"Fine… Fine if you want to die here but don't implicate the town." I said before muttering under my breath a universal phrase that all our citizens knew.
"We have enough problems" it was only after I had said it that I realized that I was still in unfamiliar company.
However I didn't care, 'we had enough problems' and they were just another added on top.
If I just handed them the information we had on that ravenous dragon then they would leave. Hopefully never to return back to this town.
It was a hopeful thought, though not unfounded. People as powerful as them had tried and they all died.
It was no problem for to give them information.
I reached into the cabinet behind and pulled out a scroll. It was old, dirt and other markings held to it from its rough travels into my hands.
Slowly I unfurled it and handed the map and corresponding information to them.
"Here and here, you go through those paths and you'll have no problem finding him."
With that little tidbit of information I handed them the map and instructed them to keep it.
Not like it won't just find its way back to . Like it always did.
I watched their backs as they departed, a cough filling my lungs.
Once they had I slowly sat up from my chair, the aching bones of old age catching up to .
Slowly I brought my hand towards a hidden drawer, a key in my hands.
I turned the lock, making sure that I input the right string of numbers before opening it.
It was a little extra security just enough to alert of if my key was stolen.
I brought the drawer open and towards . Ten small vials filled with a slimy liquid greeted .
I brought one to my lips, all the while uncorking it. The pungent sll filled the room however I was used to it so even despite the terrible sll and taste I didn't recoil.
The liquid fell down my throat, a slight disgust washed over , knowing what these were made of but I needed to take it.
Instantly I felt a bit more revitalized, the aching bones no longer aching. My body went from pale and old to late middle age however I did not drink another one.
Instead I closed the drawer and pulled another one out going through the sa security asures and brought the other vials out.
This one was not one drunk but one that I needed to inject into my blood.
I found the needle that ca with it and placed it in its rightful place with the vials
Then I found my vein and stabbed it in gently, the contents filling my veins with its sickly sweet contents.
My eyes closed as I sighed in relief. All of my worries fell from my mind as I went into joyful bliss.
No longer did I need to worry about my citizens' wellbeing, the looming threat of the dragon, nor of the sacrifices we had to pay.
Everything just faded into a joyful black. Nothing mattered, only the sweet ride that this drug gave .
…
"That was easy…" I muttered out, voicing the thoughts of all of us.
"Yeah, but it was information nonetheless. There's no reason for us to be suspicious of it, the man was honest"
I just nodded my head at the observation, he may have been a bit eccentric but other than that he told no lies to us.
I could tell through his soul, resigned as it was.
Through the town we went, the residents looking at us with wary eyes as we left.
We didn't bother even booking a room for the night. It wasn't that long of a journey to the dragon's cave from here.
Maybe just another four or five miles though that was another reason to be suspicious. If the dragon was as described, it was not one to like living people in its proximity.
So unless this proximity was only around its cave then sothing was wrong, otherwise this town would have been wiped out long ago.
eaglesnovɐ1,сoМ These suspicions were just that though , suspicions not sothing that I wanted to act on for now.
The gate closed behind us, the guards giving us a wary glance before the stone gate closed with a resounding echo.
I took one last look at the town, surrounded by stone yet seeming so alone and unprotected.
…
The land gradually crept from common stone to more exotic kinds. Ones only seen around volcanoes.
Or at least that was what Delta had told us and I wasn't going to question Delta's knowledge, not when I couldn't even identify the slight differences.
It was a weird sight though, for a cave to fall into a volcano. I usually thought of them as being things above ground with only lava underground but I was being proven wrong today.
Or I guess a better way to look at it was that I was being educated, in the intricacies of volcanoes.
It was monts after these thoughts that I found myself facing abnormal heat. Heat that actually felt like heat not the muted temperatures that I had felt ever since I had ascended into the higher tiers.
Distant bubbling noises of lava echoed throughout the chamber we were in.
It was the first ti I had ever heard sothing like that and I was curious what it looked like.
It was for that curiosity that I followed the sound, through multiple caverns I went until I found where the bubbling lava had co from.
It was the middle of the volcano, lava pooled into rivers that seed to cross everywhere.
However they all avoided one spot l, as if they were consciously avoided it. The place was a giant rock or sothing of the like that was placed right in the center.
Though on second look it wasn't a rock, it was actually sothing curled into a ball.
"I think…" I said, "we found our dragon."
…
I yawned, presences appearing in my senses. They were stronger than usual but the quality, oh the quality.
It was great. Those villagers really outdid themselves this ti.
My eyes sparkled at the beauty of the three of them. Though one of them looked a little like a man, it was still beautiful.
'Strange' it was a thought that ca to the back of my mind.
They weren't afraid nor were they lustful as many of them were. It was weird that they would be lustful.
I just wanted so won for my collection. What were they thinking that I, a great dragon, one of the strongest beings in this realm, wanted their asly bodies?
These ones were different, they looked at my lair with amazent at less the two younger ones did.
It was like they didn't know fear. However that could be redied.
ROAR
I yawned, turning it into a roar before gazing right into their eyes. However when my eyes gazed upon them a daft beca known to .
They weren't tribute by that mayor but invaders. One that had already taken part of the realm for themselves.
It was an instinctual sense but I knew just by that very instinct that I was not going to be given an easy battle.
My wings spread to the side, the aether that hid deep within my head spreading through them and creating a realm of fire.
They would soon learn that there was a reason that I lived in a volcano.
The air around grew warr and warr until even I, in all my resistance could feel it.
I smirk appeared on my face, my preparations were complete. Yet still they did not move from their spot.
It angered , despite the intrinsic competitive feeling that I had they still underestimated .
ROAR
With that declaration I was upon them, my body shrinking until it was the size of them. Claws enchanted with fire grazed their skin before they dodged.
The purple one jumped above , a dagger unsheathed from wherever it was hiding before it was thrown at . I dodged that but failed to notice the spear that had made its way into my wing.
The other child, the one with long gray hair had pulled the spear from his back and pierced my wing.
A roar of pain was upon my jaw but I ignored that, instead channeling it into a haze of smoke.
The montary blindness barely affected them but they did need a millisecond to adjust. It was barely enough ti for to retreat.
However by the ti that I was a couple feet away from them they had already recovered.
Both of them were upon , their attacks coordinated to overwhelm . It was double layered, the one with the spear in my face with the spear poised to rip my throat out and the other covering both my back and retreat.
I was forced to dodge it. For a mont I saw death but combat instincts brought back to safety.
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