[Robert]

"It's fine, you can rest here... right, Chance?" I say, first to Elena and then to Chance, who hesitated, but eventually nodded. I could tell that he didn't really want her here, but, wasn't adamant enough about it to fight me over it... well, fight me again, that is. From the corner of my eye, I see two shadowy figures fly past us, and then turn around to look at us. Chance drew his sword again, but, this time, I didn't stop him. These two looked like trouble, and they had something weird and shiny. "Ha, do you three even know of the power we wield?" one of them asked us. That was enough for me to look over and see that there were two of them. One was a dark purple-colored dragon with blood red eyes, claws, and wing membranes. The dragon stood at about a half foot taller than I did, and also sported a pitch black underbelly, and some sort of black... aura? What was that? The other one was a phoenix. He was a pitch black color, appeared to be about five feet tall, had bright orange eyes, and dark purple crest and tail feathers. His talons were actually a dark grey, and he had some sort of weird red pulsating pattern on his underbelly... which was distracting, to say the least. "Elena, you should rest, we'll handle these two jokers." I say to Elena, turning my head for a moment to talk to her. As soon as I start turning my head again, I notice a ball of some sort of shadowy energy flying towards me. Chance thankfully got in the way of the attack, and didn't seem fazed by it. "What? We were supposed to rule with an iron fist, and you were supposed to die from that attack! Holy ones like you can't take that kind of attack!" The phoenix, who was apparently the one who launched that attack, shouted at Chance in surprise. Chance calmly, and simply responds with "Tyranny, huh? Can't say I'm a fan of that." he then throws his sword at the phoenix, who dodges at the last second, and seems more than a little mad about this turn of events. I, of course, try the lightning thing again, successfully hitting the dark dragon with the attack, and obviously hurting the thing quite a bit. The dragon quickly responded to the attack with one of his own... an oddly copycat-like dark lightning bolt, which I didn't even see coming. It hurt like heck, but I wasn't down yet... but... if I can use or control lightning, why can I be hurt by it? Was it simply because it was a dark lightning bolt and not a normal one?