14 Mysterious Black Egg (1/2)

Elise gently flapped her wings and landed with a graceful flourish, she looked ahead and saw branches covering a small hole hidden in the ground. Her heart began to thump wildly, and she ran forward tearing away the branches frantically from the entrance.

She cleared the branches and the light from the outside shone down on Ashley who was curled up in a tiny ball.Ashley blinked hard trying to make out the figure in front of her who was covered in sunlight.

”Mommy?” she cautiously called out.

Something shattered in Elise's heart and she rushed forward with a half-choked sob caught in her throat, she had never felt such a deep sense of loss when Ashley had vanished before her eyes. She wrapped her arms firmly around her daughter and began to stroke her trembling back.

”Mom I was so scared by myself,” Ashley could not hold back the tears from falling and she began to cry heavily in Elise's arms.

”I' m here. I'm here. I'm here” Elise began to mutter frantically.

No trace of the vicious monster remained on her face, her left eye quickly returned to its normal violet hue and shone slightly with unshed tears.

Elise could not understand why she was acting this way, she had seen the loss of her comrades, family and friends over the years of bloodshed and was no stranger to death. Her heart had closed, and she was numb to the feeling the pain of losing those close to her.

And yet.

The mere thought of this little girl dying sent a deep sense of paralyzing fear down her body. Elise turned to the little girl sniffled in her arms and came to a realization that deeply unsettled her.

This child was her weakness.

She suddenly could not hold back her tears and broke down as well, the mother-daughter pair cried and held each other for a few minutes. Elise carefully lifted Ashley out of the hole and looked at her eyes that were shinning with hope.

Ashley seemed to be unhurt, but Elise quickly scanned her body in case she had a few hidden injuries. She was fine and Elise breathed a sigh of relief but then she noticed that Ashley was holding something in her hand.

”Ashley what's that black rock?” Elise asked curiously.

”Its not a rock mommy! I found it here and I think it might be a magic beast egg!” Ashley excitedly whispered.

”What! Ashley gave me that egg, we need to destroy it as soon as we can,” Elise worriedly said.

(Ashley's POV)

Mommy quickly took the black egg from my hand and placed in on the ground and drew her sword. She looked just like a warrior princess from my story books! As she swung her sword at the egg, I felt a panicked emotion from my heart.

My palm was heating up slightly and began to pulse in the same rhythm as the egg kicking from earlier. I was very confused but as I watched the sword draw closer a panicked cry came from my throat.

”Stop mommy! Don't hurt it!”

(Main Story)

As Elise heard Ashley's cry, she immediately adjusted her sword arc and the blade landed two inches away from the egg. She looked inquisitively at Ashley then came to a sudden realization,

”Ashley is your palm beating with the egg?” Elise asked.

Ashley frowned and nodded. Elise suppressed the groan that was threatening to come out, looks like her little daughter had bonded with a magical beast. This was a rare occurrence that could happen if the embryo inside an egg felt a connection with a person's mana circuit.

The magic beast would then regard the person as a parent when it hatched and would link their mana circuit to their owner. The problem is that Elise could not recognise what type of magical beast was inside the egg and she sighed silently to herself.

It was okay she reasoned to herself, worse come to worse she could simply sever the link and kill the beast if it turned to be an aggressive species.

”Alright you can keep the egg for now but let me know immediately if it starts to hatch”

”I got it mommy,” Ashley replied seriously.