Book 2: Chapter 80
John
“There, his body will not fall off the broom.” Said Rahrraam. He’d used his whip to essentially hog tie my brother to dangle a foot or so off the back of the broom, while he turned into a rat, hopping in my mate’s pocket.
“Good, but we should go slowly just in case.” I said pursing my lips. I hated that this was how we would transport him, but until we got a coffin and paid for additional transport, he would be like this until we got back to the coven.
“I hope that we don’t encounter the dragon then….” Said Heidi, getting a stick. And having Rahrraam rub himself all over it. “But just in case, I think if I imbue this with magic and throw it, it’ll float a little ways away and confuse our scent.” She said with a small smile.
“Alright.” I said letting her whisper into the stick and it glowed a moment. She had me toss it as hard as I could, and I got on the broom. She stayed only about 10 feet off the ground, and I swear we went about 50 miles an hour. I hated being up here, but it was really early, barely sunrise.
We hoped to get a good start on the flying, since it seemed the sun was only up until about 3 in the afternoon, and it would be too dangerous to fly at night so low. I wouldn’t risk her flying off above the treeline in case Frag’naw was still out searching for either us or a meal…
She dodged them with ease, but I was in the back behind her, damn near wanting to scream. I hated magical stuff, and honestly, I was freaked out by how little control I had holding onto the wood of the broom for dear life. There was no way in hell that I would ever do this unless I had too, but feeling how giddy she was almost made me ashamed of myself.
We both had to be silent in case we would attract attention, and in the distance I heard the snarl of a dragon on the wind.
John, he sounds pretty close. Linked Heidi.
I know, just stay low, but maybe speed up if you can. We’ll have to camp tonight, and fuck knows I don’t want to fight a dragon as old as my father. I linked back.
We only flew an hour more at double speed. We made it to a nook under a tree that was somewhere not too far from my old scent. If it wasn’t for my nose, we’d probably be lost, since I marked where I was going as I ran. It was likely how Heidi found me in the first place, but now it would be too light for her to notice since it’d been snowed over by now, and the pawprints were gone.
When we landed, I took off my clothes and sniffed deeply, not finding anything. We would go hungry tonight, but if she went the speed, we would get to the coven soon. Then I could call my father since I left my phone, and we could organize something…
I was so sore when I got off the broom that I could hear my back pop when I shifted back.
“I will keep watch while you two sleep.” Said the demon, shifting to his true form and sitting in the snow. It didn’t seem to affect him at all, but I would still at least offer to help.
“I can take second watch.” I said shifting so Heidi could sleep on top of me. My fur was thicker than hers, and she pet my head when she climbed on my back… it felt nicer than the day before, and I laid my head on the snow, having the wind blocked by Rahrraam.
“And I can change into a rat.” He said factually. “I can sleep within her pocket as I did all today. I am rested, and you two have to hold onto a broom. I can’t have you two falling off so close to the end of your journey. Sleep.” He said looking at the fire. “Also the dragon already knows we are here, but for some reason he isn’t behaving aggressively this time. In the morning he likely will approach us to talk.” He said as if it were common knowledge.
“How do you know that? I asked and he shook his head.
“I’ve known since he was so close earlier today. From the sounds of his snarls, I could tell he was within firing range, yet he chose not to.”
“Then the only thing we can do is rest up and listen for his arrival. Heidi can’t fly with the moon overcast by the clouds.” I said looking up. She nodded, drifting off. She’d used her powers the entire day, and also healed me. She would crash if we kept going….
“I will gauge how to respond with his actions. Sleep.” He commanded. I didn’t fully trust him, but I knew that he was to guard Heidi, and if anything happened to her, the Horned One would be beyond upset with him. That much I understood through what I’d seen of not only his actions, but that of the others these past few weeks staying out here in the middle of nowhere.
A wolf could quite literally live out here and probably never see a human.
I smelled dragon, and I popped my eyes open, but I was a little blinded by how bright the snow was.
“I said Wake up.” Said Rahrraam, shaking me.
I wiggled a little bit so Heidi would wake up, and when she scented the air, she got up and grabbed the broom. I shimmied on some pants, and Rahrraam stomped out the fire with snow before we took to the sky. Our tricks didn’t work this time, and my mate was weaving between the trees as best as she could, but she couldn’t go faster than him only fifteen feet or so off the ground. Dodging trees took priority this low, but up high we might be roasted. The dragon had as of yet to actually tell us if he was friend or foe.
“We can’t go any faster, but maybe we can trick him again.” I suggested, we both saw him fly over us.
“That won’t work.” She said slowing to a stop. He’d landed in our path, making it clear that we should give up…...
“Shit.” I mumbled. I had on the necklace…. Hopefully I could use the gauntlets if he was intending a fight… but they had as of yet to show me that they were working…
He only roared; he didn’t try roasting us this time.
We landed slowly, and his gaze on us looked as if he thought nothing of us, but his low rumble was no longer hostile…
I blinked my eyes to see a man naked, with golden-coppery hair…. The same color as the scales of the Mighty One.
“…If you wanted to kill us , you would have done so while we were asleep. What reason do you wish to speak to us?” I asked.
He looked at me in confusion. The language he spoke was nothing I’d heard before, but thankfully, Rahrraam could translate. He came out Heidi’s pocket and became the giant goat that he was. “He speaks the old tongue… One I have not heard in a long time. He said why is the dead wolf tied like a fatted hog?”
“Tell him my brother committed crimes against the Wolf King, and as such his body is being taken back for burial.” I told him, and when it was translated, he nodded.
“He says that it is noble, and that he is glad he didn’t eat us. He also says that originally, he was going to until he saw the light from the In-between’s gates open, and you smell of it.”
“Tell him that I communed with the Pale Lady in regards to my brother’s soul, but also let him know that this world has changed much. Also I suck at history but that’s a dead language, I can tell that much. He should know.”
“I’ll be sure to tell him that.” Said Rahrraam before Frag’naw nodded again. He looked a little saddened at knowing he spoke a language no one would understand, but I was glad that he chose not to fight us. I could smell that he was pretty much a King in his own right… but out here he only rules himself.
He poked his palm with a claw, and said likely an oath. “He says that he vows on his word that he will no longer hunt us, or our people, and he will not attack unless we strike first. He also is saying that he will need to speak with the coven to learn the modern languages that he may stay up to date with the new ones.”
“Tell him that we will take him to the witches, but he must not lay hands on them either.” Said Heidi.
“He also vows this in blood.” Translated Rahrraam.
“Then let’s go.” Said my mate, summoning her broom. It came a little slower than usual since Herrakken’s body was bound to it, but we all got on without a problem. Her familiar fit in her deep pockets, and I held onto her from the back since she was the one driving this thing. We hovered off the ground slowly, waiting for Frag’naw, and he seemed to patiently wait for us to get out the way.
He became an enormous dragon again. The same way a plane looks small in the sky, but massive in person was the same size difference he held. He was honestly a few stories tall, and he glittered bright enough that the light reflected off his scales. He was pretty much a copperish golden disco ball. With a heaping flap, he was in the air, and he whooshed past us, but he still seemed to purposefully fly slow enough for us to get going.
We flew again but this time behind us trailed one of the oldest drakes to ever live. His father was the first dragon, Saiyatok, King of the Sky. It was said he was double the size of any known living drake, so that dragon was even bigger than Frag’naw… and that was a little hard to imagine.
As it was, his wingspan was double his height. He blacked out the sky to anything underneath his belly, though now he roared dominance. I knew that sound no matter the species. If there were other drakes around, he let it be known that it was his territory, but the hair on the back of my neck stood a little.
The sun set, but we continued to fly because Heidi felt it was important that we get there as soon as possible, and also that we make sure that they knew we were safe.
“I wish that we could send word somehow that we had him trailing us.” I said briefly glancing his direction.
“I do.” She said going slower until we were under him. “Now it won’t look like we’re being chased.”
I could tell she was getting tired, and I had no idea what time it was, but she kept going. We flew like this for at least five more hours, going at least 80 miles an hour. The dragon above us sailed on the winds, barely having to flap since his wings carried him well. No one really spoke since he couldn’t understand us, but also more importantly, we didn’t want him to change his mind or become upset. Rahrraam could only translate his spoken language. I doubted he could understand dragon dialect.
As it was even if he did, the only one who could understand him as a rat would be Heidi anyway, and we would have no way to say anything back in response. My mate rubbed her eyes, but stayed steady, but I could tell she was getting tired. I could see the sun setting now, which meant the moon would rise soon, and it made me worry about how she could keep this up.
I could see the faintest shimmer in the distance, almost like the sun was reflecting off glass, and that had to be the barrier. I don’t think I’d ever been so happy to see magic.
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