Alex opened his eyes to a world of blood, the skies were red and in the distance a blood red moon could be seen hanging with an ominous look beyond the horizon. Alex was standing on a sea of blood, and it spread for as far as the eye could see, there were tiny patches of land spread evenly across the landscape, obviously if someone were to look at it from above, they would notice that the islands were evenly shaped to make a spiral like landmass, of which Alex was right in the middle of.
Alex wasn't really sure of where he was, the last thing he remembered was the pain and the whispers within the dragon blood Qi pool, and now he suddenly found himself here. But Alex was not as clueless, he wasn't sure, but he had a suspicion nagging at the back of his head. But his experience now was quite different from the first time, which was why he wasn't really sure about what was going on here. He took a deep breath, about to call out to someone or something, whom and which he sincerely hoped was here, however he never got to voice anything out as the sea began moving around him.
There was something big in the blood that's for sure, but Alex couldn't tell what it was. It circled around him as shark would it's prey, Alex felt afraid, because quite honestly this was completely unlike when he first met Nezha, he couldn't help the feeling that he was coming face to face with death. The blood but bled as whatever was in it decided to surface, the first thing he saw were the ridged home spines and spikes on a very long and very serpentine back. It curled and wrapped itself around the place Alex was standing, and if someone had an x-ray they would be able to see a serpentine figure over two hundred meters in length making an extra spiral around Alex's body.
With fear in his eyes, heart and bones, Alex watched as a massive heart slowly made it's way out of the water. The massive horn resting on it's snout made it's way out first, pointing to the skies like some sort of ancient battle sabre, then came the scales the nostrils, the jaws and then those scary looking yellow eyes. It had a serpentine pupil, but surrounding that was a retina that was hexagonal shaped and blazing red. Alex felt like those eyes could see deep into him, to tell and expose all of his secrets, he was paralyzed with fear, a dear unlike anything he has ever felt or experienced and he couldn't fight it, couldn't resist feeling the terror as if it's very presence commanded it.
"You do not have to be afraid of me, you made me."
Those words seemed to be the trigger that Alex needed, he fell back on his ass completely free of shock and fear, but still those emotions running rampant with his body had left him very exhausted and mentally drained. The massive dragon moved around him, forcing Alex to move his neck around the follow the form of the massive beast. Obviously the dragon as it seemed was female, the voice he had heard was feminine, but yet it still evoked a certain sense of power that Alex couldn't understand, and now that he thought about it, it didn't seem like death, though it was quite close. The dragon pulled close to Alex and then hummed to itself, before suddenly it was standing in front of Alex as a young woman.
Shocked as he might be, Alex couldn't help but compliment the figure in front of him. Hair as long as the very ocean itself (if that was possible) a fair skin covered with tiny scales with little red highlights on the edges. Two curved horns pointing backwards from her forehead, yellow eyes that looked like some sort of flower, long toned legs that left Alex's mouth watering, a full breathe that was a little on the large size and a behind that who's shape and contour could even be seen from the front, a perfect existence.
Alex's gob smacked expression along with his somewhat natural reaction to the sensual scene in front of him was almost too much for the young boy to bear. After all this was the first time Alex had ever seen the naked form of a woman and he was left rather....unsettled. the dragon seemed to realize it's folly as a pristine and ornately designed red robe suddenly covered her body, however taking a look at the edges of this robe would show Alex that the robe was actually made from blood, blood that was still dripping down into the sea below.
"Is this better?" The dragon asked, a question to which Alex could only dumbly nod his head to.
"I'm sure you must have many questions, however so do I. But I will explain what has happened as best as I can, there is a plethora of knowledge that I've inherited from when I was many, but now I'm one, so all is as one as it should be." The dragon said, leaving Alex a little bit confused with way she spoke.
"Every blood in that pool was taken from the dragons brutally killed in the most terrible of fashion. It was only in this way would there be enough energy in the blood to nurture and bring out the hidden potential in the bodies of your fellow sect disciples. I believe it's quite similar to having adrenaline flood your system, each of the dragons have to be in a state of heightened emotions, and more often than not, said emotions are fear and hatred.
Dragons are alive in every single part of their body, all the way down to the very cells that makes up there body. And even more so for dragons within the heaven gate cultivation levels where the body, soul and energy is consolidated as one. Taking blood from them also meant taking a piece of their souls and consciousness, and then going so far as to unceremoniously dump all the blood in the same pool and use arrays to stimulate them and keep them in a state of flux to prevent decay, was akin to creating hell and dumping a whole bunch of draconic souls into it. Torment does not even begin to describe the level of pain we...I felt.
And then there you were, falling into the pool without the protection of the array plate you were sitting one, obviously it was a work of Sabotage, however we didn't care. It was a chance for use to possess a new body and escape our hell. However you were protected by not just your Spirit energy and the masks, but also by your cultivation technique, which was mainly responsible for keeping us at bay.
And then your masks sensed the power of the dragons within the blood and took them in, conjoining and refining them until the horror of the old was removed and a new consciousness was born, until I was born. You are the reason for my existence master, I beseech thee, please give me a name.
The dragon moved quite close to Alex until both their heads were touching each other, Alex on the other hand was feeling flustered by how close she was to him. But none the less he understood what had happened, it was the same and get quite different from how Nezha came to dwell in the mask. The fire Ruby Alex had found had opened a doorway to the spirit realm and gave Nezha a chance to slip into the mask, or rather he chose to do so. There really was slot Alex didn't understand about the mask and the mantle, but apparently this time it had created a spirit rather than summoning one from the spirit realm and binding it and it's power to the mask.
Alex looked up at the blood dragon spirit, somehow he knew the first word that had to come out from his mouth was supposed to be her name, if not there might be consequences, how he knew this, Alex himself wasn't really sure, but he knew it none the less and that's when Alex opened his mouth and spoke.
"Ébié!"
That was a word in his father's tongue, the ancient language from the tribe his father was a part of. And it meant BLOOD!