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HEY! Dammit, get ahold of yourself! We had a deal!

In all honestly he had hoped to avoid conflict... if only out of the fact that he had been spared from being eaten when the dragon first made it's appearence.

He was being jostled to and fro like some sort of apple in a plastic bag, and the dissolving stench of leather was already making his head throb with pain.

Shouyin stumbled and rolled backwards on the ground, before getting right back up again and running at the dragon. His aim now would be to grab onto the thing's tail, using as much strength as he could muster (which was a fair amount, but probably not enough to keep the dragon down and back), feet planted firm.

Letting out a firm roar of exasperation he'd slide back with the dragon as the sand swept underneath, however this provided another opening. Its belly might've been armoured, but there were certainly opening's elsewhere. Heels firm, he focused and kicked out his left leg. The sand would harden, and shoot out in the form of smooth stone spikes, spinning out of the ground and drilling into the dragon's throat, head, feet, wings and tail areas, avoiding Shouyin, and the belly of the beast, lest he harm Vahn inside.

A split second before the spikes reached her, Kira rolled away from the attack, hoping that the projectiles would break on her armored back. In the process, she further crushed one wing, making it generally useless.

The spikes aimed at her head and throat simply shattered. The ones aimed at her wings missed, but not by much. The rest grazed her hip and tail, slicing numerous long wounds across her hide. A scream of pain morphed into intelligible words: "Child of Stone! Kill me and your friend will die as well! Cease and I will return him to you!"

Shakily getting to her feet, Kira rolled and flung sand in the Child of Stone's direction with her broken wing. "Do not presume to order me about, you pathetic excuse for a proper rock," she spat at it. Turning to face it, she quickly regurgitated all of the contents of her stomach, hopefully directly on top of it. Maybe that manatee will knock it out... foolish little...

'Thank you... and sorry about your wing.' Alex sent to the dragon before she turned and started toward the bike, assured that the fight was over. Her head was pounding from the strain of concentrating. It was hard moving millions upon millions of tiny grains of sand all at once not to mention holding the weight of the horse when it had fallen on her and what it had taken to move her own body off of the scalding hot sand.

Alexiel's head was indeed pounding as if someone were using a jackhammer inside her skull. She could feel herself growing sick as one did when they had such a bad headache. She needed pain reliever and that was in the saddlebags that she had left by the bike.

Alex couldn't do it, her head, the pain was just too much. She slid to her knees doubling over as she felt herself vomit. She could taste that sickening taste in her mouth and her nostrils burned. She hadn't eaten much and the only thing there was to come up was stomach acid.

After emptying her gullet, Kira quickly reclaimed the larger carcasses, sucking them down as quickly as possible. As soon as she had eaten her fill of what was there, she trundled over to the fallen girl, shooting a hateful glare in the direction of the Child of Stone. "Keep the tooth, you might need it one day, Rock Boy." Turning to the one still laying in the dirt, she thought loudly, in case he wasn't quite conscious yet, Little One, she needs your help directly. Forgive me for causing this.

And with that, Kira snaked her way down to the shore to lay in the shallow water, wincing as the salt water hit her wounds.

Alex pushed herself to her feet and staggered the rest of the way to the bike. Sliding to the ground next to her bags, she leaned against the bike and started to rummage through the charred saddle bags. "Pain reliever... gotta be here somewhere..."