The next few days was awkward for everyone, what was I thinking, none of them would probably trust me in a million years, and what about Katie? Did she still care about me? I looked over at her, and like always the sun light her up like the brightest star in the sky. I knew I was running out of time to prove myself, Katie's birthday was next month and still no one but her trusted me. I don't know why but I got up and walked over to Seth.
"What do you want?" he asked
"We both know the answer to that Seth?"
"And why should I help you?"
"Your a smart kid Seth, we both know the anwser to that one as well."
"Well everyone is looking for something different some sort of change I guess. I think they're all waiting for the mission, they'll probably treat it like a finale test."
Of course, that's what they were all waiting for, the mission. I guess then it's a good thing that I remeamber everything I learned about the Society hopefully that will help, hopefully. Everyone trained for another few weeks before we got another letter telling us where the memeabers where and soon we were all on a plan heading towards the Carribean Island's. I never did like tropical places with all the sun and sand and beauty, but then again I grew up in a frezzing cold mountain range so yeah.
"Hey you ready?"
I looked up at Katie.
"Yeah." I said looking back at the window as she sat down next to me.
"What's wrong?"
I didn't answer her.
"Are you worried about what the other's might think once this is all over?"
"What if they don't see that I've actually changed and they see me as the monster they knew before. I don't want to lose you again and I really don't want to go back to the Himalayas either."
"You really do care don't you?"
"You doubted me as well?"
"It's been so long and then you came back and said that you changed, I had my doubt's as well but I didn't have a grudge against you for long."
She looked down at her necklaces.
"Why did you give this to me?"
"Because there is no one else in this intire universe who deserves to wear that more then you. It seemed selfish to keep all that power for myself when I know that if it wasn't for you I might have died several times. You deserve it more then I do."
"You know what I missed most about you?"
"What?"
"I missed that stutter of yours."
"Y..y..you mean this o..o..one."
She smiled and leaned into me, and I placed an arm around her for the rest of the flight. Once we landed we got into a cab and we were off to some forest range.
However a few miles into the jungle I knew where we were heading and I knew that the guide was leading us in the wrong direction so I walked over to Stan.
"Stan, we're going in the wrong direction." I wishpered.
"Let's rest here for a while everyone." he said
Stan lead me a little ways away from everyone.
"What do you mean?"
"Well there's a map at the Himalaya headquarter of every headquarter for the society and I had to memorize a good portion of it and one of the places was the headquarter in which we are heading to but we are going in the wrong direction. Our guide is leading us into a spiritual place for the local indieans who hate it when anyone goes into their spiritual area. He's going to get us killed, he has to be working for the society as well."
"I hope you're right Gavin."
We walked back to the group and told them what I told Stan and we waited until nighttime to move out. To see if I was right we walked a few ways ahead and found the spiritual area and then I led them back in the right direction towards the societies headquarters where we found ourselves looking at a castle like tower.
"Way to go Gavin." Warren said
"So how to we get inside?"
Everyone looked at me and I thought long and hard about what I knew about this place when I remeambered that they specialize in sword fighting and have a very small security system and a weak spot in the side.
"Follow me I can get you guys in easily."
Everyone was skepticule about following me but I lead them to the right side of the tower, took out my sword and traced a pattern that only someone from within the society like myself would know and a door opened up and in we went.
"Why did you lead us to this side?" Kendra asked
"This is their blind side, we can sneak in through here and we are also just a few corridors from the head office. If we can take him down we can capture the intire tower."
"Ok. Gavin lead the way." Warren motioned onward
"And one more thing everyone here specializes in sword fighting that's it they do not know any other fighting technique." I added
I lead them in and down the winding corridores that I knew to well and soon we found ourselves looking the leader of the carribean headquarter, and no one was expecting the shock we recieved.
"It's nice to see that you have changed Nevarog." the leader said
But what shocked us all was that it wasn't a boy no not this time and instead it was a girl no older then probably Katie and she looked odly familer.
"Your being rude Nevarog aren't you going to introduce me to your new friends?"
"Azriel?" I asked confused
"So you do remember me well you should it wasn't that long ago we saw each other."
"Gavin who is this?" Katie asked
"This is my sister Azriel. To bad we can't stay and chat."
At that moment a group of people came in sourounding us and the fight began. KAtie and I went for my sister while the others took care of Azriel's forces.
"Is this that girlfriend of your's brother? Gosh she sure is pretty."
"Don't get any ideas Azriel."
"What ideas."
Her eyes went red as she starred into Katie's blue eyes but not for long before she let go.
"Why you little twirp."
"Didn't they tell you not to look into a wizards eyes." Katie said with a grin
"A wizard? Now things got interesting."
After my sister learned that Katie was a wizard the battle didn't last much longer and soon we had Azriel's men captured and I sent Katie to heal the others while I took on my sister.
"Why did you leave brother, daddy would have been so proud of you right now."
"You know very well why I left, remember father banished me you insulent girl."
"Oh yeah that's right."
"Why did you tell him.."
"What, that you weren't coming home because you were to much in love with a mortal girl. Wasn't that right though? Don't you love her?"
"She's not like other mortals, she's different."
I hated it when she would use what I thought and how I felt against me and expose them to everyone around us. But I didn't have any cool ability like her's all i could do was fight and something else but it's far to dangerouse to do, but soon I was loseing the fight. With one more spell cast at me I was flung to the ground and Azriel bent low over me.
"What's the matter brother all washed out. You never had the strength to beat me or your brother's you were always the weakest of us and now father finaly see's it."
"Hey get off him."
The next thing I knew was that my sister had been flung against the wall and soon she was fighting a very short battle with Katie who had her captured as well. Stan called in the other knights to clear everyone out and Katie helped me outside. We sat down and I saw that during the battle my side wound had came back and I had a nasty scratch across me face from where my sister had hit me. As Katie healed me I saw some men takeing my sister away.
"So that's your sister?"
"Yeah that's my sister."
"She seemes pretty strong."
"She was the strongest of us. She could read anyone's mind, their thoughts, and their feelings and she would use that power to weaken her oponents. My older brother Cairo, he could use any element or levitate anything in order to attack or defend, Jerome my other brother he was the brains behind us and he could use any weapon or any fighting style ever created, my father he was a fighting machine, had the toughest scales, lava for fire, and could give off a poisuness gas that could kill anyone and anything even another dragon."
"What about you?"
"I'm like most dragons, fire breath, scales, great with spells and a sword or any really sharp object. Then I have this one ability but I swore I wouldn't ever use it."
I saw Stan coming over.
"Well it looks like you did well today Gavin."
"Thanks."
"Yeah I didn't know we were being led to our doom." Warren said
"I guess maybe you have changed." Kendra said
Just hearing that from Kendra made me feel that was my test, the event that would determine if I could stay or would I have to face my father once more. When we returned to the main house in which we stayed in when we came here I went out back and found a small pound in a circle of rocks and got down on my knees and closed my eyes. A few minuets later Katie came out.
"What are you doining?" she asked
"Just praying to a god I don't believe in."
"Cause you've got time while she's got freedom."
"When a heart breaks no it don't breakeven."
She knelt down next to me and looked me in the eyes.
"It's funny really." I said
"What is?"
"I feel like I'm waiting to to be found guilty and executed or something like that."
"What you just did for us was amazing. If you were still against us, you probably would have let the guide lead us to our doom but you didn't and you could've let your sister capture us but you didn't. That's two times you saved us."
I pulled her in close.
"I only saved you. I don't really care much about the others and what they think about me, they can all rot to death for all I care."
"Then why are you trying to impress them?"
"For you my dear. I would go to the ends of hell for you, I would break into heaven to be with you. I would take the blame for all sins laid on your heart just so you could be happy. I know that I may not be prince charming or Romeo, but you are my sleeping beauty, my Juliet."
"I didn't know the dragons could be so romantic."
"They just haven't meet people like you."
The next day back at Fablehaven Stan told everyone about what I had done and what would have happened if i weren't there or if I was still against them. Well I think that's what happened, I was stuck outside waiting for their desicoin, but who was I kidding they just want me gone I can see it in their eyes.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?"
"What do you want Braken."
"why do you seem upset? Shouldn't you be glad that you've fooled most of them?"
"I'm not trying to fool anyone. Here take my hand read my head if you still don't believe fairy boy."
I put out my hand waiting for him to take it and read my thoughts like all unicorn's loved to do.
"What?" he asked
"Isn't that what you want? To read my mind, to see all the lies I've been telling?"
"I know you're not lying."
"what?"
"At first I thought you were but I can see how she actually means something to you which I have never heard of from a dragon, but she's like you in so many ways so I can see why you two love each other."
He came over and sat down on the bench next to me.
" Listine I know we haven't been on equal ground and maybe it's time we set our differences aside and learn to get along."
"A unicorn and a dragon getting along, what will come up next?"
"A demonic dragon who's in love with a mortal wizard."
Katie came out.
"They're ready."
"Good luck mate." Braken said
I walked into the living room and faced my jury.
"Last month we found you almost dead and you told us you were here to see KAtie and none of us believed you. Over the weeks you strived to prove you were not lying and even saved us of late. Four of us said that you should leave and never return or to lock you back up."
I dropped my head in fear for what I had heard. I knew they didn't trust me, hopefully they would lock me back up at least then I could still talk to Katie.
"However we went off of majority rule and there were five of us who agreed that you were not lying and should stay. Who knows when we might need your experties on the society again."
I lifted my head back up and looked at Stan in the eye.
"Your letting me stay?"
He nodded. I was speechless actually.
"Is there a problem?"
"I will say that I wasn't expecting this. Thank you."
Katie rushed to me and hugged me tightly and she kissed my the rest of that month we went on two more mission both we ended up fighting my two brothers and together me and Katie won both fights. Sure we were captured once maybe twice and I think I came close to dying as well but we still won and soon we had half of the societies top men behind bars and Katie even came up with a type of bending that would take their magic away if they posessed any and she even wiped many of their memories so that they wouldn't remeamber working for the society and our numbers grew and I was even re-inducted into the Knight's of the Dawn. But the end of July would be coming up in just a few weeks and I still had something to ask.
