//------------------------------// // Reasonable Anger // Story: I Prefer the Term Freedom Fighter // by One of the Crowd //------------------------------// Chapter 6: Reasonable Anger "Damn it, Isaac! You just had to play with your fucking magic, didn't you," Sombra said as they made their way toward the castle at the center of town. They had been running a good few minutes without stopping because they could already here the cries of pain and suffering off in the distance. "Sorry, Jesus I just wanted to practice!" Isaac said as they neared the castle that now had a larger hoard of shadows surrounding it. Luca took to the air while Flim and Flam stayed back to keep out of the fight; Isaac, Silver, and Sombra however were going to have to charge into the middle of the hoard just go get close to the castle. "You really know how to fuck things up, Isaac," Sombra said as he summoned up a sword to slash through the shadows. Silver charged ahead of both Isaac and Sombra, and promptly began to beat the living hell out of every shadow that was within staff distance. Normally this would be something Isaac would pay to see, but seeing as Silver was heavily outnumbered both he and Sombra charged in and began to tear apart the shadows with fire and steel. They helped a little, but the sheer number of the shadows would simply overwhelm them in a matter of minutes unless something would save them. Speaking of something to save them a roar resounded through the air as off in the distance a speck appeared, and as that speck grew closer it became very apparent that the speck was a pissed off dragon. How could they tell it was pissed off? Because it was burning the legions of shadows that were still gathering outside the city, that's why. The shadows were distracted by the dragon giving the freelancers time to finish off the ones they were fighting while sneaking by the rest with ease. That dragon is only going to be helpful as long as it stayed out of the city because if it moved in well... it was a nice town for awhile. The rest of the way to the castle was littered with corpses and shadows that were completely oblivious to Isaac and everyone else. "You know, since there is a dragon here that means there is a hoard nearby! How about-" "We are not going to raid a dragon's hoard, again!" Isaac cut Flam off before he could continue his ridiculous idea of stealing from the dragon that was currently frying a large portion of the alternate Sombra's forces for them. They finally arrived at the castle where a purple unicorn was running around frantically looking for the reason that the buv=bblle around the city had fallen. She finally turned and her yes narrowed on Isaac before running up to him and shouting, "YOU DID THIS! I KNEW WE COULDN'T TRUST YOU!" "Calm down princess sparkly. you're right I did fuck up, but I'm here to help fix it," "HOW ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THAT!" Twilight said as she pointed toward the dragon that was now bored of burning random shadows and was making its way toward the castle. That was actually a good question as when Isaac fought dragons before, but that was in caves where you could drop a boulder on its head. There were no boulders hanging precariously on any of the buildings here so that limits the options available for the freelancers to use to deal with this new problem. "Any idea's Sombra?" At this Twilight turned to Sombra and promptly screamed in his face before sprinting off into the castle while calling for the guards again. Everyone promptly facepalmed/hooved at the fact that she did that when she had plenty of warning about this Sombra in particular "We going to stop her?" "Fuck that! She's probably told half the castle by now anyway," Isaac responded with as he began trying to plan exactly how to fight a dragon with nothing more than a castle and a gauntlet that lets him throw great balls of fire! *** Near the Castle*** "This complicates things" Sombra said as he observed a dragon decimating his forces with relatively no effort, "You have any plans, Isaac?" "You bring it down, and then I go to town on its throat?" "We can't waste my magic on such a trivial thing, Isaac! I have to conserve it so that we can make shinning armor one of our generals." "I still think he'll try to get out of it," "Like you?" "Yeah," Isaac said as he began walking toward the castle to get assistance with the dragon. "Where are you going?" "To get help from someone as competent as me."