A lazy author's note: OK. This chapter is super super super super short. I know!! PLEASE DONT BEAT ME WITH A STICK! haha, anyways. Here's the deal. I've got school (high-school yah know?) plus I work at KROGER. ugh. So I only get like 2 nights a week. And thats the issue. So, maybe someone wants to edit for me and then I can just write the stuff and get someone to untypo it for me! Yet again, I appologize for the lateness -- three months? and for the shortness. I will be coming out with a next LONG chapter for new year's. HAPPY Christmas!


Chapter 7: Close the Door
Dead in the Water

Soon stars began to twinkle and dimmer in the night sky. Alys sighed and looked with hopeful eyes at them. Tonight, it seemed, she would find little rest. The moon was covered by a single cloud. Perhaps that was what she was, a drifting cloud without a home- belonging nowhere. Her long fingers ran through her matted hair and she heaved a heavy sigh- as if all of the burdens of the world were on her two petite shoulders.

Suddenly, the door burst open- jarring Alys out of her thoughts. The silhouette of a man entered. Darkness has filled the quaint room upon the moon being covered, leaving no light to see who this intruder might be. Although the man's face could not be seen, an angry aura radiated from his body.

This was no man.

As If a dark angel had moved the cloud, the moon shone brightly straight into deep, feral eyes. Eyes no mere human could posses. Alys took a few steps backwards, cornering herself like a scared animal about to fall prey. He- of course- was the hunter, stalking and never ceasing.

A snarl showed on his perfect lips as he strode towards her. Soon he was close enough that Alys could feel his hot breath on her cheeks.

"Selendrile . . ." She started, but the look in his eyes bade her to stop.

What emotion was written in violet?

Certainly there was bloodlust, anger, hurt . . . but what else?

The words jealousy and maybe even love popped into the scared girls mind. Quickly, she shook the thoughts away- him, a selfish dragon- love her- a 'simple-minded' human?

IMPOSSIBLE.

Her thoughts we interrupted by a masculine scowl. Selendrile spoke.

"You would think to run off with those two . . . pitiful magicians to kill my kind?!" Although his voice rose in little volume, his tone showed no mercy for the girl. Alys could not speak, her heart pounded so loudly she feared he would hear it as well.

But why? Why was it beating so? Fear for her life?

No.

Alys knew that deep under the surface he could never hurt her. Was her heart trying to remember what she had tried to work so hared to forget?

"How . . .?" Alys managed to squeak out.

"Those two have hunted me before with some foolish woman, years ago." He took a deep breath. "And now you reek like her-- and the male. . ."

To Alys, it almost seemed as if he was acting the part of the protective father . . . or was it something else?

Selendrile sighed, pulling her out of her thoughts yet again.

"You understand nothing, do you? Now come with me and I shall forgive your transgressions." Alys shook her head, somewhat fearful of what the dragon's reaction would be.

"I-I-I can't. . . I promised and I-II- don't want. . ." Alys stuttered and looked up with pleading eyes; Selendrile leaned closer so that their noses were touching. "Alright, play your games little human, you will come back to me . . . you are mine."

With that, he turned away. Alys took a step forward- wanting to hug or touch him- prove that she could not forget about him. Alas, he fear stopped her dead in her tracks.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled, barely audible. Selendrile simply snorted and glanced over his shoulder.

"Keep your silly human emotions to yourself. I will come for you again and not so nicely the next time." Moonlight turned into darkness yet again, and in that darkness he left. So many pictures had run through his head as she defied him. Many of them included him killing her in a most painful fashion. But one- one had stuck fear into him. In his mind, he had leaned down and kissed the human wench. This confused and angered him. Selendrile snorted and wiped the picture from his mind.

"I am no weak dragon to fall for a human!"

Alys slid down to the floor, wanting her sobs to fade into the night. She wanted to cry out all that she felt for the selfish, uncaring monster. Alys was both scared and curious about what Selendrile had said. How had he known about Gywdion and Triska?

She would receive her answers soon. Alys dried her face and stood. She was no longer the simpleton girl of her past- she was stronger. The girl walked to the door, opened it, and exited into the lighted hallway to locate her two traveling companions.

Heloise would no longer be someone she knew nothing about.


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OOOOOOOOOOOOO. And I almost forgot. Companions of the Night- Love's Illusion [my fanfiction is coming out in January.

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