Last chapter was on February 5, 2008. Now we do a short time skip.
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Lost Bird
Chapter Seven: Frozen
Students were a little stunned that Zero had a small smile on his face, let alone a nine-year-old (ninety-nine, but still) with a huge, sky-blue dragon pillow and a sketch pad! Any calendar read February 9, 2008. Dravon's read 'Himila's birthday'. He had already told Zero such, and Zero was much amused, until he said the year. "He t'was born February 9, 1912. Mum said 'e came from a forest deep in a place called 'America', which is why he's so lazy."
Zero chuckled. Earlier that day, they had watched some espisode of some anime called Hetalia-Axis Powers. Let's just say it left him feeling more drunk than himself. They entered the classroom and up to the top row. Dravon plopped down into the seat next to Zero and set Himila in front of Zero, making Zero drop it onto Dravon's head. Girls entered adn they immediately surrounded the area, making Zero glare at nothing.
"Aw, so cute!" a pigtailed one shrieked.
"Too bad it's Zero!" one pouted.
"When he's older, he might join a bike gang or something!"
Old...er? The words sounded foreign to Zero. Dravon...he couldn't age, right? Would he? Zero glanced at Dravon doodling with his tongue in his cheek. Ol...der...Zero's eyes shut. He didn't want Dravon to age. Like any child, Dravon sensed Zero's discomfort, so he turned to the girls and plucked Himila off his head and hid his mouth with it, hugging him close to his chest.
"Um...sorry, Miss Pretty Ladies, but can you sit in your seats...um...please?"
"Aw!" they squealed, sitting as close as they could (just not next to them). "SO CUTE!"
Zero raised a brow at him. "Pretty Ladies?" he asked.
Dravon shrugged. "They look pretty to me. I even like the dimples that one girl has," he pointed to one with long black hair and shimmering hazel eyes. She blushed. "I like smiles. You should smile to."
"I do sometimes," Zero grumbled.
"Here!" Dravon stood, pulling Zero's cheeks away from the bone and yanked them up. "A smile!"
Zero huffed at the chorus of 'Aw!' that ran throughout the classroom. "What do you expect?" a voice sighed. "You're letting a kid mess with your face."
Zero turned, Dravon clinging to his cheeks. "Hey Sayori. Where Yuki?"
Sayori directed to the door where a student crawled on the floor. That student was Yuki. Dravon released Zero and wobbled down to her, offering a hand. She accepted and yanked herself up, Dravon supporting her to her 'new seat' next to Zero. Dravon sat back down at Zero's left. Himila yawned as Sayori sat next to Yuki and blinked once slowly. Dravon giggles and tugs Zero's sleeve. "He's so lazy, huh?" Dravon giggled.
Zero nodded and ruffled Dravon's hair. The teacher entered and after five minutes, Zero took himila and passed out. The teacher gave both passed-out Disciplinary Committee members Supplementary Classes. Of course, nobody left because Dravon wouldn't leave. he poked Zero's cheek and Zero glanced at him from the corner of his eyes. "I'm bored," Dravon complained. "Are you bored too?" Zero nodded. Dravon opened his sketch pad. "Wanna play 'ang man?"
Zero shrugged and Dravon started. It went: Dragota, kill, Achilies, me, Hades, please, suicial monkey. Zero nudged his elbow. "Hey," he chuckled.
"Hey Zero, are you afraid of werewolves?"
Zero blinked at Dravon and opened his mouth to speak. He stopped once Dravon's story rolled through his head. Werewolves ARE real...he also remembered how his reaction to a wolf howl went. They killed his parents. His grandfather didn't die. "No," he smiled softly. He needs someone to not be afraod..."So Screwball-"-Dravon pouted at this-"-after this, do you want to see the stables?"
Dravon beamed. "They 'ave 'orses!" he cheered.
Zero chuckled and tustled the carmel strands. "Yep."
Himila yawned and clamped down his mouth on Zero's jacket, his teeth real enough to tear it slightly. Zero and Dravon blinked at the odd sight until Supplementary Classes finished. Zero honestly didn't appreciate the stalking girls, but ignored them for Dravon's sake. The red stables weren't far, and Zero was the last in, seeing Dravon ran at incredible speed. "Wow!" Dravon took in the number of horses. "Re'l horses! Pretty, but don't taste good..."
Zero raised a brow. "Taste?" he asked.
Dravon thought for a second before realizing Zero never looked into the death-reaking fireplace of his old home. "Oh. You see, I eat animals, not people."
Zero sighed. An animal-devouring vampire...that's a new one. "When was the last time you ate?" Zero thought aloud.
"Oh, about a day before you found me. I can last a long time 'out blood!" he smiled proudly.
Ten days..."Okay, good to know," Zero nods. "Let's see...the black horse with a white patch on his eyes is Snowball..."
Dravon was already petting a white horse that Zero well knew. "Who's this one?" he smiled, eyes closed.
Zero yelped and snatched him far from the horse. Dravon daftly giggled at the sudden character change (Zero has a character~^^). The horse neighed slightly and bit on Zero's hair, causing his face to turn as blank as a turned-off television screen. That faded rapidly. "WHAT IS WITH YOU AND TRYING TO MAKE ME-" a shelf suddenly collasped as Zero said a word that started with 'F', "-BALD!"
Unfortunately, Dravon heard it. He tugged on the back of Zero's pants, gaining the hunter's attention. "Zero Nii-san, what does-" another shelf collasped, "-mean?"
"Don't say that!" Zero clapped a hand over his mouth. "It's a very, very nasty word!"
"You said it," Dravon reminded.
"So? Still nasty!"
"Hypocrite."
"Copy-cat."
Both: "STALKER MONKEY!"
It was silent until they both spontaniously fell into harsh fits of laughter. By twilight, they had managed to stop and pull themselves together enough to race the other to the Moon Gates, which were crowded as usual. Dravon clung to Zero's jacket with his right set of sweat-drenched fingers, the left clutching Himila and the sketch pad securely. His breathing was heavy and his smile obvious. The girls, being the pirannahs they were (and are), turned suddenly and swarmed the two. Zero huffed and muttered a curse or two. The gates opened sooner or later and the Night Class came out, ignored once more.
"Lestro," Kaname addressed.
Dravon clutched Zero's school jacket tighter. Zero cleared a path through the girls and eventually stood in front of the Pureblood himself. Dravon gulped at the dark aura that seemed to protrude as Yuki jogged over in fear of a brawl. "Kuran," Zero growled, "what is so-"-Yuki blew on her whistle with wide eyes to block out a word with 'd' to start-"-important that you need to talk to Dravon so badly?"
Kaname gave Zero a nasty glare. "Nothing of your concern."
"Actually," Dravon squeezed Himila to his chest, standing to his full 4' 10", "he brought me here, so it is his concern. Right, Zero Nii-san?"
Kaname chuckled darkly, making Zero's hands ball into vibrating fists. "Nii-san? You do know what that means, right?"
To Zero's relief, Dravon nodded. "It means 'brother', and Zero is the closet person to a brother that I have ever known!"
The girls all did their chorus of 'Aw!'. Kaname bent down to narrow his eyes at Dravon. "Listen, it's your fault your parents are dead."
Dravon's blood froze in each vein and artery. Zero nearly lundged to rein Kaname's neck, but Yuki actually glared. "Kaname!" she snapped. "That's cruel!"
The girls stared at Dravon with wide, shocked eyes. "His parents are dead?"
"Poor Dravon!"
"How was it his fault?"
"Maybe it was an accident?"
Dravon's numb left hand dug into the stuffing of Himila, who stared at Dravon with his marble eyes. "Mama, it's cold."
"T' all righ', Dravie! Mummy's 'ere!"
Dead? No...no, he's lying...HE'S LYING! Dravon's legs gave way and his knees scraped on the path. Nobody dared step close, not even Kaname, who knew he went too far. Dravon's eyes held no life, just the image of blood stained on his mother's beautiful, pale face of the softest cream and vanillia cake. The blood on his father's carefree expression of the tender lily flowers or yellow dafadills. A dark man, on the snow. "Where are your parents, little v' oy?" Dravon shook his head a little. It wasn't my fault. IT WASN'T MU FAULT! "Nii...san?"
Zero kneeled in front of Dravon and ruffled his carmel hair. "Yeah?"
Dravon started sucking his right thumb. "Can I go back to the house? I'm-"-he yawned-"-sleepy..."
Zero nodded and picked him up like a child. After several minutes, they arrived in Dravon's 'Dragon Room'. Zero set him on the dragon-infested bed, Arc shaking his head awake. Dragota lifted his eyes from the book on Athen's back. Old Barley smile. Laugholaugus, well, laughed. Achilies wasn't to be found. The rest were sorrowful. "Where's Achilies?" Zero mouthed, cautious not to wake up Dravon.
Old Barley's smile faultered. "Dead."
Zero's blood froze. Not good. "What do you mean?" he hissed. "You're stuffed-"
"Exactly," Athen intervened. "That mud that got on him loosened his stitches."
"Can't you-"
"We tried everything!" Moath gulped. "Even when we got him into the office, the Headmaster couldn't fix him!"
"Oh God," Zero held his head.
Dravon yawned. "Wha 'z up?" he slurred.
"More like down," Arc muttered.
"Oh really?" Old Barley snapped. "That is it! You have NEVER been good for ANYTHING but complaining!"
"Huh?" Dravon blinked. "Nii-san, wha-"
Zero ran out and into the headmaster's office. headmaster jumped. "Kiryuu, wha-"
Zero checked the garbage can. There was Achilies, the stitches ripped out in an extent it couldn't be fixed again. "A...Achilies..." Zero whispered. Dravon...
Headmaster peeked over his shoulder. "Oh, that? I tried fixing it, but the stitching has long since passed."
Zero picked Achilies's torn body out of the bin and gradually walked to Dravon's room, where the fighting was worse. Himila was wide awake and Hades helpes him block Dravon's ears from the swears flying from one dragon to the other.
"HEY!" Zero yelled. They all turned.
Dravon froze. "ACHILIES!"
Headmaster came in and saw Zero rocking a bawling Dravon, who promptly refused to let go of deceased Achilies. The room had three corners with dragons: one with Old Barley, Dite, Laugholaugus, Aqua, Moath, Hades, Helio, and Lavato. One with Arc alone. The last with Dragota, Himila, Anthro, and Athen.
Review.
Things to think about:
One-If Dravon left, how do you think Zero would react?
Two-If Zero left, how do you think Dravon would react?
Three-Do you think the fighting between the dragons will get better or worse?
Four-What corner are you in? (Old Barley-Arc is bad, Dragota-doesn't want to get involved, Arc-didn't do anything wrong).