Natalie's eyes remained stuck, her eyeslids felt heavy and why not?, She had her first sexual intercourse and soon her bloodline awakened. Both required lots of mana, her body had pushed beyond limits to finalise the awakening, It was imminent that she wasn't yet fully charged but eren had already given her more than enough time, As much as leeway he could give.
It was Afternoon already, Sun shone brightly and that pricked Natalie, Washing the dizziness away. It gave her rationality, which came with sudden fear.
She stood up startled and ran as fast as she could to find eren, Where was he?, What was he doing not waking her up?, Did he leave?
Thousand doubts assaulted her brain. She was scared witless because soon this place was about become battlefield and she didn't wanted any part in it.
No one in world would want that, even supreme powerhouses much less a mere green rank cultivator.
She checked his bedroom, living room, Garden and even the kitchen yet she couldn't find him.
She ran out of mansion with panicked eyes and distress heart and what she saw made her, Tremble
Tremble with Anger.
Eren was sitting a chair, Drinking tea and reading a book with Black framed specs. He looked anything but worried.
And not just him, beside eren White and black furred creatures were lazing around. Looking at them, no one would assume that situation was this close to breaking apart yet here they were, Enjoying fresh Breeze under shadow of a giant tree.
" You..You..." Natalie closed her eyes and clenched her fist as tight as she could to control the anger.
" Hey sleepyhead, Up yet or need tea to freshen up?" Eren's smile, With the smile that he offered tea sounded rhetorical to Natalie, She was annoyed as it is and that smile just added fuel to the flames.
" It's not time for tea you fucker!!, We need to run, Why the hell you didn't wake me up?" She was yelling and panicking all over, But eren didn't waver.
Eren smiled calmly and spoke,
" Relax, When I said they'll be here I didn't mean first in the morning." With that he took another sip, it was really nicely brewed.
The aroma and taste entertained him greatly, Especially since today his schedule was out of order. He woke up late and didn't follow his exercise routine, so this cup of tea was really a comfort replacement for refreshment.
" But they'll be here any minute." Obviously Natalie didn't share his enthusiasm for tea.
" Relax, they won't. Right about now fierce battle must be on going for the top place all around us and that give us enough time.
And if you're that worried then transform, we'll leave right away." Eren was right, Everywhere around him fierce battle was taking place.
Each creature was smart, smart enough to weight gains and loss but even then they failed at something, Greed.
All those monsters out there were waiting to reign this high mana density place. And in greed of that they fought frenzied, Over their level, with risks.
Of Course such battles were taking place almost all around middle part of white forest, This process was filtering, Each fought, won and moved in closer to find another adversary. Repeating it all over until only one remained standing.
It also meant, Eren and Natalie had enough time till creatures sorted out their trivialities.
" Guess that's true but you do know that, you can fly, Right?"
Eren looked at her with question,
" I heard that I can manifest dragon armour but wings too?"
" Well yes, You didn't know?"
" No, So teach me."
" Now of all time?" No wonder she was surprised, Each second the threat was getting nearer and she didn't wanted to play with death.
" Ofcourse it's also important, Just like all around us threat could also be approaching from above which is highly unlikely but in case something happens, We need to fight it midair.
I should atleast handle myself,
Ofcourse you're still my free ride up with that dragon transformation of yours." Eren had another weirdly plausible conclusion, Ofcourse they weren't stupid enough to ignore such blatant warning.
Natalie also knew that his dragon form was the easiest way to top, She had no problems with that but she couldn't negate Eren's reasoning.
They needed all their battle powers to work, In order to make it out alive.
" Let's not waste anymore time, I'll say this only once." Eren had many sarcastic comments to her arrogance but avoided making remarks, obviously for the reason.
" This bloodline traits are like genetical data, Engraved in your soul. It also means if you know yourself accurately, you'll understand your powers instinctively.
But realising them is easy, Learning them might pose a bit trouble but it's manageable but utilising it is the most important and most difficult.
It's like Driving a bike. It's easy to learn but only by practice, driving becomes second nature to us. It becomes our skill, Deeply encrypted in our brain.
But there is another problem, Utilising those skill with maximum efficiency.
Driving bike fast, skillfully to avoid any possible accident while also keeping tabs that we can handle any unwelcomed outcomes, manage the situation if such situation arises. That's the context atleast.
You're with me, Right?" Obviously eren wasn't.
He does not know what bike is and how to drive it, it was just communication gape but Natalie should've realised this.
But eren wasn't complaining.He didn't wanted to butt head with this angry woman, besides he got the gist of what she was saying.
" I understand, Is there anything else."
" Not unless you unlock those powers."
" Alright."
With that eren focused, breathing out slowly and inhaling deep. His expression softened as he let go of all his thoughts.
He stood up and sat on lotus position, closing his eyes and letting go all control.
This was the habit he had deviced to remain calm when Alena was especially annoying, it also helped out because the blindness made his heart distress. Meditation calmed his nerves.
It was soothing, chirping of birds and fresh air brushing pass his face felt nostalgic. It reminded him of his blindness, They were undoubtedly horrible times but even then eren found it worth experiencing.
Closing eyes makes person feel alone, soon the stale loneliness feels pleasing until it doesn't. It ignites the dark fear and that's when person opens his eyes.
But blinds don't have that notion, They live with that fear every second. Eren was no different and living such life gave him perspective to another life itself.
Eren felt greatful to blindness when he thought of death and blood, But same blindness looked cursed when he felt gentle breeze on his face, heard splashes of waterfall, enjoyed melody of rustling of leaves and imagined what this scenery around him would look like.
He regretted, No being able to see the heaven he so much envisioned.
After getting his eyes back, he felt complete afterall he realised the value of vision through material eyes but he also understood that there were things that was only meant to see blinded.
Just like now, He was searching his insides. It was more of an in-sight than methodical inspection, He was understanding his new genetics.
And just like Natalie said, It wasn't hard to begin with. He just read his nature or rather understood it inherently.
Eren stood up, And summoned an armour and soon his body was covered in obsidian black scaled armour. Armour provided unhindered mobility, as if it wasn't even their yet it seemed extremely sturdy.
There were crevice and joints which gleamed white, creating a networking white pattern.Obsidian black armour had transparent scales to his eyes for the vision which glowed white hiding his eyes, and just like Natalie, His white horns were visible.
Black armour patterned white, It looked ominous and dangerous.
Eren had no qualms with the colour or the pattern, beside he had another thought to confirm. He deactivated armour and expected wings.Just as he expected, black Membranous wings grew out but not one but two pairs.
One on upper back were wide and large, just like Natalie's dragonic wings, whereas lower back pair were long and thin- very much like vampire wings.
It also confirmed Eren's doubts, if he was not sure after consuming blood. He was part vampire.
Natalie had similar thoughts, she was surprised but eren didn't indulge her curiosity, he had much more things to do. Like flapping those wings and learn to fly.
He was acting on instinct as he tried flapping those wings, where he failed miserably.
He did fly, Of sort atleast untill he crashed with no balance and command over his flight.
" Your instics are fine but you are afraid that you'll loose control, that makes your body stiff and muscle rigid,
Let your wings loose, Air will give you the flight." Eren followed her every word, but doing so was not easy. He was told to relax his muscles but they remained stiff with instinctual fear.
It took several minutes for him to finally relax, And that was the breaking point. Just as Eren gave up control over his body, his body swayed in air and the reason was those wings. Air pressure on wide wings shook him and his muscles again contracted but now he knew better, especially since this was similar to swimming.
He needed to loose control to gain the control, Eren felf air slowly flowing in all direction and his whole body so light that it was ready to flew away.
Eren followed that feeling and slowly flapped his wings, simultaneously and symmetrically as his feets slowly rose from the ground beneath. Eren flew above, rest was just trial and error. Eren rose up high with slow acceleration but he still needed to move around freely, atleast within the freedom wings provided and that's why he had much trouble with flight. It wasn't easy to instantly fly fast or to stop abruptly or to take turn swiftly. He needed much more practice and just as Natalie said, Experience to make that skill instinctive.
Eren had realised how wing muscles worked and how he could handle that, to use upper wings to get erate power and using lower pair to take turn but he still needed further experience to maneuver swiftly but right now wasn't a great time and with that thought, He swiftly landed and his wings vanished just as he wished.
" That's great for first timer."
" we don't have time for compliments, Let's take off right away."
Natalie had an inkling of why he was suddenly in a rush. Above on the air, he must have seen around. Eren could hear the distant rumbles, feel the strong winds of their clash from miles away and that wasn't a good thing.
Forest was like an inescapable spider web and Here now he learned another thing, While all monsters did progress physically with each level up, their characteristics were different. Giant monsters presented strength and comparatively smaller presented agility.
And he could see very few giant monster heads poking out of green lush.
As much as that was a good news, it was bad because, Agility or strength both were death to eren and Natalie. Eren hoped the greater strength and physical might would win, It will give him more time to get away and from the sound of it. He wasn't so lucky.
But they weren't that late anyway.
Natalie transformed, her 5 meter tall dragonic figure shined with amythest glowed in sunlight, especially her golden horns.
But neither eren nor Natalie had time for inspection and evaluation.
Natalie lowered her giant head, Eren carefully mounted the dragonic head and held her horns dearly while ava and eva snuggled to his stomach . He had past experience of this amazingly fast and near deadly rides, he felt scared but death was more scary.
Natalie didn't share his fear, instead she felt exhilirated with excitement. She held her head high, Forelimbs flexed, ready to jump in air and with giant leap she was swimming in fresh and turbulent winds.
Controlling wings with maximum power, she shot upward and moved swiftly as she cut sharp winds.
Eren faced brunt of strong wind pushing on his face, so he snuggled his body tighly to dragonic head after glancing one last time a the scenery below.
His Mansion, garden, Waterfall, memories of him and Alena here, And surrounding green lush that soon became blur as he drifted far.
Details became blur, his home seemed far and small, Forest looked beautiful but he knew what horrors it hid and with that he turned his eyes.
Natalie's dragon wings powerfully lifted themselves up and up, Increased power and speed with each flap.
They were flying far.