(For some reason the publish timer didn't work, so here is the chapter)
"Are you an idiot!" One of the men shouted at the other, "It's a dragon! Look at it. If you don't watch out, you'll be a smoking pile of cinders!"
"But it's so small I doubt it could use its fire breath. Look, it can't even talk!"
"Ye should just capture the damn creature; we will be a pile of cinders all the same if we don't hurry up and get out of this forest." The human started rummaging through his back and grabbed a rope out of his bag.
The human said, "Garry, grab your rope out of your bag. I don't want to see us on fire! Ivar on my sign, you'll hold onto the dragon so Garry can put the rope around its mouth. I'll tie its legs together!
Two of the bandits moved behind me, so there wouldn't be any route to escape too. Luckily for me, these hunters didn't know I already knew how to use my fire breath, the first one who comes close to me, I'll light up in flames!
"Alright, now, Ivar!" The man to my right ran towards me, I tried to open my mouth to blast him with fire, but the other poacher had run towards me and pushed my head down. Because he had pushed my head down, I lit the ground in flames, "Shit! It knows how to breathe fire! Quickly Garry put that rope around its mouth!"
The human that pushed my head tried to put the rope around my mouth. A piece of the rope fell into my mouth, and I bit down on it and swung my head around, trying to rip the cord apart with my razor-sharp teeth.
The human trying to put the rope around my head fell backwards when the rope snapped in half, and I blasted the human that gave the commands with a torrent of flames. When the fire hit him, his skin started to melt from his bones.
The man started to scream in anguish, but I wasn't about to stop there. The other two were now distracted because I lit on aflame. I turned around to blast a stream of fire into the human's face. He died almost immediately from the flames entering every orifice on his face.
The last human that tried to run towards me just a minute stood there in shock. The man looking at the monster in a scene of dancing flames of his making became scared to his bone. His friends and co-workers had just been brutally killed in front of him.
He turned around and started running as fast as his legs could. After I got the remains of the human that tried to put the rope around my mouth, I saw the other human running away. But I didn't give it any thought to run after him. There was a more important thing running through my mind: Elysia!
I turned around and saw Elysia's tree, the top of the tree was lit up in flames, "Are you okay, Elysia?! What can I do!?" Shocked at the sight in front of me, Elysia's face was full of pain, and all the trees around her were lit in flames.
"You must get out of here, and find the village I told you about. I'll use the last of my power to show you the path North." She spoke. You could hear the pain in her voice, even though she was still helping me.
"How can I save you?!" I asked, ignoring what she had just said.
"It's too late to save me, butโ" She winced in pain, "there is still one thing that you could do for me, bring this seed to the druids in Enu. They'll know what to do with it." The bark around Elysia's heart opened, and a green glowing floated down towards me, towards my neck.
When it reached my neck, roots grew around it, forming a small bag around the seed, "Now, little dragon, you must go before you are also taken into these flames." A path of flowers began sprouting from under Elysia, and it made a path in one direction, "Follow the flowers, and you should reach the village, now run, little dragon!"
I looked at Elysia and said, "How could I ever pay you back." I ran North through the burning trees and bushes. Suddenly I felt a surge of energy through my body, and the gold particles surrounded me while I was running away from the flames.
I felt the power in my legs grow stronger with each step. The ground under me also seemed to become smaller and smaller. Soon I had passed the burning forest, and Elysia's burning tree was out of sight.
After running a long while, I was too tired to take more steps. I stopped running and looked around to find a spot where I could lie. I walked a few steps down the flower path towards a tree and lay down.
But even though I was so tired, I couldn't fall asleep; I don't know if it was the adrenaline flowing through my blood, the thoughts racing through my mind or both. Not too long ago, I killed two humans!
Before, killing a human would have filled me with so much repentance that it would cripple me. But nowโฆ I don't feel anythingโฆ it all happened so fastโฆ I'm truly not human anymore.
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๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ? ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค? ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ค ๐จ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ? ๐๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐? ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ! ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐'๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ (๐'๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐% ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ), ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ.
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