When Fairies Meet Dragons
By:TTigerz & Lexvan
Disclaimer: TTigerz and Lexvan do not own W.I.T.C.H. I, Lexvan, watch the show and read the translated online comics cause, male or female, heroes that use the elements are pretty cool. Takes place after season two. I, Lexvan, only own, Angelo, Micheal, Draganos, Dragas, Skrag, Aquos, Terros, and Tarka.
And now, on with the story!
Chapter 1 The fateful meeting:
It had been a couple of days since his call with Ayame Matsuki and now Draganos was looking over his charge. The Dragoons were playing a little with the leaf ball they had made while Nerissa and Micheal were enjoying each other's company. Draganos sighed as he got up. He had to make a long journey and there were still a couple of things that needed to be prepared.
"Dragoons! Gather around, if you please.", he said loudly.
The Dragoons stopped their game of Leaf Ball and hurried to Draganos, wondering why he called them.
"Draganos, what's wrong? I was winning!" Cassidy said with a grin.
"Liar! I was totally winning!", Alchemy said with a rebellious grin.
"You're both wrong. I was obviously winning.", Angelo said with a cocky smirk.
Draganos chuckled as the three young hybrids started a small argument about their game while the remaining three just sighed. Draganos cleared his throat, getting the attention of all the Dragoons.
"How important that may be...", Draganos said, indicating that the three should stop their small argument. "I am afraid that I'll have to leave you for about an hour."
The Dragoons immediately looked surprised at him. Alchemy and Nerissa ran at him and grabbed his arms, hugging them.
"Do you really have to go, Draganos?", Alchemy asked.
"Yes. I've got an appointment I can't miss.", Draganos said with a grin, knowing that not only would his plan fail, if he didn't go, but also that Xin Jing would be calling for his blood if he didn't show up.
"Why?", Nerissa asked him with a pout.
"That's a surprise.", Draganos answered with a grin. "But I want you six to make up five new beds. We're going to have some guests."
The Dragoons looked surprised at each other and at Draganos.
"Guests?", Angelo asked. "Who?"
"Not telling.", Draganos said. "You just have to wait and see."
The Dragoons sighed in annoyance and Draganos slowly wriggled himself free from Alchemy's and Nerissa's grip. He patted both on the head before shape shifting into his real dragon form.
"I expect that you're done when I'll return. Also promise me to be nice to our guests.", Draganos said as he spread his wings.
The Dragoons nodded while Cassidy muttered.
"If they behave.", she muttered.
Angelo nudged her and Draganos gave them a smile. He then jumped up and took off, silently knowing that the Dragoons would not be that accepting with the guests as he hoped they would.
'Maybe the girls can show them the difference.', he mused before he roared loudly, creating a multicoloured fold in the air through which he flew.
The Dragoons watched how Draganos flew through the multicoloured rip in the air.
"Wow... That looks pretty.", Nerissa said in awe.
"I wonder who our guests will be.", Micheal pondered.
The six kept staring at the fold until it disappeared. They then remained standing like that for a few seconds until Angelo clapped his hands.
"Okay! Let's make some beds! After that we can continue our game, in which I was winning.", he said with a grin.
"In your dreams, Earth worm!", Cassidy replied. "I was obviously winning."
"If you two knew how to kick a ball, then yeah. But I was winning.", Alchemy said with a grin.
Joel, Micheal and Nerissa knew where this was going and quickly stepped between them.
"Let's start our game again after we made the beds, cause this is getting us nowhere.", Joel said calmly.
"Nerissa and Joel will go look for some dead animals, so we'll have fur.", Micheal said. "The rest of us will search for feathers and other soft things. Angelo, can you flatten five spots on the ground?"
Angelo nodded and in no time all Dragoons were at work. Angelo flattened the ground while Micheal, Nerissa, Joel, Cassidy or Alchemy returned with feathers, fur and other soft stuff to make up the nest. Thankfully, they had a lot of extra furs from the animals they've eaten in the past. Which made gathering what they needed a lot easy. Large leaves, from palm trees, were added and placed under the furs of the beds and in no time there were five extra nests, just near their own. The six Dragoons looked proudly at their handy work before glaring at each other playfully. It was time to settle their game of Leaf Ball and there was no way that any of them would lose.
"GAME ON!", they all yelled as they went back to playing Leaf Ball.
Time flew by and they were having a lot of fun when suddenly a shadow passed them. They looked up to see Draganos flying towards their nest. They also noticed five little things atop of Draganos. They looked at each other and they could read each other's eagerness to know who their guests were. They nodded at each other and abandoned their game of Leaf Ball to run to their nest. They had all agreed to walk on their four paws, not sure how their guests would take it if they found out they could walk on their two hind legs. They hurried to their nest, only to find out that Draganos had already left. There were now five beings sleeping in the newly made nests. The Dragoons slowly approached and they picked up a strange yet familiar scent. As if they knew the scent, but that it was mixed with something else. Something more elemental...
The Dragoons looked unsure at each other as a very unpleasant memory started to return. It couldn't be! Draganos wouldn't bring them, would he? As if to answer their question a yawning sound reached their ears. They looked to see a girl with blond hair sitting straight up and stretching, looking tiredly around.
"You!", Angelo growled as he spread his wings to look more menacingly.
The other Dragoons followed his lead, Micheal hiding Nerissa behind him. The blond human's eyes widened surprised and she started to make weird, animal like sounds, awakening the other four girls. One by one the girls woke up and sat up straight. The Dragoons noticed the slight difference between these humans and the ones from three years ago. These were wearing animal furs as clothing and all of them fancied a holy symbol while the red haired one, the one who had seemed to dislike Nerissa the most, had all of them on her body. Also their wings seemed bigger than before.
"Nerissa, stay back!", Angelo growled softly.
"We won't let them take you!", Micheal added, baring his teeth.
The girls seemed to have taken a notice to them as they jumped away from the nests the Dragoons had made.
"How dare they take those nests.", Cassidy breezed softly. "This time they'll pay!"
The five girls were standing on their four paws, just like the Dragoons and had spread their wings as well. Their symbols even started to glow and the Dragoons now noticed the different eye colours. While the humans from three years ago had brown, human like green or blue eyes, these had pink, orange, water blue, leaf green and silvery grey eyes, which all looked scared and threatening at the Dragoons.
The redhead growled something. The Dragoons only bared their teeth ready to attack their enemies. A silence ruled and no one moved. Angelo could feel Nerissa quiver a bit behind Micheal and he tried to look more menacing than ever. Alchemy started to breath fire, hoping to scare them. Angelo noticed how the girls seemed to be surprised by Alchemy's fire breathing and again some growling, snorting and barking came from them. Angelo wondered what was wrong with them. They didn't speak like this the first time they met and why were they surprised anyway? The five girls nodded and suddenly more power came from them. The dark skinned girl started imitating Alchemy, breathing fire herself while the redhead's hair started to crackle with real lightning. Angelo noticed how Joel started to glow and he prepared himself, his claws grabbing the earth beneath him.
'If they want to go and show off power, then I say we do the same!', Alchemy suggested to her fellow Dragoons.
'Can you fight, Nerissa?', Micheal asked her.
'I'm tired of being afraid!', Nerissa said with determination. 'I'm not going to let you all fight alone!'
'Then let's do this!', Angelo said as he made his eyes glow green. 'Together!'
Alchemy then made her eyes glowed orange, and Cassidy's glowed blue, while Joel's glowed white. Micheal's eyes glowed violet, and Nerissa's glowed yellow. The girls were surprised by this but held their ground. Both sides were ready to fight as Nerissa had electricity crackling around her like the girl with red hair did. This was it! It was now or never.
"ENOUGH!"
Moments earlier...
After gathering the girls and giving them the power of to speak and hear human speech, Draganos brought them to his world through the same kind of fold he uses to travel in between universes. Once through the fold, Draganos headed for the cave where the girls would be sharing with his young Dragoons.
'I only hope their first meeting is a good one.', Draganos thought to himself as he flew down to the cave.
Once there, he used his telekinetic powers to move the girls off his back and in to the beds the Dragoons had made for them.
'They did a pretty good job making those beds.', Draganos said impressed at the good work the Dragoons have done. 'Now I think I'll get a little snack while the girls are asleep.'
With that, Draganos transformed into his Dragoon form and took to the sky. As for the girls they were sleeping soundly, Cornelia heard the sound of many footsteps. She then heard a few gasp of surprise. She then sat up and stretched, while looking tiredly around. She then heard a strange sound that got her attention! Cornelia turned to see six creatures that looked about the same way Draganos did when they first met. But the creatures didn't look too happy to see her.
'Oh-oh!', Cornelia thought before she turned to wake the other girls.
Elsewhere, Draganos was in his Dragoon form, eating a pineapple while walking through the jungle towards the clearing the young Dragoons spent their time playing around. They were sixteen in human years, and very tall. The shortest amoung them was Alchemy. And she was at least 6'4. As for the boys, it was a tie between Angelo and Joel. They were both 7'1. Draganos made himself 8'5. He couldn't have the young Dragoon getting to cocky if they were taller than he was. But right now, he needed to explain to the Dragoon about who their guest were as to not have any trouble.
"This is the life!", Draganos said as he came to the clearing. "Peaceful times and good food! What else is there?"
Once in the clearing, Draganos saw that it was empty. All that he saw there was the Leaf Ball, they would play with from time to time.
"Now I know they were here a moment ago.", Draganos said looking around the area. "Where could they of gone off to? Oh no! The girls!"
Draganos then flew off to where the cave was hoping to stop a major battle from breaking out. Once at the cave, Draganos saw that the Dragoons and the girls were about to go at it.
"Oh boy!", Draganos said knowing that if he didn't stop this, and soon, all eleven of them would seriously hurt each other.
"Time to end this now!"
So, once he was close enough to them...
"ENOUGH!"
Present Time
The Dragoons and the girls looked towards the cave entrance to see Draganos standing there in his Dragoon form. Both sides were glad to see Draganos thinking he was there to help them. Boy were they in for a surprise.
"What is going on here?", Draganos asked as he walked further into the cave.
"Well, when we were playing Leaf Ball, we saw you flying towards the cave and figured that you had the guest you mentioned earlier.", Alchemy began to explain.
"I see.", Draganos said figuring things out. "And let me guess. "You all decided to come say hello to our guest?"
"Well, yeah.", Cassidy said. "But instead, we found them here!"
Draganos then turned towards the girls and saw that they were a bit confused.
'Girls. Can you understand what they're saying', Draganos asked them telepathically.
'Um... no!', Irma replied. 'We've never heard that speech before.'
'Funny. Last I checked, I gave you a quick lesson in it.', Draganos said with a grin.
'You mean that English language?', Taranee asked.
'Yes.', Draganos said. 'Just think about that language and you'll be able to understand and talk to the Dragoons before you.'
The girls then nodded and began to focus on speaking and hearing English.
"Can you understand me now, young ones?", Draganos asked the girls.
The five of them nodded to Draganos with smiles on their faces.
"Good.", Draganos said before turning towards the Dragoons who were each ready to pounce on the five girls. "Whoa! Easy, Dragoons! Calm yourselves! These are not your enemies!"
"Funny! They sure look like them!", Joel said glaring at them.
"Just because they've changed their garments and have different eyes means nothing!", Micheal added.
Draganos let out a sigh, knowing that out of all of them, Joel and Micheal would be the most protective of Nerissa, who was looking around of anyone else to show up and attack.
"Do not worry, Nerissa.", Draganos said getting her attention. "The one with black wings is not here."
"He isn't?", Nerissa questioned.
"No.", Draganos said. "For you see, my young Dragoons, these humans aren't the one that came here years ago."
"Well, they sure look like them.", Alchemy said.
"I know, Alchemy.", Draganos said with a smile. "But they are different. And they will be staying with us for some time. And I ask that you all try to get along. All eleven of you."
The Dragoons were silent at first. I mean these girls looked a lot like the ones that came to take them away from their home many years ago. And now Draganos was asking them to be nice to them. That was a lot to ask. But Angelo knew that if Draganos was willing to trust them, then maybe they could too.
"We shall try, Draganos.", Angelo said.
"Thank you, Angelo.", Draganos said.
"Speak for yourself!", Joel said.
"Joel!", Cassidy said.
"No!", Joel said. "After all that has happened, how can you be nice to them?"
"Because Draganos said they can be trusted!", Alchemy said as she stood next to Angelo.
"Well, I'm not letting them near Nerissa until I'm sure they can be trusted!", Joel said as he stood to Nerissa.
"That goes double for me!", Micheal, who was already next to Nerissa, said.
"What of you, Nerissa?", Draganos asked. "Do you feel the same as Joel and Micheal?"
"Well... A little.", Nerissa said. "I mean the humans that came here all those years ago tried to take us away. And they wanted to do something with me! I know you said that these humans are different, but seeing them brings back too many bad memories and nightmares. I'm sorry, Draganos."
"It is alright, Nerissa.", Draganos said. "I can understand why you, Joel, and Micheal feel the way you feel. But I do hope that in time, you three will try to trust these five. But for now, it is getting late and it is time for dinner. All of you wait here, and try to get along, while I go get us enough fruit to eat for a good dinner."
"Just fruit?", Irma questioned.
"When did she start speaking English?", Cassidy asked.
"Yes, Irma.", Draganos said. "For tonight, it's just fruit. Tomorrow you will learn a little something from the Dragoons when it comes to meat. But for now, stay here, relax and try to get along."
Taranee then looked down at the beds she and the girls had and saw that they had the furs of bears on them. Seeing this didn't make her to happy!
"A-a-a-are these, b-b-b-bear furs?", Taranee questioned.
"Of course they are.", Alchemy said as she went to lay on her bed. "Draganos taught us how to skin the animals we eat so we can use their fur for our beds."
"You eat bears?", Taranee questioned in a frantic voice.
"Bears, deer, rabbits, fish, certain birds.", Cassidy said thinking of all the animals they've eaten. "I like eating rabbits!"
"How could you eat, bears?", Taranee questioned as tears were running down her face.
Seeing this, Draganos walked up to Taranee and had her sit down before she fainted from shock.
"Calm yourself, Taranee.", Draganos said in a soothing voice.
"But..."
"Now, now.", Draganos said. "You have to understand that our world is different from the one you five have lived in. The bears, here, aren't like the one that you know. The bears here will kill you. And there are other creatures that eat bears as well. As well as the other animals that you five know personally. So, I suggest you try to adjust to your surroundings. For the Dragoons will not be changing their eating habits just to make you happy. And if things go well, you five may pick up a trick or two from them."
"Yes, sir.", Taranee said with a bit of sadness in her voice.
"Just give it time, little one.", Draganos said with a kind voice. "Things will work out before you know it. Now I'm off to gather fruit. All of you, behave."
"Yes, sir.", the eleven of them said.
Draganos then walked out of the cave and flew off while transforming into his true dragon form.
'Well, this was a fine beginning.', Draganos thought to himself. 'Let's hope they all can get along soon. Or this would of been for nothing.'
As Draganos flew off, the Dragoons and the girls stood there looking at each other. Three of the Dragoons didn't want anything to do with the girls, while the other three were willing to try and get to know them. As for the girls, they didn't know what to do. Standing before them were six creatures that looked like Draganos did when he was in the form he had when they first met him, only they were on all fours, just like them.
'So, what do we do know?', Hay Lin asked through their telepathic link.
'I don't know.', Cornelia said. 'Three of them hate us for some reason.'
'But why?', Will questioned. 'We never met them until today!'
'Wait!', Taranee said. 'Remember what Draganos said?'
'Um... No.', Irma replied.
'He told them that we weren't the ones from before.', Taranee explained. 'So, that means that.'
'They were attacked by five humans that looked like us!', Will figured. 'I guess that makes sense.'
'So, how do we make friends with them?', Hay Lin asked as she and the girls walked up to each other.
'I say we show them that can stand on two legs to show them that we're taller than them and aren't afraid of them.', Irma suggested. 'Remember how it worked with those foxes?'
'Nice plan.', Cornelia said. 'Small problem. We ARE afraid of these guys! I mean, look at them! They're HUGE!'
'They don't need to know that!', Irma said.
'I don't know.', Will said. 'We're trying to be friends with them. Not try and rule over them, Irma.'
'I agree with Will.' Taranee said unsure. 'I mean, Draganos is capable of standing upright and I really don't want to know how big these guys really are.'
'Pfft. I'm not scared of them! They're just overgrown lizards.' Irma said as she went to sit down, crossing her arms stubbornly.
Meanwhile the Dragoons were observing the five young girls. Alchemy, Cassidy and Angelo were looking interested at them while Joel and Micheal were eyeing them suspiciously. None of the Dragoons noticed how Nerissa was eyeing one of the girls in particular.
'Maybe Draganos is right.', Nerissa mused as she kept looking at the little redhead. 'Maybe they are different. I mean, the redhead hasn't glared at me the moment she saw me. If she really was the same as the one from years ago, she would have tried to attack me, right?'
Right at that moment the redhead looked around, crossing eyes with Nerissa. Nerissa quickly glanced away, hiding behind Micheal in a reflex. She felt how Micheal wrapped his wing around her and saw how he glared at the girls. Nerissa went to peak over his shoulder, noticing that the redhead was completely ignoring Micheal's glare and still looking at her.
'Why is she looking like that at me?'
The brown haired one suddenly growled something and the redhead snapped out of it, turning back to the others. Nerissa watched interested how the five of them started grunting at each other, breaking the silence that was ruling the cave.
'Great, now they're back to that grunting.', Joel said annoyed. 'How rude can you be?'
'Joel! Maybe it's private.', Alchemy scolded.
'It sounds like the animals.', Angelo said with a grin.
'Well they're obviously not smarter than them.', Micheal said, highly annoyed.
Cassidy clacked annoyed with her tongue. These mind conversations weren't going anywhere and she was bored. She'd rather go back to their game of Leaf Ball. She could easily see that Angelo was just as bored as she was and she nudged him.
"Hey, shall we go back outside and play with our ball? It's not like we're getting anywhere with this.", she whispered to him as she pointed slightly at the five girls.
Angelo looked at the girls but then nodded. Those girls weren't exactly trying to talk and he doubted that his friends wanted to talk to them at all.
"First one who has to the ball, wins.", he whispered before pushing Cassidy out of the way and turning around, running out of the cave.
Cassidy grinned as she got up, unknowingly standing on her hind legs, and started running after him, her wings flapping so she would accelerate.
"Hey! Where are you going?"
Some minutes ago
"Will, where are you looking at? It's not that dragon girl with black fur, right?", Irma sneered softly.
Will tore her eyes away from the female dragon with black fur. There was something about that dragon that attracted her. As if she was like her. Will shook those thoughts off and looked at Irma, who was glaring slightly at the dragons.
"Irma, why are you like this?", Taranee asked carefully. "If there is something you can't do now then that would be claiming territory. This is their grounds and we are guests. Or do you want another affair?"
"I know. I know.", Irma grunted back. "It's just that I don't want them to steal our sister. I mean, okay I allow you guys because well… You ARE family. But they can't be. They are way too different."
"I agree with you on that.", Cornelia said with a nod.
The girls looked surprised at her and she sighed.
"Don't get used to it.", she sighed. "But Will and Taranee are right. It's better that we just watch them. It would be stupid to try and dangerous to taunt them or impress them."
Irma sighed and laid down on her own bed.
"Everyone of you is just okay with this?", she asked, sounding scared all of the sudden. "I mean, we're pulled away from home, to another planet no less, with no chances to see our family for a year. And then we've got these weirdoes of which three seem to hate us. I just wish I was home, teasing Eros and flying around the trees."
Hay Lin hugged her softly when suddenly two of the six dragons shot past them. The girls looked in shock and awe how the girl walked on her hind legs before flapping her wings and taking off after the boy, who was still running on all fours. The dragon girl, who'd they seen breathe fire before, yelled after them.
"Hey! Where are you going?"
Only then the girls realized that they'd been talking their own language instead of the foreign English. They quickly switched back as the girl stopped her chase and turned around, pouting at the other girl.
"Alchemy! I'm going to lose now!", she moaned.
The girls looked confused at each other while the fire dragon girl placed her paws in her hip, while standing on her hind legs as well. The girls were looking rather shocked when they found out that all of the dragons were way taller than them yet Cornelia could not help but to shoot Irma an 'I told you so' look. Irma on the other hand was way too shocked to even know that Cornelia was taunting her.
"We have guests!", the fire dragon girl said annoyed. "You should at least ask them if they want to join."
The girls noticed how two of the boys looked irritated by the proposal, yet they stayed silent as the last girl pulled their hands. The flying girl, hang her shoulders in defeat and landed in front of them.
Cassidy sighed annoyed. Now Angelo was going to win her game. Why did Alchemy had to stop her fun? She looked down at the five girls, only finding that they were a lot smaller than she remembered. She then noticed she was standing on her hind legs and blushed.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!", she said apologetically. "Can't you walk on your hind legs?"
The girls all nodded slowly and it was the redhead who got up first. Cassidy frowned at the size difference. The girls were at least still a head smaller than she was. Despite that, she grinned at them, trying to keep her teeth as hidden as possible.
"So…Uhm.. I know it's kinda sudden but.. Me and Angelo wanted to play a game of Leaf Ball and uhm… Do you guys wanna join?", she said, looking awkwardly at them.
The five looked at each other, while the girl with brown hair just huffed and crossed her arms, the blonde nudged her. The redhead turned around and nodded.
"Sure… I guess."
Cassidy grinned widely and jumped up, spreading her wings and looking down at them.
"Then come on! I want to play before Draganos is back!", she said and took off.
Joel looked irritated how the five girls took off after Cassidy, all looking confused at each other. How could Cassidy be so nice to them if she knew what they'd done to Nerissa. He looked concerned at his sister. He'd noticed she'd been eyeing the five with caution, especially the one with red hair and he'd seen how the redhead had been looking at her. He didn't like the way they looked at each other. Nor how Nerissa almost seem to long for contact with them, while he knew that she was still afraid. He smiled wryly at Micheal, who was eyeing the girls with the same suspicion as him. Alchemy just huffed.
"There she goes… I wonder if she remembers that we're alive to.", Alchemy said, grinning at them. "So… Are you guys coming or what?"
Joel crossed his arms.
"Pff, I don't want to play with them.", he said. "They could very well attack us while we play."
"Then we'll just eat them.", Micheal said, showing his teeth in his grin.
Nerissa just shook her head.
"I..I'll think I'll stay with the guys. You go ahead, Alchemy.", she said doubtingly.
Alchemy sighed, knowing that none of them wanted to meet these girls, but they still should give it a try. She looked one more time at them, puppy eyeing them, but the three shook their head. Alchemy hung her shoulders and flapped her wings.
"Then I'll see you at dinner.", she said sadly.
But as she flew away, Nerissa gave her one telepathic call.
'Tell me how they are when you return!'
Alchemy looked back and saw Nerissa waving at her. A smirk crossed her lips. So Nerissa was interested. Maybe she could convince the boys to stop hating these girls. Maybe these were nicer than those from years ago. At least, she hoped they were.
A/N: Well, that was a fun first meeting between the girls and Dragoons. How will things turn out for the eleven of them? Will they all learn to get along? Or will they have a drag out brawl? Guess you'll have to read on to find out!
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