dragonelf 8: poor Ryu if that were me I'd want to crawl up in a corner and die of an exploded brain because it too much information at once. Like school. U.U

I'll say this one more time then stop because it's pointless to repeat what everyone knows. I don't own any of this except Ryu, Lero, and Divine

Chapter 7: Ryu's choice

Ryu opened her eyes to the bright morning sun that beamed through the curtains. Divine was right beside her, while Lero was at the end of her bed both still fast asleep. A fresh set of clothes was on the bed by Lero. Ryu carefully got out of bed so not to disturb the others into waking. She dressed in the outfit, and then looked back at herself in the mirror. She wore light green pants and top, a light green jacket with leaf like buttons adored it, and gold trimmings. But just as she was about to turn away from the mirror something glimmered on her neck. Ryu hand worked around her neck, and she finally caught the chain. Ryu pulled out the chain and looked at it, it was the necklace form before contrasting beautifully against the green.

"Pretty," smiled Ryu as looked at the gem at the end. 'But where did it come from? It looks like a light dragon amulet,' thought Ryu as she stared at the gem finally questioning why it was there. It didn't take her long to remember that she was no longer a human, well part of her still is, but she now had Dragon and Demon blood running through her veins. She had changed so much over a short space of time that it was probably a good thing that she had the stone that looked like a Dragon Amulet. Just as a precautionary, ' Stupid Nadil! I better keep this on at all times to make sure I don't hurt anyone, I'll ask the Lykouleon about it later.'

Ryu quickly put the necklace back down her shirt, just as Divine landed on her shoulder with a little squeak. Lero was back in a human form, looking out the window with a slightly flushed look about his face. Ryu stared curiously back at him just as he spoke.

"Have you decided?" he asked.

Of course the first question anyone this castle would ask if she was work for the Dragon Tribe. Ryu sighed to herself, it was so blatantly obvious that she'd be asked this a million times today and it probably would continue until she finally give answer.

"Well… I thought about it a lot since last night," began Ryu.

Oh had she thought on it! It was the reason she had bags under her eyes! She had spent most dreams thinking about it, and then when she realized that she was sleeping and woke up she thought about it more and most of the time she ended up repeating what she said and sometimes she'd fall asleep and then she had to start all over again. So a lot was a bit of an understatement.

"And I've made my choice."

"Knock! Knock!"

Ryu turned to the knocking door it also had captured the attention of Lero and Divine; she had a good idea who it was. Ryu walked over to the bed and sat down, before she gave her answer to the man at the door.

"Come in," called Ryu.

The man walked into the room, 'Okay maybe I don't have an idea,' thought Ryu as she looked back at Rath. Rath walked over to Ryu, sat right next to her, and stared for no reasons at all, wait forget stare it looked more like rudely glaring. 'He wants a staring contest does he,' thought Ryu bitterly as she rudely stared back, neither of them blinking, and thus the staring battle started. Both picking off of where they left off yesterday.

Else where

(A five minutes later).

"Thatz have you seen Rath," asked Rune politely.

"I saw him five minutes ago. He was on his way to see that weird girl," said Thatz as he nibbled on a sandwich.

"We better go check up on him to make sure he's not causing trouble," said Rune as he grabbed Thatz and dragged him down the hall.

"BUT I HAVEN'T FINISH BREAKFAST YET!" cried Thatz trying to break free form the grip.

"YEAH RIGHT! YOU ATE EVERYTHING THAT WAS ON THE TABLE!" yelled Rune accusingly.

When the two enter the room they saw an unusual sight. Divine and Lero were on the bed looking between Ryu and Rath, looking fairly entertained, while the two stared at each other in both red eyes brimming with tears, both refusing to blink and looking ready to cry, they both scowled at one another. Thatz tried hard to hold his giggles the started to bubble up inside him as he watched the two hysterical faces, while Rune looked appalled at Rath's idiotic behavior.

"RATH!" cried Rune as took a mallet form nowhere and smacked it against Rath's head ending the contest. Ryu blinked a few times as her eyes returned to normal though it took a while for her eyes to stop watering.

"I'm so sorry for Rath, Ms. Kami," apologized Rune as he began to strangle Rath.

"Oh no problem! It's not everyday that someone stares at you like you've lost your head without realizing it," said Ryu, earning Rath a another hit in the head again from said Rune. "So… Rath was there a certain reason why you came in here and started the staring contest."

"Well I wanted to find out if you made up your mind, but you look so weird that it annoyed me," said Rath as he rubbed the sore spot on his head, though it was pointless caused Rune once again smacked him in the head. The atmosphere took on the tension it once had again.

"I've… decided," said Ryu nervously as Divine appeared on her shoulder again giving her a reassuring nudge with its head.

"And?" began Thatz urging her to continue as he listened eagerly.

"I want the Dragon Lord to hear it form me so there is no misunderstanding."

"Go on I'm listen."

Lykouleon appeared right by Ryu's bed. Everyone jumped back while Ryu fell off the bed in surprise. A loud Thump was heard on the other side while Ryu moaned in pain.

"… Ouch…" (.)

"Oh dear are you all right?" asked Lykouleon in concern stretching to see if she was okay.

"I'm fine," replied Ryu as she got up again, rubbing her head.

"And the answer?"

"… Lord Lykouleon, I will… stay for a while and do what I can. Though I warn you I am useless to you, but if an opportunity appears were I can go home…"

"Of course I understand. I'm sure you have family in your world that are worried about your well being."

"Especially my older brothers. There so protective that if they found out what Nadil did to me there'd be an enter massacre, and believe they would do it regardless of how powerful the demons are," said Ryu slightly shivering.

"So you have older brothers," said Lykouleon changing the subject with interest as pictures of three Rath's going on a rampage caught his minds eye.

"And an older sister, a twin brother, and a little brother, not to mention my parents. Lets see the oldest is Ohkami he's perhaps the most reasonable, Seto he's normally impulsive, Ashura can calm but is still as impulsive as Seto, Saria is the smart one and helps Ohkami a lot in keep the others calm, My twin Kamui he just as protective but he at least gives me some credit in that I can take care of myself, then me, and last is my baby brother Li who can sometimes be really annoying. So I have a big family."

" You said that you'd prove yourself worthless to me what did you mean by that?" said Lykouleon slightly curious about Ryu's twin yet brushing it aside to ask later.

"In your world you use swords, right," asked Ryu.

"Yes…"

"Well in my world if your caught with a weapon in the intent to hurt someone your punished for it, and swords in my world are only used as ornaments and have no power, not to mention the production of sword in now a rare and hard business and only a few even exist so I don't know how to even use one, not to mention that demons don't exist in my world so I don't even know how to even fight one, and finally the weapons in my world are really dangerous and it's very difficult to get one… I think that about covers the reasons lets see, never used a sword, never found a reason to, and probably end up killing myself trying," listed Ryu.

The dragon knights all stood there staring and gaping their open mouths in disbelieve, even Rune couldn't close his mouth. The only ones not gaping were Ryu and Lykouleon, though Lykouleon was staring at her with a huge sweat drop on his head.

"And what of magic, do have that in your world?" question Lykouleon in disbelieve.

"Nope. No magic," answered Ryu, "Probably a good thing too I could only imagine the chaos that would bring in a war."

"I see. So starting form scratch. Ryu are you willing to learn while you're here?'

"… Yes," replied Ryu.

In the real world

"Ryu! Darn it where are you?" cried a boy about 17 in age. His name was Kamui Kami, Ryu's twin brother.

"Kamui! Did you find her yet?" cried a man of 22. He had long shoulder blade length black hair that would under normal circumstances be tidy yet now was in disarray, his deep blue eyes looked around frantically, and his strong sturdy look about him was tense with apprehension.

"Sorry Ashura. Not yet, will you tell the others I'm going to check the park again."

"Again! But Kamui we've all checked there a hundred times."

" I know it's just a feeling. Besides the only place I think of. She did say she'd go to the park."

"Alright… You twins and your psychic link," said Ashura as he ran off.

"We don't have a psychic link!" cried Kamui indignantly after his older brother.

Kamui ran out to the park when something caught his eye; a pink flower petal. He looked wildly around and saw in the far reaches of the park a cherry blossoms tree and next to the cherry blossoms tree was a small scrape of Ryu clothes. Kamui ran to the tree and picked up the cloth feeling it soft texture beneath his fingers. Ryu was here! Kamui could feel his heart ache in worry. Call it brother intuition, but he could feel that she was in danger.

'She was here, but where,' thought Kamui looking around wildly, but before he could do anything else the earth open and swallowed him. Kamui felt like it was going to last forever, until he finally reached the hard cold ground. Was this what happened to Ryu?

"Welcome."

Kamui looked up into cold red eyes of a purple haired man, he looked oddly familiar. 'That looks like Nadil form that story Ryu reads,' thought Kamui as the man greeted him properly, but that was impossible manga's don't come to live. But what made it worse was that Kamui couldn't tell if he was one of the good guys or bad guys form the story.

"I am Nadil and welcome to my castle, and the Demon tribe."

dragonelf 8: I'm sorry for the long update but I'm not here during break. Nor am I any where near a computer. So please bare with me. Reviews were wonderful thank you for all of your support. Just so you know there are a lot of characters in this story, but more importantly what will happen in the next chapter? I'll let you guess.