Author's Note: Again sorry for the long wait, I'm just very busy…but I'm not dead yet so…yeah.

Chapter 4: The Truth Hurts

Charlie stood on the docks looking out at the two battling ships. His blood was boiling in his veins. The ancient dragons had leant him their power. Slowly he lifted his right hand up as a visible magic wave traveled up his arm and disappeared into his wrist. The wind picked up in strength. With the power of the Bloodrage at his fingertips he bent his elbow in and the magic started to build up in his hand. Link, trying to figure out what the hell just happened, took an involuntary step back when he saw that the magic was colored black. He looked over at Rey who also had a basic look of shock on his face.

"Is it supposed to be that color!" Link shouted over the wind. Rey looked over to him and shook his head.

Charlie, unable to stand it anymore, threw his arm outward toward Jaxon's warship. A giant black beam erupted from his hand and aimed for the target, the front of the blast taking the shape of a dragon's head. The beam reached its intended target and blew it to pieces surely killing every monster or soldier Jaxon had sent on that ship.

Charlie could no longer keep his eyes open and soon darkness took him.

Link checked him over to see what was wrong. It didn't take him long to find that his arm was in shreds, blood and bits of muscle were scattered around his body and even the bone was visible in some places. Zelda was unable to handle all of it and threw up over the edge of the dock. The villagers on the hillside stood with their mouths agape. Charlie had just revealed his secret to the entire village and sure enough Claire would find out as well.

"Zelda," Link called out, "Stay here and wait for the ship, then help Claire home, and she might also be wounded so be ready for that. Rey and I need to take Charlie to get medical help." Zelda nodded.

Rey and Link carried Charlie up the hillside when one of the villagers spoke up.

"There's no one in this town that will help that bastard dragon knight."

"What? What do you mean by that? He just saved those people coming in now and your going to deny him help?"

"He saved maybe five villagers at most compared to the hundreds he could have saved in the war."

"He was not in charge of the army, it was not his decision. Do you know why there aren't many of the dragon knights left? They were attacked and wiped out too."

"The boy is right." Came a voice from the crowd, "The Rutanian Dragon Knight's were wiped out except maybe a handful. They were attacked by Jaxon's third and fourth fleets at the same time we were attacked as that is the case, I will help this boy."

The voice was an old man's; he was short and frail and had a tall walking stick with him. He traveled up the rest of the hill and motioned for Link and Rey to follow him. He lead them to a cottage at the top of the island and told them to lay Charlie down on one of the back room beds and then shoved them out into the main room.

"Do you think he can fix him?" Rey asked.

Link stared at the ground, "I hope so."

"I wonder what Claire will say."

"She probably won't care he's a dragon knight, they're friends right? She'll probably just be happy that he's alive."

But was Link wrong. Claire stormed into the door without knocking and the old man just finished.

"Where is he?" her voice was cold and unforgiving.

The old man nodded to the door. Claire walked over to the door opened it, went in, slammed it shut and locked it. The slamming of the door was enough to wake Charlie up and before he could say anything she started to talk.

"I let you live in my house for five years and over those five years we became friends. Did you once think that maybe I should know that you're a cold-blooded killer."

"I'm not a"-

"No more lies Charlie, you're the reason my parents are dead, so just openly admit that you're a dragon knight and that you and your kind have let all of Rutan down."

She was staring angrily waiting for an answer. Slowly he stood up and met her face to face.

"I'm a Rutanian Dragon Knight, but in no way am I responsible for your father death."

She lost her anger and gave him a stern look instead.

"I want you to leave, Charlie, don't come back."

He was confused, he had just saved her life, of course he had saved it thousands of times. He sighed, he knew this day would come and slowly he got up and left. The others sat out in the main room and he asked Link to come outside with him.

"What happened?" Link asked.

"Don't worry about that, look I can't trust Rey with this task, so I need you to take care of Claire for me."

"I don't understand."

"Just do it."

Link nodded.

"Good."

He shook Link's hand and placed a necklace with a sapphire gem at the end in his hand.

"Give that to Claire for me, she always liked it and I planned on giving it to her later tonight, but…"

"I will." Link said.

Charlie nodded, "I hope we meet again Hero of Time."

He turned towards the sea.

"So Farewell, but not Goodbye."