The guard getting a little startled from my vagueness wants to investigate but before he gets to the door, I can't help but speak.
"It's too late"
"What do you an it's too late?"
"What I an is, if you go outside now, you will die"
"J-Just what's happening out there?"
I almost feel sorry for him, only ti I got this fearful was with heights. This is a much, much worse.
"Dragons"
"Y-You weren't lying?"
Oh, this guard must have been listening to my conversation with the pervert guy, whatever his na was again.
Why am I telling him this? Unlike that lord, he seems like an alright guy. He doesn't deserve what's happening right now.
The world around us shakes massively again throwing the guard to the ground again, I didn't get up last ti because I knew this would happen again. Then, the faint sound of a voice can be heard.
"Where --- heck -- my --------?"
Then without warning, the voice gets much clearer and louder.
"BASTARRDDDSSSS!!!"
The entire dungeon shook even more than before with large parts of the walls and ceiling crumbling around and the guard. He now looks terrified and shell shocked as well.
'I appreciate the rescue but I'd rather not be crus-'
Father cut off my thoughts with his voice being the loudest I've ever heard inside my head.
'Damn, that's loud fath-'
He cut off again, what the hell is going on up here? Fathers voice inside my head even sounds fearful as well. Was that mothers voice cursing earlier?
And how can he even communicate with ? Oh, the ceiling of the dungeon has collapsed. I can even see the rubble of the manor I was in before. I need to get out as soon as possible.
"Guard! You need to let out now otherwise every person in the city is screwed"
The guard who was out of it quickly realizes he needs to do sothing.
"U-Uhh… O-Okay!"
He rapidly gets out his keys and unlocks the jail cell. I get up off the floor and leave the cell with him.
"Lead the way, now!"
"O-Okay"
I start following him out of the prison and we quickly end up back at that fancy manor. Instantly, I notice the destruction around . The entire fancy manor is practically rubble with destruction everywhere.
And that's not the only thing, bodies. I can see limbs sticking out of rubble piles obviously being crushed by the roof coming down.
'Haven't got the ti for this'
I quickly go to one of the collapsed walls and try to see what's going on. The guard is also following .
Once I get to where I need to, what I can see from here is terrifying.
From this manor which is upon a hill, the sight of an entire city, burned, crushed, blackened and devastated. It almost looks like aftermath of a nuclear bomb. Flying above the ruins is a red creature that appears so large and so evil, anyone would think it's the end of the world.
'I am beco death, the destroyer of worlds'
"Oh, dear god, please have rcy on our sins"
The guard falls to his knees and starts praying after seeing the destruction which has fallen upon the city.
"BURN YOU INSIGNIFICANT RATS!!!"
The dragon spews fire like a volcano saring even more of the collapsed city black. Once again, another rumble shakes the ground but thankfully, I can still stand this ti.
'Okay, need to do this before anything else happens!'
"MOTHER… CALM, THE FUCK, DOWN!!"
I shout this as loud as I possibly can hoping I can get her attention. My swearing seems to normally reach her ears.
"IKARUS!!!"
While the gigantic red dragon turns her head towards my direction and a black dragon appears from above , I fall to the ground due to the dragon language shaking the area.
The black one quickly lands next to while I'm still staggering to get myself back up. The red one is also rapidly flying over.
Was he trying to stop her from doing this? I thought he hated humans.
Mother then lands crashing into the remaining standing parts of manor flattening even more of it. She then run towards and once she's here, she hugs the life out of .
'Is it raini- No, it's not'
Tears flow from mother's eyes while she's clutching , even I'm trying to hold it in. She really is a little too much.
"Mother, I can't breathe"
I could but being in this form next to mother was becoming a little intimidating. Imagine the biggest ever dinosaur to ever exist and then imagine a human standing next to it, that was mother's actual size, just wasn't as noticeable in phoenix form. I actually have no idea how she hugged without crushing as well.
"I appreciate the rescue but… wasn't that a little much?"
I feel like I need to tell her off for all this but have no right to. This is all my fault to begin with. If I had just not investigated that corpse in the forest, none of this would have happened.
Then I start panicking about sothing.
"Wait a second, where's Minos?"
Ah, good. That's a massive sigh of relief seeing that he doesn't have to witness this.
"Another thing, I don't know how to take off this choker. Can you get it off without breaking it?"
Despite all that's gone on, I still want to keep this. Having a human form with teeth and arms is a real blessing. And I like my appearance too much to throw it away.
"…"
The anxious guard has no clue what to do or say when a large scale is dropped in front of him.
"O-O-Okay"
The guard picks up the scale roughly the sa size of his entire body and runs out of the building away from sight of us. The dragon scale must have been really light since he was easily able to carry it with him.
I look over to where he was sitting and can see a small puddle.
'Poor guy, think he wet himself'
It's pretty understandable. If I was in his position, probably would have done the sa. These two dragons did just wipe out his city.
As we we're leaving, a small thought enters my mind.
'I'm never gonna be allowed out again, am I?'
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'Shut it, system'
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It's been several days since the incident that happened and not much has gone on. My parents helped take the choker off by forcing magic into it and once it opened up, a cloud of smoke appeared around and I instantly turned back into bird form. Strange feeling but wasn't terrible.
After I could actually examine what was on my neck, I instantly noticed a design flaw.
There's no way I can put this back on without arms, damn these wings. You might think why not use my legs and claws to do it? Already tried for close to a day, I'm not even close to being flexible enough. Just ans I have to ask for help if I want change form, that doesn't suck at all.
As for what's going on currently, I'm back in the cave on the lovely nest and don't dare to step foot outside right now after what happened. There is the slight issue that no-one seems to be able to acknowledge what just occurred.
"Are we ever going to speak about what just happened in the city?"
Father gives a stern look while mother has a sad look to her.
"I can't, an entire city just got massacred because of "
Damn it, I've never heard father use my na like that. I should shut up.
I'm not sure if I agree with him or not but I'll let it go, I think even he feels a little guilty for what's happened. It seems all three us feel responsible for what's happened.
…
The atmosphere in the cave is really tense, I should probably try and ease the tension but I'm not sure how to do it this ti.
"Cu!"
Thank God for my little adorable brother, he knows when he's needed. He cos along looking happy and upbeat when the world needed him most.
"Cu, cu cu… Cu!"
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