26. Odour of Roasting

The ragged and furious red dragon, Ivan Shirk was very much boiled in his thoughts of revenge for his sister, Nora. The waves of his anger reflected as fire in his every breath. The suppressed wrath made him erupt like an active volcano upon the sight of the witch palace with the Peridexion tree. He wanted to pursue revenge with his heat blaze of fire. He decided to attack unswervingly without announcing any alertness of prompt battle.
When the red dragon didn’t receive any positive response from the witch palace, he blazed his fireball again. To his satisfaction, a witch came outside of the palace and used her powers to attack Ivan, the red dragon. Soon Nicoria was accompanied by her flocks of raven wizards.
And, hence the battle starts…
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In the furious battle, the most fatigued Ivan Shirk was about to accept his defeat by the random attack of Raven Wizards. Ivan was so much stubborn to give up his battle with the ravens. But the continuous attack drained the power and strength of Ivan as the raven wizards used their magic spells on him. They decided to defeat the red dragon’s fire with the natural fire extinguisher, water.
The splash of water forced the red dragon to put out the fire from its mouth. Unfortunately, the raven wizards’ water spell worked on the fiery fire dragon, the drenched Ivan choked hard to spit any firelets out of his mouth to defeat the raven wizards. It was a hard time for the red dragon to be left with no choice rather than surrender.
Ivan the red dragon thought to himself, “I will not accept my defeat with these ravens… they are coward to use their magic powers than their physical strength. I will not spare the one whom so ever it may be to hurt my little sister. They do dare to go through this powerful fire dragon to have a thought of hurting my sister”.
Ivan tried hard to regain his strength, suddenly a blaze of the knight in shining armour from heaven shined brightly in the sky and Ivan hoped for a better attack to defeat those ravens.
The royal seat of friendship,
In a stable mind
Where timely help receives
Throne Without seeking comes.
As per the sayings of Ayruzglow Kingdom, his soul friend, Dev, the crown prince appeared suddenly in the sky from nowhere to lend him a hand. The timely help of Dev thrilled Ivan to regain his strength mentally and Dev transferred some energy to his friend Ivan and it triggered his inner spirit to activate his battle spirit.
Dev got furious to see his friend was surrounded by ravens. He too didn’t want his friend to lose the battle with small birds like ravens. Dev attacked the ravens ferociously to save his friend, “Need a hand, Ivy?
Though Ivan he did not like to be called IVY but smiled at Dev and waved his head to accept his help in saving his life. Dev asked Ivan in a false anger tone, “Dare to come alone, Ivy? A battle…Without me…?”
Ivan responded with a victory smile, “Dare not…Without you…uh… Nora?”
Dev answered Ivan by understanding his brotherhood towards his sister, “Fine… resting in the castle.”
Ivan left out a sigh of relief, “Thank you, Dev … for Nora”
Dev replied with fake anger, “I don’t want your thanks, you idiot. When did you start thanking me? You creepy firefly! I want you to hold your fire. Can you do that?”
Ivan nodded his head in positive while they both looked at the formation of the army of Igikran in the sky. They wondered what could be their battle strategy to defeat them.
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The thousands of millions of ravens were plighted to assemble to the formation of giant unison bird, a pair of claws with its sharp nails emerged from the result of formation, many ravens winged to form gigantic wings of Raven, then the formation of hooked beak and finally head formed to make a single gigantic raven that was ready to attack and to defeat the two dragons.
The northern sky was covered by numerous raven wizards to form a giant raven and the southern sky was covered by the duo of the red fire dragon and white dragon. The sun seemed to be bewildered to look at the scene and thus stood still in the middle of the west and east sky.
Ivan wondered to look forward to the formation and asked Dev, “Do you have any plans, Dev?”
Dev replied by stretching his hands and loosening his legs and twisting his head left to right and turning his head towards Ivan and asked by tilting his head to the side, “Did I ever have any plans?”
Ivan shook his head, “Nope. You always want. That’s your master plan to conquer all the battles. But these ravens are intelligent birds.”
Dev replied while stretching his limbs, “Intelligence or Ignorance depends on the strong mind of their leaders.”
Ivan replied by pointing Igikran, “That one is the head it seems” and pointed towards Nicoria’s palace, “Witch is inside... heavily guarded by these raven troops and pack of werewolves.”
Dev responded to him, "Let's roast some ravens... Save your fires until I say so...Got me?"
Ivan responded positively, "Hurray, it sounds like a plan. Let’s roast some ravens."
Dev mockingly said, "Birds of same feathers..."
Ivan joined to add some line in the sentence for his friends, "...flocks together..."
Dev continued the sentence, "...And when they flock together..."
Ivan completed the sentence, "...they fly so high..."
Dev finished his conversation, “The perfect day for crispy roasting of ravens.”
While Ivan completed his words, as to respond to their conversation; Igikran and his raven soldiers formed the shape of the mighty giant black raven with Igikran in the centre of the raven's heart and wavered its massive wings high in the sky. The flapped wings forced some air in the direction of dragons to scare and demonstrated their power to scare them away.
Dev fearlessly roared in the sky, "Weather today is windy”
Ivan reacted to Igikran with a giggle, “Fly away, Birdy. Save your flocks".
Igikran replied with a burst of horrific laughter, "Look at my army... Million VS two, you are not even one-third of my army. How are you both going to defend yourself? Do you need some time to call your allies…It’s a shame for me to fight the weakest and least in numbers."
Dev responded, "Defensive or offensive... It depends on the armoured and drilled army. Only that army always tastes the victory.”
Ivan added his words to Dev, “Did you ever know all these types of a strategy of battles, birdy?”
Igikran replied in a crows tone with anger, “I am not birdy; I am Igikran…the Mighty King of Raven Wizard Clan”.
Dev replied with a curious smile by interrupting the self-appraisal of Igikran, “The roasted ravens always a good combination of taste with a glass of wine from the Frozen Crescent.”
The offended and raged Igikran started to attack with his maximum force fiercely.
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