Hey every one! Sorry I haven't been updating any of my stories for a while. Oops. (I got my legs stuck through the little polly-thingys on my chair. Its kinda pain full) so, ill try to make this one longer to make up for it, but I wouldn't count on it.

Hahaha! I got my legs free! (sorry. Continue)

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"lalalalala LA tita, tita! lalalala LA, tita, tita!" Rune sang light-heartedly as he twirled around the pond, his un-tucked shirt flapping in the wind. He twirled once more before settling down by the waters edge and swirling his feet in its cool depths.

"what are you so happy about?" asked a cool voice in his head.

"hey water!" he chirped, smiling broadly as his dragon swirled out of the pond and landed on his shoulder.

"you know your insane, right?" the voice asked again.

"mm-hmm!" he agreed happily.

His dragon studied him a bit, before sighing.

"what?" Rune whined.

"what is with you today?" water tutted exasperatedly. Since when was her master so happy all the time? (a/n: Im making water a girl, and she can talk telepathically with Rune. Live with it)

"you didn't answer my question!" teased Rune, poking her in the belly.

"and you didn't answer mine." She replied shortly. Rune frowned, worried about his normally cheerful dragon.

"Mizu, what's wrong with you?" Mizu was Runes name for his dragon. It meant 'water' in Japanese.

Mizu didn't answer. Rune poked her again.

"Rune! Stop it!" she demanded.

Rune giggled and poked her again.

"Rune, I swear, if you don't stop, ill take my sword and shove you into it!" she shouted in a demanding voice.

Rune flinched, clapping his hands over his ears.

"holly crap Mizu! Remember, your in my head! You don't need to shout!"

"oh, hehe. Well im sorry, mis-"

Rune clamped a hand tightly over her mouth, crushing her jaw slightly.

"I don't care if your only in my head" he hissed, and Mizu suddenly became aware of the size difference between the two. "but if you ever, let it slip again that-"

they heard a crash, and Rune released his grip on his dragons mouth, turning to look threateningly at Thatz, who had just come crashing through the underbrush to land on his back, head in Runes lap. (a/n: wow! That was a long sentence!) "hey Rune!" he smiled.

Rune growled and pushed Thatz off him, sending him face first into the water. He got up, Mizu still sputtering to regain her breath and Thatz muttering obscenity's under his breath as he shook water from his hair. Turning quickly, he jumped into the nearest tree and crawled along the branches until he was far away from the pond and the two evil beings sitting next to it.

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"that evil, annoying, crazed-"Thatz continued to mutter evil thins under his breath, until he saw his evil heathen friends dragon sitting on the bank, staring at him with her deep blue eyes.

The stare was a little un-nerving. He passed his hand in front of his face, trying to avert the dragons gaze. It didn't work.

"uh, hello, little, uh, water, dragon, thing..."

the dragon cocked its head to the side, continuing to stare at him.

"uh, oookay. Well. This is a little weird. Im going to go now."

The dragon just shrugged and took off in the opposite direction, leaving Thatz alone to brood about Rune and his evil heathen ways.

Oh ya. And his dragon. Creepy little creature...

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"that wasn't very nice, you know." Came a scolding voice in Runes ear, accompanied by the sudden weight oh his dragon landing on his shoulder.

"and I should care because?"

there was a long pause, Rune looking gloomily down at the ground.

"so. I see your not quite so peppy anymore, eh?" Mizu tapped a claw against his back.

"Ya, and no thanks to you." He climbed down from his current tree, Mizu still firmly attached to his shoulder.

They walked in silence for a while, content just to stroll through the peaceful gardens alone, all past arguments forgotten.

"hey Rune?"

"hmm?"

"do you like Thatz?"

"WHAT!?!?!?!" Rune was so startled, he whipped his head side ways to look at his dragon, succeeding in smashing his nose rather painfully into her chest and sending her crashing through the under brush.

"holly crap! Mizu!" he pushed through the bushes, searching franticly for his dragon. His nose was gushing torrents of blood, but he needed to find his dragon. He could never forgive himself if he hurt her....

"Mizu!" he cried, finally finding his dragon lying on her back in a pile of crushed cattails, moaning pitifully. He knelt beside her, his nose forgotten as he cradled her.

"are you all right?" he asked quickly, trying to diagnose in she had suffered any damage besides severe pain. She smiled pitifully at his, but moaned again when she put extra pressure on her left wing, which was squished up against Runes chest.

"oh." He shifted her so that her weight was mainly on her back, as he crashed through the dense growth of the forest.

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Thatz was still muttering curses at Rune as he climbed the steps to the dragon castle.

"that's little.... Why I ought'a....... cant believe him.......and that creepy dragon of his......." He shook his head as he continued up the stone steps.

He was half way through "bastard" when a blond blur whizzed by him, ruffling his short hair.

"Rune?"

the figure stopped momentarily to look back at him, just long enough to trip and send him and the dragon he was carrying crashing into the cold stones. Thatz winced, but ran up the steps to help the elf who was franticly trying, and failing, to get up and retrieve his wounded dragon.

"what's wrong?" he asked, but Rune just continued on his mad quest up the stairs, dragon in his arms. The dragon looked hurt.

Hmm. I wonder what happened. Thatz mussed as he chase Rune through the hallways.

After about five minutes, Rune skidded to a halt in front of the doors to the infirmaries, leaning heavily against it to catch his breath, before he began to push on the doors with his shoulder, panting like a dog. Thatz gently removed Rune, and pushed against it himself, swinging the doors open with ease.

Rune smiled, tired but grateful, and stepped into the brightly lit room, eyes swiveling around the space in search of the resident doctors.

"ah!" he muttered, hurrying over to an assistant who was walking out of her office.

"Muki!"

he panted, handing her his wounded dragon.

"can you, pant pant help her pant?"

Muki, a little flustered, took the injured dragon and laid her on a bed.

"of course Rune. Now, you should go get something to eat,"

Thatz's ears perked up. Food?

"you look tired. What, did you run all the way here from the other end of the forest?" she joked.

Rune, doubled over and trying to catch his breath just nodded.

"oh." Well I wasn't expecting that. She though. Poor kid. Must be soo worried.

She shooed Thatz and Rune out if the room, closing the doors with a definite, snap!

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ok. that was a very radome chapter. i was gonna have them just have a plain, civil conversation, and then rune and mizu would go swimming (considering there eliment is water, im not suprized) but in the end, it ended up some wierd, over dramatic, strane thing where mizu gets hurt. i think rune was over reacting, and i think that im going to re-write this chapter, but for now, it works.