Chapter 78 - No Regrets

Ella led her people out of the house and took them to safety while Avan went over to help Ander battle the sand monster. Together they used their magic to fight their magic.

Ander tried all types of magic on the sand creature but all his efforts just went through the creature not inflicting any harm on it. While the creature on the hand was landing very harmful punches on them. It was a losing fight.

"We should try to use water to fight it?" Avan suggested.

"Follow my lead," Ander said and taught him the spell. Together they channeled the water in the atmosphere and used it to hot the sand creature. He dissolved causing the two of them to realize a victorious sigh.

"You could have come up with that idea earlier," Ander scolded checking the open wound on his chest and cursing at how painful it was.

"I just thought..." he started to say before he was sent flying into one of the huts.

"What was that?" Ander looked up to see the sand creature back again. This time he seemed bigger than he was before. "Damn it," he cursed and dodged the monster's fist.

He rolled to the ground and ran to Avan and helped him up. "What now, water doesn't affect it?" Avan asked dusting his clothes.

"I have an idea that just might work," he said to him making him attentive. "Run," he said sprinting away to save his skin. Avan followed behind him with the monster on their trail.

"This is a temporary solution," Ella noted joining them.

"Do you have a better idea?" he asked her.

"I do," she said and ran ahead of them. She took her bracelet and opened it. "A battle arena," she said to the bracelet. Just then they got transported into a magical battle arena with the monster.

"What is this place?"

"A battle arena inside the mirror dimension. In here we can fight the monster keeping him from destroying anything and hurting innocent people," she explained to them.

"Awesome," Avan said admiring the arena.

"Not cool. All you've done is trap us in here with that thing," Ander said displeased. "If I die, I will haunt you for seven lifetimes," she warned.

Ella didn't have time to react to his threat with the monster attacking them. It took hold of Ander who was not prepared for his attack and began to crush him in his fist. Ander felt his ribs on fire, he took a deep breath to endure the pain and started coughing from inhaling dust.

"Looks like you won't get peaceful sleep from now on," Avan said picturing how bad it can be to be haunted by the dragon prince. They both attacked the monster, it defended itself and fought them without letting go of the prince. He was increasing the pressure of his hand the more they agitated him.

"Hold on," Ella said and flipped to the air and grabbed hold of Ander's shoulders to lift him off but jumped away when the monster tried to grab hold of her.

Avan tapped into dark Melchior's powers and tried the dark magic to see if it will affect the creature. Attacking him with the dark magic made the creature grow bigger and stronger which was the opposite of the intended purpose.

"I can't die like this," Ander whispered in anger. He had so much unfinished business that he couldn't die. He closed his eyes, he thought of all the things that he was yet to experience.

He had yet to know about his past that everyone was trying so hard to hide. He needed a proper explanation as to why he was being called a murderer when he had t killed anyone yet and most importantly he was yet to know a father's love.

He could think of a lot of things that he rightfully deserved that was taken away from him. He had to fight to get what rightfully belongs to him from those who have stolen his rights or refused to hand it over.

Thinking of all the unfair things that have happened to him since he came to school made his blood boil. With that, his body began to release his frustrations in form of a heart. It was a spell that he had learned in the past but had never been able to master because he couldn't summon expression fire.

It was a flame that was expressed from one's feelings and no matter how angry he seemed to get he could only ever control hellfire. He felt like burning everything to the ground to ease the pain in his heart. Along with expression fire, his hands summoned hellfire.

The fire started forming around him like a bubble. The sand monster her he goes, he could feel the power of the flame and moved away from Ander. 'If I die, at least I will die with no regrets,' Ander said in his thoughts as he pictured everyone in his life in his mind.

He wanted to get them back for all the hurt that they had caused him without blinking. He first saw his father, the man whose love and affection he had yearned for all his life only to find out that the man hated him so much that he never even wanted to see his face. He raised his hand and directed the fire at him, unknown to him that he was firing at the monster.

The flame bubble kept getting bigger and hotter, the battle arena felt like they were standing next to the sun. Ella and Avan wrapped themselves in a magical shield with water elements to prevent themselves from being cooked.

Before Ander in his mind he saw Francis, the male his heart longed for, he loved him and wanted to be with him but the male found other people interesting instead of him. He chose other people instead of him.

'My love was never enough for you. It never made you choose me and now it doesn't stop me either,' he said and screamed out in pain.