Chapter 1: Honor among thieves
Venice, Italy
Night has fallen across the city of canals, lamp posts lit up and the streets bask themselves in a romantic nighttime atmosphere
The stage is set at the local opera house, the guests lined up and show their tickets to check attendance. The main foyer with red carpet and golden statues dating back to Byzantine era, complete with the intricate craftsmanship that has been a signature of the Byzantine Empire throughout the centuries.
Among the guests was a smartly dressed, wealthy American with blond hair and a rather slender, edgy face. His dark eyes dart around, taking a glance at the crowd of opera goers before making his way to the second floor where his VIP box is. This man is none other than Eli Excelsior Pandarus, the wizard of Wall Street. His black and red cape fluttered behind him as he walked into his VIP boxes on the right hand side of the theater, there he sat down on his gold ornate Victorian era chair and began to enjoy the opera show.
It was the performance of Rossini's La Gazza Ladra, the Thieving Magpie. Eli set his suitcase on the ground, reclining on the chair with one leg over the other. "Is there anything you need sir?" Said a feminine voice from behind him, in the doorway stood a female troll with a glass of tea for his refreshment.
"Of course, a cup of tea please." He said, the female troll then handed him the cup of tea and he took it after a "Thank you" escaped his mouth. The wizard then casually took a sip of his tea, enjoying both the drink and the opera but then, something struck his mind. The troll lady was inside a generally human theater, and she offered him a cup of tea and it slipped through his mind. Not only that, he didn't even bother observing how the lady troll dressed, how accurate her uniform was to the staffs of the opera house. Perhaps a tad bit but not by a longshot.
He sniffed the tea again and it reeks with the smell of illusion leaves, notorious for their heavy odor. Eli looked down at his feet and found that his suitcase was gone and he gritted his teeth in anger. He summons his staff, which poofs out of the thin air after a cloud of smoke appeared, the door swung open and he went out to the hallway looking back and forth for the troll, he found the door to the staircase was slowly creaking, meaning someone has been there.
"Nobody steals from Eli Pandarus." He muttered menacingly as he gives chase.
He pushed the door open and ran up the stair cases as he saw the silhouette of the thief heading upward, but now he knew who was the thief, a dragoness as he saw her horn and snout being briefly highlighted by the light bulbs above. "Dragons, why won't they leave my businesses alone?" He grumbled and speeds up his chasing to the roof. Under the pale moonlight and starry night sky, he saw the dragoness running with his suitcase in her hand. Her scales were in a navy blue color with red spikes and flowing brunette hair. Strangely enough, this dragoness appears to have light blue stripes on her back, red stomach, amber eyes and a white diamond on her forehead. He swung his staff and summons a fiery red wall in her path to slow down her momentum and fire his energy blast at her.
The dragoness quickly swivels her head around and let out a fiery light blue breath to clash with the energy beam coming from Eli's staff. "Hand over the case and I'll let you fly. Otherwise, the vampires can have your blood." He said menacingly as he kept up the energy blast from his staff and his focus remains undivided.
"Sorry, my payment for this is too good to pass up." Said the dragoness. She cheekily gave him a wink and huffed out a more powerful blast at Eli's staff, triggering an explosion on the rooftop that knocks his staff off of his hands. Thankfully for them, their duel was happening in cocurrent with the high note of the opera in the floor below. And the explosion wasn't as violent as a definitive gunshot. The dragoness would then jump off the roof, spreads her wings and flies off into the night. Eli ran to the edge of the opera house, looking at the fleeting silhouette of the dragoness in the sky, he gritted his teeth and gripped the brick structure, crushing it with his wizard power.
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New York, USA
Her long flight home was finished, it was exhausting but still safer than simply using a monitored airport. She arrived in her apartment in Manhattan on the rooftop where the dragoness transformed into her human form, a young Caucasian female artist with a pair of glasses and brunette hair. Her neighbors, friends and colleagues would call her Kim, but they never refer to her as a dragoness, for they have no clue of her true identity. Kimberly was now in her black goth T-shirt with a pair of jeans and white sneakers.
She casually walks down the staircase to her apartment on the penultimate top floor and enter her humble abode. A simple apartment with a small living room, a bed that can be folded into the wall to save space. A flat screen TV that is standard issue in all American homes, and her desktop PC with art programs. Kimberly puts the suitcase on her bed and began to examine the locking mechanism of it, finding out immediately that Eli has a code combination lock. "Bah, I don't have time for this." She grumbled, her hand transformed into dragon talons once again, which she used to swipe the locks, leaving pieces of plastic bits of the suitcase on the ground.
"Well that is simpler, albeit somewhat messy in the process I must say." She said. The lid was flipped open revealing Eli's belongings and effects. None of which interested her, save a rolled up map canvas. "Ah here it its. Let's see if this old thing has what I need." Kimberly opened the map, it showcases an area of what is now Greece and Turkey, however, the map and names of the locales were all in Latin, perhaps drawn by Ancient Romans in the area of what was once Pergamon.
Kimberly traced her finger along a footpath highlighted on the map to a cave depiction with a shiny pond drawn on the piece of canvas. She tapped her finger lightly on the spot and grinned. "Well I guess it's time to return the man's belonging. I hate to see a grown man cry over his lost trinkets." She cheekily chuckled before closing the suitcase and put the map into her backpack for safe keeping. For the rest of the night, she would sleep soundly until day break.
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Another day has come and another flurry of activities for Ravenfire, as soon as she got out of bed, Ravenfire immediately went to her PC and boot up the machine. The first thing she did on her PC was to fire up Google Chrome and punch in the named Pergamon on the search bar. With one press on her Enter button, columns of website addresses pops up on screen, she scrolls down the with her middle mouse until one website came into view, an archive page containing information on Magical creatures and artifacts for beings like herself. The exact name can not be accessed by humans, but magical creatures like dragons can see its contracted name " " very well.
She smirked upon seeing the name and clicked on it without a second thought. After 2 seconds of waiting, the website loaded up with an earthly brown background and red text appears over the background. An old portrait of the Goo pond pops up on screen, it was an artist depiction of the pond from their imagination. The portrait shows a dark cavern with a shiny, glistening pond in the center of the place. According to the written text, the Goo Pond is a magical locale accessible only by dragons. The pond has a magical property to it as only a selected dragon or dragoness may bathe themselves in the pond and receive a transformation, uplifting them from them a normal draconian creature into a being known as Goo Dragon.
Ravenfire leaned back against her chair and stroke her chin showing her interest in the information. She clicked on the highlighted text of "Goo Dragon", the website then directed her to another page but this one was rather limited on information, she hummed to herself going over what the page has to say.
It would seem that a Goo Dragon is a special species of symbiotic magical creature. Their most defining characteristic is their smooth gel like skin rather than the usual rough scale surface like their vanilla counterparts. Not another defining characteristic they have is their shape shifting power much more developed than other dragons and can easily slip through solid obstacles or take on the form of any other creatures they come into contact with. In short, a T-1000 version of the dragon species. However, that was all the page has to offer and any other information regarding this species remains elusive.
"I wonder if it's just a myth of a myth, or they do exist but are so elusive that no concrete information is presented. Oh well. Better go get my GPS from the shop." She shut down her PC and got up from her seat, she dressed herself up with her blue jeans, black goth T-shirt and a sweater and exited her apartment.
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Lao Shi's electronic store, a humble outlet for everyone's electronic needs. From their radio, television, stereo sets to their cell phones and GPS, Luong Lao Shi has you covered, provided that his back is not aching. Kim opens the door of the store looking around for the owner but what she found however, was Fu Dog sitting by the counter working on her GPS device, it was a light blue device with four stripes on it, similar to her dragon form. "Hey Fu, how is Lao Shi doing?" She asked in a friendly, cheerful tone.
"Oh hey Kim, I got your GPS all fix up now. Looks like you're going somewhere again right?" He asked naively, he knows that she is an adventurer, but the greatest mystery has always been figuring out her destinations and intentions.
She picked up her GPS, flipping it back and forth before switching it on to check its functionality. Thankfully for her, the screen flicker to life and reveals a global map, the map then zoom in on her location in New York with the exact street and address highlighted. "Oh I'll be going to Asia Minor this time. Can't tell you what, since my client is pretty hush about it. How is Lao Shi?" She retorted to him, which made him sighed out.
"Ah the old man just simply can't stop trying to prove that he's hip. But then again, he doesn't have a Facebook account yet either. Go figure." He giggled a bit, only for Lao Shi's ears to catch his mocking assessment from behind the shop, it was followed by a barrage of Mandarin shouts before the elderly spoke English.
"Aya Fu Dog! I am not hideously old to the point of decrepit!" Said the old man from behind the shop as he sat crossed leg on his chair working on his laptop, apparently setting up his Facebook account with Jake's help. "All right young dragon, how do I input my password?" Lao Shi focused his eyes out, failing to notice his grandson's dismay.
"I'll be off now Fu, see you later." She handed in her cash for the service of Lao Shi's store and exited politely, Fu was left counting the money before grabbing a Magical Journal off the shelf of the shop and bring it to Jake and Lao Shi behind the shop.
"Okay gang we got ourselves some new magic mojo now. Say hello to the ultimate mystery of the Dragon species." Fu excitedly flips the journal open to page 394, where the holographic display shows the same pond Ravenfire was looking for with a Dragon to act as an example. "Behold, the Goo Dragon Pond." He imitates the sound of fanfare.
"Goo Dragon Pond? What kind of magical mojo is that?" Jake asked in disinterest. Clearly he was having some uncomfortable thoughts in her mind, namely the possible kinky ideas that might bubble up to the surface with the mentioning of Goo. After all, he was now 15 and his teenage needs have expanded beyond necessities.
"That's by far the greatest secret of the dragons. Ya see kiddo, the Pond itself belongs to a special breed of dragon called the goo dragon. Only selected individuals from normal species may join the goo dragon by bathing themselves in the pond and transform." The holographic dragon then jumped into the pond to bathe itself in the goo substance and transformed to illustrate for Jake.
"Oh I see. Sounds cool, and since I'm the AmDrag, let's go find this pond and claim the prize before some losers can pull their real estate in it." He got up to his feet cockily and proceeds to make flashy show off moves as usual, one year clearly has no major impact on one's psychological development.
"Whoa. Hold your horses kiddo. We can't come with you." Fu Dog said, this however cuts Jake's excitement short as he jerked his head back in surprise.
"Wait what? What do you mean you can't go with me?" He asked, sounding reasonably surprised and confused.
"You see young dragon, the Goo Dragon is a species that is quite selective and secretive. No concrete evidences of them exists. Not even to us. No one knows why. Hence, only a Dragon worthy of their preferences may find a Pond and join them." Lao Shi sighed out as his eyes closed bitterly.
"But wait so that means I might be chosen but I just don't know it yet? Then I'll find the pond by myself then, just tell me at least one pond that has been found but no one has ever accessed it." He got to his knees begging Fu Dog with a desperate face, clearly the young teenager was trying to satisfy his ego.
"Agh, whatever kid, you'll find one sitting in Turkey, there's a cavern on the side of a mountain but you'll have to traverse it yourself." Fu Dog said in defeat, much to Jake's joy. However Lao Shi himself face palmed, feeling embarrassed by his grandson's insatiable thirst for glory and general lack of humility. "But to get there and back quickly given the time frame. You'll need these to help." Fu Dog then gave Jake a pair of gem like stones, they were identical but dark with two arrows going in opposite directions of a circle.
"What are these?" Jake asked, picking up the stones and gave them a quick glance.
"These are the Return and Sender stones. The one that has the arrow going away from the circle is the sender, hold it and tell it where you wanna go and you'll be sent there. The return stone is back at the shop to be your default return position." Fu set the Return stone on the table of the shop and gave Jake the Sender stone. The young Chinese-American has the stone in his hand like a charm. "Okay now all you need to do is focus on your destination and speak its name." He then browses through the information in the Magical Journal, his paw underline the written text until he found the references for the exact location for Jake, he then relayed it to the young American Dragon. Jake brightens up his smile and held the stone in his hand firmly and called out the name of the cavern, this sends him into a haze of teleportation as he saw the world around him became blurry and his body felt like it was streaking like the star across the globe, crossing the Atlantic Ocean towards what was once Pergamon, now Turkey.
He landed in front of a dark cavern by a mountainside, behind him was forest of Mediterranean climate and around him were rocky, hilly terrain, courtesy of the Asia Minor topography. It was nighttime now in Turkey as the stars filled the sky. However, much to Jake's dismay upon his landing, he found that someone has already arrived ahead of him, with fresh dragon footprints. "Oh no you won't steal this one from me." He glared at the trace and began to run into the cave to find the contender.
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While Jake Long was travelling into the cavern by himself to find the pond, his contender has already made head wave. Ravenfire was now deep inside the dark and windy cavern, the sound of the wind howling through the cavern, the surrounding environment was like a veil of darkness with only her chemlight to show her the way forward. With every step forward, the veil once again shroud the path she has trod, obstructed her view, fueling her curiosity further to find what's inside the darkness beyond.
Soon, something caught her eyes, a shiny reflective light was welcoming her at the end of the cavern. It must be close, she knows it. She picked up her pace and ran with gleeful excitement of a young girl finding her treasure, because here she has found her treasure. The Dragoness came through a crevice and found a large pond with shiny goo dripping inside of it. Above it a well-rounded hole for Dragons to fly out.
"This is it, the pond of the Goo Dragon, I'll make history with this finding. But how to take the pond back home?" She asked herself but was suddenly greeted by a kick across her chest that sends her into the wall. The lone fighter soon stood up from the kick and reveals herself to be a goo dragoness, one with dark shade of purple and cyan dots on her legs. Ravenfire could see her attacker's hands has rectangular black blocks.
The dragoness apparently has an anthro pose, standing upright with black colored front side, her breasts were quite ample with an obvious B-Cup size and her nipples once combined with her rather well-endowed form creates a very virulent dragoness. Her face has pronked like horns with strands of hair to decorate her beauty and violet eyes. Yet despite the beauty of her body, she lacks her wings even when folded, Ravenfire knows a dragon's wings would always protrude upward.
"You got some nerves there to bring the pond with you. I'll see to your failure, make it absolute." The goo dragoness said in a determined, deep feminine voice.
"Sorry hun, but this pond got a price tag on it. And I'm paying for every cent to haul this thing home." Ravenfire smirked and return the favor with her fire breath at the guardian's torso, but unlike other dragons who would fly out of the way, this goo dragoness simply melt down into goo like form, she splits herself into half, leaving a large hole for the flaming column to streak through and reform herself next to it.
"Nice trick thief, but you can't best a guardian with vanilla powers like that." The guardian proudly boasted as she made a somersault and kick Ravenfire's flat chest. The blue dragoness was pinned against the wall, sending out light tremors to Jake Long who now stuck in the dark with little clue to navigate the cavern. "Let's see who you are. Thief." The dragoness smirked as she devolves into her goo like form once again, this time the goo latches onto Ravenfire, causing her to mumble and fell to the ground, rolling and struggling to rip it off of her.
"Get off me you bitch!" Ravenfire managed to coughed out but was quickly gagged by the latex latching on to her mouth, she felt her mind was being probed, invaded even by the guardian. "What the fuck are you doing to me!?" As her mind was being probed, she felt something, a connection between their minds was briefly formed and she can peer back into the Guardian's mine, listening to her every thought and memories until one thing came up. "Serlene?" She gasped out, falling to the ground as the guardian release Ravenire from her grip.
Serlene reconstitute her body standing proudly in front of Ravenfire, rubbing her hands together and chuckle. "Told you so. Now then, what should I do with you?"
"I'm not done with you yet…" Ravenfire muttered, she gets back on her feet and prepare to fight again, the treasure huntress threw a fist at Serlene's face, thankfully, this time her punch connected and she saw Serlene being thrown back landing on the dragoness's own chest. "Told you so... I'm not done yet." She snarled out.
Serlene of course made some backflips and stood back up letting out a torrent of purple flame at Ravenfire, catching her off guard and slamming her against the wall. "Should have stopped there Ravenfire but you just have to listen to your paycheck now do you?" Serlene made a tsk-tsk sound as she approached the unconscious treasure huntress, she knelt down and examines the dragoness carefully, going over each detail of her face and body.
But as she does so, the pond was shining even brighter than before, the flashing light coming from the goo catches her attention as she gasped and her jaw hung open. She can hear a voice, void of vigor or personality calling to her but it was one that she recognizes as her authority figure. She held her temple with both hands and knelt down. "Yes noble elder? Really? Are you certain? Very well noble elder I shall do as you wish." She reluctantly got up to her feet looking back at Ravenfire with confused eyes before muttering. "You're one lucky thief, I'll give you that."
Serlene picked up Ravenfire and carry the unconscious dragoness in her hands, she approaches the pond and once Ravenfire was over it, the pond's already bright light glows even brighter, it became a beacon that draws Jake Long in like a firefly to a light source. Serlene then dipped Ravenfire into the pond, submersing her inside of it as the light glows ever brighter with each seconds passed, Serlene began to utter an incantation foreign to all ears and tongues. The goo wraps itself around Ravenfire's body, rapidly it pours into her mouth and converge on her organs, a metamorphosis was occurring to her body. But as the changes occur under the thick surface of the goo, the pond slowly drain itself until there was not a drop left in it.
Jake Long by now was hiding behind some rocks of the crevice looking at the sight of the drained pond, from his eye, he could make out two dragonesses inside the hub. But what he saw however was the sight of a dragoness far beyond what he considers beauty. Ravenfire, once a simple dragoness was now a goo dragoness. Her body levitates in midair and was now standing upright with her still deep in her sub consciousness.
Her body has undergone impressive changes. First, her scale color has radically changed from the usual blue to a more purple color with bar code like rectangular stripes on her hands, her legs have black dots running in well organized columns. Her stomach and front side has jet black scales with C-Cup breasts with virulent nipples on her smooth mounds. Her backside was equally beautiful with well-rounded butt stocks and a long slender tail. However, like Serlene, her body has neither spikes nor wings. Instead, on her back were two cyan lines running in parallel to each other. On her head, her horns have now curled up like that of a ram.
Serlene gasped out while Jake watched in awe his mouth hung open as his mind slipped the notion of him losing his prize, the guardian dragoness at that moment was waiting anxiously for Ravenfire to opens her eyes. Soon enough, the converted dragoness opens her eyes which were now cyan.
Ravenfire gasped out completely confused by what has happened to her. She instinctively raised her hands up to inspect them, to her amazement, her hands and arms were now glistening thanks to the latex like texture. Ravenfire gasped upon seeing her hands have changed as they now also have paw pads and more human like proportion in term of muscle mass. She trailed her gaze down to her chest and found herself now in possession of rather impressively ample breasts, naturally, for modesty reasons, she crossed her arms around her breasts to hide them.
"Relax, you'll get used to it eventually." Said Serlene as she walked out of the dark. "I fought you without a piece of cloth on me and did I flinch in fear?" She confidently took a few strides and lean herself against one of the pillar of the room, standing in front of Ravenfire.
"You! You turned me into a goo dragon? Why did you do that?" Ravenfire asked in a mixture of outrage and confuse. She looks down and found how Serlene herself didn't make any attempts to cover her mound, she sighed out and reluctantly drop her hands.
"The Elders wish for you to join us, you happen to be a lucky winner for their lottery pick. Ever heard of the legends?" Serlene retorted, she doesn't seem to be interested in Ravenfire's transformation and inclusion but rather more on the cryptic reasoning.
Then it struck Ravenfire's mind, she has heard of legends and mythos of the Goo dragon before and how they only propagate their species by converting selected few individuals of various other dragon species. Perhaps Ravenfire is one of those selected. "Rocky introduction aside, I think I could learn how to get used to this new dragon form." Ravenfire looked down and sighed out, inspecting her appearance again. This however, earn a nod and approval smile from Serlene.
"I think we can do that. Since I was converted some years ago, I know the tricks like flying, shapeshifting, dominate minds and other things." She walked around the empty pond and stood on the edge of it, much to Ravenfire's curiosity, the burning question was how can they fly?
"Speaking of flying, I don't have any wings left. So how EXACTLY can I fly home?" She asked out impatiently, as much as her wing can get in the way sometimes, they're part of her identity and species. Serlene however, chuckle playfully at Ravenfire's frowning.
"Oh don't worry, your wings are still there. Look at my back, you see these two lines running parallel to one another, they are where your wings fold into to make rooms and ease your back." True to her words, Serlene's wings began to sprout out of the two lines running down her back, their bat like leather design extends and unfold outward, showing herself in full glory, Ravenfire can do nothing but awed at it.
Ravenfire instinctively focused her mind on controlling her wings to sprout them, miraculously, her second hand instinct was still there and easy as ever. She felt her wings materializing behind her, sprouting out of the two sockets on her back, once the limbs of her wings were stretched out, she flaps them to get the feel of them once again and panted in jubilant pride. "Alright then let's fly out of here and back to your home. You got a lot of training to do." Serlene teasingly jumped start and fly out of the hole on the ceiling, Ravenfire soon followed and quickly took to the air. Above she finds that Serlene was heading back to New York, apparently the mind reading of Serlene has yielded a good deal of useful information. The new convert follows along and flew across the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
"Awww man! Why is it always I have to be second fiddle to everyone?" Jake complained after witnessing the whole thing, he might have heard her name as well. He quickly grabbed the stone in his pocket and speaks "Return" into it. His body apparates again, and flew across the ocean once more, streaking over the two dragonesses without them noticing and landed back in his grandpa's shop. Unfortunately his landing was less than stellar as he crashed into some boxes of Fu Dog's magazines.
"Oh hey kid, back so soon? So did you find anything?" Fu Dog giggled as he Jake got out of the magazine stacks and put them back together halfheartedly. This prompts an outraged Jake to fly into a rant about his failure and supposed thief stealing his prize.
"Ugh! I can't believe that I lost! I was about to get in there, dip into the pond and get some transformation for the AmDrag. But somebody just have to swoop and stole every single last drop out of it!" He panted and huffed angrily as his head was steaming red.
"Young Dragon! I believe you lust for pride and vanity has gone too far! You will learn some discipline and self-control starting right now!" His grandfather jumps up then gave him a few knocking on his head with his cane. He then pinched Jake's ear and dragged him off, for some more dragon training much to Fu's amusement, but at the same time, concern. Perhaps an older Jake does equate with a wiser Jake.
Later that day, Ravenfire and Serlene has returned to New York after a long flight from Turkey, it was now dusk as they landed on the roof of Ravenfire's apartment. Instead of shape shifting and take the stairwell down, Serlene opted to crawl down the brick wall of the apartment like Spider Man. She folded her wings into her back once again, then she crawls on the surface of the brick like a gecko or chameleon. Ravenfire was a bit unsure as she watched how Serlene easily traverses the vertical surface. Once Serlene has reached the window of Ravenfire's apartment, the dragoness reaches her hand into the crevice of the window and her body dissolve into slippery goo, she literally slipped into Ravenfire's apartment and reconstitute her body quite easily.
"Oh well, better learn my perks before going anywhere else." Ravenfire shrugged and began to traverse the vertical surface, she memorizes the pattern Serlene took and once she arrived at her window, she repeats what Serlene had done using a combination of memory mimicry and instinct. Thankfully, her mind felt the form of her body starting to dissipate, first it was her fingers by the crevice, then it extends to her hands. She slipped her already slippery limbs into her apartment as her entire body soon follow up. However, the new goo dragoness wasn't as skill or finesse as Serlene as her tail slipped down, swung past the window of an apartment below, accidentally knocking off a plant pot. She cringed at her clumsiness, when the occupant of the apartment below went out to the balcony to check on the commotion, Ravenfire hastily slipped into her apartment, looking quite disturbed by the experience.
Serlene clapped her hands gently, giving Ravenfire a moment of respite. "Bravo, you weren't half bad, though you were still a little rough around the edges there. Anyway nice apartment for a treasure hunter." She complimented as she took a look around Ravenfire's home while the new goo dragoness sits down on her PC and fired it up.
"Well it's not exactly the Ritz but it's better than nothing. Now that I think about it, how can I exactly move the Pond out if I succeed? Oh what am I thinking? Who and how did they know about the pond and its use?" Ravenfire swivels on her chair to face Serlene who was now inspecting Ravenfire's photos and scrapbooks of found artifacts and treasures over the years.
"Hmm, I don't know, perhaps someone who heard the legend, has intention and ambition to abuse it. Think beyond your payment Ravenfire, whoever offers you tip that a legend is somehow true but stay anonymous online is bound to be suspicious." Serlene sarcastically replied, causing Ravenfire to raise an eyebrow as she checks her mailbox again.
True enough, Ravenfire has overlooked one small detail, the sender labels him or herself as Anonymous while then the email was written in detail elaborating about Eli's possession of the map of the Goo Dragon's Pond and his trip.
"To Ravenfire, treasure huntress with an exceptional career under her belt. It has come to my attention that you are the best and most suited candidate for the task of finding the greatest myth of dragons and prove its existence. I will not go into many details other than what's necessary. The object in question is the mythical goo dragon pond, a pond which will select any worthy dragons to convert into the legendary goo dragon species. Recently, the wizard of Wall Street, Eli Excelsior Pandarus has in his possession, the only known map that leads to the pond. He will arrive in Venice in a few days, find the map and you will find the pond."
By now Ravenfire tensed her facial expression, her client was obviously obfuscating their information and intentionally disregard close contact with her. Perhaps as an attempt to test how does the pond work? There is a lot of questions plaguing her mind while she is trying to make sense of everything she has been through so far. But one thing is for sure from now on, she won't be taking anymore treasure hunt until the identity and agenda of her client is revealed.