Chapter 7: Showing Around & Warnings

"Wow!", Taranee said impressed by the view as she and the girls followed Draganos and the Dragoons up the mountain.

She could see that the other girls were awed as well and they nearly flew into the Dragoons when they'd halted. The girls sat next to the Dragoons, still looking their eyes out. It wasn't until Draganos asked for attention that the girls stopped their staring. The Dragoons were delighted to see the girls so enthusiastic and waited for Draganos to say his thing so they could go and show the girls their hot spots.

"Well young Humans, as you can see is the land you may explore vast.", Draganos said, getting nods from the girls. "Everything the light touches, you can use to train, play or explore."

"And what about those dark parts?", Taranee asked, pointing at a darkened forest and mountain range.

The Dragoons, along with Draganos looked darkly as their eyes swept over them.

"You must never go there.", Draganos said sternly, slightly scaring the girls.

"But what is there?", Hay Lin asked.

"The Dark forest and the Dark Mountain.", Nerissa said darkly.

Cornelia suddenly shivered and hugged herself, looking scared at those parts.

"I feel no life coming from there.", she said afraid.

Angelo wrapped an arm around her and hugged her close to give her some comfort. For he knew how she felt.

"You and me both.", he said darkly as she held on to him a bit.

Seeing this, Draganos understood how they felt with their power of the earth within them. Out of all the Dragoons and the girls, they were the most affected by the state of the Dark Forest and Dark Mountains. But Draganos saw that they weren't the only ones affected by that place. Now Will, Joel and Nerissa shivered. The two Dragoon siblings hugged each other as well, while Taranee hugged Will, seeing her being scared.

"It's bad there, Taranee.", Will whispered to her sister. "It's scary."

"He lives there, Joel.", Nerissa whispered to her brother, who immediately hushed her.

"Don't say a word.", he warned. "He won't come here. Not now that Draganos is with us."

"I hope so.", Nerissa replied sombrely.

Draganos noticed the darkened mood immediately and decided it was better to give the girls the personal tour, as to shake the feelings of the Dark parts away. At least two of them felt the evil lurking there and it should be enough to keep the other three out of there as well.

"Let's show you around.", Draganos said, flapping his wings. "I think we can show you the Dinosaur Valley first."

"What's a dinosaur?", Irma asked, already hanging in the air.

"A big lizard!", Cassidy replied with a grin. "And tasty!"

"Lead the way!", Hay Lin chirped with a grin, following Cassidy and Alchemy.

Draganos watched how his Water and Fire Dragoon led the way, with the Air and Water Guardian right behind them. Yet the Earth, Air and Quintessence Dragoons stayed behind, staying close to the Earth, Quintessence, and Fire Guardian. Micheal nuzzled with Nerissa while Joel took this chance to calm down Will, who was just like Cornelia shivering like mad while Angelo giving her some comfort. Taranee looked a bit lost at the two other Guardians, but when she felt Draganos's paw on her shoulder, she relaxed a bit and looked up at him.

"Don't worry young ones.", Draganos said, seeing how especially Nerissa was looking with big eyes at him. "I will not allow any harm to be done to any of you. So don't fret."

His words seemed to have a bit of effect, but he could still see the fear in their eyes. He flapped his wings and roared majestically, hoping to create an image that he would be more than capable of fighting his brother. The girls recoiled, but the Dragoons roared with him. When the girls saw that he meant no ill will, they howled like wolves along with the Dragoons, though Taranee's howl was mixed with a bear's roar and Will's was mixed with the sound of a lion, which surprised Draganos slightly. He stopped his roar and saw the young ones smirking at him. Seeing this, Draganos let out a mighty laugh, impressed with the courage the girls were showing at the moment.

"Now, let's take off.", he said. "Before Cassidy and Alchemy lead the others into the mouth of a T-Rex."

Though the three girls paled, the others grinned and they took off after Draganos and hurried to Dinosaur Valley.

Meanwhile in the Dark Mountains, Tarka came flying by, passing Skrag, Aquos and Terros.

"Yo Tarka!", Skrag said as he intercepted her in mid-flight. "What's the hurry?"

"Get out of my way Skrag!", Tarka scowled as she tried to get past him, only to find Terros and Aquos in her way. "Call off your cronies."

"That's not nice, calling us cronies.", Terros said jokingly, earning a glare from Tarka.

"I'm sorry, I thought I was being nice. But if you want me to call you with your true name, vermin!", Tarka barked, gaining shouts from the three male dragons.

They jumped her, but she managed to dodge them in time, only to find her path blocked by a tree, grown by Terros. She turned around and threw a strong gale at him, to which Aquos started to freeze her wings. She was quickly losing altitude when suddenly a roar broke the eyes on her wings, but caused her to yelp in fear and fall to the ground, along with the other three dragons.

"What's this noise?"

The four dragons quivered under the booming voice of a long black Chinese Dragon, whose eyes were glowing menacingly at them.

"M-Master ", Skrag said humbly. "T-Tarka was "

"Silence! Did I order you to speak?", Dragas roared, making the four Dragons quiver. "Tarka, tell me, why was there such a ruckus?"

Tarka swallowed and bowed for Dragas.

"Master, I had great news which I wished to inform you of, only for Skrag, Terros and Aquos to stop me.", Tarka replied.

Dragas glared at the three other Dragons, who quivered even more.

"Is this true?", he asked.

Before any of the three could answer, Tarka gestured at the tree, which still had a dent in it from when she flew in it.

"There's the proof, Master.", she muttered, keeping her eyes lowered.

Dragas's eyes went to the Skrag and his friends and the three Dragons could hear him breathe heavily. They got the hint and immediately started to run. Dragas watched how his servants ran before turning to Tarka.

"What's this news, you've got for me?", Dragas asked, seemingly bored.

Meanwhile on Earth, Hay Lin had called the girls to get together for an emergency meeting. But seeing as they couldn't use the basement of the Silver Dragon, Will had them come to her place. Within an hour, everyone including Yan Lin, Matt, and Caleb were at Will's place. With Cornelia being the last to show up.

"What took you so long?", Will questioned. "Everyone else was here twenty minutes ago."

"Well, I had to watch my little sister until her babysitter came to watch her.", Cornelia replied. "So what's up?"

"Ask Hay Lin. She's the one who called for this meeting.", Will said.

"So, what's going on, Hay-Hay?", Irma asked her best friend.

"I... I had a dream last night.", Hay Lin said. "More like a nightmare."

"Something tells me that this was more than a nightmare.", Taranee said.

"You have no idea.", Hay Lin said.

"What happened in your nightmare?", Cornelia asked.

"You won't like it, but here's what happened.", Hay Lin said.

And so Hay Lin told them all her nightmare. Back on the world of Vrogen, Draganos had shown the girls Dinosaur Valley as well as the safer mountains they could go to. But he made it very clear that none of them could go to either places without at least one of the Dragoons being with them. Even if the girls went as a group, they had to have one of the Dragoons with them. All but Irma was happy with this, saying that she was big enough to go alone. But a look from Draganos fixed all of that. Once that matter was settled, Draganos continued to give the girls a tour of the land while letting them know which areas were safe and which were okay. Once he finished doing all of that, they all returned back to the beach for a bit of rest before they had to go hunt for their lunch.

"So what do you girls think of our little home?", Draganos asked as they were relaxing on the beach.

"Little?", Cornelia questioned with a grin. "This place is huge!"

"Yeah!", Hay Lin said with her beaming smile. "And those dinosaurs are huge!"

"Two of those creatures with three horns could give us all a good meal.", Will said.

"Very true.", Alchemy said. "And all that you saw was just a small part of our world.", she said surprising the girls.

"What more is there?", Taranee asked.

"Well, there's the places we grew up in before we came to live with Draganos.", Cassidy replied.

"What was your home like?", Irma asked Cassidy.

"One big island with smaller ones in the area.", Cassidy explained. "The whole area is the home to all kinds of Water Dragons."

"Sounds fun!", Irma said smiling. "Think we can go there some time?"

"Can they, Draganos?", Cassidy asked getting excited about going back home for a bit.

"Hmmmmmmm...", Draganos said thinking about it. "How about this? We wait about two or three months, in which the girls will be not only getting to know the land but training with their skills and abilities as wekk. And if you work hard enough and show me that you've gotten stronger, then I shall allow you to go to the homes of the Dragoons.", he said with a kind smile getting cheers from the girls and Dragoons.

The Dragoons cheered for they were looking forward to seeing the ones they grew up with before they came to live with Draganos.

"Wait!", Hay Lin said. "What's a month?"

"Something you will learn about while here, Hay Lin.", Draganos said. "But from where you came from three months is almost equal to nine full moons."

"Ooooooh!", the girls said understanding what Draganos was talking about.

"Now I believe it's time for us to hunt for our lunch.", Draganos said. "Joel, Cassidy, and Angelo shall come with me to go hunt for the meat while the rest of you go get some fruits and vegetables."

Everyone nodded before they all split up. Joel, Cassidy, and Angelo followed Draganos to Dinosaur Valley while the others went to get some fruits and vegetables. Back on Earth, Hay Lin had finished telling her fellow Guardians, Yan Lin, Matt, and Caleb about her nightmare and needless to say that they were all shocked by it all.

"Okay. So, you saw us getting our butts kick by Dragon Nerissa and a girl that looks like Will in a Tarzan movie.", Irma said. "And there was some dark figure with them.", she finished getting a nod from Hay Lin.

"The dark figure and Nerissa I can understand.", Caleb said. "It's the other Will part that gets me. Could it be one of the others glamoured as Will?"

"Maybe.", Yan Lin said. "But perhaps it's best to stay away from Vrogen."

"No argument there.", Cornelia said. "That Draganos is nothing to mess with!"

"But we need to find out what's going on there.", Will said. "Hay Lin's dream has me worried."

"That is also true.", Yan Lin said. "So what will you all do?", she asked them hoping they would use their past experience as Guardians to find a solution to their problem.

"We have to be careful seeing as Draganos told us not to return there unless we find a way to help return the Hybrids back to normal.", Matt said.

"Almost forgot about that.", Taranee said.

"Draganos said that we couldn't go back to Vrogen.", Caleb said. "But that doesn't mean we can't send somebody else there."

"Good plan, but who do we find that's willing to go to a world like that?", Will questioned.

"What about Huggles?", Irma questioned.

"Are you nuts?", Matt questioned. "I'm not letting you send my dormouse to that place! Who knows what'll happen to him there?"

"He can go Regent if he runs into any trouble.", Irma replied.

"And if he runs into Draganos?", Will questioned.

"Then he can open a fold back to Earth.", Taranee said.

"He doesn't know how to open a fold.", Matt replied.

"Oh yeah.", Taranee said.

"What if someone goes with Huggles?", Caleb questioned. "Someone with great tracking skills?"

"Who?", Hay Lin asked.

"Drake.", Caleb said. "We can give him the Mage's Ring, which can open folds, and have him go with Huggles and spy on the Hybrids and see what they're doing."

"That can work.", Cornelia said. "And then he can tell us what he sees there."

"As long as Huggles comes back in one piece.", Matt said worried about his pet dormouse.

"Then it's settled.", Will said. "If Caleb can get him to do this, Drake and Huggles will go to Vrogen and spy on the Hybrids and see if they are up to anything.", she said getting a nodded from everyone.

"Now I just have to get Drake to agree to do this.", Caleb said.

"Good luck with that.", Irma said. "But for now, I say we go get something to eat."

With all in agreement, everyone left the Vandom home to go get a bite to eat, except for Yan Lin who drove home to check up on things at the Silver Dragon, in her van.

"I hope you all know what you're doing.", Yan Lin said as she drove down the road. "I truly hope you do."

Back on Vrogen, Tarka had just told Dragas about the guest Draganos had living with him and the Dragoons.

"Hmmmmmm... Interesting.", Dragas said. "So, my brother has taken in Guardians from another universe has he?"

"Yes, My Lord.", Tarka said. "They do indeed look like the Guardians that were here years ago. But these girls are more wild like animals."

"What are you up to, my brother?", Dragas questioned while looking up at the sky before letting out a roar.

A minute later, Skrag, Aquos, and Terros landed in front of him.

"You called, master?", Skrag questioned as he and his friends bowed before him.

"I think it's time for you four to team up and become my newest team of dragon warriors.", Dragas said surprising his dragons.

"Team up? With them?", Tarka questioned looking over at Skrag, Aquos, and Terros with a look of disgust.

"Is that a problem?", Dragas questioned as he looked down at Tarka.

"N-N-N-No, master!", Tarka said fearing her master's wrath.

"Good.", Dragas said. "And you four will not be alone."

Suddenly, two other dragons like them landed next to them. Both were female only one was gray with blue eyes while the other was white with violet eyes.

"Skrag, Aquos, Terros, and Tarka. I want you to meet your fellow teammates.", Dragas said. "The white one is Quintsa. She is a Quintessence lightning dragon. And the grey one is Silva. She is a Quintessence energy dragon. I want the six of you to learn to work together. Skrag shall be your leader and Quintsa is your second-in-command."

"Yes, master.", the six of them said with a bow.

As they bowed, Tarka sneered to herself thinking that she should at least be second-in-command, but said nothing fearing what Dragas would do to her if she did.

"Now go and begin your training.", Dragas ordered in which his dragons nodded before flying off. "Soon, I shall have my own warriors to fight your warriors, brother! Then we shall see which is the stronger!", he said before breaking out into laughter!

Later that afternoon, the Dragoons and girls were taking a nap together under some trees, on the beach. Taranee was sleeping against Alchemy, while Cornelia sleeping against Angelo. Irma was laying against Cassidy, Will was resting alongside Nerissa and Joel. And Hay Lin was resting against Micheal's left side seeing as Nerissa was on his right. But as she slept, she began to twist and turn as she was dreaming. Suddenly, she woke up gasping for air which woke Micheal up. He looked down at Hay Lin and saw that she was scared.

"You okay?", he asked.

"I had a bad dream.", Hay Lin said as she held her knees up to her chest. "The girls and I were being chased by five somethings. I couldn't see them clearly, but I'm sure they were smaller than you, but taller than me. And no matter how fast we flew from them, they kept chasing us. Then when we thought we got away from it, something a bit bigger showed up and blocked our path.", she explained as she began to shake a bit more. "And then when they closed in on us, I woke up!"

Micheal saw how bad the dream scared her and took his left wing and wrapped it around Hay Lin, who welcomed it as she wrapped her arms around him as best she could.

"It'll be okay, Hay Lin.", Micheal said. "You have us to protect you.", he said as Hay Lin slowly fell back asleep.

Micheal saw this and began to fall asleep himself.

'No matter what happens, I'll protect her like I protect Nerissa!', he thought to himself before he fell back asleep himself. 'This I promise.'

A/N Well, it seems that there are plans going on all around! One is good, if the girls do well. One is bad, if Dragas' dragons do well. And one is for spying, if Drake agrees to it. Will all three plans work? And what of 'wild' Hay Lin's dream? Who was chasing her and the girls? And why weren't the Dragoons or Draganos in it? Is it a vision of things to come or just a very bad dream? With Hay Lin and her dreams, no matter which universe we're talking about, who can tell.

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