As I woke, I found myself alone.

Looking around for my friend, I could not find him

“Hello?! Where are you!”

In a panic, I searched

Scanning around wildly

I’m alone.

I’m always gonna be-

“Human, wake up.”

Shooting myself upright, I was rudely greeted by the sun.

Aaaah, my eyes!

After being in the forest for so long, you kinda forget how bright the sun is

Anyway, rubbing my eyes for a bit and blinking away the pain

I managed to see

And to my surprise, I see a burning phoenix taking up my view.

“Ehm, goodmorning!”

“Human, you hugged me, you got burnt.”

“What?”

Looking down on my body, I found that my shirt had burnt down and the skin on the middle of my chest coloured in a light hue of pink.

But weirdly enough, it didn’t hurt, nor did I feel burnt.

“Before I could differentiate who was hugging me, I let my flames take power. When I realised it was you I turned off my fire and healed your burns.”

He did what

Wait, he burned me, then he healed me?

“Human, I must ask, do you have an immunity to fire? Or a very high fire resistance?”

Waitwaitwatiwatit

Wait, a whole second now

“YOU BURNT ME! And.. and AND THEN YOU HEALED ME!”

“Yes, answer my question.”

“No. YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION, IF YOU CAN HEAL ME, WHY HAVE YOU NOT?!”

“I did not want to, now answer my-“

“WHAT DO YO-“

“SILENCE, IF YOU WANT TO TALK SPEAK NORMALLY, I WONT ACCEPT ANYTHING ELSE!”

You stupid, STUPID DRAGON

WHY SHOULD I CALM DOWN

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN I’VE GONE THROUGH?

AAAAAH

Jumping to my feet, I start stomping around.

Flailing my arms and screaming in frustration

YOU STUPID DRAAAAGON!

----

A few minutes pass before I finally sit down

Breathing calmly

Or at least trying to.

“Okey, ahem. I’m calm now. What was your question?”

“Hrmpf, As I said. Do you happen to have immunity to fire? My fire should have scorched you to the bones.”

“No.”

“No? Answer me more clearly human, I need answ-“

“You keep secrets, so do I”

...

A silence emerged.

The dragon starting to heat up, visibly fuming

But nothing more. He stayed silent, calm.

“Dragon, I have question. Why have you not healed me? I mean my legs and stomach.”

“I have already answered you.”

“No, you said you don’t want to. That’s a non-answer. Give me a proper one. ”

“Only if you tell me about your fire immunity”

“I won’t. But tell you what, I’ll tell you how I got this supposed fire immunity if you answer my question”

The dragon stood silent.

Flames calmly licking his body, as if having a life of their own.

“Very well. The reason is very simple, I do not find it beneficial for me to heal you. Nor do I really care if you die or suffer”

Oh.

So that's how you feel about me

Even after our adventure

How much fun we’ve had

I’m just nothing to you?

“Aha, I see... Well, my answer is that I was born with it”

“Born? That does not answer my question human”

“Yes it does, not my fault you where not specific enough.”

Flames burning bright, filling my entire view as the heat made me sweat

“How.. HOW DARE YOU HUMAN!“

“You did the same to me. Now we are even.”

Saying that, I turned away from the dragon, picking up the few belongings I had and started walking.

Tripping over some cracks in the ground

My back starting to heat up, the little clothing I had left

Burning to crisps.

I continued walking, not minding the heat.

Head turned down

And a frown creeping to my face, with brows equaling it.

Eyes focused, but watering

Making my view blurry

Stupid dragon

You can be so stupid.

I thought we were friends.