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Chapter Seven

Rose, Shirley, Zieg, and Belzac walked through the doors of Emperor Diaz's chambers.

"We have not found them yet." Belzac reported.

"I know. I have something very important to tell you." Emperor Diaz sat comfortably in his chair.

"What is it, Emperor?" Shirley asked as she sat down at the table.

"The Queen of Dragoons has told me where Kanzas and Damia are." Diaz explained.

"WHO???" Everyone said in unison.

"The Queen of Dragoons." Diaz repeated.

Everyone just stared at him.

"There's a Queen of Dragoons???" Shirley looked at him.

"Yes. I have spoken with her and two of the other Dragoons."

"There's more Dragoons??" Zieg asked.

"Yes. Six more, counting the Queen herself. Let's see, there's the Hate Dragoon, Love Dragoon, Living Dragoon, Dead Dragoon, and Dragoon of Dreams. The Love Dragoon is the one who found out where Kanzas and Damia are. They are in Kadessa." Diaz leaned back in his chair. "The Queen has sent two of her Dragoons to help get them out of there."

"Oh. So, we just wait here until they get back?" Rose looked over at Diaz.

"Yes. The two Dragoons will head for Kadessa and when they rescue Kanzas and Damia, they will bring them back here." Diaz looked at each person.

"What if they fail to do so?" Zieg asked.

"Don't worry. They won't fail." Diaz rested his hands in his lap.

"I HATE silver hair." Milro complained as he ran his left hand through his hair.

"Oh just deal with it. I'm not too fond of silver hair either, but we have to do as we were told." Phirala twirled her now silver hair in-between her fingers. "Besides, I thought it would be cool for us to visit Endiness."

"Well, I didn't really want to be a Wingly." Milro hovered above the ground, his wings of energy keeping him flying. "I HATE being a Wingly, I hate looking like a Wingly, and I hate WINGLIES!!"

"Ya big crybaby! We'll only have to be Winglies until we rescue Kanzas and Damia." Phirala looked up at Kadessa. "And that shouldn't take that long."

"Yeah. Right." Milro flew up towards Kadessa. "Come on, shrimp."

"I hate it when he calls me that." Phirala muttered as she followed Milro.

They both landed on the floors of Kadessa.

"Don't use your Dragoon Spirit unless you really need to. Got it?" Milro looked down at Phirala.

"Got it." Phirala looked around. "Where should we look first?"

"Don't gotta clue." He leaned up against the wall. "Let's just look around for a bit." He started to walk. "You comin'?"

"Oh. Yeah!" She quickly followed him.

Boralo quietly snuck out of his room. Earlier Sophia had left because Melbu wanted to speak with her. She thought he was asleep, so she left him alone. He quickly made his way back to the door that he had went to yesterday. He opened the door and ran down the stairs. He looked ahead of him and saw no one. He made his way to the cell door that he saw the Wingly guard put that Human man in. He pulled over a small crate and stood on it. He looked through the bars of the small window on the door and saw the Human sitting in a corner. The Human opened his eyes and stared at Boralo. Boralo gulped.

'That Human is strange.' He stared back at the Human.

"What are you lookin' at, Wingly?" The Human hissed at him.

Boralo watched the Human with interest. He had never been around a Human before. Of course he had seen dead Humans, but never one alive. Before he could ask for the Human's name, he heard a door open. Before he could react, someone picked him up by the back of his shirt.

"Why are you in here again?!" A Wingly guard asked him.

"Um…Melbu Frahma gave me permission to be down here." Boralo lied.

"Don't lie, kid!" The Wingly threw Boralo up against the wall.

"How dare you call Melbu Frahma's apprentice a liar???!!!" Boralo yelled at the guard.

"You're Melbu's apprentice? HA!" The guard threw back his head in laughter. "The only thing you'd be good at is watching over the food stock."

"HEY!! Leave the kid alone!!" Came a familiar voice.

Sophia stood at the bottom of the stairway. She tossed an energy ball up and down in her right hand.

"Why should I listen to you? I only obey Melbu Frahma, not some girl." The guard looked Sophia over. He had a smile on his face.

Sophia looked over at the energy ball, then back at the guard. A smirk crossed her face. "You idiot." She threw the energy ball at him and he fell to the ground, unconscious. She walked over towards Boralo. "I never understood why Melbu hired such dumb Winglies for guards." She kicked the unconscious Wingly lying on the ground. She looked at Boralo. "Why did you come back?"

"Um…I…" He looked over at the cell door which had the Human man in it then quickly stared at the ground. "I got lost."

"You're a terrible liar." Sophia walked over and looked inside the cell. "This Human is going to the battle fields soon, ya know."

"I know. But WHY? I don't exactly know why Humans have to be locked up. I mean, so what if they had Dragons. They weren't exactly attacking us, or Kadessa, now were they? Why do we continue to torture Humans anyway? Aren't we all equal?" Boralo looked up at Sophia.

"If Melbu ever heard you say what you just said, he'd kill you in a heart beat." Sophia told him harshly. "Now come on." She walked back towards the stairs. Boralo followed silently.

'I don't understand any of this.' He stared at the ground as he walked. Four guards came running down the stairs and towards the cells. The first two unlocked a door and dragged out a small, teal haired girl who was screaming and kicking. The other two walked inside the cell which held the Human man. He came out quietly. Boralo watched them. Sophia tried to pull him up the stairs, but he stood still. The Human man's reddish-brown hair looked more red in the sunlight than in the dark corner in which he had been sitting in. The Human kicked the Wingly holding him and managed to free the girl and knock out all of the Winglies. Sophia blocked the exit. Boralo watched the man walk up to her. Sophia looked down at Boralo, then back up at the man. The girl stood a couple feet away from him, wiping the tears from her face. Sophia moved out of the way.

"GO. I wish for you to leave. Hurry. More Winglies will come." Sophia stared at the man.

"I guess all Winglies aren't that bad." The man waited for the girl to scamper up the stairs and quickly followed her. Sophia ran after them. Boralo also ran after them.

"STOP, HUMANS!!" A Wingly stopped the man and the girl in their tracks. Sophia took a deep breath as she stepped outside behind the Human man. She knew what would happen to her. Energy ran through her body as she powered up an attack. She hurled an energy ball past the Human man and hit a Wingly right in his head, wiping his head clean off his neck.

"RUN!!" Sophia's voice was harsh and commanding.

Boralo watched from the shadows. Sophia killed every Wingly that tried to get past her and stop the man and the girl from running away. He saw someone come up behind Sophia and hit her in the back of the head. She fell to her knees but quickly stood up. She wasn't going down without a fight.

Kanzas and Damia ran through Kadessa, searching for a good place to hide until they could figure out a way out of Kadessa. They finally decided to hide in the storage room.

"That Wingly was nice." Damia finally decided to say.

"Yeah. Whatever." Kanzas sat down and leaned up against the cold stone wall.

"What are we gonna do?" She sat in a far corner, away from Kanzas.

"If I knew that, then we'd already be out of this place, now wouldn't we?" Kanzas glared harshly at the half mermaid, half Human.

She folded her hands in her lap. 'I don't want to go to the battle field. They'll make me go and I don't want to go. I wish we could get out of here and fast.' She thought to herself as she tried to keep her eyes open. She laid down on her right side and fell asleep.

Kanzas watched over the girl as she slept. 'We'll be able to stay in here until someone comes down here.' He thought as he paced around the room. 'We'll get caught no matter what we do or where we stay. We might as well charge out of here and attack with all that we've got. We could always use a little help.' He held the Violet Dragoon Spirit tightly. It felt warm to the touch. 'But that would put every Human in danger. Why can't I just do something without risking every damn Human's life?!' He moved almost cat-like around the room. He heard Damia breathing. He looked over at the sleeping girl. 'And plus, she won't be able to fight her way through here. What are we gonna do?'

Milro and Phirala walked around Kadessa. They had been walking around for quite a while now.

"Where could they be?! We've checked every door in this floating city!" Milro's fist flew into a nearby wall. Blood ran down the wall.

"Uh…you do realize that that is stone wall, right?" Phirala stared at the blood dripping off of his fist.

"Yeah. After I slammed my fist into the wall." He rubbed his fist. 'Damn. I did it again.' He followed Phirala, who had now decided to run off.

"Maybe they're-" Phirala froze.

Milro stopped right beside her. A fight was going on. A single Wingly fighting eight Winglies.

"I wonder what happened here?" Milro watched the fight.

"Maybe she just didn't like any of those guys?" Phirala suggested, looking up at Milro.

"Maybe." He watched the one and only Melbu Frahma walk up to the fight. The woman who had obviously started the fight froze.

"You have betrayed the Winglies and you WILL be punished." Melbu told the woman. The woman obviously knew that that was going to happen because she simply just stood there.

"I understand." The woman allowed the remaining Wingly to drag her away. Melbu glared at Milro and Phirala for a few seconds and left. A small Wingly boy came out from hiding. He looked really scared, but sad at the same time.

"Hey, kid, can you help us?" Milro asked, walking up to the small boy.

The boy shivered when Milro walked up to him.

"We aren't gonna hurt you." Phirala told the boy. The boy nodded.

"Well, first, we need to know what happened here." Milro looked down at the Wingly.

"My…my friend…" Tears ran down the boy's face. "She…protected these two prisoners and now I don't know what'll happen to her now."

"What two prisoners?" Phirala asked.

"Some strange man and a teal haired girl that looked more Wingly than Human.

"The half mermaid, half human, Damia." Milro muttered.

"And Kanzas." Phirala whispered, the words barely escaping her mouth.

"Where are they?" Milro asked.

"I…I don't know!" The boy then turned and ran down the stone floor.

"Let's keep lookin'." Milro watched the boy run off.

"Boralo, I need to speak with you." Melbu told the boy as he ran by him.

"I don't want to speak with you!!" Boralo continued to run.

"COME TO ME NOW, BOY!!" Melbu's voice was harsh. Boralo stopped, then turned and walked back towards Melbu.

"Yes, sir?" Boralo tried to stop himself from bursting out crying. He had never been yelled at that harshly before.

"You're…bodyguard, Sophia, has to be sent to Zenebatos." Melbu told the boy.

"Why, sir?"

"Because she betrayed us, that's why. She will be judged and if proven guilty…" Melbu watched the boy as he looked up at him.

"What will happen to her if she's proven guilty?" Boralo asked.

"She will be sentenced to death." Melbu's voice was still harsh.

"How much of a chance does she have to live?" Boralo asked, not wanting Sophia to die. She was the only one that he had trusted, and the only one that understood him.

"She has a one percent chance to be proven innocent and to live." Melbu explained.

'Hopefully Soa will spare her life.' Boralo let a single tear run down his left cheek.

'She's my best friend. She can't die. She just can't. She's like an older sister to me. Soa, please spare her life. PLEASE.' Boralo quickly turned and ran down the hall towards his bedroom.

He thrust opened the door to his room and slammed it shut. He laid down on the bed and buried his face in his pillow. He looked up at the ceiling, tears now uncontrollably ran down his face.

'Please, Soa. Let her live. Let her live.' He buried his face in the pillow again and began crying even harder.