[Writer's Pov]
The red dragons are some of the rare species of dragons in this world. They live near volcanoes and are said to bathe in the boiling lava of volcanoes from time to time. Their scales are so tough that even lava itself can't inflict any damage on them. As fire dragons themselves, they are attracted to places with so much heat, and they can hardly move away from such places.
As for how the kingdom of Vetmund managed to tame such a rare dangerous monster was unknown. Legends say no one has ever come face to face with a red dragon and lived to tell a tale.
"Prepare to die, citizens of Blumund. You will pay for killing my family and turning the whole world against us,"Sharia shouted from top of the dragon. In that moment, the dragon opened its mouth, and a lava-like fire started building up on its neck. People screamed and scattered around everywhere. Some couldn't even move their bodies anymore. The mere thought of having the legendary red dragon standing right in front of them rendered their bodies immobile. All they did was give up and wait for the inevitable.
Mr Galard opened a portal that led to the kingdom's emergency safety hall underground, and the knights started helping the citizens flee to that portal. However, it was difficult to bring everyone safely to the portal. Rubles from buildings were crashing some people, and some were just scattered everywhere. All they thought of was running away for their lives, but honestly, it seemed futile. Who could run away from a red dragon.
Prince Cyrus started running and screaming towards the portal, his mistresses tailing him behind. He couldn't care about walking on a red carpet anymore. This was no time to act royalty.
Miriamelody Imogen Mistralina quickly appeared to the scene. She was in Flynn's room all along since the king strictly forbade her to attend the festival. She spotted Flynn and jumped to his aid.
"Sorry, master. I'm late. Are you alright?"
"Hey, Mimi. Thanks for coming. Do you think we can take this thing down?"
She gasped in shock. Her master was seriously trying to attempt to bring a red dragon down? No one in her entire life has had the courage to do so.
"Our chances are slim master. The red dragon has impenetrable skin. And it seems to be building up an enormous amount of fire in its neck. If we don't go to the emergency safe hall, we might die here. "
Athena was standing beside Flynn since he had chosen her to be his mistresses just before the red dragon attack, so she couldn't flee with others leaving her new master alone.
"Master, who's this demi-human girl,"she asked, pointing at Mimi."
"I'll tell you after we take care of this overgrown red monster."
He casted a couple of spells on himself and on Mimi and Athena. The spells boosted their strength and speed and also covered them with a protective barrier.
"Let's do this, guys,"he said with a fierce face. "Athena, you said you can fight, right?"
"I've never been in a real fight before, but I'll try my best, master."
In that moment, they split up, heading towards the red dragon. Mimi was on the left side, Athena on the right, and their master in the middle. Thanks to the speed and strength boosting spells, they felt a little lighter and faster than normal.
"You guys. Take care of the ones controlling the dragon, I'll deal with the dragon itself,"Flynn gave an order, then he raised both his hands and pointed them at his two servants and chanted a spell.
"I've boosted your jumping capacity as well. It should be easy for you to jump around. "
Mimi quickly jumped on top of the building, then removed her long shining sword and jumped on the dragon's stomach, using her sword to climb the gigantic creature as if it were a mountain
Athena, on the other side, had no weapon or anything. She only depended on her brute strength. She quickly jumped on to the dragon as well and started climbing it using its scales to grab and climb higher.
Meanwhile, the dragon was done charging up. It fired its fire breath towards Flynn, and everything else around him started turning into ash. Thanks to his protective barrier, he didn't burn like everything else, but he suffered some damage. The dragon's breath was nothing to be reckoned with. The power of its fire disintegrated everything it made contact with.
Flynn started chanting a spell that he learned the other day at Mr Galard's Magic Academy. He cut one of his fingers with a knife and started drawing a magic circle on the palm of his hand using his blood, then pointed the hand to the dragon while chanting inaudible words
The spell drained too much of his mana than he expected it to. He started growing weak, like he would pass out anytime, but that didn't stop him. He kept chanting, and in the end, something shocking happened. The dragon roared and shaked sideways to shake off the people on top of it. Mimi, Athena, and the three tamers from Vetmund fell down, and then it bowed its head down in front of Flynn, showing its respect for its new master.
"Yes! The spell worked,"Flynn shouted in excitement.
Sharia's eyes widened in terror. Who was this guy. It took three of them to tame a dragon after failing a lot of times and almost died in the process, but this guy just tamed it alone and at a single go. They were confident enough that they'll surely bring Blumund to its knees, but this..... This was unexpected. Just how strong are the people of Blumund.
She tried running away, but Athena caught up to her and knocked her down. Mimi glanced at the other two with a dangerous glare, and they couldn't even dare move an inch. The murderous look in her eyes was enough to show them that she could kill them anytime if she wanted to.
Flyyn looked around and saw Mr Galard standing by the far end, taking the citizens to safety with his teleportation magic.
"Mr Galard,"he yelled his name excitedly. "The monster taming spell you taught me worked on the dragon!."
All this while, Mr. Galard and everyone else were only paying attention at fleeing. They didn't even notice that Flynn was busy fighting.
"WHAT? You tamed a red dragon?,"he asked in disbelief, his eyes opened wide like they could almost gauge out of their sockets. He couldn't believe it. No single person has ever tamed a dragon alone ever before, let alone a red dragon that is the most dangerous of all.
Flynn let out a smile before falling down and going unconscious. He had reached his limit. The spell drained almost everything he had. Mr Galard quickly told the healing wizards to attend to him because too much mana exhaustion was dangerous. It could lead to a person's death. Mana is said to be a person's life force, and some even call it a person's soul. Every living being possesses mana, but it's different. There's what is called normal mana and a magical mana. A magical mana is the one that people who are referred to as 'The gifted' possess while normal mana is just what everyone else who can't use magic has. If a person uses too much of their mana, they might actually die because it's like using all your life force.
Mr Galard entered his portal and told everyone that the battle was over and that they should come out. The king was shocked to hear that, and so did everyone else. But they knew Mr Galard wasn't the type to joke around with such things, so they believed him and came out of the safe hall.
Meanwhile, outside while the healers were attending to Flynn, Miriamelody Imogen Mistralina was giving Athena a hard time.
"Listen, human! I heard you saying master to my master. Who gave you the permission to say so.
"I don't need permission to call my master - master, alright,"Athena replied, folding her arms below her chest.
"Master Flynn doesn't need you, human. The master has me, and I'm more than enough to protect him. You'll only be a baggage, so get lost,"Mimi replied, twitching her foxy ears in annoyance.
"No, you get lost. Don't you know that the master chose me to be his mistress, so I'm not going anywhere."
Upon hearing the word mistress, Mimi felt a sting of pain on her heart. If this little girl was her master's mistress, then it means she's more important than her - a mere guard. It means she'll be with the master everywhere and also share the same room while she is guarding from outside or the next room. It didn't settle well with her. She had to chase away Athena no matter what.
"My master doesn't need a mistress, human. I can be both his guard and mistress. Plus, look at me. I'm beautiful that you are. I've got bigger boobs than you,"she said, groping her breasts.
Athena looked at hers and realized that they were smaller than Mimi's.
"Huh! So what if your boobs are bigger than mine. I'm still his chosen mistress. You're nothing but a mere guard. You can't share a bed with him. Gosh... maybe he's just disgusted by that tail of yours. He'll feel like he's sleeping with an animal. You're a cat."
Mimi frowned deeply. "Listen, here you worthless...."
They were disturbed by the gasps of people who were appearing from the safe hall. Their town was half destroyed. There was blood everywhere of people who met their demise during the battle. Some were burnt to ash by the dragon's breath. But what shocked them the most was seeing the red dragon standing by, watching over Prince Flynn, who was lying down unconscious.
When Victoria noticed her brother on the floor, she quickly rushed towards her, checking his pulse to see if he was still alive. She began healing him too, but healing magic wasn't enough to restore depleted mana. They needed something more than healing magic.
"Healing magic inst working on him. What should we do, father? "Victoria asked.
"I....l really don't know."
Mr Galard stepped forward, brushing his long beard with his fingers. "There are two ways. One is to let him rest for a long time, maybe 10 days. But this option is risky. It depends entirely on the person's resolve. If the person is strong enough, they might survive, but if they aren't, then they might die of starvation before recovering their mana."
"What's the second option,"Victoria asked with a worried look on her face.
"The second option is to go to the great forest of Dyrads and ask the queen of all forests to give you a mana restorative potion. However, she can only grant it to those she deems worthy. There might be trials to pass in her forest so that she can see your worthiness. I propose that only skilled and trusted individuals should take upon this task."
"I'll do it,"Miriamelody said, making everyone turn their attention at her."
"What? I didn't even notice that there was a demi-human here. You're enemies of god, and animals like you shouldn't talk so casually in front of royals and the divine beings such as myself,"Mr Seith, leader of the church declared, feeling disgusted by Mimi's presence.
"Guards. Quickly arrest this girl at once. She should suffer severe divine judgment for her sins."
Tbc