Little Conquerors (II)

Efron, a male human who looks more like a young boy, was busily trying to catch Den.

"These are my friends and their partners," Valiant stated.

"I'm Turnip, and my elf partner is Terry." A blue male baby dragon spoke up first. Then, a beautiful female elf with short yellow hair bowed in acknowledgment and stood silent.

"Pft. Turnip. You had to choose that name." A silver dragon burst out laughing.

"What? It's just a game name for crying out loud." Turnip squirted water on the silver dragon's face.

"Excuse the rude dragon over there. I go by Baku, and my partner is Quill." Baku stomped on Turnip's feet

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"Guys. Guys. Guys." Quill, a half-human and half-elf, spoke, trying hard to separate the two. Even though she was the smallest in the group, her strength was extraordinary. Her pink hair fluttered around behind her as she ripped them apart.

"Wow. Wow. Wow. Miss extra strength is overdoing it again." A black-haired human male whistled as he saw Quill push the two around.

"Aren't you going to stop them, Ponza?" A bronze female dragon spoke. She was curled up around Ponza's neck like a scarf.

"Nope. I don't think I want to get in between that superhuman. So why don't you go instead,

Val?"

"No. No. No. No. I don't like to be in between skirmishes."

"Now? I saw you knock out both Valiant and Tanmint once." A sliver baby dragon chuckled. She was curled around a male human/troll hybrid.

"I don't know what you are talking about, Bee." A young human, a dwarf male, spoke up and grumbled with annoyance. "What you saw was just your imagination."

"Kahahahaha. Tanmint is giving that same scowling face. Someone take a picture of it!" A gold baby dragon was rolling on the floor laughing. Baku, quarreling with Quill, reached over and accidentally pulled on the gold dragon's tail. In a matter of seconds, three baby dragons were drawn into the fight. Finally, a male elf with white hair pulled all three apart.

"Seka, enough." The male elf kept all of them at bay and glared at the gold dragon name Seka.

"You're a girl. What are you doing squabbling amongst boys."

"They stomped on my tail." Seka glowered at both Valiant and Baku. "Leaf, go smack them for me."

Leaf sighed. "No, be more ladylike, for crying out loud."

"I am a lady. A dragon lady."

"A dragon furball is more like it." Baku chuckled.

"Let's not get into another squabble please," said Leaf. He had a headache at the troublesome duo.

"Enough!" The green dragon that came last shouted toward everyone. "Can't you tell that all of you guys are giving your partner's a headache?"

"Boooo!" Baku waved him aside. "Greenie over there is angry. Better not to get on his nerves."

"I have a name, and it's not Greenie."

"Yea, yea. Greenie."

"Enough with your childish rattles, Baku."

"Tch." Baku turned around and went back towards Quill. He jumped upwards like and cat and sat on her shoulder. "Greenie is boring~" He sang.

"My name is Kai, not a greenie," fumed Kai. Then, in annoyance, he snapped towards Baku, and his partner, a female human, scooped him up in her arms.

"You're starting to turn red, Kai. I suggest you calm down and relax. You remember what I have told you about counting numbers to cool your temper?"

Kai temporarily froze for a moment. "Yes. Yes. Leona."

"I'm sorry you got to see all this." Valiant came forward, ashamed and embarrassed. "That became a complete mess. Let me reintroduce them all." He cleared his throat.

"Turnip is the blue dragon, and his partner is Terry, the female elf. She's good at using spears. Baku is the silver dragon, and his partner is Quill, with pink hair. Don't be fooled by Quill's cute look; she packs a punch. Kai is the green dragon, and his partner is Leona, the female human. They make a great couple. Leona is the only one that can quell Kai's temper. Plus, both of them are like our healers."

"I heard that," Kai spoke out loud from Leona's arm.

"Next, we got Val, the bronze dragon, and her male human companion Ponza. I suggest you not get on Ponza's bad side. He has a wicked dagger skill; even I don't always know where he stashes it sometimes. Bee is the Silver dragon, and Tanmint, her partner, is the only half-dwarf in our group. Strangely they are no full Dwarves as a partner that we know of. For a half-dwarf, he's pretty tall if you ask me." Valiant smirked. "He does well with the female dwarves, you know." He winked toward Zero.

Zero continued to listen to Valiant. "Den is the white dragon with her human male partner Elfon. Seka, our gold dragon, is the most outgoing dragon out of all of us. Leaf has a hard time handling her. Sometimes I feel like she's more of a White dragon than actual gold if you know what I mean. I swear her speed competes for neck and neck with Den sometimes."

Zero examined each one of them with interest. They were quite a unique bunch of young dragons and their partners all in one place. Sixteen in total, but what interested Zero the most was that they somehow knew each other very well.

"Do you guys all go to the same school?"

"Yea. How did you know?" Valiant asked. He curiously peered up at him, bewildered by Zero's words.

"It's just that you all seem to be close to each other, especially such a large group like you guys."

"I know, right? We were lucky when all eight of us got to become dragons. We roped our friends to be our partners, and when they heard that we would be flying later on, they all got excited. We are truly grateful that you opened up this species to be playable. No species can fly, and this is the only one." Valiant dreamily stated. "And it seems you are the closest one to get there."

"Well, you could say that, but I honestly don't know when I would be even getting my pair of wings."

"Really? Hmmm. That is a bit of a problem, but it seems from the videos that the Yami Hikari company put out show wings. So I'm confident that we will be able to fly."

"I agree as well. But why haven't you gone to train in the newly made dungeons?"

"Well, it's so packed there that it's impossible to level. There are a few other dungeons, but those are much more difficult, especially the Red Dungeon."

"Red Dungeon?"

"Yea, didn't you know? All the dungeons are color coded. The Green, Aqua, and Turquoise Dungeons are for beginners, while the purple and yellow are for levels 100 to 150. The Red Dungeon was the newest underground dungeon that was created. There have already been sightings of monsters over level 150 and up."

"I didn't know...." Zero voice went quiet. He honestly didn't know how many special dungeons were being created. So many things were happening quickly in the Draconis Village that one would have thought it was more of a town than a village. Even the land has tripled in size during the month we've been floating toward the City of Elements. For it to grow so quickly where quarantined dungeons are formed was surprising in itself. He was amazed at how quickly this small land was increasing in volume to the point where they were something new every day.

Even the elven seeds he had planted a month ago were sprouting like daisies. The barren land had slowly turned into a forest in a short time. At this rate, he worried that the plants would grow out of control and take over the whole place, though strangely enough, even though he had planted them carefully, they were merging with the building. It was quite a strange sight to see.

"Really? That's strange. I thought you knew." Valiant was peering over towards Zero, confused.

"I haven't been keeping tabs so that I wouldn't know." But, honestly, he has been going out into the forest and hunting down monsters daily. Lately, he noticed that the monsters were breaching the barrier more frequently, causing low-level monsters to slip through. He was worried that by the end of the second month, the barrier would slowly become weaker, allowing more higher-level monsters to come through.

"Oh. I see. You are the chief librarian of this place. I was wondering..."

"Yes?"

Valiant nervously moves around. "I was wondering if you could help us level or give us some pointers on how to fight."

"Is this a good idea?" M2 spoke. He was silent the whole time and watching the event unfold.

Zero thought it over for a moment. They were nothing wrong with giving some pointers, plus he did want to check out this new red zone that Valiant brought up.

"What level are all of you guys?"

"Well...." Valiant stuttered that Zero did not catch a single phrase.

"?"

"I'm level 30. Everyone is around the level of 35 to 50." He spoke barely audible for Zero to hear.

"I see. Well then. Let's go to the red cave."