I looked over at Lewis, he was manifesting some sort of bladed weapon out of the wrist of his suit, then retracting it again repeatedly, it wasnt a mechanism, it just formed and unformed out of the...fabric?

  "Lewis, focus, we're talking." I announce, he looks at me and nods, "oh I can hear you, its just nothing you've said is new to me." he replied, "we get to this thing and immobilize it."

  Edge sighs, "I wish there was some record of this big ass reptile, then we'd be able to formulate a good strat...but as it is, I'm just as in the dark as I was the night we escaped the Agency."

  Alexis, laughed, "sorry do you not know?" She looked at all of us with disbelief, to which we responded with incredulous stares, "oh, but you have to know!"

  "Know what!?" shouts Edge, done with her shit already.

  Alexis sighed, putting her hands in her lap as if she were explaining math to first graders, "Team Sigma, the source of the neutral protocells that mutated you all is the very creature we're facing today, I'm appalled that your bosses would keep this info from you."

  The hair on the back of my neck stood on end as she told me, "You mean that thing out there is why we're like this?"

  Alexis nodded sadly, "It's seriously sad, the induction of its DNA is very fatal to anyone older than age 12 due to the fixed nature of the body after puberty settles, which is why Trigram has to kidnap children."

  Wolf grabs her by the front of her shirt, "How do you know this!?"

  She smiled as if Wolf wasnt threatening her, "Oh I've been studying you all for quite some time, you, Trigram, The monster, all of it! You could say I'm a spe-." Just then we all lurched forward as the Helicopter was slammed from the side, we began to go down in a wide set spiral as the blades of the Helicopter tried frantically to regain their previous rhythm.

  The pilot started cursing angrily as he picked up the radio, "FUCK! Mayday! Mayday! We are-" Suddenly another pass took out the cockpit, taking the entire front of the helicopter with it! We were dropping now and all we could think to do was bail out!

  For Sigma it went well, we landed and rolled to assuage any leg breakage, Lewis fell on his face and Alexis landed as if she'd just stepped off the front porch!

  The Helicopter crashed down behind us, the remains burying themselves in the ground before bursting into flames!

  Backlit by the burning Helicopter, Alexis smiled at me, speaking matter-of-factly and not at all like we were in danger, "We have company."

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  Everyone looked up to see the Sickly green, scaly "Dragon" diving through the sky towards us, wings open but tucked, its claws out in front like it was a falcon coming after a rabbit! "Here he comes!" Gleefully Shouted Alexis.

  Everyone but Green scattered, the rest of Sigma drawing guns while he stood in place and drew Blasphemy, which we'd replaced one of our swords with, "Come get it you fuck!"

  Alexis stopped in her sprint to turn and pull out a notepad, scribbling in it only to be grabbed by a now bloody-faced Lewis, "Get out of the damn way!"

  As the Dragon charged through the sky towards us, I could hear my sword murmuring, looking down in my peripheral I saw the runes manifested on the blade again, glowing bright green, it was a beautiful light, something I had trouble looking away from. but then Green made me snap around and leap directly before The creature's claws gouged into the dirt below me!

  I came down in a perfect parabola, landing on the Dragon's back, using Blasphemy to dig into this thing's back flesh directly behind the left shoulder blade! It Let out a choked scream as its back began to gush brown thick glutinous blood around the hilt of my sword, then without another warning it took off into the sky again, from the ground I heard Wolf shouting, "Green you idiot!"

  The ground quickly vanished as we went skyward, the creature looked back at me, malice in its eyes as its muscular, armored body flexed in flight, it spoke to me in an angry voice and the vibrations through my fucking sword hand made my body feel like it had in the box, "congratulations, boy, you're the first to pierce my hide in over a century, but I'm afraid that, in doing so, you've made the last mistake of your life."

  Green latched his free hand around one of the creature's alligator scales to keep an even footing, our face being blasted by the wind as I steadied myself, "I suppose its a matter of opinion! Being that I'm part you, I'm not sure I have a last of anything!"

  The Dragon actually seemed shocked for a split second, it's eyes widening as they stared at me from over its shoulder, "what!?"

  Green grinned, but stayed silent as he tugged Blasphemy free, jamming it back into the Dragon's scaly flesh at a different point further up it's shoulder, once again the blade passing through it like butter!

  "Get off me!" The creature did wheels in the air, barrel rolls, aileron rolls, back flips and front flips, but we hung on, "What's the matter? Scared of me?" Taunted Green, but instead of responding, the creature pumped its wings and flew even higher, higher and higher until the sky ceased to be blue and turned black! We held our breath as the creature tucked its wings and began to dive back down to earth!

  I gasped for air as soon as I could see clouds, it wasn't much help as the air around me began to heat up and burn, the friction was too much and my fireproof coat caught fire! So did my hair and pretty much everything, I was literally on fire, burning alive again as I held on for dear life!

  "What the hell are you doing!?" I screamed at the thing, again it wouldn't answer.

  Almost in reaction to my screams, Blasphemy began to speak, screaming like the corpse throne had in my dream.

  "CALL UPON US, CALL OUR NAME! SUNDER YOUR ENEMIES IN ETERNAL FLAME!"

  "Don't you fucking do it!" Shouted The creature, turning its head as far as it could, snapping at me, but its neck was too short, making it snap at thin air as we began to spin out in the air!

  Without hesitation, I took a deep breath of the burning air and choked out, "Blasphemy!"

  The creature screamed as a white light enveloped us both.