A man in a sleek black suit started rummaging through his bag and pulled out a clicker. He stood up and looked around for something or someone, yet there was nothing nor no one.
"Laviaka! Come here or I'll shock you again," he called out in a concise professional manner.
He suddenly saw a flash of silver running through some trees one second, then the next some cyan eyes were directly in his face.
"What is it sir?" She asked taking a step back and stood with her back straight.
"His last location was Coatl, so I have full confidence that he went there. I already got the clearance to go down, so there's no need to worry."
"What about the woman we captured?"
"She's refusing to say anything, but we only need her as a hostage, so we don't need her to say anything."
She nodded and went away. He pressed thr clicker and she instantly came back with fear in her eyes, the rest of her expression blank.
"I require a ride remember? I can't keep up with a dragon of such a high caliber like yourself," he said mounting her back.
She struggled to hold him up for a moment but quickly adjusted and went on her marry way.
"How come you're going slower than usual? Do you need a little shock to motivate you?"
She apologized and went faster. She felt her legs cramping up and her blood pumping in her head, but she could tolerate this pain better than any shock, after all, she was used to it by now.
"How come we're not flying? That'd be much faster."
She put all of her strength into leaping high into the sky, but tripped on a tree root and fell.
The man fell over her and pressed the button sending a powerful shock through her entire body.
She started bolting all over, trying to rip the shock colar off of her neck and cut off the electric cuffs with the sharp, knife-like tip of her tail. Yet none of it worked and the shock just got stronger until she went slightly limp.
"That's your punishment for being such a bad girl. We'll take a break so you can recover, but if you fail at serving me again, the next shock will kill you."
She slowly crawled up to a tree and rested against it. Tears rolled down her eyes from the pain, yet her face showed no expression.
"Well since we have to pass the time and you can't go against me," he walked up to her and took off his vest.
He kissed her deeply and opened her legs slightly. She just sat there, her expression unchanging.
***
The hallway was extremely long. They had already been walking down it for two hours. Illupio's legs had recovered from the landing and he was giving Shalma a piggyback ride because her legs were tired.
Shalma sighed and placed her head on Illupio's shoulder, "I thought he said that this route was easier. If this is the easier route how long is the normal one?"
Illusion glanced at her and looked ahead again, "I mean, we haven't run into any into any flesh eating slime. You did say they were down the other route, so I'd say this is a pretty good start."
After a couple more minutes they reached a large doorway. They slowly pushed it open, just to find themselves face to face with a huge monster.
The monster lacked eyes, it was like a large ball that had a mouth going right down the middle, a long fleshy tail trailing behind it, and large bat-like wings that you could see inside of.
It screeched as they opened the door and instantly turned to them. Illupio instantly grabbed Shalma and jumped out of the way as it crashed into the ground were they had been standing.
He set her down behind some pillars and turned back to the creature, "Don't worry, I've got this in the bag."
He instantly closed the distance between him and the monster and struck it hard sending it flying back into the air.
With a single flap of it's wings it stopped itself and screeched again before flying into him. He narrowly caught the things jaws in his hands, but now they were at a stand off.
Then he got struck in the side of its tail whipping around and sent him flying into the wall. It screeched again, and turned towards Shalma's hiding spot.
Illupio quickly recovered and struck it back into the ground, "I'm you're target! Not her!"
Shalma took a peak at what wad happening and frowned. Illupio was already in pretty bad shape. Not to mention he was a false-dragon, so he was tougher than most Heroes of the Dungeon.
She started to look around trying to find something she could help him with. There was nothing in her bag, but there was a small little shrine erected within the wall.
She took a glance behind her and saw both of them flying into a wall together. Using this chance, she made a run for the shrine.
She stepped into it and saw an ethereal looking book with a pen on a pedestal inside. She rushed towards it and picked both items up.
Flipping through the pages, she didn't find anything within the book, just some instructions in the front page:
"Draw whichever monster you'd like to summon within the book, then come across it and open the book to the page you threw it on. Then hope it consumed the monster, or be consumed."
She sighed and turned back to the fight while un-caping the pen, then she started trying to draw the creature in the best detail that she could.
By the time she was done, she felt like it looked like a blob but shrugged it off and ran head first towards the hungry mouth.
Illupio looked at her as he held it in place by the mouth and called out, "No! Go away it's too dangerous!"
She held the open page up to the thing and closed her eyes, hoping that it'd work. The ink on the page started glowing a dark galactic blue. The pages stretched and the ink moved around with life before consuming the thing and going back to normal. Not a single trace of the creature besides the damage it caused left behind.
Shalma sighed in relief and closed the book before her legs gave out on her.
Illupio quickly ran towards her and kneeled down, "Are you okay? Can you move? What? No either way, you seem tired I'll give you a piggyback ride the rest of the way. Are you okay though?"
Shalma smiled as Illupio brought over her backpack, "Yeah I'll be fine."