Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Pensyvia and the yin-yang dragons

We ran in separate ways, ugh! I never expected her to run away.

‘FIND ME"

Agh- what was that? I kept running. Whose voice was that ?! I looked around.

‘You"re close, find me"

Who is this! I kept on looking around… I saw something bright. Huh?

I saw a large tree, the largest tree that I saw in here. It was glowing, are those fireflies?

"You found me, child." I became cautious when I heard her voice again. Wait

"BREATRICE!" I shouted as he came out from behind the tree. Wait no. it was Breatrice"s body but it wasn"t her voice. "Who are you?"

"Oh? Do you not recognize the owner of the island, child? " she smiled and looked at me in the eyes. Her eye color is different. Now that you see her clearly, she has some horns and scales in her neck. It looked beautiful-

I forgot who Art mentioned…

"Pendragon?" I blurted since I forgot her name. Penny? Penyv?

"Dear, such a horrible name! Are you starting a fight, child? I am Pensyia. The owner of this island. Those humans named the island like that, it is not my real name. " she is snapping her fingers and placing her hand on her waist.

"W-what are you doing with Breatrice"s body?" I asked

"I possessed this child"s body. I already asked permission. " She sighed. Then she gazed at me again, with those eyes. "Your not from here in this timeline, are you child?"

I flinched at what she said. H-how did she know?

"I know everything about you, child. You"re already dead, aren"t you? " I saw her smile, her fangs were showing up. "The timeline is messed up now."

"Wh-what do you mean?" I asked and stood straight. She walked towards me.

"Since its messed up, your destiny will now be the same. Let me help you instead. " Pensyvia held my cheeks.

"H-help? H-how can I trust you. " She stared at me, I can even see her eyes twinkling like she"s so happy to see me or meet me.

"Juniper Astraea, what a beautiful name and with a strong strength. I get why the Gods chose you. Gods ??? Why is she mentioning gods in a middle of a conversation? "Don't worry, I don't wish to hurt you."

"Ah… what do you mean? Gods? " I asked…

"Let's not talk about that, let's talk about young Breatrice instead." I immediately stepped back when she said that. "All you have to do is protect the yin and yang dragons. I am the owner, I need to protect my people. "

"Ho-how? We didn"t know where it was located. " She chuckled and gave me a chilly look.

"It"s inside Breatrice"s body… all you have to do is defeat those dragons. Summoning, RELEASE! " Pensyvia released a powerful awra and then two small dragons came out at the back of her, wait it was Breatices body. They were hidden in tattoos? It"s inside her all this time?

It was a black and white dragon. They are small but they are dangerous, the dark monsters want to get them.

"If you managed to defeat these two, you will be absorb them and you will become their master. Of course Breatrice will no longer be protecting them and the island will be safe from the dark monsters. It"s a win-win situation. " I glared at her.

"Is there a catch?" I questioned. I don"t care if she"s the owner of the island.

"Not really, well there is a little problem. You can"t absorb this two in one body. They need their own master each. " She"s not telling me everything. But in order to set Breatrice free is to absorb the dragons. It might be dangerous but this choice is more

"Fine, if I can"t absorb it on my own. Who will I need? " I asked in a cautious voice.

"I"m glad you asked, you both are chosen and loved by the Gods. He matches your strength. But you know your destiny, if someone hadn"t meddle with the past timeline. Then everything would be just fine, since you were killed in your past. It will repeat. You can"t change that, but yet I"m here trying to help. And destiny is here to help too. " I can"t understand what she"s saying, "Isnt that lovely?"

Her emotions has gone up, she"s smiling and laughing.

"That's why Alistair will be the one who will absorb the other dragon."

"What?"

"ASH!" I heard Al shouted from behind. Did she mean he"s the only one who matches my strength?

"All you have to do is defeat them."

Why does it feel like there"s a catch?

"Did you find her? I sense a strong- who are you? " Alistair was panting and sweating. He looked at Breatrice with glaring eyes.

"Mhmm… I get why the Gods chose you both." What is she saying ?! Her words doesn"t make any sense.

First is she know about me going back from the past, second is she"s helping me get Breatrice back. Third is why is she mentioning gods and destiny? What does she mean about that?

"Now since you two are here. Absorb and defeat the yin-yang dragons. It"s the only way to get both situations done. The people will be safe and Breatrice will be freed but in return, you must keep the dragons. They will serve you as their master and they will help you with any fight. " She explained calmly.

"There"s a catch isn"t it?" He whispered.

"There is, but it"s not you"re not allowed to know. If you absorb it then you will find your answers to your questions. All you have to do is defeat this two. Well do you prefer Breatrice not to be freed then? I can work with that, I"m bind to her body and the yin-yang dragons. "She sat down on the ground and slowly caressing the dragons. "Well?"

I looked at Alistair, he was also thinking about what she explained to us. I was thinking about my destiny, if- should we trust her? She seems to know something, she also seems suspicious.

Before, I"m not fond to take any risk. In my previous life, is that"s my goal I won"t bother searching for another goal. I only have that one way, if I found another way I won"t bother taking that way. I keep staying in my one way.

But in this life, without any risk. Nothing"s going to change. I sighed and closed my eyes.

"I will do it." We both said in unison. We immediately looked at each other and made an eye to eye contact.

"Then it"s settled. The Yang dragon will be your opponent, Astraea. The Yin dragon will be your opponent, Alistair. I will set a barrier so no species will be disturbed. " She said while waving her hands in the air. "LET THE MATCH, BEGIN !!!"

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Alistair gave me a sword.

We immediately went in our separate ways, but Pensyvia only placed one barrier. So we"re probably gonna bump later.

The dragon became large, it"s the black dragon is the one who I"m facing right now. I just kept on running in circles, looking for its weak spot. It is blasting some white beam, it keeps following. It"s head has the sign of something

What"s that in its forehead? It"s a circle, wait it"s something about a half circle, it was color white. Is that his weak spot? I jumped and made a pressure to punch the dragon, I punched it near the face so it won"t keep blasting some beams.

It was pretty hard, damn. I managed too look at the dragon"s forehead closely. The circle is made of crystal and it"s glowing. I cans sense the magic in it.

"AL, HIT THE CRYSTAL ON ITS FOREHEARD!" I shouted at him without looking.

If I were a wizard, this would have been easy.

I keep on jumping, ah it"s tiring. I was panting and breathing really hard.

"ASH! LETS SWITCH! " he came running to me, he immediately grabbed my waist and jumped up somewhere. "Let"s switch and fight them together. It"s better if they get close. We can do this. "

I don"t know what he"s planning but I did what he said. He left me and we started running, the dragon just followed us.

"I'll bind them together with something, punch them as hard as you can."

I nodded at what he said, he ran first and went to the center. He touched the ground and creates something. It some sort of magic circle? I thought he doesn"t now magic !?

The two dragons became glued together and were stunned.

"NOW!" he shouted and I smirked.

Gotcha.

"Aaaahh ~ as expected." Penyvia said… "Congratulations. Take care of them well, they will help you in the near future. Or not? "

I'm still out of breath to this day, my hand and arm are also very sore because of my blow to them. They are made of scales, they are hard as fuck

"Hey you ok?" Al immediately rushed to meet and looked at my swollen arm. "Sorry I ordered you to do that."

I smiled at him and inhaled.

"Nah its ok, at least we managed to defeat those." I sat on a rock near me, he took my arm.

"What are you doing?" I asked

"Healing." His answer was short.

Uh… since when is he a wizard and a healer? I was busy staring at him, then I felt something crawling at my back.

"Eeek-"

"Raawr" WHAT THE ACTUAL- HE IS SMALL AND CUTE!

"Oh look, he likes you." He ?! This is a dragon! He is in my shoulder at the moment and I am absolutely terrified.

"W-wh-why is he in my shoulders?" Penyvia grinned at me, no wait. She grinned at Alistair who was busy healing me.

"Oh myyyy ~ she also seems to like you too, Al." Penyvia laughed while pointing at Alistair's head.

"Yeah I can see that." Al sighed and ignored the white dragon on his head.

They still have that crystal symbol on their forehead. Black and white? Dark and Light? Yin and Yang? Nice.

"Don"t worry, if anyone is gonna hurt you. They will help you. They are strong, take care of my creations well. " She looks satisfied. "Just like what I said, I will be released and Breatrice will have her freedom."

"Thank you." I whispered. She just smiled at me and whispered ‘Good luck, you"re gonna need it."

I frowned. What does he mean don? She knows everything about me, did she tell anyone? I don"t know if I"ll be terrified if anyone knows about my return to the past. Who cares?

I stared at Alistair who was busy healing me, I was laughing too because he was annoyed of the dragon. Don"t seem to get out of his head.

They aren"t really that heavy though.

Pensyvia already waved goodbye to us, and left Breatrice's body. She was unconscious now. But I heard someone whispered in my ears.

"Follow your heart, child. Destruction will fall if you don"t. "

I felt shivers in my spine. I don't know if what Pensyvia is saying makes sense but why do I have a bad feeling about that?

"I will heal you first before we go back to the camp with breatrice." He suggested while calmly hinheal my arm.

If I follow my heart… should I follow Alistair then?

"OH my GOOODD WHAT IS THAATT?" Art immediately asked when we got back to camp.

Alistair is carrying the unconscious Breatrice behind him, something like a piggyback ride.

"Uh… a pet?" he gave me a weird loo.

"Pet ?! You call that a pet ?! " Art was freaking out, right now. "Why didn't you fire me? Like is it attached to you now? "

"Uh, what's in your head?" Gray asked Alistair, Alistair frowned because of the white dragon on its head. It sleeps on his head like a ball.

"Trust me, you don't want to know." Alistair said. "Hey Jasper, get her off my back. My body hurts. "

While they were talking I noticed that the cabin on the side had disappeared. It was empty, where is it? There is no trace of anything but ashes… was it burned?

"Where did the cabin go?" I will ask. And they looked at one remnant, they seem guilty. What happened here?

"Uhhh good question." Art answered with one hand on his head.

"He accidentally set the cabin on fire, he said he saw a ghost." Gray explained

"WHAT? "I asked in shock.

"Well SOMEONE thought it would be a great idea to lit up our backup bag and throw it in the cabin." Jayden sighed. "We lost the bag and the cabin now."

"THERE WAS A GHOST!" Jayden rolled her eyes on Art"s defense.

"Wait backup bag? You mean our one way trip home? " I will ask.

"Yeah that, my spells are there." Gray answered. "Good job Art"

"Did you find something that would help us come back? You all seem calm about what Art did. " I already know Art would do something like that but I didn"t expect him to lit on fire and throw it in the cabin.

"Yeah, we found some carrier on the side." Jayden answered my question.

"Gre-

"Wait why can"t we just ride those dragons? Isn"t that the yin and yang dragons? " Art complained. How did he know?

"How did you know?" Alistair asked, we didn"t tell them anything about the Yin and Yang dragons.

"The tattoos on your necks." I was stunned, what tattoo? I approached Al and look at his neck, it looks like that large tattoo at Breatrice"s back. Did I also have mine?

"Oh yeah, I kind of saw it behind Breatrice when she was getting dressed. I didn"t ask because I thought that wasn"t important. " Jayden snapped her fingers remembering what had happened.

"There is only a little information about the dragons because like Breatirce said, it"s the treasure of the island. I saw it on the back of the book about dragons, the sign looked like your tattoos so I thought that would be it. " Art explained, wow I didn"t know he noticed this kinds of thing. "Atska its black and white, your dragon's forehead has the same tattoos in their forehead too."

We just nodded at what Art said, he"s informative.

"So are they the Yin-Yang dragons?" Gray asked.

"Yeah, we became their masters after defeating them. Pensyvia offered us a deal, if we defeat those dragons then Breatrice will no longer protect it since we already have that. " I told them a story.

"Oh so that"s why both of you looks exhausted. I don"t really know about the information about absorbing some Yin-Yang dragons. Maybe they"ll help you? " Art guessed.

"We don't know too." Al answered.

"So are we allowed to ride them-

"No we can"t control them yet. When we release them, they will disappear, or if we managed to ride the dragons to get to the village. Wouldn"t the villagers be scared seeing these kinds? " I said with a shrug.

"You have a point. After all, we don't know how to drive a carrier. " Art

We were silenced by what Art said… he got a point too.

"Hey, she's awake." Jasper said and went back to the tent after saying that.

We immediately followed him. We saw Breatirce looking down.

"D-did I cause something again?" She questioned when we arrived.

"Ye-" Jayden kissed Art.

"We managed to fix your problem." Al started the converstauon.

"Yeah, I figured. I heard someone talking to me last night, I don"t know but I kept following her voice until I can"t remember what happened. i can no longer sense the power of the yin-yang dragons. "

"Uhhh is that good thing or…?" Jayden asked.

"Yes, it means they found their own masters. Besides, you look like their new masters, take care of them well. I guess its time to go back home now. " She sighed. "Sorry for the troubles."

We all agreed to go home so we started packing, Breatrice was standing in front of the burnt cabin. It doesn"t seem burnt tho, it just seems like nothing. since it"s made up of wood, did it all burn? It didn"t leave any ashes.

I saw Jasper walked towards him, they were having a conversation. I just didn't hear but she started hugging Jasper tas also released immediately. I saw Breatrice with a knife? The knife collection that Flint had, I guess Jasper managed to retrieve it?

"Ah No, no no. You do NOT want me driving the carrier, I"ll accidentally drive us off a cliff! You blame me again-

"Fine." Jayden replied stiffly.

"Ah I can drive." Breatrice volunteered.

"Finally, we can go home." I whispered.

Pensyvia"s POV

Hmmm… I was humming with happiness watching them from afar when they reached the edge of the island. They were busy packing up and they will leave soon, I saw something Breatrice gave to an old man.

This is Flint's collection, I failed to save that boy

"I can't believe you have them the Yin and Yang dragons." I closed my eyes and continued humming. "What were you thinking?"

"Aren"t you glad that I helped you?" I whispered. It was Destiny or also called as Fate, a demigod who was granted with such power to protect someone. Destiny has been protecting the ones who were loved by the Gods for generation, until one day, Destiny made a mistake.

"Happy? You made things worst, they don"t know what those dragons can do when someone rejects the other. "

"Oh my ~ Destiny, wasn"t that your fault that you didn"t take care of them? Like the Gods asked you to do? You were chosen by the Gods to protect what they loved, yet you failed. " I chuckled. "I wonder why the Gods chose you."

"It"s because I"m better than you? Don"t make me laugh Pensyvia. I managed to take care of their ancestors, it"s those humans made the timeline in mess. " Destiny muttered. "They shouldn"t have created magic in the first place! If magic, no chaos! The gods created magic-

"Don"t blame the Gods, it was your fault that you aren"t paying attention to what have happened. "I glared at Destiny

"Ugh fine, why did you do it? That was one of your creation. " Destiny just sighed…

"Why not? It was a fair situation that I wanted. Though they don"t know what dragons are really for. But isn"t that great? Because those dragons are connecting them both, if one rejects the other then the other one falls into chaos and despair. "

"The Yin and Yang cannot be separated in any way, they need to stick together until the end. What if Astraea refuses to be with Alistair? Then one dragon falls into chaos and will destroy the kingdom. What were you thinking ?! Even I can"t stop that. " Destiny snapped, I shrugged.

"Don"t you trust them? Astraea might be cautious, but that doesn"t mean she no longer loves him. Trust those two, everything will work out just fine. " I whispered. "Also, you brought another human in the past with you. You know there will be punishment for you and for that human. "

"Yeah, he knows that too. That person is willing to take any punishment. Same as me, I will take any punishment the Gods gave me ones I finished my mission. It was my fault anyway. " Destiny sighed. "It"s almost time for that to happen again. I just need to prevent that from happening. "

"Good, because the ones who were loved by the Gods. Are destined to be together. "

To be continued...