The Wolf and The Dragon (Book 1)

About Last Night

[Lloyd]

-"Lloyd, do you want to go somewhere?" - Ruby asked.

-"Where?"

-"Any place that comes to your mind"

-"OK - anywhere with you"

I thought about the place where I met my grandfather not so long before, just after we battle the Oni invasion, I know I have been there, but my memories of that place start to fade. I close my eyes, and when I open them again we were there together.

-"Do you remember this place?"- she asked me with a smile

-"I have been here a few weeks ago, I met my Grandfather here, just after we battler the Oni invasion."

-"Ah! I see I thought would be a different memory." - her smile fades a bit, she sits in the grass and I sit beside her.

-"What do you mean?"

-"This place is a gateway, between realms, from here you can very much go anywhere in the cosmos."

-"Have you been here before?"

-"Many, many times, always by your side, none on this lifetime though, until now."

-"Are you jealous I came here without you?"

-"Maybe I am" - She laughs - "I just wonder why he brought you here"

-"I don't know, He was very nice to me but somehow my memories of that meeting are fading away."

I laid back in the grass, and look at the sky, Ruby put her head near mine.

-"Ruby, I have so many questions"

-"I know, and I am sorry to say I haven't got all the answers, and to be honest I probably have more question than answers myself as well."

-"What exactly are you, the Lupa? I was looking for a wolf of some kind, are you shapeshifter?"

-"I am the half of a single God or Entity, called Agape, the Lupa is only a reference from the last life, where the Lupa was a shapeshifter, an Oni, I was cursed, I die, and 22 years ago I was reborn from ashes in the shape of a human baby."

-"And the Dragon?"

-"The other half, also cursed, also die... Destined to born again, in an Oni-Dragon bloodline, after the Lupa was found by one of the guardians."

-"Who are the guardians?"

-"Two immortal beings, originally oni creatures, rewarded by your grandfather for their loyalty."

-"Where are them?"

-"I don't know, I have been looking for them myself, I can't find them"

-"Is one of them Mistake?"

-"Yes, Do you know her?"

-"I do, but I do believe she is dead."

-"She can't be, she is immortal. Why do you believe she is dead?"

-"She was attacked by my father when she was trying to help us. She has vanished after that"

-"That is why I couldn't find her, maybe she is trapped in a different realm or shape."

-"How did you meet her?"

-"I lived with her since I was 15, she knew my parents, and I need a place to stay while I was in medical school. She is the one who told me all about the Lupa, she showed me the books, and explain the legend and the prophecy, but I never took her stories literally, until I come across you."