The Co-Dependant Dragon

The green dragon smiled at the knight, "That was great, Sir Ken! We really did well there, didn't we?"

The knight looked to his friend, his lands now safe from any trouble one may ever concieve, as well as any one may not. The knight smirked at the dragon, the joyous air instantly evaporated in that moment.

"We did, Hector, but..." the knight drew his sword, and Hector whimpered. What was going on? Was this not the same knight who had befriended him so many years ago? Was his past a lie? "...I think I need you to bow to me, Sir Green." The dragon closed his eyes, unable to free his will against his friend's lowering his forepaws. The dragon looked at the knight, fear in his slitted eyes, emerald as his scales.

"Th-th-this isn't funny... c-can I get up now?" He begged to his friend that now became his captor. As he walked menacingly towards him, Ken smirked, "I know you have done good... but after your past heresy, I think if you are going to get up, it will only be after..." The dragon's eyes shot wide open, coughing up blood as the knight's sword thrust deep against his scales, sword plunging through his heart and lung, he cried heavily, as the knight continued, "...I thrust my sword up onto you, evil creature..."

Pulling out the sword, he laughed at the fallen creature that stared in mixed pain, sorrow and disbelief, as it waited to wake from the nightmare he was experiencing, the knight only leaving after that stare was fixed upon the dragon's face eternally, the knight bloodstained, but only otherwise leaving with a dark grin of achievement on his face, returning to the lands over which he ruled.

Hector slowly stood up, crying as he looked down at the green mass beneath him. How had he been betrayed so... but why? It hurt so much, there was so much more he didn't understand... that the wanted to. Suddenly, a portal opened in front of him, as he looked at the turquoise sky shining through it, he smiled, and flew to it. He knew then that he was not to blame. He knew what this meant...

He would be happy now. He was free.