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Chapter 11: The Next Clue
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Dragon-kissed Chapter 12: The Journey North
And so they set out to the north. At first, Aki and Temujin clung to each of Griffin’s legs to avoid being seen by Stork gliders who might be flying overhead, which included Aki’s search and rescue party and Temujin’s shoot-on-sight fanbase. As they advanced northward, they felt the gradual change in temperature which was a clear sign they were nearing the territory of the Clan of Undina, whose mother element was water and ice. Temujin radiated the flame on his fingertip to keep all of them warm: himself, Aki, who sat behind him, and Griffin, whose neck was the only spot his heat could reach. Any hotter and Griffin’s feathers would catch fire. The drop in temperature went hand in hand with a decrease in light. At that time of year, it was night all day long in the territory of the Undines and it became harder and harder to see anything beyond the fire-glow that Temujin shone. The weather, too, had grown harsher. Snow was falling though they didn’t notice when it started to; nor when
Dragon-kissed Chapter 13: Extinct
“Have we lost it?” Temujin screamed, his dark-accustomed eyes straining to pierce the inky vastness below. “Tell me we lost it!” “Of course we lost it! Bears don’t have wings, silly,” Aki tittered. “Oh, you should’ve seen your face! That was the most scared I’ve ever felt in my entire life!” They tried to bring their racing hearts and the sudden rush of adrenaline under control. Griffin especially, whose heart they could feel through all his bulk and feathers, beating madly like a rapid volley of cannon fire. “It wasn’t just the bear!” Temujin shouted. “There was something else!” “Something else?” Aki shouted back. “What?” “I can’t be sure… but I think it’s… a dragon!” “A dragon? Are you out of your mind? Dragons have been extinct for two cen—” Before Aki could finish her sentence, a large mass from below struck them like some black, flameless rocket. Griffin stiffened in pain. “Nooooooooo!” Temujin screamed as Griffin convulsed trying to break free of the deathl
Dragon-kissed Chapter 14: The Showdown
The Kuma-wani water dragon hunched over Griffin’s body, wary as any predator. The relentless winds swept the land and sometimes howled like angry spirits. They were enough to send frightened children under their blankets and push ordinary trekkers to the ground. But Temujin wasn’t ordinary. He was a Slayer. The dragon tensed and snarled when it saw Temujin ahead, making a lone stand in an extremely uneven showdown. His right hand was crimped on his side and blazing like a torch. Without it, he would be lost in the suffocating darkness. He was like a faint candle on the edge of the world. The dragon didn’t mind the dark. Its eyes glowed yellow. Just like Temujin, it was capable of night vision. And a dragon could see a hundred miles ahead of it, close to if not surpassing the visual acuity of its ancestor breed, the Ri-Tatu. “Hey you!” Temujin shouted. “That’s right. I’m talking to you, Ugly! That’s my friend you got there. If you know what’s good for you, you’re gonna leave him alo
Dragon-kissed Chapter 15: Close Shave
Aki brought all the elements smashing against the dragon’s glowing underbelly. The beast budged and used its tail to steady itself against the onslaught. It was determined to withstand the second attack and prove it was the king, the alpha predator of its domain. What the dragon failed to realize was that Aki wouldn’t stop at hurling funnels upon funnels of wind. After she had super-cooled the dragon’s underbelly, she launched herself in the middle of her own cyclone and withdrew a short wooden implement from her suit. Another ingenuity of the Ciconi Clan, the object was an extendable bō staff. Near the mouth of her wind tunnel, Aki teleported again. But she was so focused on what she was doing that she barely noticed. She ended up floating parallel to the dragon’s chest and executed rapid combos of two-handed underarm spins with the bō staff. It appeared as though she was emerging from the cyclone in an invisible boat but she was pulling the oars so fast that she threw out sparks on
Dragon-kissed Chapter 16: Daybreak
With the sunless dawn came the proverbial ray of hope. A gaggle of curious onlookers from the nearby villages had come and caught Aki and Temujin asleep in the open. Last night, they were sitting close to Griffin and Aki projected a giant dome of airflow around them (with a chimney on top). Then Temujin radiated heat to keep themselves and the whole length of Griffin warm. They must’ve been exhausted from the fight because they fell asleep that way. They were woken up by a great deal of chatter and wide-eyed stares, just as Temujin’s fire disintegrated into its last sparks and Aki’s air dome fizzled away. Naturally, it was still dark in the north but at least the weather had cleared. Many of the villagers, blonde and blue-eyed, were carrying torches that threw a harsh light on the outlanders. “Greetings, friends!” spoke a jovial, stout man who sported a lot of white, from his handlebar and long, squarish beard to his ermine-trimmed surcoat. “Welcome to our humble little fell, Pukk
Dragon-kissed Chapter 17: Diplomacy
Before they fell asleep last night, Temujin had asked Aki if she wanted a piece of dragon scale, or all of them, to fashion into armor. Dragon scales were highly prized material because they were impervious to a lot of things, even fire, as their recently concluded battle had just proven. Aki answered in the negative. Ciconi Slayers disliked any form of heavy protection and preferred to rely more on teleportation or speed to evade attacks. “Forgive my ignorance, Lord Temujin,” Mr. Olsson said after a star-struck gasp, “but are these lovely cut glass bowls from the renowned glassmakers of the Vulcanus Clan? They’re curiously shallow but no less expressive than a chawan cup. Dare I say you’re exceedingly generous to even consider offering these beauties as a warming gift to me?” “Forget it,” Temujin harrumphed and put the scales back inside his jacket, away from Mr. Olsson’s reaching fingers. Before the town master could barrage them with more grand oration or another out-of-this-wor
Dragon-kissed Chapter 18: Wōdenland
“Blitzlicht,” Aki repeated the word to herself as soon as she heard it from the photographer. She let the foreign word roll on her tongue as though she could taste it, could see its physical equivalent again: Flash Light. “It’s incredibly bright,” Temujin agreed, reading Aki’s thoughts. “It’s from a new solution,” chimed in the photographer, who had brown hair, blue eyes, and very pale skin. The photographer also wore a monocle that barely hid the many layers of bags under his eyes. He looked more at home under the black tent of his creation than in the outside world. In Aki’s rich imagination, he evoked the image of a ki-sucking phantom called kyonshī. His assistant, on the other hand, the one who had held up the frying pan during the photo op, looked like a gravedigger in an ill-fitting suit, like someone assembled from stolen body parts. He contributed very little to the conversation so the impression was enhanced. Earlier, Aki had used sleight-of-hand to spirit away the tintype
Dragon-kissed Chapter 19: Visions
Temujin added some new rocks into the pit in the center of the lodge to keep the temperature at a good forty degrees. He himself was sweating like a candle; he could only imagine how Griffin felt with all his down feather. He dipped water from a bucket and poured it into the hot stones, raising puffs of steam. “Have you come to seek counsel?” Temujin was startled. As the steam dissipated, he noticed the shaman, the original fire-tender, sitting cross-legged at the far end of the lodge. He thought everyone else was at the feast. “Forgive me,” Temujin quickly apologized with a bow. “I didn’t realize you were here.” “It matters not,” the shaman answered in Temujin’s western tongue. “I am neither here nor there and I come and go as I please.” Temujin looked at the shaman more carefully. His overall impression of him was “Elephant Man”, because the man was bald and had had his ear lobes stretched with big wooden disk gauges. His whole body was also covered in tattoo, as far as Temuji
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- Dragon-kissed Epilogue: New Dawn
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 89: The Cleanup
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 88: Rooftop Fisticuffs
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 87: The Teacher
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 86: First Class
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 85: The Emperor of the Dark
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 84: Hard Truths
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 83: Torture
- Dragon-kissed Chapter 82: Prisoners
