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Chapter 7

Well in the cave the Dark Dragon laid down and rested. He kept Rose wrapped in his tail. Rose wanted to just squirm out of his tail and make a run for it, but knew it would be impossible. You see the Dark Dragon had his tail wrapped up to her chest. Not to mention having his tail tight around her she had no choice but to stay put. Even though the Dark Dragon's eyes were closed, Rose knew that he was still listening. So Rose just folded her arms and set her head down on her arms. She found the Dark Dragon's scales warm, earlier the Dark Dragon's scales where ice. She couldn't help almost falling a sleep, but then the Dark Dragon moved his tail around so that he could see if she was behaving.

As he did this she pretended to be a sleep, hoping to not to start another conversation. The Dark Dragon however was not easily fooled. "I know your not a sleep," he said with a low growl. Rose looked up just a little bit and saw him looking at her with one eye open. "Can't blame a girl for trying?" Rose said as a chill went down back. "True, but I'm not easily fooled by something so foolish," the Dark Dragon replied with a low growl still in his voice. Then both heard something walking in the cave. What ever it was it had claws.

Rose then felt the Dark Dragon's tail loosen around her as he sat her on a large rock. "If you promise to behave and stay put I won't have to claw your face off," the Dark Dragon told Rose as he hide behind another large rock in the shadows near what ever was coming would cross. That's when the mysterious intruder came though. It was a mountain lion and her cub. That's when the Dark Dragon came out of what seemed like nowhere and grabbed the adult mountain lion by the neck and ripped her in half.

At that moment, not paying attention to the cub, Rose was able to get down from the rock to race over to save the cub from such a fate. "Your not going to harm this cub," Rose shouted. The Dark Dragon reached down with one clawed hand and picked up Rose and the cub, bringing them to his eye level.

"Hmmm and what makes you think you can stop me from killing that little pest. It holds no value to me," the Dark Dragon replied. "You killed its mother! Plus, its just a baby. You can't be that heartless," Rose shouted. "Watch Me," the Dark Dragon replied with a evil smile appearing in his face. "Please don't" Rose yelled back with tears appearing on her face. Then with his other clawed hand took the cub from Rose and snapped its neck. "Don't worry it's a quick death," the Dark Dragon said with a little bit of a laugh.