A Legend Is Born

Chapter 4: six becomes eight

Everyone was at Central Park, after what had happened to Kai, they were talking about the dream they all had.

"So it's happening to all of us huh?" asked Alan who was sitting beside his cousin Kato.

"Yeah," Kato said with a nod of his head.

Shiron was sitting between Tim and Kato; Greedo was leaning against his tail with Blaze and Kim sitting on ether side of him. Tairo was lying down on his stomach with Kai and his two sisters sitting up against his side.

"Kato? why didn't you tell us that your partners with a dragon?" Izumi asked in a sad voice.

Kato bowed his head in sadness.

"I just didn't want you guys to get involved in this," Kato said.

Just then Blaze decided to change the subject.

"Uh…guys?" he said as everyone looks at him. "What are we going to do about out partners? I mean, we can't just walk home every once in a while with out vambraces on our arms, believe me for my dad is getting suspicious of it."

Greedo nodded his head in agreement. Everyone went into their own silence, thinking on how to hide Shiron, Greedo and Tairo. Just then Kai snapped his finger.

"I've got UN idea," he said as every looks at him. "Alan? Do you remember that old abandoned warehouse beside the ocean?"

"Yeah," Alan said with a confused look on his face. "What of it?"

Izumi go the idea on what Kai was saying, and so did Kida.

"But Kai that's way too far to walk," Kida said as she looks at her brother.

"And I don't think that there's an airport that goes to that place," Alan said with a flat pan look.

Just then Shiron had taped Alan on the head with his right wing, Alan looks at Shiron with a question look.

"What?" asked Alan in an annoyed look on his face.

Shiron pointed to him self a few times then to Greedo and Tairo, Alan looks at the wind-dragon for a few minute then shook his head.

"Oh-no, ho-on," Alan said as he stood up. "You are not getting me up into the air on one of those things."

"We're not things kid, we're Legendz," Tairo said with a glare at Alan.

"And you only have two choices in this matter," Shiron said as he helps Kato and Tim onto his back. "You can ether 1) get a ride on one of us Legendz, or 2) you can run all the way there, so what's it going to be?"

"Okay fine, fine!" Alan yelled as he turns his back to Shiron. "I'll take the stupid flight plan."

Shiron grabs the back of Alan's shirt with his jaws, with Alan yelling out in protest, and plops the human boy onto Tairo's back with his other family members. Kim and Blaze had climbed up onto Greedo's back.

"Ready for take off, Sky-hawk?" asked Tim, as if he were on a plain with an intercom in his hand, as he looks over at Blaze.

"Ready over here Dolphin, how about you Lion-boy?" asked Blaze to Kai.

"We're ready, over," Kai said with Izumi holding on to him.

"Air-dragon here, ready for take off," Shiron said as he unfolded his wings.

"Roger that Air-dragon, Draco out," Kato said with a smile.

With one flap of the wings of the lion, and dragons, they took off into the air.

In an alley a boy was walking with only his shadow beside him. His name was Tailor, or Tai for short, he is a thirteen year old. He wears a red baseball cap on backwards, his short hair, that was under the cap, is black and his eyes were a cloudy-blue. He wears a blue jacket over a black short sleeve T-shirt with a picture of a wolf on it, and brown shorts. On his feet were black and white shoes.

Tailor was an orphan whose parent's were killed in a car accident; he was the only survivor. But the accident had left Tailor permanently blind, he had been in many foster homes but he could never feel any love from them. Tailor soon went on to the streets and life had been hard tough for him.

Soon Kato and the gang came to the abandoned warehouse; Shiron bent's his neck down for Kato and Tim so they can get off. Greedo did the same for Blaze and Kim to get off. Tairo lies down so Kai and his family can slide off his back. Alan had collapsed on to the ground with his eyes closed.

"I never want to do that again," Alan said as he drops onto his back

Tairo had stood up on his two hind lags and scoops Alan up in his front paws, then lifts him up off the ground. Kato came up to the garage door and puts his head to one side.

"So….Kai? How are we supposed to get in?" he asked as he looks over to his cousin.

"Well…when ever Izumi and I want to sneak in, we always go in by the back door." Kai said. "But I don't think that the doors are open, you see…the people locked it up."

Kato think s about what to do when something caught his eye. A window was open and that gave him an idea.

"Hey Shiron, give me a lift up." Kato said as he points to the open window.

Shiron looks at Kato then at the window. Shiron nodded and gave Kato a lift up in his right hand. Kato had grabbed the edge of the open window and looked inside. He saw the first floor with stairs leading down to the ground he also saw the garage door.

"No bodies home," Kato said as he slides inside.

Shiron and the gang waited for Kato to open the garage door. There were a few crashes with a few coughs and sneezes that came from inside. Finally the garage door opened and everyone in the group, with Alan who had regained his nerves, laughed out loud. Kato, who was standing in front of the gang, was covered in dust from head to toe. Kato was blushing from embarrassment but he also laughed along with the other.

After everyone had calmed down they all started to walk around looking at stuff.

"This place is kind of spooky," Tim said in a timid voice.

Blaze and Alan, who was set down on the ground by Tairo, were looking in some of the open crates. Blaze had found a few masks that were from Africa, Japan, China, etc. Alan had found some old dusty jewelry in another open crate.

"Now who would throw away such good jewelry?" questioned Alan as he looks at a pendent.

"Maybe…because there fake," Kim said as she came over to look at the pendent.

"How would you know that Kim?" asked Tim as he walks up to Kim and Alan.

"Jewelry is a girl's best-friend," Kim said in a proud voice.

Kato was trying on an African mask and was soon walking around while making growling and snarling noises. Izumi faked a scream and ran off to hide behind her brother Kai.

That mask that Kato was wearing looked like a monster with huge teeth.

"I am the monster that lives in the shadows and I am here to eat you're sister up," Kato said in a scary voice.

"I'm the warrior of the wind and I won't let you," Kai said while taking a fighting poster.

Shiron and Tairo watched in amusement as the two boys circled each other. Kato was about to tackle Kai when he felt someone tap their finger on top of his head. Kato took off his mask and looks up at Shiron.

"I think we should hold this battle for another time, don't you think?" The dragon said with a smirk.

Kato nodded with a smile on his face. Blaze was looking at a Japanese demon mask. Kida was trying on a necklace that looked it came from a native tribe.

"Who's in here?"

Everyone froze and slowly turns towards the entrance. They saw a boy who was the same age as Kato.

"We're sorry, we didn't mean to come in here," Kato said as he walks up to the person.

"You sound like a kid my age," the boy said as he looks from left to right. "Who are you boy?"

"Kato" he said as he stood in front of the boy. "Who're you?"

"Tailor, but Tai for short," the boy said as he looks strait in front of him.

"What's wrong with that guy?" whispered Kai to Tim. "I mean look, Kato's right in front of him but he doesn't even look at my cousin."

Kato had already found out what's wrong with Tailor. For he saw that Tailor's were a cloudy-blue.

"You're blind," Kato said in a sad voice.

"Yes I am," Tailor said in a sad tone. "I became this way ever since that car accident and I also lost my family."

Shiron, with Blaze and Greedo, walked up to Kato and Tailor.

"It must have been hard for you," Shiron said as he puts his head down towards Tailors face.

Tailor was startled by the new voice in front of him. Slowly he raised his hand up and almost pulled back when he felt the warm breath of the dragon on his face.

"Its okay Tailor," Kato said with a smile on his face. "Shiron's my friend so he won't hurt you."

Tailor puts his hands on each side of Shiron's muzzle. Tailor gave a small smile as he with draw his hands.

"You're friend Shiron isn't human, is he Kato?" asked Tailor in a question tone.

"Yeah," Kato said. "Shiron is actually a dragon."

Tai nodded his head in understanding. Just then Tairo bare his fangs started to growling with Shiron and Greedo taking fighting stance.

"What's wrong Shiron?" asked Kato as he looks at his partner.

"Someone's coming," the white dragon said.

Kato and the others ran out side and saw a giant wave coming towards them. Kato had grabbed Tailor's hand as they ran out of the building. Tairo and Shiron flew out of the warehouse and trusted their wings. The wave disappeared to show off a giant crab.

"Not you guys again!" yelled Kim, Kato, Kai and Tim at the same time.

"Yes us," the girl, who was none other then Sakura, said.

Sakura was accompanied by Ken and Ben. Greedo had flown up to help Shiron and Tairo in the battle.

"When will you guys ever learn to just give up?" Kai yelled as he waved his right fist up in the air.

"We don't give up," Sakura said as she flicks her hair back over her shoulder.

Two black wings, which Kato had seen once before, appeared on Ben's back.

"Enough talk," Ben said as he flies up into the air. "Just give us you're vambraces so no one gets hurt."

"Who would ever trust the word of a bully," Kato said with a glare.

"So if you want to have these vambraces, then you'll have to get through-"

"Us Legendz first," Shiron said as he finished what Kato was going to say.

"Then it's going to be the hard way," Ken said with a shrug of his shoulders.

"I think that some of us should step aside and let the pros handle this," Tim said as he grabs Tailor's hand.

"Why? What's going on around here?" asked Tailor as he felt Tim dragging him some where.

"Trust us Tai," Alan said as he grabs Izumi's hand and ran. "You don't want to know."

Sakura saw Tim and his group running away.

"Giant crab you must not let them escape," she said as she pointed to Tim's group.

The Giant-Crab raised its giant pincer and brought it down towards the group. Kim saw the claw from the crab coming towards her and she froze into place. Kim closed her eyes and screamed. Kato had heard Kim scream and had soon tackled her out of the way from the crab's claw. The two of them had rolled around on the ground for a second until they stopped with Kim in the safety of Kato's arms.

"Are you alright Kim?" asked Kato as he sat up with Kim holding onto his shoulders.

Kim nodded her head with her eyes still shut tight. Kato felt her shuddering in his arms and turns to Sakura with a glare.

"Why did you attack one of my friends?!" he yelled as his eyes became cold and hard. "She's not part of this battle."

"I'm just simply going to destroy her," Sakura said in a bored tone. "After all honey she's just an ugly girl."

This got Kato really mad as the wind whipped around him. Tim ran up to Kato and Kim.

"I Kim okay?" he asked as he reached Kato.

Kato nodded at his best friend and past Kim over to Tim.

"I want you to look after Kim and the others," Kato said as Kim's grip loosened from his shoulders.

Tim nodded his head as he takes Kim from his best friend. Kato stood up and walks between Blaze and Kai. Kai and Blaze saw what happened and heard every word on what Sakura said about Kim.

"So that's what you think of my friends, huh?" Kato said in a strong yet quiet voice. "You thin that you are superior and that you can step on people like stones; I don't know why this is happening to us. But I know on thing…and that is for me to fight you!"

"We will never forgive you on what you almost did to Kim," yelled Blaze as he clenches his fists.

"Tairo, show these guys we mean business!" yelled Kai as he glares daggers at Ken and Sakura.

"I think you should rethink on attacking us."

Kato, Kai and Blaze look to see that Ben had grabbed Tailor around the neck with his left arm. In Ben's right hand was a knife that was pointed near Tailors throat.

"What are you doing, let him go!" yelled Kato as he saw what Ben intended to do with Tailor.

"I will, if, you agree to stop fighting us," Ben said with a smirk. "Or you can just say good bye to you're friend here."

Kato growled in frustration on trying to think on what to do. He can't give up on this fight, but he can't risk losing Tailor's life. Shiron, Greedo, Tairo, Blaze and Kai didn't know what to do ether.

"It's difficult to pick which is more important, isn't it?" asked Sakura with a smirk.

Kato clenches his left fist in anger but soon sees that the crystal on his vambrace was glowing.

'Just like when Shiron and I were looking for Kai,' Kato though as he looks at the beam of light, that only he can see, as it point's at the struggling Tailor. 'Does that mean he's a saga too?'

"So what's it going to be you three?" asked Ben as he moves the knife a little closer to Tai's throat.

Just then a huge wolf came out of nowhere and slashed the knife out of Ben's hand. Ben let's go of Tailor as he held his now bleeding hand.

Kato ran over to where Tailor was and quickly lead him away from Ben. The wolf was the size of a Belgian, maybe even taller. Its speed matches that of a cheetah. Around the wolf's neck was a navy blue collar, the wolf's eyes were a deep yellow. On the wolf's white body were roan red stripes with a bigger stripe on his forehead that splits down under each eye, and some roan at the tip of its tail.

The wolf ran up to Kato then slowly came to a stop in front of him and Tailor.

"I Tai okay?" the wolf asked as he looked at Kato.

Kato nodded his head 'yes' with a confused look on his face.

"But how did you know Tailor's name?" he asked with on eyebrow up.

"I'll tell you later kid," the wolf said then looks at Ben and snarls.

Sakura and ken gulped as they see Shiron with Greedo and Tairo on ether side of him.

"Come on guys can't we talk about this?" asked Ken in a timed voice.

"No" Greedo said with a glare.

With out warning Greedo punches the crab with a sky uppercut under the crabs chin, (do crabs have chins?) Shiron and Tairo fallowed it up by calling up their wind attacks, which sent Ken, Sakura, and the Giant-Crab flying.

"NOT AGAIN!!!" yelled Sakura and Ken as they became nothing but a speak.

"Crabbbbie!" yelled the Giant-Crab as he too became nothing but a speak.

"Damn it," swore Ben as he saw that he was surrounded by Kato and his friends.

The wolf lunges at Ben but was blocked by a black wind and was blown towards the ocean. Shiron had flown behind the wolf and caught him before the wolf hit the water. Greedo and Tairo were standing in front of the kids as they watched the black wind blow around Ben. Soon the black wind disappeared and so did Ben. Shiron landed behind the other and set the wolf down on the ground. The wolf walks up to Kato, who was beside Tailor, and stood in front of him.

"Thank you for keeping Tailor safe kid," the wolf said with a nod of his head.

"You're welcome," Kato said with a small smile. "But…how did you know Tailors name?"

"Let's just say that I've watched over him ever since he was born and saved him from that car crash. But I couldn't prevent Tailor from going blind." The wolf said in a sad tone and with his head bowed.

Tailor had heard that voice before when he was ten years old.

Flashback

Tailor was sitting under an oak tree crying for some of the kids at school had pushed him down to the ground, and to top that off he had scraped his arm on the ground after he was pushed. Just then Tailor felt something nudge him in the arm and slowly he looks up and saw a huge striped wolf that was lying down beside him. For some reason Tailor wasn't afraid of the wolf.

"Who are you?" asked Tailor as he wiped his tears away from his face.

"My name is Tiger," the wolf said with a smile. "I saw what happened back there, Tailor listen to me okay? You shouldn't let the words of those kids get to you, you're stronger then you think."

"Thank you…but how did you know my name Tiger?" Tailor asked with a look of curiosity.

"Well Tailor, let's just say that I've known you ever since you were born." Tiger said with his tail waging.

Tailor looks at Tiger then smiles with happiness.

"That must mean that you're my guardian angle," he said as his eyes grew brighter.

"You could say that," Tiger said as he lets the ten year old Tailor huge him.

The warmth from Tiger's fur felt good around Tailor that he fell right to sleep in it.

End of flashback

Slowly Tailor moves his left hand out towards the striped wolf. The wolf pushes the side of his muzzle into Tailor's out stretched hand and nuzzled it. The same warm feeling that Tailor had felt so many years ago had came back to him.

"Tiger?" asked Tailor with hope in his voice.

The wolf, now known as Tiger puts his muzzle in front of Tailors face and gave him a soft lick with his thick tongue. Tailor smiled as he felt the same soft fur of Tiger on his face and flung his arms around the wolf's neck.

"I missed you my friend," Tailor said with tears coming out from his closed eyes.

"Me too…Tai," Tiger said for he remembered that Tailor had shortened his name when he was eleven.

Just then Kato saw that a new vambrace had formed on Tailor's left wrist. The leather vambrace was a dark tan color that had a picture of a wolf with an oval shape emerald on top of its forehead.

"Tai is the saga of earth," Kato muttered with a smile on his face.

"I guess that mean's we have another groups member, huh Kato?"

Kato was taken by surprised as Shiron had put his leather paws on his shoulders and whispered in his right ear. Kato nodded his head slowly as he felt heat rising up into his cheeks. Shiron nuzzled Kato's right cheek with his muzzle and whispers in his ear again.

"And Kato…try not to be so reckless while trying to save people."

Kato smile for he knew what Shiron was telling him and nodded his head 'yes'. Shiron smiled as he lets go of Kato's shoulders and looks out towards the ocean.

'I have to protect Kato no matter what,' Shiron said in his head as his face became serious.

To be continued