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Chapter 4 The Truth

After a few minutes, Jake and Rose pulled apart.

"Well, see ya!" Rose said and turned to go home.

"Bye!" Jake said.

Then, looking to make sure nobody was around, he said, "Dragon up!" and flew to his Gramps's shop.

Rose ran until she got home. Then, she walked cautiously over to her uncle's room, and gave a light knock.

"Master? It's me. I'm home from school."

"Come in, Huntsgirl." said her uncle from the other side of the door.

Rose opened the door and went inside.

"Yes, Uncle?"

Huntsmaster was sitting at a desk. He pointed to an empty chair.

"Have a seat. I want a word with you.."

Fearing that she was in for a beating, Rose closed the door, and sat down in the chair.

Huntsmaster began speaking.

"You know, today, I was taking my usual walk, scouting for any mythical creatures we could slay, and I happened to pass by your school."

Rose laughed, nervously.

"You-you did?"

"Yes, I did." Huntsmaster replied. "And, do you know what? I swear I saw you, kissing a boy in a red jacket, and highlighted green hair. He looked just like the human form of the American Dragon."

He eyed her critically.

Rose gulped.

"Um, I was...we were just..." she stammered.

Suddenly, the Huntsmaster turned on her.

"Making out!" he shouted, "With the American Dragon! Huntsgirl! I absolutley forbade you to free him, and now I know you did anyway! How could you disobey me!"

Rose burst into tears.

"I'm sorry, Master!" she cried, "Honest!"

Huntsmaster sighed, and raised his staff. He started it up, and it began to glow a bright green.

"You've forced me to do something I didn't want to do, Huntsgirl.." he muttered, as he raised his staff high over his head, ready to strike her.

Rose gasped.

"What!"

"You will pay with your life, just as your Mother did, when she tried to quit.."

Rose's eyes widened in shock.

"You never said my Mother worked for the Huntsclan! You just said that she deserted me after my father died!"

Huntsmaster chuckled.

Rose glared at him.

"What really happened?"

Huntsmaster turned his back, so he wasn't facing Rose.

"Your mother...she was a lot like you...the top fighter in the Huntsclan...your father..on the other hand.."

Rose narrowed her eyes into slits.

"What about my Father?" she asked coldly.

"Your Father, Huntsmaster continued, was our first Huntsboy, and a good one too...he and your Mother were going out...a great team of dragon slayers...but he kept a secret from us...a dark secret..."

"What!" Rose asked with an icey tone.

"...Your father...that blasted Colorado Dragon...he had it coming..."

Rose gasped.

"He was a DRAGON?"

Huntsmaster nodded.

"You-you killed my father?"

"And your Mother..." Huntsmaster growled then sighed. "She was the best Huntsgirl we'd ever had...I warned, her gave her a chance to divorce him, to slay him...but she refused, saying she loved him to much to do so, and that she was prepared to give up her entire reputation as Huntsgirl, just for that -he narrowed his eyes to slits- ...dragon...It was such a sad day, when we had to take her life...Then, I took you, the new born, to take her place, vowing to myself that I would never let you make the foolish mistake your own Mother did.."

Rose couldn't believe what she was hearing! Her uncle, the Huntsmaster, her hero since she was young, had killed her Mother! Her father had been the Colorado Dragpon! Huntsmaster had killed him, too!

Huntsmaster turned to her, his staff glowing.

"And now it's time for you to join them." he said, slowly lifting his staff.

Rose begged for mercy.

"Oh, please Master! I'm sorry! Please don't kill me! I'm sorry! Really I am!"

Huntsmaster lowered his staff.

"Fine, you can have one more chance. I will give you two choices. 1.Stay in the Huntsclan, and fulfill your destiny. Or 2.Choose love and leave the Huntsclan for that American Dragon. You had better choose the right choice, or else -he raised his staff to her neck and whispered in her ear- or else, Rose, your life is mine..."

Rose gasped, and ran upstairs to her room before her uncle could see the tears in her eyes.