First Demonic Dragon - Chapter 1265: You Don’t Remember Me?

Chapter 1265: You Don’t Remember Me?

“Fool!”

Bashenga’s roar shook the forest, catching the enflamed K’ael’s attention.

A barrier of magic had been erected around the great tree. Protecting not only it, but the source of the infection as well.

Thea could see the evil eye begin to squint as if it was smiling at this development.

“…Bash, you have to drop the barrier!” Thea warned.

“Have you gone daft!? He could kill-”

“I know you’re worried, but remember who Gaia is!” Thea pleaded. “Things will work out!”

“…”

If anyone other than Thea had asked such a thing of Bashenga, he likely would have told them off.

But Bash famously loved his sister more than almost everyone else in his life. And with that love came a certain degree of trust.

So even if he was not fully comfortable with the idea, he acquiesced to her suggestion and dropped his barrier.

The effect was instantaneous.

The eye wrapped around the base of the tree let out a horrid screech of agony. As it burned, all of the slaves it had under its control began to shriek in pain as well.

Once the shield was down, K’ael, who was still not in his right mind, became even more blood thirsty.

His body grew another hundred feet. The heat he gave off was enough to set fire to most trees in the grove.

With a sinister smile, K’ael bashed both of his fists into the magma-covered ground.

Thea knew that her brother was a very powerful god of natural disasters. But knowing and seeing were two very different things.

In an instant, more than two hundred miles of forest and greenery were razed by fire and lava. Through the ash-choked sky, great meteors fell onto the land and flattened everything in sight.

Out of everything in the forest, Thea and Bashenga were the only things unharmed.

Bash watched as the last of the parasitic organism was vanquished by his younger brother’s flame.

Now, Gaia’s tree was also beginning to come down.

“It’s done!” Bashenga snapped. “Calm him down, or I’ll do it!”

Thea grimaced as she looked toward her brother. Even after all of this time, all of this destruction, he still didn’t look like he was anywhere close to snapping out of it.

She sprouted her wings and flew in front of her brother’s face, pleading for him to remember who he was.

But K’ael was already too far gone. Even Thea could not so easily get to him.

She held out her hand and wrapped her brother in ethereal pink chains.

K’ael struggled against the restrictions like a demon. Biting and snapping at them with unhinged jaws and exhaling flame.

“Brother, you need to calm down!”

Using her own power, Thea summoned a great monsoon from the sky.

K’ael, seemingly sensing the disadvantageous scenario, more than doubled the temperature of his heat. Every drop of water was turned into steam before it could even reach him.

Thea grit her teeth in frustration.

The last thing she wanted was to hurt her brother. But if she didn’t get him to calm down soon, she was certain that Bashenga would be far less gentle with him than she would.

“…I’m really sorry about this, but you’re not leaving me much choice..”

Thea held out her hand and called her sword to her open palm.

As she held the familiar pommel in her firm grasp, a subtle chanting left her lips.

Miraculously, her weapon began to break down into particles of light…

Once the sword disappeared, Thea manipulated her fingers into specific hand seals.

Purple scales with an ivory sheen appeared on her face, and her eyes became like bowls of milk.

“My sword sweeps the land, and splits the shrouded sky…!”

Bashenga watched as time seemed to stop around his sister. At the same time, the entire world seemed to lose all of it’s color and turn a muted gray.

Except for the clouds.

Above the burning forest, a single cloud shone a nearly neon blue.

Thea held two fingers above her head and brought them down in a downward arc.

Even Bashenga had to shield his eyes from the bright light that followed.

A colossal blue sword, larger and more deadly than any modern skyscraper, fell from the heavens like an instrument of divine wrath.

K’ael looked up just in time for the sword to pierce him right between the eyes. It split him evenly down the middle, dispersing the fires that made up his body before crashing into the earth.

The entire forest was upended in just a split second.

Bashenga protected the tree once again, now that the malevolent entity attached to it had been burned away.

However, he should have thought to cover himself too, because his sister’s attack sent him flying clear off his feet.

–

“I’M SORRRYYYYYY!!!!”

Bashenga’s brow remained furrowed as he tended to the tree’s roots. He ignored his sister as she clammored to put her arms around him while she bawled her eyes out.

“And somehow I am the dragon of apocalyptic forces… Unbelievable.” He grumbled. “I thought you were more ladylike, sister.”

Thea looked as if her heart had literally been torn out of her chest. “W-Why would you say that!? How am I not ladylike!?!”

Bashenga paused his digging for the moment and looked around.

…

There was nothing. Just soil against soil for hundreds of miles.

“…Figure it out for yourself.” He returned to digging.

“H-Hey!”

After trying and failing several more times to get Bashenga’s attention and failing every time, Thea gave up and went to check on K’ael.

Her baby brother was currently enjoying some very baby-like rest. He slept on his stomach with his thumb dangerously close to being inserted into his mouth.

Thea took a seat on the mattress she had created for him. She had a bitter look in her eyes as she began running her fingers through his curly locks.

“What exactly happened to you just now, sweet boy…?”

K’ael didn’t respond, but perhaps by instinct, he nestled closer to his sister as he slept.

“….”

Thea was unable to resist and ended up pulling out her phone to take a selfie that included the two of them.

She silently promised him that she wouldn’t show anyone. Except her wives. And their mothers should probably see if too. And maybe Courtney, but that was definitely it.

“What are we going to do with them?” Bashenga asked over his shoulder.

Thea took six more pictures before looking toward the only other things in the clearing with them.

When K’ael initially engulfed the forest in lava, he unintentionally succeeded in trapping the revenants attacking them within it.

Thea’s attack had rapidly cooled the revenants, effectively rendering them statues.

For a long time, Thea stared at her master’s stone figure, wondering just how she had ended up in this predicament in the first place, or if there would be anything left of her to save.

“…We’re going to bring them home, of course. We have to help unfortunate souls however we can, right?”

When she received no answer, Thea looked back at her brother.

She found Bashenga frozen, staring into the hole he had dug with a ghastly expression.

“Bash..? What are you-”

Thea gasped when a teal-green foot shot out of the hole and kicked her brother hard in the stomach.

For the second time that day, Bashenga was sent flying. Thea actually felt a little bad. That was, until she looked down at her phone and realized she’d accidentally been recording the whole thing.

“…Pfft. Hilarious.”