A/N:Hello all!I can't believe I finally have some time to write this.BTW,it took me like five-six days to write the 1st ch. of All The Days Of Her Life,which I'll be updating sometime around January and as for the next ch. of this story,it'll be updated once again in the year 2006 as well.Two-Thousand Six,geez,where does the time go...?Also,I have a bit of a surprise set for very near Christmas.It's going to be...well,telling you would spoil it now,wouldn't it?Lolz.Well,since repiles on chapters are no longer aloud,here's the story!But for those of you who wrote a review without logging in...thanks!So,here we go,on with the show,chapter five!

Continueing...

Fu Dog wandered aimlessly outside the tall,grey-bricked hospital building that stood high enough to make even the most non-fear-of-heights person gap at how towering and even intimidating for those who had a great fear of Doctors and needles.But right at that moment,his mind wasn't set on the classic horrors of what could happen,it was what was happening.With memories starting to swarm in his head,Fu Dog padded down the sidewalk and to the end of the block where he was forced out of his reverie by a sharp but quick bump to his head.Lifting a hoary paw,he massaged the center of his headroughly while glancing up to see he had come in contact with a Bus Stop sign.The sound of an oncoming revving that he was sure was the sound of the Bus filtered into his ears,taking one undecisive glance over his wrinkled shoulder,Fu Dog sighed heavily when he heard it screech to a stop and turned back around he proceed to board it within the safety of between an unsuspecting cluster of people.

After so many years,this could finally be the end,He thought to himself with a sting of ruefullness,as he seated himself near the back and sliding down into the cool tan plastic seat,attempted to sort the foreboding feelings he'd been caught up with ever since Laoshi had been admitted in.It was like the climax and then suspenceful cliffhanger to some story that he read and re-read constantly.Fu Dog didn't know what was going to happen but he had to be away for a while,just to sort through his thoughts,Right now,I just need some time to myself...

The slow sputtering of the engine was the next thing Fu Dog could pick up besides the chattering crowds of people that had been packed into the limitedly-spaced interior with him.Taking a long and drawn-out yawn,he gingerly slid down onto the dark metal ground and peering around the seat in front of him,it didn't take long to notice that he was the last one on.Restfully,he stretched out his six-hundred and ten-year-old joints.But just as he was about to go further he instantly remembered why he had gotten on in the first place,so taking a few catious steps forward,he thought he could slip off undetected.That was,until his charcoal eyes meet the angered eyes of what appeared to be the very large and very short-tempered Bus driver,

"I thought someone mentioned seeing something with four,short studdy legs get on,"The forty-something round and balding man told Fu Dog in a broad and scratchy voice,cracking his knuckles readyingly and letting his oblique gaze fall more into the now nervous-looking Sharpi eyes,"Looks like it wasn't just thier imagination neither,"he told Fu with a snicker and kneeling down carefully,jerkeddown on impulse whenhe tried to bolt from his hand and holding Fu Dog up by his clumpy scuff,lowered his voice to a promising whisper,"Know what I do to no-good,Bus-boardin',tail waggin',happy-go-luck pups like you?Well,after I get the acid out I-yow!"

The guy let out a painful howl,as acompletely impaitent Fu Dog clamped his muzzle down hard on his huge wrist and dropping him,the guilt-free Chinese hound took off at a scamper and without looking around at his surroundings,galloped down a parking lot that was lined with the city's Buses and through a hole just his size that was formed around old brown and rusty broken chain links in the high security fence that outfitted the entire space in a large square.Huffing under his breath,Fu Dog finally came to a stop when he found himself on one of the streets not far from his and Laoshi's yet closed shop.Taking in some of the familiar sights,he allowed himself to calm back down as he made his way into one of his favorite shops.Which just happened to be,where a Magical Guardian friend disguised as an averge-appearing emerald-scaled Python was,

"Fuuu..."Rondina,who was busy coiling herself around a tree-like upholstery that was made up from the shop clerk who specialized in turning random junk into art,appraised his presense in a low,welcoming hiss,"I wasssn't eeexpecting you for quite sssome timeee,"she told him as he approached her akwardly,as she could instantly sense something was troubling him,"What'sss the matter?Wass thier sssome sssort of delayyy?"

"Naw,just thought I'd drop by for one final farewell...well,I know I did just a day or so ago but..."Fu Dog began to stutter uncertainly and then went on ditheringly,"You know,I really like what the guy who mistakingly brought you down from Africa thirty years ago while on that expedition to save a lost lion cub did to the place..."he let his eyes roam freely around the clattered and messy shop front consisting of makeshift furniture,pieces of what some considered masterpieces made out of broken rubber,screws,boxs,metals and all sorts of random things glued together in odd,mishapened statues,however,they stopped short when they met Rondina's serious glassy cool yellow ones,which made him shift his weight to another paw nervously,"What?I got something caught in my teeth?"

Rondina lashed out her green-scaled tail and slapped his paw as he began to yank the side of his loosely hanging grey muzzle up to reveal his jawline,"Ssstop that!"she scolded him suddenly,useing her mesmerzing ability to draw her friend of ten year's eyes directly into hers,"It'sss gone around abouttt what'sss happened.Persssonally though,I would haveee thought you would beee theeere.But it'sss bothering you,"slowly Rodina let herself retract fully back onto her tree when she saw the surprised look on Fu Dog's face indicating she was right,"I'm riiight,am I nottt?"

Back on to past in the different deminsion...

Laoshi stared down at the Asian-appearing girl not far from where he stood,his eyes were lined with disbelief that the Dark Dragon would take captive someone the Chinese Dragon didn't even think he was associated with.The only other thing that made him think otherwise about the possiblity of another hostage situtation,was that the ostensibly unconscious girl had a professional-looking slick black wand clasped in her hand.

Gingerly,he approached her and placed the back off his claw to the side of her neck,when he felt what he needed to feel to make sure she was okay he stood up to full height on his hind legs,"Where did this girl come from?"he demanded in a low,no-nonsense growl,stepping in front of her to get ready to fend the Dark Dragon from her if needed,"She shouldn't be here but I don't even know her.So tell me,who is she?"

The Dark Dragon merely shrugged his jet black shoulders,"You have me there,Dragon,"he repiled candidly,almost as if he had dropped the dark and mysterious bit momentarily,"I do not know who thisshe is,although I found her here a day or so ago with a wand in her hand and..."

He trailed off as he bared his teeth aggressively,following the Dark Dragon's gaze to behind him and back down to the 17 to 18-year-old girl,he noticed that she was beginning to stir.Slowly,her shoulder blades began to cave in together as she brought herself onto her hands and knees.With a few small murmurs,she stared up at Laoshi with confused-strickensilver eyes but once she layed them on an akward-looking Dark Dragon,they narrowed in sharp hatred.She got to her feet and just barely looking at Laoshi out the corner of hereye,the girl passed him as if he weren't there and directed the point of her wand at the Dark Dragon,approaching him boldly,

"You horrible creature,"she spatat him in utter disgust,her unflinching demeanor starting to cause the bewildered Dragon to take a step back,"I thought my Father banished you!What are you doing back here?Tell me!These lands of Malashria are suppose to be peaceful,why return?"

Just then he paused for a brief moment,sqauring his eyes also he took in the brave yet possibly foolishly stubborn girl.Something seemed to hit him then,like the crack of a bat when it just got through hitting a ball high out of a park.He chuckled deeply and cracking his bony black knuckles,began to drift up into the air and dropping his measuring look at her,made a swooping dive at her in an attempt to tackle and restrain her,

"Not on Lucky Laho's time,pops."He finally found his voice and charged forward in hisown airborne tackle,hooking his arms under the Dark Dragon's and pushing forward away from her,"You think you gonna hurt my family,"his words sizzled,as he gave a full force blowinto his abdomine and sent him flying aways backwards,"Will,not if I can help it!I may not be in as tight with them as I am with the ladies or anything,but that don't mean I'm not gonna do whatever it takes to protect them from the likes of you."

The Dark Dragon arched his wings forward just enough to still himself in mid-air,his yellowish eyes darted from the girl he was after and back to the Dragon he knew he couldn't let escape.But just when it appeared he was going to surrender,his Dark Dragon mirages came to mind.So making sereval materialize out of nothing,he pointed a hook ebony claw at the girl.The makeshift mist croonies complied with a prompt nod,however,as all of them turned to face Laoshi and the still anxious-to-fight girl,they were completely tooken back as she whispered some strange words under her breath and a bright orange flash sparked in a sparkling blaze at him and his minions.

"You...?"Laoshi gaped in a mildly stunned awe but regained some of his composure when he saw that she had only casted some sort of spell that temporarily froze the Dark Dragon along with his creations in a what looked like a transparent containment hold,"You just casted a groovalicious spell there,foxy mama,"he told her with a note of impressedness,doing his best not too appear as if he were coming on to the petite,slim-figured and ankle-lengthed black-haired girl who he assumed by now was an experienced young witch,"But,you see I have my family to save.You know,so I-"

But she only whirled around on her heel to glare distrustfully towards him,the way she looked,it was almost like she had his utter despise for him without even knowing him,"First off,my name is Rhea,"her voice grew low and dangerous,as she advanced on Laoshi unhesistantly with her wand aimed for his chest,"I'll take care of him in a minute,but right now I feel the need to wipe out anyone who would sink low enough to accompany the Dark Dragon...presumably after all...you."

Whoa!What's going on here?Hopefully G can talk this witch out of...well...annilating him and what about the Dark Dragon?Why is he after her...and Laoshi's family!What will...uh,erm...stay tuned!

LP