18 Traveling Mishaps

During the week of waiting I had helped my family with what little magic they could do. Their cores were only a quarter of the normal size but they were still growing. Using legilimency I had showed them my first time to give them an idea of how I used my magic. The only way they could use magic was with the wands that I had made. I guess the wands were helping focus the mana channeling. This would be fine for now but wandless would be learned once they can feel the mana pathways and over time it would become natural.

Two days ago Randvi had given me a scare as she was using magic for everything causing mana core exhaustion. She had just woken up this morning which made sense as i remembered this being a possibility in the book. When I used soul sight I could see her core had empties with only a few particles in her core. This forced me to give Floki the soul sight tattoo so he could monitor everyone while I was away.

My journey began again this time I had a plan to not come back until I had made it to Italy. Returning to the forest the vikings were nowhere to be seen so I quickly took flight. To keep a low profile I traveled through the tree tops giving me some cover making it harder for people to track me. I followed a river that headed south so I could keep an accurate direction. When I came to a village I went around bot causing any trouble since many kingdoms could be fighting over the lands. After I was half way through Francia I came across a settlement that was was filled with mana. This caused me to stop my travel to see if it was a magic coven.

I waited on a forest tree that I had transfigured a branch to keep me from falling out as i slept. Waling up the next morning I used my dragon eyes to view the village only seeing women. They all had bright blonde hair with very fair skin. At first they seemed like vampires but I couldn't smell any blood on the wind. When the wind changed directions all the women snapped directly to the tree I was spying from. The younger women looked scared as the older ones became angry. When they became angry it was easy to tell as their faces became elongated into cruel beacked bird heads with scaly wings appearing out of their backs. Not wanting to cause any further problems I flew toward the village at a slow manner as I showed my hands were empty. I landed in the clearing a little bit away from the village as to not trespass to far. After sitting down some of the older Veela came to meet me.

This would have been fine bit I hadn't taken into around that i couldn't speak old high German, which is what was historically spoken. After a few minutes of not communicating since I spoke a dialect of norse I had an idea. I imagined them as birds and began to speak to them in chirps. This caused a commotion since they were veelah and could also speak to birds. As I spoke I felt their allures hitting my mental shields. The oldest one began to chirp she did I heard "Hello, stranger how as a man come to speak our mother tongue?" With this I was able to respond by turning my scaled with gold." At first the women began to say that I was a male veelah only to in hale then drop to their knees. From what I could gather they put my dragon smell together with my loom thinking I was a golden dragon.

The older ladies name was Aenor and she explained that they were a veelah enclave and she asked if I was a young dragon looking for a place to build a den. I explained that I was traveling the globe to learn more runic craft which seemed to sadden the enclave. They convinced me to spend the day in their village which was fine but every woman was attempting to bed me. When I politely declined the women they offered became younger and younger until I had to stop them from offering the 15 year old girls. Aenor apologized saying dragon seed would bolster their strength if they were to conceive. She went on to explain that they were having trouble with a nearby human settlement who called them witches and were becoming more hostile as catholicism began to spread to Francia. This gave me a laugh as Jesus preached acceptance but medival catholics had crusades and witch hunts. I knew within a hundred years the witch trials would begin. With this in mind I deside to make portal to the mountain in my old village. The veelah could trave there if things got really bad. They could use magic quiet proficiently but an army of humans protected by a wizard masquerading as a priest would be easy to kidnap veelahs.

I teleported back to my realm then made a new gate in the mountain that lead only to the veelah enclave. Then I made another ring in the veelah enclave and used some stone to disguise it. When the veelah saw what I was doing they were intrigued. I explained that my family would trade with them using the gate and that if they were ever in danger to use the gate. I showed the older lady and her daughter Inga the other side of the portal was a cave with dug out homes. They followed me into my buffer realm and I told the ashwinders to get my mother. My mom came bur my brother followed. When he caught sight of the gorgeous ladies he became a drooling mess and I could feel his hornyness rise. Grabbing his shoulder to hold him in place I explained "this is a Veelah matriarch that I built a new gate for us to trade with. They have an Allure that is harder for the younger ones to control which is why my dear brother looks brain dead." Inga was having trouble controlling her Allure which is what affected my brother. I pushed my brother back into our realms gate which seemed to fix his problem.i chose not to show the veelah are realm as we already had mouths to feed and when winter came it will be harder to hunt. My brother can only hunt so much game to store for winter.

My mother and Aenor tried to speak but the language barrier was still a problem. Inga asked me "Why do you smell like a dragon but your family doesn't?" I responded with the truth "I am only part dragon and they are simply Ageless." My sister came out and hearing me converse in bird tongue she also began to converse. With this I found out that my sister had obtained my ability after transforming. She couldn't speak to the ashwinders in parseltongue but she had acquired avientongue. With this meeting I tasked my sister with learning German that I could steal with legilimency later. After the veelahs returned hone I went to my realm where my brother was hounding me to bring the whole enclave to the realm. He wanted a harem of pretty veelahs. I had to explain that he would need to learn oclamancy to do anything or he would be left a blithering fool. This caused him to sprint to floki for more training. With this new alliance made I left to my travels following the river again and finally making it to the Mediterranean sea.

Once on the warm coast I portaled my family to me and we had a picnic and swam in the waters. With my eyesight I thought I had seen something approaching my mother only for it to leave when I entered the water. After a night of fun my family went home as I was going to attempt to infiltrate Italy to find some Roman magic. Before I left I noticed a group of mermish people swimming in the water.