Chapter 3

Our journey was quite peaceful seeing that the trail was free of animals. About 20ft away from Quillidge, I felt something in my head like someone was calling me. I checked back many times though no one was there. Just when it had stopped, I heard something rattle in the dead leaves. When I looked, I saw a person, so we follow him. I followed every track until it had disappeared.

"Yaaah!" shouted an ambush.

An ambush had broken out. I pulled out my sword to protect myself, but they were too strong, I had to use my second sword. They had backed me into a corner where I couldn't move. Suddenly Zack jumped in front of me and protected me. I saw the man kick him on a rock, while the girl grabbed him and cut him with her dagger in his lower stomach. This angered me so bad that I felt myself unstable. My eyes had turned gold, and as I screamed my terrifying sound waves had threw everyone against the three barks knocking them out. I continued my tantrum, as the ground started to shake and brake itself apart, I felt something interrupt my waves knocking me unconscious.

I woke up at this place with people with some weird symbol that looks like two slanted ovals like an 'X' with one coming through the middle. I saw Zack and Ria with them right above my head.

"What happened? Where are the bandits?" I seemed confused.

"You killed them. I stopped you before you could kill your friends also," said a little boy.

"Your powers are growing intense Saphris," said a man patting an ice cloth on my forehead.

"We can teach you how to control them," said another strange man.

"Are you ok?" asked Zack.

"Yeah," I slowly replied.

"We are the Roans, an ancient tribe made from the old Druids. We possess the power of ancient ways," the one above me had said.

"You two are also to be taught, it mentions you in the ancient writings," said another.

After I had changed into their clothes saved for Saphris, I was taught how to read runes, learn all the ancient writings and most useful spells. I had shown them the key and book, they took the book to examine it for it was indeed a fake. I was treated like a king, I hated it. I left lonely, like I was supposed to save the world all by myself. I felt subtracted from the world, like in a parallel dimension. That night, I had horrible dreams. When I had awoken form such anguish, everything in my path was either burned or destroyed. Everything I looked at was gone. The Roans and my friends had to stabilize me. I had decided to continue my journey before I destroy their homes. Just before I left, their leader gave me a new spell book to replace the other.

After all that, I had decided to decrease the amount of magic I used. I had gained a new ability, telepathy. It wasn't a gift at all, it was a mere curse. Everyone I looked at received my thoughts. Even when I needed to use the bathroom. Though, it gave them a glimpse of what I was going through, my loneliness, my burdens and dismays. Once I had managed to control it, I decided to create an invention. I wanted to create an enchanted pair of glasses that would stop my magic to pass through my eyes. Without it I could only control myself for five minutes. It was successful, it helped me that I never destroyed anything unintentionally again.

About 15ft away from Quillidge, Ria had heard a dragon. It was indeed a dragon, but it then turned out to be a human. The dragon had introduced himself as Earl Draco, a half breed dragon. His mother is the dragon queen and his father is a human warrior mage. He said he was soon to be dragon king, that's why he ran away from his home. He too had joined our team to venture into Quillidge.

"So how are you able to transform from human to dragon?" Zack asked.

"Well, usually half breeds have the ability to switch between their two species. Mages can't, they can only do so by potion, spell or chant, but Saphris can," Earl told us.

"So how is that that I have the power to turn into a half freak?" I seemed disgusted.

"I can teach you if you want," Earl generously suggested.

"Um, no thanks," I said.

"Common it is very useful, especially for you since you can turn to what you want," he stated.

"Um guys, trouble," Ria warned.

"No, the dragon hunters, they're royal hunters handpicked by the queen herself. They're here to get me back. Um, get back, Ria help me cast an invisibility cloak," Earl said as he started to chant.

After they had finished chanting the spell, we all hurdled up in the centre of the cloak.

"How can't they smell you?" Zack asked.

"Well this is the first time I've fully transformed to human," Earl whispered.

"Don't they know your scent?" Ria softly asked.

"Well I have tried to transform to human to avoid the prince feast but it wasn't successful so they don't know my human scent," Earl said softly.

After they were gone, we had continued our journey to Quillidge. When we had reached, we did nothing but gaze upon its true beauty. It was what man would call a city. When the others had decided to go inside, my brother and I couldn't move, but just sit and stare.

"Hey, aren't you guys coming?" Ria asked concernedly.
"After all those years of being trapped in the gates of Grendred, we finally get to see the word we longed for," Zack said with tears in his eyes.

"I can't believe we're finally away from home. We've learned so much together. Guys please, let's stick together through all of this," I said as the sun went down.

"Well if we have already made this far with each other, why don't we stick together," Earl said sitting next to us.

"Yeah, I mean, even though you guys are the most annoying people I've ever met, it just somehow makes me feel at home. With the comfort of your family, and just to be able to do this together is just wonderful," Ria said joining us.

We all just stood there for minutes looking at the city in the sunset. When it reached dark, we entered the city and found a small hotel to sleep in. We all only had a few crowns left from all the things we bought beforehand.

"Guys, why don't we get a job? We're running low on money and we can't make a next trip without it," Zack said.

"Hmmn, I think I'll probably be a chef," I stated.

"Well to be a witch, I'll need to learn potions. So I guess I'll work in the potion shop," Ria told us.

"Well dealing with creatures is my thing so I'll probably work at the animal hut.

"I'll work with the blacksmith," Zack said.

"Great then it's all settled," Zack ended.

We all went to bed thinking on the task ahead of us. In the morning, I settled out to the most famous restaurant in town. I hoped they would teach me how to cook most foods so we can be settled for or trips. When I reached the restaurant, I spoke with the head chef. He was very fat and hairy, rude and his breath smelled like rotten pickles. He didn't accept me saying that he had enough 'fools' already. Just when I was about to leave I heard a guy getting kicked out for not buying enough pickles so I ran back and somehow got the job. It took up most of my day cooking the special soup that everyone liked. When we all reached back to the hotel, we talked about of jobs until we fell asleep.

The next day, I had developed a special bowl that everyone fell deeply in love with. I was then promoted to deputy head cook and earned a pay of 12,000 crown for every 4 hours. After that, the rest of the week was fine enough. When everyone had decided that they made a good amount of money for our next trip, we went to the next day to retire from our jobs. I tried my very best to retire, but they wouldn't let me go. I even had tried to get fired when I was tired of asking for retirement. Just when I had decided to use magic, a 'boom' came from the lower town where Earl worked. By the time I got outside, I saw dragons going away with the dragon form of Earl. I sent a telepathic link to everyone else as I ran swiftly in the direction the dragons flew.

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