The next morning, several more students joined them as they assembled to head to StarRock Academy. There were several elves and half elves in this new group, and two humans. They waited throughout the morning as several other carriages appeared from other regions of Eurathia.
They moved to a large area where there was two gigantic eagles waiting. Each eagle was easily as large as a house. On each eagle's back, there was a large carriage like contraption with seats that can seat 80 people each.
The eagle reminded Cyril of the eagle that sat on top Yggdrasil the
world tree, who was at least twice the size of these eagles. "Its doubtful that eagle would allow a carriage on its back" thought Cyril to himself.
They all boarded according to the carriages they came in and loaded their luggage.The group from Westhaven had no luggage, as they were lost in Cemeteria and was yet to be recovered.
This didn't bother Cyril and Kyra of course were unaffected as their possessions were really in their bag of holding. Violet was unaffected too, as apparently she did not have any possessions except for the red dress she was wearing.
As the two eagles departed the city became smaller and smaller. Cyril remembered the feeling of flying, as flying was second nature to him as a God in Asgard. He could easily transform to a flying creature or even grow wings and fly any time he wanted to, but didn't as he was keeping his other powers a secret.
Eagles were used as transportation because StarRock Academy was located near the center of Eurathia, in an independent small city state also called StarRock, of which StarRock Academy encompasses the whole city. In between Erandelucia and StarRock is the vast Grimdeath Forest, teeming with monsters and dangerous creatures stretching for thousands of miles.
Of course humans, elves and other creatures can traverse the forest. But due to the dangers of being attacked by monsters and bandits, and the many months required to cross the forest by land, only the very powerful or foolhardy will attempt it. Most that can afford the journey will take some manner of flying transport over the forest.
For the first several hours, the trip was uneventful. Kyra made friends with the other students while Cyril stared out the window deep in his thoughts. He looked at the forest below and wondered what creatures existed here. If his brother Thor was here with him in their youth, surely they would be out hunting here.
As he continued to watch the forest below, he noticed a shadow looming over them, getting larger and closer. Suddenly the eagles who were flying side by side broke formation and the eagle they were riding made a sudden dive.
As it did, the roof of the carriage suddenly ripped open, and everyone saw a huge dragon narrowly miss grabbing the entire carriage with its claws.
The dragon was easily the size of both eagles put together. Its size reminded Cyril of Nidhoggr, the giant dragon that lived and gnawed at Yggdrasil's roots.
The dragon blasted fire in the direction of their eagle as the eagle took evasive action narrowly avoiding the dragon fire. The forest below was set ablaze and the dragon took a second shot at the eagle. This time it was not going to miss.
As the flames came close to their eagle, Violet stood up and extended her hands. All the flames were absorbed by her hand, however her dress was catching fire.
Suddenly, the eagle banked sharply to the left throwing Violet out of the carriage. Just as Cyril was about to catch her with wind, she suddenly burst into flames and flew towards the dragon attacking it with fire.
As a fire breathing dragon, the dragon was used to fire, and is generally resistant to fire. However Violet's flame actually caused it pain. It turned with an unnatural swiftness and swiped it's tail at Violet hitting her into the distance.
By now, several elves and half elves were shooting fire and ice arrows at the dragon, while the teachers were also using their elemental powers to attack. However, normal elemental attacks have no effect on the dragon.
The dragon blasted fire again at the eagle. This time, Kyra raised her right hand and willed the power of the amulet she was wearing to create a shield blocking the attack.
Kyra screamed as the fire attack put tremendous pressure on her willpower. Kyra fainted as the attack stopped and fell into Cyril's arms due to the onslaught.
Without a second thought, Cyril tied Kyra into her chair and jumped off the eagle and flew using his wind shooting huge wind blades at the dragon. However, the dragon shrugged them off as it did the attacks by the teachers and the students.
Cyril agilely avoided the dragon's attacks and flew closer took out his stink bombs and peppered about a hundred bombs into the dragon's eyes and nostrils.
The bombs were made to get stuck and indeed they formed a black tar-like glue covering the surface of the dragon's eyes and irritated the nostrils of the dragon, making it hard for it to breathe.
The dragon roared madly, now blind and suffering from the horrid stench and blinding sensation in its eyes. It shot fire blindly as it struggled to stay in the air, incinerating the forest around it.
Cyril look in the air and saw that the eagles had disappeared into the distance. So he left the dragon where it was, blind and screaming and flew to the direction Violet was hit.
It took him several minutes flying in the same direction before locating Violet. She was unconscious in a crater on the ground, but surprisingly was still alive and unharmed. There was a pack of giant wolves approaching her, each standing 9 feet high on all four legs.
As they approached her, Cyril suddenly landed right next to her. He looked at the wolves and gave them a glare that forced them to back down.
One of Loki's many names in Asgard is "Father of the wolf". Fenrir the monstrous wolf was one of his sons, so he knew how to handle wolves. They immediately retreated leaving him to tend to Violet.
Violet was completely naked as her clothes had been burned to ashes. Although she was short at exactly 5 feet, she had the curves one would expect on a fully developed beautiful woman. Her body was completely without blemish and completely hairless.
He scanned her body looking for signs of injury, but could not find any. He tried shaking her, but she was completely unconscious and not breathing.
From a distance, he heard roaring and rumbling approaching them. The dragon had already burned off the stink bomb concoction in its nostrils, but was still blind. However, its sense of smell was strong enough to track Cyril and it was heading towards them fast.
He carried her and ran used the wind to fly with all his might. But the dragon was catching up on him, and he couldn't fly as agilely as before while carrying Violet.
Not knowing if Violet was alive or dead, he quickly stored her body into his bracelet, preserving her inside.
Then he flew with all his might trying to get away from the dragon who was still chasing him.
The dragon was still catching up with him, even when was unencumbered with carrying Violet. Having no choice, he dove into the dense jungle and tried to hide from the dragon.
The dragon approached blindly and incinerated everything surrounding it, burning the entire section of the forest into ashes.
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