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He went to Athrea's place looking for help, but hen he arived, she already had one of the new posters in her hand.
Remaining crest-fallen, he waited for the scolding, but that didnt happened.

-Again from the start,... what the hell happened? -she was staring seriously while asking that.

He told her everything that he was able to remember until he fell unconscious and after he woke up after that.

-What can I do?...
-I dont know... hidding is not an option, since they're looking for you all ofer the continent from here to Elmore. And turning yourself in isnt an option neither, they may try to use you as some kind of weapon or just kill you for good.
-And what if I stay here?
-Imposible, they'll look for you even around here. How do you think I got this? -showing the poster.
-Can you at least help me with this?... -giving her his backpack with the few potions he had left
-Ok, lower your head a little.

Drinking the potion -he couldnt get used to the taste yet- came back to his human form after the same process he went through several times already; he'll never get used, and he was always too weak after doing that.
This time was way too tired, not just because of the transformation, but for the trip too. Waking the next day he found the witch reading some books.

-What... are you doing?
-Searching for something that could help you.
-Did you find anything?
-Nothing yet... this may take some days...
-Dammit! -he said punching the floor.
-easy there, we'll find a solution.
-And what if they find me before that?
-They wont...

Still crestfallen, he took some things in his backpack.

-Where are you going?
-I need to see somebody... I'll be back in a few days
-Who?
-My parents...

He left towards the Ivory Tower, looking for the small graveyard where they buried his parents. It felt like an eternity since the last time he was there.

In low voice, he lamented, and told them part of his life and cryed in silence.
Digging a little next to his dad's tombstone, he buried the dagger whispering part of a song.



Taking a last look at the place, he went back to the witch's house. All that happened just left him in a depresive state... he never had too much to live for anyway.

The night was falling when he reached her house.

-Did you found a way to make me invisible or kill me? -he ask without spirit
-Kill you?! -she look at him and his state- Come on, raise that spirit, dont tell me you want to just give up now.
-What's the point anyway? I dont have anything worth living for in this world... -whispers
-Not even me? The one who took good care of you after... that happened?...
-No, I didnt meant tha---
-I found something... -she interrupted
-Hmm... what could that be?
-The thing is...
-Yeah?
-I was thinking... and I realized... this world is not ready for you, and you're not ready for him neither.
-What do you mean?
-Even if you hide, they'l eventually find you or keep looking for you, after what happened; you cant leave your life running, and I doubt you'll want that life. But if they eventually stop looking for you, it could happend to you again... humans can be such an irritating creatures.
-I know that very well...

Closing her eyes, trying to clear her thoughs, keep wondering if what she found would work, or evenworth it.

-What did you found?
-Well...
-Come on, just tell me already.
-It's an ancient spell
-What is what it does?
-It's the ancient spell they used... -she swallowed some saliva before she finish the phrase- ...to seal the land dragon Antharas when he tried to destroy all Aden.
-What?!! -he ask astonished
-Yeah, but it was used only that once, and the writings are not very clear, I have some problems translating them.
-I still dont understand how can that help me.
-Well I think It could put you in a state like that one of Antharas
-Huge and mean?
-Em, no... sleeping, like.. hibernating or something like that.
-And I'll be sleeping for a long time? Because you know I can do that already, and you always scold me for that... and now you want to make me sleep with a spell?
-Shut up because I'm not finished yet!, and no, it would make you sleep for more time... I mean months, even years, and thats something you cant do, even when you sleept for over a day and a half a couple of times.
-Heh... ahem... emm... >.> -traying to play fool about that- but I still dont understand wh---
-We could hide you like that very easily.
-How?
-Simple, we bury you someplay safe.
-You'll biry me?! -worried
-Yes, nobody would look for you underground, right?
-Well no, but...
-Relax, you'll be safe.
-But... what if I eventually wake up underground and I try to leave, I'll die sofocated.
-Already though of that, and we wont bury you too deep, so you could come out easily.

Drenix wa getting less and less about that idea, and just more questions came out on his mind, but he asked just one more question... inside of him, he was ok with that plan.

-If you bury me... what would keep my body from age, or even decompose like if i were dead?

grabing his face with a hand, she moved his face from one side to the other, examining him.

-I doubt you'll age more than this -she said- at least... in your human form.
-How are you so sure?
-Im not, but, you're a dragon, despite of your human, remember what you are. and the dragons are immortal, and I have faith that even when your appearance, strengs and weakness are now humans, I think you still keep some things of... your other form.

In part, that was true. He remember the times he hurt himself, or made any wound, he remember how they healed... faster than anything he though it may take.

-But what would keep me unharmed, or keep the worms from eat me from the inside? You still havent answered that question.
-This... -uncovering a huge box, that was behind a blanket.

It had the shape of a rectangle, more like a coffin, all made of some transparent allow, that looks like a crystal.

-And where did you get that?
-I bough it to some necromancers of the Hardin academy, is what they use to keep the bodies they use to study, they want to find the secrets to reanimate and control the deads, acording to what they said, these box were created with some strange material they got from the Giant's cave. With this, the necromancers ensure that nothing happend tothe bodies they use, and with some luck, it may keep you safe too.
-With some luck?... what the hell, in doesnt matter, let's do it...
-But...
-Hm?
-It this works... I wont be able to wake you up,... in fact, I dont know if you'll ever wake up again someday...
-It's ok... doesnt matter, just do what you have to.

The witch nods in silence, and started to get the ingredients she require, and mix them on the pot she always use.
Drenix climbed the tree to the top, and stare at the sky. He tried not to think, but he cant. He was there for a while, until he fell asleep.
A while later he woke up with Athrea's calling.

-It's all ready but...
-But what?
-I cant move this alone -touching the coffin
-Leave that to me -he said taking one of the pills.

He quickly turned into a Dragon, after a moment, readapting to his form, he got closer.

-At least you know where to hide that? -asks Athrea
-I though you'll think about that.
-No
-Well... -closing his eyes- ...what about next to... my house?
-As you wish.

They went to his house. Drenix never came back after that incident. Leaving the coffin aside, and with ease, he started to dig in the ground with his claws a grave. He didnt made it too deep, thinking about the time he had to come out,... if he ever does.
After that, they checked if the coffin fits and left it there, open. He drank the potion one last time, returning to his human shape, and dressed with the few clothes Athrea had for him -it wasnt unusual that he end up reaping his clothes when he grow into a dragon- and look at the sny one more time.
Athrea gave him a vial. Drenix, without any question, drank the full bottle and grab his chest, like if something had hit him there.
He looks at the witch trying to ask about what he just drank, and what was going on, but then he just remember he already agreed with all that, and said nothing.
With great difficulty, he got into the coffin, while the potion do whatever it have to do. While getting in, he heard Athrea casting the spell, in a languaje he could not understand.
El closed his eyes a second after the witch close the coffin, and started to cover the grave.
The liquid made him fall asleep and he did not open his eyes anymore.

-I hope that when you wake up, you'll find a world where it worth living for you, my child... -the witch whisper, before she start walk back to her house.

Epilogue

The time passing by, finished covering the place where Drenix was buried, and the time covered what he had done. The days went by and became months, then years...
What happened in the place now known as Ruins of Agony was going from mouth to mouth, until it just became an old story to scare the bad kids.
The world was changing while he became into a memory from the ancestors.
Another dragon was sealed and sleeping...





...waiting for the day he have to wake up...