Chapter 111 - Chapter 113

Entering the spirit world was something that very few people would ever live long enough to accomplish. It was something that the Avatar was famous for, but most normal humans never even touched upon its borders.

On the tallest volcano on the island, Dragon was meditating in silence. His plan was to master the elements but since he saw that silhouette he couldn't stop thinking about it.

He was sure its mystery was in the spirit world so he was meditating on the spirit world. He didn't know if he had the capabilities of reaching it by himself but that wouldn't stop him from trying.

He had already been sitting here for six weeks and meditating without a break. And it had been four weeks since he entered deep sleep meditation. He sat like a statue on top of the volcano and he only took a breath every ten minutes. He was completely absorbed by the meditation.

Nothing existed inside his mind and nothing mattered in the outside world. Only one single thing was guiding him through it. And that single motivator was the silhouette. Dragon was searching for anything that would summon it again. A smell, a feeling. Anything that held relevance towards that day when he arrived here on the island.

Suddenly the ocean outside the borders of the island started acting up. The water started turning and the clouds above the island started to converge and turning dark. The rain started pouring down and the wind kicked up around this landmass.

Orlando was forced to land because of the intensity of it all and that alone spoke of how powerful the winds were.

Dragon that was sitting on the volcano top started glowing in a dim red colour. The colour around his body started changing and blue mixed in with it. Soon enough one side of Dragon's body was blue and one was red.

The divide of the colours reflected itself in the real world. One side of the island had rampaging whirlwinds that were growing stronger every second. The other side hosted a number of cyclones over that side of the ocean.

It appeared as a show of dominance. Two sides belonging to the same source fighting for dominance. And Dragon was located in the middle of this storm. The island was slowly starting to break apart.

If nothing was done about this, the two sides had the possibility to grow into something that even Dragon himself couldn't stop or control. But Dragon was stuck in between the red and blue and he couldn't make a single conscious decision.

He was neither awake nor asleep. He was not present, but something else was. Something had taken ahold of his body, and it and Dragon were clashing inside his body and was fighting for dominance.

"KAA!" Inside this massive storm that was slowly destroying the island, Orlando was struggling to move around. He was desperately trying to get to Dragon on top of the volcano. One emotion was driving him forward, and that was fear. Fear of this storm and fear of what was happening to Dragon.

He was flying towards the top and the closer he came the more visible the two colours became. No one had a clear advantage over the other. Red was pushing blue, and blue was pushing against red. But the more they clashed, the more it corrupted his soul.

Dragon was strong. But he wasn't immune against corruption. If clashes like this dragged out then there was a real possibility to cause permanent damage on Dragon. That damage would not be physical, but psychological.

Orlando was using all his strength to conquer this storm. "KAA!" He was close to Dragon, but his screams could not overpower the storm so it didn't reach Dragon. Seeing that his partner didn't hear him, Orlando became more anxious.

He gave up on his own safety. Now he decided to priority Dragon's safety over all else. He dove down towards Dragon and landed beside him. He wrapped his wings around Dragon and he did the only thing he could do. He screamed as loud as he could right into Dragon's ear.

This jolted a reaction and something inside Dragon changed. The red light covering half his body lost some light, and in one single moment, Dragon's body had an outburst of blue light. The entire island experienced a massive quake and the outburst that came from Dragon seemed to have stopped time itself.

Everything stopped for a single second and when it passed, the storms disappeared like they hadn't ever been real. Now the only evidence of their existence was the damage they had done to the island.

"O-Orlando... Thank you.." Dragon said and collapsed forward, unconscious. This was something that Dragon had never experienced before. A losing battle. Orlando had no idea what had transpired inside Dragon's mind. But seeing that he was safe, Orlando sat down and wrapped his whole body around Dragon and went to sleep.

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