The Beauty and the Kid

Part 9

Chapter 9

Later into the evening, Gerda crossed an empty landscape nearing the edge of the beach, which led further into the far. Gerda sank down to try to view the area better from her perspective seeing the same surfaces. Over the beach, Gerda felt dull from not finding anything suspicious and sighed.

"You're not seeing anything as well, right?" Questioned Gerda holding the girl from above her back.

"Not really," Responded Irma.

"Okay. Do you mind, if we go down? I'm feeling slightly braced with carrying you the entire ride,"

"Put me down. You've done already enough. Sorry, I didn't ask," Apologized Irma, then Gerda moved down towards the sand and dropped Irma on her feet, then landed beside her to stretch her arms.

"Keep on moving. I need to rest my arms," Commented Gerda, then Irma walked further while Gerda stood back.

A while later, Gerda still in her dragon form walked beside the teenager on the beach. During the walk, Irma was training with one of her hands letting on the sand little branches grow out of the sand. The blonde yawned, keeping her face forward and she squinted her eyes seeming to notice something at the far of their way. Gerda stopped to check the possibility to analyze it from the distance.

"There's a campfire!" Warned Gerda making Irma squint her eyes as well, which recognized the flame and beside it she noticed someone inside an armor put wood into the flame, which seemed very dark to be recognized by the teenager.

"There's someone putting wood in the fire," Commented Irma making Gerda smile and look at the girl.

"Come on, this must be Arrog and the crew!" Warned Gerda taking off in the air to approach the location faster.

By the fire, the troll, that threw wood into it watched the flames begin to burn the stack slowly. The troll looked at the four other trolls, including their king pull out of the water the broken pieces of their ship, that got flushed on the ground. King Arrog returned with a bunch of boards on his arms to drop them on the ground, then spotted something red flying towards their direction.

"What in the name of...." Arrog mumbled watching it get closer, then he widened his eyes believing it was a dangerous creature and he pulled out his sword while the second troll in fear looked for a weapon, but took a wooden board up to place himself beside his leader.

"Come on!" Ordered Arrog watching the creature break by using her wings and move her hands forward to ask the troll to stop.

"King Arrog, it's me, Gerda," Mentioned floating in front of the two trolls, which gazed at the dragon-themed girl confused.

"Gerda? The Gerda who saved our kingdom from the Fire Demon?" Asked Arrog making Gerda nod, which landed on the ground to destransform back. "My goodness, it is really you,"

"Yes," Responded Gerda and embraced the troll king. "I had thought you were gone after you helped Kai,"

"This sounds unbelievable for you, but I think the Snow Queen was the one, who saved my life. I remember waking up and seeing her next to you.....I was seeing right at that moment, wasn't I?"

"I think you were right," Responded Gerda. "According to her, only I was meant to see her. Perhaps her touch made you be able to see her,"

"Maybe.....I'm glad to see you made it. Orm told me, you and King Harald proposed truce...."

"And freed the Snow Queen along with the other magicians. Yes," Responded Gerda. "And in time, my powers finally got revealed as well. I really thought I'd have something unique, but that I would be like uh this, was surprising," Commented Gerda making Arrog chuckle. "How did you get stranded here? I came across your letter,"