Clarabelle and her fiddling thumbs come from a wizard show I saw when babysitting, I thought "holy crap! that's something she would do. Cheater' I giggled at the thought and the kids like 'I knew it!' yes, I baby sit freaks.

Oh, and there is a word in this chapter that kids 10 and under should not read, and if you are and reading this; what your doing is illegal! But don't worry I won't tell anyone…maybe.

NEVER

GEPOV

Vendetta slugged away from Skulduggery and Valkyrie till she hit a corner then she shadow walked back to the Sanctuary's hospital. She gently placed her pager on the table and ended back in Germany.

"Home, sweet, temporary home." She mumbled. Vendetta walked around and found an internet café.

A young waiter came by and greeted, "wie geht es Ihnen." He smiled brightly. Vendetta smiled back but had little clue what he was saying.

"Ich spreche kein Deutsch" She replied back and added, "traurig. Ich spreche Englisch" The guy smiled again and handed her a menu.

"Then how can you speak German?" He asked with a strong accent, "Hi, I'm David."

"I got it from Google Translate, sorry. I'm Vendetta." She regretted not giving an actual fake given name.

"That's a strange name." She smiled and tilted her head, "Do you wanna go somewhere when I'm finished my shift?" Vendetta's face saddened.

"I'm sorry, I have to go." She said and started leaving but David got a strong grip on her wrist, "David, please, I have to go."

"Why Vendetta? Oracle needs you but you betrayed her." David gave a demonic smile and moved his grip towards her hand and pulled her behind into the alley way, "OK, now you can kill me, David, an innocent bystander." She wanted to kill Oracle but this wasn't her, it was a victim, like her. She flicksed her hand back and walked away.

Vendetta then shadow walked to Nova Scotia, Canada. She ended up in a town called Dartmouth (pronounced as Dartmuth). She walked around the small lake of Banook and watched the paddlers race to the other side. Some children on a nearby playground ran up to her, "Will you play with us?" One asked as she twirled her skirt.

"I can't, kid." She kneeled down to their height, "I'm too busy." Not knowing what to do she was inches from patting to girls head when she clenched Vendetta's arm.

"Are you too busy for Oracle?" The girl smiled and the children swarmed her. They pushed her hard into a shallow marsh and gave a high pitched laugh. Vendetta stood up in a stance so the mud doesn't drip anywhere else. The children screamed and ranaway. When no one was looking she manipulated the wet mud back to the ground and a familiar voice came behind her.

"That's some water manipulation." Oracle said from a bench.

"So? What's your point?" Vendetta was inconspicuously readying some mud to fling.

"Don't even try." Her hand splayed and Vendetta was, again, blocked, "My plan so simple. I could basically do it myself." Oracle lurched forward and coughed out flem.

"Make me." Vendetta taunted but weakened, "I have no friends to hurt…now." Oracle noticed this.

"Haven't you ever wondered what you are?" Vendetta's look sharpened and stalked closer towards her.

"How do you know?"

"I hear whispers; I know everything." She weekly laughed, "And I will use it against you." Vendetta whipped her fist to Oracle's face but it was countered by a simple blink, "Please don't even try, Ms. Dare." She blinked again and Vendetta doubled over in a fierce, agonizing pain. She crumpled on the ground and scrunched into a ball.

"I'll never do it!" Vendetta shouted but that caused more pain, "Never" She repeated quieter but the pain intensified and she cried out even louder. "Never, never, never." She murmured to herself until she blacked out.

Vendetta found herself shackled to a chair the nearby river that's waist deep.

"Are you awake." Oracle's tone was more of a taunt than a question. On land, she leaned forward to check, "Oh, good you are."

Vendetta tried to talk say something but couldn't, "Like it? It took me a little while longer to learn this skill." Vendetta just stared, "To activate what you are we'll have to put you in a deadly situation, like how Darquesse and Lord Vile come into being. Get it?" She turned away in protest.

Vendetta felt her magic flow into her. Her hand splayed and the water parted away. Oracle smiled and shrugged, than sat on a rock. Vendetta's hand splayed again and the water started rising around her. At neck-high she tried to scream, it came out silent and it would be muffled by the water anyways. She was submerged for more than a good two minutes without a new breath. She felt her heart pounding in her chest, enough to break her ribs and breastbone.

Seconds before drowning, a spark went off and an old feeling surged inside her. Her fleshed rippled to black and red scales. Legs contorted while her hands and feet grew skin in between. Something sprouted from her shoulders. Vendetta's body started stretch out so much the shackles busted. Vendetta took her breath as she breached the surface, only not human. What sprouted from her shoulders was scaly wings.

Oracle's mouth dropped at the sight, "You're more beautiful than I expected!" She cried, "Do you know what you are?" Vendetta's body coiled and recoiled on land as she squirmed on, "You are a Catalin Drac! Not visible to the human, or mortal, eyes, who shape shifts!" Vendetta tried to say something, anything, but that came out was a screech and groan, "I think you get it." Oracle's hands splayed and she moaned as Vendetta shrunk and changed to her former self. Magic and voice too.

"I'm a Drac?" She asked, "uh, uh, a dragon?" Vendetta began so cry but her tears were hidden from the water.

"Are you OK?"

"Why am I OK? I'm a fucking dragon! I've killed thousands of innocent souls-" Vendetta faltered and she calmed down, "How do I change back? Last time I was…that was fifty years ago when I got beached."

"It's a state of mind, like Necromancy." Oracle got back to business, "You will do what I tell you to do." Vendetta rendered and nodded, "One more thing, were you born Drac?" Vendetta's head cocked down and nodded.

Told you! A swear word not for kids 10 and under! Anyways the translation, I really did get it from Google Translate.

Dave- How are you

Vendetta-I don't speak German. Sorry, I speak English.

And there you go, that's the translations.

One more thing! If you are curious what happens to Vendetta's clothes when she transforms to Drac form and back to human. She doesn't wear clothes in Drac form so lets just say it magically disappears and reappears. OK? Good. Anyways I'm seeing my close friend, Rife- the original Rife in 3 days! Ah! I can't wait to see him.