The little girl learns injustice part 3

I woke up, eventually lulling off and away from the ‘instincts’. I woke up with my scales tingling, I was cold. The fire was crackling. I couldn’t ‘feel’ the monster anymore, so it must’ve been fake.

I looked around and the guard was sleep outside the tent. I could assume Aegle was inside. I walked around the bushes in the CAMPSITE, pushing on each and every one of them with my snout.

After I finished checking the bushes I went over to the guard, whose breathes were heavy and pained. Why? I looked at him, puzzled, and saw.. blood? Blood poured out of his ears at a slow pace. I hear wriggling inside him. Why? Why? Why was I tingling? Why should I run? The wriggling got louder, and something was pushing up his hollowed throat. This thing.. it had been eating him.

I ran into the tent, ripping everything with my horns, and jumped on Aegle, whose lack attitude caused her to simply push me off and turn, I looked back to the ‘thing’, and it had jumped out of the mana throat, but now, I could see it. In the cold dawn light I saw it.

A lizard like monster. With gruesome blood covering it. It’s claws and scales were similar to mine. And that enraged me. How dare it? In the forest I was in? A copy. I needed to get rid of it. But it got bigger, it’s size seemingly enlarged at every step. Once it got up to me it was double my size, in every way. Now I wasn’t enraged, but scared. I needed to leave. The land? No longer in my mind.

I just need to get Aegle out. Out of the forest. It’s safe there. Out. Out. Out.

I yelled, and Aegle heard, ‘OUT. OUT. OUT. OUT.’

I’m sure it pounded, pounded her skull until a full echo. Pounded so loud and frequent it was impossible to ignore, the urgency apparent.

She sprung up, seeing the monster for the first time, and shedding the lack way of thinking, I could feel her intense fear, so intense. She didn’t want to die. More than I could imagine she wanted to run. She wanted out more than I did, by many amounts.

I ran behind her and ripped the tent, again with the horns. The copy wasn’t intelligent enough to guess what I was doing, and simply stood. Waiting.

Watching.

I ran back around in front of Aegle but it was too late. The monster decided to pounce. I saw a large gash in Aegles chest, and her terror filled eyes, before she fell down and passed out she said one thing, ‘please.’

I roared, something I didn’t think I could do. The monster stepped back, and I did too. If only, if only I could carry Aegle. I could leave. She could stop feeling that terror. Even now, knocked out, Aegles body exuded dead, something both me and the monster could naturally sense. The monster decided to go for Aegle, knowing she was the weakest link. He slithered quickly and I got ready.

He ran around me, forcing me to turn towards Aegle, and he CLAWED, going for Aegles back, hoping to inflict a similar wound. The wound from before was getting worse. You could smell blood. But I GASHED into the monsters arm, and he pulled back, going through the hole I made for Aegle.

Was it over? Was Aegle ok? How do I stop the bleeding? Was it bad?

I decided to clamp down on Aegles robe like dress, white and shimmering. At least on the back. I flipped Aegle over after many minutes of trying to and saw her wound, blistering and black. She was sweating. I pulled on her, dragging her out on her back, trying to get out of this forest desperately.

Minutes went by as hours. The sun rose, getting hotter and making Aegle wince. The lizard? Constantly around, but never right there. Too far to go to, too close to venture out.

I finally got outside the forest, dragging Aegle onto a path next to the forest. Right if that forest was a field, the same field I had slept in a few days ago? Does this mean the ‘human’ ‘village’ is near? The fire men, or archmages, will they help Aegle? I’m sure Aegles important, so they will?

The lizard monster, still double my size JUMPED pouncing near Aegle, we were on opposite sides of Aegles body but it was no longer eyeing her. Two people, walking infront of me, far off saw the scene and ran.

I jumped over Aegle, the lizard scampering back quickly. I ran towards it, but it sidestepped, faster than me.

I roared again, and dashed, the monster frozen. I got one good claw in, making a large gash on its chest.

The lizard came in and bit me on my neck, pulling off some scales and making me roar, but breaking the lizard teeth in the process, we both bled.

The lizard jumper back again, but now it started spitting, and the area around the spit started sizzling, and steaming. I don’t know what that is, but every fiber of my being shudder when I saw it. Away. I need to be far. I need to kill it.

It bubbled up, similar to when Lorie died. Something was trying to come up, it felt, mystical.

I could feel power surging through my throat, converging in the back of my mouth, waiting for release. The lizard felt this, and tried to run, but I let it out. As soon as I opened my mouth, I instinctively crouched. Fire. Fire came out, it spewed. The lizards screeches told me. The ground evaporated, just like with the lizard spit.

Once the smoke settled, and the fire subsided, there was nothing. My body wasn’t tired, I wasn’t bleeding, but I felt empty, like something had taken all my will.

I continued to drag Aegle, In the direction of the two people that came here, knowing it was in the direction of the ‘village’ I had met Lorie in previously.

I dragged and dragged, meeting people on the road, but they all ran, or had the ‘carriage’ move a little faster. But I dragged. And I got there.

At the ‘village’ gate I stopped, and sat. Aegle was still mostly unconscious, but managed to get a few words in every once in a while. I dragged her in the village.

Her wounds where still getting worse, the black around the wounds bubbling more, and the blood seeping up and out.

I touched the minds of those close to me, and asked for help. Most where confused, some scared, and tiger replied. With a plethora of no’s, yes’, and startled yells, I went to the closest yes.

A man with a stained white shirt, a large belly, and a foul stench that reeked of untrustworthy, but Aegle needed help, and quick. So I touched his mind once more, asking to help me heal ‘this girl’ who I pointed to with my snout, not wanting to reveal her name. he waved at me, ushering me into a home very close to the village gate, doors opened.

I dragged Aegle and she grunted every tug. The man saw this and picked up Aegle, with made me very angry, but whatever.

We walked in and he placed Aegle on a bed next to a fireplace. He touched my mind first this time which surprised me and said, “dragon, oh dragon,” with a smirk on his face and a sword at his side now, offered up by his wife, who had a similar smirk, “how are you going to pay for this procedure, this wound looks bad!”