Dragon Bound

Chapter 19

A deep red dragon graced the smoke filled midnight sky, it was as large as the bronze-backs but more sleek and graceful, well structured and perfect in build, its wings spanned wide and the spikes on its back were white in color reaching throughout its back and to its tail and then going along the wings as well.

The deep red and white mixture gave it a striking appearance, no one would see it and soon forget, well no one would see a dragon and soon forget but then that was all the more true for this particular dragon.

Ryoka could not explain what she felt right in her, she felt all the high spirited feelings all together, she felt exhilaration, elation, boundless joy and immense satisfaction to say the least, these and more were all she felt as she soared into the sky and glided about in her true form, her dragon form.

She felt no different as from being in her human form except for the fact that she had more limbs to control now, the out of body experience she expected wasn’t there at all, she was still fully aware in her body, her dragon body.

She was overjoyed such that she almost forgot about the events that had led to her shift, but then she glanced at the cliff she had fallen from and just a little distance away from the edge stood Damien, with his mouth hanging wide open in a surprised smile, he was just as happy as she felt she guessed.

But then, had he been there all these while? if he had been there, then why didn’t he say anything or show himself to her before she got pushed off the edge? -she was very sure now that she was pushed- or had he even been the one that had pushed her off? Could he, would he really do that to her? After all he had promised to do whatever it took to make her shift, but then if he was responsible how could he have known it would work?

Ryoka decided to wave off the thoughts and abandon them and then she concluded that he couldn’t have been the one, she directed her attention elsewhere though, she searched for the dragons that had engaged them earlier, the two bronze-backs and the fumer as Damien had called the gas breathing special generation dragon.

She flew along to the blazing forest and scanned about the surrounding area as well, but there wasn’t a sign of all three dragons, she flew higher up to scan about the clouds to see if she would catch even just a glimpse of them, but alas there was not one sign that they had even been there.

As she descended, she sighted flashing lights and heard sirens and the sound of choppers oncoming, most probably the firefighters and rescue team, so she headed to where she had seen Damien and landed with her head low so he could climb on, to which he obliged without a word and after he did, she took to the skies once again and headed home, flying high up in the clouds.

“That was spectacular!” Damien stated in an excited voice as they got back inside, when they had gotten to a few distance away from the building they were staying, Ryoka had found a space to land and had only just thought of shifting back to human and it had happened without any stress, but then she had been stark naked, thankfully Damien gave her an extra long shirt which he still had with him, they had both lost their backpacks back at the battlefield after all.

“I know” Ryoka said simply, she wasn’t feeling so high spirited right now anymore, as soon as she had shifted back, her abandoned thoughts came back to her and she just couldn’t help suspecting Damien of some foul play.

“But then Damien, I needed you, but you were nowhere to be found” she said right after, she doesn’t want him to continue on the celebration of her finally successful shifting just yet, not till she has cleared her mind of the foulness she is suspecting.

“Oh my, Ryoka, I am so sorry, but I couldn’t come near the blaze, I mean, it was glorious and all but then I could not be anywhere near it, so I stayed on the outskirts, trying to figure out where you were or where you would come out from, imagine my surprise when I saw a dragon emerge instead” he said still excited.

“And with the fire breathing, I saw the seal you made before you breathed it, I guess you were right and the hand seals really does work for you, although this is a new concept that I’m sure hardly anyone realizes yet” he added.

While Ryoka still had questions about his ‘not so straight' excuse of a story, like how he knew she was there before she emerged a dragon or how he knew the dragon was her, after all he doesn’t know her actual hair color is red with white highlights since she had dyed it black and she didn’t tell him all the while they had been together either.

She decided to wave it all off once again though, especially since he had agreed now that she was indeed right about the hand seals after all, that was another victory for her.

“Well, I had told you they work for me, but instead you stuck to your beliefs” she gloated, two things had worked for her after all, so she believed she automatically had gloating rights.

“Yeah, yeah, you did, I’m sorry for ignoring that fact, I should have had us check it out truly from training, and because of that uhn, I’ll give you a crash course on all the hand seals there are and their uses as we hit the road” he said her, shocking her with his last words.

“Wait what? What do you mean hit the road?” Ryoka asked really hating the idea of moving around more and more, even more so at that point, why did they have to move again? She thought.

“Yes Ryoka, I’m sorry but right now we have to believe that they know where we are already, that was surely the WIC Inc. in the forest, the three dragons, so we can’t risk remaining here anymore, for they will surely come back, and they’ll be better prepared this time around I’m sure” he said with conviction.

But Ryoka had caught something in his sentence, the way he had said it was surely the WIC Inc. it had indicated that the previous attack hadn’t or could probably not have been the WIC, she held on to that for the time being, for when it would be useful for her.

“Aaarrrg, let them come, I can shift into a dragon now, just let them come, me and you, they can’t take us both, that I’m sure of” Ryoka said with frustration.

Damien moved closer to her and held her by the shoulders “Ryoka, I really am sorry, but you don’t know what these people are capable of as of yet, and while you might be right that we can probably take on those they send, I assure you, eventually we will be overran and overwhelmed and finally defeated, besides, I haven’t yet taught you how to battle as a dragon, so please, let us flee for now and you’ll learn how to battle as a dragon and then this time, hopefully, we will finally get to regroup with your father” he said reassuringly and pleadingly.

Ryoka resigned and they started to pack up in readiness to move once again, he had caught her with the last line about her father, but then wouldn’t it just get all the more harder for him to track them now, they hadn’t even been here for that long.

She signed as she finally got ready to move, Damien had instructed her to go have a shower while he goes to grab them a car because it seems they might recognize the one they had been using till now..

Now Damien was in the showers while she waited, as she waited more and more poisonous thoughts filled her mind, she really was mad at the WIC Inc. now for upturning their lives so much like this, she really wished there was something she could do to put an end to their rule and reign, she wished her father would meet up with them soon and then they can together take the fight to WIC.

Ryoka then carried the last of the bags and headed out to place it in the car, as she was coming back in, she noticed something slightly under the foot mat before the door, she took it out and it was like a greeting card, but on it was the address of a place right in Japan, and a hint explained that it was a place that belongs to the WIC.

Ryoka looked around but then there wasn’t anyone in sight, it was still the early morning after all and the sun hadn’t risen yet, the card looked to have been there for a while even, and she took it as a sign that she was to act against the WIC soon rather than wait for her father.

She memorized the address and everything there was to know then she blew a tongue of flame on it and ensured it burnt up totally.

Damien soon got ready as well and once again they hit the road and as promised Damien explained the hand seals to Ryoka as they went on.

He explained to her that the hand seals were like a catalyst to help dn mutants or new generation dragons to reach their core and pull power out from it, it was almost like making hand seals so as to channel chakra or chi just that the core us the target this time.

There were five major hand seals in use by the dn mutants, in the order of the weakest to the strongest; the absolute hand seal, the intuition hand seal, the power hand seal, the energy hand seal and the dimension hand seal.

He as well told her that the one favored by her father was the energy hand seal and that was the exact same one she is currently using as he saw her do it before the immense blaze she created.

When she showed him the other one, the one she had seen the other dragon that fought her father make, Damien told her it was the intuition hand seal, which was weaker compared to het father’s.

He went on to explain that using a weak hand seal does not mean that the dragon wasn’t strong, it only meant that the core wasn’t hard to reach and for those that uses the stronger hand seals, it means their core is hard to reach.

“Is that why smoke and steam comes out of their body while in the process of shifting?” Ryoka asked as she remembered the details of transformation of her father and the other dragon.

“Well Yes, remember they were originally humans with abundant dragon genes, so before transformation takes place, there is a stress on their human form -which is their own original form- which causes them to give off steam” Damien answered.

Ryoka wondered on and on as they drove on along , the WIC really had caused a lot of harm, especially to the humans who were going about their lives and were uprooted from their lives then experimented upon to change them, just because the had dn genes in them abundantly.

“Damien?” Ryoka called then paused, she waited for his attention to be fully on her, “I want to hit a WIC Inc. building, I am going to do it with or without your help, I am not waiting for my father anymore, when he comes let him meet us already fighting back” she said and Damien nodded and sped up their car.