My heart seemed to stop when I saw a big fire burning right in the house where I lived since I was a child.
"GRANDMOTHER!!!"
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[One hour earlier]
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Dash still can't believe that he's flying above the clouds at this time! Fly above the clouds to see the beautiful scenery.
The joy was seen on Dash's face, which had been smiling ever since. How could it be, his teeth might feel dry, when he forgot to cover his lips because that wide smile kept on his face.
The breeze above the clouds felt so warm, like the feeling of a boy riding a female Griffin that had just hatched from her egg a few days ago. But now his body looks so big that it beats the size of an adult elephant in a zoo.
Even the Griffin named Freya can be said to be a magical Griffin, because Freya can transform into a human form, becoming a woman who is so beautiful.
Freya looks so happy when she can enjoy time with the handsome man in disheveled clothes, who is riding her now.
Their conversations passed so much while flying above the clouds, the various stories they both shared, and each other to get to know each other more deeply. So they looked closer and closer. Although Dash is still adjusting to being able to ride the Griffin properly.
Dash used to be very quiet and rarely had friends, but now he felt he had found himself, even though he didn't look the same as his friends.
No kidding, of course, he is friends with Griffin, the mythological creature of the Lord of all beasts, and the King of the air in the era of war. Even though the war was over twenty years ago, her memories and her bloodlust could still be felt today.
"May I introduce you to my family?" Dash asked Freya.
"Can I?" Freya answered curiously.
"Hmmm I think you can, but you have to be in your human form because if you were in this Griffin form, my grandmother would have a heart attack haha!" Dash joked with a big smile.
"Then what about your older brother?" asked Freya curiously.
"Hmmm, he went wandering for a long time, downtown!" Dash answered rather limply.
The atmosphere became silent for a moment, and all that could be heard now was the roar of a fairly strong wind above the clouds.
"You missed him didn't you!?" Asked Freya guessing Dash's feelings that suddenly turned bad, after making a topic about her older brother.
"Hmmm even though I often fight with him, if I don't meet him, I miss him too!" Dash answered by lowering his gaze.
"Alright, hold on tight!" Freya said and at that moment, the two of them swooped down sharply.
"Wwwaaaahhhh!!!" Dash screamed as the two of them shot so fast through the clouds and down straight into the open sea.
They pierced through the clouds like foreign bodies falling to the earth. Freya immediately spread her wings as she approached the surface of the sea.
The gust of wind hit the two of them, making the water on the surface of the open sea make a kind of big splash of water.
Dash stretched out his hand to the surface of the water, to be able to feel the fresh seawater that he could barely touch.
Now the two of them floated low above the surface of the vast sea. At that moment, Freya stuck her foot in and suddenly she managed to catch a skipjack fish that was bigger than Dash's body. Then Freya quickly threw it into the air, and she quickly caught it with her beak, then swallowed it whole.
Dash who saw the incident was like watching a circus feeding a giant animal. He could only swallow his saliva with difficulty.
"Wow, this is so much fun!!!" Dash screamed as Freya flapped her wings so fast that they both climbed back up in the free air.
The clothes and hair that had been wet were now dry again due to the wind that hit Dash's face and body.
"Freya, do you know where you came from?" Dash asked Freya.
"Hmmm I still don't know about that, I did see a lot of memories in my head, but I'm not sure exactly where I came from. Maybe the Griffin rider you know can figure it out!" Freya replied to Dash.
Dash was silent for a moment as Freya reminded him of the guy at the Bar, it felt like a good time to show off to him.
"Okay let's go home, and I'll take you to meet my grandma and that Griffin rider!" Dash's words made Freya happy because she was about to meet her sister's former Griffin rider.
"Alright, hold on tight!" Freya said and she flapped her wings rapidly flying into the sky again.
It's safer if the trip is done above the clouds, although sometimes Freya has to steal glances by peeking at the scenery behind the clouds.
The journey was not too long, because the place was also not too far from where Dash and Freya played earlier.
"Alright Freya are you ready to meet my grandma hehe, let's land soon!"
The two of them quickly broke through the clouds again and flew low when the place they were going to was about to arrive.
But Dash immediately narrowed his eyes when he saw a puff of smoke coming from his residence.
"No! Freya, hurry!!!" Dash said frantically asking Freya to land faster near her yard.
My heart seemed to stop when I saw a big fire burning right in the house where I lived since I was a child.
"GRANDMOTHER!!!"
Dash screamed when it turned out that the fire was indeed coming from his house.
The two of them landed quickly beside Dash's home page.
Dash quickly dismounted from Freya's back then she galloped towards her burning house. Freya who was in Dash's yard immediately changed her form into human form. A beautiful woman from Griffin's incarnation was currently hiding behind a haystack. Watching Dash from a distance.
"Hopefully he'll be all right!" Says Freya.
When Dash was about to enter the house to check on her grandmother, someone quickly grabbed Dash's hand and pulled her quickly. So that he does not enter into the great blazing fire.
"You!!" Dash said in a rather high-pitched voice when he saw a familiar face now embracing him, restraining him from escaping. He was the man she met at the Bar back then, yes Griffin Rider Cedric Attias.
"Let go of me, I have to save my grandma!!!" Dash screamed as he struggled to free himself from her.
"Your grandmother isn't there!" said Cedric trying to calm a panicked Dash.
"What did you do to my grandmother and my house!?" Dash shouted at Cedric.
"I didn't do it!"
Dash's eyes locked when he saw a familiar female figure lying in front of the warehouse where he usually rested. But the woman's figure just stood still and didn't move at all, and a lot of blood was around her neck.
"No no no!!! Is that Grandma!!!!! No!!!" A scream escaped Dash Hale's lips when she saw that there was a female corpse covered in blood in front of the warehouse.
Cedric let go of Dash, and let him go near the woman's lifeless body.
"This is not my grandmother!!! She is my neighbor!!! Then where is my grandmother?" The scream he let out again along with the tears he couldn't hold back had exploded and rolled down his cheeks. Dash looks so worried when looking for the whereabouts of the person he loves is not there.
"What have you done to my grandmother!!!" Dash shouted.
He stood up and was about to punch Cedric, but before that happened, then Cedric grabbed his hand and twisted it so that now he was locked in Cedric's arms.
"Don't worry I have sent my trusted person to take your grandmother to hide from this village! And look at that scary creature, that creature killed your neighbor," Cedric answered by showing the corpse of someone who looked like a monster and had green blood, his head had been severed and separated. from his body.
"They are Trolls!" said Cedric.