ground. I grabbed my bro's hand just as the bike went through the hole. I was about to jump, but he jumped instead, “ack!” and carried me with him.
I heard Rainbow's painful whine when I felt that Xilfer and I were swinging in mid-air. Looking up, I saw Xilfer's left was grabbing my arm, and his other arm caught Rainbow's tail. Rainbow, on the other hand, was having a hard time remaining still on the concrete barrier of the bridge.
The swinging is making me sick, but I shook my head. I need to think of something fast and—why am I swinging like this?
“Gggh—!”
“Whoa—!” I panicked as Xilfer swung me one last time before he threw me towards the barrier. I was shivering, but I forced myself to grab hold and— “oof!” my chest hit the barrier harder than I anticipated...
I felt a hand grabbing on my foot, and I slipped, but I grabbed a hold of the barrier before I could slip completely and fall. I looked down and saw Xilfer was now grabbing my foot and Rainbow's tail. Looking at my side, I saw Rainbow was clenching her teeth and was sweating furiously as she tried to pull up.
I looked down again.
“Xilf!” I tightened my hold, as I tried to ignore the snapping and cracking noise around us. “Let go of Rainbow's tail! I think it's hurting her too much!”
Rainbow whined about something, but I couldn't understand what she said. It was strange. Earlier, I was able to understand a few of what she was saying, but now, I couldn't.
Xilfer nodded and let's go of Rainbow's tail. It took him a couple of tries before his free hand could grab my foot though. Okay, how do I do this? I ah, no, I can't pull myself up... Xilfer's heavy, and ugh...
“I guess I'll be climbing up then?” Xilfer called.
Before he could even begin though, there was a mighty roar from above. I literally felt my eyes shrunk as I found it suddenly difficult to turn my head up, and when I did, I saw the blue dragon was flapping its two massive wings as it hovered lower and lower in the middle of the bridge. It's eyes were locked murderously onto us.
I wanted to turn to Rainbow, to tell her to run to the island and work her way to the mountain, but I couldn't. My eyes were fixed on those eyes, and my breath stopped, and my lungs were starting to hurt. But I couldn't move... I couldn't...
I felt something pulling my arm. There were rainbow strands on the corner of my vision, but I couldn't move. Finally, the dragon was no longer on my field of vision... But I could feel that it was hovering behind us...
“Ack—!” I shouted as Rainbow pulled her head back after “the hell did you bite my ear for!?” I glared at her.
Before she could say anything however, the dragon roared at us. I turned the furthest my neck could do, and I saw the dragon pulled its head back a little while it opened its mouth wide.
“Ah...shoot...”
Before I could close my eyes, I thought about letting go and just wish Xilfer would remember that I couldn't swim, but before I could, I heard a weird chime-like noise getting louder and louder, but it was still a faint noise. Suddenly, a white wisp-like cloud struck the dragon from its side, and the cloud exploded into tiny twinkling stars?
The dragon suddenly roared, and it strangely sounded like it was in pain as it flapped its wings awkwardly. As it did so, its wings struck the twinkling stars, making them explode and let out this weird electric-like noise, and I don't know if I saw it right, but I saw tiny electric sparks from the dragon's wing.
The dragon thrashed violently in the air, its wings and tail slamming against what remained of the bridge. I tightened my grip as the dragon flew further and lower, until finally, it fell into the water.
Everything became quiet as Xilfer began to climb up. After that, he helped me up and the three of us sat on the barrier and busied ourselves with catching our breaths.
“What just happened?” I heard Rainbow's question as she panted for breath.
I slightly shook my head. “I have no idea...”
Xilfer suddenly stood up and whistled, and soon, a faint whistle from somewhere rang back. “Bug's okay...”
“Bug?” I echoed. “Your friend's name is Bug?”
Xilfer turned to me, and even with his mask, I could tell he was glaring at me... “It's an alias.”
I frowned. “I...I knew that...” I sighed as Xilfer looked away. “So...what now?”
“We continue, of course,” Xilfer answered before walking on the barrier towards the island, but he stopped when a large part of the bridge was missing. “Tsk...”
Tsk, is right... Now what?
...Huh...? I turned, and I knew it. That sound really was coming from a helicopter. I saw, from a distance, a chopper, that headed towards the island?
“Looks like we need to hurry...” Xilfer spoke.
I faced him, and despite the fact that I was wearing a mask, I arched an eyebrow. “And how are we suppose to do that!?”
He shook his head. “No. Not ‘we’.” He sat down. “It's a dead-end for me here.”
“What?” What the heck is Xilfer talking about?
He raised a hand to stop me though. “First, you're a lightweight.”
Ouch... I'm busy with work, okay? I got no time to keep in shape...I think...
“Second, your pet seems like it can only handle a one-flight trip...”
I blinked. My pet? Fligh—oooohhh... I turned and stared at Rainbow, who stared back at me with an arched eyebrow.
“What?” she asked.