From now, after every arc, I will be doing one or two fantasy chapters for something different every now and then. Now with that said hold on and take cover because this chapter will be fiery.

Chapter cover- Pony flying in the sky and Cortney on the ground looking at a map.

SC 2- Blazing

About three days have passed since I made my first journal entry and nothing has happened. Me and Pony have entered a volcanic area, a little while ago.

"Hey Pony tell me if the heat is too much." Due to my physiology, I can handle more dangerous environments without trouble but I don't want to put others in danger.

"Ok. Hey, Cortney, can you use magic?" Pony ask and I don't want say.

"No, due to my mom being a magic canceling demon, I have little to no magic. So I have to rely on my own strength." I point to my sword, "That's why I use a sword." I tell to stop.

"What is it, Cortney?" Pony asks what's going on, as I get ready to fight.

"Pony take flight!" Pony doesn't hesitate and flies up while I hold on to her. Getting us out the way of a fireball. Another one comes flying at us, I unsheath my sword and cut in half.

"What's going on?" Pony continues to dodge the fireballs.

"Someone is attacking us, hang on." I see Pony is slowly getting tired and I need to find where the person is attacking us. However, I get hit and lose my grip on Pony. Falling I sprout wings out of my back and find the person attacking us.

I open my right eye to stop their magic and point my sword at them. It's a girl with horns and wings taking a closer look, her arms and legs are covered in scales.

"Who are you?" I ask kinda ticked off because I was hit in the face with a fireball. The girl knocks away my sword and I smack her in the face with the flat side of my sword.

"Ow." I point my sword at her again.

"Who are you?" I ask again as Pony lands next to me.

"Cortney are you ok?!" Pony is distressed about me since I did get hit.

"I'm ok, that attack didn't really hurt I'm more annoyed than anything else." I say to Pony because she felt it was her fault that I got hit, "I found our attacker." I shift my gaze back to the girl.

"What is she?" Pony was living in a forest so I didn't expect to have that much knowledge about other races, good thing Dad did tell me about them.

"I think she's a dragonkin, a dragon that can take the shape of a human. Just tell me your name." I ask the girl once again and this time she talks.

"My name is Peace, and you are right. I am a dragonkin." Peace actually talks for once, I sheath my sword and help Peace up. Not counting the horns, she's just a little shorter than me

"Nice to meet you Peace, I'm Cortney and this Pony. Why did you attack us?" She attack us for no reason.

"Sorry, I thought you were with the people that have been capturing people to sell on the market." Ok, that makes sense because it is suspicious for anyone to come here, "But I guess I wrong. Excuse Cortney how did you disable my magic?" That reminds me to close my eye since I had it open that whole time

"I'm a demi-human, my mother is a magic canceling demon anyone I look at with my right eye can't use magic." I tell Peace, "Hey, do you want to join me and Pony on our adventure?" I ask out of blue but it would be awesome if she joined.

"Um, thanks for asking but I have to decline, I am next in line for my clan." I knew it that had no chance of working but I might as well try.

"Alright Peace, you something about the Black market right? Let me and Pony help, we're adventurers and we dealt with something before, some bandits were trying to sell Pony's mother. And don't worry I took one of your fireballs like it was nothing so that proves I'm strong." I might as help wherever I go, good help can be hard to find.

Peace is hesitant about accepting our help but she soon agrees, "Fine, follow me. My mother can explain the situation." As we follow Peace, I ask some question about her.

"So can you transform into a dragon in those old stories?" I excitedly ask Peace.

"Yes, we gain the ability to transform at a very young age but we aren't as big as people say. We weren't that big as pure dragons and we won't just breathe fire it depends on the person. If we're going ask questions about each other than, Cortney what is that thing around your head?" That's fair and I answer Peace's question.

"It's a seal to keep my powers under control. I can transform part of my body without any problem but I can't use my full power. My right eye isn't affected by the seal so I just keep it close." I comment as I try to avoid not falling into a pit of lava, Peace, on the other hand, is walking along like it's a normal road.

After walking for a while we make it to what looks like a normal cave made from stone, this must be Peace's house. She lets us in, I was expecting it to be a massive cave, it is massive but not in the same way I was thinking. Everyone would get from how confusing it but Peace leads us where we need to go.

In front of us is a woman with Pink hair is sitting down. She barely looks like a dragonkin and more like a human except for the wings and horns.

"Peace why have you brought these girls into our home?" The woman asks in a gentle tone and the room gets a little hotter.

"Mother, these girls are adventures and want to help us with our black market problem." Peace explains to her.

The woman looks over to us and I feel like she's about to burn us away, "Young ladies, I am Amallie ruler of the dragons. I would like to thank you for coming to our aid." But instead, Amallie greets us and is happy for our help.

"I know you're young but we need help from outside our forces. Someone inside is revealing information, our members are being kidnapped during their patrols and we have no idea how. I want you to find out who it is and take them down, Peace will join and tell me your progress." Amallie sets us up the mission for us.

"Alright, do you know where we should start?" I ask for a lead.

"Yes, the most recent kidnapping happened some meters away from here, Peace should be able to lead you there." I thank Amallie for her help and make way to the destination Amallie mentioned.

As walk towards the destination, I think back to Amallie. She doesn't look like Peace I'm wondering why "Hey Peace what's up with your mother?" I bluntly ask Peace.

"My mother is much stronger than me, so she can hide her dragon features. I still have to grow a lot if I want to fill my mother's place." Peace really does have big shoes but I know she will get there. "We're here." We've Amallie mention but something off, it looks like a struggle never happened, I'm wondering how a whole dragonkin patrol is taken out without a fight.

"Dragon Bloom?" Pony picks a Black petal to which Peace rushes over to her side to check.

"What's Dragon Bloom Pony?" I found out Pony has incredible herbal knowledge from her mother and father, so she can spot food we can eat and even make novice potions.

"A special herb that could put dragons to sleep and dragonkin but they need to eat it for that to happen. So they were poisoned." Pony inferences but it looks like Peace has more to add.

"What's wrong Peace? It looks like something is bothering you." Is what I get from my observation.

"Dragon Bloom doesn't grow here anymore, we burned it out the land so it couldn't be used against us." Peace reveals, so Amallie was right someone from inside the clan is responsible for the kidnappings. Looking at the area, I open my right eye and try to see if I can find a trail of some kind, luckily it seems dragonkin have a ton of magical energy as the ground is stained with magic making a trail to follow.

"I got something." I say to get the attention of Peace and Pony, "I'm seeing a trail, if we follow it we might find where they were taken." I suggest as we follow the trail, the energy gets much stronger meaning we're getting closer. I suddenly stop us in our tracks and shush Pony and Peace.

"I just picked a ton of people, must be the ambush party." I whisper trying to keep us from getting caught. I can't tell how there are, so we need to careful.

"Ok I have a plan, Pony I want to fly and get their attention. While they are distracted me and Peace will try taking out as many as we can." That's the best plan I can think on the spot, Pony doesn't have a weapon and I don't want her to get hurt plus it will make things easier for me and Peace.

"I'll do my best.- Fine-." Both of them are on board.

"On the count of three. One...two...three!" Pony takes flight gaining the attention of the other party. One guy has a bow and is firing at Pony, I take him out immediately. Peace throws a fireball taking out a group of guys and that's when the others notice us.

"What the hell?! How did they find us, get them!" One man commands the others to attack us. He looks like a dragonkin, he must the traitor.

A group of guys attempt to surround me, I take out them out with a spin with my sword and rush after the dragonkin before he tries to escape. He takes flight to dodge me, Pony charges at him and hits him in the back almost making him fall to the ground. In retaliation, he fires a bolt of lightning from his hands hitting Pony's wings making her fall, I catch her before she hits the ground.

"Lighting magic... he's going to be a problem," I note as another guy comes to attack us, I transform my arm to block his sword and knock him out without turning my attention away from the dragon. Thinking quickly, I grab the bow guy's, bow and arrow giving them to Pony.

"Use that to protect yourself." Pony looks at the bow for a second then back at me before giving me a thumbs-up.

I let Pony distract me and the guy is getting away, Peace is after him and let her deal with it for now while I finish off the other guys. I look over to how Pony doing and must have some experience with a bow because she has not missed a shot yet and while she may not be able to fly properly, but she can still use her wings to quickly dodge out the way of attacks.

After we finish them off, I look back to Peace and see she's starting to lose, I sprout my wings and take flight. When I get them, I swing down the guy's head and send him crashing down to the ground and follow up by slamming my foot down on him. After checking that Peace is ok, I grab one of the random guys by the neck and try to get some information from him.

"Tell me where the people you kidnapped are and I won't hurt you." The guy cracks easily and tells me what I need to know.

"Ahh, they're over in the cage the dragon has the keys don't kill me." I realize that it's a woman, I thought it would be nothing but guys like last time.

"How many women are in your party." This doesn't make sense, I thought women would never do something like this.

"All for us. We're an all-female bandit group." Dad never told anything about this but since they're bandits, I have to take them down. I knock out the woman and relay the information I got from the woman and the search through the guy stealing a few things he won't need anymore as I look for the keys. As I find them Peace and Pony find where the kidnapped were being held, they're still asleep. It takes a bit to wake them up, once they wake up they walk back home. Leaving the traitor to us, as we go over to pick him up, a woman suddenly appears carrying the man and teleporting away.

"You're too useful to lose now. I'll deal with you later." The woman pointing to me and disappearing leaving me confused.

"That's going to fun explaining to your mom." I joke to Peace, I look over to Pony and notice she's kept the bow, "I didn't know how good you were with a bow Pony." She smiles.

"I used to hunt with my dad and he taught me to use a bow." There her dad again, I want to ask what happened to him but I'll just wait until tells me herself. But we return back to Amallie, mission complete.

When we return we find Amallie talking to someone, but she's not a dragonkin but an oni? Dad talked briefly about that one so my information is fairly small on them. I wonder who she is.

"Young ladies, I see your mission was successful from my patrols return. I would like to thank you for helping us." Amallie says as I realize I never did give her my name, "Please tell me your demands and I will bring them out for you."

"My names Cortney by the way and some training would be great and some gold." It would helpful if Pony got some more experience with her bow or given a better one and I need some sword training.

"Alright, I'll have a few clan members set up training for you and you'll able for your stay." Great, Amallie is one board.

A few days later

Amallie made our stay very comfortable and gave us some great training, my swordsmanship has gotten better and Pony is now deadly with a bow plus she was given a much studier bow so we don't have to worry about it falling apart on us and she's got some potion training. Me and Pony are preparing to leave, Peace and Amallie are going to see us off, Amallie gives me and Pony a bag of gold and hands a rucksack to Peace.

"Mother, why are you giving me this?" And just us, Peace is also confused.

"I want to go with Cortney." Peace is shocked by her mother said and I only asked Peace to join the first time we met and never brought it up again.

"Go with- But mother I can't leave you and the clan, I'm supposed to be the next ruler-" Amallie stops Peace there explains her reasoning.

"Listen, honey, I want to see the world and join life, you can wait to be the ruler. Also, you can't take over until you find a husband." Amallie is a bit embarrassed saying the second part, "So join them they're going to need help and I want you to go with them." Peace looks at her mother for a second before hugging her before turning to face us while grabbing to the rucksack

"I guess I'm joining after all." Peace comments.

"Guess so," I reply and Pony starts fluttering her wings in excitement before running at Peace to hug her. I hold my hand out.

"Welcome to the team Peace." And Peace grabs it.

"Peace: the future dragon ruler will be accompanying you, I hope my powers will helpful." I have a feeling that title will be useless but Peace joining us is great.

"Thanks for everything Amallie, we'll be off now." We leave off, Amallie recommends we visit a town along the way, I guess that's our next stop.

As we make way to the town I pull my journal and prepare to write to Mom again.

"What are you about do Cortney?" Peace asks as I start writing.

"It's a special journal I use to tell my mom of the adventure I've been on. This will be my second one."

Hello Mom, my adventure has brought me from a beautiful forest to a volcanic land ruled over by dragonkin. I seem to be getting deeper with the black market as the leader Amallie, a mother ask me to see who was kidnapping her patrols and sent her daughter with us. A traitor was putting them to sleep with Dragon Bloom and captured them, he was with an all-woman bandit group. After we beat and try to capture him a woman appeared to save him and before she left, she said she'll see me again. I will beat her the next time we meet. After we returned and said what happened we stay a few days to train, also turns out Pony is very good with a bow. Just before we left we were given some gold and a new companion ruler's daughter, Peace is coming with us. She told us of town we should visit and that's where we're heading off next.

Until next time, Love you.

Writer: And that's the end of this story, for now, we will be returning to the normal story Chapter 20 meaning another writer interview, also I will be doing a Halloween special so keep a lookout for that. And Thana and Delaila should be back from their assignments so Power of the week should return. Until next time wish the gods favor you.