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Chapter 10: Discovery
The close call with the jargons last night made me realize how weak I truly am in human form. Now the fact that Ridley found me is a terrible setback unless I can somehow convince her and her knights to forget about me ever being here. "The road is quiet tonight. Too quiet for my taste." I said "Why are you paranoid? The only enemies who could attack are wolves." Ridley said. As we walk a few feet closer to Radiata, the fork in the road catches my eye. "Where are you going Hale? Hale!" Ridley asked. The group turned around but I was one-step ahead of them. The fork lead me to a tree. There was the leather cloaked fighter from before. "Hale Hale Hale Still alive after my invasion. You are truly brave to stop the jargons. Now try to stop my pet." He said. "I guess you have a friend who would like to meet me." I said. "I guess before you die, I'll tell you a little history. The celestrians have been at war with the demons for centuries. Now we can overtake the humans and celestrians in one fell swoop. The war that you are trying to stop is the key to our victory. I was once a celestrian until I fell from grace. After my fall from grace, I traveled all over the world learning the ways of monsters and dark creatures. I came upon a demon by chance who turned into a soul. I grabbed the soul and absorbed it and became a powerful demon. My name is DarkLight and my axoraptor will get rid of you." DarkLight said. He vanished with a zoom spell as the axe wielding dragon got closer to me.
I couldn't fight this thing on my own for anything. So I did what i thought was necessary to survive. i ran back to the fork. That was a relief when I saw the others still at the fork. "Hale!" Ridley said. "Your going to be imprisoned for leaving like that." A knight said. "GET READY FOR A FIGHT NOW!" I scream. The knights ready their weapons but were in shock when they saw what was chasing me. "DRAGON!" was all the knights said before they were burned alive by its fiery breath. Only Ridley and another rookie knight dodged the attack. "Nina! Be ready for a terrible fight." Ridley yelled. "I am ready." Nina said. The axoraptor turned to face me and charged at me with its hulking axe. He tried to jump strike me, but he missed as I jumped backwards out of the way. I backed up a bit more to use a 'Lightning thrust' when he breathed blazing flames at me. The fire scorched me and badly wounded me even worse than I already was. "Wild pitch" Ridley yelled as she spun her axe in a circle and threw it as hard as she could and hit the axoraptor. The hit however was at his weapon and was deflected. Nina got three slashes off before she was sent back by the axoraptor. "ZAP" I yelled as lightning lashed down and hit him with fury. He turned around and charged at me. I guarded in hopes of deflecting his attack. That was a mistake and he hit me with a 'falcon slash' attack which was a double strike. I block one and am knocked to the ground with the last strike. Ridley got close and began slashing the axoraptor in the back until she tried to use an overheard strike. She fell backwards and landed on her rump. "Reminds me of our fight against the goblins." I laughed even though we were still in a fight. "Quit talking and start fighting!" Nina yelled. I began charging my power for a 'lightning storm' attack. The axoraptor charged Nina and Ridley to get rid of them. The dragon breathed fire at Nina and Ridley burning them both before I could launch my attack. "Lightning Storm!" I yelled as a powerful storm lashed down charging my spear. I thrust the lightning strike at him crashing into the monster. The axoraptor stumbled from the damage. "Wild pitch" Ridley yelled as she threw her as at the dragon. The attack slammed into the dragon's chest. He fell to the ground and died. The fight was finally and mercifully over. I chanted midheal at Ridley to heal her. Her wounds healed up quickly. I chant the same spell and it fizzled. That meant I was unable to cast spells until I rested. "What about Nina? You don't have enough power to use another spell." Ridley asked. "I don't have a choice in this matter. I will begin patching her up with my medical supplies. "Should I turn around while you doing this? Ridley asked. "Not this time Ridley. Your helping me patch her up whether you like it or not. I can't patch her up on my own this time." I said. "Why me" Ridley complained as the procedure began.
"I hope your happy that we did that to her. She is going to be real mad at you for that." Ridley said after the patch up job. "She will thank me for keeping her alive at least. It is better than leaving her to die right?" I said and asked. "I think those powers are going to your head." She said. "Why do I feel lighter than usual? Nina said waking up from the attack. "For one, I'm carrying you and two, hope you like the patch up job we did to you." I said. Nina's face went red at my last remark. "You mean you..." "Let's not talk about that and focus on getting back to the castle." I said. "Thanks." Nina said in a whisper.
After an hour of carrying Nina on my back. We reached the city. Almost instantly, one of the guards spotted the injured Nina on my back and wished to get her to the castle. I said that I would get her there faster than them and sped off to the castle. I left Ridley in the dust and made it to the castle in record time. The other guards went to her and taken her to the infirmary. As I left the castle, the injuries suffered was starting to take its toll on me. I walked slowly to the Warrior guild and collapsed in the guild's infirmary.
"What is going to happen to him now. Nina asked Ridley. "As far as his secret goes. It is out now that he is not truly human. However, he is not a non-human either so the king is having a harder time making a decision about what to do with him." Ridley said. "We should go and see if he made it back to the guild all right. After all he rescued and healed us both up in a sense." Nina said. "I rather not." Ridley said. Nina frowned as she layed back onto the bed.