After falling in Theta’s portal Fei and I instantly found ourselves high up in the air. We were so high up everything below looked like ants. We fell gaining speed every second.

“Waaaaah!”

“Oh my GOD! Why are we up here?!” I said screaming for my life. Fei who was right beside me held my right hand and laughed. “Have you ever sky dived before?” he asked. Because of all the wind blowing I couldn’t properly hear what he was saying but I assumed that it was something that wasn’t going to help the situation. Fei continued talking but I couldn’t hear a thing he was saying.

“Wooohoooo!”

Fei started falling down even faster than I was. “What is he doing?”. Three minutes later I could see the land more clearly or should I say the water. When I see that we were falling into the ocean I instinctively let out a huge sigh. My heartbeat was still out of control, beating as if it wanted to jump out of my chest but I could tell the slight change in it. Fei splashed into the water first and I fell in immediately after.

Finding myself so deep into the water to actually bring able to touch the surface. The huge fall caused me to feel dizzy and a headache attacked me without warning.

“AAAAAAAAHHHH!!”

All the oxygen stored inside me began leaking out, soon I started to drown. Luckily, Fei was there to swim me up to get fresh air. When our heads was out of the water we spitted out all the water that was in our mouths and coughed uncontrollably.

‘Coughs’ ‘Coughs’

“That was too thrilling for my taste. I forgot that I didn’t have a parachute” said Fei. “What is that old geezer thinking?!” I said trembling from the traumatic experience. We looked around us and not a single piece of land was in sight. We were surrounded by only water.

“This is just friggin great. Where are we supposed to go now?”

“We’ll think of something later. Right now let’s just start swimming” said Fei. I had many arguments to that but I kept them to myself. I knew he had a point. Might as well swim than to stay one place. That would get us nowhere. We swam and swam for about an hour. My arms felt like they were ready to tear off. My wet clothes started to get heavier and heavier to a point it was a struggle for my head to be above the water level. Fei noticed my challenges and grabbed me by the sleeve and dragged me.

“Were you an experienced swimmer?” I asked. “I was good at everything. No matter how difficult it may be I got it covered. Swimming is child’s play. Give about two more hours and I’ll get tired. Four hours if I let you go right now” said Fei.

“Sorry”

One hour later I reached my limit. I didn’t feel like pushing forward anymore. “I call it quits here”.

Fei turned his face at me surprised. “What do you mean call it quits? You’re going to die if you give up” .

“We’re only delaying the inevitable. There’s no way out of this situation” I told him starting to breath heavy.

“You might never know what will happen in another hour you know. You can’t give up until the end” Fei tries to convince me.

“It’s not about giving up”

“Yes that’s exactly what you’re doing!”

Fei continued to drag me for another ten minutes until we heard a sound.

“ Rooooaaaarr!”

“ Roooooooooaaaaaaerrrr!!”

Fei and I cling to each other scared of the sound we were heard. It sounded like a beast shouting. A huge shadow appeared on the water before us. We turned our attention to the skies and we’re left speechless. A blue dragon with spikes everywhere, has red eyes and four large and pointy looking fangs and had a blue glowing aura around it flew in front of us and gave us an intense glare.

We swam as fast as we could but the dragon’s claws got a hold of us. He threw us on his sturdy back which worsen my headache.

“Hi there” said an unfamiliar voice.

I looked behind Fei where I heard the voice of a stranger , an old lady meditating on the dragon’s back. Fei took couple steps away from her and asked “ Umm mam, is this dragon yours?”

…….

“Well? It’s impolite not to answer”.

…….

Still no reply. Her legs were crossed as she sat with her eyes closed. While the old lady meditated Fei and I took our soaked shirts off and ringed them out. The old lady opened her eyes laughing at our physique. “Hahahaha, you two call yourselves men with that weak body”

“Weak? That’s not nice lady. What’s your name?” Fei asked her.

“ It’s Trish, What were you two youngsters doing idling in the middle of nowhere” asked the old lady standing up.

“We woke up and found ourselves out here” I lied. Trisha frowned and punch me straight in the face. “Not wise to lie to your elders son” Trisha warns. She looked over at Fei and asked the question again. “If you don’t tell me the truth I’m kicking you two off of Ragnah”.

 Fei sighed and explained everything to her in exact detail. This woman has a way of detecting lies, there was a point where Fei was trying to twist our story but the old lady caught on immediately. In the end we just told her the truth. 

Naturally we didn’t expect her to believe it but she surprised us. “Oh I see. Then you guys don’t know a single thing happening in this world or about it it’s economy” said Trisha. “Yeah pretty much, sorry for lying”. It was at that moment a book fell on the top of my head. I opened the book and read “ Clear the dungeon located in Javahono. Many people tried to clear it but they failed so be careful. It has the cure for the world ending disease Saigon. Be sure to retrieve that medicine while you’re at it”.

The old lady laughed “Seems like you’re not lying. Sorry to say that mission is out of your reach hahaha”. “How come?” Fei asked.

“The dungeons in this world is full of dragons such as this one. Dragons are extremely dangerous. Most people who have beaten one are high ranking Magic users like an Imperial Knight for example ” said Trisha.

“Magic? Awesome! How do we learn that?” Fei jumped up dying to know. “You wanna learn? Okay stay on the ride then. We’ll arrive at my house in another three hours so don’t interrupt my meditating till then”. She went back to meditating and ignored everything that we did after that. My stomach growled during the ride begging for something to eat but I had to endure it. “ A shaky start but hopefully things get better”