Chapter 9
So here is the next chapter so I hope you enjoy it
Arriving back home he sees Bell, coming out and so he composes himself and pretends he had a long night and walks over to the young adventurer.
"Morning Bell." Drago walks to the young adventurer
"Oh Drago, good morning you alright?" Bell asks.
"Yeah, rough night, had a bit too much to drink." He rubs the back of his head and pretended to be tired.
"Will you be able to fight in the dungeon?" Bell asks with a concern.
"Well, while you train, I'll take a little nap." He loosens his neck muscles to fainne his tiredness.
"Well, if you are certain then it should be fine." Bell looks to Drago with a bit of worry.
Drago notices the worry in Bell's eyes "Don't worry, I'll be fine." He tries to reinsure Bell.
"If you are certain about that, we should meet up with Aiz we have to finish our training today." Bell reminds The Dragonborn.
Drago couldn't help up snicker under his mask, he stole her weapon and a few things from the Loki Família, so Aiz might not be able to fight.
At the Loki Família Aiz and the group were in Finn's office discussing last nights events, and Finn is covered in bandages due to the beat down that Gareth gave him.
"So, what do we know of our guest." The prum says while looking at the group.
"It would seem that our guest had really good thieving skills, no one noticed him until Lefiya screamed waking the whole building." The dwarf recounts on what happened last night.
"So, does anyone remember what he looks like?" Finn asks again.
No one could answer that, no matter how much they tried to remember the guys face it was always blank the only thing they could remember is the cowl he was wearing, it was like it obscured his face.
"Its strange, he spoke to us and we saw him, but no matter how much we try and remember, it doesn't work." Reveria comments as she could feel a headache coming on.
"Yeah, and what he said, 'His Mistress of Darkness would protect him.' Sounds like something Evilus would say." Gareth remember the words he used.
"Perhaps, he stole the items to weaken us, but to think they would have a magical item that can make it hard to remember the person it makes me worried." Reveria comments with a bit of fear.
"Indeed." Finn says with fatigue, then he remembers something "Reveria how is Lefiya doing?"
"She's doing fine, it would seem whatever caused her to lose her voice is now gone, and it is the same as us, she can't remember much except for a cowl" The High Elf comments on her pupil.
"Yeah, and the fact he has an ability that could control us and make us fight each other is truly terrifying." Prum remembers the feeling of having his mind controlled.
Aiz didn't say anything at all, except feeling a bit humiliated, someone was able to enter her room and take her sword, a sword that cost her 99 Million Valis, it wasn't cheap, and now she might have to order a new one on short notice.
"Aiz, why don't you and Lefiya head to the slum part of Orario and see, if he had sold our equipment, and if we are lucky it should still be there." Finn orders
Aiz nods but then remembers that she had to go train Bell, but since she doesn't have her sword, it would be difficult to train him, but Drago should be there, at that moment she clenched her hand into a fist, she really doesn't like that guy ever since he appeared things have been going downhill. But she can't worry about him, first priority get their stuff back.
At the wall Drago and Bell were fighting since Aiz wasn't showing up Drago thought of giving him so practise but as predicted, Bell is giving his all while Drago is just using his sword to counter Bell's attack with ease.
"Bell don't do wide attacks, keep them small." He says as he dodges another stab, Bell then tries shorter attacks, "Now stop holding your weapons so tightly, being tense makes you slower." Using his sword, he parries Bell's knife making fly upwards into the sky and with a kick pushing the young adventurer back he garbs the knife before it hit the ground, "Now it was to light."
"Wow Drago your sword skills are really impressive." Bell walks over to Drago.
Drago hands over Bell's knife which he takes with gratitude, "Well, I've had a lot of practise." He sheaths his blade, "Plus experience, since I fought all sorts of creatures during my adventuring days."
"Though I wonder why Miss Aiz couldn't make it." Bell looks around to see if Aiz is still here.
"I don't know either." The Dragonborn looks around himself.
With Aiz and the others they are in the slums looking to see if they can find their stuff. They went through several shops to no luck.
"Man, how hard can it be to find some stolen items." Tiona complain as she slumps over in exhaustion.
"Well, we need to find our stuff before the expedition tomorrow, other wise we'll be under prepared." Lefiya scolds the amazon.
As they look around, they notice something a pair of daggers that look surprisingly like Tione's displayed out at the window, so they quickly enter the shop.
Entering the shop, they only see a spirit manning the counter with a disinterested look, "How may I help…" he didn't finish as he recognised the members of the Loki Família "Oh what brings the Loki Família to my humble abode."
"We saw a weapon outside, and I would like to claim it back." Tione points to the blades.
"I'm sorry, but those are for sale, do you have proof those weapons are yours? For all I know you just want to swindle an old man out of his possessions." The gnome comments faying ignorance.
"I'm sorry sir but some of our members possessions were taken last night by a thief, do you happen to know what the person looked like?" Lefiya question the spirit.
The gnome rubs his white beard "Hm, I could be persuaded if someone would help this poor spirit out." He tries to coxes some money out of them.
Tione said nothing and just walk over to the man "Oh, are you here to help this old gnome out with his financial problems?" Tione again says nothing as she raises her arm and then smashes it on the counter, making the man fall back out of fear.
"Listen here you shit face, I want to know the name of the person who stole from us, then I want you to return all the items you bought from the thief and then you will tell us what you know!" Tione picks up the man by the collar and brings him close to her face, and he can see the blood lust in her eyes.
The gnome now had two options, one, he could still play ignorance, or two just tell them what they want to know so he decided to go for the second options. "Okay, okay, I'll talk, please let me go." Tione lets the spirit go, making him fall to the ground.
"Talk, otherwise I'll shove my hand where the sun doesn't shine." The large breasted Amazon cracks his knuckles.
On the side lines Tiona, just rub the back of her head and Lefiya couldn't help but feel a bit awkward at how violent Tione is being, but she should be used to it by now.
"Alright, the guy was wearing a cowl, and that all I remember." The gnome tells the only thing he remembers.
"Do you remember what his voice sounded like?" The Sword Princess now speaks up.
The Gnome shakes his head "No, I can't remember anything beyond the cowl he was wearing." He sees the suspicious look directed to him "Why would I protect the guy? He sold me items that I knew would have caused problems." The gnome continues to pretend not to know who the weapons actually belong to.
"Just like the others, no one can remember what he looks or sounds like." Lefiya puts her hand on her chin to think out the information.
"Yeah, whoever this guy is, he's able to hide his track perfectly no one knows what he looks like." Tiona comments on the situation.
"What could be even worse, that we might have not been his first victims and that could be a worry." The young elf comments again.
"Hey shit face, do you still have the rest of our items?" Tione cracks her knuckles again.
"I have some of your stuff in the back, but Desperate was sent off just 30 minutes ago." That instant Tione grabs him by the chest making the man shake, "I had a client looking for a durandel weapon, so I sent it off this morning."
"What's going on here?" A voice that is all to familiar to the group
Everyone turns around to see Drago entering the building, and he notices a particular group, "Oh the Loki Família a bit of surprise seeing you here.
Lefiya instantly gave the guy a sour look, and Aiz remained suspicious, and the amazon twins just have a neutral expression.
"What are you doing here?" Lefiya asks.
"I could ask the same question; you'd think that a group as high and mighty as you would go to a fancier shop rather than one located in the slums for items?" He chuckles at the thought.
"Yeah, but we are here on official guild business." Tione looks to the Dragonborn while still holding the gnome.
The Dragonborn walks in and takes a look around, and takes notes on the destroyed counter, "Look as much tough interrogation is good, but a more subtle approach can be more useful." He heads to the amazon "Could you put him down."
"Why he told us that someone already took Aiz's sword." Tione tells him a bit of information.
"Well, he could be lying and this wouldn't be the first time I dealt with a shady store owner." He looks to the gnome.
"M-me shady? I take offence to those words." The spirit tries to defend himself.
"I'll be the judge of that." He goes to the gnome "May I take him of your hands?" he asks the amazon
Tione doesn't say anything and lets the guy go, making him land on the floor.
"What are you going to do?" The gnome asks out of fear.
"I'm going to force you to tell me what I want to know." His right hand glows a light blue.
"Is that magic?" Lefiya asks as it feels different from what she normally senses.
"Very good intuition on you elf, yes this will help you find what you seek." He puts his hand on the gnome's head making the man go silent before screaming, Drago quickly pulls his hand away as the man grabs his head in pain.
"W-what did you do to me?" the man barely says.
"Just weaking your mind so it is easier to probe." He says as he crosses his arms, he then leans down to the man's height "How where is the sword?"
"I told you… someone… took it…" he says while in pain.
Drago doesn't believe it and put his hand on his head and casts another Illusion spell on him "Now tell me where is the sword!"
Thinking that the pain is not worth it "Its in the basement, I was going to send it to Evilus as proof that the Sword Princess' sword was stolen." He spills the bean.
Drago removes his hand and the man removes breaths heavily feeling like a minotaur was lifted off his head. "Now I got the information you needed; I hope you are satisfied."
"Why did you torture the guy?" Lefiya scolds the Breton.
"What I only made him think that he was in pain, he wasn't actually in danger." He defends his actions.
"But still, you shouldn't torture a person to get information." She again chastises him.
Drago is rather amused by this, "Really, I saw a bit on how that amazon was going to pound him to paste for supposedly selling Aiz's sword and you made no attempt to stop her, so I just see it has hypocritical on your end."
Lefiya couldn't say anything as he was right.
"Now you have your information, so why don't you get your sword Aiz, someone is waiting for you at the wall." He is about to leave he turns and points to the gnome "Oh you might want to take him to a prison, since he did have your stuff."
As he is walking, he thought on the current events "Looks like I need to find a new fence, and next time, don't steal the weapons, since they are easily traceable, but hey they don't know it was me who did steal the items."
Once everything was settled Aiz arrived to the location and they finished off their training, and after a successful time it is time for Aiz to leave and prepare for her expedition.
They met up with Lily and go to the deeper level on the dungeon about level 10 if Drago had to make an educated guess, but right now something feels off, it is quiet, to quiet and Drago's dragon soul is telling him that something is up.
As Drago looks around his eyes sees something in the corner and decides to break off from the duo to investigate what he saw.
As he continues to investigate, he draws his sword in case someone or something decides to ambush him, and once again his instincts prove him right, as he sees a spear coming his way, and using the sword he quickly deflects it making it imbed into the wall.
"Well, I'm impressed, you are just as strong as your goddess said." A figure immerges from the shadows and he noticed it was one of the cat people wearing some sort of eye protection.
"Who are you?" Drago preps for combat.
"Someone who was tasked to keep you occupied." As he said that Drago's instinct flared up again, he quickly turned around to see another immerge from the shadows but Drago quickly catches him and throws him to where the cat man stood.
Drago took a moment realising that Bell might be the target, so he tries to leave but the entrance was sealed due to a magic bolt.
"Now you are trapped in here with us, and all things should go to plan." The cat man says with confidence.
"No, I'm not trapped in here with you, quite the opposite, you're trapped in here with me." Drago draws his razor and points his sword to the duo.
The cat man walks over to his spear and pulls it out and readies himself for combat.
All is silent as no one made a noise as they stare at each other, as the cat man made the first move with a thrust, and in response Drago counters by slamming his foot on the spear redirecting it to the floor.
"What the hell!?" The attacker says with surprise.
Drago using his agility runs up on the spear and lands behind the man and is about to impale him, but a fire bolt comes to him so he had to cancel the attack and use his sword to cut the magic attack in half.
The cat man tries to but Drago with the back of his spear, but Drago rolls away and narrowly avoids being punted in the head.
The second attacker rushes in with a sword and tries to do a downward swing but Drago parries with his razor and is about to stab the guy in the chest but a spear aimed for his head changes those plans.
Drago leaps back and narrowly avoids being killed "This a little harder than I planned, and something tells me those two are my level." He gets back into fighting stance.
He is about to rush back but he hears a scream "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Drago realises that sounds like Bells, "I need to finish this now." He takes a deep breath and looks to his side "HUN"
A blue mist forms into the form a young woman with brown hair wearing steel armour minus the helmet and sword and shield combo.
"Gormalith take on the one with the sword the spearman is mine." Drago orders the ancient nord hero.
She nods and charges to take on the other person.
"Now with it being one on one, I can take you on easier." Drago says with confidence.
The man smirks "You must be really confident if you think you can take me on all on your own." He points his spear at Drago
The Dragonborn loosens his muscles by crunching his shoulders and his neck "I've taken on stronger opponents, after all I faced Alduin."
That stamen shocks him, he never expected someone to face one of the three great beasts and lived to tells about it "What?"
Using the opportunities Drago rushes in and using the opening he slashes at the guy, now on the defensive he tries to use the spear, but the thing is useless in close range combat but he tries none the less he tries hit him with the end of the spear, but Drago uses his razor to stop it and gives him a slash to the chest making him bleed and finishing of with a kick to the chest pushing him back with enough force to hit the wall
The guy could feel the wind rush out of his chest and is pushed back hard enough to hit a wall, "That guy's strength is unbelievable." He thinks before going unconscious.
"Allen!" the magical swordsman shouts to his fallen ally, leaving him wide open for Gormalith to slash at his chest and incapacitating him.
Drago swipes the air removing any blood on his sword, and puts it back in its sheath, "Now how to deal with you." He thinks for a moment, and then summons his butler to get some rope, but before he ties them up, he uses healing hand to close the wounds so that way they don't bleed to death.
After that Gormalith dematerialised her soul heading back to the land of Sovangaurd.
He takes the rope and drags them along to see if he can find the person who gave the orders on the ambush. After a good walk he sees a few new guests, the Loki Família with a rather large man with red hair in fact he is just a tad smaller than the giants of Skyrim.
"Well, it seems that the divines are playing with fate again." Drago makes himself known.
Everyone turns to see the figure to be Drago dragging two bodies tied up and everyone, he stops and then tosses the tied-up men to the front of the large man.
"So, I take it you're the boss of those two?" Drago draws his sword and prepares to fight him, but Finn interferes and grabs Drago's arm.
"I wouldn't advise it, Ottar is the strongest adventurer in Orario, even you wouldn't be strong enough to defeat him." Finn warns the Dragonborn.
Drago raises his eyebrow under his hood "Really? This big guy is the strongest in the city? I've takes on giants bigger than him." Drago removes Finn's hand and points his sword at the large man.
Ottar doesn't say anything his arm holding his sword not raised.
The Dragonborn is confused, is this guy not even going to get into a stance or is this that confident in his abilities, Drago charges his sword behind him ready to swing, and when he gets close he swings but all that the large boar man did is raise the sword and didn't even flinch when Drago's sword connected with Ottar's sword.
Drago could feel a shock moving up his arms like he struck a wall of pure ebony, he jumps back to see the man not even with a flinch, "Stendarr's beard what are you made of?"
Ottar says nothing as he stares at Drago and rests his sword on his shoulder and Drago takes this action saying you aren't strong enough.
Drago takes a deep breath as he feels his chest tighten "FUS RO DAH!" He uses a full powered Unrelenting Force, with so much power that he could blast a chunk of mountain off.
Ottar braces as the force pushed him back a few centimetres, which made Drago step back in a bit of shock, this is the first time he's seen someone take a full power Thu'um and didn't fly back, he might need to actually try against this guy.
"So that is his unique magic." Reveria seeing Drago's Thu'um for the first time.
"Yeah." Finn nods in agreement
"I didn't see an incantation or a start up spell, all he did was say words and it would seem some shockwave that pushed the King a few centimetres back." She makes notes on the situation at hand.
"I also noticed he says only three words at a time." Lefiya notices a pattern on how his magic works "But I don't get it, I see how he does it, but when I try to use it, I can't get the same effect as he does, is it an ability only unique to him?" Lefiya tries to work out his magic but then remembers a certain other individual "No, that other guy Miraak he used the same magic as this guy and they were evenly matched." Lefiya remembers the incident on level 18.
"Three words? So, he uses only three." Finn repeats what Lefiya says.
Drago hears what that elf said and smirks, so she partly figured it out, but she will not understand how it works, it takes more then knowing a word go use it, he shoves that the side and refocuses on the man in front of him.
"I would advise you to surrender, at your skill level you wouldn't be able to take me on." Ottar advises the Dragonborn.
"Thanks for the advice, but I don't give up." Drago draws his Razor and makes another break for it.
Ottar doesn't react and just sees Drago, charging and when he is close Drago starts swinging and Ottar keeps blocking and deflecting the attacks not letting up.
Drago does a round house kick but Ottar didn't even try to block it as he took the full force and didn't even flinch.
Drago jumps back and takes a minute to analyse the situation here is a foe a higher level than him and a lot sturdier than him but that doesn't mean he is invisible, "Well guess I use my full strength." He takes a deep breath to feel his power build with him. "MUL QAH DIV" ethereal dragon armour appears over him and a pare of folded up dragon wings appear on his back. "Now see you can take me on with the strength of the Dov."
The Dragonborn charges in a lot faster than before so fast that even the king could barely react before Drago was underneath him and grabbed him by the waist, with a bit of effort Drago was able to life the man up despite the size difference shocking everyone including the king.
Ottar not wanting to be overpowered tries slamming his fist on the back of The Dragonborn but the ethereal armour does it job and shields him from the damage, but that doesn't mean he feels the shockwave on his back.
"Now who is the strongest." Drago with a lot of effort toss the large man to the side with so much force that it makes a deep indentation on the wall, and for the first time in a long time they see Ottar bleed on his forehead.
Everyone looks on in fear, here is a man who said three simple words and was able to overpower the King, the strongest adventurer in Orario or possibly the world.
Drago walkover to the downed king and puts his foot on his chest, then draws his sword and points it to his neck. "Now heed my words Ottar, you do anything to harm my teammates again you will face the full wrath of The Dragonborn, a fury few have ever lived to tell the tale." he threatens.
From Ottar perspective all he could see is a black dragon with crimson red eyes and fire coming out his mouth and for the first time he feels fear from this unknown adventurer.
Drago looks on the group "Now if you don't mind, I have a Guild member to save." Drago puts his sword back in its sheath and runs to Bell.
Drago arrives to see Lily on the ground and Bell barely holding back what appears to be a minotaur Bell's armour now is in pieces and all bloody up.
The Dragonborn sees the bull monster about to smash Bell to paste so he quickly reacts "WULD NAH KEST." Thanks to the speed he gained he had enough momentum and force to push the minotaur back creating enough distance between it and Bell.
Bell sees his comrade in an ethereal armour making him look god like in a lot aspects, "Bell take Lily and run I'll finish this overgrown cow for you." He draws his blade.
Just at that moment the Loki Família also arrive to see Drago ready to take the minotaur on.
"Well looks like weren't needed." Bete comments on the situation.
"What are you saying? He needs out help" Tiona tells the werewolf off.
"I'm saying that guy can look after his own, we shouldn't interfere." Bete says.
"But the kid is still in a pretty bad shape." Tione tries to reason with her teammate.
"And? He can heal him after he kills that minotaur." Then Bete realises who that little kid is it, it is the kid who ran away from Aiz a while back.
The minotaur gets up from the shove that Drago gave it, and roars in anger, Drago smiles and readies for this easy fight.
Bell on the other hand looks at Drago and could see Aiz in his place he clenches his fist in anger, he will not be saved again.
"No, I won't be saved again." Bell says with anger.
Drago picked up on the words and turn to face Bell "Bell don't be reckless; you are not strong enough to take on this monster."
Bell gets up and readies his knife "No, I will not be saved!" Bell rushes past Drago and takes on the minotaur.
The Dragonborn is tempted to overtake Bell but something is telling him not to, be it his dragon soul, or maybe a more divine feeling is telling him not to interfere, so he sheathes his sword and makes his way back to the group.
"What are you doing? You got to stop him." Tione orders the Dragonborn.
Drago says nothing as he looks on at the fight, but Lilly limps over to the Nightingale, "Please, Master Drago, please save him, don't let him die." Lilly begs to him.
Drago ignores her and continues to look at the fight and can see Bell is starting to have a advantage his dodges are flawless and he able to parry and he can see how strong that knife is.
"Master Drago please, I beg of you save him." She starts to cry "Are you punishing me, for almost killing him? Is this a test to see if I am still loyal please save him I beg of you…" she couldn't finish as Drago hits her with a powerful calm spell, putting her to sleep, he leans down and starts casting helping hands and her wounds start to close.
"What did you do to her?" Riveria asking what she saw.
"I hit her with a powerful calm spell, knocking her out, and now I'm using a restoration spell to heal her." Once she is healed, he lays her down to let her rest, and then faces the battle to see Bell plunge his knife in the chest.
"Fire Bolt!" Bell shouts and a burst of flames form inside the monster, making it cough blood "Fire Bolt!" Bell keeps shouting his magic several times until the minotaur explodes in a burst flame destroying it and leaving its crystal, Bell's armour and clothes destroyed on his chest.
Drago runs over to check on his partner to see him standing but unconscious while he is checking the front, Reveria focuses on his back.
"Reveria what does his stats say" The Werewolf asks
"His entire stats are all double S rank." Reveria says with an impressed tone.
Everyone except Drago is in shock, this is the first time they have ever heard of a person having double S rank a possibility thought to be impossible to obtain.
"What was his name again?" Finn asks the sword princess.
Aiz smiles "Bell Cranel."
Drago gets up and uses a conjuration spell and summons his trusty horse Arvak, Arvak is a purple skeleton horse, with purple flames in place of its mane and its tail.
Everyone gets ready in case it is a monster, but Drago picks up Bell and puts him on the back of his horse, he then puts Lilly on his shoulders and jumps on his horse, and puts the unconscious prum on his lap. He looks to the Loki Família "I'll take my team back to the surface, so don't worry about them." With that he kicks Arvak side making the horse run.
Back on the surface Bell and Lilly are resting in the Benevolent Mistress with Hestia holding Bells hand in joy seeing her love still alive.
"What happened." She says as she holds his hand tightly.
"Bell and Lilly ran into a minotaur, I was able to intervene but Bell ran past me and took on the monster on his own decision, and as you can see, he's still alive." Drago gives the simplified version.
"Why would he do that? Why would Bell rush in and face an opponent he knows that would've killed him?" Hestia asks the Dragonborn.
"Perhaps what he said to me may help, he said he didn't want to be saved, so perhaps he wanted to prove that he is stronger than everyone thinks." Drago gives his opinion.
Hestia turns to the kid "Bell, you don't need to prove anything, I know you are strong." The little goddess rubs his head.
Thinking it would be best to give them some space he excited the room and heads down to the bar, to get a drink and try and forget the ordeal on what happened.
"So how is the kid doing?" Mama Mia asks.
"He's still unconscious, but besides that they are fine." He takes a seat at the bar.
"That guy, really did his luck, it's a miracle that he survived." Mia says while looking at the stairs heading up to the room.
Drago takes a seat at the bar, "I doubt that, that minotaur was purposely placed there, as I fought a big guy, guarding the way to Bell." He takes the drink Mia place in front of him.
"Oh, what was his name." Mia asks.
Drago takes a drink "I think they called him Ottar, or something like that." At that moment Mia drops a glass and leans forward so hard that the wooden stall cracks.
"Did you say Ottar!?" Mia asks making sure she heard right.
The Dragonborn leans back out of surprise, "Yeah, big guy, abnormal strength, he also has a large sword on his back, yeah do you know him?"
"Know him, he was my captain." Mia explains.
"Captain? Him, I didn't know." Drago says with a bit of surprise.
"He is the captain of the Freya Família and the strongest adventurer in Orario, and you fought him?" Mia tries to get more information out of the Dragonborn
"He was tough but once I went full power, he stood no chance, I lifted him up and tossed him to the side, and gave him a warning, he harms my Família in anyway and I'll put his head on a pike."
"Boy you have no idea what've you done, you defeating the captain could cause a war between yours and Freya's Família and that could cause all sorts of trouble, she has the strongest Família in all of Orario." Mia warns him.
Drago smirks, "if that is the case, then Freya will know the wrath of a dragon."
Mia sighs this guy is more arrogant than she thought, picking a fight with Freya, but for now she is curious on how things will play out.
On the top of the tower of Babble, Freya looks down with a smirk, seeing the soul of that individual Drago was stunning, she is surprised that this is the first time she sees his soul, it was vivid, all the colours swirling around and the soul keeps changing shape, it is unreal to her, so beautiful that having him and Bell would be the perfect, addition to her Família
So, I hope you enjoyed the new chapter a lot of things happened and things look like they will be interesting.