Who Am I

Chapter 31

Ash's Pov

I look around before I noticed, everyone was sweating pinballs except me.

This is bad I must find Aria before things get worse. I can wait for now but I need to act fast to find Aria.

I turn around and spoke, "Kale... This can wait... We need to wake everyone up."

He glared at me and said, "Are you trying to change the topic?"

I ignored him and started waking up some of the kids as I scanned the place ,for the tenth time, ignoring Kale's racket.

It looked like a dungeon cell, with rocks for walls and long thick bars to hold us in. There was another ceil on the other side of the bars. I was able to make a figure that was hung on chains around it's arms legs and on it's neck and waist.

I was only able to get the outlines of the figure, with clothing ripped off it's shoulders. I stood up after I woke up most of the kids and headed closer to the bars near the other cell.

My eyes went wide at the sight of blood all over the figure. "ARIA!!" I shrieked. The kids that didn't wake up, woke up at my voice.

Kale's racket stopped as he noticed what I was looking at.

She was covered completely in blood even though she was only hurt on her shoulders. the gashes on her shoulders never healed up as her skin on her right ankle was ripped, revealing the flesh that was trying to heal. Her breathing was shallow and slow.

"Aria..." I called out my hand pushing its way through the bars. "Please... Don't... Go..."

I heard the sound of violent coughing come from her as splatters of blood came out of her lips.

She lifts her head up slowly, her vision weak and fazed. A soft weak glow in her eyes as she said weakly, "A-ash?...."

"Aria! Are you okay?" I said while trying to go past the bars that are separating us from her.

"I..I don't know..." She was quiet for a moment before she said,"What ... Happened?"

I ignored that for a moment and continued pushing through till I came through. I rushed towards her and told her the situation we are in leaving out the fact that we were in a dungeon cell and that the dragons may have mistaken us for intruders.

She thought for a long moment before she said, "Ash... Pull a few... Of my scales..." As scales started appearing on her arm.

"Aria I won't do that you know that your all ready weak and I can't do that since it can kill you."

She heard what I said and I'm sure, but she decided to ignore it. "Pull them off... and use them... to help the kids... and Jasper ...survive."

"Okay but please stay strong." She did what seemed to be a weak nod.

I breathed in then set my hand on her arm and pulled as quickly as I could on one of the scales to lessen the time of pain.

She started screaming in pain, but I knew that if I stop she will tell me to pull.

After a while I managed to pull out around 6 and decided to stop.

I look at her arm "oh my... Aria-"

"Does it look bad?..." She interrupted.

"Yeah... Kind of." I paused and asked "What do I do with the scales?"

"Make a deep cut... on each of them... on the main vein... on their right hand..."

I look at her as if she was mad.

She didn't even take a glance at me before she blacked out.

I place a hand on her forehead , this sis very bad I need to take her to a cold place. She had a fever that can only be healed by the cold snow and ice. Then she can survive in any place.

Before that I called to one of the kids to give me their right arm and they did. I thought this was crazy since injuring the main vein can lead to death but it was her idea and it's worth a shot.

I made the deep cut with the scale's sharp edge. The kid hollered in pain at what I did and everyone looked at me as if I was crazy.

Just then the kid stopped and the wound healed. The pinballs of sweat disappearing.

Oh... Now I remember. When dragon scales are scrapped against a main vein,  on a human or any other being, it transfers a substance that can help them survive in the humidity of the dragon lands.

I asked for another kid to do the same and I finished everyone in no time. Well... Kale hesitated before I did it to him.

Just then we heard footsteps, and voices.

"Dude, I'm telling you, I heard screaming and yelling down there."

"Okay we'll check it out right now."

The footsteps became louder and closer by the second.

I ushered Kale to pull me to the other side quickly, just as I passed through the bars the door of the dungeon flew open.

Two guards each handled with a sword. Wow no way to pass that.

The guards look at us. We don't move.

"Well, they woke up... Do we tell the sir?" Said one of them in a deep husky voice.

"It would be for the best. So that we can get rid of them with the intruder one of the other guards caught."  Said the other glancing at Aria's cell.

One of them look at me. "This kid wasn't here before."

The other just answered. "Yeah, hey kid with the red hair. Tell us what your name is and how did you get here?"

I ignored the question for a moment before I stood up and went to the bars separating me from the guard.

I gestured for him to lean forward. He ,with all stupidity, followed. I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and said, "Do you know who your dealing with!?"

He thought for a moment but didn't answer.

"I'm Ash you fool. I'm the one you sent, to get Princess Aria at the right age. And here I am trapped behind bars also with the princess herself behind the bars not only that but she is wounded and you don't give sh*t about it." I yelled in one breath.

Kale stepped forward and placed his hand on my shoulder. "Ash... You took this to far... Also mind your language since there are kids here."

"Does this look like a good time to mind my language? Trapped behind bars? The Princess herself being abused? The kids were about to die?" I stated also while yelling.

"Good point." He admitted.

The guard that was free pulled his sword and said, "I'm sorry kid but you have to let my friend here be. Also you people here are intruders their is no princess around here."

"We only sent a grown up to the princess and not a kiddo like you. You don't even know what your doing. Anyway when we really find her she's going to get killed for our safety." The one I was holding spat.

I was just about to to punch him hard in the jaw, when I heard "ENOUGH!!"