AN - 18 - Dragon Battle

Laughing demonically, he threw back his head, clenched his hands into fists, and began to tremble all over and change, calling up his own avatar, morphing into a towering six-headed hydra that was nearly twice as tall as the dragon. Each of his fanged, three-eyed heads hovered on a neck that was as long as a tree trunk.

Standing with Sonya nearby, Jax could only goggle in awe.

“Now I’ve seen everything,” he muttered under his breath.

The combat between the two behemoths was brief and savage. They closed with each other, snarling, clawing, biting, lashing their tails. Their tangled forms thrashed back and forth. Finally, the dragon boldly lunged at the hydra, biting hard and severing one of its serpentine necks. In turn, the other five hydra heads bit into the dragon’s torso.

The two beasts staggered apart, bellowing in agony, shifting back to their human forms in an eyeblink.

Deep gashes crisscrossing his chest, Liu stepped over to Kahn and looked down at him.

The Warlord was on his knees, trying to stanch the bleeding from his neck wound with the palm of his hand.

“Your blood flows, Kahn,” Liu said. “Just like the blood of a mortal.”

Kahn rose unsteadily, teetering, blood still pouring from his neck. Slowly, he turned toward his empty throne.