The dragon's harem

Chapter 799 Grandma Bevalina

The underground beavers slowly walked out of their wooden houses, staring at the burning monster corpses in awe. Some of them approached the charred monsters and started poking them with a stick, they were all dead.

”How in the timber?” One of the beavers turned toward the city skirts and could spot Tempoʼs burning flame illuminating the darkness with Arad standing beside him.

The people slowly walked toward them, both fearful and anticipating. Their chieftain has asked the surface beavers to call for help, are two strangers the help they awaited for days?

Flatail looked back and saw the beavers approaching them. He wiped the tears and snot out of his face and jumped down from Aradʼs back. ”My people, help has arrived. With me, Flatail here, no harm shall befall you.” He lifted his tiny arms and stood with his chest puffed forward. ”Iʼm here!”

One of the beavers looked at him. ”It was those two who took down the monsters, not you.”

”AHHH!” Flatail ran crying toward Arad, ”My little heart! Itʼs cracked!”

Arad sighed and lifted him up, ”Sit here.” He laid Flatail on his shoulder and walked toward the other beavers with Tempo. ”Weʼd like an explanation if thatʼs possible.” Arad looked across the street, a lot of beavers died in the attack; itʼs probably not the time for a calm decision.

”The cityʼs lord would explain the situation. Iʼll guide you to her beaverness.” A guard approached them wearing red armor and a wooden hat.

”What did he say?” Tempo still couldnʼt understand a word of what most of the common beavers say. Heʼs using the automatic translation built into his body, but that takes time to kick in and needs to be focused on one voice at a time.

”But, Iʼve never seen such magic in my life. It flew like water out of a dam, but itʼs red and hot.” The beaver guard looked at Tempo. ”Human wizardry has improved a lot.”

”Those two arenʼt humans.” Flatail said while sitting on Aradʼs shoulder.

”Their ears arenʼt long so they arenʼt elf, and they arenʼt short like dwarfs or Halfling.” The guard scratched his incisors.

”Itʼs shapeshifting magic, youʼll be surprised to know who they are.” Flatail smiled with a proud face, ”This red-haired one is a titan, and the one Iʼm sitting on is a dragon.”

The guard laughed, ”I see, I see. Now thatʼs fun…But weʼre almost at the lordʼs house, make sure to behave, sheʼs quite strict.”

”You donʼt believe me you beavering bastard!” Flatail growled as he sensed the guard mocking him and was about to jump down, but Arad managed to catch him first. ”Calm down. Letʼs go in,”

”Let me go, Iʼll rip his teeth out.” Flatail growled, but he couldnʼt escape Aradʼs grasp.

They walked into the lordʼs mansion, barely crawling inside again. But something seemed different this time, the room was much bigger, yet the lord didnʼt look that large.

A large, almost round beaver grandma wearing a large robe and a hood with two tiny glasses resting on her plump nose stared at them with a smile.

”Iʼm Bevalina…the oldest of the underground colony of beavers.” She said with a sweet and gentle voice, approaching them and leaning on her walking stick. She gently fixed her glasses and looked at Arad and Tempo.

”Oh, my... The holy timbers are blessed. What has that fat lord upstream sent us?” She smiled, ”A dragon and a Titan, he isnʼt messing around, is he?”

The guard in the back froze in place as Flatail stared at him with a smug face and ran his hand on his neck, ”Youʼre dead.” He whispered with a grin.

Arad grabbed Flatail by the tail and threw him at the nearby couch. ”Stop scaring him. Heʼs fine.”

”Bevalina, Iʼve got several questions. What is the threat exactly, and why beavers, couldnʼt such a dangerous job be handed to someone else?” Arad asked immediately.

”Youʼre one hasty boy, arenʼt you?” She smiled and walked toward the back and pulled chairs for them. ”Rest, Iʼll explain everything.”

”The threat is an abomination, a monster beyond mortal comprehension. Even we beavers guarding the seal donʼt know what he can exactly do, besides several things.” She looked at Tempo, ”Youʼve been staring at me for a while, are you okay?”

”Heʼs trying to get his translator to work. Give him a moment.” Arad replied.

”Weʼll. Letʼs wait for him.” They waited about a minute before Tempo was ready.

”As I said, the being weʼre dealing with is a powerful abomination. We beavers donʼt know the full extent of his power, but we are sure of certain things. Heʼs powerful against humanoids. That is the first reason it was us beavers chosen to be the seal guards. We arenʼt as easily swayed by his words.” She lifted her cane and waved it in the air.

”He can fool the humanoid mind, but we beavers have hearts of love and timber, we shall not be misled.”

”Humanoids, yes. But what about dragons? Wouldnʼt this be the job of a powerful metallic dragon or even a great titan?” Arad said with a smile and turned toward Tempo.

Tempo giggled, ”The Titans are strong, but I believe the dragons are better for long tasks.”

”What about dragons.” Bevalina smiled, reaching her little arm to the table and flicking her fingers. A large tray of tea and snacks appeared out of nowhere. She lifted a cut of tea, put sugar in it, and started stirring it.

”Dragons… what about dragons, thatʼs the question everyone should be asking. Every conversation changes a lot when a dragon is involved.” Her eyes shifted toward Tempo, ”Youʼre a volcanic Titan, The magic flowing out of you is astounding, like a great river of burning, hot magma.” She then shifted her attention toward Arad, ”And what about the dragon?”

As Bevalina smiled, ”I donʼt seem to recognize your color, dragon. Are you a metallic or a chromatic one? Whatʼs your name?” She took a sip of her tea.

”Arad Orion, Iʼm a …..” Bevalina spat her tea on his face as she cried mid-drinking, ”HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

”…void dragon.” Arad wiped the tea off his face with a void rush, staring at her with a tired face. ”Why the crazy reaction again?”

Bevalina pushed the table away and prostrated herself, bowing so fast her face smacked into the ground. ”The great one! To think Iʼll be alive the day you show up.” She was shaking, and so did the guards in the back.

”What is it the problem?” Arad glared at her. ”Explain, or Iʼm blasting this whole place into ash.”

She lifted her head, ”The chieftain outside didnʼt?”

”He passed out from moving too much.” Flatail said while taking some of the snacks and hiding them.

”Hoi! Are you stealing?” One of the guards glared at him. ”Iʼm not…” Flatail hides the biscuits behind him.

”The one who sealed the abomination here was the overgod; he did it almost five thousand years ago. Heʼs the one who made us the guardians of the seal as well.” She stood and walked toward her bookshelf and pulled out an old book.

She approached Arad and gave him the book with a shaking hand. ”I canʼt believe my old eyes, Iʼm really standing before you.”

The book told an ancient story of how the overgod, a young wizard with white hair and blue eyes sealed twelve powerful abominations across the world, this place was one of them. He assigned the beavers as guards and granted them intellect, magic, and peace in their land, swearing upon his name that this place would be their heaven until the end of time, or till they evolved into demi-humans.

The book also mentions how the overgod said that the abomination is to be sealed until a dragon in the form of a large muscular man called Arad Orion, the nuclear chaos shall arrive to kill and eat it.

Arad looked at Bevalina, ”Thatʼs my name? Five thousand years ago…” He started thinking for a second, ”Youʼve been deceived by a time dragon, thatʼs the only explanation.”

”I doubt thatʼs the case.” Tempo said in the back. ”The overgod is particular about being impersonated. He wouldʼve cleared this long ago if it was a trick. You can be certain itʼs the overgod himself whenever heʼs mentioned.”

”Dragons live for a long time, but Iʼm not that old.” Arad sighed, ”I bet something is wrong here. Names arenʼt tied to one person so itʼs probably one of my ancestors. Yeah, Iʼm certain Mother named me on someone.”

Arad did ask Mom but she didnʼt know how his mother named him.

The door suddenly burst open and a beaver stared at them with a terrified face, panting his lungs out as his eyes were tearing up, ”The seal about to break! The shamans are going to die!” He yelled, and Bevalina gasped.

”Letʼs go!” Tempo rushed out and Arad followed him, Flatail managed to latch onto Aradʼs back at the last moment, and he ended up going with them.

”Slow down! I canʼt hold well!” Flatail cried, hanging for dear life on Aradʼs back.

”Wait!” Bevalina shouted, but they had already left the city by that time, they were too fast. ”What about the beaver hero? The knights had been training for generations waiting for this day.”