Dragon Night: Chapter Three

Running listened against he door of his dormitory,
No sound.
He opened the door with a soft creak and stepped out. He looked up at the clock. It was ten minutes until midnight.
Running padded softly down the hallway. The wind whispered in his ear, as if warning him to go back to bed.
He shifted his head around the corner.
No one was there.
Gripping the cold walls cautiously, he shuffled around the corner...
Footsteps!
Someone was walking in Running's direction.
They were walking fast.
Very fast.
With a gasp, Running ran down the hall to the front door.
Very slowly and carefully, he slipped the door open.
He stepped outside, closing the door behind him.
With a sigh of relief, he walked towards the forest...
He stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around slowly...
No one was there.
Running stared at a nearby tree suspiciously. He had a feeling that someone was watching him.
He shrugged and continued toward the forest.
"I thought you would never come."
Running gasped as Arnileous stepped out from behind a tree.
"Don't do that!" Running said angrily. "You came close to-"
He stopped in mid-sentence as he heard a rustling in the bushes.
Arnileous raised his wand in the direction of the bush.
"Come out, show yourself!" he shouted.
The rustling grew more violent.
Arnileous began muttering a curse, banishing his wand over his wand high over his head.
Without warning, a figure came flying from the bush, pinning Arnelious to the ground.
Arnileous found himself looking straight into the angered face of Ziral.
"Ziral!" Running exclaimed. "What in the name of Merlin's footsteps are you doing here?"
Ziral straightened herself up and slowly unpinned Arnileous from the cold forest floor.
"What am I doing here?" Ziral growled. "I came here to stop you, that's what I'm doing."
Running squinted into the distance.
"Hey, wasn't there a tree over there not long ago?" he asked.
"Trees?" Ziral howled. "We'll have something else to worry about soon-"
She stopped talking, because another rustle of the bush rang the air.
"What now?" Arnileous sneered. "Did the mudblood bring someone else with her?"
Ziral was about to say something sharp when a cry rang through the air: "Go home! Go away! You'll do no good here! Iki Noh-Noh says go home!"
Running looked around frantically.
"Who said that?"
All three stared at the bush, as a strange creature stepped out of it, and that strange creature was: an elf.
"Go home!" it said. "Iki Noh-Noh says go home!"
Ziral gaped at the strange creature.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Iki Noh-Noh," the elf said. "Now go home!"
"Why do you want us to go home so anxiously?" Running asked suspiciously.
Iki Noh-Noh tapped his foot impatiently.
"You must go home, before the Shadow comes," he said.
Running shifted nervously.
"What Shadow?"
"Oh goodness!" Arnileous said angrily. "Are you going to listen to the word of an elf and a mudblood, or are you going to finish what we can here for?"
Running expected an angry out burst from Ziral, but he was alarmed when he heard no reply.
He gazed to his right to find Ziral, standing wide-eyed and pale with fright as she gazed upward.
"What's wrong?" Running asked.
Ziral pointed to a spot, high above.
Running gasped.
Arnileous dropped his wand.
Iki Noh-Noh threw his hands up and ran in a panicked circle.
"The Shadow!" he cried. "The Shadow is coming!"
And so it was. It circled overhead, blocking all moon light. It's claws hung open, ready to grip something and tear it apart.
"RUN!" Ziral screamed. No one needed a second bidding.
They tore into a run and the huge creature let out a roar, a shriek that echoed through the night.
Iki Noh-Noh continued to run in a panicky circle.
"It's coming! It's coming! It's comiieeaaaaahh!" Iki Noh-Noh's panick ended in a shriek as the creature grabbed him and slowly began to carry him into the air.
Running paused and bit his lip.
Then he grabbed a stone.. And flung it with all his might.
The stone bounced off of the monster's tail with a soft thumping noise.
In the blood freezing silence that followed, the monster turned swiftly.
This human dares to attack me?" It thought. This cannot happen, this human cannot live.
The monster dropped Iki Noh-Noh and flexed it's wings. It let out an ear piercing roar, like lightning striking metal. It flexed it's hungry glare upon it's witnesses, a glare fierce enough to melt steal.
Then it struck.
It erupted the wind!
It knocked a squirrel from a tree!
Running backed into a bush, struggling fiercely, losing himself in darkness.

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