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Chapter 4

He returned a little before sundown the next day, and yes, I had remained there waiting for him. I knew it would take a while, and so patiently I had waited. And he had returned.

That night, by the fire light of the old fire I burned anew, he told me his apologies, that were not at all needed.

"I'm sorry I did what I did." He replied.

"No. I'm sorry." I told him.

"Why?" He was watching me bewildered. The fire lit his face to a bright yellow glow, and I could see his reaction through a dance of shadows on his smooth cream skin. How interesting how light could turn things into real life portraits of another thing. He could have been a tree there, brought to life only by the fire light.

"I didn't help you when you were being attacked. You nearly died." Was my answer.

"I understand what you were trying to do." He told me, in a low whisper.

"Yeah, but I was foolish. I shouldn't have tested you at such a young age." We were both silent for a while, and instead we watched the sun set over the horizon. And instant later, he seemed to be panicking.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

He looked at me with fear in his eyes. I could see the flash of a human being in his head.

"What's wrong?" I repeated with a little more demand in my voice. He sputtered a little, but managed to give me an answer.

"It is the new moon." That was it. I didn't see what was so wrong with that. Still, the same image of a young human boy with black hair flickered in his thoughts.

"What does that have to do with anything?" But I could already see what he was getting at. The new moon. He was changing.

His silver white hair was darkening, until it was a nothingness black, his claws turned to fingernails, his fangs shrunk, his golden eyes deepened into a dark violet, and his puppy ears.those retracted into normal ears that clung to the sides of his head. He had turned form a hanyou to a human. It was his night. The one night that the usual hanyou transformed into a human.the one night.

And that was tonight.

Interesting though how it was on the new moon on not any other time. It is usually said that the hanyou's human night is the very night after the day, or on the night they are born. So he was born on the new moon. Very interesting.

"What's so wrong with becoming human?" I asked him.

He watched me closely, his now violet eyes dancing in the fire light. I could see the picture of his mother in his mind. So that was it. He was used to his mother being there when he transformed, and now he had but she wasn't there for him anymore. He was thinking about her.

Oh well. It was time to awaken his senses.

"It's time you learned to live on your own kid." I told him. "Every month you turn human on one night. That will last for the rest of your life from what I know. But there will not always be someone there to comfort you. So you have to learn to live on your own." I saw the image of his mother vanish with a new found anger growing in him. He was not ready in his own mind to believe what I had to tell him.

"You have no idea how I feel!" He shouted.

"Foolish." I replied.

"My mother was always there for me where my father was not. She took care of me and taught me to survive on my own. I can live on my own whenever I want!" He took this all to heart.

"That I can understand, and finally I awoke the part of you that wants to survive."

"Huh?" He asked.

"There you go. You see. You're not shy towards me anymore and that's what I had wanted to get out of you in the first place. Now you can see things up front instead of by the side lines." He was glaring at me now.

"But you still don't understand what it's like to be a human or a hanyou. You've always been a full demon haven't you!" he shouted. This kid was starting to really get into not being shy anymore.

"You have no idea, do you?" He paused, watching me. The anger had left his mind but not his face. That was good. "I see you don't. I come from a very rare line of demons. A line so powerful, that every one of them must mate with a human to create a hanyou or their life would meet an end. You see, I'm called a Dragon Demon, or a Draymon. My kind is born as a hanyou, but as we age, we become a full demon. So we experience our human nights, our hanyou days, and then our demon eternities." I had caught his interest.

"Why don't the dragons mate with other dragons?" He asked. That was simple enough to answer. Now to put it in words he would understand.

"We Draymons are dangerous as we are, and our blood is made to be born thin, but grow stronger. If two strong blooded demon's were to mate from our kind they would create a crazy demon that was two powerful to control it, and would end up destroying the world as we know it. There was one such being in the ancient past, that completely destroyed another island adjacent to Japan, and nearly annihilated this one. You see, we mate with human's to give balance. The demon has the strong blood, while the human has the weak. When the child is born, it is a hanyou, yes. But as it ages, it gains experience and at the time of it's coming of age, it's blood takes the full turn under the full moon and they become completely demon. I went through the entire cycle and I'm here now. But it's difficult to make it here."

"How so?" He asked curiously. He would be most surprised by my answer.

"For the first fifty years of life, we grow up amongst our friends, and then for the next two hundred years we are forced to live on our own on one of the separate islands adjacent to the Draymon island. There we must survive the lower class demon's on our own and master our skills and instincts. When we leave those islands, we come back as new beings, and under the next full moon to occur, we are given the ancient blood of the purest there, and we become pure demons."

"But then what are you doing here. Why aren't you on your home land?" He asked. I had three reasons, and I expressed them openly.

"One is, that I want to see the world as it is before I am to be confined to one area of living space, so I plan on traveling for another hundred years or so. (Draymons live long long lives). Two, is that I'm looking for a human mate, a man whom meets my desires, to make a good offspring. And three, I have no home to return to."

"Why's that?" He was very curious now, and the anger in his face had totally vanished, replaced by interest.

"I was out cast from my home, because I told another being about our home. We Draymons aren't supposed to let out the fact of our existence with anything else unless it is the one we plan to bring back to marry. But I told another demon, one with evil intentions, and I was forced to leave after he had nearly tried to destroy the island. I can never return."

"Why is it forbidden?" He asked. So many questions.

"Because it could cause the extinction of my people. But I plain just don't believe in all secrecy. It's like hiding from a truth you don't want to meet, but sooner or later it's going to find you and it's going to hit you.hard. So I try not to keep such secrets. If I do, it is something I know will hurt those around me. I just didn't know then." I yawned and leaned my back against the tree.

"So you see, I've experienced everything you have so far. We're both outcasts, so what do you say we stay together. There's strength in numbers you know." I closed my eyes and began to drift off to sleep, but I happened to hear the shuffle of feet and the feeling of his small form sit next to me. I opened my eyes to look at him, and he watched me with a suspicious expression on his face.

"What wrong?" I asked. He had his hands stuck in either sleeve of his hoari.

"You didn't save me because you thought I could be a good mate did you?" He asked. I couldn't help but laugh at his idea. It took me a good five minutes to finally catch my breath and answer him.

"No." Chuckle. "No. I saved you because I didn't believe in the men's cause to kill you. You have nothing to worry about from me. I'm not up to anything as silly as that." He nodded, apparently accepting my explanation and closed his eyes, going to sleep right there at my side. I wrapped my arm around him and we fell asleep as two out casts.friends.

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