Chapter 41: I meet a Giant Hummingbird
[I can smell the sea!]
Korven laughed. [Finally! It's way faster on dragon back indeed!]
[I still can't fly while carrying you though.]
He looked down at me. [Isn't it good enough you can finally go airborne on your own?]
You say that, but I can only fly while using both fire and air fusion, and I need light fusion to keep it up for longer than 10 minutes cause of fatigue...
We cleared a hill, and I took a deep breath in shock.
[Pretty isn't it?]
The sea...
It shimmered in the sunlight, a bright blue, with a large stretch of land jutting out into it with a port town built on it, but I obviously couldn't go there.
[...yeah. It is beautiful.]
But now... how was I going to cross it? And how far away were the dragon isles?
A sense of being watched came over me as I felt another's eyes upon us.
I hunched down, anxiety at being found so close to our goal!
'Where is it? What's seen us?!'
A low buzzing came into my ears, as a sense of danger began to grow.
[Fuck, Dragon! We've been spotted by the Beast Lord of this area!]
[The actual FUCK does THAT mean Korven?!]
[It means a powerful awakened beast is coming at us!]
I started running!
[The fuck is it attacking us for?!]
[Maybe it's threatened by how much magic you casually give off? I don't know!]
Well shit!
The buzzing grew louder, and I looked up.
...
'HOLY FUCK THAT IS THE BIGGEST HUMMINGBIRD I'VE EVER SEEN!'
A swift rush of air magic began to flow so strongly I felt it gathering!
'Fuck fuck fuck fuck!'
Lightning began to crackle along the fast moving wings of the FUCKING HUMVEE SIZED HUMMINGBIRD!
I'm just going to ignore the fact it also has 4 wings, not 2, and it's got a TERRIFYINGLY sharp beak!
As the lightning gathered, my mind raced!
'Change the charges to redirect it? No, it's will is too thick in the magic, it'll just force it to hit us anyways!'
The lightning shot out!
In my panic suddenly instinct rose along with anger.
'You know what?! FUCK YOU!'
I'm a dragon! You think your magic scares me? You have any idea how much air magic I got in my astral body alone? I'm not scared of your shit!
I tossed Korven off as I came to a stop, using water magic to catch him and curl around him protectively, and raised my head defiantly at the lightning bolt headed my way!
Air magic filled me in fusion, and as the lightning hit I guided it with my own magic flow, channeling it through my body down to my tail, and then back up to my head!
[SCREW OFF!]
My mouth opened, and it's magic enforced and altered by my own mana shot out of my mouth, now harmful to it thanks to me interchanging the wavelength of mana with my own!
I saw it's eyes widen slightly as the lightning bolt went into me, realizing what was about to happen as it sensed it gathering and spooling, but it had no chance to get away before-
"ZAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
I knocked it out of the sky!
"BAM!" It hit the earth!
[Next time you don't FUCK WITH A DRAGON!]
After a sudden silence an unfamiliar voice actually spoke!
"You're a dragon?"
I blinked as a slightly disbelief human female stepped out of the dust.
What the fuck?
Where'd the bird go?
Who's this lady with green hair that looks strangely like feathers-ohhhhh.
[You can take on a human form? How?!]
She frowned. "Any magic beast can once their lifeforce evolves with their element, though "human" is a stretch. Two legged is correct, yes. Did you say you're a dragon?"
[Yes. I am. How did you shrug off my lightning?]
"I'm a Wirseer. Air magic isn't too hard to channel, same as you did." She frowned with a tilt of her head.
"Sorry, I thought you were a strange form of Lycan."
[A what?]
"Wolf." She simply replied.
I turned to look at Korven. [What?]
[An awakened wolf evolves into a Lycan, a beats of fire and air magic.]
'...'
[...what if... it doesn't awaken those two elements?]
[Huh?] Korven looked at me weird.
Did I say something wrong?
[...uh. Each species of animal only has two elements they CAN awaken to. Wolves will awaken to fire and air. Raccoons to light and dark. Bears to dark and earth. Etc.]
Oh.
Well fuck me. I just assumed they got to choose like two-legs do. Alright.
I turned back to the hummingbird-lady.
[So why attack me if you thought I was a Lycan?]
"A Lycan lord beast has been trying to court me and sent messengers threatening to take my territory if I don't become his mate."
'...'
Um. Wow. I don't even know what to say to that.
I mean... she is drop-dead gorgeous as a woman, but she's very much a flat chest with a good shaped butt, but not big...
No wait, obviously a magic lord beast has a different sense of taste than I do!
She sighed. "He's a notorious pervert for any magic beast with a nice ass. I'm not the first he's tried to take, but I won't allow him to take me like the others."
Alright let me just shut the fuck up then.
...I feel like if Bast were here she'd immediately track down this Lycan and burn his balls off.
Hmm. Should I do that just as a favor to her?
No wait, what am I thinking? Why would I piss off a lord beats capable of threatening other lord beasts!?
I can already tell just from this Hummingbird's aura alone I'm outclassed! My magic amount might be actually higher perhaps already, but her control and battle instinct is clearly much higher from the amount of danger I sense.
[Well... okay. I don't know any Lycans. I'm just trying to safely reach the Dragon Isles.]
She looked at me weirdly. "...can you fly for that long?"
Huh?
[How long?]
"Well... it takes a two-leg vessel 15 days with good wind and weather to reach the dragon isles."
...fuck!
Isn't that almost the distance between Europe and North America if their vessels sail at the same speed as sailing ships?
It took Columbus 20 days to reach America! How far are these islands!?
She raised an eyebrow at my look.
"Well... I can let you stay in these lands awhile, if you don't mind managing a few smaller problems of the area I haven't been able to take care of thanks to the Lycan's meddling."
I bowed my head. [Thanks. I'll take you up on that for awhile until I figure out what I want to do next.]
Sigh... now what?