They keep navigating around and are eventually stopped in their tracks by a part of the temple that's not lined up with the rest. She stares and angrily says "Great! Exactly what we needed". Art looks around and sees a pillar in the corner that is connected to the other side like a lever. He walks up to it and starts investigating it. Lutin says "What're ya thinkin'?". Art tells Minala to back off, and starts pushing the pillar from left to right. The other half of the temple starts moving and eventually connects to the other half. Minala shocked says "Did…. Did you just turn the temple?!?". He looks at her "What'd you think?". Lutin points to a gate, and says "Come on! Let's get goin'!".

  They walk into a large room with a strange cube floating on a pedestal, the cube has ancient carvings on it and dark aura is emitting from it. The walls have murals carved into them. The three of them stare at the murals. It shows a person in black armor with wings, fighting a flying serpent with four legs. Lutin asks "Who's… That?". Minala starts walking around while explaining

  "That is [The Empress Of The Sky], it's said that she was the one to fight and seal the serpent. But, that was over one thousand and eight hundred years ago" she turns to Art "Your armor is awfully similar to hers".

  She gets close to the cube and takes out her harp. She begins playing a beautiful melody. The aura begins to disappear and things go back to normal. Lutin says

  "Well, that was easy".

  They begin walking away from it.

  And the temple begins to shake. They look back and the cube is violently shaking, it begins to crack and break. It shatters apart. The temple begins to crumble and a Chinese dragon appears from the cube. The dragon breaks a large part of the temple and begins soaring through the skies of the continent. Minala starts running through the broken temple alongside the other two. The ground breaks under Art's feet and he begins falling through the sky. Minala looks back and is hesitant, but she jumps off and turns her arm's into wings. She quickly grapples her feet on Art's left arm. She struggles for a little but pushes through and begins flying back up.

  As they get back up, they see the dragon flying above the continent. It is covered in beautiful purple scales and brightly colored feathers, his eyes are colorful from blue and purple, to green and red. Art says "Ohh… Fuck!", Minala follows "Yeah… Fuck!". Lutin says "We need to stop it!". Minala begins quickly flying towards the dragon.

  The dragon is frenzied and is roaring causing the continent to shake.

  Art changes Nir (Short for Shiftnir) into a spear and begins to throw her at the dragon. Minala begins reconsidering "Guys, I think this is a bad idea. Maybe we can plan things out?". Art says "No! We fight now! If we go back, we might not be able to figure something out in time". They then continue their assault. However, the dragon is retaliating back by opening magic circles and releasing lighting alongside fire as well.

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  They keep dodging around its attacks but eventually, Minala is caught off guard and is hit by the dragon's claw. Lutin falls alongside the unconscious Minala. While Art got caught inside its mouth, Art quickly begins holding its mouth so it wouldn't crush him. He looks down and is seeing Minala falling down to the continent. Art makes Nir into a sword, and starts stabbing its mouth while also slicing its gums.

  The dragon roars and spits Art out. As he falls, he adjusts himself and dives towards Minala. He reaches out and grabs her hand. As they are falling Art notices an extremely large pond. He quickly comes up with a plan, he looks at Lutin "Go into my bag, and stick the explosive scrolls to my back!!". Lutin is very skeptical but decides to listen to him.

  Art faces the pond and tells Lutin to activate the scrolls. As they activate, they violently explode, sending Art and Minala into the near by pond. Art resurfaces with her and swims his way out. Him and Lutin check on her and her left leg is broken. Lutin looks up "Art! The dragon is leaving the continent! We need to get to it!". A group of harpyon guards rush to Minala and Art tells them to get her to safety.

  He runs after the dragon and eventually reaches the edge of the continent that's not too faraway. Him and Lutin think of a way to reach the dragon. Art gets an idea and says "Back as far away as you can and open the spirit realm". Lutin sees Art taking all of the explosive scrolls he bought and putting all of them onto the ground near the edge.

  Lutin anxiously says "Ya might turn into ash ya know?". He replies "The armor handled the scrolls that were directly on my back, if it can handle that, then this shouldn't too bad". He waits for the dragon to draw near, and it does get close. He takes a deep breath, and begins running towards the scrolls. He jumps in a ball position, as he touches barley touching the scrolls. They let out a powerful explosion that launches him through the sky.

  He manages to grab onto the dragon's head. He clings onto it, and they stare at each other. Art makes his hand into a fist and punches its eye. As he drives his hand into its eye, he changes Nir into a large battle hammer. Its eye bursts, and it tries to claw Art. He turns around and uses the soul sword to slice its finger off. He climbs on top of its head and stabs it with the soul sword. And drags the sword from the head to near its bottom half. It flings Art into the air, and it begins disintegrated while letting out a final roar.

  We see Minala catch up to Lutin alongside her guards. She looks around and doesn't see Art who has already fallen through the clouds. Lutin looks calm and is waiting, she looks at him "How the hell are you so calm?!?" Lutin doesn't say anything and simply waits. As she tries to talk again. A large shadow flies upwards right in front of them. They stare and see a black dragon land down, shaking everything around him. The guards get into a fighting position in an attempt to keep Minala safe. The black dragon lets out a roar, and they see Art getting off of the dragon. Minala says "You're okay!" She then continues "Is the dragon friendly? Because it doesn't look like it". Art says while nodding "He. And yes, he's friendly".

  He then continues "We better get back to the village, your dad might be a little worried". The sky clears as they head back to the village to celebrate their victory.

  End of chapter