Chapter 14

Will I get to end this in two chapter? Hopefully…but probably not -- if I do it will be the third story that I have ever finished in over 4 years of writing and about 20 million stories…

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(a/n: finally Yoshida has a POV)

Well for a while we thought we were going to have to go all the way up the mountains and all the way back down. Thank goodness we don't. We asked a few people just before Eva dragged us off and we found that there's a pass though the mountains not far to the left of the town. Aiya seemed really tense and if she was human she probably would have been pushing us to go faster, thankfully she wasn't full grown yet.

"Ya know, none of yall have talked for quite a while now…" Eva's voice called back, she was leading, why I don't know considering I had been here before.

"Sorry.." I apologized. She turned and started walking backwards so she could see us. She frowned at me. "What?"

"One, your not sorry, two chill out we will get to mana" She said the last part with a grin.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" I choked out.

"nothing, nothing at all" She grinned before looking and Sereg. I mentally growled at her.

I looked over at Sereg. He still wore his cloak around his shoulders and was scanning the area. Eva had turned back around and caught up with Nami and Aiya. The day was still slightly cool and it seemed it could have been a really good day.

"humm?" Sereg hummed lightly in question as he scanned the area. I blinked and followed his gaze. Now that my attention was drawn away from my thoughts I could hear sounds like people talking. Sereg frowned and turning to the right headed towards a slightly wooded area. At first Eva, Nami and Aiya kept walking. I looked between Sereg who was heading towards the noise and Eva, who was still walking. I let out a whistle. Eva looked back. I pointed at Sereg.

She blinked at me before sighing and turning around. I followed Sereg. The voices were steadily becoming more clear.

"What are you planning on doing?" I asked stepping up next to Sereg.

"See whats going on.." He stated.

I nodded slowly. The trees thinned as we came to a small clearing. Both Sereg and I stopped dead.

"You little snot" A particularly big man said taking a stick and swinging it at a largish orange cat, huddled on the ground. He hit it on its side and the cat was sent a few feet back. Another really skinny, hairy man, picked the cat up by the skin on its neck.

"This is the last time you tear up the towns garbage" He hissed before going to throw the cat against a tree. Sereg snapped. He drew his sword and within a few seconds had the point pressed against the guys neck. Both men gasped in shock.

"Put the cat down…" Sereg growled. The man smirked and tossed the cat. The blade went point first into his neck before Sereg withdrew it and lunged forward, doing a front roll and catching the kitty before it hit the ground. He quickly got up and pointed his sword at the other guy, the cat cradled in one arm. The other guy yelped before running off. And by the sound of it, once he reached Eva he was slammed into a tree.

"Sereg dammit let yourself heal!!" Eva yelped appearing next to him. I blinked in confusion till I saw a particularly long cut across his cheek from his lunge for the cat. He just smiled.

"Aww come on it was worth it" He said dropping his sword and sitting down.

"Why kill a cat, or I mean torture then kill a cat, just fore trying to live?" I asked walking over.

"People amaze me sometimes" Was Eva's answer.

The poor cat had a broken leg from the looks of it, and had lacerations and bruises all over it. One eye was swollen shut and the cat was either already dead or unconscious. Sereg laid it softly on the grass and moved back slightly.

"ugg.. Mana's the one to heal" Eva growled before kneeling next to the cat.

"Just try to make a splint thing for its leg…" Sereg said grabbing a few sticks. She nodded.

"Think demon magic could help heal it?" I asked crouching on the other side of the cat. Eva and Sereg looked at me before exchanging glances.

"Why wouldn't it?" They both asked. I chuckled.

"Because its dark magic, I don't know if it will heal something that's not demonic…"I said running a hand over the cat.

"Well if it doesn't heal it, would it kill or hurt it anymore?" Sereg asked. I shook my head. "Then give it a try"

"Alright then." I laid a hand on the cats leg and mentally chanted a few words. A blue glow surrounded the cat and my hand. Slowly the glow dissipated. We all watched to see if anything happened. I sighed heavily as it looked like I didn't do anything.

"Hey! I think it worked!" Eva said suddenly. I looked up at her then the cat. The swelling around it eye was rapidly decreasing and the cuts were healing. The cat opened its eyes slowly and looked around. "Hey there! You alright?" Eva asked. The cat jumped straight up and bolted, right into Sereg.

"oof!" He caught the cat and held it firmly as it squirmed. "Calm down kitty! Were not going to hurt you, in fact we saved you " He sat back up fully and put one arm around it and another on its back so it would settle down. "Hey now, were not hear to hurt you or anything so calm down ok?" The cat meowed and looked over at me. I smiled. It hissed.

"Well… jeez, some gratitude…" I said folding my arms. Eva laughed.

"Well lets get moving ok?" Eva suddenly said as Nami and Aiya both took a shoulder of her shirt and started dragging her off. I quietly laughed and stood up. Aiya and Nami were bound determined to find Mana.

"Hey guys, I have been thinking" I said as we started off again, the pass in view, "They know me, they don't know I am with yall… so I can walk right in and save Mana… that will cause some commotion so then you guys can come in and help us escape…." Eva looked back at me.

"Sounds ok to me" She said. I smiled. "When are you going to branch off?" She asked.

"Umm why not now?" Sereg and Eva nodded so I waved and started jogging, that why they could still walk and I would get in front of them. "Hang on girl, helps commin" I said under my breathe.

After a while I got ahead and went back to walking. I was almost though the pass. The pass was rather short because the mountains thinned down a bit at this area, so it was easy to pass though them.

The area widened to show a huge field. I sighed. I remembered this place quite well. I turned to the right and walked slowly around to the side of the mountain. A huge and I do mean, huge, metal door stood in front of me. Designs of dragons and such riddled the doors surface. I sighed. I remember this place very well.

--flashback—

"STOP THAT!!" I half yelled and laughed. Razzalia looked up at me with sad blue eyes and let go of my arm. I chuckled and ran a hand over her head. She let out a small purring sound and nuzzled my hand. She was only about the size of me from her head to tail but she was still pretty big. She pranced around the grass and bumped the door with her nose. "You cant go back inside yet" I said. She made a gurling sound deep in her throat before turning and beating her wings a few times, took off into the sky.

I laid back on the grass, just watching her fly in circles. I grinned and spent at least an hour doing that, injoying the coolness and the warm sun.

--End—

When I was forced to leave, I was also forced to leave Razzalia. I sighed and laid a hand on the door, just thinking for a second before pushing it open. Standing up straight I walked back in time, back to when I was still training Razzalia…back to when I was still after humans.

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"For being demons… they sure feed us well" I said pokeing Aya's full stomach. She chirped or something and clung on to my shirt as she started to topple over.

I laid back against the floor. I could suddenly hear voices, though jumbled they sure were loud enough. "YOSHIDA'S BACK!" Was what I made out as something sounding like a herd ran past.

"huh?" I yelped sitting up suddenly. Yoshida? HERE? I was lost and didn't know what to do. Was he back cuse he betrayed everyone? Was it a plan? My head hurt.

For the next half hour I heard people go by my door constantly. Was he really that popular? It didn't matter to me really. Sometime though I heard a sound at my door. I blinked slowly, waking from my nap slowly.

The door was suddenly shoved open and someone stumbled in, turned and shut the door, leaning against it. "I didn't know I was so missed" The person breathed. They looked over me. "OH! Hey!" I blinked a few times.

"Yoshida?!?" I asked in shock. I wasn't suspecting that, that's for sure. He walked over and dropped down to his knees in front of me. "How?!" I asked.

"shh, we got to get out of here!, but first I want to find Razzalia.. wanna help?" He asked.

"anything to get me out of this place" He laughed and stood up, offering his hand. I took it and stood also.

"Ok, stay close and keep quiet" He instructed as he quietly opened the door. I followed him out. We walked down hallway after hall way, everynow and then coming back on ourselves, but finally we found stairs and followed them to the roof.

The door opened and the air rushed in. I eeped as the sunlight poured down on us. I blinked a few times before taking a few steps out. Only to be ambushed. Something sent me onto my back. I hit the ground with a thud, eyes closed tight. Slowly I opened them to find two deep blue eyes staring at me. I eeped.

"Razzalia!" Yoshida exclaimed. The thing looked up from me and at him.

"You know this thing?" I asked pointing at it. He nodded. The thing slowly walked over to Yoshida and I sat up. It was basically as tall as he was. It looked like a normal dragon… two horns off its head, shortish neck, sturdy legs with hand like claws on the front feet and back, and a long tail with two wings tucked at its sides.

Most of it was a faint redish brown tint, sept for its crystal blue eyes. Yoshida and the dragon stared at each other for a while before Yoshida hugged it, the dragon making cooing ish noises. I watched confused for a while, before standing up.

"Um…?" Yoshida looked at me.

"OH! This is Razzalia… I was raising her before I had to leave, and I was forced to leave Razzalia in the process." He exclaimed. I walked over and put a hand on the dragon's neck. It looked at me. What was with the people I knew and weird animals???

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Due to headache and all that's where I am stopping…

Ryan- hey I was barly in here! Yay!

Alya- that's cuse I hate you…

Ryan- WHAT?

Mana- shes kidding..

Alya- laughing head off.