Dragonfighter

chapter 4

Kivara'sp.o.v.

I broke the kiss again, I just coulnd't stop all those thoughts of never seeing him again running through my brain.

"What are we going to do, Kivara? I don't want to lose you, I want to spend all the time possible with you.", seems Yveeqwa was thinking the same.

"I want the same but I don't know how to make that possible. The only chance would be if we would just run away..."

"And neve rstop running because the monsters are chasing us to death? No, there needs to be another possibility. There just has to be. Everything would be easier if they weren't there anymore."

"Maybe that's it."

"What do you mean?"

"We need to kill them. Then we will be free."

"Are you mad, Kivara? We can't kill them. We are only two and they are hunderets, we would be dead before really beginning the fight."

"No not if we have a weapon, which they think is destroyed.", I took off my shirt and looked at Yveeqwa, whose face was bright red and staring away from me, while I was standing there with only a bra to cover my top.

"Yveeqwa look at me."

"But...you're shirtless.... it's not proper for a gentleman to stare at a naked women."

"I don't give a fuck about what's proper and what's not. And just to make that clear, I'm not really naked so come here and look at this.", having said that I felt better. Much better, cause for the first time since I was kidnapped, I felt like myself again.

"Uhm... okay,but you wanted it that way, so don't blame me for looking at you half naked afterwards."

"Oh come on, just turn around!"

He turned around and looked at me. All his feelings were plastered in his eyes; there was fascination, lust and admiration. I had to smile at myself, his reaction flattered me.

"Okay, what I am about to tell you is a secret, I never told anyone since I came here.", I turned around so he could see my back. There was a tattoo, looking like two vipers swirled around each other, going from my spine down my back around my right waist towards my inner thigh. The snakes weren't exactly snakes, more intertwined sticks made of thousands of ornaments and signs. One stick with symbols of fire, one with the symbols of water.

"This tattoo is the reason I never wore those waist-free shirts but always the boys uniform. I didn't want anybody to see that. The monsters gave me that and it looks like a normal tattoo but in fact it's a magic seal to oppress my magical powers.", my heart was beating fast while I told Yveeqwa the one thing he didn't know about me.

"I'm sorry, your what?"

"My magical powers."

"You mean like abracadabra?"

I snorted: "No ,not like that, more like I can control some elements and could destroy the world if I want to."

His eyes got wide: "Seriously? Elements? You can destroy the world? I mean I knew you are bad-ass but THAT?"

I wasn't sure what to do with his reaction, I always thought that if I would tell him, he would be afraid, run away and hate, or worse, fear me. But I never thought that he would get exited about that: "Look I know that sounds pretty scary and unbelievable and all, but I promise you I would never use them to destroy the entire planet. I just thought I could use my powers to kill the monsters, so we could get out of here. Even if you don't want to be with me anymore because I am a monster too, I could help you escape the camp.", I was choking on my last words. The thought of losing him made me cry but I just avoided my upcoming tears and faced him straight ahead.

"Kivara you're not a monster! I'm sorry if my reaction made you think that,but please understand, it's tough to learn that your childhood-friend, the love of your life, your best friend had such powers all the time. Why didn't you ever tell me?"

"I was afraid."

"Of what?"

"Of you seeing the truth. That in fact I am the killing machine, they want me to be. That I am able to kill thousands of people in an instant, that I was born to be a killer.", he came towards me, fast, and pulled me in an embrace: "You're not. Your powers are a gift. And I just know if you would have had the chance to grow up as it should be, you would use them for something good. Killers aren't born, they're made."

"You're not afraid of me?", I smiled at him.

"Not at all, sweetheart. If we would fight each other I'm pretty sure I would kick your ass.", he grinned sheepishly at me.

"Oh, you dream to!", we laughed.

"So tell me how the seal works.", Yveeqwa, looked at me in a helpful way.

"Okay. So I think I should start with explaining my powers. As I told you before I can control some elements. Two to be exact. The fire and the water.", I saw him starting to smile.

"What? Why are you smiling?", I asked him.

"They fit you, these elements." With that answer I had to smile too.

"So I can control the water and the fire. That means I can control the whole water being on this planet and I can make a fire wherever and as big as I want to. And because of that, the monsters considered me a threat to their plans. So they sealed the power inside of me, with this tattoo. To control me. Thy tried to rip these powers completely apart of me but they didn't succeed. So they decided to just stop me from using them. But when they thought I was asleep after the torture of the sealing, I was very much awake and I could hear them talk. They talked about how to break the seal so that I can use my powers again.", I tried to smile because I was happy that it was possible to get my powers back.

"Wow, that must have been so terrible. I wish you would have told me, Icould have been there for you."

"It was something I needed to go through alone. To really appreciate my powers, you know? To know what they're worth, to realize how powerful they make me."

"I understand, but still..., anyway how can you break the seal?"

"I need the help of someone, to be clear I can't do it. Someone else has to do it for me. The blood of another person needs to be drawn to the lines where the elements merge. And exactly on those lines the person needs to cut through the tattoo. Because it's intertwined, there will be fifteen cuts needed.", I stared at the ground. I couldn't bear the thought of asking him to do such a thing.

"Kivara, I'm sorry but I can't ask you to go through that just so we can be free. That is too selfish.", his eyes were full of sorrow.

"You can't ask me? I feel terrible asking you to do that! It's your blood that needs to be drawn on the seal and you need to cut me 15 times. Iwant to break the seal, I want to have my powers back, I am theegoistic one."

"You're not egoistic Kivara. You plan to go through such a horrible thing, just to free the survivors of the camp. In my eyes, you're a hero."

"You think so? If you consider me a hero, would you help me being a hero? Would you help me break the seal?"

"I will help you. But promise me that you stop me if it's too much for you to bear."

"Okay, but you have to promise me the same thing."

"Deal."