Thread: A Slave to Fire (LeatrixSage x A Monster)

Far off in the mountains, deep in cave systems carved out of rock and stone through fire, claw and magic, a great beast stirred. He was easily twice the size of a fully grown Elephant in the lands to the far east, sitting on a mountain of treasure larger than a small castle. His eyes were glazed over as he stared into nothingness, the cavern egg shaped above him, the walls filled with massive tunnels that lead to the different parts of his lair, with the main entrance a massive hole in the very top that led to a normal cave that ended in a several hundred foot drop down to his lair. Even though very well crafted by the beast, the simple structure and the fact there were only dozens of extra chambers instead of hundreds showed that this was still a home in the making due to his displacement. Unlike the more simple monsters of the lands like Manticores and Orges, a Dragon often did not settle for a hole in the earth filled with a bed, instead forming what almost resembled an anthill out of the rock and stone, leading to different entrances, air tunnels, scrying chambers and places to store special items of the hoard that deserved their own room, or risked being crushed or burnt by the Dragon. The main room however being where a Dragon would spend most of their spare time, basking in their own glory. Genkai seemed to be staring into nothing, but instead his eyes were merely seeing a land that was outside of his mountain range with a short ranged scrying spell. Watching 'Lady Enyo' with interest, curious as to what a lone Slayer was doing all the way out here. Yes, he had been awfully ashamed and furious with the defeat at the hands of the other Dragon in the area, but he had escaped with himself and his most prized possessions intact. Drak'Nal surely didn't mean to kill him this soon, and in a manner this brash? After muttering words that a human couldn't fully hear, as the language of the Dragons wasn't even fully within the human range of hearing, much less understanding, his vision lit up with various colors as he scried on the girl. Seeing things in the plane of Magic, the trace Elemental Magic within the grass and wind around her, the Arcane traces of power within her, which all living beings held but only few could tap into. But along her back shone an astral being, made out of pure Magic, gently feeding itself off of her natural life energy. Not enough to drain her much, worse case scenario she may need an extra nibble of food to feed the awfully efficient traveler. It was a magical construct made by the rival dragon, a long distance scrying beast. While with the proper materials one could see and her things from far away, it wasn't hard to erect barriers against such magics. This being, however, would let the other dragon see and hear everything she did, counter magic or not. So, he means to send a sacrificial lamb to scout me out...? I shouldn't be surprised... He muttered, his eyes blinking and refocusing on the real world. He knew that the entire area around his lair was Drak'Nal's, but also knew that he was safe for now. The other dragon didn't seem him as much of a threat, a mistake that he would make sure to rectify sooner or later. But allowing him to intrude into his lair and let the other dragon size him up in his situation was not something he intended on allowing. With a growl he shifted on his gold, looking upwards at the hole in the ceiling. He knew that the Slayer at least knew what she was doing, and that she was bound to have taken place in a few hunts, maybe even killing a few whelps herself. But with the knowledge that she was little more than a scout in actuality, he knew that she stood little chance. Without the magic of another dragon surrounding her to guide and empower her blows to the correct places, and with no backup, he should be more than able to make up for the disadvantage that the low light would give him. Not that lighting was something that couldn't be solved in a field and with plenty of fire. With a mighty flap of his wings, the dragon went up into the air. He flapped slowly and sparingly, most of the flight in him magical in nature, very quickly flying up the shaft of his cave, and turned out of his cave entrance and into the mountain ranges. After a slight adjustment he turned towards the smoldering husk of a town that he had burnt into nothingness, knowing that the agents of the rival dragon would be there too. From the looks of it, he may need to do another attack to fully drive them all out and give him a comfortable territory to make do in. Slightly lower than that, far in the distance, he knew that the Slayer was travelling towards him, even if he wasn't able to detect her with his eyesight quite yet. He started to speed out of the mountains, his figure at first appearing as a speck in the dying rays of the sun. But within minutes he was out of the mountains, and began to take a lower flight path, along the road towards the mountains. Knowing that the Slayer was somewhere here, but merely hard to detect with the sunset at his back. So he would merely have to delay the battle, and perhaps drive her towards an area that he lit up himself. Genkai sped over the plains, closer to where the Slay would likely be travelling....and past her. He flapped his wings harder, his magics propelling him along at an even greater pace. Flames gathered in his belly as he darted towards the village. It took less than 5 minutes to go along the trail that took the Slayer the last few hours to go down, and into the village. The pitiful defenses of the town were very meek, and with good reason. A repeated attack this soon was almost unheard of, and was almost certainly meant to be taken personally and to flush the Slayer out of hiding. Whether if she respected the beast's intellect to accept this as a possibility was unclear. But that didn't matter much, the beast instead drowning the town in flame. Whatever didn't burn was crushed, and anything that sizzled was devoured. A massacre unfolding on an already unlucky town, and if gone uninterrupted, no survivors would be left. Nothing but rubble would be unscathed.