Last chapter, enjoy it. Man, this is very,very (after thirty or forty 'very's later) long, I spent a day trying to make this chapter.

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I'll steal the voice of the soul
I'll follow it to the end of the world
If I can reach, then I'll melt the light
Taking the paradise into my hands
I'll end it

"They're coming…" Miku sighed; Len and his group is just a ten minutes walk away from here now. Are they really seriously going to save the dragon diva? It's insane, they'll never beat her, at least they can't beat her with her mask on, she wanted this mask off, and she didn't want to be sealed up like this. Even if they did, there's Luka they have to worry about.

Rin was still singing, but according to the life fire in her, she'll be dead in two hours.

This is just insanity, stupidly brave, Miku had to admit. She touched the mask on her face.

And this is inhumanity.

But maybe…

No, no one has the power to help her. She'll be stuck like this for the rest of her life, which is probably another two or three thousand years.

A tear trickled down her face.

She stood up.

They're here.

Len's p.o.v

This is it, the dragon cave.

If this isn't where the dragon lives, we might have thought this was a vacation spot. The sky was majestically blue, the trees grow healthily and birds flew around. Wait…those aren't birds, they're vultures. One landed on a tree. There was no mistaking, the long neck and the bald heads, the way it sat, hunched up and still. A few more landed, about ten of them ranged across the branches, black against the blue sky. They looked like they were waiting for something…or someone. The question I kept asking myself is who? Us? It seemed very likely.

There was a hill in front of us, with a tunnel leading inside, so dark we couldn't see the end. We all drew our weapons. There was a strange aura inside, it isn't the dragon, and I would know, in my dreams the dragon felt much stronger than this. This aura spells the word: Evil.

"The dragon guardian, Miku," Gakupo explained.

"Miku?" Kaito asked.

"Yeah, what?" Gakupo asked back.

"Is just that, the cruel and evil dragon guardian, who is said to be a dragon herself once, the most powerful mage in history, and her name, is Miku? That's strange." Kaito shrugged.

"Do I need to remind you that a perfectly deadly killing machine and also a creation of the head priest and the most powerful mage in history had her scythe decorated pink? I don't see anything strange about this." Meiko laughed.

We all knew that Kaito was just trying to cheer everybody up. This place just gives me the creeps, and just thinking about the idea of a girl singing her until she dies just sends a chill down my spine.

"Come on," Gakupo said, "ladies first."

"You boys only become a gentleman at a situation like this, don't you?" Meiko rolled her eyes and went in. I followed her with Kaito and Gakupo behind me. I gripped tightly on my sword, and suddenly Kaito yelped.

I turned around and saw Kaito; there were skulls and bones everywhere. Kaito had jumped onto something to get away from those things. Unfortunately, that something was me.

"You really need to skip a few desserts. Man, you are heavy." I mocked.

"Oh, shut up." Kaito said.

After a few minutes, there was a door, made out of steel, painted green, curved with pictures of dragons and divas, the door handle made out of emerald, so delicately beautiful and elegant Kaito wanted to just plucked it out and sell it.

I asked, "Is this..?"

"The dragon's room," Gakupo said.

The room where I can find Rin.

"Got a plan?" Meiko asked.

"Yeah," Kaito said, "Get rid of Miku, get rid of dragon, save Rin, get out of here and live happily ever after."

What the…I don't see any differences between this plan and the ancient law of knights saving princesses, which is 'Find the dragon, kill the dragon, save the princess, go back to the castle and you get married and also happily ever after until you die.' Is that even a plan?

I reached for the handle, but Meiko caught my hand, she said, "be careful."

I nodded and opened the door.

And there she was, Miku, the gown she was wearing was the same as in my dream. That evil smirk of her, I could see it even if I was a hundred meters away. Her teal hair tied in a black and pink ribbon, that mask on her was sinister looking, her eyes looked like hollow sockets, and you could never tell her emotion. Her staff, a rod made out of the finest steel I've ever seen, something like a steel vine curved up to the top, an emerald attached inside, it was so beautifully made even Meiko wanted to steal it.

Before I could do anything, Miku said in a deadly voice, "so, you're here."

"Where is she?" I shouted.

"You mean that little dragon diva? It's a secret," Miku made a creepy giggle that almost made me jumped. And before I tried to charge, she reached out her hand, like she was holding a ball. She started chanting languages I've never heard of,

Amchemaputereadedragoni,se închine înaintea Mea,
Euîţi poruncesc,atacaacesteprostii careîndrăznesc sărupeciclul dedivedragon,
arată-leceea ceeste de făcut,
arată-lecu moartea

"Anyone kind enough to give me translations?" Kaito sighed.

"I summon the power of the dragons, bow down before me, I command you, attack these fools who dare break the cycle of the dragon divas, show them what is to be done, show them death!" Gakupo translated, "is she speaking Romanian?"

"God knows." Meiko cursed.

Then I took a few steps back, "what are these?"

Black things that looked like a black human figure climbed out, where their eyes should be were green sockets; a think aqua green aura surrounded them. They had three fingers instead of five, long enough to wrap around my throat, their whole bodies skinny like skeletons.

"Black ghouls, servants of the guardian." Gakupo explained.

Ghoulsnegru,i ucid!
Tăiaţipicioarele lorşismulgegâtlor!

"Ouch," Gakupo exclaimed.

"What?" Kaito asked curiously.

"Erm, she just told them to cut off our legs and tear out our throats." Gakupo looked sick.

Ouch.

"Len, this is your fight, you need to attack the guardian, we'll get rid of the ghouls as fast as we can and help you, be careful and good luck." Meiko said.

"You too." I said.

Then, we charged.

Gakupo headed towards the left and Kaito the right. Meiko stayed in the centre, where there are the most ghouls, I headed straight for Miku. My sword in my hands, ready to strike anytime.

My first attack was dodged by Miku, she was freaking fast. I swing my sword again; she leaped away and shouted something.

Vânt

A big wind came up, blowing me off my balance, at that moment, Miku tried to hit me with her staff, but I deflected it off my blade. I hacked and stabbed, but all Miku had to do was move out of the way or leap up. I need to get near enough, somewhere where she couldn't dodge away. I looked around quickly, there.

I started swinging my sword crazily; she kept backing away, just as I planned. Then her back touched the walls, I grab hold of the chance, I leaped up and slashed my sword, she blocked it with her staff, a big 'klang!'

We were competing our strength now, I was pushing my sword towards her, and she was blocking it with her staff with both hands. And suddenly, she smiled.

"You'll never find her," she chuckled.

"Where is Rin?" I demanded.

She giggled the same giggle; another chill went down my spine.

"She's dead."

My eyes widened to the size of a gold coin. Every part of my body went stiff. I was out of words, I didn't believe her. I would never believe her, but still, I was shocked. And there was something else.

lamedevânt

Something shot out. It felt like wind, but also like a blade had just passes through me, I leaped away, but not in time. Something slashed through the skin of my forehead, I slipped and fell down the stairs behind me, rolling down and when I reached the ground, I couldn't move.

I was sure the others were calling my name.

There was something else I saw on her face that actually made me really shocked.

Tears. She was crying. At that moment, I actually saw her eyes, a bright green, but it was filled with fear. Fear of what? I don't know if I would live long enough to know. The next second I was seeing things.

I saw a girl, with two teal pigtails, she was screaming her lungs out, and tears fall down from her face like someone just poured water onto her. Two people grabbed her from behind, forcing her to stay put, another people was trying to make her wear something.

A mask.

The same mask the guardian is wearing now. The girl was her, she was sealed. She never wanted to become a dragon guardian.

And then the scene changed.

A beautiful blonde girl was dancing, she was so weak, I could already see her stumble sometimes, and blood was coming out of her mouth. There were tears in her eyes. Even the bow on her head was dropping down; the dress she was wearing was torn. Then I noticed the treble clef necklace.

Rin's still alive.

I pray to protect

For the world that is brimming with smiles

I couldn't bear to hear the song again. She sings about praying to protect the world full of smiles. But she was crying all alone.

A song of hope that binds today and tomorrow

A song of despair that throws my past away, I thought.

I give my life and my voice

A voice that declares the end, the end of your life.

I send it on the wind

I will drain it in the endless rain

Until I die.

"It repeats again. No one can save me." I heard a voice.

I opened my eyes and stood up. That was Miku's voice. Rin isn't dead, but she will be if I don't hurry. Miku's back was on me, I gripped onto my sword. And charged.

Then Miku noticed me. She turned around and tried to summon a black ghoul to stop me, but I leaped away from them.

Meiko's p.o.v

It was those eyes again.

Gakupo's p.o.v

Len's eyes…

Kaito's p.o.v

So determined.

Len's p.o.v

I slashed my sword at her head, no, not that, at her eyes, where her mask is. You've had enough, I thought, time to break the seal. She looked at me with horror; she thought I was going to kill her.

From the mask, I saw her closing her eyes.

Then the mask shattered.

Her sparkly green eyes showed out. There were two emotions on her face, unbelievable and happiness.

I heard her muttering a, "thank you."

I need to get to Rin. The wound on my forehead hurt, it felt like it was actually burning me. A few drop of blood slide down to my cheeks.

There was another door at the end, I need to reach it, and then suddenly three more people showed up beside me. I almost attacked them- Meiko, Kaito and Gakupo.

"Hold on, Len, is us." Kaito said.

"Aren't you at the back dealing with ghouls?" I asked.

"The guardian called them back, her mask was gone and I couldn't believe it, she looked so cute when she smiles." Kaito said dreamily.

"Kaito, Len broke her seal," Gakupo said, "obviously she should be happy."

This door was three meters high. The entire door was white; the black carvings covered half of the door. Instead of a door handles, there was something like a big ring around it. Kaito pulled the door, but it won't budge.

"I can't open it," Kaito said.

I looked at the door and almost aimed my sword at Kaito. There was such a big sign on the door, writing the word 'PUSH'. "Idiot," I force down my urge of killing Kaito, "You don't pull it, you push it."

I push open the door; I even used too much strength, the door opened and hit the wall and made a loud 'BAM!'

"Oops," Meiko exclaimed.

And there they were, Rin, looking at me, stunned, although her face looked too tired to make that emotion out.

And the dragon.

"Man, that is HUGE." Kaito said.

It was the same as my dream, the same eyes, the same big sharp teeth, only it looked a lot bigger in reality, and ferocious, and creepy. It might even looked like a serpent from faraway. Forget what I said about making a dinosaur look like a pet poodle, it make the castle look like its private bathroom.

"Any tips about how to fight a dragon?" I asked Gakupo.

"Erm, stay away from the fire breathing mouth, stay away from the giant swaying tail, stay away from the claws which could rip you into pieces, stay away from the eyes that could paralysis you, stay away from the mouth again to avoid getting eaten and stay away from…everything."

"So?" Meiko asked.

"So, I suggest we just pick your sister up and run away like hell." Gakupo said.

"Or I could kill you before you even pick her up."

We looked around, no one. Until I saw the pink haired girl walking out from the back of the dragon, her evil smirk made her looked more evil in the dark, Luka.

Meiko shouted, "What are you doing here you b-"

"Doing something I should've done a long time ago, kill all of you." She smiled.

"You're only one person, how do you expect to get us all?" Kaito asked.

Luka looked at the dragon and pointed at it, I was sure I saw her forcing down the urge to roll her eyes.

"Oh, that," Kaito exclaimed.

"No!"

Miku suddenly appear from behind me, she looked so much normal without the mask, and that smile on her face, not so evil anymore, yeah!

"I've had enough of you, commanding me to do everything for you. Well, no more, I'm ending this, right here, right now. If I kill the dragon, my powers would vanish, I would become a normal girl, and that's what I intend to do. But first, I'm going to kill you." Miku shouted.

"Bring it on; do you even seriously think you could get rid of the dragon?" Luka asked.

"She could," I said, "with my help."

"And me," Meiko said.

"I must be crazy, but I'm in," Kaito grinned.

"I'm definitely participating," Gakupo said.

Luka looked at us, I could hear her cursing something, but what she said, I had no idea. She looked at us with eyes filled with hatred, especially towards me, of all the people, it had to be me.

Miku looked at me gratefully. Then she started telling us as quiet as she could, "I'm going to go and get the dragon, It's much more safer to attack it with range attacks, Meiko, I need your help, and-"

"Wow, how did you know my name?" Meiko asked.

"Not important, anyway, Len, try and get your sister, Kaito and Gakupo, go and get Luka. Luka's good at range attacks, but not at melee. But you still have to be careful, go!" Miku said.

"Len?"

I jumped. I turn around and saw a weak girl, with the bow and the necklace. I went to hug her first before saying anything. Then I asked, "how did you get here, weren't you there?"

"Erm, while all of you were talking, I walked here," she said, her voice sounded like an angel's singing, she smiled, I thought I might have fainted. I shouted, "Meiko, got food?" I suddenly remembered the fact that Rin haven't eaten in a long time.

Meiko handed me a bottle of water and some apples, bananas and oranges. I opened the water bottle for Rin and gave it to her; she gobbles down the whole bottle in ten seconds and licked her lips.

She still looked like an angel to me.

"Len, WATCH OUT!" Meiko shouted.

I looked at the glowing pink arc that was heading our way, a magic of Luka's I'm sure.

"Wind shield!" Rin suddenly shouted, a semi-circle blue shield appeared and deflected Luka's magic.

I looked at her and almost laughed, "Where did you learn that?"

She looked very tired, "I peek at Luka and sometimes the priest when they use it, and I've learned it. And last time…" suddenly she stumbled.

"You okay?" I asked.

"No, I am not, I want to sleep and eat. Thank you very much." She said. Gakupo was right, she only has one of the elements, as long as both of us are together, and she'll get stronger.

I positioned her on the walls, "she's okay. So, how do you kill a dragon?"

"The eyes, try and get the eyes, it's the power source of the dragon," Miku said, then she ran off to the dragon, lifting her staff high up in the air, she chanted something and a tornado appeared. The dragon roared so loud I thought I was going to be deaf. But there wasn't even a scratch on the dragon.

Gakupo and Kaito charged at Luka, but a strange blue light surrounded Luka, then suddenly she wasn't there.

"On the dragon!" Meiko shouted.

And there she was, just on the neck of it, smirking.

That means we have to get rid of the dragon before we can deal with her. Great, I just love climbing up a dragon, almost getting killed, than attack Luka until I get tired.

Piece of cake.

Someone kill me.

All of us charged at the same time at the dragon, trying to do anything we can, but to the dragon it was like we were scratching him. The dragon roared again and tried to stump me into a pancake with that giant claws of its, but I leaped away just in time. Kaito and Miku kept chanting spells, things that shot out included: Explosives, flying daggers, knives, grenades (which I didn't know they had), mini scythes, and chainsaws (?), something that I couldn't make out and is that a fork?

Of all the things, they threw a fork at the dragon…

Wait…

"Kaito, Gakupo, distract the dragon, I got a plan! Miku, teleport me up there!" I shouted.

Meiko almost shouted, "You're…"

Crazy? Insane? Paranoid? Off my hook? Brains damaged? Probably.

"Len, get ready," Miku called out. And she started chanting.

There was a strange blue light around me, very, extremely strange. And I felt a wave of nausea pass by me, definitely strange. Then suddenly my sights turned dark, and then the light when back again, I was probably fifty meters high. Then I realize I was on the dragon.

Did Luka even notice me?

I crept up on her, trying as hard as I could not to fall down from a physcotic dragon. Last time I climbed castle walls, well, at least they don't move around and they're only fifteen meters high. This? I prefer not to plunge to my death.

She was still enjoying the scenery from on top of the dragon, she looked at the others while they try to attack the dragon. And then she noticed something was missing from them. She turned back with –the first time ever- a shocked face.

"You…" She shouted, and then she didn't know what words to use to continue the sentence.

I slashed my sword before she could say anything, she ducked, then she chanted some words and unleashed some lightning onto my surroundings.

Suddenly, I thought of two words, hold on.

She just summoned lightning, on the dragon. And of course it didn't like this. It started shaking its body, trying to get whatever is on it off. I already tried to grab the dragon as hard as I could, but of course, Luka didn't.

She yelled a curse as she stumbled down the dragon, screaming while she fall down, and then her sound died when she landed on the ground, blood spread out, she looked like a grease spot in the middle of the ground.

And here comes the bad news: The dragon was still shaking around, I couldn't hold on any longer.

"Len, get off the dragon!" Kaito shouted as he jumped away from the dragon that was about to crush him.

"Like I could even do that!" I shouted. I try to climb towards the dragon head, where it wasn't shaking so much, after a few minutes, I got there, I gripped my sword and tried to stab the dragon, but it only made a little scratch.

The eyes, try and get the eyes.

I tried to regain my balance, pushing myself slowly to the spot above his eyes.

And suddenly the dragon turned around.

I slipped onto the snout of the dragon, grabbing onto it as hard as I could, if I fall down from here, the dragon will get a big feast named 'Len Lasagna"…Ewww…That's definitely disgusting.

I pulled myself up, getting neared to the eyes. The dragon saw me, and kept shaking its head, but I grab hold of the snout, so luckily I didn't turn into dragon feed.

Then Miku sent out a big explosive.

The dragon's attention was mostly on her now.

I grabbed the opportunity, and stab the dragon in the eye. And when I pulled it out, the eye came out as well.

I had the urge to puke right on the dragon's face.

But the eyeball slide away from my sword and fell right between Gakupo and Meiko. They screamed.

I quickly stab the other eye of the dragon.

The dragon roared the loudest roar I've ever heard. That is definitely going to make me deaf.

And then I felled off the dragon who was going to drop dead itself.

"Len!" everyone down there shouted. But then another sound came out, "Light wind!"

It was Rin.

A wide flat tornado appeared below me, when I landed on it, it was like the world's largest cushion had just come to my rescue. Strange.

Rin ran to my side, "you okay?"

"I need a big feast, a big bath and a good sleep, do you think I'm okay?"

"Yup, he's okay."

"Len?" Meiko called out, "you just killed the dragon which has been bringing destructions and deaths for the last two thousand years."

"So?" I asked.

"Seriously?" Kaito looked like I was the stupidest person in the whole world.

"Let's just say, I went to head right back home." I chuckled.

"Me, too." Gakupo cut in.

Why didn't we notice that Luka had mysteriously disappeared.

There's a bonus chapter. And yes, the spell Miku chanted? The very strange words are Romanian.