The Imprisoned Dragon - Blade, Dan Heng IL

7. Imbibitor Lunae

"Does this always happen?" 

"What are you talking about?" Blade asked as the two were walking towards the entrance of the village. The two were calm and talking while on the other side, people were shouting and in full panic repeating "demon" and "we're dead". 

"This chaos" Dan pointed the fingers in front of them, making Blade sighing hard as all the villagers, once they noticed him being literally at the gate, threw themselves on the ground. 

"Please, don't kill us!"

Blade laid his hand on the forehead, feeling even embarassed since he could feel Dan Heng calm stare on him.

"It looks like mortals are scared of you" Dan Heng said with a neutral stare, like he couldn't really get the tension the two parts had. 

Blade turned a bit to look at Dan Heng who was looking around with a calm and peaceful stare. He looked like he was lost in his world and actually didn't care much about whatever was happening in the background. 

Blade felt that sometimes Dan Heng was getting back to its god-like form, and nothing could actually really catch his attentions, not even Blade's closure. 

"I am not here to figh..." Blade tried not to laugh maniacally when some men, guided by the son of the village chief, Leo, came "Oh my God" 

Dan tilted his head once he saw Blade's lips almost trembling like he was really trying not to laugh, as some men of the village and Leo, stand in front of the villagers who were begging for their lives.

"You're not going to do anything, demon!" Leo exclaimed as he gnashed his teeth

Blade started to laugh hysterically as his red eyes glowed and he was keeping his head, feeling a terrible malicious feeling getting over him, that would whisper to draw his sword and kill them all in a blood bath.

The men tried to hold on their weapons even though they were trembling. The villagers were trying to pull them from their clothes to force them to go down on their knees.

"Blade" 

Everyone got surprised once they noticed Dan Heng laying his hand on the shoulder of the swordman. Blade got surprised for a moment and stopped laughing, to look at him. His blue eyes were looking like a beautiful ocean, a calm feeling "You're the one being noisy now"

Blade crossed his arms and leant his forehead against his "Oh now, so what? They're a walking circus, I do have my reason to laugh" he said as he kept his stare on the dragon while his hands were pointing at the villagers, who weirdly felt offended and confused at the same time.

"Daddy! The demon is back!" 

Blade almost wanted to die once he saw some villagers, along with the chief, coming with chests full of fruit and baskets full of water from the big camps nearby the village, and the little girl he saved hugged his legs.

Everyone was looking at the scene, feeling concerned and confused on so many levels.

"Oh, legendary swordman!" the head chief was smiling and looked at the villagers "Why so much tension?"

"Father, I was protecting them! The devil came bac..."

"If the devil wanted to kill us all, he would have not given you time to talk, my beloved son" he looked at the vilagers who came with him to harvest the fruit "Please, take care of those, I think I am needed here". With that said some went to probably prepare and use the fruits and whey for the food.

Blade looked at how actually the camps looked beautiful. Like the terrain was healthy and the plants were as colourful as ever. The water looked even more... clean.