My lips parted in a wide grin and my whole face lit with a radiant light, "Yoley!" I exclaimed happily. I left my position by the post and raced speedily across the field, my mind floating in some sort of happiness that overflowed me, and at one point I freaked out myself because I thought I really had elevated myself up into the air (obviously not in human form, which was the fact that freaked me). I jumped gracefully over the seats, taking large leaps over the cement platforms, and reached the girl, still a wide grin flashing upon my lips. It had passed unnoticed to me that my team had stopped the game simply to observe the situation running between one of their team mates and a wonderful girl. I was not paying attention, I embraced the woman tighty in my lean yet muscular arms, and pecked her lips softly. Yoley smiled sweetly, "what are you doing here?" I asked her wondering why she was up so early. She simply smiled at me and placed a slender, delicate hand on my cheek, "came to see you play silly" she said as if that was the most obvious explanation.
Tai smirked, of course I couldn't see him but I knew he was smirking, his eyes observing the scenery, Izzy the geek with a girl, not any girl but his best friend. He raised his fist up in the air, "way to go Izzy!" he yelled at me. I turned to look at him and my cheeks flushed with a slight blush, a pinkish colour contrasting with my normal, white skin. Yoley giggled into my arms, her body convulsing in a continuous yet faint patterns, shaking with the silent sound of contained laughter. I grinned and raised my fist up at him, "are you jeallows Tai?" I snapped in a cheerful voice, my fist shaking up in the air in a menacing way, but it was nothing but a friendly gesture. Tai placed both hands on his stomach andlaughed roughtly and loudly, "me?" he barked, "nah, I've got my ball" he joked and kicked the ball up in the air to make his point clear. I knew him too well, he has a thing for Sora but the girl seems more interested in our rock star, Matt Ishida.
My smile vanished in a fraction of a second, my eyes locked with icy blue ones, yet as passive as those eyes had usually been they now reflected a great pain. I could see the cold ice flowing within that gaze as the image of me with this woman reflected on the blue orbs. Fire seemed to spread through those eyes at the same time as the pain of ice flowed, tearing his soul, a mixture of pain and hathred, pain at the woman's decition, hathred at me for having her. And I understood, he loved her, he loved Yoley. With a flash of bright, dark blue hair, Ken turned around and raced away from that painful image, from the knife that shattered his heart. Under the curious gaze of our team mates, and Tai's and Davis' understanding looks, Ken dissapeared across a corner.
It was breaktime, and the situation occurred before the beginning of classes had sank and drowned into the ocean of oblivion in most of our minds, Yoley had barely noticed the deception in Ken's eyes, and the pain of his shattered heart, and Davis and Tai had classified it as a temporary crush, and had commented he'd get over it easily. I was doubtful, and although I had nearly forgotten that flash in his eyes, how he made me feel his grief, I really couldn't understand what he felt, not having ever been in love. Was that it? Did he love Yoley? I ignored and my mind was palced on my solirary walk torwards the soccer field. I had forgotten my book of arithmancy in the team's lockers, and had to get it before next class, that happened to be arithmancy. My mind wandered into different thoughts, ideas blooming in my mind, theories about different things, and thoughts about my origin, and Onyx's origins, because I knew well dragons are not part of this world.
A large shadow grew in front of me, my eyes qwere gazing at the flashing cement of the floor that was inmediatly turned into a dull grey as a gigantic shadow expanded in front of me, and a fresh breeze, cooled by the darkness of the ausence of direct sun, ruffled my hair. Yet that breeze, it's scent was similar to my breath, with that slight smell of burnt gas or oxigen, concluding, it scented like someone had smoked a whole pack of cigarretes. I looked up, my eyes making contact with bright, black scales belonging to two powerful legs, an inmense torso and a long neck finished in a deadly face with a murderous set of fangs. The icy blue eyes looked down at me, and an evil smirk seemed to expand on his lips, "I've got you now Izumi, let's see how you escape from this!" Onyx growled in dragon language, but I understood it clearly. I should point out dragons cant speak, unless in human form, but we are very intelligent and have a language.
I gasped loudly as my eyes made contact with the darkness and even demency glinting in the dragon's eyes, my blood freezing inmediatly as my usually active mind blocked all the posibilities. I saw the dragon's head move backwards, his chest inflating as his lungs filled with air. My eyes widdened as I knew what would happen, he was powering his fire attack! I turned on my heels with a loud gasp and automatically my legs impulsed me forward, as far away from Onyx as I could. Onyx plunged his head forward, jaws open widely, and that gas matter flowing with the oxigen, igniting upon making contact with the water contained in his saliva, being boosted by the oxigen. I didn't see it but the ball of fire, larger than mine, flew torwards me, releasing small sparks on the way, sparks that collided with the brick walls and left small, charcoal black spots. I threw myself on the floor and rolled down, away from the heat that quickly spread over me, flowing like a gust of boiling wind. I stood up agily and continue running, enver stopping to hesitate or think, just running.
Akira, one of Matt's copanions in his rock group, gasped loudly and rushed torwards the window, he had just seen the current of fire flowing past, and the glass had cracked slightly due to the boiling heat contained in the attack. He motions for the group to come over, his hand moving in a motion to attract them, "hey guys, look, a dragon!" he called at them in a frantic yet awed and excited voice. Matt left his guitar on the floor, his intense, blue eyes staring at the cracked window. He rushed over to them in time to see a failing slash of a claw that had attempted to reach a red haired teenager. Matt's eyes widdened with fear and worry, "IZZY!" he yelled desperately, it was his friend down there,trying to escap the murderous creature that ran after him. Matt saw the dragon, a beast larger than any he had ever seen without counting certain digimon, yet now Izzy lacked digimon, and was confronting alone a creature larger and faster than himself.
I ran and saw a wall in front of me, a large wall that meant no escape. Generally a nromal person would have attempted to turn away and try to evade the dragon, seeking refuge inside the school, smething silly you ask me, but that was not my idea, I had to escape the school to keep any danger from getting to innocent people. I ran faster, torwards the wall, one would say I was about to crash due to my speed, but that was not my idea either.
Tai grinned at Yoley, "so you are with Izzy, hu? What happened last night?" he asked in a cheerful, knowing voice. Yoley glared at him and slapped his shoulder, "TAI!" she exclaimed alared, "that's between Izzy and I!" the young teenager finished narowing her eyebrows angrily. Tai kept grinning until his eyes caught something, something rather hard to miss, a bright, red haired teen running away from an enormous, 17 metres black dragon that seemed to be trying to make of Izzy his next lunch. The messy haired teen pointed at the scene, squeezing Yoley's shoulder with a bit too much strength, which made her gasp in pain. That gasp quicly shapeshifted into an alarmed and shocked gasp when she saw her best friend running speedily torwards a wall, "Izzy!" she yelled loudly.
I ran, I had heard Yoley's voice and knew she was watching, I just prayed so she didn't try to get into the fight because that's something she could never get out from alive. The large, flashing orange bright wall was getting closer and closer, and I knew that was not the only thing getting closer, Onyx had already raised a fist to slam it down my body. However the black dragon was not expecting my manoeuvre. I leapt up and placed a foot against the wall, then, using the impulsed already given by my frantic race torwards the wall, I started to walk over it. I had given three or four steps up the wall, which had elevated me a good three metres, enough since the dragon's head had dived down to get me. Using that great moment I impulsed myself backwards, flying over the creature's body, spinning in a sort of looping, that's when I let myself relax for a few seconds, brief moments that passed by slowly.
I finally landed with the grace of a cat on the dragon's shoulder, between both wings. The shocked animal turned his head to focus the icy blue eyes, shocked by my sudden move, on me, on my small figure standing on his shoulders. I looked at the animal, my black eyes piercing those cold ones with a valiant look, "little, puny creature! How dare you defy my power!" he growled and raised his head up higher. I smirked and leapt off his shoulders, running agily across the back, evading the blueish fins, until reaching the tail. I slipped down the tail as if I was snowboarding, moving with great ease and letting myself fall. In that exact moment the dragon released another colum of fire yet blinded by his own rage the flame hit his own back, burning the tough scales and creating an intense heat over his shoulder blades. Onyx let out a loud, pained roar, and I heard him trashing about in pain, possibly attempting to lick off the pain with the rough tounge.
Tai was gapping, his jaw hanged open with shock and surprise, and a trembling finger pointed at the trashing creature and the quickly retreating boy, "how…how did he do that?…I thought Izzy would never dare to defy the laws of gravity!" he snapped in a shocked voice. TK rubbed his eyes as if in disbelief, he couldn't believe a dragon was pursuing Izzy, but the fact that he had done such complicated move was equally stuning, "I've seen those in one of my Ninja Movies!" he commented acsually yet it was obvious that he couldn't hold back the awe he felt. Kari looked at both as if they were crazy, "come on guys, it's not that hard, I mean, I've done that myself!" she explained. The boys turned to look at her as if she was crazy, something close to caution glinting in their shocked eyes, "that's not pretty normal u know?" the messy haired teen explained, staring at his sister as if she were something from another world.
Yoley gasped and pointed at Onyx. The dragon had recovered his integrity and had eased the intense pain to a level of annoying itching, recovered his fuol concience he turned around and flapped the enormous,black, leathery wings vigorously, lifting a gust of air that blowed like an auttum storm around the bodies of the many observers gathered around the playground and into it. The beast took off into the air and started flying torwards the puny little teen in comparison to himself. That was all Yoley needed to react, a trigger actioned her courage and her body started to move. She turned around and started running torwards the insides of the highschool, on her way encountering a pair of familiar, intense blue eyes that followed her course, she ignored the owner as her own attention was focused on reaching the soccer field throught the insides of the structure.
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, speedily crossing the soccer field made out of thick, hard cement, an enormous shadow had began to loom over me and I knew Onyx was reaching me. I had to get out of there quickly if I wanted to contront him, or transform right now and discover my secret to the whole school. I managed to reach the fence and leap over it, a hand placed over the burning, metallic structure and my body spinning over it like a gimnastic in an exercise. I landed on the floor and quickly made my way torwards my familiar alley, that was the focus of my mind, the alley that I used everyday to transform and get back home.
I managed to loose the dragon between the high, thick trees, their bushy structure covering me enough to allow me a quick escape. Onyx had found himself face first against a tree upon emerging from the vast extention of the soccer field, and had nearly collapsed onto the street. He was experienced enough to regain balance and lift his enourmous weight up into the air to manage a glide over the trees. I reached my alley but my act hadnt gone unnoticed by the black beast, and inmediatly after the dragon's large nostrils were emmiting clouds of pale smoke into the athomosfere, sniffing the area in search of me. I crouched against the corner, trying to fade with the darkness but my own experience told the that was hopeless, dragons had a great sight. I did the only thing I could think of, and leapt out of the alley, my arms stretched out, eyes focused on my only exit, mind concentrated on that form that could save me, my original form.
I shapeshifted quickly and left my large wings at half fold as I impulsed my weight out of the alley. Onyx didn't know what had happened as an enormous, orange blurr flew past him and quikcly flew up into the sky, his icy blue eyes still analizing the spot where the beast had vanished, the border between the sky and the roof of a small house. Yoley emerged in that moment and saw the great beast, still examining the alley in search of it's prey, "Izzy!" she screamed worriedly. Onyx had just needed a simple sound to turn around and focus his eyes on the woman, a small girl with shiny, lavender hair, staring with a scared expression up at him yet showing the courage she had gathered through all that time in the Digital World.
Onyx was too furious with himself, and the only living thing close now was this girl, his fury would be released in full potence over the small, weak human, a small, frightened teenager standing in front of him, her lips, those beautiful cherry lips speaking the name of the dreaded one. For a moment he hesitated, how could he hurt her? How could he? She was so small, and weak, she would be no match against him, yet, his cruel mind spoke otherwise, that seed of darkness still in his heart, how could she hurt him? He had given her his heart and she had crushed it like a worthless item of on use! He fury and rage grew within himself once again, that darkness overpowering him, the darkness that was part of him, like it had been of his mother, yet she had been kind and good, cruel torwards the enemies of Cyma, yet a wonderful and valiant dragon on the side of the Elementals. He could not control his anger, and that meant he couldn't befriend anyone.
Onyx leapt forward and raised an enormous claw, then the world was numb to him, his lashing paw was thrown down, torwards the young girl, claws ready to slash the delicate body, fangs being bared. Yoley scramed yet she was shocked, what had she seen in those eyes for a brief moment? Love? Compassion? Yet now she was about to receive a deadly blow only because she was paralized, because that creature had managed to stop all movement fom her body. Her own voice was numb to her ears, and what happened next she ignored. Suddenly a large weight hit her full strength and sent her down. Onyx's claw smashed the floor strongly and the sharpness pierced the cement as if it was butter. Yoley felt the weight still over her, in a pleasant, protective way, and her eyes oppened to stare into the worried eyes of…
To Be Continued…
AN: Oh Cliffy, well, keep reading if you want to know who Yoley's savior is, it's pretty obvious, isnt it?
Anyways, note that throught this chapter and the next ones hints will appear that will be explained in the sequel, yes, there will be a sequel to this, and a chained story perhaps, anyways, just keep reading because I have a feeling you're gonna like this. Well, please check my other stories, I've got a few good ones, enjoy.