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A Sudden Draconic Effect

"Hey, man, we're here. The outskirts of Erizce Street. Are you sure about this, Fritz?"

"I...I'm sure. We're going...left..."

"It's a real word, Hector. This place's like a stronghold to me."

Erizce Street was, in every kind of perspective, a war-torn-like place. No buildings had a good condition, let alone the streets. The place, unlike most of Milsteir, was dark and only Juagar's car gave them the lighting. The street sign was half destroyed, and there's graffiti on the wall with white paint saying 'Go in at your own risk'. No draconians were present at the street despite of the start of the day.

"The place is...deserted. Are you sure this is the real place, Hector?"

"Go to...left after...first intersection..."

Ignoring everything, they moved toward the left. Nothing happened while Hector gave instruction to the point they were heading.

After a little turning (with the passengers' awareness toward the impending attacks) and driving, they reached a derelict clinic-like building with banner saying 'Erizce Street Citizen Treatment Center' torn apart and showered with bullets in the past. The place itself was unrecognizable as a building. The only indication it was a clinic was from the Red Cross logo on the top of the building.

"Something doesn't feel right at this place," said Juagar. "It's like full of deaths..."

"This is a clinic!" exclaimed an unknown voice. "If there are deaths, it's fine!"

This voice made both of the able draconians pointed their weapons, but Richard falsely used his sword, and quickly unsheathed it.

"Herschel, I need to go in! Open...the door!"

"Hector? Wait, your voice's strained! I'll open the door, just wait!"

After a while waiting, nothing happened. It was like a hoax to both of them, and Richard felt he needed to sit. He didn't believe Juagar's word about a gang-ridden street. The street was like deserted with no lives, no sounds, no...

A rustling sound made Richard reacted quickly and throwing his sword toward the point. It stabbed the wall, but hit nothing. A split second later, Richard heard a loud echoing gunshot and he strangely felt the vibration and the direction of the bullet toward him. With weird reflex he caught the bullet right before it grazed him, but couldn't force it into a full stop since his claws were too sharp, making the bullet unrecognizable.

"Sniper! Get your head down, Richard! Find a...cover? I...is that a bullet?!"

"Wait, I can tell you something! The sniper is at the end of this street. I feel the air vibration just now and the bullet came from there!"

"What are you, a super-draconian?!"

"Just...shoot!"

Another gunshot noise and this time the bullet was caught quicker than expected from Richard's gun, which exploded upon contact. He himself had no effect on it, and he ran toward the place he threw his sword to.

"Next time...if you want to throw me, find a live target, not a wall."

"Yeah, I'm sorry, okay?"

"Also, if you can get the hang on my bow mode, maybe you'll get the edge on both short and long-ranged combat, okay?"

"You still have another mode?!"

"Well, just slash the air. There are some bullets coming right at..."

Before Engrak could finish, Richard sensed them first and cut the oncoming bullets just like how he did that in the first encounter with hostiles in this world. Richard himself was also surprised with his new-found reflexes and senses. Something was changing in him, and it was obvious.

When Richard ran toward the car, he suddenly got a painful headache that made him trip. He tried to recover, but it was too hard for him to bear, forcing him to shout.

But no shout was heard from him. He wasn't shouting in all of his might. He was roaring in agony.

Juagar was suddenly scared from the animalistic roar coming out from Richard. It was like he wasn't a draconian...no, he wasn't a draconian from even the start.

"Ouch, my head! Ahh, help!!! I need an aspirin!"

"Richard, that headache doesn't need any aspirin. Besides, you can't have any effect on weak drugs, right?"

"Oh, yeah...ouch, shit, but it hurts! Vidrena Ga! What?"

"The curse is still working?! B...but I thought..."

"What...Gonover sia notojo frie (what is happening to me)?!"

"The treasure's curse is still working on you, that's what happening! Your great reading on the air vibration changes, your over-the-top reflexes, and your sudden knowledge with draconic language all contribute to the point where you'll be a dragon one day! This curse is taking your mind and your body rapidly!"

"T...then what should I do?!"

"The headache indicated that this is not a permanent effect. It's called sudden draconic effect and in a relatively short time, you'll be a full dragon mentally, and it will get worse every time you're into this mode. If it happens too many times, you'll be a dragon physically and mentally."

"If this happened in our world, I think it's..."

"No, it's not. The dragon's treasure is the most dangerous treasure ever to be found by any mortals. My friends...when I was young, of course...guarded their treasure with their lives, and they died. The respective treasure was taken, but then something happened to the hunters.

"They?"

"They turned into a savage dragon, dragon acting like an animal with no intellect, and having food, destruction, and lust in their mind, forcing most of us to kill them."

"Wait a sec...lust?! You mean I...I'm gonna be a sex-crazed dragon with too many fucking mates and STDs?!"

"Well, dragons can't get STDs, okay? That's draconian's term...and you're a half-dragon. For now, maybe you can't communicate with them, but try not to piss yourself off."

"It's hard, you idiot! Got farmases xii ko (there's a sniper)!"

"Don't engage them!"

"Then we're good as dead, then!"

"I'll try to tell Juagar what's happening to you. But please don't make anything even worse. Juagar said this is a crime-ridden street, and someone can convince them to stop."

"Y...yeah, just do that!"

Juagar suddenly heard Engrak's voice inside his head, telling him to talk slowly with the doctor (Engrak suspected the doctor wasn't convinced by Hector's voice), since Hector became unconscious again and in the verge of death.

But Juagar said, "The clinic is jammed shut! You think you can destroy the sealed entrance with ease?"

Suddenly, Richard's eyes glared toward the wall, and he used Engrak and roared, causing a powerful electricity to destroy the wall. This in turn made Juagar scared and he fell to the floor.

"At...at least that's the best thing I can do to get in," said Richard, which fell into growls when heard by Juagar.

"He said that's the entrance...," said Engrak as his translator. "Take Hector Fritz inside, but be careful if there's..."

Sudden shotgun blast from one of the buildings made them ready to fight and took the worst of the risk they had done for a friend. Juagar readied his crossbow to shot toward the sniper (he claimed the crossbow was like a sniper). But before the dark green draconian could find his target, Richard held his crossbow and said "No, you idiot!"

"Why, Richard! This is not going to end if we not..."

"Just stop your fucking fires, all of you! We're not in a midst of war!"

Silence took them suddenly, and for a while, Juagar thought Richard was delusional about his war experience in his world, until some draconians with many scale colors carrying guns went out of the buildings and surrounded them, putting them at bay with their weapons, melee or ranged.

"I think we can find an understanding around..."

"You're not gonna find any understanding...between us and the Union Guard!"

"So what? I don't care any fucking misunderstanding or any fucking kills! All I want to know is that you all, for god's sake, should have known that we're just trying to find a fucking doctor, not in a war!"

"If you all can give us any food and any kind of acceptable living standards, we'll stop this mess and..."

"You all just fiends!" said Juagar in disgust. "We're not gonna..."

Richard suddenly glared to him, revealing the now shining yellow dragon eyes to him, to which Juagar suddenly cowered in fear only because of eye contact. He felt he was lost to any kind of intimidation, and to know that the draconian he knew as a friend in front of him was a part beast which was trying to hold on to his own draconic nature before it broke away into a savage beast.

Juagar gulped, and stopped trying to argue with the residents of the criminal-ridden street...although the whole town was criminal-ridden from the start.

"You're testing my patience here, people," said Richard, which started to sound like a loud growl. "Come out or I'll crush your heads and make them my vriesdesk (main dish)!"

Silence came to them, and suddenly another gunshot was heard, with Richard managed to slice the bullet in half. The sudden draconic effect made him able to see the sniper, and he smiled in a sadistic way and Juagar saw his claws started to became sharper and longer. Thinking of a bad situation, the dark green draconian took Hector and ran inside the clinic, hoping Richard to be stopped by the criminals before he wrecked havoc, since now Juagar was convinced he became a beast.

"Hey, anybody inside?! I need to find a doctor! This guy's bleeding hard, man, c'mon!"

"I can help you if you can just remove some of the rubbles...ouch, what was that?"

Juagar could saw a clawed hand sprouting out from some rubble made from the alternative door Richard made earlier. Juagar helped to pull out the doctor, which was a sky blue draconian.

"Wow...that blast could have dislocated my joints, and damaging my cerebral system. Hey, thanks for saving me."

"You're welcome. Anyway, Fritz got some wounds to tend to. Can you help me, uh..."

"I'm Herschel. Herschel Von Dera. You can call me Chel if you want to, but don't get too friendly on me. I've...an issue to deal with those gangs outside."

"Oh, you mean the gangs going to be slaughtered by...holy fucking crap! What the hell had that fucking dragon done to my car?!"

What Juagar saw now wasn't his destroyed car, but merely a vandalized car. The car wasn't even destroyed as he could imagine from Richard's rage, but instead it was like being robbed, from tires to its ornament. Richard himself was present, but he was unconscious, with some draconians around him.

"Damn it, what is that dragon doing?! I thought he was slaughtering them all!"

"Uh, dragons are myths, okay? They're our imaginary superheroes and of course they're children's fantasies to be one. I was trying to be one, but then, it was all..."

Juagar was already running to where Richard was lying. Somehow, his sword was thrown some meters away from him, with some draconians trying to take them. The draconians around him carried short-ranged weapons like swords and its kind. They watched the beast that a second ago was preparing to slaughter them all, but dropped like dead.

Juagar rushed to him and tried to wake him up, even slapped him once, making a gash on his face, although wasn't deep enough to leave any mark. But before he could use his fire to wake the draconian up in distress, he was stopped by a sudden jerk upward by a force given by a big draconian, holding him on one hand.

"H...hi, uh...I...I'm just trying to help my friend and uh...I think I'll take my leave, huh...haha...help?"

"No help for you, mister Union Guard. Much like your pitiful beast friend here...just rot in here, like us."

"What...what do you mean?"

"We noticed that Erizce Street was abandoned only because of some case of police rape...leaving us here alone. We lived to vandalize anything...including the Milsteir."

"W...wait, you mean...we caused this?"

"Why?! You Union Guards made us like this! We are like dead meat, tossed away like we're useless! You all live in the time of happiness, while we rot here like that meat I told you before!"

"I...I think we can find any..."

"No understanding from any of you Union Guards!"

A sudden roar near them made them turned to Richard, who was limping toward Engrak. Juagar was relieved when Richard was okay, but something's strange.

He...no...not only him, but the whole draconians present, saw the war they had never seen before, and it was...horrific.