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Nathair blinks as the foxfire snaps up. Slowly the buttons melt. Well. Something happened. He knew waiting was a great idea!

Liquid blue pools on the floor around him. And suddenly something splashes in front of him. Uh, ok, invisible walls. That’s nice…

As everything trembles, Nathair tries smacking the invisible wall just to see if it’ll give – he didn’t think it would anyway. Booming screams across the hall, howling with rage and terror. Maybe he’ll die. The noise is overpowering.

But then. Silence.

Silence like he’d never heard before.

And all is dark as his own sins.

 

‘I didn’t cheat, I just know how to play the game.’

He touched Yasha’s bloody, confident face before the image disseminated into the blackness. Then everything was absorbed in liquid. He couldn’t breathe and apparently there wasn’t any opening in the pitch dark. His hands knocked against glass but he couldn’t see an outside.

Cloths were different. Something glowed on his arm. A heart, heh.

The bottom had a switch.

But Nathair didn’t push it. He could break through the glass he was sure.

 

 

 

A dragon.

Arsene turned into an unstable dragon.

At the start of this crazy adventure in another world, Alessio would’ve been scared of fighting a dragon. But now it was laughable.

I can do this.

This was fighting something he actually knew about. He’d been trained to be a weapon all his life, this was way easier than social skills! All he’d have to do was stay alive and keep in sight of Arsene until he calmed down and shifted back. Also, it was an excuse to beat Arsene and that made it very worthwhile.

“Alessio? Arsene?” Wait.

Alessio darted a look back at Leana and Ohel chasing after her. Nono, he couldn’t keep them all alive and fight off a dragon without killing or seriously injuring said dragon??

Arsene shifted entirely with an almost, but not human roar.

With a scream Leana covered her face, dropping the supplies and her weapon. Unbidden, fire rushed behind them in a wall between the rest of the group and Arsene. He wouldn’t have time to reach her really, and it would draw too much attention to them anyway. So he stared at her, trying to will reassurance.

“It’s ok,” He said, and smiled a little. “I got this.”

He was sure.

Fighting a dragon was nothing compared to eldritch horrors and social interaction. That at least was something he was trained for from childhood. Dragon-fighting. He could fight a thrice accursed dragon.

Then everything went black.

Every decibel of “got this” evaporated. ‘This’ was no longer something anybody ‘got’, unless what they got was murdered. Alessio would’ve had words for this if he wasn’t unconscious.

 

Everything was black, still black.

Every sound was muted, gone from existence. And he was choking.

Seriously, now I’m going to die…

That wasn’t fair! His lungs burned and that was bad he was already trying not to hyperventilate.

Leana.

Alessio jerked around, swimming for an opening but his arm made contact with glass. Every end. Glass. He grabbed for the knife at his side but it’s not there. Those aren’t his cloths, he doesn’t have anything to break the glass with. He’s going to die.

Arsene!

Where were they, where was everyone?! There was no way out going up, he’d have to go down. Was this just another experiment, had he just imagined his friends?

Air filtering out of his lungs made it hard to think. Everything was burning slush.

Nithel? John?

He couldn’t lose everyone. Maybe they weren’t even real. It wouldn’t be a stretch if he’d entirely lost touch with reality after all.

Everything was numb, everything weas cold. Glass, water, a pretty little glass cage.

If he stopped fighting, no one could hurt him anymore…

Alessio gritted his teeth and swam lower, just in case it was possible for some sort of escape. Everything was hazy, but if there was any chance Leana or Nithel or Arsene or any of his friends were still alive, he needed to make it out. He needed to make sure they got out of this alive.

There’s a switch.

It’s a trap, but it’s his only chance. Alessio tugged at the switch until it have, praying that was the right choice.

 

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