Chapter 254 Remember What We Planned!

Raiken raised the corner of its lips intentionally showing its jagged razor-sharp teeth. Opening it slightly, a trail of saliva followed and dropped to the ground in a splatter.

Ayanami cowered in fear and took several steps back as she hiccuped.

'It's not a dream! How the hell did it get in here?!' She trembled and took a step back in fear not sparing the dragon another look.

Instead, her focus was on its huge legs and she gulped. With trembling lips, she needed to establish some sort of contact with the human friend of this monster if she wanted to survive.

"Please, I have done nothing wrong to you, I would pretend like nothing of such happened if only you would let me out." She solemnly swore and dropped to her knees.

"You've done nothing wrong?" Nix's masked voice resounded with a laugh.

Ayanami flinched at the sound and her heart thumped hard as she tried to think of what he must have meant by that.

Searching herself, she couldn't find anything that might have linked her with either of them, not until the scale dropped onto the floor from her sleeves.

'The scale!' She gasped as she tried to reach out for it.

Once she was able to snatch it off the ground, she raised her head only to be caught in the deadly gaze of the dragon's yellow glinting eyes.

Taking several steps back, she couldn't understand if this scale was going to save her or if it was the last piece that the dragon needed back.

Hiding it behind her back, she just hoped that it could all be forgotten, giving it up is like forfeiting the assignment given by Mr. Zhao.

Without the scale, she was as good as useless. She constantly told herself that they simply detected the scale and vice versa. Which was the cause of the glow earlier.

She needed to complete her task, only then could she willingly return the scale to them if they needed it.

<That's my scale, you puny human! Return it!> Raiken raged as it took a few steps forward covering a large distance within seconds.

Ayanami let out a scream at the dragon's movements and as she hurriedly walked backward, she fell on her butt.

'Raiken you do know no one can hear you except me, right?!'

Raiken paused upon realization and a tinge of anger that it made him a bit foolish for thinking otherwise.

Nevertheless, Raiken had been able to corner Ayanami and had her directly under his face. Snorting out steam onto her body, he leaned downwards till it was just a few meters between them and let out a body-curling roar in her face.

"Ahhhhhh!" Ayanami screamed in sync, till she couldn't take it anymore and passed out in shock.

Nix and Solis facepalmed from the shadows, this wasn't part of the plan, nor did it have anything to do with getting the scale in such a manner.

Cutting off all supply of light, Nix came out into the open even though it was dark all around now.

He created a telekinetic field around them so he could speak with Raiken without interference if Ayanami was merely faking it.

"What was that?!" Nix yelled in disappointment at Raiken.

Solis sweatdropped at how bold Nix was in speaking to this mythical creature. He had wanted to take several steps back, in fact, be off the conversation in its entirety.

It was uncertain what this dragon could do if provoked and couldn't gauge to what extent Nix's hold on the dragon could hold.

Bam!

He collided with the barrier and rubbed the back of his head. 'No way out of here, just great!'

Returning his attention to the two, he could see Raiken's eyes burning with rage as it endured a scolding from Nix.

"Nix... umm... maybe if you lay it a little softly so we could all–"

"Shut it! He needs to know he can't just do things of his jurisdiction!" Nix snapped and immediately turned his attention back to Raiken.

'... leave here in one piece.' Solis completed his thoughts. He let out a sigh as he listened in on what Nix had to say.

<I refuse to be scolded by a mere human!> Raiken proudly responds and looks away.

Nix bit down on his bottom lip as he tried to calm his thoughts. He was speaking with probably a thousand years old dragons who had never been accountable to anyone.

"You would have to play your part when she wakes up, only then can it be beneficial to us all, do you get that?" Nix commanded through gritted teeth and forced a smile.

He was speaking majorly on the jar which was detrimental to them all. If Ayanami were to get her hands on the jar and in turn Mr. Zhao who she works for, that would mean trouble for them all.

And that was still the same if Sesa and Christmas tree were to get their hands on it.

The only way to counter both parties was to instigate them against one another.

<The human is right, Raiken!> Red chipped in.

For the first time in its life would it feel that what was being said was to their benefit, they were under his command and his plan was inadvertently to save them all since it was because of them that Nix was hurting.

<Listen and learn...> Rekor began.

<... a few things from the human> Raz concluded.

Even though Nix could hear them clearly, it did tick him a bit that they all referred to him as 'human' and not his name or a different title like Mune.

Solis sat on the floor in a lotus position, he was going to block out all information as he could only listen in on Nix's part of the conversation which only made him anxious with his manner of speech with Raiken.

'Is it not a better option if you could just say my name? I am not referring to any of you with dragons.' Nix brought up the conversation as he held Raiken's glare.

Pointing at Raiken he warned, 'don't you give me that look!'

It looked more like the gaze he had when they had just met, ready to wreck chaos and kill

<What look?> Raiken feigned ignorance and grunted.

Pinching the bridge of his nose, Nix shook his head as he paced about within the limited space.

When he heard a groan, he lightly tapped Solis so they could start from where they had stopped.

Solis jumped to his feet and regulated the light in the room, and they took shelter in the darkest corner and behind Raiken.

'Don't screw this up!' Nix reminded and hoped he would listen this time.

<Screw you!> Raiken snarled and grudgingly went along with the original plan.

Using his shield to block out any of their words getting out, he nudged Solis on the side so he could concentrate on what was ahead.

Ayanami stirred in her sleep, her eyes flickered open and she let out a loud gasp as if she had woken from a nightmare.

'It was only a dream!' She looked to the floor and saw the scale laying right next to her.

Pushing forward, she pulled it closer like it was some precious object she had lost. A broad satisfying smile spread across her face as she closed her eyes.

She was still oblivious to the glare of Raiken behind her. To alert her of his presence, he let out a snort of steam which lightly touched and spread around her.

Ayanami froze as she felt warm air touch her back, and when she saw from the side of her eyes that a wave of steam flowed past her, she stiffly turned her head back.

A flood of memory flashed through her mind in an instant and she let out a scream.

"Damn she does scream a lot for someone that keeps herself in high esteem!" Solis complained and placed his hands over his ears.

Nix looked over to Solis with a crooked smile, "how about I let Raiken have a bit of fun with you?"

Solis sweatdropped and gulped, raising his hands in surrender. "Poor Ayanami, what sort of trauma is she going through?"

Nodding his head, he is expecting a similar response. "Remember what we planned."

Solis bobbed his head in response.

"Stay away, don't come any closer!" Ayanami's shape-shifted into a porcupine, shooting out spikes from her body in a way of fending Raiken.

Nix bit down on his bottom lip to stifle a laugh. He couldn't believe anyone could be so dumb as to attack in such a stupid way–this was a dragon, not some weak animal.

Raiken looked at its feet as the spikes bounced off, he had to keep himself from roaring in her face so he could see that horror-stricken face in close range.

<I can carry on with it now, human?>

Nix nodded his head as a satisfying 'yes' escaped his thoughts.

<Finally!> Raiken flapped and stretched his wings.