Board Thread:World Map/@comment-24937485-20161129063822/@comment-25687356-20161202191227

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|KF|- Once they entered the hole and then busted forth into an open area the air was much flatter and less abundant, which means Keldran had to be careful. Instead of taking numerous medium sized or small breathes he turned to taking large intakes of breath and simply holding it as long as he could until he could feel the tinge of pain in his chest from needing to breathe again. It was hard for him to see but he had an idea in mind. The red chakra inside his body began to warp and solidify around his head which would turn his eyes into that of a glowing dragon. Upon doing so he could see the entire environment completely fine almost as if his normal eyesight hadn’t changed or shifted what so ever. He looked around the environment and noticed many markings. The markings made him think to the urn of his brother that he carried which allowed a drift of pain to enter is heart but it was quickly interrupted. The other dragons seemed in a highly competitive mode and all wanted to one up the blazing fast Saphira. It made Keldran laugh and he spoke to her directly. “We got this, don’t you worry.”

Then they continued to fly, Keldran guiding Saphira as they narrowly avoided giant rocks and sharp formations even some parallel turns which could make a normal person’s stomach churn. But eventually a plume of smoke would come forth as they entered a new area which made Keldran lose grip momentarily which would send Saphira barreling downwards but she quickly regained composure and spoke back, “Are you, ok young lord?” He nodded and wiped the glowing eyes area. “Yeah that smoke just heat flashed my eyes.” The smoke continued to follow them even as they went up the mountain, but he kept Saphira going at full speed. They nearly hit a wall in the smoke, but Keldran flung her back towards the left middle of the pathway which made her bump into another dragon and as this happened it just so happened to be the black dragon who was looking at them and Saphira’s sister earlier. They then would all bolt at their highest speed. Keldran lowering his body closer to Saphira’s to hopefully further increase their synergy with one another. He heard Saphira speak and placing full trust into him and he smiled and rubbed the back of her neck. “I got this, trust me.”

But just like before things were coming down at them, but it was full sized boulders this time. Leaving barely any room in-between dodging especially when many dragons were fighting to stick out forward to eventually win. Saphira would twist her body in a corkscrew and allowed her body to skim against the boulders to dodge them instead of full changing trajectory. It would lessen her speed but not as much as completely avoided the rock in another direction. It was a masterful display of dragon and rider and it seemed like they were just about to clear the opening to finish. “CRASH” a sound of a boulder breaking and colliding into something. Saphira sisters familiar voice roared into the air. It instinctually made Keldran turn to look back down and her wing has been successfully torn through. Keldran would stand up on Saphira like he did once before and spoke to her and all the dragons that could hear in the distance. “Win without me, I’m not letting her fall.” The black dragon made a remark but it didn’t bother him. He leaped off Saphira and dive bombed directly downwards back into the hail of boulders. His body had penciled straight gaining immense speed. But eventually he had to plant his feet to leap from boulder to boulder and one he drew his blade and cross section sliced it directly into 6 pieces and then continued his downward plunge.

It was cutting it close but her downward spiraling body would be caught by Keldran as he flung his arms around her neck and he almost slipped off from the immense speed. The obvious strain was on his face as he pulled himself to sit on her neck. Then with all of his red chakra moving instinctually by itself, it transferred into her. Specifically, to the area of the wing and he created a makeshift wing that was larger than her original one and took the reins on her and made her come to a wing flapping halt. With his help she could fly again. But they didn’t have much time the boulders kept coming and he couldn’t fight them back since he was focusing his chakra into the makeshift wing. “GO, SOAR!”

With a single strong flap, she’d burst forward almost if she had invisible booster inside her body now. They would continue to fly through debris, dodge the large rocks by skimming against it or overall moving backwards or rolling. Many techniques of flying were employed but eventually they cleared the most dangerous part and made it out of the clearance to join with the rest of the dragons that finished. Keldran would make them land and he would sigh, with relief as his body had become a puddle of sweat from adrenaline and anxiety in the same boat. “We finished last but we finished the strongest.” He patted the top of her sister’s head and leaped off to what he hoped was solid ground. - |KF|