Chapter 5

I woke up to see that my leg was free. Finally I thought as I quickly stood up, banishing the effect of sleep from my system and looked to see that the child was once again in his throne. And looking better than he had before, I guess me not being around really does affect him quite a bit.

I yawned and looked down, to realized that there was Esdeath, standing there, with a list of three points written on a paper in her hand. She gave it to the king's 'advisor' and they exclaimed in exasperation once seeing the list.

"How are we going to fine someone with these requirements?!" The fat creature exclaimed, and Esdeath just shrugged and started to walk from the room, this time I followed her without being called to stay by the child.

"I don't care, as long as my requirements are met" she said as she exited and the creature looked at her with a loose jaw. Once the doors closed behind us Esdeath looked at me incredulously.

"Where were you all last night? And why were you still in the castle?" She asked and I sent her the picture of the emperor having a death grip on my leg as he slept. It seemed to be amusing for her because her mouth curved to the left in a small smirk. But she asked no more questions after that, and I was thankful for it.

She went to the back of the giant castle where she told me to wait over by a couple pillars and a few sets of windows. I huffed and sat before looking around for a second when she left. After a second I grew bored and lay my head down to take a slight nap. When I opened my eyes again the lights of the room above me were by were on, so I rose into sitting position and looked inside to see Esdeath talking to a small group of people. Including the girl with that annoying white creature.

I growled and everyone's attention turned to the window that I was looking at them through. Causing a couple of them to jump back and fall in their chairs from shock. Esdeath made a small ice spike and tapped the glass causing it to shatter and I stuck my snout through and she patted it. I just sat there with half my face in the window and the other half outside, while trying not to go cross eyed from two separate panes of glass' edges obscuring half of my vision.

I breathed deeply taking in everyone's scent, and then I changed my vision to see their aura and it wasn't surprising. The only one really innocent there was the male with the spiritual shadow of a large black dragon embedded with his soul, or aura.

I tapped another pane of glass with a claw on my right forepaw shattering it like the others. Then, while I could, I shattered two others above those and ate the metal edges that the panes fit into. The others looked horrified at the glass and large sharp teeth, mainly the innocent looking one. I nervously thought that maybe I did that too fast for them to be comfortable with. I withdrew my head from the large square that I had made and thought about it.

It shouldn't have mattered much because if these people were being recruited by Esdeath for some reason then they must have to have little fear in dangerous situations. So I just threw away the nervousness and guilt and grinned at them. Letting my large, pointy, 'sever-you-in-half' teeth go on full display. Esdeath then abruptly stepped in-front of me.

"I am sorry for his behavior, he seems to still be a child at heart" she said and I pouted looking around for a second before realizing something. I grinned again, and I got the feeling there even if they couldn't see me they knew something was up. I went over to the pool over at the center of the garden. Scooped up a mouthful. And then swallowed it before going back over to the window as Esdeath explained their purpose.

I looked for exits, and setting that the door was the only one I spit a little liquid ice at it, fixing the door closed, Esdeath realized what I did and stopped before looking at me curiously. I then drew up the water I had swallowed and flash froze it, turning it into snow. Then I expelled, and when I had no more water left to spray out at them I closed my mouth and looked inside to see Esdeath glaring at me. The innocent male shivering, covered in a sort of snow-coat while the others were completely fine in the room full of snow. The little girl was something interesting for me though as she didn't seem to care about being covered head to toe in snow, in fact she just seemed a little bored, as well as shocked at the same time...Is that even possible?

I grinned at them and then shot into the sky, or at least I aimed to shoot into the sky, but Esdeath froze my wings in place against my back at I turned around and then froze my feet to the ground. I looked back at her with pleading eyes to see that she was in a very lively mood.

I watched as she ripped out the door and then told everyone to leave and come back to some training grounds, and then cover the door in a sort of ice street before turning to me with snow-fire in her eyes.

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I woke up to a loud screech sounding from the west, and I went to fly after it. But then I realized that she's frozen me in place and then forced me to sleep outside. I burned away the ice-covered metal chains and heated up my body to get rid of the ice on my wings then I took off into the sky after the sound I heard.

I flew for a good half hour before hovering in place, lost to where the sound came from exactly. I didn't know if I passed out, or if I had imagined it. Then it sounded again but this time the sound was joined by grunting and the sounds of something metal slicing hitting a tough rock -like substance, not another metal, but more like...scales maybe. 

I shot forwards looking down trying to find the source, and it took another mile or so but eventually I saw a giant house and a creature fighting against two humans. I heard it screech again but I didn't go down because it sounded like it was just a defensive lure to try and get others to help it escape or beat another opponent, of which had already lured about ten other giant things which were slaughtered when they 'came to help'.

I dived into the forest a little ways from the fight so that I could watch from afar, and stalked forwards to see if they had noticed. There was a male in a sort of suit of white armor made from a white dragon spirit, and there was a female that looked like the sister of the other sword weirder that I saw in Esdeath's meeting yesterday. They must be sisters or something, and both of their swords seemed to have death qualities about them.

I stood there at basically the edge of the forest and watched as they worked together to defeat the beast. The male seemed to be doing the distracting and the female was trying to get close with the sword, it took them a couple more tries after I arrived and then the female yelled something about being 'done' and then cut the monster with her blade.

I inches closer, using my vision to try and see what was happening as the monster suddenly seized and fell to its belly. They both then went to each other and congratulated each other's performance while I used one of my enhancements and looked at the system of the lizard like creature. It didn't seem to have any internal bleeding, and I didn't see any other sword wounds on it besides that one, little, cut.

I absentmindedly went closer to look at its heart to see that it just stopped, like some other force acted upon it and killed it that way.

"Well now that that's over. We can finally gather all of these up and head back inside, it's been a long day" the male, and young too with black hair from what I saw as his armor faded away. I felt something coming up on me and I just flicked up my tail up and a rather well built male in green clothing went flying over the trees and the two that were just fighting.

They looked up and stepped to the side as he used some kind of string to lessen his fall, and then they all got out their weapons again and got in defensive stances. I didn't know what to do, this was really only supposed to be a sort of recon mission to see who they were.

"I can sense you" the female said, quiet but strong, "Come out"

I looked around for a second to try and disguise my appearance by something else, and all I saw were trees, trees, and more trees, and I was not gonna try and use leaves. I stepped out of my hiding place and looked at them in the eyes to show that I was not afraid of them. They all seemed to gasp in shock when they saw me, but then the female one stepped forwards.

"What are you doing here creature?" She asked firmly and I looked around for something to talk with, but seeing nothing I just nodded my head towards the dead monster. I looked back at them to see if they understood and the female just nodded.

I was turning to leave when I felt something rushing at me from behind. I instinctively jumped up into the air as the female went rushing under me. Then I flapped my wings hard downward in her direction, blowing her forwards and of balance while I landed again.

I looked at her with confusion and shock, why would she just attack me like that? I didn't do anything to them, and I certainly didn't attack them. So why did she attack me?

"Wait Akame why are you attacking it?" The young male with the armor said, "it hasn't done anything to us." I looked at her pointedly flicking my tail back at him to show that he was right.

"It's  seen where our new base is, and we can't let it go back to whatever pack or leader it has" the female, Akame said holding her sword horizontally and rushing me again, but I caught the feint and when I dodged I pretended to be surprised when her sword suddenly changed directions and dragged along the pad on the bottom of my paw. The scrapping noise seemed to make the other two come out of their shock and the younger one activated his armor again and the green clothed one stayed behind and started to make something with the strings.

I didn't get to watch him finish as the two rushed me once again from both sides, I thought about activating my collar but I didn't feel like I needed it at the moment. I pushed away the girls sword and swept the male's feet from underneath him with my tail, and as I held the sword, with the girl still trying to push forwards to find somewhere on my paw to cut me. I felt something cutting through the air towards me. I looked backwards to see that the green dressed one had thrown a spear connected to fine threads on the left hand. And another spear was in the other hand.

I pushed away the sword, smacked the male in the armor to the side with my tail, and ducked as the spear came flying overhead. Then I sidestepped as another spear appeared and they both were drawn back to the owner. I kept at this for a couple more hours, the armored male eventually getting off from the ground and rushing me... or trying to as sometimes I just hit him to the ground again and defended against the others.

Eventually we all paused and looked up as a large shadow of a flying creature went overhead. I grinned as two figures dropped down and then another two dropped from the creature. The first two consisted of a female with what looked to be an over-sized rifle, a stream of energy cane from it and I was too mesmerized to avoid it. It slammed into my head sending me to the ground, to which caused the two males to cheer as the other two landed beside them. I lifted myself from the ground and shook my head.

I looked up and jumped to the side as a large, bull-like man landed where I had been. The impact it caused looked like it might've had enough force to crush my back ribs and break my spine. I looked around warily as the small army surrounded me. The women that came down with the bull-man had a metal right arm and silver-white hair.

"What's going on here?" she said and I looked at the other five behind me, and the three that I was fighting were leaning on their weapons or legs breathing hard. I cocked my head at them, were they really trying so hard against me. I saw the lights on that rifle starting to light up and I narrowed my eyes at it and created a shield of ice and metal in-front of my head just as it fired, the blast wasn't as strong as before but it still melted away the ice and heated up the metal of my shield and reflected off. 

I peered from above my shield as the light stopped and then looked around, the three that I was fighting were standing by the other three that had fallen from the creature, wait where was the bull-man. I quickly turned and saw the bull-man going to punch my side. I quickly turned and blocked his punch, grabbing his hand as his strike landed and spinning around quickly before letting him fly sideways across the field into the three that I had fought with earlier. Then I noticed that the girl was gone, the one that looked similar to the other one from Esdeath's team from yesterday, and then I felt something metal and sharp slide under the scales of my neck and stop there as the silver-white haired lady stepped forwards. 

I was shocked, how did the girl get past my defenses now, unless...was she faking being tired this whole time to get this opening? No she couldn't have known that it was a good idea to get under my scales instead of just going for something like my eyes, mouth, or the underside of my belly/tail, so maybe it was just a guess that worked out. I growled in acceptance and bowed my head, this was a worthy opponent and I was fine with dying to someone who could do this. 

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