Chapter 14 - Miss Red Dragon
Alex looked dejectedly at his attacker with anger, the only thing he could do was curse silently, hope could no longer be seen on his face, now he could only hope that death would not be the end.
Boom
A lightning bolt fell from the sky with a deafening sound, Alex wasn't sure it was lightning because it was red in color, lying on the ground he looked at the red lightning bolt that fell right in front of John.
The red lightning began to take shape. In an instant, the lightning took the form of a woman. Everything happened so fast. Alex only saw the lightning fall from his and transform into a woman before even a second had passed. When he looked at the woman, he could see anger and fear in her beautiful features, a lot of anger.
Although Alex had never seen this woman, he knew who she was; a title and a name appeared in his mind: Miss Red Dragon, Felicia Venhorst. He never thought he would see this person here for a moment; he thought he was hallucinating.
— Who the hell are you? How are they going to show up here?
Alex heard the commander saying something, but Miss Red Dragon didn't listen, He saw Miss Red out of the corner of his eye dragon remove the clothes that covered the upper part of john 's body that were stained with blood
Miss Red Dragon pulled out of nowhere three vials of a purple substance, one whole vial was shoved into John's mouth, the rest were sprayed all over his body, he saw Miss Red dragon catch, weaker this time she did something strange, she drank the bottle and then pressed her mouth against John's mouth.
Alex's heart leaped with joy, he thought that it is possible that John was still alive, because otherwise Miss Red dragon would do strange things, maybe, she is trying to save John from death's door.
— Hey, didn't you hear me?
Alex answered the commander but once asked with a trembling voice, he could feel the commander's fear through the man's words, the red dragon lady's face that already showed anger contorted even more but, it seemed that a vein popped out of her forehead at any moment.
—You damned scum, how do you hear ? Even a thousand deaths won't be enough to appease my anger. You stay quiet there, and I'll take care of you.
Alex felt the strongest intent to kill in his life, it seemed like his will to kill was so high that it was becoming tangible, Miss Red dragon declared his hand and the commander began to sink into the previously solid ground, it felt like he was standing on moved sand, he sank until only his head was back on.
With a gentle shake of Miss Red 's hand dragon , every element of darkness that filled the air dissipated, including the smoke on Alex's bodies and the rest, now everyone could move again, but no one dared to interrupt what Miss Red dragon was doing. Alex looked at the wolf family, all the comments coming to the same conclusion as him.
***
John stretched, stretching his limbs, it seemed like he had woken up after a good, long night's sleep. He opened his eyes and took a look at his surroundings. What he saw surprised him. He wasn't in his room where he woke up every morning. He wasn't in the room from his past life either. He remembered what happened and sighed. A single thought was in his head: I'm dead.
John frowned, this place was familiar, he had been here before, he was on the waters of a boundless sea, but he did not sink, he hovered above the waters as if he were walking on a solid surface, the sea expanded everywhere, there was no sense of direction, blue waters reflecting the color of his, the sky was clear without a trace of clouds and the sun was not present, but it was bright as a spring day.
John looked at the egg floating on top of the sea, the egg rippled and a creature came out of it, it looked like a newborn baby, looking at the baby it looked like a ghost that was on the edge of the tangible and the intangible.
— Am I dead?
John asked the baby floating in front of him, to match his height, the baby looked up at John and opened his tiny mouth to speak.
- Not yet.
Strangely enough, the language spoken by the baby was not the normal language of the continent, the baby spoke in the Baboan language , a language used mainly by wizards, luckily Catarina taught John to speak the Baboan language . John asked
— What do you mean, not yet?
The baby waved his tiny hand and a translucent screen appeared, on the screen it was possible to see everything around John's body in the real world, he was amazed by the baby's actions, he could see everything that Miss Red dragon did with his own body.
— Who is she? John asked the baby
The baby rolled his eyes and said.
— How would I know? I live here, I can't leave, and you've never contacted her yet.
John asked another question when he saw Miss Red dragon giving a kiss to his unconscious self through the screen.
— What is she doing?
The baby responded in his baby voice, using the Baboan language .
— Does it look like you're trying to save our lives?
— Our life? What's this talk about our life?
John asked with a questioning look, the baby looked at him as if he was looking at a clueless donkey.
— Symbiosis'', this term is suitable to explain our situation.
John was confused, he knew very well what a symbiosis was because there were many types of symbiosis that he remembered, one of them is when an organism parasitizes another in order to stay alive, if the host dies the guest also dies, this was called permanent symbiosis because the two organisms share the same life, and another case was a more serious case where an organism parasitizes another while sucking the life from its host, there were other types of symbiosis that John did not remember at the moment.
— Explain, what is symbiosis like?
The baby smiled at John's question, he spoke slowly.
— Your soul, my soul, one body, if our body dies, we die.
John asked again.
— Why ? What happened to our souls having only one body?
The baby didn't answer, he looked at John as if he already had the answers. When he saw the baby's look, John thought for a while, then he asked.
— Are you the real son of Fernando and Catarina? When I came into this world, did I infiltrate your body?
The baby looked at John and smiled, he spoke.
— When we came into this body, it had no soul.
John felt like his brain cells were missing, he couldn't understand all of this, the baby's words made him even more confused than he already was.
— Hey ghost baby..
The baby cut off John's words.
—I'm not a ghost baby, you can call me Lord Omnipotent, that's my name.
John replied laughing.
— Hahahah hahaha
— Sir, Hahaha hahaha
The baby crossed his arms and asked?
— What are you laughing at?
John looked at the baby who was acting like an older one.
"You're a baby and you still call yourself sir? And what's more, what's this omnipotent business?"
—Don't you know that omnipotence is a concept belonging to God?
— Don't tell me you're a god
The baby spoke, unfazed by John's mockery.
— It is your honor, you inferior creature, to know my beautiful and worthy name. You should be proud.
John didn't know whether to laugh or cry, it was strange for a newly born baby to speak with such a serious and proud air, he had an idea and spoke enthusiastically.
— Almighty Lord.
John refrained from laughing, thankfully no one else was here to see him address the baby as sir, he continued speaking.
— Almighty Lord, can you use your omnipotence or your divinity to save us? You could heal our bodies, right?
The baby looked at John and floated to the other side and spoke.
— I call myself omnipotent, it doesn't mean that I am an omnipotent being and I am not a god either, it's just a name without any references to my majestic being.
John was upset, he had to call a baby sir and got nothing, now he was feeling very humiliated.
— If you are not omnipotent, why do you call yourself omnipotent?
The baby thought for a while and came to the conclusion that maybe John was right, he said.
— This name is engraved in my soul, so it was not chosen by me, but you are right.
The baby floated until he was equal to John's head in height, with a serious look he spoke.
— Let's keep my name for now.
— I allow you to name my magnificent being.
John looked at the baby and couldn't believe the baby's arrogance. Since he'd asked, John would teach him a lesson. He put his hand on his chin and pretended to think. Well, let's see if he'll become less arrogant by shortening his name.
— How about calling you , Oni , ?
The baby thought for a while and smiled with satisfaction.
— It's a good temporary name, the name is a derivative of the word, omnipotent, so I'll use this one until I'm truly omnipotent.
John wanted to insult the baby's pride but ended up doing the opposite. He looked at the baby and said.
— Can't you do anything to save us?
The baby looked at John and said.
— Our power is proportional to each other, I am as powerful as you are, if you can't do anything to save us, how could I?
John was discouraged, he then remembered that he still had the crimson energy, he hurried to ask.
— What about the crimson energy? You can't use it?
The baby explained relaxedly.
— Crimson energy is an ability, not energy itself.
— To use this ability we need to have energy in our body.
John asked.
— What kind of energy is needed?
The baby responded confused.
— I don't know for sure.
John asked again, not understanding why.
— So how did you use it last time?
— Last time I used our mother's life force?
John asked frowningly.
— Our mother?
The baby replied, he now thought John was very dumb, how could he not understand such a simple concept , but he explained it anyway.
— Our mother is the woman who gave birth to our body.
With this answer John decided not to ask any more futile questions, he wanted to find out something
so that they could use it to save their life or rather their lives.
— Where can we find life force?
The baby waved a few times with his small hand, the screen that showed the exterior changed, the screen now showed John's heart, the heart was stopped there was no heartbeat, still showing the heart the screen showed all the veins of the heart, he saw right and left ventricles and atria .
Between the euricula could be seen a green flame that was about to extinguish , the baby looked at John and said.
— Our heart needs to be revived, we can die at any moment.
The baby maneuvered the screen to show Miss Red dragon , he pointed his finger at the potions that were poured into the body and said.
— These substances contain vital energy, I will absorb it for conversion if there is enough we can survive.
The baby looked at Miss Red dragon and said.
— That woman is stupid.
John asked in dismay, his potential savior was being called stupid.
— Why are you calling her stupid ?
The baby responded.
—She's wrong about the process. First, she would have to revive the heart, and only then would she use this substance containing vital energy. With a revived heart, it could absorb the vital energy from the substance.
— Now tell me, how is she not stupid?
The baby continued to absorb the potion, meanwhile Miss Red dragon continued to fill his body with the purple potion one after another, the baby didn't care about the strange face that Miss Red dragon empty . The whole process took 2 and a half minutes, John watched the whole process through the screen.
After a while the woman's face became even stranger, finally after the thirtieth bottle Miss Red dragon stopped and sighed, John asked
— Do you have enough life force now?
The baby shook his little head up and down, he held out his little hand, the life force energy before true It began to change color until it reached a crimson color similar to blood, the energy seemed alive, the baby made a serious face and then the energy flew and sank into the sea, an insignificant part of the sea turned crimson.
The screen once again showed the heart, an energy surrounded the heart, a part of the energy transformed into electricity that electrocuted the heart, another part of the energy fed the green fire that was about to extinguish .
The electric discharge was felt even by Miss Red dragon that was outside, as soon as the electric discharge stopped a sound could be heard.
Bamp bamp bamp
The previously still heart now beat steadily, the flame no longer flickering , the flickering flame devouring the crimson energy and igniting completely. The baby stretched and spoke.
— Well, now we're no longer in danger of death. You can go now.
John spoke hurriedly before he was thrown out .
— Wait, I still have a lot to ask.
The baby looked sleepy, he floated into the egg, he said.
— Don't worry, any questions you have will be answered when you come here again.
John asked as he disappeared from the soul sea.
— When can I come back here?
— This is my home, it is also your home, you can come here whenever you want, but you must have an evolution core first, then you will be able to use my powers and abilities , as long as you pay the corresponding price before using it.
With these words spoken, John disappeared completely and the sea of the soul returned to its usual calm, the baby inside the egg closed its eyes.
***
Cough cough cough
John's eyes opened in the real world, he was coughing and blood was running from his mouth, his body was slowly regenerating his wounds, with the current regeneration rate it would take him a week at most to fully recover, something unimaginable for someone who has not yet evolved.
- Are you well ?
soft, shocked , and joyful voice reached John's ears. He didn't respond, he just looked at his surroundings. It seemed like not much time had passed. Alex was looking at him as if he were a monster. The joy on Alex's face was also apparent. He then saw the wolf family staring at him with strange looks on their faces. There was joy, confusion, and fear, but Alex 's eyes were bright with joy.
John felt like a truck had run over him. He felt pain all over his body. All the bleeding had stopped. He was also a little dizzy from the lack of blood in his body. He couldn't sit up without help, much less stand. He turned his head and saw the commander, whose head was only visible. John knew he was still alive.
- Are you well?
The same female voice sounded again, this time John answered.
— I'm full of holes all over my body, I even look like a sieve. There's more, I just came back from the dead, so I'm fine.
Red 's face dragon changed, from worry to anger it seemed, that he would be beaten despite the injuries, John hurried to ratify his words.
— Ma'am, don't worry, I'm fine.
Miss Red Dragon calmed down, it seemed she noticed the injuries on John's body. He looked at her and thought, "This woman is really stupid. Mr. Oni was absolutely right." John felt a sweet perfume in his nostrils. He was stunned. When did I get here? Miss Red Dragon had John in his arms as if he were a princess about to enter the bridal chamber, and he only had his clothes on, it was so fast that John didn't notice.
Miss Red Dragon waved his hand and a red flying ark appeared floating in the air, the commander was ripped off the ground with a lump of earth covering his entire body, he was thrown into the ark.
— Hey, you're Alex, aren't you?
Since Miss Red dragon has come so far this was the first time she directed words at anyone other than John, it seemed like she didn't care about anyone other than John. Alex responded by nodding.
—Get on the ark, we're leaving.
John found the woman's behavior increasingly strange, he looked at Miss Red dragon who had him in his arms and asked.
—Madam, who are you?
Miss Red dragon replied with fear in his eyes.
— I'll show up later, if your father doesn't kill me by then.
John was confused , why would his father kill someone out of the blue? He could feel the sincere fear in Miss Red 's words. dragon , he decided not to kill his brain better ask once and for all.
— Why would my father kill you?
Miss Red Dragon replied as he placed John on the flying ark that was floating a meter above the ground.
— I offered to take care of you and this boy there. You guys were having fun in the square, so I went to take care of some things. Who would have thought you'd get into such trouble ?
She looked at John, without the slightest shame on her face, and pushed all the blame onto him and Alex.
"It's your fault, didn't your father warn you not to come to the favelas? Now see where we've ended up, see the situation we're in?"
John has never seen anyone as shameless as this woman. He should be the one who is upset. He's blaming himself for not taking an escort. Something he read almost led to his death. After all, someone offered to protect him and didn't do their job properly. He thought it was the end, but Miss Red dragon continued speaking with the face of someone who had been wronged.
"You owe a lot of money. I had to spend 30 wells of purple revival. If your father doesn't kill me, you'll work for me to make up for my losses."
John was getting dizzy, he didn't want to continue this pointless conversation, this woman must have some mental disorder, because I was killed now I have to pay compensation with labor? What a joke.
The ark was about to start when John spoke.
— Wait, what about them?
John pointed his finger at the wolf family, Miss Red dragon looked in the direction in which
John pointed and asked.
— What do they have?
John couldn't believe it, it seems that Miss Red Dragon only had John and his eye problems, nothing more important, John was already very tired, he could no longer see clearly, he did not want to waste any more of his energy, he just said a few words and fell asleep.
— Let's take them with us .
Miss Red Dragon spoke but a few clueless words, then looked at John who was sleeping, ignoring all the blood and dirt, he looked like a very cute angel sleeping, she found the wolf family with an authoritative air.
— You guys come with us, no one is allowed to refuse.
The two, Isa and her aunt looked at their mother, they thought for a while and reluctantly they took some things from inside the cabin and entered the flying ark, they were saved then up to a certain point their lives were no longer in danger, they just didn't know what would become of them from now on, everyone feared the unknown.
The flying ark flew at high speed in a few minutes the ark moved from Venhorst castle which was outside the city, in the barriers.
Continued...
In the next chapter
We will find out where Miss Red is dragon was and why wasn't he taking care of John and Alex
What will happen to Fernando and Catarina?
Red 's relationship will also be clarified. Dragon with John, but the name Alex mentioned in his thoughts already says a lot, unless Alex is wrong. After all, he has never seen Miss Red. Dragon before.
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