The red dragon
Raising his head, skyrax turned his head and saw fire bringer a few meters away gazing at him, his red eyes dissipated a little. Gently picking up his daughter's remains he went back to the city and buried both his daughter and wife.
Skyrax stayed in zelkmond for four days,to bury the remaining members of his clan that he could find, he buried crixus last as he was impaled by three huge Spears, stuck firmly to the ground. Neither did his anger or hatred reduce one bit, during this four days it increased to the point that skyrax was losing himself to his seething hatred and vengeance.his ability to think clearly was almost gone, the only voice in his head was"kill,!, Kill!,kill!, It rang continuously. when he finished covering the grave,he went to fire bringer and stroked her sturdy body,he hopped on and rode her deep into zelkmond, he was going to do something he may have never done if he thought clearly.
Fire bringer ran till she reached a forest with densely packed tall canopy trees, which made the place dark as the leaves left no gaps for sunlight to sleep in. The grass were also getting taller the deeper they went.
After a while, they came out in an open space with low grass. Skyrax looked around, the trees just surrounded the area but stopped five meters away, with their canopies covering the spot, making it impossible to be spotted from above. He came down from fire bringer and walked to the center of the place, he looked around but found nothing, no scroll and no secret passage, it was just blank. He breathed out of relief, because everything was as he was told, he beckoned for fire bringer to come closer as his eyes glowed and he muttered "Avun ves ka".
The soft breeze began got stronger,. It surrounded skyrax and fire bringer like a cyclone, a silver light flashed for a moment, WHOOSH!, Skyrax and fire bringer were gone. The wind began to soften until it turned back to a gentle breeze, it once again became a quiet forest.
Skyrax and fire bringer appeared in a cave, brightly lit with glowing ancient text engraved on the cave walls. He heard gushing sounds, it seems they were underwater or hidden behind a waterfall, but it seemed pretty deep so skyrax did not bother finding out, he did not want to get involved with the strong currents this deep. He may end up lost in the sea and probably dead, even though with his level, he could stay under water for a long time, it doesn't change the fact that he is not a water creature, staying underwater would mean his doom should he meet a water race. ' why would they put something of this much importance in the domain of another ', skyrax thought while he walked deeper into the cave.
After awhile, he arrived at a wide open space with a short stone pillar engraved with such complicated rune that skyrax felt his soul was almost sucked out when he gazed at it for too long. On the pillar was a scroll, glowing with golden words as it suspended mid air, with very tiny runes rotating around it, sometimes passing through.bold words were engraved on the wall behind the short pillar, skyrax got closer and muttered the words as he read it, DO NOT TOUCH THE SCROLL, DRAGON BLOOD OR NOT, IF YOU DO THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!.
"what rubbish!", skyrax scowled, he moved to the pillar, unsheathed his sword, gripped it with both hands and swung it, cutting the scroll into two, the torn scroll fell powerlessly on the pillar, it's golden light began to get weaker and soon died away, RUMBLE!, The cave shook for a while and stopped. Skyrax stood up from the ground, the shaking cave caught him off guard, the entire cave had turned dark, he waited for a while but nothing happened" why is nothing happening, where's the transformation, where's the great power of the dragons, where!!!", Skyrax shouted with anger.
Boom!, red runes lit up gradually as the whole cave lit up in ominous red light, the short pillar lit up bright red and like a Channel all the runes were pouring their energy towards the pillar, the red light continued to get brighter....Boom!, a wave of red energy blasted throughout the open space as everything in the room was touched by the wave . Skyrax heard fire bringer neighing loudly in pain as he turned back in an hurry and rushed towards the only surviving thing he loved and cared about. Fire bringer continued to scream in pain as its red body began to turn black, it bones began to crack, it was as if it was turning into something else or evolving, ' but fire bringer is at the peak of her species and evolving was never this painful ', skyrax did not know what to do as he looked around trying to find something that he missed that could help, when suddenly, skyrax felt something crack within him as pain spread throughout his body,he fell to the ground rolling in pain, the sound of cracking bones got louder.
Skyrax was in so much pain that he felt his soul was ripping apart, "arrrrgggghhh!!!!", his body got bigger, his cracked bones grew bigger, cracked and grew bigger again, his body kept on growing as his fingers were merging together to form only three beast like claws, he bones cracked and his legs bent backwards, fleshly wing grew out as blood spurted out of his back, his facial structure was changing as his eyes become larger and his pupils became a slit. Large Horns grew out of his forehead and his hair fell, scales began growing on his body. These abrupt changes kept ongoing for two hours, then the cave became silent as the screaming stopped.
A small pond of viscous golden red origin blood formed at the center of the open space. ROAR!!!, A huge roar sounded as a long breath of red fire came out of the mouth of a huge red scaled dragon as it burnt some of cave stones and walls into hard glass like substance, his fire breath went far and he didn't know how far it got. With his remaining sanity he looked at a spot at that wasn't there before, a long passage had appeared and with his keen dragon sight he could see that at the end was a creature that had turned into stone, although strange he knew who it was , with deep rapsy voice he spoke "Good bye", his golden eyes flashed.
"Avun ves ka ". Silver light flashed and he disappeared. The runes in the cave flickered for a moment then stopped. There was no light in the cave, only a dragon origin blood, a mysterious horse like creature and skyrax great sword which was left embeded by the side of the pillar. The last thing was a huge dragon phantom which appeared when skyrax soul was splited. Intense anger , hatred and vangence filled the phantom eyes as it flickered for a moment and disappeared, it turns out there was a part that skyrax had not read, maybe he was to careless to notice it or it was to hidden for him to notice
The leaves of tall trees blew erratically, the grass on the ground lay flat as they couldn't beer the wind brought from the huge wings of a dragon, which lifted off the ground and flew over the tall trees, going higher it entered the clouds and bust into a high speed towards a specific direction .As a dragon he could sense the use of force, and the force of the voids are pretty distinct.
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A big camp was laid far away from zelkmond, tents were all over the place, the void warriors and Titans moved about doing their things, at a quiet tent far from the rest, five black men were sitting outside as they chattered, one of the recalled the battle at zelkmond and said "the battle at those mad people's city was a close one. If the grand commander came a step too late...",he trembled, he could imagine the painful death they would have had.
"They're just mad people, and no matter how mad they got, we still won. But they did harm us, I would admit to that",a tall black man said while he stuffed a large piece of bread into his mouth, munching it loudly.
"Ha!, Fought hard or not, they're gone and I even got to eat some fresh meat the grand commander awarded me with",a black man with an one eye, scowled at the praise given to the dragon bloods, he picked up a mug and emptied its contents inside his mouth, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
"Those were human meat, you bastard!, I can't believe you've joined the Titans in the pleasure of feasting on their kids",the first black man said with disgust and anger.
" Human meat!, Those people are not humans, I am not the Titans that see everything walking on two legs in this empire as human, besides even if it's a human, I would still join the feast, I am not a human and there is nothing bad in eating the meat of other races you oaf!", The one eyed man said mockingly as he took out a piece of meat from his bag and stuffed it into his mouth.
"YOU!....", The first black man stood up with red eyes, his body shaking in anger. Both of them stared at themselves like beasts ready to pounce.
"Guys, what is that",one of the quiet black man sitting on a piece of wood pointed at the sky in confusion, but the others were too busy staring at themselves, they cared more about their issues. The other silent one looked up, his eyes widened, he shouted"look up, you fools!", His voice brought the quarrelling three back to their senses as they looked up.
The one eyed man walked forward a little and said"is that a ship",he was confused, even if it was a ship "that could actually fly" how could it move at such insane speed.
"That doesn't look like a ship to me",the tall man said and squinted his eyes further to get a clearer view.
BOOM!, A huge creature burst out from the clouds and sped towards them with raging speed.
The five of them stood rooted to the ground with shock on their faces, large rhombus red scales, a wingspan of about thirty feet, two long horns that seemed like it could pierce through six people at once, its huge razor sharp teeth could be seen as it opened its mouth, the creature's seething hatred could be felt even from the distance.
"What is that!!",the one eyed man screamed in fear.
"I don't fucking know, but RUN!!!, The tall man shouted, he turned back and fled, his fearful voice had confused others as they also fled.
No!, Come back, we should defend!, We can not out...",the first guy could not finish his words,hot flames met him and he burned into air, the camp behind him was also burnt till there was no remains.
When the last guy to flee felt the seething heat behind him, he turned back, his soul almost flew out in fear, he screamed to the others in front of him" it can breath fire!!!", The two at his front had not even registered his words before skyrax flames met them, they couldn't even scream, it was like a flash, they were there before but after the blaze, not even their ashes remained.
Thud!, A loud sound echoed, skyrax landed and stared at the fleeing one eyed man at the distance, he perceived the blood of his kin on him, so he decided not to give him a quick death.
Skyrax opened his mouth, a blue flame formed within and skyrax poured the flame at the one eyed man. The blue flame divided into four and sped towards the one eyed man from different directions.
The one eyed man turned back and saw the Blue flames, he shouted at the top of his voice"there are many people for you to eat, bigger ones even, just go right and leave me, I am too small to fill your mouth!!", He never looked back to know that the dragon never ate the rest.
BOOM!, BOOM!, BOOM!, BOOM!, The divided flames met him, he lit up in blue flames, but did not burn immediately, the one eyed man fell on the ground, rolling as he gave a heartwrenching scream, the pain was like the fire was burning him from his insides out, the slow but extremely painful process made him who feared death, wish for it."arrrrgggghhh!!!!!, Kill me please, PLEASE!!!".