Yay! New chapter!
Ok, so this one is very long! Some people are revealed, others aren't and feelings are let out! Hope you enjoy it!
I am nearing the end of this segment of Hidden Lives. Maybe 6-7 chapters more? We'll see. Next up: Hidden Lives: Humans!
Wolvmbm: Yep, it's going to be very difficult. And even Kate isn't who she seems. We'll see how that works out, below. Thank you very much, and enjoy the chapter!
Luiz4200: Learns of whom? She does learn about someone...but the whole truth? Not really :) You'll know what I mean by the end of the chapter. Hope you enjoy it!
Enjoy everyone!
==A month later
Bridge had been flying around aimlessly, like she did nowadays, losing track of time, and had landed on the Empire State Building to think. Suddenly, she sensed someone else's presence around her.
"Hey." Knight said.
"Hey yourself." Bridge grumbled.
"You ok?" Knight asked, coming to sit beside the young dragon.
"Physically? I'm grand." Bridge replied sarcastically.
"You know what I mean."
"No, I feel like crap. I feel like I can't trust anyone anymore."
"You do know that's what those idiots wanted to happen right? They wanted you to feel like Jen doesn't care about you, but she does!"
"Yeah?" Bridge scoffed. " That's the thing I don't get. Jen could date any guy, who's not a single parent, and have a happy life with them. Instead, she goes for my dad, who has me, and acts like everything is peachy. I don't understand why she would want to have to put up with me!"
"Bridge, when you like someone, it's not something that you pick and choose. It just happens. Plus, the fact that Jen has hung on with dating your dad for what is it? Two months? Is a clear sign she doesn't mind you at all. I actually think the reason they haven't married yet is so that you can get used to it."
"Used to what?"
"To having a second parent."
"Oh." Bridge whispered.
"Come on, let's get you home, they must be worried sick about you." Knight said, standing up.
And so, Knight and Bridge made their way home to the latter's house. Bridgette had been very quiet in the last month, and no one could figure out why. She hardly talked to anyone, even to her friends. James was no exception, as he was also given the same treatment. Even when she was fighting the Huntsclan, she was quiet, fighting skilfully, but not a single banter or anything.
Truth was, Bridgette was trying to figure all the bits and pieces out, so that she could confront her father about it.
== Long House
"Bridge, can we talk to you?" Jake asked when Bridge went inside.
"Sure dad." They went to the living room where they sat down across from one another. Jen wasn't there at the moment, so it was just the two of them.
"Can you tell me what's going on? You're way too quiet for this. We're all worried about you! Please, just talk to me, just me and no one else."
"I'm just so confused! I feel like everyone's lying to me!"
"Bridge, please, try to understand-"
"NO! YOU TRY TO UNDERSTAND!"
"Bridgette Angel Long, I won't have you talking like this."
" Fine, it's just that, all my life you told me that that woman was something you didn't want to talk about! Now I found out that not only is she in the city, but that she's also part of the Huntsclan? Who was she dad?"
"Who told you this?" Jake asked, paling.
"Well, based on what Fu told me, I guessed that someone would know who you were dating in middle school, and we found out that there was a teacher there who knew. Mr-"
"PRINCIPAL PROFESSOR!" A voice screamed in the night.
"-Rotwood told me of two girls. A girl called Danika, and a girl called Rose. The girl, Rose has the same colour eyes that I do. Her last name is Killdragonosa, and Art searched it up, and when Fitz went inside, he saw Huntsclan people. What happened dad, I want to know!"
" Bridgette, this isn't an easy subject. I, uh- thing was, she can't get out of the Huntsclan you know. It's not something you up and quit. You can try, but good luck getting back and not being killed. We knew that we couldn't raise a family, and, when we found out she was going to have you, we decided that, if you were born a dragon, or human, I would raise you, but if you were born with the mark, she would raise you. The rest is history, but the thing is, you have Huntsclan blood in you."
Bridgette was just speechless. "What? Why? You mean, you knew all this time that I wouldn't have two parents?"
"Yeah, we did."
"But, why didn't you at least get me to meet her?"
"We didn't want to give you a false sense of having someone who couldn't be there for you."
"And so that makes her entitled to not have to raise me?" Bridge scoffed. "Please dad, I'm sure that even if I had been born Huntsclan, you'd still have raised me."
"Bridge, I- you shouldn't be so hard on her."
"Right dad, because she's always been there for me, and given me a reason to love her. I despise her! If I ever see her, I'm going to show her what a dragon can do and make her regret doing this."
"Regret what? The fact that she loved me? The fact that she had you, when she could have said no and aborted? Face it Bridge, she's responsible for the fact you're living."
"But- Just-ARGH! I'm just going out." Bridge stormed off, transforming into a dragon and flying off one of the windows.
==Around NYC
Bridge was fuming. How could her father defend that coward of a woman after everything. Bridge was seriously considering storming the Huntsclan Center, but then remembered the Huntress, and if she was caught, she would be in deep shit.
Suddenly, a net showed up from nowhere and enveloped her, making her come crashing down.
" Caught you, Dragon scum." Someone sneered as Bridge slowly blacked out from the force of her impact, hoping she wouldn't transform while unconscious.
==Huntsclan Academy
"Ok guys, where's the fire?" Hunter asked as he was playfully dragged to a classroom. Hunter was a favourite with the younger kids. They looked up to him, for some reason, and he often helped them with homework and such.
"We have to show you something really cool!" Mark, exclaimed.
"Yeah! We saw some of the instructors bring it in!" Megan, Mark's twin, replied.
"Bring what in guys?" James asked, wondering what the heck they were talking about.
"A dragon!" Another kid, Nick, exclaimed.
"Say What?" James yelped. "They can get in serious trouble for that! The Huntress will tear them apart!"
"Soo? Come on, let's take a look!" Mark whined.
They went inside the classroom, where indeed, there was a blue and black dragon on a table, being held by a net. James recognized the dragon to be the American Dragon, and was instantly jealous of the instructors who managed to catch it. He was taken out of his thoughts by Nick talking.
'So Hunter, what do you think?"
"I think that we need to get this dragon stashed somewhere before the Huntress finds out and goes on a rampage." James replied. And maybe then kill her. James added as an afterthought.
"Cool, so where-" Megan stopped as she heard voices outside.
"Where, is, she!" James heard the Huntress snarl to someone outside.
James wasted no time in huddling everyone together beside the table with the dragon, and getting everyone to grab him. He then took out his staff, and grabbing the dragon, they teleported into another classroom.
James sighed as he relaxed. He then turned to the young 10 year olds. "You guys need to get back to your dorms as swiftly as possible, and tell no one about this ok?"
"Why did you take the dragon?" Mark asked.
"Because, I have my reasons." James replied stoically.
They then parted ways, with James returning to his home in NYC.
==The Huntsmansion
Bridge opened her eyes to a full blown migraine, and the eyes of Hunter.
"AHH!" Bridge yelped, trying to back off. She then looked down and saw that her torso was intertwined with re-enforced rope.
"Quiet Dragon! Do you want to get your ass handed to the Huntress?" Hunter sneered.
"No. But neither will I give it to you!" Bridge snarled.
"Seems like you're not in the position to decide that, are you, Princess?"
"You just wait! You're going to wish you never captured me Freak!"
"Oh, now I'm truly afraid of the feral dragon! "
"You will-" Bridge was interrupted by Hunter grabbing her snout, making her shut up, as he heard someone approach his door. He then heard knocking, and panicked. He did the first thing that came to his head: hide the Dragon under his bed.
"Not a sound Dragon, unless you want to be handed over to the higher order." James harshly whispered.
James opened the door, expecting the worst, but was met with his mother.
"What's going on?" James asked, as he saw his mother.
"Can't I visit my son without there being something going on?" Gwen answered, going inside the room.
"Well, yeah, but, is there something going on? I keep hearing people going left and right."
"Yeah, the American Dragon, the kid mind you, went missing. It was then revealed that some of the instructors captured her, getting the Huntress to raise hell. But now she's gone, and no one knows how she escaped."
"Sounds like quite the story."
"Now James, is everything alright? You seem down lately." Bridge heard this and tensed. This guy was named James, like my boyfriend, and his eyes resembled that of him, but I won't believe that this monster and my boyfriend were one and the same! James was a common name-
"It's nothing mom, Bridge has just been down for the past month, and she won't talk to anyone." James sighed. "It must be something with her parents."
Now Bridge was pale, and scared. This was too much to be a coincidence, and she was shocked beyond words. I can't believe it. Was the only thing she was thinking.
"Honey, don't take it too to heart. You should just ask her, I'm sure she'll tell you. Anyway, I'm going back to help, before the Huntress slays one of them. Goodnight."
"'Night mom."
As the door closed, James breathed out in relief. He helped Bridge out, and set her on his bed again.
"Woah. I know the underside of my bed is dusty, but not enough to make you look sick!" James exclaimed, getting a look at the dragon's face.
"You monster! I'm surprised you have a friend, but it seems you're having trouble with her! Kind of hard to keep a relationship being a freak?" Bridge shot back, now angry.
"Shut up will you! You don't know anything about her, or the problems she's facing." James shot back.
"Like you do."
"More than you!"
"So what are you planning? Slaying me? Is that it?"
"I may want you dead, but I would rather have to catch you again, than to face the Huntress now."
"Someone's scared."
"As if! The Huntress is a force to be reckoned with! You can't just do as you please! The poor souls who do that are never heard from again!"
"Uh huh. Anyway, did you ever think that maybe not killing us would be a good thing! I mean, why do you hate us so much?" Bridge would try a different tack, trying to see who James really was: this monster that pretended to be kind, or her boyfriend who had no other choice but to do this.
James sighed "I don't know. You guys are monsters and vile creatures! We're just making the world a better place for humans by making sure you guys don't hurt anyone."
"Yeah, that's why you see us attacking everything we see left and right, you know?"
"You attack us."
"Because you want our pelts! Look, we're the good guys! There are magical creatures that are evil, but not us! We protect the innocent ones against anything which might endanger them."
"Argh, like that's believable." James shook his head. "Who are you by the way? You seem really familiar?"
"No one you know." Bridge answered, a little bit too quickly.
"I don't believe you." James countered.
"Well, don't, but I still won't tell you." Bridge defended.
"You tell me, and I'll let you free." James offered.
"And if I don't?" Bridge asked.
"The Huntress will get a nice present." James sneered.
"I- Please don't make me do this." Bridge pleaded, not wanting to find out how James reacted to seeing her.
"Come on! How bad can it be? Come on Dragon!" James coaxed.
Bridge transformed, but left her head into that of a dragon.
"Now that's cheating! I asked who you are, not to see your human torso." James then thought for a moment, wondering where he had heard that voice before, seen those eyes and clothes before.
"You promise you won't kill me?" Bridge asked.
"I promise. But I think I know who you are." James replied, taking his mask off.
Bridge looked at him, wanting to see if it was a joke.
James, for his part, took Bridge's dragon face into his hands. "Come on Bridge, just show me."
Bridge widened her eyes, as she lowered her gaze and her body made the final transformation to human. Bridge was expecting anything but what happened. He kissed her.
"Now everything makes sense." James said, as they broke apart. He held her to him, caressing her.
"You don't hate me?" Bridge asked.
"Never have, and never will. And I most definitely am rethinking that about dragons." James replied, kissing her forehead.
"Now, let's get you back home before the Huntress does a sweep check."
James grabbed his staff and teleported them to the roof of Bridge's house. "Thank you James."
"No problem Bridge, I love you, very much, and won't let anyone harm you, especially people from the Huntsclan."
They kissed, and bade each other goodnight, now feeling extremely happy with their significant other.
James and Bridge found out! Was that too anti-climatic? I hope not :P
And Bridge now knows a bit more about...'the woman' but her feelings are still livid. We also see that Rotwood [PRINCIPAL PROFESSOR!] whatever, can yell very loudly across the city, and out of the fic :P
Anyway, I would really appreciate that if you're reading this story, could you please leave me a review! You don't even need an account, and it would make me a very happy person!
Anywho, no snippet for today, sorry :P Not sure about the next chapter now, but worry not! By next week, it'll be there!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Hezpeller