by beets 12th August 2013, 2:24 pm
“Well. We’ll certainly be fetching double the price we were expecting. And we were expecting quite a bit by your appearance alone” The rabbitbeast said, relaxing in its chair looking quite pleased with itself. It eyed the sky curiously though, as the clouds gathered quickly and darkened visibly. As far as Elen could see from their high point atop a flat-topped mountain point specifically set up for these such events, with its checkered flooring instead of dirt and ground.
“Well, those clouds certainly moved in quickly. It wasn’t supposed to be cloudy today. Damn that weatherdrake.” The rabbit cursed under it’s breath, a little puff of flame licking it’s lip for a moment as it did so. From the inside of its jacket the rabitbeast pulled out a thin plane of glass with two little lacrima orbs imprinted at the sides. Through it, it spoke.
“Auction postponed do to weather. All on their way may view the human for a short while beforehand, but we’ll be leaving in five minutes” The rabbit beast tucked the glass back into its jacket and looked at Elen thoughtfully. One of its eyes widened, it’s eyebrow arching upwards.
“… You did this. Didn’t you?” It said, a peal of thunder punctuated it’s sentence as the black clouds above flashed lightning. Elen smiled, facing down. Her cloud around her gathered tightly on her back taking the form of wings that darkened black as deep stormclouds. Lightning flashed again, and the sky opened up in in heavy rainfall. Each drop of rain seemed to pass right through her, the weather not daring to touch her. With each burst of lightning the Rabbit beast jumped in its chair. The creature miscalculated greatly. The storm was now, and Elen would not be traded around like some 5 dollar hooker. Unless she wanted to. And by all that was holy she did NOT want to any time soon.
Elen formed a gun with her fingers and pointed at the rabbit, mourning the loss of her pistol. “Bang” She said, and suddenly several bolts of lightning cracked the sky and pounded the area where the rabbitbeast was with a flash of light and a harsh sizzle as raindrops evaporated in it’s path. The rabbit was soaked in the rain, and they were pretty much high with their position atop this mountain, all three of the bolts struck the scaly rabbit mercilessly.
“Bang” Elen said again, only a few seconds after the first and the light from the previous set of lightning faded, and another volley pounded the rabbit beast, lightning crackled around her hand now, concentrated somewhat at the tips of her middle and index finger that made the ‘barrel’ of her little imaginary gun. From behind her Elen could hear the loud splashing stops of the crocodile-butler charging her from behind. Giving a casual glance behind her, Elen pointed her two fingers at him as well. “Bang”. She said, and the lizard’s body jerked funkily and it went down on its face, twitching. “Bang”, she repeated making the Crocodile Butler repeat it’s seizure. Elen’s eyes narrowed as she looked at the scaled creature at her feet. Always double tap, just to be certain. The creatures weren’t dead, but their twitching bodies were paralyzed for a time. Or maybe they could be dead, if they were weak. But anything part lizard was typically a hardy creature. Especially the Crocodile Butler. Having paused for too long, the crackling sparks around her hand faded as the magic left her, she’d not be able to call upon it for a little while.
Elen’s eye caught something through the rain, the rain not impeding her vision like it would a normal person but her eyes also cut through the droplets on their own power as well making for a perfectly unimpeded view of three large scaled creatures climbing up the mountain towards her. The other party guests were arriving. Elen went to the opposite edge of the mountain and looked down, two more large beasts came up this way. Elen flew low to the third edge and looked. One. Well. There was no way down the mountain, so Elen flew along the flat topped stretch until it connected with a bulkier portion of the mountain, the area she’d been on being a thin ridge that extended out and had its top shaved off for a flat surface. She heard a roar behind her and looked back to see what looked to be a small dragon roaring, other dragons arriving to the top. Why didn’t they fly? She wondered. They hard large enough wings.
She could make out some words, “Find the human!” And boy did they sound angry. She could make out their eyes, scowling- or perhaps they were always scowling- through the rain to try to find her. Apparently they realized there was only way for her to go without flying and started along the path she followed. Time for subtlety up, she cloaked herself in black cloud and lifted herself up to the sky now that she figured she could get away with it easier. The dragons might have seen her rising from where she was before, but now her black cloud-masked self was against the view of the mountains stretching out behind her and had more rainfall to fill the space between her and the beasts.
But, from the dragons there was another roar and a beam of light seared the rain and heated the air past her coming from the shining maw of one of the dragons, this dragon seemed to have golden plating on its shoulders and along it’s back, with dark blue fabrics covering some of its scales. It’s eyes were much more keen then she’d hoped. Its companions didn’t seem to be as sharp, but fired balls of flame randomly in the same general area as their golden-plated leader. She’d assume he was the leader in any case.
“Fricking laser dragons dammit sh*t fluffing cow fornicating pieces of-“ Elen rambled on in a tangent of curses, not because she was scared so much as surprised. The sudden laser served as quite the jump scare. dispersing her black shroud of clouds in favor of wings again to fly faster as flame and lasers tore through the air after her, flying backwards to better see and judge the incoming projectiles to dodge and weave. The dragons didn’t fly after her however, and Elen realized. They were scared of the storm. She could see why, large flying creatures as they were- with metal plating in addition to their scales. Lightning would NOT be their friend.
Even as Elen thought this the gold-plated dragon unfurled two great wings and kicked off the mountain side, beating ferociously through the rain after her. It got struck by a bolt of lightning in the process, but it didn’t seem to care and the natural bolt from the storm barely seemed to singe it’s scales.
A shiver ran through Elen’s spine and continued her stream of curses as lasers trailed after her as she made her way further upwards into the clouds.