“It's actually not that bad to be honest. It was pretty hard to get used to this new lifestyle but I think I'm fine now! I'm of course talking about this whole dragon-marriage thing.

At the beginning, I really did feel comfortable around Diana (that's the name of my dragon) but by now I'm quite happy about everything that happened! I mean yes, it's still kinda strange to love a dragon and society may not accept our everlasting bound, but know what? Fuck them!

I never was as happy as I am right now inside this dragon lair together with my lovely Diana. I mean, who wouldn't love to be in my position? I have a beautiful mate with blood red scales, golden wonderful eyes and red spikes growing out of her back and tail! Seriously, look at that beauty! And the real important thing is that she's absolute loyal to me! Dragon's only choose one partner in their whole life even if said partner dies, so I won't have to fear that she will ever betray me like that whore of an ex-wife I have!

We still can't have sex though.”

-From Jeff Rutherions 'How I married a Dragon!'

*Sirius POV*

I fall to the ground while clutching the bits that are left of my chest. I'm kind of lucky when I think about it. If that stone was any bigger it would probably have split me into twoparts! That's a really scary thought.

It looks like the ogre is out of breath at the moment, time for me to act I guess. I need get over with this as soon as possible, one or two more hits and I'm a goner! I cast the last of my three intermediate ranked darkness spells, Dark Field.

The ogre looks confused as the whole place gets completely shunned of from any light. This spell is practically like a AoE Shadow Cloak and since it's day, it's draining a LOT of mana. I use the darkness to my advantage and turn around to run away.

…

What?

Disappointed?

Fuck you.

I'm not fighting this!

I run out of the Dark Field range and hear a loud roar. I turn around to see my field shatter into small pieces and vanish into smoke. Did he just break it? He could do something like that? The ogre looks at me angrily and charges forward. Alright, time to test out if his flesh is as hard as his skin. I cast 'Frost Prison' and the cold spears easily piece through his flesh.

Nice! Should have done a nice amount of damage!

…

It didn't slow him down though. He keeps on charging at me with all those spears still inside pf him! Shit, what's wrong with him?! I cast gravedigger to hide underground and I hear how he collides with a tree that was behind me a few seconds ago. Before I'm able to cancel the spell and run away he just grabs into the earth and pulls me out.

“…” (Sirius)

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“…” (Doro)

“Can we talk about this?” (Sirius)

He throws me and I fly in the air for a few seconds before crashing into yet another tree. We are really ruining this little mountain forest.

You took 789 Damage! 3841 Health left!

I try to get up so I can get the hell out of here once again, but before I'm able to do so he comes flying from the sky and steps onto my lower body, breaking me into two parts in the process.

You took 3490 Damage! 351 Health left!

Warning! Health low!

You don't say?! Fuck, if I were human and had any necessary organs or blood I would have already died!

“Haha! Doro showed you his strength! Now you at Doros feet! If you beg for your life maybe Doro will let you stay as his servant!” (Doro)

…

Are you fucking serious? A god damn ogre is acting all haughty and arrogant in front of me? Well I can understand why he's so fucking sure of himself, but I still have a few tricks in my arsenal!

It's time to test out my second intermediate ranked Necromancy spell, 'At Deaths Door'. This spell is only useable if my Health’s in the red area. It allows me to quickly summon a great number of undead if I have the corpses ready, which I luckily have.

I bring out the goblin corpses from inside my Bag of Holding and throw them at the ogre. He looks very confused but also very angry. I activate the spell and the goblins attack the ogre while one of them takes what's left of me and runs.

The ogre quickly finishes off the goblins and turns to the goblin carrying me and runs after us. Now the great thing is, that I can just keep on casting spells until I run out of mana while the faster undead goblin keeps on running! I face Doro and cast one salve of Ice shards after the other. The shards keep on crashing onto him and since most of his skin is burned away, all of them penetrate into his flesh. I continue to cast the spells and after firing for the 38th time, the goblin that carried me collapses.

Shit! The timer of the resurrection spell ran out! Doro slows down as he sees me on the ground and slowly walks towards me.

I ready myself for my death as Doro falls to the ground and stops moving.

Hm?

What happened?

I take a look at Doro and now see that all those shards did a great number on him. His upper body is completely shred of any flesh and only bones remain, a few shards even went through his throat! It seems like he only kept running because of pure willpower.

Fuck, that was way to close! I have to admit that his willpower and stamina were amazing though. If he wasn't so determined to kill my I'd ask him to serve me...

Hm?

Wait, is that?

Yes, it is!

He actually had a soul! There are very few monsters that actually have one, since only special and unique ones have them, but it seems like Doro was one of those. Well, I guess with an ability like his he does count as a special monster. I mean how many people do you know that can instantly grow two meters and suddenly have green Body markings? He grew back to his normal size after dying by the way.

Let's just take his soul and eat his bones to start growing back those missing body parts.

…

Actually, I have a better idea.

I use Soul Shackle on his slowly fading soul and raise his dead body. I can raise pretty much all humanoid creatures right now, but they will be pretty weak since their strength depend on my intelligence and level of necromancy. I'm also not able to raise really big things right now. The now way weaker and mindless Doro stands in front of me. Let's see if that works. 'Soul Link'

Welcome to the Soul Link Configuration Tool! You currently posses:

"1" Major Soul (Cold), "1" Warrior Soul

"1" Undead Minion (Doro)

A Link between Doro and 1 Warrior Soul can be created.

Warrior Soul? What's that? I just keep finding new things, huh? Anyway, I link the Warrior Soul to the Undead Doro and a new Message pops up.

Congratulations! You Successfully created an Undead Berserker! He will be added to your followers.

Current name: Doro, Change? Y/N

He certainly was a berserker...

Anyway, I can even change his name? I wonder if he'll keep his memories after the link. I'm not going to change his name though, that would be rude. Now, awaken Doro!

As I say those words, a bright light appears next to the floating orb that is his soul and it quickly fuses with said soul. After the light and soul became one, they enter Doros body. The undead spasms for a while and then finally stops. He slowly opens his eyes and his mouth.

“You... you bought Doro back...” (Doro)

“Yes I did, how is your new body? It's not that bad being an undead, right?” (Doro)

“…Why? Even though Doro tried to smash you?!” (Doro)

“Because you are strong and your will is incredible. Even while you were practically dead you just kept rushing after me, even though you could just have left. I admire determination like that and more importantly, I can use that. You will become a great asset in the future so we can see this as an investment.” (Sirius)

“…Thank you, master.” (Doro)

“Hm? Why are you thanking me? Did you not understand, I'm going to use you and also throw you away if you prove to be not worth the afford?” (Sirius)

“…Doro will work hard!” (Doro)

“…Okay? Then start by picking me up and collecting all those goblin corpses, I need to regenerate.” (Sirius)

“Yes Sir!” (Doro)

…

I feel like I made the right decision.