Chapter 8: A hidden place

The monster attacked me with open jaws, I jumped to my left to avoid it. The monster clashed with the rocks on the wall of the Cenote and broke one part of the wall. I can't help my self from gulping as I look at the crack on the wall and the unharmed reptile that is now looking in my direction.

I felt my body tremble at its killing intent so I subconsciously stepped back. Despite the fear, I swung the whip sword with all my might towards the monster and it wrapped around the monster. I felt a little ecstatic, but the feeling was short lived. The monster freed itself with brute force, breaking my whip into pieces. Blades that once surround the whip were stuck on its skin but not even a drop of blood can be seen. I stepped back once again and the monster stepped forward. I looked around trying to find something to use as a weapon but failed.

Just when I felt hopeless I saw a small cavern on my right a little distance from me. I looked back at the monster that is now standing on its four limbs ready to attack me with all its might. It's now or never!

I ran towards the small cavern on my right feeling my body ache because of the wounds I got earlier and pushed myself more after hearing the monster's massive foot steps behind me.

I squeezed myself in the small cavern and found a hole above my head, so I reached up and climbed with everything I got, I felt my skin being pricked by sharp rocks surrounding the hole but ignored the pain and continued to climb.

I climbed up more using the narrow hole and reached a pitch black space. I stayed there and looked down the hole I came from and saw the snout of the monster.

Good, I managed to escape from the monster, now I just need to wait for rescue to come.

I breathed a sigh of relief and looked around me.

I can't see anything!

I tried to concentrate on my other senses to know if there's another monster around but heard nothing, so I used my sense of touch and found a wall covered with bumps as hard as rocks. I then remembered how small the cavern below was, maybe this space is just a tad larger than the cavern below?

I leaned my back on the wall and calmed my heart.

But then the wall I was leaning on moved. I was startled to death but stunned on my position when I looked at the thing I thought was a wall. It is now looking back at me with huge yellow reptilian eyes.

"What is a mortal doing in my lair?" a booming voice inside my head suddenly said

I flinched from shock, and saw red light coming from the body of the huge monster. The light from inside its body illuminated the cavern and I now see his true form

white reptilian skin, folded bat wings, Huge Tail wagging slowly, I gulped a huge lump of saliva when I realized what the being in front of me is.

It's a dragon!!

"You dare trespass in my territory!" the red light inside its body illuminated further and crept up to its mouth, and smoke came out from its nose.

If that is what I think it is, I will die here without a trace! so I started to think of something.

"I-I just hid, to ran away from the crocodile monster in the Cenote, I didn't know it was your lair, I don't even have a weapon, look!" I shouted out of panic and raised both of my hands in the air.

the red light slowly dimmed

"hmm, are you telling me that you just found my lair by accident?" the dragon asked

"Yes Sir" I said without thinking

After staying in this world for 16 years, I learned that Dragons are extinct and there are also little to no document about them. Dragons used to be the rulers of this world, but then they went extinct for some reason, They said that Dragons went to another world, some also said that they just died as punishment for the things they did wrong, There are a lot of speculations about their disappearance, but one thing is for sure, they are Humanity's enemy just like the stories I read on earth. So I cannot blame this Dragon if it is wary of me.

" Hmm, You know that I will not let you go now that you know where I live right?"

That's also what I feared

"I promise I wont tell anybody!" I said out of panic

"Empty promises, that's what your kind is good at"

The Red light illuminated strongly once again.

"I promise with my blood, bones and soul that nobody will know about your lair's location" I said.

"Promise using the Covenant's Vow and I will believe you" The Dragon said

I bit my lip at that. Covenant's Vow is a vow made using magic that binds you to the natural laws of this world, so if you break that promise you will be something that is not natural and hence will be eliminated so you die. I have something like this in the novel I was writing so I know the tricky part about the Covenant's vow. It can only be used by beings that can utilize magic, not everyone knows about that cause nobody knows about the mechanism of how the Covenant's Vow works, I know it because I read it in one of the researches in the palace that they regarded as trash and remembered that I had also thought of something it in the novel.

Honestly, after living for 16 years in this world, some part of me is convinced that I am inside the novel that I wrote but then nothing really validates my hypothesis making it sound ridiculous.

It all started after I heard about the auction house the nobles were so fond of, anyway nothing is really certain so I just shrugged the idea off.

Going back to the Covenant's Vow, I tested it after reading the research paper. I made a vow never to eat cake again in my life, but then after eating one nothing happened. Why? because I'm a magic less princess.

"Then I will just kill you!" The Dragon opened its mouth in my direction so I panicked

"Under the law of this world I Vow never to tell anyone about this place" I said without hesitation

The Dragon closed its mouth and observed me

"Good" It said and closed its eyes once again

I just stood there in a pitch black cavern with nothing to see and nothing to hear once again, The only thing I can hear is the beating of my heart

I tried to slowly descend using the narrow hole I used earlier but then a voice resounded in my head once again

"Did I allow you to leave?"

I slowly crept up once again, but then when I reached the top, a blinding light greeted me