A Siren's Song to a Dragon's Heart.

Chapter 4 (Mum's the Word)

            “Uuuggh,” Troy awakened to the throbbing pain of his brain drumming against his skull as he looked around and tried to gather his thoughts while rubbing the temple of his ears.
            “Where am I? What happened?” he questioned before trying to stand and immediately face planting on the floor, after a shockwave of pain emanated from his core and reverberated throughout his entire body causing him to lye there and groan in pain.
           “ Whoa whoa, I wouldn’t try to move if I were you, not after the ass kicking you just took,” Dex and Dax said in unison as they emerged from the shadows and brought Troy to his feet by slinging his arms across their shoulders and setting him to rest on what seemed to be a bed made entirely of silver wolf's fur that was fashioned to look like a fluffy giant birds nest.
           “ Where am I?” Troy inquired as he grunted from the pain and started to pant heavily.
         “ Oh yeah your vision must be a bit blurry huh? Seeing that you can’t recognise our den and all,” Dax said as he licked his palm and place it over Troy’s  face.
         “ Arrghh!! Damn it I hate it when you guys did that the first time, I never thought you’d be doing it again, uggh that’s disgusting!!” he yelled as he flailed about which only resulted in him being rewarded with more pain.
          “ Yeah yeah we know you hate it but your eyes have been damaged and haven’t fully healed yet, I’m surprised you haven’t noticed you can barely see, the saliva will help with the regeneration process and it will also give you artificial spirit vision so, you know, it’s better than nothing,” Dex began to walk around in a circle before lying on the floor and yawning.
         As the saliva began to take effect Troy started to see a bit better but mostly because of the spirit vision and not the work of his own eyes, he gazed upon a familiar scene, which was the Vargr marshlands dwelling place of Fenrir himself. This place never ceases to amaze and fill his mind with wonder as it looked nothing like it did from the images he was shown of the days of Ragnarok, the land once riddled with chaos and despair, torn by the war among the supreme deities and littered with the corpses of numerous descendants whose blood bathed the soil and permeated the air with the stench of iron and decomposing flesh. The skies were a sea of fire and plumes of ash rained from the heavens as the very clouds were scorched by the deity's rage. The scene that now stood before him shattered all prospect that this land had even see an ounce of violence, as it was now a vast plain of crystal clear waters that shimmered under the cascading rays of the seven red dwarf suns as their crimson hue radiated across the landscape, a wide array of lush green foliage stood proudly along the side of the streams and ponds offering lovely canopies the wolves now called their homes. The skies once plagued with flames and blankets of ash now brandished fluffy white clouds with birds parading a myriad of colours across its length.
         Troy gazed out of the dens opening stricken with awe as his eyes began to regain their normal function and the den he had previously thought dark and ominous began to brighten, allowing him to feel more at ease and recall the wonders he had experienced the first time he was in the Vargr Marshlands it was amazing.
         “ Ok good it seems that restoring your sight got you to calm down a bit and now you finally realise where you are,” Dax said as he went to join Dex on the floor.
          “ You guys brought me back here, I guess I must have been in bad shape for you to have to bring me here and if I’m not mistaken this bed I’m in is made of your mom’s fur right ?” Troy turned his gaze to the two boys.
            “Yeah we got our asses handed to us pretty badly, it’s a good thing we heal quickly or we would’ve been seen, also someone tended to some of your wounds, I’m guessing it was your imaginary girlfriend, it was her singing that kept us all unconscious and now I’m starting to think that was a good thing, that dude Naphro is no joke he was going to kill us,” Dex said as he sat up and looked at Troy.
          “ We were beaten pretty bad, I knew something was up with that dude but I didn’t think he’d be a descendant, and a dragon no less, a fricking, dragon like what the hell? Anyway Noya stopped him from killing you and finishing us and that’s how we managed to get away, we got sloppy because we underestimated him, we are all high on the mythological hierarchy but we neglected to use our eyes to analyse our prey we could’ve killed him before he turned. Living as humans for so long made us soft,” Dax said as he stared at the leaves in his canopy.
         Hearing all this made Troy’s pride and wounds burn, his raged welled up in him so his head felt like it was about blast off into orbit, but he just grit his teeth and said, “ I’m sorry I got you guys into this thank you for getting me out of there safely.”
          Dex and Dax were shaken by his apology in all their time together this dude has been nothing but a hard wall and here he was apologising, they couldn’t help but wonder what happened.
        “ Dude never ever do that again it was so uncomfortable and worthy of a cringe award my guy what was that? Who are you and where’s Troy?” they said in unison.
         “ I’m grateful for an apology as much as the next guy, but not from you dude we’re friends, practically brothers we’d lay down our lives for you, it’s not like you haven’t done it for us countless times you’re always the one protecting us even knowing you don’t heal as well, that’s why our mom made that fur bed for you to show her gratitude and help you heal from almost any injury she shed a lot of her life energy and put a lot of care into making that nest for you so chill with this apology stuff we’re family a pack and we stick together.”
        “Yeah dude quit it it’s weird and weren’t you the ones calling us mere dogs last night. Yeah that’s right. I heard you with your crusty ass four arms,” They said as they both looked at Troy.
         Troy just smiled and said, “ That was just a heat of the moment kind of thing nothing personal boys, by the way what happened to the other guys?”
         “ Oh them they’re somewhere around here you just being dogs as you so claimed.”
         “ Dude let it go it was a one time thing.”
         “Yeah Yeah you might want to try getting some rest and let the fur heal you we’ve got a lot of explaining to do to explain why we got into a fight on Midgard, to both mom and the sons of Fenrir Skill and Hari.”
       “ Damn it the sons I can handle but why mom? Why ? Also can you guys just call it earth like everyone else ?”
        “ Well you are pretty much her adopted son so yeah she’ll want to know and she’ll no doubt give you an earful if you’re lucky,” Dex said as he and Dax jumped out of the den and left Troy to rest.
         “ Damn it Naphro, I will end you if it’s the last thing I do,” Troy said as he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
       Meanwhile at Naphro's place everyone was gathered and preparing to have an awesome Saturday. Vonté and Brittia decided to stay for the weekend to educate Naphro about the spiritual realms that existed outside of earth but if we’re being honest here they just wanted to goof off and catch up on stuff they missed out on, not to mention it’s an awesome time to showcase their powers.
         “ Wait hold up, um Vonté your tails, that golden glow from earlier wouldn’t it be like a beacon to people outside my house? It just now came to me that you’ve been doing all this flashy shit without a care, I mean you’ve been floating in my for for Pete’s sake with twenty tails, what if someone sees you?”
         “Dude chill your girlfriend put up a barrier the moment we got here no one will see anything they aren’t supposed to a isn’t that right dear?”
      “ Yeah I put it up expecting a fight but now I can see it was wise to keep it up because you are reckless as hell.”
        “ It doesn’t really count as reckless if I knew you put it up now does it?”
        “ That’s a fair point,” I said
       “Yes yes it is now with that said race y’all down stairs,” and just like that he vanished in a puff of golden smoke only to start rooting around in the fridge downstairs, he also must’ve taken Brittia too because she was no longer in the room.
     At this point nothing was really a surprise anymore so I just opened the door for Noya.
         “ After you love.”
         “Ouu quite the gentleman I see,” she proceeded downstairs with me following closely behind.
         “ Dude you do know now that I know you can teleport I’m never walking anywhere again right?”
         “ I knew your lazy ass would come with some shit like that,” he said as he came out of the fridge with a sandwich in his mouth and one on a small plate for Brittia.
        “Damn right I would and as my friend, no BEST FRIEND!! You have no way whatsoever to deny me this service sir,” I said as I hoped on one of the barstools in the kitchen.
           “ Alright alright fine, but there’s one condition,” he said with a grin.
           “ What’s that?”
           “ Well as you can see these sandwiches are quite small and as such won’t hold my hunger for long sooo, get cooking boooyee.”
           “Of course why not? It has been some time since we had breakfast I guess I can whip something up.”
           “ That’s what I’m talking about I want coconut shrimps and seasoned rice.”
          “ Boy what I’ve got rice but where the hell am I going to get shri.......” and before I could finish the douche was gone.
          “ Well that was ru.......” and before Noya could finish he was back holding a coconut and one of my pots filled with fresh shrimp, did I mention he was also dripping wet and soaking my floors?
           “ Here’s your shrimp and coconut sir now get cooking.”
           “ Dude how far can you teleport and why are you ruining my damn floors?”
           “ I’ll take care of it,” Brittia snapped her fingers and he was dry and the watered disappeared from the floor.
            “ Thanks Hun, to answer your question I can teleport anywhere I want as long as I’ve seen it,” he said while placing the shrimp on the table.
            “ Oh I never asked what are you Brittia?”
            “ I’m a fairy,” she said as her wings popped out of her back.
            “ Wow that’s awesome,” I said as I started to prepare the meal Vonté requested.
        I got a container and started to wash the rice before I placed it into the pot over a low flame, with the required seasonings, sorry but I’m not giving out my season rice recipe it belongs to mum.
       Just then my phone began to ring and to my surprise it was my mom.
            “ Hello,”
            “Jay are you ok?”
            “Yes mom I’m fine I’m just cooking for some friends.”
             “Wait you’re cooking right now?”
             “ Yes I am. Why?”
             “ That’s good I’ll be right over see you soon hun.”
            “Wait what do you mean you’ll be right over? Hello? Mom?”
            “Naphro move away from the stove now,” Vonté yelled as he pushed me away from the stove and put up a golden shield in the kitchen, and as soon as he did the flame under the pot morphed into a raging inferno that flowed of the stove like a river of fire and pooled on the ground before shooting in the air and dissipating leaving behind a huge plume of smoke, which seemed to have a humanoid form.
          As the smoke began to clear I could faintly make out the I could vaguely see a head of curly silver and black hair emerge from the smoke as the rest of it seemed to be disseminating into the air, just then I could clearly make out the figure that emerge from the smoke, standing there in all her glory was my mom, her thick build seemed even larger from where I was cowering, her normal dark brown eyes were not a burning red and behind her waved a cinder black tail adorned in spikes and scales, my usually plump and fluffy mom was now a super scary dragon lady, literally she was now thick and looming over us.
         “ So Jay when were you going to call your mother?” She said with fire in her eyes.
         “Um tttotomorrow,” I stuttered.
         “ Well you’re doomed,” Vonté said doubling the shield. Mom then turned her burning gaze towards him.
         “ Oh please what do u expect to do with that bubble?” As she used her claws to tap on Vonté’s shield shattering it to golden dust.
        “ Well dude I tried to protect you but, we’re dead you should’ve called your mom first, I told you to call her a million times,” he said starting to sweat bullets.
      “ You damn traitor,” I said as I stared into my mom’s burning red eyes. Well guys this is it the woman that gave me life is about to end it, see you in the afterlife.