Her Fate

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone from ADJL; I only own those who I make up.

Rating: PG-13

AN: Sorry for the long delay, here's chapter 25.

Heat of the Fight

It had been three days since Miss Ruby's attack. Rose was still shaken over it. It would kill her if something happened to that woman. She loved her to death.

Rose had called Gracie to pick her up. Nothing happened that night when Miss Ruby forced her to call someone to walk her home.

"Ever since I was young… I'd know things. Déjà vu was almost a constant state for me, it's faded over time but sometimes I still get these vibes. I just know something bad is going to happen to you." Rose shuddered involuntarily as she remembered Miss Ruby's words.

It had been three days since then. Rose shook her head, nothing happened. Miss Ruby was pretty old… maybe she was mistaken. She most likely was.

She looked up at the star filled sky, 'So beautiful…' God, did she love the night.

That was that, Rose wouldn't worry anymore about Miss Ruby's "prediction". After all, she was, at one point in time, Huntsgirl. What could happen to her? The only bad thing she could think of was Huntsgirl coming after her and that was hardly anything to worry about. She beat her before hadn't she? She could do it again.

But what if this time it was her uncle, the Huntsmaster, who came for her? Rose wasn't sure if she could handle him, at least, not on her own…

She sighed, "You're being paranoid, Rose." she determined to herself.

She looked down to the bag in her hands. She and Gracie ran out of milk so she left to the store to buy some.

Rose laughed aloud at the cliché excuse for getting out of the house. Gracie offered to go herself, but Rose immediately jumped at the chance to leave. She hadn't been alone in three whole days and she just had to leave.

It had taken a while to convince Gracie that she would be just fine alone but in the end she succeeded. Now she kind of wished that she let Gracie come with her.

She looked onto the street; although a few cars were passing it was too quiet for New York. Normally there'd be some kids breaking curfew, people going to clubs, a drunken man hitting on passing women, and sometimes she'd see some old lady screaming at some old man about something Rose could never quite catch. New York was the city that never slept after all. So, why was it so quiet that night?

No cars, no yelling, no… anything.

She shivered as she felt the breeze; she'd need to get some warmer clothing. Unlike Texas, New York could get really cold.

She looked back up at the stars. They always made her feel better when she was uneasy, old friends that would never leave… constant; unlike most things.

She shook her head again, trying to shake off the uneasy feelings and thoughts that filled her head. She thought when she got out of the house she'd feel better. She only felt worse.

Why was she suddenly having the feeling that someone was pulling on her gut? Like they were trying to rip it out or something…

Rose sped up her walking. She kept hearing Miss Ruby's voice in her mind. Telling her not to go out alone; telling her she wasn't fine… that she wasn't safe.

Suddenly, Rose slowed her walking down and rolled her eyes at herself. She was blowing this thing way out of proportion! "Miss Ruby doesn't know what she's talking about. I'm just jumping to conclusions. There is no danger. There's nothing to worry about and nothing is going to hurt me."

"Oh, I'd beg differ, Protector." Spoke a female voice from behind her.

Rose stopped in her tracks and turned around, seeing three very large dragons. There was a purple dragon, a midnight blue one and the third one was slightly smaller than the other two, it was a burgundy color with beige spikes going down its back.

"Damn, she's pretty hot for a human." Said the midnight colored one.

The purple one growled at him. "Do concentrate on the issue at hand."

Well, she now knew that the first one who spoke was the burgundy dragon. Rose shivered in spite of herself; she contemplated running away but with three dragons and her, alone, with no weapons or anything that could help her situation… she knew it'd be in vain.

Maybe she could talk to them? She didn't understand why they'd be after her. "Who are you?"

The midnight blue one was the one to open his mouth, "The name's Kueng, the stiff's my big brother, Shing and Su is my big sis-"

Kueng was cut off when Shing punched him in the head, "You truly are an idiot."

While they were seemingly distracted by the stupid one of the three, Rose decided she'd take her chances and took off.

She ran as fast as she could, she looked behind her and saw that the dragons weren't behind her anymore. She looked up at the sky to see if she could spot them… nothing.

She looked back to the front of her, she was almost sure she'd see them right in her way, ready to burn her to a crisp or rip out her throat or claw her up or whatever these particular dragons wanted to do to her.

They weren't there either.

She began to wonder if her paranoid mind had created the entire thing but she didn't slow down. Suddenly she felt herself being pulled roughly into the air, making her drop the bag that held the milk on the ground.

She looked up to see the purple dragon, his name was Shing… she tried to remember in her frantic mind as he held on tightly to her with his feet.

She winced as she felt his claws bite into her shoulders. Blood seeped through the broken skin but she refused to scream despite her near overwhelming fear. She felt herself being thrown harshly onto hard cement.

He had thrown her onto the roof of some building. She watched as they landed with grace. "What's wrong with you? What did I do to you?"

Su was the one to answer her question this time. "You try to bring back what our kind doesn't need."

"We don't need humans to defend us. We are dragons! You degrade us all!" Shing roared at her in anger.

"You should've just stuck with the Huntsclan, Protector." Kueng told her.

Rose stared at them, was this what her ancestor went through? She furrowed her brows in confusion, "So, it's ok for me to hunt you, as long as I don't try to help you?"

"Enough talk." Shing said as he lunged at her. She jumped up and ran down his back. She immediately jumped up and kicked Kueng in the jaw.

She, then, back flipped onto the roof in spite of her pain.

Su swiped at Rose. Rose tried to dodge it but Su managed to slice into her side, deeply.

'This is different than any fight I had with Jake. They really want me dead!' she thought frantically as she felt the searing pain.

Trying to ignore the pain that filled her body, she gritted her teeth and dropped to the roof and lifted her leg to kick Su hard in the stomach.

Unfortunately, while she put all of her force into that kick, Shing blew his fire at Rose.

She saw the fire coming at her and rolled to get away from it, not registering in her brain that she was already very close to the edge of the roof.

She fell.

I'll stop this here for now. I hope you all liked it, it took me a while to write but I like how it came out. Please review.