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As I watched Milro and Phirala fight, Zandreath walked over to me.

"Is your arm going to be alright?" She looked at my arm.

"Oh. Yeah. It's fine. A healing potion should work, right?" I asked her.

"Yes. But it'll hurt." Zandreath told me.

"I can take the pain." I was a little worried as I took out a healing fog. I took a deep breath, then drank.

As the potion when down my throat, and my shoulder popped back in, I screamed. That got Milro's and Phirala's attention. I fell to the ground, holding my left arm.

"Ouch." Phirala watched me as I stood back up.

"Why does that always happen to me?" I rubbed my arm. I couldn't move it that well, but drinking that potion was a LOT better than having Kongol hold me down and Rose snap my shoulder back in place. "We'd better go find Rose and the others. Either they're dead or they're alive. So we've gotta find out."

"WHO?" Milro scratched his head.

"Uh…some friends of mine. Come on." I left the room. Everyone followed.

Dolen was waiting outside. Milro froze.

"Come on, giant. We've gotta go." Phirala told him.

He ignored the name calling and slowly followed.

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We had traveled back out into the Death Frontier, searching for the others. As we were setting up camp, Milro stayed back, watching me closely. I could feel him staring at me. He made me nervous. He could have easily just taken that axe of his and killed me right here. I didn't get nervous around people often, but no one really had an axe on their back. I walked over towards a boulder, climbed up, and sat on top of it. It was pretty sturdy so I didn't have to worry about it moving on me. As everyone else went to sleep, I stayed up, staring up at the stars. I heard a noise behind me. As I turned around, someone grabbed my hair and tossed me into a rock. I laid on the ground, my back aching. When I looked up, Milro was standing over me.

"You're a Wingly, aren't you?" He hissed at me.

I didn't know what to say. Should I tell the truth and risk dying, or should I lie and live.

"I…I'm……uh……" I searched for the perfect words.

Milro picked me up by my hair and threw me into another rock.

'How come I always have the bad luck?' When he moved towards me and tried to attack me, a shield formed around me. 'Reading those books has really helped.' Phirala ran towards us and stepped between us.

"Stop it, Milro!" Phirala told him.

"But she's a Wingly! How can you trust her?!" Milro stared at me coldly.

"This isn't the Dragon Campaign, Milro. Times have changed." She explained to him. "You can trust her."

"Yeah. Right." He helped me stand. "Do you trust me? I'll trust you if you trust me."

"Uh…" I had never really told anyone that I trusted them, so I didn't know how to say it. "I……um……."

"It's okay. You'll tell me when you're ready." Milro's attitude had quickly changed. I blinked, a bit confused on what had just happened.

"He'll change that attitude faster than you can say 'uh-oh'." Phirala smiled as she went back towards the camp.

I continued to blink. 'What just happened?' I shrugged my shoulders and followed Phirala.

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I woke up by someone yelling in my ear.

"WHAT?!" I opened my eyes to see Milro staring down at me.

"You owe me ten gold, Phirala." He walked to Phirala, his hand was stuck out.

"Why'd he do that?!" I sat up, staring.

"Because I dared him to see if you were a heavy sleeper or a light sleeper. Obviously you're a light sleeper." Phirala dropped the gold pieces in his hand.

"Nice doin' business with ya." He put the gold in his pocket and sat down near a rock. "Shrimp."

"HEY!!" Phirala started steaming again.

I watched as she started to fight with him again. I looked around and notice Ace was here. He must've been really quiet earlier because I forgot he was here. Zandreath and Dolen was gone, probably searching for the next person for the summoning.

'Just a couple more Dragoons left.' I thought to myself as I stood up, strapping my sword to my back.

Ace yawned. "Good mornin'." He sat up.

"Good morning. We should be starting back on our journey in a bit." I stretched.

"Oh." He stood up and walked to me. "What's wrong with them?" He pointed to Phirala who was now kicking the laughing maniac rolling around on the ground and he was singing the 'shrimp song'.

"Uh…they've got some issues with each other." I watched as Phirala tripped and Milro pick her up and hang her upside down. "Maybe we should stop him."

"Nah." Ace put his hands in his pants pockets.

"I'll brake 'em up." I walked over there and tapped on Milro's shoulder. He obviously knew what I was gonna say 'cause he put her down with a thump.

"Ouch! That hurt!" Phirala rubbed her now sore butt.

"Oh shut up, big baby." Milro looked over at me. "We leavin' now?"

I nodded. "I've got a feelin' that they're in Ulara." I looked up at him. "You're okay with that, right?"

"Uh…yeah." He seemed a little unsure about going.

"Are you sure?" I wanted to make sure he wouldn't go insane again if he sees any Winglies.

"Yeah. I'm sure." He nodded his head.

"Okay." I started walking. Everyone followed close behind me.

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We were just outside of Ulara by sundown.

"Okay, we're here. I'm beginning to think that Rose and the others aren't the only ones in there." I took a deep breath. "Everyone ready?"

"Yep." Phirala seemed sure with herself. I looked at Milro. He nodded. Ace drew his sword.

We all walked inside. No one was there. I looked around. I saw nothing. Absolutely nothing.

"Milro." I looked at him.

"Yeah?" He drew his axe.

"If anything happens tonight, do whatever I say, okay?" I had a plan.

"Okay." He steadied the axe in his hand.

We started to walk around. Hajeri walked in front of us.

"Are you here to see me? Or to save your friends?" He had an evil smile.

"To save our friends." I drew my sword and pointed it at him. "And to stop you."

"Try your best." A black sword appeared in his right hand and he charged at us.

I was the first to attack. My sword clashed with his. The fight had begun. The sound of swords clashing could be heard. He was fast, but I was faster. With my speed, I was able to get a few hits into him every now and then. His sword cut just a few strands of my hair.

'If I don't pay more attention, then I may end up dead.' I was just 'bout out of breath. I flew up into the air to catch my breath. What I didn't know was that Hajeri had his Dragoon spirit. He started to Dragoon.

'Uh-oh.' My eyes grew wide as he flew up at me. I barely had time to move because he was right in front of me before I even had time to blink. He punched me with so much force, I flew down and hit the ground. I had hit the ground so hard, there was actually a hole in the ground. I could barely hear the voices of the Phirala, Ace, and Milro. My head ached so much. I stood up, and climbed up the hole that I had made. Boralo was standing right above me. I looked up at him. In the background, I could see Hajeri fighting another Dragoon. Rose. Rose was fighting him. Boralo grabbed my long hair and jerked me up. I dangled there. I couldn't even kick or punch him. I was so wore out. I stared at him. He slammed me up against a wall. I looked over at Milro.

"Milro," I saw Boralo walking up to me. "He's a Wingly, Milro. He was a Wingly during the Dragon Campaign. He helped Melbu Frahma." I noticed Boralo had stopped and just stared at me.

"He is?" Milro looked at Boralo.

"Yes. He is. He was working with Melbu throughout the whole Dragon Campaign." I spit out a bit of blood. I watched as Milro charged at Boralo and started beating him up. I managed to stand and slowly walk over to Phirala.

"That's a good plan, get Milro angry, but there's only one problem." Phirala helped me sit down on the ground.

"What's that?" I looked up at her.

"When he's through with him, he might come after you." Phirala sat down beside me.

"I wouldn't worry 'bout that." I took out a healing fog and drank it. All the pain in my body went away. I watched as Hajeri came crashing down and hit the ground. "Rose is good."

"Yeah, but I've got a feeling that Hajeri is gonna win. You should never underestimate him." Phirala looked over at Hajeri, who was now flying back after Rose.

"LOOK!!" I pointed over at something flying towards the two Dragoons. The rest of the group. Lavitz and Lloyd ran to us.

"Are you okay?" Lloyd asked me.

"Uh…yeah. I'm fine." I watched the Dragoons fight. All eight Dragoons were attacking Hajeri.

"You should never underestimate the power of eight Dragoons." I told Phirala.

Phirala watched the fight too. We all watched as Hajeri disappeared. Milro walked back towards us.

"That coward disappeared." He sounded disappointed. Really disappointed. "Hey, shrimp, you okay?"

I knew he was talking to me. "Yeah, and don't call me shrimp."

"If ya smaller than me, then I'm gonna call you a shrimp, shrimp." He strapped his axe back on his back.

"Whatever." I rolled my eyes.

The Dragoons landed and went back to their original forms.

"He'll be back." Rose looked over at me. "And he'll come back mad."

"I know." I took a deep breath. "Well, everyone meet Milro."

"Hi. So you're a Dragoon?" Meru looked up at him.

"Yep. The Dragoon of Hate. You must be the Blue-sea Dragoon." Milro looked down at her. "Small fry."

"WHAT?!" Meru took out her hammer.

Milro ignored her. "So where are we going now?"

"Uh……where the next Dragoon is." I scratched my head. "Where exactly is the next Dragoon?"

"Well, I think Saphira should go next." Phirala started playing with her hair.

"No. I think Mike should go next, not that shrimp." Milro put his hands in his pants pockets.

"NO. Saphira." Phirala stood up and stomped her foot.

"NO, MIKE, shrimp." They started fighting again.

"Uh………" I looked back and forth between the two. "Oh brother."

"MIKE!!"

"SAPHIRA!!"

"MIKE!"

"SAPHIRA!!!"

"SHUT UP!!!!!" I yelled and hit them both in the head. They stared at me. "Which one is closer?!"

"Mike." Milro told me.

"NO, Saphira is." Phirala looked at me. "Don't listen to him. Saphira is the closest."

"NO, MIIKE IS!"

"SAPHIRA IS!!"

"This is gonna take a while." I sat back and watched them fight.

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