Chapter Five: Myth and Fire

"So now my quest is..." Rowan muttered as she looked through her quest log. "To talk to Nolan. Nolan? Who's him?" She shrugged before closing the book and put it back in her backpack pouch. She made it to level 15, Journeyman Pyromancer, and was given the quest "A Giant Problem" from Sergeant Muldoon. She walked towards the gate to Cyclops Lane as she tried to remember where she heard the name 'Nolan' before.

"Nolan... Nolan... Where have I heard that name before?" She muttered before bumping her head onto something really hard. "Ow... Bartleby, that hurts." She muttered as she noticed it was a huge stand that she hit and distinctly heard laughing. She went around to be face to face with a boy with gray eyes wearing a yellow-and-blue hood which covered his hair, a yellow-and-blue shirt with a matching cape and a strap of silver crossing over one side of his chest, what looked like yellow-and-blue clown pants, and yellow-and-blue boots with bigger cuffs over the foot part. He has darkish skin and was holding a silver staff with a huge blue crystal at the end.

It was the same boy she met when she suddenly woke up from her first vision!

"What are you laughing at?!" She shouted as Shadow snapped at him from his perch on her shoulders. "Just a newbie walking around aimlessly!" He said between laughs until Shadow flew up to him and spit something sticky on his face. "Oh gross!" He struggled to get the substance off as Shadow flew back to Rowan, who had a disapproving look on her face. "Not nice." She said, and he knew what that means: one more time and he won't get any Dragonhorned Melon.

"Here, let me see." She said as she got onto the huge stand and forced his arms down so she could get, what she now found out was sticky bile, off of his face before glaring at her Arachnid Dragon, who instantly acted like a guilty animal. "Thanks," He said as she jumped off the stand. "Now the problem: there's something going on around here, so I need you to defeat some Lumbering Trolls to find clues of what's going on." "New plan: you help me defeat the Trolls, which will make it quicker and we'll find the clues better."

"Fine..." He answered after a few seconds of comprehending what she said.

Six Trolls gone later and no clues were found. "This is more harder than I thought," He said between breaths as they rested near the festival stand, exhausted from a continuous hour of Troll bashing. "They must've passed it around or something." He pulled his hood down to reveal scraggly white hair which he brushed a hand through, and turned to see Shadow and Tiger, the baby Fire Cat that hatched from the egg Rowan received, sleeping on Rowan but she...

She was asleep.

Her hat was clutched loosely in her hand as she was laying on her stomach with Shadow on her back who was curled around the smaller Fire Cat, her hair was fanned out and a couple strands were caught in her mouth which was partly open... and drooling. Her clothes were slightly dirty from the grass she was laying on and from the Trolls they defeated.

"Rowan?" He asked as he shuffled towards her, careful to not wake up the Pets, and gently shook her shoulder. "Rowan. Hey newbie wake up. Fire Flower wake up." No matter how many times he whispered it, she could not wake up. She does look cute though... He thought for a split second before slapping himself harshly. What am I thinking?! She mumbled a bit and shifted slightly before speaking louder in a language he couldn't recognize.

"Father don't fight them. Morganthe is just using this war to gain power over the Spiral, please don't fight Uncle Titan and Uncle Giant." She repeated the sentence and as he put his hand on her shoulder... she suddenly jolted awake forcing Shadow and Tiger off of her back. And they were thrusted into a random battle with two Trolls.

"Come on..." He said as he stood up and created a shield to protect them from the Trolls as Rowan slowly grasped where she was. "Hey Fire Flower, get up and help me!" He said, making her snap out of whatever daze she was in. She stood up with her wand ready as the shield went out and used a spell, but she didn't have her cards so she used a random spell.

A one-eyed bald man with bulging muscles wearing huge boots, what looked like a cross between a skirt and a loincloth, and armored cuffs while holding a huge hammer suddenly appeared and yelled at a troll before smashing the ground with it's hammer to create a fissure to instantly defeat the Troll. "What did you...?" He asked as he summoned a Troll to defeat the other Troll and was able to receive the clue they were looking for.

"Did I just summon a Cyclops?" She asked as she picked up her hat, Tiger jumped onto her shoulder, and Shadow sat on her head like it was a nest. Nolan stared at the spot after picking up a piece of paper the Troll dropped before grabbing her arm and dragged her to the sidewalk. "Hey! W-What are you doing?!" She shouted as he threw a blue stone on the spot he was on before suddenly teleporting them.

"I'm going to pound you!" She shouted as they arrived where he teleported them to, but suddenly stopped once she noticed the Myth Teacher in front of them with Headmaster Ambrose and her Fire Teacher Delia Falmea in the classroom. "What are we doing here?" She asked as Ambrose took her wand and murmured a spell, which caused her wand to glow red and yellow.

"Just as I thought!" He shouted as the wand continued glowing. "You not only have Fire Magic but Myth Magic too!" "So my Secondary School is Myth?" Rowan asked as she pointed to herself and her wand was handed back to her. "Another student..." Cyrus Drake, the Myth Professor, said with absolutely no enthusiasm which made her look at him curiously as he handed her a bunch of cards of the spells she missed before turning around to face Nolan. "Can we leave now?" She asked in irritation. "I'd like to continue my quest now."

As he teleported them away, Ambrose looked back at the book he was looking at which contained a picture of a huge dragon, eleven smaller dragons flying in a circle, and a person wearing draconic clothes while holding something in the center of the circle. "The Dragon Empress will return one day," He said as he opened the book to a page where a picture of Dragon Titan's missing child was. "And then Thanatos will meet his demise."