Portal Ascender!

Haicor jumped in the air and "Yippee!"escaped from her mouth.

Ash scoffed. "Pfff, you should really work on your attitude", he said.

Haicor smiled. "What I did earlier was called the bird approach, the approach of the bird slayers. You know, we do like birds".

Rhett smiled and stretched forth his hands.

"The coin?", he asked.

Haicor quickly gave Rhett the coin. Looking at it intently he touched it delicately, his face twisted in a bit of astonishment.

"So I spin it right?", Rhett asked Haicor.

"Yeah", came the reply. "Just spin it on the floor and the magic happens".

Haicor moved away from Rhett, staying far off, she signalled to Ash to do the who complied.

"Hold it carefully in your hands and spin it in the middle", said Haicor.

Rhett threw a glance towards her and inhaled deeply, exhaling gently. He stared at the coin for quite long as if it was a deleterious object. His eyes closed, a step gingerly backwards, he, with gentleness that wouldn't unruffle the rivers, he spinned the coin in the air and with a clink!, it fell to the ground.

Nothing happened.

Rhett was confused. "I thought you said I should spin it".

Haicor put a step forward. "It's what is written in the history-".

A gust of wind swept out of the coin, reeling it into a spin, a scent of ginger powder exuded out of the coin and purple flames exploded out of it. Haicor, shocked, fell flat on the ground and Ash crouched low.

Meanwhile Rhett was indifferent, or at least he tried to be indifferent. Staring at the scene, his face was stern and determined. If he was trying to impress anyone, he impressed Haicor alright who was even concerned for his well being.

"Move back!", she cried out.

Rhett ignored it and even dared to take a step forward!.

Suddenly, lightning cracked from the sky and struck the coin, the force that came with it making Rhett's shadow become white and darting it simultaneously to his right.

Ash was terrified now. "C'mon m'lord!, step back!".

Haicor was silent but her face showed concern.

Rhett suddenly was no longer visible, all around him was now foggy and unfurling from the coin was an even thicker smoke, brown in colour.

Ash was frightened now, he turned to Haicor. "I thought you said the box will appear?, why all this instead?".

Haicor was speechless. Soon she shot back at Ash:

"It's not my fault, it's his fault, what is he thinking".

Ash used his right hand to hit his head, bending it down.

The transformation yet wasn't over, a whirlwind from nowhere rolled like an elastic twister and drove into the brown fog.

Ash's face was pale now, he thought to step forward and shove out of there but thought against it, moreover, what would that do.

"It would save his life!", he answered himself, speaking out loud.

Haicor stared at him with a bemused face but made no comments.

Perhaps the force had become insurmountable, Ash and Haicor couldn't say because soon, with a loud voice, he screamed:

"Arghhhhh!".

That seemed to shatter the whirlwind and then the fog, revealing Rhett, his clothes now almost torn, him looking tattered. A very dark box was held in his hand, his head bent.

Ash almost ran to him to check how the event had impacted his health but with his looks looking harmful, he thought against it.

A light sparked and then scintillated in front of Rhett showing golden block letters arranged in a row:

[KING RHETT, YOU HAVE LEVELED UP!]

Then it showed his current stats:

NAME: KING RHETT

RANK: DRAGON SLAYER

Slayer hub: Level 2/10

[XP - 100]

[XP needed to Next level: 600]

[NEW ABILITY RECEIVED]:

{PORTAL ASCENDER}

Abilities: [PORTAL ASCENDER, GAZE KILLER]

Artifacts - [PORTAL COIN]

[This is an artifact that can be used in traveling to different worlds using only a spin to activate. When spinned, a box will appear which will bring out the portal that will then take you to the place you want to go. However, it has a limit, you can only travel once every month. Or if you're lucky when the moon turns scarlet when the blood dragon gives birth, but that is scarce]

Ash and Haicor were in awe. They stared at the scene in shock, it already felt memorable to them.

Rhett fell to his knees, his face still bent, his stats disappearing. Ash broke into a run to get to him but was suddenly halted when Rhett looked up, his eyes gleaming with dark flames which soon cleared when Ash had fallen down.

Rhett fell to the floor, the box falling off his hands and onto the ground.

Ash stood up now and scurried over to him.

"You've gained a new ability m'lord!", he said excitedly, kneeling beside Rhett.

Rhett's eyes were closed, and when he managed to open them now, the dark flamy stuff was gone.

"Are you ok?", Ash asked, helping Rhett to sit up.

"I guess", Rhett spat.

Haicor ran forward over to where they were and crouched beside them, her face in awe. Now, because of what Rhett had done, he seemed like a hero to her.

"Woah", She exclaimed. "You had some real guts to do what you did, honestly I'm shocked and impressed".

Ash became bloated with proudness by that statement. "He's King of the dragon slayers you nitwit, were you expecting less?".

Haicor made no reply and helped in raising Rhett up and steading him.

"Now", Rhett said. "Let's get out of here".

He picked up the box and, staring at it, exchanged glances with Ash and Haicor. He turned to Haicor: "Now that you're coming with us, you have to become a dragon slayer, for now".

"Don't worry King, I'll be a 'Dragon bird slayer'. I'll make you proud I promise".

Rhett smiled and with a swift motion opened the box, a gust of wind came out of it and hit their faces, staggering them backwards.

A portal was out of the box and I fell down on the floor. The portal was like a blazing fire, purple, round, with burning edges.

A wolf howled, stars twinkled and with a deep breath, they jumped into the portal and…

…zilch.