Black Dragon Valkyrie: this is a story i'm actually writing with two friends. one is The Kogan Kid, and the other doesn't have an account on this yet. but we all agreed to post this story on here cause it's just fun, plus other fans can have a blast reading this.

So enjoy!


"Ash! Ash! Let's go in here!" Sakura and Jase said, as they were skipping/running through the mall, pointing at various stores.

Ash just sighed to herself as she watched her two friends run from store window to store window. How was she more mature in these situations than these two, who both are older than she is by a year, she did not know. Ash Gunmetal, Sakura Higur, and Jase Healy have been friends since third grade. The three of them almost went everywhere together, the local mall included, even though Ash just wanted to be at home, in her nice warm bed, and sleep in.

The two hyperactive girls spotted a clothing store and they both grabbed poor Ash and dragged her inside. Ash didn't particularly have an interest in clothes. She didn't really mind trying on clothes just for fun though. She had disappeared into the darker colored section, while the other two were just grabbing what they thought looked awesome.

Sakura Higur is a really skinny but curvy 17 year old with long, straight black hair and violet eyes. She's the tallest of her friends at 5'8" and the lightest, but she's really strong and loves to go hyper, and she doesn't care what others think of her.

Jase Healy is also 17 years old, is skinny and curvy, but not as much as Sakura. She has long, slightly wavy, dark teal hair and green eyes, is 5'7", likes to be hyperactive, and is a champion in judo.

Ash Gunmetal is the youngest at 16 years old, has long red hair that curls at the ends, and she has golden-amber eyes. She is, like her friends, skinny and curvy, but is more like Jase, stands at the height of 5'6", she occasionally does go hyper, and is a six-year track runner.

The three of them all picked out some outfits to try on and all got changed. They came out a few times to show the other two what they picked out.

One of the outfits Ash picked out for herself is: black leather jacket that had spikes on the shoulders, a dark purple shirt that said 'I'm alive!' in red letters on the front, a nice looking pair of dark blue boot-cut jeans, a collar made of dark blue leather, a black and silver belt, and brown one inch heeled boots that disappeared under the jeans. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and she thought she looked pretty badass.

Sakura whistled at Ash's outfit. "Damn girl! Who are you seeing tonight?" Ash rolled her eyes at her and stuck out her tongue. Sakura laughed and high-fived Jase.

"Okay Sakura, why don't you try on your favorite outfit and show us what it looks like." Sakura just shrugged her shoulders and went back into the dressing room.

She came back out with a very Gothic looking outfit. She had on a black jacket with skinny sleeves and silver stud buttons, a black V-neck t-shirt that said 'Imma ninja' in white letters, black super skinny jeans with studs on the bottom that disappeared into black dress boots with three inch heels. Her black hair was in braids down her back, with pink bows at the ends. She also found black fingerless gloves to complete it.

This time Jase and Ash whistled as Sakura.

"Nice! Now who's trying to get some attention? You look hot!" Sakura giggled and said thanks.

Ash smirked, "If you went out like that, boys everywhere would be staring at your ass!" Sakura turned bright candy apple red, and Jase starting laughing so hard, she fell out of her chair. Then Ash put her hands on her hips and cocked an eyebrow, "I wouldn't be laughing just yet, 'cause it's your turn Jase."

"Jeez, Ash, calm your tits, I'm going!" Jase got up, still laughing, and went back into the dressing room.

Ash and Sakura giggled when they heard banging and cursing coming from the dressing room, but stopped when Jase walked out.

Jase was wearing a red sweater, dark deep blue skinny jeans that disappeared into brown leather riding-style boots, a long gold chain necklace, her usual black glasses, black arrow gauge earrings, a cartilage diamond in her left ear, and her hair in its usual braid.

"Jase, that's the most awesome outfit ever! You look like a hunter though." Ash said with a smirk. Sakura burst out laughing. Jase glared at both of them and went back into the dressing room.

Again there was a lot of banging and cursing, then Jase came back out in her usual outfit. "I hate that dressing room! It's too small." Sakura laughed and fell out of her chair.

"Yeah, I'm so sure it was the dressing room and not the clothes, Jase." Ash said with a wide grin. Jase glared at Ash, then went over to the counter to paid for her outfit. After Ash and Sakura finished their giggling, they went and paid too.

Jase wouldn't talk to them the entire walk through the mall.

"Jase, as you still pissed off about what Ash said about your outfit? She was just kidding. Please at least say something. Or I will tickle you and make you laugh out loud in front of everyone." Sakura held out a finger and Jase squeaked. Sakura laughed and pulled her finger back. Jase cracked a smile and finally talked.

"Oh, I knew you weren't going to do it. I just squeaked because if I didn't you would've poked me until I did." Jase smirked when Sakura glared at her.

"You didn't know I wasn't going to do it. You just wanted to cover up for squeaking before I did anything!" Sakura giggled at Jase's 'damn it!' face.

Ash was silent through all of this. She just looked at shop windows and withdrew to her own world of a swirling hurricane of thoughts inside her head.

Just as they got to the car, they heard laughter that was too loud, and forced. The girls in the car next to theirs, the group of "preps" from their school, looked in their direction and one of them with blonde hair and dark hazel eyes said, "Hey, you, with the purple eyes, your name is some-stupid-shit-like Sakura right? Well I heard that you were bi from my besties brother, so, is it true? Are you one of those freaks from that stupid underground club supporting gay rights at our school? Well, you know what, you are going to hell when you die, and if you're a Christian, guess what? You're not a real Christian, and you're a disgrace to God and the entire religion. You shouldn't even be allowed in church!" The blonde continued, "And you're just a Goth freak who should just kill herself already. Do us all a favor and go back in the closet and hang like a rag doll!" Her friends behind her looked mortified about what she just said, and case a look of apology at Sakura.

Then one of the other girls, with hair that had been dyed the ugly jet black color and plastic blue eyes, in the "preps" car spotted Ash giving them an eternal-death-daggers-glare at them and she started to laugh mockingly. "Yea, check it out. It's the famous Demon-spawn Ashy. I thought you went back to the fiery pits of hell where you belong."

Jase and Sakura looked over at their red-haired friend. Ash's head was tilted forward so her bangs covered her eyes, her mouth was twisted into a snarl, and a deep growl started in the back of her throat.

"Ash, don't. They aren't worth it. Let's just leave before anything else happens that someone will regret later." Sakura said. Ash had started stomping her way towards the "preps", but Sakura grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"That's right chickens. Run home to your mommies. Go ahead Ashy, go on home."

"It's Ash, you morons!" Ash started to yell at them, along with other "colorful" words, but Sakura pushed her into the backseat and shut the door behind her, then walked over to the driver's seat and got in as Jase got in the front passenger seat. Sakura just sat there for a few minutes, watching the girls walk into the mall, wishing she had said something mean, something cruel. But she's not like that. At least not normally.

"Sakura! Why did you have to push me into the backseat? I could've kicked their asses! Seriously!" The tempered redhead said, rubbing her head on the spot that hit the door.

"Look, Ash, I'm not going to let you kick their asses just because of what they said. Violence isn't the answer. Besides, do you want your Mom to see you come through the door with cuts from nail files and credit card edges, and bruises on your knuckles? What if their parents had decided to sue you, and then Jase and I, just because we were there with you?" Sakura asked.

"I don't know! All I know is I could've kicked their asses! I wouldn't care about the consequences!" Ash yelled at Sakura's reflection in the rearview mirror.

Jase turned around in the passenger seat to look back at the tempered redhead, "Ash, do I have to duct tape your mouth shut again?"

Ash sat back into the seat and stared up at the car ceiling. "You know… Joshua would be extremely happy if you did." Then a small smile graced her lips. "Well, I guess he would consider it payback for the blaring music incident at 3:30 in the morning a few weeks ago."

All three girls started laughing at the sweet memory of that night.

The girls had all been at Ash's place for another of their awesome sleepovers, which they did almost every weekend. The current room they had been in was completely dark, shades were closed, no lights were on, nothing.

Then the giant 65'' T.V. started showing notes for a light guitar solo which started playing somewhere in the room. Then a second guitar joined in as the music got louder and more drastic.

Soon enough the music blared throughout the entire house and a lovely female voice started singing 'Monster' by Paramore.

"You were my conscience! So solid, now you're like water.

And we started drowning, not like we'd sink any further.

But I let my heart go, it's somewhere down at the bottom.

But I'll get a new one and come back for the hope that you've stolen!

"I'll stop the whole world. I'll stop the whole world!

From turning into a monster and eating us alive.

Don't you ever wonder how we survive?

Well now that you're gone, the world is ours!

"I'm only human, I've got a skeleton in me.

But I'm not the villain, despite what you're always preaching.

Call me a traitor, I'm just collecting your victims.

And they're getting stronger,

I hear them calling… calling…

"I'll stop the whole world. I'll stop the whole world!

From turning into a monster, and eating us alive.

Don't you ever wonder how we survive?

Well now that you're gone, the world is ours!

"Well you find your strength in solution.

But I liked the tension,

And not always knowing the answers.

But you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it!

"I'll stop the whole world. I'll stop the whole world!

From turning into a monster, and eating us alive.

Don't you ever wonder how we survive?

Well now that you're gone, the world...

"I'll stop the whole world. I'll stop the whole world!

From turning into a monster, eating us alive.

Don't you ever wonder how we survive?

Now that you're gone, the world is ours!"

After the singing ended and the music stopped, the light switch was flipped on by an 19-year-old boy with short crimson hair that was sticking out all over the place, startling orange-golden eyes that were only half open, and dressed in only a pair of grey sweatpants. The Senior High School student glared at the sight before him. "Are you guys flippin serious?! IT'S 3:30 IN THE MORNING! Everyone is normally asleep at this hour."

Sakura rubbed the side of her head with the microphone she was holding, with a nervous smile on her face along with a slight blush, "Sorry, Joshua. I guess we got a bit carried away."

Joshua gave her a blank stare, "A bit? You're playing could of woken up this half of the planet if it wasn't for the soundproofing walls."

The other redhead in the room, Ash, nudged her blue-haired friend with her guitar and gestured to Sakura, "Five bucks says she still has a crush on him."

Jase gave a soft, wicked smile, "You're on."

Sakura glared at both of them, which caused them to giggle at her embarrassment. Sakura has had the BIGGEST crush on the older redhead since middle school. Ash and Jase had known this and actually set them up to go to a school dance together; they had been so cute together! But Joshua explained that he was interested in someone else, though he didn't mind having her as a friend and that he didn't mind if she still had a crush on him. So even though the relationship didn't work out, they actually had grown to be good friends. Joshua even helped her and the other two get part-time jobs. Which they all thanked him for by helping with his resume for college.

Joshua sighed before he glanced at the T.V. and got frustrated. "You guys were up playing my 'Guitar Hero' again?! I thought I locked that one up…" Then he noticed his sister's guilty smile, he narrowed his orange-golden orbs into deadly daggers. "You broke into my room again."

It was more of a statement than a question. Ash's smile only got wider as she threw up a peace sign, "You bet'cha!"

Jase high-fived her, "and he didn't even notice!"

Sakura giggled at this and soon the other two girls joined her.

Joshua shook his head at them as he took his Wii game out and shut off the T.V. "Now you three, bed. And I don't want to hear anymore racket from down here. Got it?" he scolded.

"Yes mother!" all three of the teenage girls said sarcastically at the same time, before bursting into fits of laughter.

The light was shut off and the girls soon after fell asleep, and when Joshua was about to leave, he turned back to look back at them. "You guys take care of each other, ya hear?" he knew he wouldn't get any response other than the three of them lightly snoring, but he just wanted to say that anyway. Then he went back to his room and went to back to sleep.

"That was an awesome night!" Jase declared as Sakura drove past a little café they've been to a few times.

"You're right on that one. I loved the look on my bro's face! It was priceless!" Ash had leaned up in between the two front seats to look at them both.

As Sakura turned around a corner, her smile grew a bit wider, "Though I still think the night we went to Freshman Formal was better."

"Oh that's right!" the other two occupants said at the same time. They talked and laughed about all the things they did and who they made side comments on and such.

Jase suddenly stopped laughing and pointed ahead, "I don't remember this tunnel being here." Ash fell silent and nodded in agreement.

Sakura sighed to herself, she must of taken a wrong turn back there, yeah that was probably it. "Well, we might as well check it out since we're stuck going this way." The bluenette and redhead gave a soft "Yeah" as a reply. Sakura eased her foot on the gas pedal, to go at least 3 mph faster.

As they got closer to the tunnel, the street narrowed into a one-way abandoned road. As soon as the car pulled into the tunnel all three of them felt a cold shiver shoot up their spines.

"You guys felt that right?" Ash asked with a slight hint of nervousness to her voice.

Both of her friends only nodded; none of them could see anything ahead of the three-foot extension of view the headlights gave them.

'Aren't there supposed to be lights inside tunnels that are long and dark?' they all wondered, but no one spoke the words. All of a sudden, a bright light blinded all three of the teenagers and everything felt like it was floating. After a few moments, the brightness lessened and Jase's eyes adjusted, then she saw that tree branches surrounded her.

"What the heck?"