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The warm sun shone high in the sky of the deserted wastelands. Deadly rays of light sparkled across the shimmering oasis water, which quivered ever so slightly as a dry, meaningless breeze licked its surface. The water wasn't the only thing the rays reflected upon. They shone in the cold grey eyes of a young boy who sat by the waters edge of the oasis. Even the sun, warm and bright as it maybe, could never melt the ice that dwelled within his heart nor could it ever shine light into the shadowy depths of his elapsed and pitiful memories. He watched a small leaf drift back and forth in the water. Like him, it tried to escape its fate by floating back and forth, as he had often done when the heat was not so much humid.

He wore loose fitting trousers with knee guards strapped tightly to his joints. His matching shirt hung over his knees as his head was laid to rest upon them. His thick ragged hair concealed any other parts of his face that was not already buried within his limbs.

Light snoring could be heard as a young lady wearing a blue tunic, slept within the shade of the teen's shadow. The rare gust of wind played with her short, aqua blue hair as she dreamt. The boy took a rare note of interest as she sneezed and stirred. He smirked to himself as she wiped her ticklish nose with the back of her hand.

"Stupid girl," he scowled.

She opened her aqua eyes a little and shut them tight. She blinked, sat up, and stretched her arms up in the air and let them fall on top of the boy's shoulders. He dropped his shoulders and sighed. Then clenched his fists when she didn't take the hint.

"Get off me, Reese!" he said dangerously quiet, his knuckles whitened as he clenched harder. Reese let her hands drop from the boy's shoulders.

"You're so sweet when you're angry, raven," she said putting her head on his shoulder.

"I said, get off me," he said more quieter than before.

"What's that? I can't hear you?" she said playfully.

"I'll give you to the count of three, Reese, that's all -- three!" He began to count.

"OK, OK!" she said and sat fully up right at Raven's back.

After a few minutes of complete silence, she started up again. "You're no fun any more, you no that?" she said, pinching his cheek.

He smacked her hand hard away from him and stood up.

"Raven? What's wrong?"

"You sicken me!" He stood, for a moment, looking disgusted. "I can't stand you, everything about you, I hate. SHADOW, come!"

A small, black, mechanical dragon appeared by his side with blue, glowing eyes, which was about the same height as Raven. He took a few paces before a small, blue, mechanical tyrannosaurus appeared beside Reese, which resembled much like Raven's. It growled and nudged Reese on the shoulder. She sat and stared after raven.

"You're not having breakfast!?" she yelled after him. There was no reply. Raven walked on. Reese sat a top of her blue organoid as it began to pursue after Raven. They stopped in front of him as Reese scowled. Raven halted also, and smirked.

"Shadow..." he whispered.

The black organoid, in co-ordinance to his master's wishes, opened its chest like a closet. The insides of the dragon were hollow except for an assortment of cables, which slithered out like snakes and wrapped themselves around Raven's body and pulled him into the empty chest. The cables connected back into the organiod's circuits with raven wrapped securely within them. The chest plates closed over leaving only Reese, her organoid; Specular and Shadow visible. Growling he sprouted 2 black and red wings and with that it gave two beats and hovered in the air. For a second he glared at Reese and then soared forward into the distance. Reese watched as Shadow, which was by now nothing more than a dot upon the horizon disappeared from view.

Shadow appeared in a dank, dark alleyway. He growled and looked around before opening his chest plate. Warm steam poured out of his's chest as the cables slowly disconnected carefully, letting Raven fall to the hard ground. He lay on the ground, not moving for a moment, and opened his eyes. He groaned a little and got to his feet. Shadow growled.

"Be quiet, Shadow!" said Raven fiercely. "Stupid organoid."