Silent volumes of various sounds echo throughout this dark realm. My body feels week and painful. I felt like I've been floating for what seemed to be hours. After some time, a bright and vigorous light shined throughout this dark space and filled it up.
As the light slowly faded, I slowly open my eyes. As I did, the sounds of a lively forest greets me with a bright and warm sunshine. This environment seemed familiar...
I finally opened my eyes and looked around. I was in my room with Rhythian slouched over on a chair. He seemed like he has been through something quite rough. I sat up and was immediately hit with a striking headache.
What happened while I was out? I wondered as I tried to shake away the pain. When the pain subsided, I looked at my arm as I pulled it away from my head. I saw weird black tattoos all over my right arm. I was strangely calm about the random tattoos on my arm. I checked around my arm and it seemed like it wrapped around the entirety of my forearm up to my bicep.
I ignored it for now and looked at Rhythian. As I was about to reach over to wake him up. I noticed something...strange. As my senses slowly came back to me, I could be almost certain that my senses didn't enhance...
I could feel the texture of the bed sheets as if it were on my skin. I lifted up the blanket to check and immediately grew an embarrassed blush.
The sound of armor moving was heard and I immediately looked at it. I quickly placed down the sheets and covered myself as I saw Rhythian start to move. He let out a soft groan before letting out a loud yawn.
I looked down to hide my face from him as he stretched.
"Ah, you're awake...Good" Rhythian says in a quiet tone as I angrily grab the bed sheets.
"Rhythian?"
"Hm?"
"GET OUT WHEN A WOMAN IS NOT CLOTHED YOU IMBECILE!!!"
I yell at Rhythian, making him drop on the floor and bolt out the door while apologizing. My blush grew all over my face as I had an angry face on.
After a few minutes, I have finally clothed myself. As I did, I looked at my arm. I took a good look at it before bandaging it. I let out a huge sigh. I still had no idea how I got here and I have no idea why I have this tattoo...
I have chosen too ignore such stressful questions and decided to at least enjoy the day. I went out the door to see Rhythian downstairs, pacing. I wondered what made him so worked up, so I went downstairs and asked.
After I got downstairs, Rhythian seemed too be so deep in thought, he didn't even notice me come down the stairs.
"Hey Tincan!" I yell out to get his attention, which weirdly enough...worked. He then stopped pacing and looked at me.
"Okay, you're fine...Good..." Rhythian let out a sigh of relief as he went closer.
"Mind explaining what's going on?" I ask as I still wanted to know what happened and why am I in the house. Rhythian seemed very worried and gestured me to sit down with him.
I did as I was told and sat down with a confused look. He sat down on the chair opposite of me and took a deep breath before leaning in and looking at me.
"Alright...I'll explain..." He says seriously as he began his story.
[Last night: Rhythian]
I sat down in the house as I burned the poster which made Mileena so worried. The paper turned into ashes almost immediately as the bright blue fire burned out in the air. I waited hours for Mileena and as time flew by, I got worried and went out to search for her.
I went to the places she would usually go. The shooting range, the training dummies, the plains all brought no result for me. I let out a sigh and instantly knew where she was, with the help of wil-o-wisps of course...
I followed the bright blue trail they left behind and as I went deeper into the forest, I saw a bright blue and red glow coming from the direction the wisps were pointing me to. I ran to see what was happening and in awe and fright, I saw something that shocked even me...
I saw Mileena, but this wasn't normal...She was floating, surrounded by what looked to be frozen fire, she also had a silhouette of what looked like burning dragon wings, which made me wonder if she was...No...She couldn't be...
The frozen fire...It was everywhere, on the flowers, the soul tree, and even on the large oaks nearby. The sight was both fearful and beautiful at the same time. I tread carefully into the field of frozen fire. As I took a step in, I felt a burning feeling, even through my armor. I wondered where this ccame from...Magic? Creation scrolls? Whatever it was from, it was beautiful whilst intimidating...
I looked closely into one of the spires of it and saw that the ice and fire were both dancing in sync. I was amazed and wanted to learn more, but there were matters I had to attend to.
I climb over the spires of icy fires and eventually reached Mileena. As I did, I saw that her pendant, which awfully looked like a claw of a True Dragon, was glowing. I reached out to grab her, but as I did, I accidentally touched the pendant and the glowing slowly faded away. The glowing then turned into golden dust and went to her arm to form runes that I haven't seen in a long time...True Dragon Runes...
As the runes soon blackened out on her arm, the frozen ice soon rumbled and slowly disappeared as it turned into mana, which was going back into her.
Minutes passed and the ice was soon gone and Mileena and I soon fell. I caught her midair and landed on my feet. I looked at her in worry and yelled out her name to hopefully wake her up.
"Mileena? Mileena?!" I shouted out on the top of my lungs as she soon looked at me and fainted. I looked around at the once frozen plants and saw that the plants were still intact...But were burnt to a crisp. Upon looking, I immediately knew to get her out of there and into safety. As I stood up and ran back into the house, one thing was on my mind...
Mileena has the blood of a True Dragon...