Rise of the Malactric Heir

They had been walking for more than an hour when they felt the cold wind brush against their cheeks as they came to the end of the path and found themselves on a beach, and the others smiled, taking in the nice fresh air of the vast blue ocean.

"Finally, we've arrived," Aerav said as the others looked around and Alix placed his feet by the washing waves.

"Cold, huh?" Adora asked.

"Yeah, and it feels nice," he replied, and she smiled.

"That's good; now we have to figure out where that source is, Kyris, can you tell if there's anything here?" Adora inquired, and his eyes glowed blue as he flew up in the air, searching for any trace of the source.

"Anything, Kyris?" Ayden asked as he returned to the ground and looked at Adora.

"Nothing," he replied, "and if there is, I can't find or even sense it." Adora sighed.

"Seems like this is going to take a while," Alix said.

"I agree, well, we better look carefully, it could be hidden here, somewhere, I know the map isn't wrong, it can't be," she replied confidently.

"There could be a veil covering it, is that possible? To cover something that powerful with a veil?" Alix inquired, and Aerav shrugged as Kyris's eyes narrowed when Alix's feet brushed against the water, and his eyes glowed orange and gold for a brief moment before returning to normal and Adora saw then smirked.

"Did you feel anything?" she inquired.

"The water is too nice; there's an unusual energy emanating from it," he replied.

"Is that all?" she inquired.

"Yeah, that's it, I sense nothing more than that, I feel it's weird, it doesn't feel normal to me, that's all," he replied, and her eyes glowed bright red along with her right arm and Adora hit her right palm against the sand which began floating in the air, and their eyes widened.

"What the hell is this?" Aerav asked then the sand fell back to the ground, showing a marking carved into the ground and Adora smiled.

"The map and I were correct, the source is in the water," Adora said, and they all looked at her.

"How are we supposed to get down there now?" Olivia asked.

"I don't think we have to go down," Adora responded.

"Since it's going to be hard getting down without knowing how far it is exactly, I say we bring it up to us," Alix said and they smiled.

"All we have to do is find where in the water it is, exactly," Ayden said and Adora nodded then placed her hand on the marking, releasing a red glow that formed around the marking and the ground started vibrating as a giant stone stand came up from under the sand which had star markings and Adora placed her hand on it.

Alix, release a bit of your energy onto my hand," she said then he placed his hand on top of her hand, releasing a little bit of energy which was orange and she smiled then he moved his hand off of her and she took her hand off of the stone which started glowing red.

"What now? " Alix asked as the sand upon the giant stone formed a silver key which Adoora grabbed and the rock, then grumbled and the floor started vibrating as the water got rough.

"Move back," Alix said, and they all backed away from the water, which was trembling as if there was an underwater earthquake.

"What is happening?" Aerav asked and Adora's eyes glowed red as something brown with a pointed top started emerging from the water.

"What is that?" Adora asked.

"Seems like a building to me," Alix responded as a building emerged from it, then a bridge joined from the building stretched to the beach since the building was near to reach the shore but was too big to come any closer.

"It's big and old and the magical pull is strong here, the energy within this place is something else," Kyris said as a small blue dragon flew out of the building and landed on Alix's shoulder.

"Adora, this may look like Jade, but it's wild," Alix said, and Adora smiled as she approached Alix, and the blue, shimmering scale dragon looked at her with green eyes, and Adora smiled, then her eyes glowed red, and the star appeared in her hand, but no one saw it except the dragon because of how Adora kept her hand.

"You are a good one, aren't you?" Adora asked then the dragon lowered its head and Adora petted it.

"It's a he this time and even he has taken a liking to you Alix," Adora said and Alix sighed, then smiled as they walked on the bridge which was covered in vines and pretty pink flowers, heading to the old brown building.

The structure resembled a temple of some sort, was brown in color, with vines covering it that produced shimmering pink and blue flowers, and the walls of the structure had flowers along with dragons and other nature carvings.

The broken parts of the building had water falling from them, looking like a waterfall and the water was crystal clear.

Upon entering the temple, other small dragons flew out and they smiled at the bright shimmering lights within the temple which reflected on the carving on the walls and they looked at the broken down stair cases along with the new flowers blooming due to the fresh sunlight entering the building.

"I have to say, I was kind of expecting something scary, but this is actually nice and the air within this place is calm," Alix said and Adora smiled.

"It's peaceful, you guys can take a tour after we find the source, okay?" Adora said and they smiled.

"Yeah, that's okay, right now we should only focus on getting to the source which seems as though it's going to take longer than expected," Kyris responded as they noticed a blue hue coming from an open entrance before them and they looked at each other.