Sorceress

I stopped for a moment as I eyed the arrow.

Turning my head to look at the person that had aided us by killing that monster made my heart jump.

It was Yuya and Saya.

The dragon had already launched itself at the nearest Ogre taking it down with a loud screech. A stunning psychic attack.

Carrying Sakura I jumped again to avoid a large berserker two-handed sword that this monster held with only one hand swing it like it weighed nothing.

Soon Yuya melodies reached me and Sakura healing us slowly and making are bodies lighter as well as stronger.

Before I used to scoff at people that used bards and other healing party members but with the general training, I knew that the healer wasn"t the weakness party member.

No, they actually were the strongest.

They can oversee the entire battlefield heal their teammates. Come up with counter strategies.

And above all, they could not allow themselves to fall or fail. They actually had the most pressure.

If they failed their party member would die If they were to fall their party member would also die. They did not have an option. Failure wasn"t an option it never was.

Placing sakura down she took a fighting stance her sword ready.

We launched forward at the same time are intense training allowed us to know what the other would do mirroring ourselves easily as if an invisible connection was made.

With the support of Saya"s magical arrows and Yuya"s bardic magic, we made short work of the remaining ogres.

The last one had been beheaded by the Physic dragon of Speranza. I hoped that they knew where she was. My last order had been to watch over her.

I couldn"t fail the general.

I knew he was likely dead, but deep down I knew he wasn"t. He would not have jumped in if he had no counter plans. We just needed to wait for him to reach us back.

I might not be a wizard nor a sorcerer, but a teleportation doesn"t just go a wire on its own. Someone had tried to kill us all.

They had failed, someone else at the last minute had poured his magic from the outside to stabilize it enough for us to port mostly unscratched.

Somehow that magic felt familiar but different.

Walking to the monsters I took my dagger and rammed inside to remove the monsters cores. The money would be needed and cores where good money.

Taking the fangs as proof of killing those ogres, I looked at Sakura as she did the same with the other ogres silently.

While we did, Yuya and Saya started to bicker again over nothing.

Sigh, I looked up at the sky. Why was I stuck with those two? They were like teenage girls always bickering.

"Common let"s go". I said in a death-pan voice. Sooner we found Speranza and the others the better it would be. A draft of smell came carried by the wind we all could smell it.

While we couldn"t make out the smell the Dragonling nearly went crazy as he screamed in are head She was near.

***

Standing atop a high mountain a man covered by a black cloak smiled sadly. He had used magic on them allowing them to enhance their senses for a few fleeting moments.

The wind had carried the smell of his lover yet he could not go near her and his newborn son.

Not with this appearance.

He could never go back. He had become a demon, a true demon for the living.

He knew someone had tried to kill his wife during the teleportation, but someone else had saved her at the last moment.

He did not know who had it had been, but the magic signature was very similar to the one of his wife.

Giving the group one last glance he turned walking into the void disappearing from the mountaintop.

Bast lifted his eyes as he had felt a gaze on themselves narrowly missing the form that had just left.

"Bast what you doing let"s go" Sakura spoke to him to snap him out of the trance he had entered as he was sure someone had observed them, shrugging off the feeling he walked at the tail of the group.

they made their way to a small village and from the hilltop, they saw the white wyvern they knew that they had found their comrades and hastened to make their way to them.