Anna Holland: The Oliheim Witch
Chapter 26: A Dragon

We left the library and asked Jean again.

"You sure?"

"Mistake no mistake, this is an ancient paper.You must be able to understand the writing so you know what this is."

We were lucky to get to know Jean, for the location of the dragon we had heard certain rumors a long time ago because that was when our holiday moved there.

The three of us rode on our broomsticks, until Marick gave a proposal.

"Let's fight who gets there first."

"You said it, do you think you can beat me."

Sarah and Marick they've been racing forward, for me I'm not really interested in doing things like racing, but I'm still pushing my broom so we don't get separated from each other.

Sarah and Marick pierced through the clouds before maneuvering through the air several times. If the Runer race starts I'm sure they can get a good position there.

After a long time competing, Marick first up from Sarah.

It was a surprise to him or to me.

"I'm a lot faster, aren't I."

"Next time no."

Marick may be the slow guy on land but fast in the sky, I think so. We are now in a rugged mountain range with rocks that are difficult to penetrate. We did not use a broom but rather just a floating spell before finally finding the cave in question.

It says his dragon is in there.

We have no intention of killing him, it only takes a little blood to figure out the contents of this map.

We walked in until we got to an altar-like place where the surrounding was hot lava.

Just as the three of us set foot something came out of the hot lava and landed in front of us.

It was a bright red colored dragon with a mouth spitting out a breath of fire.

"Don't joke, we have to fight creatures like this."

We ran to get out of the cave, unfortunately the dragon flew and landed all four legs in front of us. He was obviously intentional to seal the exit.

Even the dragon seemed to not care about my other two friends.

"I'm here stupid.I'm here, Ignium."

Marick does a silly thing even though it ultimately results in failure, on the other hand Sarah sends the Ekpentrum spell but fails as well.

"You really hate me?" I said towards him.

The dragon thrust its fangs towards me who was cornered, one more step I could fall into the burning lava.

Beyond a doubt the dragon replied to my statement.

"I haven't forgotten this scent, it's a very cursed scent. Even if you hide your appearance I know you're Merlim Ratmir."

"You may have misunderstood me, but I'm a different person."

The dragon snorted out smoke from his mouth and nose.

"If I were Merlim Ratmir I should have remembered it but I don't remember a single one."

"Surprisingly, you really don't lie."

Sarah's with Marick.

"That's right."

"It's best to stop pushing Anna around."

"You're really brave young man."

Stared by the dragon's eyes, Marick, who had previously been called brave, immediately hid on Sarah's back with a stick showing readiness.

"Forget what I said, then why did you come here? Depending on your answers I might not kill you all.

I showed the map to the dragon and said.

"We need your blood for this."