Chapter 9:

People around the geyser ran away as the dragon took in air let out a breath that crackles in the air. Kai's team dodges the slow attack. "Kai that attack was a lighting based attack." Yelled Tria as she stayed near the back.

"Okay! Everyone dodge his attacks when he takes in air!" Yelled Kai as he dodged the dragon's tail.

The dragon took to the air, and took in more air as he flew over Kai and his team. The dragon dived at the team and released a lighting bolt that everyone dodged. Kai jumped out of the way and was caught by the dragon. The dragon flew high into the air and Kai struggled to break free as the dragon plummeted back to the island. Kai kicked his way free and recovered using his wings to stop from falling. The dragon dived into the ground and disappeared.

"So you think that you can beat me? How about try to find me now! Illusion!" Said the dragon from his hiding place.

Kai's Illusion

Kai went from the air to a dark place where it was raining. He looked around trying to find his friends.

"Where am I? What happened to my friends?" He yelled as a person behind him appeared.

"Your home my son, back where you should be." Replied a lady in white.

"Who are you?" he demanded as he turned around to see his mother. "Mom!?"

Tria's Illusion

Tria was now in a village surrounded by trees. Everyone was looking at her and pointing as has walked through the village.

"What are you doing here my child?" said a female's voice. "You should not be here!" "They will kill you!"

"What are you talking about mom?" Tria asked as she looked at the villagers.

"Have you forgotten? They will kill anyone that not there kind. Just like your friends."

Shirro's Illusion

"Daddy!" cried a little girl as she ran to her father.

"What? Where's the dragon? Kai? Tria? Fenrir? Where are you?" he yelled as he heard a woman shriek and run out of the house.

"Shirro your home! You came back to us!" She cried with tears in her eyes.

"I'm home?" he replied as he was hugged by his wife and kid.

Fenrir's Illusion

Fenrir was now in a dark forest, it was night and wolves were out. Just then a wolf came out from behind a tree.

"It's you! You have been banned from the village you half human." Said the ash gray wolf.

"No it can't be? I'm fighting a dragon right now." He replied as more wolves gathered around.

"What are you talking about? You been there looking at us for hours!"

Kai's Illusion

"Home? I can't be home I was just fighting a dragon!" Kai told his mother.

"Don't be silly dragons don't live here. Come; let's go see your father." She said as she grabbed Kai's arm and dragged him to a place where it smelted of death and decay. Just then he heard cheers drown out a scream. He ran to see what the noise was and saw Sheena, Raine, Genis, Tria, Shirro and Lloyd dead hanging limp from chains as they had swords stuck in their bodies. Standing next to them were three people, one looked like him but had long hair and a shorter stature. Another was a girl that had pink wings and a blank stare, and the other had multicolored wings, long blond hair and was dressed in white. On the ground was a man covered in blood, he was holding a sword, and he turned around and held up the bloody sword. Kai was shocked as the person holding the sword was him.

"Oh God No!!" he yelled as he fell to the ground. "I can't have killed them...I can't have!"

"It was you, you betrayed them." Said his mom

"Yes you! You did it because you realized that they stood in your way; they plotted to kill your family after the regeneration. They never cared, they are using you." Said his double.

"So kill them kill your friends, before they kill you." Said his mother as they appeared back on the island.

"No! You're wrong my friends care for me! You're not even my mom!" Kai then pulled out his sword and stabbed his fake mother. "She's in heaven...resting in peace."

The fake mother turned into a wisp of the blue dragon and disappeared. "Well done dragonmaster, now can you save your friends?"

Tria

"What do you mean?" she asked her mother as villagers closed in on them.

"We found your friends outside the village, they were looking for you, and we captured them." Said the oldest looking half-elf

"What did you do to them?" Cried Tria.

"I told they will kill them..." replied her mother as the eldest grabbed her mother and handed her over to the villagers.

"She will suffer along sided them, all because of you." He said as they took her mother into the village.

Tria followed as they went into the village and the site horrified her. She had seen her human father, Kai and Shirro hanged from the tallest tree in the village.

Tria screamed as they hanged her mother. Her body twitched for a few seconds before her neck snapped. The villagers laughed at her and blamed her for being born.

"Tria! Don't listen to them its all fake this is just a trick setup by the blue dragon." Said a voice that she only heard.

"What? Who said that? Kai was that you?" she asked as the villagers grabbed her.

"Yes, it's me...find the head of the group and kill it. Then you will be released from this Illusion."

Tria thought about Kai's word and struck the elder. The elder vanished and Tria came back to the real world.

"Thanks Kai, you saved me." She said as she hugged him.

"Don't worry about it we still got to save Fenrir and Shirro." He said as they looked at the blank stares of Fenrir and Shirro.

Fenrir

"You make us sick!" "Your father, mated with that human mother and she had you." "Get out of the village!" Said the other wolves as Fenrir turned around and Humans appeared too.

"Ah! A half wolf mommy!" "Get away!" "You're not human! You're a wolf!" "You have no right to be with us!" The humans said as he ran away.

"You see you're nothing, human hate you and so does the wolves." Said a voice as two people appeared.

"You should have been one of us, my son." Said his mother, "You could have been human."

"Or a wolf had you lived with me." Said his father as they looked at him.

"You're wrong! There is nothing wrong with him he didn't want this. It was everyone you that wanted him." Said a voice that came from the darkness. "You loved him, you gave him life and not you're saying that it was his fault?"

"Kai?"

"Its hate that causes this and you're wrong blue dragon!" Kai threw two ninja stars and made the false parents disappear.

"Kai, you saved me." Fenrir said as they came back to the real world.

"Hey, you're my brother we stick out for each other."

"Yes, that is right, Kai my brother."

Shirro

Shirro had gone from being outside to getting ready for bed after a good meal with his family. They got in bed when Shirro looked at his wife and imagined that the whole dragon thing was a dream. He had never felt better he was once again with family and he was happy.

Has he slept his wife woke up and got out of bed; she headed into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. She went back into the room and stood over him, as she brought the knife down Shirro woke up to a voice.

"Shirro! This is all an Illusion!"

The knife missed him and his wives face had grown two blue fins and a blue horn.

"The blue dragon! You tricked me!" He yelled as the dragon got ready to attack.

"You will not win! If you die Kai fails the test." Replied the dragon as he attacked Shirro.

Shirro dodged and stabbed him with a dagger that he had in the drawer near his bed.

"Well done Kai, you have courage, and your friends have trust in you...you have proven yourself." The dragon said as the spirit dissolved from the Illusion.

"Kai, thank you...you are a great friend." Said Shirro as a blue orb appeared over the geyser.

"Step up and accept my power, for I have seen you as they Dragonmaster. You have already suffered the pain of lost mentally so you will not have to endure more pain." Said the orb of light.

Kai stepped up and the orb entered him. His legs flashed as greaves appeared on them. Just then his mother appeared she looked upset.

"My son your father has begun to kill more innocent people, he has taken the whole island of Illiama." She said as she cried.

"The whole island, how will we get there now?" asked Kai as he look angry.

"Take a boat from Palmacosta to Luin, then go from there to the island, but be warned the Desians control the land, and you will have to be careful to not get caught." She replied as she tossed Kai something and he caught it.

"What's this?" Kai asked as he looked at her.

"Give this to a friend and if you are in danger they will help you." She said as she began to float back up to the sky.

"I will mother, and I won't get caught." He said as his mother left, he pocketed the item and turned to his friends. "So lets head out, we need to get to Illiama as soon as possible."

They all nodded and left for the washtub, they went across the sea and after they got out Kai heard a voice.

"Master, you can use my power to travel to towns and villages that you have visited, all you have to do is think about that place and you will go there." Said the red dragon from inside Kai.

"Okay, let's head back to Palmacosta." Said Kai as they held hands.

Minutes later they arrived in Palmacosta, they went and found a boat to Luin. On the ship they slept for the night and arrived the next day. They got off the ship and found another one that would leave in a day for Illiama. So they spent the day out and about the town. Kai went out to see the fountain and had bumped into a familiar face.

They both fell over and the girl said, "Hey watch where your going." As she rubbed her head.

"Sheena?"

"Oh my...Kai!" She cried and tackled him. "It's been a couple of days how are you?"

"I'm good but I still have work to be done. I'm headed for my homeland tomorrow." He replied as Sheena got off him and they got up.

"So your finally going to face your father...must be hard since he is the one that caused the death of your mother." Sheena said as they walked around the village.

"Yeah, but he is going to pay for causing so much pain in this world." Replied Kai as Sheena and him held hands.

"Hey I have an Idea, want to go to the beach and go have some fun?" She asked as stood in front of Kai.

"Sure, it would be nice to get rid of some of the stress I have built up."

They left for the beach, when they got there the sun was nearing the water. They changed and when Kai and Sheena had seen each other they both blushed. Kai only wore a pair of swimming trunks and Sheena had let her hair down and wore a white bikini that showed off her curves.

"You look really good in that Sheena." Complimented Kai as he looked at her.

"You too."

They had fun and spent most of the time under the water. Not far out to sea a team of Desians, dressed in black watched Kai.

"So that's the one Lord Oyen wants?" Said a whip master as he looked out to where Kai was.

"Yes he wants him and no one else." Said the Commander.

"Okay so we knock him out and take him to the base, but leave the village intact."

"Yes, if we mess with the village, Kvar will get mad and we'll be dead."

"Okay."

Night had fallen when Kai and Sheena left the beach and headed back for the village. As they walked along the path to the village Kai pulled out the locket his mother gave him, he then said, "Sheena, I want you to have this." He handed her the locket.

"Re-really?" She took it and looked at it. "It's so beautiful, and it has your picture."

"If I'm in trouble you will know it and you will be able to find me." He said as Sheena gave him a hug.

"I will always wear this...thank you Kai." After she looked at him and kissed him on the lips.

Kai was shocked as she held his head. They were like that for a few seconds until she broke off. Sheena blushed as Kai said, "Yo-your're welcome, Sheena..."

When they got back the village people were gone and the streets were empty. Kai and Sheena had gone to their rooms and went to sleep.

Later that night two Desians snuck into Kai's room and kidnapped him dragging him to the beach where there ship was docked. They had left his room in a mess as they left.

When the morning came Tria, Sheena, Shirro and Fenrir were startled when the village was attacked and Kai was nowhere to be found.

Sheena's locket shocked her when they could not find Kai, telling her that something bad had happened. Not soon after they ran into Colette's group, after they were healed Raine asked Fenrir a question that he could not avoid.

"What happened to you Kai? You look different."

"I...uh...er..."

"That's not Kai that Fenrir!" Yelled Sheena, as Fenrir took a heavy sigh.

"What!?" Colette's party all said in unison.

"That's right I am not Kai, but a werewolf." Said Fenrir as he got many looks from Colette's group.

"Then where is Kai?" Raine asked, but everyone looked down or away from her.

"He is...missing and in-danger." Replied Sheena as she held the locket.

Just then a astral projection of a red dragon appeared before them.

"My master, Kai as you call him has been kidnapped and taken to the human ranch on Illiama. He was taken over night by a group of Desians working for Oyen Kanson...his father."

"What? Oh my Kai...we must go after him." Cried Raine as she looked at Lloyd.

"No, the seals must be broken first." Said Kratos as he looked at them.

"I don't know we have to save the world but he is our friend..." Said Lloyd as he was looked at by everyone.

"Oh Lloyd we have to go save him." Demanded Colette as she clutched her fist and jumped up and down.

"Okay we will go...but how will we get there? We don't know where it's at." Replied Lloyd as Kratos looked upset that they were deviating from the world regeneration path.

"I will help you." Said the dragon, as he let out a roar and several dragons came down. "Ride these, they will take you to the master." He said as he faded out.

They got on and they left to find Kai.