The One I need Chapter Two The Truth Of Horror

Twenty Four: White Foxes

'Hello, Ambrosia,' Vrosvurs said in a raspy zombie voice.

'What happened to you?' I asked her.

'The katakana's happened. Don't you remember what you did? While you were so busy with trying to help Jiin you didn't notice the Katakana feasting on me. So really you happened,' she said with a glint in her eye.

She was right, it was my fault she died. I was too focused on someone I hardly knew than my own best friend.

'You think you're right don't you?' I asked her.

'I don't think I'm right, I know I'm right,' Vrosvurs said.

I got my bow and arrow out. I couldn't trust anyone anymore, it seemed, not even my best friends.

She pounced on me like a wildcat would pounce on prey. It was as if she sensed my uncertainty.

Then I realised what I could do.

I could summon my 'familiar'.

Each demon had a Familiar. The Familiar could be anything from a dragon, dog, another demon, even.

I hadn't realised I could summon mine until Vrosvurs appeared.

'Tomedo, torredo,' I murmured over and over again as a shining light appeared in front of my eyes.

I shielded my eyes from the white light as I continued murmuring the summoning spell over and over again.

I heard a bark and saw two white foxes had appeared in front of me. My Familiar, or rather Familiars, were foxes.

They growled at Vrosvurs who summoned her Familiar as well.

A dragon.

'What do you think?' She asked me sweetly,'do you think two puny foxes could win against a dragon?'

I shook my head until I realised the foxes were circling another white light.

'What are they doing?' I whispered.

The white light disappeared and instead of two foxes stood a white dragon who roared loudly.

It eyed the black dragon which belonged to Vrosvurs angrily, as if it wanted to kill the other.

'Get the dragon,' I ordered it.

My Familiar went for the other dragon which moved just out of the way in time.

'Again!' I ordered.

Again it followed my orders but to not avail.

'My dragon is well trained,' Vrosvurs grinned like a 5 year old,'yours clearly isn't.'

I thought of an order in my mind to say. But before I could even open my mouth the dragon went straight for the other, as if it had somehow received the other telepathically.

'Oh crud,' she murmured, biting her nail.

I put my hands on my hips and grinned,'whose dragon isn't well trained?' I asked her.

Vrosvurs called her Familiar back and sent it back into the shadow realm.

'This isn't over. You will pay,' she warned me.

I mocked her but still a part of me knew she wasn't lying, that she would somehow make me pay in any way she chose.

'We better keep a close eye out,' I commented.

I sat back down and made patterns in the sand in front of me, wishing I was anywhere but in the stifling heat of the desert.

'You ok?' A shadow fell on me, causing me to look up at who blocked the light. Hikari.

I nodded and went back to drawing patterns in the sand with my finger and thinking about the chain of events that had led me to being here.

First Dale, then Leighton/ Azurewrath, then the war, then this. The least glamorous life had somehow found me and made me go through all of this. Losing friends was hard but war was harder.

'We better try and sleep,' I told the others who didn't hesitate to settle down and sleep.

My mind wouldn't switch off even when I knew it was close to midnight. I couldn't stop thinking about what happened with Kofo and Vrosvurs, about Vrosvurs coming back alive, about Azurewrath, about Sandā, about my family back home who were probably dead by now.

I tended to overthink everything which made things seem more complicated than they were in reality. I tried to switch my mind off so I could sleep but failed, too het up thinking about the past event.

'Someday we'll get out of here,' Ito whispered.

I nodded in the gloom so I wasn't so sure that Ito had seen my answer.

'Maybe not right now but later when this is all over and we can go back to our normal selves,' he carried on.

The grass was warm the next morning when I stood up and looked around at the early morning sunlight in the horizon.

'Come on you guys. If we start now then we'll make it to Torture City in no time,' I told them.

They all set to work gathering their weapons and supplies as I started walking in the direction of the city.

'Ambrosia? Where are you going?' One of Ito's comrades asked.

I pointed to the Sun which outlined Torture City.

'Right there,' I said quietly.