Chapter 197 - Fused together (2/2)
Behind the man was a blazing hot furnace spewing flames. The curly-haired man was only dressed in ragged trousers and had each of his limbs changed down into the ground. The heat from the furnace was so strong that Ray was surprised the man was still alive, but instead, he just stood there smiling.
On one of his hands, was a Hammer, but it wasn't held in his hand like Ray originally thought. The hammer itself had become the man's hand as if they had been fused together.
Ray started to step forward to get a closer look at the man and the hammer, then suddenly, the sound of footsteps could be heard behind them.
”Someone's coming.” Gary said, ”What should we do?”
Ray quickly looked around the room and to the right of them, there was a prison room with iron bars. Ray walked up to the room and using only his hands he pulled two of the iron bars apart until they had bent and made a gap big enough for a human to fit through.
”Get in!”
Gary quickly rushed into the room and Ray followed, then bending the bars behind him once again making it seem like no one had tampered with them.
”Is there anyone inside?” Ray asked.
Gary looked around the room and noticed one inmate covered in a thin sheet asleep.
”I don't think he's waking up anytime soon.”
”Good, keep him that way.”
Lilly and Berg had arrived in front of the man with two guards as escorts. Gary and Ray were close enough to see the whole thing and that's when Gary spotted the girl.
Lilly had short brown hair that went down to her collar bone. She also had tanned skin and always brought her trusty wand with her attached to her belt around the back.
”I know her, and the guy as well, they were both at the tavern.” Gary said, ”What are they doing here?”
As soon as the chained man saw the female in front of him, he started to speak.
”It looks like you brought me a young lady to have fun with while I'm down here.” The chained man laughed.
”Why is he chained next to the furnace and not in one of the cell's,” Lilly asked. ”We do not torture our prisoners.”
”You are mistaken, Miss.” The guard said, ”The man looked like he was slowly dying, he kept pleading us to bring him closer to a flame. Under your father's orders, he was placed here to be kept alive.”
Gary looked at the flames behind the man, wondering how on earth someone was able to withstand something so strong. His body seemed even stronger than Jack's.
”How can a human survive those flames.”
”Because he's not human, or at least he's not anymore,” Ray replied.
Maybe this man was once human but right now through his Dragon eyes, Ray could only see a beast but this was a first for Ray. He had never heard of a weapon turning a human into a beast but if Ray was able to be turned from a beast to a human, why wouldn't it be possible for the other way round.