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Dragonheart: One Last Hope

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I ran down the road leading away from the school like the devil was on my heels; my heart pounding in my chest like a jackhammer.

“C’mon, Charlie!! Are you too scared to face me? Are you chicken?” Marc’s cackle rang in my ears, as did his friends’ laughter.

I only ran faster. “I’m done with you and your bastard friends, Marc!!” I shouted over my shoulder, picking up speed.

Glancing up at the sky, I noticed it was just past sunset, and happened to glimpse the rising stars of the constellation Draco, the Dragon, just above the northern horizon.

I only took a split-second glance, then looked ahead again, and put on a burst of speed.

My legs and lungs both burned, as my heart pounded.

The back lane leading home was closer now, but then...

Hearing a loud honk, I spun just in time to see a silver grill and headlights, but managed to catch a glimpse of the driver, a man clad in black, with long, greasy black hair, almost like Sirius Black from the ‘Harry Potter’ series!!

His grin revealed yellowed, rotten molars.

However, seconds before impact, I instinctively dived, spinning as I rolled up the windshield, and flew high over the truck, twisting gracefully in midair, falling, then landing lightly on my feet, exactly how Lucian did in ‘Underworld’ after Selene tried to run him over!

Suddenly seeing black smoke rising into the sky, my blood went cold as ice.

I raced down the lane to the gate, vaulting over to land in my backyard, crying out as a wave of heat rolled over me!

My worst fears were confirmed with what met my eyes seconds later.

The house had been torched, and what remained still burned. There seemed to be no sign of life.

But...

“C-charlie...! Help...m-me!!” A barely-audible voice croaked from the wreckage, but I recognized it. My heart leapt to my throat.

“Dad...!!!” I raced toward his prone form on a large pile of broken wood, ignoring the flames all around us.

Kneeling by my father’s side, a chill went through me as I got a good look at his scars and injuries.

My chest felt filled with lead upon realizing he wasn’t going to survive.
“P-please, take...this, Charlie!” he croaked, slowly placing something in my right hand.

Looking at it, I saw my grandfather’s gold ring with the single blue topaz gemstone.

Tears came to my eyes.

“N-now, go, Charlie!” my father whispered with his dying breath. “Be free to live, but promise me you will bring down Marc and his friends! You must!!”

With those words, his head slumped sideways slightly, as the light literally faded from his eyes.

I squeezed my eyes shut, desperately fighting back the grief that threatened to consume me.

Opening my eyes again, I slowly looked up, staring into the west, as my face darkened with uncontrollable rage.

Slipping the ring onto my right index finger, I slowly stood up, before looking up at the late afternoon sky slowly fading to early evening twilight through the smoke.

The heat singed my t-shirt, but I tore it off and threw it into the burning wreckage.

A sudden crash made me spin...only to find I was now trapped in what remained of the back porch; even if the roof was gone, the flames were such that I couldn’t escape if I wanted to.

Something told me I was too late to help my brother and mother.

So there I was, trapped in the burning remnants of the back porch with my father’s body...and no way out.

Grief and terror turned to rage...rage so powerful that I was literally shaking!

Heedless of the fire around me, I squeezed my eyes shut. ”Damn you, Marc and all your accursed friends!! May you burn in Gehenna for this!!”

But the heat and terrifying sound of fire raging drove home the sickening realization that I was the one burning...or so I thought.

Managing to glimpse the dragon’s constellation through the smoke and flames, I closed my eyes.

”God, thank You for bringing my family Home, but if you can hear me, save me!!” I begged.

Suddenly I felt something within...a powerful sort of energy like electricity, but it also felt cold, like ice.

The cold and tingling power swiftly spread from my chest outward to my hands and feet...before I began to transform.

Hearing a loud ripping sound, I glanced down to see my runners begin to bulge and tear as my bare feet lengthened, alongside my lower legs!!

As my feet slowly morphed into a draconic form, I gasped, staggering and collapsing to all fours on the ground! Hearing a loud ripping sound, I glanced down just in time to see my runners explode, as my socks tore to shreds; my human feet rapidly transforming as the bones and muscles shifted; the skin deepening in colour as thick greyish-brown dragon scales swiftly overtook them, and my human toes merging and extending into three large clawed ones; the lethally-sharp ebony talons gleaming in the light of the fading sunset, as a dewclaw slowly formed on the outside of each foot!!

I didn’t have time to dwell on these changes however, since I could feel my human proportions rapidly changing; powerful muscles weaving through my legs, arms, chest, back, and shoulders, before I squeezed my eyes shut as I felt my neck and torso begin lengthening and broadening; scales creeping slowly up my face as I felt it start to broaden and stretch; gentle massaging sensations coupled with soft yet sickening cracking and oozing sounds as my human face and head reformed smoothly into that of a dragon; the gentle sensations eliciting a moan of pleasure from me, which instead emerged a soft draconic growl!

Feeling pulling sensations in my hands, I managed to pry open my now golden-amber dragon eyes and look down; everything seeming much smaller now due to not only my longer neck, but my overall larger size as well!!

Luckily, the entire transformation had taken no more than eight to ten seconds!

Suddenly hearing the sound of the wall behind me buckling, I raced out of the rubble that had once been the back porch, and sprang into the air; my gigantic wings instinctively spreading and pulsing powerfully to keep me from falling.

Soaring easily over the back lane, I glided down to land on the grassy lot, before turning to look back at my burning house, the only home I had ever known, just as it collapsed and was gone!!

My heart almost stopped upon realizing my only family was gone forever; now, I had no one left.

I was completely and utterly alone, and this realization cut me deeper than any weapon Marc had wielded against me, ever could have.

Suddenly feeling intense psychic static, I clairvoyantly sensed my enemies.

I knew that right now I needed to escape, and have some time to myself.

The time for one last fight would come soon enough, and I would show those devils no mercy!!

Slowly spreading my massive wings, I tensed my hindquarters, before leaping into the air, flying high into the twilight sky.

Turning to the west, I soared on the evening breeze, into the sunset.

About five miles further, I came upon a fair-sized glade surrounded by oak trees, and came in to land, laying down to rest.

But I didn’t sleep for long.

The psychic static from my clairvoyance roused me about fifteen minutes later, as my telepathy instinctively alerted me to the presence of my enemies.

Swiftly rearing up onto my hind legs, an extraordinary tingling washed over me as I felt my body swiftly yet gracefully reform, leaving me a powerful weredragon!!

Slowly clenching my hands into fists, I watched the skin between the first and third knuckle on each hand slowly split, before a pair of foot-long bone claws as sharp as scalpels slowly slid out!!

Amazingly, it wasn’t painful one bit!! Testing my new claws, which were exactly like Laura’s from “Logan”, despite being bone instead of adamantium, I reduced a nearby tree trunk to splinters with one swipe!!!

Ready, I turned, assuming a battle-ready stance as I spread my massive wings fully.

Crouching, I placed my right hand on the remnants of the tree, focusing as a subtle amber glow suddenly flashed across my hand and up my forearm, vanishing seconds later!

As I slowly stood back up, the splinters and chips all slowly rose to hover before me!!!

I grinned. As far as I knew, no dragon any man had ever heard of possessed tactile telekinesis...until now.

Marc, Judas, Moloch, Curtis, and Dallas all soon came, and stopped, staring at me.

For a long while, no one moved.

However, even if my enemies didn’t yet make the first move, my keen eyesight easily picked up their Desert Eagles and K-BARs, prepared on each of their belts.

This made me more determined than ever to crush them and avenge my family!!

My enhanced hearing easily picked up what Marc whispered to his friend Judas:

“This’ll be so easy, and we can let Drake suffer as we made his family suffer! I’ll take him high, Judas, and you take him low! Let’s cut the bastard in two!!”

Smoke curled from my nostrils as my amber eyes blazed with rage!!

Suddenly they all charged me with war cries.

A simple yet subtle flex of my left hand, sent the pine needles and wood chips blasting toward Dallas, who screamed as he was hit...yet more and more kept nailing him, and as his friends all watched, horrified, the compacting wood and pine needles finally ripped his body to pieces with a horrible squelching sound; blood, guts and bone fragments spraying everywhere, leaving nothing behind!!!

I then charged them, leaping up to land a flying split kick between Curtis and Moloch, before I spun, stabbing my bone claws straight through Curtis’ neck, and ripping them out so violently that the man’s head swung sideways off his shoulders, connected by no more than a few strands of muscle and skin!!

As his corpse collapsed, I literally skewered Moloch with both claws on my wing-joints, before pulling him toward me as I swung my right foot up, and fully gutted him without any effort, throwing him back away from me.

Spinning, I grabbed Judas as he screamed from my power numbing his arm, before I thrust my other hand at him, then driving it downward, using my tactile telekinesis to smash him into a two-foot deep crater; part of a large broken tree root having almost tore his torso completely apart as it burst through his back and chest, looking almost like one of the Xenomorph Aliens after it emerges from a human host!!!

Turning to face Marc de Manthaeus, my one sworn enemy...the most evil, hated man on Earth...and I, stared one another down.

My father’s dying words came back to me: “Be free to live, but promise me you will bring down Marc and his friends! You must!!”

I breathed deeply and slowly, but subtly enough that Marc didn’t notice.

Focusing, I slowly spread my telekinetic field from an inch above my scales, to its maximum length of two meters.

Screaming like a lunatic, my enemy charged toward me while wielding a broken tree branch like a sword...but as soon as I felt him enter the energy field, a subtle flick of my fingers sent Marc flying off the ground to spin around me, before a quick nod of my head launched him screaming forty feet through the air to land head-first in a tree stump, exactly how Floyd did in “Beethoven’s 2nd”, after rolling down the hill!!
Luckily, the momentum broke his neck with a sickening crack, as his body collapsed limply against the stump.

I grinned.

Looking up at the night sky, I smiled, retracting my claws into my knuckles, before crouching, slowly spreading my wings fully, then launching skyward like a bullet!

I shot straight up until I was almost 2000 feet in the sky, before slowing down and falling back into a reverse dive for about 500 feet, before executing a spectacular double backflip and knifing across the sky like a torpedo, then slowly spreading my wings just as the wind caught them, sending me soaring effortlessly up!!

Roaring triumphantly, I unleashed massive twin blasts of bright blue high-temperature fire from both nostrils across the twilight sky, turning west toward the setting sun.

Now that my, and the world’s, greatest enemies had forever been destroyed, all could live in peace forever, and I myself was at peace knowing my family was not only avenged once and for all, but also safe with God, for all time!

As I soared high above the glowing clouds lit by the setting sun, I myself truly knew that I was at peace as well, and could live an exciting new existence now, and forever!!

               The End!

A great story inspired by the awesome tale “Fallen Angel”, by the deviant ‘BlackDragonTFArt’, that tells of how, after finding my home destroyed, and my family murdered, by my greatest enemy, a gift given to me by my father as he dies, changes my entire existence into something greater than I had ever known, granting me the strength and the power to finally conquer my enemies.


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