Friday Fanfic

Buffy the Dragon Slayer

(An obvious continuation of last week's story.)

Chapter Nine-Beta

Buffy kept telling herself that she had nothing to worry about. After all, she wasn't the one who was going to fight the dragon. That honor belonged to Magdalena Walsh's mechanical creation Talos.

Indeed, it actually seemed good that Buffy was actually going to be able to watch a dragon fight as a spectator for a change -- and better yet, she got to keep her clothes on while doing so.

Then she got outside and saw the dragon. It was very easily the largest dragon she had ever seen. It was more the size of a small mountain than that of the overgrown lizards that she had usually fought as a Slayer. Heck, even Vermithrax Pejorative would have seemed like a newt compared to this creature.

Plus this creature stood on two legs. Buffy had fought many a dragon in her brief life and yet she had never encountered a dragon that stood on two legs. They were always on all fours.

To be fair, this dragon also had no wings but that did not seem to make a difference to Buffy when she saw how easily the creature breathed fire. Who cared whether or not the darn thing flew? It could very easily set on fire almost any flying animal that it saw.

Then the dragon turned in her direction. As a veteran dragon slayer, Buffy could guess what was coming but she still felt a bit of fear creep down her spine.

Fortunately, Talos was between her and the dragon. He converted his right arm into a sword blade and plunged said blade into one of the dragon's ankles. The dragon looked down as if wondering whether it was worth it to respond with a quick burst of flame. But in the end, the dragon decided not to.

Instead the dragon found it far easier to lift up one of its feet and then stomp the mechanical man to pieces.

To be continued...