Dream Nightmare

Chapter 14

          Then, the roof of the cave opened and closed, releasing twenty more of the same dragon. They all charged at us, careening around stalagmites, and we were forced to back into the tunnel.

          Connor’s griffin shot an invisible force at the one in the lead, sending it flying backwards, splattering on a stalagmite. “Envy!” Connor yelled. “Use your invisible force attack!”

          I press the controls on my Gameboy to select “Sonic Boom’ and sent two of the creatures flying backwards, though they both lived. “It’s not working, Connor!”

          His griffin steps out of the tunnel, and back into the open room where it shoots another invisible force, taking out three of them. The little spider dragons hissed a high pitch noise – that almost made me go deaf – and they took to the air, using their wings to fly at us.

          I tried using both of my other attacks, but nothing I did was causing any type of damage. I look to Christina, out of ideas, and she yelled, “We’re going to go back in the tunnel and hide while you guys take care of this! Our attacks are useless!”

          “I always knew you were a pansy, and ---“

          Before he can finish what he is saying, the roof released twenty more of the little dragons, but we didn’t stick around to watch. We backed into the tunnel, until we couldn’t see them anymore and waited, listened.

          It’s that feeling of helplessness that causes your heart to race. That feeling that makes the hairs on your arms stand straight up. I could hear Connor and Ghost yelling at each other, trying to work together to think of plan. I hear that high pitch hiss, and Connor screaming in pain.

          “We have to do something,” I say to Christina.

          “But there’s nothing we can do. Our attacks don’t work on them. I know you hate it, but we have to sit this one out, together, as a team.” Patience is the hardest virtue to master. It really is. I want to tell her to make our dragon go back in there, but she’s right. There’s nothing we can do.

I’m forced to sit there and listen. Another scream of pain – this one from Ghost- and I can’t take it anymore. “Christina we have to do something. We have to. That’s my best friend in there, and it sounds like he’s in trouble.”

Christina opens her mouth and says something, but I’m unable to hear her over Connor yelling. “Yo, guys! We took them all out, but there’s more coming, and these ones are different!”

We come back into the room they’re in just as the ceiling of the cave is closing. On the ground, halfway between us and the stone, are two new dragons. They are almost as big as our dragon, only a tiny bit smaller. The body resembles a lion, and the head is that of a king cobra snake.

“Envy, what do we do?” Christina asks me.

“We destroy them!” Ghost yells, as if that wasn’t in the least bit obvious.

The two new dragons, jumping from behind one stalagmite to behind another, slowly made their way towards us, doing a perfect job of staying behind cover.

“Christina! Aim at the one in the back!”

I quickly select ‘Goodbye” and our dragon fires. One white ball uselessly ricochets off into the distance, away from the target. The other lands perfectly under the target.

BOOM!

The white balls explode, shooting other white balls to explode elsewhere. The dragon we aimed at was injured, bad. It was now limping around, falling way behind the other one, which was making its way towards us.