Quest of the Demon Dragon Rider [ON HOLD]

Chapter 7

"Gentlemen and kind sirs, I have arrived," he hollered.

"Ugh," said one of the men. "What's Eli doing here all of a sudden?

"Isn't he supposed to be dead or something?" asked another.

"As you can see, I'm not," he said, walking up to me. "I've came here because I heard a boy with his dragon and his so called demon sword completely wiped out a hundred top class Alikera demons in Jterya."

"It's not just a demon sword!" I yelled. "It's an ancient flaming sword, forged in the volcano of Herid. The only sword to kill demons and humans, if necessary. It's said that it is the only one of it's kind to do so."

He snickered. "You're telling me that that sword can kill demons and humans? No one in a thousand years have been able to forge such thing." He continued to walk towards me, backing me up against the bar. "Why out of anyone here do you have a sword like that?"

"In my city, I was called the 'Demon Dragon Rider' because I've saved millions of people from them and was able to create a sword with a lot of blood, sweat, and courage." I explained. "Why are you asking me such questions, even though I don't know who the heck you are?"

"Oh, I'm sorry," he said, apologizing. "The name's Eli Rider of Gidner and I've heard about you before. You're Exile, with an e that is silent, Reiter the Demon Dragon Rider and a hero in your hometown, am I right?"

"I'm not anymore," I said. "I'm more like a traitor to my own family than some hero."

"Oh," he said. "I'm sorry about that."

"Uh, it's not such a big deal about it anymore," I said. "I've grown to like life on the go."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"You ask a lot of personal questions for a little kid, don't you?"

"I'm not a little kid," he said. "I'm seventeen and I might."

"Look, you're a great person and all, but I have to go now," I said, grabbing my sword and my satchel. I made my way outside towards the place where I had Sukai waiting for me as I heard footsteps coming from behind me. "Why are you following me?" I asked.

"Let me come with you," he said.

"Oh and why is that?" I asked, getting onto my dragon. He walked up to me and I kind of didn't want anything to do with him if I said yes without a reason.

"Because," he said.

"Because what?" I asked, nearly being impatient with him. Before I could say anything else, he hopped on behind me. "I'm growing impatient, kid. Tell me why I shouldn't kill you intensely."

"Can't you allow a person to come help you find this joker who framed you?" he asked. He's got a point, I thought. For seven months, I've asked tons of people in different towns if they knew anyone who burnt the Fikaer's king palace. All I got was a no and a "get the h*ll out of my sight".

"Fine," I said, ordering Sukai to hit the sky. "But I have rules."

"And what are they?" he asked.

"The first one is to always listen to me. If you don't, then you're dead because either demons have killed you or I have," I explained. "The second is to respect me like I will do to you. And the third is to never trust anyone unless I tell you to. Any questions?"

"Yes," he said, as we scaled high above the orange and pink clouds. "About the third rule, why do you not want me to trust anyone unless you tell me to?"

"Because how many times have you had someone that you thought you trusted but ended up betraying you?" I asked. He was silent, maybe thinking that he did have someone do that but that didn't matter to me right now. Because what matters now was to go onto the next town and find any infromation there and hope that there will be a clue to find out who made my city betray me.