SAMAEL
Huge glossy eyeballs stare into mine and I remain transfixed. My pulse quickens as hot lava poured round my blood. The Nerculan before me was different. Unlike the other Nerculan his fur was a bright silver, a clear contrast to their thick black colour. Streaks of ice-blue can be seen faintly amidst the silver, and the tip of its ears and the paws sported an earthy brown shae that beautified the creature more.
However, the most striking thing about this beast is it's eyes. The most vibrant snow white eyeballs stared into mine as he growled at my dragon form but which came out more like a yelp of a dying animal. Ohh, how frightening! The moment our eyes connect something in me snaps and a dam of power pours into me.
Millions of conversation fill my mind. Different sounds and their meaning. From the bark of Cralents, the growls of Gruftans, the clicking of Fremlins, even the murmurs of trolls. Everything didn't sound like they should they came out in clear words.
The conversations got louder and harder too bear as every single language that existed of living creatures poured into me. Like that wasn't enough, power poured into me in waves. Even the el ment became restless.
Strong winds pick up and begin surrounding me. The earth trembles furiously like the pained growl of a bear. Water flows to me and forms a lrge sphere around me. Unlike conjuration using elemental Maagi this water felt pure and natural. The elements were responding to my pain. I let our another agonizing wait as the floor around me splits and blazing lava pours out of the ground melding together till it forms a large pillar ending on my feet.
Anyone who could see me would feel I am crazy. With two large tornados beside me where my hands are outstretched a sphere of water surrounding me, trembling earth beneath me and flowing lava under my feet.
Scales give way for veins and something begins to flow within them. The lines glow a bright translucent colour like a glass was flowing beneath my skin. The colour would light up multiple colour and go back to its normal glow again.
Within a split second my whole skin is covered in those lines. My dragon horn and wings also retracts and soon I'm left floating in the air in my human form with my whole vody looking like it's covered in a glowing glassy spiderweb.
Not long after the conversations and rush of power stop abruptly. My mind goes muddled up and soon I'm falling from my place in the air. I try to from air steps but my vision blurs as black seeps in. I'm losing consciousness and before I can even hit the ground my whole body goes numb and with that I give in and everything goes blank.
----------------- BACK ON RELNORITZ -----------------
AT THE COLLEGE
UNKNOWN POV
Tall ceiling looms before me, floating globes of pure maagi give off a faint glow that not only lights up the room, but also doesnt produce any heat at all. To the left of the room are shelfs filled with all kinds of inventions, scrolls, tomes, texts, artifacts, equipments, potions, elixirs, mention it.aster has always been powerful and smart. Everything here is a work of his.
Cabinets fill the right of the room rumoured to be filled with files of every hero that has passed this school, every prospective student, and every worthwhile warrior out there. No one really knows what is in he cabinet except him. He keeps the cabinet secret and on a tight leash!
"Anything on the boy?" A voice asks but I am too focused on admiring the things around me "Earth to Busturg!" Master says snapping his finger and I face him quickly. Has master been speaking to me? Master is in a delicate emotional state. Just last week he went to a Blood-Red Beast Land and cleared it totally to release his fury. I must not piss him off again!
"Apologies, master! I was lost in thought." I apologize and he waves it away.
"Tell me if you have any news on the boy." He asks again and I sigh heavily. I have tried all I can. Even going as far as using my connection to the Spirit Elementals but still nothing on him. Even they couldn't find him! I am starting to lose hope
"Nothing for now, master." I say and his face falls into a grimace again as he runs his forehead. He does that when he is worried. Being the only person he relies has it's perks
"Very well" he mutters and I shake my head.
"Master, it's been four months, domt you think if he will make it back he will back by now? Even you didn't spend that long in the trials." I add and he looks up at me with weary eyes. He has barely been getting any sleep these past months. The loss of his son has been getting to him.
"He is alive. I'm sure about that. I just can't say exactly where he is and that annoys me!" He slams his hand on the desk before me and it splits into two instantly. That is the 25th desk just this week alone.
"What would you have me do master?" I ask and he lets out a heavy breath before rubbing his forehead again.
"Begin preparation for the new students trials. It starts in the next six months everything has to be perfect. This year we have a lot of powerful, and talented students coming for the trial and we need to be fully prepared!" He commands and I nod my head.
"I'll get to it instantly, master." He nods
"I can trust you on that. Now leave I have work to finish." He adds and I walk towards the door before turning.
"What about the boy, master?" I ask and he smiles for the first time in a while.
"If he hasn't returned I'm sure he is already on his path to greatness and when the time is right he will return. All we can do now is be ready to play our own part when he returns." He says and I nod. Just as I'm leaving I hear him mutter.
"The world we know is about to change, and that boy is at the center of it all" I smile and continue my walk out. Master is never wrong so the boy really is going to change the world.
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------------------ IN THE BEAST REALM ----------------
AT THE NERCULAN LAIR
FEW HOURS LATER
SAMAEL
I lift my eyelids as total silence feels the air around me. Opening my eyes to start darkness it takes a while for my Dark-Vision to kick in and everywhere lights up. I try to get up but my body felt numb. I realize I wasn't just numb, cold deepest into my skin from frostbites and I look around me.
I was caught in a ice-trap with all my body parts except my head trapped in Ice. I let Divine Maagi flow round my body and begin to heat my body up. The heat spread quickly and soon the ice trap melts into water which I turn into vapour adding to the elemental energy in the environment.
"Where am I? What happened?" I mutter checking my body that didn't look any different.
"Humans are so slow witted! You have forgotten so quickly?" I hear a soft childlike voice behind me and turn to be faced with the brightest snow white eyes glaring up at me. The Nerculan looked more cute than scary with that glare he wore and I couldn't help the smile that fills mine.
"Did you trap me?" I snap at him remembering the ice trap.
"I saved your ass, you ungrateful piece of shit. If not for me you would have broken most of your weak, human bones in that fall, and your healing won't help for now since your dragon spirit pushed its form beyond its limit." The creature snaps at me and I'm shocked I can understand him. Instantly memories rush forward in my mind. Becoming dragon form, my sprirt take over, fighting the Alpha, almost dying, doubling of my power, killing the alpha, almost killing the baby Nerculan, unlocking another set of power, the pain, the voices, the languages and falling unconscious.
I let out a heavy breath and I face the beast.
"Thank you for saving me." I appreciate him and he scoffs
"I had no choice, the bond made me do it" he snaps at me and I roll my eyes
"What bond? And how did you know about my dragon form?" I ask the questions on my mind.
"You tamed me as your beast hence the bond, you punk !" He yells at me and I grimace as the shriek almost deafens me. I tamed the beast! Does that mean that power was my beast tamer powered getting unlocked. Yeah! About time.
"Tasks Tab!" I thought and the screen pops up
[TASK TAB]
[FINAL TRIAL:]
[Link with your Spirit Beast ]
[Unlock your Beast Tamer Abilities - Task Complete]
[DAILY TASK]
[Kill the Alpha of the NERUCLAN Pack: 1/1]
[Kill the Luna of the NERUCLAN Pack: 1/1]
[Tame the Alpha pup of the NERUCLAN Pack: 1/1]
[Kill the 100 members of the NERUCLAN Pack: 132/100]
[All daily tasks complete]
[Reward: 200,000 Preme points]
[Time to next set of tasks: 05:42:19 hrs]
Wow! I completed all tasks? And I got rewards! Sweet! Maybe I can amass enought Preme points to start lectures here before leaving. I was brought back by the beast voice.
"Since you and I are bonded I can feel your dragon spirit. For now it's weak and it will take a while for it to regain its full strength, a very long while. Guess you have to rely on your powers more now." The beast says and I nod at him.
Hearing him say it now I can feel it. My dragon spirit felt so faint, almost invisible. It's usually bright feel has dimmed into a subtle glow that could barely be felt. I hope it can get back to full strength in time. He sees the loss on my face and he speaks
"Don't worry, it will come back stronger than before, remember the more we push our limits, the stronger we become" he adds consoling me and I smile. He is right
"Do you have a name?" I ask and he shakes his head.
"My parents never got the chance to nsme me before my father's Beta killed my whole family to become Alpha." He says and I could feel the rage beneath those words. So the Alpha pup I was to take wasn't the chikd o the Alpha but the child of the original alpha.
"If he killed your family, why did he spare you?" I ask and he rolls his eyes.
"Isn't it obvious? My mom was a Frostucan, and I'm the only child who inherited both elements. He wanted to make me his personal warrior." He replies and it made sense now. I was confused as to how it had the ice-element. Frostucan is one of the wolf beasts that posses the ice elements. Fire belongs to Hellhounds, and Air belongs to the Vurlican, bird like wolves that possessed large wings.
According to history, all these wolf beasts don't relate with each other, they hate each other. The fact that his parents didn't only meet, but also gave birth for one another is beyond this world.
"You can rest assure I avenged your parents. Now you can live the rest of your life knowing the person who killed them paid." I reply him and his expression softens until I see tears fall from his face.
"Thank you! That means a lot to me." He replies and I smile at him, a warm feeling my heart as his appreciation and peace spreads through our bond.
"So what shall we name you?" I ask and he glares at me.
"Make sure it's something worth it!" He snaps at me and I roll my eyes. Drama king!
"I got it. Your name is Fenrir! Name of the most powerful wolf beast to ever live!" I say hastily and he smiles at me.
"Now that's a worthwhile name! At least now you get something right." He adds as a taunt and I chuckle. This one is going to be a handful!
But first lets complete my trial