A/N: I have decided to do the second part of the Troubled Beginnings in one day, just because I'm bored and have nothing better to do. I really would like some more reviews to help me form a more solid structure to the story, and any would be welcome. Now, on to the Disclaimer part of this.


Disclaimer: I do not own any franchise nor do I profit from them, they belong to their owners. I only own my OC and plot.


Ch. 2 - Troubled Beginnings Pt. 2 - Revelations

Date: Unknown / Time: Unknown / Location: Unknown


Having used the epinephrine cocktail syringe, I started to feel the effects within moments. I felt more energetic and less in pain caused by the fight. I started to rise to my feet, using the tree behind me for support, and watched the dragoness's facial expression change from one of anger to one of shock, from what I could decipher. I looked around a bit at the field I woke up in and saw several splattered blood spots from when I got bit, to the ones caused by possibly dangerous internal bleeding and having vomit to lower the buildup of blood. I returned my gaze to the dragoness while I stood up to my full height, the expression went from one shock to a sly looking grin, thinking, 'What the hell could she find pleasant in battle? I will make her think twice about that.'

As I thought out some strategies to end this fight quickly, I settled with brute force and charged her. She seemed to not be expecting such a move, but dodged with a roll to the right, and countered with a downward slash with her tail blade. I parried the attack by using my right forearm bracer to deflect the slash to my right. She attempted a horizontal slash by spinning herself around, trying to get a high amount of inertia into her swing, but I deflected it into the ground. I feigned a charge at her as she rolled to her left and she attempted another vertical slash and I dodged to the left, seeing her tail impact the ground, causing some dirt to fly up from the attack in my mid-roll. After several more slashes of her tail with no direct hits, she changed her stance from four legs to standing on her hind legs, holding her talons on her front paws in a wide stance and her tail arched up and behind her, like a scorpion's.

With her stance she easily towered over me by 4'. It was slightly intimidating, but I refocused on her as she tried to strike me with her talons. I dodged moving backwards for several seconds until she used her tail to stab me. I did a daring move and parried one of her tail strikes and brought fist back and punched right for the center of the chest. The dragoness was pushed back a few feet, but didn't seem fazed and countered by bringing her open hand, talons pointed inward, into my chest just below the solar plexis, piercing my flesh in some places and knocking the wind out of me, picking me up five feet of the ground. As she was lifting me up higher, I grabbed hold of her forearm with both hands and kicked with my legs into her chest, effectively removing me from her talons and dropping to the floor. I gripped my chest and felt for where her talons had imbedded themselves, feeling no major threat of the placement of the wounds, I got up and charged her again, full-tilt, this time catching her by surprise and carrying her with me. After a few heavy steps, I slammed her into a large moss covered boulder, managing to crack the surface of it. 'Damn it, I can't keep going much longer. Need to find a weak spot...' I contemplated.

Seeing the dragoness get up and shake off the impact, almost made me visibly slump, thinking, 'How long can this dragon go?' I shook the thought from my mind and braced myself for more punishment. I charged at her while she attempted a powerful horizontal slash, which I stopped running at her, turned in the direction of her tail, and braced for impact by placing my arms in front of me in a boxer's block. Her tail blade hit my left forearm bracer followed by the right and I was being pushed back hard, but I was still standing, trying to push her tail back to a slow enough speed to escape her spinning attack. When her attack slowed down to the point where the dragoness looked like she was growing disoriented and started to stumble, while continuing to spin, I ducked under her tail and she launched herself faster and tripped over her own feet.

I took the opportunity to climb up on her chest and pull out my 7" carbide-steel, fixed-blade knife and was about to strike. When she saw the blade, she suddenly spit out a breath of what seemed like a black liquid at me. I flinched and retreated to a safe distance and that was when she shot a stream of the liquid from her maw and it impacted me. My MBA suit seemed to be covered in a black fog, but I wasn't worried too much about it when she charged again, with my knife in hand, shouting in an almost gruff manner, "I've had enough of this shit, now die will you!" That was when the dragoness's expression immediately changed and she launched herself and brought me down to the ground, pinning my arms to the ground. She opened her maw and I thought it would be the end, "Y-you can speak!?" She suddenly spoke in surprise with a soft, but ragged voice. I ceased my struggle to free my arms, "W-what the fuck!?" I spoke in a near whisper out of awe more to myself than her.

After the initial shock wore off, she spoke again asking, "What are you and why are you here? You better not be one of Malefor's post-mortem loyalist spies." I didn't respond, still processing how the hell a dragon can talk, let alone exist. She bared her fangs and asked the same question again.

I snapped out of my thoughts and answered, almost solemnly, "I'm not really sure why I am here, let alone how I got here."

At that the dragoness slightly eased her grip on my arms, but not enough to let me go and asked in an almost interrogative manner, "What do you mean, how you got here!? You probably walked here you dumb ape!"

My expression went from one of confusion to one of anger and spoke with venom, "First off I'm not an ape, I am a Human. And second, you don't have to be smartass."

"Humph, liar..." the dragoness scoffed.

"I'm not a liar," I retorted, continuing, "and to prove it, I'll show you what you say I'm not."

The dragoness shook her head and said, "How can I trust you not to just attack when I let you go?"

I answered her question by asking, "How about if I disarm myself?" To show I wasn't lying, I let go of the knife in my left hand, dropping it into the grass.

The dragoness let a sigh go and said, "Fine." She then removed her paws off of my arms and backed up so I could get up. I got to my feet and used my TAC to turn off the magnetic plates on my armor, releasing my various weapons and causing them to drop to the ground with a dull thud. I unlocked a clamp alongside my helmet's visor dome and pulled it back, revealing my scarred face to her. "So, you were telling the truth...?" She questioned with a look of sympathy.

"Yeah, I'm telling you the truth." I spoke solemnly, "I'm Human..."


A/N: Geez... it feels like it took a while for me to write. Well, I hope to start seeing some reviews because I have a chapter that is later in the story and I haven't really worked on it. It has to do with Alex having arrived in Warfang and having already spoken to the Guardians, going into the city and doing some, 'sightseeing.' If anyone has any ideas they would like to share on that subject, it would be appreciated if they would put them into a review and I select maybe only one or maybe up to three ideas of what to do in Warfang and get to writing the basis for it. I will also put up thanks to those who offer any ideas and those who have their suggestions selected will be noted in special thanks in the chapter's A/N section. I hope you all are liking what I've wrote so far...