Tales of Revenants

Chapter 74 – Loyal Dragonkin

The mood was left with discomfiture when Thalfeur went to the kitchen to cook something for lunch, of course, with the goods he bought by using his dragon form to fly over Eagleborn's plaza.

Eris was thinking about how Tetra was able to ask a dragon to run an errand. It's already surreal that they were living together so there's nothing that can surprise them anymore.

They concurrently don't have any kind of topic, Alisa tapped Laken's back and seizes the chance to talk with him, "We have secured Thalfeur for the meantime, what about the other Revenants?"

Their quest is piling up at a considerable amount of work. Their party just entered into a cooperation with Tetra to help the Archreverie and Balakh Empire's conflict.

The only reason they accepted the temporary camaraderie was that Tetra's quest and Laken's objectives somewhat cross together. It means whether he chooses not to interfere, conflicts will fix themselves up.

Laken thought the only problem with that mentality is it will make an enemy of the Heavenly Heroes in which it will add countless more problems.

"I won't worry about the headless juggernaut, as well as the faerie, so I reckon we should help Tetra and ensure the Shard of Time," Laken replied by whispering behind. Luciella heard it since she was sitting next to Laken on the sofa.

Few minutes pass by as the silence takes over. Tetra was sitting lifeless with her iris wide open as if she's not herself. 

Later she stands up and notified her surroundings, "Anyways, the quest will two days from now, so feel at home during the duration of time."

Eris was readying herself to return to the capital considering she's the commander of the valkyries and she had things to do as well, "What about me? I should inform the valkyries–" out of nowhere, Tetra halted her.

"I already notified your vice commander, Reya. Never worry about it and stay here." Tetra doesn't want her to return the capital. The truth is that Eris can't handle such discomfort when such prominent figures are under one ceiling.

The air is way too silent that Xenon deemed it to be stiff. His attributes are urging to go out of control and run rampant from saying stupid things.

He couldn't control it anymore so he presumptuously asked, "So Thalfeur is your husband, how do you make love then? What did you see in him? Why did you two engage in such a relationship and why–" and he froze as he got the head-chopping he deserved from Laken.

Everyone might be eager to know their lifestyle, but Xenon was way too downright blunt to ask such personal information.

At first, Tetra is looking at him with a straight and serious face as if digesting his question. The discomfiture began to permeate in the air again but was mended when she tried answering Xenon's ridiculous inquiries.

"Well, we do it as other couples do. The female chassis of a mechanoid defender has a soft compartment between our legs where the male partner puts–" out of the blue, a small object darted through the air hitting her forehead causing her to flinch.

"Silence! No more okay?!" Laken was the one who threw the gold coin in order for Tetra to prevent her from answering. He didn't expect she has the confidence to explain the process at an explicitly, circumstantial level.

After such an embarrassing moment, they all chortled breaking the uncomfortable mood. He just deemed her description to be inappropriate for a princess like Luciella who doesn't have any idea about s****l stuff.

They can't blame Tetra for not having tactfulness. Mechanoid defenders are extraordinarily mysterious artificial lifeforms, and Laken finds it amazing just to interact with their race.

After a while, Thalfeur came out of the kitchen carrying a hot pot. The aroma he cooked was something luscious enough for Luciella to rumble in hunger again.

"Sorry!" She apologizes as she deems herself as a glutton.

Thalfeur tousled her hair and cheered her up with his gleeful demeanor, "Don't apologize Luciella! No elf can resist one of my specialty... mountain corns and truffle curry!"

He placed the hot pot on a heat-resistance wooden trivet above the table. The moment he raised the cover of the pot, steam came out of it along with the sweet aroma of corn mixed with truffle and different mountain vegetables.

Even Laken himself gulped for a second. Xenon couldn't hold his horses anymore and eagerly said, "This familiar fragrance, I would like to have some."

"You didn't apologize when you suddenly attacked me, and you wanted to have a share?" Thalfeur was teasing him a little bit.

The clanking sound reverberated from his chest. He just changed into his personality where he had the confidence to plead, "I'm sorry so please give me!" He even anchored his arms onto his tail.

"Keep calm! Wait... it tickles! Fine! You can have your share now so stop pulling my tail!" Thalfeur told him off. He just got annoyed with his sudden change of attitude.

When Laken was still adventuring the world with Alisa, Eirisse, and Xenon in the past; they met Thalfeur in his dragon form while they were going around the mountains of Volcanyon.

He was perching behind on the hills' from a high cliff ample for his enormous draconic form.

They had a quest of investigating the other side of the mountains and that's where they encountered each other. After Thalfeur introduces himself, he insisted to join their party while he secretly takes a gander on Alisa and Eirisse's bosom.

It turns out he was just a dragonkin who surprisingly loved playing around women of different races regardless of their features.

With restriction to the age of course. He still understands the laws and orthodox that he can't make a move towards a female below a certain age of what they call an adult.

From his own comrades; he undoubtedly tried to make a move on the female whose beauty has no bounds. It was none other than Eirisse as her pale skin arouse Thalfeur's libido without even his fiery season of the month.

Little did he know the moment he set his eyes upon her, he should have regretted it. Thalfeur planned to enter her room on a double full moon thinking Eirisse is in her mating season.

He went to the second floor of the inn and the second he opened the door, he was pulled inside as the door forcibly closes. He felt the sudden pain of fangs penetrating the scales through his left part of his nape down the actual surface of his skin.

Good thing Thalfeur was near the table. He opened the lamp to see whose fangs punctured his neck. It was actually Eirisse who's sucking his blood while her eyes are closed like the bloodthirsty vampire she is.

The rest of the party except Thalfeur knew they should not get near Eirisse on a double full moon as her instinct can't be restricted. Laken gave her a rule wherein she can't go out of her room during her uncontrollable day.

But no one forbids her to not suck the blood of the poor souls who accidentally or somehow enters her room.

Despite Eirisse sleepwalking, her vampiric urges instinctively moved herself to wait behind the door awaiting her prey, and that's where Thalfeur, unfortunately, came in.

He didn't scream nor struggled. Rather, he was enjoying it considering it was a long, long time when he slept with a vampire.

Surely a gratifying struggle for him at first, however, a few minutes have passed, the slight pleasure Thalfeur tasted began to feel hurt, and the pain gradually shifted to extreme anguish that assault both his body and mind.

Before Thalfeur could die in the worst possible way, Laken came to make amends and forcibly knocked Eirisse to sleep by striking her neck with the hilt of his sword.

Thalfeur was sure almost half of his blood was consumed by her. Starting on that day, she never tried to make move with her and treated her like his comrades. He never ever wanted to repeat such a horrifying experience in his entire life.

Of course, Eirisse doesn't have any clue what happened on that specific day since she's fast asleep. After a while, Thalfeur learned not to mess with a vampire, but his urge is killing him so he needed to satisfy his desires no matter what.

He switched his target from Eirisse to Alisa this time. They were taking a rest on a forest, Thalfeur brazenly crawled on the brambles as he takes a peek from the bushes. Behind the shrubs is a river where Alisa loves to take baths.

However, he should have regretted it again the second his peeping idea passes on his head.

Before she could take a gander on her curvaceous body with such balance brown complexion skin, a group of undead dragonslayers appeared from the soil and hindered his ulterior motives.

The undead summons is too strong for him he got beat up along the way. It's also the reason he didn't even greet Alisa when they reunited again. Just the gaze of Iser is enough to drive away from his master the degenerate dragon he is.

Thalfeur learned a valuable lesson on that day a second time not to hit on women at the same party. Crossing path with Laken again, especially Luciella, he may already have a set of plans on how to get her.

The rest of them were enjoying Thalfeur's curry made out of mountain vegetables and corn.

Despite his flirty attitude, he may look like a dirty old dragon, but his ability to cook various dishes even without proper utensils and ingredients is what makes him a valuable asset for the party.

But it was just the extension of his ability, for his true calling is a forger who casts swords and armors. His exceptional skill in the art of forgery is a thing to boast about.

Still, there are times where he was left in blues. A specific day in which he disappears without a trace nor telling anyone about his whereabouts. He returns to his party nevertheless the circumstances.

Everyone in the party knows there is something that's troubling his heart. Part of him that he hides away despite how downright he truly is.

"I only entered a relationship with a man because I wanted to learn what it feels like having a partner," Tetra confessed after she ate a bowl of curry. She gets another serving as she's not done yet.

"Oh, that's why." Xenon nods his head a few times as if he got it.

"What does it mean?" Luciella tilted her head in curiosity.

"As a valkyrie, I always wonder why females wanted to love the other gender. Even Eris herself has a crush. It happened Thalfeur was hitting on me so I agreed to have a relationship with him." Tetra confessed how he met him nonchalantly.

She certainly doesn't have the concept of shame and alike. Eris and Luciella were already blushing by the fact they are in such an intimate connection.

"I only agreed because I don't want her to ask the wrong person who would a***e her inexperience. It's for her sake." Thalfeur shared his true feelings about the matter and they gave him a sharp gaze of criticism.

But Laken knows he isn't fooling around and that he's a good-hearted dragon. He understands that's the way Thalfeur really is, a loyal and trustworthy comrade.

They converse with each other and rested for the meantime not worrying about the world.

Two days from the day they reunited with Thalfeur, they'll meet the empress of the Balakh Empire to discuss their objectives in the joint cooperation of Tetra and Laken's party in finding the one who murdered the emperor of the balakhians.