Chapter 3: Might and Magic
#5 of Land of Discord
Now, as I go towards my apartment, I realize the door is not locked. I never leave it unlocked when I am going with Liza or going to any of the red-light districts when I was still single. This is not a friendly neighborhood and I don't want risking any break-in that can either making me losing any of my things or getting my project desecrated and I get a fail.
But shit happens, right? As soon as I go in, I am grabbed to the side and the door slams shut with a 'bang', which potentially wake the neighbors. Nothing happens, though. With that kind of noise somebody will go out and yell at me for being too loud.
Either way, I am trying to break free from this intruder. I try biting him with my newfound sharp teeth. It sinks into his flesh, and believe me, it is not pleasant to taste blood (I'm not a vampire). He made a low-pitched growl and threw me across the room. I hit the wall in the dark, leaving me confused and disoriented. I can't see in the dark, despite of the lights coming from the outside. Yet, my heightened sense of smell helped me find the intruder.
Gods, he's resilient. I hope my self-defense lessons help me. Like what my teacher told me, use your extended body part optimally, even in combat. He taught me how to utilize my new arm-wings to cover the view of my attacker before doing a tail whip and potentially a round kick. Normally, this is an advanced move, but since becoming a wyvern, my body becomes nimble and light, so I learn how to do it.
Not in this situation, though. My self-defense strategy doesn't work. It is a terrible mistake. As I move my wing to block his view, he grabs my hand and lift me over his head. Oh goddamn it, this is not the scene of 'Knightfall', right?
Fortunately, it is not. Rather than breaking my back, he throws me down to the bed and grab my throat. I see my table-lamp beside me and, thinking that I need to see the intruder, I turn on the lamp and see him.
He's the same purple scaled dragon Mythar staring at me. It isn't hard to know him from somewhere. He's still wearing the same hoodie when he was spying at me. So he was following me and got into my apartment when I was distracted with Liza. His yellow eyes are staring me with such adrenaline (due to our fight earlier) that he looks like an angry dragon.
"Whatever you are trying to reach in that nightstand, I suggest you refrain from it, if you don't want to get hurt more than you should," said the intruder calmly, under his short breaths.
"A-alright, alright, I won't." What can I do? His body is pressing against me, and by this point, I have lost. A dragon's body mass is heavier than a wyvern. If I struggle, I won't get out with my bones still perfectly connected to each other.
"Are you being followed?"
"What? You are the one following me!"
"I am trying to make sure you are not getting your ass handed again. Don't try to attack me when I release you. Stay in your place and put your hands behind your back."
As I do what he says, I feel something wrap around my wrists. I am being handcuffed! But I follow his orders, in fear that more fights will be the end of my college struggle. He pulls me up and take me to a nearby chair, but before that, he strips me off my clothes down to my underwear! Shit, not only he is an intruder, but he is trying to rape me?! I never feel so naked in my entire life. Normally I won't do this to Liza, seeing that like the other girls, she has a sudden turn-off when she sees my partially transformed dick and thighs (oh, she saw me when we had dating for three months. Usually it developed into a sex scene, but she had this 'you know what? Nevermind' kind of thing when this accident occurred).
He shoves me down to a chair and move my hands behind the chair. I want to know why he is doing this, but my gut instinct doesn't let me become a stupid bravado that might get me killed. He might be so aroused seeing me stark naked in a light bondage situation when he turns the light on. Oh my gods, I feel so embarrassed.
"As I suspected. It is worse than I thought."
This statement surprises me. Not even a rapist is turned on?! I am living as a complete loser!
"Kiddo, how fast are you turning into a Mythar?"
I can't answer, so the dragon pushes the chair and made it fall backwards. "Answer me!" he said.
"I-I not sure. A month or so?" Overwhelmed with embarrassment and fear, I can't give an exact answer. Truth is, it's half a month that my transformation happens. It happens so fast when I reached 15.
"Not good enough. I know you are changing into a wyvern faster than a normal Mythar," said the intruder. He then grabs a nearby paper and read the content. I gulp when he smiles.
"I see, you are also trying to find the answer," he said. He then pulls me upright again and said, "I like your pursue of truth, but you are gravely wrong. This is not because of a magical intervention, but because of a stronger, mysterious, and dangerous entity called a 'Discord'."
What the hell is he talking about? Nobody ever talks about 'Discord' before. Not even those in the scholarly region. But, seeing that he is not going to kill me, I brave myself and said, "W-what's a Discord?"
"Nothing of your concern, kid. Darn it, where the hell did he put that thing?"
I don't know what the hell is he talking about, somehow, he keeps walking around my apartment like I am keeping something precious. Why he at it, I am trying to find a way to release my bindings without him looking. I must somehow try to grab him after I got loose from the bindings, but goddamn it, this thing's tight! He even ties my wings together! Whoever he is he must've known a lot about arm-wings.
After ransacking my room (but fortunately, leaving my projects alone), he returns to my naked body and said, "Where is your father's book?"
This question surprises me more than I should. My dad's book? I never got any of his things after he died, so why the hell is he asking about it? Is this guy's my father's acquaintance?
"D-dad didn't give me any journals or anything," I replied, with trembling voice. "Please, you gotta let me put something on. This is getting more and more embarrassing."
"Not until I see your transformation, kid."
"Just what are you trying to do to me?"
"Discords are known to activate their powers when they are in distress. Making you naked and embarrassed is one thing. Threatening you? Nah, you won't even have a change to have psychological imbalance. Seeing you fight earlier make me realize that this is something suitable for you."
"That means you are a pervert."
He doesn't heed me and quickly pull out my wallet. I want to stop him but he opens it and sees the photo of me and Liza in there. He smiles and said, "Liza Ward. You are lucky to be her boyfriend, kid, but I bet you never get laid with her."
"What?! No! T-that's not..."
"Don't deny it, kiddo. That half-turned dick won't give anyone a turn-on except some fetishists. Well...I guess I won't be denying it, huh?"
The dragon quickly unbind me and I try my best to get away, but he said, "I know your father, kid. Valstad was a great Mythar."
This stops me at my place. As I turn, he said, "We fought in Raz in '88. He told me about you."
Wait, you mean he is my dad's army buddy? Is this a ploy to get me to reveal my 'Discord' or something? Why the sudden plot twist? Whatever the story goes, this won't gonna end well. I bet there will be another scenario where I am being threatened to be killed and unleash some sort of as now not known power, right?
"But..."
"Nah, it won't be proper to ask you to change completely into a wyvern. I know my Mythar friends have trouble with using their arms to fly and to compensate by only using two fingers. Discords also need time to adapt."
How about if I ask him something?
"Wait. How does a 'discord' work?"
Apparently he turned to me and didn't reply, but after a while, he untied me magically and said, "If I didn't use my ability earlier, someone might be suspicious with the noises from our fights earlier. Anyway, for a wyvern, you really pack one hell of a kick there."
Well, thanks. You have one hell of a strength to fling me across the room like that. Anyway, I sit in silence as he goes out and close the door. Despite of him banging the door like that, it doesn't make any single sound. Apparently his magic can nullify sound, but that can't be possible.
It is not possibly be able to be used by a mere soldier. History never told me that our soldiers who were fighting in Razber had an ability to make a silence barrier. That's one high-tier magic right there! Even if it falls under illusion, there is no way noise can be cancelled completely like that. Not to mention untrained scholars would be on their knees in exhaustion now.
I don't actually want to talk about his encounter now, since I am too exhausted to even talk. I still notice that, despite of our fights earlier, nothing is thrashed (well, maybe except my drawers and my wardrobe. They are thrown everywhere). Still naked, I fall to my bed, quickly falling asleep.
You want to know what happen next? Just be calm until you get to the next chapter, alright? Good night.