So, Hi.
Still alive
Just haven't gotten a proper scheduled down.
Oddly it seems like I'm getting lots of new followers but substantially less reviews
guess that's just how summer goes.
Familiar of Zero is owned by... a name I should look up
Skyrim is part of another group I should look up.
!SOMETHING IMPORTANT!
I'm considering going up in my rating to M
the reasons are;
I want to #### Wardes by ####### his #### in half, but that would be M rated.
Secondly;
I have had questions posted about Lemons...
I haven't tried to write lemons before and don't know how well I can.
But I never really knew how well my story ideas could be until I tried.
What is your opinion? Should I go up in rating? if so should it be because I include lemons or because I have descriptive battle sequences?
Or both?
SanguinePanguine: Sheogorath will not be making an appearance, I have anti-fourth wall breacking spray that should keep him away since that is one of his favorite things to do I don't think he will show up-
(challenge accepted)
...dang, I blame you for bringing him back.
Telron: I need to ask;
is your name what happens when you smash the teletubbies and Voltron, defender of the universe, together?
Akshka: I know, you should be ashamed,
Can you think of anymore? I would love to see what you can come up with for the other A-holes from FOZ. :}
redburningdragon: I think she stashed her 'borrowed' things in a corner when she made the bath. The pot is rather big, how big seems to depend on how big it needs to be in the anime. I like the plane, it will be there, but Dove can fly so it doesn't really matter in the end. I'm thinking about adding the phrase 'noble bashing' to the description, I noticed how often I think the nobles (even the good ones) are just a little stupid about the blindingly obvious.
belgy: The pairing is Tabitha, there I said it outright in a chapter, I hid clues in another chapter but here it is outright.
Gunre The Swedish Spartan: Thank you, a lot.
helkil: You are one of the reasons I'm thinking of going M with the rating. Yes Tabitha is the pairing.
perfectshade: you honestly think I will have to go M? Your reasons are sound so I think I may have to. Dang, so many choices on how to end Wardes last days/moments. Thanks, I don't know why but I almost never have any problems writing how Dove feels about her dragon side or when she's losing her temper, I go back several times for some scenes but never for those. The headmaster's choice was completely because Dovahkiin growled some sense into him regarding her magic.
I really don't know the mechanics of building bathtubs, lets just say that she did it the same way Saito did in the anime. (they never did say how) There is a lot of nobles going AWOL in the beginning of FOZ... I guess they just have really forgiving teachers. Tabitha might have a dragon but she still has the skills she gathered from her days alone, she can make hunting inferences rather easily. I was afraid of making Dove seem fragile during this scene, how do you think I did? Yes nose bleed is a trope found in anime and can be annoying, I just needed something to remove him and that's what I could think of at the time.
I know that the mission mind set isn't healthy.
I wrote about it because I think Tabitha would have it and has been living like that for the last few years possibly endangering her own mental health. grrr, I feel the most worried for Tabitha's mental health and she is a drawing on the screen, I don't think this one trip is going to erase her problems but it might help her realize she has them
kyosuke-date-the soultaker: tres bien... I figured that out afterwards, It just burned my eyes and ears a bit to have to watch that.
no offence to anyone like him, I just found him... over the top.
The cart raddled down the road, carrying the group of six mages towards a little out the way town situated near the border between Tristian and Albion.
On the driver's seat next to Professor Colbert was Dove, she wanted to watch the scenery and get the first glance at the place they were going. Louise and Kirche were talking quietly about the land between their family's property. Tabitha had instantly moved in like a bird of prey on Colbert's books, lost in it instead of facing reality for now, and was enjoying one on the legends of different dragons, And Guiche was pretty much uselessly leaning against the side of the cart.
"I see it!" Dove called happily from the front as she stood up to point in the distance. Everyone glanced up from what they were doing to look in the distance.
A bunch of fenced off houses with almost identical white walls and orange-ish roofs met their eyes, there was a large building with three towers and many trees growing right in the middle of the down. Behind the town within easy walking distance was a range of mountains.
"It's just a town. Why are you so happy Dove?" Louise asked she grinning familiar.
"Only a fool can't appreciate the simple beauty and many mysteries hidden in plain little towns," Dove snipped back and stuck out her tongue, still grinning.
Louise huffed and looked away.
Dove dropped back down to sit on the bench, for a second before she was back to bouncing on it.
Kirche smiled in the back, happy that they had been able to break Dove out of her 'it's all my fault PS I'm losing my mind' attitude. Glancing to Louise she noticed that she also had a small smile despite getting teased by her familiar.
As the cart rolled into town Dove hopped down started walking. "I'm going to see the sights," she called over her shoulder, "see you back here in say, an hour?" And then she was gone.
Colbert sighed and checked into the inn he had stopped at while some stable boys handled the cart, the rest of the mages settled in their rooms.
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Dove walked down the road, watching people go about their business with rather happy looks on their faces. This was a happy town where people looked after each other. She could tell that by how the buildings were constructed. The houses were almost completely the same materials and colors because they most likely had been built by the communities all together instead of hog-pogoed by individual families over the years. You could often tell the attitude of the community by their buildings
She absolutely loved close nit places like this, the people were often very friendly.
Dove entered the market area, a small grouping of stalls in a loose circle where people offered their wares separate from the produce market area. The familiarity is very soothing in its own way, Dove decided then and there that this trip was the best idea she had ever had on the spot.
"Cabbages!" cried an old man's voice from down the way. Dove didn't pay any attention as she paused to examine a necklace a young man was selling.
"Fresh fruit!" called a young woman's voice from the same general area as the old mans. Produce sales people always were the loudest.
"GET YOUR EXPLODING CHEESE FIGURIENES!" Shrieked a loud, accented man's voice down the way.
Dove paused, 'where have I heard that before?'
"THEY ACTUALY WORK! HERE FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS, ONE OF OUR FAVORETS; A MAN WITH AN ARROW ON HIS HEAD! HERE COLLEAGUE, HAVE ONE!"
BOOOMM!
"NOOOO MY CABBAGES!" wailed the first old man's voice.
"BWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!"
'I'm sure I have heard that voice and product somewhere before,' Dove thought still distracted by the shiny pendant, or was it the locket that had first caught her eye? You never get anywhere in adventuring if you don't have a healthy love of shinny things.
Shaking her head and ignoring the small trail of smoke coming from the produce section Dove moved on.
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A little while down another road was a family leaving the produce area with... nine baskets? Dove blinked and was a little taken aback by the large number. The woman in front was black haired and lead the group. The rest of the group were two men, an older and a younger both black haired as well. "Why did they get so many?" Dove questioned looking at the black haired family.
The elder man of the family was holding four baskets of food and other supplies, the younger boy was also laden with four burdens.
The boy, not having the same experience with balancing the groceries like his father, was weaving around just a little bit and gaining a little more momentum each time he tried to correct his direction. Soon one minor pile of groceries started falling.
The boy grimaced and started to bend down to pick up the fallen food up before realizing that he couldn't with everything else in his hands.
Dove chuckled a little at the angry/annoyed look on his face. Deciding to take pity on him she walked over to help.
Julien had been having a rather good day, he had gotten up with the sun to help with his father, watering in their grain field until his mother had asked for them to come into town to get supplies for the rest of the family with her.
The morning had wound down and become rather boring as it progressed and he was honestly very happy when they paid for everything. The family would need these for the next few weeks until the harvest was complete and Julien as happy to help buy them because it was his way of measuring the time until his sister came home. She had left to get a job to help support the family.
Now he glared at the fallen cloth wrapped loaf of bread. He couldn't pick it up and it didn't occur to him to ask someone else to pick it up. Instead he stood there glaring at it as he tried to figure out how to get his cargo back.
"Here, let me," a voice next to his pulled Julien out of his thoughts. Before he could say anything a soft looking hand picked up the bread and dusted it off.
Julien looked at the women to say he could take care of it instead he found himself staring. She was cute, she had an almost angular-oval face that showed off her blue eyes and blond streaked hair.
Before a blush could form he looked away.
Dove finished dusting the dirt off the loaf and instead of handing it back she picked the top basket from his load. "Hey," the young man started, "that's ours."
"I know, you just looked like you needed help," Dove said.
The rest of the group had stopped a little up the road when they realized that their eldest son wasn't with them. Looking back the wife in the family smiled to see her son with a girl. "Hey~," She called out, "Julien, have you been hiding a girlfriend from your mother?"
Julien lost the battle and blushed bright red, "NO MOM SHE'S JUST A GIRL WHO HELPED ME PICK UP SOMETHING I DROPPED!"
Dove snickered and walked towards the family. "I noticed that he couldn't handle everything and stopped to help, why do you have only one basket? They do something to deserve this?" she asked teasing with the second question.
The woman of the trio smiled while the other two grumbled good naturally, "maybe~."
The man snorted and shifted his baskets around, "Tina," he said looking at the woman, "Stop teasing please."
Dove smiled and lifted the baskets, "I guess I'll help you take these back, if that's all right with you?"
The woman, Tina, nodded and started off leading the group.
Down the road, out of the town and towards a rather large farm with an even larger field. Dove followed the family, happy that she was doing something to help people like she did back home between end of the world events.
She paused in thought, considering how odd it was that she would consider end of the world events to be kind of 'normal' in her life.
Arriving at a large house Dove blinked to see kids running around, a lot of kids. There had to be five little ones running around playing tag or climbing trees. "Are their relatives home?" Dove wondered out loud looking at the eldest boy, the sixth child.
Tina heard her and nodded, "nope, we just have eight kids."
Dove gaped, "EIGHT!?" she collected herself, "why did you have so many?" now the heavy loads of supplies made sense.
Tina had a wicked smile, "Why stop?"
Dove and the man, she still didn't know his name, blushed.
Arriving at the front entity way, Dove placed the baskets next to where the others were unloading their own burdens.
"So," Dove started to fill the silence before it could start, "What is it like being the eldest of eight?"
Julien shook his head, "I'm not the oldest. I have a big sister who has left the house to get a job to help us."
"That sounds really responsible of her," Dove said wondering what this family would be like in Skyrim.
Julien grinned, "ya, I know. She actually should be visiting soon to help with the harvest."
"Surprise! I'm already here," came a voice from inside as a young woman came out from the building.
Dove turned and blinked.
Siesta jumped out of the door way and darted to her mother and father for a hug.
"Siesta?" the voice her brother had been talking to asked.
Turning around from her embrace Siesta smiled politely and then gasped, "Dove? What are you doing here?"
Her father looked down at her, "you know each other?" Both girls nodded.
"We work together at the academy," Dove said.
"And she protected me from a noble who wanted me to be his mistress," Siesta said smiling at Dove.
Everyone in the family instantly liked the kind woman a whole lot more. Tina left the group and walked over to Dove to pull her into a tight hug, "Thank you," Tina said with tears in her eyes.
Dove was embraced, she had been praised, sung, and honored before, but never hugged by the relative of someone she had helped.
"...You're welcome?" she said confused about what to do.
Siesta saved her, "So Dove, what brings you here?"
Tina pulled away from Dove much to her relief. "I needed to get away from the academy for a little while," Dove said shrugging to pull her mind to the new topic and avoiding the reason why, "So when Professor Colbert said he was looking for something in another town so I jumped at the chance." She paused, "If I had known, you were coming I would have offered you a ride in the cart."
Siesta smiled, "thanks for the offer, I'll make sure to run my plans by you from now on."
Dove laughed.
"So, what is this thing you're looking for?" Julien asked leaving the topic for now.
"I think Professor Colbert said something about a legendary dragon that was said to have lived around here," Dove said with a shrug.
Siesta's family frowned. "I think we know what you're talking about," Siesta said.
Dove blinked, "Really? You know the legend of this dragon? I honestly didn't before the professor told me." She rubbed he head embraced, "come to think of it, I didn't pay close attention to it while he was talking either."
Everyone nodded, "My grandfather was said to have come from another world riding a dragon," the patriarch of the family said.
Dove got interested, "came from another world on a dragon? I don't think any Dragons from my world would willingly let just anyone ride them." She hadn't meant to say that out loud but everyone heard it.
"You're from another world?" Julien asked.
Dove jumped, startled out of her thoughts. "I-ah, I think so," She admitted, "nothing is remotely similar to the place I lived so I think that I either traveled to a new world or an extremely far away land."
"How did you come here? Surly you would remember traveling a long distance if it is the second reason," Siesta's father inputted helpfully.
Siesta spoke up, "There is a rumor around the academy that Dove was attacked by a dragon that was then summoned here by a noble, dragging her though as well."
Dove nodded, "It sounds like you grandfather and I have something in common, we both rode in on dragons."
"Father," Siesta started to ask, "didn't great-grandfather enshrine his dragon somewhere?"
Siesta's father nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, and I think I have the map somewhere in the attic. Would you like to have the map Miss Dove, as thanks for saving our Siesta?"
Dove was surprised, she had been wondering what 'enshrined' meant and remembering the dragon's tombs back home. "Thank you, yes that should speed things up with the such," she quickly answered.
"Give me a minute, I'll go find it," the man said and walked into the house.
Tina smiled, "While he's doing that, could you help me get the groceries put away?"
Dove smiled back, "Sure."
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Louise was pacing the floor in her room, they had come on this trip to help Dove with her feelings about how the mission had gone and now she had jumped out and ran off somewhere into the town.
Kirche smirked as she watched Louise pace. "Who's going to pay for the floor when you make a trench in it?" She asked, goading Louise a bit.
"Shut up," Louise snapped without stopping.
Kirche sighed, "Seriously Louise, why are you so upset? All Dove did was go exploring."
Louise exploded, "That's the problem! She left! We were going to help her with the issues our failed mission brought up and she just vanished!"
"What were you planning to 'help her with her issues?'" Kirche asked pointedly.
Louise stopped, unsure, "I thought we could all sit down and talk," she said uneasily.
Kirche barked a laugh, "if it was that easy we could have done that back at the school. What she needs is some time far away from things that remind her of the failure and her problems. Her running off is a good thing."
"She could have taken us with her," Louise groaned and returned to pacing.
Speak of the devil, "Hi guys," Dove said as she pushed open the door to their room and leaning in.
"Where did you go?" Louise cried spitting fire, letting all the emotions she had gathered in the last five minutes' overflow.
Dove shrugged as she ignored the overblown display, "I went exploring. Come down stairs, I found something interesting." With that she disappeared again out the door.
Kirche got up and followed her as Louise's temper burned for a few seconds then burnt itself out without a target.
Down stairs in the common room Professor Colbert had commandeered a large table in the middle of the... eating area, judging from the annoyed glances from the other partrons forced to the sides, to hold all of his supplies. Amost everything they could ask for from maps to quills and other tools the younger mages couldn't identify.
"Ah, good to see all of you guys here already," came Colbert's voice from one end of the table. The older man was pouring over a map of the town and surrounding area.
"Tomorrow we are going to start going over the cliff sides," he started pointing to a few points he had marked. "I have reports from commoners that when the legendary dragon landed it was around these places."
Dove smiled and leaned over the corner of the table to hover over his map. "Its actually called the 'wings of the dragon', and it should be around here," Dove said extending her hand to point at a spot in between the places Colbert had marked on his map.
Colbert gaped at her smiling face for a good ten seconds before he collected himself, "Why do you say that? All the research I have gathered - over several months - has lead me to believe that it is somewhere at one of these three marks."
Dove remained smiling, "I asked the person who owned the dragon where his grandfather had enshrined it, he was kind enough to give me a map." Dove laid down an old leather hide map with a flourish.
Colbert spared her an incredulous glance before he devoured the information on the page with his eyes.
While he was doing that Kirche smirked, "How did you find this? I thought you were going to look around, instead you come back with the answers to our little journey?"
Dove shrugged, "Talking to people who live in the area has its advantages, and I got lucky."
Colbert looked up from the page, "this is incredible. Where did you find this?"
"Siesta's family owned it," Dove answered honestly, "they gave it to me as a thank you."
"Siesta?" Colbert asked, confused where he had heard the name before.
"She's a maid at the academy," Dove said simply starting to leave with the intent to claim her room, then stopped herself, "you knew that the dragon was from somewhere in this area yet you didn't think to ask someone who had lived here her entire life?"
Colbert flushed and stammered a response, "I am a mage of a large respected academy. It didn't occur to me to ask a maid about a faraway town."
"Why not?" Dove asked, "wouldn't it be prudent to at least know where your servants come from just in case things like this or worse happen?"
Colbert had the humility to look shamefaced as he thought over her words.
"Anyhow," Dove focused her attention on thoughts apart from how stupid nobles could be, "When are we going to visit this dragon?"
Colbert looked over the map. "It's a fair distance from the town, we should leave tomorrow," he said looking out a window and checking to suns height in the sky.
"Great," Dove said then looked around at the girls. "I'm going to meditate now, if you would like to come with me you can," she offered.
Tabitha nodded, she personally hadn't meditated before but it wasn't too far from what she did on a daily basis. Kirche and Louise smiled, seeing this as their way to support Dove.
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Upstairs, Dove settled on her bed, kneeling with her hands in her lap and eyes closed. On their own beds were Louise, Kirche, and Tabitha.
"When a greybeard meditates on the voice," Dove started to give instruction, "They think of the word in Dovahz'ul that they want to learn. For me, I focus inwards and feel for my own soul. Try focusing on anything you want, but try thinking beyond just a text-book list of associated thoughts, think of what you're focusing on in every situation you can think of."
Kirche closed her eyes and thought of men, the one she would marry.
Louise closed her eyes and thought of the rule of steel.
Tabitha closed her eyes and decided to try something, she focused on her 'soul' like Dove had said,
…
…
it hurt a lot and she quickly turned her thoughts to Dove, and the spells she had seen her use. She wasn't avoiding anything, she just didn't want to talk about it.
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The next morning the group gathered and walked off towards the mountain side.
In the front was Colbert followed by Dove, Guiche, Louise, Kirche, and finally Tabitha. They moved in a Louise bunch, Dove occasionally pushing and pulling Colbert to the side to prevent him from stepping on a rock or in a pot hole as his eyes only occasionally left the map in front of him.
"So Dove," Kirche started, causing Dove to look back, "you said that there were people called the graybeards who taught you how to meditate like that, who were they?"
Dove smiled remembering, "A bunch of stiff old wind bags on top of a nines forsaken mountain," Then she laughed, "and possibly the only mortals to gain any form of control on the magic of the dragons. Very dear friends of mine."
Louise and Tabitha blinked, one confused by why Dove would call her friends 'stiff old wind bags', while the other was thinking about the 'control… the magic of the dragons' part.
Colbert was single mindedly interested in the map and Guiche was too far out of the loop to figure out what they were talking about.
"How?" Tabitha asked.
"'How did they control the magic of a Skyrim dragon?' is that was you mean Tabitha?" Dove asked smiling at the Cerulean.
Tabitha nodded.
"They sat down and thought, meditated on the dragon tongue for years on end, they are called the greybeards because of how long this process takes," Dove said, "I was a natural at the language, that's why I can use magic like that without being old as dirt."
"Dragons have magic where you're from?" Colbert asked.
Dove winced, she had honestly forgot that he was there and not as up to date as the girls were.
"Dragons shout, professor Colbert," she said, "Dovahkiin can spit both fire and ice and a few other things because of her innate magical abilities instead of some physical function, some humans develop the same abilities by learning to understand the dragon language."
"That's very interesting, I would like to learn more about this 'shouting' ability later," Colbert said hopefully.
Dove gave a shaky grin and thankfully he dropped his line of inquiry.
"Humans can shout by meditation?" Tabitha asked remembering that she had meditated on Dove's spells.
"It's possible," Dove said with a shrug, "it just takes a long time."
Tabitha remained thoughtful for a few minutes, "What is easiest?"
Dove smirked, "the easiest shout to learn is Fus, the unstoppable force. Are you going to try to learn it now?"
Tabitha shrugged.
Walking on the group arrived at a cave entrance, Dove still got uncomfortable shivers from these types of environments.
Colbert kept on walking forwards without looking up. No wonder he got lost at sea last time he left on one of these trips.
Fortunately, this cave had little in it aside from stalactites and stalagmites. After half an hour of walking though the cave they came to an opening in the back. Dove jogged a little ahead to be the first out of the cave.
After her eyes adjusted back to the light of the sun she gasped and smiled. The cave had lead out to a hidden valley, the forest reviled was bright, almost neon green. Trees and mossy grass blanketed the area.
"This is beautiful," Dove breathed.
The rest of the group caught up, each giving their own exclamation about how beautiful or sudden the valley was.
Dove only waited for a second or two before darting off like a kid at a sweet roll stand.
"I Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere," Kirche turned to look at the solemn looking pink mage, "Swear on my family name, to never let Dove talk me into another trip if she keeps on running off on us."
Kirche couldn't help it, she laughed until tears leaked from her eyes.
Dove rushed through the trees, almost stirring up a minor wind storm in her wake. She looked around, her eyes searching for anything that could offer an adventure. Breezing though the dense trees it was a complete surprise when she almost ran right into a completely green cliff side.
Dove blinked, she couldn't have reached the other side of the valley yet, and rock wasn't often a mossy green.
Taking a step back Dove looked around for her group.
They weren't in sight.
Great. 'slowpokes,' she thought snidely, they were never going to make good adventurers if they didn't learn to be faster.
While she waits She will figure out the mystery of the green wall!
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Colbert lead the remaining group though the trees at a sedate pace. The place was rather nice, the mid-morning sun filtered through the leafs giving everything a bright green with golden flecks where the sun still made it though.
Louise was surprisingly silent as she watched the forest for any sign of her wayward familiar. No luck, apart from a few broken branches here and there, there was no sign of Dove.
"YOU WILL NOT BEAT ME ROCK! I WILL HAVE YOUR SEACRITS EVEN IF I MUST BEG SHEOGORATH FOR THE EXPLODING CHEESE TO DO IT! BY THE NINES THAT'S WHERE I HEARD THAT VOICE BEFORE!"
The shout came from up ahead.
Colbert raced ahead. In the revealed clearing was Dove shouting at a large standing rock with strange markings on it that stood to the right of what obviously was a large door. Colbert however only had eyes for the construction beside Dove, a large triangle-peaked building not to unlike a barn covered in moss stood in front of them.
Louise walked to Dove while Professor Colbert went to the large, locked, doors. Dove was bright red looking frazzled from yelling. "Dove?" Louise asked a little concerned.
Dove twisted around, "Louise, the rocks, they mock me!"
Louise blinked, "What?"
Dove started rambling, her face turning pink from lack of air, "I have seen this before, I'm sure of it, the rocks with markings on them need to be twisted to open the door, but I can't find the others, there are almost always three." she continued on as Louise started leaning back from her.
"What is the right direction? You need to twist it in the right direction for the door to open and not to unleash the swarm of poison darts- "
Click
"Kaa!" Dove cried and leapt, flying with her entire body thrown in one directed to roll away from the spot she had been standing.
Colbert looked away from the door where he had used his magic to unlock the padlock on the door, "Are you alright?" He called over worriedly.
Dove turned an even darker red as she glanced from the rock, to Colbert, to the lock on the ground and back. "Peachy," she grumbled. 'when has a door lock ever been like a chest lock?' she wondered internally.
"What was that about?" Louise asked confused.
Dove grumbled something about "too many tombs", and glared at the door.
"Where have you been Dove? It was rather irresponsible of you to run off," Louise chastised bringing up another topic instead.
Dove frowned, "I was exploring when I found this structure, I thought it was like many other doors I had encountered, where there are rocks that need to be properly aligned to open them, and I was trying to open this one. It didn't occur to me that box like thing was a lock."
Louise tried to keep a straight face, and she succeeded, after she laughed for a good ten seconds. "This land might be a little bit different than the one you grew up in, Dove," she finally managed to say.
Dove ignored her and marched up to the door, 'on the other side is a dragon,' she reminded herself, a good fight should make her feel better about the door thing. Unlimbering her bow Dove made sure that her quiver was ready.
"Hey, guys," Dove said looking around, "Same formation as with Fouquet?"
Kirche nodded, Tabitha thought about it and decided it would be a good idea.
"Formation?" Colbert asked, then realized what she meant. "Hold on! The dragon is said to be several decades old, there is little chance that it still being alive."
Dove raised an eyebrow, she didn't know how long dragons lived here, but in Skyrim dragons could live, and hold grudges, for centuries. However, Colbert was an expert on this land so he was probably right.
'Buzz kill', she thought morosely as she waved the others to relax, 'just when I needed one too'.
Pushing the door open Dove moved to the side almost immediately, just in case Colbert was wrong. When no burst of fire was immediately apparent Dove relaxed just a little.
"What is that?" Guiche questioned as the rest of them moved in and beheld probably the strangest thing they had seen so far in their short lives.
Dove wasn't impressed, more confused, if that thing was supposed to be some kind of dragon then she was sure that Akotosh would have put it out of its misery long ago. The body was pitifully short, the wings didn't even seem capable of flapping, the scales she could see were large and strangely attached instead of forming ridges over each other and were was its mouth?
There was no way this thing was related to a dragon like her.
Dove frowned and shook her head, dispelling the thoughts.
This thing looked a little like the staff of destruction to be honest only much larger. Suddenly remembering that strange… thing Dove got an idea and marched up to the object. Ignoring the others startled words Dove walked around to the tail and when she was out of sight placed her hand on the tail.
She had never noticed it before, but her hand started to glow ever so slightly when she did that.
Dove smirked; it was just like the staff of Destruction, the LAW.
'The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" is a long-range fighter aircraft, manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945.'
She had no idea what a few of the words meant, but she somehow she knew she could suddenly understand exactly what this thing was and how to use it.
"It's not a dragon," She called to the surprised mages, "it's not even alive. Instead it is something rather cool, and made by people."
So ya, I had a 'side quest' that might not count as a side quest because it was in the cannon story.
I'm actually thinking of a chapter where we visit Kirche's family but I haven't found anything on them and they haven't been in the anime as far as I have watched.
shoot me so PMs or Reviews if you now more about them.