"What are you thinking...? " whispered the voice behind Jakobus.
Jakobus turned his head to check who was the one behind him. "Ashur..." The female inside of the bulb opened her eyes and grabbed him pulling him in.
'shit.'
Ashur grabbed Jakobus other hand pulling Jakobus towards himself.
The female looked upset, her face wasn't scary, it had a very gentle features almost like innocent. The female kept pulling on her end.
"Damn it, it hurts. "
As soon as it heard, the female let go, both, Jakobus and Ashur, fell on the ground.
The female looked troubled, as if it didn't mean to hurt him.
Both of them looked confused that's not the idea they had of this "vicious monster ".
"She understands us." Jakobus whispered to Ashur.
"Now you know how to whisper?" Ashur retorted coldly.
"I don't think now is the time for that." Jakobus got up, cleaning himself, he approached the troubled female, her innocent features, made her look harmless.
" Do you think it's a good idea to get that close to it?"
"She could have hurts if she wanted to but, she didn't."
"She??"
"Well, it's obvious a female. I just never imagined that an Allure would look so beautiful. "
*@#& #&3+*
"Did she just talk?"
"Can you call that talk? Could you even understand what it said?"
"No... but does it matter..." Jakobus looked more excited than Ashur was expecting."...Never did...anyone, ever registered that Allures could talk, or understand us."
"Right...." Ashur was uninterested.
" I mean we did have a time when we shared lives with nymph and other beings, but never did my father or his father before him, said they could talk. Or understand us.. I guess we haven't socialized with them enough."
'Maybe there was a reason for it' Ashur didn't even care to share his thoughts.' - "Hmmm hmm"
Jakobus was just too excited, while observing the female nymph, she looked troubled, and a little bit scared.
" So what do you think she wanted with you, she clearly attack you."
The female attention was caught again by those words, until now it was only observing Jakobus going around her.
"@#£ &@& @&#&" her hand gestures indicated that she didn't want to harm anyone.
"She looks like she is about to cry... Stop bullying her Ashur... As a future King you should treat everyone equally..."
"You should shut up now..." Said Ashur with dark angry face.
Jakubos didn't looked troubled at all, he knew how sensitive Ashur was about that subject, but he was much more excited about this moment with the Allure to care.
"I am leaving... Try not to die, we are leaving soon, so hurry up." Said Ashur turning his back.
"Okay Master!" Said Jakobus half joking.
Ashur sighted and left. There was no arguing with Jakobus when he was this excited, he would probably rather stay behind just to keep studying the Allure.
" You are very interesting, unfortunately we can't communicate...well we can but I won't understand.... I have so many questions..." Kept walking around her, drawing her, as he looked up and down, and taking notes right next to the many sketches he was making.
"Amazing"
She was getting shy by all his fuss around her. She pointed at the direction in which Ashur had left earlier.
'ohh she is curious.'
"That's my kin...Master, he is still imature and young but, someday he will become someone very powerful. " he sighted. "He still has a lot to grow. "
Jakobus was sitting in front of the Allure, talking and trying to communicate with her.
She tried to grab his leg, but he would reprimend her for doing so.
"Let's go, there still a lot to cover until the caves."
"I don't see Jakobus." Someone yelled from behind.
" Nevermind that guy, he is probably dead."
"That's just mean, Ashur...." Said Jakobus arriving. Right behind him it was the Allure, it was walking with two legs, her bulb had become her dress. It looked shy behind Jakobus. Everyone was surprised taking their weapons out .
"Heyy... Calm down ...you brutes... You will scare this lovely being." Said Jakobus holding her hand pulling her to the front.
"She is harmless, so you don't have to make such a scary faces."
"What did you do? " asked Ashur angrily. The Allure shrinked back scared by his tone.
"Just research purposes, don't worry about it, she is friendly."
"Hahahaha you are too much Jakobus. Just be careful even the most friendly things can harm others." Jakar laughed and followed Ashur that had already left in his horse.
"Let's go. " yelled Gideon from the front, everyone followed right after on their horses.
"I know you are very, smart, more the most of us, but don't let your guard down. " said Lyssann looking to the Allure, suspiciously.
He went to get his horse, the Allure was holding her own hands shyly.
"Don't be afraid, they are good people. They just have hard time trusting others." He extended his hand inviting her to join him.
The Allure nymph went to him, closing in on the horse, it was reluctant for a moment.
"He is one of the nicest ...here..." He held her hand to pet the horse. It smiled hugging the horse happly.
"This is a horse, do you not know what it is?"
"@£" it nodded.
"I see... I am Jakobus." He introduced himself.
"Who are you ?"
"£&@& +£&" it replied.
Jakobus smiled. " I don't understand, so if it is okay I will call you Loti, since your bulb looked like a lotus flower."
She smiled back. He climbed up his horse, and extended his arm to help her up. She extended her vines to him, and he sitted her in front of him, with her legs to the side, he galoped after the others.
They kept speeding, reaching the dragon cave fast was very important so they could quickly return. Not knowing what the king could be planning Ashur didn't feel good being so far away from home.
"Gideon how long untill we reach the caves?"
"I would say a week or so at this speed."
'its no good, we have been already almost a month away from home.' Ashur was feeling uneasy since they left their home.
It was like Gideon could tell that his friend and Master was worried. "Rahul, Yanos and the others are there, they will protect everyone. So don't worry. Just focus on our mission here so we can go back home quickly."
They had to rest a few times after fighting the monsters, at those time Jakobus and Loti would disappear, and later reappear.
The other warriors were commenting on what those two, could be doing, and everytime they reappeared the Allure looked even more attached to Jakobus.
"They are having sex for sure."
"That's wierd."
"That's disgusting."
"That's none of your business." said Lyssann very angry at the other men.
"We were just commenting..."
"Is still none of your business.. if you don't have anything to do, you could just go train with Jakar and the Master."
They looked over at those two, sparring. Even after fighting some many monsters they didn't stop to rest like everyone else. After seeing that they just dispersed.
They fought monsters all the way to the next town, before reaching the caves.
"The caves are over those hills. But we should rest before facing that dragon."
Jakar proposed even though he could see that Ashur wanted to go immediately deal with the dragon. Pressing Ashur shoulder he gave a reassuring look.
"Alright, let's go into town to rest."
Preparing themselves to go in to town,
Lyssann accidentally found Jakobus, laying on the grass and Loti on top of him feeding him her nectar.
Lyssann averts her eyes. " if .. if you going to be doing something like this do it more privately no one needs to see it."
Jakobus smiles. "We aren't doing anything wierd."
"Anyways we are going into town. Are you coming?"
" I will wait for you guys to come back here."
Lyssann left quickly, she felt like if stayed longer she could witness something she could no longer erase from her mind.
As she left Loti, involved Jakobus entire body inside of her bulb. Before it closed he said.
" Please let me remember everything after." The bulb closed and they became one. And the grass around them grew hiding them.
Like always everyone dispersed into town, some stayed outside, some went inside to get some food, others went to trade monsters carcass and fur.
The town looked very grim, everyone looked beat down.
"What happened here?" Asked Jakar, to one of the town people.
"What do you mean young man."
"There's a lot of injuried people. "
"Ohh... Those are warriors, from all over the kingdom. They came to fight the dragon apparently, they didn't even manage to reach the caves. " he said scoffing.
"Is that so?"
"Well old man.." interjected one of the injuried man that was listening, "there was a group that reached the caves and got a chance to fight with dragon, unfortunately only one survived."
"Oh yeah... those poor bastards, well he will not survive for long. .."
Gideon and Jakar look at each other and went to report to Asher.
"I will personally check on him and see if I can get some information." Gideon said quickly leaving.
"What's on your mind ...?"
"I have been feeling uneasy since we left our town."
"Rahul...."
" I know... Somehow is not only about our people protection, I feel like somewhat something is wrong we are being led into a trap."
*
" I heard that you, managed to fight the dragon, and your are the sole survivor of your group." Gideon was looking coldly at the man laying in bed trembling with burn injuries all over is body.
*Cough* "fought??? We didn't fought at all... Never even got that change. It is a death trap that cave. If.... You are thinking ...* Coughing blood* don't go there."
He kept trembling and crying and coughing blood.
Gideon left with a grin in his face.