Chapter 3

Dragon's light

Rift looked at the shadowy figure that stood before the group of them. Two thuds came from behind her, two of the guards face first in the dirt with a dagger in their backs. Standing were they stood were to shadowy figures holding their blades and looking onward at her. Seeth was now looking at Rift. Rift mind was racing, she had to do something or this would not end well for them. In all desperately of trying to think of a way out of this situation she collapsed to the ground a bit dizzy. The faces of all the boys that plagued her every day shot through her mind. Rift looks up at one of the shadowy figures faces. It resembled one of those perverted boys that use to do it all the time before he disappeared. She had a grudge against him still and would show him that he would not be able to come back and do it to her again. The wind started to blow violently and warped around Rift's as her fiery aura appeared again engulfing her body. Shadowy figures readied their weapons and began to move towards her as if this was going to be a piece of cake of a job. Rift was now hovering inches above the ground as her blazing aura torched the ground below her. White flames came up from her feet to a couple of inches above her head. Rift saw them advancing on her. As they reached her to strike they paused; feeling the entry of Justin to this plane. Though it would take a few minutes for him to fully come through and appear. The remaining guards took this as an advantage and began their attack. The figures were caught off guard but made quick work off the guards. The figures lost one in the surprised attack but it was worth it in there minds. They turned their attention back to Rift, who was now enraged and glowing brightly as flames washed over her body. She give away to here rage and slashed at one of the figures with her claws. The figure howled in pain as it staggering back. The cuts she let were deep and burned like all hell. Two of them charged at her but only found her claws and a couple of kicks. They fell to the ground as a bloody mess a few feet away. The rest charged at her to only find that they could not get a hit on her. She was moving way to fast for them, and the fact she was feline did not help them one bit. Her rage was going full tilt as drove a kick into one and a punch into another. Then spinning and jumping out of the way in order to doge several of their blades at once. One by one the figures fell to the ground. After two minutes the last one collapsed and let out a moan. Rift was now panting hard as her aura calmed and slowly faded as she knelt down to rest. Four yards away and two feet high Justin finely came through to their plane with a loud bang. He fell hard to the ground letting out a scream as a burst pain shot through his arms and legs. Every ones attention turned to him. As he started to get up a red aura ignited around him and surges of electricity violently ran across his body. Falling back to his knees and holding his head the red aura disappeared. After a moment past the aura came back, but half was blue. More electricity erupted off of him as the blue and red aura swirled around. It looked like the colors were competing for control. Red and blue waves were crashing into each other in the effort to extinguish one another. Blue slowly got bigger then red as there waves continued to crash into each other. Then with a bright flash the red was diminished leaving a light blue aura. Justin shook his head, clearing it and started to get up again. He staggered a bit as he gained his balance. His mind felt clouded and was a bit dizzy. Taking a look at his surroundings he recalled what lord Ender wonted him to do. He was now in the forest and he cringed at the thought as he turned to his would be victim. Sighing he started to walk to the group before him slowly. Justin stopped a couple of feet away from the group as all eyes were still on him.

In ender's plane.

Ender screamed as a back lash of his mind control hit him. (To bad that it only lasted a few seconds, yet it was still quite painful.) With his mind control lost, he had no control over Justin any way. There was only a couple of ways to that his mind control could have been lost. One was if he became stronger then his master, which he knew was not the case. And the other is the servants mind had changed some how. As Ender waited with a look of shock, he began to feel ripples of great power from something. It was a ripples that is only felt when plans being pulled together for any amount of time. Which is how Ender can tell when some one is going to planes walk and so on. Ender felt something a bit different about these ones. It was not happening now but the ripples could be felt. As time past on the ripples got stronger which means it was getting nearer. Ender quickly went to his library to figure out what this abnormal ripple is all about. Deciding to take care of the mess latter on.

In Rifts plane.

Justin still was looking around at his surroundings. His aura had already dissipated, but he had a gut feeling that Ender would not leave him alone. Looking at his right hand, he was holding the crystal that Ender had given him. He had no idea what it did or how to even find out. He decided to put it in his pocket and figure it out latter on. It started to pulse with energy in his pocket when his attention turned towards the group again, but quickly ended. "First thing to do is find out if these beings are friendly or not" Justin thought. As the sun glinted off Justin's magical breastplate Rift sensed its energy field that it released.

(Note: though Ender uses black magic. He is capable of wielding it, so it is in the illusion of white magic thanks to one of his handy artifacts.)

Rift gave little heed to this and wondered who the strange being in front of them was. The elder also felt the energy released from the breastplate and knew that it was hiding its true from and power. The elder first wonted to know what the intention of this being was, felling the dark and light powers he possessed. "Well I should probably get to know the locals" Justin mumbled under his breath. Justin started to open his mouth when the elder lifted his staff and wave of energy came forth in all directions. The elder shouted out. "Who may you be?" in a langue that Justin was very familiar with, but it also seemed strange. Justin was thrown of guard and stunned he was by this. Every one else was surprised by his act. A few seconds later Justin regained his composure. He tried to speak again but was cut off by the elder repeating his statement again. Justin looked strait at the elder, "I'm Justin…….." He replied. The elder pondered for a wile before saying anything else. During this time Justin asked "what in the hell is going on in?" He didn't get the information that he was looking fore at all. The elder spoke up, "how did u get here and where are you from?" this took a wile for Justin to tell them all that had happened starting with the getting off the bus. His memory was a little foggy when talking about the dark lord Ender. By the end of the day they had worked out a deal. It was a simple one, based on each of them helping one another of course. The agreement was they would help him get back to his plan, as log as he helped out with what was going on in the houses. The elder gave Justin a place to stay and sensed that having him here was a great burden and a gift.

In Rifts den, she was preparing one of her robes for tomorrow ceremony. It was a light golden brown that had a fire emblem on the back. Also there was colorful design all over it. She set aside a pink ribbon to tie on her tail as well. Her tail wrapped around her leg as she got ready to take a bath. When she tried to take off the bracelet it clung tightly to her wrist. She struggled with it for a wile but had to give up since it wouldn't move and she was hurting her wrist. Deciding to leave it on, she went into the near by lake. She cringed a little from the coldness of the water. As she progressed deeper the bracelet started to glow brightly and the water around her became warm. Rift shrugged and continued on her path to were she takes her bath. Which is a small area of to the side, but she did not get that far before she saw something glowing in front of her desired area. It was completely submerged and glows the same as her bracelet. Rushing to the spot, she found a big golden scaled serpent with red wings and claws. It was staring at the glowing object. Taking a few steps closer she found her self being pulled to the serpent. The serpent turned its gaze to rift and sighed.

"I hope it doesn't attack me" Rift muttered under her breath taking a step back.

"Why would I do that? I am a reasonable dragon after all." The serpent replied.

"A what?" Rift exclaimed. The serpent stud up on its hind legs and replied "A dragon"

"What's a dragon?" Rift asked.

"I'm a dragon" the serpent said.

"How come I have never seen a dragon before?"

"At the moment that is not important." The dragon replied, "I've been waiting for you to come and unseal this medallion's powers, and for you to begin your journey across unknown places. But first take this orb that has unquestionable power. If some one can unlock it, it will be a mighty weapon." After handing the orb to her, the dragon reached into the water and pulled the glowing object out. The wind started to blow and seemed to say, all will change.

(note: I've decided that writing the disclaimer was a waste of time so I'm going to say that the previous disclaimers will cover all of the chapters for the story. Please notify me if I add something new to the story if it is not covered by my previous disclaimers in any way. Thank you.)