Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 95 Forge VI : Blood Dragon

[Everything alive had blood, regardless of what form of existence it might be, in one form or another, blood exists. It's the very essence of life, and can exists as energy, as liquid, a gas but never as a solid. It shows the fundamental aspect of the element, it flows, carrying sustenance and power from one part of the body to the other. Everything alive has blood, even the very planet itself; water that gives life and sustains the earth is blood, rain that falls from the sky is BLOOD!, LAVA THAT FLOWS in the depths of the earth, that is BLOOD! SEE IT! FEEL IT! AND CONTROL IT!]

GRIMOIRE OF A MAD BLOOD MAGE

Alex felt the thrumming of heartbeats, hundreds if not thousands of them, each and every single one of them spread out for dozens of kilometers around him. Of the creatures chasing after them, both the Sylph's and the sirens were without a physical body, but even then Alex could still feel their pulses, he could feel the rush of life within their veins, power and energy the likes of which he's never felt before.

But along with all this feeling came the feel of a massive weight and pressure on his head, it was too much, there was just too much blood. Alex foisted all of Yun Fao's body on Louis, almost forcing the young son to get submerged into the river, but thankfully Louis was a lot stronger than his lanky form showed. With one of his hands on the piece of the raft, Alex pointed the other at the tanks upon ranks of magical beasts, and monsters behind him, and then he pushed back. Almost as if all of the creature met an invisible wall, their bodies came to a stop with jarring halt.

There was nothing to be heard from them, no sound, the only things moving were their eyes, and even then that was with a lot of difficulty. They were just as surprised at the pressure on them, a pressure that came from their very essence, their blood, something that they couldn't fight, from deep within them. The river slowly started moving again, as the pressure pulling the boys down eased up, Alex could not help releasing a breath of relief, with the pressure from both him and whatever it was that was powering this prison, then it should be quite possible to keep the prisoners at bay.

But Alex was celebrating a little too early, that had barely moved up four meters when he felt all of the creatures fighting against him. It seems their desire to leave this prison, was a whole lot more powerful than the hold his power had on them, and if Alex had to be honest, such single-minded focus and thirst for freedom was very terrifying. They will not allow anything or anyone to get in their way.

Alex broke out into a cold sweat, it was not easy keeping them still, and even more so now that they were fighting back. His hands were shaking and his head was pounding even louder than ever, with the way things were going, Alex felt as if his head would explore into a shower of gods and brain matter. Whatever power that was responsible for getting them out of here was being careful with it's approach, it was carefully keeping an eye on the prisoners whilst slowly dragging them out.

Such slow movements were absolute torture for Alex, he was getting angry, but at the same time he was also feeling very frustrated and scared. He was already at his breaking point when he heard Ébié whisper into his ears…..

(Let me fight them master)

And Alex was all willing to relinquish control as his entire being was flooded with the power of the blood dragon. Louis watched on in abject horror as Alex's face became a whole lot more angular and he developed curves that had no place on a male human's body.

His chest grew bountiful, his eyes soulful, and his hair so ridiculously long and red it became hard for Louis to differentiate where the river ended and where his hair began, Alex had no become a beauty with a very fanged filled smile that made Louis feel like he was looking at the mother of all devils.

"Well isn't this wonderful, the air, the water, the energy and this feeling of power.....it feels so good to be alive."

Louis had his words, saliva and a whole bunch of other things stuck in his thirst as he looked at Alex who had just transformed into a full grown woman. It was terrifying, very terrifying, especially with how attractive she was. He skin was even darker than Alex's, like the very best mix of brown chocolate and coffee, creamy and sweet with very best of textures known to man. Louis shook his head, trying his hardest to remove the wayward thoughts from his head.

He noticed the massive dragon wings on her back just as she flew up in the sky, her hair wrapping around Louis and Yun Fao, pulling them along. Then she turned to face the ranks of creatures and gave a rather nasty grin, before pointing her hands at them and spreading it wide. Both her thumbs were touching each other, and a pentagram appeared on both her palms, only this pentagram was made with Inscriptions arrays, hundreds upon hundreds of them superimposed over the other. It would take someone with a very gifted eyesight and a boat load of time to be able to properly study and even understand just a fraction of the Arrays on her palm.

Then the Arrays cake to life, blazing blood red as blood began to float out of her eyes and nose; droplets by droplets they quickly gathered in the air, stretching themselves out to form lines and angles and curves until an array similar to the one on her palm was formed, though it looked a whole lot more simpler. The array thrummed with power, slowly pulsing with rhythm like the beats of a vibrant heart.

(Blood Art: Devour)

Her words were just a whisper, and the way she said it was in the most sensual and calmest manner possible. Like a lover telling her love goodnight or a mother softly singing to her baby. But Louis, the only person who was conscious as this was going on, almost lost control of his bladder. Louis was a noble, he grew up right in the middle of family politics, land disputes and many other intricacies of the king of France's court. He could recognize animosity and pure murderous intent in a person's voice, and he could hear it in her voice, and the volume of it would fill an ocean.

*Screeeeeeee arrrrrrrrrrrrrr yiyiyiyiyiyiyiy grooooaaaaaaaaarrr*

Screeches , roads and screams of pain came off all of the creatures chasing after them, Louis watched as blood of all colors and even energy itself was drained out them. He watched as the sirens made of water turned to ice, the Sylph's turn grey and fall in spades into the river, flowing downstream to Oblivion. Louis noticed a giant snake and wolf lose their scales and fur, slowly desiccating until all that was left of them was death, horrible and terrifying death.

Above their heads, even as they floated upwards was a massive pool of blood and energy. It was akin to a multicolored sludge as Louis could see green, black, white, blue and grey blood, along with the normal red, and some of a lighter shade. Then slowly all of the blood seemed to congregate, shrinking in on itself until about three dozen blood red pills were formed, each pulsing with light like a heartbeat. And looking closer at the pills, Louis could hear the screams and even see the faces of the creatures that just died, in the most gruesome and brutal fashion possible. Louis reckoned that it would be a whole lot more bloody if her targets had been normal humans rather than weird monsters with very different biology, it would also have been more horrifying.

She turned and flew upwards, her endless hair dragging Louis and Yun Fao along. She flew really fast, moving almost at the speed not sound, and if not for the fact that her hair was wrapped around Louis and Yun Fao, such a flight would have been very difficult for the boys. Eventually a massive body of water could be seen above them, it was like a lake or an ocean spread far across the roof of a cavern, and it spread for kilometers upon kilometers with no end in sight.

Louis could see other rivers flowing upwards back to the Lake above that was defying gravity, it was a daunting yet amazing sight, the likes of which he had never seen before. He wished Yun Fao was awake to see it, though he couldn't be sure about Alex seeing as he was in the body of a woman or was a woman in his body, or did a woman possess his body....this was so confusing to Louis, Alex was just too weird.

He was chosen to protect Alex from the world, to grow right beside him in strength and power and defend him with his life if the need ever arose, but somehow Louis felt it was the world that needed protection from Alex.

She didn't slow down her flight as she flew into the lake, dragging the boys into the bone chilling cold body of water.

And it seemed the moment they got into the water gravity resumed working normally as they headed for the surface. Louis held his breath and Yun Fao's mouth and nose tightly, until the burst out of the water, and Louis realized that Gravity was still being a bitch and working weirdly. They were now falling from the sky, right over the remains of a burnt forest...guess the weirdness wasn't over.

Chapter end