5. Ayruzglow – The Land in West

The cold rays of the moon peeked through the spine leaves of BlackIris forest. BlackIris, an impenetrable forest known for its darkness along with the buried secrets imbibed in it. A quiet and soothing river named Fairy Tears that stream in the heart of the forest functions as a wood barrier between two natural elevations Ardna Chirig and Ayruzglow.

Ayruzglow, a land in the west to Ardna Chirig, a heap of cliffs of ice and chillness spread all over and appears like Crystal Mountain. Just like the ice, the land was enriched with gold mines. It has loads of caves, tunnels namely Frozen-Crescent, Magma-Chamber, Lava-tube, Rock-holes.

The people were called Ayruzians - subordinates, and descendants of Great Dragon, well-known for the caves and tunnels. Ayruzians used caves and tunnels as the place of rendezvous also to travel from their land to others.

The caves and tunnels were naturally formed and invisible to other people rather than Ayruzians. Ayruzians were magnificent fighters and warriors of the battlefield; their attacking mode was more like savages. They moved in numbers, which were their head reason for the winning of their every battle.

After many years of eternal living and performing some rituals and sacrifices made by their ancestors, gained the shape-shifting ability for their dragon clan. They were shifting their shape from dragon to mortal. In accordance with their mega-size, they preferred to remain in the mortal form apart from their original form only if needed.

Ayruzians are well-known for their skills, swords fighting, archery, and their dragon powers. Each and every person including women were accumulated with either of their war skills for self-defence and to use on the battlefield if they were once called.

The kingdom provided everything for their living; the children were educated, later to join the army. The kingdom provided everything for their possible sustainability, like vegetation, cloth weaving, architecting their customized habitat, including education within the borders of Ayruzglow.

Ayruzians were fonder of wines, as it was easily provided by their nature. The wine of Ayruzglow indeed tastes unique and could take anyone to another level of ecstasy. All the other kingdoms wanted to invade Ayruzglow, not only for their wealthy gold mines but for conquering the tastier wines too.

Ayruzians usually gathered in one of the large caves called Frozen-crescent. Frozen-crescent is an ice cave, has two chambers - primary and secondary chambers.

The primary chamber of the cave is formed by melt-water streams carving labyrinths in the bases of a glacier or by streams and wind hollowing out the tunnels in snowfields usually have scalloped, translucent walls that transmit a blue light. The commoners and subordinates of Ayruzians accommodate in the primary chamber to vent out their ALL types of emotions along with wine.

The secondary chamber is way big than the primary chamber which was occupied by the Royal blood and descendants of Great Dragon. The secondary chamber is formed when frigid winter air settles into downward-leading caverns where it cannot be forced out or when moisture freezes in currents of cold air. The entire walls of the secondary chamber were decorated by helictite-like icicles.

The assemblage of young subordinates and soldiers of Ayruzians were invited to celebrate that night in the primary chamber of Frozen Crescent. The speciality of the primary chamber is four types of WINEFALLS - Eternal Bliss, Black Pirate, Blue vapour, Red wine. No one knows the origin of these wine falls.

In the Frozen Crescent, some people were enjoying to the core with roistering, some were drenched in these wine falls, some were sitting on the shore of wine fall and some were drinking the wine in bottles, some were fighting, some were dancing and some were venting out their sinful desires. But each of them was having wine bottles in their hands. All the empty bottles were filled with wine repeatedly.

A manly figure in good shape with sharp topaz coloured eyes, wearing a leather black jacket and boots, appeared in the primary chamber not to enjoy but in search of someone. His topaz-eyes scanned every corner of the chamber of Frozen Crescent.

One of a lady with a revealing dress appeared in front of him and the man didn’t seem to be attentive to the lady of revealing dress, rather his topaz eyes were rolled to spot the person he was looking for.

The lady in the revealing dress approached him and laid her hands on his shoulders and moved her hands deep down of his body and whispered in his ears, “Hey handsome, shall we date tonight”.

His topaz-eyes got fierce evil vision and without a second thought, he pushed the girl away from him and breathe fire. The lady was frightened by him and flew from the scene as much quickly as possible.

In the corner of the room, he found that exact person whom he was searching, surrounded by a group of young ladies. This handsome man approached the person and called “Dev”.

The armoured and hunky man with eyes of icy blue iris and silver hair doesn’t seem to listen, so he again called him, “Dev! You are wanted”

Finally, the drunken person opened his mouth and said, “Ivan! Who wants me? I am wanted by all these young girls here. They are all waiting for my signal..... Do you want to see?”

Saying those words, Dev moved his index finger front and forth at once. On seeing his gesture the four girls appeared before him from nowhere, who was longing to touch him, throw themselves at him. The eye of Dev doesn’t look at those girls; instead, he was looking for the reaction in the face of Ivan, who turned his head with a disguised look.

“Ivan, are you not interested in this? You want wine... C’mon Ivan, I’m enjoying it. Come enjoy yourself.”–Dev suggested Ivan.

Ivan, who was not in the mood of enjoyment, pursed his lips, “Your enjoyment doesn’t look worthy. Dev, come with me.”

The blind drunk Dev not in good mental condition, he loosened all his hold from the girls who are hugging him like leeches and forced Ivan to the wall of the cave with the speed of a lightning bolt and asked, “Is it not worthy?”

Everyone in the Frozen Crescent looked frightened and paved the way for them to fight. The drunken people even cheered Dev and Ivan by clapping their hands and shouting, “Fight, Fight, Fight.”

Dev seemed to be motivated by the cheering sound and shook his head front and forth while Ivan, without a glimpse of fear, replied, “Absolutely no, stop all your stupid activities. I know you don’t like girls. Don’t push yourself to be a playboy. What makes you celebrate? You don’t know the consequences of your action.”

“I know about all the actions and reactions…” Dev replied while finishing the wine in his hands.

“If you are aware of your actions, you should know that you are not supposed to be in this chamber, Dev”

“Ivan, Am I not allowed here”

“You come here for the wine. Ample wine is available in the next chamber. This chamber is for low-level soldiers and subordinates like me.”

Dev gulped some wine from his glass and flown over a table and grabbed a bottle with wine and in a single gulp, he finished the entire bottle and jumped in the direction of Ivan, and asked “Am I treating you like my subordinate? You are a loyal man of high-ranking General in my army; you too are not allowed to be here. Why did you come here?”

“Dev, I come to find you” By saying these words, Ivan took hold of Dev, who was about to fall because of the effect of wine.

“Listen, Ivan Shirk, you are my friend. No one dares to treat you as subordinate in the entire Ayruzglow”.

“Alright Dev, Queen is waiting for you... Don’t fault me for constraining you to pick you?”

“Surely, I’m coming after finishing this bottle of wine”

Ivan snatched the wine bottle from him and throws at a nearby wall of the cave, “You have overdosed with these sinful wines, Dev.”

The bottle broke into small pieces with a great noise. Everyone in the room stopped their activities and look in the direction of Ivan and Dev. While everyone’s eye watching, Ivan dragged Dev, out of the cave. Ivan opened his long wings and took Dev to his queen.