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A/N: Ok, so I am so happy to finally be updating this story! Yay! Updates! My computer I am currently working on has gotten really slow so writing this right now is a pain in the rear. Anyway! I am pleased to put up this chapter and now that summer is here I will be posting on my profile page the dates for next updates so go ahead and check that out!
QUESTION: Should this book become two? I was thinking about maybe making a second book since this one seems to wrap up so much of the story, and this story line is far from over. It was an idea I had while getting ready to post this and I figured that I could get some input.
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ArtemisBAMF1218- I know all about life. Life! *rolls eyes* Summer is going to be nice. Mine is packed so make sure to check out my profile to see when I update everything! This story is not really ending. I have a lot of great ideas for it, I could write a second book… but I don't really want to and I don't know what I would call it. It's still a thought. But the story of Danny and Aiko is far from over! I mean it! Either I will write a second book or just keep this one going. I don't know yet, but I'll figure something out.
I love these characters too much to stop their story. Just like I love writing Kai and Yue (The next Moments chapter has them in it, and is really funny)!
I feel the same way but I can always write a one-shot if the inspiration comes. And then there is Ryu's story where we will be back at this point. Danny will make a great king and it will be really sweet and I can't wait to get there. Sam and Ryu get I think just a few more cute scenes before they depart. I can't wait for it! I know you'll love it. Enjoy!
Chapter 28
"Beach!" Ryu yelled excitedly.
Danny looked out the window from where he was trying to meditate. "That's just more water, Ryu." He sighed.
"Look to the left." Ryu sighed.
"Ryu that's an island," Sam said.
"And the difference is?" Ryu asked.
"Nothing." Sam sighed.
"Can we get off yet?" Ryu asked as she held her tail in her arms. "I don't like this."
"And we don't like hearing you talk for 2 straight hours at 5 in the morning." Luke yawned. "So please be quiet."
Ryu crossed her arms childishly. "I can do as I please."
"Yeah, as it turned out she can," Peter added. "Like the 60 verses of 99 bottles of beer on the wall. Where did you ever hear of that?"
"How to be annoying on a long road trip. YouTube is pretty good." Ryu smiled evilly.
Aiko rolled her eyes and looked out the window as Ava started to land the jet. Aiko walked up and took the seat next to Ava.
"You and Danny are going to have fun on the how-ever-many-hours plane ride to K'un-Lun." Ava laughed.
"We'll give her something to calm her down," Aiko said. "Or else we wouldn't all make it out alive." Aiko sighed heavily. "Plus Danny told me she is actually quite scared about going home."
"The whole illegal thing?" Ava asked.
"Yes." Aiko agreed.
"Why did you tell Aiko?!" Ryu yelled at Danny.
"Great ears," Ava muttered.
"Ryu, calm down. It's ok for you to be scared about it." Danny said softly.
"Ryu's scared of something. Now, this I need to hear." Sam laughed.
Ryu punched him straight on, in the face. "I am not scared." She said crossing her arms and dropping her tail to the ground. She let out an ear piercing scream and her tail jerked off the ground and back into her arms as she hugged it into herself and tried not to cry.
Danny smiled and walked over to her and gently hugged her. "Let me look." He said softly. Ryu did. The bottom side of her long tail was a hot pink color after only a second of exposure to the metal. He touched it and let his hand glow moving his hand all the way down.
"Thanks," Ryu muttered.
"OK!" Ava called as she started to land the plane. "We are here. Everyone off."
Ryu jumped into the sand and lay on her back for a few minutes looking up at the morning sky. She was wearing a cover-up dress that fell to her knees, but it was more like a sea-green cover up.
Danny, Peter, Sam, and Luke all followed her down the ramp while Aiko and Ava changed.
When Aiko and Ava finally emerged they saw Ryu climbing a coconut tree, her tail wrapped around the trunk to keep her balanced. Luke and Danny were setting up chairs while Sam and Peter were spreading out a picnic blanket.
Ava finished trying her wrap around her waist and Aiko copied the tie. Aiko was wearing a swim stop that looked much like a tank top and then had a short-sleeved swim shirt over that. Around her waist was a long towel like wrap much like the white one Ava owned but it was a blue and purple swirl.
She looked over at the ocean. "Wonderful." She smiled. "This is beautiful."
Ryu looked down and threw coconuts at Sam with too much force, hitting the poor teen on the back.
"Ryu!" Sam yelled in annoyance.
Danny looked up at the pair. "Ryu! Sunscreen! You'll get burned and I don't want to hear about it."
Ryu laughed as she jumped down and ran over to Danny. He tossed the plastic rub-on sunscreen at Ryu who looked up at him annoyed. "Where's the spray on?"
"We've been over this." Danny sighed. "The container is metal. I don't want you to hurt yourself."
"Right." Ryu complained as she popped open the top and started to apply the sunscreen to her arms.
Aiko walked over. "This is nice." She commented. "Nothing like it back home."
"Sadly, I agree. There are beaches, but they are not like this." Danny smiled.
Aiko took in a deep breath. "How do you even describe this air?" She asked.
"Saltly?" Sam provided.
"Yes." Aiko agreed.
Ryu walked over. "Did I get it all?" She asked. Her face was covered in white sunscreen streaks.
Sam ran his fingers over the different patches of sunscreen that were not rubbed in. And Danny got her ears.
"There." Danny sighed.
"What about the tail and wings?" Peter pointed out.
Ryu moved her tail up to eye level. "Scales. They don't burn. I don't even see why I need sunscreen."
"Just on your face and arms," Danny said easily. "You're quite sensitive to the sun."
"Right." Ryu sighed.
The group stood around quietly for a while.
"Last one to the water is a rotten dragon egg!" Ryu shouted without warning. She wings expanded to their full wingspan. She bolted straight up and into the sky rushing toward the water.
"Not fair!" Sam yelled. He took off sprinting down the coast to the water.
Luke, Danny, and Peter all also took off running leaving the two girls behind.
Aiko looked up and watched as Ryu grew into a full-sized dragon. "How big to you think she is full sized?" Aiko asked.
"I don't know," Ava said also looking up at the dragon. "Pretty big. Maybe about 40 feet tall."
"Not to mention the wings." Aiko whistled as Ryu flew further and further out and then dove into the water. "Do you think she can swim?"
"I'm sure she'll be fine," Ava said easily.
The pair watched Ryu throw out her wings and glide above the water. Twisting so she flew upside down. Elegantly she dipped one wing into the water.
Ryu didn't stop as she plucked Sam out of the water in one of her large talons and started upward again.
"Are they dating?" Ava asked.
"You know, I think they actually might be." Aiko laughed. "Seems like it."
"What happened to the whole dating thing?" Ava asked. "You just lost it."
"I don't think we can control Ryu. Plus, that's not for me to say." Aiko pointed out. "Ryu is Danny's responsibility. I guess it's up to him."
"And what did he tell Sam?" Ava prompted.
"Danny said, and I quote; 'You hurt her, I break your neck. I assume you know that?'" Aiko quoted.
"Yup." Ava laughed. "That's lovely."
The pair watched as Ryu dropped Sam and then races after him as the currently powerless teen fell down to the ocean.
"Random thought from nowhere," Ava said. "I hope there are not any sharks."
"Sharks?" Aiko repeated.
"Think of a fish that is really big and has dragon-like teeth." Ava sighed.
"Oh," Aiko muttered. "I think Ryu would win in a fight."
"Do you want some breakfast?" Ava asked.
"Sure." Aiko agreed as the two girls walked to sit on the spread out blanket.
About 10 o'clock, Danny had told Ryu to get out of the sun.
Ryu had been having the time of her life, she would randomly pick up a team member and then carry them up into the sky, drop them, and then chase them to the water. She was a dog playing fetch with itself. She had only done Luke once. After he was in the water he got right out and joined the girls, lying on the beach trying to not be sick. Danny had also yelled at Ryu to explain why she should not have done that to Luke.
Ryu drug herself out of the water followed by Sam who set up the umbrellas as means of temporary cover while he and Peter got to work on making a better place for Ryu to take cover under. It mostly consisted of the two arguing over who's idea was better and then they settled on the design.
The plan was Peter's a dug out a hole with a huge tarp then filled with water and umbrellas to keep the sun off. Everyone had joined in except Danny who sat with Ryu.
Aiko, Ava, and Sam all got the water while Luke had dug out where the handmade pool was going to go. Peter had used webs to keep the tarp in place. And also make a cover out of palm branches.
"Ryu!" Peter yelled. "Finally finished!"
Danny looked over his shoulder. Ryu was now laying with her head in his lap and she looked asleep. Danny gave her a shove and Ryu moved. Her body slowly shifted and shrunk until she was about the size of a puppy. Danny picked her up and wrapped in a towel and then carried her over.
"What on earth?" Ava yelled. "Why is she so small?"
Peter had taken Ryu from Danny's arms and was holding her up to examine the Dragon Lord. "I don't get it. How is she so small?"
Danny shrugged. "I don't know?"
"Aiko?" Luke asked.
"No clue either," Aiko added.
Ryu bit at Peter over and over again until she was put down in the water. Once he placed her down she morphed back to human. "It's a logical explanation, honestly. I can't use magic in Dragon Form. So I can change my size, I can get really big or really small. There are only three sizes. It's a method of defense."
"Oh," the group said in understanding.
"That will come in helpful in smuggling you into K'un-Lun," Aiko smiled. "A tiny dragon will be much easier than a human sized person."
Ryu shrugged. "Guess so." There was quiet as Aiko and Ava sat on the edge of the pool and dipped in their feet.
Ryu's ear twitched. "I hear food." She muttered.
"You HEAR food?" Sam asked.
"Yes, sounds like a small animal crawling down the beach. Small, exoskeleton…"
"A crab?" Sam asked.
"What's that?" Aiko asked.
The group sighed.
"Aiko, it's that shelled animal that your mom cooks on occasion, remember? We were peeling the shells off of them once and you tried to break my hand?" Danny offered.
"I did not try to break your hand!" Aiko snapped.
"What happened?" Ryu asked.
"Danny and I were given small mallets to break off the shells with and he reached across where I was working to get another crab and I smashed his hand," Aiko explained.
"Did you break anything?" Luke asked.
"Nope." Aiko sighed. "Danny was just fine."
The team let out a round of laughs.
"You guys must have had a great time growing up." Ava sighed. "I've always wanted that kind of childhood when I was little. Those people you spent every waking moment with."
"That sums it up." Danny agreed. "The four of us."
"Speaking of which." Aiko trailed off. "你要告訴他們?"
"告訴誰?什麼?" Ryu asked.
"Not you too." Peter cried. "English people, it's the common language!"
"The three of us are leaving in two weeks to head home," Danny said easily. "In three weeks, I will be crowned king. In the spare week, we will be there, I have to make necessary preparations to become King and do other things that are tradition and also official, like paperwork. And our childhood friends have planned their wedding the day after we return, so we can be there with them to celebrate."
"Two weeks?" Ava asked quietly. "That's not long." She muttered.
"Yeah." Aiko agreed softly. "But, I guess there's not a choice. We have to do what we have to do. I mean Danny has to be king, and life goes on."
"Wow, are you ready Danny?" Luke asked. "I mean that's a huge deal for you."
"It is a big deal, but you know…" Danny smiled. "It's all going to be fine. I'll be ok. I mean I am kind of looking forward to it. I have a list of things that I want to do. Mostly travel, but still…"
"Travel?" Peter asked. "Why travel?"
"Because K'un-Lun is rich with people and culture. And it's a huge dimension. I want to see more of it. I've only lived in the main city, and I get to go to some monasteries, but honestly there is a lot more I want to see." Danny smiled like a little kid.
"How big is K'un-Lun?" Sam asked. "I mean, isn't it just a city?"
"There are about a billion people living there Sam." Aiko corrected. "I mean it's huge. It's just like another earth."
"Earth's population is about 7.125 billion," Sam said easily.
"Same concept." Aiko corrected herself. "But K'un-Lun is entirely under Danny."
"No pressure," Luke muttered.
"Yeah," Danny muttered. He ran a hand through his hair. He plopped down on the ground next to the pool where Ryu was sitting watching everyone. "I'll be fine."
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