Solve stone

Amber stands there with her feet frozen in place. The dragon leans closer to Amber's face with his smoke coming out of both his nozzles. Amber tries to speak but none of her words comes out. The dragon let out a deep laugh "this must be a joke, this is one of our so-called Julian's worrier?" Julian gets back on his feet, and groans in pain as his eyes met with Amber standing still trembling in fear. Julian clench onto his sword and dash between Amber and Dragonia. The dragon looks down at Julian and smiles "oh? You're still alive even after that strong throw? Oh well…I guess I have to kill you" the dragon starts to blow out the fire, Julian blocks the flames from getting to him and Amber. Dragonia growled and turning himself into his human form. He pulled out his dragon fire sword "fine, I will make it fair for you two" Julian chuckles and smirks "bring it on" the dragon and dash towards Julian at high speed and so did Julian, their swords clash to each other.

Julian grits his teeth when Dragonia pushes his sword hard against Julian. Julian starts to step back every moment when Dragonia pushes pressure onto him. Bruno wakes up and sees Julian being corned by Dragonia. Bruno quickly grabs his book from a small pouch that he was carrying.

He keeps his right hand in front of him and closes his eyes and opens them again "this is the voice of Bruno Herbert, listen to me and bring out the vines of torture!" the vines start to pieces out from below. They appear underneath Dragonia, wrapping itself around him. Dragonia was caught by surprise with this sudden attack from the young Nobel. A smirk appears on Dragonia's place face "very well done" his whole body lit up with fire and burn the vines into ashes "enough playing!" he swings his hand-throwing a flame slash at Bruno.

Bruno's eyes widen up when Julian was going to block the attack but Amber run pass him and stands in front of Bruno, she lifts her sword "don't hurt him!" Julian looks at her eyes and those beautiful emerald eyes have turned into deep golden red eyes. She slashes her sword against the ground creating an opposite slash, breaking through Dragonia's slash. He quickly keeps his arms in front of him and because of this the attack that was sent by Amber as it didn't affect much on Dragonia. He looks at Amber stunt by her sudden move.

He smirks "well, I see that the sacred worrier is ready to fight" Bruno looks at Amber and watching her huffing out deep breaths. He looks at Dragonia and closes his eyes and starts to use another summoning spell "vines of pain appear before me!" he opens his eyes and looks at Julian and gives him a slight nod. Julian looks at Bruno and nods as the vines start to slither through the ground, wrapping around Dragonia's ankles when Dragonia was cornered, Julian and Amber dashes towards Dragonia and leaps onto the air. They both slash their swords onto Dragonia, he looks up and uses his flame shield to block the attack, they start to scream as they kept holding their swords over the shield, Julian's sword starts to light up with crimson red flames, creating cracks on the shield when Amber's sword light up golden yellow flames the shield breaks and both of their swords connects with Dragonia's arm as an explosion appears throwing them both away, they both hit against the stone wall and falls onto the ground.

The bright light slowly starts to fade and so did the smoke. Julian holds his head that was covered by blood as he looks at Dragonia and waits till the smoke clears up. He slowly gets up and looks around to find Amber and Bruno. When the smoke clears up he saw Bruno was sitting next to Amber and using his healing vines to heal her wounds. He groans softly and walks towards them. When he walks past the white smoke a bright orange light flash onto the corner of his eye. He looks at the place where the light came from as he starts to walk towards it. He knees and picks up a bright orange stone, he looks closely at it as he saw the fire that's burning inside it. He looks around to find Dragonia but he was gone. He clenches the stone and smiles "one is done" he mutters softly.

After finishing healing Amber, he gets up and sees Julian standing next to him. He bows down "your majesty" Julian bows his head and grabs the small stone box from his belt and opens it and places it inside it. Bruno smiles in relief. They suddenly hear a stone door being opened. Their eyes went straight towards the sound. Father Lucas walks out of it with two other guards following right behind him "and this is the start of your journey, congratulation on reserving the stone of Solve" Julian nods while leaning on to Bruno using him to keep himself balanced. Lucas looks at the three of them "now let's go back to the palace after getting your wounds to heal, you three, and finally set out" Julian nods weakly.

(In the palace)

Julian was sitting on his bed shirtless while Bruno was sitting next to him. He uses healing vines and wrapping them around Julian's wounds and starts to heal him. Julian looks away and sighs "did you notice any change in that woman?" Bruno tilts his head and looks at Julian's serious face "women? Do you mean Miss Amber? Well…sort of" Julian moves his fingers through his hair, moving the hair that's falling over his face. Bruno keeps healing while lifting his eyes and looks at Julian's sudden change of mood "master, is something bothering you?" he questions him as Julian gets up stopping Bruno from healing him "it's nothing, so the wounds are healed?" Bruno gets up and adjusts his glasses "something wrong master?" he gives Julian a sharp glaze. Julian shrugs it off and starts to wear his clothes "never mind then" Bruno bows his head and follows Julian out of his room.

They walk through the garden hallway, going towards the palace entrance as they came across Amber. Bruno was surprised that Amber still has the energy to move around after he used her energy to heal her wounds. Amber walks up to Julian and Bruno and smiles softly "Well, took you guys long enough" Julian looks down at Amber "so, you were hiding your talent and acted like you don't know anything?" Amber blinks a few times "wait, you mean when we were fighting Dragonia? Sorry…I wasn't much of a help" Bruno looks at Julian and then at Amber "but young mistress, you did fight Dragonia alongside with master" Amber looks at Bruno and shakes her head "that's can't be it- I don't even remember that" Julian sighs and walks pass Amber "forget about it then" he glares at Amber "you need training" he mummers and walks off. Amber puffs her cheeks "yeah I know that!" she stomps her feet and starts to follow Julian. Bruno looks at Amber and thought about the moment where her eyes suddenly changed "hm…who is Amber rose anyway…?" Amber looks behind and waves her hand "hey Bruno come one we are going to be late!" Bruno snaps out of his thoughts and "yes! I'm coming mistress" he starts to follow them from behind.

(To be continued)