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FlameFrags and his brother ManePear entered the village they had been traveling to for the past few days. It had taken longer than it should have due to the responsibility of making sure their hostage didn’t escape or die. Surprising the second option was a rougher challenge.
The dude’s name is Eggchan, he was actually rather funny despite being kidnapped by them. His brother actually admitted to liking him after something Eggchan had said which was rare.
In FlameFrags’ opinion Eggchan was probably the weakest person he had ever met. He also had a severe case of near sidedness, he didn’t see the village until they were practically in front of it.
They continued walking through the village for what they needed.
“you stay with him while i restock on some food.” Flame instructed his brother.
“bro why me, you’re too slow anyways you take forever!” Mane complained.
“like, just do it bro its not that hard stop being a baby.” and with that Flame slipped away into the crowd before Mane could protest any further.
“good to know you guys enjoy my company so much” Eggchan commented, though he wasn’t actually offended.
Flame continued through the crowd, he went from stall to stall buying the neccesary materials as he thought back to their captive.
They knew a few things about him; he was valuable though they dont know why. He seemed so normal, just a normal dude. He wore a well-made suit. He traveled a lot, but they have no idea how he’s survived for so long, he has no survival instincts whatsoever. They thought he was just stupid at first, but it turned out he was actually very intelligent. He never took anything to heart which was kinda nice. He also had a terrible memory.
Nothing about this guy made sense to Flame; they didn’t even know what species he was. He had white skin, white hair that covered his face, and a big eyeball that floated above his head with two gold halo like rings around it.
It honestly creeped him out; it was like he was always watching them. Maybe it was just the fact he was so used to his and Mane’s eyes always being concealed.
He was then taken out of his thoughts as he heard a man yelling.
“Last carriage to the capital! 20 coins a person for a one-way ride to the capitol!” a man waving a hat stood next to a carriage.
Flame still carrying his materials he had just bought approached the man.
“How many seats are left?” He asked, gaining the man’s attention.
“Oh, hello there fella! Only one seat has been taken up, your welcome to take any seat you want young man!” he energetically stated.
“Good, I'll buy three.” He then grabbed one of his pouches of gold coins; he wasn’t about to hand count 60 coins, so he just tossed the whole pouch. “Here, extra if you close off selling any more seats to people, I'll go fetch the other two accompanying me.”
Flame was glad for the large cloak he was wearing, him and his brother were pretty well known which wasn’t usually a problem, but whenever they had a job, they wore these cloaks to conceal their identities, it just made it all go a lot smoother.
He made his way back to Mane and Eggchan who were standing by a wall in a secluded area away from the markets and busy village roads.
“C’mon, i bought us carriage rides to the capitol,” Flame told them while handing Mane some of his bags.
“A carriage ride? Well, that’s convenient.” Mane commented.
The three made their way to the carriage. Flame and Mane both sandwiching the poor Eggchan, not like he would try jumping out of a moving carriage anyways.
As they sat down Flame motioned for the carriage to take off.
That was when both FlameFrags and ManePear noticed the other man that had been waiting in the carriage.
“finally, I thought I was about to die from boredom!” the man exclaimed before yawning, raising hand.
He was mostly covered by a long cloak, a lot nicer than Mane and Flames.
Both Flame and Mane traded glances, both had noticed.
The man’s hand had been purpled, with scales, and sharp claws.
“why is this dude genuinely aura farming with so much gold, like we get it your rich.” Mane joked though flame could tell he was on edge.
“what can i say, i like my gold.” the man said, accompanied with a laugh that can only be described as a rich person’s laugh.
“bro even laughs like he’s wealthy” Egg said also chuckling.
Flame wasn’t sure how to feel. He was confident he could take this person in a fight but something about them put him on edge. He had also noticed when the person laughed and tilted their head back he got a glimpse of their face somewhat. He had a purple face and long sharp fangs as well.
For some reason what Eggchan had said got the man’s attention, finally actually looking over at them.
They saw his face, he had purple scaley skin, several scars though not as many as Flame or Mane. His eyes were intimidating, he had violet slits as pupils. And he was smiling, a smug sort of grin that made you want to punch him.
“Heh, and what’s your name?” He asked, looking at Eggchan.
“Me? I'm Eggchan ” He introduced, slightly surprised.
“Alright Egg, what business do you have in the capitol?” purple man laughed at the nickname, a laugh that was so high pitched it genuinely hurt Mane and Flame’s ears.
“Bro I honestly don’t even know, ask these two.” He gestured to the two brothers next to him, both covered by cloaks.
The man made a sort of disgusted expression.
“Why are you two wearing rags, that’s genuinely gross.” He asked, recoiling his head in disgust.
This really ticked Flame off, he didn’t care if this person was rich and weird or whatever, he does not get disrespected like that.
“Okay so first off, we are not wearing ‘rags’ they’re cloaks, and second who do you think you are looking at us like that?!” maybe he was being a bit aggressive but in Flame’s eyes it was completely valid.
“Yo bro chill, lets not start a fight here. We all just want to get to the capitol in one piece.” Mane rested a hand on Flame’s shoulder trying to quell his frustration. Mane didn’t like the other guy either but he was more concerned about their job to deliver this Eggchan dude safely.
Flame scoffed, “whatever bro.”
Thats when the mysterious purple dude started laughing again while the three waited for him to stop.
Once the man had stopped laughing Egg decided to ask him a question.
“So, what’s your name then?” he asked tilting his head trying to recall any race that had similar feature to this man.
“Oh uh, I’m Wemmbu, you’ve probably heard of me if you have lived around this part of the kingdom for awhile.” he said nonchalantly, crossing his legs and then his arms in a relaxed position.
“Wemmbu? I might have heard that, i can’t really remember though.” Egg tried to recall though the two brothers knew it was futile.
“Let me look at my books.”
Egg proceeded to search each of his books until he found what he was looking for. Everyone else staying silent while the guy with a giant eyeball floating above his head searched through different books.
“I found it!” Eggchan exclaimed, “it says here that Wemmbu is a dragon that terrorizes towns and has mass amounts of riches.” Egg read out.
At this the purple man grinned and slipped his hood off revealing long darker purple hair that was nicely collected into a ponytail, a large ornate gold tiara with a large magenta Sapphire gem in the center and smaller accent purple gems around the rim of the crown, and a pair of large almost black dragon horns nicely decorated with different kinds of jewelry.
“Dragon hybrid, but whatever” Wemmbu corrected with a cocky grin.
Eggchan was in complete shock while the other two looked at each other, unsure of what to do. This put their mission in jeopardy.
Eggchan was about to bombard the dragon hybrid with questions, but Mane stopped him by placing his hand on his shoulder.
“And why are you going to the capitol?” Mane asked seriously.
“HAH! You first, I asked earlier anyways and never got an answer.” Wemmbu countered childishly.
“Fine. We're completing a job, now you.” He answered vaguely.
“Bro, you have to give me more than that, what does that even mean?!”
“We were given a mission to retrieve this person here and deliver him safely to our employers” Flame answered, gesturing to Eggchan.
“Why him?” Wemmbu asked, giving a face that very much meant he saw no value in Egg that would call for such an escort.
“We don't know bro, you gonna answer us now or what?” Mane asked.
“Ugh fine. I need to talk to the ruler or whoever is in charge cause i keep getting attacked and to be frank I'm really tired of it.” He explained.
“How can you be frank if your Wemmbu?” Mane asked and then burst into laughter, clutching his stomach as he wiped away tears.
“Bro it was not that funny” Flame said with annoyance.
“Dawg these are my kidnappers... Bro I’m cooked.” Egg complained, holding his head and making some sort of laughing sob.
This made Wemmbu laugh that rich persons laugh.