One hell of an adventure

‘Argh I’m bored, and hungry, Kate can you get me some food?’ Ya I’m whining for food when I’m a hunter, deal with it.

“You're a hunter, catch your own food.” She grumbled from my back.

‘That’s not a bed you know.’ I growled as we kept walking towards what I thought was a village. ‘You smell smoke?’ I looked around. I felt her get up from my back in a hurry.

“Come on, we have to make sure no one is hurt.” Don’t have to ask me twice! I dashed off at high speed. Still not even close to Dash, damn. We broke out into what could have been a village once, but instead there were burnt piles of lumber and the land itself was scorched black. “What the hell happened here?” Kate jumped off my back and winced, jumping back up. “It’s still hot! Who or what did this is still arou-” She was cut off by a rather loud roar.

‘Ow, what was that?’ I looked around the area we were in while backing off of the scorched land.

“It sounds like it came from the north, come on!” She kicked my sides which, I do not know why or how, made me dash forward, she grabbed my ears to steer which hurt a bit.

‘Hey you would hate it if I grabbed you by the ears!’

“To be honest I would tear you to bits for touching my ears.” She chuckled a bit and made me avoid a tree. “This is kind of fun! You should let me do this more often!”

‘Can we like, save and quit or something? I’m not ready for this, maybe after a drink and some cheese puffs.’ I whimpered at the thought of having to take on a huge dragon. Kate sighed and let go of my ears, then leaned down next to one.

“It would have gotten away by then, and think of those villagers it more then likely killed.” My eyes widened. “If some got away then they would be homeless, maybe orphans.” My eye twitched. “Now, what are we going to do about that?” I began to crouch down.

‘Take out the little bastard and make it suffer.’ I growled and shot off, now for the planning part.

--Planning active.--

Fuck ya, love the computer state of mind.

Alright, so this dragon is more then likely bigger then a fucking barn so I won’t be able to take it head on, so stealth would be better, follow it until it gets to a cave and then wait for it to sleep. Then we attack, but how? Fuck going to have to think about that when it’s time.

--End planning.--

I shot forward, getting a ‘whoa!’ from Kate. I ran and followed the dragon the best I could but it was starting to get away. “Why don’t you fly?” She grabbed the edges of my wings and flapped them a bit.

‘Umm, don’t really know how to.’ I chuckled sheepishly and I swear I heard he facepaw, how the hell did I hear that? Her face and paw should be soft! No time for that now. ‘Ok then, must learn to fly in next five seconds.’ I began to flap my wings, it felt weird but I got use to it. I began to lift off the ground, hovering there a moment before touching the ground.

“Come on! You can do it!” Come on Austin! You can do this! I flapped my wings harder and harder, slowly raising farther and farther, soon to be above the trees. “You're doing it!” I opened my eyes and saw the tops of the trees passing us by.

‘Wow, I’m doing it!’ I cheered and tilted to one side to fly left, then right. I would have tried a loop but Kate was still on my back. ‘You holding up ok?’ I turned my head to see her clinging to my fur for dear life.

“Ya, just catch up with the bloody dragon!” A bit British there, nice. I nodded and shot off like a bullet towards the yellow speck, which, after a while, turned back into the dragon. I slowed down a bit so as not to shoot out ahead of it. After an hour or so of following the beast, it finally landed and walked into a cave with vines covering the front of it, making it look like a wall that has some vines over it. I landed to the side of the cave and let Kate off, poor kitty was shaking. ‘Um, you ok?’ It was hard to not let the laughter into my voice, but she must have heard something cause she glared at me.

“First time flying, so not really.” She sighed. “Come on Fluffy, let’s go see what we’re dealing with.” It was my turn to glare at her. “Oh calm down and come on.” I sighed and followed her as she got to the edge of the cave opening. “There he is, sleeping on his riches.” Riches eh? I peeked around the corner and spotted the large yellow dragon napping on a large pile of gold and gems.

‘Me likey.’ I chuckled and snuck in quietly, Kate following behind me just as silently. ‘Alright, let’s get up onto it’s back and see what we can’t damage.’ I saw her tail twitch, must be from the excitement, I’m excited to! I mean we’re about to take on a dragon! WOO! She climbed onto my back and I flew us up onto it’s back. ‘The scales themselves look like gold.’ I pointed out as I landed softly on the back of the armored beast. ‘We need to get rid of one quick, I just finished my plan!’ She nodded and pulled out her dagger. She slowly slipped it under one of the scales and looked at me. ‘On my signal.’ She nodded and tensed up. ‘NOW!’ She pulled up on the dagger, making it rip off the scale. I stabbed down into the open wound with my tail and pumped venom into it,  around the time the dragon woke up and shook us off.

“YOU DARE ASSAULT ME WHILE I SLUMBER?! YOU SHALL PAY WORTHLESS CATS!” It roared at us.

‘Time to run!’ I grabbed Kate and put her on my back, after that I took off. We shot out of the cave and up into the sky, the dragon following in its rage. I kept flying higher and higher, if I’m right about this plan then this will work.

“WHY ARE WE GOING SO HIGH!?” I heard Kate yell from behind me.

‘Being a smart ass, that’s why!’ I grew tired, so I had to stop going up, but I kept that height. The dragon got up to us and paused.

“You give in? Very well.” It raised a claw to slash at us.

‘Nope.’ I grinned, Kate flinched. But what she was waiting for never came. The dragon got a stupid look on his face and looked at his arm, it was frozen there a moment before it went limp and fell, almost taking the dragon with it.

“What is this trickery?” He looked at me and studied me a moment before going wide eyed. “Wait, I know you, your-” He was cut off by his wings starting to fail. “NO!” He tried to keep his wings going, but they soon froze up and he fell. He roared his whole fall down.

‘Pun power, see you next fall!’ I laughed and Kate just groaned. The dragon hit the ground with a mighty thud and a loud CRACK! I looked down and saw a cloud of dust raising up from where it had landed. ‘Come on, let’s get a closer look!’ I lowered myself down, which took about 5 minutes to get to the ground. That’s where we saw the corpse of the dragon, it’s head facing a weird way.

“Oh wow, the fall broke it’s neck,” Kate didn’t look so good, but I knew she would get over it. I walked over to the corpse and poked at it with a claw, it put a slight scratch on the scale, the scales must not be that hard, at least on this one. “I have a idea.” I turned to Kate, she looked better, that was a good thing. “We could take the scales and sell them off in a town, maybe get some armor made of it.” I thought this out a moment before adding.

‘What about the gold and gems?’ She looked like she was having the same thought

“We need bags, if you can get some leather then I can make bags.” Is it bad that I think of world of warcraft when she said that? More then likely not.

‘Alright, I’ll go hunt, you get the scales.’ She nodded and got to work, using her knife to pry of the scales. I went off into the forest to hunt.

---A few hours later---

Argh, too tired to hunt anymore. It’s too dark anyway. I dragged my hall back to the cave where Kate was resting, when I pushed myself in I stopped and slumped to the ground and sighed. ‘Job done, must rest, I would have brought back more but I got hungry.’ She was sitting by a fire, she got up and rolled her eyes at me.

“I’m not surprised, you haven’t eaten since this morning. Alright I’ll get to work while you rest up.” I grunted happily and crawled over to the fire. Where I curled up and fell asleep, at least I thought I did. I think I woke up in what looked like a brick building with a fireplace, a small table, and a large leather looking chair.

“Well, come on, come where I can see you.” Wait, I know that voice. I got up and found myself human again. I was wearing everything I had when I was on earth, my torn up blue jeans, my awesome shirt, my hat, everything. I slowly walked around the chair to see a large flat screen TV and a man sitting in the chair, he looked like he was in good health and was holding onto a bottle of what looked like vodka.

“Who are you?” I asked, totally not worried about my safety or anything.

“I’m your game master boy, and I must say you are the most AWESOME PIECE I COULD PICK!” His sudden outburst made me jump. “You see Austin I decided to start playing this game not too long after getting my invite, but I needed to piece to invest in. So I picked you and decided to make you a manticore just cause a manticore has things you would have a hard time getting used to, and I know you didn’t ask me any questions about your being in the world of your dreams. I’m just awesome and decided to explain.” I had a blank look on my face.

“You know you act like an idiot right?” He shrugged while nodding and took a sip from his bottle. “Wait, what did you say about a game?” He grinned and pointed at the screen. I looked at it and my eyes shot wide open, there I was, laying down next to the fire, sleeping while Kate was skinning the deer I brought back.

“Your adventures are fun to watch, I must say. Your first real hunt, you could have improved your stance and had better timing but you did well.” He took another sip. “But let’s speed this up shall we?” He snapped his fingers and it looked like time sped up on the screen.

“.....Are you Discord?” I asked, I mean come on, he snapped his fingers.

“Nope, I would tell you my name but then you would ask around about me and I would get caught by another game master. Time for you to go my good man.”

“Wait wait wait! You never really told me anything!” I balled up my fist and started walking towards him.

“I know, sucks, doesn't it?” He laughed and snapped his fingers again, the world fading to black after he did so. “And and be careful who you piss off, you might just be a target for someone.” He laughed again as I passed out.

I shot up from beside the fire, looking around frantically. ‘Just a dream. Good.’ I looked at the cave wall for a moment and shivered.

“Austin, what’s the matter?” I looked over to Kate, by the looks of it she just got done making the bags.

‘Nothing, let’s just get some of the gold and gems and let’s get out of here.’ I muttered as I got up. This was going to be a long day, I can feel it.