A lot of research enters every chapter and I often go back to past written chapters to be sure I don't mix things up and along the line find out new issues that need settlement. And there's the perfectionist part in me. I keep feeling 'No, something's not right.' 'This scene shouldn't be here or maybe it should?' There's the lazy part of me who just wanna chill and binge-watch movies or just game, especially when I know that the next chapter entails loads of research.
Then there's secular work, eating much into the time I'd like to use writing. Sometimes I stare at a blank page throughout the day but at night... when I'm dead tired and just wanna sleep, I'll be sent to the computer and start writing. It's even night over here now. Writing is a kind of therapy to me, not just a hobby. Don't mind me too much. Maybe it's the brain-fried me talking...
That aside,
Next chapters... Don't worry if they don't come early. It's the dreaded battle scenes I've been trying to dodge. But it's come upon me and so, there's lots to be done. I might actually even need Sirilean Luna's help coz I feel I lost my touch. Er... goodnight/day. Gotta get some sleep now.
On the desolate, tiled road ran two vehicles. Rolandro was driving the first one with Zyair as the front seat passenger while Lavana was alone at the back. The other one was being driven by Dante with Oliver at the front while Phoenix and Mel were seated at the back. "So you actually never possessed a phone?" Mel asked with furrowed eyebrows. "No. I've never had a need for it," replied Phoenix with a shrug. The others in the car looked perplexed. How could someone not need a phone in the modern world? "If I get even a small one for you, won't you utilise it?" Mel questioned."Dunno," was Lavana's mate's unsure response."Lavana needs one," Mel pointed out."If it's to hear her voice when not in the pack, ok. I'll get nice ones for the two of us when we get back to the pack." Phoenix said and the others sighed. Seems like this guy doesn't want a phone nor would he think of using it, if not for his mate. "So... what are your hobbies?" Phoenix questioned Mel.The latter replied, "I li
At the final moment, the witch queen evaded both fireballs that Lavana had hurled at her, while the latter eluded the series of magical energy balls that the spruce-haired woman sent her way using her sceptre. "Mph! I don't believe that you can dodge forever!" she launched another ball of magic that successfully hit Lavana's stomach. But contrary to what she expected, Lavana wasn't wounded. Instead, she was patting her belly. "You..." the unhappy witch pointed at her rival, unwilling to take this outcome, "I don't believe you're invincible. Take this!" she launched bigger energy balls at her foe at a snappier rate. She must take this abnormal lass down! Lavana wasn't intimidated at all. Instead, she appeared chuffed at the thought of the thrilling battle, actively dodging all the attacks cast at her. Her mate and the rest had withdrawn to a hiding spot. The attacks that she avoided hit some trees and ravaged the road. At this juncture, no car could pass as there were several holes c
Lavana cancelled her invisibility and the woman could now see her ahead with the ice chain that Lavana held. “How does it feel, witchy?” she asked with a smile, pulling on the chain, resulting in the queen grabbing the chain wrapped around her neck, trying to free herself from its torment, but as she finally liberated herself and tried to exhale, another one wrapped around her neck. This one, and the former, weren’t launched from the lake but her foe’s bare hands. ‘What kind of enemy did I encounter? Why can’t she just die?’ the queen lamented in her heart. More chains, launched from the lake this time, wrapped around her body and endeavoured to squeeze her. Another one from the lake, a much larger one wrapped around the sceptre again, using more force than usual, in an attempt to break it. The queen’s right eye turned sacramento too, and a black hat appeared on her head, one of a high-ranked witch’s. “Break!” she hollered and all the ice chains squeezing her, and even the very one
That explains why she was capable of flying! This means there are other abilities that this lass hadn't shown her yet."You're not the only one who can control trees, witchy," Lavana spread her hands sideways and raised them up soon after. The heaps of fallen trees started levitating."Have a dose of your own medicine," she made a pushing gesture, hurling them towards the queen who turned around and started to dodge. And those trees she evaded came back for her. A sneaky glance at Lavana showed that her enemy's eyes had become those of a dragon's, even the claws had appeared.The exuded aura from her foe gave her chills for the first time. She required no one to point out that the last of Lavana's tribrid identity was a true royal dragon. So her three forms were of royalty. How? "Little girl, how about this?""Just shut up and calmly meet your end, witchy," Lavana spat, making another pushing gesture after forcefully uprooting several more trees in addition to the ones already attack
"And also what about the road? We need to fill it up with something at least," Rolandro pointed out. The road was badly damaged, and no car could pass as it is!"Don't fret. It'll be taken care of. Let's leave," Phoenix said but the others still sported worried faces. He sighed, "My subordinates will help out to the best of their ability,""Subordinates?" Dante blurted out, eyes widened.Lavana's mate cocked a brow, "Is it that bizarre? I'm a person having underlings, okay? You guys just haven't seen them. We can run back to the hotel. My mate and I just survived a tiring battle. We can't really hold you all and fly. Sorry,""As long as you guys come back alive, that's more than enough. Let's use this chance to exercise," Zyair took off his t-shirt, "I'll run in wolf form. You two can sit on me to relax," Zyair offered."No need," Phoenix showed a rejection gesture, "Thanks though," he smiled and Zyair nodded, putting his shirt back on."Alright, so let's prepare. We're gonna be sprin
Lavana launched an ice chain at the female twin but she nimbly dodged it, soon pointing her sceptre at Lavana with an irked expression on her face."Die, you bitch!" she spat."You can join your queen too," Lavana smirked, launching several fireballs at her stunned opponent in quick succession. Her foe dodged all of them, clearly more nimble than the late queen. As for strength, that was a different matter. The female thought what she meant by her joining the queen. The queen was back at the palace enjoying the torture and screams of unlucky victims, right?"What are you saying?" she couldn't help asking after avoiding still yet another ice chain that was aimed at her."You'll know when you no longer see the sun," Phoenix's mate replied. She had stopped launching attacks on the foe. The male twin had been bound by her ice chains and didn't even bother joining the fray after freeing himself. Instead, he watched the two females battle with interest."You aren't even a hybrid, huh? Three
Before they could get to him, a big shadow grey rune (that had yellow writings all around it) appeared behind him, spinning slowly while shimmering, "I like two against one. Let's see how potent you are," he let out raucous mirth, vanishing and materialising behind the female that had pitched the ice chains at him."Take this!" he launched golden spheres of dark magic at her swiftly, giving her no time to attempt eluding. The attacks passed through her as her body became translucent, stunning him. These golden spheres, though not as deadly as that of the dark mist, could make one almost dead, but they actually did zero damage to her! He peeked at the tribrid once more and saw her body was glowing more than before- a confirmation that the two were related. "Old guy, look this way," Cephina blurted out as she commenced casting a sequence of fire spheres at him. Now it was the man's turn to dodge all her attacks, as well as that of the bothersome daggers launched by Phoenix.He harrumph
Rolandro scolded Dante telepathically before asking him to quickly put the gatekeeper down. Dante harrumphed, "You're lucky," tossing the gatekeeper to the ground, he stormed in accompanied by the others. Rolandro apologized for his pack mate's action before entering. The gatekeeper rose from the ground and smoothened the creases on his clothes, wearing a frown as he rubbed his neck.This hotel's staff were all of wolf blood and for this period, all those who lodged since last week were of wolf blood. The gatekeeper was a sigma wolf that once belonged to an Alphaless pack called Triston Hound. This pack lost their final competing chance and dissolved. He was lucky to catch the eye of the Delta of the first-ranked pack and he acknowledged himself as an outer member. Then he was assigned to work here, and he took pride in his job. But today, these men had utterly humiliated him, just because they were of a higher wolf rank. Having good memory, of course, he knew at least two of the
Wiyzh-Sybylle Landia Imperial Ceremony hall. 9:00 am. The venue was a gigantic hall built with numerous gleaming gemstones, all having different shades of white, regardless of shape and quality. Surrounding the hall at a reasonable distance from each other were a few golden statues of various fairytale beasts. Numerous shrubs with white or silver flowers could be seen in the large area. If one flew above the hall, he'd see that the flowers surrounding the venue in specific spots actually formed the symbol of love— a heart. There were also some large trees of different heights possessing rose gold trunks, white leaves and silver bell-shaped fruits at random spots, adding to the beauty of the environment. Several beautiful and colourful little effervescent birds were singing in harmony on the branches of those trees, blessing the ears of whoever heard their wonderful melody. White and golden butterflies made from light magic could be seen fluttering their wings around the area. The
"Oh, selfless, huh? Fine, my bride would prefer to see you alive anyway. I'll just take you with me," he looked at the pink snake, "You have any problem with that?" Echidna hastily responded, "No, No! You can take him with you, sir. It's an honour," Phoenix lifted a brow, "You give him up so easily?""I have assurance that since you aren't killing any of us today, you'll take care of my son. Besides, he's too disobedient,""Mom!" Tamesis couldn't believe his mother said that."Your son can only visit you once a year after this. You still want me to take him?" Phoenix questioned with a raised brow."Sure. I'll give you as many treasures. I also know that by the time he returns next year, he'll be more mature and obedient,""Okay. You guys wait out here. I'll take whatever treasures that interest me myself," without waiting for their reply, Phoenix vanished. He reappeared a few minutes later with a star-shaped gleaming purple stone.All of them looked hesitant. This stone was located
The young Vulkhaen finally reached its destination. The part of the cave that was very specious had a lake below. The lake's water was refined and of great purity.In the big lake, 25 snakes of different sizes and colours- big and small- swam with glee and the largest of them- a black-coloured snake- was on the shore just watching. Suddenly it perceived a familiar smell and its golden eyes lit up.Turning its head, it found to its delight that its suspicions were correct- the runaway youngling was back! "Father!" the runagate snake flew down to the shore of the lake and coiled its head around his father's."You finally know to come back, huh?""Yes, father. I'm so sorry. I won't ever defy your orders again. Please forgive me,""It's ok, son. As long as you know and acknowledge your wrong, it's fine. Hey guys, Tamesis is back!" Immediately, all the snakes left the water and flew to shore the moment their wings sprouted."Son, you finally returned," a feminine voice was heard from the
Wiyzh-Sybylle LandiaImperial Sacred Ceremony Ground. Those watching had anxious looks on their faces. The king put on a calm expression, even though his heart was thumping in his chest.But at the moment, he saw Phoenix's hair turn silver with cerulean ends, the calmness on his face fled, getting substituted by anxiousness. ‘Gosh! He’s planning to use his powers?’ the king became even more anxious. No, this mirror had to be stopped from showing any further happening. He didn’t care what people might say; he was king, who were they to complain?But Phoenix suddenly faced the beast with his back and then smiled, giving a signal that the king should let things happen as it should. Worst case, he’ll just present this strong beast's head when he comes out of the portal. The king sighed defeatedly. The first prince had resolved that if the people present on the ceremony ground found out he was actually a sorcerer and not a high-level wizard as they believed for so many years, so be it!
Forbidden Forest. Lavana’s mate exited the portal, landing on the ground on his feet. He steadied himself and saw the portal quickly close. Looking around with his now glowing viridian eyes to see where he was currently, all he could see were tall and wide sturdy trees that could likely be a few hundred or maybe a thousand years old. Their rough trunks were wrapped by various thin or thick golden vines. There were also numerous shrubs, each having different leaf colours. A few of them were known but the majority he couldn't identify. Hence, he had to be careful since the possibility of poisonous or lethal shrubs being amongst the plants was high. Ahead of him was thick white fog and it served as the gateway to the lair of the creatures he was to defeat tonight, Silgioth- ranking first on the top dangerous beasts’ list. He had told the king that this was what he wanted, so the king had the portal drop him right near its dwelling in this taboo forest. In addition to being hard to se
“Greatness of Wiyzh-Sybylle Landians!" the king called out solemnly, with his sceptre raised.In response, the others who were holding sceptres also raised theirs upwards. A resounding "For Eternity!' was heard from all subjects present.The king and the subjects repeated this action two more times, before putting down their sceptres. The satisfied king nodded with a small smile. "Tonight, we’re all gathered here for a special occasion. My son, Prince Phoenix has found a beautiful flower, the mate gifted to him by the goddess. All required rituals have been done up to this point. Now, it is time for him to demonstrate that he can guard the precious flower that he has found, from danger, even at the cost of his life. He will enter the forbidden forest and return by midnight with the head of a dangerous creature. With its teeth, he will make a special necklace for his bride. The beast's core, he will use as the pendant and engrave his name!”“Aye!” the crowd yelled, full of pep. “I, he
Two days later,First Wiz prince's abode,Phoenix's chamber,8:55 pm.Phoenix was back to normal; Now, he could wear clothes and touch himself without feeling any sort of discomfort. Lavana had long been taken away to her assigned residence to be provided special beauty treatments and perform a few other essential rites that required only the bride's presence. According to custom, the couple weren't to see or talk to each other physically before the wedding ceremony.On his part, he had to pass one more test meant for royalty, and that was to bring back the head of a dangerous creature in the forbidden forest- As assurance that he could protect his bride!It was to be done tonight, beginning from 10 pm to midnight- the task had to be done in two hours or less.He had just one hour before beginning the trial. Currently, his hair is neatly tied in a bun, his upper and lower eyelids are painted black and there is a necklace on his neck made from a conscious beast's dark brown teeth. His
The King and his wife were seated on his consort's scepter Alvana, heading towards the monarch's residence slowly."Extreme pain at being touched..." the queen pondered, "If anyone who touches Phoenix makes him feel a lot of pain, then why could his mate touch him without increasing the pain?" she wondered out loud."Probably because she's a mermaid?" the king guessed, "You know, it's rumoured that their touch is comforting to an afflicted soul," The queen sagely nodded, "It could be the case. I can understand that our son is a hybrid, being a wiz and Alpha Blood, that's why there are blurs covering his special places. But his mate is the same! Since when do mermaids have blurs? That didn't look like some sort of magic spell that shields others from seeing the private places either. It's sort of natural,"The king let out a defeated sigh, "Darling, you know she's capable of producing a fireball,""Yeah, I saw that. Even telekinesis!""Lavana is actually tribrid," the king revealed via
She made the pot levitate from the stunned doctor's hands and fly over to her. While it was still levitating, a small fireball materialised atop her right hand, shocking the others. Peter knew she had fire and ice powers, so he wasn't too shocked. But making things levitate, well, that was a first. "Okay, don't increase the fire, maintain it for five minutes," the doctor ordered after regaining his calm and she nodded her agreement. Anything, she would do, as long as Phoenix became well again. She couldn’t lose her darling mate!Doctor Alstein took out several coloured fresh herbs from his second spatial ring and put them in a white porcelain mortar taken out from his first spatial ring. He picked up the pestle that was in it and started pounding it with the right amount of strength required. Then he added some strange-looking fruits taken out of his second storage ring and continued pestling. When he was done, he squeezed out the essential dark green liquid from the crushed stuff i