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Chapter 3 - Just a Little Fun

Kara developed her skills over the next couple of years under Xellos's tutoring. She was tensed due to Xellos's general mischievous nature and developed the tactic of being ready for anything. They practiced magic everyday and Kara was also taught the rules mazoku live by, or rather what they must do in order to survive.

With these lessons, came the concept of feeding off emotions. Kara learned that Xellos's nature was most provocative with humans, which were quite a tasty meal, for humans themselves are the epitome of emotion. Kara's nature soon adopted many of her tutor's mannerisms, complete with the wagging of the finger and trademark smile. This convinced Xellos that Kara should be a rather good sport when it came to practical jokes. Such as throwing her into various dimensions. However, Kara still maintained some of her old human-like feistiness, which drove her to attempt to outshine Xellos in every aspect. She was conniving, truthful but twisted, kept up a happy facade, and annoyed others for her own personal pleasure. However, Kara was different from Xellos in one very important aspect. She had never been a servant. Xellos, created in order to serve had never known any other way of life and so was not so easily put down by being ordered around. Kara, on the other hand, with a part of her human soul still clinging to her astral body, was not so easily subdued. Kara was loyal, it was true, but without feeling true allegiance to a superior, Kara's attitude was just waiting to get her into trouble.

***

Kara watched the sky from a branch of an extremely tall tree in the Kataart Mountains. A bustling black dragon community moved beneath her eyes. It looked as if it was just an ordinary human village. Elderly people sat on their porches as small children played in the grassy yards. Shops were open and bustling and there was even a farmer's market going on in the village square. At the far end of this little village was a temple of Cepheid, complete with a priest who was currently within the tall edifice. Kara sighed. The attitude of the village was peaceful, wholly consumed within itself, nestled safe in the tall mountains.

Kara grinned. 'This is going to be fun.'

***

At first, Kara just masked her presence from the rhyzoku, as she walked among them along the dusty street. She had adopted blue eyes, pointy ears, and black hair. She strolled along observing the inhabitants and stopped within a small eating establishment.

The wooden floorboards creaked as Kara walked across the conspicuously clean floor. She sat down at a quiet table in the corner of the restaurant, watching small dragon children playing a game of sorts with an old ball. A waitress came and took her order. She was cute, red cheeks and a pristine yellow and white uniform with a small black dragon on her bosom. Kara let her eyes linger on the dragoness as she walked away.

Dragons were chatting quietly all around the restaurant. Soon the waitress came back with a pot of tea. Kara poured herself a cup and sipped at it. A sound in the breeze flowing into the tavern's open window alerted Kara a moment before a ball came through the window and was caught in her hand. She stared at the ball curiously as she brought it from behind her head where she had caught it. It was the old worn ball the children had been playing with outside.

Kara heard a patter of feet and glanced up from her cup to see a group of about ten children clustered around her. "Yes?" she asked quietly. A little boy, obviously the ring leader of the group due to his commanding demeanor, stepped forward.

"Um, we're sorry about the trouble miss, but may we have our ball back?"

"Of course," she replied with a smile, holding it out. The small boy reached to take it and she snatched it back. "Only if you do one thing"

"Yeah, what's that?" the boy asked loudly with his fists on his hips. There were murmurings of agreement from the group. She smiled at the boy's obvious rebelliousness.

"Only if you let me buy you all ice cream!" She grinned as the group of children cheered.

***

Kara waved to the children as she left the tavern. All ten of them were clustered around the table eating ice cream, talking, and waving their spoons about. She stepped out the door only to bump into an extremely tall dragon man. She fell down.

"O, I'm terribly sorry miss, I should've watched where I was walking." As the man helped Kara up, she could see the dragon looking her up and down. 'Oh great' she thought to herself. "May I make it up to you Miss-" he left a pause for her to give a name. 'I wish he'd leave me alone' thought Kara.

"Katrina."

"Ah Katrina, a beautiful name. You know I haven't seen a gorgeous dragon such as yourself in a long time. May I buy you a drink?"

Kara smirked inwardly, 'He really thinks I'm a dragon, that's a laugh.' It wasn't a secret that in dragon society there was hardly a significant population of females left. The golden dragons had had the only decent amount of dragon females around and most of them had been killed in the War of the Monster's Fall.

"No, I'm sorry sir, but I really must continue on my way."

"Oh come now," he said catching her arm as she tried to walk away, "one drink, what could it hurt?"

'Stupid jerk,' she thought, and then suddenly smiled. 'He'll regret ever asking me.'

***

Kara watched the flames of the small dragon village. She was levitating high over the destruction with the dragon man she'd met under her arm.