Chapter 39: XXXIX. The Past is never Forgotten
The period of three days had passed and Alexandra did nothing but enjoy the things of her human culture as best she could while she thought, she wanted to have at least a better perception of her race to see if it was better to stay, however for her He did not see it as much different than living with dragons, both humans and dragons lived day by day to create their homes, stay safe between social groups and in a sense they thought in the same way that it was the preservation of the life of the species. Whether or not there were scales involved, humans and dragons were in a sense more alike than both species knew, although some people did tell Alexandra visions of their homes back in their human world away from dragons. It seemed that they described to the girl a kind of human utopia, but she perceived it the same as living in one of the dragon cities but more peacefully, in a sense did not help the girl in her decision, except that you only changed to dragons for humans or vice versa.
"Are you sure you don't want me to accompany you?" Ropphtys watches as Ssaull grabbed just one horse to go to the New Hope camp.
"Relax sister you don't have to, my instinct warns me that it is better that I go alone. Don't you remember all those negative looks towards us?" the dragon gets on his horse ready to go. "Anyway, it won't take me more than an hour to see Alexandra and if everything goes well I'll come back to see you" he smiles at his sister.
"Just be careful and don't do anything stupid"
"Hey you know me well, I'm Ssaull from the lands of Nox Shiiu" he smiles confidently as always.
"That's why I'm telling you, even your freckles are overconfident"
the dragón laughs a little when he hears that, only the terrestrial, flying, and ocean dragons were overconfident to the point of falling into misfortune, however, he would take into account the advice of Rophttys, she was his sister and he would value her advice. This was an important moment, if the human decided to stay in the camp with the other humans, he should find a way to persuade Magarai to look for Alexandra, that would be a real pain in the tail for him, but as a good dragon he would respect decisions and he would be able to deliver the message to Magarai.
When the dragon arrived at the entrance of the siege, the first thing he noticed was a lack of the guards who had received them the first time, this was already the first indicator of something unusual, the dragon waits for someone to receive it, if he entered without permission or with an escort the humans would get upset and attack him and that would also be a nuisance for him, although perhaps there was a high probability that he could be victorious, he did not want to cause misunderstandings and more problems with the relationship of dragons and humans.
"Hi! Oh, I'm Ssaull, and I'm here to talk to Alexandra!" the dragon screamed inadvertently through the door.
"Yes, sorry dragon, we were doing the changing of the guard!"
This was a second strange sign for he, no kingdom or camp dares to tell the enemy about their changes of guards, he would not be able to inform any stranger or potential threat that for some time they were without guard, something was plotting the humans of the camp and he could sense it, good that he asked Rophttys to stay in the camp. Just as the dragon would not highlight that strange thing, he would be alert to any strange thing or movement that humans could do.
"You're coming to see the girl. Right? She's waiting for you in room thirteen B" the guard indicates to the dragon.
Ssaull appreciates the warning and moves with his horse, Alexandra was in place thirteen A next to B, this to deceive the dragon's nose a bit, humans had the belief that dragons were guided by their nose and would use that to catch it more easily. She talked to the guard about many things, the goal of the guard was to keep her in her place by any means possible, luckily talking about her seemed to work excellent with her.
"When will Ssaull arrive?"
She looks at the little watch they had, she was waiting to talk to him a bit before having to say her decision. She was expecting a pleasant little conversation with her friend, but the guard who accompanied her seemed to have a face of too obvious seriousness that she did not understand why so much seriousness, only they were alone and not even the skeleton blue dragon had arrived to justify that face.
"Is this true? Thirteen b" points out the dragon.
"Yes dragon, there she is," Ssaull tells him an intelligible phrase and he was going to enter the site "Wait, she is next to me now that I think better of it"
"Thank you very much gentleman, now if you want to avoid problems, you better pretend insanity"
He goodbye to the young soldier and enters the room where Alexandra was, the guard is surprised and scared at the same time, before the man could put a word in his mouth the dragon was the first to speak, giving a cordial greeting to him and his friend, without concern he goes to the empty seat that he now considered as his.
"Hello friend, I'm glad to see you here."
"Hello dragon you piece of shit"
He looks somewhat offended at the girl and notes how her gaze seemed confused, it was obvious that she had said something that she believed well, but the dragon who knew the language better than she did not see it that way.
"I said something bad right?" she asked based on her dragon friend's gaze.
"You called me a piece of shit"
"Yes, that means you are a great dragon" she justified herself thinking that was the meaning.
"If you say that I am a piece of shit what you tell me is that [I am a piece of shit in our language]" Alexandra is ashamed to discover the true meaning of the phrase
Note: Remember that the '[]' is to indicate that everything that is said is in the dragon language.
"Who taught you that nice phrase?"
"Marcus, he told me that it was an ideal phrase for friendly dragons like you" the dragon lets out a laugh, seriously Alexandra's innocence with her people was being funned for her.
"I am not surprised at all that they teach you that way" he wipes a tear with his tail, "humans hate dragons as well as my spice hers is like saying it, [a beautiful eternity ring]" some armed men enter the room upset and pointing weapons at the dragon. "Look who came, I guess you wonder how his plan to take me to the wrong place did not work" he throws up his hands and tails.
"How did you know there was a trap waiting for you in the other room?" Alexandra is alarmed when she hears the word cheat, but her scaly friend of hers was not the least bit worried.
"That, well ... I just made one of his people want to tell me the truth," he says with a smile "
The people in the place are scared to hear that this dragon had the power to influence the will of the people, that must be something impossible. The subject who should have led Ssaull to the trap seemed to be crazy, he was conscious and responded well to his companions, but for the blue dragon, that soldier was his faithful servant.
"How did you do it?" they demanded annoyed.
"Hey meat doll, please explain the fourth enchantment of the kings" orders the dragon and the individual walks to get in front of the other humans.
"The fourth enchantment of the kings consists of an almost secret magical influence that only certain dragons of the royal court or already directly from the secret hand of Queen Erisha know and dominate, it is a powerful spell that makes the affected creature if it is not able to sacrifice a large amount of mana follow all the orders of the conjurer because you will see him as his only master "
"Oh please finish with a military pose that I love so much" the man obeys.
"Ssaull leave him alone!" kindly ask Alexandra, she wanted to avoid unnecessary problems with people.
"Okay, you have honored me with your great work, I ask you not to follow the leaders of Shuriaziss" people look at the man who still seemed to look admiringly at Ssaull "Hahahaha sorry, I can't believe all the nonsense I said Hahahaha. [SHXU AXHIS OPPPSKK] "Those words difficult to understand even for Alexandra were enough to free the subject.
"That's not Dragonica at least not the one I know"
The dragon looks at the human with a smile and that was because it was beyond a Dragonica, older than the language of the spells that they normally cast, it was a pure and secret language that only Queen Erisha could teach to those that she considered worthy, even for those dragons who had not drunk her blood would only hear nonsense words coming out of the conjurer.
"[Sorry girl but it's something I couldn't teach you in this life, not without real help]" the dragon watches the humans annoyed with him. "Okay now let's get down to business. Ouch!" the dragon is knocked down by the soldiers who aim their weapons at him.
-Very good dragon, you already had fun manipulating ours at your whim, now is the time for you to tell us about the plans and weaknesses of the Greater Dragons and do not try anything weird because you will die before you do something "
Alexandra reacts in defense of her friend to protect him, she understood that by the actions of him and in general the other dragons, humans could be on the defensive with those magical and scaly creatures, but that did not justify the excess of violence that he gave her. to the dragon.
"Hey you can't do that to Ssaull, the bastard hasn't done anything wrong and he's not even still a Greater Dragon!" she was ready to fight if necessary.
"Calm down girl ugh, your friends here just behave as any scared creature would."
"Afraid? Ha. We are not afraid because we have the advantage over you damn dragon you piece of shit" the subject pressed the barrel of his weapon on the dragon's cheek.
"See Alexandra, that's how you use the phrase of dragon you piece of shit ugh, remember that before insulting another poor dragon who knows English well" he smiles but the taste is short-lived by a blow with the butt of the rifle.
"Shut up dragon, you will not speak except to give us the information of your Greater Dragons friends"
"I, Greater Dragon. HAHAHAHA !!!" The dragon let out a loud and loud laugh, being even from that powerful dragon guild was silly. His laughter is interrupted by a knife to his back, the intensifying pain causing him to scream and scare Alexandra.
"Ssaull !!" she runs worried but the soldiers keep her away from the dragon.
"Yes little dragon, we know that any type of cut, blow or bite can feel at least three times worse with your very sensitive nerve endings" the dragon opens his eyes completely worried that they know his greatest weakness.
"Enough everyone! The bastard hasn't been Greater Dragons for a long time!" Alexandra with a kick manages to move away from those who subdued the dragon a bit and she runs to help him.
"She is one of them" was one of the many comments that the soldiers said when they saw the attitude of the girl.
All the dragons would pay, even if they weren't Greater Dragon they would pay, although it was not believed that Ssaull was not yet part of that group that caused a massacre that night several years ago. Chief Roy enters the room and politely stands in the way to speak to the girl calmly.
"We are sorry for this terrible situation Alexandra, but we cannot let Ssaull Greater Dragon of the skeletons go free because he and his companions mercilessly massacred and killed ours"
Alexandra did not know what to believe when hearing that, she did not know that the Greater Dragons had done something so atrocious to humans, she would not believe it, if that was true then, her mother participated in something horrible.
"It must be a lie, the Greater Dragons no ..." she remembers much of how dragons have treated her over the years and how on more than one occasion she was almost killed by what she believed were her companions. weapons. "No ... Greater Dragons are different, they are the noblest and honorable dragons I know, I would never ... never do anything like kill without provocation or justification"
Ssaull looks down in sadness, for humans, this was interpreted as guilt, Alexandra saw it that way too, he sadly said something that left the human shocked.
"It was one night, just one night where the Greater Dragons did not act under their righteous values, they for only one night were murderers"
The humans raised Ssaull satisfied to see how the girl no longer seemed to give a problem, her face of astonishment made them understanding that she would not make a single move for the dragon, those people took the dragon to a place away from the human to begin the interrogation.
The man only looks at the human, carefully takes the sword from her, and pats her on the shoulder, he apologizes for learning something so terrible about who he thought was his friend, but he told her that everything would be fine, that now he was in a better place and promised that one day they would go to their true home away from those creatures. Alexandra just stared at the door of the room staying alone and in silence, nothing should be true, she did not want to believe it, even if Ssaull himself said it should not be true, it must be one of his stupid and not at all funny jokes, Rophttys was starting to feel bad, the bad feeling she had about her brother now seemed to affect her more, the greenish dragon looks in one of her brother's drawers of rare objects and finds one, in particular, she cuts herself a bit to put some blood in the object and says the name of Ssaull, when finished she shows a face of fear and concern.