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DHW part 4 - run away

Story by Yvaslo1 on SoFurry

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Here is the fourth part of DHW

Here our two heroes are trying to escape the dragon realm but, not without having a little fun along the way while the Watcher make a surprising discovery.

Honnestly this one really pissed me of: I had a really annoying computer crash that erased all the file, hopefully I had a save, but only half ot the file was inside so i had to rewrite the rest. But in the end here it is, ready for you.

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DHW

Part 4

Run away

Allen:

We are flying high in the skies, below me the rude contact of scales, the cold northern wind wipe my face. I feel the heavy weight of the armor I'm wearing, on my back the bow and arrows attached by leather band, attached to my waist the long sword and daggers. It's strange to feel all this stuff on me, I feel like a soldier going to battle. We tried to be the lighter we could, leaving what was useless behind us, like all those so precious gems, another bag of explosive goo we put to a really good and ingenious use with other explosive stuff Tarken had been stocking for some unknown reasons. The only bags we kept were the four full of eggs that they split up: Kyo was carrying two and Tarken the other.

On the back of Tarken I can see the form of one of his servants, his gun in hand, ready to use it at any moment.

Behind us a loud noise makes me watch behind me to see a huge ball of fire rise from the city below, yellow flames rushing toward the night skies with a thick mushroom of smoke. I know exactly what it is and from where it comes. Well where it came, because now, where the impressive mansion of Tarken used to sit proudly there was only an ocean of orange red flames and thick clouds of smoke.

When I concentrate again on what's in front of me I see, in the corner of my eyes the sorrow filled look Tarken throws backward.

  • I'm sorry.

  • Don't be… I already had planned to make it blow up but it still hurt.

  • Wait what did you say?!

  • All this explosive stuff you saw… it was there for good reasons.

  • Damn what have you been working on for those three last years?

  • I'll explain later, for now I have a much better idea in mind.

  • What is it?

  • You'll see in an instant.

He makes a quick sign to the servant on his back, he nod in approval, tie is gun to his back with a leather band and open another bag Tarken insisted to take with him. He takes out a huge cylindrical object and put it on Tarken's back, before revealing a set of three metal like spears that look kind of heavy. With quick gestures he put the three in what I guess is the magazine of this impressive weapon.

He makes us a sign to come closer and when we do throws us the loaded weapon.

When I catch it I almost fall under his weight, but manage to hold on to one of Kyo's spine. He whine in pain as this heavy weight adds itself making him bank on his left.

  • What's this?

  • You'll see, let me load the other and I'll explain you.

I wait, observing this strange weapon. It's made of a large metal cylinder, open on both end, one side slightly smaller. The spears are attached to a weird metal structure protruding from the right side of the weapon, on the left side a metallic aim.

  • Listen carefully! He screams. You put it like this. He put the weapon on his shoulder, eye watching trough the aim, one hand holding a crank, the other firmly wrapped around what I guess is the weapon's trigger. "You charge it like this." He pulls the crank until it makes a complete turn. The first spear enter in the tube with scary sounds. I copy his moves. "Very good man! Now you choose your target… remember the projectiles will go in a straight line but will fall in the end so be really precise. Oh and don't shoot at small targets you'll just miss them, this thing lack a bit of accuracy." I take note of everything. "Now you ready the projectile by pressing this button above the trigger." I obey, with a small sound and some vibration I know it's ready… ready to bring destruction. It's like this weapon was alive in my hand, like a chained beast only waiting to be freed to ravage everything. "Great… now aim and fire!"

I see smoke getting out of the back of his weapon as the projectile pops from the other side, quickly flying away, leaving a trail of greyish smoke. I follow it, thanks to the small light it emits as it dive straight to the ground. Finally it hit what I suppose is a wall, exploding. A ball of fire light up the city as the house is shattered, flames spreading quickly to other building of the mid cast district.

A smile of amusement print itself on my face as I press the trigger. The weapon shake violently in my hands as the rocket takes flight.

  • Lets make them pay! Roars the servant as he fires a second time.

  • It's payback time! I reply before firing.

Soon, too soon, we run out of ammo, but the show is totally worth it. Below us a blazing inferno engulf at least three different district, mostly mid and high cast district, flames covers house in their heated, endlessly burning coat, spraying from building to building, filling the streets with thick smokes as civilians run for their life, screaming, panicking as they are plunged into a burning hell, a ragging inferno. I see some stopping, their bodies covered of flames, melting, their scales liquefied by the unbearable heat, forming only a thick gooey substance, so hot it must burn their leathery skin. Some houses blow up, balls of fire, bursting from the wreckages, spreading the chaos even more. Some other collapse in clouds of dust and sparks, only leaving piles of burning parts.

  • Yes… that's it… burn…. Says a deep dark voice underneath me.

I freeze in chock when I realize who just talked.

………

Kyo:

It feels kind of… I don't Know… good… to make them pay a bit. When I saw the first rocket fired at the city I used to call my home long ago I couldn't suppress the devious grin that spread on my face. When the only thing I could see was fire, I felt something like… like a weird kind of pleasure… like… I… enjoyed the destruction. I felt… delightfully good… kind of relieved. Now… I… just fly above the inferno… savoring what I see, hear and smell… screams of fear and pain, smells of burned flesh and materials, vision of dead bodies consumed by flames, or other living, running for their mediocre life, some trying to extinguish the fire devouring their body.

I lick my lips, saliva starting to accumulate in my mouth.

I… feel strange, kind of stronger, energy filling me even more than before, like… something was swelling inside me… something dreadful.

I… feel different… like a stranger to mine….

Words form in my brain, words that makes me shiver in fear… I… want to keep them inside… but against my will they flow out, of my maws… crystal clear… scary.

What… what did I just said? Those words shakes my whole body as the thing in me… swells even more.

I… feel something leaking from my open maws, it's… warm… and thick. I lower my exes to see blackish droplets falling from my chin. Nervously I make eye contact with Allen… to see the fear on his face.

I enter his mind, trying to be as soft, as I can be… even if I want to see what horrifying him. When I arrive to his eyes… I shiver. Is that really me? Is this beast what i look like? Isn't those human eyes twisting reality? But… deep within… I know it's the truth. I quickly retreat in my own mind… curling on myself in a corner of my spirit, avoiding any contact with the other.

But I know he is watching me with his look that make me cull on myself tighter.

  • Kyo… stop hiding like the whelp you are! He growls.

  • I… can't… stop it…. Please… I… really need your help….

  • No… you know how to deal with it. He answer.

  • Please… I… can't… it's… too much.

  • Fine…! But remember you have a debt.

  • What do you want?

  • I'll tell you later.

………

Allen:

I felt it… he entered my mind… Saw something then rushed out of it just to hide himself behind his mental protection.

I can understand why he did so: the face i see would make anyone run away in fear: Kyo's face has change in a blink of an eye: his eyes became perfectly white, saliva started to leak from his parted maw, more fangs stuffing it as his serpentine tongue brushed along them. But in a minute, something I really hopped to see appear: Those two shiny blue like precious gems eyes… but he avoids me, keeping his head low, like he concentrate on his flight… but I know he is thinking of something else. I can see his lips move slightly, like he was whispering something. I realize a trembling voice, so low I barely hear it comes to my mind. The deep demonic voice of Kaos answer.

I understand… Kyo… for some unknown reason is shifting, changing uncontrollably.

Kaos… like always, send him away. But I can clearly hear Kyo beg for him.

  • Come on… help him. I whisper.

He finally agree. Underneath me I see Kyo's body returning to his normal looking, the only difference being those red crimson eyes.

………

Kaos:

I have to admit it makes a lot of energy… even for me. Damn… I thought Kyo was powerful… more than he imagine himself to be… but… not at this point. Where does all these dark energy comes from? It keeps growing, filling his veins with even more darkness.

I throw a quick glance at the city below… in some ways it reminds me of the old time… where I would have been the one burning this place down… and honestly enjoying it… but now… in my current state of mind I just see… like it… I guess… should be seen: like the chaos it is, the carnage it causes, the lives it takes, ending them in the burning inferno. But surprisingly it seems to release a lot of energy… black energy…. It may come from all the corrupted reduced to ashes. This energy that Kyo's body is… absorbing! What the fuck is happening?

………

Kyo:

Hey… what is he leaving me. I take the control again, gasping as a wave of darkness hits me in the face. I'm breathing hard, struggling to maintain my flight level.

  • What are you…?

  • Shut up and fly you fool!

  • Where do we go? I ask to him and to Tarken that just reached us.

  • Far away. Reply Kaos.

  • Good idea. Approve Tarken.

  • Wait… you forget something?

  • What?

  • The Shield….

  • Fuck.

  • What are you talking about? Ask Allen.

  • Can someone slap him? I ask.

  • Maybe later. We don't have time for this. I'll explain you. Promise Tarken.

We fly away from the burning district, straight toward the center of the city.

………

Allen:

  • You see the silver tower!?

  • Yes.

  • At the top of it… there is a crystal… a big white thing.

  • I see it!

  • Great… it's a huge energy cell.

  • And what is it for?

  • It's a battery made to maintain a spell active.

  • A spell! What kind of spell?

  • It's a very old one… made by one of our best spell caster. It create a force field above the city. Did you noticed the towers in the first wall set?

  • Yes… I think.

  • In every one of them there is a crystal, a way smaller one… just to help guide the force field, giving it his final form and strength.

  • Impressive.

  • Legends says no one managed to ever break it open.

I hear Kaos laughter in my mind.

  • If only he knew the truth.

  • You know I can hear you from here Kaos. Reply Tarken in an angry voice. What I meant was it was never broke by a direct attack.

  • Now he is closer to the truth.

  • I can still hear you!

  • Are you in my mind or what? Ask Kaos as he appear in his smoky form near us.

  • Yes.

  • Fuck… I really should rebuild my defenses.

  • May be a good idea. I confirm.

  • Anyway I know you're talking about the corruption….

  • Not only but mostly, yes.

  • I know they let it enter, pass through our walls, into our great city.

  • Not so great anymore.

  • Sadly for us we lost our pride in this.

  • And even more, dragon. I'm honestly surprised you didn't fell into the corruption like all the other fools of your kind.

  • I… found ways to immune myself.

  • With what?

  • Well… there is a group of dragon… they live far below the city in caves unknown to most dragons or in the canyons of the east or in the depth of the forests… they avoid contact as much as they can… they created artefacts to protect themselves of the corruption. I managed to talk with their chief… we had a bargain, I brought them resources, food, and other things…. They gave me in return protection crystals. With time our bargain evolved, I brought back other thing from those trips… weapons, fighters, even more crystals…. I became the link between two different groups, and even became a group of non-corrupted dragons willing to fight for freedom.

  • Sorry to interrupt you guys but we are close.

Kyo is right, just in front us his the giant tower.

  • How are we gonna destroy it, I don't have any ammo left. Says Tarken's servant.

  • Well… Kyo has quite a bit of energy… let's release a part of it.

I see Kyo smile kind of happily.

  • Do you still have this weapon?

  • Yes.

  • Take it. He order.

I obey, not knowing what he wants to do with it.

  • Kyo it's empty… I have no ammo… and I'm not sure it will be enough anyway.

  • No need of ammo… I have a better idea.

  • I don't like that.

Kyo stay silent while we circle around the tower, searching for a weakness in this steel and obsidian structure made to last forever.

  • Allen be ready!

  • For what?

  • You'll see.

I obey, taking the empty rocket launcher in hand.

  • Aim the ground floor… the pillars on the west side.

  • Ok but with what can I destroy them.

  • Don't resist… you'll see.

At that exact moment Kyo start to glow, a dark aura suround him. Suddenly I feel something… something powerful… something wild… untamed… a force beyond imagination, boiling in my body as it fills my veins. The glow sprays itself to me, from my toes to my fingertips tightly pressed against the cold metal, dark snakes burst from my palms, penetrating the metal like it was butter. The cold grey surface start to change, darkening. In my hands the rocket launchers feels lighter as the darkness takes over every atom of matter. The weapon's form start to shift to, not much but enough for me to see it.

Finally a strange glow radiates from the weapons canon as a ball of pure darkness forms inside.

  • Don't break it! I don't have other like this! Screams Tarken.

  • Don't worry.

  • Allen… ready? Ask Kyo with obvious apprehension.

  • More than ever.

  • Then… it's time to unleash hell on them.

I agree in silence before shouting. The weapon jumps in my hands as the large ball burst free from the canon with a loud whistle. In seconds it crashes on the building, exactly where I planned it to land, closely followed by another fired by Kyo.

The balls crash on the walls and vanish in thousands of particles but nothing happened.

  • It failed!

  • What… I… I don't understand… it should have worked just fine. Whisper Kyo in disbelief.

  • I… I'm as surprised as you. Says Kaos.

We keep our eyes fixated on the buildings wall, waiting for something to happen, but nothing moves.

  • Maybe there is some sort of magical protection.

  • It would make sense

  • So we did all of this for nothing? I ask.

  • It what's it looks like.

But suddenly I see a small light where the projectiles disappeared, a small glow just above the ground.

  • Hey what's that!?

  • I… don't know? Admit Kyo. I don't even know what I have just done exactly.

We observe the small ball forming close to the tower.

  • What can it be?

I realize it seems to attract thing around itself. I'm not sure of what i suppose until I see a torch being swallowed in the ball that suddenly grows.

  • It absorbs things!

  • What have I done?

  • No idea but it's growing.

Soon it's as big as Kyo and sucks in entire buildings, the pavements near it, shattering them in dust before absorbing them and growing again.

In minutes is three time bigger than Kyo, at least, it goes to the fourth or fifth floor of the tower and keeps growing.

I feel a sudden fear… not coming from Kyo….

  • No… it… can't be?!

  • What!? I ask feeling my hand tremble.

  • Run… fly… fly away!

  • What do you mean?

  • Fly for your life it's gonna blow! Screams Kaos in our minds, making our eyes bulging out of our skull with his panicked voice.

In seconds Kyo is flying as fast as he can in the opposite direction, behind us the ball of darkness is pulsating faster and faster, emitting dark waves of energy. Finally, in a bright flash it explode, vanishing once again.

When we watch behind us… nothing has changed, the tower it still there, sitting proudly in the middle of the city, the crystal at his top glowing. The only thing that changed is a deep hole next to it.

  • Well it was less impressive than I imagined.

  • And less effective than I hoped it to be. Admit Tarken. With the size of it I expected… I don't know… something like half of the city destroyed, everything burning, chaos everywhere, or something like this.

  • I'm as disappointed as you. Admitted Kyo. I don't even know what I did.

  • And Kaos screaming at us to get out of there. I never thought I would ever ear a demon fear something.

  • Shut up… it wasn't fear… just apprehension of what this idiot could have done?

  • Admit it you were scared.

  • No… well… just a bit… but not much.

  • I knew it!

  • Guys… I don't want to interrupt you… but something is happening.

We all turn our eyes to the tower to see the crystal at his top making really strong things: the rhythmic pounding of energy became ragged burst and irregular, it speeds up, gaining in strength until I can see part of the walls falling to the ground.

  • Oh… I think I know what it did.

  • Yeah… but this time I'm not joking you should really run away.

  • Sounds like a good plan.

We rush toward the first walls and their gigantic tower that blink randomly. Behind us a scary noise makes us throw a quick glance at the tower just to see it disappear in a blinding flash of light. In front of us the shield break like a glass, opening us a way out but we can't move, we are paralyzed by what's happening. From the shattering tower comes a wave of energy, ravaging everything in its path. But it stops to the first belt of walls, like something is keeping it in there. It breaks, revealing another shield. The walls are shattered to dust but the waves come to a stop.

  • It was… way more powerful than I expected.

  • When I said I imagined everything would burn… I was joking. Mumble Tarken in shock.

  • Can we keep moving? Ask Kaos nervously.

  • Yes… of course.

They barely flapped their wings twice, a brutal and powerful winds gust makes us roll over. I see Kyo trying to fight the impetuous and strong winds but it's no use. It's like they are playing with us, throwing us to the ground before lifting us up at the last moment. Everything is shaking, rolling, banking, I don't know where I am and where we are going. The only thing I'm sure of is we are out of the city; flying south or maybe west.

Finally Kyo start to regain control… but it's too late. I see the top of trees below us… a forest and we are diving with a sharp angle directly in it.

Kyo tries to turn but it's like his wings don't answer him.

  • Brace for impact! He scream just before we penetrate in a green roof of leaves.

………

I wake up, the dim light of the sun heating my skin, but I only see a blur of green. When my vision is clear enough I realize the green come from large leaves. They seems so close to me ÅI could touch them. And in fact I can. Wait what!

I completely awake now, I realize I'm lying on a tree branches, meters above a bushy ground. I move slowly… the branch crack below me.

I manage to walk on it… its quite thick and resistant enough to bear my weight.

  • Now where can Kyo be?

I hear some whine coming from below.

  • Kyo? Is that you?

No one answer.

  • Below you. Speaks a deep voice I'm starting to get used to.

I search and find, partially hidden in a mess of leaves and wood Kyo, lying on a thick tree branch, eyes half closed, not moving, Kaos sitting next to him, watching me.

I manage to reach them.

  • Hi.

  • Hi.

  • How long have you been waiting.

  • I don't know… six or maybe seven hours… perhaps eight…. I don't know… time as no hold on me. Says Kaos.

  • How is he?

  • Not well? He is wounded… pretty badly. You don't feel his pain.

  • Not for now… I'm still a bit dizzy.

  • I understand.

  • And you what are you doing?

  • I'm just helping him dealing with the pain.

  • Thank you.

  • You're welcome.

  • Well… what can we do?

  • Maybe try to descend.

  • Good….

  • Hey everyone's KK up here?!

I recognize Tarken's voice.

  • We are fine… well… pretty fine… can you help us descend?

  • Don't worry for that it won't take long.

I hear the branches creaking below my feet.

  • Three… two… one….

With a loud crack we fall to the ground. Kyo screams in pain as I land flat in the grass.

  • Sorry my friends? Apologize Tarken.

We circle around Kyo, he is lying on the ground, on his back, eyes open, staring at us with a pained expression. I observe him and notice all the cuts and wounds on him, they are not really bad, not enough to be as painful. I finally see what must be the cause of the pain, his left wing is making a strange angle, from a large wound a bone part protrude. When I touch he squeals in pain.

  • It looks bad.

  • It is. Confirm Tarken. With this kind of injuries he can't fly.

  • Fuck. Can you heal him?

  • No… I… don't have the knowledges for that.

  • What! But I thought your energy could heal everything.

  • Yes but it has his limits. I can't heal a broken part, even more in this state, we need a real doctor.

  • In the middle of the wood.

  • Yes.

  • With an army on our ass.

  • Yes.

  • Where the hell are we going to find a doctor?

  • Not here.

  • What can we do?

  • We won't find a doctor here, and if we do we couldn't trust him. Our only chance is to continue on.

  • What! With Kyo in this state! You are not really thinking about it.

  • We have no other choice?

  • He is right.

  • Well… how far away are we from the frontier?

  • One day or two.

  • Of flight?

  • Of walk.

  • You mean we'll have to walk to the mountains, climb to the picks, and walk through the frozen path to just reach the limit of the imperial territory. It makes at least three to five days, and even more to reach the first village… or what's left of it. And I'm not sure we'll fine a doctor there.

  • I know but I don't see any other solution.

  • I can give Kyo some first aid medicine… it won't do much but at least it will suppress the pain for a time. And I may be able to reduce the fracture.

  • Well let's do it.

In minutes we are working on Kyo's broken wing, applying a thick mixture on the wound before forcing his painful wing in a different position before wrapping it in thick white bands that soon turn red.

  • I hope it will do.

  • It will… I'm not a noob in medicine.

  • I hope.

  • Now I'll need some water.

  • In the satchels. Answer Tarken.

He takes a flask of water, empty half of it in a basket, heat it with a crystal before adding a mix of herbs. When it's ready he gives the brew to Kyo who make a disgusted face when he has to swallow it.

  • How do you feel Kyo?

  • Good… for now.

  • Can you walk?

  • I think… yes.

He get on his feet, for some seconds he tremble but hold this position.

  • So… we can go… I guess.

  • Yep.

  • In which direction?

  • South.

  • Great. So… where is the south?

  • Right there. Indicate Tarken.

We follow him through the forest until we cross a road.

  • You choose… we can follow the road or cut by the forest.

  • Lett take the road. I say.

………

Watcher:

In some ways I'm starting to get used to it: to be buried under tones of crap… but what I can't accept it to find myself fucking blown up all the freaking time! Damn don't they have other use for explosive more useful than making them blow in my face!

I'm grumbling insanities you may not want to hear as I dig my way through the burned debris. For some reason all the spell I casted to try and teleport out of this mess failed.

Light! Finally. It may be the first tames in ages I'm happy to see the sunlight.

I can't suppress a smile when I crawl out of the debris, feeling the warmth on my face.

Calmly I walk out of the remains of the house I entered hours ago. When I reach the street I find it covered of grey ashes. The smell of burned flesh fills the air. What happened while I was unconscious.

I need to take a bit of height. I concentrate on the nearest roof but… nothing happen. It's like something is blocking my magic… or maybe something else.

Well… I'll have to do it in the old way. I climb on the wall, quickly reaching the roof. When I discover what awaits me I stay there, mouth open, in shock.

  • Damn… what have they done?

Before my eyes there is only a scene of chaos and destruction, homes seems to have burned or collapsed, streets covered of the same coat of ashes. It goes on for miles, but it's not what's more terrifying. Far, far away from me… where I should be this shiny silver tower I only see emptiness… even worst, where should be the walls surrounding it and a part of the high cast district there is only a mountain of shattered rocks.

I jump from the roof, landing in the ashes and dust.

Slowly I walk to the palace, impregnating myself of this scene of devastation.

When I enter the throne room I'm not surprised to see the two kings staring at a large crystal ball.

I don't have to see it to know a dark red aura radiate from it, the deep voice shaking the room is enough.

  • Ah! Here comes the hero of the day!

I feel the irony in the words.

  • Come closer.

I obey, nervously.

When my eyes fall upon the crystal it takes a crimson red color and start to glow.

A brutal pain twist my body, forcing me to bow in front of the sphere.

  • I asked you one simple thing… one simple mission… and you failed two times! Are you too weak to fight against those two insignificant beings!?

  • They… have more resources than we expected.

  • Too much for you I see.

  • No… they… tricked me….

  • Once again!

  • The first time the human took me by surprise, ii can't deny it…. But the second time when we entered the house there was only fighters waiting to ambush us. This whole thing was a kamikaze trap! They blew up the house with everyone inside!

  • And them!?

  • They had left… long ago.

  • Not too long ago in fact….

  • What do you mean?

  • I think you saw the ravaged shit outside.

  • Yes….

  • They made it….

  • Fuck….

  • I think it was part of their plans, confusing us, distracting us with the chaos while they could flee. Intervene the golden dragon.

  • Ingenious.

  • But… in a way… their actions can be benefited to us.

  • Can you explain Master?

  • I'll do. With what happened last night, they helped us. You see, we can accuse someone else of this mess… I don't know… humans for example. We could pretend it was an organized attack by the human empire.

  • Who would believe that?

  • They would, all those who survived will trust us.

  • And the hate and craving for vengeance will do the rest.

  • You see Watcher… your miserable failure helped us in the end.

  • I'm happy to hear that.

  • You can be… at least a bit.

  • Thank Master.

  • Listen carefully Watcher! You deceived me twice… I give you one last chance. Bring them to me… dead or alive I don't care but bring them back here.

  • Yes Master… it will be done.

  • I hope so….

The invisible force holding me disappear.

  • But remember Watcher… it's your last chance.

  • I'll remember Master… I won't fail this time.

  • Leave now! Hunt them and bring them back before the full moon.

  • It's in one week!

  • Exact… you have one week to bring them to me!

  • It will be done.

I leave the room just to bump into a dragon coming from the entrance.

  • Sorry…. He apologize.

  • It's ok.

  • Are the Kings there?

  • Yes they are? But they are occupied by something else.

  • Oh… it's annoying… I have a really important information to give them.

  • Give it to me… I'll tell them.

  • I'm not sure….

  • Come on.

  • Ok… we… we found them….

  • Them… those who attacked us!?

  • Yes….

  • Where!

  • In the forest… southwest.

  • Great! Thank you.

  • Wait…! We didn't exactly found them… we found traces of them, footprints, scales and even blood.

  • Blood….

  • Yes… we suppose one of them crashed in the woods and that they continued on foot.

  • On foot.

  • Yes… we followed a trail of blood that lead us to the road.

  • Which one?

  • The one leading to the mountain… exactly… the frontier.

  • Great! Warn the guards there they will have some visit… tell them to intercept them and to not let them go. Is that clear.

  • Yes… but… I receive my order from the kings… not from you… as important as you might be.

  • I'm the one in charge of their capture! So obey me as if I was your king! Is that clear!

  • Yes… yes… mister… I didn't know… I… I apologize.

  • Accepted. Now go.

In a second he ran away.

I walk out of the palace… I should leave already, but I want to do something first. I walk to the most devastated part of the city: the tower and its surroundings. I climb over the piles of rocks that were some time ago walls to discover the emptiness of the aera…. It's like everything here had suddenly disappeared, erased… like it never had existed.

I walk in this emptiness until I reach were was this tower before. Now there is only rock, twisted steel and burned things. I even find the immense crystal, buried under all this crap. The white surface is so bright i have trouble watching it directly. I touch it… its cold… lifeless.

Just by curiosity I knock it… it sounds empty.

But surprisingly something… or someone knock back. I reach back in surprise but knock another time.

The thing answer me.

I'm asking myself questions. Did it broke and someone is trapped under it. Is it a bad joke?

My curiosity is too immense… I have to know.

I take my sword and violently slams it against the crystal. It bumps on it without even scratching it. I try again, and again, hitting even harder every time until a crack appear.

With all my strength I give a last hit. The crack spray on the white surface until the crystal breaks.

What I discover beneath the thick white matter is so incredible, so strange, so illogic, so… so weird I freeze in shock, eye wide ope… staring at what lies in front of me.

How the fuck did it land in there?

………

Kyo:

My paws are aching quite a lot… perhaps even more than this damn wing. We have been walking for hours. How many? I don't know… five, or maybe six… even more perhaps. But in the end… it don't look like we even walked a mile, the mountain are still the same size, small points in the distance, barely visible in the mist.

`- How do you feel Kyo? Ask Allen.

  • I'm fine… don't worry.

His worried expression reminds me we had to stop three times to change the bandages that were covered in my blood.

But… at least… the bleeding stopped.

I hate long walks like this, i honestly prefer flying for hours, even in storm more than to stay on the ground to travel.

After what i guess is the seventh or eighth hour of this non ending walk i'm grumbling under my breath, my paws aches painfully now, even my broken wing seems insignificant now.

  • What's wrong Kyo?

  • I think his paws are aching. Am I right?

I just growl in answer.

  • I'm right.

  • How can you bear this?

Tarken comes to a stop and shows me one of his paw.

I don't understand.

  • Touch it.

I obey, the contact of thick, hard scales surprise me. Normally, scales there are more tender, more soft to the touch. I feel his paw rub against mine, it tickles.

  • You are so soft there… very sensitive.

I purr in pleasure as his claws rub so slowly on my scales.

  • What happened to yours?

  • Lot of things….

  • Can you tell me?

  • Only if we keep walking.

  • Fine.

  • The first thing is that I don't always have the opportunity to fly every time i go on a trip, sometime i have heavy stuff to carry or go into places where a flying dragon cannot fit so i had to use my paws, and with time and lot of scratches they strengthened. But that's not all… I had… a little accident when I was only a child… I had them burned pretty badly… it reached the nerves and damaged them. Since this day I feel almost nothing down there.

  • That's quite sad.

  • I live with it.

  • It must be really hard to not feel a thing.

  • Yes… sometime. When we touched each other… I had to imagine.

  • I see.

With those new thought in mind we continue. I feel sorrow building inside of me as I realize we all have our own pain, either physical or mental.

Finally, just before the sun vanishes below the horizon I see something that makes me want to scream in pure joy. In front of us, not too far away lies the long mountain chain that mark the end of our territory.

  • You see it wasn't too hard.

  • Yes… but… they seemed so far away an hour ago.

… Kyo… Kyo… we were walking on the side of a hill, you only saw the top.

  • It makes sense

I notice a village between us and the mountain.

  • I think we will have to avoid it.

  • Why?

  • Kyo… do I have to remind you they are probably searching us in all the realm.

  • I know… but… I don't see a single guard… maybe we could….

  • No.

  • I dreamed of a good bed.

  • Not for this time.

  • No. He is right… there isn't a single guard there. Says Kaos, surprising all of us. You can stop there and have some rest.

  • But….

  • If they were on our back we would be running for our lives now. I think we have quite a bit of advance on them.

  • Well… that's a good new but you forgot a detail.

  • What is it?

  • How do we pay? I don't have a single coin on me.

  • I… may have a solution. Announce Allen just before reveling a small bag hidden in the eggs and opening it, revealing a handful of shiny multicolor gems.

  • Allen… I love you! I scream in joy.

  • Let me count it before screaming victory.

After a few sec Tarken announce with a smile.

  • We have more than enough.

So, like normal people would do we walk to the village. It's not hard to notice a big sign announcing "The coughing pony Tavern".

  • Sounds strange. Comments Allen.

  • Don't care if they have somewhere to sleep.

We enter, the main room is almost empty except for three customers speaking with low voice.

  • Gentleman's what can I do for you?

  • Do you have free rooms?

  • Of course? I must have one. For two?

  • Yes.

  • And them? If you want we have a special place for those of their kind.

  • No… I prefer to have them close to me. We're never sure of what they are capable of. I answer, adopting a suspicious expression.

  • As you wish. He put a key in front of him. "Payment now, dinner at eight, breakfast tomorrow at seven".

  • Sounds good to me.

  • As long as you keep the room clean and leave before ten tomorrow its ok.

  • Fine.

  • Can we pay you in gems?

  • Of course… show me what you've got.

He examine quickly the gems and take six of them.

When I want to take the key he grabs my paw.

  • When I say I want the room clean I really mean it. If I find it dirty tomorrow you're really gonna suffer.

  • What do you mean by dirty?

  • Don't know… things like pee or poop out of the toilets.

  • That's growth.

  • Don't laugh I had a couple of scat dragons six month ago, they ruined a room, the smell stick to the room for three week.

  • That's nasty.

  • And it also apply to cum and, in your case, blood.

  • Blood?

  • Your wing is bleeding… quite badly.

  • Fuck.

  • There is a doctor in the village if you….

  • Someone called me?

An old green dragon walk to us, a benevolent smile on his face.

  • Let me examine this wound.

  • Ok….

He slowly takes out the bands and reveal the bleeding wound.

  • Hmmm… broken. How did you do that?

  • An accident, a really idiot one.

  • Explain yourself.

  • I… crashed into a forest.

  • When?

  • This morning.

  • Extend your wing please.

  • Can't… it… hurts.

  • Come on… don't be a child.

I obey, pain, like electrical shocks shakes my body.

  • You see it wasn't too hard.

  • It hurts.

  • Don't worry… it won't be long. You can you come here and hold his wing in place.

Tarken obey and grab my wing, trying to be gentle.

  • Ok… at three I'm goona put the bone back in place.

I feel all my muscles tense.

  • One….

A rippling pain tears my inside as, with a loud crack the bone moves back in his original place. My body spasm while I scream in sheer pain.

  • It's done. I'm gomna heal it a bit then you'll be good to go.

  • Fine.

I feel a sudden warmth invade my body as he heals the wound.

  • There we go.

I flap my wings a few time, it still ache quite a bit.

  • Don't use it for a week and you'll be ablo to fly like before.

  • Thanks… I own you one.

  • It was my pleasure to help.

He leaves and we go to our room.

We stay inside for a moment, talking and hugging.

When dinner time comes we leaves Allen and Kyle in the room while we go to the main room.

While we devoured our meal we talk.

  • You know I have a lot of things I want to do with you in mind.

  • Like what?

That's a secret.

  • Come on… tell me.

  • Well… I'd like to try again in your slit.

  • I don't know… it still remember your last time. Tell me another one.

  • Fine… I'd really like to mark you… and to be marked.

  • I don't know… I'm not very fond of that thing. I… talked of that with them… when they were… alive… I always refused.

  • You don't want to feel it?

  • It feels like I'm losing my freedom.

  • Ok then… we will wait for this one.

  • What else do you have in store?

  • I keep that for later. Let's talk of something else.

  • What do you want to talk about?

  • Let's keep it dirty. I'd really like to know when your first release was?

  • Really? Ok…. I was twelve… or thirteen… It was in the orphanage.

  • The what!?

I ignore him and continue.

  • I woke up one day with my cock hard, protruding from my slit like never before. It was so sensitive and covered of fluids. For the first time of my life I felt the need to release. It annoyed me for all the day… I had troubles staying concentrate in classes. It quickly became unbearable so… when one of the free time came I just jumped on a random mate, pinned him to the ground and just let my lust filled mind do the rest. I think I trusted and rubbed myself along his scales until I came.

  • Dirty drake.

  • Anyway… I was sent to the isolation chamber for three days. You know what I did of those three days?

  • I think I have an idea but… please… keep going.

  • I discovered myself, masturbated with my paws or tail, and sucked my cock… my first taste of cum… I even tried to stick my tail inside my ass. After that I only craved for more. For the following month I had been the one making all the others discover the many pleasures of mating, helping them in their first release. I sucked each and every one of them, and bred them as much as I was bred by them. I loved it. It was one of the best time of my entire life. It became a real orgy there. There was almost all the time two males fucking each other's brain out or swallowing a cock. There was no privacy back then so it was an endless porn show everyone in this part of the orphanage was implicated in, from the elders that had fifteen or sixteen to the youngest that barely had ten. And sometime some really dirty and intolerable thins happened. One day I found a young dragon curled in a tight ball in a dark corner of the bathroom, he had cuts everywhere and was bleeding. At first I thought he had just be bitten by elders… that happened sometimes. But it was more disgusting than that. I discovered that he wasn't only bitten but also raped by a bigger dragon by the look of it. All the wounds on his body were claws or bites marks. I brought him to the nurse. It took time and a lot of patience but he finally talked to me. Well… at first he just said a few words when I asked him question. He told me that an older drake attacked him when he had just finished showering and raped him before leaving him there. I decided to stay with him while he was recovering, feeding him, keeping an eye on his wounds as he slowly healed. One day, just when I was about to leave he told me… everything, described him precisely. You know what's the last thing he told me?

  • No.

  • It's all your fault.

  • He was right.

  • I know… and I knew it back then.

  • So… Who attacked this poor dragon?

  • An older drake I knew… he was a friend of mine. He was two years older than me but when I found him it didn't made a difference. I took him by surprise and slammed him in a wall. I… had one paw around his neck and the other on his cock, ready to snap it from his body. At first I was just horny and even made jokes about it… but when I told him I was coming for the child he raped his tone changed. He yelled at me that wasn't my business and that he had the right to do what he wanted to do. In some ways he was right but in the state of mind I was I didn't care. I gripped his cock harder and started to pull at it. He couldn't scream… I was strangulating him… he couldn't breathe. I warned him that if I saw him do this kind of things once again he'll suffer. I could see the fear in his eyes when he nodded in agreement. When I let go he was barely awake. I realized I had blood on my paws… I had teared through his flesh. I left him here, bleeding, panting hard, and trying to catch his breath desperately.

  • Damn… that's nasty.

  • I know.

  • What did you do after that?

  • I ran away but was catched by one of the nurse that someone had called. I had to explain myself with the elders but they did nothing. After that I… I wasn't as much engaged in the orgies that took places in our dorm room… I even was the one calming them down, avoiding argument and making sure no search thing could happen again. But… it had a really bad side effect… I… I was… hornier than ever… my balls were painful because of the amount of seed inside. Everyone asked me why I didn't wanted to release it. I… didn't know what to answer. But, time passed and I just kept becoming even more pent up until… I had one of the most wanted right… I… was allowed in the female only part of the orphanage.

  • So that's how you had your first female.

  • My… first and only female.

  • You mean….

  • Yes.

  • Come on… tell me more.

  • It's my pleasure to count my story. So I was allowed to enter… at the worst moment ever… in the middle of their heat cycle. The smell was so enticing… but all females walked away when they saw me or just ignored me. Only she came to me… we… were like two stranger to each other, we sniffed each other, licked and touched the other's body until we started to kiss then… we mated in front of everyone. All the girls were shocked but we didn't care. I stayed with her for a week, a week we put to good use to know each other deeply… and of course to mate even more.

  • How long did it took you to make her accept that you liked males… at least as much as her?

  • Took me month and long… long times of negotiation but she finally accepted… and… even asked him to breed me as hard and wild as he could.

  • A really interesting story… but one detail intrigate me.

  • What is it?

  • You talked of an orphanage… does it mean you are….

  • An orphan? Yes… I lost my parents long ago?

  • What happened to them?

  • Dead… killed.

  • God… I'm sorry.

  • Don't be… I didn't kept lot of good memories of them… didn't even cried when I learned the news of their death.

  • Why are you like that with them? Don't you love them?

  • I do… but have too much hatred inside.

  • Hatred! For what?

  • I… also lost my younger brother before they died, they let the guards take him away from us… from me. I never forgave them for that.

  • I understand.

We finish our meals and go back to our room to find the two humans eating and chatting under the eye of Kaos.

We go on our bed and slowly start to kiss like two lovers would do. But slowly everything become more hot, our kisses more deep and passionate, our touches more sensual. I know where this small game is going and I love it.

  • You know what I want to do now?

Before I can even open my mouth a small projectile fly between us with a small hiss, scratches my scales before landing in a wall.

I tremble when I slowly turn my head to the side to discover Allen, a small crossbow in hand aiming at me with an angry look.

  • Don't even think about is.

  • Ok….

  • If I hear a single moan during the night I can promise you it will be your last time. Is that clear.

  • Crystal clear.

  • Good… now give me back the bolt and good night.

  • Ok.

When I take the so small bolt in hand I can't stop from shivering when I notice the black pointed tip.

  • Please… don't shoot one of these on me. They… they are meant to kill dragons.

  • What!?

  • The black arrows. Mumble Tarken in fear.

  • Wait… you are scared of this!

  • Yes… it's a very special type of arrow made to penetrate dragon scales. It's why the imperials dragon wears armors too.

  • How can is penetrate scales… they are so thick and this arrow look so… tiny and weak in comparison.

  • It's the tip… it's made of black steel.

  • Black steel… never heard of that before.

  • It's a very rare material you only find in the depth of earth, often only dwarves dare to go so deep just for them. It's so rare and expensive that they rather use alloys containing a bit of black steel than using the pure metal.

  • Interesting but… how can it…?

  • I don't know, some says it come from an ancient magic impregnating the steel, other says it's because of some characteristics… it's not very clear. But what it does is known by every dragon. It can pass through scales and… even worst prevent us from healing.

  • My god… I'm sorry Kyo.

  • Don't be… or maybe just a bit… at least now you know.

  • Thanks for the extra knowledges I guess and… good night.

  • Good night_ sleep well.

  • Mood breaker. Grumble Tarken.

………

It must be midnight or something close to it when I'm awaken by a very annoying feeling, like someone was tickling me.

I notice the green, slightly glowing eyes of my friend but growls.

  • What do you want?

  • You know the answer.

  • Tarken… no… not tonight.

  • Come on… don't tell me you fear a human.

  • He is really capable of doing what he said he would do to me.

  • Nonsense… come on… they're sleeping… they won't hear a damn sound.

  • Ok then….

  • What do you want to do?

  • Something quick.

`- You're really annoying.

  • Fine…. What do you want to do?

  • I leave you the choice.

  • Honestly… I'd like to try it again.

  • Try what?

  • Taking me… in the slit.

  • Rea… really….

  • Yes… but please be slow… it still ache quite a bit.

  • I'll be gentle… I promise.

  • Fine… then… let's get started shall we?

Slowly, sensually, we resume what we were doing hours ago, kissing, our tongue coiling, exploring the other's mow as our saliva mixes and leaks from the side of our maw. Soon… too soon I feel something poking around my back but I stay silent… after all… I want it to.

I moan when I feel it rubbing along both my tailhole and slit, stirring my cock.

  • Do it. I whisper between two long kisses.

Slowly… gently… more than the last time he enters me, his cocks feels so slicks and penetrate me with ease. The bastard is already wet, his cock sliding inside of me. He must have been lubing himself before. Did he brought some lube with him?

I don't know how to feel… on one side I want to moan from the pleasure of it… but on the other side I want to whine in pain when my slit is parted open. But… this time… he don't try to put all his cock inside me, he stays like this, his wet tips buried inside me, waiting for me to adapt to his no so impressive girth. When I give him the go ahead he slowly penetrate further, wiggling his hips to try and make his cocks hit all the pleasurable spots on its way. It still feels weird to have a cock that's not mine in my slit but… it also feels so good.

He slowly pulls out until only the tip is remaining and then, trust a tad bit harder, driving his cock all the way to the knots in me.

With slow motions he mates me, his cock going in and out of me in rhythm, making us both moan and grunt in pleasure. It's so delightfully good to feel his tips hitting my prostate and brushing along my flaccid cock at the same time. I'm dripping precum in my own slit, filling it with a warmth I never felt before.

It feels good… to good… I… won't last long… and he to.

With one final trust his knots enters me, spreading both all before, unleashing a torrent of semen inside me. His cock throbs before every gush. The feeling of warm gooey semen in me is enough to make me his my own orgasm. I make kind of a weird muffed moan before erupting in my own slit. Gush after gush of seed I'm filled to the brim, my slit is bloating with this liquid warmth, cum gushing out around his knot. When he pulls out… I'm not even finished and he ends with a belly covered of my semen. I'm satisfied, my body numb by the sheer pleasure it gave me, my mind clouded by my own lust.

  • Do you want me to clean you? Ask Tarken.

  • Yes…. I answer before falling asleep, spent and more satisfied than ever before.

………

I brutally wake up in pain, blinded by the brutal flow of light that enter my still sleepy eyes. I don't know what's happening but what I'm sure of is that I received a hard shove in the private parts. I whine in pain. When I see what the cause of this pain I stay there… in shock. They are all watching me, except for Tarken, with, on their faces angry looks. I see on Kaos's face that if, at this precise moment he had a body he would have used it to tear me apart.

I feel… something on my… it's wet and stick to my scales like glue. When I take a quick glance at my genitals it's to see them covered of fresh cum, my cock, hard as steel protruding from my slit, covered of white streaks.

  • I thought you would clean that. I growl to tarken's attention.

  • There was too much and… I was feeling sleepy to and I didn't expected you to have a morning wood that big.

  • Kyo… I asked is that too hard for you to keep your cock inside for more than a Day?

  • It's not my fault… he woke me up in the middle of the night, craving for sex.

  • Why did you accepted?

  • I… I….

  • Admit it you wanted it.

  • Yes.

  • Kyo S can understand that three years without a release is long… very long… but I ask you only one simple thing.

  • Which is?

  • Can you keep your urges at bay for one week?

  • One week! It's… a very long time.

  • I know my friend but please… do that for me. I don't want my dragon to be a sex craving beast.

  • I'll try.

  • It also work for you Tarken.

  • Hey I did nothing.

  • You're as horny as him, perhaps even more. Do I have to remind you how many times you masturbated or asked for any kind of help for release?

  • No don't.

  • Please do.

  • Ten time.

  • My goodness. Per week?

  • No daily.

  • It's… it's a lot.

  • Ok… ok… I'll do.

  • Great.

  • Why are you staring at me like that? I ask to Kaos.

  • Because I hate your behavior.

  • Hmmm… I see someone is a bit frustrated.

  • No I'm not. I just can't bear your slutty behavior anymore.

  • Like I said you are frustrated.

  • No.

  • Come on Kaos… I've seen plenty of males, I know how to recognize a frustrated one.

  • I'm not frustrated… well… only a bit.

  • Even demons have needs.

  • I do… but what really makes me want to rip your throat apart is your slutty behavior.

  • What do you mean by that?

  • Oh you know what I'm talking about. I hate your submissive nature.

  • What did you said!

  • You heard me perfectly.

  • I guess you are a more dominant one.

  • Yes. I took males before but I never was the one begging to be mounted like this slut does.

  • Don't ever call me like this once again.

  • Only truth hurts Kyo. A cock slut that's all you are.

  • I told you to never call me like that. I roared.

………

Allen:

I can't believe what's happening. In front of me, the smoke composing Kaos' body seems to have slightly disappeared when his satisfied grin became a terrified expression. In front of him Kyo is standing, fang barred, eyes glowing with a fears glow of pure hatred. He seems to have grown… like a lot, he looks bigger, stronger, more dangerous now.

  • Only truth hurts… isn't that what you said. You want to know why I'm so slutty. Watch me carefully and tell me what you see now.

  • An… Alpha.

  • Yeah… right… an Alpha… and I suppose you know what it means.

Kaos nods in fear, making a few steps backward.

  • Come on say it.

He stay silent.

  • Say it you little insignificant whelp.

I'm shocked by what I hear. I never imagined Kyo could be like that.

  • A… dominant dragon.

  • And you know what it means to have to deal with that constantly?

  • Everyone obeying like little pets to you.

  • Exactly. Now do you understand why I like to be the submissive one when it comes to mating?

Kaos want to answer but the words stuck themselves in his throat.

  • Because it's my only relief time you stupid… insignificant shit.

………

Kyo:

I hate to show this side of me. I always tried, since my hatch day to keep it underneath. I never wanted this but it's like universe don't care and I was blessed, or cursed with this gift.

  • Woah… Kyo… I never expected you to be… like that.

  • And I never expected I would ever show it to you.

  • Why?

  • Because I hate it.

  • You hate it. Man it's so cool.

  • You think.

  • Yes. Do every dragon obey to you?

  • Yes.

  • Can you show me?

  • I don't want to use it. I'm not like that.

  • Kyo… I don't ask you to submit any dragon you see… just to show me how it works.

  • There is nothing impressive. They just feel my presence and obey in consequence.

  • I see. But… why don't you want to use it?

  • Because it's not something I like to do.

  • I understand. It could be very useful sometime.

  • If it's only sometime it's good for me.

We go in the restaurant room, realizing we don't have a lot of time.

  • You could have at least cleaned yourself. Growl the barman when he notice the cum on me.

  • Don't worry your room is clean. I'm the only one dirty here.

  • I hope so.

After lunch we live, not without buying some food to a nearby merchant.

At the end of the day we reached the mountain… well… the bottom of it.

In front of us a large stone stair climbing along the side of the mountains.

  • I forgot about that. I admit.

We start to climb, its long and exhaustion but we manage to reach the top.

From there we see the large ancestral bridge above a deep canyon lost in the white mist. The ancestral stone made bridge his so majestic, linking two mountain picks, the large and impressive pillars sustaining his massive weight, the thousands and thousands or runes on the stone, signature of those who built it, counting an ancient story forgotten by all. Around that giant structure was build a strange but beautiful shiny metal structure. It's as much a piece of art as a way to help staying up. With the centuries of use it's normal that it starts to bow under the weight of years.

  • It's magnificent.

  • I know.

I notice Tarken turning brutally to his left.

  • Hey where are you going?

  • Taking the way around.

  • The way a… there is no other way.

  • I know one.

  • I'm kind of suspicious about this. Why would we leave the high road… no one know we are here.

  • We have no clue about that.

  • Kyo… he is right. Whisper Kaos in my mind.

  • If you say so.

We take a small road I didn't noticed at first that descend in the canyon. It's not an easy part, the road is barely large enough for us, the ground is frozen below our feet, we have to dig our claws in it to not slip on the ice.

Finally we are in the place called "the dead zone". It wears this name so perfectly… there is nothing except snow, ice and rocks. No animals or any other sign of life, just this blinding white snow.

We walk in this infinity of white for a long… long… very long time, long enough for the night to fall. It's now freezing cold, the temperature must be well below zero degrees and a cold wind started to blow, strengthening quickly. A thin snow start to fall, flying in every directions, wiping our faces.

I'm fed up of this non ending walking in an unknown direction. I try to call Tarken but, either he ignore me or the winds covers my words.

  • Hold on I have an idea.

I hear the noise of a gun's barrel when loaded.

  • You're not gonna….

  • Don't worry… just catch his attention.

He aims and shout, the loud noise fills my ears with a hiss. Tarken turn around in an instant, fangs barred, ready to fight.

  • What!

  • Where are we going?

  • I know where I'm going… just keep following me.

  • Where exactly?

  • I know a secret passage.

  • You mean… the secret passage! Screams Kaos.

  • Yes.

  • Are you serious! It's at least two hours away from here.

  • Two hours! We can't do that… not now.

  • Why not?

  • Tarken open your eyes we are all dead tired, cold and we can barely see where we're going.

  • I told you just follow me.

  • I won't not to risk our lives in this fucking dead land.

  • Well where else do you want to go?

  • I saw a cave not too far from here.

  • What do you mean exactly by not too far?

  • Closer than this secret passage.

  • You just piss me of.

  • What's wrong with you?!

  • Nothing… just keep going.

  • No.

  • Then stay there and die if you want.

I jump in front of him, blocking his way.

  • Then you leave me the eggs.

  • Go fuck yourself. I won't risk losing everything now.

  • You leave them here you stupide empty headed dragon.

  • Go fuck your mother, where she is she won't mind.

  • Don't say a word.

Allen, feeling that something is building up jump of my back just after untying the satchels, quickly followed by Kyle.

When I'm free of my moves I jump… well we jump at the exact same time. We roll in the snow, clawing at the other, trying to take advantage on the other. When it ends I'm on top of him, clutching him tightly in between my paws, panting hard, growling. I feel the blow coming and do something I never expect to do. I roar, putting all my strength in it. It echoes through the whole canyon as Tarken seems to calm down.

  • Now we do as I decided.

  • Ok… fine. He mumble.

We go in the opposite direction. In less than an hour we reached it, around us the blizzard is already strong, surrounding us with snow and powerful winds. I can barely see my own paws in this tempest of white. When we reach it ice as formed on my wings and palms, trapping them in in a freeze cocoon. It takes me several minutes to break it, exposing my frozen scales to the element.

  • Damn… it's cold.

We are too tired to even make a fire so we just lie on the cold stone of the cave, Allen lying against my belly and me curling around him to protect him from the cold.

The two humans quickly fall asleep. I want to join them but something is keeping me up. I notice Tarken is still awake to.

  • Tarken.

He only make a muffed snort in response.

  • I'm sorry for what happened.

  • Don't be. I should…. If you had let me continue we would be dead, lost outside.

  • No… I'm just sorry of having to use my influence on you.

  • Don't be… really… don't. You took the best decision.

  • I don't understand what passed through your mind.

  • I don't want to talk about it.

We stay silent for a moment.

  • Kyo. Is there something you're hiding me?

  • Why are you asking?

  • Because I want to know.

  • I was… away that's all.

  • That's what everyone kept telling me for the last three years. I'm tired of all this mystery. Tell me the truth Kyo. You left three years ago and… when you came back… I don't know… It was like you had lost something.

  • I was in prison Tarken that's why I disappeared.

  • How did you manage to get yourself in jailed?

I tell him everything, my need of money to pay the rent and other things, the bargain I had to make with one of the clans. A bargain I wasn't able to fulfil. The job I took as servant for a high cast family… the good time I had with their older son then how it went so wrong. The younger's offer… the rape… and… what happened after.

  • He awoke?

  • Yes… in full force.

  • Don't be mad at him for that. I would have made something even worst. He just avenged you, made them pay for this humiliation.

  • You think?

  • More than that, I'm sure of it.

  • I believe you.

  • What happened after?

  • I was judged a week after. It took almost a month to have the final decision. I'm surprised you didn't heard a single word about it. Everyone was talking about it, article were written everywhere.

  • I wasn't in town at the time and I'm not really fond of newspapers. Also I'm not talking that much with other mid and high cast.

  • Always on your own.

  • Always. Please tell me.

  • It was really surprising, there was a lot of witnesses that said different versions of the story. It was hard to know what was true and what were lies. I told them my version. At first they didn't believed a single word. Well… until two person changed everything. One of them… was at the party to. I remember him, he was the only one lucid. He tried to warn me but the other send him away, menacing to use him as their bitch. He was the only one unharmed. When he finished I saw all the other watching away nervously. After came the older brother of the one I killed. It was him that managed to neutralize me. And you know what he asked? He asked the judges to make analyzes on everyone. They found dry cum streaks in my anus, made blood analyze on everyone, found the drug's bottle, half empty, and some broken syringes and needles. The one that talked in my favor even gave the judges his dose, contained in a large glass tube. When just a small droplet felt on a paper I had to cover my nostrils. The smell was to enticing, to present we had to leave the room and could only continue the next morning. After a few other days they told us the truth, admitted everything. It didn't save me but at least I avoided death. I was condemned to ten years of jail for murder and multiple murder trials. But I wasn't the only one to be blamed. They all ended up in jail for more or less long time, the shorter being six month and the longer seven years, for rape in organized group and illegal product consuming.

  • It's quite a lot for something you're not even responsible of.

  • I was partially responsible… it's already enough.

  • And… after?

  • After three years a messenger came to see me, offering me freedom, everything against me abandoned and what I wanted in exchange of a small service: going in the human realm and coming back in time with a secret load. After you know what happened.

  • Kyo… why have you done that.

  • Done what?

  • Accepting this job, the bargain with the clan. You could have come to me I'd have given you all the money you needed, I have way to much for me and if you wanted a job I could have gave you one, a roof above your head, delicious meals to fill your belly and gallons of cum ready for you.

  • Dirty drake.

  • I'm serious Kyo. My doors were always open to you… the only think I'd ask you was to become my mate… and if you had wanted it I'd accept them to.

  • They wouldn't have appreciated your offer. Well he….

  • I think he would. There would have been enough holes for everyone.

  • Thanks for the offer but you know I'd refuse.

  • Sadly….

  • It don't matter anymore… they are dead… gone forever.

  • Do they miss you?

  • Yes… a lot.

  • Do you want to cry?

  • Y… yes….

  • Do it if you need. You don't have to hold it inside.

I hate to show my weakness but he is right. I didn't even had time to cry all those painful emotion ripping out my body.

I already opened myself so much to him, told him almost all the darkest parts of my life…. Before I can even finish my thought tears flows out omly eyes like salty waterfalls.

I fall asleep, my eyes sore from this long cryinh.

………

The sun isn't even pointing at the horizon when we lives the cave. The blizzard has been really strong, a thick coat of fresh snow covers everything, hiding the rock and the ice below meters of soft whiteness. We have some trouble to walk, with every step we dig through the snow.

Finally, after three hours of walk we reach a cave partially hidden behind a curtain of dead plants. It looks natural until, when I walk onto a rock that moves a bit, a small light illuminate the cave.

  • Looks nice.

It rapidly transform in a tunnel dig through hard stone. It look ancient but in a good state.

But, brutally it ends, in front of, inches away from my snout a large rock block the tunnel, it looks like a wall, like the tunnel was never ended.

  • It's a dead end.

  • I'm not so sure about it.

  • Maybe but I say a big rock in the way it's a dead end.

  • No it's not.

  • Well… in that case show me how you want us to go further.

He takes the lead of the group and start to search the wall around the rock blocking our way. I see him press several rocks but nothing happen.

  • Tarken… maybe a bit higher. Says Kaos with obvious amusement

Tarken growls but lift his head and press on another rock, this one slightly protruding from the wall.

With a loud noise the massive rocks moves to the side, revealing a complex system of chain, pistons and cranks.

  • Our ancestors were good at hiding things to us.

  • Impressive.

We make a few steps before emerging of the tunnel.

  • Gentleman's welcome to the other side.

………

Watcher:

  • What! Are you telling me you saw nothing!?

  • Yes sir… no one came here for the last three days.

  • They must be there!

  • I don't know who you are talking about but they are not there. You can check the registers if you want.

  • We will do that.

They are right, in the long, very long register, in front of the last three days dates there are no name.

  • I think they must be in the valley.

  • We already checked.

  • So they can be hiding in the mountain or in the canyon.

  • Isn't it a death zone?

  • It is… but with the good training and some resources you can survive a few days there. They are lot of hidings there.

  • Interesting.

  • But I'm not sure they could have done it. We had severe weather condition for the last few days, important snowfalls, thick fogs, freezing rains and even blizzard last night.

  • Did a messenger came two or three days ago? Ask a high pitched voice behind me.

  • No… like I said… no one came here.

  • Did you heard something? Ask the same childish voice.

  • Like what?

  • Strange sounds or something like that.

  • Yeah… I think I heard something like that last night… but I can't be sure… the blizzard was masking everything.

  • What did you heard?

  • Something like a gunfire and… a roar…. But I'm not sure.

  • And… I… I saw something… yesterday… Bet there was fog… I could barely see my paws so.

  • Tell us.

  • It was a form that flew just over the bridge… it was descending quickly… I think it crashed in the canyon.

  • What was it looking like?

  • A dragon… I think.

  • Must be the messenger.

  • Fuck. Everyone decided to fail miserably today!

  • Is there another way to enter the human realm? Ask the other voice.

  • No.

I can't believe it. Everything fails today. I really have to relieve all this tension that kept building up since our arrival in this dead, frozen land and those incompetent gurds are just the perfect this to relieve my rage on.

In a few well-placed strikes of my sword they are lying on the ground in their own blood, red liquid gushing from deep and deadly wounds.

  • My god…. Mumble the voice.

  • Shut up. Don't want to hear a single word.

  • Why? They did nothing to you.

  • They annoyed me. And if you keep talking you're gonna join them.

He says nothing while the edge of my sword cuts through dead flesh, reducing the bodies to nothingness.

  • I'm gonna throw up. He mumble before walking away"

When I'm finished I find him a few meters away, shaking, panting in front of a puddle of vomit.

I observe him for a moment, my eyes slowly drifting to the collar around his neck and the pendant attached to it; a small crystal, slightly pulsating.

I keep asking myself how it all happened.

I remember….

………

Three days ago:

I… can't believe my eyes, can't believe what I see. It… it's impossible.

In front of me… in the debris of the crystal, curled on itself, shivering in fear, watching my sword with those terror filled ice blue eyes.

  • Can you put down your sword… please? He asks with a trembling voice.

  • Yes….

  • Thanks.

  • Are you… ok?

  • Yes… pretty much.

  • What were you doing in there?

  • Working.

  • Ok….

  • Where… where art he others?

  • The others?

  • I… I wasn't alone.

  • Sorry no one else survived.

  • Survived what?

  • Someone attacked the city, destroyed the tower and ravaged everything around it.

He stay silent.

  • Can you walk?

  • I think… yes.

He slowly rise on all four. I have the time to observe him, his white scales, his thin curved claws, the small horns protruding from the back of his head. I notice something strange: in this ocean of purity is a thing surprising there: scars, scars of a deep tone, almost black.

I don't ask him where they come from… I prefer let him deal with the shock of the discovery of the scene of destruction around us.

  • My gods… what happened?

  • Don't really know.

We stay silent for a long moment.

  • Can I ask you a question?

  • Yes… of course.

  • What were you doing there?

  • Told you… I was working.

  • Working at what?

  • At keeping the spell up.

  • Ok but what were you doing in this crystal.

  • Working.

  • I understand that this spell is important… but it don't mean to be in a crystal….

  • It does.

  • What the…!

  • You don't know?

  • Know what?

  • This spell… it's a very powerful one.

  • Yes.

  • And this tower is… well… was used to cast it.

  • Yes I know all of that.

  • So you must know that the energy source is below the tower.

  • No… i always thought it was the crystal.

  • It would have been simpler but it isn't. The crystal is only the one emitting the spell.

  • I see… but….

  • I'm not finished. This spell has a major flor when it was created: it's highly unstable and really hard to control and keep up. It require some kind of catalyst to make sure it keep functioning.

  • Don't tell me….

  • I was.

It's a shock to me… I… can't believe they used children's for this kind of work. Damn even my Master agreed to not corrupt younglings, to preserve their so precious innocence.

  • You… alone?

  • No… not… alone… we were a lot more… taking turns… we couldn't stay exposed to the flow of energy… not more than three days for the strongest.

  • How many were you?

  • Don't know… a hundred.

  • It's a lot.

He nod in silent, observing the remaining of the great silver tower, like a fallen giant of stone and steel.

Silently I leave, after all, I have other things more important to do. I reach another district by a hole dug in the wall's debris… but I can hear a sound behind me. It's like claws clicking on the ground.

In the blink of an eye i turned around. He is behind me, following me. He makes a few steps backward when our eyes meet.

  • Why are you following me?

  • I… I don't know what to do… where to go. I… I know no one here.

  • I don't care… do what you want, you are free.

Hh lift a scaly eyebrow.

  • I don't understand that word.

  • To be free mean that you can do what you want, that no one will judge you for that or give you orders.

  • I see.

He seems lost in his thought for a moment, digesting this new piece of information.

  • So… I'm free.

  • Yes.

  • I can't do what I want?

  • That's the cool thing about freedom.

  • So. A devious grin stretch on his childish face. I, a dragon free of thought and acts, decide to come with you!

  • Fuck.

He tricked me to my own game. I just want to face palm myself with a fucking wall for letting a young drake brain me like this.

But, instead, an idea form in my mind, a really good one. It's my turn to smile evilly.

  • You want to come with me, ok, and welcome. But by doing so you'll have to accept my rules.

  • They are always rules.

  • Can't deny. My first rule being you forget all the things I told you about freedom.

  • Fuck.

  • Two, you obey me and you call me master.

  • Obeying… ok… calling you master… what about… never.

  • It will do… just keep your mouth shut and we'll be good.

  • Fine.

We walk to the edge of the city.

  • So where do we go?

  • The frontier.

  • Ok.

We walk for hours, following the large road leading to the frontier only checkpoint.

I have to stop four time, thanks to him. The first time he ask for a pee stop. I ignore him at first but after a few moment I see him close the distance separating us, an expression of discomfort on his face.

  • Master… please stop… I really need to pee.

  • Fine… but be quick.

  • Thanks.

He rushes to the closest bush where he relieve his full bladder with a satisfied expression.

We stop once again a few hours later to eat, this time agreed by both of us. The third time he wants to poop.

The last time the moon is already high in the sky. I hear him yowl since an hour or so.

  • Master….

  • Yes.

  • Can we stop?

  • For what.

  • Rest… I need to sleep.

  • No.

  • Are we going to walk all night?

  • Yes.

  • Seriously! I… I can't… I am tired… I need to rest.

  • Don't have time for this.

  • Are we in a hurry?

  • Yes.

  • What's the cause of that?

  • We are chasing after those who attacked the city and destroyed the tower.

  • Really!?

  • Yes… I learned by a guard that they suspect one of them crashed in a nearby forest.

  • So… it's behind us now… why do we keep walking?

  • They found a trail of blood, we suppose he is hurt.

  • He must have flew away already.

  • Nope, the blood led us to the road.

  • So they continued on foot.

  • Yes….

  • But… with an injury… they must be slow.

  • Maybe but they have a few hour of advance.

  • Not that much. I mean… with a dragon injured to what i imagine is his wing, it must be either broken or badly injured and may cause lot of bleeding and quite a big pain. I think they are not that far away… and maybe they have stopped for the night.

  • Maybe.

  • Are their other searching us?

  • No… they are dealing with the little city problem.

  • I see. Did the guards at the checkpoint where warned?

  • Normally yes.

  • So we can stop and have some rest.

  • You're right. I admit.

  • For once.

  • You are pretty intelligent… for a dragon.

  • No… it's just that i loved since my birth to do some mind breaking game… well mind blowing… for the others.

  • You may be more useful than I expected.

  • Thanks… I guess.

We stop in a large empty space where I tart a small fire. We eat some burned more than cooked food. It's only then I realize something isn't right. Something I had already noticed earlier: The scars on his body had grew, some other appearing in random places, a patch of black scale spreading from his flank.

  • Can I ask you a question?

  • Of course.

  • Where does all those scars come from?

  • Scars? He looks surprised

  • You don't know this word to?

  • No… I do… but… I… I have no scars.

  • Are you sure of that?

  • Yes… I never harmed myself.

  • Strange because you have scars everywhere.

  • What!

He quickly take a look at one of his paw, discovering the large mark on it then, slowly, ever so slowly go from his paw to his foreleg, to his flank.

  • What are those things?

  • I don't know. Can I take a closer look?

  • Yes… do… please!

I take one of his paw, I feel him shivering in fear. I slowly touch one of the growing scar, to receive an electrical shock.

  • What was that?

  • I… don't… don' know.

I try again, this time I see the blackish lightning bursting from his very scales.

  • What's this shit?

He don't answer. I feel his muscle tense in my grasp. Before my amazed eyes the darkness sprays on his scales, making his scales shifting from this pristine white to to a glistening black color, covering almost all his body in a split second, only leaving some whitish zones here and there.

I see him shake his head, trying to resist the transformation coursing through his body. He suddenly grab a hold of my hand, gripping it tight with his small but strong paw as his claws lengthen and sharpen, digging through my skin. His eyes turns to a strange shade between a deep purple and black, the horns on the back of his skulls grows, keeping their ivory color, except for the tip that become black, just above his nostrils a smaller horn burst free from his scales as the fangs in his maws elongates and sharpen to. Finally, with a squeal of pain longs spines appear on his back, tail and neck.

I observe his new form for a long time, unable to believe what I see.

I'm brutally send a few meters away by a powerful wave of black energy. When I rise again the first the come to my mind is the strength, the untamed strength of the attack. But what's even more interesting and surprising is the energy type. It's dark of course… but it's not like mine. It's not like the dark energy from the corruption… no… it's more… wild, dangerous, uncontrolled.

I walk to him slowly.

  • Are you ok? He ask with a shaky voice.

  • Yes… don't worry.

I examine him rapidly before another possible attack.

Discreetly I take something in my long coat and, when a small lightning appear once again, act quickly, trapping it in the small crystal I held in my palm.

I observe the small thing trapped in the crystal as it rams again the walls of its prison. I was right, just by the look of it I know exactly what it is: the purest form of black energy I have seen in ages, much more powerful than mine and more dangerous too, due to his immense power. And this thing is in the body of a young and untrained drake. What a waist.

  • What's that?

  • A sample of pure black energy.

  • What! Don't tell me it comes from….

  • From you.

  • It… It's not… mine.

  • Now it is.

  • Where does it come from?

  • You know the answer. Tell me exactly what happened to you.

  • I… I was last night… it was my third day… everything was normal… I felt a bit sleepy… S thought I could make a small nap… but something walk me up. It was the attackers, everything was shaking around me… the energy flow became very irregular. I felt something… kind of growing outside. Something… kind of a windblast hit the tower… I thought the crystal was gonna fall from the tower… but it held on. After that everything went calm… but… I… could hear voicing… yelling outside.

  • What did they said?

  • Don't Know. The only thing I heard was "Cut the cables!"

  • And after.

  • Something… invaded the crystal.

  • Energy?

  • Yes… but… way different from what I was used to… it was… I don't have words to describe that thing. It was someone else was with me, trapped in there, wanting to go out. It filled all the space available… and went… inside me.

  • You were exposed to an incredible amount of energy.

  • Yes.

  • Continue.

  • I wanted to scream, to rush out of here… but no sound came out of my mouth… I couldn't move… I was paralyzed… helpless… alone.

  • I understand… but tell me exactly what happened.

  • It filled me to the brim… I couldn't force it out of me. It was… like he wanted to get out of me. It was ripping my body apart… so… painful. I felt like I just blew up… then… I think I passed out.

  • I think I know what happened to you.

  • Tell me.

  • You were exposed to a high amount of black energy that infiltrated the energy sources, probably caused by the attack.

  • You mean they are the cause of all of what happened to me?

  • I'm not sure it was done on purpose. I mean not a lot of peoples know the truth… so….

We talk like this for a moment but in my head I'm thinking of something else. This small guy as a power to great for him to handle and radiate a type of energy so special everyone would notice it. I'll have to keep it hidden for our safety.

Why am I doing that? I should bring him to my Master rather than hiding him… but… I don't know… something in him makes me refuse this possibility.

When he finally fall asleep I stay awake, searching a solution, a way out of this mess. In my hand the small crystal with the energy made snake trapped inside, still trying to break it open.

The next morning, when he awakes I' still awake, the small crystal in hand, a leathery band attached to it.

  • Come here. I tell him.

When he does I attach the collar around his neck.

He shivers when it start to make is effect.

  • What is it?

  • A small present.

  • What does it do?

  • It'll help you keeping your energy at a controllable level and will hide your true nature.

  • Thanks I guess.

  • Don't thank me.

After a small meal we leave for another long day of walk. By the end of the day we reach a small village where we find a place to sleep. It surprise everyone to see a so young dragon with a human looking like person.

  • There are lots of travelers. Grumble the barman when I ask for a room for the night.

  • You had some visit? Ask the small dragon.

  • A group of dragons yesterday.

  • What were they looking like?

  • Hey do I look like I care, they wanted a room, and they paid and left this morning. I don't care who it can be I just do my job.

I know he won't say a word.

After a good night of sleep in a warm bed. Well… only for me. To my surprise he asked to sleep on the bare wooden floor, pretending he was smelling a nasty scent coming from the bed.

nd we reach those fucking mountain to learn no one came!

  • Maybe… maybe they took another way. Mumble the shivering drake.

  • What other way! There is no other way!

  • They could have made it… by the canyon.

  • Maybe. But in the case they survived in there where could they possibly go. There is no other way out.

  • I saw… in an ancient book that there was a city in the canyon in the old time.

  • I know but it was abandoned long ago, those who stayed there were buried alive under tones of snow and ice.

  • Maybe… maybe they had their way out.

  • What do you mean?

  • I heard some legends of some secret tunnels in the mountain.

  • It's only legend.

  • But… if… if it was true… they could have found one of them.

  • That would mean we are fucked. They are already in the human realm.

  • Not for long I think.

  • So we might have a chance. Let's go.

I make a few step just to feel something hitting my back. I make a quick turn around to see him laughing, a snowball in one of his clawed paw.

  • You want to play this game? Fine.

I grab some snow and throw the ball to him. He takes it right in the head and have to shake it.

  • Enough of that. Let's go.

  • Ok.

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