Bladen was at ease when he saw Drupal smiling at the two and so it was about time that he would move on to the next step of his grand plan.
"Head inside and get on your armour, we will be leaving by midnight fall".
Everyone started to move except Drupal, who was looking at the two new guests with question marks rolling in his eyes. "I understand that Fiona can get inside the castle but what about him?".
Furl and Fiona gave each other a look and then they started to change. Fiona was the first to transform, she now was the size of a regular human, with tanned skin, purple eyes, and long black hair tied into a high pony. Her ears were pointy at the top and, she wore tight black trousers and a long, black overcoat that had a high-standing collar. A dark purple tribal mark of a panther appeared on her wrist. Similarly, Furl was shrinking his to that of a nine feet tall human with the same features as Fiona, the only distinctions between the two were that Furl had dark red shoulder-length hair with two pointed, curvy horns protruding from his skull and a red tribal mark of a dragon's wings was embedded on his wrist.
The two siblings then started walking behind Bladen, while Scrouche and Drupal stood stunned by the transformation of the two. They still looked very intimidating but their aura was suppressed to a great extent. Both had beautiful features and muscular physiques. No one could gauge their strength by how fashionably young and unpredicted they looked but in their beast form, they would make your skin tingle with fear.
Drupal was now more excited than ever and could not stop himself from asking them his questions.
"Are you both Animagus? Can you do magic?".
The two looked at him with saddened eyes, Furl did not answer and carried on moving while Fiona slowed her pace and not was walking with the short friend. She started to speak in a gentle but sad voice," we ain't Animagus, we weren't born this way. We originally belonged to a mage family, a strong one, but our community lived by rules that only the strongest could rule them and therefore Flur was under pressure from our parents to become the strongest, as we turned sixteen, Flur and I were sent to hunt but Flur lost control of his magic and it backfired and he lost his three fingers. As you might know, a mage's fingers hold the most power and because Flur lost three he became a taboo and was exiled. Being his younger sister I could not let that happen and so I followed him on his journey. Finally, we met Lord Bladen and he made us stronger and most powerful mages to walk this Earth, but the witches became jealous of us and cursed us to become beasts. As you see the form of a mage can not hold our true power and so to use our true strength we need to transform into beasts. We aren't sad about becoming what we are because Lord Bladen taught us how to turn a curse into a blessing by accepting it as it was but Flur gets sad for the sentence that he received and our parents abandoning us. But trust me we looked really hideous when we were a young maze, I think I like this body more."
Drupal after listening to this ran to the Big Guy and gave him a hug at his knees, smiling and wiping his tears he said," worry not Big Guy, we are your family ", and proceeded to make a fist and raised it towards his new friend's hands gesturing for a fist bump. Looking down Flur smiled and bumped his big fist into the small one. Drupal was on cloud nine after having his family grow bigger and bigger every day and making new friends.
...
Everyone was now standing in the first-floor corridor with their armours on. Scrouche had a chest piece and a shoulder guard that looked sturdy and looked to be made from a snake-like beast with small scales all over the armour and carried an axe and spear as his weapons of choice. Drupal on the other hand had no protective gear rather had a shield in his hand that was made from the turtle-like beast and pretty much looked like its shell. Flur and Fiona had the same black clothing which was revealed as their armours as they were made from the wings of the special bat-like beast that were the size of a small hut. The last person to come was Bladen himself, he had no armour or weapon and wore simple black trousers with a black silk shirt that was neatly tucked in. His hair was now cut short till that of shoulder length and he had his half hair done into a man-bun. He wore a ring on his right hand's index finger that was round on top and had a crystal in which red and black glow were swirling but did not mix with each other.
He walked to the front of the group and put his hand on the third door which glowed bright red and then opened swinging towards one side. The door opened to reveal that none of the people present had known of, it was a portal door that was sealed with magic and led to a different world each.
Entering from the door, as everyone had entered the door closed by itself behind them. They all stood on a hard black rock-like ground that seemed to be made by the hardening of lava. The new world was warmer than most tropical regions back on earth and far off into the distant mountains can be seen erupting with lava. The sky was painted red and blue and there was no vegetation at all.
Scrouche and Drupal knew straight away that they were here to hunt beasts or even defeat a demon-tier monster if they were lucky enough to find one here on this planet.
....
Unknown to the group, a great danger was looming over their heads and they were nearing it as every breath they took on this planet that was home to countless elemental beats that could make even the strongest of warriors to question their strength.
....
Thank You All for reading my book . Please add it your library and vote to show your support, it really means a lot to me . Hopefully in coming week I will give a mass realease .
Please keep supporting.