Note from Author : Finally finished the second chapter. have a good reading :)

Chapter 2 – Young Master

The sun had long since been replaced by the moon, that its brilliance illuminated the path that slowly marched a group of twenty people. The torches gave little light and disperse the darkness of the night, which always was trying to absorb a group of wanderers. On their bare right shoulders they bore tattoos in the shape of the head saber-toothed tiger who threatened the enemies demonstrating his long, sharp fangs.

Each of the black-dressed wanderers had strapped over his shoulder runic bow with a quiver full of arrows engraved with runes (their number in each quiver ranged from sixty to seventy-arrows). Each of them had a long sword of good quality, some swords had even magical properties.

Most of the entire group stand out a tall, well-built man in his prime, he was marked by numerous scars and one long scar on his left cheek made him look deterrent. He wore a thick black beard and its bald head reflected the moonlight. He was dressed like any of the people around him in black pants, white linen sleeveless shirt and black coat with a hood. In the middle of a group of men, two horses pulled cart on four wooden wheels, where a beautiful woman was lying unconscious. From time to time some young warriors threw glances in the direction of a woman with lustful eyes. One of them even reached out to uncover her face, when suddenly at his neck appeared drawn sword.

''What do you thing you are doing Raynor?? Do you want to lose this hand so much?? Asked bald man. ''Ah..!! *glup* of-of course not commander Bolrock. I had no intention of even touch this little fairy. He answered and gulped.

''Good. We are here to help this woman find her lost, young master and remember We don't know how powerful this master may be so if you do something inappropriate to this woman we can all lose our life. You got that? Bolrock growled.

''Yes Sir.!!''

''I've got my eye on you so beware. Now go back to the formation and do your job properly, if you notice even slight movement or hear something that is not supposed to be here, I need to know about it immediately.'' Bolrock instructed him and put a hood on his head to hide his face.

''I understood Commander Bolrock!!'' Raynor answered and returned to his place, contemplating in his mind.

*This shit-head, he not even let me touch her with my finger!!. How long has it been?? I have not slept with a woman for a long time and here goes the opportunity to admire the beauty of the face of this little fairy argh .. and this idiot is afraid of some kid.

I can simply wait until the opportunity arises and I'll talk to her alone, but first I have to wait until she wakes up, ehehhe. This will be fun* Raynor eyes glittered with desire and his stick between his legs grew in his pants.

''Commander how long, before We arrive to this temple? One of the woman in their group asked.

''Soon folks, We are almost there. You see a hill in the distance? That is where we are going, if I was not here before we would have never found this whole temple. Bolrock moved forward on his horse.

''That's good commander. I'm just so tired I could fall asleep standing up'' She began to complain about this hole mission.

''Not only you are tired. I dream about a warm meal and a cold mug of beer, and then to lie down and sleep the whole week'' Bolrock face became dreamy. ''If you want to finally relax, speed up the march then.''He encouraged his companions and moved quickly to the head of the column.

''Yes Commander!!'' Troops responded quietly.

Once there the whole time when the moon was already the highest point in the sky, a division of twenty mercenaries on horseback arrived in front of the entrance to a very old temple, which resembled more a trade guilds, which are built in cities than holy temple dedicated to the gods. It was not possible to determine exactly how the building looked like from the outside because it was late in the night, but with little light of torches could be seen two huge silver-black statue of dragons that their big heads were directed towards the entrance of the temple.

''Scary what kind creatures they are ?? Asked Raynor loudly. ''Be quiet idiot!! We don't know who else might be inside and the answer to your question, what you see are called dragons'' Bolrock said with a hint of fear in his voice.

''D-DRAGONS?? They are real?? I thought they have been murdered during the great war for dominance between the five races'' Raynor said scared and he and the rest backed away a few steps from fear.

''I am not surprised that all of you do not know and especially about the fact that they are still alive. Since I had never left the land of our kingdom. I myself know about it only from merchants from distant lands, who brought not only excellent products but also told stories about the different races inhabiting the entire Arcania. One merchant once showed me a rune stone with which you can playback the recorded image in your mind. This rune stone had a picture of a dragon with was flying in the skies. Huge beast I tell you folks, more than 100 meters long and the height and his scales shimmered bloody color, same the wings were huge and every time their movement created a small tornado.'' Commander Bolrock quietly explained to his companions.

''Oh my god!! I alone never met one I, certainly would not have survived encounters with the beast'' Purple hair girl groaned and her eyes widened in fear.

''Do not worry sweetie I can defend you from this monster'' Raynor said, and winked at the young girl. '' Piss off you are disgusting, even if the dragon would ate you. I would have felt sorry for him alone, because he ate something disgusting so back off from me'' Purple hair young girl threw a hood over her head and stood behind one of the muscular companions and frowned with anger, the others laughed at that.

''You still come running to me with tears, when something will happen'' Raynor just smiled at her.

''That is enough, all of you quiet down. I heard something probably someone is coming'' Bolrock ordered his men.

Gateway to the temple slightly opened and a small bright orange ball of fire flew out. Magic fire began to circulate slowly in the air, illuminating the dark corners of the court, when it suddenly burst into intense light and stopped over the heads of mercenaries. Giving huge amount of light, as if the other tiny sun grew over their heads

''Who intrudes the divine temple so late at night, identify yourself or I will burn you all'' Fireball told in childish voice.

''We do not come here to fight or rob but we like put it that way, were hired by a young person, a beautiful woman in golden hair, no more than 19 years. She told us to find a young master in this temple.'' Bolrock moved in front of a group and said calmly.

''Young girl with golden hair you say hmm...'' Child's voice began to consider, a fiery ball of light trembled slightly and slowly approached the wooden carriage. When the light fell on a face of unconscious women, a ball of fire started to encircle her with increasing speed and suddenly died. The gateway to the temple opened with a bang and from inside ran out two children, who could not have been more than eleven years.

'' Aria!!'' Children one boy and one girl, shouted and rushed to the unconscious woman. ''What happened?? why she does not move!? Children began to ask questions and tears ran from their eyes.

*Hmm so Little fairy's name is Aria... ! Just wonderful, I can't wait when I will have a chance to be with her alone.* Thought Raynor and smirk.

''Unfortunately, I do not know what happened there in the Red Sun village, but one of my soldiers Liz, she found that poor woman in a very bad condition. I myself thought she was already dead, but she was only badly injured and unconscious. So you need not worry, we have a healer who gave her first aid and now her life is not in danger'' Commander Bolrock hide his surprise at the sight of two children and began to explain soothingly.

'' *chlip* chlip* D-Did you find anyone still alive in the village?? The boy asked with tearful voice. ''I am afraid that unfortunately, we found none except this young lady'' When the commander said this, little girl burst into loud crying.

'' *chlip* D-Do not cry Ilene we have to be strong for the Alvar sake. What will he say when he wakes up and finds out that we cried. We must now live for ourselves and for him, because he needs us, he will guide us and we will always be together, the four of us. Because we also have Aria now she just need to wake up too and everything will be fine. We are not alone, do not cry anymore please...'' The boy said reassuringly to his tiny twin sisters and holding back a sob patted Ilene on the head.

''P-Promise bro Isen?? Ilene asked her twin brother in a low trembling voice. ''Of course, I never lied to my sweet little sister'' Isen smiled and hugged her.

''I'm sorry to disturb you and I know, that you children experience now a difficult moments but we have to focus on important issues. We can go inside the temple, and you will lead us to someone adult sure someone is there?? and of course we can not afford to your friend Aria was freezing outside right?'' Bolrock placed his hands on the back of two children and a slightly pushed them toward the gate of the temple.

''Y-Yes yes you have right sir, please follow me. We will take you to the priest'' Ilene said, still shaken.

''Dalia, Raynor you guys are going with me to the temple. Rest of the unit prepare the camp, two people on guard, prepare a fire and try to cook something warm from what we have left. Probably we stay here for another night so do not stray and keep your eyes and ears open. Who knows what demons lurk in the darkness.'' Commander issued orders to the soldiers and pointed to the purple hair girl and Raynor.

''Yes sir!!'' Mercenaries responded.

Isen stood before the entrance to the temple, passing mercenaries who were traveling in a chariot with the unconscious Aria, he grabbed his sister by the hand and shyly asked. ''Umm Mr. bald head?? Are you accidentally troops from the kingdom of men?

'' Yes, so why do you ask? Of course, after all, are you man to right??'' Bolrock hesitantly answered and put his hand on the handle of his sword.

''Oh! Yes! we're both, I was just curious to see how the kingdom full of people really looks and how all this big buildings looks. Because you see Mr. baldy we lived so far away from big cities.'' Isen said calmly and tightened his grip on the hand of his sister.

Barlock clearly relaxed after what the boy said and suggested '' I see, if you are curious you can always join our branch mercenaries, We will be returning to the Silamas city after this case ends. Silamas is four days by horse to the west from your temple.''

Ilene bowed and siad ''We must politely refuse, We need to take care of our young master and wait until the priest will lift spell of deep slumber from master body.

*Deep slumber spell, hmm very interesting probably someone had to use that spell, to the boy so-called young master to calm him down and not to do anything stupid. I am not surprised after what was left of the village, I also would have went berserk and headed on the enemy * Bolrock considered mentally.

''Well, as you wish little ones. Introduce me to your priest, and perhaps I will be able to help in reversing the spell''

Twins looked at him skeptically, but said nothing and went inside and Bolrock behind them. The interior of the temple was a large room with no windows, or whether holes in the wall to pass the daylight, and only with two doors on opposite sides of the ordinary made of stone altar. The altar also had two gigantic statues of silver- black dragons with open mouths, this time made in the direction of the exit of the temple.

Before the altar two mercenaries lay unconscious Aria, wrapped in a cloak on the floor and Dalia watched over her. Raynor waved towards them and asked. ''So, what now?''.

before Bolrock could answer him, one of the doors opened wide and from dark room came a young boy, who could have no more than 10 years. He was of short stature, he had hair almost to his shoulders, but well cared in the color of the deepest black as night, cat's eyes were visible only for a moment and return to the normal human eye. His pupils have a hue of light blue. He wore a set of dark red clothes. Everyone in the room looked with envy at the beautiful boy's face, his body was also slightly tanned from the sun.

Beautiful boy looked around at all the people present in the room. Each individual looking into the eyes and headed barefoot in their direction. His steps were light, almost did not touch the floor and walked majestically forward. He stopped in front of the unconscious Aria, he knelt beside her, his hand touched her cheek. Without moving from the spot, and only looking at the Aria he asked twins.

''Isen, Ilene, I have many questions for you, I feel lost and do not know what happened.

I only remember that village, where I spent my last free days before the initiation of my dragon transformation. At night, the fire, the screams, I beheld even women raped on the street, old men and young men are being slaughtered, children somewhere probably taken prisoner to become enslaved children. I could not do anything, and I could not help at all. The worst are the days just prior to the initiation of the dragon transformations in children like us, that ends ten summers. Children with dragon's blood received by the first generation of the founder of the clan, our clan, the Flame Dragon clan, our family.'' The boy was still kneeling beside the girl's body, and his fingers gently scoured her hair revealing a bruised face.

No one dared to speak or interrupt his speech. They all focused to understand every word of his voice, as if depended on their lives. Streams of tears flowed from the eyes of twins but, they did not dare to blink in order not to lose sight of the boy. Suddenly the boy stood up and turned to face the people present in the room, they all felt goose bumps on their bodies, when they saw the boy's eyes, before a pale blue, and now blood-red with anger, hatred, pain and desire for revenge.

The boy began to speak again, this time with a completely different voice, which sounded as if from the depths of the earth's core, distant, deep, out of this world, full of wisdom. When the others heard the change in his voice their faces paled and beads of cold sweat ran down their backs.

''My name is Alvar! I am the young master of the Flame Dragon Clan! I will have my revenge but I will not blindly killing everyone on my way. I am the dragon and I just inherited the initiation of the dragon transformation, from the first founder of our home that we call Falme Dragon Clan. His knowledge, his strength, his power, even his magical form of dragon breath. Everything goes to me in a timely manner and I will share it all with my family at the right time. It's me real dragon and together with me the rest of my family will stand at the top of the food chain and crush the rest under our feet.!!!'' Alvar slowly began to approach towards where Raynor was.

Behind him grew long, pitch-black tail armed with dragon scales, and was ending with a long spike and Alvar blood-red eyes stared only in the face of Raynor. No one moved as if they put down roots, and no one spoke only their eyes follow every his move.

Alvar in a stunning speed waved his tail and put his sharp spike to Raynor's throat, the tip of the spike gently pierced the skin of his throat, so that there was only a small trickle of blood flowing down to Alvar's black scales on the tail.

''Tell me human. Do you want to die??'' Alvar asked, almost in a whisper and his eyes once again turned in to a cat's eyes.