Imprisoning the Red-back Hyena

Zheng could only look in the direction of the incoming hyena. His mind was bracing him to accept his fate. But this turned to anger, anger directed towards the circumstances of the expected death.

He thought, "Why the hell should I die this way?"

"My father is a freaking dragon. I'm the son of a damned dragon, but I sit here, cowering in fear of death at the hands of a hyena. If I die this way, the story of my death would sound like comedy to the ears of people."

The voice in Zheng's head returned, saying to him,

'Do you want to die?'

Zheng replied audibly, "Death is inevitable."

The voice said, 'Do you want to die at the hands of a weak hyena?'

Zheng said with assertion, "I will die of my own accord."

The voice said again, 'Do you want to die at the hands of a weak hyena?'

"No!" Zheng yelled in exasperation but with firm resolution. "I will die of my own accord."

'Get on your feet,' the voice said, 'and assert dominance over that silly hyena with a stupid coloured back.'

The prince stood on his feet, but not with a perfect stance. He hunched forward a bit to get some balance and relieve his broken ankle of some pain.

Meanwhile, the sound of the rustling leaves grew louder as the hyena got closer.

Zheng and the voice impatiently said in unison, "Hasten up, you stupid hyena."

The Dream bison felt extra presences that were with Zheng. The bovine looked at Zheng and saw that he emanated two additional auras, each with a distinct colour. One aura was red, and the other was yellow. These auras looked different from the regular ones Zheng emanated, but they still felt peculiar to him. The characteristic confused the Dream bison at the moment. But the confusion didn't stop the black bovine from exercising.

The hyena sped closer to Zheng. He was confident that he would dominate the ferocious beast. He already had a plan in his head. His mage-like abilities would be called upon when the hyena showed up. Meanwhile, the voice in the prince's head kept fanning the flames of his confidence, saying,

'You don't need a selfish, horny bovine to help you. You are the son of a dragon!'

'A son of a dragon is a dragon. Unless the son's mother went on a whore's trip to get him.'

'But we know that your mother is no whore. So, dragon progeny, why should you be intimidated by a flightless hyena that thinks it can pull more than it can carry?'

Zheng confidently replied, "I will kill the imbecile when it jumps out from behind those trees."

The voice said, 'That is the spirit. But death will give the beast bragging rights in hell.'

Zheng was enraged that he was being pursued by a hyena, which piqued his interest in options that would cause the hyena pain..

'A goat cannot tame a fully grown wild lion to become docile,' the voice said. 'But a dragon could.' The voice laughed a short, mischievous laugh.

The prince could hear the growls of the hyena.

"It is here," Zheng said with unbridled excitement, followed by laughter.

His current reaction would earn him the title of "mad man" if he were around regular people.

'Roar like a freaking dragon. Let the four-legged imbecile know who is running the show.'

The hyena jumped out of the forest, letting out a frightening roar. Instantly, Zheng replied with his own roar, which was ten times louder and ten times more frightening than the hyena's. The hyena cowered on the ground, wimping.

Meanwhile, the Dream bison never took its eyes off Zheng after it sensed the two additional auras he emitted. When Zheng roared, the bovine saw the true forms of the two auras. When the prince roared, the red and yellow auras each grew into a humungous dragon, and they roared in unison with the prince at the hyena. The normal eye wouldn't catch these auras, but mythical beasts that lived in and absorbed the energy of Mana Land or Great earth beasts, wouldn't miss the detail.

The Dream bison thought, 'Two dragon auras? What in the world is happening? That kid is actually special. But the Great expansion dragons are extinct, and they can never and have never been related to the Red dragons.'

The dragon formed by the yellow aura that Zheng emitted was a Great earth beast called the Great Expansion Dragon. The red aura formed the Red dragon.

The unexpected happened: Zheng levitated above the ground.

The Dream bison bellowed. ["That was not supposed to happen."]

Zheng incanted, saying, "Corpus meum quasi centrum offero. Flue per corpus meum, o coelestis potential!"

The instant after he finished the incantation, his body suddenly emitted white light in an explosive manner. He looked like how regular people would imagine a very powerful mage.

The show made the black bovine slow its thrusting in awe at the human's feat.

The prince continued casting spells, saying, "You foolish hyena that has dared to bully the offspring of a dragon, you will become my prisoner."

He held the empty orb in his right hand in the direction of the hyena. He completed his spell, saying,

"Nunc captivus meus es!"

Immediately, a strong wind blew from all directions, adding to the mysterious vibe of the scene. The white lights that glowed on Zheng's body all travelled into the orb. Then the lights went forth from the orb to enshroud, shrink, and drag the hyena into the space within it (the orb).

The red and yellow auras emitted by Zheng disappeared, as if they were never there. The prince slowly descended to the ground, his eyes fixed on the orb in his hand. The orb was now coloured pink, which was a result of the presence of the hyena trapped inside it.

The Dream bison was dumbfounded. It felt like apologising to the prince at this moment for being rude earlier. It dismissed the idea out of pride.

The black bovine thought, 'The small d*ck human just got lucky. That is the only explanation.'