Earth: The Second

Glutonious Dragon Kid

Adma returned to the inn and noticed that both Hepaetus and Rika were already there too. They are sitting at the same table, facing each other. 

“Ah, Adma!” greet Rika as she heard the sound of the door opening. Her waving quickly caught Adma’s attention to walked toward the table.

“How about Gon, he hasn’t finished yet?” asked Adma and Rika shakes her head.

One thing that Adma just realized, is the existence of one extra companion. He has not noticed her earlier, because Hepaetus’s big body is hiding her completely. 

But when he walked closer, he can see a child beside Hepaetus, drinking and eating the foods they previously bought.

“...Who is she?” point Adma, Rika give out an uneasy eye as if saying ‘i don’t know either.’ Both of them then turned to Hepaetus, which seems to know more about their question.

Hepaetus on the other hand, let out a sigh. “Believe me, even I got confused.”

“When I’m haggling with one of the weapon vendors, suddenly this kid has already pulled my clothes as if he wanted something from me,” said Hepaetus. Adma sits beside Rika, listening to his explanation.

That girl looked around 12 years old. Her brown short hair is tied behind, and she has a round and chubby face. All she does is eating, and with the three empty plates in front of her, Adma knows that this girl has the ability to suck their money down to the teeth.

“So she is not your child then?” asked Adma.

“Of course she is not!” Hepaetus denied it openly. “If I have children in the first place I won’t abandon them like this!”

“The girl only responds to Hepaetus, and she doesn’t want to say anything,” said Rika. “When I try to ask where her parents were, she just shooked her head, and stay close to Hepaetus.”

Curious, Adma leans forward and tries to talk to that girl. “Hello, little girl, what is your name?” he said, but the kid is too busy devouring the food.

“Doesn’t work huh? Let’s try something else.”

Adma gets up from his seat and walked to the side where that kid is. In the middle of eating, she noticed a shadow that looms over her head.

Second, later Adma quickly grabbed the plate out of the kid’s hand and ended her happy spree of binge-eating. It also does give that kid a shocked reaction.

“It’s not polite to eat food from strangers and won’t tell anything about yourself. Especially when you have eaten more than three plates. At this rate, you will get fat you know?” said Adma while hanging that plate high.

At first, no reaction coming from that kid. She just sits at the table, looking at nowhere. Apparently still shocked by what Adma did. But then, she gets up. In a flash, Adma thought that he probably have made that kid angry, and that is right. 

For the first time, a voice coming out of that kid. “Bring me back my meat!” she screams loudly. Her arm stretched out, and the power of mana gathering in the palm of her hand. Hepaetus, Rika, and Adma are shocked to see that, and the next thing that happened to Adma is launched across the room, and hit straight into the wall. 

“Caution: sudden damage occurred, taking countermeasure of system failure,” reported Navigator inside his head.

“What… The hell…” grunt Adma. When he looked in the direction of that kid, Adma noticed that she have attributes that were not owned by other humans. her hand and part of his face are covered in scale. He also sees a small horn on her head, and pair of wings, that stretched out from the hidden hole in the back of her clothes.

“Give me back my meat!” shouted her, her action quickly gain the attention of other occupants and the worker of the inn. Some of them are too scared and scrambling to get out of the room first. 

“What the hell are you doing here!? You people are breaking my properties!” Shouted the owner of the inn who just appeared from behind the shop.

Clenching his teeth, Hepaetus has to take that kid far away from here. His big arm grabbed the hand of that half-dragon-half-kid, and drag her out of the inn.

Meanwhile, Rika comes to recover Adma.

“It’s ok… I’m fine…” reassure Adma. His internal body fixing machine instantly worked after the hit that he received. Luckily, from Navigator’s explanation, none of the damage is lethal to his brain.

“I can’t believe you’re purposefully take away a little kid’s meal,” said Rika, “You’re pretty stupid for a magical machine you know?” 

Adma can only laugh at Rika’s words. Right now, they probably can only hang their hope on Hepaetus.

Meanwhile, the dragon kid and the old man are now on the quiet side of the city. Hepaetus breath is racing, but the dragon kid is grabbing her hips with both of her hands as if does not understand what is happening.

“First of all, why don’t you undo your transformation first?” asked Hepaetus. But the kid is only staring at him angrily.

“I’ll get you more meat later if you following my words ok?” asked him again. The kid is quiet for a moment, but after that, she returned to her human form.

“Give me meat!” she said cheerfully, but Hepaetus can only let out a sigh.

“The meat can wait. First, I have to make sure. Are you the dragon-kin that comes from Glory Waves Island?”

“Glory Waves? Oh! I remember papa and mama called our home with that name.” she said. 

“But they also said the actual name is Aforazan!”

“It does not matter. Instead, I wanted to ask, are your parents sent you to me or what? because no matter what they do, I’ll never intervene with the politics again.”

It takes a moment for that kid to answers, she points out Hepaetus face and shouting. “You are the one that makes Papa and Mama sad, that is why I would punish you!”

No matter what he sees, that dragon kid is still acting like a brat. Apparently, she herself does not understand the situation inside her country, and just did as she pleases.

Hepaetus scratching his head, he then kneeled, and try to talk it out with that kid.

“What is your name?” asked Hepaetus.

“Razazel,” she replied.

“Alright… Razazel… You are coming from across the sea right? What exactly is your business with me?”

“Razazel heard that papa and mama need the old man! The old man can create weapons, so the kingdom will be saved from bad people! But the old man did not want to come, and that makes papa and mama sad!” her voice and words totally resemble a child.

Hepaetus looked at that child carefully, he feels that the parent of this dragon must be not an ordinary dragon.

“Papa is the king, and Mama is the queen!”

Razazel speak cheerfully when she was asked about that, confirming one of Hepaetus’s main concerns: That dragon kid is the princess of the island.

“Previously two of your country messengers are coming to my place. Do you know about them?” 

Razazel nodded. “They are the one that speaks to me about you, old man! They said that papa and mama will be sad if they can’t get you to the island! That’s why I’m coming to get you, so papa and mama will praise Razazel!”

Hepaetus can only sigh again. He can’t decide which is the worst: having all of his inventions at stake or getting kidn*pped by a child dragon.

“Old man has to obey Razazel you know! or Razazel will be angry!” threaten her.

“As I said before, I don’t want to work for wars or politics again!” said him.

Razazel’s cheek puffed out, her face goes red and her fist clenched.

“You have to come! You have to come! You have to come!” her feet are slamming to the ground, as she letting her tantrum out. But because she can’t control her dragon power, each time she hit the ground, it causes quite a vibration and even a small crater.

“Alright! Alright! Let’s calm down for a moment.” said Hepaetus. “You understand what is ‘war’ right? Your parents must be in a pinch, that they need from other sources. But you need agreement from both parties to form an alliance!” explain Hepaetus.

“Razazel does not understand hard words! Razazel is already strong and beat up bad people! But if papa and mama are sad, then Razazel would be sad too!” she said.

Again, Hepaetus letting out a sigh. It’s no use to talk with children she would just scream without accepting the fact that she is talking about. 

“When is the last time you see your parent?” asked Hepaetus.

“Last week, before I went outside of the island.”

“That is a long time, aren’t your parent would be sad right now?” 

“...” Razazel does not answer, apparently his words finally hit her spot.

“If you don’t come back to them quickly, then your parent will be worried. You don’t want that, do you?”

She quietly shakes her head.

“Then we finished here, tell your parent my deepest regret, but I won’t make another killer weapon ever again,”

When Hepaetus take a step to go, the small hand of that child is holding on to his clothes.

“If… If you don’t want to come to me, then I’ll destroy this city! I’ll eat up the people and burn their houses!” shouted Razazel.

“Are you… threatening me?” mutter Hepaetus. However, that threat comes from a little and trembled voice, as if Razazel have no other choice than to say that.

“I’m… I’m not afraid of you!” she shouted.

Again, silence shrouded between the two of them. Hepaetus stares at the kid who is far too innocent and naive do not know what to do next. Even if she is just a kid, dragons are creatures with immense power. At first, her threat sounds laughable, but it is possible that she alone could destroy a small town like this.

“How about we make a deal? You will let me finished my work here, and I’ll give you a hand about the situation that your parent is facing.” bargained Hepaetus.