Marinette's POV
That day, no one would believe my words if they didn't witness what I was seeing with a couple of pink eyes of Diana.
The ground was shaking, and the barrier which protected the northern empire from the cruel coldness of the snow turned black from the big black shadow of the almighty creature who defended the northern empire for thousands of years.
Just only one wing could blow a city away, the breath of the dragon almost burnt my skin alive if I didn't take shelter on ti.
Everyone in the empire was trembling when seeing their dragon wake up for the first ti in many centuries.
"The dragon...his mighty Igneel..." I sneakily walked to the inn when I saw the unusual amount of energy surrounding the knight.
It might be so sort of buff as the dragon finally woke up.
The dragon flapped its wing in result breaking the barrier falling apart on the building. It finally landed at the other side of the mountain which was the mountain I was teleported in.
But that didn't make my escape from the northern empire easier even if the dragon switched where it stayed.
The dragon opened its eyes wide staring at the royal palace down at the mountain.
"Victor, let's go. We need to leave now." I took his hands and packed up his bag for him and also woke up Valencia.
I needed to escape from here as those soldiers were gathering in front of the royal palace kneeling down to its dragon. The dragons who were flying around the border also flew to the king of the dragon.
An opportunity like that won't co in the future.
Victor used the gem and hid all of our scents. We used the crowd of the citizen to run to the secret entrance Valencia used for sneaking inside the empire.
"Wait, Marinette!!! What about..." I already what he was gonna ask, but as he saw Valencia near , he didn't. It was a wise choice.
I patted his shoulder to reassure him. He nodded and we continued to run away.
I can't swap body with Diana as the situation change, that emperor will beco more powerful as the dragon gave all the citizen power. I read it in the history book of the northern empire.
There will be a day when the dragon woke up, their power remain strong and didn't weaken through generation because the dragon kept feeding them the power.
If I ever swap bodies with Diana, that emperor will kill and go find his daughter.
"This is the secret entrance, but it is too crampy at first, but after we get in...you two need to stay close to no matter what." Valencia sounded serious as she crawled inside the hole.
Victor followed her in there, so did I. But when we entered, it was a maze in there.
"Who built this maze??"
"I don't know either, but this is the only way I know to get out of this empire."
The inside was pitch black, the only light which lead our way was the torch held by Victor.
I listened to Valencia's words and walked close to her in each of my steps. The place was creepy with the bat on the ceiling and the little water dripped from the wall echoing in the maze.
Many thoughts crossed my mind when I crossed the border walking through the maze. I felt a little bit scared as I walked out of that empire leaving Marinette's body behind. And I knew too well that I won't be able to swap the body with Diana ever again.
I will be stuck inside Diana's body forever unless Diana made her way out of the empire asking that emperor's permission.
"Marinette, where is Valencia??" Victor tapped my shoulder stopping from walking. I saw Valencia in front of just a second ago, it was as if she vanished into thin air.
Victor took out his sword when the torches on the wall lit up.
We were trapped in the four corners room with no way out. The only possible things were the wall could move by itself or soone was controlling the maze.
"Marinette, stand behind ." I listened to what he said while looking out for any enemy coming from the shadow surrounding us.
Gathering my magic with trembling hands in the cold atmosphere was impossible.
I wasn't worried about Valencia as she knew her way out and I didn't delete any of her mories about her magic.
But one thing was off, if Valencia was blind, how could she move so freely??
"Well, well, well, isn't this the people on the poster??? What's your business here??!!" I flinched from the sound of the drunken man, my head hurt as it reminded of soone. Seeing his big hand, my back was dripping cold sweat.
I couldn't breathe as if soone took all the air away.
"Who are you???" Victor reached his hand out to protect as those guys were approaching us.
"Don't worry, that black-haired woman is also with us. This is our hideout. You can trust us."
"How can we trust you??!!!"
"Alright, guys...drop all the weapons!! And call lady Valencia here."
Lady Valencia??
When Valencia ca as soon as they called, we follow those guys to their base inside the mountain. Valencia put the towel on my forehead to wipe my sweat.
"Unnie, these guys are the rchant. They sell goods here."
"How did you disappear suddenly like that?? I was so worried."
"Ahaha...I accidentally step on the trap which led to them. I'm really sorry."
"Don't worry. As long as you're alright." even though Valencia told that, I couldn't trust any of those guys.
The posters of us were brought inside their hideout. There was no way they took it here for decoration.
The money on finding us could help them from secretly selling kinds of stuff inside the cold mountain. The business wasn't even blooming with only a few people knowing about the entrance.
Only ti could tell who will betray, everyone was hiding their intention.
Victor also noticed that, he kept his guard up all the ti.
"Victor, here. You must eat sothing." I handed him the bread I bought for him, it was his favorite food.
His eyes were teary as he ate it. I also gave a donut to Valencia, seeing both of them enjoy eating their breakfast. I didn't feel the need of eating anything.
While they were eating, I got up and walked around the hideout to take a look at the stuff they sold there. I had so money that the emperor gave .
Their stuff was quite rare. If I was lucky, I might land on a jackpot in that situation.
Their people were around four to five people with that yellow head as the leader, the yellow head was the drunk guy from earlier. He really reminded of my father back on earth.
I sighed and continued on looking at the stuff. I really wanted so potion to make the eyesight of seeing the soul go away. I could see all sorts of ghosts inside the hideout.
In the end, I bought sothing. But I didn't show it to Victor or Valencia and swallowed the item I bought inside my empty stomach.
The pain went away after I took the pain killer dicine.
My ti remained reduced, and the mory bacn on earth also slowly faded away.
Ack...
I took many pain killer drugs, but it wasn't quite effective as the pain kept coming back.
I sat down in disappointnt on the small rock, a rchant walked to and handed a ring.
"It looks lovely on you, my lady."
Yeah right, everything looked beautiful on Diana.
But there was no doubt, the purple gem ring really stood out.
"What's special about this ring??"
"It belongs to the first ancestor of the Mortel family, you know...the family of the death roses magic in the Center Empire."
The first ancestor of the Mortel family?? Herod???
Marinette t him once in her past life's mories, he was a man who discovered many types of magic, the first man who could evolve the light magic to more powerful magic.
I wonder what was so special about his ring, I asked the rchant, "Is there any magic on the ring??"
"It is pretty..." I was speechless at the rchant's response and took the ring wearing it on Diana's finger since it was cheap anyway.
I walked back to Victor and told him it was ti to get out. I didn't feel safe in their hideout.
Valencia led us out silently from the hideout, no one would be able to notice if their attention wasn't on us.
Just as expected, they really wanted to sell us out judging by the footstep behind us.
"Unnie, soone is following us."
"Are they the rchant from before??"
"No, soone else." the footstep started to be louder in my ears as I could hear it from the other side of the wall as well.
Sothing was off, usually, the rchant wouldn't hide their face if they wanted the custor's trust but all of those rchants...they hid their face.
Among them, one had white hair similar to that person.
With Valencia, they didn't show themselves yet, and it looked like those people only disguised themselves as the rchant and led us to their hideout just to observe us.
Such audacity of them to challenge the third rank legendary demon.
We must stick to Valencia in the anti.
But among five of them, the yellow head guy was really a real deal rchant, I could know it. And the guy who sold the ring, it had a faint of the death roses magic, so he was the real deal.
If the knights disguised at the rchant, it should be okay since we could avoid them but what if...
"Victor, do you like the bread I gave you?"
"Yes, my lady."
Ahh...sh*t.
Just when...
"I thought you would prefer it more with strawberry jam." I walked to Valencia and wrote the letter with my finger on her palm. She nodded.
Phew...
I took a deep breath and pushed Valencia to run from there.
Death Roses Magic: Roses of Death
"My lady, watch out!!! That man is--"
Turn out, the people following us was really the rchant. There wasn't any knight.
It was the secretary Oliver all along fooling making believe he was Victor.
"Die!!"
The dragon's descendants could transform to the dragon, but when their magic evolves to a certain point, they even could transform to any of their targets when the condition is fulfilled.
He finally revealed his true face, I really hated that face of the man who fooled twice.
"My lady, you have my respect of knowing I'm the impostor...but you shouldn't underestimate . I'm the emperor's right-hand man!!"
More like a slave...
Urghh...
My magic vanished as the pain suddenly rose up in my body, I put my hand on the hurting chest and used that opportunity to make the perfect faint.
I can't leave Victor behind. That guy wasn't the one who should be defeated easily, did he forget sothing back at the empire???
To be continued....!
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