Blue Leaf
It was a week later. Serenity stayed in bed. Not out of depression, but out of sickness. Many doctors came, with ideas, but not one was able to answer. Word spread quickly, rumors flying that invaders from an unknown world were coming. First to get rid of their princess, so nothing stood in their way to make every one slaves. Serenity sat up coughing. The doors leading to her balcony was open, along with the window across from her bed. Gasping for breath she sat up more.
"Its not a invasion." A deep voice came from her open window. " Demons and the human tobacco smoke do not go well."
"What?" The figure flinched at the sound of her horse voice. She sounded as if she were old and dying.
"Our lungs, they have reaction to the smoke. It is why you got sick." Serenity nodded, understanding as much as she could in her incoherent state.
"Motoki." He knew she would sense his aura.
"Yah?"
"Am I going to die?" Motoki jumped from the window, and landed beside her bed. A soft warm, yet smile on his face. He reached into the pouch he carried, and pulled out a blue leaf. He moved the sheets down to her stomach, and began to rub the leaf along the skin of her neck and chest. It left a pink residue, which slowly evaporated into her lungs, when she took a breath. Serenity smiled sweetly up to her brother, closed her eyes and fell asleep. Motoki jumped up, and rested at the head of her bed, he looked down at her, and sighed.
" You are so stupid!" He reached down and flicked a lock of hair a way from her eyes. His wings pulled free from his back, and flew him into the full moon's light. With out warning, Serenity jumped up and looked out the window. She put her hand to her forehead, looking confused. Demon?
An Icy Widget
"Princess?" Silver knocked on the door slightly, and smiled. A large male guard followed behind her, carrying a large blue egg.
" Hi," Serenity smiled, " is that for me?" The guard smiled and placed the egg on the edge of her bed. After moments of awkward silence between every one Serenity sighed. " I am not feeling good." Serenity watched them leaved, yawned, and laid back down. " I really need to get out of here. Oh Endymion," she hugged her pillow, " hurry home." Hours later, the moon was slowly setting, and soon the sun was to rise. Serenity grunted as she rewrapped the covers that were being pulled from her body. Twice now her comforter was falling from her body, and with her windows being opened, the cold air was not pleasing with out her warmth. Sitting up, she became face to face with a large blue nose. Her heart skipped a beat, but soon she was able to conclude what happened. A long wet slippery dragon tongue slowly licked her cheek. Serenity reached over and grabbed a note that was attached to the now broken egg shells. She smiled and patted her new Minako dragon's head as she opened the note and began to read it.
" Dearest Moon Child,
Rumor came to me in the human realm of your sickness. Knowing you would be in the palace, I sent some company for you. The male blue dragon, you see before you is an orphan, and I knew you would be the best person to take care of such a creature. Please write to me soon so I may tell them of a name. Please get better soon, and I will come to see you when the time is write. Everyone is doing grand, and they hope you the best as well. Stay safe, love Helios."
Serenity smiled gratefully, and wrapped her arms around the dragon.
" I knew he would never forget me. You my dear, are going to have a glory of a name!" Serenity slipped the note under a pillow along with one other she kept from Endymion. " What would be a good name for a dragon such as your self be? You are the color of blue, so how about the name Icy?" Serenity said hopefully, yet he just grunted and shook his head. " Well okay, in that case, I have always been fond of the name Widget. I once had a song bird of such a name, and I do miss him so." The small dragon licked her hand, and with that became Widget.
Who she really is
The men had been gone for four months now. Every time they found a battle it was one that had nothing to do with the war at hand. They enjoyed the practice, but it was mostly just humans pillaging. They had just got back into the Dragon Realm.
Screaming was heard for miles, and the smoke was being sucked into the sky. Running, Endymion and his men followed, till they reached the village of Hin Do. The small huts were burning brightly, and the villagers were being killed slowly. A human with Endymion raised his sword in anger, and began to run towards a large demon looking creature rapping a human woman. Slashing the creatures head off, he was thrown back by the very creature who's head grew back. The head on the ground smirked as it began to grow a body, and now instead of one, there were two. The man ran back and told Endymion and the others what he had encountered. Endymion looked up when he heard his name.
" We have heard of you, and your army Endymion Kitts of Tanglewood. Take this as your first of few warnings, continue with whom you deal with, and this will be the scene of every where, starting first with the first place you hold dear." The sky grew black and a fire engulfed what was left of the village, and the strange new creatures."
" What the fuck was that?" Endymion said as he looked around.
" Was the village even real?" A human asked as the sky became clear again.
" I think it was a vision. Look." He pointed to wear the village was being attacked, and there indeed was the Hin Do village, full of life as if nothing had happened.
" Endymion," Stlyker pulled him aside, " What the fuck was that all about?"
" I think it has to do with Serenity, the war is beginning to get more serious than they had thought."
" They knew who you are, and did you heard what was said. He chopped off his head and he never died. Two out of just one." Endymion nodded.
Night came quickly, and the men sat around a few small fires, chatting of their homes, and who was waiting for them, then the conversations became viscous.
" I wish that stupid goddess would get off her big ass and do some work around here. I mean who the fuck does she think is." Endymion quickly grabbed the speaker and put a knife to his throat.
" Don't you ever fucking dare talk about her that way, she is more of fighter than you will ever be, and you should be grateful she is even letting you fight for her. It is an honor, and you should be killed on site for saying such fictitious things." Endymion let him go. The leader of the Human half of the army stood, and looked to Endymion.
" Young one, you must realize it is how we feel, it is how every one feels, this war is getting bad, and she is needed. No one even knows if she is really alive."
" She is." Endymion replied. " She is, and soon, she just needs us to be strong, we are her personal army."
"Her personal army? Endymion that doesn't make any sense."
" Tell them Endymion. Tell them the truth or I will." Stlyker said forcefully.
" Tell us about the goddess Endymion. What truth do we need to know about her"? Endymion looked down at his sword, the flowing pink ribbon covered in blood, torn, tainted. While he drifted off into a memory, Stlyker told the men about their Goddess, and how Endymion knew so much about her.
" So you are really leaving now huh?" Serenity said looking down to the ground.
" Yes, but don't forget, we have a deal."
" What if I don't love you anymore? Or you stop loving me? Will you still be here for me?" Endymion didn't show any emotion, just patted the top of her head, and began to walk a way. "Wait!" Serenity cried out. Endymion stopped in pain at hearing her shriek in such a manner.
" What?" He turned around, and found a pink ribbon hanging from her hand. He looked to her hair, and winced to see one side flowing down, and the other tied behind her ear. " What is that Serenity?"
" A gift, so you will never forget the Child of the Moon." Endymion looked shocked, as she gracefully tied the ribbon around his wrist.
" Well, where I come from, one can not accept a gift from one, with giving him or her one in return."
" I will not accept a gift from you Endymion, you have done a lot for me already, and with any more, I truly will become the spoiled princess everyone thinks I am." Endymion placed his hand under her chin, and lifted her face up to meet his. Slowly his lips came to contact with hers in such a soft kiss she barely felt it. Before the kiss was given the chance to become deeper, and her body to completely melt into his, he pulled a way. Opening her eyes Endymion was gone, and in his place was a small dagger. Encrusted on the handle was a ruby Endymion, with ivy holding it's wings open. Serenity knew instantly the dagger was made special for Endymion at the fact the handle was too large it was heavy for her. Holding it to her heart, Serenity walked away.
" The girl whom you all met at the Tavern was the one and only Serenity Star MoonBlade, the Moon Goddess you all say should get off her big butt. Endymion, is her lover, the one person who can protect her from her demon insane brother." He continued on, and stopped once he realized that Endymion was just standing there. The group of men stopped and looked to Endymion, and nodded.
" I love her. And I know what you all are thinking, but isn't that why you are all here?" Endymion asked as he pulled his sword out for everyone to see. " To fight for the girl you love? Serenity is the goddess, but she is also in a life that you cannot understand. Fight with me. Not just for her, but also for the family you all have, hope to have, or lost. Don't let innocent lives die for no reason. If we stop, every one will die." The men looked to Endymion, and together, they began, with a new reason to battle, not just to kill, but also to kill those who are a risk to their heart.
