Chapter Forty-Four - A Dragon and a Fairy Walks Into a Bar

The kiss lasted a few seconds, and when Locke broke away from Tia, the fairy was red in the face and had a expression of pure delight, it was like she was in a love trance.

"That's my answer!" Locke stated, he got up. "This is new to me so let's take it slow from here on out ok?"

"Slow is good enough..." The fairy replied still in her stupor.

"Great, I'll make dinner!" Locke went into the kitchen.

The fairy reached up and touched her lips, then she threw both arms up in victory.

Tia loves Locke, all the time she spent sealed inside him she watched the world through his eyes, that's why she fell in love with him. As soon as she was freed she was very worried because Locke didn't see her as a woman, of course being a foot tall didn't help to be taken seriously either, but she really wanted him to change his view over her.

When she managed to create a bigger physical form she thought her problems were solved, although this new form still wasn't the size she wanted, she hoped it would be enough for Locke to at least start seeing her in another way, but she realized that Locke was forcing himself to assign her a 'little sister' role.

Hanna realized her feelings and talked to her privately, Tia told the girl everything she felt for Locke and Hanna surprisingly showed her great support, not only that, the girl ever went to the extreme of committing to making Locke change the way she via Tia, apparently the girl had made it.

She knew that probably her relationship with Locke was not going to get to the point she wanted for a while, since her body was still too small, but knowing that Locke accepted her feelings already filled the fairy with intense happiness.

"I love you Hanna! Only you can change the head of this stubborn dumb*ss!" She cried out gratefully into the night.

In the kitchen Locke ignored the fairy's celebration, he took some meat from lunch and made some sandwiches, he and the fairy ate together, Tia was swinging her legs in the chair like a a child on christmas morning.

"How was the contact with Burreal?" Tia asked.

"It was sh*t…" Locke replied.

"What's the problem?"

"Well, those f*ckers want to capture me..."

"Sh*t man, this sucks! What now? How are we going to find the damn cultists?"

Locke took a paper with an address from his pocket.

"Would you like to go out withe me to a bar?"

***

On a certain gloomy street in the city, Locke and Tia were watching a half-hidden door.

"Is it really here? It doesn't look like the entrance to a bar... There's no guard either!" Locke commented as he studied the door.

The door was a simple gray metal door at the back of an alley, with a light burning above.

"It's definitely here, they even took the trouble to use concealment magic on the door..." Tia replied.

"Is this concealment magic? Maan they suck in this, this is sh*t! I think it should work with regular humans..."

"Anyway, how are you going to do it? Are you going to kick down the door and go full r*mbo? Or will you go sneaky attack?"

"Let's try a more peaceful approach first... stay behind me!"

Tia hugged Locke's neck from behind her back, she changed into a black colored outfit that covered her entire body, looking like a little ninja with only her eyes, wings and tail out.

Locke covered his face with the black dragon mask, he approached the door and pushed it with his hand, the door gave way without any resistance and he entered a long darkened hallway, as Locke walked he could hear music playing in the distance, a deep melodic beautful voice, he came to a second door at the end of the corridor, another metal door, he opened it instantly.

The bar was filled with various beings of different shapes and sizes, animal-looking beings covered in fur, twisted creatures, humanoid beings large and small, and even beings who are not unlike any ordinary human, just having a odd aura.

Several different groups were spread across the bar tables, the bar was wide and smelled strongly with a sweet fragance, there was not even one window, on a stage a woman with a fish underside and webbed wings was singing inside a large porcelain bathtub with water.

Some human-looking women with deathly pale skin and expressionless faces served drinks and food at the tables.

In the distance Locke could see a counter where an elderly looking man was preparing drinks, he had a single horn on his head.

Locke looked around for a moment, his strangely masked appearance began to draw attention and many eyes turned to look at him.

Locke could feel the animosity rising from some places in the room, some beings even started to get up from their tables.

A huge bull-man was the first to rise, followed by his tablemates, all just like him, just a little smaller than he was in size.

"Hey kid, do you think this is hallowen or a carnival?" One of the bull men scoffed.

"A human just puts on a stupid mask and walks into our bar... Look at his, it's not often that food comes through the front door like that for free..." The biggest bull spoke. "We played dibs on this silly human!"

A few other monsters sat back down with some rage, the Bulls started moving towards Locke with a wide grin on their faces.

Locke smiled under his mask. "Looks like kicking in the door was the right choice in the end..."

"It's never too late for you go full murder machine mode!" Tia played at her back.

"Look, he doesn't even run!" The first bull-man approached Locke, he reached out and grabbed his jacket. "What the problem human? Are you so scared you can't move?" His bovine mouth dripping with drool, Locke raised his own hand and grabbed the creature's hand.

CRACK

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!! MY ARM!!!!!" The bull creature screamed loudly, he held his broken arm with his other hand in deep disbelief, the other bulls stopped at the impossible image.

"Shut up!" Locke stomped hard on the creature's face, the blow had a little more force than he expected and ended up shattering the monster's face, which collapsed from the shock.

Locke looked at the other monsters through the mask and his eyes cast a strong golden light, black mana began to escape from his body, everyone in the bar became silent, now it was clear that Locke was not a human.

"Who wants to die today?" Locke questioned, his voice low, but everyone felt like he was talking right next to their ears.

"You Like to show off!" The Chief Bull screamed. "You think you can come here and mess with one of my brothers like that! I don't know what in the f*cking seven hells you are! You can't escape anymore! Tonight I'm going to devour your insides!"

The Bull dropped his head into an attack position and charged Locke, its massive size contributing to the impetus of the attack and the beast looked like a runaway train.

Locke took his own attack stance, readying a punch, he felt the creature's onslaught had enough force to hurt him so he wrapped his fist with his shadow magic, as soon as the creature got close enough Locke responded to his onslaught with a tremendous punch. right in the space between the bull horns.

The collision of the two attacks generated a small shock wave, Locke was thrown back a few meters, he spun around to keep Tia safe, he ended up slamming into the door through which he had entered. The Bull-man was launched towards his companions, hitting the tables and fellows themselves in the process, knocking them over to other customers' tables.

"You f*cking b*stard!" The bull-man screamed. "I'll kill you!"

Locke got up unharmed, he straightened his jacket and said, "Hey cow! aren't you missing anything?"

"I am a Minotaur!" The bull-man screamed, he was going to keep answering when he noticed something, there was something strange on the ground, a white, long and sharp thing, it looked like a broken horn, a sudden feeling of despair rose in his heart as he raised his hands in a hurry to the top of his own head, groping where his horns used to be, to his utter terror he didn't feel his right horn.

"My...horn..." The Minotaur spoke in disbelief, he then yelled "Kill this bastard!"

The other bulls ran towards Locke in the same way, executing a joint charge.

"Stop joking, these guys are sooo boooring!" Tia complained behind his back.

"Did you hear the lady," Locke called out. "Looks like she's already bored with our altercations, so I'm going to be a little more serious!"

The shadows began to envelop Locke's figure, covering his body with a full shadow armor, Locke then executed his own charge, bringing his two hands together as the shadows condensed in front of him into a huge pitch black heavy shield and, because the poetic justice, Locke made the shield shaped like a huge bovine head.

Locke exploded like a missile, hitting all the bulls attacking him, trampling them and sending them flying through the air, Locke then stopped and turned to look around.

"Who else is up for some spanking?" He screamed.

The monstrous beings around started to gather around him, and Locke began to worry if that he hadn't let things get to his head, after all he had no idea what most of the beings around were was, and if one of them can be something that could be the end of his life.

Locke didn't let the fact that he beat Rudra and his Raijūs cloud his eyes, he had used hunting techniques and traps to deal with the Raijūs and against Rudra he only won by sheer luck, after all his new ability completely neutralized almost all of the sky dragon arsenal.

But Locke knew he had no other choice, showing weakness right now would be the end of him, and he had to show these monsters that he wasn't someone easy to be intimidated. He blasted his mana with all his might, emitting his aura of fear completely, he formed twelve spears with the shadow in the air and spun them around, he was ready to go on a complete killing spree.

"EVERYONE STOPS RIGHT NOW!" A female voice sounded. "That's not the way to treat a new guest!"

Locke looked towards the voice, she belonged to a beautiful extremely tall woman, she had blood red skin, her hair was black and was held back by two beautiful pearl Kanzashis, her eyes were a beautiful yellow color like Locke eyes, they also emitted light, and she she had two small horns on top of her head, she wore a long purple Chinese dress, open on the sides of her legs and in her back, it have a beautiful flower patterns, and she had a white fox stole around her shoulders, in her fingers she held a long cigarette holder, with a gray cigarette in the end.

At the sound of her voice the creatures began to calm down and lift back the fallen bar tables and sit down again, the Minotaurs picked up their wounded and headed straight for the door, looking at Locke angrily as they left.

"One day you will pay for this!" The Chief Minotaur said as he held the piece of his broken horn in his hands, he turned to leave.

"Leave the horn!" Locke spoke loudly.

The Minotaurs stopped in their tracks and looked at Locke with utter hatred. "What did you say?"

"Leave the horn! You lost your right to it! It's mine now!" Locke stated, if he was to be a tyrant he would be tyranny itself.

The Chief Minotaur started shaking with rage, he looked like he was going to attack Locke at any moment.

"You heard the boy, Andris!" the female voice sounded again. "He also fairly beat you!"

The Minotaur trembled with contained rage, foam was forming in his mouth, but in the end he threw the broken horn at Locke, who caught it without difficulty, the Minotaur then went out the door kicking all things in his way.

Locke kept the piece of horn in his inventory, this thing was useless for him but he wanted to prove a point to everyone there, he wanted to show that he wasn't someone to challenge.

"Come to my Office boy!" The red-skinned woman spoke, as she walked into a room at the back of the bar, Locke followed her, walking in a straight line through the creatures, who still looked down on him with some contempt.

In the woman's room she sat on top of the table, crossing her legs sensually, she inhaled the cigarette holder deeply and puff some smoke rings in the air.

"Soo, A dragon and a fairy walks into a bar…my bar, and they both start a huge mess! The question is why? Why are you here?"