Brave or stupid

Rodina-Hellfire Desert

1881 2nd week of The 7th month

The dragons chamber

"what do we have here?", the dragon asked herself at the sight of scared Kiano rausing his sword into battle mode while hiding his fear, "I haven't seen a human in so long", the creature notified the young man, "why aren't you burning up like the rest?", it asked and took a better look at Kiano with a magical X-ray, "hmm", the best uttered when it saw a weird energy inside the boy, "the jade emperors energy", said the wondering dragon who wanted a deeper look so it moved is head closer to Kiano who seemed like a small doll in front of its huge head, the young emperor ran back thanks to fear of been devoured and hid behind what seems like a rock and placed his left hand on it as a shield and with his right, he held his sword up anticipating an attack from the beast, "what are you? are you the devil", the boy asked the dragon who only laughed at the question, and noticed something weird going on between Kiano and what he hid behind thinking it was a rock, "do I look like the devil to you?", asked the beast, "well, I don't know what a devil looks like, but I know you're a weird creature that falls out of human understanding!",Kiano said to make the creature laugh some more, "you are one to talk!", it said to Kiano, "what does that mean", the young emperor questioned the dragons comment, "I am as normal as night and day, like the air you breath and the food you eat to survive, I am a dragon and my kind have been roamed the earth and travel the sky for years, whereas you young child are the weird one, where your kind shudder and burn at the thought of been in the presence of Mteketezo the great fire dragon of destruction, you stand with your blades aimed at me and my heat barely breaching the top layer of your flesh, and also feeding my last child your energy", Kiano was shocked at her statement as he finally noticed his rocky shield was the last of the dragons egg, "honestly child, you are the weird one in this situation".

Back at the tower just outside the pyramid, Ba'quay walked up to Stoy who had the princess pinned to the ground, she groaned and tried to lift his feet from her chest but failed to, "Hand her over, she's my prey", Ba'quay requested with his mood still been sour, "she's a distraction", stoy responded and pressed his leg down even more, "do you really wanna rob me of my prey" Ba'quay asked giving off a blood thirsty vibe at his partner, stoy noticed Ba'quay's burning dsire to gut him and sighed, "she's all yours", he said and allied Ba'quay to pull Dalia from his feet, the young woman tried two fight but could not push off Ba'quay who put her in a choke hold with one hand, her legs left the ground and her hands trued to release his grip on her but failed, he walked to the window of the tower and held her out in the open, she noticed the scar she placed on him had a green fluid coming out from it and it's slow self healing priorities, "oh this", he touched the injury with his left hand, "you, see", he started telling her 's story, " I'm from the Far East, a village where medicine thrived, we were a peaceful tribe, until one day, some soldiers from the empire decided to turn our peaceful days into sorrowful ones, my ancestors prayed to the gods for aid, and just like that, our prayers were answered", "guess what the gods sent",he asked the girl fighting for her life, "a frigging dragon" he notified her, "he sent us vjorn, the poison dragon, with one roar, all our enemies went poof, he vanquished all of them in one go", stoy rolled his eyes at Ba'quay's story, "and from that day, we built it an alter and worship the loving hell out of it, and as a reward, it bestowed upon us his some of his abilities, with its flesh as food, and it's blood running over over our cups", said Ba'quay as his teeth and fingers grew longer and his nails made way into Dalia's neck, '"kill her already, you don't have to tell a story everytime", stay raised his concern calmly but with anger displayed on his face, Ba'quay shunned his Bloodthirsty gaze at stoy, he looked can at the girl who was brushing from the pain of get neck getting pressed and poison getting into her through her opponents nails, "forgive him", he said to his prey, "stoy doesn't understand how hunting works for a beast like me ", "but I understand his worry, and for the sake of time, I'll have to end this", Ba'quay pulled his free hand back ready to plunge it into the young girl, stoy noticed the sky above them was getting dark with a bit of red lightning moving through it, the red sky phenomenon also caught the attention of Damira who was examining Kiano's dagger at her chambers far off from the event area, as soon as Ba'quay moved his claw like hand towards the girl who was almost out cold, something dropped down from the sky slicing the hand holding Dalia Clean off, the very fast moving object bounced on the ground and then walls and caught Dalia who was falling down and then landed on a nearby roof, "big brother Del", the girl tried speaking even with her crushed vocals and poison filled body, "I was wondering why you guys weren't back yet!? And here you are getting life squeezed out of you", Del said while giving a warm smile to his Strong willed sister who smiled at him, and heard a wild cry from behind him, "I'll kill you' said Ba'quay who received all of Del's murder intended gaze.

Meanwhile in the cave, "there's no way he'll still be alive in a place like that", Vlad said as an excuse to not go further from where he was already, while Vlad decided to wait to see if the young emperor will make it back up, the young emperor was busy searching for a way out of the dragons lair without moving from his hiding spot, "You can leave the same way you came in". Mteketezo informed the young prince, Kiano looked up and noticed the distance and immediately realized the height was too much for him to reach even with his highest jump, "but there's someone waiting for you at the exit, I guess he couldn't come down because of the heat", the dragon notified the young prince again, "What a coward!", the creature said, "but you however, are either very Brave or very stupid, but I'm thinking it's the first one, which is why I want to ask",it said to trigger the princes surprise mode, "would you like to make a deal with me?", "a deal?", the stunned emperor asked

Outside the pyramid, "you stay still for a while", Del said to his little sister as he put her down, he wasn't looking all too worried about her condition, Ba'quay however was feeling angry at the lost of his right hand, "it's not regenerating", Ba'quay gave an angry cry as he held his right hand with his left, "I'll murder you", he said to Del who had a draulfyn scimitar sword in hand, "right back at you?, Del said and appeared right in front of Ba'quay with trying to split him in two from the top down, Ba'quay moved back spat at del who used his sword as a shield, Del noticed smoke from the fluid on his sword, "acid?", he asked himself while Ba'quay rushed in with his left hand for a powerful punch, Del's sword served as a shield again but he was pushed back from the force of Ba'quay's fist, he swung his sword to the side to brush of the fluid, and ran towards his opponent with a swing of his big blade to the right, Ba'quay did a back flip and jumped into the air immediately so he could drop a punch his opponent, Del blocked it and pushed him up with the sword, Ba'quay while been airborne decided to lunch some more acid spit attacks at del who said, "nasty", and evaded with ease while running towards where he predicted Ba'quay would land, Del saw and opening as he noticed Ba'quay's eyes focusing on another, "don't touch my prey!!", Ba'quay yelled and it made Del hesitate so he could understand who Ba'quay was shouting at, though Del didn't stop moving, he looked back with his side eye and noticed Stoy about plunging a dagger Into Dalia, "shif" del said and changed his focus, "I won't make it on time" said Del who aimed to throw his sword at the half invisible man, "and you, you shouldn't turn your back on an enemy", Del was confused for a bit bit he wasn't thinking twice about taking a hit if it means saving his kid sisters, but then he noticed something within Dalia's shadow that made him turn around with full confidence to face Ba'quay's claws that was coming for him.

Stoy noticed Del sudden change of attention but paid little attention to it as his dagger dropped towards the girl, "what is he thinking?", stoy thought, as soon as his weapon reached a point of impact, he felt something lunched at his face that sent him flying into a nearby building, "hmm", Ba'quay uttered as he noticed the new character and his partner crashing, "you shouldn't take your eyes of an enemy", Del said as he swung his blade with all force and a bit of red lightning attached to it at his opponent, he chopped Ba'quays second hand off and did a spin with again with his sword perfectly aimed to take Ba'quay's head off, and it did so cleanly without the poison man even realizing his head was off his shoulder.

Meanwhile inside the dragon's lair, "what kind of deal?",Kiano questioned the dragon, "I will help you take care of the one above" the dragon said do put a smile on Kiano's face, " and you will help make sure my legacy continues", It continued and made Kiano a bit confused, "to continue your legacy? How do I do that?", "you don't expect us to go it right?",Kiano's eyes went squiggly with a hint of confusion and a bit of blush, the dragon laughed, "no silly",it said and pointed to the egg Kiano hid behind previously, "that! Is the last of it", "I suffered a great injury during the great war ages ago and I ended up getting sealed here, pregnant I was, with my powers weaken and the seal keeping me here, I did not have enough energy to distribute to the eggs before laying them, and due to that, they all broke apart before they were mature enough to hatch, but that one, it hasn't broken apart, I thought it would, but it never did, so I waited, for years I've waited, but it never showed signs of hatching as well, until now", Kiano noticed the egg glow and started showing signs of cracking, "it's cracking up", he thought as the dragon said, "and that's thanks to you", "to me", Kiano surprisingly asked, "yes young one, It absorbed the energy in you, and with It, it's coming to life", Kiano was stunned at the words of the dragon and the sight of the egg opening up, a beautiful light of green blue and red glowed from the cracking egg, and fun it a small dragon emerged.