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Chapter Cover: Aesyr and Minotaur glaring up at each other fic.

Chapter Thirteen

Aesyr VS Minotaur

Aesyr was shocked.

She hadn't expected the tales of the Dragon Slayers to have reached Atlasia already. She knew just how wild rumors can get when the ordinary people started to talk about something and how the story can change based on what they are saying. She knew that there was a chance that something like that could have happened but, she hadn't expected to meet with her past again in such a way.

Minotaur was smiling like he had just won a war, amusement visible within those golden eyes of his. He was thoroughly enjoying the situation he had created and she couldn't help the anger growing within her as she stared at him.

"They were many things I was expecting to happen today but for a Dragon Slayer to walk into my home," the large man spoke out shaking his head, "Maybe this is fate telling me that I am on the right path to reach my goal for the Dragon Heart."

Aesyr frowned lightly.

"Dragon Heart?" she repeated.

Minotaur looked at her.

"Is that curiosity I hear?" he said, "the Dragon Heart is the ultimate treasure that the Salvatore Family had hidden away. But like every treasure there is always a path to get it back. The Princess's daughter over here is one of the Key ingredients to finding it, after all, what is stronger than bloodlines between family?"

Aesyr gave the chained blonde woman that was beside Shinji before returning her attention toward the man in front of her.

"But now that you're here Dragon Slayer," Minotaur continued, "You will be another part into my legend. When I get my hands upon the Dragon Heart and having killed you, the tales of your death will boost my reputations within Atlasia as well to the rest making them think about crossing my paths, after all, what do you call a man who can kill Dragon Slayers?"

Aesyr narrowed her eyes at him.

"You want to fight against me?"

Minotaur laughed.

"But of course," he said, "If you want to save your allies up here. The Chains that is holding them are my chains of Enslavement, part of a spell I placed on the Salvatore girl. They will continue to tighten their captors until they are completely crushed within them."

"You wouldn't dare," Shinji yelled, "Yael is important to you…you would never dare to harm her would you?"

Minotaur turned his gaze toward the young man.

"I never said I needed her to be perfectly healthy for my plans," he grinned darkly, "A couple of bones broken wouldn't change anything really."

An angry look crossed Shinji's face.

"MINOTAUR YOU ASSHOLE….," he yelled before it was cut of by a cry of pain from where he was.

"Shinji," both Yael and Aesyr yelled at the same time.

The chains that were holding him had started to glow and were tightening upon the young man's body causing him to yell out in pain as they were squeezing his body from all over.

Aesyr had her eyes wide in shock at what was happening before turning a hate filled gaze toward Minotaur himself. The man noticed the gaze and his grin widened even more.

"Yes…there is the look I was looking for," he laughed, "C'mon Dragon Slayer, show me the power you used to slaughter the Dragon race…?"

"SHUT UP," Aesyr yelled launching at him with a fist covered in silver flames.

Minotaur moved quickly, backhanding her in the face and sending Aesyr flying backward and crashing into one of the far walls of the room, creating cracks upon it. Aesyr let out a gasp of pain from where she had landed before crashing back down upon the ground on her front. Her body wracked with pain as she was shocked, he was even able to move that fast.

Aesyr heard footsteps approaching her so she pulled herself up staring at Minotaur who was walking toward her. The man had removed the fur coat he was wearing letting it fall down upon the floor, his smirk never leaving his lips.

"You're going to have to do better than that," he said as magic was starting to appear around his body, "I want this battle to be one for the legends. Where is that strength, I heard you possess? The strength you defeat my Commanders?"

Aesyr's feet glowed with magic as silver flames burst from them and it launched her straight at him much faster than before. The scales started to appear upon her body as she moved forward, her hand rearing for a punch.

"Silver Dragon, Hard Fist."

Her attack met its mark with Minotaur raising his arm to block the attack. The burst of power caused the ground around the two of them to crack and shake with the sudden burst of power as Aesyr grit her teeth pushing forward to break Minotaur's guard.

"That's more like it," Minotaur grinned, "But still not enough to break through me."

Aesyr's eyes widened as she took in his arm.

It had transformed in the split second it had taken her to reach him with her attack. It looked more like the arm of a monster with scales all over its body. She was so taken by the sudden transformation it's why she didn't see the counter coming, slamming straight into her face drawing blood as she felt something stabbing her face before she was sending flying to the other side of the room, landing upon her back causing her to hiss in pain. Pain throbbed on the side of her face as she feels blood flowing freely from that side as she felt the small holes that were there.

Her eyes were drawn toward Minotaur finding him with both of his arms in that strange scaled like appearances as he stared at her, blood dripping from one of his hands…her blood from where the scale had stabbed her.

"The Scales of the Amarl," Minotaur spoke out, "You wouldn't find stronger scales than that beast anywhere in the world. It's so strong that people used to hunt it to use the scales to make armors out of it."

Aesyr narrowed her eyes.

"So you use some form of Take-Over magic?" she asked.

"My magic is Beast Eater," Minotaur said, "Any beast that I absorb became part of me. Take-Over is what you would call the first level but in a Take-Over you can't combine multiple magical beasts together…at least, not in a way that won't kill you."

Aesyr narrowed her eyes at him as she stood up again, her hand going to the wounds on her face before silver flames took presence around her body. The two fighters stared at each other for a few more moments before they both launched at each other, the flames swirling around Aesyr's fists.

Minotaur joined both of his hands together and came down at her but she avoided the attack by dashing to the side, letting it crash against the ground beneath them, cracking the stone masonry. Aesyr then spun both of her hands around as a tornado of flames engulfed Minotaur.

"Silver Dragon, Flame Tornado."

The attack caused a massive explosion that blew out all of the windows within the room causing winds to blow everywhere and then Minotaur burst from the flames with a large grin upon his face but now, his entire body was engulfed within that scales like armor around his body. Aesyr had her eyes wide in shock as she stared at him completely taken aback that he was unaffected.

"Sorry, but that has no effect on me," he said.

He then slammed his spiky shoulders straight into Aesyr's body causing to girl to scream out in pain as she was blown backward and crashing upon the ground.

Shinji was completely horrified at what he was seeing. He knew that he was in pain from the chains around his body, but he wasn't so delirious to not realize what he was seeing right now. He had seen Aesyr take down Karmer and he knew that the girl was strong probably as strong as he was when he unleashed his sword's true form…so why.

Why was she losing this fight against Minotaur?

Aesyr was getting overwhelmed was the only thing running through his mind right now. Minotaur had gained the upper hand in this fight and hadn't yet let up at all. Despite Aesyr doing a few attacks to try to push the large man back, Minotaur was like an unmovable object that couldn't be brought down.

Was it really too much to hope she could defeat him? he thought to himself looking at Minotaur, anger and rage rising through him.

Given how strong Aesyr was, he had thought with her at his side, he might be able to do something against Minotaur…

He really is a fucking monster…

Yael let out a gasp of pain drew his gaze and Shinji's eyes widened taking notice of the glowing chains that were tightening around Yael's body causing the girl to had tears in her eyes given the pain she was feeling coursing through her.

"Yael…," he called out, wanting to help but he couldn't move from where he was.

"I…I'm okay," Yael answered him, her voice laced with pain and trembling, "I haven't broken any bones yet…"

"Damn it…," Shinji struggled against the chains against his own body, "If only I hadn't fallen to this trap…"

"…silver flames," Yael whispered.

The young Knight glanced at the blonde girl, confusion upon his face.

"What?"

Yael's eyes were looking down toward the battle in front of them.

"That girl…she used silver flames in her magic," Yael said, "Those are the flames of the Silver Dragon Elassan."

Shinji blinked surprised.

"Really?"

Yael nodded.

"My mother…used to tell me stories about Elassan. It was said that his flames were always a peculiar phenomenon since no Fire Dragons ever used such flames before him. He is the only one that we know of that could produce flames of such magnitude…the Dragon of the Silver Flame."

Shinji though back to seeing Aesyr fight and sure enough, she had used silver flames in her battle and even when she faced against Saul to let him move on forward and even when she fought against Minotaur, her flames were always silver.

"Now that I think about it," he said, "She really use them….Did Elassan teach her how to make them?"

Yael stayed silent.

Minotaur was walking toward the fallen Aesyr who was completely bloody on a side of her body as she was lying there. The man had small smirk upon his face as he approached toward her form before stepping upon her body.

"I must say I am disappointed in your performance Dragon Slayer," he grinned, "Is this the power you used to battle against the Dragons? Is this the full might that is needed to kill Dragons? I had expected a stronger resolve from you but it would seem that's just how far you're going to go?"

His hand suddenly glowed with power as he stared down at her form.

"Die, just like the rest of your kind Dragon Slayer"

He slammed the powerful blast of magic straight down upon her, destroying a large part of the floor as well.

Resolve…

Is that the limit of your resolve?

Aesyr was falling and in pain, blood falling from the side of her head and her torso…

Am I really that weak Elassan?

Flashback

"And I never said that you were weak Aesyr," he told me.

I looked at him, shocked at the revelation.

"What?"

"You have my power within you…and you've grown quite a lot from when we first started this training," Elassan continued, "And like I said earlier…you lack resolve. You said that you wanted vengeance against the ones who took your home from you and yet, while you may hate them, you don't have resolve yet."

"Then how do I find my resolve?" I asked.

Elassan let out a hearty chuckle before looking at me dead in the eyes.

"Then let me ask you Aesyr Assan…What are you fighting for?"

End of flashback

Her eyes opened again.

I am fighting…to save them…

Flames started to rise from her body.

I am fighting…to save my friends….

The flames grew into a roar…

Minotaur blinked in surprise at the light that was shining from the hole he had send the Dragon Slayer crashing through. He had thought that he had killed her in that last attack but it seems that he was wrong in thinking so.

A large blast of fire grew from the hole destroying it completely and Minotaur instantly jumped back so that he won't get burn with the flames rising high into the room causing surprise and shock at the amount of power that was rising within the room but that wasn't what was so shocking.

The silver flames had taken the shape of a roaring Dragon and he could almost hear the thunderous roar of the said creature over the sound of the burning flames.

This power…so this is the might of a Dragon Slayer…

A figure had appeared within the flames. Her eyes glowed from the fire that was around her as the young woman stood there across him, bathed in the silver flames of the Dragon. The look upon her face was different than how it had been during the battle. This one was focused and completely different than the indecisiveness that had been visible before.

Above them, both Shinji and Yael had wide eyes at what was going on.

"No way…," Shinji said shocked, "Her flames…they're so powerful."

Yael could feel a hum within her reacting to the flames.

There is no mistaking it…those flames…they are Elassan's…than this girl must be…

"Sorry to have kept you waiting," Aesyr spoke out looking at Minotaur across her, "You said that you wanted to fight against a Dragon Slayer did you not?"

She raised a hand, her body still completely bathing in the flames which seems to be coming from her very skin.

"Come at me, Minotaur."

A dark grin grew upon Minotaur's face as his entire body was suddenly engulfed in magic. Horns grew from his head as his chest was starting to be covered in fur and his face came to look more like a bull than a person.

"Then show me your power…DRAGON SLAYER."

Aesyr rises...

Next Time: Child of the Dragon

AN: With what's going on the world these past two months, I didn't update any of my stories because it was hard to write with COVID-19. I just couldn't find it to write more chapters for my stories but now that things are calming down mostly...I am starting to write again so no long wait for update again meaning bi-weekly update for Child of the Dragon since it's an original story, I have carte blanche on where the story is going to go and i have big plans for this fic that will tied it to Child of Heaven which this is a prequel to.

Please look forward to it.

Jacques0 out.

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