Inside West Wugan, a youth and a yellow lion dashed towards a big residence in the distance when the latter slowed down.
Her eyes fell upon the five carriages parked in front of the residence, her face turning sour ."Oh, no. The Water Lions are already here. Come with me to the other entrance."
"Alright."
Taking a detour across the big walls, Thomas and Nana found a small door hidden among the trees at the back of the residence. Seeing how Nana swiftly opened the door with a small triangular key and walked inside, Thomas face turned unsightly. His eyes focused on the door that was too small for him, he sighed to himself feeling a little lost, then shuffled to the small door right behind it.
Getting into training ground, Thomas' eyes swept across his surroundings. Sure enough the training grounds were all but empty, and at a short distance there was a tall yellow lioness standing there nervously.
'UUHH?!' Shooting a surprised stare at Nana, her eyes brightened up as she moved closer.
"Elderst Sister!" Nana immediately straightened up and hugged her sister. The big lioness patted Nana in the back.
"Little Nana, I read your note. Is the medicine with you?"
"Of course I have it. Is second sis okay?"
"Everything is fine for now. Daddy is with the guests of the Water Lion Tribe." When she reached that point, her gaze moved towards Thomas before extending her paw. "Is this who you mentioned in the note? I'm Nana's elders sister Yunra."
Thomas accepted her introduction and replied by grabbing her paw and shook it. "Nice to meet you, You can call me Ries."
"So since we have all be introduced, we should see my second sister."
Following a different path from the one they had taken previously, Thomas, Nana and her sister entered the wooden shed.
"What is this?" As soon they got inside, Thomas and Nana were startled to find the young lioness all chained up on her bed as a pair of blood red eyes immediately focused on the both of them.
Thomas felt his heart clench for a moment and the traces of demonic blood in his veins boiled.
By her second sister's side, Yunra had a sad face as she spoke. "It happened after Nana took the remaining herbs. Second Sis condition turned worse and she couldn't control her state of mind resulting in this. The chains are an artifact the earthly lions kept for generations, it can resist three attacks of a beast at initial 6-star battle power."
"I see..." Thomas sighed to himself. Nana who was standing on his left pulled the ripped the bottle's top and carefully picked the glossy pill in her hand.
Step by step, she approached her sister. As closer she got, her eyes were filled with pain upon seeing the current state of the sister she was so proud of.
'I hope it works.' Muttering to herself, she slowly inserted the pill into her sister's mouth. After giving her sister the medicine pill she immediately retreated backways carefully not to injure herself or her sister.
'Err...' Thomas' senses expanded across the room as his eyes were locked on the chained beast. At first there were no immediate reactions to the medicine.
This continued for a while until when Thomas felt a shiver spine. With a wave of his hand, the doors opened and the lion misses were send out in a flash right before.....
*Chi... chiii... Kacha*
Boooom!
A bright light blinded his eyes and a strong wind send him dozens of meters away. Without time to access what happened to Nana and his first Sister, Thomas maneuvered across the air and landed atop a tree.
Woooosh!
Another bad feeling came and as a response, Thomas lept off the tree right before it snapped in half then cut into over a dozen pieces.
In his mind, a multitude of voices echoed very clearly.
[Amazing! This is what this God was waiting for] (Ares)
[Boy, keep focused. I may not be as experienced as all the gods but this seems to be trouble.] (Kez'Ganak)
A large shadow emerged before his eyes, then all he saw was a giant and soft paw hit him in the face then shooting him trough the sky.
'No, you won't.' His mind cleared and from the depths of his body, a sun burned.
"Demonic Transformation!"
His hair and eyes turned orange as dense markings emerged on his skin. This all happened in a couple of moments and then Thomas' senses detected another attack coming soon.
Zul*
A word came out of his lips and before a second attack could hit him in the air, a screen of light popped up between him and the large shadow.
"Graaa!" A guttural voice echoed as the beast swiftly escaped.
Both sides landed on the ground, Thomas noticed from the surroundings they were already far away from Aaron, and were not in the outskirts of the city.
'This is bad.' Gazing down at his body, yellow dirt hands pulled down his feet, making it hard to move. The source? It came from large shadow, hiding inside a thick Yellow-Red mist which clouded his demonic senses.
The shadow slowly approached and when the light shone over it Thomas was left astounded. It wasn't a beast that was getting closer, she was standing on hind legs in a very human-like posture and growling at him.