We decided to go to Termina, the only city in that world (everything else is either wilderness, village or in Viper manner and The Ancient Dragon Fort's case a building) in order to get supplies. Soon after coming to that decision we left Arni village and started towards Termina. Along the way we had to pass through the Fossil valley, which can sometimes be a little dangerous, depending on how well you can fight. Like every other story something was bound to happen to us, this time, we were attacked by a weird looking monster. Serge Kid and Mathew (I had to watch them, you know was stabbed by Kid, I'm still waiting to get her back for that) began to fight the short creature. It may have been small but it took them a while to defeat it.
After making sure the monster didn't have anything of value (why would a monster have anything of value) we continued walking, Mathew was keeping close to me probably to make sure I was ok, the pain of course still could be felt but I bared it. "Hopefully no one knows that the frozen flame has decide to show it's self so we may only have to worry about Lynx," Serge said to everyone else. I wondered about why Lynx would need the Frozen Flame anyway; of course I knew that he wanted power but both he and I knew that he couldn't get if we got it before he did. Some time later we final made it to Termina, which relived us all.
"I'm going to look around," I told the others.
"I'll come with you," Mathew told me. I looked at him, I wasn't sure what he was up to. We walked through the city and watched the people buying things, it made me feel bad because I wasn't human and I really missed being human. We got stares from the humans who made me feel worse then I already was. I'm guessing that Mathew could tell because he led me away from the humans. "Don't worry about them you'll get used to them staring at you like that, I did, and it's been only a few months since I've come here," Mathew told me.
"Then do you understand the feeling of wanting to be human again, I know that there are advantages of being a demihuman, but I just want to be human," I told him. He sighed, and looked away, I must have disappointed him. He walked out to the end of a dock and stared out at the water. I walked beside him and also watched the water.
"Yes I do, to me the wanting to be human again was numbed, I used to feel it but no longer, it was gone, but ever since I've met you it's come back, stronger then ever," Mathew explained. I looked over at him, he was crying. I wiped his tears away, it's the only thing I thought of doing. The sun began setting so we left the dock and each bought a new weapon. After that we met back up with Serge and Kid. They had also bought new weapons. We then left Termina, we started going to the Ancient Dragon Fort. I wondered about if the Frozen Flame was really at the Ancient Dragon Fort.
As we walked we kept encountering monsters, Mathew, Serge, and Kid kept fighting them. One on occasion the others were fighting a really tough monster and they were almost defeated, so I stepped in and helped them kill it. Mathew was still a bit defiant about me fighting 'cause he thought that my wound would open up again. 'Come on it's been a day, I'm sure that it won't open up again, just let me fight," I told him. Pain that shot through my shoulder, sure enough my wound had opened up again. I collapsed, the pain was unbearable, and the others just watched they were unable to do anything.
Mathew then suddenly picked me up and began to take me somewhere. He told the others, "Don't worry about her, she'll be ok, I promise." Upon saying that he then walked away carrying me. I looked into his eyes, his eyes were kind. After a while the pain went away, but I couldn't help falling asleep. Right before I fell asleep I could hear Mathew say something in another language.
What seemed like minutes afterwards I awoke, I was in a room. I guessed that I was in the Viper Manor (where else would I be). Mathew walked into the room, I stood up, staggering a bit at first, and walked over to him. "Why did the pain go away so quickly, why were you speaking in another language," I asked. Something wasn't right about everything, the environment that I was in, and everything else.
"I'm sorry to say that I'm not Mathew, I'm Lynx. Right now you're in a dream that's why you don't feel any pain, I want to tell you that I'm watching you and Mathew, but mainly you. You seem the prefect demihuman to be on my team," He answered. Lynx then transformed into his true form. His eyes gazed into mine, he hypnotized me. I totally defenseless against him; as I stood there not able to move he walked up to me and placed a collar around my neck, it matched the color of my fur.
When he stepped back he released me form his spell, I tried to take the collar off but it I wasn't able to. At that moment I awoke and instantly woke up, my eyes took some time to adjust to the early morning light.
"Are you ok, you were tossing and turning all night, were you having a nightmare," Mathew asked, he was clearly worried. I sat up and looked around. He then noticed the collar, which I had completely forgotten about.
"The dream I had, wasn't really a dream, it was different, Lynx was somehow able to reach me while I slept and put the collar on me, I tried to fight but he was stronger then me," I told him. Something then come over me, I stood up, and walked past Mathew. He tried to stop me but I turned to him and said, "Let's go to the others, I'm better, trust me, the faster we get to the Ancient Dragon Fort the faster all this will be over." He agreed, although I could tell that he was hesitating about going so soon. We left the campsite that we were at and started to look for Kid and Serge. After a while we found them, they had made camp, and built a fire.
We sat on the other side of the fire, across from them. I thought about what Lynx had said, why did he want me on his side. After a while of sitting there everyone but me went to sleep, I just sat there staring at the fire.