That Blue Fire

Chapter 31: Freedom, Answers and... A Potato???

Guards. 

That was the only thing that came between us and freedom. This must have been what Romanova meant by 'Disguise or Demise' and infront of all this people, we'd end up on the side we didn't want. So, we made a distraction, and the plan went perfectly.

Chad conjured up a potato and Alyssa tossed it in the air, Thomas shouted "LOOK EVERYONE! ITS A POTATO FROM EARTH!" As many students investigated the strange potato, I knocked the guards unconscious as I had done with Roman, taking their keys and unlocking the gates. 

But even the disguise part failed, as we had left the grounds a foamy mist surrounded us and when it cleared our costumes had disappeared.

"Oh crap." Said Chad "We're dead meat" "We are definitely dead... but we're only meat if you're the Ippa" I said "But we have a slight chance. We'll get outta here, or die trying." "Nope, we're dead. I'd go into hiding and survive on sewer rats if I were you." Said Alyssa "Because that's what I'm going to do." 

"ALISSA!" I said "Don't leave yet, I still don't fully trust you." 

"If I were allied with the Mythic Dawn I would have already told, wouldn't I?" Alyssa said with reason. "Still... don't leave, we can do this" I said with sympathy.

"Why would I want to go to earth with you 3 dirtbags?" Said Alissa "Why wouldn't I want to go back to my fine fancy life of living in aristocracy? CAUSE THEY BETRAYED ME AND I'M SURE YOU'D DO THE SAME!" 

"Whoa! No we wouldn't, we respect you for who you are Alyssa, being Lesbian is totally fine!" I said, trying to reason with her. Before I was about to slip out the next reason why she should stay, Thomas spoke "I don't want to go to earth either, I'm happy living in Antion." 

"Well still, we weren't planning to make the portal bigger, I mean- we were, somewhat-" Chad spoke, "Using you..." he confessed, the two took this astonishing thing somewhat calmly "We'll join you... I don't mind being any type of outlaw" Said Thomas "Just no going to earth with me" "I agree too, I'll join, just no going to earth with me either" Said Alyssa

And that was their upholding promises, true to their souls. 

Then we all ran off into the dark forest beyond the shining magical academy. Danger at the tips of our toes to our wispy hair strands. 

Scavenging for whatever we could find, that's when something popped into my head. Something I should have never thought of, something that I would regret, a decision that changed my stay in Antion forever. But as soon as it was there, I forgot about it, we had much more important things to worry about.

So we kept running, running for what seemed forever, we also seemed to be going in circles, but then things got chilly. We were running up a mountain. Thats were we camped for the night.

In the middle of the night I awoke to a loud snorting noise, carefully peeking out of the grove of trees we were hiding in. Thats when I discovered true terror. A large group, perhaps 30 of pig looking beasts were outside the grove, snorting and shuffling their abnormally large noses on the ground. Thats when one of them squealed, and I saw the 2nd most terrifying thing in the world.

Its teeth.

They were sharply curved and pointed, almost like daggers, colored with a grotesque yellow and tinted with red. While I was observing these killer-hogs, someone put their hand on my shoulder. "Genriganaes" I heard Chad's voice whisper "They're somewhat harmless, delicious if you can snag one as a meal. Yet in all their beauty mistaken for ugliness, they are killers. They'll eat whatever they can find"

Thats when a earsplitting roar echoed throughout the forest, and a beam of ice shot down on the Genriganaes. Freezing them in blocks of the beam's own substance, thats when a white and blue dragon stomped down the hill and Chad whispered "Hide, its an ice dragon"

The dragon began gobbling up the Frozen Genriganaes, it sniffed the air and then its eyes locked over to where we were. It licked its lips and gritted its massive teeth as it clambered toward us.

I was shaking, but then I heard a shout behind us. "STOP RIGHT THERE!" 

The voice sounded familiar, but I couldn't decipher who it was truly from. Chad's head flipped to where the voice came,  "ROMANOVA! NO!" 

ROMANOVA fired a large vine out from her own hand, choking the dragon. Who began spitting out large chunks of ice, Alyssa and Thomas had already woken up and ran away. So following the markings in the muddy forest Grove we tracked them down to get together once again. That's when a large roar and a high pitched scream rang out through the lands. A flash of blue came from behind us.

Romanova may have become the dragon's desert, but of course I'd never know.  

And the worst thing is, just like Throg. I never got to say goodbye