Dare To Love A Dragon - Chapter 103

“Is it ready?” Ander questioned.

“Your body is almost complete, it’s a little difficult to complete it with a little essence of you,” the demons replied.

“How can you gather the essence you need to bring back my body?”

“Well..” the demon said hesitantly.

“Spit it out,” he said to him having no patience to wait for him to gather the courage to say to him what was in his mind.

“Your mate has your dragon mark. We can channel your essence from it,” he said. “But for that we need it to be active,” he added.

“How do can that be achieved?”

“The mark glows in reaction to your closeness to him. The closer you are the stronger the reaction,” he stated reaching out to the table and picking up a pendant. “You can use this to gather the essence,” he added handing the pendant over to Ander.

“Looks like I was right not to kill him after all,” he whispered.

Taking the pendant with him he paid one more visit to Amaru before flying back to the school. He arrived during dinner time and entered his room through the window.

Hopefully, Avan was not around, it would have been a mess if the boy were to see in his true form. He changed out of his clothes and strode out of the room to go to find his friends and go for dinner.

Avan and Ella were already in the dining hall in their usual seat. He got in line to get his food to join them.

When he had his food in his hand he walked over to them. The pendant hidden in his pocket, he was yet to think of a way to give it to the male and make wear it.

“Where have you been?” Ella questioned when he sat down. “I looked everywhere for you,” she added.

“Did you check the lake, I went for a walk,” I said trying my luck.

“Didn’t think that far,” she said. “So, we are thinking of finding the person who is after the royal family. Whoever it is, he or she is getting bold. They got so close with Sofia,” she said.

“I have you to thank for that,” Avan told to him.

“It will be easier if you can find a way to negotiate with him or her. Everyone has wishes that might be greater than the one they are pursuing. Perhaps you can find something that the person wants more than killing the royal family,” Ander said putting the idea in his head. With this in mind, it will be easy to get him to wear the pendant so he could start collecting the essence he needs to get his body back.

He cursed the family for burning his body to ashes before he had the chance of retrieving it. Now he had so much work to do to get out of the annoying faceless body.

“That could work but how do we get in touch with the person?”

“You could ask Annak. The last time, she seemed to know more about the attacker than she lets on,” Ander said. “From what I could tell, she knew the person attacking Sofia,” he added.

Avan and Ella listened to him attentively. They were very interested in what he had to say. It was true that Annak acted weird every time the talk of the attacker came on.

“And if you know the name of the person contacting them would be easier,” Ander claimed. “Magic can do the rest and I know just the spell,” he added sternly.

His words gave confidence and hope to Avan and Ella. They had their food and continued with some small talk.

After dinner, they all went out to look for Annak to confront her about the identity of the attacker that wants them dead.

“Since they are revenging Ander’s death, do you think that they knew Ander or maybe Ander asked them to do this if anything happens to him,” Ella let out?

“Ander himself may be responsible for all the attacks,” Ander asserted into the conversation.

Avan and Ella halted in their steps. They eyed each other and turned their gaze to Ander.

“What? It is possible,” Ander added and shrugged his shoulders. It felt ironic to him to speak of himself as a stranger but he did tell them the truth it was him who was trying to get them all killed. But it was more important to get his body back than to get his revenge. He can always proceed to kill them later in life.

“True,” Ella said having Avan glare at him. “Glare all you want but the truth won’t change, if it isn’t him then why has he not come back to us?” she asked him.

Avan wanted to defend Ander and sheak up for him but he found himself short of words. He too had considered the possibility of the attacker being Ander. He just didn’t want to believe that it was true that he could be capable of hurting his mother who loved him so much.

“I just do thinks it’s him. If it were him then he would have started with the king or Francis as revenge. But why Sofia?” he asked trying to convince himself that Ander was responsible for everything.

“You have a point, the dragon did hate the king the most in the world,” she stated confidently.

Ander listened to them, he was not bothered by what they were saying about him. He had learned to stop caring a long time ago. Right now he had more things more important than being an emotional train wreck.

They arrived at the garden where Annak was helping a few grade students with a light spell. She was teaching them how to create light in the night.

“We should wait for her to finish,” Avan suggested to them. They stood aside and waited for her, she noticed them and ended the class.

She strode over to them with her lips curling up into a smile. She greeted them and asked them what they needed from her.

“We need to ask you a few questions,” Avan started.

“And we would appreciate honest answers from you,” Elsa added to her.

“What questions do you have for me?” Annak asked sensing their tension.

“Who is attacking us?” Avan asked getting straight to the point. He was tired of the guessing game and needed an honest answer from him. It was important for him to know as it would tell him if it was Ander or not. His heart needed to know that Ander was not that bad.

“I don’t kno…”

“The truth Annak,” Ella said interrupting her from completing her sentence. “We are in danger and it is our right to know who it is that we are fighting.”

“How are we supposed to fight an enemy that we don’t know?” she asked her. Annak sighed hearing her, she found it hard to say no to them when they were being so persuasive.

“The faceless god, he is the one after your lives,” she said to them. “He is very dangerous and can’t be killed easily,” she added.

Avan and Ella were confused. They had never had of the man in question or what his motive might be. Why would such a man be after their life if he was a god, it’s not like they had done something that could offend that a god to want to kill them.

“Why does he want is dead?”

“The faceless god needs no reason to do anything. He acts of his own will does as he pleases,” she said.

“Thank you,” Ella said gratefully that she had told them about the attacker. With the spell that Ander was talking about they could get in touch with him and ask him what he wanted. They could reason with him and get him to back off attacking them.

“Let’s go,” Avan said and led them away from the garden. They walked back to the room in silence, contemplating what to do about the god that sorts out to kill them.

“Shall we start?” she asked them her eyes mainly on the silent spectator who never seems to talk when in front of others.

“Here is the spell,” Ander said handing them a phony spell. He was the one they wished to talk to so there was no need to go too far for it. He knew what his request would be and how to deliver home the news in a way that didn’t make him look suspicious. “We just have to call out his name during the spell and he will come,” he added.

They sat down on the ground and held hands creating a circle. They closed their eyes and each chanted the spell, nothing happened in the first minutes. But after a while, the lights in the room began to flicker before a shadow appeared before them in the middle of the circle.

It was as black as night and its aura was so powerful that it forced them to move back.

“Did you call?”