It was already evening when the night sky broken by the glow of the setting sun and the rising moon was cut by a bullet speeding at dizzying speed, at first it looked like this, but the strange bullet first slowed down and then accelerated again to turn left and right to stop in place we will hide behind a dense cloud.
At the end of the day, Lucas was on a reconnaissance flight again, wanting to check the actions of the Empress and her legions of steel, but that was not what the otherworldly man was most interested in, what caused his teleportation, not what he had done and given, what he had changed once again and set in motion, solving Raya and Lao Bin's problems was one of the things that currently gave Lucas the greatest joy, as well as helping two dragons in love, the fire dragon Flamus and the water dragoness Amba, now these memories gave him the greatest joy, joy when he saw Raya and Lao Bin returning from the forest and from today their lives have become more complete.
In all this, however, a certain sadness arose, Lucas, stopping for a moment in a thick cloud, looked at the sky regretting something he had hidden from himself because it was his own choice today.
- it will be better this way, it's just impossible, it's impossible. It will be better. Lucas said to himself and then rushed further towards the smoke visible on the northern horizon.
- in a minute. Lucas whispered to himself, and though on the horizon he didn't see the first outline of the steel fortress, his full attention focused on hundreds of tracks, huge holes in the stony ground.
Lucas, seeing the strange tracks and expecting the worst, immediately ran across the sky following the tracks leading steadily south, at first nothing was normal here, neither the direction of the tracks nor their form, the strange tracks led steadily south at the border of the Gan-ju forest, until they entered the great plain constantly heading south, it was as if the Empress summoned new forces and ordered an attack not on the cities of the valley but on the southern lands that his new friends from this world told him about from the blue Sisu to all the newcomers ending with Lao Bin who visited south only once, the world of Kumandra.
Lucas soared into the sky higher and higher, hiding his sowing in the clouds and his flight was faster every moment, and the clouds he pierced on his way were splitting into two parts, Lucas until some point expected that the enemy actually sent an unknown force, new bots to the pass trickster to attack Kumandra, but at some point in the plains the tracks began to turn sharply to the east, Lucas seeing a sudden turn just before a great pass looked behind the tracks and saw on the edge of the horizon what he never wanted to see.
- what is this!. Lucas asked seeing something strange something he had never seen before, using his super vision Lucas quickly noticed something unnatural and not made of steel, they were great spirits of the earth soaked in foul flame, acid and venom, strange two golems disappearing from vision left behind only destruction and dead land on the way.
Lucas wasted no time rushing above the clouds, successively approaching the monstrous army of a hundred golems and leading the soldiers black-haired assassin in blue armor, Pelona strode full of rage and anger leading her terrible soldiers all the way to the river itself, close to where the river Nolan was born in the mountains that formed the western wall cheater's pass.
- Pelona, yeah, I expected you are always so stubborn, why are you still so stubborn, and what are they. Lucas said to himself, still hidden behind the clouds, expecting a great army to start crossing the river soon, but it didn't.
Lucas focused his eyes as Pelona signaled to everyone and one line began to split in two, one headed straight for the city of Buelion and the other according to observation and quick calculations was about to hit the port city of Zanonius, but there was something else when Lucas again focused his eyes on the assassin saw first the bag hanging from the bag but when he tried to x-ray the bag a flash was too bright Lucas immediately grabbed his eyes and when he lowered his hands everything was normal again, the sun was setting and the moon was rising except for a great army splitting in two part, an army that could march day and night, but not the assassin herself who decided to wait until the next day.
- what could it be, what are you up to, one way or another, everyone must be summoned, they must know, they must, and then I will take care of this army. Lucas said, smiling broadly, not from the vision of another fight and war but from the vision of a completely different game, he looked back at the sight of the horizon and somewhere out there waiting for him a human city and someone else.
Lucas rushed across the sky, leaving only a faint glow of ragged clouds behind him, invisible to the eyes of the assassin, however, when Lucas left the sky above the army of golems Pelona looked up at the sky and saw only a faint glow of clouds as if nothing strange and insignificant, Pelona taking the bag with the placed in it the blood rune smiled, her black lips showed teeth and fangs and her smile showed anger and confidence that her vengeance would soon be taken, Pelona had only one thing to do and she was completely ready for it.
- I'm about to settle accounts with a man from another world." You'll believe it when you see your severed limbs on my blades. Pelona said, stroking the blood rune hidden in the leather sack.
Meanwhile, the city of Buelion, above the water, Sisu reappeared watching the moon begin to appear in the sky and in the reflection of the water, a certain thought and growing regret did not let her rest today, even though Lucas did something special again, changing the life of her best friend in her there was something in her own heart that didn't let her function normally anymore, sorry joy, because she felt it today when she saw Flamus running too close to the edge of the Nolan River and Amba running with an imba screamed at him, worried about the red dragon.
- Flamus, please stop, you're too close to the river, you know what can happen to you!, please stop!. Amba screamed.
Hearing the call of the purple-blue dragoness Flamus on these cities made a quick rise and stopped outside the dangerous area.
- Amba, don't worry about me, water can't hurt me unless I fall deep into the water." Flamus said, winking at the dragoness.
- I know, but you were too close, I didn't want to see you drown, please don't do this to me again. Amba said but Flamus quickly interrupted her with a quick kiss.
- no problem, I promise more, I won't risk it, you have my word. Flamus said.
- oh you, it was just for!, what!. Amba shouted, grabbing Flamus by the golden mane and playing with him like two young dragons.
- Oh, you're not gonna catch me. said Flamus as he ran from Amba behind the now-dormant brick kiln.
As Sisu stared at the sight of her happy sister, another [similar one probably hit her more, seeing Raya holding a hat in her right hand and Lao Bin's hand in her left hand, marching with him, agreeing on the near future, come on, the future itself was uncertain, their hope gave them their greatest strength.
- tell me Lao how you will explain to my dad when we return home, you promised to protect me and here you go. Raya said and her smile never left her face again.
- this, well, I don't know, I guess I'll improvise for the first time, of course I promised your dad I'd protect you, something like that, but I couldn't stop it, and I can't. Lao Bin said blushing like a little child.
- Raya, tell me one thing, should I be afraid of anything. Lao Bin asked uncertainly.
- sure, you broke your word, it will hurt a lot. Raya said dead serious and Lao Bin stopped in place and his grip on her hand began to grow stronger until Raya suddenly burst out laughing.
- I was joking, I wanted to see how you reacted. Raya said chuckling under her breath.
- you were joking and I was so scared but know one thing, whatever your dad says I won't leave you and you have my word and more, the word samurai oath is a lot but today you have my heart. Lao Bin said doing something he didn't expect himself, stealing a quick kiss from Raya.
- Lao, I don't know you from this side, really. Raya said suddenly releasing Lao Bin's hand and putting the conical hat on her head.
- I mean it, if anything. Lao Bin was stumbling over the words until Raya suddenly stole a kiss from the samurai and Lao Bin's eyes widened.
- I was joking again, let's go back to the city, maybe Lucas came back with new information. Said Raya and then ran to the city with the samurai chasing her.
Sisu looked into the water again, feeling and joy at the happiness of so many, fear of the unknown future and certain regret until her eyes saw her brother's green water dragon in the water's reflection.
- Pengu?. Sisu asked looking into her brother's green eyes.
- what are you doing here.
- I can ask the same of you Sisu, ask a lot. Pengu said while looking at his sister.
- I have something between my teeth. Sisu asked, backing away from her brother.
- no, I don't have anything between my teeth I know it's your joke but let's move on to more important matters, I'm interested in why you are here today, everyone is in town, talking, having fun, working and you are here, you have always been the spirit of the party and suddenly you stand out from all of us and you're so melancholic why. Pengu asked, constantly watching his sister and her every reaction.
- I'm afraid of the future. Said Sisu, looking confidently at the reflection of the water, her and her brother, to which Pengu could not react otherwise than to poke his sister on the head and on the white-blue mane.
- you know, a lot depends not on us but on our friend, still I believe that everything will end well, you have to believe, I know how much you can lose, all of us. Pengu said.
- I know, I have to believe but I don't understand the actions of the Golden Dragon, why is he so stupid. Said an embittered Sisu, directing a slight anger to the blindness of their divine ancestor.
- nobody knows, apparently it's something related to the past, the Golden Dragon himself will never tell the truth, he will keep it a secret. Gronus, the granite earth dragon, suddenly appeared.
- but why is he so mad at our sister and Flamus, what's so bad about it, why does the Golden Dragon hate the possibility of hybrids so much and is it possible. Sisu asked, interested in this issue as well, and hearing the question, her brother suddenly stammered,
When Pengu fell silent, the blue-and-white air dragoness Verana, landing on the other side, had much to say about it.
- nobody knows it, it's also a great secret of the Golden Dragon, but from what I know it's not true that the hybrid never appeared, because in the past when my predecessor finished his guard, he said that he once saw a hybrid, the power of the four elements and he also saw his downfall when the Golden Dragon found out about him, whether it was true or not to intimidate that I don't know either. Verana said.
- scary, what has such a terrible hybrid in it. Sisu asked.
- and why you never told me about it. Gronus asked.
- because I thought it was nothing more than fairy tales, but I know one thing, a hybrid from two to four elements can appear in about a quarter of a chance, twenty-five percent, but a hybrid, as the name suggests, has a predisposition to rule even four elements, but it always has the form the former, for example, the mother was a dragoness of fire, so her child will also have a fiery form, even if the father was a dragon of three elemental powers, the child always takes the elemental form from the mother, never from the father, but this is only guesswork. Verana said, and Pengu, who was listening next to him, gasped loudly again.
As the other dragons looked at him, Pengu turned to his sister again with the last question.
- Sisu, tell me one more thing why you are so strange today, full of sadness, because I don't think it's the fault of the future, which is one more reason. Pengu asked, looking suspiciously at her sister, and Sisu, feeling a twinge of fear, nervously looked up at the sky, looking for any excuse to escape the unfortunate question, until her eyes saw the sight of a speeding object in the sky.
- Lucas, Lucas is coming back. said Sisu and her condition immediately improved, while Pengu and all the dragons you are growing looked up at the sky at the approaching visitor from another world.
Lucas landed in front of them and his first glance landed on the blue dragoness, but his face betrayed no joy or anything good, instead Lucas quickly turned to all the dragons.
- you have to call everyone, if they are already asleep, wake them all up. Lucas said, his tone and hastily spoken words instantly shaking the dragons' manes and the quivering navy blue spines of the earth dragon Gronus.
- Lucas what's going on, is the enemy. Sisu asked, stopping closest to the visitor from another world.
- unfortunately yes and it's a big thing, but first quickly gather everyone. Lucas said and Sisu quickly turned to the other dragons.
- you heard, Gronus, Verana, Pengu, take care of this matter and I will take our friend to the city center. Said Sisu and the other dragons, Gronus, Verana, and Pengu nodded and ran into the city.
However, when Pengu ran into the city on the first street leading between the houses, he suddenly stopped when a certain thought began to sprout in his head.
- Is it possible, oh sister. Pengu said with a genuine smile as he sped on through the city.
In the meantime, host Sisu once again had her chance to talk honestly with Lucas again, seeing on the horizon the great building first of all rebuilt, the central house of the ruler of Buelion, Sisu slowed down for a moment to talk about one issue that was bothering her.
- Lucas, can I ask you something.
- feel free to ask, you know I will always tell the truth. Lucas replied, walking with the blue dragonfly.
- you said that in your entourage to be able to choose and be free you chose against yourself and became an electrician.
- exactly.
- and why your heart never chose, and is it possible for it to ever choose, is it possible. Sisu asked and Lucas expecting everything and that too suddenly stopped in place now looking for an answer but he also saw something that was tightly hidden from his eyes, somewhere at the very bottom.
- it's a mutual choice, me and my heart, it's us at the same time, I never chose in my world because that world was not my home and I never found the one. Lucas said, and a spark of hope ignited in the heart of the blue dragoness looking at the chief's building and at the visitor from another world standing next to her.
- so you can choose, I mean, you know. Said Sisu staring only at the man's blue eyes.
- there is a chance for everything, but today there is only one way, come on. Lucas said coldly without emotion, but it did not extinguish a certain hope that even ignited in the heart of the dragon lady.
- Lucas, look at me.
- WHAT?, WHAT?!, WHAT'S MY GOD?, shape-shifting!. Lucas said as he suddenly saw a girl with white hair in kimono and pants walking next to him, seeing how Sisu changed into human form.
- it's one of my talents, and how I'm not beautiful today. Said Sisu taking human form expecting everything but not what happened right now, when Lucas stopped again and frowned Sisu immediately felt some apprehension and incomprehension.
- you know, Sisu, everyone is beautiful in their own way, so are you, but if I had to choose, I prefer you as you really are. Lucas said as a genuine smile appeared on his lips.
- true!. Said Sisu understanding a simple thing and returning to her true form in a cloud of mist until she became a blue dragon lady again, it was the moment when she suddenly froze feeling a human finger on her breast.
- but always remember the most beautiful thing is what you have inside, who you are, what you have here and here. Lucas said, placing his finger on the chest where the dragon heart was beating and on the head of the dragon lady, which made Sisu melt.
- Sisu, is something wrong?. Lucas asked.
- nothing, it's like that, your hand is so gentle. She said Sisu when suddenly someone poked her in the back.
- what's up sister, finish this stalking and let's go. Amba said as she nudged Sisu and led Flamus along with Tong, Nmaaari, Boun and Little Noi accompanying her.
- what!, me!, Amba, please, let's go. Said Sisu with a great blush and without revealing anything she suddenly ran ahead of everyone until she jumped into a large building with a large vault where the leader of these lands was waiting for everyone.
When Sisu suddenly disappeared in the corridors of the chief's house, the remaining Amba and Namaari glanced at each other but neither said a word but glanced at the newcomer from another world and Lucas, seeing the other gathered people coming down, immediately went to the entrance to the building without asking anything.
Just before sunset, everyone, the black-bearded land chief Szan-Ka-Ran, along with his blond daughter in Lana Win's green dress, waited for the first words of the human, as did the six dragons and their human friends, the armadillo and the millipede, and Lucas standing in the In the newly rebuilt circular vaulted chamber, he showed everyone on the map on the cubic table two points in front of the Nolan River, explaining to everyone what he had seen, what he had deduced and planned.
- in this place a great army gathers, a hundred soldiers ready to fight. Lucas said.
- only a hundred?. Not much for an empress. Nitor Hazin concluded quickly, scratching his gray beard.
- something stinks here, it must be some kind of underbug, a larger army. Little Noi said, expecting a trick, and rightly so, but not from this side.
- I checked there is no other army, I checked, besides fifty of these golems are enough to destroy an entire city. Lucas said, tapping his finger where the army had begun to split in front of the river.
- You just visited the golems!. shouted the blue and white wind dragoness Verana.
- well, golems, that's what they looked like, they were burning and in their path they left nothing but dead earth and melted rocks, they were like acid poisonous monsters. Lucas said, it didn't take long for the two enlightened dragons to react, both Verana and the earth dragon Gronus trembling in fear.
- Garbund, demons, legionnaires of the Nameless One, second only to Demons in their power, it's all over. Gronus said in horror as his granite body and dark blue appendages trembled.
- Garbund, what are they. Stapla Raya as she and Lao Bin held hands again with the pressure and fear of what was coming again.
- how can something so old and bad serve them. Lao Bin asked, also firmly holding Raya's left hand.
- Nameless's blade, it's his power and will, the Engineer can summon many of the evil spirits, like Druun, and now Garbund, it's his work. Flamus said, and as the red dragon spoke, he also tightly gripped the purple-blue dragon lady's right hand.
- but why did he do it?. Amba asked, holding the red dragon in an equally nocturnal grip on its right paw.
- the question should be whether they can be defeated, whether you were able to in the old days and whether our friend is also able to destroy them. Szan-Ka-Ran asked.
- since our friend defeated something like Demon Irhabar, so I guess so. Lana Wina said, looking hopefully at the man from another world watching the map.
- my grandfather told me about it, in the old days Garbunds could burn through water, smother a flame, crush rock and push back wind, but three or four elements combined destroyed them. Gronus said.
- but then all your herds fought, didn't they!. Tong screamed as well, feeling fear creeping up his back under his fur armor.
- Yes, unfortunately there are only six of us. Pengu said feeling guilty now.
- don't forget that our friend is above all. Said Namaari clasping her hands in front of her and her words gave everyone hope because everyone looked at the man from another world with great hope, except for the trap expecting little schemer in a yellow dress.
- I think it's a trap, it's something else. Little Noi said.
- to avert his eyes from something more important, does that mean the enemy knows where the last part of the blade is. Boun asked, his black hair bristling like a frightened cat.
- Exactly, I have the same thought, and I'm even sure of it, that's why the enemy sent a hundred Garbunds, those golems, and their army will start to split to attack Buelion and Zanonius port simultaneously, and that army leading to the port is led by Pelona. Lucas said, and Namaari, who was standing on the other side of the table, heard the assassin's name until she clenched her hands to fight herself now.
- Pelona. Namaari said through clenched teeth as she touched the two scars in front of her ears under her styled black hair.
- yes she is going to Zanonius, she will surely cross the river tomorrow morning and go to Zanonius, and it seems to me, yes Noi, she has something that I can call as an ace up her sleeve, I don't know what it is but surely when we meet back on the battlefield. Lucas said while watching the currently most struggling Namaari.
- and that's her biggest problem, I'm her biggest weakness, to get me she will definitely change the direction of her army and that's my plan, tomorrow morning I'm going south, I'll show her in the sky and she will go north with the whole army , before the city I will place the whole army and it personally. Said Lucas and Namaari closed her eyes knowing that her own revenge would never take place and it was better for her and all her friends and the whole world until Lucas himself reached out to her.
- You passed your biggest test today.
- What?. Namaari asked looking wide-eyed at Lucas.
- You didn't say a word, you didn't react with anger, you rejected everything. Lucas said.
- because the world is more important, and you're right, it's not worth the risk, Pelona will be lost tomorrow, if I went against everything, I would certainly lose myself and all my friends because everyone would follow me right. Namaari asked and the answer was not long in coming.
- We never leave our friends alone. Raya said.
- together we are stronger. Tong said.
- a friend does not leave a friend in poverty. Pengu said.
- I'll give you a chance to settle the score, when you fight Pelona challenge her, call her a coward and I'll take care of her army in the meantime. Lucas said, and the listening Namaari suddenly made her eyes even bigger than normal and finally, without saying anything, she approached the man from another world and hugged him tightly, which of course did not go unnoticed by Sisu's teeth grinding and her reaction to the green dragon, her brother.
- thank you, I will not fail. Namaari said.
- I know, and remember, don't let her mind game defeat her, you must pity her, because she is a slave to the Empress and her own fear, she is afraid. Lucas said to the increasingly focused warrior looking from him to the map with a point in front of the Nolan River.
- I will do it, I will not fail. Namaari said, relaxing her hands.
- so we're leaving tomorrow. Lao Bin asked with the millipede and the armadillo behind him, and Tuk Tuk and Kron Win growled ominously ready to go as well.
- exactly, be ready tomorrow morning, get some sleep today, it concerns you the most Namaari. Lucas advised.
- this is. Said Namaari like a soldier obeying his commander's orders.
- and we. Lana Wina asked.
- you will stay here, I know I can't separate Namaari from her friends but the two of you should be in charge today, besides you need to send scouts to the Gan-Ju forest and north, I see tomorrow's fight is a cover up so you must be quick like me, I can't waste time on tomorrow's battle, so we must hurry, because surely the enemy knows where the last part of the sword rests and they can't be allowed to do that. Lucas said ending the meeting.
When the deliberations were finished, everyone began to return to their tents or houses, and Lucas himself again soared into the sky into the unknown and Sisu, standing on the walls, could only look at the horizon, afraid of the unknown and something that appeared in her heart and was already visible today by her brother who, climbing the walls, whispered a certain word in her ear.
- what!, Pengu what are you talking about!, me. Said a terrified Sisu.
- you can see it right away, you love him. Pengu said, and his sister's blue-white mane stood on end.
- it's not like, I, I him, oh, like, like you, how do you know. Sisu asked lowering her head low.
- it can be seen how you react when some other girl is too close to our friend, how you look at such a situation and how you even devour our benefactor with your eyes. Says Pengu sitting next to his sister staring at the sky and the horizon where the moon was already rising high.
- I mean, you're not against it. Sisu asked.
- I would have been against it a few days ago but after Lucas showed the truth, how he defended our sister and Flamus from the Golden Dragon, I realized that these rules are worth nothing, the Golden Dragon has been hurting us all with stupid rules for years because he never had power over love I'm not angry, maybe a little bit because Lucas doesn't seem to see how you feel about him and of course, even if he did remember, he doesn't have to feel the same as you. Said Pengu revealing everything he saw, felt, understood and agreed to.
- I know he doesn't have to feel what I feel, he doesn't have to but when this is over I promise I'll tell him everything and what he does is his choice if he says no I understand I can't make him do anything but if he says yes. Said Sisu and hope brought a big smile on the face of the dragoness.
- I know then nothing will be the same, and know one thing, I will not be against you, so fight for him girl, fight. Pengu said giving his sister his full support.
Sisu stared at the sky again, knowing and feeling in her gut that the coming days would finally end everything, change everything and show the truth, the whole truth including her own truth of what Lucas felt when she first saw him, what stopped her from fighting with him, her love for him.
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it has begun, Pelona has moved, her trap seems perfectly prepared, but her greatest weakness follows her like a shadow, but not only she waits and watches, the Golden Dragon too, soon all will be broken, secrets.