Chapter 48: I'll Never Lose Who I Am - Part 1

The dragon's moat exploded in a torrent of fish, water, and titanic tentacles!

Gus bellowed as he surged from the river, growing every moment!

Fish latched onto him, but their gnawing could not even begin to keep pace with his growth!

He rose twenty feet high, then fifty, then a hundred!

The mountain octopus slammed his tentacles down as he writhed across the volcanic ground, dust and rubble caking against his slimy skin.

He surged in front of the party, a monstrous guardian protecting them against the tyrant of the Northern Peak!

Galabel Wyrm reared up as best as he could, bellowing thunder and smoke, stretching his wings so wide they seemed to eclipse the sun.

Gus was not as large as the dragon, but returned his own defiant scream and flailed his tentacles in a display of defiance.

Their cries mingled and shook the ground.

Gus charged.