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A Dream and a Plan

Dream

I woke up to find myself in my room. However, there was something…different about it. For starters, I could not hear the deep baritone sound of Terrador snoring. I also found that most of the video games I left had somehow appeared. I then heard the sound of recorded gunfire coming from the TV and when I turned to look, I was at a loss for words.

I saw Richard playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare. He was wearing the robe that was in the chest that severed as my transport. It was at that moment that he stopped playing the game and turned to look at me. He features were the same as I remember but the one thing that was different was that he was wearing the amulet that was also inside the chest.

"We need to talk" He said in a deep voice

"What do you mean?" I asked confused

"What is your plan for getting out of the mess you are in?"

"I am not in any mess."

He gave a brief laugh and said "now do you honestly believe that you can fool me? I can feel your heart struggling to find an answer."

I knew there was no fooling him. Richard now represented my heart and acted like it messenger.

"I…I don't know what to do."

Richard gave a pause for thought and then said "What you need is a plan."

"What do you mean a plan?"

"Right now your thoughts are confused and messed up. You are trying to figure out how to solve the two biggest problems in your life right now."

"Which are?"

"You are stuck between your duty to train the new fire guardian and to have the dragoness of your dreams."

"I know I am just so confused right now. I need time to think."

"That is why I am here. There has to be a way for you to achieve both of your goals. You just need to think of a plan."

I gave a nod of the head and started to short out my priorities. On one hand, I was given the task of training Rayde into becoming a fire guardian. I have no doubt in my mind that I posses the knowledge to train a dragon but the training planes to go on for months and years.

On the other hand, I have feeling for Krystal and I want her to be happy. I have a feeling that she will not be able to resist her parents for much longer and will be force to pick a dragon she does not love. I am still unsure of my feelings for her but my thoughts kept turning back to the kiss. I felt my heart leap for joy during that moment and slowly the one answer my heart wanted me to reach came into my head.

I knew I was in love with Krystal.

The moment I thought that, I knew my first priority was to get Krystal to be mine. But, I still had a job to do for the guardians. My mind was torn.

Do I train Rayde?

Do I help Krystal?

Those two questions keep going back and forth in my head. I felt like I would go insane if this kept up. However, Richard entered my mind and calmed it. When he did, he sent me two pieces of information I thought would not help me.

There was the fact that Rayde is training to become a healer.

And there was the existence of the prestigious Warfang Medical Academy.

"What does that have to do with anything?" I said out loud to him.

"Stay calm, my friend and come up with a plan that will work."

I gave a huff of annoyance and went back to my thinking. My thoughts were now including those two pieces of information. Slowly, they were starting to form an idea in my head. That in turn, became a plan.

"If I could get Rayde to be accepted into the Academy" I thought "she would still be training just as a medical dragon. That would be a useful skill to have out on missions."

"Good" I heard Richard say "Now what will you do during this time?"

With growing confidence, I replied" I plan on becoming a suitor for the hand of Krystal so I can get close to her. I tell her of my new feeling for her and hopefully she will return them in kind. We can then approach her parents and ask them to accept her decision."

"And if that does not work?"

"Then I do what you usually do, as one of your games puts it, go to plan B when things go south."

"And then?"

"I spend the rest of the time I have before Rayde graduates and strengthen our relationship. When Rayde does graduate, I focus my attention on training her to be the next fire guardian."

"This will solve both of your problems at almost the same time. That is acceptable plan Spirit congratulation."

"Thanks, I could have not done it without you."

"I am glad I was able to help you once again. Just remember that if you need any help sorting out your dilemmas, just go to sleep and dream about this room."

"Okay Richard."

"Before you go, there is one more thing you need to know."

"What is that?"

"When the time comes and you are ready to mate with Krystal, I will not be able to contain your hormones."

"I understand"

End Dream

This is kind of my filler chapter. I wanted to have a clean head when I get started on putting their plan into action. Will it work? Will Rayde get accepted into the Academy? Will Spirit get Krystal by being a suitor or will he have to go to 'Plan B'? Why am I asking you questions that I have the answers for? Find out in the next chapter.

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