Outcast

shining

:2 months later:

Valoris is sleeping in his den when he hears a tremendous roar outside and peeks his head outside. A huge being lands on the ground knocking down several trees.

It's a fire wyvern, 45 ft long with thick crimson scales, long dark red horns form a crown on his head, and at the end of his tail, a circular mass of bone can be seen. Just as the kobold is admiring the Wyvern another large coming out of the forest.

It's a giant gorilla that nearly matches the wyvern in size. The fur covering its body is grey and it has a metallic l.u.s.ter to it. Clearly, it cultivates some kind of mental energy.

"Metal how dare you invade my forest! Go back to your mountain, and I will forgive this trespass. If you don't I will break your neck and feed you to my tribe" yells the gorilla.

"Drop the Tremon, don't act like you haven't been sending teams of apes into my mountain to cause strife in my land because you knew that I would come to you demanding an explanation. Our rivalry ends now! A deathmatch between the two of us. To the victor goes the spoils" says Mezal as he stares at Tremon.

Instead of speaking Tremon immediately attacks by grabbing one of the downed trees and throwing it at Mezal. He seems to have been expecting it as he immediately opens his mouth and a beam of crimson dragonfyre shoots out and destroys the tree.

Roaring, Tremon uses this as a distraction to jump high in the air clearly intending to smash down on Mezal. His fur starts shining even more as he comes crashing down onto Mezals head shattering several horns. Mezal lashes out with his claws instinctively, unfortunately, Tremon anticipated this and dodges jumping backward.

"Hahaha, you will die here today old friend. And you were right those were my tribesman who were causing all that trouble in your territory, I trained specifically to beat you after having my scouts study you. I know all your moves, You can't win" taunts Tremon.

Valoris watches the entire exchange in awe of the power displayed by these two. He looks to see the Fire Wyverns reaction and is confused why even now Mezal seems so confident and unfazed by his wounds. As his blood drips down from his face and falls down Mezal stares at Tremon with incredible intensity before saying

"I can accept that you wanted to fight me, But you killed people under my protection. Children even, because of that no matter what you will fall here today! Did you train to beat me huh? Then I guess I will just have to do something you haven't trained for "

He then unleashes a dragon roar. It seems to shake the very ground, within it contains all his sorrow, and fury then suddenly his entire body is covered in crimson dragonfyre flames, and he starts crawling towards Tremont with fury in his eyes

"You die now" he growls each step scorching the earth. Tremon starts slowly backing away while not realizing it.

"Hey let's talk about this, maybe I was a bit has.." says Tremon before launching forward in the middle of talking and trying to throw a punch towards Mezals wounded head.

Mezal unfazed jumps forward biting his arm and thrashing back and forth until Tremons forearm is bitten off.

Throwing the removed arm off to the side Mezal stalks towards the fallen Gorilla who is frantically trying to stop the bleeding.

Valoris watching can see the Gorilla actually has some kind of weapon and is waiting for Mezal to get within range.

"Look out!" He yells trying the help the Wyvern.

Mezal immediately jumps to the side barely missing the metal blade that Tremon had tucked at his side. Hissing, Mezal lunges forward biting his neck and jerking it until you heard an audible crack.

Stepping on the body Mezal unleashes another dragon's roar this time displaying his dominance to all around him before the flames around him die down. Looking over to where he heard the voice that saved him Mezal is surprised to see a small Kobold cowering next to a small den in his Mountain range.

"Come here little one, don't worry I owe you a debt and want to thank you properly," he says.

Nervous, The Kobold stares at the massive dragonkin in front of him, before deciding that no matter what, if this wyvern wanted to hurt him there was nothing he could do.

As the Kobold crawls cautiously towards the giant Wyvern, Mezal is surprised again.

"How odd. What is a kobold with a storm dragon lineage doing on the edge of my territory?

Hmm mid blood potential, judging from his size no more than 10 months old, and judging from the scars on his face, and body has been in a few battles".

The Kobold sits down right in front of Mezal and looks up and him.

" You continue to surprise me little Kobold, tell me what is your name?"

"Valoris," says the Kobold still on edge.

"Interesting, this young Kobold has quite the story I bet hmm maybe I should train him.. Yes! And in 6 months he can fight in the Blood Matches for my territory." Thinks Mezal

" Young one, why do you cultivate? what is your motivation to get stronger?" He asks

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After thinking about it for several minutes, Valoris gives his answer.

"I want to prove to everyone that they were wrong. That even I can become strong"

"I can help guide you on your path if you are interested, I am the head of the Crimson Flame tribe, would you be interested in joining?" asks Mezal.

"This is my chance! til now I have just been purifying my bloodline if do'thave any training techniques, or treasures. if I join my chances of becoming stronger will soar" thinks Valoris before answering.

. "Yes I would like that, thank you, Teacher," Valoris says in excitement.

"Good, however, don't thank me yet. You are extremely weak, in order for you to gain the strength you need I will be pushing you past what you thought your limits are.

You will fight on a daily basis until you gain a Pureblood potential. You are not allowed to evolve until then. Then you will start to study wind and lightning elements to gain understanding and enlightenment towards your elements.

Because you helped me I will allow you to have the arm from the ape. Go pick it up we need to stop by my tribe first then we will go find a suitable cave for you" Mezal says as he waits for Valoris to pick up the severed arm before placing him on his back.

He then crawls over to the Gorillas body and using his back legs grabs it, with a powerful jump the Wyvern with a little difficulty manages to fly away from the corpse in its claws.

Valoris barely manages to cling onto Mezals back using one of the spines to hold on as they fly to Mezals mountain where he has established his tribe " Crimson Flame Tribe"  despite the name there are a fair amount of beasts that cultivate other elements besides fire.

Unlike the Blood Fang clan that has a high tier Dragon as its founder, Mezal is only a midclass Wyvern. With more than 3 evolutions between them. Not to mention the Blood Fang clan has been around hundreds of years whereas the Crimson Flame Tribe is only 12 years old.

Mezal was a born to a pair of fire wyverns that were killed when he was 3 years old by an ice serpent tribe. Orphaned and exiled from his land he traveled for 20 years before settling in his current spot and starting his own tribe while he slowly gained strength to kill the ice Serpents who killed his parents.

With only Mid blood potential unless he greatly increased his bloodline potential, it would take at least another 50 years before he evolved into a Dragonling which was the first dragonkin that was a true dragon.

Therefore by using a tribe to gather magical beasts and materials, his bloodline would shorten the time it would take for him to evolve. Mezal eventually reaches the base of another mountain range. Several caves and a valley can be seen as they touch down.

As Valoris climbs off he can see that the battle is finally taking its toll on Mezal as he seems sluggish and very tired.  A large fire Wyrm with scars crisscrossing its body and large blood-red horns is the first to greet them.

"Congratulations Lord on finally killing that smelly monkey you must be tired come rest.. why is there a kobold with you?" Says the Fire Wyrm noticing Thorn and staring at him intently.

"Gorm, this is Valoris, another stray I found. He warned, and probably saved me from that monkey. I gave him the arm and offered him tutelage as a reward. Find him a cave for now while I rest". Said Mezal before slowly crawling to the biggest cave to go rest.

Gorm stares at Valoris intently looking him over while Valoris does the same to Gorm. Valoris looks at the scars that cover Gorms body and face. They are mostly from claws, and teeth with even one of his horns having part of the tip broken off.

"Well, at least you have been in a fight judging from your scars. Did you win?"

" When I could sir. if I couldn't run away"

"Hmmm good from the looks of it some kind of dragonkin?"

" Mutated rats with a storm dragons lineage"

"Interesting! Come on I will show you your cave. Tomorrow you will tell me the whole story. Then you will start training"

"Yes, sir," says Valoris as he struggles to drag the large arm that's larger than him.

"Here let me help with that" Gorm says,

Valoris reacts without thinking, pulling the arm away and hissing at Gorm

" Mine!" he growls before realizing who he is saying it to.

Contrary to his expectations Gorm starts laughing

"Hahaha good! You got a fight in you. Don't worry kid, I can tell you just gained the storm dragon lineage recently. It's common for dragonkin to revert to a more bestial attitude before they completely assume their new lineage"

After that Gorm picks up the arm and carries it to a small den. After telling him that he would come back tomorrow, he crawls away leaving Valoris alone. Valoris eats a large chunk of the arm before immediately passing out.