CHAPTER 2: THE PRINCIPALS OF HATRED

Little did I know how wrong I was.

That night I fell asleep uneasily. I tossed and turned, with an uneasy dream. My usual dream. The short childhood I once loved and cherished.

Then I woke up.

It was a rather rude awakening. I was jerked by my shoulders and I stared at the Commander's face. Commander Carl stared at me with that body builder face, short slits he called eyes and huge nose.

"Wake up," he hollered. Obviously, Snake tipped him off about me beating the wall on his side of the room.

"Get the—!"

"Silence, girl. Our commanding officers have news for you two." Commander Carl yanked me and Kiara to our feet. Kiara was still sleeping. Commander Carl was just as rude and ill-mannered as he was stupid. He raised his hand to slap her across the face, and wake her up, but I had a dangerous claw to his jugular vein and a good kick to the groin. He cried out in pain, tears bursting from his eyes.

"Big baby," I murmured, grabbing Kiara by the shoulders and jerking her sharply. She woke quickly, battle instincts kicking in and held a huge thumb talon to my neck, eyes reptilian. Immediately, when she recognized me, she went back to her normal state.

"Thank you," I said, voice dripping with heavy sarcasm. "Now, duty calls."

When we got to the conference room, Kiara and I sat there quietly, and waited to hear this business.

"Lieutenant Snake Menace," bellowed the ship's captain, or the 'Council's Head Person,' "read the charges."

"Why certainly, Captain," Snake said, slyly. He looked over at me and Kiara, and turned back to a sheet of paper. "As we, the council, all know, Kiara Santua and Ari Niiran, our soon-to-be Warlords, have been living in the same dorm for fourteen years." He glanced over at me with a cocky glance, trickling with evil.

"Where's this leading to?" I inquired impatiently, sending a glare that could put Medusa to shame.

"As you two are now eighteen, it has come to our understanding that you two have become well developed." His gaze swept over us two, taking in everything. I knew he wanted us. Either one. But no way were we going to give in. "The council has decided to give you two new dorms." The look he gave me made me feel that it was time for me to kill him slowly.

I stood to my feet. "You can't do that!" I called, my eyes going reptilian.

"Let him finish," hollered Council Head, rising to his feet to meet my gaze. He quickly sat, realizing true evil's glare easily.

"You two are not related by blood, therefore are not legally liable to stay in the same dorm. And, as for training," his smirk got down right nasty, "you two have been resigned to new partners. It seems you two do not train as hard as you normally would while fighting against each other."

"What?!" Kiara and I roared, as she rose angrily and half our human forms changed.

"You can't do that! I've been her partner for fourteen years!" I screamed with rage, balling my fists and practically flying across the table. I grabbed Snake and lifted him off the ground and held him above my head, glaring.

"That's why we're retiring you two from being partners," Snake said, with a slick smile and tone. The smile dropped quickly.

"I hate you, with a passion," I growled lowly, holding a claw to his throat.

"That's against ships rules, Niiran," said the 'Head,' shaking his head.

Kiara quickly glided over to me and Snake and she sucker-punched him in the stomach, and then in the groin.

"That was against the rules, but I did it anyway!" Kiara screamed in rage, kicking him in the chest so hard that he flew across the room, barely breathing. As she kicked him, we heard a few cracks from his rib cage.

"Lieutenant!" screeched Council Head, running over and shaking him by the shoulders. "You almost killed him!"

"And I will kill him!" I cried in rage, storming over and spitting in Snake's face. Literally. I spit in his face. "Now, say your prayers, jerk off, you're about to fall asleep and never wake up."

Blood was pouring from his forehead, and his ribs. Obviously, Kiara hit him so hard that it broke his skin with the impact. He was bleeding, and bleeding bad. Kiara had punctured one of his lungs when she broke his ribs.

I took a claw, raised it, and almost took off Snakes head, but I was grabbed from behind and slung over someone's shoulder.

"What the hell?!" I yelled in anger, seething. "Who's holding me? Put me down!!" I screamed, kicking.

"Feisty, isn't she, captain?" was the things reply. Obviously, they were ignoring me.

"What took you so long?" Council Head sighed, happy that I wasn't going on a killing spree.

I looked over at Kiara who still hadn't come over to help me. The only problem was, she was unconscious.

"Hey! Kiara! Wake up!" I yelled, reaching over, but she was too far away. I punched whatever was holding me. "What did you do to her?!"

"Give credit where credit is owed!" came a new person's reply. I was getting tired of all these new people just popping out of nowhere.

"What the—? Who are you people?!"

"I tire greatly of this," said the thing holding me. I think it was a he. Well, he jerked his shoulder sharply and I had only enough time to gasp. Then everything went dark. I blacked out.

I woke up suddenly, and blinking I looked around the room.

Then I came to three horrible conclusions.

One: This wasn't my old room.

Two: Kiara wasn't there.

And the worst one…

Three: Lieutenant Snake Menace was here.

I swear I'll get that idiot who stopped me from killing Snake back! I thought, defiantly, sitting up. I glared at Snake.

"Good morning," he cackled, throwing an ugly doll at me.

I caught it, and looked at it, remembering Kiara, my real true friend.

"Where is she?" I screamed, launching myself at him, pinning him against the wall by his neck, eyes reptilian, claws out, and this time, he got me so pissed, that my scaled wings flew out.

I have retractable wings. The scales on the inside were gold and on the outside they were pink. No! Just kidding. The outside scales are black.

"She is in her new dorm," he whispered, fear in his eyes. I then noticed something. His ribs were wrapped heavily in bandages. Obviously, he didn't have the healing ability that dragons possess. "The new rule was passed last night."

He looked so pitiful standing there, unable to move on muscle out of place. He knew I'd do it. I remember the look of pure fear in his eyes as I raised my claw to take his head off.

Then, a new voice.

"Hello, Ari, I'm…oh…dear…gods," was the stunned and sarcastic reply of an unusually attractive male.

He had short blue hair, and green eyes, with a handsome smile and somewhat pointed but round nose. All-in-all, he was drop dead gorgeous.

But one thing got me. The two people he was accompanied by.

One: Some other really cute guy with short black hair and dark blue eyes. He looked about the same, except, he wasn't smiling. He was laughing at Snake.

And the second one was…Kiara!!