Chapter 30: XXX. Past Mistakes
Alexandra ran to be away from everyone and avoided going straight to her home to be found there, she went to the only place where she felt safe, she went to the beach near her home in Shairum. Alexandra was upset, she did not understand how things had escalated so much, she looked around waiting for a winged dragon either running or flying was looking for her to finish what they had started, in an outburst, she kicks the sand unburdening herself little anger he still had to feel better about the situation.
"Look what we have here" Alexandra reacts by drawing her sword in warrior mode prepared for the worst, but she relaxes when she sees that it was her aunt.
"Aunt Tizzy! For Mother Desthy you almost scared me to death" the human relaxes, keeping her sword.
"If you left a great scene there with Captain Drigielix" says the dragon walking to see himself in the saltwater.
"Ah, you saw" she feels worse and worse about herself ", he and I were supposed to fix things, I wanted to be a good partner with him and ... and ..."
"Everything ended in a terrible disaster" completes the dragon, Alexandra just sits on the sand leaving watching the seawater.
"Sometimes I would like to be a dragon, maybe ... only then would I be part of you," says the human sadly.
"You know that is not true at all" replies the dragon.
"Please Aunt Tizzy, I can hardly fit into any group or place, and believe me that to achieve that is not easy at all, it usually involves a lot of blood and pain that is mostly mine," she says with a pathetic smile.
"You have your mother and me to support you" she mentions.
"Yes, I have that at least," she says hopefully. "Although at first you also hated seeing me in your medicine classes"
The dragon remembered that time that her best friend had brought a human to her academy of healers and medicine, the first time she saw a human being the ward of the best dragon of the different kingdoms was a terrible surprise for her and even worse. that it was Magarai herself in person to ask him to let her learn medicine and techniques such as healing spells. At first for the oceanic greenish dragon it was a terrible nightmare, almost comparing it to a curse that had plagued her academy because she had to do what her best friend asked her and as she feared, the little human seemed to be a failure in this field and only generated disaster in every class with her.
"I'm telling you Magarai, you're wasting your time, we've given her the best explanations, time, and much more patience than we allow ourselves with failed students like her, and yet you still have the nerve to say that we don't do our job well" Tizzy She was upset that her friend was questioning her abilities and to teach the art of medicine and wound care.
Magarai seemed indifferent before the words of her partner of the same race, she was looking at those documents that showed the physical and magical performance of her little girl, Magarai was not satisfied with the results, Tizzy is upset at this indifferent attitude, Magarai could be a Greater Dragon of his race, but that did not give him the right to act that way with her.
"Look me in the eye when I speak to you Magarai!" demands the dragon pulling the papers from the hand of the whitish female of the oceanic.
"You finished?" the white dragon asks without expression.
"How?" she silently watches her friend
Magarai stands up to walk and face her friend, she feels like that female dragon showed a terrifying air, but she stands firm before her friend.
"I said. Are you done?" she repeats.
"No ... no, Magarai your protégé is ... she is a lousy student, she does not pay attention, she does not follow instructions, she does not make an effort not to cause problems with other classmates and she always wants to oppose us. all her teachers "
"Daughter, please," says the dragon.
"Daughter?" Tizzy laughs a bit but stops when she sees that her friend didn't seem to share the same grace as her "You can't be serious Magarai, she's a human, she's not one of us, she's not your daughter."
"If I say that she is my daughter, she is my daughter. Understood?" Magarai's voice turned serious as he asserted that the scaleless creature was her daughter.
The dragon was concerned about the mental health of her friend, she did not understand how a dragon as honorable, fair, and centered as her, her best friend from her childhood would release such words with such calm. A part of her felt that she did the right thing when she took the path of medicine and care instead of the path of warriors, this seemed crazy from so much fear of death; from Tizzy's perspective, her friend must have been worried about leaving offspring and since she was a very feared dragon she would not be able to find the dragon with whom to form a family.
"Magarai if you want a daughter you know that you can find a good dragon in your group of Greater Dragon or even go to the kingdom of Morkhex there are good specimens that could accept you even if you are the great Magarai, the terrible winged dragon slayer," she says looking at her friend.
The white dragon blushes at this suggestion, for her that suggestion had been so unexpected that she did not know what to say. Tizzy smiles at the reaction of her friend, although she was a warrior, she could still see her friend from so many years of hers in that terrifying fighter.
"Tizzy please don't say any more nonsense. She knows that I have no interest in those ridiculous things like settling down with a dragon, and even less knowing that I have a daughter to care for and educate" she mentions recovering her calm.
"Listen Magarai if what you want is a daughter who follows in your footsteps, Alexandra will never be what you expect her to be. You are raising them to be something that is practically unattainable for her." she puts her hand on her friend's shoulder "Please reconsider abandoning this crazy personal project of yours, in the end, it won't give you anything to raise a human-like your daughter"
"You don't know that! Alexandra is still very young, and if she tries twice as much as the dragons, I'm sure she will be a strong and proud warrior like me" she replies in defense of the human dragon.
"Magarai .."
"Even if no one wants to believe in her, even if I lose my titles and medals, I don't care if everyone thinks I am crazy, I will remain firm with my faith and support for my daughter." says proudly in her voice the dragon surprising Tizzy
"Why? I don't understand. Why you? What if your life was threatened by raising her ?! Maybe the dragon council will realize they made a mistake and decide to eliminate her!" the dragon is silent for a few minutes before this. "Magarai you are my best friend and you know that if I tell you something it is because I care about you, you are still in time to put aside all this nonsense if you want we can look for a dragon that can give a gentle death to the girl so that you don't have to do it "after completing that sentence Magarai attacked her friend leaving marks of her claws on her cheek.
"No ....." she said barely audible seeing her friend's bleeding face "I will not let anyone hurt her, if necessary I ... I will give my whole life against any enemy, even if it is the same. Queen Erisha will fight with the one who will raise his sword against my beloved daughter "those words had a great impact on Tizzy, her friend who swore a great loyalty and devotion to Shairum and different kingdoms like Morkhex was willing to throw all her achievements and efforts to the mud by someone who wasn't even a dragon.
"You lost your mind Magarai" she said worried about her friend who only sighs.
"I'm so sorry Tizzy, I shouldn't have asked you to help me with Alexandra. I can't force you to see her the same way as I do, but I won't let you threaten her life so feel free to go your way as me and Alexandra. we will take ours "
"Do you want to end our friendship?" Magarai nods sadly on her face "Magarai we have been best friends long before we walked the beaches of the world of surfaces, you cannot be serious about breaking years of valuable friendship for that damn creature without scales"
The dragon draws the sword from her and aims it at Tizzy's face, if the claw wasn't enough to make Tizzy limit her words, Magarai would make sure that her sword did.
"Are you pointing your sword at me, your best friend?" she said tearfully at Magarai's act.
"I swear to mother Desthy that I love you very much Tizzy, you were my first and only soul friend and I will always be grateful for the adventures and follies that we live together." Magarai clenches her fist against her chest. "But I took an oath, I plan to take care of Alexandra as my daughter and I will do everything in my power to give her everything necessary to be a strong warrior even if the whole world is against her. If you cannot accept my new life, so please I don't want to see you threatening or suggesting things like her death just to make everything easier "
That oceanic dragon and her friend seemed sad at this possibility, several years of great friendship were about to end, only if Tizzy did not want to continue by the side of her fellow warrior, the young Magarai retired keeping her sword stopping only a few seconds, she wanted to say something But the words did not come out of her, and she just continued her walk with a green oceanic dragon looking with pain at her friend leave, since then the claw marks on her cheek were a reminder of that day where they had that fight, keeping her a grudge against the human for having affected Magarai's judgment. Despite all the hatred that that dragon had against the human creature, Tizzy did not want to lose Magarai and later both oceanic females managed to fix their differences, but Tizzy had to pretend to love Alexandra as a strategy to maintain her friendship with her best friend.
At present Tizzy touches the scar on her cheek again, Magarai was always willing to protect her above all else, they were friends and supported and cared for each other since they were little, but since Alexandra came into Magarai's life, her Greenish oceanic dragon had been displaced to a mere ordinary friend. Now it was Magarai who would give her life for her daughter and move heaven, sea, and earth for the human, this destroyed the dragon from the inside, Tizzy sees how Alexandra observed her amulet that she had in hand, she could recognize that that amulet was about Magarai's, an amulet that Magarai cared for like a treasure as it was the culmination of her achievements and dreams as a warrior when she became a Greater Dragon.
"I would like to meet more dragons like you and my mother, but it seems that for every step I take forward, I take two back" Tizzy feels like the anger that she managed to hide began to be stronger than ever, even so, she continued maintaining her control of herself.
"Don't worry Alexandra, I know that out there you will find more dragons that will recognize you as one of their own. You will see that everything will change and, humans like dragons we will live in peace." the dragon begins to walk to leave the place and leave the human alone.
"Where are you going?" curious question Alexandra.
"I'll see if I can find Magarai so that we can solve this whole matter of yours and your good friend Drigielix" she comments, hiding a smile so that the human does not realize her true feelings.
"I appreciate that, but it is time that I acted like a warrior" she rises from the sand and takes quick steps to be next to the dragon "who could not bear to walk next to the human." I appreciate very much having you. You and my mother on my side, only, I must prove to myself that I can resolve my conflicts like any dragon and if one day I become a Greater Dragon of the oceanic, I must now forge my alliances myself, without the support of the Magarai's name "
Tizzy stops in her walk with an expression of surprise and revulsion at the words of the human, she had never heard so many things that made her feel so much anger and disgust for a living being. And there was Alexandra in front of her, she saw her smile, every day she saw her act like she was her friend's daughter and every damn day she saw her life was a complete curse for her, and now she said it would be a Greater Dragon of her race, she couldn't bear that, she couldn't bear this kind of disrespect towards her race and species.
"Thank you for always supporting me to Aunt Tizzy"
Hearing that Tizzy couldn't take it anymore, reason and self-control had abandoned her, all this time she must have followed her plan to get rid of the human. Perhaps Magarai would have come to his senses once she had been freed from the strange influence of the damned human species that was affecting her childhood friend of hers.
"Aunt Tizzy are you okay?" The human approached the dragon worried that she had been staring into the void of that dragon.
Tizzy looked at the human and attacked her with a blast of boiling water that she pulled from her jaws, thanks to the experience she had of her from her previous adventures and combats Alexandra reacts using her shield to defend against it. The dragon pounced on her to hurt the human, kill her if she could, beat her, tore the little skin that was exposed of her, she no longer reasoned, she only let her anger control her, she did not care that the human was a warrior, a dragon would always surpass a human being in strength and use it to its advantage.
"Aunt Tizzy please stop !! Why are you doing this ?!" she screamed covering herself from her aunt's attacks, but being on the defensive was of no use so Alexandra manages to get her off her to subdue her and stop this madness "Please stop this, I don't want to hurt you" begged the human.
The dragon ignores the words and pleas of the human and fires a blast of boiling water against her again to eliminate her vision, but her shield was good and she knew how to use it well to defend herself, the dragon sees the sword in the sand, she does not think about it and takes it, taking it out of its sheath and pouncing on the human and thus ending her life. This attack took by surprise the human who suffers a wound to her side, feeling how her blood came out of her body, a fear and a feeling of despair appears in her eyes, this seemed to give a sick taste to the dragon who only she smiled when he saw those eyes full of fear.
"Aunt .... Tizzy ...."
The dragon throws itself against the human again hoping to kill her with the next blow, Alexandra stops the sword with her hands, but the dragon slaps the human's legs to cause her to fall to the ground and subdue her more with her strength, Alexandra did everything possible to not allow the sword to go through her, she looks around seeing what she could do to stop this, in that she comes up with an idea to stop Tizzy, releasing the sword she lets her aunt pierce her shoulder with a cry of strong pain, but preventing it from reaching vital areas of her, then the human takes a handful of sand and throws it into the eyes of the dragon who walks away trying to clean her eyes.
"Damn scum, if only Magarai had never met you" with the little vision she had, the dragon sees the human get up taking the sword from her shoulder, she would not let her escape and in one last attempt runs towards her.
In a reflection, the human puts the sword in front of her closing her eyes and it was there that the horror occurs, when Alexandra opens her eyes she sees how her aunt had been pierced in the chest by her sword, the blood of the dragon was falling in her face and with tears, they both looked into each other's eyes, with fear and pain the dragon just takes Alexandra's amulet and takes it from her.
"You ... don't ... deserve this ... I hope you never ..... find peace .... and .... and that all of you .. ... life be .... a misfortune and misfortune after .... another "the dragon using its last strength breaks the amulet as a sign that the human did not belong here with them.
Tizzy falls completely to the ground with the blood in her chest pouring out in a heap and with tears in her eyes dying in front of Alexandra who was crying and looking very scared moving away from her aunt's body. The chaos and fighting had been so loud that it had caught the attention of several dragons including Drigielix himself who sees Alexandra with an expression of pain and fear when he sees the dragons arriving on the beach. The winged dragon smiles knowing this was an opportunity for them, one that even Magarai couldn't intervene in due to this being a crime from their perspective.