[Chapter 149] Slap

'Dragon Morph, Semi-Human, Shadow Armor.' My scales renter most of my skin as my muzzle disappears.

'I feel as if I slapped a puppy, but meaner.' I think as I look at Dreag's body which I knocked out with a smack of my scythe.

I look over his body, looking for any massive damage. After noticing that his wounds are healing at a speed that the naked eye can see, I sigh as I pick him up. Dreag grunts as I lift him onto my shoulder, still obviously in pain. I look over at Jack and the Winters, "Let's go back to the house, Dreag should sleep for a while."

That's when I hear my watch beep, which causes me to smile, "And it seems we have arrived at our destination." Winter tilts her head in confusion as she feels a slight tremor beneath her feet.

I ignore it as the trio catches up to me and we walk towards the clerk who is staring at me in awe. I nonchalantly say, "We're done using the arena, thanks." And we begin to walk out.

The audience stares at us silently, seemingly too shocked to speak. After seeing things they have never heard of, especially spikes forming from people's hands. That is except for one person.

"Pardon me, excuse me, sorry." A voice says as he weaves his way through the crowd towards us. I hear his voice and smile calmly as I patiently wait, knowing exactly who it is. Moments later, a white furred werewolf pops from the crowd, a look of shock in his face as he sees us.

Winter recognizes him immediately and walks over, hugging him softly. Slime Winter had hopped from her head and is currently sitting on mine, having crawled up my leg and over my back.

The crowd silently watches, still processing what just happened.

'For werewolves, vampires, and mermaids, they definitely take a while to process things.' I think as I watch the shocked crowd.

I hear Winter speak from the man's embrace as she says, "I missed you dad." He smiles as he responds, his tone slightly sad. "I missed you too."

After a few moments, they let go as Winter walks back to my side. I smile and wave as I ask, "Can you join us at our house? Oh! And call Sam to join us, there is something I need to tell you both."

He nods, "Sure, I have no reason not to."

As time has passed, Winter's father trusts me after seeing his daughter return safe and sound every year for Christmas, their birthdays, and her birthday as well.

We walk down the hall as people stare at us walk past whispering things about the metal spikes and the Dragonborn winning.

I continue smiling as Winter and her father catch up on what has happened with eachother.

"So what is this place exactly Kurayami? And how can you speak their language so well?" Jack asks as he hears a group of girls walk by while chatting in English.

"I have the ability to learn languages at high speeds." I say as I shrug, technically not lying.

He stares at me in disbelief, "What? What can you not do?"

I think for a moment before a shiver crawls up my spine, 'Sandwiches, my arch nemesis.' But I obviously can't tell him that so I just shrug again.

We begin to talk again as we discuss what adventures we have done. "The Dire Bear cave was definitely one of the more dangerous ones. I still can't believe half the stuff you do, like summoning that army? That is insane!"

I nod, "It is definitely useful, but what about you? You have several elements and know how to use them fairly well, ever think about applying to enter an academy?"

He shakes his head almost immediately, "That is not an option anymore, especially after I ditched my father, the king of a kingdom!" He says with a look of sadness.

I smile cheekily, "I may be able to solve our issue."

He tilts his head slightly as his look of sadness disappears, "What do you mean?"

I wave him off, "I'll tell you when we arrive at the house area."

He scans me over as if trying to figure out what I mean, but eventually gives up as he notices nothing out of the norm. After a bit of walking, we arrive at the house area and I set Dreag in his bed. I walk out and hang out with Winter as we watch TV together. I flick through the channels when suddenly, a news channel catches my eye. 'Why would the news be so important? We're in a cube.'

But as it goes farther in, my eyes go wide as the lady explains. "As you can see this here is a fight between the two people who live outside the cube. It has been 5 years since we found out we are not alone and these two have shown what can be done outside."

Then it shows a clip from a wristband recording our stand off before we launch at eachother. The sparks fly as I hear gasps and more people enter the arena. The battle rages on and I see my Shadow Armor form, causing my eyes to go wide. 'I look that horrifying?! I look like I'm about to eat your soul myself!'

The video clip continues as she explains, "As you can see, there are certain abilities being shown here like the shooting of what looks like metal spikes and shadow like covering. If this is what they can do alone, I'm afraid to know what is outside the safe confines of our cube. I'm Karol Karnak, daily news."

I about flip the coffee table as I abruptly stand up, scaring Winter.

"She makes us sound like monsters.....well technically we are but that's not the point!"

'Wait....what technically am I?' I ask myself as I realize that I don't even know what I would classify myself as.

'A divine beast? A lost soul? A reincarnated? Are there other reincarnations like me?' I ask myself as I contemplate what I am.