Easton and the Dragon

This is the newest scene from Raising an Overlord (WT):

"You can not defeat us young one. You are too weak." The dragon lord spat, and smiled his scaly smile. Hi forked tongue licked the air as he hissed his evil laugh.

The boy, who was meant to be king, held his sword aloft at these words. "I will surly defeat you. It was written in my destiny. Die coward!" Easton jumped from his rally point yelling at the monster. He darted over the ruble at his feet and jumped over his fallen comrades, charging at the weakest point of the beast’s chest.

He was too quick for the dragon, which slashed at him with his great tail. He rolled just shy of a deadly blow, and leaped onto the dragons back. He began to scale him, and climbed up until he was even with his heart. As he delivered the final blow to his foe he screamed; "Die winged beast of death! I rule you!"

Hamaliel worked in the garden not far off listening to the boy play. He looked up and saw him scaling a half fallen tree trunk in time to see him stab it with a long stick he’d been using as a sword. The older man laughed to himself at the boy’s game, and his use of imagination, and went back to the weeds before him.

His head jerked up as he heard a large crash and scream from where the boy just was. Within seconds Hamaliel was on his feet rushing to the boy’s side. The tree had continued it descent under the weight and blows of the child. It had crumbled beneath him. When Hamaliel arrived at his side; Easton’s leg was twisted at an angle that did not look unnatural but rather painful. He had stopped his screaming, and had subsided into shallow sobs. "Easton my boy, Give me your arm." He instructed. "You’ll be alright." Taking the boy into his arms he carried him back to the house. "We’ll just get you cleaned up and have your mother here, right quick. Don’t you worry. It’ll be alright." Tears continued to flow from the now silent boy’s eyes as he was doted upon.

Everything would be alright. Everything had to be alright. It must.