A hair-thin beam of light shot from the sky and burned a tiny hole in the dragon’s wing. The green serpent let out a deep bass hiss and looked up. There, one hundred feet up, hovered a translucent, pixelated bronze man with wings like an eagle and a sword of flame. The dragon stared for a moment, raised its wings, and flew up into the storm. The angel fled upward with incredible speed.
The dragon chased the angel up to twenty-seven hundred feet. The downpour made it difficult to fly, and the thunderclaps were deafening. He focused his mind and shot a beam of red-hot heat at his quarry, who dodged easily.
The angel turned to face him. The serpent suddenly found itself surrounded by dozens of similar creatures who appeared out of nowhere. One looked like a blue-skinned woman with butterfly wings. Another resembled a man with bat wings, with the legs and horns of a goat. One looked like a green frog with four eyes.
They entered battle. The frog tried to hit the dragon with a wave of pure force, which he deflected with his mind. Bat-wings hit him with a beam of heat, scorching his scales. The bronze angel tried to hit him with another ray of light. He dodged.
The dragon summoned his power and sent a spherical wave of force outward from his body. His enemies seemed unaffected.
The dragon circled, the beings swarming around him. Force had failed. He sent a wave of searing heat outward instead. Raindrops vaporized into steam, but his opponents ignored it.
Then he saw the cave at the top of the hill, just a few hundred feet away. He saw a man in armor standing there with a spear. Next to him, an enormous black panther. What sorcery is this?
The enemy continued pecking at him. He ignored them and flew towards the cave.
When he was within fifty yards, the light-beings suddenly stopped swarming around him and lined up below and above him. A thunderclap echoed across the land as a bolt of lightning shot straight through the enemies above him, through his heart, and on through the enemies below him to the ground.
The dragon seized and fell to earth.