“Typical hero boy entrance” Minet sighed, her voice full of relief, “you didn’t have to make such a mess though.” “I was short on time so it seemed like the best option,” Rex said limping forward carrying Raz. “Holy shit!” Minet gasped seeing the large bleeding wound on Raz’s scalp. “Yeah, I’ve done my best to stop as much bleeding as I can, but I’ll need your help Lizz, I cannot create fire on command to cauterize it,” Rex said, helping place Raz down who groaned. “I’ll help Lizz with this, Lacey will need your help, her shoulder was dislocated and has been for a while and none of us have the strength needed to get it back in place,” Minet said pointing to Lizz who was still huddled in the corner pale as a ghost. “No worries, I’ll go sort that out now,” Rex said with a weak smile. “Hey, are you ok?” Minet asked quickly scanning Rex up and down for visible signs of injury. “I’ll be fine, Raz has it worse than me, most of mine are mostly healed already.” “Hmpf, yeah ok, we can t

“Ugh, where am I?” Rex asked, his grogginess taking a while to wear off. “You’re in my home of course,” said the woman’s voice. “I really need to stop waking up in strange places” Rex replied, trying his best to take in his surroundings, his vision still taking a while to clear. “I wouldn’t think waking up in a stranger’s home constantly suits royalty,” said the voice with a slightly amused tone. “You seem way too calm to be an enemy, either that or my enemies have finally taken to making me feel better before trying to kill me,” Rex said in a sarcastic tone. “If we wanted you dead, you would have been dead days ago” the woman replied in a stern tone, clearly not amused by Rex’s words. “Hang on, days ago? How long have I been out?” Rex said, a little shocked by the remark, trying his best to sit up, his head pounding when he did. “You had best try and get some rest before doing that, Ipes nearly had you,” the woman’s voice said, putting a hand gently on his chest. Not having th

“So, you run the risk of killing us both, but you can still maybe pull it off without that happening?” Rex asked, worried about the whole procedure now, he thought it would be a long shot to have it removed and thought it would be painful, he had not thought of dying if it went wrong though. “Yes, there is a slim chance to undo what has been done to you, like I said, your people have twisted our magic from helping people to being harmful, I for one, am not used to having to untwine weave magic not intended to heal, so it poses a danger to anyone involved,” Azulthael said, interlocking his fingers. “After all these years, you still fear death” Al’ik chuckled quietly. “I do not fear death itself, I fear the loss of my race,” Azulthaël said with a scowl, darting his eyes over the Al’ik when she spoke. “Can you not breed with other races?” Lizz asked, opening a little book from her pocket, and taking notes. “No, our bloodline can not mix with any other races, over the years we have tr

‘Wow it has been a long time since I have seen you’ Rex said, dashing around to Fafnir’s head and placing his hand on his snout with a smile. ‘Yes youngling, it has felt forever, I have lost track of time while being imprisoned in here after the necklace malfunctioned, how long has it been?’ Fafnir replied, smiling weakly back. ‘Only a few months since I was cursed’ Rex replied, ‘But it has felt like forever.’ ‘That’s good, you feel and smell different, stronger perhaps’ Fafnir replied, breathing in a deep breath through his nose, taking in Rex’s scent. ‘I’ve learned how to cope without magic in ways, I have sort of kept a few things from you though, like my speed, strength, and hearing, my night vision comes and goes, usually when I need it most, I don’t have it’ Rex said with a shrug, getting a deep chuckle from Fafnir. ‘It will take some time to heal from this ordeal, your body is already on the mend and I can feel our bond growing stronger by the minute, should not be long unt

After taking a second to glare at Rex once more, the scorpion charged head-on, its pincers opened, ready to clamp down on Rex, it closed the distance quickly and in the time it took Rex to blink, it was towering over him once more. ‘You need to slow it down for your cowardly plan to succeed’ Fafnir growled while Rex was dodging around the scorpion’s attempts to grab him, ‘Think Rex, what does it need to follow you?’ ‘Ok ok, yep take out a leg or two and that should give me time to get away’ Rex agreed, sliding under the belly of the scorpion once it lunged at him again, gripping onto one of its middle support legs, while it thrashed around, attempting to trample him. ‘What are you?’ Fafnir started to ask as Rex took a deep breath in and gritted his teeth, applying pressure to the leg joint, after straining for a few seconds, he was able to snap the leg, the cracking sound echoing loudly, the beast howled, stumbling for a moment, blue blood gushing out, ‘You are barbaric, you could h