We finally arrived at the castle's front doors, their frames going from 50 to 60 feet high and 100 to 120 feet wide. It looked like you could fit a whole army in the doorway, and when we entered the great doors we got to see why. The majestic beast sitting on a throne, much to big for even my father in dragon form, was massive and seemed to require such a large doors in order to even leave the castle. His large horns were as long as Sapphire's wingspan, and his tail was as thick as the thighs of a giant. His horns were that of a longhorn, and his tail covered in snake scales of dark green. His head was that of a Bulls, and his torso was a Bears. His legs that of a horses, and ended with goat hooves. His arms ending in human hands, and his whole physique was very muscular, no fat to be seen. He didn't wear a crown, but he had no need for one. Everyone knew he was the King without even having to ask, and his royalness was pouring out on top of us making it hard to stand before him.
"I am pleased that you have found Princess Karou and her followers, Oreius. I have been awaiting their arrival for far to long." His voice was booming and deep, with authority thick in his ascent. "Yes my King, I know, and that is why I am pleased to say that they know who we are, and what our history foretells." Oreius say's with pride in his voice, it seems that this was a very important mission of his. "Good, now Princess Karou, I would like to have a word with you and your companion Akiva. Oreius make her sister and the Dragon feel at home." He stomps his hoof, and in seconds we are being separated into two groups by medium sized Chimaera no bigger than a dog. Oreius leading Arya and Jackson down one monstrous hallway, and me and Akiva down another following King Brimstone.
When we finally stopped walking, we arrived in a lush garden full of things I am familiar with to things that were completely alien to me. Karou as usual was looking at all this with a twinkle in her eyes, and I also feel like this Brimstone character is who we've looking for all along, not the City of Bones. Ever since we've arrived, I've had this feeling that someone here was the one thing we were truly looking for, and I feel puzzled by this. Why would we suddenly want to know about this King when what we were looking for all along was the City of Bones ? I'll talk to Karou about it later. "Why have you brought us here ? This seems a little too homey for us to speaking about what you were referring to in the throne room." Brimstone sits on a flat top bolder, and gestures for us to sit on some rocks next to him. "I have brought you here to show you something, and I wanted to show you in private." His voice softer now than before. Once we sat down, he stood up, and turned to face us. He sighed and a strange sound, like boiling water, started vibrating the ground slightly. Brimstone himself started shrinking, and becoming smaller until he was about the same height and bulk as as me. Karou was staring at him as if he just grew three heads, and I was so surprised that my mouth could have touched the floor with how far it was hanging open.
"I know it's very strange, but only a chosen few know about this. Oreius being one of them, and a few others that are under my care." His voice was very proper and small, but it still held that authoritative ascent. He seemed to be about eighteen, and the only thing that changed about him was his voice and eyes. They used to be brown like a cows, but now they were blue wolf eyes. Karou seemed to take notice since she was moving to grab his face, and he jumped out of surprise as she gazed at his eyes. "Your eyes are beautiful now, why does that happen ?" He pulled his face away, and sat down on the ground. "Because I'm part Werewolf and part Werebear. When I was huge, I was in my Werebear state, now I'm in my Werewolf state. As you can see the size difference is staggering, and my voice changes for the same reason." He seemed embarrassed at his strange ability, and yet all Karou could do was admire him. "Look, now that we have established this, why are we here ? Cause all you've done is shown us that you have both Werewolf and Werebear- Oh, that's why."
The reason came up and smacked me in the face with an open hand. She was shorter than Karou, and much more bizarre. She seemed to be one of those Kirin, but her legs weren't those of a gazelle, but that of a horses. She also had the horns of a male ibex instead of a gazelles, and her eyes were those of a sheeps. "Oh, that might have tickled. Anyway, it's nice to meet you, my name is Akiva and this is my fiance Karou." She steps back, and in surprise waves at Karou. Karou, being the nice person that she is, waves back enthusiastically. "Nice to meet you, what's your name ?" She steps away from me, and helps Brimstone off the ground. "My name is Beatrix, and I am Brimstones soon to be wife." Karou looked surprised, but to me it seemed to fit. She had that aggression that he didn't, and seemed to put him before herself. She also held herself with pride, and already had a sense of authority shrouding over her. "Well, nice for you to show up so early my dear, but I told you to wait for me to get them out of the dark before you met them." Beatrix pulled Brimstone to his feet, and then faced her soon to be husband. "I know but I felt like I needed to see them right now. I was also getting worried that you might do something like this." Beatrix turned to face us, and huffed at us like she had no choice but to accept that we knew something she didn't want us knowing. "We're truly sorry if we have offended or frightened you in any way Beatrix, but I think you should accept your husband's decisions when he makes up his mind. He decided to tell us about his secret, it was his choice to make, even if you are getting married, he still has influence over his on business." Karou and her special ability to read minds without using her powers is a natural one, sometimes I wonder if she does that to me occasionally.
