The night was young, and the moon was bright as it shone down upon the grassy fields of Sunnybrook Park. Mei Lee, after embracing her inner red panda, was playfully chasing a pair of pigeons who were just flying about and minding their own business. After an exhausting chase, Mei turned back to her human form as she sat down by a tree and looked up. She was waiting for her friends, because tonight was to be a very special occasion. Mei kept looking at the moon in all its beautiful glory. As memories of "Pandapocalypse 2002" were then blossoming like roses, a headache began to spread, and worse than any virus ever accounted for.
"Oh, damn! It hurts!", complained Mei as she tried to resist the painful surge through her head.
Luckily, the pain didn't last long. Mei took a deep breath, and kept looking at the moon. She then began to notice something strange happening to the two pigeons she was chasing earlier. They were flying for their lives as a strange, blue beam of energy struck them down and immobilised them completely. This alerted Mei as she turned back to her red panda form, ready and determined to pounce on the intruder. But after what seemed like 1 and a half minutes, nothing was heard.
"Well… that was confusing. Who would actually want to hurt these poor little pigeons?", exclaimed Mei as she held the two little darlings in her paws.
Tears began to stream from her eyes. Little did she know, they were magical tears as they dropped on both pigeons individually, allowing them to move once again. Mei gasped with excitement, and as the pigeons looked at Mei, they bowed in thanks and began to fly their way home. Mei turned back to her human form and with a smile, she felt proud of herself.
"Wow. That was quite impressive", said a soft, gentle voice from behind the tree.
Mei turned to see a Mexican-American boy about her age, wearing a magenta shirt, a black long jacket, a pair of light brown cargo shorts, a pair of Corinthian leather boots, and a couple of short silver chains in his wrists and ankles, decorated with beautiful turquoise and sky-blue gems. He had long hair, freckles, and green eyes. The longer Mei stared into the boy's beautiful eyes, her heart beat a bit faster. She sighed the very moment the boy swung his hair as if he were a prince charming. As the boy looked at Mei, he chuckled and asked:
"Are you okay, madam?"
"Oh! Uh… me? Haha… yes, I'm fine. Thanks… you know, for the compliment of my selfless act", said Mei looking bashful.
"You're very welcome, Mei Lee. Bravest red panda in Toronto," said the boy as he winked at her, making her blush all the more gentle.
"Yup. That's me. The one and only. What about you? Who are you?," asked Mei fixing her red hair and skirt.
The boy smiled and decided to take off his jacket to reveal the tattoos on both his muscular arms. On his left arm, the tattoo of a European dragon with the words "Dragón Valiente" below. On his right arm, it was the tattoo of José María Morelos, the military leader of Mexican War of Independence. Below that tattoo, it was his name: Dragón Morelos.
"You can call me Draco, señorita," said Draco whilst kissing Mei's right hand like a gentleman. Mei giggled at it, which meant that she likes him.
"It's such a pleasure to meet you, Draco," said Mei, looking more bashful than before. That was when Draco had an idea… a malefic idea.
"Mei, I wish to tell you a secret," asked Draco with the most sincerity.
"You can ask me anything, valiant dragon," said Mei, just looking forward to anything Draco might do at this point.
As Draco smiled suspiciously, he held Mei's left hand with his right hand. As he then demonstrated the palm of his right hand, he closed his eyes and as he was focusing his mental energy on the palm, a small but bright orb of magenta light grew. Mei looked at it in astonishment, and asked:
"You got mystical powers?"
"Why yes, my dear Mei. I've had mystical power ever since I was born. My father blessed me with the power you are witnessing at this very moment, something that… we can safely say, will change your life forever. Not only are you a brave girl, but you deserve a brave gentleman," replied Draco, talking through the wind.
Mei was amazed at what Draco was capable of. As she kept looking at the orb, its energy began to grow stronger and stronger. The orb's energy grew so strong, it began to enter Mei's head. Mei began to feel a bit dizzy after staring at the orb, but she wanted to keep doing it. Draco's mental energy was the stuff of gods because the moment the orb was blown out like the light of a candle, Mei's eyes were not what they used to be. They were now pink with a magenta spiral, spinning non-stop but slowly. Mei was hypnotised, and under Draco's control. As Draco opened his eyes, he looked at Mei in her trance. Looking at her head, all the way through her body, and then to her feet, he grinned sinisterly. This was his plan all along, to capture her and make her his mystical bride. He began to laugh evilly that its echoes alerted a very small number of people. Most specifically, Miriam, Abby, and Priya who were on their way to Sunnybrook Park.
"Did you guys hear that?", asked Miriam, hearing the laugh.
"Maybe Mei's trying to pull a prank on us… for some reason", assumed Priya.
"What?! Nobody pulls better pranks than me!" snapped Abby.
"Girls, calm down. Mei would never do that," assured Miriam.
"How do you know Mei wouldn't pull pranks on us?" asked Priya. Suddenly, the three girls heard the laughter again.
"That wasn't Mei", said Miriam in terror.
Back at Sunnybrook Park, Draco took one more look at his hypnotised bride and as he approached her, he gave her a soft kiss on the lips and ruffled her hair gently. Before carrying Mei with him, he looked around the park just to make sure nobody would catch him doing anything illegal. Then rubbing his hands together as if he were in front of a fireplace and putting his black long jacket back on, he grabbed Mei by the waist with his strong hands and putting her on his left shoulder, he grinned sinisterly as he carried her and began to make his way home.
"At last! At long, long last! The door between souls has opened! The event 1 month prophesied has come to pass! The day has come! MEI LEE IS FINALLY MINE!", exclaimed Draco to himself in sweet, pure victory.
Draco kept carrying Mei on his left shoulder. During his travels, he used his mystical powers to induce unspeakable pain to any critter or person that kept getting in his way. People soon began to run for their lives. Tyler in particular walked out of a pizza parlour when he saw Draco coming his way and, out of fear, ran for his life but tripped. Draco got closer to Tyler, but the latter kept screaming until…
"Give me your pizza", demanded Draco with a menacing glow around his eyes.
Tyler, feeling broken inside, gave his last slice of pizza to Draco only to have it thrown at his face. Draco pointed at Tyler and laughed at him like a maniac before being on his way. Tyler glared at the bully who ruined his pizza, and then at Miriam, Abby, and Priya who were after the same bully.
"Tyler, there you are! Do you know where Mei is?", asked Miriam in desperation. Without saying a word, Tyler pointed at Draco's location. Mei needed to be rescued immediately.
Not long after, the three girls found their way to Draco's location: it was a hacienda made of gold. Upon arriving at the hacienda's front door, Miriam used the brass knocker three times. The door slowly opened itself, as there wasn't a single soul to be seen inside. After entering the hacienda, the girls looked around its contents: palm trees surrounding a pool, events of Mexican history painted on every wall they saw, a statue of a dragon doing a mating dance with a red panda that almost resembled Mei, or her family. Abby growled in anger at this as she and the others moved on. Miriam was more worried about Mei, being her closest friend and all. When she least expected it, she found a wooden door with the label "Dormitorio Principal del Dragón". Miriam gulped and looked at the others.
"I know this looks risky, but it's the only thing to do if we'll ever find Mei."
"Honestly Miriam, maybe this is a ghost hacienda. Looks like it's been abandoned for centuries," responded Priya.
"Abandoned?! I've seen more haunted places," added Abby while freaking out before calming down.
"Girls, please. Mei needs us, so we're getting her out," added Miriam.
The three girls entered the room and upon entering, what they saw was what looked like an emperor's throne room. After much looking around the room, Miriam turned to see Mei still hypnotised.
"There she is!" exclaimed Miriam, signalling her friends to look where she's pointing.
"Mei!", said Abby and Priya in unison.
Before the three girls could run to Mei's rescue, a field of dark red energy was binding them together, rendering them unable to move. Draco revealed himself, unleashing the ergo-kinetic energy as a means to trap them.
"You! You lured us here!", said Miriam in anger.
"Yes, I did. You want to know why? Because I knew you were coming. I'm not going to give her back. There. I said it. Now, I'm going to hypnotise the three of you, so you can all be my hypnotised brides! I will be the most powerful mystic user in Toronto!", said Draco as he laughed menacingly.
Draco then began to unleash his mystical powers to an even greater scale. The energy bound the three girls more solidly, rendering them even less able to move. The energy was so strong, it began to possess the three girls. Miriam, Abby, and Priya were horrified by the looks of their faces as the possessive energy became spiritually solid. They were completely immobilised as if they were mannequins. Draco then decided to put his victims down. The perverted mystic user carried the three girls and put them next to Mei, who was no longer hypnotised but now was just as immobilised as her friends, thanks to a little bit more possessive energy that Draco radiated.
After Draco closed the door of his bedroom, he dimmed the lights a little bit. Using his powers, he turned on his record player and played Cielito Lindo on a vinyl disc. As the song played, Draco danced around the three immobilised girls. With a use of magic sand, he turned their casual clothes into three, French-maid outfits. Draco's grin grew even more perverted than before than with a snap of his fingers, he cloned himself twice so they could have their hypnotised bride for their own pleasure. Draco and his clones held their brides and dancing with them, began singing the best part of the song:
"Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores! Porque cantando se alegran, cielito lindo, los corazones! Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores! Porque cantando se alegran, cielito lindo, los corazones!"
The celebratory dance was cut short when officers of the Canadian police, millions of people, and including the parents of Mei, Miriam, Abby, and Priya came bursting through the pervert's door.
"Dragón Morelos, you are under arrest for kidnapping and underage grooming! Release the girls so you and your buddies can put your hands up, where we can see them!" snapped the chief of police.
Draco glared at everyone who had caught him at his highest point, and chuckled. He began to unleash his powers once again, but failed as Mei's parents held him with such strength that it weakened Draco. It weakened so much that it hurt him, even so that it made Draco's clones scream in terror as they turned into ash and disappear. Ming glared at Draco and said:
"Don't ever come near my daughter, or her friends, ever again!"
Jin then outright handed the weakened and defeated Draco to the police and bowed. The chief of police smiled and tipped his hat as he blew his whistle, signalling his fellow police officers to tear the abandoned hacienda down.
"Alright, everybody! Move! This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill!", the chief of police said to the people as they began to exit the hacienda. Of course, Mei and Jin had to carry Mei out of there as well. Miriam's parents, Abby's parents, and even Priya's parents carried their hypnotised daughter out of the hacienda too.
After exiting the hacienda, a demolition team began to destroy the hacienda. After destroying it, Mei, Miriam, Abby, and Priya were no longer immobilised and were back in their casual clothes. The girls hugged their parents, crying. Their respective parents cried silently in return, only letting their tears streaming out with a couple of sobs here and there. Tyler glared at Draco and intimidatingly raised his hand to hit him. Draco shrieked softly while crouching, feeling weak.
"That's for ruining my pizza, you big jerk!"
Much time later, Draco was put behind bars for the rest of his life. Luckily, his new jailmates looked at him, who was angrily upset. Joining together, they began to surround Draco. The tallest jailmate, Brutus, said to him:
"We will help you get your revenge, Dragón Valiente."
Fun wasn't something to consider when committing national crimes, but this did put a smile on his face. The path to revenge soon began.