My eyelid opened slightly to let the painful rays of bright, sun light penetrate my eye's blackness. Myt sharp, canine like ear flapped slightly as a different sound, one that was not the struendous thundering of cars, nor the sharp yells of honks, neither the shrieking shrill's of an angry mother, or the ear piercing roars of helicopters flying over my head. No, this was the delicate sound of footsteps, familiar footsteps, and a melodious voice whispering numbers as she, for it was female, reached the door: MY DOOR? I raised my enormous head inmediatly, my black eyes oppened wide upon realizing what I had been thinking, what I had just deduced.

I spotted the cause of my stress, there, standing in front of my door was a young teenager with waist long, violet hair, flowing with the gentle breeze like strands of tender silk. She had the brightest, blue eyes I had ever seen, and no doubt that reaching the age of 15 made her develop a set of curves quiet atractive, even for a guy like me.

I gasped alarmed, she had just nocked on my door, and my mother was bound to open it any second now, and I was supposed to be in my room, not taking a nap on top of a roof. I leapt off the roof and expanded my enormous, leathery wings, my large but still agile figure flew across the park that separated both buildings like an enormous red flame, for the setting sun was colouring my copper scales with the intense blaze of flames. The only thing that kept me hidden to the eyes of humans was a very simple, invisibility spell I had known forever.

I flew over the roof of my building and spinned quickly, my manoeuvres on air were pretty good, since flying is a thing I've been doing ever since I was little and I discovered what I was, and right now I was 17. I quickly made a flip so I was situated with my hind legs down, and faster than eyes could see my enormous figure diminished as I shapeshifted into my human form. I landed agily on my window seal and quickly crowched and crawled onto the desk that was placed next to the window, into the room.

I heard the door shriek slightly as it oppened, and the gentle footsteps of the woman entering my lair, only to find me on a crouched position, on top of my desk, next to an open window. At first she stopped with a concerned look crossing her face, but then her lips split into a bright smile, "Izzy? What are you doing on there?" she asked trying to hold back a very disturbing giggle. I felt my cheeks become bright red due to embarrasment, I looked like a cat standing on the desk like that! "Yoley…I…um…the bulb…it didn't work so I had to tighten it a bit" I quickly invented. I leapt onto the floor and shook my clothes a bit, "well, are you free now?" Yoley suddenly asked. I looked up with a curious look on my face, "um, yeah, why?" I inquired still wondering what her visit and all that had been about, and couldn't help feel a bit annyed at the fact that she had disturbed my pleasant nap. Yoley sighed somewhat annoyed, "Izzy, you promised me you'd explain me this math problem!" she snapped in a rather disbelieving voice, and almost equially annoyed as before. I gasped silently, it was true! I had forgotten. I managed a weak smile and nodded, "of course! No, I didn't forget, it's just I've got a few things on my mind!" I lied again…I hated lying to her, she was my best friend, but then I couldn't tell her the true reason to all my weirdnesses.

We sat down and I started explaining the trigonometry problems she had for school, and clearing the doubts that grew within her, but somehow my mind kept drifting to the thought that she was my best friend, and that there was a great secret I was keeping from her. But somehow I couldn't just bring myself to tell her, and I tried, many times, but then realized how hard it had been for me to accept that fact, to even tell my best friend. Sure, we have been in the digital world and all that, but being a digidestined and having evolving digimon friends is not the same as discovering your best friend is actually a dragon! Yes, a large, fire breathing, copper dragon, almost nothing.

Yoley's eyes looked at my black, spaced out ones with concern, "Izzy? Izzy!" she said shaking my shoulder a bit. I shook my head recovering the notion of time and looked down at her, "hu? Yeah…um, is everything clear?" I asked trying to appear as if I had been paying attention this whole time. She raised both eyebrows in a disbelieving look, "Izzy, you've been pretty weird latey, u know? Is something bothering you? A girl perhaps?" she commented, guessing the possible causes for my unnatural distraction. I shook my head and smiled at her, "Yoley, it's not a girl, and nothing is bothering me, I'm fine ok?" I said and placed m forehead next to hers. She sighed and looked away, "ok, but I don't trust you, and I'll find out!" she said, looking up, a grin splitting her lips. I smiled back at her and looked back at the books, my pencil pointing tenderly at an equation while my lips spoke the explanation to the problem.

I was laying on bed that night, thinking about the many things that roam in my life, my friends, school, and all. I still find it hillarious how people see me as the typical, anti social geek, yet I've always said this, even the most normal person has a great secret…hum, I wonder which is Yoley's secret. I looked at the window upon hearing the wooshing sound of wind being cut by enormous wings. Wondering which creature in Tokio was large enough to raise such booming sound, I stood up and approached the window. And which was my surprise to see an enormous black dragon flying past, another dragon? Yet how careless could this be, not using an invisibility spell?

I leapt out of the window and quickly became my dragon self, flapping my wings gently I raised into the night sky and followed the dragon, not using my inviso spell just so I could talk with the creature. I looked around, searching for the dragon, but the sky was as dark as his scales. I spotted him, a darker blurr on the sky, around 50 metres from my location. Using the powerful muscles of my wings I impulsed myself forward, pursuing the dragon, "hey!" I called out after I deduced I was close enough to make myself be heard without waking the whole town with a thundering roar.

The dragon turned around and glared at me with intense, cold, icy blue eyes, and which was my surprise when he plunged forward, torwards me, at top speet, claws stretched menacingly and fangs and teeth showing. My eyes widdened with shock, but my good reflexes kept me away from the larger dragon's attack, as I quickly flapped my wings and raised my enormous body higher. I evaded the attack and hovered torwards the nearest roof, where I perched myself graciously. The black dragon snarled angrily and quickly recovered balance on air, only to fly and perch as well on top of a roof close to where I was sitting. He growled and examined my smaller figure, "who are you?" he asked in a deep, angry roar, although more than a question was an order to answer.

I shook my horned head silently and looked at him with calm, black eyes, "Blaze" I answered cooly. Usually I would evade a fight, but right now, in front of the first dragon I had ever seen (which had turned out to be quiet anti social himself), I had to keep my ground. The dragon snarled, "and what are you doing here?" he asked again in the language of dragons, which consisted basicly of roars and growls. I smiled mischievously, "I don't think I have your name?" was my challenging answer. The black dragon snarled angrily, and a puff of smoke escaped his nostrils, "Onyx, and know I tell you only so you'll know who killed you!" he growled in a rather loud voice.

My ears pricked a bit as I heard voices commenting on storms and such obvious things, apaprently some humans had heard the roar. I knew well that we were both getting into problems if someone happened to be looking out of the window or similar, "listen, Onyx, you shouldn't go flying over a highly populated city without an invisibility spell" I explained in my most  polite manners. Onyx gave a snarl like chuckle and glared at me through those icy blue eyes, "look who is talking, dragon, in case you havent noticed I blend in with the night sky, unlike you, bright, copper dragon!" the black creature snarled. I knew inmediatly how right he was, my colour was far too bright to pass unnoticed. Inmediatly I casted an invisibility spell and flew back torwards my home, leaving the black dragon stunned and in a rampaging attack of anger.

I was nearly dozing the next morning, I was sitting in front of my computer at the computer class in my school. My eyes were all puffy, and dark rings had formed around them, which made me look unnaturally pale at the same time, in conclussion, I would have passed fine had it been Halloween. A pair of slender, and fresh arms surounded my neck tenderly, but in my state of complete oblivion to the world around, that gentle act of affection made me leap on my chair, and stare around with owl like eyes. I looked behind myself and saw a very attractive, young girl, her hair the colour of caramel, and her eyes a delicious, chocolate brown. Her smile was brighter than the sun and it seemed to light the dark room in which I was right now, "oh…Kari, you scared me!" I said in a soft, tired voice, but managed to flash her a calid smile so she knew I was pleased to meet her.

Kari tilted her head to the said and smiled brightly, "Izzy, gosh, you look like someone has beaten you, you ok?" she asked, this time her smile fading slightly and her eyes reflecting concern. I nodded slyly, "yeah, just had a horrible night, was pretty hot at home" I commented casually. I felt like someone had pierced my heart with a knife, I turly hated lying to my friends, and everytime I did I felt worse, and unfortunately it was like every day I had to lie to them. Kari ran a hand across my wild, flaming hair, "oh Izzy, want me to bring you a coffe?" she asked kindly. I shook my head and smiled warmly at her, "no Kari, it's ok, thanks anyways" I said flashing her a weak, tired smile. Kari nodded and placed a tender kiss on my unshaved cheek, "get better Izzy, talk later!" she said and walked out of the room.

I stared at her retreating form vanishing across the door, and sighed, my gaze returning to the flashing screen, hurting my tired eyes, "whooo, that girl gives me the creeps, she's a bit too kind with me!" I commented to myself aloud. Not expecting anyone in the room, a very familiar voice answered, "you're gonna tell me, I think she likes you!" commented the voice. I looked around and saw Yoley sitting calmly in front of her computer, a few seats away from me, "Yoley? When did you get here?" I asked curiously, even shocked about her sudden appereance. Yoley pulled her gaze away from the monitor and stared at me, "before Kari did, you were asleep so I decided against disturbing you, boy, you sure look tired!" Yoley explained. I looked away embarrased, ok, number one student in Odaiba Highschool, President of the Computer Club, sleeping in lective hours, not a very common sight, but easily understandable if we count my double life. Of course, that was not the explanation I was planning to give her, "nah, just had a bad night, too hot, couldn't sleep!" I commented casually. Yoley nodded but asked no more questions and I guessed she had accepted that excuse.

Breaktime went on as usual, my group sat by the large table on the second floor of the cafeteria, while the people walked noisily below our feet, chatting animatedly, screaming, yelling names, and even emiting a disgusted noise upon noticing the little white worm on their hamburguer. I was listening to Yoley speak with Kari about something I really didn't understand, but Kari kept giving me warm glances from over her cup of coffe, which made me rather uneasy.

I heard Kari giggle slightly right after I had decided to focus my gaze on one of the Coca Cola posters on the wall, "so did anything happen already?" I heard Kari ask, but ignored it since I really didn't mind their romantic chattering. Yoley seemed amused but a nervou chuckle alerted my dragon senses, "hum, no, I mean, he's really gorgeous and all that but would never look at a girl like me!" Yoley explained, her tone had reduced toa slight saddened one. This time I turned my head quickly to look at her, "you like Ken?" I snapped all of a sudden. Yoley seemed shocked by my behaviour, and I understood inmediatly what an idiot I looked like, "well, Izzy, I do but that's nothing to get altered about!" she explained, I could sense the slight tension in her voice that signaled she was angry, or beginning to get mad. I shook my head and recoiled slightly, "no, it's not that, it's the fact that I'm your best friend and thought you would tell me everything" I explained, and mentally slapped myself, Izzy, how selfish is that? You didn't tell your friend your big secret! Why should she tell you she's got a crush on that handsome, silent and intelligent boy? But then again having a crush is not even close to BEING a dragon, now is it? I was so confused…

Yoley snorted angrily, "yeah, like you tell me everything!" she snapped angrily. Ok, for the first time in my life I noticed I was behaving like her big brother or something, and that made me feel even worse than before. I placed a hand on her shoulder, "hey, come on, didn't mean to make you mad, I'm sorry ok?" I said softly, trying to appear as inocent as possible. Yoley slapped my hand off and glared at me with an intense gaze, "oh, so you admit you don't tell me everything?" she snapped with a venomous hiss. I sighed frustrated and raised my hands up in the air in defeat, how many twists could girls make out of a simple sentence?

I saw the bushy, brown mop that was Tai's hair moving wildly over the heads of people, I could tell he was excited about something, by the way he frantically parted people out of his path, forcing some to throw their precious meals over their school uniform. He leapt up the stars with the agility of a gazelle and sat down by a chair next to Kari, his brown eyes glinting with excitement while his hand clutched a wrinkled newspaper so tightly his knuckles were white. Soon after Sora and Matt arrived, their faces clearly amused by Tai's reaction, Sora's creamy eyes staring at the teenager with something close to a scold. Tai smiled at the girl and looked at us, "look what I found in the papers, I guess it'll interest you" he said and threw the wrinkled piece of greyish paper at us.

I stretched it and Yoley and Kari leant over me to stare at the article, "Dragon Sighting in Tokio!" I read distractedly, not really paying attention to the title of the article, perhaps analizing it as one of those cryptozoology reports without any fundation. However there was a picture along with a brief article, and that caught my attention for there, in the picture, was the blurry image of a dark shadow (which probably passed unnoticed for it's darkness) and a bright coloured blurr with a flaming mane. I gasped loudly and paled, I pushed my chair with such strength it moved nerly a metre from its original position. Yoley took the paper from my pale hands "a afficionate fotographer claims to have been taking pictures of the night of Tokio from her balcony when she heard a booming sound of what she thought were thunder. Inmediatly she says a black, large shadow appeared followed by a smaller, bright copper creature. She said he took a picture of it as soon as he could, but the 'dragons' vanished before she could take another picture. Scientists are examining the picture to prove it's vericity." The young teenager with silky hair read aloud.

A knot was forming on my stomach and I had the sudden urge to get away from there, I noticed all gazes on me and the pressure was becoming unbearable. My skin started to sweat quiet abudantly, but it was more a cold sweat, a nervous, cold sweat, they had seen me, Onyx had been right, I was the careless one, not him, he could blend in with the night. The struendous and loud noise belonging to the cafeteria had become a numb murmurr to my still conmotioned mind, "perhaps this has something to do with the Digiworld? That could be a Digimon!" I heard Kari comment in a silent whisper. It passed nearly unnoticed through the failing processing of my brain, "perhaps but, which Digimons do we know that are…Izzy?" I heard tha tender and famliar voice drowned in a shadow of concern. I looked up in time to see Yoley staring at me with a worried expression, "Izzy, are you ok? You look kinda sick!" Yoley commented placing a hand on my cheek. I noticed all my friends inmersed in a very disturbing silence, and Yoley's brow frowning thoughtfully, "Izzy, you're kinda hot, you could have a fever, I suggest you go home!" she commented in her sweetest and most concerned voice. I shook my head and stood up on weak legs, I knew what I had to do, get out of there before I got too out of control. There were two things I couldn't control, nerves and anger, and it was better to vanish upon feeling either, "I…I just rememebred an important appointment" I said in a weak, squeaky voice.

I didn't wait for a question, or to give any explanation, suddenly I regained the strength I had lost and raced down the stairs quickly, in my mind the knowledge about how much out of control I was already,and how critical the whole situation was if the government proved the truth of the pictures. Yoley started running after me, no! not you Yoley! "Izzy, where are you going? What's wrong?" she yelled at me. I shook my head frustrated, "important…appointment!" I yelled back throught a strangled voice. My legs moved faster and soon I emerged to the sunlight, running as quickly as my human legs could carry me, yet as human legs I still kept my dragon strength which impulsed my leapt further than any human my size would normally do. Yoley followed me as quickly as she could, and she was a damn, resistant runner, but I made sure to leave her behind.

I raced past the familiar, handsome, dark haired man all girls were crazy for, Ken Itchijouji, but I said nothing to him, I had to leave Yoely behind, "Izzy?" I heard him say with disbelief. Yoley raced past him seconds after, and she didn't even seem to see him, "Yoley??? What's with people today? Is someone giving a car for free or something?" he commented raising a very shocked eyebrow.

I turned around the corner and knew it was now or never. I shifted into my dragon form and flew up into the air, my wings flapping slightly, just enough to raise my enormous body up onto the sky, inmediatly muttering the well known invisibility spell to vanish. I had flown a few metres over the roof when I casted the spell, but used this time to perch myself on top of the delicate structure, after a soft and wide turn around an invisible circumference.

Yoley turned the corner as well but stopped dead on her tracks upon seeing the deserted and enormous tracks for the 100 metres race in gym class. She looked around bewildered, "Izzy?" she asked silently. She couldn't come to an answer as to why I had suddenly vanished from the map, and knew inmediatly how unconcious I was being, risking myself to be seen and tempting the most intelligent girl I've ever known to being a research on misteries. Unfortunately for me the shock had been great and couldn't control myself, I had never received such a shock before, therefore never had to control such strong mixture of anxiety and fear.

Ken heard a silent, flapping sound and loked up inmediatly, his mind thinking about which creature could make such an elongate wave of sound between flaps. His eyes narrowed a bit upon seeing the bright reflection of golden and bright rays of light falling upon the flaming scales of some sort of large, flying reptile, "A dragon?" he told himself with disbelief, his voice a silent and incredulous sound. In front of his eyes the dragon vanished into thin air, as if it had never existed, which left his mind twirling with shock, thoughts dashing like lightning across his foggy brain, "invisibility?" he thought to himself. Shrugging he ignored the aparition as some trick of his intelligent mind, and his slender body retreated back to the boundaries of the scholar areas.

Yoley sighed and shook her head, "what's with you, Izzy?" she thought aloud, her head hunging low. Her eyes oppened and something caught her attention…

AN: Ok, for a first chappie it was really sucky, wasn't it? Well, another attempt at digimon fic, something new, something I havent seen around, and that I'd like to see, but well. I like the second crew, so I still write about them, specially the so unpopular Izzy, I like Izzy, he's a lot like me. Anyways, comments about the story, it deffinitely could have been a lot better, but I'm not into my sauce, anyways, read Mistress of the Woodland to see what my writing is like.