Minel didn't know exactly how long they stayed there, but he was sure it was less than a week.
Unfortunately though, he was at his wit's end. He could take only two meals a day. He could take no bed. Hell, he could even take the neck pains but he could not take these two idiots any longer.
Argument after argument over the simplest of things.
"You eat like a slob."
"You're in my space."
"Your hair is disgusting."
"Out of my way, petty boy."
"You snore too loud."
"You smell."
"You contaminated the water with your germs."
He was tired of it. Currently his eye was twitching in irritation as he watched Elizabeta try to poke Vladimir with a stick.
Vladimir was curled in the corner hissing like some wild animal. He had enough.
He stood and snatched the stick from Elizabeta and glared at the two, flames in the background as his eyes sparked with anger.
"Will you fucking stop," he growled. "Seriously you two idiots need to stop! It's bad enough that I was pulled into this stupid situation, I don't need you two making me feel any worse."
The two gulped nervously before the door opened behind them and showed Hercules come in with a fresh pot of water.
"Hold on!" Minel asked whiplashing his head back. "I want to talk to Sadik," he demanded.
"Why?" The younger teen replied. "I can't stand this place any longer. I swear I'm going to loose my mind," he said.
"Okay," Hercules replied. "Let's go," he said surprising the three.
"Wait really?" Minel asked. Hercules nodded and Minel laughed. "I say, that was easy. Let's go," he said walking out with him.
They closed the door on the other two much to their dislike. "Hold on! We want out too!" Elizabeta yelled.
"Michael, we are a team! You can't just leave me here with this demon spawn!" Vlad yelled running to the door.
The two banged on the door and tried to push the other a side while yelling insults to each other.
"Ah, this is so much better," Minel said smiling. The two walked into a room where Sadik sat smoking from a long pipe.
"What do you want, brat?" He asked not looking up.
"He wanted to talk to you," Hercules said. Sadik looked up to a scowling Minel. "What?" He asked.
"I want out!" Minel shouted.
There was silence before Sadik started laughing. "Why would I do that?" Minel shrank as Sadik went up to him.
"I don't suppose you want me to free your dragon friend too, do you?" Minel scoffed.
"Whatever. I just want to go back to my normal life. He could stay for all I care."
Sadik smirked and nodded. "Tell you what. If you can defeat me in a battle, I'll give your freedom." He said.
Minel frowned at the thought of this. "I'll even let Elizabeta fight with you in exchange for her freedom too. You're dragon friend can't help though."
Minel thought back to Elizabeta. She seemed much stronger and she would surely appreciate the thought. However would Vladimir be okay on his own? He thought long and hard about it.
Gupta entered holding a tray and looked at Minel surprised. "Okay, I'll do it." Minel decided. He wasn't a fighter but Elizabeta was. As for Vlad, he chose not to care.
He was arrogant anyways, and cocky and not to mention it was his fault this happened in the first place.
"Great. Gupta, get the Elizabeta ready for battle," Sadik ordered.
"What about the dragon?" Hercules asked. "Tie him near by I guess," Sadik said before walking away.
"You're allowed one weapon. Good luck," he said before walking away.
"You two are so screwed," Hercules told him as Gupta walked away. Minel shrugged him off and followed him into a room to select a weapon.
"This is what we have," he showed off. Minel picked up various items before settling on a normal sword. Hercules began to show him different shields before Elizabeta came in.
"Minel! Thanks for doing this. I got your back!" She said excitedly. Minel nodded with a smile. "Right! Let's do our best."
She quickly chose a heavy looking sword without a shield and smiled towards Minel. "Here we go!" She said with a smile. "I haven't been this excited for a fight since Gilbert," she said with a sadistic smirk.
Minel gulped and followed her outside into a small arena. Minel's eyes wandered the arena before falling onto the blonde sitting angrily on one end. He walked over to him and saw a chain wrapped around his neck as he sat with an angry pout and his arms crossed.
"Vlad?" He said surprised. He looked up and scowled. "You're a real jerk," he said.
"I thought we were friends but I guess not since you're just going to leave me here," Vlad said, clearly upset.
Minel gulped guiltily before shaking his head. "Well you were the one who forced me into all this. I think it's only fair," he snapped. He turned sassily and walked back to Elizabeta.
They looked over to see Stylianos and Artemis walking over. "Good luck," Stylianos said with a smile.
"Here to watch?" Minel asked.
"Yup. The whole town is," he said. Minel looked around finally noticing people settling down to watch.
"We really like bloody shows around here," Hercules said, scaring Minel.
Elizabeta laughed and they walked away as Sadik stepped into the arena.
"When you loose, you'll stay here and work until you die," Sadik announced.
"When we win, we are free to go, and I keep your eye," Elizabeta shouted out.
Sadik laughed loudly. "Okay then. It's a deal," he said. Gupta took the center of the arena before making a large gate appear and close them in.
He left, giving them one last look of pity before Artemis took the center.
"The fight ends when the other is dead or admits defeat," he said aloud. The crowd cheered and Minel grew pale.
He either got lucky or died today. He looked over to a really upset Vladimir and felt the guilt coming to him. He sat with an angered pout and his chin resting on his arms which hugged his knees. The chain didn't look so comfortable either.
"Begin!" Artemis yelled after he moved out of the way. The crowd cheered while Sadik transformed.
Minel's eyes widened as he stared up at Sadik. He was massive. His teeth were sharp and his sand colored scales looked like they could grate a tree.
His feet were large with long talons and his long tail was covered in spikes. His eyes were a dull green and a green mist came from his nostrils.
He let out a shriek and Minel was sure he was going to die.
"Let's go!" Elizabeta yelled before running foward. Minel watched in shock as she went fearlessly.
She jumped up high and wings protruded from her back.
She swung foward and missed as the wyvern jumped out of way. It flew towards Minel and picked him up by it's feet.
"Minel!" Elizabeta yelled in shock. He looked down horrified wondering why he thought this was a good idea in the first place.
He clutch the sword and stabbed up, stabbing the wyverns foot and being let go.
He yelled as he was falling before being caught by Elizabeta quickly and being placed down.
Sadik landed down and opened his mouth. Minel watched a green mist form from the back of his throat before it shot out.
Had it not been for Elizabeta pushing him down, he would have been dead.
The chain fence behind them was completely melted from where the green mist hit it, much to Vladimir's shock.
He watched horrified as Minel had to be saved time after time by Elizabeta.
"Stop dazing! We won't win like this!" She yelled at him.
"R-right." He yelled out. Elizabeta grabbed him again and tossed him out of the way as Sadik shot the acidic gas towards them.
She went foward and stabbed him in the side before Minel swallowed his fear and stabbed his back as well.
The sword went in with a bit of struggle but pulling it out was the difficult part.
He struggled and was eventually pulled into the air as Sadik went up. He held the sword tightly and did his best to pull it out. Elizabeta flew after him and helped him before flying off with him.
The two eventually found a good rhythm and fought well for the most part, effeciently dodging attacks.
"They're good," Hercules said. Gupta nodded while Stylianos cheered them on.
Elizabeta went up into the air to land a sneak attack on Sadik but he quickly turned and shot out the acidic gas and hitting one of her wings.
She fell to the floor and hissed in pain as the corner of one her wings began to melt away.
Minel hurried over to where she layed in pain. He held up his sword as Sadik approached them. "Give up?" He asked menacingly. "No!" Elizabeta yelled out.
...
Vladimir flinched as Sadik snapped foward. He turned back expecting to see one of them dead if not dying but was surprised to see Minel putting up a fight.
He swung the sword expertly now, effectively stopping Sadik when he got too close.
He panicked though, when he noticed Sadik getting ready to shoot the gas again though.
Minel was refusing to move away from Elizabeta who was still in pain and he knew Minel was too weak to move her out of the way in time.
Without much hesitation, he yanked his necklace off and grew into his dragon size where he tried to break free.
When the chain proved too strong though, he let his anger come foward and out into a large flame aimed at Sadik.
Minel had been watching Sadik getting ready to attack and as much as he didn't want to die, leaving Elizabeta would be a dick move. He prepared for death and gulped nervously before he watched a large flame completely coating the wyvern in front of him.
The arena went into loud cheers as Sadik backed away with pained shrieks.
Minel turned to see the large red dragon biting the chain off the gate before spreading his large bat-like wings.
He shot Sadik again before flying foward and tackling him down. Minel only stayed frozen, watching Vladimir snap down at the much larger Sadik.
Vladimir backed away as he noticed Sadik getting ready to shoot again and flew above as Sadik tried to shoot him.
He flew up after Vlad and the two chased one another, occasionally getting into a fight mid air.
They both rested against the gate, Vladimir bending the iron bars as his steel like claws crushed them to hold on.
He gave a vicious growl before going forward and biting down on one of Sadik's wings, causing him to fall onto the ground.
Vladimir followed down and got ready to end it. He inhaled deeply, preparing to burn him again.
Gupta however, quickly summoned his own eagle like wings and flew over in front of Sadik.
His eyes glowed a bright green and with one hand symbol, one Gupta's tattoos began to glow and he changed form to a large lion with eagle wings still attached.
He gave a loud bird like roar to which Vladimir backed away from. Sadik had changed back and held his bleeding arm while gasping and Gupta stayed in front of him defensively.
Vladimir took a few steps back, for some reason afraid to try to attack him with Gupta around. Something about his eyes burned fear deep inside him. He turned to where Minel and Elizabeta were still watching amazed.
He went back into his normal form and fell down, exhausted.
"Vladimir, Minel, and Elizabeta win the fight!" Artemis announced before the crowd erupted into cheers.
Gupta changed back and sighed, turning to Sadik. "Guess I'm getting too old for all this fighting," Sadik chuckled, finally without his mask on. He picked it up from the floor and wrapped an arm around Gupta.
"Where would I be without you?" He asked. "Dead." Gupta replied coldly.
Minel sighed in relief before hurrying to Vladimir. "Hey, are you okay?" He asked. Vladimir was gasping for air while spread out on the floor.
"Fuck you, Minel. I don't know why I even saved you," he said with his eyes closed.
"Thanks, you saved my life. And I'm sorry," he said kneeling beside him.
"Sorry is not going to cut it. You owe me your life," Vlad said. "Literally. You are officially my slave and you are not allowed to complain," Vlad said opening his eyes and scowling at Minel.
Minel sighed in defeat. "I'm allowed to complain and it's a deal," Minel said. "Fine," Vlad said sitting up. Minel smiled softly before going back to Elizabeta and helping her up.
"Are you okay?" He asked as he wrapped her arm around his shoulder. "Well, I'm alive," she replied walking with Minel to center.
Sadik joined them with help from Gupta. "A deal is a deal," Elizabeta said.
"You guys went against the deal and dragon brat joined," Sadik said seriously. Gupta elbowed him and sent him a scowl.
The trio all scowled as well and Vlad opened his mouth to argue before Sadik put a hand up. "But I haven't had a great fight like that for awhile. I'll let you off the hook," he said with a smile.
The trio cheered and Elizabeta went up to him. "And I was promised a dragon's eye," she said sticking her hand out.
"No way! You didn't win this fight, he did," Sadik said. Elizabeta frowned and crossed her arms angrily.
"Now get the hell out of here," he said as Gupta led him away.
...
The trio had rested a few hours and were congratulated multiple times.
"There you are. Good luck on your journey," Gupta said approaching them, a small pot in hand.
"Thanks," Vlad said with a smile.
"For you," he said handing them the pot. Minel took it and stared at it. "This one doesn't have organs does it?" He asked suspiciously.
"It has water from the pond. It's enchanted to hide your true scent," Gupta explained.
Minel nodded and put it into a small pouch he was given by Stylianos. "Thank you."
He bid them goodbye, his dog joining him as they left.
"So why the hell is Eliza-bitcha joining us?" Vlad asked.
"Huh? I'm going this way too, you ugly co-"
"Guys. I will fucking turn us around and lock you up again," Minel threatened.
They both quieted down and continued to walk out of the Oasis, grumbling to themselves.
Gupta joined Sadik and continued to wrap his arm as Hercules continued to tease him about loosing.
"Well, I suppose I should have warned you he wasn't a normal dragon," Gupta said surprising Sadik. "I'll tell you some other time. Just get some rest now," he said standing up and pulling Hercules out with him.
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A/N: So I finally start working tomorrow, woo! So I don't know if I'm going to post as often as usual. Sorry but I'll try my best!
Today I have two small fun facts.
Fun fact one:
While Vladimir can still summon wings and still has his dragon eyes and fangs while human, Sadik can't do this. In order to get wings, he has to change completely.
This is because he's an actual first class dragon and uses a stone to look like a human. Vladimir is half human so he has abilities others do not.
Second fun fact:
Gupta isn't a hybrid at all. He's just a wizard and he can have different abilities summoned by the tattoos on his back and some on his arms that I didn't mention. So he can either summon parts, change form, or use fire or other element abilities. I'll show more in the future.
Personal opinion, I think Egypt is too underated. I mean have you seen him? He is gorgeous!
