Chapter 3 punishment
I woke up in a cell,
Feeling drained of mana.
then I felt it,
the pull of a grav beds unique gravity beneath me.
It was active. Humming with power
Vweomvweomvweomvweom
And it was draining me dry.
though..
on the plus side, I seemed to have been given medical treatment. moving up my bed a sting of pain arcs throughout my body like the shape of lightnig. Mana circuits frying itself itself again. The feeling of a soft fire burning beneath my skin followed me as I slowly sat up.
My feet dangling above the floor.
No blanket? What is this, a pigsty?
Even the prison in Kaiya had better treatment than this. Or was that because even if you escaped our elite guards were waiting for you to make their day..
Huh.
I snorted and moved on it seemed that while my mana circuits have naturally healed.
Its still tender from my overuse.
First when I fought the two dragons now known to me as kokoro and Mizuki.
Then second the hammer in the coffin so that I could nail myself in was the fact I pushed myself to move as fast as I did.
Of course.
For a good cause, I was fighting a telekinetic after all he can attack what he can see.
Though now that i thought about it I could just escape huh. But that would be bad for farther. He does have a reputation to maintain after all. And mother would be disappointed in me.
My sister? I don't even wanna think about that.
Especially if I used my familial weapon.
They'd be sky broken.
Remembering my fight with the twin dragons, I shivered. causing another spark of pain beneath my skin.
slowy a quiet grunt pain escaped my mouth.
I noticed the fact the metal bars were reinforced.
Unforutuantly my movement caught someone's attention
With the worried familiar voices, up behind the bars i heard kokoro first, then mizuki behind him
They quickly explained to me why we were in separate cells kokoro announced that "seeing the street footage.
they believe your the most dangerous one out of all of us. Ignoring the fact we're dragons.
A common way people lumped draconic races together."
It was only then that i noticed how they had reinforced platted cuffs on their wrist.
their mouths covered a frost born steel made personally by my family's neutral allies the kori clan.
A mask with ice particles floating in the air around their heads.
a pause mizuki continued after him
She Lifted an eyebrow picking up where he left off.
"And to be honest you didn't help your situation much."
With a strange glance at kokoro she continued
"The fact is you used just a an average blade.
agaist a TELEKINETIC"
She said emphasizing the last word.
"that's genuinely impressive considering it wasn't enhanced in any particular way. In the modern age thats just unheard of.
just traditionally formed katana."
She looked at me conspiritorily.
As through the cell she cocked her hips as if amused by the idea of a human running around with a regular katana.
Just beating up a psychic.
"Because lets be real, most would need a gun of advanced magic caliber or some unique magic to defeat a a psychic mage.
not just some blade you could find at a pawn shop for gangsters to use "
I frowned at them. Their basically calling me a thug with old taste.
With a bit of curiosity i said" Why aren't you in a simular cell like me. Instead of some low grade one with average metal bars?"
Kokoro answered with annoyance "its due to the fact that dragons can ignore the effect of grav beds. essentially making it useless to us."
Right.
The system was built to control flow. absortion of ambient mana.
Dragons didn't follow the normal flow of mana.
They naturally generated the energy.
the very force the world was built upon.
And It expanded outwards.
changing the very environment to their will.
Their element.
Their territory.
With a frown I looked at the more closely at them. starting to truly see them, Not just know they exist around me.
These are dragons one if not the mightiest creatures in the air and ground eating electric raijus for breakfast.
Caught in the middle of a cascading thought train.
Two police officers entered the cell room red lights flashing to wake up the imprisoned.
The one on the right wore a stange black trench coat while the other wore a strange tech wear stlye esk clothes with s v skirkt at her waist.
The trench coated man said"akahoshi nagareboshi of the boshi family. dispite your status, your coming with us."
The woman to his right.. my right pleased by the fact spoke "not even your status will protect you from the chaos you caused."
Her voice low as though it were a fun secret, loaded in the sentence.
Soooo, she's had a bad experience with the higher family's.
Or clans, whichever
I shrugged
She scowled.
They walked up to my cell door ignoring the two dragons in front me.. their left
Why am I noting their postions?
This isn't a battle.
And yet i couldn't help but feel tense
they started to unlock the doors as i heard more footsteps. heavily guarded and armored officers appeared guns at the ready
Kokoro growled a low inhuman rumble the room shook making the officers twitch.
While Mizuki glared at them pink eyes narrowing.but I also heard confusion in there voice as though they recognized something but not with me?
But with THEM.
the cell door opened with the of old metal.
Guess they don't oil the cell doors
The officers looked at the the interagators i realised, for permission.
then givin it, armored officers quickly surrounded me.
Their guns at the ready showing me they were willing to fire if I didn't comply. At first though, they hesitated.
then putting magic restraints on me leaving me empty of mana.
No not empty
Sealed within the shackles themselves.
Now with only my own phyisical strength holding me up.
honestly, my body felt sluggish, heavy even.
Then they guided me out of the cell to follow the interagators as they begone the treck to the inspection room kokoro catching my eyes as though to reassure me they that they have my back.with quiet acknowledgement i trailed after the officers, knowing now I have dragons on my side.