Living Comet

"He made it!" I cried, jumping up and down, forgetting I was a thousand feet in the air. Borealis had made it!

A shockwave ripped across the landscape below, radiating from the impact crater where Borealis held the dragon. It tore trees apart, stripped soil from bedrock, and started landslides on every ridge and peak. The clouds fled the sky as it burst skyward, leaving me floating in an endless, unbroken sea of blue.

The dragon roared and struggled, but half of its bones were covered in earth. Borealis jerked free with a flap of his wings, shaking his feathers in a shower of rubble. He pulled the dragon after him, spinning about and slamming it into the cliff face behind them. The mountainside collapsed, burying both in a tsunami of earth.