BAHAHHAHAHAAA! I LOVED this part of the movie... (it's near the end LOL) FUNNY! HAHHAHAHA! *rolling around laughing*
Anway... don't listen to my random ranting LOL! HAHAHAHAHA! (okay i'm gonna stop now...) Again i don't own anything of Dragonheart (except the random twists in the storyline and Becca)
ENJOY!
Chapter Seven: Depth Perception
Becca lay shivering on the rocks where she had stopped howling, back in human form she felt the cold biting at her skin and the wind did not help. It took her a few long minutes lying there to finally calm herself. She felt lost, and confused. Becca had never done something like that, her fury was usually suppressed whenever she battled. Yet this time she had let it take hold of her.
It took her several minutes to calm down, Becca sat up on the cold rock and rubbed her head thoughtfully. She would have to get back to the others later, she was a total wreck right now. Becca got up from the ledge and walked carefully and rather shakily down the slope, she transformed into a wolf to make her walking a little more stable.
She later stumbled into a thicket covered with clover, she circled a few times, quite unstably and settled in the cool plants. Becca rested her head on her forepaws and huffed loudly, flattening her ears and shuddering for a moment. It took her several moments to fall asleep.
The next day Becca caught up to the others, she remained as a wolf for the time being, keeping to herself. Kara seemed intrigued as to why Becca was acting this way, and asked her often, but the fiery-haired woman got no answer from the werewolf. Only the occasional flick of an ear or tail.
Draco had flown off somewhere, the others had no clue as to where, but promised he'd show up for their 'act' as he called it. Becca often wondered where he went, but didn't think to question it, only to go along with it since the others didn't know where she often vanished to.
Becca had dropped behind Bowen and Kara and his horse as they walked over a long bridge, she padded solemnly and in a very detached state. Kara kept on glancing at her, although she didn't say anything. Becca was completely lost in her own thoughts that she didn't notice the other two having a conversation and walked right past them. She realized she was alone and stopped.
"I was there…. That rebel was my father…" said Kara, Becca saw Bowen's face frown as she glared at him. "Let others stand with you and you'll see that this time will be different…" she trailed off as she noticed the knight looking at her with a tiny, bitter grin.
"What are you looking at?" she didn't meet his gaze.
The knight shook his head, "Myself…" his cold grin turned to another frown, "…once upon a time…" a loud flapping could be heard as Draco flew over them, Becca had heard him earlier, but had dismissed it and didn't tell the others. Now, as Bowen stormed off with his horse and Kara started walking with Becca.
"I'll see you in the village Draco!" called the knight angrily as the dragon passed. Becca could hear the frustration in the man's voice, but didn't say anything to him for she was too conflicted herself. She couldn't trust herself to say the right thing.
"That's easy for you to say!" Draco said, "This time I'll collect the money and you can die!" he called sarcastically as he flew away. Becca heard Bowen growl something incoherent, and the dragon had clearly not helped with the knight's fowl mood.
Flies buzzed annoyingly about Becca's ears and she flicked them away in frustration. She, Bowen and a whole crowd of villagers had gathered on the river, the heat becoming irritating. She was panting due to the heat, and she hadn't wanted to go human since these villagers had only seen Bowen with a huge dog and not an adolescent girl. So she was stuck in her werewolf form until they finished this job. Kara had stormed off somewhere, now part of their plan, Becca knew what the fiery woman would do, and felt amused. She was bored enough in this heat.
Bowen was making a deal with the village leader, who was 'standing in' for Brock, the lord of that village. As the leader finished counting the money he handed it to the knight, who took it graciously and nodded. Then Kara came screeching down the boardwalk screaming, "Wait! Wait!" they all turned.
"Uh," Bowen thought fast, "It's her! This girl is a— wandering idiot! She babbles nonsense," he explained to the rest of the villagers.
"I'm telling you this knight, is no dragonslayer!" she accused with a pointing finger.
"You're mistaken my child!" came a voice, Becca heard Bowen groan and she looked over to see a man hobbling toward them with a staff. He was dressed in brown robes and a funny looking hat, a monk. She twitched her ears in amusement as the monk came through a small bunch of pigs who were nuzzling the dry earth for food. "He's the greatest dragonslayer you'll ever see! Possibly the greatest that ever will be!"
"Brother Gilbert!" called Bowen
"Bowen! Thank God you're alive…" the monk came up to him, "And…whole!" he said with a chuckle. "You're guaranteed a dragon dead with this man! I swear I've seen him slay, almost two dragons!" he bragged.
"Almost," said Kara. This monk wasn't part of their plan, and Becca found him slightly annoying, but still amusing.
"Well I didn't actually see the death blow of the second but," he turned to Bowen with a happy grin, "Bowen is here! He must have won!" he trilled.
Kara shook her head, "Don't you see? He's in league with the dragon!" she cried. Becca spun around ears twitching witch confusion, THAT isn't part of the plan! You're not supposed to TELL them! Becca thought desperately. Bowen noticed the danger in that sentence and he immediately started to chuckle, causing a chain reaction of laughter through the crowd.
They had set up another wooden platform, a spear-arrow set up like at their first stop. Bowen was instructing the monk, who had wanted to help and wouldn't quit pestering the knight until he let Gilbert help. Becca sat with Kara scratching in between the wolf's ears grumpily, she glared at the two men.
"Hey…" said Becca to Bowen, "The water looks way to shallow here…" she said looking at the murky, light water. But the knight just dismissed this with a huff.
Suddenly Bowen drew his blade, "And here he comes!" Draco flew over the river, Bowen let fly the arrow and Draco caught it, just like last time.
Becca had a feeling this would go wrong, as the dragon fell down and crashed into the water. He hit his head with a loud splash, the water was only a few meters deep and Draco fell onto his back with a growling groan. Becca winced, that must hurt.
"Ooow…" he mumbled.
"Sink…" muttered Bowen in surprise and frustration, "SINK!"
Draco growled through clenched teeth, "I can't it's not deep enough!" Bowen gave an exasperated sigh. This was bad.
"Well done Bowen! You've done it again!" cried Brother Gilbert, "What a brute! That's even bigger than the last one!" he looked enthusiastically pleased with the knight.
Bowen bit his lip, "Actually he's about the same size…" uh oh… Becca thought as she heard the villagers behind. They all gathered as they looked at the dragon, Becca felt the atmosphere change. Draco was still recovering, probably had a terrible headache after that kind of crash. Suddenly a mutter went through the crowd and Becca heard something.
"…meat…meat! Meat…MEAT!" they all started yelling and hauling their weapons into the water.
"Oh dear…" mumbled Draco as he recognized the danger. He quickly got up and raced to get away from the crazed mob of villagers. Becca stared in astonishment as they all swarmed him, but the dragon was able to get to the air, after much struggling and roaring at them. He took flight, glancing behind him warily.
The villagers stopped, their target had gotten away. They slowly turned to the group who had claimed to be dragon hunters. Silence followed for one sickening moment, Becca rose to her paws, fur prickling with anxiety. These people were pissed off, because they had lied and tricked them.
"What's going on?" asked the monk worriedly.
"Meat…. MEAT!" cried the villagers, racing at them now.
"Run… That's what's going on!" cried Kara.
WOOHOO! Run like HELL! 8D Next chappie up soon! 8D
