Dragon's curse

chapter forty two

I hope Jaff and Count are doing alright, that cremater is pretty rough at times but she is part of a rare breed and she also has a bad temper at times. I know they didn’t want me to know that they were going to cremat Jeff but I wish I could come with them but it can't be helped, I have to bringin Lie for his charges. All well, I will see them when we meet up later.

Count slowly followed the voice's instructions and placed Jeff's lifeless body into the slabe. There was an indent that looked to form a human body in the slab that was only a few inches deep. Once Jeff's body was completely on the slab and aligned with the indents that formed a human body, Count backed away until he was standing next to Jaff.

The voice then said “You can leave now.

Jaff immediately bursted out in anger and said, “Why can’t we see you, we did as you said and the least you can do is show us what you look like.”

Count immediately said in a harsh toned voice, “Jaff!”

For a moment there was silence, after three minutes of silence the voice asked in a surprised voice, “So, you want to see what I look like?”

Jaff immediately replied “Yes, I do!”

“Very well.” Said the voice in defeat.

Suddenly there was a large gust of wind almost like a tornado and the sound of large wings flapping like a bat. Instantly, a large dragon appeared from a long, large hallway that sat in front of them only a few inches from them. The dragon quickly came into the large room and landed softly onto the ground with ease, there was a soft thump as the dragon touched the ground only a few feet from Jaff and count, the dragon stopped flapping its wings while lightly tucking them to its side like a bird. 

The dragon said “I am the rare breed of dragons called the none changing dragon. As far as I know, I am the last of my kind and you can call me Ella since I know you humans can’t say my actual name properly.”

Jaff and Cout looked at Ella over, her scales were sparkling like a red sapphire gemstone. Red scales curved her large body that filled half of the room as she stood across from them on the other side of the slab. Jaff instantly noticed that her wings were jet balck and she had six horns on her head.

Count and Jaff said simultaneously in surprise, “Wow.”

Jaff said with a smile, “It's nice to put a face with the voice.”

Ella instantly blushed with embarrassment as she said “I-I… I better get to work, so you should get out of here so I don't cremate you both.” 

Jaff smiled as they left the room and waited as the door shut behind them. There was the sound that came from the room that almost sounded like a blow torch as Ella blew hot flames at Jeff's lifeless body, in seconds Jeff's body turned and his bones turned to Ashes.

Father said in a calm voice, “So, you met Ella. She doesn’t usually show herself to anyone, let alone a vampire or half vampire in that case.”

Count asked with curiosity, “What happened to Ella's kind?”

Father replied with a blank expression, “They were killed by a group of purebred vampires like yourself Count. There was a war between the vampires and Ella’s clan and in the end her mother was in the front lines while Ella was still in her egg. By the time the war was over, she hatched out of her egg and came to us. She figured that she would be safe here from the vampires and never see one ever again.”

Suddenly the sound of burning subsided, the two doors slowly opened up completely. Once the doors were completely open, Ella looked at Jaff with a warm smile that filled them with comfort. 

Ella said slowly, “The Ashes are on the slag, just press the button and they will automatically be placed in an urn.”

Ella quickly flapped her wings a few times until she was lifted into the air and flew away down the long, dark hallway. Father quickly went into the room with Jaff and Count following close behind. Once they were standing next to the slab they stopped walking, there was a small button on the side of the stone slab. Jaff slowly pressed the button, instantly split in half and started folding inwards like a cot. Under the table was what looked to be a large funil and at the end was a small, jet black urn sitting under it on a small stone pillar. Slowly, the Ashes on the slab spilled into the funil and into the urn like a waterfall. One hour later, Jeff's Ashes were sitting in the urn and instantly, the stone slab lifted out of the ground while the Funil moved to the side, under the floor. Once the urn was where Jaff could reach it, he carefully placed the stone lid onto the urn and carefully twisted the lid until there was a light popping sound.

Count asked as he watched Jaff pick the urn up, “What are you going to do with him?”

“I don't know, I will see what Ash wants to do.” Jaff replied.

They quickly walked out of the building and met up with Ash as quickly as they could. Along the way, Jaff couldn’t help but notice that there were families of all kinds roaming through the streets.

Once they caught up with Ash, Jaff slowly handed the urn over to Ash and said “Here you are Ash.”

Ash slowly took the urn from Jaffs hands with a sad look on her face as if she was going to cry from the pain. 

She quickly forced a smile as she asked, “Thank you Jaff, would you like to travel with me for a little bit? I could use the company if that is alright with you?”

Jaff smiled as he said “You don’t have to force a smile Ash, I would like to travel with you.”

Count said “Well, I better get going,  I don’t want to make my sister wait and have her yell at me.”

Count quickly got onto his horse while Ash and Jaff placed three bags of gold coins in the pouch of the satil. Ash quickly got onto her horse that was only a few blocks down from them and noticed that Jaff had no horse.

Ash slowly chanted in a low voice, “Horse of the depths, grant pasig to Jeff's horse.”

Suddenly a  small portil that was big enough for a long horse appeared next to them  and out of the portil appeared a small, black horse that almost looked like Jeff's horse. Jaff quickly got onto the black horse and they started following the road out of town silently as Ash said nothing. Jaff stayed silent to give Ash the space she needed while looking ahead on the road as if he was expecting something to happen to them. After a few hours of traveling on the road, a small crow landed on top of Ash’s horse head and opened its small mouth. 

A voice suddenly came from the mouth of the bird and asked “This is diamond number one do you copy?”

Ash replied “Oh, shit. I copy, we come right back.”

Diamond number one siad “You don't have to do that Ash, I called to tell you that he is no longer considered guilty. The court decided that he couldn’t have killed all of those people at that age.”

Ash sighed in relief as the bird closed its mouth and flew away into the sunny sky that surrounded them, they continued on the road that laid ahead of them.