CHAPTER 3

"Leave my forest now, travelers. I will not allow another one of your kind to hurt this sacred place." The Fairy's eyes are directly on Green. Ice filled with flames of hatred, that's how his eyes can be described. The fierce glare causes the human to take a step back, and for his sword arm to shake.

"I can see the fear in your stance. Leave while you still can." The being takes a step forward, then attempts to take another but a dagger at his throat foils said attempt.

The dagger is soon followed up with an amused laugh "You shouldn't just focus on one enemy when there's two."

"I have no qualms with your kind, unless you use your power to burn this forest."

"Well who says I won't! Humans aren't the only ones willing to burn a forest~"

The guardian fairy growls, showing off his fangs a bit as he does so. Green takes a moment to realize what he's witnessing. Two magical beings showing off what they can do only with words and glares. This could turn out to be quite explosive.

"You two need to leave my forest!"

"Ooohhh strong language!"

"SHUT IT SHIFTER!"

"Is it smart to be trying to pick a fight with someone who is holding a knife to your throat?"

"Is it smart to threaten the guardian of a forest?" With that Shadow gets a branch to the face. A branch with a lot of force behind it. Shadow stumbles for a moment, having to shake his head to get back to his senses. When he looks at the one responsible he sees and amused smirk and a cocky pose. With his wings half extended and his arms crossed the fairy laughs at Shadow "I didn't know you were so light. Never would have thought with those heavy horns on your head."

It's not very long before Shadow darts over to the blue dude, who wasn't expecting such speed, and pins his against a tree. "You listen here, fairy." Shadow's breath is not only hot, but so hot that the guardian fears that it might set him on fire, or at the very least burn his face. To add onto the burning breath, smoke rolls out of the corners of his mouth, making him seem less human and more monstrous. "You're going to let us pass or I'll melt your face off and burn this entire 'sacred ground' to the ground."

Before the shaking winged being can reply Shadow's attention is drawn away by a hand on his shoulder. "Shadow, we're not here to cause trouble" Green matches his serious toned words with a concerned look. "Let him go."

After a moment of looking into Green's emerald eyes, the definitely dragon removes his hand from the angry, yet terrified, forest protector's neck. After flaring out his wings with a small hiss, the fairy mutters angrily but doesn't yell again. With both sides settling down a little bit, Green finally decides to speak to the salty feather winged teen. "I apologise on Shadow's behalf. We don't mean to cause trouble, we're just passing through, we assure you."

"Just passing through? He nearly burned my face!"

"To be fair you started being aggressive first and him in the face with a tree."

"... That is a fair point."

"So are you two even now?"

"I guess…"

Green smiles and holds out his hand "Well then, I'm Green Virdi. What's your name o' Guardian of the Magic Forest?" Green's thought process is that if he's friendly, they'll be able to pass through the forest in a more safer way.

The Fairy squints but shakes Green's hand slowly "Blue. My name is Blue Azul." There's a bit of caution in his voice, but that soon fades away with his next words. "I'm the Guardian of this whole forest! The powerful fairy who has the woods at his fingertips!" Now there's some arrogance in his voice.

Shadow nods and comments in a sarcastic tone "Uh huh, uh huh. Powerful." This only gets a small growl from Blue, he's definitely not very happy but he also seems to know some battles aren't meant to be fought. Though this of course was learned from experience, not using common sense.

"Shadow!" Green glares at his boss then looks back to the angry fairy. "So Blue… would it be possible for you to lead us through this forest?" His voice is hopeful, maybe being friendly will have helped! But his hope starts to fall when Blue looks like someone just told him the weirdest thing.

"Seriously!? You're lucky I haven't trapped you in a tree yet! Well more specifically the dragon, but you too!"

Green sighs "We're very sorry, Blue. I'm sorr-"

Shadow cuts him off "Oh didn't know the 'guardian of the forest' doesn't even know the way through his own forest!"

"EXCUSE ME!?" Blue yells in a confused anger.

"You heard me~"

It was that taunting that got Blue to push away his bitterness and caution "Fine then! Follow me! I'll show you that I know exactly how to get around here!" And so Blue stomps ahead. Shadow gives Green a smirk then motions for him to smile. Shadow knew exactly what he was doing with those taunts.