Thomas
*Deep in the western middlands' woods, Axel stays curled up in his dragon form as he rests (he's a chinese dragon of course he kinda looks like a snake /hj). The cold breeze of his breath as he rests cools the surroundings (not this cool😎 ok? It means temp down). His tail swishing left to right, his ear twitches as fairies giggle and toich his ear, surrounding his head*
Shirley
"Okay i know you wanted to make that potion but did you seriously have to drag our asses all the way here" **He sighs, looking around for the thing Val had described** 

"I don't see it anywhere Val"
Tracy
"Well it's the only known place that that flower grows, and if the potion works that'd be a huge weight off of both our shoulders. And i know it's annoying to tra-"

**He noticed something a little further ahead**
"Zy, shush. I don't know what that is but we might wanna be carefull"

**He walked closer and closer to the creature**
Thomas
*Axel moves a bit and sneezes, creating small clouds, his head moves up a bit with eyes closed then lay his head back into his cozy embrace to sleep, the cool breeze wafts around everyone, his tail continue to swish back and forth*
Shirley
"Shit your right, it looks like a dragon of some sorts. I've only seen one in my lifetime but it had wings so idk"
**He creeps closer, his hand on the sheath of his katana**
Tracy
"Be careful Zy"
**He sneaks after him, before slipping in some mud and making a decently loud noise**
Thomas
*Startled, he wakes up to look at where the sound came from only to see two individuals, he grumbles. The fairies ran away upon sight while giggling as Axel stares at them*
Shirley
"Good job Val, now we're dead"
**He slowly stood up, hand raised in the air**

"We are not here to hurt you, just looking for a certain flower"
Tracy
"Does it even understand us?"
**He follows Zyren's movements**
Thomas
*He nodded, his tail swishing around. He can't talk in his dragon form so he just look at them with curiosity, wanting to know what kind of flowers they're looking for*
Shirley
"Are you... Friendly?" **He slowly walked closer to the creature**
"We are looking for a flower named an Vyrix, maybe you can point us in a right direction?"
Tracy
"You're so dead" **He kept his distance as Zyren walked closer**
Thomas
*He nodded again, he moves his tail away and nudge a dead log using his tail to him, there must be something inside if he hand it to him*
Shirley
**He looked inside the log and found a flower that was very much like the thing Val had described. So he grabbed it**
"Is this it?" **He held it up, looking at Val**
Tracy
**He was flabbergasted** "Yes, yes that's exactly what we need, holy shit. Thanks mister... Or missus dragon"
Thomas
*He breaths out, strong wind wafts around them creating a fog, partly blinding their surroundings (not blinding for real, its just so he'd transform to human), then a shoe clacking sounds could be heard (fr we want a dramatic entrance /hj), he appears to have a pair of white small horns on his head*

"Your welcome, anything else you need to find other than a mere flower?"
Shirley
"Oh my, well not really. This is kind off all we came here for..."
**He smiled at the man who just appeared in front of him**

"But i can't say that i don't have questions right now"
Tracy
**He calmed back down** "Oh, guess it's mister dragon then. But i also have probably the same questions as him"
**He looked at the man curiously, on guard for any upcoming attack**
Thomas
*He stares at them for a moment (yes he stares a lot), a furball bat poking out of his bag with a squeak, as he stands*

"Well, ask away, I don't bite anyone, they're just distateful, unappetizing."

"Who'd eat those with human brains anyways, unless they're cannibals"
Shirley
"Well this might sound a bit rude but... What are you?"
**He sat down on the log that the flower was in**
Tracy
**He decided to just step back and let Zy do the talking**
Thomas
"Me? Well"

*He sits on a rock nearby and shrugs*

"I'm just a mere chinese lesser dragon"
Shirley
"Oh you're *Just* A dragon huh... You do know how rare dragons are right?"
**He smiles**

"Can all dragons transform into human forms?"
Thomas
"Well, no, I do not know how rare dragon are"

*He stood quiet for a moment before answering*

"As far as I do know that is, not all dragons could transform into human forms. In these situations it's just either one of the ancestors married to a human or it's just naturally born with the ability to do so, why? I don't know" *He shrugs*

"In my case, I'm just born naturally like this, although a bit lesser"
Shirley
"Dragons are really rare. Even in Kahlo, where there are supposed to be dragon, almost no-one has seen a dragon lately."

**He shrugs**
"Guess i'm just lucky. But that's pretty cool, so you just live here? In the woods?"
Thomas
"No, not really, I live near the docks, I just like going to the woods for peaceful sleep"

*He shrugs*

"And you said there's no dragons lately? They might be venturing out there, in disguise that is, if only one dragon remains in this world, we will know by instinct"
Shirley
"That's a very interesting idea. So they might be living among us huh... That's pretty cool!"
**He smiled at the man, taking a sip from a flask he had with him**
Thomas
"Well, not really"

*A furball bat pokes it's head out and comes out with a squeak, Axel takes it with both hands and place it on his lap and pat it*
Shirley
"Oh, how so?"

**He smiles**
"I have a little buddy too" **He whistles and a small red pands comes out of the backpack that Val is wearing and sits on Zyren's shoulder**
Thomas
*He shrugs* 

"I'm not really sure, instincts tells. Most of us either lives in the sky or somewhere nature allows, of course Kahlo is a place where most dragons are, it is of no exception"

*Lomy the furball bat jumps excitedly upon seeing the red panda, a friend?*
Shirley
**The little red panda walks over to the man and the bat and jumps up and down slightly**

"Looks like he want to play"

**He then looks back at the man**
"We're actually from Kahlo, just came here for this stupid flower"
Thomas
"Aah, is that so.. Why do you need that flower? Is it of any use?"

*He let go of Lomy which it jumps down to the red panda and jump up and down together while squeaking happily*
Shirley
"We have reason to believe it can be used to imitate human blood, together with other ingredients ofcource. He's a vampire you see, but he hates drinking human blood, guilt and all that"

**He looks at Val behind him**
Tracy
**He nods** "I just don't like it"
Thomas
"Well, it could be a makeshift 'blood' for him but only for a while... It might last for years, then the makeshift 'blood' will not work anymore, it depends on the person as each person has different time, some lasted for months causing them to fall in despair"

*To him, even if a few years pass by, he would think it was only a few days had passed by*

"It is not possible for you to completely ward off the need for human blood, chances are that you might fail but nothing is impossible in this world now is there? Take your chance"
Shirley
"Yeah we figured something like that, that's why we're mixing in a little of my own blood and hoping that the other ingredients amplify the nutritional value of my blood, it's just an idea though. But we will keep working on it.
Thanks mister dragon"
**He smiles at him**
Thomas
"You can come here and go through that veil-like fog, evil intentions brings you to another place where you won't be able to come back but, both of you should be fine if you both go in to take a box of the flowers"

*He points at the fogs, noticing a near-visible fog that looked to be a barrier or something*

*He just likes collecting, not really care about the values of some things as long as they're pretty and shiny*
Shirley
"Idk mister, that's pretty ominous... And I would like to be able to return you know..., so like, if you have bad intentions, you can't come back?"

**He raises his eyebrows**
Tracy
"Hey Zy, idk about this, maybe we should just head back home"
Thomas
"You don't have any bad intentions towards me so it will be fine, the barrier's useless to most people in all honesty, but seeing that you're quite scared of it says otherwise"

*Lomy heads up and went through the veil-like fog*

"Now I don't really mean by 'not being able to come back', they would just get lost somewhere far.., far away"
Shirley
"Screw it, I'm going in, Val you stay here with the flower" **He hand the flower to Val**

**Then he walks over to the man, going through the fog**
Tracy
"Goodluck Zy, come back"
Thomas
*Axel watches as he disappears into the veil-like fog, now nowhere to be seen. He turns to look at Valzyn with a surprised look*

"I take it that the friend is an adventurer for his vampire friend"
Tracy
"I guess so, he's a good friend you know, please tell me nothing is gonna happen to him?"

**He walked towards the man, looking worried**
Thomas
"He won't, he will be fine, though time passes differently between here and through that barrier"
Tracy
**He raised an eyebrow** "In what way? Will he be much older when coming out? He better not be a grandpa when he comes back"

**He looked worried again**
Thomas
"Not him, us"

*Axel shrugs* "Technically it'd be you who will become an old grandpa, I am still young you know"
Tracy
"So am I, idk how old you can get but I'm still young for my race"
**He shrugs**

"So how long will he be gone? Like a month? A year?"
Thomas
"Possibly, but we can never know, in some situations, while going through the barrier, time will slow down for them"

*He stood quiet for a moment* 

"How about some tea while we wait for your friend, hm?"

*Lomy flies out of the fog carrying a tea set*
Tracy
"Sure... I guess"
**He sits down on the same log Zyren was sitting earlier**

"So do you send people through there often?"
Thomas
"No, unless they approach me that is, though most of them never came back from the fog, they just vanish."

*He counts his fingers*

"Like 10% came back safely, 15% would come and die being pushed away, 18% would die not long after they come out of the fog, 57% vanishes into the fogs and never came back"

*He stays quiet for a moment*

"Your friend will come safely, you just have to wait for a week or so, it's short"
Tracy
"Oh Well those are 2 very different things, on the hand hand your saying he will probably never come back, but then you say he will. I don't know anymore dude."
**He sighs**

"But I guess what's done is done, I can wait a week"
**He lays down on the log**
Thomas
*He nodded* "A week is very short, If i have to say. Considering that I put the chest of mixed pretty flowers inside"

*By pretty flowers, he does not mean 'pretty' flowers, he picks pretty interesting things on the 'road'*
Tracy
"Guess it is... So what do you do all day? As a dragon I mean"

**He closed his eyes laying there, enjoying the sun**
Thomas
"Hmh... What do I do all day? ... I mostly go to old, run-down libraries and sorts, going to the ice cream shop to get my mint chocolate"
Tracy
"That's pretty nice I guess"
**He lies there for a few more minutes before moving to place in the shade**

"Damn sun, always burning me after like 10 minutes"
Thomas
*He chuckled* "I forget vampires are not immune to the sun. Anyways, you sure you're gonna stay here for a week? It would be quite tiring to wait for your dear friend"
Tracy
"Well I ain't leaving him, and I can last a week. No problem"

**He shrugs**

"I don't need food you know, and we have enough blood in that backpack to last atleast 2-3 weeks"
Thomas
"It's up to you then, he'll be back here thinking only a day or two had passed because of the flow of time in there"

*He rests his head on a hand while sitting*
Tracy
"Thats fine"
**He layed down on the ground and closed his eyes**

"That's gonna be a bit weird for him probably"
Thomas
"Of course it would be, who wouldn't" *He laughs*

*They'll have tea every now and then for a whole week cuz Axel couldn't find anything to do other than watching the red panda and his furball bat playing around while having tea*

*As they wait for a long time, a figurine from the fog could be seen holding a chest*
Shirley
"Yo, been a decent bit. Sorry to keep you two waiting"

**He walks out of the fog, the chest still closed. With a big smile on his face**

"Ooo you guys had tea?"
Tracy
"So, much, tea"
**He looks at Zyren**

"Glad you're back, what's in the chest?"
Shirley
"Don't know, haven't opened it yet. I wanted to do it together"

**He puts the chest down on the ground, opening it**
Thomas
"Ah, welcome back"

*Axel sat on the chair, not realizing his dragon tail is out and swishing, feeling curious and excited as to what he had found out, the chest is full of different kinds of unique flowers, there's of course the flowers they need*
Shirley
"Well we should have enough flowers for a pretty long time for the potion we need. As for the others, we need to research them a bit."

**He picks up the chest**

"Thanks mister dragon"
Tracy
"Thats great Zy, it's been more then a week here for your information so I'm tired and wanna go home"
Shirley
"A week?!"
**He looks suprised**

"Guess times works differently there, but we do have to go back then, the tavern can't run itself and I'm sure Aerith misses me already" **He laughs**
Thomas
"Ah you're both leaving already? It can't be helped then"

*He stood up and walks to his stash of shiny things and hands them zomething worth giving, or maybe too much*

"A gift of farewells"
Shirley
"Well I'm sorry mister dragon, but I have a business to run and it's been more then a week. I'll be lucky if the place hasn't burned to the ground by now."
Tracy
**He walks over to the man and gracefully accepts the gift**
"Thanks sir, it's been a fun week I can't deny. We will make sure to visit again"
Thomas
*He nodded* "If fate allows, we shall meet again next time" *He watches as they both leaves the place, Lomy on the other hand waves goodbye to it's new friend departure in sadness. He then sat back on his chair and drank tea with Lomy on his lap, patting Lomy as if comforting it because of it's friend's departure*