THE DRAGON EMPEROR

Chapter 3

LUKE'S POV:

"What the actual CHIMICHANGA!", I said mostly to myself because 1: I was standing alone on the battleground and 2: because I was too stunned after seeing what happened. Al, the skinny/nerdy guy, who  could barely put a scratch on me, who couldn't run proper 20 laps of the training field, broke and I mean literally BROKE my spell. MY SPELL! MY STRONGEST SPELL! Only person who has ever broken THAT spell has been Al's dad, The Dragon Hunter King. And yea I knew it was idiotic of me to use such a strong spell on Al but it just happened in the spur of the moment. Besides I've never seen Al fight like this. He used to be so slow, but today he was fighting like he foresaw what I was gonna do.

I broke out of my shock when I saw that Al was free falling from the sky with the remains of my magic all around him. I went into my predatory mode again, and skadoosh-ed to Al. Now you guys might be thinking about what the hell I just said, well the thing is that I am the Lighting Dragon Hunter and I can turn my form into semi-lightning form which allows me to travel at insane speed and fly.

As soon as I neared Al he turned towards me, still in his predatory mode. But something was different, he was moving faster than he should've been. Almost as fast as me which was practically impossible for him because he didn't have Lightning Dragon powers. Too late for me, I understood that he wasn't falling, he was diving. "PROCELLAE DRACO MALLEOS", he brought down his fist, which was shrouded in a tornado and thunders, onto my pretty face. A Sky Dragon Hunter wielding thunder? That's odd.

That was the last thought I had before I pummelled to the ground with a deafening boom. I felt woozy and nauseated. And yes, the PAIN. It was unbearable. It was like getting continuously stomped by cyclops. Al landed gently right in front of me like he has been doing that for centuries. Now that I saw him up close, I noticed that his eyes are shining brighter, his muscles look more defined, and Holy Lightning Dragons! He has abs! And there are more than one of him. Or maybe I had hit the ground too hard and was hallucinating.

"ADMIT THY DEFEAT 'R I SHALT CRUSH THEE", he said, though something was off about his voice. That or I haven't healed completely yet. "Okay buddy you win, I lose", I groaned. He stared at me for like 2 seconds and then he collapsed. We both lay still on the ground letting our healing factor do our work. It took me whole of 10 minutes to heal and even after that I felt weak. And that was unnerving because that has never happened before, I always healed almost instantly.

Whatever powers Al used, they were very strong and very old because 1: It took me 10 minutes to heal 2: Al was lying unconscious which meant it took a lot of his juice and 3: the ground had not repaired itself yet which meant whatever he did, was powerful. As powerful as…. No probably not that powerful.

I stood up, big mistake on my part because my legs felt like jelly. Before I face planted into the ground someone caught me. "Woah! Easy there pal, here let me help you", it was Scott the werewolf. He is a nice kid and Al's friend. "Thanks Scotty", I slurred, but in my current state that sounded like I was speaking underwater with a mouthful of slugs.

He lifted me up and we advanced towards where Al was lying unconscious. After having a look at him I was sure that I had hit my head too hard on the ground or Al had suddenly grown a bit defined. Not much muscle growth but if you looked closely you could see that his biceps and triceps have been given a little girth, his chest muscles have hardened and his abs, well he now have abs. Nice defined 4 pack abs.

But judging from Scott's reaction, I think our Al has really buffed. He was still unconscious so Scott lifted him up on his shoulder and took us to the healer's room in the school.

I have been to the healer's room plenty of times before because while training Al used to get hurt so bad that only with his healing factor it would take him days to fully heal. But this was my first time coming here to be healed which was surprise to me and Jordan, our warlock healer. "Kid you have to tell all the details!", he said to me because seeing me hurt was new to him, but I wasn't really feeling much well to reply.

"Lay them down on those beds", he told Scott who interpreted it as 'Throw them like guacmar* sacks' because he actually slammed me down on the bed like a sack, or it pretty much felt like that. Jordan came around me and spread his palms above my body. I have seen him do this plenty of times but it felt even more awkward when he did that on me. His palms started glowing a mint green hue indicating that he was looking for wounded areas and accelerating that part's healing speed.

"Oh my Wiccan overlords!", Jordan murmured which was quite sufficient to scare me. "What?", I managed to croak out. "Well it looks like our little air summoner has broken 36 bones, ruptured 57 muscles and bruised most of your face", he gave me the information. Wow, thank you so much for sugarcoating it, I thought. I didn't say that out because I was quite stunned.

It took Jordan half an hour to heal me. After that he went over to Al and spread his palms over him just like he did with me. "Wow, looks like someone has gotten really strong", he said. "What do you mean?", Scott voiced the question, that kid was still here? I totally forgot about him. "Your friend here has no injury whatsoever, and I may dare say that he looks probably better than before", Jordan said as he completed his inspection. "I think he is just exhausted from using such old raw power" " Woah Woah Woah! Hold up! Old raw power? What do you mean?", I asked the old warlock. "What? You can't sense the residual power on him? I thought you were a Lightning Dragon Hunter, you must've felt this Thunder Dragon's power on him", Jordan said as if it was not a big deal.

I was too deep in shock after hearing what he said. I instantly zeroed on Al's unconscious body and concentrated, trying to feel the power. And suddenly I was hit with a really old, really strong libido which left me gasping for air. Jordan and Scott rushed over to my side. How did I not feel it! This kind of power was near me and I did not sense it? That was impossible. Even if I was a hundred miles away I would've have felt it. Then I remembered the incantations Al used. To break my archaic rune, to sucker punch me and send me plummeting to the ground and his voice, his voice which I thought I had hallucinated apparently wasn't a hallucination, felt too raw, too strong to be his.

Still the power which was still in him made me feel like I should kneel in front of him. I've felt like this in front of only 5 people, not even the werewolf Alphas, elemental Obas, or Coven masters of vampires can make me kneel. Yet he, while laying unconscious I might add, made me kneel.

"WHERE IS THAT DRAGON!?", a voice came from the hallway, a very strong, compelling, gravelly voice. I knew that voice very well, it was enough to send chills down my spine and make goosebumps appear on my skin. "Oh shit", Scott and I said at the same time.
~~~~~

*Guacmar: an orange vegetable, looks like overgrown ginger, tastes like roasted meat when cooked.

Don't forget to like the chapter