Chapter 9 - Chosen

In a endless space the naked body of madoka floated  around. She heard the voices from outside but they felt distant and muddled looking around her while floating she saw a temple in front of her.

   Floating towards the temple she saw statues of dragons on both sides of the isle leading into the temple .

           Judging from it's appearance this temple should be old , very old but what puzzled her the most was how she got here and how she would go back.

          Walking towards the entrance of the temple she studied the statues of the dragons lining up on both sides of the path , the statues looked imposing and gave off a wave of heavenly aura which made her knees to buckle a little but she ignored it and kept walking towards the temple but with every statue she passed but the more imposing the aura it gave off was ,as if telling her not to  take a step further but there was something drawing her towards the temple .

         Ignoring the overbearing aura upon her she wiped the sweat on her eyebrow with her finger and continued on.

     .... Finally arriving at the entrance of the temple where the aura was too much she couldn't help but fall on her knees as blood came out of her eyes and nose, ignoring the overbearing aura she crawled into the temple with every atom in her body trembling with exhaustion, with the last bit of strength in her she finally entered the temple where the aura seemed to have been cut off.

         Breathing a sigh of relief she laid on the ground to catch her breath before looking around the inside of the temple, the inside temple looked a little less run down compared to the outside and there was nothing but an encirclement with  two dragon statues facing each other on both sides of the circle looking in the center of the circle as if there was something there . These dragons were larger in size compared to the ones outside and.

      Looking at the two dragons they somehow remind her of the two dragon daggers given to her by the old man, walking towards the dragon she noticed that each dragon had a digger in hand which resembled the dragon daggers she had but this ones looked more profound and it's crystal red blades gave of a cold  alluring light , if the one given to her can be said to be a high battle weapon then the ones in front of her were heaven class weapon.

                     Standing in the circle she felt that aura of the two dragons being absorbed into her body, the thin red wisps of aura being poured into her made a feel seering pain as it filled her soul to the brim kneeling in the circle she saw how her veins were swollen under her skin filled with the dragon aura as it integrated into her body. The last thing she saw before she passed out were the two daggers being absorbed into her body.

               Amari was gently wiping the mucus of madoka when she suddenly woke up and sat up in alertness looking around the tent.

  " You're finally awake" she said looking at madoka with worry in her eyes, looking down she noticed she had been stripped of her clothes and  was left with her binder and inner shorts luckily they were the only ones in the tent.

    

        " How long have I been unconscious" she asked recalled that battle that happened earlier.

          " You were out for seven hours" amari replied helping her lay down. 

                        " I'm fine I've rested enough" madoka said looking around to find her daggers ,but couldn't find it anywhere in the tent .

   " Are you looking for something" amari asked seeing her set of actions

" My daggers have you seen them" she asked .

" No we did not find any daggers just you" amari said looking inside the tent

" I'll go get your carry-on for you so you could get dressed" amari said and got out of the tent. Sitting alone in the tent the finally recalled the strange dream she had, sighed she looked down and was shocked to see a thin outline of two red dragons on both her wrists.

  ' So it was not a dream ' she thought to herself as she studied the mark , recalling the daggers she saw in the temple the two dragons seemed to become alive and started glowing until two daggers appeared in both hands .

  Being stunned for the second time she looked at the dragon tattoos and then at the daggers which suddenly appeared, the looked identical to the ones in her dream or what she thought was a dream.

 

         After studying the daggers for a while they suddenly disappeared again into the dragon tattoos on her wrists

" It seems like the is a time limit" she thought to herself when suddenly amari came back with her carry-on bag and gave it to her

  " Here get dressed and get something to eat" she said before going out. 

         

                          Getting up she finally got dressed in one of the spare clothes she brought and carried her belongings out of the tent, spotting the siblings she made her way towards them and sat with them.

      "So what happened while I was unconscious" she asked looking around for any signs of the awakened ones.

       " Well the team just decided to rest and tend to the wounds of the injured and also burying the teammates who died " alonzo said sharpening his sword with a stone her found nearby.

 

     " They have really been quite after the battle some even had ugly faces especially the team  leader" amari said in a low tone for fear of being heard. Madoka on the other hand knowing the reason for their unwillingness just scoffed under her breath looking at the awakened ones on the opposite side of the once battle ground.

     They will always be proud beings she thought to herself as she looked down at her wrists