Dragon Bound

Chapter 43

Two days after Ryoka first activated draugh fuh, the dragon queen rescue team of the revolution set out on the mission, Ryoka had instructed them to spend time with loved ones the day before, it was a danger filled and perilous mission after all, on the contrary, she hadn’t been able to spend time with Letty, they had both been on different tasks all and about that day, Ryoka had set up five teams amongst the remaining people to also do a sort of extraction and recovery mission, that is for those who had their loved ones far from them or being held in a fairly easy to infiltrate facility.

Ryoka had started to hone draugh fuh as much as she can, she couldn’t use the command aspect of it yet because she didn’t want to do that to these her own people, she wouldn’t know how she would feel about that or how they would feel about that, besides she really wasn’t eager to use an ability that makes people do things whether they want to or not, but then she had been able to successfully set it up as a base of communication amongst them all, after all they wouldn’t have any other means of communicating amongst each other, they couldn’t use electronics lest it be detected by the WIC.

Ryoka made it so that anytime anyone needed to communicate anything with anyone even, all they’d do is to tap into the draugh fuh as she had put that part of all their minds in her plane, she did this also as a precaution, should the WIC decide to use the dragon queen’s draugh fuh against them, it wouldn’t work because that part of the mind that draugh fuh woks with was safely in her own plane, with this she was fairly sure that even the serum would have a hard a time working on them since it as well works with the same technique as draugh fuh.

They moved in three vans and all vans each took different routes to the pier where they all entered at different intervals, taking different entry points and then they all boarded the ship and headed out, they would spend no less than two days while at sea, and they’d take turns scouting ahead in dragon form, high above the clouds in shift, this will ensure they are always aware of the sea surroundings and know of any danger beforehand and as well keep them all refreshed and in tiptop shape prior to the battle.

While at sea, Ryoka kept draugh fuh on as well to serve as a form of radar and sonar, she would detect any dragon before they could even see it, no matter the generation, she also did this to know if there was a limit to how she can use draugh fuh as of yet, but so far the ability seemed like an endless well.

“We are here!” the lead sailor cried out and pulled the ship to a halt as they reached the distance mark set for the stop point, now everyone started to get in their gear, light free clothes, tops and shorts for the men, bum shorts for the ladies, they all held a backpack as well which contained clothes for the mission itself, and extra clothes for after the mission, because after each shift from human to dragon and dragon to human they’d need new clothes.

In ones and twos, everyone except the transportation team jumped off the ship and shifted into their dragon, and then they soared high into the sky above the clouds, just as it had been planned, if any human down below could see them right now, they’d probably die of heart attack after being shicked mindless by the sight of great behemoths taking to the night sky and soaring casually in the sky like eagles, it hadn’t been like this during the liberation missions, only a few had shifted and carried others so that the WIC couldn’t track them, but here and now, they weren’t running from the WIC, they were bringing the fight to them.

The plan progressed ever so smoothly, from the flying to the landing whilst transformed back to human and getting dressed in the mission clothes -a kind of military jumpsuit- then the mountain climbing till they got to the large waste pipe, here the three people chosen for this part of the mission set to work.

Arcturus blew his bright blue flames which came out with such intensity that the heat could be felt amongst the first few people, then Darius as well spurted his liquid flames, lava so hot as we that it intensified the heat some more, Ryoka joined last after making the energy hand seal, she directed all the output into producing flames alone, no shockwave, no explosion, just flames.

The fiery inferno that came out of her mouth was unbelievable and its ferocity chased both Arcturus and Darius away at first, then they summoned the courage to bear it and joined back in making flames to melt the grate, in about a few minutes, the grate started to melt and it continued till it melted off .

All the while that the trio blew their flames, the didn’t get close to the waste being expelled out of the pipe, now as Darius stepped in so he could climb into the pipe, he flinched from the heat of the waste, they had been warned that the waste was always at boiling point, but that didn’t make him ready for how the waste scalded his skin, seeing a volcanis flinch from something hot though was enough to prepare every other person there for how hot they should expect the waste to be, before long, they were all in the pipe, crawling their way into the facility through scalding waste.

After about thirteen minutes, they started coming out from the melted hole that Darius made at the planned entry point into the facility, but before half of them could get off, there was the rumbling sound, an oncoming roar that could only be more waste being pumped out, everyone started rushing out so as to avoid the obvious barrage that would hit in seconds, and just as the last person came through, the waste flowed past in a scalding rush, spilling in trough the opening as well and scalding a few people some more.

Now the plan was in full effect and there was no stopping again, not at that point, Ryoka connected to draugh fuh and checked on everyone, asking if they were fine, it was there that she noticed the hoard of dragons that were in the facility, all were dn mutants, new generation dragons, most probably because the Eldrians would be forever loyal to their queen and also because they can be affected by her draugh fuh, unlike the dn mutants.

Ryoka noted that despite that fact, most were still under the influence of the serum, it showed in how difficult it was to keep track of them or pull them in, if she concentrated though, she was sure that she would be able to pull them in, but that wasn’t the plan, if she’ll need to use draugh fuh against the enemy, it wasn’t the time yet, not until they get the dragon queen safely out of there.

Darius succeeded in the meltdown of the facility’s services, the lights went off and the alarms started blaring, just as planned, chaos descended into the facility and the revolution took advantage of that, they split into two teams and moved in the planned directions, the stairs and the elevator.

That group taking the stairs encountered opposition as they were just about to get to the seventh floor which was their intended destination, a hoard of WIC agents meet them with deadly force, high powered rifles and sidearm, it was all the group could do to avoid being splattered to shreds by bullet and that was because Lucia, one of the wysterns amongst the battle team, shifted into her dragon in the blink of an eye and with her body she covered the group by blocking the bullets shot at them.

Lucia whipped around and faced the agents all, the floor they were on was quite spacious enough for her if she doesn’t spread her wings, she was one of the young one on the side of the revolution, and even a bit smaller in dragon size that the average wystern, but she was on this mission because of her deadliness and ferocity and sharp wits and quick actions, all of which happened to just come in handy right about then, if not for her, the group would have recorded casualties already.

Lucia successfully distracted the agents as she fought them in her dragon form, they became focused on her and lost track of the others who had split in two, some continued the mission by moving to the next floor, and the rest started to pick off the agents one after the other.

Ryoka and the elevator team faced no such opposition till the got out of the shaft on the seventh floor, here they came face to face with just two people, one was a one eyed man, bulky and filled with scars on his body which was visible through his armless tank top, Ryoka got wide eyed as she recognized the second person, it was Lilith, that lady dragon captain that she had fought with and left close to death at the warehouse that she and Adrian had raided.