Oghenevwogaga

Chapter 48.6- Doom Days

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By the time we reached the last straight of the last lap, Vhagar was a mere two lengths behind us. We’d pushed more and more in the time since, managing to accelerate for brief periods to keep our lead as much as we could, but all that had managed was allowing us to avoid being overtaken. Except that it seemed that Laena’s strategy had also included a last minute push. The giant dragon behind us was still accelerating while we had nothing but fumes left in the tank.

‘They’re going to beat us’. I sent the thought to Igneel through our bond, but even through it, I could feel just how tired he was, physically and mentally.

‘Help me, brother’, he sent back. Okay, that was wrong. It was not that he sent the words back as he spoke neither English nor Valyrian but he sent the intention and concept back which I was able to translate into Valyrian— it was a quirk of the language, don’t question it. But still, I listened. I tried to feed him my energy through our bond, god knows I had plenty to spare right now, but it wasn’t working. It was more like the path I used to send thoughts and emotions did not want to expand to take anything else.

We felt a gust of wind near knock us off course. Vhagar had pulled up right alongside us, and to my dismay, she was clearly beginning to pull ahead.

‘How do I help you?’ I asked the dragon. Sure, we were the same age and adding my previous life, I was the older one, but he was the creature of magic here so he should have known. It turned out, he did.

I felt our bond expand from his end, and then I felt a bone deep weariness. Like I’d been sparring for two days in a row with no rest. All my muscles ached— my aches had aches. And then Igneel was off, shooting past Vhagar like a rocket to cross the invisible finish line in a matter of seconds and win us the race. I might have celebrated if I wasn’t so damn tired.