Rise like the Phoenix

Chapter 3

A/N Alright so I hope that everyone who read the last chapter and I plan on making some action so later for the story but it may not be much. Other than that I think I don't have much to say.

Demodius left the room with his cloak so no one would notice him and found Torque at the bar like he was when he got breakfast, from what he saw most people were gone since it was just after the lunch rush. He walked forward and sat beside his Torque and said "Hey"

Torque looked over and said "You ok, you sounded like you were about to die in your sleep?" Demodius said "It's ok, I have bad dreams a lot I'll be fine"Torque nodded leaving it alone and said "So what do you wanna do today?"

Demodius thought it over and said "I don't know, what do you do around here for fun?" Torque thought trying to think of something that he might be good at and said "Well we could hunt for the rest of the day?" Demodius smiled at the idea and said "Ya sure I can show you how amazing I am" he friendly gloated completely out of character.

Torque chuckled and said "Well we should do that as soon as I've gotten something to eat" Awan came back smiled to Demodius and said "How was your sleep sleepy head?" He said "Terrible, had nightmares" Awan laughed "It has to be night to have nightmares. But anyway you gonna be ok?" Demodius said "I'm fine I've had worst" He said giving a reassuring smile. She smiled back and stayed with them to while Torque ate.

Demodius learned that enjoyed the occasional hunt and asked if they she could come along some time and Demodius offered tomorrow and she accepted so Torque and Demodius rescheduled the hunt to do something else today. When Torque was done he said "Alright see ya later sis thanks for the food" he said getting off the stool and Demodius followed after waving her goodbye before he left and she said "See ya later boys"

When they left Torque looked over to his friend "So since we postponed our hunting trip you got any other ideaaaa..." he suddenly stared off somewhere behind Demodius and he waved his paw in his face and then turned to see what he was looking at.

Kirk saw a Blue dragoness matching the description that Torque had described for Stream, he was kidding when he said she had fins on side of her head like ears but no horns. She also had more fin like wings and a fan shaped tail fin and knee fins and finally webbed feet. She was beautiful and curvy like he said too and Demodius turned to see his lower jaw drifting down and he rolled his eyes and pushed it back up making a *clack* sound and he snapped out of it.

"Huh, what?" Torque asked looking like he just woke up and Demodius smirked asking "So that's Stream, I can see why you like her, unless you account for the fins" He chuckled and Torque said "She's different you got a problem with that?" Demodius said "Don't worry, she's cute go talk to her"

Torque said "No I'm not doing that" she said backing away and Demodius smirked and poofed away on black smoke and appeared beside Stream and said "Hey my buddy over their likes you" he poofed back over to his friend who was heavily blushing and said "Why'd you do that, now she'll never like me" Demodius chuckled and as Stream gave a very quick smile to Torque then walked away and Demodius said "Well I made the first step for you and at least she know you're interested"

He growled and said "Well then I guess I should tell Awan you like her to return the favor" Demodius suddenly growled and said "First off you tell her and I'll murder you second I don't like her" he said not realizing he completely contradicted himself. Torque backed away from his anger and said "You're a terrible liar about that stuff"

Demodius realized what he said and growled before pointing at him as a threat before saying "Choose something before I choose a bone to break" Torque said "Maybe we could find something for your half of the room. I'm thinking a picture of Awan right" he joked making his friend growl and he laughed.

Demodius said after "I thought I was just passing through?" he said acting like that was the plan when didn't feel like going anywhere and Torque said "Oh ya, the traveler, Anyway I still think we should at least decorate it a bit for my next tenant when you're gone. I'm thinking for now we get a lamp and some books because we have a night stand and a dresser already" Demodius nodded and said "Sure thing let's go"

They headed down to the market and Demodius realized his cloak was gone and hoped that no one would notice him and recognize him. They saw one small building that said "Home furniture" and Torque walked in followed by Demodius.

Inside was a red dragon, he looked up from witling a piece of wood and smiled "Torque, what brings you here my friend" The dragon was about the same size as them which meant he was probably the same age, he had more muscle tone then both the other dragon but Torque would probably beat him out as he got older. The dragon had a slightly elongated snout that was a bit crocodile like but wasn't as flat. He had a flame tail blade which was what he was witling with and had red eyes and a kind face.

Torque said "Hey Scorch you minding your dads shop while he's out?" Scorch nodded "Yup, who's this guy?" He looked to Demodius and Torque introduced them "Scorch this is Demodius, Demodius this is Scorch" Demodius didn't like how e was throwing out his name like that but what could he do, tell him to stop and raise suspicion from his friend?

When Demodius and Scorch greeted each other Scorch asked "How's your sister?" Torque rolled his eyes "The same as when you last asked the past few hundred times" Demodius heard this and with not much thinking he realized that Scorch had a thing for Awan too… "WAIT what? I don't like Awan, no let me rephrase that. He liked Awan" Demodius thought catching himself. Torque seemed to sense he was thinking that and winked to him with a reassuring smile for some reason and he didn't understand what that meant but he turned to talk to Scorch again.

"So Scorch we came to get a lamp you got any?" Torque asked and Scorch smiled getting up and walked through a door behind him to find one. Suddenly Torque turned "If you were wondering he likes Awan too and has made a few advances on her but she's shot him down so no worries bud" Demodius was about to comment when the door opened again and he shut up.

Scorch came back with a nice lamp that was eliminated by a rock in the middle that glowed; they called it illumi-stone because the rock glowed for some reason and it worked great as permanent torches or lamps. The shade was a beige colour and the stand was made of dark wood and Torque said "This will be fine, thanks Scorch. How much we owe ya?"

Scorch said "Well your whole nights pay would usually do but I think 5 gold coins will do" He joked and Torque payed him and said taking the lamp "Hey we were gonna go hunting tomorrow you wanna come?" Scorch thought and was leaning to saying no until Torque said "Awan will be there" He instantly said "Sure count me in"

Torque smiled and walked out with his friend in tow and when they got outside Demodius said "So if Awan doesn't like that guy why'd you bring him along then?" Torque said "I don't know. Why do you care?" he asked messing with him.

Demodius wasn't going to be caught off guard again and said "I don't just wondering" He said and continued walking until they reached the inn and they saw Awan at the bar who looked bored and waved to them. Demodius cracked a small smile and waved before walking with Torque to their room and they placed the lamp on the night stand beside the bed. When they agreed it looked fine they left again to get some books. After he chose a few he had mostly horror stories and had two adventure stories and they came back again to see Awan was on her break.

She was standing near the door of the inn, she had her eyes closed standing still with a small smile and Demodius asked "What's she doing?" Torque said "She does that sometimes when she's had a hard shift, she basically listens to the sounds of nature and takes in deep breathes. It relaxes her" The black dragon nodded and saw her smile more as they approached and said "Hello Torque and Demodius, how've you been since I last saw you ten minutes ago?" she asked

Demodius said "Good, we've been buying books so I'll have something to do when I'm bored" Awan chuckled lightly and randomly commented "Have you ever noticed when you ask how someone is, unless they're in a really bad or good mood, they always say 'good?" Demodius looked to Torque again and he whispered "When she's like this she almost seems like she's on drugs" They heard Awan chuckle again obviously hearing that and Demodius said "Well umm have fun with that" and left with her brother.

When they got upstairs he placed the books in the single nightstand drawer and said "Alright so what do we do now?" Torque didn't answer and he looked over to see him looking out the window. Demodius walked over and looked out as well and saw what he was looking at.

It was Stream walking down the street and he heard Torque make a dreamy sigh and Demodius rolled his eyes. "Dude are you seriously going to watch her from a distance for your whole life?" Torque snorted "No… I'll get to it" His dark companion rolled his eyes "Ya when? When someone else finally gets her, or when you finally grow some balls?" Demodius said trying to get him angry and he obviously did. "Hey! Shut up stop pushing me"

Demodius said "Well then I'll stop when you go down there and talk to her" Torque trembled a bit in anger and snorted "Fine I will" he said impulsively making Demodius smile as he walked out. He looked out the window and saw him stop Stream and say something to her making her smile then said something as well. He said something else making her think and she nodded to whatever he asked. She walked away smiling and Torque suddenly started hopping around excitedly.

Demodius smiled at his friend and heard someone knock on the door and opened it to see Awan. "Hey Awan, why'd you come up here, I thought you needed to work?" Awan smiled "In a few minutes but why was Torque so angry about?" Demodius chuckled "I… 'encouraged' him to talk to Stream" he said making Awan laugh "It's about time someone did I was wondering what that yelling was a second ago outside, now I know it was him" She smiled.

Demodius smiled seeing her smile and said "Well I guess I'll see you at dinner" This made Awan make a fake pout "What are you trying make me go?" she put on the sad face and Demodius said "Yes I'm trying to not make you late for work" he said chuckling as she cut the act and said "Fine but you promise you'll be at dinner?" Demodius rolled his eyes "Yes, no get out of here" he shooed and she smiled "Great it's a date" she said cheerfully walking away making Demodius yell "Hey you don't mean a real one do you?" but she chuckled walking back to work.

Well there you that's chapter three and I actually added Scorch for this because I believe I needed a bit more drama for later, and as for other stuff I got plans so wait and read. As I said I'd like to thank Native Avenger for helping me out with Stream and Awan. Alright see ya later.

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