The White Tower
This story is rated PG-13 for sexual situations
Chapter 8 - The Green Dragon
The two Dragons circled each other warily, looking for an opening. They feinted and dodged, but were too evenly matched. Each claw, each fang was blocked by scaled flesh, harder than any man-made armor.
Far below them, Aara and the group watched. She turned to Bya, "Do you know who the new Dragon is?"
"I think he is Shun, a Green Dragon close to the same age as Kyo. He and Kyo were the best of friends."
"And they are fighting now? This bodes ill!" The Princess exclaimed. "Bakura, can you do something? Put up a barrier?"
The blue mage stepped forward. "Any barrier I put up will not hold a Great Dragon for more than a few minutes. I do not know if I can hold two Dragons at all."
"Perhaps I can bring them down when they are aloft." Tennu said. "They have wings that depend on air. And air is my domain. Bakura, can you portal me near them? I think they are in Suzaku now."
The advantage of having the White Tower built at the juncture of the three worlds is that Bakura could open a portal easily, since he merely had to move a short distance to be in a different world. He nodded and then pointed to a summit near the dragons. "I will open it there. Be careful, Tennu."
The Bobcat nodded and Bakura made the runic symbols in the air that would create the portal. A faint blue area appeared, shimmering in the sunlight, and Tennu walked into it.
He reappeared on the summit, high near the tops of the Northern Mountains. Very close to him were the Dragons, still fighting each other. Tennu closed his eyes for a moment, summoning his power. The winds gathered around him, swirling and circling, gaining speed and power. Tennu spread his arms apart and the winds divided, becoming two tornadoes on either side of him. They spun rapidly, gathering speed. Tennu poured power into them and more and more wind went into the tornadoes, until they were huge. Then he sent them after the Dragons.
Each tornado caught a Dragon and carried it spinning towards the ground. Kyo and Shun strained to fly out, but the winds were too strong. Finally, both Dragons folded their wings, afraid that the spinning vortexes would tear their delicate membranes. Caught helplessly in the center, the tornadoes took the Dragons toward the Tower, then without slowing down, slammed both of them into the hard ground and stayed spinning over their prone bodies.
Tennu returned to the portal and came back to the Tower. With a gesture, the tornadoes fell apart and the winds returned to their rightful place in the sky. Two deep depressions were side by side in the earth and in the center of each was a young man. Kyo was struggling to get up, every bone in his body screaming in pain. Shun was still lying prone, gasping for air, the air knocked clean out of him. The brutal fall had reverted them both to their human forms.
Tennu looked at them, "I'm glad that worked. I don't have any power left."
"Thank you, Tennu." The Princess said and then went to the edge of crater holding Kyo. She called to the Dragon and he managed to stand up, and then walked unsteadily towards her. The fight had been knocked out of him. But it would not last. In a very short time, he would be fully recovered, and the battle would start again. Tennu would need much more time to recover from his power depletion.
Before Kyo managed to come out of his crater, Shun scaled his. His human form was of a slender young man with green hair and eyes. He stood there staring at the group.
Before anyone could say anything, Kyo came out. "What was that?"
"Tennu used his wind power on you." Aara answered.
"Shun! Are you alright?" Kyo asked his old friend. For at least a few moments, the need as well as the fight was gone.
"Yes, bruised but okay."
"I'm sorry, my friend, for attacking you."
"Neither one of us could help ourselves. And soon the mating heat will come over us again and we will continue our battle." Shun said, his voice tinged with sadness.
"I don't even want to mate with the she-Dragon." Kyo said miserably, "but I can't help myself."
"Where is she? I sense her but don't see her."
"She is my daughter," Bya stepped forward. "But she is only half-Dragon and has only a human form. She was born only eight months ago."
"She is a baby?" Shun asked, perplexed.
"No, she grew to a young woman in that span of time."
"Isn't there a way to stop this?" Aara asked.
"Only when she is impregnated will she stop giving off the scent and then the mating battle stop." Shun replied, confirming what Kyo had already told them. "I don't want for this to happen either, but I have no choice. The need to procreate consumes us all."
"But you are friends." Raike said. "How can you fight your friend?"
"When the mating lust is upon me, I have no friends. Only rivals."