Chapter 5:

I woke up, yawning before looking around, I'm currently in a dark cave with tons of moss. I then remember I fought a Sky Wolf Infant, which destroyed the carriages. I look around frantically for my parents and Vigrel and his family. I spot them huddling near a fire behind me. I approach them and Vigrel notices me " Astin, you woke up. How are you feeling?" My mother hears this and reacts to it by jumping up and doing a full-on sprint towards me.

She hugs me while crying " Astin its all my fault, if I wasn't so weak you wouldn't have to go through this!" I hug her back soothing her " Mother it's not your fault. I'm the one who chose to train and chose to fight." I then ask her " Are you ok? Is the baby fine?" She says yes to both of them and keeps crying. My father looks at me with and just says " I can't say anything, but I wish I was strong enough to protect you but I can't." I hug my father and make a group hug before asking " Now what?"

This makes them think about the situation. We all think for maybe 30 minutes before Vigrel suggests " Why don't we go to the nearest town and look for a carriage?" We all nod our heads, then I take out a map from my bag. I took track of where when we were traveling and which towns we stopped in. The cave we are in currently is 10 minutes away from the main road we came from. "The last town we were in was Trius, the nearest town is Herium which is a hour away from Trius." While saying this I ponder about if mother can walk that far, "Mother can you walk that far?" I look at mothers stomach. She says " I can walk that far don't worry, even though I'm not strong I can still walk." We eat some food before setting out. Vigrel brings the Sky Wolf so we can sell it at Herium.

We have to get a carriage as soon as possible since there's only a week left. When we get to the main road I loot the people from the carriage and get 2 gold which I give to my father. We walk for about 50 minutes before mother collapses. I catch her before she falls onto the ground, I look at her pained expression " Mother's in pain, I'm going to rush to Herium." I then take some herbs and feed it to her to reduce the pain and put her on my back before I start sprinting. I reach the town in 12 minutes before stopping and setting mother down. I take more herbs and feed it to her. I go into the town and go to the local herb shop, I buy a couple of herbs for mother before going back to the entrance and waiting for the others. While I was inside the town I look around and found an auction. Although the town was relatively big compared to our village it was small.

Even though I'm a aerial dragon, my back is to dangerous so I can't carry anybody on it. This is why we have to take the carriage. I take the remaining coins which I saved up for emergencies out of my bad, and count it. I have 1 silver and 2 copper left. This is a lot of money considering my family uses 8 silver to live a year. This is the money I kept from the beasts I hunted. I wait for 7 minutes before they arrive.

I wave to them, they walk towards me. I say to them " Lets sell the Sky Wolf corpse at the auction so we can make a lot of money." They agree with me so we set off to the auction.

When we arrive there I speak to the female servants " We're here to sell something. Could you please direct as to where we auction it, we are new to this town."

The servants say " Sir, you can auction your item over there at the counter."

She pointed to her left where a counter is. I thank her before walking towards that direction. The guards stare at us for a moment before looking back. I can see a little sneer on their faces, but I ignore it. I reached the counter and said to them " We are here to sell a Sky Wolf Corpse"

The counter manager said " Don't joke around kid, come back where you have something to actually sell."

I wave for Vigrel to place the Sky Wolf corpse on the counter. The counter manager looked surprised to which I smiled at, but he regained his composure fast. He then said " I'm sorry about that I never thought you would actually have the corpse." He gives us a golden card with the number 56 on it. " That is the stall you will sit in, it is where everyone who are auctioning valuable items or are VIPs sit." He takes the corpse inside. We then walk into the auction and search for our stall.

While we were searching a boy with wealthy clothes comes towards us, his face has an arrogant expression. I think how this is going to be annoying.

When the boy reaches in front of us and says with a smug face " Yo peasants, you're in the wrong place, this is the VIP section, you can't even sit in the normal area why are you here ."

I knew he was going to be annoying, we just ignore him and walk by.

"Hey look at me I'm speaking to you, don't ignore me you filthy peasant." He grabs my hand and tries to hit me. I dodge the punch and strike him in the stomach hard. He flies back and crashes into the chairs.

My father glares at me " Wasn't that hitting him a little too hard?"

I just let out a wry slime before saying " I didn't think he would be that weak. I only used 4 percent of my power there. He doesn't train."

My father sighs and just walks. The kid gets up weakly, he spits out some blood while crying before screaming " Guards there are intruders here, capture them and kill them. Torture the black haired kid!"

The guards from before came running into the room. They started to surround us, I just took out the golden card with the number 56 on it and showed it to them. The guards had surprised expressions, I hear the irritating voice again " You peasant you dare bring a fake VIP pass here. Guards kill him for slandering the Nightshade Auction houses name!'

The guards charge at us, both me and Vigrel dodge them and hit them on the neck knocking them out. After we knocked all of the guards out Vigrel pulls out his sword and starts walking towards the arrogant boy. The boys starts shaking in his boots and pisses in his pants. Seeing this I start snickering before putting my hand on Vigrel shoulder and telling him to stop.

The counter manger from before comes and mediates the problem. Then they take the guards back and the arrogant boy walks away. We look for our stall, when we find it we walk in and sit down. We wait another 10 minutes and the auction starts.

" Welcome to the Nightshade Auction House." An announcer announces. The crowds clap.

" The first item is the famous Heaven Pill it replenishes all your magic and qi and lets you train when fighting. Many people use this pill in fights to get stronger and gain the advantage against the opponent. The starting bid is 100 Gold." A female servant brings the pill and sets it on the table.

"200 gold" Someone in the crowd bids.

" 300" "400" "500"

I then hear a snort and the arrogant boy from before says " The Skyfire Noble house bids "700 gold."

No one outbids him and the announcer says " Anyone going once going twice, ok the Heaven Pill is sold to the Skyfire Noble house."

My parents had astonished gazes as they never seen so much money before. The auctions keep on going until our turn comes.

" Today we have the corpse of a Sky Wolf Infant at the 4th rank mid stage. The pelt is as strong as metal and makes the wearer lighter. The corpse is relatively undamaged. The starting bid is 50 gold." The female servant brings a guard to help her put the corpse on the table.

I then hear someone say " 100 gold."

Then more people bid until the arrogant Skyfire boy bids 500 gold. I think that is a lot of money and sneer thinking about how he's helping us. We stay a little longer, we get up to leave but I hear something interesting. My parents and Vigrel's parents have delighted expressions because this is the most money they ever had and this can solve our transportation problem.

" We have a Formations Master training guide called the Heaven, Earth, Truth guide. It has seals on how to augment peoples magic and qi and teaches new formation masters how to train. The starting bid is 20 gold."

I want this guide for later when my sealing energy is unlocked at the capital. I bid " 20 gold"

No one tries to outbid it. I'm guessing no one trains in that path here.

The announcer says " Anyone want to outbid it? Going once going twice. The guide goes to the number 56 stall."

My parents stare at me weirdly but I tell them " I'm getting it in case one of us has sealing energy." My parents sigh and leave it alone. After the auction finishes we collect the money for the corpse and pay for the guide. We then leave the auction.

When we are leaving I sense people following behind us with my soul sense. I nudge Vigrel and he says " Ya, I sense them to." We then tell our parents and go into an alley to not be seen. We turn around and we see the arrogant boy from before.

" You think you can escape from what you did before. Well your wrong, men capture them and give the women to me. I'll rape them in front of them and then kill the all." He says while laughing crazily.

This pisses Vigrel and I off so much. I grab both my swords and then created all my clones. Both me and Vigrel charge them. I used my Empowered Demonic Dragon style.

" Empowered Demonic Dragon style, X Peirce!" I used both my swords to slash a x shape on the person and stabbed my tail through the center.

"Empowered Demonic Dragon style, 3 Clawed slash!" I attack all of the enemies leaving them on the brink of death. I arrive at the boy who is shaking in fear.

I say in a low voice " You dare threaten my family, don't think you're escaping unscathed now!' I cut both his hands off, Vigrel cuts the legs off. We then spit on him and walk away with our parents.

After calming down we went to the merchant guild and rented a carriage for 100 gold. The horses cost another 100 gold.

We then hired drivers for 50 gold and some adventurers from the adventurer guild to protect us for a 100. I'm wasn't sure both me and Vigrel could protect our family so we had to hire them. We paid the drivers another 50 gold for them to rush us to Krinad. We have 80 gold left.

A week later we arrived at the Krinad. Today is looking like a good day. Both me and Vigrel will announce ourselves to the world.

Author: Thank you for reading so far and sorry for the lack of updates. School is getting harder and I have to study more. There might be no chapter on Mondays from now on. Remember leave tips, comments and reviews. You can rate my story. Tell me if this offends you.