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Chapter 3 - A Soothing Flames

Elize took a closer look at the corpse of the vallion in the center of the town. "This one doesn't look like the vallion I saw in the forest. This must be its father." Elize whispered to herself after observing the corpse.

"We must get rid of this corpse quickly!" One of the people yelled at the guards.

"Yeah! There was another vallion that escaped! And if it sees the corpse, it will surely get angry at us and will look for revenge!" The other guy shouted.

The mayor then showed up and said to the people in his vicinity, "Me and the captain are now planning a quick way to get rid of the corpse."

"So please, I want everyone of you to calm down. Remember, vallions are intelligent creatures; they can understand us, which means if the another vallion hear or see that we killed their companion, we're dead just like this vallion." The mayor added.

The crowd instantly went silent, the people nodded at each other, and they then all went back to their homes and went back to their normal tasks.

Elize also left the area, but she noticed a small child standing near the vallion. "Hey kid, you should go back home," she said to him.

"And why should I?" The kid arrogantly asked her.

"It's because it's dangerous here. The other vallion might come back, you know?" Elize told to the kid.

"Hah! If that coward comes back, it will surely get killed, so I doubt that it's dangerous around here." The kid said back.

"Listen, kid, once that vallion sees the body, it will no longer be a coward." Elize said to the kid.

"A coward is forever a coward, lady." The kid said.

"If you say so.." Elize said.

She then left the kid and proceeded to go to the Drorgport, where she could ride a Drorgship. When suddenly, there's a loud roar in the forest, Elize immediately went to the entrance of the city, where she could get a clear view of what was happening.

Elize saw the vallion she saw in the forest earlier, and it's not alone; there are people around the vallion, all are strong-looking men, and they are armed with weapons too.

Elize then observed shackles on the legs of the vallion. "Looks like they captured the vallion," Elize muttered to herself as she watched the men pull the vallion into the town.

The mayor then finally showed up. "Stop them! The corpse was still here!" the mayor shouted at the guards at the entrance of the town.

The guards then immediately headed to the men. "Don't go to the town; there's still a vallion corpse there." the guard whispered in one of the men's ears.

The men nodded and proceeded to whisper it back to their colleagues. But it was too late; the vallion saw the big blue tail lying on the ground, and the vallion recognized it. It was its father's tail.

"Kutolo?" the vallion said upon seeing the tail. The vallion closes its eyes because it cannot believe what it has witnessed. But curiosity had triumphed, so the vallion dashed toward the town, shattering the chains on its legs so it can check whether its father was there or not.

The people that were watching at the entrance have all quickly run toward their homes; they knew it was looking for the another vallion, so they all quickly evacuated the town with their beloved families.

The men who captured the vallion tried to capture it once again, but they all failed; the vallion was sprinting so fast that they couldn't keep up with it. So they began to use ranged weapons.

One of the men grabbed a huge boulder nearby and tossed it at the dashing vallion, but in desperation, it managed to evade the rock coming at it. After dodging the boulder, the vallion didn't stop and kept on running toward the town.

The mayor was terrified as he saw the vallion approach in on the town. He instantly ordered the guards to carry the dead vallion to the town center, but they were too late.

The vallion had finally arrived at the town's gate; it then glanced north, where the town's center located. All it saw was a dead vallion body and nothing else.

The vallion walked closely to the dead corpse and stared at it. After a while, the tears started falling like a rain. It then looked up at the blue sky and howled as its eyes gradually closed.

The people who are watching the vallion are in awe, as it keeps howling like there's no tomorrow. The vallion then opened its eyes and looked at the people in its vicinity.

Then suddenly its eyes went blazing red, its blue tails ignited, and its throat rapidly heated up. "Gyo'at lla taypei hod nixh!" The vallion subsequently shouted at all of the people near it.

"Run!" screamed the mayor right away. The vallion's mouth emitted steam between its fangs, and after a period of constant steaming, its volcanic mouth have finally erupted.

It then unleashed wrath on the residences in the vicinity. Razing every structure it sees with its fire breaths, murdering every man who tries to stop it with its sharp claws, and deflecting every assault it receives with its ignited two tails, and as a result, the center of the town disintegrated in just a blink of an eye.

Elize watched the vallion as it turned the once peaceful town into a duplicate of hell on the top of the tower near the entrance. Elize then saw a kid running toward the entrance.

Elize swiftly down from the tower to assist the child. "I remember this boy; it was the kid earlier," she thought to herself when she got a clearer look at the kid.

"Lady!" the kid shouted at Elize after he saw her.

"Calm down kid, you're safe now." Elize said to the kid, hoping he calm down.

"The vallion is chasing me!" The kid quickly exclaimed at Elize.

The house on their left side suddenly crumbled as the vallion leaped from there. It then tried to bite the kid, but fortunately for the kid, Elize is with him. Elize quickly carried the kid and jumped back, avoiding the bite.

She then threw the child on the ground, handed him the bag on her back, and instructed him to flee. Elize then armed herself with her old rusty trusty knife.

The vallion turned its head toward Elize, but due to its overflowing anger, it couldn't recognize the girl standing before it anymore.

The vallion instantly attacked Elize with a bite, which she successfully avoided by jumping extremely high. As Elize was still in the air, the vallion glanced at her, steamed up its fangs, and quickly breathed fire toward her direction.

The flames it was breathing were able to melt everything, but there are many ways to block them, and for Elize, her way is to simply cut through the melting flames with her lightning-speed knife-cutting skills.

After cutting the flames, Elize quickly landed on the vallion's head. She then quickly moved toward the vallion's eyes, and when Elize reached the location of its eyes, she quickly stabbed it.

The vallion yelled in anguish after being stabbed in the eyes, and the vallion immediately waggled its body in the hopes that Elize would be thrown away out of its back.

But Elize is still on its back, so the vallion decides to slam into the structure adjacent to it with its entire body. Elize realized what the vallion was up to, so she jumped at the exact moment the vallion was going to smash the structure.

Elize dropped back on the ground as the building collapsed after being smashed by the vallion. She then dashed at the vallion, who was still standing after crashing through the building.

Elize rapidly leaped back to the vallion's body, then went toward its tails and cut them off simultaneously. After cutting them off, she dropped down to the ground and moved underneath the vallion's neck, stabbing its fiery throat.

After Elize's lightning-speed attacks, the vallion collapsed to the ground, the place went silent, and the steam coming out of the vallion's jaw finally stopped. When the vallion finally realized its defeat, its anger disappeared.

"I'm sorry, for everything i did.." The vallion said to Elize as its eyes turned blue once again.

"That's fine. If i can breath flames, i will surely do the same too." Elize responded.

"Can.. i have request?" The vallion said at Elize.

"Sure, what is it?" Elize asked.

"Can you please quickly send me to the place where my kutolo is right now." the vallion requested to Elize as its eyes slowly closed.

"...Sure" Elize answered as she raised her knife.

Elize's knife was then struck by thunder, after that, she immediately leapt toward the vallion's head and stabbed it with her knife, sending a large thunder strike toward the vallion's skull, killing it immediately.

"Elize, remember that it's okay to vent your rage once in a while; just be prepared for the repercussions!" stated the voice on Elize's memory.

Elize then headed out of the town to look for the kid who had the bag on her back, leaving the vallion's dead body alone at the entrance of the town.