Under the Waves
Exhaustion over took Theo, he had been fighting against the waves for too long, his already drowsy and fatigued state now overruling his willpower, he would go from conscious to unconsciousness in every blink of an eye, but the inly solace was his small companion at his side facing the waves along with him.
Selia could have left him behind, his wings no longer were capable of flight, and he could barely swim in his new body even if he was not exhausted, yet she was the one who kept him afloat, quite literally...
She would expand her wings over the water to make themselves float, and use her tail to bring us closer to the shore, even with more frail body she would persist... perhaps it was not due to luck that she was the only experimental alive other than him on that pile of corpses, she had a willpower powerful enough to crawl out of the gates of death and now she was even bringing him along to the ride.
Theo didn't wish to lose sight of her, afraid he would lose her in the sea If he let himself slip unconscious, still his vision faded to black and he slipped.
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Selia was scared, scared dying, but also scared of having to face her voices alone again, so she didn't let her friend drown and didn't let the sea and waves take him from her, after grueling hours of effort they finnaly reached a beach, they were carried along by the currents in most part and then fought against the pull to trying to bring them deeper once they closed on land, once again they were lucky but also fought with all their strength, and once again they survived.
The last thing she did after dragging Theo and herself to the beach was watch the peaceful face of his friend and then slip into the deep sleep at his side.
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Sand, it was the first toughrlt that came from Theo's mind as he woke feeling the sand beneath him, they had survived once more, he soon sluggish and hurting all over forced his eyes open to try and find Selia, he would be very distraught of being separated after so much effort from her part.
His worries soon gave way to relief when he saw her coiled up with her head over his stomach, even snoring a bit. He grew to like this companion of his, with her lacking vocabulary, clingy attitude and decisive character. He thought it would be great if could help her be healed and fixed up as well.
'Speaking about fixing up ourselves, what happened with the system thingy, how come I only get to see the abilities and get a vague quest?'
[Mission: Survive, Escape, Thrive - 2/3]
[Complete to unlock further features]
'So we survived and escaped, but now we need to learn to how to fix ourselves and then we finnaly can start our journey? Sure atleast this is feels better than university and those boring books... now where were we? Oh yes I need to plan how to find Krasus, also known as Korialstrasz the prime consort of the Dragon Queen Alextrasza himself, since the red dragons have excellent domain over life he should be able to help us, and I also have alot to trade with him concerning information.'
'The tricky thing is known which time we are on, it is for sure before the Burning Crusades, which restarted the fight to control the Dark Portal, and is for sure after the second invasion by the orcs, otherwise Nefarion would not be in control of Blackrock Mountain... if I am not mistaken, we should be right before the events of the Day of the Dragon which implies that Alextrasza should be enslaved by the Dragonmaw orc clan to produce dragon mounts.'
'For now we should reach a settlement, there should be somewhere close by, the north of Thandol Span is usually very populated. It's quite amazing how such a big bridge uniting the north of the Eastern Kingdoms continent is still not enough to bring larger settlements to the rest of the Khazmodan area... even the dwarfs are very conservative when it comes to expanding their settlements...'
'I've decided to enjoy my time in this new life I was given, and cherish those close to me more! We have so much we can do to make this world a better place! So much knowledge of the future, being a dragon capable of learning what all other dragonflights can is also very exciting, I can already imagine fighting against the Legion and the Old Gods, exploring titan sites and learning magic... trully, the saying that the morning comes after the evening is very true.'
Along with his joy he started to humm bits of music he liked in his past life, having Selia to give a grunt and turn her face away from him annoyed at being woken up.
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Soon they recovered and found themselves quite famished, after their ordeals they weren't even able to eat anything before their supplies got washed away in the waves along with all their money and clothes...
But even if they were penniless and with clothes one is born with they could atleast start a new journey free from their torturers and pursuers.
They had to first locate themselves, since they upon unknown shores they had to explore around and understand little by little, but first they went to hunt some fish by breathing lightning on a school of fish nearby and had fun testing new types of cooking and different ways of eating the fish.