Chapter 28

As my eyes opened all I could see was a mass of purple in front of my eyes, I looked over to see Aya laying across my chest as her tails covered us both as if acting as a blanket. As I remembered the passion that was last night I couldn’t help but feel a smile creeping onto my face.

At this moment Turya walked in and saw us both laying there, she walked up to me and lay beside us wrapping her arms around me, she then whispered into my ear that she wanted to have some fun with me, needless to say I didn’t say no, our rutting caused Aya to wake up as we finished, she just looked at us and gave out a laugh.

Aya-‘’ that’s one way to be woken up’’ she said as she rose to her feet. ’’now we need to get dressed the clan is leaving to meet with the other two clans today’’

Xar-‘’ got it’’ I responded as I threw on a tunic and trousers.

After this we helped Aya to pack up her carriage with her belongings, this process didn’t take more than an hour, as we were finishing up Kuroki came up and told us to head on ahead as a sort of advance party in case there was any dangers on the road ahead.

Xar-‘’ so who is going to be pulling the carriage?’’ I asked them as we stood at the exit to the camp.

Aya-‘’ the lizra’s will be’’ she said as two kitsune brought over two 5 meter tll lizards that stood on their hind legs, the lizards scales seemed to be partly made of chitons, there heads seemed to have two small hole on either side on their bottom jaws while their claws looked to be very similar to a scything talon from where my first life was.

Aya quickly latched them onto the carriage before climbing on top of it and waited for both me and Turya to get on it.as we both sat down on the carriage she pulled the reins that were around the muzzles of the lizra’s making them start to pull.

As we travelled we didn’t talk much as Aya had asked us to remain on high alert as slavers sometimes would try and capture beast kin to sell as slaves luckily we never ran into any as we reached the meeting point of the clan rather easily, when we got there we saw two other similar looking carriages but instead of being used by kitsune I could see that there was one with large white wolves standing upright with all types of close quarter weapons on their waists, the other carriage had what seemed to be humans but with horns and scales around the top of their heads, I thought this looked disgusting as they seemed to be trying to emulate a crown as if to say they were the born to be rulers, there was also something inside that told me to view them as less than a drake which was the first step in a dragons life cycle.

As we approached I could see a few of the horned ones giving both Turya and aya a look that seemed to be evaluating them, one of them had a look of disgust on his face as he saw both mine and turya’s ears, the wolves just gave us a nod before coming over to us.

Lead wolf-‘’ hello friends I take it you are the scouting force of he kitsune’’ he asked us, I decided to Aya handle this as I didn’t know too much about the politics of the beast kin.

Aya-‘’ yes that is the case and might I say it is nice to meet you again reft’’ aya said as we dismounted from the carriage.

Reft-‘’ oh your young aya if im not mistaken, the last time I saw you your height could barely reach up to my waist and now your almost as tall as me’’ he said as he let out a laugh and ruffled her hair, in response aya just grabbed his hand and flipped him onto the floor, this caused the wolf to let out a laugh as he raised himself to his feet again.’’ you have gotten a lot stronger since we last met, id say that the dragon brood males will try for you again this year’’

Aya-‘’they have no right to challenge me anymore thankfully’’ she said as she unhitched the lizra’s from the carriage .

Reft-‘’ oh how so?, is this elf behind you your man?’’ he asked us eyeing me up.

Xar-‘’ yes that’s right she is my wife’’ I answered him as I placed my hand on my katana that was strapped onto the side of the carriage .

Reft-‘’ oh are you looking for a challenge elf?’’ He asked as his lips went into a snarl. In response I drew my blade and launched myself at him, he grabbed the axe that was on his waist and used the shaft to block the blade causing it to get lodged inside the wood, he then delivered a punch into my chest causing me to take a few steps back.

I could tell that there was something wrong with me, it wasn’t that my strength had changed more like the flow of mana was irregular inside me causing my body to extort less power, as I felt this I tried to draw out a small amount if lightning to my hand but nothing came, terror slowly built up inside if me as my mind instantly went to the worst conclusion.

Had I lost the ability to use magic?

I kept trying to use all the types of magic I knew as I continuously dodged punches and swings from the wolf until finally I felt the mana work around my hand, I looked down to see my hand cover in slowly revolving clear crystals.

The wolf seeing this quickly backed off and threw the axe at me, as I wasn’t expecting this it slammed into my chest giving me a rather large gash before falling to the ground, the blood fell to the ground creating a small pool below me, I quickly brought the crystals to the wound and sent a small amount of mana into it causing crystals to form from my blood blocking the flow.

Seeing this the wolf growled at me as his hands changed into more claw like appendages, he leaped at me slashing towards my face, I quickly brought up my hand still covered in crystals and sent them from it, a cascade of foot long crystals began to shower over him delivering deep lacerations to him before he fell to the ground unable to move.

Relf-‘’ well…. I…didn’t…expect..that’’ he wheezed over between breaths, one of the other wolves ran up to him and quickly started to cast a healing spell on him.

I stood there not really listening as I tried to figure out what went wrong, but no matter what I thought of i couldn’t figure out an answer.

Turya-‘’ what wrong?’’ she asked me as she drew level with where I was standing.

Xar-‘’ I couldn’t use any magic, the only one I could use was crystal’’ I said to her in a barely audible whisper.

Turya-‘’ that doesn’t seem normal’’ she said with the concern evident in her voice.

At that moment aya appeared and in front of me.

Aya-‘’ your magic isn’t working properly?’’ she said with a confused look. ‘’ how many elements can you even use’’

Xar-‘’ I can or was able to use them all’’

Aya-‘’ I see well it’s not like standing around here doing nothing will help, so come help me unpack the carriage’’.

We walked over to the carriage and quickly unpacked tit setting everything into place, after a while both Turya and aya left saying something about a hot spring that the females of the clans would use to wash themselves leaving me alone with the other members of the clans.

Relf seemed to have been fully healed and was off a short distance from where I was sitting, as I sat there one of the dragon brood came over to me and spat on the ground in front of me. Looking up at him I gave him a confused look.

Xar-‘’ what was that for? ‘’

Dragon brood-‘’ it’s a warning stay away from my woman’’ he spat at me causing me to let out a laugh.

Xar-‘’ oh that’s funny, you who isn’t even at the level of a drake tries to threaten me? Go back to your mother before I rip out your heart and eat it’’

This caused him to gored in the face with anger before he sent a small gout of fire towards me from his mouth, I simply brought my scales out and endured it not feeling a single bit of pain. As he stood there with a look of triumph on his face it quickly changed to horror as he saw me still sitting there not even wounded.

Xar-‘’ aww that’s cute you thought you itty bitty flames would hurt a true dragon’’