after Mars and Victoria had eaten, Mars went over to the elvers that was still working on building the hut, they had already made the floor and was building the walls by stacking logs, Mars could saw how they first cut a logs into appropriate lengths using Alvin"s wind magic before cutting out a square piece in one end that fit with the periviuos log before going on to the next, Alvin was cutting a log when Mars walked over and stopped his work before he asked Mars with some vigilance still visible on his face"do you need anything?"
Mars gave a nod and looked over at Chloe that was closing the ends of the logs by burning them with a weak flame
"can i borrow Chloe for a bit?, i want her to teach me some fire spells"
Mars had thought a lot about this like "was there even a need to learn fire magic spells?" but eventually decided that there was no harm in learning some spells, the only thing he doubted was if Chloe would even borther teach him
"...sure, hey Chloe come over here"
Alvin agreed without much thought and called over Chloe, after she walked over and saw Mars a frown appeared on her pretty face
"...what?"
Alvin gave a sigh as he saw her displeasure with Mars"s perence but still asked her in place of Mars
"Mars want to learn some fire spells, so teach him for a bit"
Chloe fist gave a look of disbelief before she clenched her fist with rage as her face turned furious as she looked at Alvin in silence for some time before she looked down and asked
"...is that an order?"
Alvin remained silent before he gave a nod as he affirmed
"yes, you can take it as a order"
Chloe looked away as her fist tightened even more as her face turned red from furry and she manged to give Alvin a look of disbelief before she looked at Mars
"...you, follow me"
Alvin gave another sigh as he watched the two of them walk away before he mumbled
"please don"t p.i.s.s him off"
Mars followed after Chloe as they walked over to the other end of the clearing while wondering what he should do to get her to teach him, or in the first place look at him without all the hate and anger viable in her eyes, Chloe stooped walking as they had reached the opposite ending of the clearing and asked Mars without turning around
"...your not human right?"
Mars was a little puzzled over her sudden question but still answered without much thought
"no i"m not"
Chloe still stood with her back turned to Mars and her fist chleched tightly shut and after a few seconds of silence she asked him again with hate and disgust in her voice
"then why do you have to look like one?"
Mars became even more puzzled and remained silent for a few minutes before Chloe spoke again with her back still turned
"...if you want me to teach you, then don"t look like a disgusting human"
it suddenly clicked for Mars, Chloe was the youngest member of the patrol team so the Mother town ma.s.sacre must still be pretty fresh in her mind, she might even have lost some of her family to the humans no wounder she hated them so much, Mars closed his eyes and focused his transformation, and after a few seconds 2 pale bone horns rapidly grew out of his forehead, stopping when they where about 15 centimeters long and curved a little opwereds
"...is this better?"
Chloe turned around and saw his horns causing the hate in her eyes to lessen somewhat and opened her mouth to speak right as Mars opened his eyes causing her to stop as she looked into his vertical slit red pupais, instantly sending a chill up her spine causing her face to slightly pale before she pulled herself together and spoke while averting her eyes from his
"yeah that"s a little better..."
Mars having transformed had his senses heightened so he could sense her fear, from his ears picking up her heartbeat to his eyes and nose picking up tiny beads of sweat forming on her slightly pale face, but he pretended not to notice and asked her
"then what"s first?"
"first...?"
Chloe looked back at Mars, briefly at his eyes before she lowered her gaze slightly, she looked slightly puzzled, causing Mars to give a sigh as he ma.s.saged his temple as he deiced to teas her a little
"you are here to teach me fire spells, not to gaze at my handsome face"
"...handsome?"
Chloe was still a little stunned by fear and didn"t understand what Mars said, but after a moment her face flushed with equal shame and anger, before she angrily yelled out
"who"s handsome! you shameless half human!!!"
Mars gave a smile and deiced to press a little more
"then why where you giving me such a pa.s.sionate look?"
Chloe"s blush turned even more red, even spreading all the way to her long ears and was about to yell at him again before she gave a huff and turned away reaming silent causing Mars"s teasing smile to widen as he gave a slight bow
"then please tell me what"s first, oh esteemed fire magic teacher"
Chloe turned even more red in the face and was about to blow up, but a teasing smile equaling Mars"s soon showed on her face as she excitedly yelled while pointing at his face
"that"s right i"m your teacher so you better show some respect!"
Mars discovered his mistake and was about to speak up when Chloe yelled at him aging
"where"s your answer, dear student!?"
Mars became slightly overwhelmed at her shouting and saw a strong glint in her eyes as it clicked for him "s.h.i.+t she"s a hard S" and tried to calm her down
"Chloe ple--"
"not Chloe i"m your teacher, TEACHER!"
Mars looked at her flushed face with disbelief, as her face was now devoid of fear completely, now showing 2 parts shame, 8 parts pleasure from s.a.d.i.s.tic domination and gave a sigh "well if it motivates her to teach me..." before he bowed down and lowered his head
"teacher please bestow me your wisdom!"
"very good, now first is---"
what followed was 2 hours of Chloe yelling at him with an exited look on her face as her eyes practically glowed with happiness
"come on now focus your mana!"
"no not like that, how stupid are you!"
"how meany times do i have to show you, you stupid student!"
Mars only manged to remain subservient doing the lecture by self hypnotizing himself by repeating "for science, for growing stronger" in his head and manged to struggle though, even learning some basic spells, showing him for the fist time the advantage of using spells as he succeed in using the spell fire arrow, witch was a lot like how he had been using his [Dragon flame magic] by forming arrows of fire, then shooting them at a target
"this is more then double the fire power even the speed is increased somewhat, the only drawback is the casting time is increased"
as Mars was marveling at the power of spells Chloe had finely calmed down and was regretting her outburst and deiced to stealthily leave Mars alone as she ran back to the other elvers with her face and long ears blushed red
"what"s next teacher...?"
Mars turned around and only saw Chloe"s back as she ran away and gave a sigh before he sat down on a tree stump as his half dragon transformation slowly undid it self while he wondered out loud
"maybe i can get her to teach me again some time?"
as Mars sat in thought Chloe had returned to the other elvers that all looked at her with warm kind eyes causing her face to turn even more red with shame
Mars still sat in thought as he digested the things he had learned when Victoria showed up beside him and rubbed her ace on his arm while her horns flashed
"Mars... finished playing?... i"m hungry"
Mars snapped out of his train of thought and gave Victoria some head pats before he asked her a question
"do you want to play with Chloe some time?"
Victoria looked over at the elvers as her horns flashed again
"i do... she"s fun... to play with"
Mars gave a wide smile as he petted Victoria on the head
"then let"s play with her sometime soon"
"okay... but let"s eat... now"
Mars gave a nod and stood up and thought with a slightly teasing smile on his face "a little payback is fine right" while both of them walked back to the cave