XIII. A Partner does not Abandon

Thanks to the help of Ssaull, Alexandra now had new perspectives on human beings, she still had certain doubts or interests in certain topics that the dragon reserved for some reason, but she did not insist much because she learned more than she had expected from her. own people. She thanked the ancestors for being with someone who had given her so much in a short time, although at first, he seemed like a freak to her, Ssaull proved more pleasant and trustworthy to her than Captain Kuketzi herself and the dragons that accompanied her. She was even able to learn a little English thanks to him, this in case Alexandra found another human she could start a conversation with the person, although the blue dragon reminded her of the fact of the different languages that humans used, just as she had faith that she would find someone who spoke the same language that she was already mastering.

"One more day and Shairum will be close enough to us that you can go home by yourself," Ssaull said passing a cup of tea to the girl.

"Great," she said accepting the cup "I already want to see everyone's face when they see me come back, especially that damn Kuketzi. She will have a lot to explain in front of everyone," look gently at the dragon.

"Still avoid stirring up the waters to the guild" Ssaull advised the human.

"I do not know how I can thank you, for all that you have helped me instead of leaving me abandoned in Rulliam, but I promise you that I will return the gesture as soon as I can," he says showing a great thanks to the dragon.

The dragon before that act of appreciation and gratitude that her companion showed manages to make him feel comfortable with her, he looks at her with a sincere smile of peace.

"Don't worry girl, if I don't charge you before and much less when you turned out to be a thorn in my tail, I'm not going to charge you anything now. But the next time I see you in a dangerous land there I will ask for an advance payment hahaha "he laughs, ruining the human's good humor.

"I'm not amused" she answers coldly.

"You should learn a little about black humor that humans often embrace as a form of laughter, but I still apologize" The dragon bows in respect to what the human girl returns. "By the way, I would like to ask you about that box," she says pointing to the box that the human brought from the camp.

"That thing?" the dragon nods "the truth I had forgotten when you started to tell me about humans," she clarifies but takes the time to bring it closer and put it in front of both of them "the reason why I brought it is that there was an image of a dragon oceanic here "points to the mark, the dragon pulled the box closer to him and gave him a quick inspection.

"The last time I saw anything like this, it was in a library in my beloved homeland Rhu'Rhux" he said.

"And do you know how to open it? I couldn't find locks, padlock or some combination system or anything like that to open it" she explains to the dragon, but he did not give it importance because he had a slight idea of what the object was.

Ssaull was trying to remember what he knew about that box. This one was very similar to the container of a relic of the ancients, these relics were created by the mother of the ancestors known as Desthy the creator of destiny and the life of dragons. He wondered how an ancient and sacred relic was in that place, it is assumed that the legends say that these relics were hidden in sacred and secret places in the world; he felt a bit annoyed at the lack of respect it meant for humans to touch something considered so sacred and valuable to dragons. Even so, having in front of his eyes something that was believed to be part of fables and tales for baby dragons was incredible; He knew that he had created four relics that reflected the spirit and connection with the physical, mental and spiritual way of being of the dragons who represented these relics, it hurts that he did not know how to open it if a mortal could open it, and even if he knew he would consider the possibility that only the race belonging to the dragon figure in the box would be the only one to open said container.

"I'm very sorry Alexandra, I don't know how to help you with that, this container exceeds my knowledge" he clarified to the human.

The human did not give importance to that, she was already quite grateful for everything that the skeletal dragon had done for her; save her, help her and teach her a little about her people. Although they had stumbles and misunderstandings at the beginning, now if she could completely trust the dragon, the horses stopped sounding agitated alerting Alexandra and Ssaull; outside the voices of at least three different dragons could be heard. Alexandra instinctively takes the sword from her anticipating the worst, she preferred the idea of attacking first and asking questions later, instead Ssaull preferred to avoid unnecessary conflicts with her mobile store so close to the conflict.

"Let me handle things for me" he comments.

"But what if they are dangerous?" she asks already prepared to attack, due to her experience with Captain Kuketzi. Alexandra was suspicious of strangers, she would not allow anyone to hurt her and her new friend.

"Just be quiet and alert, keep hold of the sword if you want, but first let me handle things my way" he clarifies leaving to talk to the dragons. Ssaull is quickly gagged and thrown to the ground tethered by three dragons, two-winged and one terrestrial with very angry expressions.

"As I told you guys, this mobile store could only belong to Ssaull, the biggest swindler and thief of all," Says the earth dragon giving a strong kick to his stomach.

"You thought stealing our food and wealth back in Rulliam would be funny;" said a winged approaching to also kick Ssaull "I bet you must have laughed a lot right?" Ssaull was making sounds indicating that he wanted to say something.

The third dragon slaps his face to make him stop making noise.

"Poor little dragon, nobody lets you speak and let you release that damn sleepy breath to incapacitate us hahaha, you don't know how much we will enjoy torturing you before killing you and selling your meat to the other skeletal dragons," He said with a terrifying smile.

Alexandra saw how these three dragons hurt the dragon, she wanted to act to save Ssaull, only that when she saw that he fixed his eyes on her, she somehow told the human to remain calm, she with certain doubts continues directions from him.

"How much do you see inside?" the terrestrial dragon asks curiously walking to the entrance of the store and with Alexandra preparing more to attack.

Ssaull started to say something, but because of the gag you couldn't hear what he was saying, the three dragons noticed how the wind began to move aggressively surrounding the area. The blue dragon broke the bonds and removed the gag, looking imposing before their eyes, the three dragons draw their weapons ready to fight.

With a slight movement of Ssaull's left hand, the wind began to move sharply and violently, the three dragons reacted somewhat late, but the winged ones were able to dodge the attack thanks to the fact that they could fly, however, the terrestrial loses his tail in the attack. Both the dragons and Alexandra watch in amazement as the skeletal dragon handled the situation.

"AAHHHHHH MY TAIL!!!" the terrestrial screams in pain wanting to retaliate against the dragon.

"You call that a tail? Hahaha, I think I did you a favor by taking that thing off" Ssaull mockingly replies, he quickly evades some gusts of winds that came from the winged ones.

He reveals a kind of wings that hid his arms and with a jump, he fights in the skies against the other dragons.

"Damn spawn, the heavens are only for the ancient and the winged ones" answers the first winged going down on Ssaull, the skeletal dragon using his tail takes a vial that had contained his sleeping breath.

"Raiko!" yelled the second winged when he saw his companion collapse on the groundbreaking her neck on impact. "You will pay to kill my friend."

"You know, I've heard several say that to me and no one has achieved it so far" he answers, touching the ground without a problem and making a signal to indicate to the ground and the winged to attack when they were ready.

"If you value the life of your pet Ssaull, you better stop fighting and give up !!" Hearing that, the blue dragon turns to see another gray skeleton with some red spots on its arms squeezing the human with its tail, taking out the air, and some groans.

"Alexandra!"

The dragon is concerned when seeing the situation, he quickly understands that the three dragons that had attacked him from the front were a distraction for that other dragon to move from behind easily and surprise him.

"Damn Ssaull caught by overconfidence" he whispers scolding himself for making the same mistake he used against the others.

Before he raised his hands to give up quickly, he was stabbed with his back in an area that was not protected by his protruding bones, this only caused a scream of him throwing himself to the ground in pain.

"Are you sorry Ssaull?" sarcastically replies the skeletal dragon "That terrible pain that can torment our race a lot" he adds with a sinister laugh.

The two dragons approach Ssaull to subdue him and prevent him from doing more damage, he with pain and fury on his face watches the grayish dragon, worried about the human and his tent unable to move due to the pain.

"Whatever you have planned Riblellion don't even think about hurting the human," he says weakly but is hit by both dragons who were holding him to shut up.

"Shut up you fucking scum!" said the Earthman.

Riblellion approaches curiously seeing the blue dragon while still squeezing the human with some force so that she would not try anything.

"Why should I treat your pet well? You know that these mediocre creatures are not worth anything to dragons" with a raised hand Ssaull's face meets his eyes.

He spits a little blood at the grayish face before speaking.

"She is not my pet, she is the daughter of Magarai and if you want to lose more than your tail with her, you should not hurt the human more" after saying that the two dragons with knives begin to cut Ssaull for telling such a bad lie.

Alexandra sees how her friend was holding the urge to scream because of the pain that she constantly received, she wanted to do something, but she was immobilized. She blamed herself for having been caught from behind despite her preparation again life showed her that she still lacked experience in the real world to be a good warrior, she notes how Ssaull moves her lips speaking in English so that the enemy does not know what the two of them were talking about. She realized that he would free her and buy time for her to use her horses and thus be able to escape from her, he would sacrifice himself for her; She Alexandra could not believe it, in truth the blue dragon would do that kind of thing to save her, however, Alexandra did not want to abandon him.

"What are you saying damn? That is not Dragonica" Riblellion responds hitting Ssaull's face annoyed because he also read lips but being a different tongue he did not know what the bluish was saying, in a short time Ssaull whispered a few words to control the wind and make everyone receive cuts from it, luckily the human with her armor covering a large part of the body would come out unharmed.

"Runaway Alexandra and don't turn around!" Ssaull yelled freeing himself and fighting without a weapon against the two dragons, but she ignores him and goes to the gray skeleton to kill him.

"Don't even think about it damn" Don't even think about it damn it "the tail with its tail with enough force inside the store, the impact had caused Alexandra to lose her air and feel terrible pain while she was on the ground "Wait there while we kill your owner." Riblellion clarifies from outside the store.

"I must help Ssaull" she said getting up from the ground with difficulty, she could not leave him, not after he saved her life twice. Before going out and fighting those dragons she for some reason felt the need to see the box with the oceanic symbol, she felt like she was calling her for some reason and she couldn't ignore it.

Outside Ssaull turned out to be a more difficult adversary to face, despite having been caught twice, that dragon managed to demonstrate its capabilities and combat skills superior to that of average dragons. Even with his injuries and the disadvantage of three against one, Ssaull returned each blow and each attack much worse than what he received, however, the wound in the back and his low tolerance for pain made him slow and less resistant to others. damage and Reblellion made sure to make attacks with some distance to avoid being hurt and secretly used the other two dragons as cannon fodder to exhaust Ssaull more quickly and he can subdue him more easily.

The terrestrial dragon manages to stick a knife in the side near the area of his lungs between his protruding ribs, Ssaull puts one knee to the ground and uses the edge of his tail to pierce the left eye of the terrestrial, the winged uses his tail to strangle Ssaull by depriving him of oxygen just as Reblellion used his to hold the tail of the bluish as he delivered a few blows to his bare abdomen. The poor skeletal dragon tried to resist and desperately thought about how to escape from this situation, he only had one last resort to achieve it but it required a lot of his mana and with the blood that he lost from the two stabs he received, it was too dangerous for him, but it was he ran out of options and the more blood he lost, the less likely he would survive; Ssaull was concentrating his forces on casting the strongest of the dragon spells until a white chain with a blue gem on the end wrapped around Reblellion's neck and dragged him away from Ssaull with great force.

"What the ...?" Reblellion watches as Alexandra jumps with the chain in her left hand, swinging it with impressive dominance against the other dragon.

"Alexandra" Ssaull said weakly seeing how she with movements of the oceanic style next to the movements of the strange chain, the human girl managed to give a lot of fight against the two dragons.

The winged dragon rushes against Alexandra who had her attention on Reblellion, however, the chain quickly surrounds the dragon and the human recites the spell that invoked the force of the lightning, only that these were directed from the chain towards the dragon and then launch it. against the gray skeleton dragon. As with Ssaull, the gray dragon reacted very negatively to the pain.

"Sir, that pet seems stronger than we imagined," says the winged dragon, still feeling his body tremble from the electricity. "What should we do?" he asks concerned about the human and the fact that two of them had died.

"I have an idea," says Reblellión and then pierce the winged's back with one hand, he recited what seemed like a spell, Alexandra did not have time to listen because he was running aggressively against them, but the winged dragon began to swell to the point of exploding leaving a great smoke made of blood and visors allowing anyone to escape without problems.

Alexandra tried to dispel the smoke with the chain moving a great current of air, but the dragon was quick enough to disappear or at least manage to hide to avoid the confrontation with her and Ssaull. The blue dragon looks surprised as the human had used a dragon spell and could still move, he remembered that the first time she used it she fell to the ground with evident exhaustion, and now the human seemed still energetic and ready for combat.

The dragon collapses on the ground exhausted by his injuries, hoping that somehow the human would save his life, he could not die yet, the wounds against the zombies and the abandoned camp were nothing compared to now, even so, Ssaull was refused to die, only that he could not move and his vision was darker and blurred, with his little strength he asked the human to take him inside and help him. The last thing he saw was how she with a face of fear and anguish lifts him very carefully and is taking him to the grocery store, but the wounds reacted to the movement causing him to faint from not being able to bear the pain, he was leaving her life in the hands of fate and Alexandra now for her survival.