Dragon Shifters

Dragon Shifters

Summary:

"Do you want to join the Varden?" Eragon asked the four of them. "Yes, on one condition. We don't join the Varden. The Varden join us." Shade replied.

Prelude

Shade and Ea watched from the audience as their two friends, Bader and Arreo, performed on stage. The music was loud, and both of the performers had an expression of sheer joy on their faces as they went through the dance. Shade had one hand on her ear to tone down the volume.

Finally the music ended in loud bang and both girls on stage stood motionless before dropping their final poses and bowing as they backed off stage. Shade smiled when they reappeared at the doorway to the auditorium. "You did pretty well." She congratulated them. Arreo grinned.

"I know, even if I did kick Thomas Park's ass backstage." Bader laughed. "Aw man, you should have waited till we were backstage before you did your performance! I wanted to see the look on his face." Shade joked as she mock pouted.

Bader laughed again. "I think he was surprised when Arreo broke his nose and then changed from her tennis shoes to her boots." Arreo shrugged, tapping out a pattern on the floor. "He asked for it. Besides, he's been bugging me for a date again. I think he got the message this time." Arreo replied. Ea handed the two girls water bottles. "Thanks." Arreo said. "Shall we go?"

"I thought they were handing out rewards at the end?" Ea said softly. Arreo scowled. "Yeah, but not to us. We've been over this before. The principal has pets, and those are the only ones who are getting anything worthwhile." Shade nodded to the truth of those words before she looked over Ea's shoulder and tensed up and snarled.

Everyone turned around and saw Thomas Park and his group of friends. Thomas had brown-blonde hair with fat, pink cheeks with a thick body to match. His brown eyes were staring at Arreo while one of his hands was holding his bleeding nose. "What's the matter? Didn't get the message the first time?" Arreo asked easily. Ea and Bader backed up. They knew better than to try and help Arreo or Shade when they decided to mess someone up. They looked around.

"How about we take this outside?" Shade snarled as she pulled her clawed gloves and brass knuckles out. Bader and Ea sighed as they started to pull their weapons out as well. Ea pulled on leather gloves while Bader pulled out an athame dagger and started to move towards the backstage door. Arreo pulled her boots up tighter and making sure that the zipper to her boots was all the way up and not falling down.

Thomas and his gang were walked out the door without drawing anything. The girls turned to each other and smirked.

Arreo was humming under her breath by the time they reached the woods where most of the fights were held. Shade grinned evilly when she realized what Arreo was humming. "Why don't you give us a little bit of music to work with Arreo?" She asked. Arreo shrugged and sang the only verse of the song she knew.

"These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do

One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.

You keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin

And you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burnt.

"Ha! I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah

And what he knows you ain't HAD time to learn." Arreo said and she high kicked right into Thomas Park's jaw.

With the crack of breaking bones the fight started. "You keep saying you've got something for me. Something you call love, but confess. You've been messin' where you shouldn't have been a messin' and now someone else is gettin' all your best." Shade sang as she smashed her brass knuckles against one of Thomas's goon's face. The sound of braking bones put a smile on her face as she took her other hand and slash at his face.

"You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin' and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet. You keep samin' when you oughta be changin'. Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet." Ea sang as she smashed her fists in another goon's face and kicked his feet out from under him.

"These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do, one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you." All four girls sang as they turned the boys' faces into mush.

"You keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin and you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burnt. Ha! I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah and what he know you ain't HAD time to learn. Are you ready boots? Start walkin'!" Bader sang as she slashed her dagger across the last goon's arm.

When their song ended, all the boys dropped to the ground in pain. Shade looked at Arreo, who had bent down as if to check to see if Thomas was alright. Instead she brushed of a spot of dirt on her boots and stepped over him, making sure she kicked him again as she and her friends walked away, heading for the woods with the fading tap of the shoes that had just walked all the goons lying in the dirt behind them.