Respect to your will

If the old lady didn't come and tell the truth, I would never know about m'lady's real power and how the curse affected people could be saved. She claimed to be one of the doctors who served our previous fire dragon king. She explained that m'lady was going to be unconscious for 2 more hours as she somehow managed to unlock the "Doctma". According to her, it is more like a self-protection power. you know, when you are going to fall or somewhat getting hurt, your body moves automatically and try to protect you as much as it can, right? "Doctma" is like that but a little bit crazier, and only m'lady can use it as she is the successor. That day, she somehow called upon the power of the fire magic stone. As the lady said, the linings on her body caused to attract more power to save the boy and the anger and wanting for that made her fire magic stronger. She sucked out all the negative energy from the citizens affected. The lady also said that it would be wrong for me to underestimate the power of m'lady as a successor and as a human. I agree, humans have accomplished so much so far and they are still moving forward, good for you, reader.

After all those clearances, I felt relieved. After 1 and a half hours, m'lady came back to senses. She got unconscious because she had used too much power at once. She is still learning after all. After m'lady woke up, the lady bowed before her and I could hear people outside talking about her. Well, m'lady didn't seem uncomfortable though. The lady started to ask things to m'lady, how she was feeling, if she was feeling a little drained and if she saw somebody while she transformed. So m'lady answered honestly. She said that she was feeling a little dizzy and drained but that she didn't remember anything not even that she transformed. The lady said that the dizzy and drained feeling are for the negative energy that she took from the citizens. The lady suggested not to stay at city for any longer and should take the fire magic stone and move on to the next kingdom. for her m'lady could take the power now that she had awakened the spell. What the spell, you may ask. I would like to leave that to our earth lord too.

Then, the main problem was to make the people clam down. Everyone was coming to m'lady and telling their own problems. But, m'lady wasn't bothered at all, she listened to all of them. Someone even mentioned about the curse too. The old lady left by the night. As for us, we were stopped by the people of the city for a good meal. The way people were treating m'lady and she was smiling, my tension for what to do next, completely vanished. Somewhat I got a feeling that we would be able to pull off this huge fight.

The next day, we were going to leave for the capital when a man offered us to have a ride on a "kiwe". It is more like a bullock cart thing. It supposed to be faster so we got on. The kiwe dropped us at the main gate of the castle. We thanked him and he left.

We went to the gate and found that something was off. The gate was scratched off everywhere, slightly opened. As we moved nearer, we even heard the clashing of some sort. Both of us burst in to see a horrible sight.... Some of my soldie…soldiers were lying dead….. I didn't even look at the rest and straight went to the main hall. There was my minister fighting with clearly an affected person with a few more people lying. I again started to panic. Maybe they somehow got to know that the successor had already been summoned. I heard m'lady crying but I couldn't move. Now, all the affected people turned to m'lady. I couldn't let anybody hurt her, she was our one and only chance of getting rid of this nightmare. I heard the minister saying that some of the affected went to take the magic stone. without thinking, m'lady ran to the room. Now that I was there, my men felt at ease, I leaded them. After the situation looked a little stable, I went to m'lady. By the time, I went there, there was still 5 people standing against m'lady and over 8 were at the ground unconscious. She had quite a lot of burned mark on herself but she didn't active the Doctma yet. The old lady was right, I should have underestimated her power. she turned out to be more mentally strong than any of us, lords. I took her place while she could take fire magic stone. My minister and other coworkers were fighting meanwhile at the other places of the castle. The affected people are more like a doll or a pet, whatever they are told to do, they would that much. M'lady touched the magic stone that was inside a casted spell.

The stone glowed brightly and became smaller. It was so bright that the red light looked like a star. I shut my eyes and heard "good job, child". The voice was none other than of our previous fire dragon lord's. After it felt like internity, I opened my eyes, saw m'lady with tears in her eyes, everyone else in the room as well as the other affected in the castle went unconscious because of the light. My coworkers came checking upon us.

After all these, the castle needed some renovation and we needed some time to get all that had happened sink in. we stayed there for the night. Everybody was so happy to see us back. Both of us talk to everyone for so long. I went to see the errands in between. When I came back, I went to see m'lady. She was sitting on the bunch at the balcony. I didn't notice it before that but there was a red ring in her finger. I sat next to her and we talked for a while. At last, when I was about to leave, she said looking at the sky "I thought it wouldn't be much of a big deal to force myself to grow stronger but yesterday and today I saw how many people look up to me to save them. I would break myself if that is what it takes." I never saw a person so strong willed in my life and that I knew I wouldn't ever find another.