Jax sat down on the platform as I was drifting off to sleep, and placed his hand on my nose. I fell into my inner world which had under gone a lot of changes since I'd added the earth element. Now instead of standing on blue glacial ice I was standing on barren frozen tundra. Jax appeared in my inner world a few minutes later.
"So you really can enter dreams?" I tapped my talons on the frozen tundra with a smirk.
Jax whipped around to look at me in surprise.
"Holy shit," he exclaimed as he looked around my inner world.
Streaks of lightning in the sky were the only thing lighting this world.
"I've never seen anything like this," Jax looked around with a stunned expression, "It's like your own little world."
"Exactly," I slammed my tail into the frozen earth I was standing on as the waves of the sea crashed into the shore, "This world is a representation of all my elements. It expands each time I get a new one, and becomes more, and more livable with each element."
"It's still a dream though," he tapped the ground with his knuckles, "What else can you do with this place?"
"Nothing I do in here affects the waking world," I slammed my talons into the ground making the ground ripple like water, "I can cast any magic I like without wasting mana or causing widespread destruction. Like sandbox mode in a video game."
"I'm surprised you know about video games," Jax started casting earth based spells.
"Is it really that surprising that I know about video games?" I stretched my wings out as far as they would go.
Jax didn't answer that one as he experimented with my inner world. I hadn't gotten a good look at myself since the evolution. I decided to create a mirror of ice on the ground in front of me. I looked down at the ground in front of me, and saw that I was right about my scales turning completely black. I didn't just have two horns anymore though.
I had the two big original ones which were tipped in gold. Two smaller horns between the big one that were tipped in light blue for the very center ones, and dark blue for the ones right next to the big horns. Then there were smaller horns outside of the bigger horns. The ones closest to the big horns were tipped with green, and the ones after that had silver tips. The lengths of the horns seemed to represent my mastery, and general talent for each of the elements I held.
"It does look like a crown," I murmured to myself.
The crown of horns was supposed to help me with learning the elements, and up my XP earnings. How did having horns in the shape of a crown make me learn faster? I didn't understand that. Maybe it had something to do with the system. Maybe it was something unique to the system. The only way for me to know was to have another dragon to compare myself to.
Right now that was an impossibility. There are no other dragons. I needed to find those eggs. Which means I need to find out who has them? Who the dragon queen trusted enough to leave dragon eggs with them?
In effect she was trusting the entire future of the dragon race to a child, and someone I didn't know yet. It was a long shot for me to think about. I mean really, what kind of crazy plan did she create? I wouldn't bet the future of anything on those odds, but she seemed to think it would work for some reason. I wouldn't know until this next prediction of hers came to pass.
Latching on to some sort of powerful being, and bringing them to me to survive this somehow. That was the next step in this plan of hers. If she truthfully did see this future than I would know sooner rather then later. I watched Jax experiment for a while within my inner world. He seemed almost excited that there was a place like this.
"Would user like to form bond with ally Jax?" The system asked me.
It startled me, and I flinched in response to the question.
"No," I whispered.
I was glad that Jax couldn't hear the system like I could. The last thing I needed was for everyone to know there was another voice rattling around in my head. Pain shocked across my check, and made my inner world shake like an earthquake.
"What the hell was that?" Jax shouted.
I ignored the question, and looked over at the outlines of Ethan, and Savannah. Another shock stung my cheek as Savannah's outline lit up brighter on her cheek. I growled angrily as I thought about what was happening right now. Someone was hurting Savannah. Jax looked at me with fear in his eyes.
I didn't care. Who the hell would dare hurt my bonded? My inner world shook as the space within warped, and cracked. There was only one way for me to get to them from here, and that was for me to create my own portal to them. Jax was in a panic as my inner world shook, and cracked.
He was shouting something at me to try, and get me to calm down, but I didn't really care what he had to say since he was only a guest here.
"Spatial affinity is now level 2," the system spoke.
I don't care. I just want to be where Savannah, and Ethan are. I need to protect them. Jax tried to shout something at me to get me to calm down again.
"Get out," I snarled as Jax was thrown away from me.
He slid along the ground as I forced him out of my inner world. He dug his fingers into the frozen earth.
"What's going on Wyatt?" Jax shouted from a good distance away from me.
"I said get out," I snapped at him as the earth he had dug his fingers into broke off, and was drug out of my inner world with him.