Aden and Leora gazed upon the creature in both terror and amazement. "It's a Fire Dragon!" He whispered in the softest possible voice he could muster.

Leora couldn't believe her eyes. She had seen a dragon before; back when the Ice Queen turned into a black one, but nothing as magnificent as this.

The flaming crimson scaled beast stood over eighty feet tall. It had black spikes sticking straight out of its back all the way from its head to its bulky tail. Its eyes were yellow and its ears were pointed and jet black. It had claws the size of Clydesdale horses. Its stomach was a bright yellow matching its great jagged teeth. There it lay in the gigantic hole of the Melancholy Mountains.

"I've never heard of this beast before this past week! I wonder what its story is! Do you think it's a nice dragon?" Aden asked her.

"Keep your voice down!" Leora whispered.

"Oh, it can't hear me from all the way up here. We're perfectly safe!" He slammed his hand on the stone which they stood behind. Aden smiled as he looked at Leora. But what they failed to realize was that the dragon had heard them, and was now slowly standing.

"I think that this beast is just as threatening as a tiny mouse! Ha! I bet I could cage it with my magic in no time at all! He's really not that big-" Aden trailed off as he noticed two very large yellow eyes looking straight at him.

Leora froze and didn't make a sound. The dragon looked straight at Aden, just watching him try to make a move; ten feet from his face. Aden stood completely still; trying so hard not to move or make a sound. Then, he suddenly felt his nose beginning to itch.

'NO! NO! NOT NOW!' He thought in his head. He tried and tried to hold it in, but it was already too late. "ACHOO!" And snot went flying into the dragon's eye. He and Leora looked at each other. The dragon growled making the two of them deaf. "Bless you!" Leora said as she ran away.

"AHHHH!" Aden ran for his life as the dragon chased him around the cave. He ran through the path around the hole and the dragon still being down in it followed him with difficulty. Then, the dragon took a deep breath and out flew a ball of fire. Aden looked back at the gaining flames and screamed. And failing to see the collapsing hole in front of him, he fell through.

Leora gasped as she watched Aden fall to his death. She closed her eyes, she couldn't watch. Then, she heard a very loud splash. Leora opened her eyes and looked down in the dragons hole that Aden had landed in a giant lake in the cave. Aden laughed as he swam through the cave. But then, the Fire Dragon slumped its head low and followed Aden into the lake; now much taller than him.

"LEORA!!!" Aden shrieked as he swam for his life. Leora, still up on the higher floor, looked around for anything that would be of use. She took a look at the dagger that she held, then looked at the dragon. "I'm gonna need something much bigger!" And she ran over to a skeleton wearing an armor suit and took his silver sword.

She looked up into the center, and saw dangling moss that had grown there for a very long time. Taking a deep breath, Leora ran off the ledge and grabbed hold of the moss. She swung down and landed in the dragon's pit. Without hesitating, she ran into the dark cave that the dragon's tail had just slithered into.

Leora looked around for Aden, but couldn't find him or the beast anywhere. Then, she heard his cowering, just as he did when she was a werewolf.

"Please! Please don't kill me! I'm just a poor defenseless wizard!" Aden said on his hands and knees as the dragon slowly corned him into a wall in the shallow water.

'I've got to do something! But what? Damien killed the Ice Queen by throwing a sword into her heart, but I didn't even make the softball team at my school! No, I need another way!' She thought about everything; everything she had learned since her adventure began back in New York.

She learned about her half-brother Wolf; her guiding friend Virginia; her aunt who was actually Fairy Constance; Damien, who broke her heart in two; Virginia's dad Tony; King Wendell; the panicking wizard Aden; the evil Princess Reena, the goblin from the 7th Kingdom; and a very helpful elf who told her about the beast in the first place…

'That's it!!! That's got to be it! Please, please, please let it work!' Leora closed her eyes and immediately began to think about her dream. She concentrated and prayed that she would remember, and then it hit her.

As the great Fire Dragon crept in on Aden; Aden closed his eyes and prayed, "God, please have mercy! I don't wanna die! I don't want to be eaten by the dragon with-"

He looked up and saw the dragon now right in his face. "The extremely large teeth!" He closed his eyes and bent down low as the dragon opened his jaw wide.

But then, both the monster and the wizard heard something. It was faint at first, then it began to grow.

"It's beautiful!" Aden whispered. Both he and the beast turned their heads and saw Leora standing in the water, holding her sword with her hands at her waist. Her eyes were closed tight, and she was humming. She started out humming, and then began to sing. There were no words, just a melody. It was a beautiful, but sad melody. Aden watched her dreamily; then noticed that the dragon was no longer in his face or near him for that matter. He looked over and saw the dragon approaching Leora as quietly as it could.

"NO!" Aden said. Finishing the song, Leora calmly opened her eyes. Then, she froze. The Fire Dragon was but a foot away from her face. It exhaled in her face, and even with the tremendous gust, she didn't move a muscle. She looked into the beast's yellow eyes, and it looked right back into hers.

Aden was frozen back in the corner watching. He didn't know what to do; he didn't have any spells that could work on dragons as big as this! So, he stood petrified; watching his love face the beast.

The dragon made a low growl, warning the girl. But, she did not move; she still looked intensely into the monster's eyes. Then, the dragon slammed its tail hard on the ground, making waves throughout the cave. The princess didn't even flinch. Then, the dragon's head rose, not taking its eyes off of her.

"Leora." Looking quite confused, Leora leaned over and looked behind the dragon at Aden.

"Did you say that?" She asked him.

"I-I didn't say anything! But I sure heard someome say something!" He said backing further into the corner.

"I did." The dragon declared. Leora looked in amazement. Aden's jaw dropped.

"Y-you?" she asked.

"Yes, I think that's been established already!" It replied.

"How-how do you know my name?"

"Because," The dragon said leaning close to Leora. Its tail swooped around and came to Leora's neck. It lifted her necklace out from under her top, "I named you. I even gave you that." And it quickly let go of her.

Aden looked from the dragon to Leora over and over. "Wa wa wa?" was all he could say.

"How is that possible?" Leora asked.

"It's a very long story." The dragon told her, "We should at least begin by an introduction!"

"Okay," Leora agreed, "Umm, I'm Leora…Cranston. But you already know that don't you? Well, that cowering baby in the corner is Aden, he's a wizard!"

"I'm not a baby!" Aden said approaching her.

Leora smirked at him, then looked up at the dragon, "And who are you?"

Taking two giant steps back, the dragon stated, "I am Leviathan, the only Fire Dragon left in all the nine kingdoms; and the guardian of you, Princess Leora!"

Leora and Aden looked at each other speechless, then back at the eccentric dragon. They couldn't believe their ears.

"What?"