Ahh, opposition. She felt Kouken's claws slice through the wing membrane, crimson fluid draining onto the ground below, searing the ground whereupon it fell- and snapped her wings into a safer, folded position, so they were less vulnerable. She saw Liam take a shot on her front half, and then just seemed to curl up into a defensive circle. It was rather useless to attempt breaking her arms, they were well built with strong bones and muscles as they double for front legs, and it would almost be physically impossible to hang on to both arms at once. Closing her eyes to prevent damage, although merely only a habitual order, as the contour of her head prevented easy grabs at her eyes, a hard, scale-boney surface jutting out subtly from the tip of her nose- which sported a lethal looking 'tooth' if you will, originating from breaking through her egg, and growing to larger proportion, curling in an attempt to become parallel with her nose-line and unknowingly matching the cruel-looking aspects of her head which erupted back in structures which some might denounce as 'horns' but were made from tougher stuff- she left no time for the two to react before she let loose her attack. A tremendous, earth-shattering roar was shot into the atmosphere, clinging to it in a livid disorder that marked the very start of her being. Flames followed- not even a second after the bellow, and the dragon smiled inwordly to herself, feeling her barrier of shadowy particles cooling the scales unnesescarily(sp?), as she manipulated the flames. They engulfed all three of them, swirling with a molten tendency that held no sense of mercy- that foreign word that seemed oft-used within the colonies that aligned themselves towards 'good'- another alien word only used by her in reference to these colonies, or in contexts such as 'good riddance'. Inside the inferno, it was blindingly bright- which wouldn't effect her at all, with her eyes closed and all, besides, she did this to clean herself regularly, only in less quantity of flames, as now she engulfed all three of them within- a light which hadn't taken a second to form, and now, only about three seconds from formation, she struggled- or made to, found Kouken on her back, and arched into him.
Spines shot from her neck and back, long, dangerous, and hard things that were made especially for these such occasions, where the enemy is upon her back. They were incredibly sharp, able to puncture her own scales, shifting protective plates aside a small, harmless bit, dark, coated in her own blood which burned off the instant it surfaced into the hot flames, away from the cooling black particles. These spines had always been there, reserved for this very purpose, concealed along the length of her spinal column with a biological trigger function that applied pressure for them to speed out at such a rapid pace, designed to impale whatever happened to be upon her back and/or neck. She twisted, making sure they gave away their full potency. This was only her first maneuver to rid herself of these pests, she had many others to come should they prove persistent.
