"Fuck that Plane!" I cursed as I crashed back into reality before I stared to the right. Lights. Sounds. Large.
Car.
There was the screech of tires and I scrambled to get out of the way and off the road into the forest, "FUCK THIS PLANE TOO!" I yelled back at the road.
Last day back in that fucking place we were attacked by elves! Fucking arseholes with bows and arrows! The friendliest place there was the jungle with dinosaurs and lizard people and that's likely because they didn't know we existed!
That was our scrambled escape from hundreds of the fuckers raining arrows at us!
Then we return from here and almost get hit by a motherfucking car!?
Fuck everything!
Growling, I fished Zrazta's soulstone from one of the satchels attached to my armour before sending her a small pulse of magic.
She reformed from fire and smoke, lighting up the dark of the night for a second. She stumbled, her wings spreading and she smashed through the underbrush before she growled and looked around.
"Elves?"
"Earth," I clarified and sighed, sitting down and folding my wings, "No elves. Just humans and fucking machines."
Zrazta tilted her head and twitched her head, her armour folded back as she moved up to nuzzle at the side of my helmet, "What happened?"
I grumbled and twitched my head, folding back my own helmet, "Landed on a road, almost got hit by a car."
Zrazta tilted her head and then nuzzled again, "But you are wearing the armour."
"Still a couple of tons of metal at very high speed. Would have hurt and likely destroyed the car and whomever was in there," I grumbled and sighed, shifting closed and nuzzled at her chin, "I'm starting to get tired of everything just going to shit."
She shifted up next to me as her armour folded back, flowing across her limbs back into the more traditional dragon armour, mostly just covering her back, sides and as vambraces.
"Not everything is going badly," she said and sighed and nuzzled softly, leaning against me.
Nodding, I leaned against her in turn, allowing my own armour to retract fully into the low profile form.
"This was meant to be a vacation," I grumbled, "But everywhere we turn there is trouble."
Zrazta settled her wing across my back and nuzzled, "We could just return home to Sheila and Rengosa."
I hesitated and dug my claws into the dirt.
"We didn't actually give them a time that we were to return, just that we would," Zrazta reminded me and noses along my neck, "The meaning of this was that you were to relax and not take so much on yourself."
"…Kind of bad at that," I grumbled and leaned against her.
She gave me a lick at the top of my head, "Maybe returning to Westeros would be best," before she admitted, "Sheila always was better at telling you what to do."
I grumbled and nuzzled, "…Fine. But we have a week until I can Walk again and we 'are' returning to Maliga's tribe before the end of the year."
Zrazta nodded, "Noted."
Nodding, I stretched and yawned, shifting away to spread my wings wide, digging my claws into the dirt first, "…In any case, we should likely leave from here as soon as we can. Before that woman in the car get the cops out here."
Nodding, Zrazta shifted away and disappeared into a cloud of spell smoke, returning to her mortal form before walking up and picking her satchel from one of my bags, "Portal to Lady Castles place?"
"Hmm? Which one?"
"The city-guard. Didn't know we had one at Alexis' place."
Nodding, I turned back to mortal form before pulling my phone from my satchel, "Yeah, just going to call first," I said and pressed the power button.
Nothing. No reaction.
Dead. Alexis said it wouldn't have survived Hogwarts.
I glared down at the little machine and then turned, throwing it against the closest tree, "FUCK!"
"Relax. Remember?" Zrazta said and put her head against my shoulder, "We just portal there. We can get a new communication device."
Sighing, I nodded and gave her a quick nuzzle, "…I know. Fuck it, we are going to Castle, I'm giving him every piece of gold and jewellery we have left and in return, he'll buy us a week at a luxury hotel with room service and we aren't leaving until I can Walk again."
"What's room service?"
I focused magic into the portal key stone built into my gauntlet to open the portal as I smiled a bit, "You'll see. That I promise you will like."
"Mhhm." She answered and followed me through the blue glowing portal into Richards guestroom.
"Hello?" I yelled, "Phone dead, couldn't call."
"Atreus? Is that you?" Richard Castle called back and there was the sound of footsteps up the stairs as I closed the portal.
"Yep."
He poked his head inside, "Hey," he said before he frowned, "…Is that blood?" he asked, looking at Zrazta.
I rubbed the bridge of my nose, "…Don't ask."
Richard blinked, "Okay then. Oh, one question?"
"Yeah?"
"How long does an 'Owl' take? Alexis promised she would send me one so we could send messages? That was like two weeks ago."
I just stared at him.
AN// Unbetaed due to me being a derp.
