What are you doing here?!
Akalea didn't expect to see this person at all as the person and the demon in the fireplace were both talking to each other. After words were exchanged, the last ones was what perked Akalea up. "Just follow what I told you. She'll be done in seconds and after that, you'll be able to win and kill her 'accidentally'." The demon says with a wicked grin and the person grins, too, happy with that thought. "Just wait for that time and you'll be victorious. After that, I'll be waiting for you back here in the Nether Realm. Don't make any mistakes before then." The demon says with a stern look and the person nods their head. The fire was put off and the person puts their hood back and left the room with Akalea following behind. Akalea sees the person walk away through the hall away from the stairs to where she stopped and didn't follow the person anymore.
Evil. Akalea thinks to herself as she undo the invisibility and walk up the stairs. I'll prevent that from happening and make you pay. Akalea thinks to herself as she walks up to her room, arriving in front of the door and entering swiftly as to not wake the others inside. Akalea quickly closes the door and locks it, then walks towards the bathroom to wash up. After washing up and changing clothes, she went to sleep.
Three days later..... February 4, 2017... A Saturday...
For the last three days including Wednesday, was filled with training that they had improved a lot from those three days thanks to Akalea's teachings. Akalea also mastered the power of The Light which Liliana was proud of since she was the one that taught Akalea. Akalea and the others woke up and got ready, ate breakfast together and even went together to their first class, Power Training, after parting ways with Clara. Akalea and the others could see that Clara has improved so much with just three days with Akalea's help as her body looks more fit and lean than before plus she looked more confident than how she was before she trained. She could also use her power more than before since blowing up was becoming less and less.
The others could also see that they were brimming with much more power than before and felt stronger than before which made them happy and proud of themselves since their range of power/s got bigger and enhanced. Akalea smiles at them as they went to the field where Newt was waiting patiently. Once Akalea, the Rankers, Colton, Zeke, Zoey and Corey arrived in front of Newt, they shared greetings as the rest of the students arrive as well. "Good morning, everyone. I would like to introduce Colton, he will be an instructor starting today and onwards. He will be watching and guiding you all in your class as it is what was ordered by the Headmaster. Colton, please come here." Newt says as he introduces Colton as Colton walks towards Newt and stood beside him.
Their heights almost the same but Newt was taller. Akalea then sees the students around her, especially the girls who have hearts in their eyes. I mean, who wouldn't think Colton is handsome? Akalea thinks to herself and faces forward. "Hello, I am Colton and I'll be an instructor starting today-" Colton was cut off by a girl raising her hand. "How old are you?" The girl was Steffan as she twirled her hair as if she was flirting and trying to make Colton fall for her. Akalea nearly barfed right then and there but she held it in by covering her mouth with her hand. The Rankers and Akalea's companions saw what Akalea did and snicker at that. Steffan heard them snickering and turn to look, her seeing Akalea with her hand on her mouth which infuriated her.
"What's so funny, normie?" Steffan yaps, her anger evident towards Akalea who turns to look at her, confused and shocked. "What? Me covering my mouth now is irritating for you? What? Should I not exist altogether then?" Akalea bit back as she should and this made Steffan more infuriated and and was about to storm towards her to hit her but Colton said something which stopped her. "I advise you to stop what you were about to do. I don't like it when I see students about to fight." Colton gave Steffan a cold smile which she scared her as she went back in her place, embarrassed. "Since I'll be like an adviser to you, the seniors, I would like it if fights between students out of anger, jealousy or envy will be minimized and prevented. But if you feel like you can't hold it in, I advise for a duel or a challenge. Also, if there's anything wrong or you can't understand something, you can come to me and I'll explain it to the best of my abilites."
Colton says and the students nod their heads. "Alright. Well, then. Let's start." Newt says and they began their Power training. The last 4 hours was spent with them letting their powers out, dueling with their powers, and making them train until they dropped to the floor. Everyone else but Akalea, the Rankers and the three companions of Akalea were the only ones standing while the others were on the floor, resting. "Class is finished. Go get your lunch." Newt says as the rest of the students dashed towards the cafeteria as Akalea, Rankers, the three and the two instructors were left. They went to the cafeteria together which they also reunited with Clara who was waiting for them by the cafeteria doors. They had their lunch together and parted ways with Clara right after. Akalea and the others head towards the field again where they'll have their Power and Combat Training class. Once they arrived, they could see Josh and Klint together at the field.
They shared greetings while waiting for the rest of the students. The class started and within 4 hours and 30 minutes were filled with them dueling again but with their powers and combatting each other with their swords and hands. The class ended with the four instructors help with guiding and commenting on their combat and power usage. "That's it for today. See you all tomorrow for Beast Training." Josh says with a huge grin at the mention of Beast Training. This brightens Akalea up since she has always wanted to have a beast and always wondered what she could have. Since, she has seen her father's black dragon from time to time back at home. She would always dream about having a dragon of her own but her father told her that dragons are rare to have since the beast chooses their master not the master choosing their beast.
"How to get a beast?" Akalea's question rang through everyone as they all look at Akalea who was brimming like a child wanting ice cream. "Well-" Josh was cut off when Steffan interrupted. "Oh, is the normie wishing to have a beast as well? I doubt any of them would want you as their master." Steffan says and smirks at Akalea who just ignored her which made Steffan embarrassed and shut up. Everyone was snickering at that since Akalea paid her no mind. "We have a stable protected by concealing magic so others won't get in nor get out without permission. Getting in isn't an issue if someone wants to without permission but the hard part is getting out because the beasts would know whether you had permission or not and would just kill any intruders without having the permission of entering." Josh shrugs his shoulders as if it has happened a lot. Akalea nods her head and looks at Josh with child-like eyes full of wonder. "Uhm... Everyone should go and wash up then eat dinner. See you all tomorrow." Josh stumbles with his words but did good letting them out while hiding his cheeks that were blushing, this made Kint and Newt snicker at Josh who elbowed them both, them groaning.
After that, the students were heading inside the academy while Akalea and the others took their time heading inside as they were talking to each other. They head to their rooms, washing up and meeting up at the cafeteria where they met up with Clara. They ate their dinner while talking until an announcement was heard throughout the whole academy. "Good evening, everyone. I would like everyone to go to the Assembly Room right after dinner as we would like to announce good news there. See you all." Luke's voice boomed through everyone's ears as the announcement ended. Lisa was beside Akalea as they heard that. "It's time." Lisa says, realizing that it was time for her to come back as she looks at Akalea who was smiling at her.
Once everyone was done with their dinner, they head to the Assembly room which can hold up to 2,000 people since there were less than 1,000 students including the staff and instructors. Everyone was seated while Akalea excused herself to go to the bathroom but to really clone herself and wear a cloak to hide herself while the clone went to the bathroom then back to the Assembly room. Akalea and Lisa head towards the meeting place where they will meet up with Liliana. They met up with Liliana which was backstage of the stage in the Assembly room. Luke being in front of the students, staff and instructors on stage as he readies himself.
"As everyone here knows that the tragedy from 1 year ago took the lives of many people including my daughter. We have suffered many losses that time and I would like to give good news. I found out that my daughter is not dead but in a coma thanks to her condition of having the Ghostly Body where it gives the body's soul two more years to live once the body has died." With this new found information, the students, staff and instructors all gasped in shock while the ones who knew, didn't. "The only thing that can save my daughter from this is a blood bond with someone very, very pure hence, my wife's friend came a long way to be here as she'll be the one to do the blood bond with my daughter. Will you please come this way?"
Luke says and with that, Liliana and Akalea in a hooded form walked towards Luke and stood beside him. Everyone watching were whispering and gossiping with each other. After that, Lisa's body was brought to the stage along with her stone tablet of where she was laying on. Lisa was beside her body, silently watching and looks at Akalea who nods her head at her. Luke, Liliana and Akalea walk towards Lisa's body as Akalea went closer to Lisa's body to grab hold of her hand. Liliana gave Akalea a knife to make a cut on Lisa's chest, right above her heart. Akalea made a cut at the exact spot and made a cut on her right palm. Akalea's blood begins to come out from the cut and didn't want to waste her blood, she immediately puts her palm on the cut on Lisa's body. Once the blood has mixed with each other, Akalea could feel something cold coming out of Lisa's chest and onto herself, enduring the pain it gave to her body.
After the cold was finally gone, a light illuminated from where the two cuts were at. Lisa could felt herself being pulled towards her body and with that, Lisa didn't resist and let the pull take her. Lisa found herself opening her eyes to see the ceiling of the stage then turns to look at Akalea retracting her hand away from Lisa's chest with a smile only Lisa could see. Lisa sat up and checks on the cut to see there were none as if there wasn't a cut at all. She felt alive, like literally alive. She hugs Akalea, thanking her as she cries. Akalea hugs her back and lets go so that Luke and Liliana could have a turn to finally hug their daughter.
Luke and Liliana had their brightest smiles plastered on their faces the moment they hugged Lisa. Everyone then hears footsteps running from behind them then towards the stage. The two figures dashed towards their one and only sister who protected them from harm. The two wasted no time to hug their sister, missing her so much. "Let us all welcome Lisa back and let's say our thanks to my wife's friend." Luka says and with that everyone yells their greeting of welcome to Lisa and their thanks to Akalea in a hooded from.
The students, staff and instructors piled out of the Assembly Room except for the Rankers, the siblings and the four instructors. Everyone who has stayed went over to the stage to greet Lisa a welcome back and hugging her. "Lisa?" Everyone could hear a broken voice, calling Lisa over, as if not believing that the person he loved is back, alive. Lisa and everyone turn to look at the guy who was silently crying. Lisa starts to cry again, after stopping already, the moment she saw her one and only boyfriend, Jero. "Jero!" Lisa calls out and runs to him as Jero takes her in his arms, hugging her tight, never wanting to let go. Everyone could have been happy for the two but there were three men who weren't. "Ahem." The three men cough at the same time as Jero looks to see them glaring at him which made him reluctantly let go of Lisa who was laughing while crying at that.
"Oh, come on." Liliana couldn't help but smack her husband and her two sons in the head as they ruined the precious moment of Lisa and Jero. "May I know who this person is, my little monster?" Liliana asks as she wanted to be acquainted with Lisa's boyfriend. While this was going on, Akalea was behind everyone and once she saw the coast is clear, she managed to remove the cloak and switch places with the clone. The clone disappearing with the cloak to Akalea and Lisa's room, hiding the cloak in the closet and disappears itself back into Akalea's body. "Where's mom's friend? I wanted to thank the person who saved Lisa." Dawn says as the two brothers were looking for the friend. "You don't have to worry about that, she disappears right after once her job is done. I made sure to reward her before we went on stage." Liliana says. "That sucks." Shawn says and everyone nods except for Luka, Liliana and Lisa who knew.
"Why don't we rest up for now and have a welcoming party tomorrow night?" Liliana says and everyone nods their head. Lisa and Jero catching up, Luke, Dawn and Shawn glaring at Jero, Akalea and Liliana going to their usual practice place as everyone else retired to their rooms to rest. The night passing by so fast.
The next day.... February 5,2017.... A Sunday....
Akalea got up early, excited for the day she'll finally have her own little beast friend. Akalea got up from the bed after removing Lisa's arm from her body as they were both sleeping beside each other since Corey had been sleeping in Akalea's bed as they switched last night due to Lisa. Akalea heads to the bathroom, washing up and wearing her usual clothing. Fit but stretchy long sleeved black shirt, tucked in her baggy army cargo pants and light black combat boots. She then wears a jacket in case it gets windy outside.
For some reason, she felt warmth within her. Remembering the egg is still merged in her body. I guess the little guy is about to hatch. Akalea continues to wash up and wait it out. But from then on, the egg hasn't hatched at all.
Once Akalea was done washing up, the people in the room begins to wake up as well and took turns to use the bathroom. Akalea took this time to dry her hair and put it in a pony tail, then wearing combat gloves on her hands, looking like a skilled fighter. Everyone finished getting ready so they went out and happens to bump to everyone who came out as well at the same time. They went to the cafeteria together after meeting up with Clara who happens to be a 4th year since the 4th years and the seniors have the same Beast Training class.
They had breakfast together and went to the supposed meet up which was the field. 60 or so students have gathered on the field, 4th years on one side, but Clara stuck with Akalea and the others, and the other side were the seniors, as they wait for the instructors. Colton, Josh, Newt and Klint arrived on time with another man beside them. Akalea could see the comfort that the man is emanating and could feel that the man was loving. "Hello everyone, this person here is Colton who will be going with us and this man, Andrius, here is the caretaker of the stables of where the beasts are sheltered and cared for." Josh introduces Colton to the students who didn't know him while he introduces Andrius as the caretaker of the stables. "That's Jero's father." Lisa says as she interlinks her arm with Akalea's. Akalea nods her head, seeing the resemblance of Jero and Andrius a bit.
"It's nice to meet everyone. It may be some's first time getting a beast and some already have their beasts, but I wish you all the best to take care of your beast as they each have a life and emotions, too." Andrius says as he bows gently to everyone. "Let's go, everyone." Andrius says and turns around, walking towards the forest as everyone else follow behind them with the each of the four instructors on their right, left and back to protect the students in case something might attack. After walking for 15 minutes, some of the students became tired and irritated. "How long do we have to walk for?" The female, the one bullying Clara, complains as she fans herself with her hand as she was sweating. "We were walking for 15 minutes, miss. We're almost there or would you rather want to go back to the academy by yourself." Andrius didn't look back as he says this which made the female shut up in embarrassment, her plan failing.
Clara silently snickers and looks at Akalea who was beside her and Lisa on the other side. The three of them give each other looks and refrains themselves from laughing but the female saw this, her rage becoming bigger. "Ah, we're here." Andrius says and stops in front of a giant tree. "That's a tree, sir Andrius." One of the students states the obvious but when Andrius turns to look at the students, he gave them an excited smile. "Or is it?" Andrius says and puts his hand on the tree, the tree disappearing, instead a huge stable appeared along with the beasts enjoying their time outside as well as were those inside, resting. This looked like the paradise of beasts in front of everyone watching. "Can't seem to get used to it no matter how many times I see it." Kint says with a smile.
Akalea's eyes wander everywhere, looking at each of the beasts playing together or having their alone time. "Cool." Akalea lets out in awe as her eyes twinkle in excitement. Andrius sees Akalea and felt happy that he could see a student so happy to see the beasts since it was rare for him to see students as so. "Come in." Andrius says as he walks towards the stable as the beasts outside were making way, staring at the students. Some students were scared, some ignored the beasts, some went to their contracted beasts and some admires them. The tree that disappeared, appears behind them and closed the pathway that they had entered so no one can intrude. "To those who have already their contracted beasts, please go to them and to those without, come with me." Andrius instructs and with that, most of the students went to their beasts and are left with 10 out of the 60 or so students. Akalea, Zeke, Zoey, Corey and the rest of the 6 students followed behind Andrius with Colton beside him to watch over the 10 students.
"Inside the stables, there are beasts who haven't chosen their masters, yet so try to look good to the beasts to see if any one of them would want to be your loyal beast. I advice to refrain from hurting, hitting and showing any negative actions towards the beasts, there will be consequences if so." Andrius says and said the last sentence with a stern and hard look. Akalea and the rest nod their heads, heeding the advice. "Off you go." Andrius says and the students scatter around. Akalea, Zeke, Corey and Zoey sticking together as they find their soon to be loyal beasts. They were walking slowly while looking at the beasts who were looking at them as well, or more so at Akalea especially. "What a pure soul she has!" "She looks like a good person!" "I would love her to be my master!" The comments from the beasts were heard by Akalea as she blushed but shakes her head as to not assume. "Zeke, look! Twin panthers but with different elements." Zoey finds twin panthers resting inside their space of room, one fire-panther and one electro-panther. The four of them stop in their tracks to stop and watch.
Akalea sees the twin panthers getting up and the four just noticed that the twin panthers were 6 feet tall. They had to look up at the panthers which almost strained their necks. "Lookie here, I guess the academy has started already." The electro-panther says telepathically to his twin, the fire-panther. One could see the difference between them since the fire-panther has streaks of red on its body while the electro-panther was purple streaks on its body. "It seems so, brother. Which one of them should we choose?" The fire-panther says as it starts to walk towards the four of them but what caught their eyes was Akalea due to her white and pure aura brimming with life. "This one seems interesting." The fire-panther says and looks over to his brother to take a look as well. "Seems so, sister." The electro-panther says as it also walks towards the four. Akalea raised her hand which caught their attention.
"Can I make a suggestion?" Akalea asks looking at the twin panthers who were looking at each other, confused. Corey, Zeke and Zoey were confused but has remembered that she can talk to beasts like she did to Luke's hydra last time yet Corey still confused because at the time he was unconscious. "Is she talking to us, brother?" The fire-panther asks her brother who looks at Akalea's eyes, filled with excitement. "Seems so, sister. Quite interesting if I say so myself." The electro-panther replied. "This girl is named Zoey, I think she would be a great master for you, ma'am fire-panther. This one is named Zeke, I think he would also be a great master for you, sir electro-panther. These two are also siblings. Zoey has the power of explosion and flying and Zeke has the power of invisibility and creation. Don't you think you guys make great pairs?" Akalea suggests which the two panthers were listening and were deciding whether or not to agree.
"You look like an interesting lady and I can feel your pureness just from your aura. I could also tell that what you suggested is not bad and we decided to trust you in your judgement. Plus, it looks like this girl, Zoey looks fun. I also like to explode things." The fire-panther says, imagining already her future with Zoey exploding things up. "I decided to trust you since you don't look like you would lie and besides, we liked you from the very start so why not. I also think this guy, Zeke looks fun as well." The electro-panther says, imagining them two fighting enemies while invisible and shooting electro balls at them. "Yey! Zeke, Zoey, they liked my suggestion. The fire-panther wants to be yours, Zoey and the electro-panther wants to be yours, Zeke!" Akalea says with excitement as the two panthers walk towards their chosen master. "I didn't expect them to! Oh my gosh! I'm so excited! Thank you so much! And thank you for choosing me!" Zoey thanks Akalea and the fire-panther. The fire-panther lets out a little fire from its mouth as it was laughing at Zoey's cute antics.
"Thank you, Akalea. Thank you for choosing me as your master." Zeke thanks Akalea and the electro-panther who nod its head, the panther and Zeke both a serious kind. "How do we do this?" Zoey asks as she was nervous since it's her first time. "Tell them to put their palms on our heads and we'll handle it from there." The electro-panther tells Akalea who nods her head. "Sir electro-panther said to put your palms on their heads." After Akalea said that, the two put their palms on the twin panthers' head. After a few minutes, a light emanated from in between their palms and heads which meant the contract being completed. "Yey!" Zoey cheers and begins to caress her beasts head. "She said her name is Frey." Zoey says as she continues to caress Frey's head, who is enjoying it. "Mine's name is Era which is honestly a cool name, might I add." Zeke says as he also caresses Era's head, who enjoys it. "I like this guy more and more." Era telepathically says to Akalea, Zeke and to Frey.
Akalea chuckles and told them to head to Andrius as she and Corey will be looking for theirs. They parted ways after Frey told them about something. "If you go deeper from here, you might see some... violent beasts resting there. Not a lot of us dared to sleep near there. I'm just giving you a heads up." Era says to Akalea who nods her head. "Don't worry, we'll be fine." Akalea reassures Era and Frey as they both went with their masters to Andrius. Akalea and Corey went deeper as they see less and less beasts inside. The deeper they go, the darker it is. There weren't any lights illuminating the dark side of the stables, as if its like this from a long time ago. Akalea then used the power of light to make a ball that illuminated in the dark so they can see what's lurking in front of them. With that, they continue their search but they suddenly hear growling and heavy footsteps coming towards them. "I feel something pure and something dark. Hmph. To see an actual Nether descendant here in front of me, makes me puke." A voice was heard as it snarls at Corey which made Akalea quickly put the ball of light as high as she can to see what the beast was. Once the light illuminated everything, they saw a huge 9ft tall three-headed Cerberus. "It looks awesome." Corey compliments the Cerberus, not knowing what it was saying earlier.
Akalea was scared of what the Cerberus might do but what shocked her was the three-headed Cerberus hiding away as if it was blushing from the compliment. "Still! You're a Nether descendent! You must also be cruel like your fathe-" The Cerberus' thoughts were cut off when Corey said the next thing. "I would love to have you as my beast. I will not treat you awfully!" Corey practically begged the Cerberus that it was left shocked and blushing from it. Not used to being told that. "I... I guess this could work...." The three-headed Cerberus says as they share the same thoughts even though they have three heads. The middle head of the Cerberus bent down to Corey's level so he can put his palm on his head. Corey was smiling brightly at the Cerberus that it made it shy. Corey did the same process as he saw from the siblings and the twin panthers. Once the contract was completed, Corey told Akalea that the Cerberus' name was, the middle one, Cer, the left one, Ber and the right one, Us, which after that Corey and Cerberus left Akalea to search for her own.
"By the way, I would like to give you a heads up. What lies at the end of this stable is..... a beast that's unstable, unloving, scary, and powerful. He doesn't trust anyone but himself. I hope you can try to soften him up as we, all the beasts here, can guess how much he had suffered before he came here. Good luck to you, miss." The middle head, Cer, says to Akalea before they walk away, heading to Andrius. Akalea, with her ball of light, continued walking deeper until she could see the end. Akalea could see a huddled little thing with wings so she went nearer to see what it was but because of that, the little thing with wings sensed someone approaching and woke up.
"Stay back!" The little thing with wings jumped on its four legs, bearing its teeth at Akalea who was looking at it with innocent eyes. "You're a.... baby dragon?" Akalea asks as she kneels down in her place to not scare the baby dragon. "Hmph, a baby dragon? I'm the one and only great and ancient dragon, Peace. You're lucky I'm not in my prime hence you would cower in fear." The dragon says telepathically even though he knew the human wouldn't understand what he was saying. "What's the one and only great and ancient dragon, Peace, doing here?" Akalea asks with eyes of curiosity as this caught the dragon off guard. "You can understand me?! How?!" The dragon yells as he doesn't believe it since it was rare for humans to have the power to speak to beasts, both contracted and non-contracted. "I just do?" Akalea shrugs her shoulder as she says this.
Akalea then sees a part of the dragon's body was wounded and was bleeding out slowly which made Akalea move closer to help the dragon. "I said stay back!" The dragon was angry that Akalea moved closer as he thought Akalea would hurt him like the humans back then did. "You're wounded. At least let me try healing you." Akalea pleads as she looks at the dragon who was angry and skeptical of her as she was a human. "I don't trust you. For all I care, you might hurt me, too. Heck, you might even kill me like you humans did to my kind back then. WE ALMOST WENT EXTINCT BECAUSE OF YOU, FILTHY HUMANS!" The dragon was baring its teeth at Akalea as he lets out his anger on Akalea on his hatred for humans. "I'm sorry that happened to you. I didn't know that was the reason why dragons are now few and rare." Akalea softly says looking sad and also angry at her own kind.
"You humans are evil. I'm sure you're evil, too! So stay back and go away!" The dragon exclaims and this made Akalea sad but she didn't move a muscle. "I won't leave until you let me heal you at least. Please." Akalea begged the dragon so she can heal her as it was hurting Akalea to see the dragon in pain even though he didn't show that he was. The dragon was still angry and skeptical but it didn't want to feel any pain anymore as the wound has been around for centuries. "Andrius even tried to heal me with his friend's help but it didn't work. How can you be sure that you can?" The dragon says, deciding whether or not to let her try heal him which depends on what Akalea says next. "We won't know unless we try, right?" Akalea softly and gently says to the dragon who couldn't help but sigh at the stubborn human in front of him. "Fine but if you try to hurt me, I'll exterminate you." The dragon says, threatening Akalea who just smiles at him and moves closer slowly. The dragon staying put as Akalea was coming close enough.
Once Akalea was close, she gently grabs hold of the dragon to put her on her lap and inspects the wound. The dragon wincing once in a while as Akalea was inspecting the wound. "It seems the wound has gone deeper and deeper as days go by. When was this?" Akalea softly asks the dragon and the dragon looks at Akalea with hurt in his eyes. "Centuries ago." Was all it said and this broke Akalea's heart even more. "I'm so sorry you had to go through pain until now. It must have been hard without anyone to talk to here as well since they're too scared to come to this end of the stables." Akalea says, feeling sorry for the dragon and angry at the humans who did this to the dragon. The dragon's anger from earlier, slowly softens the more he and Akalea talked.
"It's not your fault. I'm sorry for snapping at you when it happened centuries ago before you were even born. I was so sad, angry, frustrated and all other emotions mixed in that I couldn't help but take it out on you, who just wanted to help me." The dragon apologizes and looks at the ground. "It's okay to take it out on me. I can handle it since it was my kind's fault you were hurt." Akalea says, her voice kind and gentle. The dragon listens and suddenly feels warm because of Akalea which is a first for him. "I don't think it works with the usual healing power." Akalea says as she tried to heal it but it didn't work. There was one thing that Akalea wanted to try, the blood bond, if only it could work. "I want to try something and I want to ask you your permission to do it."
Akalea says to the dragon who looks up to Akalea, wanting to hear what it is. "A blood bond." Akalea says and the dragon started to get angry, misunderstanding Akalea, and flew away while flapping his wings even if he felt the pain from the wound. "I knew you were scheming someth-" The dragon starts to say but was cut off. "It's not what you think. I don't intend to keep you tied to me with the blood bond. I will offer you my blood with nothing in return. I don't want to see you hurt anymore." Akalea says as she looks at the dragon, helpless. The dragon slowly descends to the ground and avoids Akalea's gaze. "I'm sorry for misunderstanding...." The dragon apologizes again as he crawls to Akalea's lap slowly, wanting to feel her warmth again. "It's alright. I'll start whenever you're ready." Akalea says and the dragon nods his head, ready.
Akalea making a cut on her palm to draw blood and puts her palm on the dragon's wound. The dragon starts to feel the pain go away as it was replaced with warmth and energy. Once the blood bond was done, Akalea heals up the cut on her palm and sees the wound on the dragon's body has also healed. Akalea could see the dragon sleeping soundly. Akalea removes her jacket as smoothly as possible as to not wake the dragon up. She folds the jacket to the dragon's size and lays the dragon gently on the jacket. "I hope you get to have a master who'll take care of you. See you soon if its fated to be." Akalea says and stands up, leaving the dragon behind as it slept peacefully. Akalea walks away and heads to where Andrius and the others are.
Meanwhile.....
While Akalea was saying goodbye to the dragon and Corey just arrived in front of Andrius who was waiting outside with the others with their beasts. "This is my contracted beast, sir Andrius." Corey says as he beams with joy, looking at Cerberus with happy eyes as Cerberus avoids his gaze shyly. The students outside, saw Cerberus' 9ft tall body and were honestly scared by his height except for the Rankers, Instructors, Zeke, Zoey, and Lisa while Clara was scared a bit by the height. "Where's Ms. Akalea? It's been thirty minutes since you guys went in." Andrius asks and Corey shrugs his shoulders. "She must have been eaten by the beasts inside or better yet, she's still looking a beast but I guess she's still looking cause no one nor a beast would want a normie." Steffan says as she pets her 6ft tall hawk, smiling evilly. Her friends laughing at that while the female and her friend Rankers snickering.
The Rankers, the siblings, Corey, Lisa, Clara and the four instructors shake their heads. "She was going deeper and I'm guessing she arrived at the end of the stables." Corey says and this triggered Andrius as he knew the dragon was there. "Oh, no." Andrius drops his book and pen as he was about to run towards the stables when Akalea appeared all of a sudden. Everyone gasps to see her with all the beasts inside the stable behind her, following her. Everyone could see Akalea looking sad and oblivious to the beasts behind her, following her. "I'm sorry, sir Andrius. Not one beast want me." Akalea says with a frown and looks at Andrius who had his mouth wide open, pointing behind her. Akalea was confused and the moment she looks behind her, she found all the beasts from inside the stables behind her. The moment she sees them, their voices fills her head. "I want you as my master!" "Please choose me!" More and more of the voices were compiling in her mind.
She didn't hear any of their voices cause maybe she shut it off as she was sad that she couldn't find one beast she could have. "Look, even the beasts are pushing her away." Steffan says as she smirks, misunderstanding the beasts' actions but Andrius could only shake his head, not believing what he was hearing from the beasts contrary to what Steffan said. "Oh, my goodness!" Akalea gasps in shock as the beasts were pushing each other for Akalea to see and maybe choose them. "Ms. Akalea, when you went to the end of the stables, did you see or meet something there?" Andrius asks Akalea who was about to answer when Steffan cuts her off. "Maybe nothing since none of the beasts want her!" Steffan says and laughs as her friends laugh with her along with the 4th year Rankers were laughing. Akalea shakes her head and ignores them and looks at Andrius.
"Actually...." Akalea was about to tell Andrius what she saw and met, when they heard a huge and powerful roar from within the stables which made the rest of the beasts cower in fear. They then hear something flapping from inside the stables and the beasts suddenly made way for it to go through. Once it was outside, everyone gasps in shock.
"You forgot this."
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-Aki