[Kanji_The_Wanderer]

***Part 2 of Tatsu and Nozomi's fight with Xephon***

Gana plummeted out of control into the jagged mountain below. The wind rushed by our faces, and down my throat. It was hard to breath, and I couldn't see through all the snow flying around our heads. "We're going to have to jump!" I shout to Nozomi. Nozomi jumps into my arms, and wraps her arms and legs around my front.

I hold her with my right hand. With my left, I reach into my pouch and pull out a pill. This is one of the same pills I used in Disan, that gave me the ability of flight, in no time, a pair of large white pristine wings sprouted from my shoulder blades. I now placed both hands on Nozomi and flew onto a ledge covered in snow.

The dragon laughed as Gana crashed into a snow drift and disappeared. "IS that ALL YOU GOT!" bellowed Xephon. Nozomi withdrew her kodachis and stared fiercely at the Ice Dragon. If she got to angry she would turn into the Shadow, or the SilverDragon to be more exact. "Nozomi you can be my back up, stay here, and watch out." I unsheath Sora, the sharp metal of the blade, shines in the dim light, coming through the thick gray clouds.

With these wings, I rush up into the sky. Xephon starts to breath more ice at my direction, I speed by the ice, as some of it grazes my face. Luckily, I am faster then the dragon, and manage to plant my feet on his arm. I use all my strength to drive Sora into the dragon's scales. But the skin is hard as a frozen rock, and Sora clinks off of it. Damn! I shout in my head. I run up the dragon's arm as it tries to swat me off. I jump in between it's wings, and start to hack at the base of it.

The veins in the wing is tender, and rips under the power of my steel, The dragon yells out in pain, it screech of pain, travels all throughout the summit, and echoes back. It is a horrible sound. Soon the left wing blows off into the air, blood pours out of the wound, and into the sky, the dragon can no longer fly, and begins to free fall into the snow below. I take off from the dragon's shoulder and fly back to Nozomi. The spell that gives me flight will not last much longer.

I land on the ledge with Nozomi. She gives me a warm smile as a congradulations. But our foe is not dead. No powerful dragon would die from a fall like that. Nozomi and myself run down to where the dragon crashed. My wings vanish from my back in a puff of light. With Nozomi's amazing speed, she races ahead of me. Xephon crawls forth from the snow. "YOU FOOLS! TRAPPING ME TO THE EARTH LIKE THIS! YOU'LL REGRET EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER DONE TO THE DRAGON CLAN!!!!"

He breathes his breath again, but at my feet. The moment the ice makes contact with the snow, I am frozen in place from the knee down. I hack at the ice with Sora. Nozomi jumps onto the dragon's arm, and lauches her twin kodachis into the air. She flips twice, grabbing her weapons in mid-air, and slams the blade into Xephon's snout.