Mass release: 14/15
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"Which I know because I've been there," I decided to drop it all at once. "I was left in the void for two full years after they realized they were going to get nothing from torturing me, since they did it because they were after the secrets only mother and I knew. Hence why I was useful to them, they knew my siblings had no idea of it, and they decided to use them against me." I caressed the outline of Percy's jaw with my right index finger softly, "It blocked my powers, I almost lost myself in there."
Percy tightened his arms around me comfortingly, "They threw you in the void?" He groaned. "How does two years feel like in there?"
I closed my eyes, "Each minute here was a year in the void. It all lasted 525,600 years to me, something that not even the strongest of the dragons could withstand, lasting long enough to corrupt the very chemistry of my bones. I only kept a thread of sanity inside of me because I counted every second of it, every minute, all of it. I wandered in the void, unable to rest, the danger was all around me, it was extremely hot, but also extremely cold at the same time."
"The gravity was messy and it made me feel like it wanted to crush me to nothingness, at the same time as I felt like it welcomed me. The void is made to corrupt all that is alive, to suppress all that's holy," I opened my eyes, staring at my legs, "to break all the sanity we have, to destroy all of our rational inhibitions, all of our emotions, it tries to dissect us. As I couldn't die, it's magic began to get absorbed by my body, to corrupt all that I was from my bones to my core and soul."
"I can… I can feel the void matter in my blood system, taking roots deep underneath my skin, in my muscles, in my flesh, sinking its toxin in my bones, in my organs, in my mind. It's part of me now, it's something I don't think I'll ever be able to get rid of, more than a half a million years in there caused the void matter to have a fusion within me, within my core. That," I stared at the ceiling, "was why I felt nothing when the black dragon burned me, not an ounce of pain, nothing."
"If one thing, I felt familiarity, because that fire is what I got used to feel constantly in the void. That's why I think the dragon came for me, why it came out of where it was hiding, maybe even from the void if my suspicions are right, I could tell it knew I had void matter inside of me, it resonated with it. I don't know how I know this, I… I just know, I'm certain it knew, it knew who I was and that I had been there, it knew I would know what it was if I took a better look, because only one who has been throughout exposed to the void for so long, would recognize it."
"You are the first to recognize such a being, Princess!" Elias gasped.
"Seems like it," I chuckled softly, not so sure about that.
"You should name it; it was your discovery!" He exclaimed.
"He's right," Silas exclaimed, "you should name that kind."
"Naming a dragon kind," Katos clapped his hands, "that's insanely cool."
I know what they are doing, trying to focus on the good side of all I just told them, not to hang on the horrible side of it all, that I'm corrupted to the brink, and that I've survived the void. It makes me feel weird, not in a bad way.
"Think of a cool name," Percy grinned.
"How about," I sucked on my cheeks, "Shadowvoid? All together."
"Grace, the Dragon Charmer, the discover of Shadowvoid dragons!" He chanted, making it sound grand. "Sounds epic to me."
"So, now we can call it Shadowvoid, instead of just black dragon," Elias exclaimed joyfully. "But when we are outside of our… little circle, we'll remain calling it the black dragon," everybody nodded to that. "This is so exciting."
"Will you think I'm insane if I say that I'll try to bond Shadowvoid in the falling?" I said and everyone went silent, as if they didn't think I would say that at all. "I have a feeling he might be stronger than golden and silver dragons, and that I might be perfect to bond him, since I'm… corrupted by the void. If anyone else was to try bonding him, the power of the dragon would go against their own magic, given how the void matter is made to break what's holy."
After a minute, Katos swallowed, "Won't bonding Shadowvoid unable you from regaining the powers that were forcedly shut down inside you, Grace?"
Sigh, "It's a possibility, but I'm willing to take the risk. Though I have a feeling that won't be the case, because all that I was and am was corrupted by void matter. If I reawaken my abilities, they won't be the same, they will now have been corrupted for good, they will be probably mutated thanks to the void matter, and I might be able to use it. But I also have a feeling that I will only get it back if I bond with a dragon, but bonding a normal one will probably not help me at all, because again, I am corrupted."
"In that case, you would have more chances with Shadowvoid," Percy said and I nodded, passing a hand through his silky black hair. "It's dangerous."
"But worthy the risk," Sage pointed. "How will you do that, though? If we have no idea where that dragon has been hiding all along, how will you find him to bond him during the falling, Disgrace? Because I don't think that thing is down in the vale, or we would know, no?!"
"Sage is right," Eli sighed. "How will you find it again, Grace?"
"Something tells me it'll come for me again," I stared up again.
I mean, it did speak into my mind, didn't it? That must mean something to me about bonding him, no? Or did I piss it too far? Will he really come back?
"I'm willing to take a leap of faith."
"But that freak burned you in the bridge," Barbie squeaked.
"Thankfully I can't die, can I?" I chuckled and they all stared at me as if I had gone mad, which might actually be the case. "He wasn't trying to kill me."
"How do you know that? Because it seems pretty deadly to me!" Davalyn exclaimed exasperated. "Gracie, not only did that freak burned you, as if played with you, catching you, throwing you down, and catching you again. That sickening motherfucking dragon is dangerous, it was toying with you!"
"It wanted me to sing," I rolled my shoulders. "It was just acting as a brat, a spoiled and arrogant one, who knows how powerful he is and can't take being defied by a human like myself. And I was defying it for all that's worth," I chuckled mockingly. "Dragons are extremely intelligent being, way more than our kind, they don't think we are worthy, unless something about us amuses them. I happen to be able to amusedly charm them with my voice, plus me being corrupted by the void, that was definitely why it was acting like that on me."
"How do you know it was because of your song?" Fjor frowned.
"Oh, come on, can you stop doubting me?" Sigh. "Look, while I sang to him, he was cooperating, when I stopped, he acted like an annoyed brat who just got denied the candy he desperately craved for. I got back to singing, it helped me again. Any more doubts?" That made them go silent again.
Kirsty clicked her tongue, "None, and I agree with you, Gracie. As you're our leader, the stronger you get, the better it'll be for us. If you can use that ability of yours to charm adult powerful dragons to bond us all, we'll undoubtedly win."
"Not just that," Lara snapped her fingers, "as Grace riding Shadowvoid will give us a huge advantage, especially if she can bond him quickly, emotionally."
"Dragons matter aside," Albie passed both hands over his blonde hair, "I think we should start analyzing the people from group 2, and group 1 of year 2, as we will be going against them in all of our trainings, except for the competitions that will partake as the sections under the 1st Wing Leader."
"Albie is right," Dava groaned falling back in her bed, where Katos had sat with her, "that's more urgent than the matters of the falling."
"If Disgrace learns to control her dragon charmer abilities," Sage clapped his hands, "we won't have to worry so much about the falling, and we'll be able to concentrate on those jerks. And not just on group 2 and year 2's group 1, but in the 3rd Wing Leader, who has a personal grudge with ours," he said it staring, at Percy.
I frowned, looking from Sage to Percy who had paled, back to Sage, and I found everyone staring at Percy also, all tense, and more than anything, Barbie looked no short of horrified and sick. Which is bad. "Who is the 3rd Wing Leader?"
A muscle plumed on Percy's jaw as he stared at nothing, his eyes dark in a way that gave me a bad feeling, "Vagrantous Blackbriar."