Chapter 5: Memories

Leon walked in about 2 seconds later, dressed in a white t-shirt and blue jeans. He looked at Link

"Right, you pointed eared little freak...no offence Zelda and Liam, we are going to have a go at it to see who gets the chair," Leon stated

"Umm...no, we're not. I have a couple of animals to attend to, as do you and then I was going to show this lot," Link gestured to the other worlders "around Hyrule, if they wanted to see all the land," Link replied

"Sure, why not?" Maxi stated

"Right, I'll see you later then." Link got up and walked to the door "I'll come with you," Leon stated, following

"What animals?" Yunsung asked

"Well, pets I suppose you could say, come and see them if you want," Link answered

Link, Liam and Leon all had a love of animals. As a result they had somehow managed to get the king to let them keep several pets, other than horses or dogs.

Link had a couple of horses in the stables, although Epona was his favourite, as well as a kestrel and falcon and a few rabbits for some reason. Liam had somehow got his hands on a 'tame' wolf and in contrast, a raven. Leon also sharing the two younger men's love of birds had 3 birds similar to myna birds, called Hylian night stars and had adopted a wild horse that him and Link had found by death mountain on, well death's door and had rescued the poor creature.

As well as the separate animals they owned, there were a few very rare animals that they shared along with the King, Zelda and Impa.

Link and Leon explained this to Maxi, Yunsung and Siegfried as they walked towards the pasture where the animals were kept. Liam had gone to sort out a small incident between some guards, because he was captain of the guards, so Link was going to attend to the animals for him. Raphael had, unsurprisingly, gone off on his own to see how Amy was doing and Zelda had a meeting to attend to with her father, while Impa had wandered off to attend to Sheik. (Yes, he's there too and he's not Zelda in disguise, he's Impa's son in this fic).

"Leon, go on ahead and I'll catch up with you in a minute. I've just gotta get the horses out," Link said to him

They had to pass through the stable yard area to get to the pasture and buildings to get to the other animals. Leon nodded and continued to lead the others onwards, chatting to them and answering their questions as best as he could, he wouldn't however say what the rare animals were though, despite how much they pressed.

"Look, I'm just not going to tell you OK, so drop it, you'll see once we've attended to the other animals," he told them once again, beginning to become irritated.

They stopped at the end of the stable yard while Link ran up to them, a load of keys in his hand and four horses behind him, held by a rope in the other hand. One of the horses was Epona.

They started again and walked round a corner and through a small gate to where the animals were and the new comers looked at the area and the contrast it made to the rest of the castle grounds that they'd seen

It was a huge area of open land, the grass trimmed short, with wooden fences and netting and gates around the individual animals areas. Weeds were starting to creep up on the fences and wiring of the different sections. At the far side of the area was a very large pond. Up against the back of the castle and over the trickle that was supposed to be a moat was a bridge and a few hutches, stable boxes and sheds. The whole area was closed off, far in the distance, by the mountains and hills in either side of the castle. A couple of large aviaries stood in several of the fields.

Link strolled down to the further, larger field and let the horses loose. He walked back up and beckoned to the others to come and look at the animals. The fields all had paths in between them to make it easier for the young men, for the most part, to get to the animals enclosures.

The enclosures were in four separate lots. A wide, long, strip of aviary for Link's birds and a couple of extra fields for other animals.

A large strip of plain field for Leon, just in case he got any other animals, as he kept his birds inside and the horse in a field with Link's.

A large aviary for Liam's Raven, although really it was too big and he needed a few more birds in it, and a very large cage set on the grass, with an open floor for the wolf.

After that, there was a large field, about the length and width of all the other three sections put together, for the horses. Then there was the pond with a fountain in it and behind that a large stone wall with a high gate in it, that spanned the entire width of the personal animals and working animals put together. The working animals pasture was adjacent to the 'pets' area but with a large hedge in between the two.

The group walked up to where Link was standing by an aviary. It was covered at one end to give the birds a place to shelter and sleep. Link opened the door and walked inside, ducking under the canopy of branches and leaves and then whisteled sharply. Two birds came swooping down to him. The smaller one hopped onto his shoulder while the other sat on his hand, he walked out of the aviary, holding the two.

"Cool," Yunsung stated as Link walked out with the birds. The smaller bird sitting on Link's shoulder was a typical kestrel. She had a blue head, brown wings and back and a white front, her beak was small and yellow, tipped with black. She swung her head round to look at the new, unfamiliar people and watched them, her sharp, dark eyes never leaving their faces for long.

"This," Link said gesturing to the bird on her shoulder "is Kestrel, called that, of course, for the obvious reason that she is a Kestrel." Kestrel fluttered her wings slightly and let out a sharp 'Kee'. The other bird sitting on Link's left hand was larger, but more coloured. Link was unsure as to what kind of falcon this one was but, it didn't really matter anyway, although it was definitely only native to this world.

The bird was white, with a red tail and a slightly grey, almost silver, head; it had a short curved yellow beak and sharp clawed yellow feet. The edges of its wings were a pale blue and its chest was speckled with grey, blue and the occasional spot of black. Each wing was almost 30cm wide when fully stretched out, while Kestrel's wing span was 20cm each.

"And this is Swift, so called because he is." Link lifted the bird up slightly and it let out a small screech, before, fluttering impatiently to be released for a little while.

Link threw his hand into the air letting 'Swift' fly off; he shrugged his shoulder to get Kestrel to fly off. Leon watched, making sure that they didn't go to far, while Link tidied the cage a bit and fetched a few dead mice in a small bag from a pot which acted like a freezer and left a few inside the cage and fetched some fresh water for them.

Yunsung, Maxi and Siegfried watched as the birds glided through the air, Kestrel turned round and headed back to the group after seeing Link fetch her food out.

She landed on Yunsung's shoulder and then hopped down to his hand, making small screeching sounds occasionally, whilst waiting for Link to feed her. Yunsung looked down at her then gently stroked her chest feathers

"I think she likes you," Leon commented, taking his eyes off Swift for a second, to look at the bird sitting on Yunsung's hand.

"Here," Link said handing a mouse to Yunsung, and watching him feed the bird, she fluttered to everyone's hand after a while, inspecting the unfamiliar people and then was carried back into the cage by Link. Swift, hung in the air watching the scene and then decided he wanted some attention, so he flew to Maxi and like Kestrel, everyone else in turn before going to Link to be fed and put back in his cage with his friend. He immediately flew to the top most branches and preened himself. Kestrel sat on the side of the cage, talons hooked over the wire while she looked at the people again, before flying into her nest box.

(I don't know much about birds of prey so their actions will probably be wrong so don't ask me for info on them, I only know about normal domestic animals)

Link walked away from the cage after bolting the door.

"You probably won't be bothered about my other pets. Horses and rabbits are the only other things I've got."

"Well, we'll come and see them anyway, or at least I will," Maxi stated

They followed Link to the opposite end to the birds. Where a run sat with a hutch and 4 rabbits inside, each one was a different colour. There were two males and two females in the run, presumably they had been neutered somehow other wise there would be only one male (living anyway) and a lot more baby bunnies.

The first rabbit was black, turning a reddish brown and quite large, it was half lop one ear up one ear down. The large ruff of fur around its neck indicated that it was a female. She was laying in the shade, fully stretched out, the 2 tiny front paws almost crossed and the two larger back legs flicked out behind her.

The next rabbit was another female, but smaller than the other. She was sitting on her back legs, looking at the humans, her front paws hanging down in front of her. She was a beautiful, silky silver grey, with a black and white tail, and white belly. Her grey ears, tipped with black swivelled around, while her nose twitched. She hopped forwards to the front of the cage and sniffed curiously at the people. At the back of her neck there was a pure white patch.

Another rabbit sat nearby, nibbling at the grass on the floor, a male this time shown by the lack of the ruff of fur on the neck. He looked more like a hare than a rabbit. He had a far more pointed face than the others in the run and much larger back feet. Like the first female though, he had one ear up and one ear down. He was a light, sandy brown colour, with the two front paws white, like little socks and an off centre triangle of white fur on his chest. He suddenly looked up and sprinted towards the other end of the run, flicking his back legs to the side while he did so that he kind of turned 360 degrees and then turned and sat near the grey female, looking at the men.

The last rabbit was right up in the far corner, grooming himself. He was an off white colour with grey ears and nose and completely lop eared.

Link gestured to the black rabbit, who was still stretched out. "This is Phoebe, the grey is Holly, the brown one is Hazel, don't get confused by the name, it is a boy and the whitish one is Smokey, because of his nose and ears."

"Why do you have rabbits as pets?" Siegfried asked, unimpressed by the animals' cuteness. Apparently he didn't think much of animals with an 'awww' factor

"I honestly don't know...I think it was a bet with Liam that I could get the king to let me have them," Link answered, shrugging his shoulders.

He walked away from the run down to Liam's animals. He walked into the aviary and was met with a very angry 'CAW'. A Raven sat on a high branch, glaring down at Link. As quickly as possible Link changed the food and water and grabbed a few stray feathers off the floor and then ran out and closed the door behind him as the bird dived for him.

"That is Jet and as you can tell, he doesn't like me and I don't like him much to be honest, I don't actually like birds like Crows and Ravens at all."

"I had a pet Raven, I'll have you know...you're probably just not treating him right." Siegfried shrugged

Link lifted an eyebrow and walked away

"And now we have Fang," Link said walking to the large metal cage.

Inside was a large wolf, lying in the shade and looking up at the men with big brown eyes. He wasn't aggressive at all, he had a slightly puppy like look about him. He was a greyish – white colour with brown paws.

Link opened the door and stepped inside. Almost immediately 'Fang' rushed up to him and let out a noise somewhere between a bark and a howl and began licking at Link's face.

"And Liam called him 'Fang'? He's acting like a puppy," Maxi spoke up

"Yeah well, Liam didn't know what he was like at the time he named him."

Fang rushed out of the cage suddenly and went to sniff at Yunsung, who was backing away. Leon called Fang over to him at seeing Yunsung's nervousness and fussed over the tame wolf, stroking him and eventually throwing a ball for him to fetch. It was like playing with a normal pet dog.

After a few minutes Fang was safely in his cage again, although now he was staring at Link and Leon with a kind of woe-begone and pleading look, as if to ask them to let him out again. The men turned away, the feeling of Fang's eyes on them boring into the back of their necks.

Ignoring the unpleasant, guilty feeling he was getting, Link walked away from fang and passed the field with the horses in, and around the pond to the large wooden gate set in the stone wall. He fetched a key out of his pocket and put it in the lock and turned it, unlocking the door. As he was about to go through a hand came to rest on his shoulder, the hands finger's wrapped in bandages.

Link turned around, already knowing who it was.

"Sheik, why do you always sneak up like that, can't you say something to announce your presence?" Link, asked, fed up of Sheik's 'sneaking' tactics.

"I could...but it wouldn't be half as much fun as watching you get annoyed," the Sheikah answered, shrugging a shoulder, a smirk on his face beneath the face cover.

The others turned to look at the new young man that had appeared. They noticed, with some surprise that he had the red eye on his chest that Impa had on her clothing.

"And this is...?" Yunsung asked

"This is Sheik, Impa's son. He'll be accompanying us when we go to fight Ganondorf and his allies," Link answered

"Why?"

"Because, he's a trained warrior and Impa and the king insist that he comes with us."

"What did you want anyway, Sheik?" Leon asked, standing at the back of the group

"Nothing really, I was just looking for something to do...and I wanted to have a look at the animals, seeing as how my training is done for a couple of hours."

Link nodded and opened the large gate, ushering the group inside and then locking the door behind him.

The inside of the compound was amazing.

"This is where the Royal Family keeps the rarer animals of Hyrule, which very few people are allowed to see. Most of the animals are supposed to be myths." Link explained to the stunned group.

A lake, about half the size of Lake Hylia, was in the direct centre of the area, trees and flowers surrounded it and ivy grew up the walls made by hills, which protected the area. Across the top of the whole area was netting, to stop the birds from flying away. Huge trees stretched up to the netting and creeping plants wrapped themselves round, the leaves creating shade for the animals. A large stone stable block stood by the entrance to the compound, each door embossed with a golden Triforce and a silhouette of the animal that was supposed to be in there.

The animals themselves were running about the grassy area, ignoring the visitors or not realizing they were there. All of the creatures however, were all legendary, mythical even.

A group of Unicorns intermixed with Pegasus' stood in around the lake, grazing gently or looking for signs of danger. A Unicorn and Pegasus spotted the group of visitors and they wandered over casually, sniffing for any signs of danger.

The Pegasus trotted up to Sheik and nuzzled against him, while the Unicorn walked over to Link. It attempted to rub its forehead against him but almost stabbed him with its horn, so it rubbed its nose against his hand instead. Both the horse based creatures were stunningly crisp white; while the manes and tails were silver as well as the Pegasus' wings, while the Unicorns had a more golden colour to their horns.

Suddenly a bird piped a rather strange and eerie song. The group looked over to see a Phoenix, sitting on a branch, looking at them. Its feathers as expected were gold and crimson and they shimmered in the sunlight that was streaking through the gaps in the leaves.

"Where did you find these animals? They're supposed to be mythical," Siegfried stated, looking around

"I'm not sure we just brought them here when we did find them, I can't remember where it was," Link answered, stroking the Unicorns head. A few Griffins sat around the edges of the pond, casually chewing meat, a somewhat darkened Phoenix with silver and black feathers flew over to the normal coloured one. Hippogriff's and Thestrals stood around fluttering their wings.

"What are these creatures? I've never seen these before," Maxi asked gesturing at the array of unusual creatures.

"Well, you know the Phoenixes, Unicorns and Pegasus' already I presume," Link stated

They all nodded in answer.

"The one's that are half lion and half eagle are Griffins, the ones with the head and wings of an eagle and the back legs of a horse are Hippogriffs and the black skeleton horses with dragon heads and bat wings are Thestrals."

"I've never heard of Thestrals before," stated Yunsung

"Not many people have. And you can only see them if you have seen death a.k.a, someone dying"

"So they're a bit like grim reaper horses, only they don't take life away?"

"I suppose you could say that, yes."

"And now, we have a lot of people's favourites," Link stated sarcastically, leading the way to a very, very large cave that was covered by leaves

"Maxi, you might be more interested in these than anyone else," Leon stated, picking up a torch and bringing out a lighter to set the ball of cloth soaked in oil, on fire.

Everyone followed suit and followed Link into the cave.

It was, obviously, dark inside the cave. Water dripped from the roof, stalagmites and stalactites grew from the floor and roof, stretching down and up, the stalagmites dripping with water. The walls of the cave glittered with rock crystals and the occasional chunk of ores.

The floor of the cave was littered with bones of cows, wildebeest, the odd horse and even one human skeleton. There was a slight stench of rotting flesh in the air and burning, but the air was horrifically stale and cold. Rats the size of rabbits scurried along the floor, squeaking in panic and fear. And there was a faint sound of roaring in the air and...fire crackling in the distance.

Link slowed, and gestured for the others to do the same, his breathing slightly uneven, possibly anxious, because he knew what dangerous creatures lay ahead.

He turned around to look at the men behind him, shadows and light dancing across his features. He spoke, his voice slightly uneven and less confident than usual.

"I want you to do exactly as I say when we get further down. For now I need you to make as little noise as possible."

He turned around again, and got his slightly heavy breathing under control, so that he was making almost no noise at all, apart from the occasional creaking of leather when he moved. He began walking again, eyes darting around and ears pricked for sounds of danger, muscles tensed in case he had to run.

Link was in the lead of the group, with Maxi, Siegfried and Yunsung behind him then Leon and Sheik. Leon walked to the front to help Link see with the extra light from Leon's torch.

Maxi, Yunsung and Siegfried had noticed Link's uneasiness as well as Leon's; they looked behind them at Sheik, who was in a similar condition but trying to hide it. They tensed, knowing by the experienced three's reactions that they were going into dangerous territory and what ever lay ahead, could therefore kill them easily.

They carried on walking, the smell growing fouler, the air growing heavier, the noises from whatever creatures ahead growing louder, the tension growing to a level so intense that you could probably cut it with the warriors' swords. The temperature was growing too, heating up the warriors.

Link stopped again, turning round and addressing them.

"Now, we're going to go in twos. Maxi and I will go first, then Leon and Siegfried, then Sheik and Yunsung, with a 10 minute gap in between us, unless of course we come back. If we do it's a signal to run at top speed to the exit. We probably won't need to but it's just in case.

Leon and Sheik will fill Siegfried and Yunsung in on what you need to do while you are waiting here, OK." the group nodded and Link and Maxi walked on, disappearing into the shadows ahead.

"Yunsung and Siegfried, listen carefully to what we're about to tell you," Leon began

"Not to put too fine a point on it, but the creatures ahead are extremely dangerous," Sheik filled in

"You must keep absolutely silent, when we first go in. Make sure you do not show any fear at all..."

"Ok?" Link said to Maxi as they walked in the darkness, towards the centre of the cave, where the creatures lay.

"Fine," Maxi answered

Link set his torch down in a holder, along with Maxi's. The entrance was a few feet ahead; they slowly walked towards it, holding their anxiousness back as they walked into the room with the creatures in.

Yunsung and Siegfried waited patiently for their turn to come, trying to still their hearts a bit. Even this far away the creatures could pick up fear, and it could endanger Link and Maxi's lives. Sheik and Leon were standing a couple of feet in front of them, listening intently for any signs of danger coming from the tunnels ahead, senses fully heightened through tension. Leon glanced down at his watch, Link and Maxi had been gone for three minutes and suspense was increasing, in seven minutes it was going to be ready to explode, which would not be good. Sheik took in a breath, nerves strained. Leon let out a soft breath, resting a slightly trembling hand against the wet wall. He had taken on creatures as dangerous as this before, but it was somehow different now. The feelings of apprehension and fear for not only himself, but friends, weren't a stranger to him...but he still didn't like it. It brought back memories, ones that should be happy for ever, but were now painful.

He closed his eyes and breathed in deeply and his mind wandered.

'A young man, barely twenty drove into the dilapidated city...Raccoon city. The sky was dark, the buildings on fire, the streets cluttered with none moving cars...and there were no people, not one.' Leon snorted to himself as he remembered that day, his first day on the force as a rookie cop...and what a miserable one at that.

'The man climbed out of his car, inspecting the city. He looked around and noticed, a woman lying on the floor and not in great condition either. In fact, she looked like death warmed over. That was probably due to the fact that she was dead though. He walked towards the corpse and looked down, he was about to bend down to find what had happened when the woman grabbed his ankle. He jumped, not expecting it. She hadn't been breathing, and she had been as pale as snow...she still was. She opened her mouth, he expected her to talk, but all that came out was a groan. She suddenly lunged for his ankle and to his horror, she tried to bite him. He backed off, ripping his ankle free of her grasp, she stood up and shuffled towards him, her arms outstretched towards him. Jaw, opening and closing, saliva dripping from every tooth' That was how it had started. In all of Leon's wildest dreams, no, nightmares, he had never thought he would encounter flesh eating zombies, and genetically engineered bio-weapons, such as hunters, tyrants, lickers and a Nemesis . Then again he had never thought he would fall in love with two women on one day, Ada Wong and Claire Redfield. But Ada had died and four years later, he had married Claire Redfield.

It wasn't the memories of seeing the zombies for the first time that were painful. Or even the memory of Ada dying, he had got over that 2 months after she had died, realizing that she had used and lied to him. No, it was the memories of his first encounter with Claire Redfield that hurt. The memories of proposing, of getting married, spending their first Christmas as a married couple, being welcomed into the family by Chris, Claire's elder brother, of seeing their newborn daughter for the first time and seeing her first birthday, hearing her speak her first word. These were the memories that hurt him. Because he would never see those he loved above all else again.

Leon Scott Kennedy had disappeared about 2 years after he and Claire had married. He had been specially trained by a secret organization, working for the government after Raccoon City and he had become a special agent of sorts. When the new president had come to power in America, it had been Leon's job to protect his family throughout the day. His main charge was the president's daughter Ashley, who had been kidnapped sometime after Leon had started protecting her. But she had been kidnapped during the night, when he was at home with his family.

He had left early, the morning after her kidnapping, sharing a clipped goodbye with his family and friends who had seen him off, not knowing how long he'd be gone. He had travelled to the backwaters of Spain and had rescued the girl, she had got away safely, but the escape had not gone to plan and Leon became stranded in that village of homicidal maniacs and a troll. All out for his blood. He had been forced to run and in his panic hadn't realized the portal to Hyrule was there. He passed through it, and it had closed behind him, with no way to get back to his family and the world in which he belonged.

"Yunsung to Leon, do you copy?" Yunsung asked waving his hand in front of Leon's face

"What?" Leon asked with some agitation in his voice

"You kind of zoned out for a minute there, we wanted to make sure you were still with us."

"I was just thinking, that's all."

Maxi stared down at the creatures below him, dumbstruck.

"Beautiful aren't they?" Link asked

"D-d-d-d-Dragons?" Maxi stuttered "Y-y-yeah, they're magnificent" he said finding his voice

The pit below was full of shining jewels and gold and other such treasure. The walls glittered and glimmered. But nothing could be considered treasure more than the Dragons below. About 6 dragons lay there, bodies intertwined. They were more startling than anything else Maxi had ever seen before.

One of the dragons suddenly looked up, noticing the intruders, but instead of roaring in rage it sniffed at them curiously and Link stretched out a hand and crouched down. The dragon sniffed him again and moved closer. Link kept still and the dragon turned its massive head so that his hand was lying on its nose. Link and Maxi smiled. The 4 of the other 5 dragons noticed too and came to have a look at the intruders, they were curious, yet gentle, which showed how misunderstood they really were.

The last dragon lay on its side in a corner, its tail cuddling something close to its belly to keep it warm. This particular dragon was the largest and different shades of green. It had large, yellow eyes and its body was rippled with muscle underneath its glinting green scales. It had a very dark green head and back, as well as the tops of all four legs. Its belly and under neck was a lighter, more yellowish green. The wings that were crumpled at its back were similar to bats wings and dark green along the bone and progressively getting lighter in colour down the membrane between.

None of the dragons had been given names, but there was a name on the tip of each of the two men's tongues that suited the dragon perfectly.

Link and Maxi looked at each other and nodded. "Viridris," they both whispered simultaneously. The dragon looked up at the men and seemed to nod as if to say 'Yes, that's my name'

The other dragons all had similar patterns on them, a lighter underneath and wing membranes, with a darker top scales and upper legs.

The dragon that was sitting near Link, and had his hand resting on its nose was purple, there was a completely blue one, a blue with a yellow underneath, a red one with yellow underneath and a completely black one with bright green eyes, while the rest had yellow.

Link looked curiously at Viridris, seeing that it hadn't moved in the slightest. The dragon in front of Link, the purple one, seemed to sense his curiosity and concern; it let out a rumble to 'Viridris' communicating with it.

"I wonder what their names are," Maxi said. At that the red and yellow dragon came forward and pushed him back gently with its nose. It then proceeded to gouge markings, deep into the rock platform on which he and Link were and look at this," Maxi said, looking at the markings, once the dragon had finished. "Do you know what it says?"

"Yeah, it says 'Blaze' in ancient Hylian and then it has a sign that says it's a male." the dragon nodded and then carved five other words into the rock. Each dragon came and stood in front of a word apart from 'Viridris' whose name 'Blaze' had carved with a female sign beside it. The four other dragons were named: 'Skyla' the purple, a female

'Eragon' the blue and yellow male

'Sapphira' the completely blue female

and 'Murtagh' the black male

Skyla then gently picked Link up and Eragon picked Maxi up, placing them in front of Viridris. She looked at the two nervous men and moved her tail back and revealed an egg, which was wobbling slightly. Link and Maxi stood, awed. Then Leon and Siegfried edged into the room. The dragons attention snapped straight to them and Link thought 'We're gonna die'

A strange buzzing filled his head suddenly, like someone's thoughts, burying into his own mind. He realized that the experience was similar to talking to the Deku Tree, so he listened intently, to realize it was Viridris talking to him. He looked to Maxi, with 'can you hear her too?' written on his face. Maxi nodded

"You need not be afraid, nor your friends. We will not hurt you. There are others waiting, aren't there? Call them here, we will show you the birth of our kind" The dragons voice hummed through his mind

"How can we trust you though?" hethought

"We will not harm you. Call them" She repeated

Link nodded and broke away from the contact to speak to Leon and Siegfried, who were looking scared.

"It's OK. They're not going to hurt us. Get Yunsung and Sheik, quickly."

"Why?"

"Just do it."

Leon shrugged and turned running to get the other two, left waiting

"Sieg, come down here, it's safe."

He sighed and slid down into the pit. One of the dragons, Skyla, sniffed at him.

The sound of three people began to fill the room and Sheik, Yunsung and Leon appeared soon after.

They slid down into the pit after being contacted by each of the dragons.

Yunsung was ignored for the most part. The dragons seemed to be able to tell the humans personalities instantly and though they were amused by him, they seemed to think him very silly and childish. Sheik was studied for a while, being as he was one of the very rare remaining Sheikah, but the person they seemed most interested in was Leon. They studied him at length, and seemed to contact him a lot and they hummed softly, once they had finished.

Viridris suddenly gave a soft growl and the men stepped back. She removed her tail from around the egg as it began to wobble continuously and cracks began to appear. A piece of egg was suddenly chipped from the top of the egg and a small green and black nose poked itself out of the hole. Little by little, the hole widened and after ten minutes of heroic struggling a small baby dragon eased itself out of the egg with a weak cry.

The baby's back was black, while its underneath was a dark green. And Murtagh moved to by Viridris, obviously the proud father of a baby dragon.

The baby growled slightly, licking itself clean and stretching its crumpled black and green wings.

Viridris looked at the humans standing if front of them and spoke to them again.

'We name him Soryuju'

Maxi looked slightly confused "Soryuju, that's the name I gave my nunchaku. A strange name to give a baby dragon considering what it means."

"And what does it mean?" Leon asked

"Gathering of revived dragons."

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A.N: God, I am SORRY. I am SO Sorry, I don't know what possessed me to put this in the story and in the end I didn't want to delete an entire chapter. Forgive me. I beg you! Oh, and I'm sorry about the whole Leon thing too, I'm kind of hyped about Resident Evil at the moment, I just got Remake and Resi 4's coming out soon, and Leon is just...aaawww!

Ahem. Anyway. All other notes as before. Updating every monday, yada, yada yada. Review please