"You should be working."
I jump in my chair before I turn around, startled but still a little ashamed. He's right, I should be working.
"But", I start and stop again. There is no 'but'. I am at a loss of words.
Leo is watching me from Onyx eyes, and I feel the heat creeping up my cheeks. I'm not blushing, or am I?
"Where are the others?" I ask and quickly shut the book I was reading, remembering the page. It is funny, though, that Leo's come alone.
The blue-clad turtle shrugs. "Raphie's out with Casey, I don't want to know where. Donnie has some important matter to discuss with the internet research community he joined-" he makes inverted commas with his fingers as he says 'important matter'- "and well, Mikey's still emberassed and mad at you."
That attracts my attention. "Aww, come on! It's been more than a week now, and I apologized!"
Leo lifts one eye ridge and I suddenly feel caught doing something bad. "And that's the point", he says and sighs. "It's been more than a week now. When are you going to continue your stories?"
I look at my feet, I can't help it. "Sorry", I murmur. "I'll upload them soon. They are all written down, I just have to upload them and..."
"Don't lie to me", Leo interrupts sharply. "I know very well that you write your chapters in the document manager and upload them right away. Don't jazz me."
Now I'm getting stubborn, and I know it, but still. "I have been working, okay? So it wasn't your story I have been writing, that's right. But I really want to finish this book somewhen in the future... And I really want to win this writing contest..." I try to stare him down, realize I haven't got a chance, and look away again. Leo chuckles.
"I thought this contest was in February."
Damn, how does he know? Oh, wait. Right. He's a product of my imagination.
"I heard that", he says and crunches his beak. "Ouch, by the way."
I blink sharply and finally offer him a seat. "It's right", I start once he sat down on my bed, "the contest's in February, but it can't be wrong to start early since last year I totally messed up." I shrug and hand him a bottle of water. "So I decided to write a legend for the book I'm writing at the moment, and maybe I'll hand it in next year. The legend, I mean."
"What kind of a legend?" Now I have Leo's attention, and for a moment I just enjoy the feeling. Aww, how much I love this boy is ridiculous.
"A legend about the origin of our planet... It's called 'Legend of the dragons', and it has to do with dragons", I try to explain somewhat lame and I see his face lighten up. So he really is into the myth stuff, just like Donnie told me once.
"Can I see it?" He takes a sip of the water, trying to look uninterested, but I still have to chuckle. "Sorry, it's German", I then apologize. He makes a face. "Ah, come on, can't you translate it for me?"
I blush. "It's not finished yet." In fact, I hate when people read my stories. It's emberassing for me. And then, additionally, it's LEO. Aww.
He tries to convince me it doesn't matter, and of course I give in somewhen. I do the best I can, but I know it's awful because I have to think twice about every word.
"That was great", Leo states when I finish. And when I look at him because I think he's making fun of me, he looks directly at me. He's honest about this.
"Oh", I say and blush. "That's soooo sweet of you!" And I hug him.
Laughing he breaks the hug seconds later. "Okay, enough of that, he chuckles. "I gotta go now, I promised to get pizza for the guys..." I roll my eyes, because what else could it be? Pizza. Yeah. Cool.
"One more thing", he whispers hastily as he already climbs out the window. It seems he doesn't even want to ask, but he still does. "In your story... What if it happened differently... Is there something going on between me and Usagi?" His hands shake slightly, I see with interest.
"Don't you worry", I whisper back. "It'll all work out perfectly." And I give him a kiss on the cheek before he disappears.
The starkeepers watched the new planet and realized that it was about to destroy itself. To give it a chance, they sent their twelve legates down to the planet to control the fighting elements and bring peace... And these legates are the dragons, and as long as the planet exists, they will stay and watch over it. Fire ... Water ... Air ... Earth ... and their children Lightning ... Wood ... Ice ... Storm ... Steel ... Stone ... Psyche ... and Evolution ... But the planet still died. They all wondered what the reason could be? It just hung there in the universe, silent and calm, and the young sun was shining on its one side and shadowing the other.
And the starkeepers sent two more dragons down to the planet. And they were Sun, who brought light and made the planet spin in an endless circle about the shining gasball in the center... And Moon, who spent light at night and made the waters of the planet rush and play with the ground. And so, life was born... [Extract from : The legend of the dragons]