A Raven's Blessing | Vax'ildan x OC | TLOVM

The Hope Devourer

Warnings: Strong and Sexual Language; Violence, Gore & Death.

"Scanlan, come on, man. Open your eyes. Come on, Shorthalt, please!" Vax shook Scanlan's body but only a small groan emerged from him. "You have to wake up!" Scanlan's chest rose and fell, but still no signs of consciousness. "Aw, fuck it!" He reached his hand grabbing ahold of his black chest hair pulling it up and ripping them from its follicles.

"Vax!" Scanlan shot up, "What in the hell? I was having the best dream."

"Well, welcome back to your worst nightmare."

"Huh? Oh." Scanlan scanned around as the stomach rumbled and contorted as the muscles moved. Acid dripped from the walls. "Oh shit."

Outside the dragon, Grog shouted as he was flung around in the air, holding onto the rope attached to his new axe embedded into the dragon's flesh as it flew away from their trap to the mountains, leaving the rest of Vox Machina stunned still on the ground.

"That was their plan? Go up its ass?" Pike exclaimed throwing her hands in the air as Vex rubbed the sides of her temple.

"Well, we are talking about Scanlan," Vex replied.

"This is disastrous," Percy stated, "We'd need a skyship to catch them."

"Or maybe we don't," Vex smirked as she pulled out her broom. "Ready, Kiki?"

Keyleth's eyes turned green as her body began to transform, "Let's fly." Her form grew as wings and feathers sprouted from her as she turned into a giant hawk screeching as she stretched her wings. Athena was the first one on her back as Percy and Pike climbed on as Vex zoomed through the air on her broom. Keyleth took off after her as they raced to catch up to Umbrasyl. In the distance, they could see Grog's form dangling from the massive black dragon but they weren't making any more ground.

"Damn it, that thing can move," Athena said.

"Steady, Keyleth." Percy brought out Bad News looking down the scope to attempt a shot at it.

"Shoot it now!" Pike yelled.

"I don't have a clean shot."

"Faster, Keyleth. We're losing them," Athena cried.

"Hang on, Grog."

Umbrasyl look behind him noticing Grog was still hanging on. He began looping around in the sky in an attempt to shake Grog's hold but he still was hanging on. He lowered closer to the ground and into the tree line. Grog's body bounced off the tops of the trees until he led him into the side of rock point. His body collided with the side unleashing a cloud of dust.

"Grog!"

Umbrasyl laughed as he looked behind not seeing the Goliath hanging on the rope. Suddenly, Grog's form pop up on the side of the dragon as he climbed up his back. Umbrasyl began to loop around in the air once again to shake him off. Inside, Vax and Scanlan were being tossed around as they felt the dragon fly through the air.

"What do we do, go back through its ass?" Scanlan asked.

Vax looked but to their luck, it was already drenched in acid. "Too much acid." He looked around accessing their options as he noticed the gash made by the sword. "The blade wound."

"But there's no way we'll squeeze through that."

A dagger appeared in Vax's hand, "Then we'll just have to make a bigger hole."

Grog was hacking away at the dragon shouting profusely at him but they couldn't make out his words at their distance away. Horror soon washed over their faces as Umbrasyl turned his head unleashing a blast of acid down his back and knocking Grog off screaming in pain.