Author's Note: Ugh, school is so heavy. Good thing we are getting this party started here! Oh, you want to know why? Well you have to go on and read. Big thanks to my Beta Sonata Raye.


Shuang stopped in his tracks panicking. OK maybe she's cold, not thinking I'm taking her away from her guardian. He gave the baby to Kimiko, only to make the baby cry louder.

Wuya decided it was the right time to attack. She jumped behind Kimiko only to have a face full of flames as the baby burped. Shuang quickly took off his wool sweater revealing a long sleeved white shirt.

"Here, give her to me." Shuang took the baby away from Kimiko wrapping the baby in the wool sweater. But the baby kept crying.

"Strange, the child seems to breath fire." Chase stood behind Shuang. The baby looked up, only to smile a toothless smile. Chase scrunched up his face. "Revolting thing."

"Hey, how come she stopped crying?" Raimundo asked.

"Reckon she was cold, poor little miss." Clay offered.

Kimiko pressed her lips together and took out the dragon scroll. She began reading it then gasped.

"The baby imprinted on both Shuang and Chase!" she exclaimed. "Whatever that means."

Shuang groaned cursing the very day his father was orphaned and adopted by his grandfather. It was only reason he thought that caused it to come to all of this. He was not in the mood of living right now.

"So what does that mean?" Clay asked. "Is it like a duck imprinting, or soul mate thing?"

"It's more of a duck imprinting thing." Shuang spoke up, feeling like the ground should swallow him right now.

"When a imoogi imprints, its when they think they found their right guardian. Their guardian's aura is then connected with the child, until it feels like they're ready to be on their own. But on rare occasions the dragon decides to imprint on two individuals, as like in a mother and father."

"Does that mean you are the mother of the dragon and Chase the father?" Omi blinked.

"No! Just two people to look up to in times of need." Shuang was now praying the world to end right then and there. He was not going to be called a mother!

Chase knitted his brows together. "I am most certainly not taking care of a mere child."

"That's where the bad part comes in." Shuang swallowed. "If the imoogi senses one of it's guardians missing for too long, it will began an early transformation, creating a mass destructive dragon until it is reunited with said guardian. And trust me, you don't want that happening." he shuddered at a past memory.

"What if I want this to become a destructive fest?" Chase hummed. "What is keeping me from it happening?"

"Well, last time I saw that happen, the child kept itself in its dragon state for four long years not letting its guardian go. Whenever the guardian tried to escape, it ended up killing half their family and most of the mountains where my grandfather lives."

Chase clicked his tongue in thought. It didn't seem bad for him, he wanted chaos and destruction in the world. Then again he wanted it his way, not some mindless child's way. He began pondering on how to control the child in its beast form, then stopped.

"When does a…imoogi start its transformation?"

Shuang scratched his head in thought with a free hand, then Dojo in his small form crawled on his shoulder.

"Don't say anything, I've got a ba-ad feeling about this."

Shuang took it under consideration until his memory came through. "When they're 16."

Chase cupped his chin with a hand and hummed.

"You are not considering to take care of- of- of a child?!" Wuya screeched, "What if it makes you soft! What if you go to the side of good! What if-"

"Silence, you disgusting hag." Chase snapped. "I was just wondering if I had enough time to raise the child in the Heylin ways."

"You will do no such thing Chase Young!" Omi jumped into action.

"Like we'll let you!" Raimundo pushed his double behind him.

Everyone stood in their fighting positions. Before they began to battle Shuang yelled at their stupidity.

"Didn't you guys hear me! If the imoogi senses its guardians are gone, it won't stop at anything to get towards them. It would most likely be a thousand years of darkness if they sense their guardians in danger!"

"Oh great, like I've never heard that one before." Raimundo slouched down.

"That sounds most undesirable indeed." Omi

"Oh, so either way it would be a win-win for the heylin side." Wuya laughed rubbing her hands together.

"But there's no way you're going to take my double with you, Chase!" Raimundo shook his fist in anger.

"Well at least we aren't running around in our sleepwear now are we?" Wuya snapped.

The young monks looked down in embarrassment- even Omi, when his sleepwear looks the same as his robes.

Shuang looked around feeling uncomfortable holding the baby. Suddenly maybe staying to listen to grandfather rambling didn't sound so bad.


Shuang sighed as he entered Chase's lair. Kimiko gave Shuang the golden tiger claws to him so he could go to the temple in case he was in danger. Everyone was in a giant fiasco fighting about where Shuang and the baby should stay. Seeing that a thousand years of darkness was not wanted, Raimundo decided his double should stay with Chase. Chase was ordered that no harm may befall Shuang. Chase rolled his eyes knowing how stupid that would be of him.

Chase walked up to his throne with Wuya following him. "My cats will show you to your room." he said sitting down. "Make yourself at home Shuang."

Shuang jumped when a tiger nudged him with his head. He followed the two panthers in front of him leading him to a luxuries enormous room. The rooms theme colors were red and gold, lit up by the candles surrounding each corner. He went up to one candle to blow it out, only to notice he couldn't.

He laid the sleeping baby on the bed, and the golden tiger claws on the nightstand next to the bed. He tried licking his thumb and pinching the candlewick, only to get himself burnt.

"What is wrong with this candle?!"

Shuang sucked on his burnt finger to hear chuckling behind him.

"All of the lighting is controlled by me, so if you want the candles to go out." Chase took a long pause. "You have to ask me."

Shuang groaned. He couldn't believe he had to ask permission to have the candles blown-out. "OK, can you please turn off the candles?"

"Of course," Chase snapped his fingers, darkening the room. "there is extra clothing in the drawers in case you want to change." Chase sounded close, causing Shuang to shudder in fear. "Also a bathing room through the small door in the corner."

A whirling sound of wind came. Shuang didn't know if he was left alone or not. He felt his way through the room finding cabinet opening the drawer. He felt what he thought were silk loose pants. He stripped himself of his clothing, putting on the pants that were a tad big on him. He began feeling his way back to the bed, careful to not harm the baby.

The baby. Shuang though. You need a name, but all I can think of is hope. Hope to stay alive, hope that dumb fates choice of a dragon protector wasn't stupid , hope that everyone back in the mountains are safe…That's it! Your name, your name will be... "Your name will be Hope." he whispered falling asleep.


Wow, has Raimundo and the others given up on Shuang so lightly? Will Chase be the fatherly guardian, or the heylin master? Will Shuang survive in this new world? Find out later on through future chapters! Also this will not be a yaoi fan fiction, F.Y.I.