Volume Four: Buddha Saves No One, Only I, the Demon, Deliver Them - Dragon Armor (Part One)

"What are you doing!" Luo Qian seized Chiwen by the fishtail and lifted him up, then pulled Bixi and Pixiu apart. "What's going on?" The three little dragons could not speak yet. Pixiu glared at the other two, baring his teeth. Whenever anyone dared set their sights on his treasure, little Pixiu looked as though he bore a blood feud against them.

Bixi was more obedient, but Chiwen had not been with Luo Qian for long. He gave a fierce wrench, broke free, and opened his mouth to bite Pixiu. Wham!

Luo Qian frowned. The moment his attention slipped, Chiwen and Bixi escaped again. In a flash, all three dragons were tangled together. Bixi and Chiwen worked in inexplicable harmony, pinning Pixiu down with all their might. Luo Qian was about to separate his pets when a brilliant light suddenly knocked Bixi and Chiwen away.

Even Strathas was startled. Little Pixiu floated in midair, clad in armor and looking every inch a mighty general, while Bixi and Chiwen lay dejected on the ground and no longer moved. Luo Qian wondered: Could little Pixiu really defeat both Chiwen and Bixi just by putting on armor?

Luo Qian grinned and beckoned to Pixiu. "Come here, little fellow." Pixiu came over with an expression that seemed to say, What does this general need to report to you? Luo Qian looked him over. The armor fitted the little dragon perfectly, as though it had been made for him. His bearing and strength...

"This wasn't yours to begin with, was it?" The little fellow had been born with nothing to his name. Everything he ate and used came from Luo Qian, so the armor had to be Luo Qian's too. That explained Bixi's and Chiwen's strange behavior: all three little dragons were fighting over the