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"No," Savannah chuckled, "That was him."

Jax's brows crinkled down, "No."

He shook his head at me. He didn't believe it. Savannah, and Ethan both looked at me. They both knew it was a true statement.

"Fine," I switched to the feminine form I'd taken on to destroy Eric's lab, "I'm the one that destroyed the lab."

I didn't change my voice at all so my voice was still as masculine as it usually was. This disturbed both Savannah, and Jax. The part that disturbed Jax the most was that he found me attractive in this form. I switched back to my true form, and ignored the discomfort Jax was still feeling. Nudging him gently when he took a while to get over it.

Jax was startled back to the real world. Ethan chuckled to himself. Savannah was kind enough not to pry though. I snorted casually.

"Can you handle getting us information on Eric's orders, and movements while we're investigating the north?" I lowered my head so I wasn't looking down on him.

"Why can't I just come with?" Jax grumbled, "I'm not good at all this secrecy."

"You're too weak," I rumbled, "If I take you with then you will get hurt."

"A wyvern could hurt them as easily as they could hurt me," Jax gestured at the other two.

"Ethan," I snapped my eyes over to Ethan, "Show him."

Ethan smirked slowly. Turning to walk away from us a few strides. Right up to one of the trees nearby. The tree was maybe a foot wide. It wasn't the biggest tree, but it wasn't one that would go down easily.

An ability holder wouldn't be able to knock it down with their bare hands alone. Unless they held a strengthening type of ability, but Ethan didn't have a strengthening ability. Ethan punched the tree as hard as he could. The trunk shattered under the impact, and the tree started leaned noticeably. Ethan tossed it aside with his telekinesis before it could fall on the back of his head.

Blowing off the knuckles of his right hand. Knuckles that were still spotless after putting his hand through a tree.

{What the fuck is he on?} Jax hadn't meant to transmit his thoughts to me, but this specific thought was too loud in his mind to suppress.

"And that was without drawing on any of my power," I pulled Jax's arm so he was facing me again, "Savannah can do the same," in theory, "They can each borrow large amounts of my power if they become threatened. You on the other hand can only borrow a minimal amount of my power for a minimal amount of time. They can both use my power for much longer. I estimate that Ethan can continually use my power for nearly two hours. Savannah might be able to make it to an hour an a half." I sighed, "As strong as you are, you're still only human Jax. Unless your mana capacity suddenly improves or you gain the ability to fight on par with a wyvern on your own it's better if you stay with the other humans."

"They're only humans too," Jax gestured to Savannah, and Ethan again.

"They're different," I huffed, "They're dragon blooded bonded. They're stronger then ordinary humans."

"Why don't you make me dragon blooded like them?" Jax demanded.

"It doesn't work that way Jax," I snorted, "Our bond isn't strong enough. You don't trust me enough. If I tried to make you blooded like the other two are right now then you would die." Jax hesitated at the mention of death, "Unless you want me to use that resonance spell that Regala used while she was borrowing my body."

Jax paled visibly. He visibly stepped away from me at the mention of using that spell again. He wasn't the only one that reacted. Savannah had gritted her teeth, and Ethan reached for me mentally. Not showing any outward sign of distress.

I only had their memories to go off of. I only caught glimpses of the memory from Jax, but I could see the event clearly through the other two. The pain they went through to become dragon kin was amplified the weaker their bond to me was. Ethan went through the least amount of pain, and yet he still didn't want anything to do with it right now. The spell only affected the bonded within a mile of me.

Should I need to use the spell again, having Jax outside of the range of the spell would spare him the pain of going through it again. This only applied to the true bonded. Not the weak tentative connection of a trust bond. The skill was incredibly taxing on the body of not only the bonded, but also the dragon that used it. It was a last resort skill that Regala had made for young dragons.

She'd just never had the chance to teach it to anyone. Not before she killed herself. That still disturbed me a great deal. All that intelligence, and her ability to see into the future led to the mass genocide of all other dragons. Then her own death.

And now I was learning from her. This was the first time that it struck me as odd that I was allowing the Hitler of dragons to teach me. Now that I thought about it she was worse then Hitler since she just killed all of dragon kind instead of targeting a few bloodlines. She hadn't harmed humans in the process, but that didn't make it any better. Taking out the entirety of the dragon race, and sealing the planet away was what led us to the predicament we were in now.

Yet, I didn't feel any hostility coming from her. She felt more sad then anything else. She was a depressed, and broken fragment of a soul that just wanted to do as much good as she could before she faded from this world completely. I didn't understand why she decided to go homicidal. All I could do was trust she wouldn't do anything to harm my growth now.