Reipreyl,
( ONE WEEK LATER )
It was the day I was to leave for Buttville. I had spent the last week regaining all the energy I had used up while trying to save Tyfanie. I had packed the things I'll need for my journey the previous day, but just to be safe I repacked my bag. When I was sure I had packed everything I needed, I decided to go for a walk one last time, in the forest because who knows, I may never return to this land.
Leaving the safety of dragon's fate, I was more alert than ever. One could never know what or who is hiding in the shadows, waiting to pounce.
FOUR HOURS LATER....
After walking for hours, I decided it was time to start heading home. On my way back to dragon's fate, I saw someone, the person looked like a woman and it was as though she was looking for something. I stopped walking home and decided to follow her. As I got closer, I realised who it was: ICIEZ, the most wicked and evil ice witch that has ever been and one of the evils. I knew it was her when she stopped and froze a bird that was flying above her head and singing. She walked until she got to a clearing where she'd built herself an icy fortress. Before she walked in she got a hologram call, she answered it, it was from one of her cohorts.
"We need you to come back here now, we finally have a plan to destroy the realm."
"Oh, finally, I will be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail. I just need to finish up something down here and I'll be on my way" she said.
With that she disconnected the call and went in to her fortress.
Not wanting to alert her, I quickly used my powers to get home.
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I sat in my room, thinking of what Iciez could be doing in the forest, 'what does she need to finish down here and where do they want her to go back to?' I thought. Then it hits me, what if she's hear for the train? That explains why she was coming from the exact path I found the train in before she got onto the one she built her fortress on. As soon as I realised this, I left my room and sprinted to my father's dwelling: The talons. Finding my father in his library, I walked towards him and with urgency in my voice I announced "Father, I was out in the forest and I saw Iciez. She was coming from the same path I had found the train, in the deepest part of the forest." At my words, Jaunte Kenwood Deragon, holder of the mercenary talons of the dragons, jolted up from his seat and stared at me with a blank expression.
Anyone who walked in at this very moment would be able to sense the urgency in the atmosphere, as the whole place was filled with tension. My father broke eye contact with me and turned away, he seemed to be lost in thought, after a while he looked at me again,now there was a slight sadness in his eyes. He took a deep breath before he then said
"Son, when you were born, rumours had arisen that Buttville lands was cursed and that was why people who went there never returned, but we the Deragons had seen what happens up there. The evils: Asoncia, Livercka, Monstro and Iciez, took over that land and enslaved all that lived there. Whoever went up there was held captive along with the others. That was why we didn't want you to go up there, as they would know you are my son and the keeper of the dragon's breadth, they would have kept you captive until they found a way to take your powers from you and use it for their own personal gain. Now, Iciez has come here to find the train and destroy it so no one would be able to go up there again." said my father.
I took some time to let everything he had just told me sink in, before I said
"When I was following her she received a call from one of the evils, the person told her to return somewhere, the place was not mentioned, but she was to go quickly, they have found a plan to destroy the realm" I told him.
"I am sorry I had not told you about this earlier son, I didn't think it will get to this, but now son, you have to go up there, but you won't be going alone." As he said that he turned around and made a sweeping gesture with his hand. My mother, Naena and Ashprok, my brother who I did not know had returned from the realm, all came forward. "Your mother and I spoke yesterday and we made a decision, if you are going to Buttville then we will all go with you. We will fight as a family and go down as a family." He continued "I have contacted the Tartilians, they will be meeting us in half an hour. In the meantime, ready your powers and prepare for war."
( AT TYFANIE'S CASTLE )
Tyfanie,
A family meeting was being held in the castle at this very moment. I had suspected that there was something wrong in the dragon's realm, but I couldn't place it. Now, hearing all this from my father's mouth just made it all so clear:there's a problem involving the evils and because of it were in danger and we have to fix it. Once my dad was done speaking, we all stood up and made our way to the teleporter. We were going to teleport ourselves to dragon's fate.
My father told me that he knew the Deragons had been living in Maupa for a while now, he said that when he met Reipreyl he suspected that he was one of them. He had been in contact with Jaunte Kenwood Deragon for some time now. Apparently, Reipreyl was supposed to leave for Buttville today but due to some unforeseen circumstances, we will all be going to Buttville lands with him.
Within minutes we arrived at dragon's fate and were currently walking to the lounging grounds where they said we should meet. My father seemed to know exactly where to go, how does he ? Has he been here before? I drove all these questions out of my head as we got closer. I was walking alongside Malcolm and Lenon. Malcolm was coming with us as he was the last centurion that was left.
Reaching the lounging grounds, we saw the whole Deragon family, including a boy who looked exactly like Reipreyl but was obviously not him. I looked around and saw that Reipreyl himself was nowhere to be found. As we approached them, Jaunte Kenwood, stepped forward and gave my Dad a handshake and a hug.
"I'm glad you all could come" said Jaunte as he released Dad.
"Why won't we, we are all in danger, so it's only right that we come to help save ourselves as well as the rest of the realm" my father replied.
Scanning the grounds again, I spotted Reipreyl approaching us. As he came closer, recognition dawned on my father's face as he spotted him. Bringing him into a tight hug, my father said " Nice to see you again son."
Pulling out of the hug, Reipreyl gave him a small smile then said "Likewise sir." Facing us all, he boomed: "Now without further delay, I think we should start heading to Buttville lands, as Iciez is getting closer to the train's location."
Immediately he said that, he turned around and started walking towards a fire that was coming from a rock, a fire that I am pretty sure was not there before. He opened his palm toward it, revealing a train hidden in the rock. Pulling it out, I saw that it was the caramel train, the one that takes a person to Buttville land. Its body looked as strong as ice. It didn't look like the ordinary trains that use the railway tracks. It looked like a sleigh with the body structure of a train.
The wheels of the train were no ordinary wheels, they were: The Butting Wheels. Legend had it that the wheels descended from a long line of Porctalions who were on the other side of the dragons realm. They were created to take you to where you had instructed it to and once it has gone there for quite some time, anyone who wishes to go to that same place does not need to tell it to take them there, it will just know that the person wants to go there and will take them there. Over the years, the wheels had grown accustomed to taking people to Buttville land, so no matter where it was told to go, it will always go back to Buttville.
However, Reipreyl had the power to control the wheels and that is why he was able to transport it to dragon's fate. Once he settled it on the warm ground he turned around and looked at us, using his cerulean blue eyes to let us know it was time to leave.