Dragon scales

By Shelby Netts

This story is mine and you can't copy it without my permission.

But I did use some names from Anime

So you can't use them

Character Decryptions

Ashatara- A Queen and another person who appears in Kitsune's dreams. She will be in later chapters.

Kira- A male. Kitsune's best friend. They have grown up together since Kitsune's adoptive parents adopted her. He is her next door neighbor. Adopted from a different orphanage a few years before Kitsune was adopted. Is the most popular kid in school.

Kitsune- A female. An orphan adopted by two humans who aren't real important. She was found on the steps of the orphanage along with her twin Mitsume.

Kukira- A male. The very first person she meets in the supposed town where she was originally born. His best friend is Mitera. They both agree with each other on helping Kitsune out after he gets in a little mischief. He can be rather shy once you first meet, but after that he is rather loud and obnoxious, like a completely different person.

Mitera- A female. The very first person she meets in the supposed town where she was originally born. Her best friend is Kukira, a little devil at heart. 'Never turn you back on him' is the lesion that Kitsune learned the hard way.

Mitsume- A female. Twin to Kitsune she was taken away from her older twin at birth. They haven't seen each other since that tragic day.

Vincent- A male. A mysterious figure that haunts her dreams. Kitsune doesn't know who he is or why he keeps showing up in her dreams. He will also be in later chapters, (excluding the very beginning).

Chapter 1-Nightmares

I stood in a field of blood. I took a cautious step forward realizing that I had been here a previous time. I looked ahead of me. What I saw was terrifying. I took a step forward to get a better look at the figure. I stepped on the arm of someone or something. I kept going forward to reach the figure. For some reason it was always painful to walk those 10 feet to get to the nameless figure ahead of me.

It had long and silver hair cascading down its back. Blood was starting to dry in its hair. I watched as it turned and faced me. "I am so…sorry" he said giving me a smile showing his extended canine teeth. He pause a moment to hack up a clot of blood. "I am sorry…I…failed…you…"

And as usual right before he finished I snapped from my dream world. "Time to get ready for school." My mother says rapping on my door rather abruptly. "Can I have five more minuets?" I ask her sleep evident in my voice. "No, you have finals today, do you want to be late?" she asked me walking in and standing in the doorway turning on the light to blind me. I muffle a short fine before I walk out and start to get ready.

Later after I was done I walk over to my neighbor's house to wait for Kira. He was always the slower one of us, but he was always smarter after he took his time to think things out. I knocked on the door with familiarity. "Coming" came Kira's voice on the other side of the door. I waited a moments before he walked out with his jacket on ready to walk to school, because we didn't find a need to drive when our house were within an easy 15 minuet walking distance.

"So, what do you have today?" he asked me wrapping his arm around my neck giving me a quick hug before letting his hand drop to his side when he saw I was in an off mood. "Math and Science" I said the depressed tone evident in my voice. "I have my foreign language today, and after that I have…History" he said trying to think about what he had for the day. "What's up with you, I never saw you this down before. Did you have that dream again?" he asked me. I nod my head with a slight nod. "Oh…Maybe he is your relative, wait you don't have Vampire teeth" he said patting me on the back jokingly. I felt like I should tell him what the man said, I had never told him before. "He said 'I am so sorry' and 'I am sorry I failed you'" I said lowering my head. "He never had a chance to finish his second sentence" I said letting a stray tear slip down my face.

"Well, enough of that" he said lifting my head and wiping the tear off with his jacket. It was the middle of the summer but there was an odd chill to the air. "You want to go out and eat after the exams are over?" he asked me letting go of my chin and giving me a small smile. I always wondered why he wanted to hang with me, I mean he could have choice out of all of the other kids in school, but he chose to hang with me. He had the face of an angel as I would say. He was also adopted, but from a different orphanage and a few years before me. "Sure" I said smiling back at him with the same broad smile.

"What plans do you have for the summer?" he asked me. I looked forward. "Well, I am not planning on doing anything really" I said looking back at him. "Let's save this for later. I will meet you at the front door after you are done with your exams, alright?" he asked me. "Alright see you later" I said waving and heading off to the math class outside of the school in the modelers while he went in the school.

After exams were over I walked over to the front door and waited for 5 minuets before he walked out and smiled up at me with his angelic smile. I smiled back up at him showing my left canine tooth. "Did anyone ever tell you have the smile of a demon?" he said with a joking expression on his face. I glared up at him. "Ha Ha, very funny" I said making a fake laugh afterward.

"Come on, I am starving" he said grabbing my arm and racing down the street to get to the burger king on the corner before very many people got there. "We wouldn't have to race if you would just hurry up after school" I said pulling him down the usual ally way that we used to get there faster.

"Hey, what's that?" he said stopping. I halted in my track and walked back to him. He was looking down at a small gem. It looked like two halves of a blood red gem. Each half had a chain on it. We both picked them up and started to run off to the fast-food restraint that we were being kept from reaching quickly. When we got there we waited in line in silence and ordered our food.

We were both lost in our own thoughts. "What do you think it is?" I said snapping us out of both of our thoughts. "I have no clue, but if my suspicion is proven correct then we are supposed to have these" he said holding it up to the sun and looking at it. I let my eyes look at it then trailed my eyes down to the shadow. "Hey, look" I said pointing to the shadow on the table.