Hullo! This is the Dragon Charmer, informing you that I'm still losing! Eeekk! Oh well, Thanks for the wonderful reviews! They make my day a lot happier! So I must say now: If you aren't gonna eat that, give it to me.

Oh yeah! Sorry for misspellings and all that crappy crap. I'm not very used to English. I mostly talk Spanish on my house so it's hard for me to check for all those little mistakes. And this stupid spell checking doesn't even know. Eeeeeeeww!

Disclaimer: I once wrote "Escaflowne" on my tennis shoe, but then the lawyers came and left me in my sockies.

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CHAP 3: Thorns in my Heart

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She shut her eyes tight. Wishing she could banish in thin air. She wanned to run at full speed, but everything seemed to weight tons for her. Her bangs sled to her eyes and tickled her nose, she wanned to scream, but she couldn't say a word, been as frustrating as always.

Then, her ears propped up slightly... she heard a voice sounding somewhat amazed. She was too scared to even look. She heard the words "something gray"... Then it hit her. Her tail. She wasn't used to it! She was dead now. She would return to the slave city, and she would suffer again those horrible nights.

Her eyes became teary while she heard somebody climbing the tree. It was getting closer, and she was getting far from her freedom. Why? Why did this happen? Because of love. And because of this same reason, she wasn't going to get captured again. Not ever. She bared her nails, ready to strike whomever it was.

Some thing pulled her arm, the nerves got her and she clawed at the hand; feeling how the flesh was ripped and the warm blood fell on her fur. She opened her eyes and gasped. It was just a girl. What had she done? Why did she have to cause so much pain on everybody? He heard a male voice screaming... was it? Was it him? Had he come for her at last? Had he forgiven her? She didn't have time to react as she felt the girl looking for some foothold. She was falling, all because of her stupidity. She needed to save her.

She stretched her arm to grab the girl's hand in her human paw. Pain shot through her insides as the wound contracted on her other side. The weight was too much to her, she was pulled to midair as she clawed madly the branch, in a vain hope to pull the girl safe back up. She failed, as she had done all her life. Her paws slid from the branch and both of them plummeted to the ground below.

The least she could do for the girl was to soften the hit. She embraced the girl and turned around. Her back toward the ground. She heard the girl whimper; it broke her heart. It reminded her of those little children... She hugged her tighter and shut her eyes as hard as possible, just awaiting for the best.

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Zenji saw the cat-girl been crushed under Alia's weight; Alia screamed, but the cat girl went limp. Blood was splattered all around. He didn't only feared for Alia's safety, the cat-girl was important too.

Zenji ran towards them. Alia stood up and started taking the Cat-girl's pulse.

"Is she okay?" Zenji asked while he kneeled next to the little body.

"She still alive. But she's dying, she won't hold much longer. Please, we gotta do something for her!"

Zenji picked the limp body and sat her in his horse. She wouldn't make it all the way alive to the mansion, they needed to bright her to the closest city with a doctor.

"We gotta hurry," Zenji saw Alia's face. Concern marked her pretty features as tears made their way down her cheeks. "She won't hold much longer."

"We can take her to Hanya. It has a hospital!"

"Let's go, then" Zenji buried his heels on the horse's sides, the horse started galloping and then it got running with all it's soul. It seemed that the world didn't want to let go of the little cat-girl...yet.

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Eeekk!! What's gonna happen to the lil Neko-Chan? Is she gonna make it to Hanya? Am I ever gonna get at least 1 Vote against my friend? I guess not.... Strangely, today when I was going to school, Somebody left 4 little kittens on my door. They are as cute as anything! But we can't have them u.ú we already have 4 cats and 4 more won't help much either way.

This chapter is absolutely boring. Sorry, I'm not a good narrator. I can barely tell jokes u.ú! eeekk! See ya! I hope...