Her Fate

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

Rating: PG-13

AN: Wow, this fic is longer than I anticipated! And near 300 reviews too! Um… I guess that's all I have to say. Ignore this pointless rambling and read chapter 28.

Disturbing Alliances

Brad walked through the door to his home. He thanked God that Rose was ok. He still couldn't believe that Jake had the nerve to lie to see her. The same Jake who would get tongue tied and never able to really talk right to her, had claimed to be her fiancé.

He had to give him props. Without him, he'd probably never find out if she was dead or not.

"Brad, where have you been?" asked Marissa as she came out of her room. "You're all bloody." She stated with obvious disdain in her voice as she saw the bloody mess on his shirt.

Marissa hated when he was dirty. Brad almost laughed out loud when he thought of how messed up he looked and Marissa would probably pop a blood vessel…

He sobered immediately when he thought of how he got to be this way.

"There was some real screwed up stuff goin' on, Rose was attacked by… I dunno what and…"

He narrowed his eyes when he saw how his fiancé reacted at hearing the news. "What happened? Was she hurt?" she asked him, almost eagerly it seemed.

He shook his head, "Yeah, she was pretty messed up. Blood was everywhere, but I got her to the hospital on time."

Her face seemed to drop instantly, "Hospital?"

"Yeah, this big bird thing caught her before she hit the ground and actually gave her to me."

"You helped her?"

His brows furrowed, "Of course I helped her. What did you expect me to do? Leave her to bleed to death!"

Ignoring his question, she asked her own. "Well, is she dead or what?"

"She's fine; she'll be able to go home tomorrow… What's this all about, Marissa?"

She didn't bother to answer him as she all but ran out the door; leaving Brad to wonder what his future wife was up to.

FLASH

"She's still alive! The damn dragon couldn't kill her! I can't believe it!"

Rita raised an eyebrow, smirking, "And it seems that she still left the dragon alive too."

"Oh, shut up! She would've been dead if that damn changeling didn't show up and give her to that idiot!"

"That idiot you're marrying, remember?"

"Shut up! What am I going to do now! Huntsmaster won't be happy about this and I sure as hell don't want to tell him that I-"

"Failed me?" she was cut off by Huntsmaster.

Rita turned around and looked at him with an incredulous look on her face. "What? Just because you're a big bad man you don't have manners? Learn to knock, this is my house, you know!"

"My apologies." He replied.

Rita shook her head. "You're not sorry at all, sorry sack of shit." She muttered under her breath.

"I'm so sorry, Huntsmaster! I didn't mean to fail you, it won't happen again, I swear!"

"I know you won't, Huntsgirl. I have taken matters into my own hands. News travels quickly in New York, remember and we have such competitive sources. When I learned of your failure I managed to get a hold of some people with a common desire." He spoke as he allowed three Asians into the house.

Two men and a woman… all seemingly pissed off. "This is Shing, his sister Su and Kueng, their young brother." He introduced them.

Rita rolled her eyes, wondering when exactly her home suddenly became the "Evil Lair".

He looked at Marissa, "They're the dragons you got to come here."

Marissa's eyes widened, "You mean there were three of you and you still didn't kill her!"

Su glared at her, "Shut up, insolent human. We would have but the humans came out and ruined everything."

"I have formed an alliance with these dragons to kill our Rose."

Rita furrowed her brows and looked at the three dragons. "You guys know they're part of the Huntsclan."

Shing nodded. "We have a temporary truce to bring an end to the protector."

Rita looked from the Huntsmaster to Marissa; she then looked at the dragons. "Let me get this straight. The dragons are teaming up with the people who kill dragons for a living to kill the woman who's trying to protect dragons. Oh, well then, that makes loads of sense."

I'm not very happy with this chapter here… it's too short and pretty boring. I'd write more but Mom wants me off and I really wanted to post something. The next chapter will be better, please review.