Our first three weeks in Ponyville quickly went by and were greater than I could have ever imagined. After our magical outburst, pretty much everything went smoothly. Verso got better the next day and miss Twilight started to teach us magic again the following one. When we weren't having magical lessons with miss Twilight, we spent as much time as we could outside, often playing with Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. We were finally told that Equestria was currently approaching the middle of its summer, which meant that days would last really long for some time. Miss Rarity made us a new set of clothes and tried to just give them to us again, but I got Verso into helping me repay her. We asked miss Twilight to teach us a gem detection spell and we went to some barren place not too far from town. Verso then did some big detection magic and quickly retrieved a massive amount of gems from there, that we gave to miss Rarity when we got back into town. She was clearly happy and hugged us. That was nice.

Verso also transcribed some vegetarian recipes that would be god for our health from somewhere in his memory and gave them to Spike and some restaurants in Ponyville. Well, he sold the recipes to these ones after he made Spike cook us some and showed it to them, but that's ultimately the same thing. But it let us have a deal with mister and miss Cake, the Sugarcube Corner's owners, who provided us with the sweet sweet nectar that us mere mortals commonly refer to as chocolate milk.

Verso says I should try to refrain from drinking so much of the stuff, but NO ONE is going to stop me.

Hum, back to the story. After the outburst, Verso wanted to learn more about attack spells. Miss Twilight sadly didn't seem to know many of them. She said that ponies rarely fight to begin with, and that unicorns usually just shoot magic lasers when they do. But she did teach him how to shoot electricity our of our fingers, basically the same spell that miss Rarity accidentally hit us with when we encountered her.

It took Verso Two weeks to be able to at least mimic most of miss Twilight's fighting and protection spells and learning about how they work. We also learned to teleport from short distances, which was plenty of fun but really complicated and taxing. When Verso was satisfied with our new abilities, Twilight started to show us some funnier spells, like the one that make a nice mustache grow on someone's face. When Pinkie Pie learned that I could do this one, we went on a rampage through the town, offering temporary mustaches to random ponies. That was pretty fun until I gave one to miss Rarity's little sister, which earned me a scolding from her.

We also had a few encounters with Luna, who taught us all kind of fascinating things about the sky, like how the stars could sometimes be used to read the present or predict the future or why miss Princess Celestia moved the sun the way she did. Verso knew about that one, but that was still nice to get it from her. She also told us about funny things happening in her court, or in the palace in general. And, strangely enough, mister Discord was nowhere to be seen.

One evening, Verso had been quieter than usual until we were sent to sleep by miss Twilight. When we were alone in our room, he broke his silence.

Recto, would you like to go on a little adventure?
"Wa do ya..." I tried saying as I brushed out teeth. I quickly spit it out and restarted. "What do you mean? We're already on an adventure! If being in a magical land of ponydom isn't an adventure, I don't know what is."
I meant it more like a quest. Essentially, I would like to do something and I'm pretty sure it could be fun on the way.
"Well, you've got me interested. What were you thinking about?" I asked as rinsed our mouth.
I wanted to pay a visit to the old capital of Equestria, in the Everfree Forest.
"I thought this was dangerous? Miss Twilight said that we shouldn't go in there."
Oh, where's your sense of adventure? It'll be fun, I'll be more than able to crush anything that would try to attack us and we get to visit an old spooky castle!
I nodded, convinced. I tend not to argue that much with Verso, his ideas are usually fun. "Okay. We'll ask miss Twilight for directions tomorrow."
No. I think it'd be funnier if we go there alone. And right now.
"At night?"
Yeah. It'd be beautiful.
I had to agree with that point. It was a cloudless night and the moon was shining brightly over the land. "But wouldn't anger miss Twilight? She didn't like the last two times we left without telling her all that much."
We'll be back before she even knows we're gone! Come on.

I hesitated for a few seconds before I gave my agreement. I opened the window and successfully teleported to the ground level. I then closed the window telepathically behind us and started to walk in the direction of the road entering the Everfree Forest. When we reached it, I stopped and looked at the sinister looking trees. A sudden gust of wind made me shiver and created creepy sounds from the trees. I was beginning to doubt the cleverness of this idea.

I gulped, a bit frightened and started walking down the road. Verso told me that, normally, we shouldn't have any unfortunate encounter as long as we stayed on it and kept quiet. I think that, on my own, I would have quickly turned around and went back to our room, but Verso was keeping me from being too scared by talking to me and pointing at interesting things out in the dark.

It went on like this for a few minutes before Verso abruptly asked me to stop. I did, and he focused on listening.

Let me out, please.

I did and he immediately looked around, particularly behind us. He grumbled something when he didn't find anything and activated his sense-field, extending it more than twenty meters in all directions. His eyes fixated on something he could feel behind a tree.

"Come out. I know you're here." Nothing moved so he repeated, louder and angrier. "If you force me to go there and fucking pick you up, I'm going to be really, really pissed off." I didn't know who he was talking with until I saw Lyra coming from behind a tree, looking down and ashamed. Verso grunted again. "Great. Of all the mentally challenged beings in this town, you decided to follow me. Why?"
"I... was actually just walking in the same direction?" Lyra tried, smiling awkwardly.
"Remember what I told you about not taking me for a moron? It applies now."
Lyra gulped down and stepped back. "I couldn't sleep so I was chilling in a park. I saw you walk into the Everfree and got curious. I swear that's all there is to it!"
Why are you scaring her again?
She followed us, Recto. That's suspicious. And she's a changeling.
What? But I thought you said you were mistaken!
I was. There was no changeling invasion. Just her and my sense field screwing up.
"So... What are you doing here in the middle of the night?" Lyra asked after a few seconds of silence.
"Not your business. Go back to Ponyville."
Verso turned around and resumed our walk. Soon enough, the aquamarine unicorn/changeling was walking by our side. "Where are you going to?" she asked, still smiling happily.
"Oh, for the love of... Get lost!"
Oh, come on! She's funny! Walking with her will be hilarious!
She's corrupting my mind with her awful puns!
Don't be such a drama queen. I'd like her to stay.
Verso groaned, massaged our nose and glared at Lyra, who looked like she hadn't even heard his earlier rebuttal. "So, where are you going to?" she asked.
Verso sighed. "We're going to explore the castle in the forest."
"That sounds interesting. Can I come?"
No. He thought rather loudly. "Yes," he said. "But stay out of my way if anything goes wrong. Is that clear?"
She saluted with a hoof, making me giggle at her false serious expression. "Aye aye, captain!"

Verso groaned and started walking a bit faster, trying to put distance between us and the changeling. Thankfully, she could walk a lot fatser than we could and probably had a lot more stamina too, so it was pretty pointless.

"Why are we going to the old castle?" she asked when she reached us again.
"I am going because of the old tomes stored there. Recto is going because this is an adventure of sorts. You are going because I obviously offended some kind of greater being that decided I should be punished in some horrible and uncommon fashion."
And for a greater comedy factor.
"Yes, and- ...What?"
"Why did you have trouble sleeping, Lyra?" I asked.
She blushed and looked away. "Well, Bonbon and I had... a disagreement of sorts over one of my center of interests and she asked me to sleep on the couch. Then, I got hungry and couldn't sleep."
"Well, why didn't you cook something, then?"
She blushed harder. "My... meals aren't something you can 'cook' alone?"
"Isn't there any other pony to help you? Or maybe we could help you ourselves."
Her face was beginning to turn into tomato-red shade and she furtively eyed our hands. "Well, I was hungry... And, well, you know, when you crave hands..."
"No," Verso harshly said, taking over. "Not just no but HELL no! What the fuck is wrong with you?"
Lyra stepped back, obviously scared by Verso's sudden outburst. "I... I didn't mean it like..."
"If you didn't mean it the way I think you meant it, I think I'll have to crush your skull immediately, bug," Verso growled. "Keep feeding off the ponies as much as you want, but don't you dare even trying with us."
"That's... That's not... What I meant was... would you pet me?"

Verso stopped dead in his tracks and looked at Lyra with eyes wide open, doubting for a few instants whether or not we had heard correctly. My reaction was more... immediate, per say.

As in, I took back the controls from his shocked mind and started scratching her behind the hears. She was so soft! And after the initial shock and surprise, she had a goofy grin on her face, which meant that she probably liked that.

"Ooh~ That feels nice..." she happily sighed. "I just knew hands would be great stuff..."
I giggled and started to continue walking down the road, still scratching her head, while Verso was still completely silent. "Your fur feels nice too. It must be great to be able to change into whatever you want, isn't t? You can give yourself the greatest fur of all the history of great fur if you want. That must come in handy."
"It does. But it's surprisingly hard to remember a form correctly. Sometimes, when I have to change for some reason, I even forget to remake my cutiemark!"
"Is that really important? I mean, it's not like every pony is checking out your flank all the time, is it?"
She chuckled. "I figure you may not understand it, as you're not a pony, but cutiemarks are really important to ponies. You can know a lot from a pony just by looking at it, after all."
"It is?" I glanced at the lyre on her hindquarters and looked back at her. "So why did you chose a lyre?"
She opened her mouth to answer, grinning, but Verso reacted faster, taking the front seat. "If you dare to make that joke again, I'll rip your vocal cords out of your throat," he hissed at her.
She closed her mouth. I blinked. A joke? What joke? I wanna hear the joke!
Please, don't. Even thinking about it makes my head hurt.
I took the controls back, disappointed, and looked at the aquamarine pony. "There's not only a joke to it, is there?"
She shook her head. "Cutiemarks represent the special talent of ponies. So I chose something I was pretty good at : playing the Lyre." Verso groaned for some reason, but stayed calm. "Besides, ponies tend to like music, so I can feed a bit off the love in the air."
"That's pretty smart."
"I know," she confirmed. nodding. "A lone changeling has to get creative to get food without a partner to feed them."
Something clicked in my mind, and I realized something didn't add up from the first time we met. "But, how did you convince Bonbon to act like your mom?"
Verso mindpalmed and Lyra stopped dead in her track, blushing a storm. "She... She's not my mom!" she cried. "Why would you think that?!"
"Well, she called you 'young mare' and all," I answered, justifying myself. "I just assumed..."
"We're dating!" she yelled. "We're the same age, for the Hive's sake!"

She said something else, but her voice was covered by the roar of a big creature that didn't sound all that far from us. Verso took over instantly and deployed his sense field. He spun around just in time to face an enormous ball of fur, claws and sharp teeth charging in our way. He immediately activated a shield around us while Lyra screamed in terror, and the beast rammed into our protection. Verso then charged a magical beam, opened his shield and fired at the beast, pushing it away and growl in anger and pain. It then started to circle us, waiting for its time, while we took a closer look at the creature : it was a giant lion with little bat wings on its back and a scorpion tail.

"Manticore," Verso muttered. He glanced at Lyra, who was trembling and pale, immobile as her eyes were fixed on the beast. "Hey, bug-pony!" he called. "You know if it's intelligent?"
"It... It's gonna eat us!"
"I'll take that as a 'no'." He popped our fingers, a dark smile forming on our face. "Which means I don't have to hold back at all."

Verso stepped forward and started charging another beam. The manticore roared and charged in our direction again. Verso shot his new beam at its face, making it growl again, but not stopping it. He willed a new shield in existence, against which the big furry beast crashed again. While it wasn't moving anymore, Verso caught him with telekinesis and raised him above the ground. He then calmly inspected it, both with our eyes and with his sense field.

"It's a pretty interesting creature," he said fascinated. "I don't think that its tail is poisonous, but I definitely wouldn't want to be hit by it. And it is a hunter too, not like male lions back on Earth. Its physiology is entirely different too!"
"What are you doing?!" Lyra managed to hiss over the manticore's growls. "It could break free at any moment!"
"No, it can't," Verso answered without even looking at her. "I'm a lot more powerful than it will ever be. And if it somehow manages to become a problem, I'm already holding its heart in my grasp. It moves, it dies."
"What are you waiting for, then? Get rid of it!"
Verso finally glanced in her direction, lightly surprised. "Someone asking me to kill something? That's new." Lyra looked away, looking guilty. "But you're right, buggy. We should get to the castle quickly, and it's slowing us down." He gently let the manticore down on the ground, still holding it firmly, and walked back next to Lyra.
"What are you doing? I thought you would kill it."
"Oh, I will. I just want to see how much damage one of my spell can do." Recto, get to sleep real quick, please. It's about to get ugly.
What are you going to do?
Something I clearly don't want you to see, but that I have to do.
Uh...
Don't worry, we'll be fine, and the bug-pony-
Lyra.
... will be fine too. I'll just wake you up soon, so that you can continue having fun on the way.
Oki doki then. Have fun!

As soon as Recto was away, I turned to face the aquamarine changeling next to me.

"You may want to look away. It's not going to be pretty."

She nodded, but didn't turn her gaze. I shrugged and turned back to the immobilized manticore. I had imagined a fighting spell that may or may not work while I was learning how to turned magic into lightning and how to lit a fire with Twilight. Problem was, I didn't really had the occasion to test it yet. I had the feeling that Celestia may be a bit upset if I had killed her former student.

Still, I wondered if it could work. I surrounded it in a shield bubble and released it from my telekinesis. It immediately started crashing against the glowing walls, hoping to break free and probably also to rip me in half with its claws. I started charging my spell. It was simple, if also horrible. Basically, the idea was to quite literally make its blood boil.

Yeah, hear me out before saying I'm uselessly cruel. First : yeah, I am. Second : it wasn't a spell designed to kill something horribly just for the sake of killing something horribly. I designed it so that I could terrify a group of opponents and avoid fighting most of them. Yes, it's an horrible way to die, but it prevents some of your friends to be killed by me too. So I charged the thing, opened the shield -which, by the way, made Thingy shriek- and shot it at the beast.

At first, I thought I had failed, as it started to charge me. Thankfully, one of its eyes exploded and it started roaring in agony as I could see a red mist escaping from anywhere it could. Its skin bloated until it cracked somewhere and a torrent of boiling red liquid started to leak from every opening it could find. The animal was still screaming, at least until I felt its lungs starting to boil too through my sense field. Unfortunately for it, the manticore was still alive at this point, its nervous system still working somehow, so I knew it could still feel the pain.

Thingy threw up. I guess the smell of cooking meat wasn't to her liking. I think I should feel bad for her, but I did give her a warning. And I'm kind of a bad person anyway, so I didn't really care in the first place.

When it finally died for good, I stopped the spell and got closer to inspect the remains. It looked positively horrible. Which was perfect. I don't think anyone would dare to attack something that could do that to you. Striking terror in the heart of your enemy is still a pretty efficient defense mechanism, after all.

"Yup. It's perfect."
"You're sick!" Thingy shrieked as she looked at me, horrified.
"Well, I'm not the one puking everywhere, so I'm willing to bet I'm a bit more healthy than you are," I replied, walking back to her.
She stepped back, fear in her eyes. "What kind of monster would do that?! You said you could kill it cleanly!"
I nodded. "I could have. But then, I couldn't have teste my new spell."
"What need is there for such a spell? It's evil!"
"Precisely." That shut her up, thankfully. "I'm not a nice human, changeling. Get used to it." She muttered something that I pretended not to hear. "Now, come on, we still need to get away from that carcass before other predators smell it."

I continued walking down the road, whistling a happy tune, effectively horrifying her even more. When we were far enough from the half-cooked corpse that I couldn't see it anymore, I woke Recto up.

I got woken up some time later as Verso and Lyra were walking to the castle again. Lyra was really quiet, contrarily to before the manticore encounter. Of course, walking silently with someone next to us is kinda awkward, so I made sure to break the silence rapidly.

"So, if you're a changeling, that means you can change your appearance, right?" I asked.
She blinked a few times before answering. "Y-Yeah. Wanna see how I really look like?"

I nodded and she was engulfed in green fire for an instant, making me shriek in surprise before as she turned into a black chitinous bug pony with entirely blue eyes and a turquoise mane. She stood on her back legs and extended her front ones, a big smile on her face.

"Tada~!" she exclaimed before she fell back on her four legs.
"That was awesome!" I shouted before Verso forced me to be a bit quieter. "You can do whatever pony you want?"
"Stallion, I can be nearly whatever I want in general, not just ponies. Here, look."

She transformed into a rather cute dog and jumped around easily. Then, she turned into a griffon and extended her really big wings, trying to look more imposing. From there, she turned into a butterfly and fluttered around us before she settled for a tiny pony-Lyra-form with bug wings and sat carefully on our head.

"It looks so fun!" I squeed in excitement. "Can you turn into a bird? Or a fish? Or a fish with legs? Nah, that one would be creepy... A lizard? Oh, oh, I know! Try to do a human!"
"Well, I could, but I haven't seen any other human than you, so I think I'll just turn into you, if you would let me."

I nodded, unintentionally throwing her off our head, and could barely stop myself from giggling. Lyra transformed and we were suddenly facing a near perfect replica of ourself. I giggled again and began circling her, examining our new clone under a maximum of angles, while Verso thought it was particularly creepy.

"You know, being suddenly biped makes me kinda dizzy. It's been a while since I assumed a form like this," I heard my own voice tell me, which is just weird.

She turned back into a pony and I just sighed. Verso metaphorically rolled his eyes and checked the mental map we were following.

We're about half an hour away from destination, now.
"Sounds like we're rather close, then," I answered aloud, making Lyra look at like I was weird.
It would, but I fear that the earlier manticore corpse may attract unwanted predators this way.
"Meh, we'll be fine. What could possibly go wrong?"

Just as I said that, we heard something howl not too far behind us. Verso mind-palmed and quickly took over, glancing behind us.

"Hey, bug-pony, could you turn into a manticore or something?"
Lyra shivered at his voice and looked away. "I-It's too big for me. The best I can do is a griffon."
"Okay. Tiny bug form it is then. I don't want you to be caught in the fight."

She immediately changed into the small form she took earlier and flew inside a pocket Verso was pointing at, still looking at the road behind us. When Lyra was finally settled, he extended his sense-field and blinked, surprised, just as some sort of rotten smell came to our nostrils, mostly uninvited.

"What the... What even are these things?" he muttered.

I noticed a few greenish glowing eyes coming rather quickly in our direction from the deep shadows under the trees. One of the creatures jumped out of the forest onto the road, giving me my first look at it: it was some sort of strange-looking wolf, made out of branches and leaves, some sort of green energy holding it all together. Lyra squeaked a surprised 'Timber Wolves' before Verso acted.

He telekinetically threw it against the nearest tree, shattering the wooden wolf to pieces, just as a couple more gush out of the shadows too. Verso shot one with a beam and raised a shield to block the other, before he shattered it too. A fourth one came out too and Verso simply caught it with magic, bringing him closer to take a better look.

"Interesting... It's sort of infused with energy..." he commented as another trio of wolves jumped out of the forest.

He immediately destroyed the creature he was holding as well as two of the other wooden wolves, the third one moving fast enough to escape his first attack. Verso then put a small shield around us to make sure we wouldn't be hurt, but the timber wolf completely ignored us and ran past us without even looking our way. That left the three of us pretty confused.

"What the f..."

He stopped when he noticed a soft rattling sound and realized that the shattered wolf pieces were levitating and putting the wolves back together. He groaned.

"Oh, this is going to take forever... Unless..."

He grinned and raised our hand in front of us, concentrating. A second later, the soft yellow glow that surround our hands when he uses magic took fire, without harming us. He then turned our hand into a flamethrower.

I kid you not. Streams of fire were escaping our palm, scorching the wood and burning the wolves' remains. That was fun.

Of course, it also had the the slight after-effect of making the trees catch fire too. And everyone knows that you're not supposed to burn forests because it's fun, especially when said forest is sitting right next to you living place. Plus, it could harm all the cute little animals that live there, and that just not cool! Verso summarized everything a bit quicker, as always.

"Fuck!"

He turned off his awesome flamethrower of awesomeness and started isolating the burning trees inside small shields, somehow making the fire go extinct. When the last flame died, he carefully put holes in his shield, creating a hissing noise for a few seconds before it calmed down and put his shields away.

"That's taken care of. Now, what the fuck was that?"
"Hey! How did you stop the fire?" Lyra squeaked. "You didn't even do anything!"
"Because physics. Now, shut up, I'm trying to think."
What about?
"That wolf... he didn't attack me at all... And in fact, none of them did. They were just running this way and we were in front of us."
Lyra gasped and looked in the shadows, her eyes turning into cat-like eyes. "You think they were running away from something?"
Verso needed, also looking in the darkness beneath the trees. "Yes, but I don"t sense anything in this direction. What could make wood wolves run away anyway? They're pretty much indestructible unless you burn them down, aren't they?"
"Those were Timber wolves, mister Verso. And I can't think of anything, though I heard that a dragon is leaving somewhere in the Everfree Forest. Perhaps they were scared off by it?"
"Maybe... Anyway, we should-"

That's when the gigantic snake jolted out of the woods, its mouth open wide enough to swallow us whole. In a heartbeat, he created a shield around us that stopped the immense jaws just a meter away from us, its arm-long fangs grating against the solid light surface. Until their venom pierced a hole through it, that is. It closed its mouth, ripping apart' the rest of the shield and retreated back in the shadows.

"Let's get the fuck away from here."
"Agreed," Lyra squeaked.

Verso booked it and ran as fast as we physically could (which didn't mean much; we were still not really fit) before the next attack of the giant snake. Of course, we heard it hissing behind us and crawling after us.

"I can't feel it! Why the hell can't I feel it?!"
"I don't know and I don't care! Run faster!"
"Thingy!" he said, catching Lyra with magic and levitating her next to us. "What the fuck is it?!"
"Watch out!" she called with an annoying voice while he was moving her. "It's a... Oh, by the Hive, let me back into that pocket! It's a basilisk!"
Oh! Oh! I know that! There's one in Harry Potter!
"Oh, for fuck's sake! Does it really kill by looking at you?" Verso asked as he put her back into our pocket.
"Yes! Now, run!"
"It's a fucking giant snake! I can't run faster than it can bite me!" He magically reaped a tree out of the ground and started swatting randomly behind us, earning a hiss of annoyance before something ripped the tree out of his grasp and threw it away. "Well, incendiary time it seems..."

He pointed a flamethrower hand behind us as we were still running, hoping to burn the snake. It gave less than enchanting results, having no effect whatsoever on the creature. We heard another hissing and Verso immediately dove to our left, narrowly dodging a giant snaky head that bit down where we were standing a second ago. Taking his chance, Verso fired a huge magical beam at its neck, only to it impact its scales uselessly.

"Hey, that should have hurt it at least!"
"Basilisks are known to be magic resistant," Lyra pointed out.
"What?!"
Uh oh.

We didn't have time to think a lot more about it, as the basilisk recovered from the missed strike and looked in our direction. We barely noticed the double pair of eyes on its head before Verso started running again. His mind was running fast, trying to find a safe way to get rid or to escape the huge deadly snake. He reinforced his sense field, forcing him to concentrate on it while running, which seemed to be pretty hard, as he was forced to slow down.

"Heh, I still can't feel him, but I can sense the 'hole' he makes in my field. That should be enough..."
"What are you doing? Go faster!" Lyra shouted. "We can't let it catch us!"
"No shit, Sherlock!" Verso growled. "I know what I'm doing, so shut up!"
"Hey, listen!" she replied. "I'm in as much danger as you are, so I have my right to PANIC too!"
What are you doing? I asked. We have to summon a pet phoenix to blind it and fight back with a magic sword! That's the only way to defeat a basilisk!
"Recto, now is not the time for loose references!"
"What did he say?" Lyra asked. Seeing as Verso was currently ignoring her in the favor of trying to near blindly swat at an immense snake, she became more insistant with the most annoying voice ever. "Hello? Hey, listen! Hello?"
"WILL YOU FUCKING SHUT UP ALREADY?!" he shouted, glaring quite angrily at her.

The basilisk, probably noticing that Verso wasn't as concentrated as he should have been, chose that exact moment to strike once again, throwing his head in our direction lightning fast, mouth open and fangs already dripping with venom. Verso reacted quickly, though, and used another spell miss Twilight taught us to raise rocks from the ground around us, giving us a stone shield.

The snake's fangs pierced it easily, but thankfully, the rest of its mouth didn't, making them stop just centimeters away from us. Unfortunately, some of the venom landed onto our sleeve, and Verso immediately cut off my connection with our pain receptors. He growled and ripped the clothing piece away, looking at our arm.

Oh, great, some of it made contact...
Isn't that, like, really bad?
Not that much. I'm just going to spend a really bad ten seconds.

He magically slowed our blood flow in our arm and created a tinier sense field that encased our poisoned arm. He then gritted our teeth and started to extract the poison already in our blood stream out. He was grunting a lot all the while, and Lyra looked like she was worried. When he was done, he let the small droplets of venom fall to the ground away from us.

"I... fucking... hate... snakes..." he panted.
"Are you alright?"
"As far as I can be. Now, about that snaky bastard..."

The basilisk seemed to be stuck, unable to remove its teeth from their stone prison. Verso darkly smiled until he felt something coming from above, which ended up to be the huge snake's tail. It used it to break down the stone walls with ease, which let us coughing with the resulting dust. The basilisk's tail quickly surrounded us and held us in the air, rising us to its four-eyed head while also starting to crush us.

Big trouble doesn't even begin to describe it.

Author's Note

You've been waiting for more than a month to get it, here it finally is!
I hope you enjoyed the read.
Now, onto some spoilers for the next chapter : snakes, History and royalty.
See you on chapter 20: Royal Blood.