Simon was standing there dry blood all over his chest and pants. Across his chest laid the scar that had begun to heal while he was down. His eye was activated and locked on Kon, who was standing there in shock.

Kon looked down on Simon's form and began to let about a low chuckle. “I see you have gotten serious.” The dragon said. He crouched down before speaking again. “It appears I will have to take this somewhat seriously.” Steam started to rise from his scales. His form started to shrink down and the whole area became covered in a cloud of steam, which was hot to the touch.

After the steam dived down it revealed a humanoid figure standing where Kon was completely naked. He had bright orange spiky hair, tan skin, pointy ears, and one pale yellow eye. He had a deep claw mark across his left eye that looked like it wasn’t fully healed.. Kon opened it when he saw Simon looking, and all that was there was an empty eye socket. “How do you like this, Cain? Does my new form frighten you?” He stopped to look himself over. “I better give myself some clothes.” The same poisonous fog from before flowed from his hands and made its way all over his body, enveloping him. The cloud subsided and the god of poison was fully clothed. The poison solidified on him to make a dark purple skin tight long sleeve shirt that resembled spandex. He had a black fingerless glove on his hand. He also had on black military pants with a white belt and no shoes.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been in this form. Now shall we be-” Kon narrowly dodged a slash from Simon. Not letting The dragon get time to recover Simon started to slash rapidly at him. After about a minute Simon slowed down his pace giving Kon an opening to punch him in the face with his scaled hand. “How do you like that!” The god boasted only to get hit by the blunt side of Durandal. He went flying into the forest tearing down the trees as he went through, until hitting a boulder that was randomly there.

Simon slowly walked over to where his enemy was. His mind was cloudy, he couldn’t tell what was going on. His mind was so far gone he only snapped back to reality when Kon grabbed his head and slammed it into the earth. Kon raised Simon to eye level and began kicking him in the stomach. The whole time this was going on Simon was glaring at him. The fallen raised his hand which was soon covered in a magic circle. “Maximize magic: Dragon lightning” Kon immediately sensed that something was wrong and had his wings sprout out of his back. He took off into the air all the while Being chased by a huge dragon made out of lightning. Simon laughed softly, “I never thought this spell would be useful but hey, this is the perfect opportunity to use it.” Simon slowed his breathing and pointed his sword at Kon who was zig-zagging around the sky trying to avoid the previous attack. A silver magic circle appeared at the point of his sword. “Slow!”

Kon felt himself slow down considerably, and tried to block the incoming attack, but he was too late. The dragon was soon enveloped by the lightning attack and let out a howl of pain. He hurdles to the ground, creating a crater on impact.

Jumping out of the crater Kon had cuts and burns all along his body. He used his poison to make the shape of a spear which it solidified into. He thrusted at Simon with all his might. Simon raised his blade and deflected the blow away from him then kicked Kon in the stomach making distance between them.

As Kon got up and threw his spear at him, Simon grabbed the spear mid air and threw it right back. This didn’t work like he thought it would as Kon grabbed the spear which had both he and Simons force behind it and returned it to the fallen. The spear punctured Simon's side leaving a hole in it.

Kon started to laugh but was cut off as Simon spoke. “You know, as a fallen I have an affinity for three different types of magic. Holy/Light and Lightning are the ones you have already seen.” Simon stuck his hand towards the sky sending shivers down Kons spine. “The other one you haven’t seen is Darkness. Black Lightning!” The spell came down fast and hit Kon dead on kicking up a dust cloud.

The dust settled but Kon was nowhere to be found.

The dragon god was hovering in the air above Simon holding two purple orbs. He was shirtless, showing all of the scars he had painted on his body. Burn marks adorned his skin after that attack as well. He held his hand above his head causing the two orbs to start spinning. With a yell he threw down the orbs, which seemed to bend the air, at Simon. They combined in the air as they were making their descent and grew bigger than Simon himself.

Seeing there was no way to dodge the attack, Simon gathered the rest of his magic in Durandal and unleashed a slash the size of Kons attack at him. The two attacks clashed in the air one side of purple, the other of a brilliant white. Upon impact, the two both exploded.

Kon and Simon both knew that they were in the range of the explosion with no way out. Simon dropped his sword to the ground, while Kon let himself free fall towards the ground accepting their fate. That is until they heard someone speak.

“Perfect Cube.”

The explosion from the spells was sealed off in a light purple cube. The surrounding shook as the spells hit the walls of the cube. The explosion soon subsided to the relief of Simon and Kon. However, once the cube was dispelled Zeldris landed between the two on the ground.

(Zeldris POV)

As I landed I looked over the damage that these two shirtless buffoons caused. The dragon however seemed to sense my power and wilted under my gaze. Turning to Simon he smiled and fell to the ground unconscious. Taking my grimoire out immediately caused the dragon to pounce on me.

“A greedy one aren't you,” I said in a low tone as he was on his knees begging for the book. Looking over him I noticed how weird his hair is, it’s bright orange. Strange. What can you expect from this colorful world? Another key detail that I saw through the burn marks covering his torso was what looks like a red fox tattoo on the left side of his waist. “Oh, Faust must favor me for she brought you to me, Greed.” The dragon, I overheard his name was Kon, had a shocked expression on his face.

“Umm, what are you talking about? Well, I don’t really care; can I have that book?” He said as he rose to full height annoying me in the process since he’s so tall.

“No, you may not have this book. Howe-”

“PLEASE! Just give me the book, it smells so good! I don’t know what it is about it, but I need to have it.” Kon fell to the ground and crossed his legs while sitting. “If I can’t have the book then I’m either going to die trying to take it from you, or I’m leaving.” He pouted like a child.

My eyebrow started to twitch. “Listen, how about this, I’ll pay you in gold if you come to work for me. How does that sound.”

Kon shot up, and lifted me off the ground in a hug.. It was not fun. At my glare he put me back down. “Deal! Now tell me about this job.”

As we spoke I picked up Simon and we both flew to the tower together. James was there waiting for us. As we entered I had James take Kon and show him around The Finger, while I healed Simon and brought him to his room. I jumped out of the window and decided to fly around the Everfree to get some fresh air after what just happened.

“What is this?” As I was flying I saw a thick mist/fog surrounding a large portion of the forest. In the middle of it seemed to be a Massive tree. Flying to get a closer look I entered the mist but it shot me back out. “What in the hell?” Trying again got me nowhere. However, I kept trying and trying, until I had enough. “You son of a bitch let me IN!” At this point, I was just mad and started to shoot at the mist with magic and reiatsu.

As I was in the middle of showing the mist who was boss I heard something rip. Checking myself over I noticed that nothing on me had ripped. Looking around in confusion I heard it again. I could tell that it was close to me as I felt a peculiar magic in the air. It felt like it was some kind of light or harmony magic. Going to the source I found what appears to be tears in reality. Another tear happened in front of me causing a portal to open up. When it did, a couple of seconds went by until it spat out a being. After it did that the portal closed in on itself.

“I’ve seen you before, but where?” I said to myself as I looked over the form of the unconscious being. Then it clicked. “Oh, I never expected to see you here…”

Author's Notes:

So this came out shorter than I would have liked but it’s ok. School really doesn’t want me to have free time with all these assignments they’re posting.

Once again a huge thank you to Jason Monroe for once again editing this mess I call a chapter!

I wonder if anyone can guess who the mysterious being is? I left a clue for you so good luck!