Chapter #5A Blood-Stained Woman by: Unknown I awoke one day to find myself with sand all over the place, even on me. Also a woman on my back. She was standing with some lushes’ nobleman garments but had blood on it from head to toe and over freshly made corpses. What impressed me was, there was only one woman standing like a living piece of art and both dried plus fresh blood all over my back, a small wall of corpses on either side of me. I smelled the air around me. The odor of sweat and blood, traces of gunpowder all over the place and I think a little bit of the human filth, luckily tainted with the smell of salt. I assumed an ocean was near by. I smelt one other thing, faint but so familiar. It was coming from the woman. “Why is there so much human on me?” I asked her. I spoke using a different method. If I spoke to her normally I could blow out her ears.
“Shut up Dragon!” She yelled back at me. “Move it! Your not even supposed to be here!”
“Beg your pardons.” I asked a bit shocked. Apparently having a voice within her head didn’t faze her at all.
“You are laying on Xion’s Temple Damn it! Move!” She screamed at me.
I understood at that point who this woman was. “You’re a descendent of Xion aren’t you?” I asked her. Her reply however puzzled me.
I’m. I’m what? No. No I’m not a. A descendant of Xion. She said confused.
“If your not then you’re a grave robber.” I said.
It seemed she became more puzzled after that. She then said, “You have got to be joking!”
“Why would I joke?” I asked.
“First off, I know that which you lay upon is a Temple, not a Tomb. Second, I doubt a God could have kids, or want kids.” She replied.
I laughed at that answer, personally knowing full well that Xion was no god.
The woman didn’t take that to well. She picked up a sword that was close to her and proceeded to stab me with it. The blade did snap in half after a few times trying to get through my scales though. “Even though my family and I maybe human. We respected the belief of others. Don’t you Dare Dragon!”
“Then respect my belief, human.” I said sternly and out loud causing the woman to drop on her knees and cover her ears. I sighed and went back to mentally speaking with her. “Look, I’m not on it. I’m laying around it. Ok? Now, you think you can get off me?”
Why exactly should I?” she asked standing back up.
I sighed and stood up myself, sand coursing down my whole body. The woman lost her balance and rolled all the way down my side and to the ground below. When I didn’t feel any more meat roll or slide off me I shook off the rest. There were corpses and still wet clogs of bloody sand flying everywhere.
“That’s by far the nastiest sight I have ever seen dragon.” the woman said getting up as if falling from that height was nothing at all.
“I imagine so. So what.” I said playfully and looking around. I was apparently in a desert. I don’t remember the Tomb being in a desert. I lied back in my original position, most the sand off me. I then looked at her. “Your not a normal human I take it?” I asked plainly.
“Why say that.” She replied as she started walking on the side of me.
“Well, your female right?” I asked.
“Of course I am, how dare you dragon.” she said angrily.
“Sorry, it’s just you’re a female but…” I explained what I found odd about her. She was strong, durable and she was covered in blood. However I saw her stop half way to my front. “Never mind then.” I sighed and lied my head down.
“No, It’s fine.” she said as she started walking again. “Your right dragon. I’m not normal. In fact I’m the freak of my hometown.
“Why say that?” I asked.
“Mainly because of what you mention, but there is more to it.” she said. “I’m bigger then a woman should be, stronger then a woman should be.”
“So did you kill all those other humans?” I ask a little hesitant. The woman by now was facing me.
“No, more then half that was already dead by the time I came. I think that all of them was killing each other, trying to get into the Temple underneath you.” She said.
I then realized that I must have been sleeping for quite a while. I also realized that I was hungry and that I stunk or maybe it was all the dead humans around me. I couldn’t tell at the moment. "Human..."
"Tabitha Ingrid." the woman interrupted me.
"What?" I ask.
"Tabitha Ingrid." She repeated. "That’s my name dragon.”
"Oh. Well, then Tabi..."
"You have a name too right?" She interrupted me again.
"Nothing you can pronounce." I answered. “Now then…”
“How bout…”
“Stop it…” I stopped her and she calmed down. “Dragon works fine for now. As to what I’m trying to say. Care for a bath then hunt for breakfast? Or is it lunch? Oh well.” Tabitha seemed to be a little concerned when I mentioned bath. Was she afraid of water?
“How can we bath in the desert Dragon?” she asked me plainly.
“There’s an ocean nearby actually.” I answered her and started off.
“Wait dragon.” I heard Tabitha yell.
I didn’t stop as I said, “What is it this time human.”
“Could you help me a little?” She asked me pointing to the tomb.
I sighed. “Your still a grave robber to me Tabitha. You want Xion’s Tomb, you dig it up yourself.”
“It's A Temple Damn it!!!” I heard her scream.
I stopped for a second and sniffed around to find the direction of where the salt was coming from. The ocean was east of where I was. Before I headed in that direction I looked back at the buried tomb and sighed as I barely saw the tiny being digging her way down to it.
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