Chapter 178 Impending Doom

"What do you mean that it got away?!" Sofia demanded as she got out of the rejuvenation pool and walked out of the ship.

As Sofia walked out, many soldiers were trying to see inside the ship. I knew that they would have a lot of questions, but I didn't really have time to explain things right now.

"I am going to go hunt it down right now, but I want you to go with the others and start exploring the place. Mr. Tree is connected here with these Great Trees, so he will provide you protection if anything goes wrong," I explained as I looked to the south.

"I don't need Arbol Viejo to protect me, but I will take him along to make you happy, Papi. Go get the space lizard, and I will see what I can find here!" Sofia declared, giving me a kiss, and then turned to the rest of the people. "Well, are you all just going to stand there, or do I need to start whipping people to get you all moving? Vamos! Take me to the things that are still breathing!"

I chuckled as I watched Sofia order people around briefly, then I started to run. I kept my eyes scanning everything around me while also using the System to scan.

I immediately got a scan hit on some blood that was green.

[Scan results: Male Drakar Blood]

I plugged that information into the System, and all the blood in the area started glowing green in my vision. This gave me a clear path, and I jumped into the air with the assistance of my roots, and my metallic dragon wings burst from my back.

Once I was about thirty feet in the air, I was able to track the path of glowing blood much easier. The path was headed into the mountain, but I had to drop back to the ground once I got there.

The tracks lead into a cave, but there was almost no vegetation around here, so I had no way to sense where the Drakar was. All I could do was follow the glowing green blood footprints, but it wasn't like I was that worried.

I knew what this creature looked like from the information that Octavia had, and it was formidable. Seven to eight feet tall, then Darkar males were scary looking, fitted with razor teeth and claws. They were also very smart, but it was just a man for all intents and purposes.

The Drakar Males were not given any powers; they were just bred to be strong. I didn't know how that happened, and neither did any of the Annokale.

There was very little known about the reproduction of Drakar, but there was a lot of information about Gideons.

The Gideons were literally a clone race that was all copies of Alpha. The why is unclear, but the show was just done through special cloning bays. That was how Beta had been reborn so many times.

As I walked into the cave, I changed my body into a metallic leopard and started to bound down the long tunnel. Everything was rock, so grass couldn't grow to pull me along, and this form was faster.

My eyes adjusted as I got farther into the cave, and the light disappeared behind me. I wasn't sure how far this cave system ran, but there was no end in sight. I also had to turn at places where there were multiple branches in the path.

It took almost twenty minutes before I started to find fresh blood. There seemed to be less and less blood now, meaning that the creature was healing, but that wasn't a bad thing. It just meant I needed to find it sooner than later.

Lucky for me, the Drakar found me.

I was coming around a corner, but the next area opened up to a large cave with a pool in it and some glowing fungus. That messes with my eyes a bit, making them appear brighter briefly. Me being a stupid human using a body I wasn't familiar with, I tried to shield my eyes with one hand.

Or paw, I should say.

The result was me tumbling forward embarrassingly, but the moment I did, something jumped on me and then bit into my back.

[Pain Receptors turned off.]

The sharp teeth bit into me, but I had no blood, and all my vital organs just moved out of the way of the teeth. My muscles that had been cut now methodically grabbed and snapped off every tooth that had sunk into me.

'Ahhh! What have you done to me?!' The creature screamed in my mind as it jumped off me.

I winced at the guttural growling sound in my mind as my body almost instantly healed. I changed back into my human body, but I smoothed out my face and made my body sexless and completely silver. I also made my body glow white after scanning the fungi around the room as I stood.

I assumed that Tiamat would be watching or even controlling this one. I wanted to know how she was doing after her nice little stay in the pocket dimension, me destroying her ship, and stealing her daughter. That, and I wanted to try and play a trick on her.

"So, I would assume you have had a chance to meet Daniel?" I asked in a voice identical to one Star Child had used with me. I was told not to say his name, but I was curious if impersonating him would get me into trouble.

I didn't really know what would happen if I did say his name, but I wasn't going to test it out for shits and giggles. Still, this was pushing the limits, but I had to assume that both Alpha and Tiamat already knew this was Star Childs doing.

From what the records say, Omega saw that I was placed on earth by Star Child. So it was safe to assume the others should be able to see that as well, depending on how far they were coming from.

"You! Don't try to fool me with your cheap tricks! I already know what you smell like, Daniel! I will make you pay for what you have done to me and my ship! You think that you can do all this, and there will be no repercussions?!' Tiamat's voice screamed in my head this time, and I changed back to my own body with a feral grin.

"It was worth the try. Also, Calishora doesn't say hi. I think you wanted me to tell you that you are a horrible person, a bad mother, and you smell funny," I laughed, and the massive green Lizardman with massive wings growled at me.

'I care not what my traitorous child thinks of me! She was a mistake! A failure! Nothing more!' Tiamat roared, and I laughed.

"That would make you a mistake and a failure, right? She is just a part of you, after all, right?" I asked, and the green Drakar rushed at me.

Silver roots burst from my body and grabbed the Lizardman, but the creature was pretty strong. It was able to rip the first few roots off it, but for every one removed, three more grabbed the creature. Soon I had the creature bound in a cocoon that was attached to my back.

'What do you think you are doing with my soldier?!' Tiamat demand.

"He is going to become a she, who is going to become Calishora. She will also have some very nasty traps set in her mind that I am sure you will trip. Speaking of traps, how was your time? You know, in that pocket dimension?" I asked.

'How dare you turn one of the Dracos into a female! This is sacrilege! I will see you pay with every fiber of your being for this! Do you hear me?! Rexia, Shyvana, and Lexoria are on their way right now to lay waste on your planet. I will make sure that they give your people the worst possible deaths before your planet is destroyed. I will make sure that you are the last one left alive, and only then will I have you brought directly to me so I can devour you myself!' Tiamat snapped.

"Hey! No need to get so excited! Just giving buddy here a little sex change, and then we will put him in a human body! Everyone wins, right?" I asked with a grin. "Also, you are sending me more girls? Am I going to have to make a separate harem just for all of your daughters that I collect? You keep sending me them, and I am gonna have more of you than you will!" I laughed as I started to jog back out of the cave system, the Dracos still struggling on my back.

'Mark my words, Daniel! I will make you pay, and I will get my heart back! Even if it is the last thing that I do!' Tiamat screamed, making me wince.

"At the rate, you are going, that might be the case, except for the getting it back part. I think it would be more apt for you to say that you are going to "try" and get your heart back. That is probably the last thing that you are going to do," I laughed and then cut off Tiamat so she couldn't reply and took the last word from her.

I can be petty too. Plus, I also didn't want to listen to another long rant about my impending doom.

I had a top-secret base to explore with my wife!