Running through the forest Ezrael saw a glimpse of light nearby quickly Ezrael head towards the direction of the light, and to see a put out campfire with Ralian sleeping on a bed made of vines and leaves and a bandaged Jin resting but doesn't see Gale anywhere. He quickly adventure a few distance away from Ralian and Jin to see Gale laying on the tree. He quickly ran towards Gale's body examining the whole body to only notice it is only a shell, empty of the Gale he saw.
"Ugh, where the Changeling" then suddenly hears a cry of a falcon echoing throughout the forest "the Changeling!"
Quickly leaping forward once again with great speed towards Gale cries as a falcon and witness Gale pinned down by a siren stepping onto Gale's swing as she is holding a spear ready to kill them.
"That chase was fun little birdie, but good time do have to end soon. I would have loved to see more what you can do, but I don't want to fail the mistress and her work".
As the siren pulls back the spear, then thrusting forward and tries to kill Gale, but is quickly snatched with immense speed. The siren was shocked as at one point she was stepping onto Gale's wing, but now was not on any one. Still shock yet frustrated she looked at the man who saved Gale as Ezrael was holding them in his hands.
"Hey what gives! Why is a scum human like you helping a helpless animal"
Ezrael then releases Gale from his hands and begins flying away, "you need to get out of here Changeling, this one is mine"
Suddenly the siren heard the words muttered out of Ezrael, as her eyes were widen with surprise "a changeling? Interesting never thought changelings still exist"
Ezrael then stands up "and I know who you are. Moria Finna the defected siren, a killer amongst humanity"
As Ezrael unsheathed his long sword from the hilt on his back with one hand, pointing the blade towards Moria.
"Defected. That's a little harsh for a widdle fish like me. But a killer amongst humanity is such a joyous title" as Moria ready her spear and they both charge towards each other at the same time clashing their weapons with great force.
Meanwhile Gale is quickly flying back to the other as fast as they can and taking the trail Gale took when wondering off away the harmonious singing as Gale is searching for their armour back at the camp, soon found their armour, quickly Gale flew onto their armour and changed into a rat to go back inside their armour and reforming back into Gale's original form to wear their armour once more. Quickly getting up they run back to the campsite and see Ralian and Jin sleeping.
"Ralian wake up!" Gale immediately tries to wake up Ralian, even rocking the bed she made almost breaking it in the process and enough to wake Ralian from her sleep.
"What is it Gale, is it my turn to take the next shift?" But she sees Gale flailing their arms and trying to find words to speak, almost letting Gale forgot their ears hasn't formed properly. Gale quickly within their armour reformed their ears back to normal hearing Ralian speak in confusion.
"Sorry about that, but we don't need to worry about shifts anymore, someone is in danger"
"what!?"
With no time to explain Gale quickly grabbed Ralian's wrist and their weapons as Gale started running towards the same direction where Gale flew away. But Ralian quickly set up a barrier of vines to protect Jin in case there were any wild animals that may kill him, as Gale rushes off with Ralian quickly trying to make their way towards Ezrael.
Meanwhile back to Ezrael, he and Moria are having a fierce battle and clashes their weapons once again "you wanderers are always the ones most formidable. I can see why there are those who fear people like you"
"We aren't even scrapping the surface of what I'm capable of"
They then push each other away from themselves, Moria leaping back enough towards a pool of water with a small waterfall she smile manically, thrusting her spear into the water she began to feel the water coursing through her spear and sees Ezrael charging towards him and Moria pulls her spear out of the water and swings her spear releasing a large amount of water towards Ezrael and quickly he dodges Moria attack and allows the water to spread across their battlefield.
"A large bundle of water spread everywhere. Now what is that siren thinks she's doing" he thinks to himself.
"you were saying you're only scraping the surface off your power." Laughing maniacally as slowly changing her human appearance to a siren from top to bottom.
"It's time to show you my full power"
As she leaps onto the pool of water and suddenly disappears, Ezrael was confused at first but sees bubbles forming from one of the puddles Moira made as she leaps out of one of the puddles and takes a swing at Ezrael slashing his shoulder when his guard was down.
"Water warping of course" as he sees Moria coming out of the puddles again to slash at Ezrael but quickly deflected her attack and is quick to grab Moria and slam her down towards the ground then quickly grabs her, then wrapped her arms around her neck as he puts her into a chokehold.
"Now Siren do you yield. And if you yield you will tell me who is the enchantress" as soon as Moria heard the name enchantress, she is quick to struggle even more.
Then eventually biting Ezrael's arm causing him to let go, and Moria continues to scratch, and grabs Ezrael's hood as she tears off the hood revealing to her, Ezrael's face. Seeing his yellow eyes and his grey silver hair, but doesn't take the time to think as she then tries to punch Ezrael's face but were blocked by his arm. Till Ezrael retaliates, as he punched Moria's face and pushes her back a few metres away from him as she lands in her feet, but then few pieces of teeth fell out of her mouth as she licks the blood off her lips then cackling maniacally.
"Never thought a handsome warrior like you would produce good blood..." but Moria then takes a look at Ezrael's face almost in awe of his face "however with a face like yours and with those glowing eyes something tells me you are a human with special enhancement, or maybe you're not human are you. Not with that face of yours" as Ezrael is grabbing his long sword.
"Now that I take a good look at you. You seem to be more emotionless than other humans, are you perhaps a Changeling... nah, I haven't tasted changeling blood. Yet, but the flavour is recognizable are you in fact"
As Moria was about to finish her sentence Ezrael charges towards swinging his sword towards her, only for her to dodge and fall into the puddle of water that she then soon sprung out from. "Could it be"
But Ezrael demeanour had changed as he doesn't give Moria a chance to finish her sentences. Until she retaliates and quickly grabs her spear with water warping ability and slashes Ezrael's face give him a small cut on his right cheek.
"you know for someone calm and collected as yourself, it's rude to interrupt a lady's speech. But then again I already forgot what I was about to say" as her teeth magically grew back from the missing ones Ezrael punched.
"It won't matter anyway once you're dead!"
Soon Moria charges towards Ezrael, as he tries to raise his weapons but somehow one of his arms can't hold it properly as it feels numb "paralysis venom, of course" as he tries to raise his long sword in time, he attempts to break Moria's spear with one strike.
But Moria quickly catches Ezrael's sword with her teeth, unhinging her jaw so her teeth can shatter Ezrael's sword. Ezrael was left in awe as before he could see the shards of his trusted blade fall and lands onto the ground. He suddenly felt Moria's spear being jabbed into Ezrael's stomach, he looks down to see in fear the spear lodged into his stomach as he coughs blood out of his mouth in pain he never felt before almost losing his grip.
"Aw what's wrong thought you could break my spear with one strike. Well here's a little secret I'll tell you, I've actually been watching you for years" Ezrael was shocked by this secret, but knowing he did the same thing once with Gale and their party.
"You're little breaking style you call it, that technique used to shatter any weapons was so easy to master, when it took you years to master with that long sword you hold as your ace"
As Moria picks up a metal shard form Ezrael's broken longsword she slashes the top middle of Ezrael's nose enjoying the pain she is inflicting on him grinning deviously.
"Once I'm done having fun with you. I'll be sure to visit the Changeling you speak off, and gave them the time of their lives"
Hearing something began to glow from Ezrael's necklace as it gets the attention of Moria "ooh you also have such a pretty little jewelry, you won't mind if I... borrow it of a while".
As Moria was going to grab Ezrael's necklace her hand was suddenly caught by Ezrael as he kicked her back a few distance away from him. As something begins to change in Ezrael's appearance "you still have to fight left. Alright that means it's still going to be more fun".
As Moria is about to approach Ezrael with a jolt of movement before Moria can even react her head was quickly grab and slammed to the ground as scales appears, and wings appeared from his back and what grabbed Moria his feet now turned to talons as he is no longer human anymore Ezrael is a dragon.
(End of chapter 25)