Flight of the Dragon (The Chronicles of Dragon, Series 2, Book 5 of 10) (Tail of the Dragon) Read Online Free PDF

Thwack! Thwack!
    The arrows skipped off the giant’s horns. Some of them pricked its skin. Their efforts were futile. The giant brushed the missiles aside and attacked. It snatched an elf in each of its hands and snapped their spines, making a horrible sound.
    The elven ranks ripped out their swords and swarmed the giant. They chopped and hacked. Their blades hacked at the giant’s fingers. They climbed up its body like stinging ants and smote it in the face.
    But one by one, the giant slung them off. It grabbed one elf and tossed it into the trees. It rammed its horns into two elves, grinding them into the ground.
    Scar shouted out, “Take the legs! Take the legs!”
    A pair of elves worked a coil of rope and entwined the giant’s legs.
    The giant’s foot snagged. It stumbled. Its angry eyes found the rope. It snatched up the coil.
    The elves hung onto the rope just long enough for the giant to dangle one of them toward its mouth. It bit into one of the elves’ legs, making a loud crunching chomp .
    The elven soldier screamed. “Aaaaaugh!”
    “Enough of this!” With his blade still under Samaz’s chin, Scar said, “Don’t you go anywhere, because if you do, I’ll track you down and kill you!”
    Rerry, who had concealed himself away from the fray, saw Samaz nod. Instantly, Scar’s eyes somehow found his. “And don’t you try to run either, prisoner!”
    With a wild look in his elven eyes, Scar charged the giant at full speed.
    The giant took a swipe at him.
    Scar slipped beneath the swing, jumped onto the giant’s chest, locked one hand in the scruff of its facial hair, and said, “You’ve brought enough death! Now it ends!” He pierced the giant’s chest with his rapier. The blade sank deep, right where the heart should beat.
    The giant’s eyes enlarged. Its great limbs drooped.
    The surviving elves, two of them, chopped into the heel of the giant.
    The horned monster fell like a great tree and splashed into the creek. Giant blood mixed with the waters.
    Still standing on the giant’s chest, Scar yanked his sword free. Without a drop of sweat in his eyes or stain on his uniform, he said, “That’s how you kill a giant. No dwarf could do any better.” He wiped his sword on the giant, checked its clean edge, and slid it back into his sheath.
    Rerry approached from the brush. He couldn’t believe Scar had killed the giant with a single strike. “You have my admiration, imprisoner or not. That was—impressive.”
    Hand out, Scar said, “I’ll be taking the giant’s ring now.”
    Without a word, Rerry tossed the ring to Scar. The elven fighter had earned it.
    “Hands up,” Scar said.
    Rerry and Samaz both surrendered their hands.
    Only two elves out of the small band remained alive. The rest were dead, their bodies scattered and broken. One hung in a tree, and the others were smashed into the ground. Even though Rerry wasn’t a full-blooded elf, he still felt great loss. He said, “You could use our help caring for the dead. It would be our honor.”
    Rolling the giant’s ring like a bracelet around his wrist, Scar said in a nasty tone, “If you hadn’t run away, none of them would be dead, now would they?” He shook his head. “I’ll think about it.”
    But in the wink of an eye, the giant smashed Scar between its hands so hard his helmet popped off his head.

CHAPTER 8
     
     
    The battle with Rybek was the longest sword fight Nath had ever been in. Regardless of the outcome, the unrelenting warrior had gained his respect. Rybek’s mighty blows would have burst the elbows of a lesser man. The jarring impact felt as if it could shatter bone.
    Where does he get his strength?
    Nath deflected another devastating blow .
    Clang!
    And yet another.
    Bang!
    No one of any race but dragonkind had ever before matched Nath’s speed and strength, not even when he was young. He was a dragon, with a dragon heart the size of four men’s. Nath suspected Rybek possessed supernatural powers like his