The Dragon of Dreams

Early Evening - Mid Summer : Asimi's Estate

- Zachari Ragnarok ~

The mood quickly changed as Mother closed the door. "So how about we finally address the pressing matter. I talked to Osto a bit but it seems like he was fairly clueless."

"Haah.." I glanced over at Osto. "To be honest, I'm not entirely sure either. Vasilias seems to know something but he is keeping quiet about it."

"How would he know what happened on the day he hatched?"

"Well.. he had intent when I saw him the day after he hatched and a while ago when I asked, he said he was fully conscious even before he hatched.."

"..." Mother just gave me a blank stare. "H..how though.."

"Haha, that's what we are wondering as well.."

"Haah.. so what do you know about the changes made to him by that artifact?"

"Well, it changed quite a lot.. it likely partially changed his race as well."

"That's not..." She gave me a troubled look as she tried to figure it out. "So do you know what color his scales were before touching the artifact?"

"He said they were white like mine."

"Hooh.." Mother quickly sat down and tried to sort her thoughts some. "Any idea what race he was changed to?"

"Y..yes.. We believe he is half dragon, half ancient fenrir."

Her demeanor immediately changed, becoming far more shaky. "S..say again?"

"We think he's half ancient fenrir.."

She stared at me with wide eyes. "So then Ilios is.."

"Yes.. he is the other ancient fenrir."

Slightly losing balance, she caught herself and lowered her head. The room was wrapped in silence for a while while she tried to think through it. "Osto told me he awaked his true form already as well.."

"Yeah.. He awakened it after his second dragon sleep, then during their trip to Kaelallan, he had another one. He hasn't told us any of the details of that one though.."

"Haah.. I don't even know what to think. It feels like my thoughts just got clogged."

"Osto and I have stopped trying to explain it ourselves and just started going with the flow. You'll come to realize it in a few days but when it comes to Vasilias, nothing is impossible.."

- Vasilias ~

"Uwahh.." As I started waking up from my nap, I felt a familiar soothing sensation wrap around me. "Mmmm.." -I wonder what causes that..-

As I shifted around, I accidentally woke up Ilios as well. He gave me a face full of tongue as soon as I opened my eyes.

"Haha, good morning Ilios.." Although I didn't want to sleep very long, I ended up sleeping for nearly 2 days.

Finally sitting up and stretching, I made my way out into the hall. -I should ask to see if there is a place to spar with Ilios..- I wanted to get back to my old training routine.

Just outside the door to the living room was a familiar blue and white haired maid. "Miss.."

"Ah, you're awake Sir Vasilias! What can I do for you?"

"I was just wondering if there was a big clearing or open area nearby that I could spar someone in. It needs to be quite big though."

"Hm? Not that I know of but there is a knight training facility a bit south of here you could use. You should also be free to spar the knights-in-training there. Let me send a knight with you, to show you the way."

"Sweet, thanks."

After the maid left, I ended up walking back into the living room and fiddling with magic for a bit.

Thankfully, it wasn't too long before she returned.

"Sir Vasilias, this is Knight Captain Orion Cirillo, I think you two might have met already. He has some business at the training center as well so he will bring you there."

"Sweet, I'll be in your care Orion."

He gave a slightly nervous nod. "Likewise... Well, please follow me, Young Lord."

Following him down the halls, we quickly made it outside and got up into the air.

As we were flying, he turned back to me. "Sorry about the other day.."

"Haha, you're fine. I'm used to people misunderstanding who I am.."

"Still, I'm embarrassed beyond belief that I did that and I'd like to apologize."

"Apology accepted then."

The rest of our flight was wrapped in silence. It wasn't until we landed that he said anything else. "The training grounds are in the clearing we saw up in the air. Please feel free to use it as you wish. My father owns this training academy so if you need anything please just let me know.. I'll be in this building for a few days."

"Sweet. Thanks in advance."

"Anytime, Young Lord." Giving a deep bow he changed to his humanoid form and walked into the fairly small building.

His humanoid form was an incredibly muscular draconic human. He looked mostly human except the horns, wings, tail and a few trace scales on the back of his arms and neck.

He looked like the peak body builders from earth with basically no fat and ridiculously defined muscle.

-How does a dragon even build muscle like that though..- Unlike with humans, traditional ways to grow muscle like working out with weights didn't work or was too inefficient, dragons were simply too strong and diet simply doesn't matter to them.

-Maybe there will be something in the training area..-

Quickly making my way up to the large clearing, I noticed that there were some large dragons sparring in the field.

"My money is on Otis!"

"Mine is on Rhodes, you think Otis can win?!"

"New bet ratio is 4:3 Rhodes!"

There was a huge group of knights watching and taking bets on the spar. The ones fighting were two 52 meter tall dragons, one orange like Orion and the other was dark blue. -Are they other captains?-

*Bang* *Thud* *Th-th-th-thud*

Their clash was shaking the ground. Each of their strikes had a ferocious amount of strength behind it.

"Hmph, how much longer do you think you can hold out?!" *BANG* The blue dragon slammed the orange one into the ground.

"Long enough to beat your ass!" The orange one quickly got out of the others grasp and threw a heavy punch. *THUD*

Before I knew it, I got enveloped in the fight as well. Something about watching two huge dragons have a slug fest was extremely entertaining.

As I watched, I got curious who was who so I walked up and tapped the shoulder of a spectating knight near me. "Hey, so who is fighting?"

"Hm? Ah, you must be new. Rhodes is the orange one and Otis is the blue. They're the teachers of the knights here. Overtime, we (the students) made some bets on who would win in a spar amongst the teachers and eventually they heard about it. The best part is that instead of being like those annoying academy teachers and getting mad at the students, they actually set up this spar."

"Haha, sounds like they're some awesome teachers."

"They really are. Do you want to make any bets?"

"Hmm.. I'll put a platinum on Rhodes.. that'll juice the pot a bit."

The knight looked back at me in shock before double checking. "You sure?"

"Yeah, it should spice things up." I handed him the newly created platinum coin.

"Haha, I like your style!" He walked over to the bet stand and placed the bet.

The knight behind the desk yelled out. "Hey Rhodes! Someone bet a platinum on you!"

Rhodes immediately looked over. "WHICH ONE OF YOU DUMBA-"

*CRACK*

While he was distracted, Otis whacked him with his tail.

"For you to rely on a cheap shot.. I thought you were all about a knight's honor Otis.." Rhodes looked up with visible bloodlust.

"Uh oh.." Otis immediately pulled back and hesitated.

Taking advantage of the opening, Rhodes moved up and grabbed his head.

*BANG*