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[img]http://i.imgur.com/HtvPRRx.png[/img][/center]The very moment the blackened beast filled Thomas’ sight was the moment a harsh and resounding [url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ed3CSySTvk]melody[/url] screeched in his head. A noise and tune only he could hear; the instrument of Death’s calling filtered the screeches and monstrous roars of the black dragon into a melody that danced off Marianne’s fingers by their own making. Whatever it meant, it spelled the same dread the massive dragon evoked as it continued hovering above the party and what was left of the Abyssal caverns. But before the dragon could make its first move, another force stirred in front of Thomas.

Kanbaru’s appearance and words said one thing while the tune in Thomas’ head said another. The dragon’s song spurned into something [url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQFUalwzfUg]else [/url] entirely that bristled with the unseen danger the whale brought with her. Still, whatever grievances Kanbaru had with Riku and whatever veiled implications her words held, there was little doubt those words were true. Even Riku agreed the dragon came as a first priority with an offered plan. All the same, the near-familiar song Marianne played out in Thomas’ mind didn’t cease.

It only took a pause when the dragon high up let loose another world-shattering roar. Its massively black wings beat once like a hammer driven into the nail and a gust of horrible pressure blew outwards towards everyone below it, friend or foe alike. The Abyss’ ceiling cracked from the sheer brunt of the force and the air weaponized and rocketed towards the entire party like an invisible sword slash. The black dragon waited no more and a horrid black flame leaked out from its maw.

The air around its jaws became dense and hot with an obsidian energy that bent all space around it. Gathered and constricted into an orb, the dragon hurled out blackened balls of fire nearly akin to meteors. They rained from above like heaven’s unholy judgement, arcing and streaking towards everyone be it Thomas and Akiko, Kanbaru and Riku, Runa and Nephy. The dragon lurched its wings backwards after the first volley and charged right towards the ground to bombard and ram everyone present with its own darkened body.
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