I couldn't believe it, Onyx was none other than Ken Itchijouji, the shy and timid genius boy that had an obvious crush on Yoley Miyako. He shapeshifted inmediatly into his much larger form, his usually tidy hair expanded across his elongated neck in a ruffled mane of dark blue fur. His throat emited a loud, shrilly roar, unlike my dog like roar, a sound that echoed across the plaza hurting my sensitive ears. His draconish face looked at me, lips pursed and fangs showing menacingly. My eyes widdened and so did my mouth at the obvious threat the dragon represented for my precious life.
I pulled my hind legs behind me and impulsed myself torwards the plaza in an attempt to gain enough space as to rise to the sky and gather some advantage that could develop in a triumph over the stronger dragon. I didn't know much about dragons myself but from my accurate observations it turned out Copper were smaller but much swifter than most dragons excluding Skyes, and black ones were larger, perhaps one of the largets, stronger but slower. Then there were silver, cheerful but timid, pure hearted and very noble, those were precious dragons.
I managed to trot a few steps, people parting from the way in fear they would be trampled into a pancacke by the enormous claws. A displeased roar echoed in the area, but I could sense a faint hint of knowledge and cruelty within the waves developed by the tone. My body was suddenly flattened against the floor, an enormous weight was placed over my shoulders and back, a weight that formed none other than Onyx's bulk. I whimpered shocked at the suddenness of the attack, I deffinitely did not expect it. A pair of powerful jaws closed around the base of my neck, and knife like fangs tore the hard scales and the delicate flesh. Crimson blood poured from the burning wounds of a would be a mortal wound had Onyx not been under human appereance for so long. I strugled to get free, but the slightest move I managed only caused more pain, the fangs would sink deeper and the burning sensation would spread further across my neck.
Tai reached the last floor and quickly made his way throught the exit of the building. His mind was working laboriously into pushing away the thoughts of a dead and sprawled Izzy and a group of people surrounding him curiously, while a frantic woman yelled across the cell in pursue of an ambulance. That's when a man nearly ran him over as his feet carried the larger and older body across the street in a frantic seek for shelter. His eyebrows raised and his chocolate eyes made their way front. He was expecting the most cruel, bloody and horrible images, like the ones seen in ER, bodies splattered on the road, bursted insite and laying over their own blood. But Tai was not expecting to see the image in front of his teenager eyes.
The two dragons struggled, Blaze to free himself from the black's grip, and Onyx to maintain his balance on the copper's back. Blaze extended his left hind leg in an attempt to grip himself on the floor and push the heavier dragon off his back, although he knew how futile that was. Tai's eyes made contact with the four perfect scars, "four perfect scars?" he snapped as realization flashed across his mind with the fulminous light of a storm electric lightning. He recoiled trying to stay away from the two dragons, he ignored the black's identity but had figured the copper's one. He pulled out his cell phone and dialed the number of one of his best friends, Matthew Ishida.
"hello?" inquired Matt's melodious voice.
"Matt, you wont believe it, remember that black dragon that was pursuing Izzy not long ago? Well, he is fighting with Izzy in front of my eyes!" he said in a nervous, frantic voice, his free hand gesticulating almost as if Matt could see him.
"don't tell me more, Izzy is a copper dragon known by the name of Blaze!" Matt snapped grinning knowingly.
"how did you?" inquired the messy haired teen trying to figure out how his more handsome friend could have figured it out.
"just trust me, I'll be there in a sec, where are you?" Matt commented now hurrying in ending the conversation to get moving.
"Izzy's flat, hurry up, I don't know how I can aid him!" Tai said now seeing the thin trails of blood falling down the dragon's neck, staining the copper scaled with an intense crimson.
I struggled to get free from his grip, panick was getting through my knowledge deffenses, and all thoughts seemed replaced by a single one, the primary thought, survival. The pain spread across my neck as his fangs sank deeper into my flesh, blood poured from the wound, and a triumphant roar rumbled into his throat. I don't know what happened but perhaps that was it, the triumph over defeating me which awoke me from the trance engulfing me. I relaxed and felt how the grip of his fangs had diminished over my muscles. That was the oportunity I was seeking, inmediatly I turned around with the speed of a flaming spark, jaws open wide. A colum of fire escaped my throat, wraping the black dragon, licking the onyx scales and caressing the delicate muzzle.
Onyx recoiled, that was my oportunity, I felt his weight dissipate from my body as the black dragon took a leap backwards to escape the furious anger of the flames. My hind legs contracted under my body, and using the powerful muscles I impulsed my enormous weight up into the sky. My wings expanded covering the whole plaza with the enormous wingspan, and my body glided off quickly in search of safety, my mind focused in a single objective.
Onyx shook his face and growled upon seeing his prety vanishing across the sky, flying off torwards safety. But now he knew who he was and knew he could not hide from him. He stood up on his enormous legs and tensed his muscles, pushing his weight back a bit, preparing to leap onto the currents of calid air in pursue of Blaze. Tai saw the intentions, and as shocked as he was that Blaze was Izzy, he could not let anything bad happen to him for he had always helped and been a good friend. He leapt forward, suddenly gaining speed, but his fury and his objective was so focused into his knowledge that he didn't pay attention to his quickly moving muscles, and the gaping people. His hands flew forward and grabbed the onyx leg belonging to the black dragon, "no you wont!" he snarled trying at the same time to reassure himself of the madness he was commiting.
Onyx raised his head to the sky and shrieked loudly, his black wings expanded and shaded the plaza and the curious still situated in it, his voice flowed heavy with pain, and fell over the messy haired teen like a rocky piece of the sky. Tai felt his fingers become humid and sticky with a calid fluid. His weary eyes looked down shocked about the sudden sensation. His eyes widdened and eyebrows raised with shock upon observing the situation, his fingers were dug inside the hard flesh of the black dragon, and five perfec gashes split open his scales, from which crimson blood poured abundantly. Tai, scared, pulled out his fingers, yet his shock was not to diminish for suddenly his human fingers had shpeshifted into feline paws, crowned in sharp, black claws, more similar to a hawk's than a lion's.
Onyx turned aroung, anger flashed in the ice blue eyes, "insolent creature" his throat rumbled although to Tai it was nothing but a collection of roars and growls, not a language itself. An enormous paw whipped forward, hitting Tai flat on the chest, the swift move had sent him flying torwards the building. Tai's breathless body encountered Matt's shocked one on the way, and both boys were thrown to the floor by the impact, Matt acting like a cushion to the misfortunate Tai. Onyx, not wanting to waste his time with puny creatures that could never be a match to a dragon, spread his wings and flew off in search of his trophy, the badly injured dragon, Blaze.
Matt groaned and slowly recovered his breath from the impact, "ouch…ah Tai, are you ok?" he inquired the teenager. Tai barely moved, he was still in shock upon the events suddenly occurred, "Matt!" he gasped standing on a pair of shaky legs, and moving his body off the boy's. Matt stood up and rushed to focus his gaze on his, to make his face visible, perhaps hoping it would send some security to see a friendly face, "Tai, it's ok, what happened?" Matt inquired in a soft, friendly voice. Tai looked at his hands, his fingers had returned to normal with the only remindal of the previous events that was the pressence of dragon blood. His chocolate eyes looked into bright blue ones, "Izzy flamed him and flew off, then I tried to stop him from flying after him and…" he stated weakly, showing his blood covered hands to the blond boy, "oh Matt, what the heck am I!" Tai finished breaking down into a desperate sobbing. Matt hugged the boy and patted his back in a friendly way, "hey Tai, being a shapeshifter is not bad, actually you will find many advantages to it" Matt explained flashing him a smile. Tai looked up, conffusion seemed to be written on his features, "how would you know Matt?" he inquired in a weak voice.
I flew with great trouble across the sky, I noticed my muscles becoming numb, my ody lowering height until it was no more than over four or five metres over the ground, enormous copper dragon gliding weakly over the racing cars. My blood kept pouring from the wound, flooding abundantly until it was almost dangerous, I was becoming weak and drowze with the loss of the life fluid. A few large drops fell over the car I was gliding over, he crimson liquid splattered over the crystal staining it with it's density.
The driver stared in shock at the couple of large stains of cimson blood, his mind realizing the similarity with such liquid but his coherency quickly canceling the posibility as ludicrous, "what the…" he gasped shocked at the vision of such event. His large, bald head poked out of the window to stare up at the sky in a futile search for an ambulance helicopter or similar. His eyes widdened when the enormous shadow that covered his car and a few others became focused into his mind, a blaze seemed to flow over the sides where the sun licked the copper scales. He realized what was going on, a weak dragon was gliding over his car, and bleeding profusely, "DAMN!" he snapped and quickly steered away from the shadow in search of safety. The angry honks of cars yelled at him as the complicated and dangerous manoeuvre took him torwards the left side of the three way highway. Only then did the man realize what had happened, when his mind cooled from the primary instinct, a dragon was flying over Japan, the dragon he had heard about in the news and which he had considered as nothing but a royal lie for those ignorant believers.
I flew over the road and quickly steered away, I realized thousands of people were seeing me, but my magic had vanished with the blood, and a simple invisibility spell would drain my energy completely. I flew slightly higher, letting warm currents handle me to their will, praying so I could reach some destination to heal. A reality played into my mind, I needed to land and heal the wounds, but how was I going to heal my wounds? Where? As if the gods were on my side an enormous garden, surrounding an equally enormous and familiar house gave me the oportunity to glide until reaching the ground, I wa very weak but I knew I could manage it.
Yoley's eyes stared attentively at the copper scale on her hands, "Blaze" she whispered dreamily. She clutched the scale tightly within her grip, and her eyes shut as tightly. A desperate, almost depressed sigh escaped her lips. The copper dragon had been adverted by her gaze numerous times, and his life had been risked for her safety. She knew how crazy it would sound but she believed her heart had directed it's attention torwards the enormous reptile. She loved Blaze. She remembered the onyx black eyes, deep like a pair of black holes staring warmly at her, it was almost as if he returned the feeling torwards her.
The image of a certain red haired floated within her mind, yet something was amiss, the eyes, the intense black eyes were Blaze's eyes. Yoley's eyes snapped open inmediatly, realization seemed to dawn over her mind and a wave of anguishing pressure seemed to snap her out of the gravityless state she had penetrated. She oppened her hand once again and observed the scale, she knew it was a dragon's scale, Blaze scale, yet something seemed to link a passage between Blaze and Izzy.
She oppened her drawer and pulled out several newspaper she had gathered, in which's main page was a portrait of the copper dragon, "curious!" she gasped silently looking closer at the dragon. Onyx black eyes were the vision item of the dragon, eyes just like Izzy's. Yoley's hand caressed distractedly the picture, "Izzy vanished and dropped his Digidevice, then I find a copper scale on his neck, a scale belonging to the neck of a reptile, then a black dragon pursues Izzy for no apparent reason and he misteriously vanishes using his Digidevice, the one I had" she concluded tying the knots that formed the solution to a puzzle, "and then Blaze appears, saves my life and gets slashed, and the next day Izzy has a nasty gash on the same leg where the black dragon had slashed Blaze!" she finished, gasping for air since her conclusions had rushed through her mouth using a single breath.
A crash startled the young teenager, her thoughts were pulled out of the rail they were following abruptly. Yoley's eyes made it's way torwards the window, yet nothing could be seen for a thick curtain of dust seemed to be hanging from the ceiling, envolving an enormous creature of which Yoley could only see it's shadow. As the dust cleared her eyes realized the image in front of her…
To Be Continued…
AN: ok so there, we all know now who Onyx is, and I presume you know his reason to pursue Izzy. Sorry for Ken lovers, but I needed an evil one. Anyways I wont reveal any more, but I thjink the last two chapters, since I truly believe there wont be more than two chappies, will be pretty interesting. Please, RR, K? A big thank you to all reviewers.