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Chapter Ten

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Milro stood beside a rainbow colored Dragon. The Dragon was known as the Queen Dragon, or the Queen of all Dragons. She was almost the size of the Divine Dragon, but smaller. He rubbed and patted her head and she nuzzled against him.

"If only you could talk to me........." He knew that only the Dragoon Queen could talk with her Dragon. 'You'd probably understand what I've been through and what I'm going through......'

The Queen Dragon turned her attention from Milro to someone else. Saphira had walked into the room. She was wearing her usual dark red skirt, pink long-sleeved shirt, and black, knee-high boots.

"Hi..." She said softly. She walked over at began to rub the Queen Dragon. "Listen, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?"

Milro stared at her suspiciously. "Wwwhhhhyyyyy?"

Saphira giggled. "I'm just curious, that's all."

"Fine then. Fire away."

"Well, I would like to get to know you a bit better. Ya know, friends need to know each other better."

"What do you want to know?" He leaned up against the wall.

"Your favorite color?"

Milro continued to stare at her suspiciously. He knew that the Queen must've wanted her to ask him questions about his past. He always knew that he'd hafta tell everyone what happened sooner or later, but now wasn't the time.

"Um, I like black."

"Favorite food?"

"Does cinnamon count?"

"Um, sure. What about your parents?"

Milro shrugged his shoulders. "Who knows?"

Saphira knew he was trying to avoid answering that question. "Please. Just tell me. I-"

"NO." Milro pushed himself off of the wall and walked off.

Saphira sighed. She was never good at persuading people.

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"I want...mmmm......how 'bout to be free again and never have to have Milro follow me around?" Hajeri offered.

The Dragon Queen couldn't risk that; no matter how much she wanted to know what was wrong with Milro and why he acted the way he did. "I'm sorry, but I'll have to say no."

Hajeri was disappointed, but he just now saw this as an advantage. "Fine with me." He crossed his arms across his chest.

The Queen was dazed. 'He took that much easier than I thought he would.' She cocked her head to the side as she stared at him. 'What's going on in that head of yours, Hajeri?' She tried to search through his mind, but somehow he had blocked her from finding out certain things. The only things she couldn't seem to find out any information on was his past and Milro's past. 'How is he able to block me from seeing those things? He's hiding something. I just know it.' She quickly turned her attention to Phirala, who stomped over to Hajeri.

"Why won't you tell us?! My brother may need help and you won't tell us!!" Phirala yelled. Hajeri caught her wrists as she tried to punch him. "TELL US WHAT YOU KNOW, NOW!!"

He simply smirked and pushed her away. He turned and left the room. The Queen watched him leave.

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"Remember to be back in time for dinner." Diaz told Rose, Kanzas, and Zieg. The trio was going to go train together in a forest not too far from Vellweb.

"Stop acting like our father." Rose smiled at Diaz as she said this. "Don't worry, okay? We'll be back. I doubt any of us want to miss dinner."

Kanzas was leaning up against the wall, waiting. "If we don't leave now, we'll never have time to train."

The small group quickly left the room and headed outside of Vellweb.

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"So," Rose stopped when they came to an opening in the forest. The tree branches reached over the top of the opening and shaded it. There was a small stream nearby. "who wants to start the training?"

"How 'bout you and I fight first?" Zieg suggested, looking at Rose.

"That's fine with me." Rose drew her rapier.

Kanzas crossed his arms across his chest and leaned up against a tree. 'This should be interesting.' He thought as he watched the fight.

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Rose and Zieg lunged at each other; their swords making a clang sound as they collided. They both stepped back, then lunged at each other again. This time, Rose flipped over Zieg, landing softly behind him. She turned around and swung her sword.

Clang. Zieg had managed to turn around in time and stop her sword with his. Zieg ducked as a black and blue rapier tried to cut his head off. Rose jumped as he tried to trip her. When she landed, she stepped backwards as his sword just barely missed her. She swung her rapier.

Clang. Their swords collided once more. She jumped backwards, then ran towards him with all her speed. When she was a foot away from him, he swung his sword. She crouched, then jumped up into the air. She pointed the tip of the blade down towards him as she fell back to the ground. She ended up stabbing the ground instead of Zieg. He had jumped out of the way, and ducked as she pulled her rapier out of the ground and swung it at him.

She automatically froze. "Did you hear that?"

Kanzas had also heard something because he wasn't leaning up against the tree, but walking backwards towards Rose and Zieg. He was staring out into the bushes.

"Winglies." Kanzas hissed softly.

Zieg and Rose both turned to stare at the bushes. Three Winglies stepped out.

"And what do you Humans think you're doing out here?" The commander of the small group of Winglies asked them.

The three Humans looked at each other, then back at the Winglies.

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Damia and Shirley climbed the stairs to Kanzas' room.

"Tell me once me why we're going to Kanzas' room." Shirley watched the young girl run up ahead of her when the bedroom door came into sight.

"Since he's training with Rose and Zieg, it'll be safer to check his room. He shouldn't be back until supper so we're safe." Damia opened the door slowly, then walked inside.

Shirley also walked inside. "Maybe we should just-"

"You check under the bed and I'll check anywhere else." Damia said.

Shirley sighed, but slowly moved towards the bed and looked under it. "Nothing." She noticed something sticking out from under the pillow on the bed. She pulled out a picture frame. "I think I've found something, Damia."

Damia walked over to her and stared at the picture in the frame. "Hey, look. It's that scary lookin' Dragoon, Hajeri." She pointed at the other man in the picture with Kanzas.

"Yes, it is him." Shirley stared at the picture. The Kanzas in the picture looked a year to two younger and he was smiling. The Hajeri in the picture was also smiling. Damia, being the curious girl that she was, picked up the pillow and looked inside the pillowcase.

"Hey! I've found more pictures!" Damia picked up some more pictures. There were two pictures in total.

Shirley looked at the pictures. One picture showed Hajeri sitting up in a tree, laughing because he had obviously just pushed Kanzas off of the tree. You could see Kanzas falling. The second picture: Kanzas was laughing his head off as Hajeri was stomping off. Hajeri was soaked from head to toe.

"Kanzas is actually laughing in this picture." Shirley held up the second picture.

"C'mon! Let's go show Emperor Diaz what we've found!" Damia snatched up the pictures and ran out of the room.

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Kanzas stared coldly at the Winglies. "We're simply doing what we please."

The commander stared at him. "Humans are not allowed to do what they please. Who do you three belong to?"

"Charle Frahma." Rose quickly answered before Kanzas had a chance to.

"Charle Frahma? Then why are you way out here?"

"Because she sent us to gather some supplies." Rose thought quickly about what she was going to say.

"Supplies, eh? Then hand over your weapons. I don't think Humans are supposed to carry weapons if they are simply getting supplies for their master." The commander stuck out his hand.

Kanzas looked over at Rose.

'Kanzas......' Rose knew she couldn't stop him.

Kanzas' fist flew into the commander's face and sent him flying backwards. He began beating the living daylight out of that Wingly. Rose stopped one Wingly from stopping Kanzas.

"I don't think so." She swung her rapier at him.

Zieg stopped the other Wingly. "Hey, where do you think you're goin'?"

Kanzas was pushed off of the commander. He charged at the Wingly again. His fist collided with the man's gut. He ducked as the Wingly's fist tried to hit him. He jumped up into the tree. He waited for the Wingly to fly up, and when he did, he jumped off the tree limb, grabbed the Wingly's neck, and slammed him to the ground.

Crack! Kanzas stood up straight as he looked down at the Wingly. The Wingly's neck had been broken.

Rose stabbed the Wingly in his right shoulder. She pulled out her sword and stabbed him again, this time, in his stomach. She twisted the sword, then pulled it out again and watched the Wingly fall.

Zieg ducked as the Wingly that he was fighting tried to hit him with an energy blast. Zieg swung his sword and just missed the Wingly's neck by an inch as the Wingly stepped backwards. He jumped up into the air and flipped over the Wingly. He landed, then turned around and stabbed the Wingly in the chest as he turned to face him. Zieg sheathed his sword.

"Well, that takes care of them." Rose also sheathed her sword.

"We've got more company." Kanzas watched as five Winglies stepped out.

Rose and Zieg drew their swords again. The trio prepared themselves for another battle.

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Hajeri was lying on his bed. After they had gotten back from Vellweb, the Queen was nice enough to allow him to stay in his room. He was staring at the ceiling. The door opened. The Dragoon Queen walked in.

"What do you want now?" Hajeri asked her coldly.

"Just came to ask you a few questions." She walked over to his dresser where she looked at a picture. "Like, how this man is related to you. I know you lied when you said that you two were good friends." She remembered the day perfectly when this picture was taken. The man next to Hajeri in the picture had brown hair and a bit of a beard.

"You just saw him a couple of days ago. He's changed a lot since that picture was taken." Hajeri sat up and leaned up against the wall.

She thought for a bit. "Kanzas? This is Kanzas? Wow. He sure has changed a lot over the past couple of years." She put the picture back where it had came from.

"Yeah. It's Kanzas alright." He said.

"So, that's how you knew that you were two years older than him. But, how do you know him?"

"He's my younger brother, that's how." He smiled at the shocked look on her face. "I never told you before because I didn't think you needed to know."

The Queen just stared at him. "Wow..."

"Now, leave." Hajeri jumped to his feet and pushed the Queen out. He slammed the door shut.

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Milro twirled his axe around. He stood in the training center that Hajeri had built a little over a year ago. The training center was a circular room about the size of a football field. Plants of all kinds filled the room. Everyone had helped fix it up. Phirala, the Dragoon Queen and Saphira had planted the plants, Hajeri designed and built the place, and Milro and Mike had caught the monsters to go in it.

A Triceratops ran out from behind some bushes. It's height was about seven to nine feet; three horns poked out of the top of its long, thick head. Two smaller horns came out of the side of its head, one on each side. Its scales were a dark green. Four thick legs had three toes on each foot. Inside its beak like mouth, were sharp teeth; and on the sides of its mouth were two smaller spikes. It had beady black eyes, and two spikes that pointed upwards came out of its shoulders and its hips. Its long, flat, hammer like tail had five spikes surrounding the flat hammer end. The element of this monster was ground.

'Such an easy fight......' Milro complained silently. He allowed the Triceratops to charge at him. He sidestepped as the monster ran by him. He sighed. 'These fights were always boring to me......' As the monster turned around and charged at him again, he side-stepped once more, but this time he grabbed one of its horns and swung himself on its back, dropping his axe in the process. He held onto two of the horns that poked out of the top of its head. The Triceratops ran through bushes and easily dodged trees. Milro saw a low branch. He let go of the horns and grabbed onto that low branch. He flipped himself up into a sitting position on the branch. "Well, better retrieve my axe," he held out his hand. The axe came flying towards him and then landed softly in his hand. He gripped tightly onto the handle as he jumped off the branch. He turned around......then froze. That image of his father was back.

"Not you again..." Milro hissed. Before the image of his father could say a word, Milro began swinging his axe at him. He knew he wouldn't actually hit the image, but it made him feel better. The image just laughed. Milro eventually lost it. "LEAVE...ME...ALONE!!"

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"Your Majesty!" Phirala burst into the Queen's Chambers.

"Yes, Phirala?" The Queen finished combing her hair, and put the comb down.

"I meant to tell you before, but I thought it would be best for me to tell you whenever we came back here." The girl straightened out her dress. "Well, while I was helping Damia and Kanzas fight, we met up with the Dead Dragon."

"What?!" The Queen stood. "I was positive that I had threatened that Dragon enough."

"Excuse me, your Majesty?" Phirala looked at her confused.

"The Dead Dragon was the first Dragon that my Dragon and the Divine Dragon had had together. He was very......well......disobedient, so after he disobeyed the two Dragons for the fifth time, both Dragons had had enough with him. So, I told him that if he didn't behave properly, I would kick him out of the Heavens and he would have to fend for himself.

"He actually liked the idea of fending for himself, so he kept misbehaving. I kicked him out because he eventually tried to kill the Queen Dragon. Throughout the years, I have had to threaten and threaten that Dragon over and over again." She finished with a sigh.

"So, what are we gonna do about him?"

The Dragoon Queen reseated herself. "All we can do is hope Hajeri never gets his hands on that Dragon. I know that Soa said someone would claim the Dragoon spirit that controlled that Dragon, but I just don't think Hajeri's ready."

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"Emperor! Emperor!" Damia burst through the doors to the Meeting Room.

Emperor Diaz turned to face the girl. "Yes? What is it, Damia?"

Shirley followed her. "We have found something, Emperor."

"Yep!" Damia hopped into a chair and slid the picture across the table to him.

Diaz picked up the pictures and looked at them. He looked at the two.

"We found those pictures in Kanzas' room. Now, I know that it was wrong of us to go into his room without permission, but-" Shirley was interrupted by Damia.

"But we did it for a good cause!" She shrieked.

"What does this prove?" Diaz asked.

"It proves that them two know each other somehow. We just haven't figured out how yet." Shirley explained.

Just then, Rose, Zieg, and Kanzas walked into the room.

"Ah! Good afternoon, Emperor. Our training was magnificent! Several Winglies showed up and we fought and defeated each one!" Kanzas exclaimed with much enthusiasm.

Rose sighed. "Please ignore how he said it, Emperor. It wasn't fun at all." She rubbed her arm. She stared at Kanzas harshly as she watched him sit down. "You see, while Zieg and I were training, three Winglies showed up, and we were forced to fight them. At least that was what Kanzas thought." She continued to stare at Kanzas. "So we fought them. More just came, though. We fought them too, aaaaaaannndd the others that came after that group."

"To make the story short, we won and they lost." Kanzas propped his feet up on the table. Then he noticed the pictures that Diaz was holding. "What ya got there?" he asked, pointing at the pictures.

"We found these pictures and we were wondering how you know Hajeri." Diaz looked at the man.

"That is none of your damn business!" Kanzas stood up, tore the pictures from Diaz's grasp, and stomped out of the room.

Diaz rubbed his head. "Well......that was an interesting conversation..."

A/N: WELL?? I know it took a while to update, but writer's block stopped me from continuing......how sad......well, I finally updated! Aren't ya happy now?? The next chapter will take a while to come out, just like this chapter did. Writer's block is back......-.-; cursed writer's block...... Just don't forget to review. Your reviews will help me get out of my writer's block......I hope......