Dragon Adventure

Chapter 3 – Doubles?

Author Notes:

Thankees for all the reviews I'll try my best! I actually wanna finish this fic, so no worries xD I don't think I'll have any problems with this fic Hopefully…

Though dabnabbit, this is really becoming more like some sort of love fic than my originally intended humourous adventure fic .o;;; I'LL TURN IT BACK TO NORMAL!

Honou, look!

What?

Don't you see it??

See what?

The mountains…look how big they are!

Well if they weren't big, they wouldn't be mountains.

Honou!!

Then it was gone. The memory vanished like a soft, gentle morning mist, left with nothing but distant traces scattered here and there. It was always the same whenever Fire found himself thinking of the past days gone by, of the times when they first became dragons for the Dragon Knights. He would hear a voice, as gentle as the breeze, and a bright light would surround his inner eye as he recalled past conversations and settings. He had been his small form, and he was sitting on the roof of the Dragon Palace with another dragon, a dragon of white color and plumed wings…

"HONOU!!"

"HONOU!!! Where are you?!"

Fire shook his head, releasing him from his reverie. Kahaku…Riku… They were looking for him. He blinked and looked around. Where…was he? He felt tiles. Roof tiles. The roof? Of course, how else would he have recalled that memory? The dragon looked to the right slightly, the peaks of the of the distant mountain range just visible by the streaming moonlight.

"Honou!"

The dragon of fire blink startled when he heard Water's voice right next to his ear. He scrambled slightly as he tried to regain his balance and felt something support him from behind. He looked back. "…Riku…"

"What are you doing up here?" Earth said half-angrily and half-concerned. "Do you know we've been looking for you for a long time now?? And that Rath had been looking for you since he first called you?"

"Why didn't you go to him?" Water joined in, but more gently. "What's wrong?"

Fire looked away slightly, the guilt of disobeying his Knight starting to come over him. "I…I just needed to have some time alone. That's all."

"You're not acting like yourself," Earth said bluntly. "I think you've been hanging around Rath too long, you're starting to sound as self-pitying as him."

Water looked at him sharply. "Riku!"

"What?! It's true!" He turned back to Fire. "Honou, what's wrong? You can tell us, we're your friends!"

The dragon did not say anything in response, only leaving his head bowed, avoiding eye contact. Water and Earth exchanged glances and lowered their heads to him, gently nuzzling him. It was obvious their friend did not want to talk and they did not wish to push him. They sat huddled together like that, Water on Fire's left and Earth on Fire's right. It was only a few moments more before they heard a voice below them, calling out a name.

"…ire…Fire!!" There was a moment of silence before they heard the same voice call out a new cry. "Honou!!"

The dragon's head jerked up. Water and Earth could feel their friend's muscles quivering, almost as if he was about to suddenly jump up and explode, so to speak.

Earth butted his head against Fire's. "He's calling you, Honou. By your rightful name. You know what it means when your Dragon Knight is calling you by your true name."

Water nodded solemnly. "It means he really needs you and you cannot avoid it. You have to go to him, Honou."

"I know…I know that!" Fire's eyes were transfixed to the spot where Rath was calling him from below. He could see the worry, concern, exasperation, all those feelings written on the Dragon Knight's face. I know that…With a glance to his two friends, Fire spread his wings and glided down to Rath, throwing down a sign to his master when he was a few feet away.

"Ow!" Rath yelled as he picked up the sign and looked at Fire, all his worries replaced with irritation. "I spend the whole night screaming out your name and looking all over the place and you hit me with one of your cards?!"

Fire sighed and perched on a branch. With his tail, he pointed to the card in Rath's hands. Read it you idiot.

Getting the message, Rath turned the card over. It read, "I'm sorry…" When Rath looked up he saw Fire's miserable face and smiled a little. "It's okay, Fire, I forgive you," he said softly as he plucked the dragon from his perch. "Lets go and get some sleep." Fire nodded and crawled up onto Rath's head and nestled down. "You guys, too," Rath called up, Water and Earth irking as they immediately separated and flew down to Rune's and Thatz's rooms.

Careful not to upset the snoozing dragon, Rath slowly walked back to his room and removed Fire from his head. "…What's wrong with you?" he wondered aloud as he carried him over to a chair and placed him on the cushion. "You haven't been yourself lately…"

After Rath had gone to bed, Fire opened an eye and looked at the sleeping Dragon Knight. He snuggled his head under his wing and sighed. He wished he knew himself.

It was only a few hours later when Fire felt something nudging him. Grumbling something about being too early, he sleepily opened his eyes and yawned. Seeing that there was no one around and Rath was still asleep in his bed made the dragon more alert and he quickly scanned the room. Convinced that it must have been his imagination, Fire settled back into his 'bed', only to be knocked right off it and crashed to the ground.

"Hey!" he yelled angrily as he scrambled upright. His eyes widened when he saw a pair of identical eyes staring right back at him.

"Ohayo!" the identical looking dragon greeted, waving her tail slightly.

"BLAZE?!" Fire screeched. "What are you doing here?!" he hissed after seeing Rath stir slightly.

With her forelegs dangling over the edge of the chair she gave him a grin. "I was bored in the Dragon Realm and I wanted to stop by and say hi!"

"Blaze, you know that this is against the Dragon Laws!"

"Not unless you have a paaasss!" she stuck out her tongue and held up a white slip of paper. "Nyah nyah!"

Fire growled and closed his eyes in frustration. "Blaze, it's the middle of the night!"

"No it's not," she said gaily as she hopped down from the seat and onto the floor. She was shorter than Fire by a few centimeters and a few years younger, but other than that they were identical twins. "It's already morning," she smiled.

"I should be asleep," he grumbled and moved to hop back up the chair when he felt her tackle him again. "BLAZE!!"

"Awww come on!" she pleaded. "I've missed you and with all the other dragons going off doing their own duties and getting their assignments, I've been bored!"

Seeing that his struggles were futile, he let his body go limp and stared up at her. "And you want me to do what?"

"Show me around! I've always wanted to see the Dragon Place!" She hopped off him and did a sort of dance around Fire. "Please? Please? Please? Pleeeaaaasssee??"

"It's dark, everyone's asleep, and I should be asleep, too!" he snapped and instantly leaped back up on the chair.

"Well aren't you grumpy today?" she grumbled and followed after him. "Will you show me tomorrow? Will you?"

"NO!" he half-roared. "If any of them see you I'll get in trouble!" He softened slightly at the hurt expression on her face. "We'll see later," he muttered.

"Yay!" she squealed and ran around him.

"Blaze, stop!" But the anger had left him and sighed when she finally settled down and snuggled up next to him. "How are the other dragons?"

"Same as always."

"You didn't do anything did you?" he asked warily.

"Of course not," she said indignantly.

"Then why are you here?" He glanced over at her. "There must be some reason other than annoying the heck out of me."

Blaze glanced at him before quickly turning away. "Do I have to have another reason other than to see my only brother?" she mumbled.

"No, I just think that I'm being used as an excuse to see someone else," he smirked and nudged her. "Don't tell me you still have a crush on—hey!" he cried out as Blaze suddenly smacked her wing into his face.

"That's none of your business!" she exclaimed and buried her head under her other wing, not wanting to let Fire see the blush on her face.

He just smiled and lowered his head atop his forelegs. An idea was starting to form in his head. It was a crazy one, but he had a feeling his little sister would actually go for it. "Hey…Blaze…"

"What?" she mumbled.

"I want to go out on an adventure…"

"And you want me to take your place right?" She sighed and rolled over to look at him. "They'll figure it out."

"But wouldn't it be great?" he said, the excitement already rising in him. "You could hang with Riku and Kahaku and I'll be back later. You wouldn't have to do any fighting, all that is over."

The dragon looked at him skeptically. "I don't know…why do you want to leave anyway? You're breaking the Dragon Law on this one."

Fire blinked and lowered his head. "I…I just have to leave. I feel like something…or someone is calling me. I'll be fine," he reassured her at her dubious looks. "Besides, it'll be like old times."

"But that was at home. Here you're in the two-legged world. And you've always had Rath to help you. What if you get hurt? Or get in trouble?"

"I won't," he insisted. "I'll just turn into my larger form. No one would mess with a dragon," he grinned.

Blaze sighed. "Are you going to tell the others?"

"You can do that for me," he smiled and flew off to the still open window. The sun was now visible and the sound of the early morning birds could be heard from outside. "Thanks Blaze!"

"Wait a second!" she cried as she stood up. "Where will you be going?! I DID NOT AGREE TO THIS!!"

But it was too late, Fire had, rather suddenly and unexpectedly, left the room and was already a faint red dot in the sky. Blaze sighed and looked at the Dragon Knight still asleep in his bed, oblivious to what had happened. She spread her wings and quietly flew over to Rath's nightstand and stared at him, willing for the Dragon Knight to wake up. Seeing as he was dead asleep, she let out another sigh and flew back to the chair the two dragons had just been in and settled down.

Fire owed her big this time. "…At least I'll get to be with him…" she muttered to herself sleepily and instantly fell asleep.

Sorry for not updating this fic for a while, but I've been busy with other stuff and couldn't quite think of what to do .;; Well, hope you didn't mind the rather sharp turn this thing took, nor the slight difference in style. More dialogue, oh well.