Well hello there, it's so nice to finally have updates in a very timely order. Finally, there is nothing to really say here just hope you like it and please enjoy!

Dedicated to: XxKingdomxXxHeartsxX and Vixro (They were the first to review ^_^)

Pairings: SoraXRiku, CloudXSephiroth, MarluxiaXSaix, AxelXRoxas, DemyxXZexion, and many more.

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Acid Rain: A Dragons Story

Chapter 3: Powers and Problems!

Last time:Yuna shook her head sadly at the stubbornness of the other male. She was to finally say something when Sora yelled out for her to help him get the information of his father finally. She quickly turned to go and aid her son downstairs. Riku on the other hand glanced back and silently growled as the woman departed from her spot by the wall. He hated been pitied by humans, especially ones who were of the motherly type. He placed his shirt back down and walked towards the window. Once open, he climbed out and landed in the nearest tree, deciding that if he couldn't leave then he would stay outside of the house. He felt better away from the entire racket anyway. It wasn't long before Riku went back to his daydreaming; wondering was he free when he hatched? He leaned against the trunk of the tree, closing his eyes. He was never free….

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It was still an early night as Roxas and his partner headed out of the tavern to search for Vanitas. Roxas, the elder cousin to Sora and Vanitas, were just like his cousins in many ways. He just seemed to lean more towards Sora's features than the other. He also had beautiful blue eyes, yet they looked as if they were so much more like the deep ocean and rimmed with honey wheat colored eyelashes. It made sense as to why that was, if you were a honey wheat colored blonde with spikes ranging from the smallest to medium size. If your hair softly curved in a circular motion, as they got closer to your crown. It would be the same for you as well. Even though Roxas was so much like his cousins, his personality was just as smooth as his creamy skin. It was calm, cool, collected, and well reserved with a hint of hidden fury. The only thing that could possibly top this wonder of a boy, were his slightly flushed lips. Cutely, Roxas had a small habit if biting his tender kissers when nervous, or any strong emotions.

The younger master carefully walked a good ways away from the house before glancing at his dragon. "You sure you're ready? We can walk if you really don't feel like it..." Roxas didn't like making Axel do anything that the male didn't feel up too. It wasn't that the blonde was scared of Axel or anything; it was just a sort of thing between them. Roxas would ask all kinds of questions and either have some of them answered or all of them. While Axel had a very loving and trusting master, that would understand his feelings towards not answering some of those questions. It was how it always was between them, as for how it will always remain. "Hn…" The dragon once again refused an answer to his younger mate, just instead quickly changed his appearance to that of a dragon.

Roxas sighed softly as he climbed onto the dragons' back making himself comfortable. He quickly grabbed the jet black and crimson red binding ropes and slightly tugged at them. "I guess we can search by the school, he shouldn't be there, but it wouldn't hurt to go check right?" Axel growled in acknowledgement while spreading his wings out wide. He arched his body up higher before using his strong wings to push off the ground in speeds that shouldn't be allowed for any type of trainer in any level rank. Luckily for Roxas, he knew his dragon like the back of his short spikes. He knew Axel wouldn't go to any speeds that would danger his life; he also knew just how much Axel and him loved the speed though.

It really did seem like hours as they flew through the sky searching. It was starting to get really late by time Roxas made Axel do a re-search over the whole town. Still, Vanitas was nowhere to be found. The pair paused in mid-air to take a moment to scan over the village. Any sign of the raven would have been good for them, yet there were still no sign of the other. Axel growled in irritation as Roxas slowly turned the ropes to go and check out the neighboring forests. "Roxas, we have been through his section for five times, he's not there…" The young master tenderly patted his scaled friend on his head sympathetically, "I know, I know, but we can't go home thinking he already made it there. I didn't hear aunty Yuna say he obtained a dragon today, so he's in danger out here at night. We have to keep looking, please Axel…"

The beast silenced his growling as Roxas pleaded, and for that he remained silent for the rest of the flight. He hated when the blonde had to plea, for he saw such things were beneath his young master. Axel finally obeyed the other's command and turned towards the forest near the school. The wind was starting to pick up slightly, passing the scent of blood to cross over the dragon's senses. "Roxas hang on, I smell him, and he's bleeding…!" Without even needing the final command to dive down, Axel moved swiftly to try and save his master's family member. He didn't want to alarm the other, but the smell was strong, and the other sent of timber wolves weren't helping either.

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Vanitas was not at all happy with the situation that he was currently in, not at all. It wasn't supposed to be like this, not be trapped by these scrawny timber wolves. He was supposed to be stronger than this, not running through the dense dark forest trying to get away. The raven slowly slid to a halt as one of the wolves seemed to finally catch up with him. He quickly unsheathed his black dagger and readied himself for a fight. Vanitas slowly glanced at the front and back of him as a pack of twenty canines bared their teeth at him. One large white blonde wolf decided to get jumpy and charge towards Vanitas, but he was quickly cut down by his blade. The canine yelped in pain as his body roughly landed on the other side of a tree trunk. The rest of the pack wasn't going to let one of their own be attacked, they all charged in almost order to grab a chunk out of Vanitas.

The only thing that seemed to be on his side was his agility and wits. He waited for the opportune moment to quickly dodge their attacks. The pack of wolves sadly crashed into each other as Vanitas jumped over them and began to start his run once again. It was only the alpha female of the group who saw through the raven's plans. She quickly barked her orders while taking off to run after the boy in a rosy blonde blur. He was fast, but she was faster. He was smart, and knew his way around the tree trunks rather well, but she knew the forest better as it was her home. The forest was large and vast filled with old tree trunks and large roots that seemed to want to step up off of the ground. It was hard to see, as the night fog slowly crept around his running form. Vanitas found himself breathing much harder than he would like to believe.

His chest burned as the lack of air wasn't reaching his desperately needy lungs. He suddenly started to slow down, thinking he was good enough away from those terrifying creatures, when on a ledge of rock before him stood the alpha female in all of her glory. She stared threateningly down at him with her icy blue glare, giving him no chance what so ever to run. He was trapped, between an old mossy trunk and an angry female pack leader. It wasn't long before she was finally joined up with her jet black alpha male and their pack.

She slowly backed up allowing her mate to take the joy in killing their spoil. He growled something of an acknowledgement while he slowly made his route down the ragged ledge towards Vanitas. The male's crimson eyes brightly glowed in the ever growing night of the forest, making it hard for the boy to see anything besides the creature before him. The beast crouched down low ears back ready for his kill, as Vanitas tried to brace himself for the attack.

"Grrrrrrrrrah!" The black alpha male bellowed out as he jumped towards Vanitas. The boy dodged to the right landing on a tree stump before sliding to a halt, the blade ready at his side. The wolf quickly changed direction and charged leaving the other with no time to escape his attack as he leapt on the boy. Vanitas yelled out in pain as the animal's teeth easily dug into the flesh of his left arm still wielding the blade. The thick ripples of blood started to flow slowly down the beast's mouth and down his throat to land on the dark ground. The other members of the wolf pack eagerly wanted to join in the battle. Thankfully, they were acutely ordered by the female to sit and wait for their leader to finish. The black leader pushed the boy down by using his immense weight, trying to rip the boy's arm off by biting down harshly once again.

After gaining his wits once more, Vanitas grabbed his dagger from his injured arm and stabbed the beast in the left side. The animal yelped in surprise as he back up and fell to his right side. By this time, the alpha female had seen enough and charged at Vanitas while his back was turned. She grabbed him by the right section of his side and chomped down hard ripping a good chunk of flesh off, leaving him very bloody and torn. The boy screamed out in pain as his body fell to the ground in a heap of flesh and bones. The other wolves of the pack circled around his form while the female hurriedly tended to her mate. They all slowly started to close in on their, more trouble than he's worth meal, when a strong gust of heated wind came flying through.

"VAAANIIIITTTASSSSS!" Roxas yelled out as he jumped from Axel's back to land on the ground in front of all of the wolves. They quickly turned around ready to defend their meal, when the black looking dragon with frightening toxic green eyes possessively stood in front of Roxas. They all growled to protect their masters and food while the female helped her mate up. She barked an order and they slowly started to back up and leave Vanitas alone. Guessing he wasn't worth dying over. She stared before turning off into the night. Only the wolves who wanted to get the already won over meal still stood and readied themselves for battle.

Axel arched his body low and growled deeply as Roxas slowly ran around him to try and grab his dying cousin. The wolves turned sharply to try and attack Roxas not before getting harshly snapped at by the dragon in front of them. They were starting to annoy Axel, mere scrawny wolves trying to go against a dragon! How bazaar they were! The crimson dragon had had enough! He slowly walked with full weight making the ground jump a little, the wolves slowly backed up away from the injured boy and which allowed Roxas to finally get to him. The much smaller beasts got ready to run around the dragon and grab their meal when they noticed that the larger animal had reared up. The forest was lit up in red lights as large spikes of fire shards shot out of the dragon's mouth. Axel's intense attack of force and heat from those sharp spears of flame he made, morbidly ripped and torn through the flesh, muscle, veins, and bone of those wolves leaving not even a single cell of blood. Roxas stared in awe while curing Vanitas of his wounds, as the light show didn't end for what seemed like minutes.

In all of his years of owning Axel, and learning attacks with his dragon from scratch, has he never seen an attack like that before. The blonde paused before gasping. Was that Hell Fire? The boy asked to no one in particular. It must have been, I have never seen that one before. Never mind that Roxas, Vanitas need real medical attention! Roxas quickly healed what he could before grabbing the other and holding him up. "Axel! Help, we got to get him out of here, and NOW!" The tall beast quickly lowered his body for his master to quickly get on with his family member in tow. After tying the boy tightly to the dragon, Roxas roughly yanked on the ropes making Axel raise up quickly to fly towards home in haste. The wind stinging against his face was no amount of pain compared to his cousin must have been feeling right now. The dragon flew as fast as his wings could take him, which was pretty fast for his type of liking. It wasn't long before the village was finally in site and his dragon dived down to land and skid rather roughly on the sandy ground. Axel roared rather loudly letting out a few flames on accident, trying to get the hospital's attention. It worked.

There came all types of doctors and nurses' rushing to see what was troubling the dragon, before seeing Roxas covered in blood and untying Vanitas from his seat. "It was a wolf attack!" Roxas finally got out while releasing the raven to them. They decided to ask more questions about it later, as they helped the badly injured boy from the blonde one, while another group started to inform the Heartnets of their son. It was after all going to be a very long night, for everyone.

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One hour passed, since that horrible night had started, and actually began to make Axel and Roxas worry deeply. It made the whole family forget about eating or sleeping that night.

Two hours had passed, since the news of Sora's brother was brought to the hospital.

Three hours had passed, since the doctors said it was looking real bad.

Four hours had passed, since Sora started pacing his room dreading the news of his brother's death reaching his ears.

Five hours had passed, since people from the village started to leave get well baskets and letters of good health for them.

Six hours had passed, since the hunt for that pack of wolves started.

Seven hours had passed, since Roxas had received any sleep that night, besides a short nap in Axel's curled up tail.

Eight hours had passed, since Zack and Yuna had come back home, to inform them of any type of new news at all.

Nine hours had passed since Sora started to cry once he heard the news.

Finally, Ten hours passed, before Riku actually started to feel sorry for the male he hated so much.

It was a very long night before Axel turned to look at his young master still curled up in his tail. He sighed before lowering his head to see if his master was still asleep. He paused when the male looked up and stared at him with so much hurt in his deep blue eyes, it made Axel want to cry himself. "Roxas…" The beast almost whispered in fear of breaking the boy's heart any more than what it already was. The young master slowly sat up and shook his head 'no' trying to tell his partner that he was fine. He knew he couldn't hide his feelings from the dragon, but he will damn well try! "I'm fine, just tired that's all…" The dragon growled lowly to show his distaste in Roxas lying to him about anything, especially his heart of all things. The blond quickly stood up as if to stand his ground for his comment. "I said I'm fine Axel! Drop it!" Roxas glanced up and watched.

Axel, the Garnet Dragon, slowly rose to tower over his little master. His appearance wasn't that much different from Riku's, really. The only differences that could be seen happen to be the scales. They weren't silver, but of a very bloody red color in nature. They seemed to be bleeding if it weren't for the fact that they were scales. His wing span was slightly larger, due to his age, and surely it matched with the rest of his crimson colored frame. The blood scales gleamed against the rays of light like flickering flames. Axel's large black talons seemed very neat and well-kept as it dug into the sand. His large black claws copied his ebony black crystal spears at the tip of his tail, the same fashion as Riku's, ready for battle. The other difference was that he had a set of two pairs of onyx horns protruding backwards from his cranium. The last other odd thing about him; was that you could obviously see that his tummy was in a completely lighter shade of red than the rest of his scaled body.

"Don't you dare try to lie to me, Roxas! I know you far more than you know. You're hurt, and you blame yourself for not looking hard enough. If you feel that way fine, but I will NOT allow you to blame yourself for not making it in time. You were on MY back, and I was the one FLYING! Not you! If you blame anyone for not making it, you blame me!"

Roxas paused while biting his bottom lip, staring up at his partner fuss at him for the first time in their long history together. Axel wasn't the type of animal to yell, fuss, or get into arguments if he felt like it wasn't needed. So to hear his dearest dragon try so hard to make him feel better by blaming itself, made the blonde smile for the first time that day. He shook his head making his short spikes softly bounce, a small action that Axel adored so much. The young master walked up to his dragon and hugged his ruby red stomach, feeling the warmth and love from the other. "A-Axel…thank you…"

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Riku had long ago gave up on trying to avoid the thought of just going back to sleep. How could he though? Sora stayed up all night crying about his brother, and this and that. How was a dragon supposed to get any sleep, while his master kept sending heart aching feelings to him unconsciously? You can't! The silver haired male sighed heavily before reaching his body out to open the window. He remembered Sora mentioning that he will never lock this window as long as Riku was outside. Riku slowly, yet quietly sneaked his self into the room of his master, trying not to awaken the boy. He would really hate to see…no wait-he meant hear the boy cry again. Yeah that's it, hear as in all of the noise! In any way, Riku was trying to put it, he didn't want to hear, see, feel, or anything of that type of stuff coming from Sora, if he could help it. The diamond male glanced at Sora, whom cried his self to sleep, move to snuggle more into his warm bed.

It was small, but something inside of Riku wanted to move that annoying piece of strand away from the sleeping brunet's beautiful face. He stayed there for a long time in the middle of the room fighting himself trying to decide did he want to move the hair or just say 'fuck it. I'm outa here' and just leave. Riku was surprised to feel his body move towards the side of the bed where the young master slept. He was even more shocked to watch his hand come from his pants pocket to reach towards the boy—before Yuna walked up into the room. "Oh, Riku…how is he?"

Never in his life, was Riku's clawed hand had ever zipped right back to his side before in his entire life. He glanced up at her concerned face before shrugging, and offering her a "Neh…" soon after walking pass her to exit out of the room. She watched as he walked out and down the stairs to finally go eat those damn berries. Yuna, paused looking very confused wondering why Riku stopped in her presence, just to leave before reminding herself of the pride of a Diamond. The brunet woman sighed before walking over to her baby boy, hoping that he had recovered since last night. Seeing that he must have gotten a little bit of sleep, Yuna smiled and replaced the covers for him.

Sora groaned in his sleep as she removed herself from the bed finally. He seemed like he was having a nightmare, before it smoothed itself out. She pondered what else can her family go through. A broken front part of the house, another son in critical care, a nephew hurting just as bad, and her husband losing his job to top it all off. Yuna was a smart woman indeed, but sometimes she did want to be ignorant and blame the Diamond downstairs for her bad luck. She didn't truly believe that all Diamonds were bad luck, evil, sneaky, dangerous by nature, and vile creatures, but it did come off as that way sometimes. So it worried her, would this had happened if Sora wasn't chosen for the Diamond by Gaia, Odin, Shiva, or any of those other gods?

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Well, this was indeed the first time I actually wrote about someone actually getting hurt. It feels nice…hmm. Anyway, I hope you all liked it. I tried really hard with this considering this was the only way to let out a lot of anger. I happen to really like it lol.

Ohh like I said, if you see problems let me know kay? I don't mind fixing them.

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