"He’s transforming!" Sylar cried out as Sam’s clothes ripped as he began growing taller into the same dragon form from the first night he Awakened. "Do something!"
"I’m trying!" Lucifer snapped back, trying to explode Sam’s heart but failing.
Sylar began whipping out swarms of icy tentacles to try and contain Sam, but Sam just ripped through them like they were paper. He then shot a jet of green fire from his mouth right at the drow, who just barely managed to dodge as the wall behind him exploded.
Lucifer jumped into the air and teleported behind Sam in a puff of crimson mist, just floating there. He tried firing a bolt of red lightning at the back of Sam’s neck, but it just bounced off the green scales that were now sprouting across Sam’s skin.
The elf growled and then rushed forward, landing punches and kicks all over Sam’s neck and head so fast that he was moving like a blur. It had no effect.
As Sam’s hands shifted into dragon claws with talons, his katana vanished. He turned and slashed at Lucifer, who flew through the air to dodge. What the elf didn’t see in time was that Sam also had grown a thick dragon tail that he used to slam into Lucifer, sending him crashing through a wall, shattered bricks falling from the impact.
While Sam was preoccupied with the elf, Sylar jumped at him, trying to stab ice spikes into Sam’s eyes. He grabbed the drow with a hand and threw him on the floor, and then pinned him under the talons of his feet, which had grown and ripped apart the boots he stole from a random house when he had stolen the clothes, which were now ripped as well.
"Sorry Sylar, you’re on your own!" Lucifer said as he rose to his feet on the other side of the hole in the wall. He then teleported away in a puff of crimson mist.
"You fucking cocksucker!" Sylar shrieked from under Sam’s foot. The drow shot out a blast of icy mist from his hand, which turned into a clone. He then used his magic to switch places with the clone, which then vanished, leaving the space under Sam’s foot empty.
Not knowing what else to do, Sylar just began attacking Sam wildly with barrages of ice spikes and tentacles and ice tornadoes and anything else he could throw at him.
Sam darted his head back and forth as Sylar dodged his fire breath attacks, trying to hit him. But Sam’s movements were reckless. His rage was taking over, and he was obsessed with killing Sylar by any means necessary.
"Whoa!" Calista cried out as she almost got hit by a fire blast. "Sam, be careful!"
Sam was about to completely give in to his inner beast, but as soon as he recognized that he had almost hurt Calista, his rage began fading away and he returned to his base form, standing there barefoot, his torn clothes barely hanging on his body.
"Callie, I’m so sorry!" he said as he backed up to her, keeping his eyes on Sylar. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah!" she said with a nod. "That dragon form seems to put you in a berserker mode. Maybe it’s not a good idea to use it with all of us in here."
The girls and Brion wanted to help fight Sylar, but they were all still drained from having been stuck in the magic-dampening shackles and the torture they were under.
Brion and the girls rushed over and climbed through the hole in the wall that Lucifer had made when Sam tail-whipped him through it. They were then at least somewhat out of the way, but still watched the fight through the hole.
"Yeah, you’re right," Sam agreed. He then narrowed his eyes at Sylar. "I guess I’ll have to kill you without my dragon form."
Sylar’s lips curled into a grin. "Without that form, this will be an easy kill!"
"Don’t count on it!" Sam growled, balling his fists. "I’ll still kill you just the same! This ends now-AAAARRRGGHHH!"
Sam’s sentence turned into an agonized scream as a barrage of ice spices shot out of the wall behind him and impaled his back. A second later, more icy tentacles grew out of the floor and wrapped around Sam, pulling him down onto the stone.
"On your own, you are nothing against me," Sylar said with a cocky laugh as he stepped closer to Sam. He then willed more tentacles to grow out of the floor and walls in the next room to restrain Brion and the girls as well.
"Let them go!" Sam demanded as he tried to break free.
"You all die tonight!" Sylar promised.
Shit! Sam screamed out in his mind. If I activate my Dragon Form again, I can kill him, but I risk hurting the girls! Fuck!
Sam’s despair turned to shock as a circular rift with a dark purple smokey border opened in the room. Through the rift stepped a man clad in a suit of full body armor made from solid black bones, including a black horned skull mask and a black hooded cloak with the hood up. Runic carvings were etched all over the armor and mask, glowing bright purple. The eye sockets of the mask contained orbs of purple light in place of eyeballs. There was a faint aura of black smoke rising from his body.
"Who the fuck are you?!" Sylar demanded. The armored man did not speak, but merely flicked his wrist slightly. And then a pillar of purple fire suddenly exploded up from the floor, engulfing the drow. He screamed out in terror and agony for a brief moment before his body turned to ashes.
The icy tentacles vanished. Sam, Brion, and the girls stood to their feet and just stared at the armored figure, Sam from right in front of him, and the others through the hole from the next room. The rift was still there, leading to a long tunnel made of purple and black smoke with a faint light at the other end.
"Who are you? Why did you save us?" Sam demanded.
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Hello everyone! So, because this story did so poorly during Rising Fictions week and has a very low chance for long-term success, I had made the decision to tie up loose ends and conclude the story around Chapter #60. But then as I thought about it, I started getting excited at the idea of having a blank canvas to write new tales for Sam and the girls without being tied down to existing plot threads. So, I’ve decided that instead of the entire story ending on Chapter #60, it will just be the ending of Volume One. Hopefully that will breathe new life into the book and we’ll see if it can maybe regain some traction over the next few months.
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