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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:03 pm
A cave system? It would be trickier to get out if something went bad, Though Keke could always fix that up, he’d saved her once, she was sure he could do it again. Her eyesight wasn’t also all that good in the darkness which meant she had to be extra careful once they stepped inside. Gaili could blend so well with their surroundings, she’d never seen such a thing before. she didn’t want to wait right into a nest of them and not even realize it. Keke could tell her, but if they made noise they would be found out anyways.
“This is it?” Xenosa peered inside and gripped one of her daggers as her eyes scanned the entrance. She personally had no care for shiny things, she’d been born in poverty and then raised to swim in gold. No, her eyes were looking for the much bigger prize here. “Do you see them? Are they inside further?” she whispered to Keke, her eyes never stopping to look at him. At the first sign of movement she was throwing a dagger and she didn’t care if it was a Gaili or something smaller. Better safe than sorry and the distraction would give them some time to react.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:04 pm
“Not that far…” Keke said, after some thought, “I think they’re just in the first big anteroom or so. “They’re moving around.” he said, after another moment, “I think… maybe seven of them? At most?” His magic wasn’t good at counting things - it was greater than one or two, less than twenty.. “And all adults, I think. From the size.” Or very old hatchlings. Gaili were not pack dragons outside of their current mates and offspring, usually, but they did live together in colonies.
A dragonic voice echoed, it’s words garbled by the bouncing sound so as to be unintelligible to Keke, but very definitely dragon. “No.” said Keke, nodding, “Not that far.” he stuck his head inside, peering in, his pupils widening as they adjusted to the dim light of the entrance. He looked back at Xenosa, squinting. “Are you going in?”
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:05 pm
Seven?! Xenosa turned to stare at keke for a bit. That was a few too many for her. Her hands went to her daggers to count them once again, it was like a soothing motion for her. “Okay.” She didn’t know what to say or how to approach the situation, her mind worked out a plan but it was hard considering she could not see them. “Okay,” She said again as she began to formulate a plan. “I’m going to need you to guide me when we get deep into the darkness and whisper to me where the dragons are. I can hit things blind but I need direction. Can you do that?” This felt very much like a suicide mission. “We need to lure them where I can see them.”
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:13 pm
Oh. Right. Sight was very important, and she probably couldn’t sense the walls and floor like he could. “Well…” he said, thoughtfully, “The passage is only big enough for one to come through at a time… maybe two, if they squeezed themselves together. If I lure them into this passage, then it wouldn’t be so bad.” Not as exciting as having an entire pack after them, or having Xenosa absolutely destroy all of them - which he bet she could totally do - but it was probably smarter to do it this way. “If I got them to chase me…?” even to Keke, that didn’t sound like such a good idea in a cave…
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:15 pm
“That works.” Xenosa nodded and watched as Keke made his way into the darkness and disappeared for a brief moment. It didn’t take long before there was a roar and Xenosa stepped into the entrance of the cave moving so that she was deep enough to hit whatever came out of the chamber that wasn’t Keke. Whatever was chasing him. As soon as she saw him, the dagger went flying to the first dragon that tried to snap at him. Two of them had chased him and gotten stuck in the process. Xenosa bounced, wings flashing open just as the dagger hit the first dragon in the eye and it retreated inside. The second dragon was not so lucky. The Orderite slashed it across the throat and then bounced back as it died.
The second dragon with the missing eye took its chance and climbed out from the darkness within pushed by other dragons that were inside. Whatever Keke had done had stirred them and they were angry! Xenosa let this dragon set into the more illuminated area and she spotted a third dragon trying to climb out. she took care of the second dragon with ease and met the third face on. It roared at the cavern shook violently. “Keke get the orbs if you can!” She yelled over the noise and was back fighting the third dragon. Two daggers to the throat incapacitated it enough that she killed it. Then Xenosa spotted two pairs of eyes and backed up to let them both step into the light.
It didn’t look like there were anymore dragons, so five in total. Not seven thankfully. The made their way one by one into the area and roar at her. Xenosa twirled the daggers in her hand a smirked. They would all die today, there would be no survivors. Head on Xenosa took the dragons, letting them do their own work at injuring themselves. When one tried to throw spikes or boulders at her she made sure she was by the other dragon so it would take the damage when she moved. It was easy to take them down as they slowed down and eventually fell under her onslaught.
Gathering the orbs that Keke hadn’t gotten to yet, Xenosa handed them to him. “Let’s go home.”
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:20 pm
Keke enjoyed the thrill and danger that came with being bait, as well as the security that he would not actually be eaten. Taunting a dragon was easy - it had only taken a few choice comparisons between them and burrowing bouken, and maybe a few well-timed nips at their tails - to get them into a violent, shrieking, irrational rage. Running was even easier, and he dodged their attacks as he ran them into the ambush. He wasn’t nearly strong enough to reflect their spikes or boulders, but he could deflect them with ease, sending their projectiles careening into the caverns walls. Some of the more delicate stalactites and stalagmites came free, but for the most part, the mighty cavern held true as it had done for millennia.
As the dragons died, Keke - like a faithful hunting hound, retrieved the orbs, diving in and out of the action as they fell from their corpses. Finally, the action was over, and he gave Xenosa a bright and toothy grin, his black scales dulled by dust. “Yes! To your home!” he agreed, accepting the orbs with happy gratitude and stuffing them into a dusty, rolled-up rug he had brought for that purpose.
A bath, though, first.
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