The Imprisoned Dragon - Blade, Dan Heng IL

4. My Purpose

"Hey Blade"

Blade almost cried inside once he heard Dan's voice calling him, as he was looking around the forest, trying to get some point of reference to get if he was going to the right way.

Without walking on the road, it was easy to get lost in that big forgotten forest.

"Can you please shut up, I am trying to focus" he said with an annoyed tone, as he was moving towards a creek, hoping it was the same connected to a waterfall he walked back to when he was looking for the child of the village chief.

He felt his heart beat faster, and his red eyes opened up once he heard a big thud behind him.

He turned and he felt weird as he saw the half dragon on the ground "What... What happened?" he asked, rushing towards him instinctively.

Dan was showing his back, and Blade raised his eyebrow "What are you doing?"

Blade's stare became an even more frustrated one, once Dan slowly turned to Blade with his hands trembling "I... wanted to catch that rabbit, I am hungry" he said with teary eyes, making him feel like he was dealing with a child.

"Are you... seriously crying?" Blade sighed heavily "This isn't really happening to me, it isn't" he kept telling himself, feeling hatred inside, the more he was looking at Dan's teary eyes.

"I have been without food for centuries, the hourglass was keeping me alive just to get my mana, you don't know how does it feel" Dan crossed his arms, showing off an annoyed, grumpy stare.

Dan opened up his eyes once he noticed Blade crouching down, staring at him with a neutral stare.

"I don't, but do you think I care as long as you have energies to walk?" he asked and Dan looked at him, to then surprise him and touch his cheeks "What the..."

"Aren't you hungry?" he asked and Blade for a moment looked at him with a confused stare, as Dan's eyes were glowing of a malicious blue as his tail was laying on his lap. Dan's hand was actually cold, but it was a good sensation for Blade to feel on his cheeks.

He raised his eyebrow, once he noticed Dan smiling as soon as he made his hands move the strands of hair that were almost covering his left red eye.

"Can you please explain why are you that much into touching my face?" he asked and Dan looked at him with a neutral stare. Blade started to question himself if he had any idea of what he was doing.

I mean, he wasn't used to people touching his face? Nobody would dare to even try, yet that damn half dragon man was doing it without even thinking twice, like it was something totally normal.

"Explain? Your eyes are the first thing I saw after centuries of nothing, I am quite fond of them!" he smiled and Blade sighed heavily. He put back his sword in its cover, and left the chains to quickly grab the hands of him, to stop them.

"I don't know in what world you were living in back then, but this is not normal" Blade stand up under Dan's confused stare. Blade stroke his own hair out of frustration "Don't do that to any other men or women, you might get into trouble" he said, leaving Dan sat on the ground, still confused.

Blade looked up the sky, seeing the colours of the sunset being more clear. After that bloody rainy night, that one was about to be quiet and honestly he was glad as he didn't want to that weak dragon to get soaked.

His thoughts got broken once he noticed Dan throwing himself in the water of the creek under his blank stare.

Dan was literally swimming, trying to catch some fish, and he sighed as he noticed they kept playing with his tail.