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*whistling* Okay guys, here's the next chapter. Make sure you review. Let's get on with the story.
Disclaimer: I do NOT OWN LEGEND OF DRAGOON. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? You'd better or Rose's dragon Michael will....uh..........eat some more zebras......-.-;
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"Are you sure it's a Virage? I can barely see ANYTHING coming towards us." Shana looked ahead of us.
"I'm POSITIVE." My hand gripped tighter on the sword's handle.
"You know we can't stay in our Dragoon forms very long." Dart told me.
"I know. That's the problem. There's only three of us that can fly WITHOUT Dragoon spirits." I looked towards Lloyd and Meru.
"We should go find land and maybe you three could make it follow you to the ground. There we could all fight it." Albert suggested. I liked to do things on my own, EXPECIALLY fighting, but this Virage had something else with it.
"Yeah. You guys go find some land and I'll take care of the Virage." I told them all.
"But won't you need us to help you?" Lloyd asked.
"If I need your help, I'll call you. Okay?" I looked at him.
"Fine. Just don't go get yourself killed." He flew off.
'Whenever people say that to another person, that person usually ends up DEAD.' I thought to myself as I took a deep breath. 'I'm gonna die. Great.' I listened carefully. This time I could actually hear the Virage. "You guys better be ready when I get there." Now I could see the Virage. Someone was flying beside it. The man that I saw in Vellweb. The man was a Wingly. They both stopped a few hundred yards away from me.
"So we meet again." The man smirked. "How 'bout we have a little deal."
"Sorry. I don't make deals with guys who are trying to kidnap me." I held my sword tighter.
"Well, you're gonna like this deal." He crossed his arms across his chest.
"Really?" I just stared at him.
"Yes. We'll fight each other and if you win, we'll leave you alone. But.......if you lose, we get to take you to our boss." He put a hand on the Virage's head. "Of course, if you don't want to, we could always just fight you and then kill you."
"Sorry. I've got a busy schedule and I have no time to fight." I turned around and started to fly towards the group.
"Chicken." I absolutely HATED being called a chicken. "Fine then. But I don't think it's fair game when it's two on one."
"Fine. Me against you. But if you try and run away, you have to come with me no matter what. Deal?" He motioned for the Virage to fly just a bit away from us.
"Deal." I was NOT going to lose this fight. "Let's go then." My sword's blade turned into the blue flame. He flew at me with amazing speed. I easily dodged his fists and swung my sword. I just barely missed him.
"Good shot." He inspected the cut on his right arm. "But not good enough." He flew at me again.
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It felt like hours had went by and we were taking turns on getting hit. He had come very close to snapping my neck off. I was slowing down a bit but he didn't slow down. It was like he was just getting started.
'How strong is this guy anyway?' I tried to catch my breath but he flew at me again. His fist looked like blurs to me when he slammed them into my gut. I started to fall. He flew down after me. Probably wanting to hit me before I fell hard into the ocean. My wings came out as I turned around and shot an energy blast at him. He had a surprised look on his face when he stopped in mid air. He put up his arms to block the attack, and it worked. I was loosing energy quicker than I had ever imagined. It had probably only been thirty minutes into the battle and I was breathing hard.
"Looks like you're losing." The man smirked.
"Yeah. Right." I gripped my sword harder. 'This battle is gonna take a while.' The man flew at me again. He really liked attacking first. I had a plan. As I dodged his attack, I threw an energy ball straight at him. He disappeared. "Wha?" I couldn't believe that my attack missed.
"Missed." The man's voice came from behind me. Just as I turned around, he grabbed my left arm and jerked on it REALLY hard. I screamed out in pain. He then slammed his fore arm against my back and I shot down head first towards the ocean. I hit the water tremendously hard. It felt like a hammer had slammed against my face. As I slung my head out of the water, I tried to grasp a huge amount of air. I couldn't feel my arm yet I was still in pain. A LOT of pain. I tried not to scream because the waves were trying to drown me. I could hardly breathe. I had never had a dislocated shoulder before, but right now my arm was the only thing that I could think about. My back hurt too but not as much as my arm. He flew down to me and grabbed my wet hair.
"Look what I found." He jerked me up and my body was just dangling there. "A small chicken waiting to be eaten. Alive."
"I'm.......not.....a........chicken........." I looked over at my sword floating in the water. It was just behind the man. It started to float and it went right into his back. He screamed out in pain. I had had just enough energy left to make my sword go into his back. He dropped me and my wings came out to support me.
"Why you little......." A laser beam came right towards me. Before I could do anything, my body fell into the ocean.
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The next thing that I remember, I'm laying on the beach side. The sand felt so warm to the touch. I used my right arm to help me move to a sitting position. It was already getting dark.
"Why is it ALWAYS me? I'm always the person to almost get killed." I stood up, holding my left arm. It still hurt. "Stupid guy, stupid Virage, stupid bad luck." I stomped my way up to the forest ahead of me. "Where are they?!" I looked around. I screamed out in frustration. If anyone was watching me, then they'd probably think I was insane right about now. I made my way through the forest. "They'd better be somewhere near or I'm gonna kill them." I continued to stomp through the forest when I walked into an opening. Dart and the gang were sitting by a fire.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU STAY ON THE BEACH?!" I ignored the pain in my arm and stomped over towards them.
"Crystal!!" Everyone turned to face me.
"YOU OWE ME A VERY GOOD EXPLANATION!!" I stared coldly at Dart.
"We were attacked and after a few minutes of fighting, we had to run deeper into the forest." Dart explained to me.
"Yeah, right. What next? Giant pink bunny rabbits?" I said sarcastically.
"Really, we were. Some Virage attacked us." Zieg finally spoke up.
'I thought there was only ONE Virage?' I asked myself in confusion. "So why didn't you fight it?"
"We tried to. But it called some friends." Lavitz sat against a tree. "Pretty soon there was like FIFTY Virages!"
"Actually, there was only ten Virages." Rose corrected him.
"Oh shut up." Lavitz crossed his arms.
"What happened to your arm?" Shana pointed to my arm which was motionless at my side.
"Oh just a little dislocated shoulder. That's all." I sat down on the ground.
"We're out of healing potions. Completely." Rose told me.
"So? Can't I just wait 'till we arrive at a town?" I looked at her.
"No. If we get into any fights, you'll have to protect yourself and you can't really do that with a dislocated shoulder." Rose stared straight back at me.
"We'll just put it back in. It can't hurt THAT much, can it?" I knew it was going to hurt.
"It's gonna hurt something awful." Rose walked towards me. "Lavitz, hold her down."
"W-why do you need to hold me down?" I stared at her.
"You'll see." She looked at Lavitz who walked up beside me and grabbed my right arm and put his arm around my waist.
"This is gonna hurt." He warned me. He held me tight.
"I'm brave." I watched Rose as she grabbed my arm. When she lifted it up, I screamed out in pain. I had no idea that I had pushed Lavitz as he fell to the ground. Rose backed away.
"We're gonna need a few more guys to hold you down." Rose shook her head and then motioned Kongol to come hold me down. He put his huge arms around my waist and arm and held on tightly. I couldn't move, but then again, I don't think Rose wanted me to move. Rose lifted up my left arm, again, and I screamed out in pain once more. Pain ran through my body. Suddenly Kongol's grip loosened as my sword almost cut his neck off. The sword had shot right above my head, but close enough to Kongol's neck. The sword landed in the ground.
"I'm guessing the sword reacted to her pain and decided to cut Kongol's neck off." Albert stared at the sword stuck in the ground.
"This is gonna be harder than I thought." Rose shook her head.
"What are you tryin' to do? Kill me?!" I shouted at Rose as I rubbed my left arm.
"No. I'm trying to help you. Now, Kongol, hold her down, and Dart, you make sure that sword doesn't move." Rose ordered them. Kongol obediently grabbed me again, but harder this time. Dart moved over towards the sword. "I'll warn you. Again. This is gonna hurt." She grabbed my arm quickly, but painfully, and snapped it back in place. I screamed REALLY loud. "You won't be able to move it for a while."
"Thanks a lot for tellin' me that." I pushed Kongol away from me. I rubbed my arm.
"Let's rest for tonight and we'll travel towards the closest town and get some healing potions." Rose leaned up against a tree. I walked over and picked up my sword and put it in its sheath. I laid down on the ground and stared up at the stars. The Moon That Never Sets was glowing a bright blue. 'I wonder.......' I closed my eyes and listened to their conversation.
"I've never seen a sword act like that. But then again, there's a good possibility that it's magical." Dart whispered, obviously talking to himself.
"The sword IS magical, Dart." Rose whispered to him.
"Huh? Oh." Dart laid down on his side. "Good night."
"Good night." Shana said through her yawn.
"Good night." Lavitz mumbled through gritted teeth.
'I wonder what's wrong with him?' I turned my head to the right to look at Lavitz. His back was turned towards me. I shrugged my shoulders and stared back at the stars and the Moon That Never Sets. I finally closed my eyes and went to sleep.
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*Dream*
I opened my eyes and found myself in darkness. 'This must be a dream.' I just stared out into the darkness until a picture started to appear. I found myself standing in a room. Someone was standing in front of me. A woman. A Wingly woman. Her long, flowing silver hair glistened in the sunlight.
"Nice to see you again, dear." The woman smiled.
"Huh? Do I know you?" I stared at her. She reminded me of SOMEONE. But who?
"Of course you do, dear." The strange woman giggled. "You don't remember me? What a shame."
"Huh?" I had never been SO CONFUSED before. "Who are you?"
"Zandreath." The woman walked towards me. I slowly backed away. "What's wrong? I won't hurt you."
"Yeah, right. How do I know THAT?" I continued to back away from her.
"Don't you remember me?" The woman stopped walking and just stood there.
"Nope." I put my hands on my hips.
"You don't even remember your own mother. What a shame." The woman shook her head.
"WHAT?!" My eyes shot wide open.
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My eyes shot open and I sat up. 'What a strange dream.' I rubbed my head. 'Was that really my............no. She couldn't have been.' I stood up. My arm was still a bit sore. So was my back. I stretched and made my way to a stream nearby. I quietly washed my face and sat down on the ground. 'Maybe my mind's just playing tricks on me. Yeah. That's it. It has to be the answer. She's DEAD. Can dead people even appear in dreams?' I stared at the water. 'It's just my wild imagination. What'd she say her name was again? Zandreath?' I heard Rose behind me. 'She must be on guard duty.' I looked over at her. She stared back. I slowly walked over to her.
"What do you want?" Rose asked me.
"Did you know anyone named Zandreath?" I stopped just a couple feet in front of her.
"Mmmmmmm. I think I heard of someone name Zandreath. Was she a Human?" Rose watched me as I sat down.
"Um, no. She was a Wingly." I looked up at the stars.
"I think I remember a Zandreath." Rose nodded her head.
"Did you know her?" I asked curiously.
"Yes. She was a good friend of mine during the Dragon Campaign. She was very friendly. Do you want me to tell you the story?" Rose looked at me.
"Yes, please." I leaned back on my hands.
"Okay, then. I met her in Ulara, she was young then. Maybe 'bout eighteen, you could never tell with Winglies. Anyway, she traveled with me for a bit. When we had come back to Ulara a few years later, she fell in love with a man that had just arrived there. She had told me that he was so handsome. I was glad she was happy, so when she asked me if she could be excused one night, I let her go. I was worried about her, but I knew that she'd be alright. So I didn't bother to follow her. When she came back a few days later, she had a smile on her face that looked like it would never come off. She told me that she had the most WONDERFUL time. She said it was love at first sight. The next thing she told me, I couldn't believe. They were getting married, and only after a few days too. She told me that it was the right thing to do. I had said that it was too early, that she needed to wait a few more years before she got into something THAT big. She just shook her head and said that it was the right thing to do. So I let her go and get married. When I met the man, I knew he was right for her. He was about six feet tall, short, silver hair, and bright garnet eyes. He was as nice as Shirley. He politely bowed and told me that his name was Dolen. Dolen. That was the man that Zandreath was supposed to marry. I knew I could trust him to take care of Zandreath. She was like a sister to me and I didn't want anyone to hurt her. I did think that it was TOO early, though, but Zandreath knew what she was doing. I trusted her to do the right thing. And she did. A few years after they had been married, I went to visit them. I was shocked when I saw her. She looked about six months pregnant. I asked her what she was hoping for the baby to be. She said she wanted it to be a baby boy. They had already planned to have another one later on. She looked so happy. I was happy that she was happy. I gave her my best wishes and I left. That was the last time that I saw her." Rose sat down on the ground. "I'll go wake up Dart. It's his turn to keep watch."
"No. I'll wake him up for ya." I crawled over to the sleeping Dart. "Rose?" I looked back at Rose. 'She must've been really tired.' Rose was already asleep. I shrugged my shoulders and shook Dart. He didn't wake. "Dart. Dart. Wake up. Wake up NOW." I shook him even harder.
"What?" Dart mumbled.
"It's your turn to keep watch." I told him. He just mumbled something and sat up.
"Okay." He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and scooted up against a tree. I moved over towards my sword and tucked it under my arm as I laid down. 'No one's gonna touch MY sword.' I thought to myself as I closed my eyes to go back to sleep.
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I slowly sat up a few hours later. No one else was up. 'Rose must've told Dart to go on to sleep.' I stretched. 'Why is it so quiet?' I looked around. I simply shrugged and stood up. I made my way to the steam. I sat down by it and stared into the water. I saw my reflection. But there was someone else there too. I turned around. Something went against my face really hard and I flew backwards. As I hit a tree hard, I let out a small cry. My vision grew blurry with blood. There was a man walking towards me. I couldn't recognize him. But he looked familiar. So very familiar. Something hit my face hard again, and everything went black.
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*whistling* Okay guys, here's the next chapter. Make sure you review. Let's get on with the story.
Disclaimer: I do NOT OWN LEGEND OF DRAGOON. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? You'd better or Rose's dragon Michael will....uh..........eat some more zebras......-.-;
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"Are you sure it's a Virage? I can barely see ANYTHING coming towards us." Shana looked ahead of us.
"I'm POSITIVE." My hand gripped tighter on the sword's handle.
"You know we can't stay in our Dragoon forms very long." Dart told me.
"I know. That's the problem. There's only three of us that can fly WITHOUT Dragoon spirits." I looked towards Lloyd and Meru.
"We should go find land and maybe you three could make it follow you to the ground. There we could all fight it." Albert suggested. I liked to do things on my own, EXPECIALLY fighting, but this Virage had something else with it.
"Yeah. You guys go find some land and I'll take care of the Virage." I told them all.
"But won't you need us to help you?" Lloyd asked.
"If I need your help, I'll call you. Okay?" I looked at him.
"Fine. Just don't go get yourself killed." He flew off.
'Whenever people say that to another person, that person usually ends up DEAD.' I thought to myself as I took a deep breath. 'I'm gonna die. Great.' I listened carefully. This time I could actually hear the Virage. "You guys better be ready when I get there." Now I could see the Virage. Someone was flying beside it. The man that I saw in Vellweb. The man was a Wingly. They both stopped a few hundred yards away from me.
"So we meet again." The man smirked. "How 'bout we have a little deal."
"Sorry. I don't make deals with guys who are trying to kidnap me." I held my sword tighter.
"Well, you're gonna like this deal." He crossed his arms across his chest.
"Really?" I just stared at him.
"Yes. We'll fight each other and if you win, we'll leave you alone. But.......if you lose, we get to take you to our boss." He put a hand on the Virage's head. "Of course, if you don't want to, we could always just fight you and then kill you."
"Sorry. I've got a busy schedule and I have no time to fight." I turned around and started to fly towards the group.
"Chicken." I absolutely HATED being called a chicken. "Fine then. But I don't think it's fair game when it's two on one."
"Fine. Me against you. But if you try and run away, you have to come with me no matter what. Deal?" He motioned for the Virage to fly just a bit away from us.
"Deal." I was NOT going to lose this fight. "Let's go then." My sword's blade turned into the blue flame. He flew at me with amazing speed. I easily dodged his fists and swung my sword. I just barely missed him.
"Good shot." He inspected the cut on his right arm. "But not good enough." He flew at me again.
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It felt like hours had went by and we were taking turns on getting hit. He had come very close to snapping my neck off. I was slowing down a bit but he didn't slow down. It was like he was just getting started.
'How strong is this guy anyway?' I tried to catch my breath but he flew at me again. His fist looked like blurs to me when he slammed them into my gut. I started to fall. He flew down after me. Probably wanting to hit me before I fell hard into the ocean. My wings came out as I turned around and shot an energy blast at him. He had a surprised look on his face when he stopped in mid air. He put up his arms to block the attack, and it worked. I was loosing energy quicker than I had ever imagined. It had probably only been thirty minutes into the battle and I was breathing hard.
"Looks like you're losing." The man smirked.
"Yeah. Right." I gripped my sword harder. 'This battle is gonna take a while.' The man flew at me again. He really liked attacking first. I had a plan. As I dodged his attack, I threw an energy ball straight at him. He disappeared. "Wha?" I couldn't believe that my attack missed.
"Missed." The man's voice came from behind me. Just as I turned around, he grabbed my left arm and jerked on it REALLY hard. I screamed out in pain. He then slammed his fore arm against my back and I shot down head first towards the ocean. I hit the water tremendously hard. It felt like a hammer had slammed against my face. As I slung my head out of the water, I tried to grasp a huge amount of air. I couldn't feel my arm yet I was still in pain. A LOT of pain. I tried not to scream because the waves were trying to drown me. I could hardly breathe. I had never had a dislocated shoulder before, but right now my arm was the only thing that I could think about. My back hurt too but not as much as my arm. He flew down to me and grabbed my wet hair.
"Look what I found." He jerked me up and my body was just dangling there. "A small chicken waiting to be eaten. Alive."
"I'm.......not.....a........chicken........." I looked over at my sword floating in the water. It was just behind the man. It started to float and it went right into his back. He screamed out in pain. I had had just enough energy left to make my sword go into his back. He dropped me and my wings came out to support me.
"Why you little......." A laser beam came right towards me. Before I could do anything, my body fell into the ocean.
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The next thing that I remember, I'm laying on the beach side. The sand felt so warm to the touch. I used my right arm to help me move to a sitting position. It was already getting dark.
"Why is it ALWAYS me? I'm always the person to almost get killed." I stood up, holding my left arm. It still hurt. "Stupid guy, stupid Virage, stupid bad luck." I stomped my way up to the forest ahead of me. "Where are they?!" I looked around. I screamed out in frustration. If anyone was watching me, then they'd probably think I was insane right about now. I made my way through the forest. "They'd better be somewhere near or I'm gonna kill them." I continued to stomp through the forest when I walked into an opening. Dart and the gang were sitting by a fire.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU STAY ON THE BEACH?!" I ignored the pain in my arm and stomped over towards them.
"Crystal!!" Everyone turned to face me.
"YOU OWE ME A VERY GOOD EXPLANATION!!" I stared coldly at Dart.
"We were attacked and after a few minutes of fighting, we had to run deeper into the forest." Dart explained to me.
"Yeah, right. What next? Giant pink bunny rabbits?" I said sarcastically.
"Really, we were. Some Virage attacked us." Zieg finally spoke up.
'I thought there was only ONE Virage?' I asked myself in confusion. "So why didn't you fight it?"
"We tried to. But it called some friends." Lavitz sat against a tree. "Pretty soon there was like FIFTY Virages!"
"Actually, there was only ten Virages." Rose corrected him.
"Oh shut up." Lavitz crossed his arms.
"What happened to your arm?" Shana pointed to my arm which was motionless at my side.
"Oh just a little dislocated shoulder. That's all." I sat down on the ground.
"We're out of healing potions. Completely." Rose told me.
"So? Can't I just wait 'till we arrive at a town?" I looked at her.
"No. If we get into any fights, you'll have to protect yourself and you can't really do that with a dislocated shoulder." Rose stared straight back at me.
"We'll just put it back in. It can't hurt THAT much, can it?" I knew it was going to hurt.
"It's gonna hurt something awful." Rose walked towards me. "Lavitz, hold her down."
"W-why do you need to hold me down?" I stared at her.
"You'll see." She looked at Lavitz who walked up beside me and grabbed my right arm and put his arm around my waist.
"This is gonna hurt." He warned me. He held me tight.
"I'm brave." I watched Rose as she grabbed my arm. When she lifted it up, I screamed out in pain. I had no idea that I had pushed Lavitz as he fell to the ground. Rose backed away.
"We're gonna need a few more guys to hold you down." Rose shook her head and then motioned Kongol to come hold me down. He put his huge arms around my waist and arm and held on tightly. I couldn't move, but then again, I don't think Rose wanted me to move. Rose lifted up my left arm, again, and I screamed out in pain once more. Pain ran through my body. Suddenly Kongol's grip loosened as my sword almost cut his neck off. The sword had shot right above my head, but close enough to Kongol's neck. The sword landed in the ground.
"I'm guessing the sword reacted to her pain and decided to cut Kongol's neck off." Albert stared at the sword stuck in the ground.
"This is gonna be harder than I thought." Rose shook her head.
"What are you tryin' to do? Kill me?!" I shouted at Rose as I rubbed my left arm.
"No. I'm trying to help you. Now, Kongol, hold her down, and Dart, you make sure that sword doesn't move." Rose ordered them. Kongol obediently grabbed me again, but harder this time. Dart moved over towards the sword. "I'll warn you. Again. This is gonna hurt." She grabbed my arm quickly, but painfully, and snapped it back in place. I screamed REALLY loud. "You won't be able to move it for a while."
"Thanks a lot for tellin' me that." I pushed Kongol away from me. I rubbed my arm.
"Let's rest for tonight and we'll travel towards the closest town and get some healing potions." Rose leaned up against a tree. I walked over and picked up my sword and put it in its sheath. I laid down on the ground and stared up at the stars. The Moon That Never Sets was glowing a bright blue. 'I wonder.......' I closed my eyes and listened to their conversation.
"I've never seen a sword act like that. But then again, there's a good possibility that it's magical." Dart whispered, obviously talking to himself.
"The sword IS magical, Dart." Rose whispered to him.
"Huh? Oh." Dart laid down on his side. "Good night."
"Good night." Shana said through her yawn.
"Good night." Lavitz mumbled through gritted teeth.
'I wonder what's wrong with him?' I turned my head to the right to look at Lavitz. His back was turned towards me. I shrugged my shoulders and stared back at the stars and the Moon That Never Sets. I finally closed my eyes and went to sleep.
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*Dream*
I opened my eyes and found myself in darkness. 'This must be a dream.' I just stared out into the darkness until a picture started to appear. I found myself standing in a room. Someone was standing in front of me. A woman. A Wingly woman. Her long, flowing silver hair glistened in the sunlight.
"Nice to see you again, dear." The woman smiled.
"Huh? Do I know you?" I stared at her. She reminded me of SOMEONE. But who?
"Of course you do, dear." The strange woman giggled. "You don't remember me? What a shame."
"Huh?" I had never been SO CONFUSED before. "Who are you?"
"Zandreath." The woman walked towards me. I slowly backed away. "What's wrong? I won't hurt you."
"Yeah, right. How do I know THAT?" I continued to back away from her.
"Don't you remember me?" The woman stopped walking and just stood there.
"Nope." I put my hands on my hips.
"You don't even remember your own mother. What a shame." The woman shook her head.
"WHAT?!" My eyes shot wide open.
****
My eyes shot open and I sat up. 'What a strange dream.' I rubbed my head. 'Was that really my............no. She couldn't have been.' I stood up. My arm was still a bit sore. So was my back. I stretched and made my way to a stream nearby. I quietly washed my face and sat down on the ground. 'Maybe my mind's just playing tricks on me. Yeah. That's it. It has to be the answer. She's DEAD. Can dead people even appear in dreams?' I stared at the water. 'It's just my wild imagination. What'd she say her name was again? Zandreath?' I heard Rose behind me. 'She must be on guard duty.' I looked over at her. She stared back. I slowly walked over to her.
"What do you want?" Rose asked me.
"Did you know anyone named Zandreath?" I stopped just a couple feet in front of her.
"Mmmmmmm. I think I heard of someone name Zandreath. Was she a Human?" Rose watched me as I sat down.
"Um, no. She was a Wingly." I looked up at the stars.
"I think I remember a Zandreath." Rose nodded her head.
"Did you know her?" I asked curiously.
"Yes. She was a good friend of mine during the Dragon Campaign. She was very friendly. Do you want me to tell you the story?" Rose looked at me.
"Yes, please." I leaned back on my hands.
"Okay, then. I met her in Ulara, she was young then. Maybe 'bout eighteen, you could never tell with Winglies. Anyway, she traveled with me for a bit. When we had come back to Ulara a few years later, she fell in love with a man that had just arrived there. She had told me that he was so handsome. I was glad she was happy, so when she asked me if she could be excused one night, I let her go. I was worried about her, but I knew that she'd be alright. So I didn't bother to follow her. When she came back a few days later, she had a smile on her face that looked like it would never come off. She told me that she had the most WONDERFUL time. She said it was love at first sight. The next thing she told me, I couldn't believe. They were getting married, and only after a few days too. She told me that it was the right thing to do. I had said that it was too early, that she needed to wait a few more years before she got into something THAT big. She just shook her head and said that it was the right thing to do. So I let her go and get married. When I met the man, I knew he was right for her. He was about six feet tall, short, silver hair, and bright garnet eyes. He was as nice as Shirley. He politely bowed and told me that his name was Dolen. Dolen. That was the man that Zandreath was supposed to marry. I knew I could trust him to take care of Zandreath. She was like a sister to me and I didn't want anyone to hurt her. I did think that it was TOO early, though, but Zandreath knew what she was doing. I trusted her to do the right thing. And she did. A few years after they had been married, I went to visit them. I was shocked when I saw her. She looked about six months pregnant. I asked her what she was hoping for the baby to be. She said she wanted it to be a baby boy. They had already planned to have another one later on. She looked so happy. I was happy that she was happy. I gave her my best wishes and I left. That was the last time that I saw her." Rose sat down on the ground. "I'll go wake up Dart. It's his turn to keep watch."
"No. I'll wake him up for ya." I crawled over to the sleeping Dart. "Rose?" I looked back at Rose. 'She must've been really tired.' Rose was already asleep. I shrugged my shoulders and shook Dart. He didn't wake. "Dart. Dart. Wake up. Wake up NOW." I shook him even harder.
"What?" Dart mumbled.
"It's your turn to keep watch." I told him. He just mumbled something and sat up.
"Okay." He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and scooted up against a tree. I moved over towards my sword and tucked it under my arm as I laid down. 'No one's gonna touch MY sword.' I thought to myself as I closed my eyes to go back to sleep.
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I slowly sat up a few hours later. No one else was up. 'Rose must've told Dart to go on to sleep.' I stretched. 'Why is it so quiet?' I looked around. I simply shrugged and stood up. I made my way to the steam. I sat down by it and stared into the water. I saw my reflection. But there was someone else there too. I turned around. Something went against my face really hard and I flew backwards. As I hit a tree hard, I let out a small cry. My vision grew blurry with blood. There was a man walking towards me. I couldn't recognize him. But he looked familiar. So very familiar. Something hit my face hard again, and everything went black.
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