"Screee!"
Even with hundreds of meters between them, the two enormous beasts could hardly wait to unleash their dragonfire at each other. Scarlet and orange-red flames collided violently, and the tremendous force of the impact nearly scattered the thick clouds filling the sky.
To the residents on both banks of the Green Fork, it looked as though almost half the sky had been set ablaze by dragonfire.
Many even fell to their knees and began praying devoutly to the Vulture God, who had recently delivered them from peril.
"Great Vulture God, protect the Royal House's great dragons and let them destroy all those evil dragons!"
"May the Vulture God protect us!"
Under cover of the dragonfire, Vhagar once again performed her favorite disappearing trick. As the Red Princess looked around in bewilderment, Vhagar suddenly surged up from below, snapping her enormous jaws at the Red Princess's neck.
But a sly gleam appeared in the Red Princess's golden, slit-pupiled eyes. She swiftly twisted her body and nimbly slipped aside to evade Vhagar's attack. Her sharp claws were already extended, and they raked across Vhagar's massive neck, its skin wrinkled with age.
Vhagar's neck was torn open, and scalding dragon blood sprayed out. That single blow had inflicted considerable damage.
The agonizing pain sent the old she-dragon into a frenzy. Completely ignoring Viserys's command to pull back for the moment, she turned and lunged straight at the Red Princess.
Her heavy body slammed into the Red Princess, sending her flying with the sound of shattering bones. But the collision broke an unknown number of Vhagar's own bones as well, and she reeled and plunged toward the ground.
The Red Queen, Meleys, had been waiting nearby for an opening. She swiftly folded her wings and shot behind the Red Princess like an