(April 5)

After going home yesterday I couldn't fall asleep at all, and so I spent all night writing into my journal and forgot to sleep.

Now I'm going to Williams place again but I barely keep my eyes open.

I kept thinking about everything that happened, in an instant my life changed for the better or for the worst, is yet to be seen.

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After I arrived at William lab again, he was quite energetic.

He extracted some more of my blood to experiment on and even plucked off one of my scales and then he put it in a jar.

I sat there in silence for a bit watching William do his work until I got bored and then I spoke up, asking him why I was here.

Then William flinched and he must've forgotten I was here or something. He apologized saying he got too immersed in his research.

William pushed up his glasses causing the light in his lens to flash as he turns to me.

"We won't force you into anything but would you please consider becoming one of our knights in fighting against the dragons? We could use your help."

William said seriously as he looked me dead in the eyes.

I was afraid, scared. Just thinking of the sight of my friends burning to death in front of me, or as random civilians getting ripped to shreds without even a moment to scream, it frightened me, I said I would never fight again.

I couldn't fight dragons, I was just a dude. A slightly above average dude that happens to have dragon blood within me.

I rejected it and told him I couldn't. I was too afraid... I know this is cowardly of me, but even if I were to help them, I would probably be useless in front of a dragon anyways. I was weak, and I was okay with being weak as long as I stayed away from battle.

But William spoke up again.

"So you're afraid? Scared? I understand, I too experienced my entire family die right before my eyes to these damn dragons. But it's BECAUSE you're scared that you must fight, think of that sight, think of your fears, do you want other people to experience that same thing you did? If your afraid, then get rid of it. No one's asking you to be brave, just don't let others experience the same thing you did. What would you do if your family experience that sight?"

It's because I'm afraid... that I must fight so others don't experience the same thing I do..? If my family had experience what I had I would feel horrible...

I sulked, and my arms went limp. I was still scared, however I felt a flicker of courage ignite within me.

But, I was weak.

And I told William was weak, how was I going to be useful anyways? Even if I wanted to fight, I would be useless, courage is dumb if you don't have the strength to back it up.

William started chuckling, and he reminded me how dragons got stronger the older they were, their rate of growing stronger was multiple times higher then an average being. I was weak now, but he told me if I were to train, I would be grow at an astonishing rate.

Also he explained to me again that dragon blood has the properties to absorb dragon essence, but they have a weakness.

That weakness, is fighting other dragons.

Since their blood absorbs dragon essence, if they are attacked by another dragon with dragon essence, their blood will absorb all the damage and multiply the damage attack because the dragon blood will actively absorb the attack with dragon essence.

Simply put, dragons were weak to other dragons because they attract dragon essence

And William pointed at me.

"You have the advantages of the dragons, but you have none of it's disadvantages. Because you are still mostly human, you won't absorb dragon essence as well so their weakness won't apply to you, but you can still use dragon essence against them."

Meaning that I was the best counter measure against dragons.

I had, what dragons were weak to.

And I didn't have that weakness.

I was, the ultimate anti-dragon weapon.

(April 6)

I sent a letter back to my wife.

In my letter I told them they should move into the city with me, William had promised me he would pay for all rental and living expenses if I promised to stay and train here.

I haven't told him my answer yet but I told him I'd think about it, I wanted to train and fight despite my fears but I couldn't be selfish and just leave my family alone again because I just wanted to.

After sending the letter, I'm now heading to Williams place.

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After arriving at William lab, he wasn't there. Instead there was a note telling me to come to the training room where I was before which I then went to.

There, Briggs was working out again.

He seemed to be very immersed in his training so I looked around for William and left him alone.

But Briggs noticed me and approached me and he slapped my back!

"HEY MY DUDE! HOWS IT GOING!"

His voice was loud, extremely loud. He cheerfully wrapped his arms around me in a bro hug and squeezed me until I could barely breath.

When he finally released me I plopped to the ground like a rag and then got up breathing heavily.

Briggs slapped me on the back and told me that William was gone for the day and Briggs and I were gonna train together.

"Let's have a sparring match! I heard from William you're a dragon dude, let's fire up that dragon blood how 'bout it!"

Briggs declared and he dragged me outside to a wide open courtyard, it was circular and there were a lot of benches for spectators to watch the sparring matches and battle, however since there was no events it was empty with just me and Briggs.

Briggs stretched his arms and warmed up as I nervously cracked my knuckles.

He told me to pick a weapon from a box that he pulled out that was filled with wooden weapons, a wooden club, a wooden sword, a wooden spear with a blunt tip, wooden daggers, a wooden great sword and etc.

Briggs grabbed the wooden great sword and swung it around to get used to it's weight, I looked at the options. I didn't specialize in any certain weapon, but I had used every weapon before, so I'm basically an all rounder.

Since I didn't know what to choose I picked the basic wooden longsword and stabbed at the air a couple times.

A bit light, but it seemed to be decent enough and I turned to Briggs.

"Whenever you're ready."

And Briggs charged at me and despite his size he was quick.

He swung his greatsword at me horizontally which I grabbed my longsword with both hands and blocked his greatsword which still flung me backwards a good distance.

From a single attack my arms was already numb.

Suddenly, Briggs shirt exploded at that moment and it revealed massive abs and a huge six pack that looked as if his stomach was corn. His arms were ripped and his upper body looked like an upside down triangle.

Damn, he was buff. Buff enough to make man like me jealous.

Briggs walked towards me and my body had tensed up as I lifted my sword up in preparation.

Since Briggs had a greatsword, his range was slightly longer then my longsword but that slight difference was important.

When I was in range of his greatsword, Briggs swung his sword straight down at me which I then avoided to my right only to be met by Briggs knee kicking me right into the face.

In battle, your entire body was a weapon.

I flew back but I landed on my legs and stabilized myself, if you didn't quickly prepare yourself, it could be your downfall.

This time I ran at Briggs, I think I understood Briggs pattern, he took big powerful swings but if I managed to dodge them he would attack using kicks or punches so I would have to block those.

I gripped my sword, dodged Brigg's greatsword attack and swung at Briggs but as I attacked Briggs I raised my other arm to block Briggs kick which caused my arm to go numb.

But I landed a strike on Briggs and I cheered inwardly... but I forgot I was still in battle.

That single moment of forgetting I was in battle caused my lost.

And then Briggs swung his greatsword again right on top of me and the sheer force caused my entire body to slam into the ground and I passed out.

Which I then woke up a couple minutes ago in a nearby medical room.