XXVI. Dilemmas of a Dragon

It's hard to betray the trust of someone you appreciate and not feel guilty about it, Rophttys using Alexandra's beast lizard to make the shortest journey, the skeleton dragon had used the human's chain to immobilize and make sure she wasn't conflicting with her. Alexandra was in a cart being carried by the dragon, the human tried with all her might to free herself, but she could not, it was not a rope that surrounded her body, it was a relic of the mother of the Desthy ancestors and she could not do anything to break said relic, cursed the good tie that the dragon had made with her using that white chain, now and then she threw curses, curses or spat in the direction of the dragon who endured each rude outburst of the human, in the end, Rophttys had betrayed Alexandra's trust and friendship and she knew she deserved the negativity of the human friend she was holding. She told herself that she did what was best for the human, it was natural that the girl did not see it that way, but as soon as she spent a few days or weeks at most in the human shelters, Alexandra would be grateful and leave her aggressive posture with the female dragon. But, that didn't eliminate the guilt in the female dragon's heart.

The dragon saw that it was too late to continue walking on the road and most of the bandits and anarchists would go out at this time to attack inexperienced travelers, luckily she already had experience and there was a cave nearby that she knew perfectly well and which would serve as a makeshift shelter for her and the human. She made sure to be in the deepest part of the cave so that the fire from the campfire did not illuminate the site and warn anyone of their presence there, Rophttys gave some water and food to the creature that carried them both so that regained some strength and energy, and should finally see how her now possibly ex-friend was. Rophttys didn't want to lose Alexandra's friendship so he thought a little kindness might help sort things out between the two of them.

"Here, you must be a little thirsty." extends a canteen full of freshwater to the human "I know we may not be on good terms, but I think we can fix things if we talk a bit" Alexandra knocks on the canteen down with a movement spilling the water on the ground, the dragon reacts To that concerned, she could see how Alexandra looked at her with deep anger and seemed not to want anything from the dragon. "Alexandra please don't look at me like that, we could be best friends again once you see the life you will have, it won't be like living in New York or Los Angeles, but at least you will feel at home with the other humans around you "the dragon sincerely affirmed. However, Alexandra spits in his face again.

"I don't understand how it didn't work," says Alexandra annoyed and Rophttys unable to understand what she was referring to.

"Excuse?" asks the dragon.

"I used the spell on you, but you said you had no bad intentions and passed the influence of it safely. How did you do it?" she questions starting to feel sad at the apparent betrayal of who she believed was her new friend.

"Alexandra I know you must feel bad, but really, I don't want to hurt you, I was telling the truth when I didn't want to hurt you." she sighs feeling guilty for her actions "I am truly sorry for what I did to you, I swear to God, but you didn't want to see the real things in life with dragons and I was forced to do the right thing even if you didn't see it that way" The dragon justified herself, hoping not to completely lose her friendship with the human.

Rophttys tries to bring her hand closer to her friend, but she turns away from her and tries to bite her hand. Anyone would notice that the human exuded an intense rage for the dragon, no matter if it was for good reasons or if that life was better for Alexandra. The problem was that the female dragon took Alexandra's freedom to decide and now she was kidnapping her, taking her to a place that she did not know and did not feel comfortable about it, without forgetting that she still had an activity pending with her mother before returning to Shairum.

"I should have killed you." the human said in a pitiful voice. Rophttys hurt that "If I had listened to my instincts I could have eliminated you before you screwed me up and gone back to the shelter and back home to my mother"

This offended the dragon a little, he understood that the human manifested that kind of attitude because of how Rophttys had handled things, but that comment was unnecessary, not to say that the dragon appreciated the human's friendship and that her friend liked her. wishing death was something that hurt her a lot, she demonstrated it with the spell, only that Alexandra did not care about any of that, she claimed that the true friends did not kidnap the other and denied her to see her mother again and continue with her mission to be a warrior. This made the dragon think. She wondered if she had been right to take Alexandra away from Magarai? The human did not seem very happy with her situation and in putting herself in her place if someone did the same to the dragon, Rophttys would be half as angry as the human. She did not understand why someone like Alexandra wanted to continue living and fighting alongside the dragons being aware that she would never be recognized by most of them, if she gave the many hidden human camps a chance, maybe she would realize the favor that Rophttys was doing to her or that was what the dragon kept trying to justify herself and not feel guilty for what she was doing, but Alexandra did not let her get rid of those feelings easily. Rophttys only sees how Alexandra turned her back to him leaning against the wall of the cave, she seemed that she no longer wanted to speak or even look at the dragon. After a while Rophttys seemed like she couldn't fall asleep, she still kept thinking and evaluating what she was doing, the dilemma was so big for her that she simply couldn't ignore it no matter how much she closed her eyes to try to sleep, Rophttys had helped to so many humans that she had never questioned their actions, it was not the first time that she had to knock out or forcibly take some of them to be freed. This was understood by the traumatized and injured that some had been because of the dragons, but Alexandra was not like those cases, that human was undoubtedly someone different from the rest, also she was the only one who wanted to make friends with her since the dragon's life had drastically changed. There was only one thing she could do if there was still a chance to help Alexandra.

"Alexandra" the dragon whispered, moving the human a little. The girl only reacted to the action by moving so that they would not bother her while she continued sleeping "Alexandra awake" she insisted again, making the human wake up without the desire to even talk to the dragon, also adding to the fact that the human was tired.

"What do you want?" the girl yawns and tries to stretch as much as her limited mobility allowed "Was it not enough to steal my freedom, now you want to steal my sleep?" She questions looking tiredly at the dragon who looks at the ground feeling guilty, the female dragon takes certain points of the chain and releases them causing the other moorings to come loose, releasing Alexandra. "What fangs?" she this time she asks her looking more awake at Rophttys.

"Well ... I think she couldn't sleep because of the guilt she was feeling for what she did to you," she says to the human.

"Guilt? Does that mean you have a conscience in the end?" she responds rudely by moving her arms and legs more freely grateful for the mobility.

"Please put aside the insults. I know I did not act like a good friend, but I try to fix things with you" she clarifies, but Alexandra evaluates things and taking her chain, the human planned to use the spell that her mother had given her. taught.

"Sigil Sha''dolx Verilial"

When saying those words a small harmless explosion was present and Alexandra disappearing with her things, Rophttys is alarmed when she sees that the human had disappeared, she worried about Alexandra, she did not know the place and could get into terrible trouble with the dangerous dragons of the area. Alexandra takes her beast lizard to run as fast as possible to flee the area and arrive as soon as possible with her mother, the human now uses the location spell to locate her mother and closing her eyes for a few seconds to see the location exact of Magarai, it was then that she noticed that the oceanic dragon was going in the direction of where she was, this was something unexpected for Alexandra because she did not expect that her mother was already looking for her so quickly, it meant that the dragon had finished everything she had to do in Rexn-Laigun and now it seemed that the Greater Dragon of the oceanic was looking for her, it did not take her long to deduce that Magarai had been using the same spell as her to locate her and to judge how the vision of the dragon was getting bigger, that alone it meant that the dragon was coming at high speed and that it wouldn't take long to be with her.

"Alexandra wait!" the human turns to see Rophttys behind her.

"Leave me alone! If I left without killing you it was because I wanted to show an act of respect for having freed me!" exclaimed the human "Unless I want to die, leave me alone!" she demanded with authority in her voice. Although the dragon wanted to free her from her, she did not want to let her run alone in the dangers that the human was unaware of in the area where she both were.

"Alexandra please listen to me!" the dragon begged, leaping to get on the back of Alexandra's transportation. "There are many dangers that you do not know here, I know that I set you free, but you have to believe me that it is better that you stay here with me until it is daylight" Alexandra launches a kick which the dragon intercepts with its tail to block the attack. "I only ask you to trust me one last time please, if you go now you could die with the things that are hidden here."

"I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO YOU ANYMORE!" she screamed with great anger wanting to hit the dragon's face, but before she could do it a great blast of water hits Rophttys, knocking the dragon to the ground violently.

Alexandra turns around and sees that her mother had done that, who was already in the place in front of the human, she could notice a completely different look on her mother, this look was a very scary one that managed to disturb her a bit to her. The dragon approaches where her daughter to observe her without losing that terrifying look, Alexandra had been frozen with fear, it was as if a survival instinct warned her that if she moved she was in danger of death. Although she knew that her mother would not hurt her, it was as if her body reacted on its own because of that look, Magarai gives some reassuring words to her daughter so that she could feel safe and not worry anymore because she would hurt herself. charge of everything. After that Magarai directs her fearful and bloodthirsty gaze to where Rophttys was who could barely stand up after such an attack from the ocean dragon, the greenish dragon seeing those eyes full of hatred and death wish had remained frozen like Alexandra feeling that her life was in great danger with that powerful and feared dragon warrior. Alexandra and Rophttys's gazes met and the human could feel the fear and concern of the greenish dragon, now Rophttys's life was in danger and Alexandra had to decide whether to let her mother kill the dragon or if she should help her.