Otherkin (#6 of 6, discontinued)

Chapter 5: Cruel Destiny

I wake up at another morning with tired body. I got a nightmare that I couldn’t remember last night. This day I will escort Zemilkom in his escape, after I have a breakfast.

But before I and other nobles touch our food, we been surprised by a lot of screams...

Outside the sky was red because flaming battles below. War emerges between dragons and wyverns. Although smaller, those wyverns have more chance to win because their swiftness and deadly tail poison.

Wyverns is our far relatives, but they only have two limbs, longer neck, and deadly poisonous spike in their tail. They are swift, slimy, and usually life at swamps. They attacks and eat anything including dragons and even other wyverns but along the history they never come out from their nests far in north!

“Arutema!” calls Zemilkom. Quickly I run approach him.

“Kyros is starting his plan! Let’s get the hell out of here!” wisp him panic.

While run along passage, my left eye focusing through windows. Those wyverns almost as much as our warriors! Kyros really wants to takeover this empire for his own... with killing all of us!

I’m gasping in terror when a wyvern dive to us. We can’t turn back since this is the only way to met Zem’s nanny. That wyvern hissing with delight, maybe because finding weak preys or the tender meats of younglings. But no way, I’m not an easy prey!

Zemilkom launches a thunder from his tail. The unaware wyvern got hit in his leg and hissing angry. That attack doesn’t mean too much on his thick slimy skin. He dive to Zemilkom but I won’t allow him.

I throw every weight of me to him untill we both knock the wall. He hiss more and whip his tail at me. I hold his tail with my front limbs while my back limbs try to push his razor jaws far from me. Zemilkom runs to us and bites the wyvern’s neck. While he stop whiping his tail, I turn and start clawing his vulnerable wings. Desperate hiss come out from his muzzle before he out of breath and lay lifeless. We relieved and continue moving.

Suddenly my right back limb hurt, I meep and see what attacking me. That wyvern still alive with his last breath before fall once again. This time Zemilkom don’t take any risk and rip apart that wyvern’s neck.

“Are you ok, Arutema? Is he poisoning you?”

“I think so. I still can walk...”

Zemilkom nods in relieve and we walk again and found his nanny. Without any words she leads us out from the castle and cald mountains itself!

We survive! But that’s my though, not Zemilkom’s...

“You bring us to north, far away from middle sands,” said Zemilkom cold.

“Of course that’s the plan, no cave on the beach.”

My eyes wider in disbelief, Zemilkom looks so serious. But I think maybe his nanny have another hideout and plan.

“You don’t smell like my nanny. Without blood scents everywhere I could know you are not!” snarls Zemilkom and stand aware full. I took my stance too.

“Too fast and misplaced, but Kyros order just to kill you both still in plan,” she hissing evilly.

“You are not my nanny!” growls Zemilkom and launch a thunder but she don’t even budge and starts to laugh.

“I’m neither a daekar. My kin isn’t belong in this continent, only me alone. You don’t know us, but I will let you know before your death arrive!”

She starts to morph. Her scales melt into smooth purple skin. All of her eyes turns to white, cold pearl like white.

“My kin is called Illusio dragons. You daekars can’t match our magic.”

Two wyverns appear from bushes in our back. Two wyverns! But we won’t give up. I start to snarl and clawing but Zemilkom was stunned there with terror inside his face.

“My magic...” squeak him before a wyvern slaps him.

That pernesse dragon seals his magic... And I starts to lost my concentration because the poison I got in the first wyvern battle. The wyvern don’t tolerate my misconcentration and tail slap me. I starts to feel paralyzed and the wound of my back limb is so hurts. I starts out of breath... In vague I see a tail swept on Zem’s wing and makes him fall to ground before even fly enough high to escape. The wyvern which attack me before races with his friend and they both attacking Zemilkom without let him move even a bit. They stab their deadly tail-spike to Zemilkom’s chest. He howls painfully. He looked helpless at me and passed out...

It’s so cruel destiny... The prince with barbed crown who tries to gave up his throne, killed because someone who want the throne. The prince who never had freedom...

“You to won’t survive kid,” said the illusio dragon while lay down with her arms crossed relax. She lets those wyverns eat Zemilkom’s body and I could do nothing.

With a lot of struggle and pain I starts to stand and run even it so hurt and so hard to catch a breath. I only see blur colors in my sight... But I still want to life and revenge on all of this! And mostly, saving my mom...

[Useless wasting energy. Just lay there, receive your death, and remember the happiness of your past,] a thought struck into my brain. After a second of confused I realize it was a telepathic sound from that illusio dragon.

I remember Mistral and our lovely day, and that makes me have more hope to survive. I can fell tearing lash of those wyverns’ tail. They had done with Zemilkom but they won’t miss me for desert.

But then the lashes stop, those wyverns stay floating in their place.

[You are a tough young dragon, but too bad this is your end,] said the illusio dragon. Suddenly I step on no ground and fall. My ripped wings can’t be used!

I look down, to the blur green of a forest. Unicorns’ Groove... I will fall to Unicorns’ Groove... Those treants will finish me... if I’m not crash first...

I howl in desperate hollow, all changes into a nightmare I can’t imagine. Poison makes me lost my conscious before I touch the ground...

-Finding Identity-

I wake up startled and out of breath. The pain of wyverns’ whips on Arutema torture me, also the fact that Arutema; my other self is dead... That painful howl... I felt like I, my soul breaks into pieces. I check my body for wound marks but none, only flooding sweat there.

I tried to sleep again. I can sleep well but when I wake up again in the morning I cry. I don’t get any vision of Arutema...

***

Days passed and I still got nothing about my other self. I pull myself and depressed also everyone is avoiding me because the former issues.

I have no will to learn, all my scores become broken but my heart is more broken-- far more broken. My father still as vicious as usual, he still thinks his daughter as lesbian vermin.

I’m upset, I’m angry, and nothing can calm me. Just like I want to scratch and bite everyone that annoy me. I want to go to the top of a skyscrapper and fly go from this world.

Then I remember to tell this to other dragons on the net. I’m too frustrated to remember that maybe they know how to reawaken Arutema. I told everything that happen to them. They concerns and try to calm down me but unfortunately everyone said Arutema might be dead... And yes I fell my half of my soul dead.

But I’m not going to give up and they teach me how to awake my memories like meditating or traveling around natural environments. I tried all ways strenuously and believe but Arutema still not come back.

Isn’t this you ever want? Be normal again? Said a unfamiliar though on my mind. Suicide. I can’t life like this with half of me dead.

Isn’t now you can life normal? asks that though again. Normal? Isn’t I was normal before? Why I can’t be the old me again?

***

I tried to life normal, I tried to approach my friends again. But my life is full of pretends. This human world is a stage... I was pretending before I ‘met’ Arutema. I’m pretending to cover all my sick to keep others’ feeling and now I’m so sick because I should do it again. Because this is... my only life...

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