Chapter 85: Crescent Circle
Third Person PoV
*Boom*
A body was thrown across a kilometer in the air, piercing through the clouds. But rather than howling in pain, the owner of the body was laughing out loud.
The evil dragon quickly followed its prey, whom it had launched just now. The wings at the back of it flapping morbidly.
Cain finally stabilized himself, stopped laughing and looked at the dragon flying towards him.
"Oh? You want a fight? Bring it one!!!"
Cain roared and Crom did so in retaliation as well. The two began moving towards each other at tremendous speed.
The two collided. Cain's punch and Crom's snout. Cain was thrown much farther this time.
The Dragon was also launched behind but not by much. To match the momentum of a behemoth like a dragon, Cain needs to put in much more effort.
"Is that all? I expected more."
The deep voice of Crom came from the throat of the dragon. Cain didn't say much except rushing in once again.
Crom was also overjoyed at that. Most beings don't fight like dragons, pure physically, but Cain was doing just that.
Thus she rushed again. Cain also did. With twice the speed and strength.
The same thing repeated fist versus snout, Cain got launched but this time Crom was launched further.
"Again!"
Cain screamed and rushed back, doubling in his ferocity. Crom didn't have time to gain her speed before his fist collided with her snout and it broke.
*Roar*
Crom roared in pain, her snout scales were broken and blood was leaking from underneath them.
Cain's hand wasn't doing great either, but he was instinctively able to heal himself, he was much more used to healing himself mid-battle.
"You dare!"
Crom opened her jaw and black flames came out of them. The flames covered the sky and were darker than the night sky itself.
The temperature was enough to dissociate the nitrogen atoms in the air around the flames, and destroy much more.
Cain shielded his body with a dense amount of demonic energy and rushed straight through the flames and landed a solid punch again in the same position.
Tears welled up in Crom's eye as she retaliated with her claws, but they weren't as fast, Cain nimbly backed away and again landed a punch on her snout.
"You! Stop that!"
Crom's claws and flames were made redundant by this, whenever she would use them a swift punch would land on her snout.
Finally having enough, with a quick flap of her wings, Crom backed up and looked at Cain who was smiling at her in a gloating way.
But he didn't follow, but instead motioned her to come to him with his hands like one would motion a pet like a dog or a cat.
Crom almost rushed back in but managed to control her anger, any retaliation like that would be met with swift retribution, she needs to figure out a way to get out his tempo.
Calming herself, Crom began to use two of her best abilities. Dragon aura and stealth.
Her huge body melted into the night and her body was covered by a thin layer of black aura, invisible to most.
The thin layer was many times stronger than the layering Cain was using currently.
Cain seeing his opponent vanish in the air like that scratched his hair. He wasn't sober and his cognitive abilities were a bit slow.
"Vanished? Maybe it got scared and ran away! Haha!"
Cain laughed and began to fly away but his back was hit with a gargantuan force, propelling him at breakneck speeds to the ground.
He didn't have the chance to stabilize and crashed into the ground with a boom, dust, and soot covered a large area of the barren land.
*Cough*
"What happened?"
Cain said as he stood up, his legs wobbly. At the crucial moment before impact the hand managed to make up more layers of shield on his body, mitigating a lot of damage.
Even then he was hurt badly. It was an evil dragon he was fighting. Cain once again felt the air displacing above him and punched as hard he could in the gap.
*Boom*
The dust was blown away and a huge tail came in front of Cain.
"Oh! You want to play like this!"
Cain said happily as he immediately caught the huge tail between his arms.
"Leave it, Devil!"
But Cain ignored it and began to spin around. His spinning generated an enormous amount of wind, uprooting the few trees in the wasteland they had landed.
*Growl*
Crom growled and launched her flames by turning her head backward but was released by Cain at that moment.
"You annoying bat!"
Crom tried to halt her fall by a bit using her wings as gliders but still suffered a concussion due to being thrown like that and colliding head first into the ground.
Her huge body stood on its four legs and shook its head, and glared at Cain who was flying above her with that same damn smile on his face.
"I am going to skin you alive!"
Cain didn't do much and rushed, Crom did that too but the result was the same, her snout was once again smashed, but this time Cain's arm was brutally mutilated.
"Dragon aura? Whatever it is, it just needs more strength!"
Cain said to himself and once again charged. Crom tried to fall back but Cain didn't let her do that this time.
Once again, his small fist landed on her snout, more tears welled up in her huge eyes.
Soon this became a game of taming dragons. Whenever Crom would try to attack or move, a swift fist would make her tear up.
Half an hour later, a weird scene was playing in a wasteland in the middle of nowhere.
A man was stroking the snout of a dragon, while the said dragon was shivering and keeping its hands on its head, trying to cover it.
Alas, its head was too big and couldn't be covered fully. The man started to speak as he finished healing the dragon.
"Who's a good girl! Come on, let's go for a walk!" Cain said, jumping and sitting on its back.
"Go fly!" Cain said excitedly.
Reluctantly the dragon flapped its wings and began to soar. The wind hit Cain's face, his hair fluttered wildly.
"Woohoo!"
Cain screamed as a portal opened, the man the beast went into Hell.
…
"Cain-sama, wake up!" A voice entered his ears, a familiar voice.
"He won't wake up that easily, let me try!" Another familiar voice rang in his ears.
"You two stop it, I will wake him up!"
Another voice familiar to him sounded and finally, he noticed that whatever he was sleeping on was exceptionally hard.
Cain's eyes gradually opened and intense light shined on them. He raised his hand to block the light as he stood up.
His eyes adapted and finally, he looked around. To see that he was surrounded by his wives, Scathach and Grayfia.
He wobbled a bit before standing upright and his head was hurting like hell.
He raised his hands towards Grayfia and said.
"Fia, hangover."
With a speed worthy of her job a glass of water mixed with some herbs to alleviate hangover appeared in her hand and was passed quickly to Cain.
Cain drank it and waited for a bit, soon he was sober and looked good to go.
"So what happened?"
Cain asked, looking at the four women standing in front of him.
The four of them looked at him with wide eyes, Grayfia a bit hesitant.
"You tell us?"
"Yeah, what was that hard th-!?"
Cain turned around and saw, or more accurately his vision was filled with black.
And then in a sudden burst, all the memories of last night came inside Cain's brain at once.
"Fuck!"
"So now, what happened?"
Rayla asked this time with mirth in her voice.
"Yeah, about that. You awake?"
Cain asked the sleeping beast.
And a flap opened, revealing golden slit eyes. And the mountain moved, slowly the dragon sat up from lying and said in a deep voice.
"Yes."
"Nice to meet you, Crom Cruach."
"What!"
A chorus voice came from behind, while Cain chuckled helplessly. The dragon looked at the small group of people in front of it with confusion as to what the occasion was for such a reaction.
With that Cain recounted what happened after the two of them entered Hell.
…
"Hey! What's your name!" Cain shouted, and the dragon replied.
"Crom Cruach."
"What! Really? The one with the history with Balor?"
"Yes." The Dragon replied but there was a hint of reluctance in its voice.
"I am Cain."
"Cain what? Any last names?"
"Lucifer."
"So, Cain Lucifer?"
"Livan also."
"So Cain Lucifer Livan?"
"No, it's in the middle."
"Cain Livan Lucifer, then?"
"Yeah!"
"Our battle was merely halted due to your drunken state, we shall continue at a later date!"
Crom replied with vigor as to hide the shame of losing so badly.
"Sure! Oh, land here, silently, and hide yourself."
Crom didn't ask much as she saw that there was a castle below them, she landed in the backyard.
Her stealth ability made it such that no one knew, or so she believed. At least half a dozen people noticed her all across Hell.
Most if them ignored her and half were used to such things happening, Cain lived in Hell after all.
Cain jumped off the back of the Dragon and sat down beside it, laying his head on its tough scales.
"Sleep."
"No, I must train. We shall fight very soon."
Crom tried to leave but Cain raised his fist, making her delay her plans.
"Fine, I am a bit tired, do not think for a moment that I am scared of you!"
"Sure, now sleep. It is imperative that you sleep, it is the secret to my strength."
"Really?" Crom replied enthusiastically, she ignored sleep for as long as possible only sleeping when completely fatigued.
"Indeed."
"Then I shall partake in it."
'I have lost so much strength! I should have slept, no wonder it was like that, all beings love sleeping. I must sleep!'
The two of them slept like that, Cain resting on her side while the beast lay its head on a makeshift pillow of its claw and some dirt.
It didn't take long for the two to fall asleep.
…
"So you beat Crom Cruach, the strongest evil dragon, drunk?"
Scathach asked incredulously.
"Kinda yeah!"
"No, he didn't, i just didn't want to embarrass him, it would be against my pride if I beat someone drunk and proclaimed my victory."
The Dragon roared.
"Yeah, sure buddy. Everyone will say that." Rayla snickered.
"A mere flaming bird dares?"
"Calm down, Crom." Cain said sternly, before saying.
"Why don't to shape-shift to a more simple form, it would make it easier to talk."
"Why?"
"Well, I hate it when I have to look up when talking to someone."
Cain said smilingly. Crom pondered for a bit before agreeing but didn't forget to add.
"Attitude worthy to be a dragon's rival! I shall accept your proposal."
"It's gonna be a pain sometimes."
Cain muttered to himself, everyone but Crom caught it. There was a little movement from Crom and the great dragon vanished.
In place of it a woman stood. A woman worthy of being a dragon.
(AN:- The AI wasn't able to generate a single good image like I wanted so I will be describing her in detail. I have posted some images in the comments, at least what the AI was able to make.)
The first thing that was noticeable about her was her height. Easily towering over everyone present.
Even Cain only reached till her underboobs. She had split hair, the left side golden, the right side black.
There were two imposing black horns atop her head, curved, making an urn-like shape between them.
She had elf-like long ears, her hair reached till her back, she was heterochromatic, her left eye black and right, golden.
Some of her bangs landed on her right eye, covering it slightly but failed to hide the glint in it.
Her body was curvaceous not overly so but in the right proportions. Her dress matched her theme, yellow undershirt, black leather jacket, black pants, and leather boots which reached her shins.
Her skin was tanned, chocolate colored, a tail wooshed behind her, short enough to not touch the ground but long enough to curve around her waist if she wanted to.
Her face was rounded, fat at the right places. Her light-colored lips are a contrast from her skin, making it even more delectable.
An arrogant frown on her face, but one could see her blushing when embarrassed like a typical tsundere.
"Damn she lives up to the dragon name, doesn't she?"
Zeaira said, which Rayla supported from her nodding.
"Even Cain isn't that tall, in his super form." Scathach mentioned.
"I think I would reach her mouth? My horns I mean."
Cain said guessing as to where he would stand up to when in his super devil form.
"You still have to look up, Cain."
Crom said smugly. To which Cain could only give a rueful smile.
"So what to do now?"
Cain said looking at the dragon girl standing in front of him, in all her glory.
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AN:- Poll Time! should I make Tiamat(DxD) his familiar or peerage member?
Vote-
1) Peerage
2)Familiar
Crom's design is inspired from Vritra(Fate). Post images if you find like the description. The images I post in this chapter are only somewhat accurate, the AI couldn't understand the profundity of my words.
Anyways, Chccolate Dragon girls supremacy!