Chapter 10: Batgirl to the Rescue
From her hiding spot in the trees, Alicia had watched the whole scene of Damien's banishment. She flew down and changed to her human form. "Wow. Your hurt pretty badly," she said while picking him up and practically dragging his body to a nearby cave. Damien began to grumble. "Hm? What was that?" she asked. He spoke a little louder with a groggy voice and blood dripping from his mouth and various wounds. "Melayu. Where's Melayu? I need to see her." He coughed up some blood.
"She's considered a traitor to the dragons and is being held prisoner." Alicia explained to him as she laid him on the cave floor. "What? I have to save her!" he said as he struggled to get up only to be easily held down by a finger from Alicia. "Whoa there big fella. Your in no condition to save anybody." She told him, "Just lay down and rest. I'll take care of it." "No!" He tried his hardest to yell, "I have to get her! She's in trouble! I got-" he was interrupted when Alicia put an extended sharp claw-like nail to his neck. "And then what? You cant protect yourself against me on your best day." She scowled, "and here you are. Pathetic, beaten to an inch of your life."
"You sure as hell will never survive an onslaught of thousands of dragons." Damien growled in frustration at the things Alicia told him, because deep down he knew that… she was right. Her face softened. She stroked his cheek and looked him in his eyes. "Don't worry. I'll bring your love back to you. I promise." She gave Damien a small smile. "Then we can fix you up and the two of you can be on your way. But… I'll need your trust if you want me to help you. So… do I have your trust?" Damien looked away, unsure at first, but then he faced her and gave a small and a slow nod. Alicia smiled at him and laid him back down and transformed into a bat and flew off towards the mountains.
Jeez, I have to go all the way up there? Damn dragons and their fetish with heights. Alicia flew cautiously up to the castle and carefully morphed into the shadows on the inside until she saw a guard leave from out a door and heard him speak to the king. "She still refuses to eat or drink, my lord. But if I may question, I thought she was labeled a traitor?" The king sighed. "Yes, that she was. And so she is, but despite what I said, she is still my little girl. I shall go down there myself later on." The guard and the king left. I thought dragons were smart enough not to leave the door to prisoners open, not even slightly.
She shook her head. Damnit, I have got to stop thinking like that! She went down into the dimly lit hall, looking at each cell until she found Melayu sitting on the floor with her eyes closed and her hands tied behind her back. Alicia sunk into the shadows and into the cell. "Melayu. I'm here to rescue you." Melayu opened her eyes and growled angrily. "Why do you smell like Damien?" "Because he was beaten within an inch of his life and I pulled him into a cave to keep him hidden until I got you." "YOU TOUCHED HIM?!" She roared and Alicia hushed her. "Do you want them to know I'm down here?! Now do you want me to get you out of here or not?" She started struggling. "I'll fucking kill you." "If you could, princess. But I doubt you can right now, counting that this cell is completely dragon proof."
"Now stop bitching and let me untie you because if you don't, Damien's going to die. Because I don't have anything to heal him with." Melayu snorted then was quiet while Alicia stood there waiting for her answer. "Fine. Get me out of here." "On one condition." "And what would that be?" "Don't try to kill, attack, maim, lacerate, enflame, electrocute, drown, or anything to me! I'm just trying to help." "… I give you no guarantees." Alicia sighed and untied her. "There's an asshole in every situation. Guess which one you are?" "Thanks for the comment, I'm always the ass. It's much more fun."
Melayu walked over to Alicia and punched her in the throat, making her cough and gasp for breath. "I said no attacking!" "I told you no guarantees. This door only opens with a scale." She picked a scale off and handed it to Alicia. "And how do you suggest we get past the other dragons and your father? I was going to morph us through the wall." "The hell you were. You just go into my room and get the medical things in the third closet on the right. Touch nothing else. Got it? Finding Damien won't take me long, so I'll meet you wherever he is." "Yeah yeah yeah. And he's in a cave to the northeast." Alicia transformed and went back upstairs. Melayu looked at the wall and touched it.
"So the outside is on the other side about 10 tall trees in length. Well I might as well try this." She went to the other end by the stairs and faced the wall. With a running start she got off the ground and started spinning through the air and through the wall until she was out on the side of the castle near the ground. "Well that was fun. Wow, the prisoners cells are all the way down here? Anyway, time to get the hell out of here." She stayed low to the ground and flew toward the northeast till she sensed the caved Damien was in and went inside.
Woot! She escaped and Alicia's gonna have trouble speaking for a while. lol Go forth & review.