Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

This little village-like market was really that close to the forest nearby. Just as Arthur and his newly gathered friends exited the market, they found themselves meeting the first squad of trees.

The trees weren't that tall or crowded yet, however in less than half an hour they were totally surrounded by thick bushes and long intersecting heavily branched trees.

The air was thick, and any signs of human life ceased to exist here. Arthur believed if he had no sharp senses, he would have lost his sense of direction some time ago.

He looked around him, they were just passing under some low branches and reached a small open place with not much trees in it. there was a small slowly running water stream which traveled its way between different size rocks.

"Let's stop here," Arthur said as he decided to open his mind and heart to them here. they were away from the shops with enough distance already. There was no danger in telling them now what he intended to do.

"Finally, Mr. Important is going to tell us his big secret plan, wow."

Madly was still behaving like Madly. Arthur didn't mind her personality, in fact he dealt with much worse people than her. She was like an idiot child with some balls and no brain.

"Yes, gather up and hear me out please," Arthur said as he went towards the largest rock as he stood on top of it while everyone else sat on the other rocks, everyone but Madly who was still standing in her place just looking at him.

"Won't you sit down?" Arthur said to her.

"I'm comfortable like this," she coldly replied.

"Fine, what I want to speak about now is about my future plans. I will start with one simple fact, and that is to make all of you mages," Arthur said these words and then paused as he watched the reaction of others in front of him.

Being a mage was everyone's dream in this world, however they were already accepting the fact that they couldn't be ones.

Some were destined to be mages, while others were destined to be distanced from this dream.

"C'mon, don't tell me you did all this to say these worthless meaningless words," Madly was the one to speak up saying what others had in mind. Even Ron, who was the closest one to Arthur, didn't understand how Arthur proposed doing such a thing.

"I know you think it's hard, but I can assure you I will make you all get past this point fast," Arthur calmly replied.

"It's not hard, man it's impossible," Ouly said before standing from his rock as he pointed to Madly, "Doing the test is incredibly expensive. This crazy Madly here tried to trick the academic testers but she failed. that was nearly eight years ago, when we were all nine years old.

Now, we are seventeen years old, it's too late to test our innate talents, man, let's just face reality and don't try to play useless tricks over us."

Ouly was their philosopher, which meant for Arthur he was the brain of this little gang. He wasn't bluffing so he instantly replied:

"I'm not tricking anyone here, and that talent test is just a measure to the presence of innate talents. No one ever said no one can practice and enhance his or her talent after nine years, it's just a misconception from people."

"And what makes you this confident about it? we even don't know if we have talents!" Ouly argued back.

Arthur just smiled before pointing towards Madly as he said:

"I know what her talent is."

"What?!!"

"!"

"!"

Everyone turned to look towards Madly who just felt awkward as she embarrassedly commented:

"I don't have talent!"

"Yes you have, but you haven't figured it out yet," Arthur replied.

"Then what is my talent then?" Madly said while crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"It's brown in color, so I believe it's earth related talent," Arthur said as that was the color he noticed when she was fighting him.

"Brown? I never heard about such a stratification of the innate talents, have you ever heard about such system guys?" Madly was treating this like a joke as she asked everyone else in a theatrical way.

"No, this is my first time hearing something like this," Ouly said as he was standing by Madly's side by now. He wasn't alone, as everyone else either nodded or just looked in doubt towards Arthur who just sighed as he didn't have any knowledge of this world.

His only proof to what he was saying was only through doing it practically and showing this to them.

"Fine, you have the right to believe it or not but at least you will have to follow me these next days and do as I ask," Arthur said.

"And why should we listen to your words? we should return back to our shops and little village before we lose the way," Madly said with some disgust as she was already tired from Arthur who replied:

"First you owe me this, second if you follow me I will teach you how to do it."

"Do what?!" Tarry said as his big body trembled the next after. This wasn't due to his words, but due to the sudden appearance of Arthur just beside him with one arrow pointed towards his thick neck.

Tarry was startled and if he wasn't afraid from being injured from this arrow he would stand up right now from his place in response to this sudden move.

"What a stunning killing move, I definitely want to learn that!" Lily the second girl in here said that as her eyes were brightened when she saw Arthur's move.

Arthur just smiled, it seemed he would never get tired of such a trick. He stood there for a moment before returning again to his original place while Madly muttered:

"I thought you can't use it anymore."

"It consumes a lot of energy, that's given but I can use it for more time if I want," Arthur simply replied before he turned to look at everyone else, "I won't force you to follow me, but if you do then I will teach you how to master such a move, besides…"

He paused as he sensed something was approaching their place. He had the feeling that he was being watched by something that was extremely dangerous.

"W-What?!" Lily asked with doubt as she wanted to know what Arthur was going to say.

Arthur began to use his senses to the full, despite not knowing how this weak body would take this toll or not. The situation seemed risky and tricky as everyone was relaxed and not aware of the danger eyeing them right now.

Everyone looked at him with impatience, while Madly began to feel bored already as she just harrumphed while Ron felt something was odd. Arthur seemed unusually strange right now.

Before anyone could say anything more, a black shadow leapt suddenly from the thick bushes surrounding them. this black shade was like a spear which was thrown towards Arthur directly to kill him.

This all happened fast, but Arthur was already anticipating this attack, and he had the perfect counter to it.

The cloud steps move was the card he used. In front of everyone, and when all hopes were lost when they noticed the shadow presence, Arthur jumped to the air with bow in his hand and three arrows appearing in the bow at the same time.

That wasn't all, as after this superbly timely reaction of him, his jump began to show some extraordinary stunning move. The jump was about to reach its climax before Arthur moved his right leg and hit the air like he was hitting the ground.

This hit was followed by a more amazing jump higher. It seemed like he was jumping in the air, which was kind of true, as he was using all the strength in his body and focusing it on his right leg which acted like a cannon to shoot and his body would recoil in response.

Amazing move, but he knew he was risking using it now, however without using it he couldn't escape the clutches of this strange enemy. This was without doubt a fast based monster, which used its speed to overcome any prey he eyed.

If it was fast on ground, then facing it on its turf was foolish. The only available option for him was to go where this creature couldn't follow. When the monster hit the empty rock where Arthur was at just now, it began to be angry.

When it stopped over the rock, its true body shape appeared. It was like a leopard with five pairs of bony pairs of wing-like extensions on both sides of its body. it seemed these extensions helped it to run faster.

But it couldn't actually help it to fly, which made Arthur more grateful for that.