Chapter 16

Kelriea-‘’ your married?’’ she asked me with a look of surprise on her face.

Xar-‘’ yea only got married that day before I was summoned, so that sucks but I suppose it could be worse’’ I said to her as a stood up.’’ Now first things first, are there anything that has to be done register me as your familiar?’’

Kelriea-‘’ as far as I know all we need to do is draw the familiar seal on you with my blood and that should do it’’ as she finished saying this a rock came out of nowhere and smacked her on the side of the head causing her to yelp in pain and fall on the ground.

???-‘’ get out of here you disgusting demon, your tainting my familiar’’ a voice called out that I didn’t recognise. I turned round to see a rather well built young man walking towards me, he had pure white hair and a face that would make most women weak at the knees but all I saw was the sneer on his face when he looked at Kelriea. I bent down and helped her up, as I was helping her to steady herself I heard him chant something and suddenly kelriea was hit was a ball of wind sending her flying into a tree that was 20ft or so away, as she hit the tree the air escaped from her lugs leaving her to have a coughing fit to try and get some air back into her lungs.

The man stood there with a look of disgust on his face as if to say he was disappointed that she was still alive, his face then changed to one that seemed to have a look of sorrow on it.

???-‘’ I am sorry about have that disgusting creature near you but worry not your master is here to take care of you, although you probably don’t understand what I’m say considering you’re a dirty elf’’ he said to me as he approached me.

He reached his hand towards me but I drew my blade and severed his arm fast enough that the pain didn’t register for him for a minute, his server arm fell to the ground as his eyes slowly followed its path. He then began to wail in pain clutching his stump of an arm I walked over to where kelriea was laying and helped her to her feet a second time.

Xar-‘’ are you okay? And also can limbs be reattached?’’ I asked as she slowly got herself steady.

Kelriea-‘’ I’m fine and yes’’ she said as we began to walk away from the young man. Before I got out of the area I sent a ball of fire to turn his severed arm in to ash, he looked at the pile of flaming cinders with a look of hopelessness on his face.

Xar-‘’ who was he by the way’’ I asked her as we went to the familiar registration area.

Kelriea-‘’ he is the first son of the Galxe family, his father is the duke in charge of the western area of the empire’’ she told me as we sat down and waited for our turn to register.’’ It was probably not a good idea to do that’’.

Xar-‘’ eh ive killed two princes and a king so a dukes son being hurt isn’t much, in my book’’

After a few minutes of wait we were called up to a desk where we were told to head to a row of booths and go into booth number 4, we walked along the row of both and found the one marked four and entered it, inside there was a young woman with a rather forgettable appearance, she then asked us to sit down and for Kelriea to cut her finger so that she could get the blood required, as soon as she had the blood she then began to chant in a tongue I couldn’t understand as it was elven, draconic or the human language that I knew I gathered that this was something that had to be done for the familiar to be registered to the master. After she had finished she asked me to remove my armour so that the seal could be placed on me, at this point kelriea took a brush made of what seemed to be ivory and some type of coarse hair and dipped it in to the small bowl that had her blood in it, when she had got a small amount of blood on the brush she then began to draw symbols that I couldn’t read in their entirety as it contained many different language but I could recognise some of them but from what I could I could tell that this seal acted in a similar way to my earring as it would tell kelriea where I generally was and would also allow us to communicate mentally.

The design seemed to be similar to what would be considered a tribal tattoo but instead of made of small amounts of text on one of my biceps, the blood then turned red hot and seared itself into my skin turning a black colour, during this time I felt a small amount of pain but it was nothing compared to when my scales had peeled off me so I endured it.

Kelriea-‘’ are you ok?’’ she asked me with a bit of worry evident in her voice.

Xar-‘’ yea this pain is nothing compared to the feeling of your skin peeling off’’ i responded to her as I donned my armour again.

Kelriea-‘’what’’ she said in a rather flat voice.

Xar-‘’ my skin peeled off at one point a few years ago nothing much really’’ I said to her as we left the room, behind us the woman that was with us was trying not to throw up after overhearing what I said.

Kelriea-‘’ how is that nothing much, and why did it peel off?’’ she said almost shouting.

Xar-‘’ it’s just to do with my dragon form so don’t worry about it and besides we kinda have a job to do’’

Kelriea-‘’ a job?’’ she asked me

Xar-‘’ yeah if we want to do what we discussed then we would need information above all else, as if you don’t know what you’re heading into to you might as well be already dead’’ I said to her as we walked out if the building not revealing what we were going to instigate a rebellion so to speak as if I did and something loyal to the empire heard us we probably would have to run and hide.

Kelriea-‘’ I see ‘’ she said to me as we were walking towards were the food hall was as currently it was around midday and I was starting to get hungry.

We entered the hall and went towards the table that was holding the food as it was set up in a buffet styled way, I filled the plate I had picked up with a variety of different fruits and vegetables and the odd bit of meat, Kelriea just grabbed a few bits of bread and meat and we walked over to a table and sat down to eat.

Around us I could hear the whispers of the student insulting kelriea and even asking why she was born but since kelriea hadn’t said anything about it to me I left it alone, I knew from what she had told me that because of her demon blood running through her veins she would be discriminated against but I didn’t think to this extent. I noticed out of the corner of me eye that there was a few girls around a table surrounded by a mob of males trying to get their attention, every once in a while one would look over to where we were with a slightly lusty look that made a shiver go down my spine as if she was looking at as a piece of meat so I made a mental note to stay the hell away from her.

We sat eating our food as the whispers got louder and louder and eventually they started to throw food and even some forks and knives towards kelriea, before they were about to hit her I brought out my wings and surrounded both of us with to stop whatever would hit us from hitting us, kelriea gave me a look surprise and I could hear people gasping outside.

Kelriea-‘’ thank you’’ she said with her face pointed down as she chewed on a piece of bread.

Xar-‘’ you need to stand up for yourself more, if you prove to them that they cant hurt you then they will most likely stop it’’ I said to her as I felt my wings being pelted with all manner of thing but unfortunately for them what they threw wasn’t even damaging them.

Keriea-‘’ I can’t, no one here has even bothered to try and teach me due to my demon blood’’ she said as tears fell onto her plate, she looked up at me with tears spilling from her eyes. ‘’ why was I even born ‘’ she said as the tear cause her to begin to hiccup.

Xar-‘’ don’t talk like that everyone is born for a reason, we just have to find it and if you want I could try and teach you although I’m not sure how well I could do that’’ I said to her as I drew her into my arms in attempt to console her.

Kelriea-‘’ really could you?’’. She asked me in between hiccups.

Xar-‘’ yea I will I promise you, now let’s finish this meal and get away from these racist assholes’’

Author's note

oh hai all heres another chapter so enjoy and comments and such always welcome and now for the serious stuff would you like to see more of xar and kelriea or would you like to see some of turya's journey to where xar is?