Lara and the Fire dragon meet outside the mansion.
"Now we will head to the North guardian or known in this town as the guard to the lava pools" The fire dragon says as he walks down the stairs emitting a huge aura that wasn't felt before, his entire outfit changed from plain old robes to Gold and red robes with a huge staff made from a giant red crystal. a light pink glow surrounds him as he walks his hair that once looked to be a plain black now shimmers with what looks to be red streaks and red glitter, Making him look like a fire fairy.
Lara follows The fire dragon closely as they head to the city exit. The city exit is a huge gate within an extremely thick wall, towering above some of the medium size buildings. "Our earth and metal users maintain the cities wall. while our security team of fire users attack incoming monsters. with our cities size we are able to attract many monsters daily which allows us to harvest lots of blessing shards and crafting materials in which we sell in bulk to other towns and cities. Its our main production." The fire dragon says as he walks hastily through the gate way.
They walk for hours in the same direction, as far as the eye can see no creatures can be seen in the area. "ummm... I thought dungeons where meant to be dangerous?" Lara askes.
"Yes they are but the most dangerous part of a dungeon is the unknown. I know where all the monsters dwell on floor one and two so I purposely directed the exit of the city towards the area where no monsters lie. this is the border of the Fire Quetzalcóatl and the Flame Cerberus. These are the two ruling monsters of this land weaker than the guardians but stronger than any other monster so monster tend to stay away from their territories and this is where the two territories border each other. if a monster was in this area it would be one of the two." The fire dragon replies with as he halts at the end of a huge cliff. At the bottom is a land full of lava ponds, rivers and puddles. the fire elements reaching new hights in this area for Lara.
"Now climb down there and face your test. The north guardian is waiting for you. I'll see you back at the city gate." The fire dragon says as he throws Lara a hiking kit, a spare rope and a ration pack for a week. He starts to walk away.
Lara looking back sees him nowhere like he disappeared into dust. she starts to set up two ankers for rope to be attached to and then ties herself on it. she then slowly lowers herself down on the rope. as she was lowering herself down at about the halfway mark, she was about 4 meters from the ground, the rope catches alight and burns to cinders causing her to fall about 3 meters before she caught her second rope she set up leaving her suspended 1 meter from the floor till the rope slips and leaving her bruised on the floor at the bottom of the cliff.
Quickly she looks around and just sees one direction to go in and its full of lava and fire. she activates her blessed Fire Body blessing. As flames form around her body the floor shakes as a human walks over to Lara wielding a trident of pure blackness. "who are you?" this person says.
"I am Lara I'm looking for the north guardian as its my mission. Who are you?" Lara exclaims.
"I am your end and your beginning" this person says as a sudden force of energy sends Lara flying into the cliff face behind her, "I am the north guardian but I'm also the contracted monster of the fire dragon who sent you here." With a sudden burst of speed the Guardian uses his trident to summon black flames and calls them to surround Lara in a cage of them. As the fire forms a cage around Lara the guardian walks off into the distance.
Lara stands there in the blistering heat as the black fire cage surrounds her not dissipating. she thinks "That's why he left me a weeks worth of food not because the travel would be long but the guardian is working for him." using her flame body blessing she tried to reach through the fire but the heat of the black flames caused her flame body to go out and to leave her a severe burn on her left hand and arm. curling up in pain and distress Lara screams as the pain gets worse. after about 30 minutes she gets back up and activates her Flame sword blessing and her Fire manipulation blessing, by surging her fire elements she disrupts the Black fire enough to separate the fire bars enough to shimmy her way through while just getting mild burns and scorched clothing.
Lara runs in the direction of the Guardian while absorbing fire elements into her sword and fire body blessing. causing the heat and size of them to grow. she finds the human looking guardian sitting upon a throne of bones that was set ablaze. "I see you made it out with those puny blessings." the Guardian says as he launches multiple fire balls at Lara. with great speed lara quickly takes a breath and activates her dragon breath blessing. Turning the tiny red balls of fire into nothing. now with a cooldown of a few hours she rushed forward to the guardian who then starts to engage in close combat. this continued for a few hours with each strike sending shockwaves into the surrounding area. Lara managed to land a definitive blow against the guardian before Lara was sent flying into the air. "Your not even using the fire elements you gathered using the fire manipulation blessing where is your creativity?" the guardian says as he forms wings on his back out of black fire and launches into the air within a blink of the eye the guardian is behind Lara and lands a huge strike against her, sending her flying into the ground.
As Lara stands up she realises that the guardian isn't dealing massive damage and is just 'Playing' with her. "Stop holding back, do your worst!" Lara yells.
The guardian takes a pause "How can you tell I'm holding back?" The guardian questions.
"Its easy. Your hits no matter how strong they seam to be don't really effect me. So bring it on bitch!" Lara yells to the guardian as a strong aura pulses from Lara, her fire changing to a deep yellowy orange. With a burst of speed Lara jumps high enough to strike the guardian using her flames as a booster. thinking "If I just keep gathering fire elements and forming them into small explosions around me I can enhance my movements and attacks." Using this method she keeps on attacking striking with her sword, moving at glaring speeds, but still only just able to keep up with the guardian while its on the ground once the guardian is in the sky its impossible.
Without any ranged attacks Lara feels helpless to just dodge the swarm of fire missiles, bombs and arrows being fired towards her. At the last of her HP and Stamina the guardian flies down and puts his weapon away, "That was a good fight, glad you found some use for those fire elements you gathered. Storing fire elements is useful but can kill you if you can't find them a use. Now please take this" the guardian says as he pointed to a silvery shiny chest at the end of the pit. The guardian flies away towards the city.
Lara slowly makes her way to the chest and as she opens it up inside lays a Fire element storage ring.
Fire Element Storage Ring
Description: This ring can store up to 1 Sun's worth of fire elements. The wearer can siphon Fire elements via a blessing or skill to store fire elements. these fire elements can be used at will of the wearer to power their blessings or skills when needed.
Lara puts on the ring and heads back to the cliff face she fell down and using fire elements created an explosion under herself to let her jump up to the top of the cliff. She then started to walk back to the City.
Upon returning Lara sees the fire dragon and walks over to him "you could have warned me!" She yells at him. "If I warned you there would be as much progression. because you would of known your life was not in danger. But I would like to congratulate on passing my test, I will train you as my descendant now and teach you the ways of the old and new fire dragon." The fire dragon said as he walked away to his mansion.
And that is the brief backstory of how Lara the Mine field became the current Fire Dragon. (The Mine Field was the name gifted upon her by those she fought as she just exploded everything around her in a horrific manor)