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Chapter 11: meeting up

Victor hadn't exactly planned what he'd do now that he had no weapon or magic to help him, that is if thats what his ability was, I'm not quite sure what it is.

He just kept on running blind with both his eyes closed, Vicki ran past him with her staff, hurdling it at its chest.

It just bounced off it's hard chest, and she shrugged at victor, chuckling at her menial effort.

Lucy jumped in after, thunder sparking on her fist as she smashed it into the chest of the beast.

The wind intensified and she fell off its chest, gasping for air.

Not even a dent was left were she had punched.

The beast inhaled deeply and it's eyes shun a bright green, but rather than blowing anything out. The whole landscape froze in place.

Everything I'm a thirty mile radius was rendered useless and iMobile even the winds stopped moving.

They all looked at each other unsure of what to do in their situation.

Lucy victor and Vicki, tried their hardest to move even an inch, but they couldn't feel a single fibre of muscle on their body.

Ryan, too was frozen behind them, but he had an idea, it was the same as always though. Burn his flames as hard as possible hoping to achieve something. Anything.

The dragon roared vigorous, shaking the landscape around him, it was the apex predictor in this part of the world. And no man or beast dared to hunt it.

This was one of the most powerful dragons that existed. The adamantine dragon is said to be older than the world itself.

And it's skin was stronger than any metal know to man or beast.

The core in its chest, was the source of its power, but the crystal was even harder to penetrate.

When they claimed a specific area other high level beast could not be spotted near them, it's no wonder there were barely any birds in the vicinity.

They had control over time, although it looked like mere levitation.

They could speed up or slow down the time in within their area.

When the crystal was broken down into pieces and made into a weapon the user could manipulate time in a way. But not as fluently as the fierce beast.

Ryan's body too was stuck in place, and unsure of what else to do. He closed his eyes gritted his teeth, and tried his hardest to muster up as much flames as possible.

The black flames erupted from his body, growing in intensity by the minute. It covered every inch growing in size and mass, the dragon moved forward, making it's way towards his pray to feast on them.

It's mouth over, thirty meters wide, it got ready to devour Vicki who stood the closest to it.

Ryan's flames intensified more and more, to the point were his body was no longer visible.

At a point he actually began groaning and screaming in pain?.

The flames began burning his skin, melting it down to the bone, the ones on his arm at least.

His body burnt and regenerated in a cycle as the flames only grew.

Lucy screamed on and on "stop!!", knowing very well the implications of what he was doing, those flames could get too hot for even his body to resist.

And she merely panicked unable to move.

Ryan took the pain as an odd side to keep going. Deafing his ears to outside hindrances. The dragon took notice almost immediately.

Shifting it's attention to Ryan.

It needed to take care of him quickly before he got out of hand.

Without a second thought it swallowed Ryan whole in a single bit, with some smoke, gliding through his nostrils.

It turned it's attention back to Vicki, who looked rather normal for someone who'd just watched their friend die.

Lucy was horrified at the sight, and couldn't hold back the rivers of tears from rolling down her face, as she struggled tirelessly to escape from its hold.

Vicki again wore the astranged expression with a simple smile on her faced as she scoffed saying.

"Look at its belly".

A spoke in it's belly emitted a slight black colour, and the humility only intensity.

It raised its head up in pain, roaring and scratching at its belly, it fell on its back, releasing all that were caught in his ability.

Large amounts of flames burst out of its nose and eyes, and it could only scream in pain.

Lucy and Victor stared astonished by the sight.

Pools of blood seeped from the skull of the beast, and eventually, it's skull burst open with Ryan jumping out from it.

The insides of its body reduced almost to dust, and it's head a bloody mess. Victor was the most amazed of all.

"How'd you take care of such a big dragon, so easily?", he asked astonished.

"It wasn't without it's down sides", victor replied taking a piece of burnt clothing off his chest.

His body was now dressed in red, with the blood dripping down his pants.

Lucy rushed over and embraced him in a hug, before slapping him across the head.

"Owww, what was that for???", he exclaimed grabbing at his head.

"Stop doing dumb shit like that you creep, it gets me worried", she whispered quietly.

"What was that, I didn't get that last part", he replied smirking at her.

She stomped on his feet, taking him by the ear annoyed grinning at her teeth as she said.

"Don't push it".

The core at the center of the dragons chest remained untouched or rather unfazed by the heat.

Ryan, Vicki and Lucy laughed it off, as they found a stream to clean him off. But victor inspected the body.

The adamantian dragon was impenetrable, that's what it was known for. Even the inside of it's body was too strong for any known sorcery or weapon.

Only an exceptionally powerful druid or soilder could take one down, that's what made the material so hard too come by.

But the thing was, it's body had never been actually destroyed or burnt. It would always be done some other way, like bursting his hard or breaking it's bone.

Brute force, but Ryan burnt it to a crisp. The inside at least.

This meant Ryan's flames weren't normal, they didn't only burn what they came in contact with. They burnt it down to the very molecule.

It destroyed atoms.

Victor used the hilt of his sword, and hacked away at the crystal. Breaking off bits of it. He couldn't exactly fit the whole thing, but he'd at least be able to make a solid blade from it.

Ryan turned back, and saw victor struggling with the crystal, he remembered the ability he had gained.

The storage ability.

He walked up to victor, stretching his hand out hand with nothing but the thought of storing it.

The crystal was covered in a light white aura, and a moment later it was gone from the ground.

"I didn't ask for your help", victor scoffed at him.

"I know", Ryan replied walking off.

They ventured into the forest that sat behind the massive beast, and soon enough discovered a stream along path.

Ryan was still drenched in the beasts blood, and in all honesty reeked.

He took off his clothes, jumping into the river in seconds.

His body was still firmly built, but now riddled with scars from past battles. Burnt marks also ran across the width of his chest and arm. And the large scar still sat on his chest.

But all these aside, Ryan was really handsome, and his body seemed too be built from lean muscle from head to toe.' Now that's what I'm talking about, like that is soooo me, I don't know what your doing unknown voice, but keep doing it', ryan thought he narrated to me.

'oh I see what your doing it's still third person, carry on', he concluded.

Lucy's face grew a bright red, and she covered up with both her arms, Vicki noticed almost instantly, laughing at her face.

"Just go talk too him", she said.

"I, I can't we've only known eachother for like a month or something. Feels like a lifetime though", Lucy replied as she made her way to a near by tree.

Vicki walker up to Lucy, and took a sit beside her,"Damn, your like in deepppp, do you remember anything from before you met him",

"Actually,no, I just found myself in his room",

"Seriously, it's kinda the same for me, I just woke up one day with victor ",

"Oh so you guys are like, a thing ", Lucy asked point back and forth at both of them.

"Of course we are, was that not obvious", she replied laughing.

"Really, how since when. How'd you know What'd he do?, be honest he threatened you didn't he", she whispered into Vicki's ear.

"What! No", she replied laughing. "It was honestly from the very first day. He looked like shit, I mean grade A shit, and hopeless too, I kinda felt sorry for him, but I couldn't remember anything from before that. And he taught me everything I know. Even how to use my abilities ",

"Isn't it odd?", Lucy asked.

"Isn't what odd?,", Vicki replied again clueless.

"It's just, I also didn't have any memories from before, my head was. Empty, I didn't know anything like at all, I barely knew a few words. Ryan literally thought me everything I know ", Lucy explained.

"It's the same for you too, huh I have thought about it. A number of times, but you learn too live with these things. And I do some times get glimpse of something from the past, so it's not all gone I guess, but that aside, your a ten, I'm sure Ryan would be more than happy to have you. Just walk up and talk or something I don't know",

"So have you and victor like, done it", she whispered into Vicki's ear.

"You mean sex!!!", she replied scoffing at her.

Lucy held her tightly by the mouth as she replied"Yes, keep your voice down".

"Its not that big a deal you know, and we have", Vicki continued taking Lucy's hand off her mouth. "Now shut up and go talk to him, "she said shoving her at his direction.

Lucy, walked seemlessly into the stream with her clothes intact. And Vicki walked off, to meet victor she presumed.

Ryan had been enjoying his time in the water, humming and splashing the water around him, as he swam about.

She tapped him by the shoulder, prompting him to stop in his tracks.

She looked to the sides and down thinking of what to say, but Ryan wasn't in her head so she just looked funny.

"Did you need something", he asked.

".....",

He turned on his back, floating once again on the river and said," if you just want too swim, that's gonna take a while too teach, but just take your clothes off first",

"....."

"Aren't you gonna say something!!", she said splashing water into her face.

"I.....",

"Mmmhmmm go on",

"I think I love you too",

He got back to his feet, floating up right on the river, speechless. He was shocked by what she just said, and that was even an understatement.

Her face again grew read embarrassed at her self, she covered her face again. "I knew this was a bad idea", she uttered turning back.

Ryan grabbed her by the arm, and pulled her back to his body, pressing her chest against his.

"No, it wasn't. I was just shocked you managed to put a sentence together ", he replied.

Her face changed, embarrassed and annoyed at his arrogance, she opened her mouth too speak, but her eyes grew even wider as Ryan pressed his lips against hers.

She closed her eyes in the moment and wrapped her arms around his neck, as they both embraced eachother at the centre of the river.

"Do you even know what love means?", he asked with a sly smirk on his face.

"No, but I know how it feels", she replied, holding him tight.

Vicki and victor, had been sitting in the bushes besides them, watching everything go down, Vicki had obviously dragged him here.

Victor sighed as he said"you know this is illegal in some worlds right",

"Yeah but not in this one", she replied smiling at him, " you know what, I wanna have sex again", she continued on, grabbing him by the collar.

"What the, right now?", he asked, moving to the side slowly.

She dragged him back too her body, and laid atop him as she continued"Of course bozo, they already know".

"And you told them", he exclaimed with a sigh, as he kissed her.

They all spent the night in their lovers embrace, although Ryan and Lucy had stopped at the kiss. Vicki and victor on the other hand had done much much worse. And they weren't quiet at that.

The next day, they managed too make their way out the forest with little confrontation.

And as they finally got out, they found themselves standing before a large pearly gate. Guarded by numerous trained soldiers, and followed by a long line of individuals looking to get in.

"What is this place?", Ryan asked amazed at the sight.

"The kingdom of longrich, and we better start watching out backs", victor replied dead serious making his way towards the gate.

Thank you for reading, at least the small percent of those who follow the book, I'm greatful. But also sorry 😔 to those of you.

Stay tuned but not expectant, sorry again.