Chapter 12 - Dragon System (1/2)

I woke up in a panic, out of breath sweating. It felt like I had died and come back to life... Again anyway. Everything that happened had felt like a nightmare. It was worse than when I was a dragon. At least I had the power to fight back. Never had I felt that way before, so defenceless with no power to fight back.

I looked around me to see where I was. It seemed like I had been taken to my room. My chest and face had been wrapped in bandages. I still felt a slight pain in my chest but the swelling on my face had come down a lot.

My mother had fallen asleep next to me holding my hand. I smiled. how could one human be so sweet yet another so cruel? The slight movement of my hand managed to wake her up. As her eyes began to open tears started to form.

”Ray! I can't believe it, your awake!” my mom cried.

Suddenly the door burst open and my father ran to my other side.

”Ray, don't this again we thought you would never wake up.” My dad said.

I thought my dad's words had sounded a bit strange. Hadn't it only been a day?

”How long was I asleep for?”

”You been out for a whole week, your mother called me and I came back as soon as I could.”

A whole week, how was that possible? Even though I was badly hurt it shouldn't have warranted a week's worth of sleep. No wonder my parents were so worried.

I asked my parents what had happened to Bob and Kyle the two kids that went into the forest with Gary. Their faces turned pale at the question. When my mother and father came back, they went into the forest to search for them.

Gary had led the way to where they met the intermediate tier wolf. when they arrived the body's had already been taken away, the only thing that was left was bloodshed from the battle. My parents continued looking for them for a couple of days but still had no luck.

The only thing they could do was guess that they were dead. When their mother found out the news she blamed me for everything that happened. Gary had explained the whole thing to the village including my parents what actually happened. People still chose to believe what they wanted to believe saying things like I must have forced him to say that.

It took my father's whole strength to stop my mother form going over and beating the women half to death.

The one thing that I was happy to hear was about Amy. She had only received minor injuries from the wolf. Gary had done a good job of protecting her. The doctor said she mainly fainted from the pressure and fear of the beast.