As the humans all rush towards me, I throw the cart towards them. Which causes the ones it landed on to stop, but the rest of them simply move towards me.
Then I as they approach, I see their speed suddenly increase, spirit arts? Keeping my eyes on their sword I dodge away, but then I am hit in my stomach by his fist.
Seeing the rest of the scum running towards me, I let out a roar with all the might I had. When it reaches the humans, they all fall to their knees; now is my chance to run.
As I try to move my feet a collapse to my knees yet again. I can’t move, my strength is completely gone.
“YOU ANNOYING BITCH,” is what I hear as I am kicked in the face.
Looking up I see the leader of these humans towering over me. “Hold her down.”
Lots of different humans pile on top of me and keep me still. “Let go of me, you dirty humans.”
“Say that again bitch,” Is what one of the men on top of me says raising his fist.
But then as he strikes my face his hand starts to bleed. As he screams in pain, the leader of the men says, “You really ought to keep your mouth shut because my patience is waving. Boys go get the little dragon.”
Fiercely fighting against the people holding me down I scream, “Don’t you dare touch him, you bastards.”
Grabbing my face, he says, “Listen here you fucking reptile, it took a ridiculous amount of the tranquillizers and muscle relaxers to get you into your weakened state; that stuff isn’t cheap. So, I intend to make the full value of that back.”
“Let go of me, you disgusting monkey.”
Sighing he says, “And now I am annoyed.” Throwing my face on the ground, he takes out his sword and says, “Didn’t you break one of my men’s arms over you stupid horn? Hold her down boys.”
As the men hold me down with his sword, he slashes my horn causing blood to spurt out making me scream in pain. “Wait, despite being made up of scales, your horn is an actual organ? This really will make me a fortune.”
“Stop!! Don’t you dare!!!”
“Oh, but I like you so much I really want you to stay on Terrafide forever.”
As he continues to hack away at my horn, I scream, “Stop, stop, stop!!!”
“Keep her steady boys!”
I can feel it my horn breaking away with each swing, if it breaks, I will never be able to return home, I will be banned from nirvana till I die. No, No, No, NO!!!”
With tears falling from my eyes, I say, “Please, stop.”
For a moment he stops, and looks down at me, then moments later he laughs and says, “Fuck you.” Then with his next slash, he breaks off my horn.”
I let out the largest scream I have today in that moment which makes the humans around me back off, but in my weakness, I am unable to move. Kicking me in my face he says, “You really are pissing me off. Boys strip her, then descale the rest of her body, we will make a killing on this.”
“But won’t that hurt her value?”
“We won’t be selling her since I am pretty sure that the scales on her body grow back. These purple and pink scales will make a killing, now start.”
As the man walks away, the rest of the humans start to take off my clothes then I see a women walk over to me and say, “Move away you dumbass, this requires a delicate touch.”
Over me, she says, “Now miss dragon let’s get acquainted with each other.” Then with a strange blade, she starts to cut off my scales, one by one.
The pain I feel throughout my body is immense, so much so that my mind goes hazy. The only thing I remember is the pain, and the laughing faces of all the humans.
-Break-
As I lay on the floor with blood coming from where my scales used to be, I shiver there on the floor. I can never go back home; I can never see them ever again. But, but at least Cyrus escaped.
Picking my weakened body up they carry me towards the woods. After a little bit of walking, I hear the leader of the men say, “Look who we found.”
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Dropping me on the floor, in front of me I see Cyrus. In disbelief, I say, “How did they catch you, with your speed you should have reached the coast long before now.”
Laughing the man says, “You won’t believe it, we found him sitting still in the forest. Then we just scooped him up.”
“Wait, what do you mean he was sitting still? Cyrus, why didn’t you run!?”
“I c-c-c-came to a split path, and I didn’t know which way to go so I waited for you to come help me.”
Suddenly all the people around me start to laugh, and then the man in front says, “This child must be an idiot, we are facing the sea if you ran directly down either path you would have reached the sea. My god I never thought I would ever see a thing like this, it is too funny.”
As all the people around Cyrus start laughing, I just look at him in disbelief. Everything, after everything I sacrificed to keep this child happy and alive, he couldn’t do the bare minimum of choosing which path to go down.
It is so fun I could laugh, and so I do; as all the humans around Cyrus start to laugh I do as well, because it is just too damn funny. Cyrus screams, “SISTER!” As we are taken away from each other.
But I just say, “Bye Cyrus,” With a smile.
-Break-
As I sit in my cage, I just lay there unable to move. They have infused my body with so much of that medicine I can barely feel anything. Day, after day, I lay in this cage as they come to rip my newly grown scales off to sell them.
In this cage I completely lost all sense of time, because this was my life from now on, and after I accepted this fact time just passed by in mere seconds. I don’t know how many days, months, or even years have passed but at the end of it all I do know that no one is coming for me.
As I see the man towering over my body, a single tear falls from my eyes as I say, “Mother, father.”
The man hearing my words starts to smile, but moments later after a loud noise appears, he jumps up and says, “What the fuck.”
Moments later I see a curved sword slice the top half of his head off. Then over me, I see a woman wearing black coverings bend down and say, “You’re severely injured everywhere.”
Another woman dressed similarly says, “Is that a dragon?”
“Yes it is and she is in horrible shape, tell our king to come immediately this one will need extra help.”
As the second woman runs away, the first one says, “Don’t worry from now on everything will be ok.” After she says this, my eyelids start to feel heavy, it feels like a giant weight has just left my soldiers, so I just fall asleep.
-Break-
I don’t really remember what happened next in the cage I was in, but the next time I opened my eyes I was in a bed. Then moments later, I see a woman dressed like a servant walk into my room.
Upon seeing me she says, “You’re awake,” Then screams down the hall, “SHE’S AWAKE.”
Soon I'm explained the situation. “You see the people of our country have rescued you from the horrible people that captured you, and if it so pleases we would enjoy it if you were to stay in this country with us.”
As the woman continues to explain the situation to me, all I can do is sit there lifeless. What am I supposed to do now? I simply thought I was going to stay there till I died. I have nowhere to return to, or anyone I want to find.
As I continued to live in the Jedidiah the sole question on my mind is, why am I still alive? My pride as a dragon is shattered and gone, all I am is a pathetic corpse just hanging on to life. What value is there in living like this?
Sitting on the top of the palace I look down on all the people below. “I cannot smile like a single one of them.”
“It’s dangerous to be this high up.”
Turning my head, I see the human that is the king of Jedidiah, “Don’t bother me human, I have no time for you.”
“Hey this is my palace, I hold the right to bother anyone here whenever I want!”
“You annoying pes-,” My words are interrupted by the sudden sound of a rumble from my belly.
“I see so your hangry. I see even dragons really lose control when they are hungry.”
Grabbing the human with my tail, I throw him off the top of the palace. “How irritating.”
Two hour later
“We meet again, dragon.”
Turning my head to him I say, “It seems once wasn’t enoug-.” Before I finish, he stuffed some food in my mouth.
“That’s a triple deluxe supreme heavenly cream cadavre, like a cream puff but a hundred times sweeter.”
As I try to take the food out of my mouth, I suddenly realize how delicious it is and bite into it. I take bite after bite against the large confectionary until it is all gone.
“I heard you dragons eat food a lot denser than what us human eats, so I prepared that for you. I don’t know how it compares to dragon cuisine, but I can guarantee I put a lot of heart into it.”
“More.”
“Come again.”
“I said give me more!”
Handing me another cadavre, he sits beside me and says in a thinking position, “I need some advice.”
“Now why would I listen to that.” Throwing another cadavre over to me I say, “You have until I finish human.”
“You see I and thinking about executing twelve young girls.”
“Why?”
“BECAUSE AT BOOK CLUB THEY SAID LADY FLÉAU WAS A HORRIBLE CHARACTER!”
“Who is this?”
“My favourite character ever.”
“And you’re willing to execute some children over insulting her?”
“Yes.”
“You sad little man.”
“You don’t understand, not only did they call her scum, but they also said she didn’t deserve the crown prince when that horny bastard didn’t deserve her. That level of insult can’t be tolerated.”
“Why do you care so much!?”
“Because she is my wife!”
“A character from a book?”
“I don’t know why you’re acting like this is hard to understand, just imagine if someone stabbed your baby.”
“That’s is a false equivalence, and she is a character in a story, she doesn’t care about you.”
“Yes she does, I read all the words she says and I understand her character better than anyone. We have an unbreakable connection, we are married.”
“By that logic, anyone else who understands her as much as you do would also be her husband. Guess that makes her a slut then.”
Standing up he screams while pointing, “UNACCEPTABLE!”
With the back of my hand, I slap him back down and say, “Grow up you man-child.”
“But what am I supposed to do I can’t change my feelings.”
“Then execute the girls then, aren’t you the king?”
“But I can’t do it because I love my citizens too much.”
“How annoying.”
“I guess my only option is to convince them to accidentally fall off a building, what do you think?”
As he turns his face to me, I push him off the building while looking at him with disgust. “What an idiot.”