After everyone who had participated in the capturing of the world's most unsurprisingly egregious Huntsclan member for his age,the council set to work on contacting their rendezvous place to teleport themselves and him back to the Isle of Draco several blocks over.As they did that,the figure took that time to slip away some feet and a brief glow of yellow light was noticed by no one except the confined prisoner,who at the moment was wishing that he had a dragon's ability of nocturnal vision so he could at least see what was happening.Finally,the four dragons,two young adults and two that were long-time members joined together and with two lifting each side of the small but heavy cage,they took off into the starless,indigo sky.Since the fifth dragon was close behindhe didn't pay any mind to it,he figured it was just someone backing them up.What was on his mind that was causing him conflict was what was in fact the truth.How had he come to be in the Huntsclan,what really happened to his parents?Was it even remotely possible that the former American Dragon was his own father and that this white dragon was his twin?
I don't know why but what that dragon said back there...about me being bound to my destiny againist me will...what does that really mean?That Huntsmaster can control me with a snap of his fingers to do his bidding,what?he thought with some mind-numbingness,the wind was pushing on him and he found bracing it irksome when he had to keep his somewhat strained wrist elevated.Maybe I should care more that I might be getting the fire pit from these beasts.No matter...I'm my uncle's champion trophey,the old man would rather feed himself to a pack of werewolves before he lets my talents go with the rest of me.
Some time had passed and that was when he felt sudden ceasement of the air on him alongside the soildness feel of earth beneath his body,he could sense someone staring down at him but he still ignored the chattering that was coming from the dragons.He had faced worse then this,so if their last resortment to punish him before the big sentencing which he had guessed would inaugurate the following day was to try and spook him with any sort of intimidation,he wouldn't even think about giving them the pleasure.
"Black Reign,I presume."Came the deep and sagacious voice of the one he had nearly slain,emitting from the darkness near the front."Hopefully you have knowledge of what we plan on doing to you,is that correct?"
A minute of suspensed tension of waiting to hear what he would say went by and still Cole refused to respond,so then a soft-spoken but unevasive one meet his ears."We never took pride in planning this but it must be,do you understand you can never move to the light side?That it's impossible at this current time to help you out."
"Well?"a stricter woman's voice hastefully demanded from one on the left side of him."Are you going to say anything?Even beg us for mercy?"
Another minute or so passed and Cole turned his head to face the other end of his entraption,when he squinted hard enough he found though with a lack of enthuse he could make out the ribbon metal bars that curved inward before syndicating at the top into the shape of a dragon.Finally when he could almost breath in their abhorrence of him and finding it very distracting,he rolled his eyes knowing full well they could see his display of disrespect and told them with false resignation coupled with sarcasm so they would know right then and there that he felt no regret.
"I guess I have no choice but to come to terms with not being able to ring you're necks out...still,the day I even consider showing one of you things mercy is the day I'll shave my scalp,put on a hula girl costume for you and to top it all off,tattoo 'I Love All Dragons' to my hairless head."
"Arrogant,smart little..."One of them griped under their breaths,vexed.
"Shame,"The last one muttered before retreating with the others."We were planning on imprisoning you until we found you a way out.It was made to us very clearly that if you showed signs of wanting to be freed from the corruption of the Huntsclan,we would at least spare you're life."
Cole,who had been in a state of dark quiescentance,perked a bit at the sound of this."Who did you say requested this for me?"he found himself inquiring with some interest.It couldn't be,he's not my...
"The ex-American Dragon."he said with slight pity edged in his words.
For a long time after they had left and then before Cole would even begin to acknowledge who was behind him,the figure who had remained very quiet and who he still wasn't sure about,did he sink into his brooding,in which when it occured was very natural and heavy to him.The American Dragon,if he had killed his parents,wouldn't have requested something like this...dragons were suppose to be meaningless cretins.Only humans were fit to walk among the earth...so then why was this one and his very own daugther showing him compassion?Were they trying to trick him?
"They're long gone,"he finally spoke out after what seemed like an hour or so,directing his quiet voice to the figure he still could perceive."I have a pretty good idea who you are.. then again I guess I don't really care."
A few moments passed and the familiar voice of someone drifted upwards but instead sounding dutiful like always,she only sounded casual and even more careful then he had become accustomed to."Would you like a soda?I've brought them just in case,no big deal really though."
"That's it?"Cole asked her,taken aback by the girl's attitude."You're not going to launch into a long-winded speech or try to liberate me as usual?You sound different."
But she didn't reply,instead he heard a click and the sound of cola suds sizzling lightly reached his ears when she walked up to place the can right beside him.Unsure of what to do,the thought to accept it crossed his mind but instead,he did what he thought was sensible and automatically seized her retreating wrist.Amazingly,she started to struggle,something she had never done and he realised what was going on...just as he hadn't taken into consideration what may or may not have been the truth,she hadn't either.She must only now believe what's going on...and that's when everything fell before him and for the first time,he felt the grips of not being able to trust those around him,there were so many things unawnsered.With that much weighted down on him,he released her.
"I have another promise to keep."she told him with determination starting to rise in her again,coming to the conclusion that although she feared his possible fate,that she had try to show him one last act of kindess before she broke off ties with him."We might never see each other again.So I want you to have this...and this as well."
Very slowly with noted catiousness,she moved towards him once more with her dragon vision glowing dimly and just enough to allow her to see,as she placed half of the picture he had ripped and the key to the cage she had managed to swipe when the dragons had been concentrated on questioning him,in one of his rough and well-worked palms.She was confident he was to caught up in himself to slay her and also that she would be safely in hiding until she could reappear before the Dragon Council the next day.Then she would be able to sent home,could face her father's wrath and still keep her promises...even if something didn't go very accordingly and her brother resorted back to his old habiets,at least she knew she had tried her best...that was all the victory enough for her,if she was never trusted after this;at least she proved to herself and maybe some others that she had gone through on her word,even if her father had not.At least she would be able to live knowing she had put family on top of her priorities and always would.
"You..."she heard his voice begin,it was low and undiscerning."You didn't have to do all this,Dragon.You didn't have to put you're life at stake.You could just leave me to face death like everyone else,even you're very own father wouldn't do anything,what's you're reason?How can you look pure evil in the face and try to bring out good,when it might not be there at all."
Wendy paused from changing back into her dragon form to fly away into the more depths of the forest,as she could hear the sounds of him getting to his feet and figured he was ready to go along with his escape.However hard she tried,though,she couldn't answer him directly...it was just apart of who she was.But he was right...everything from his upbringing,to the path he had choosen in life greatly contrasted hers.Right now though,she didn't know if she believed what her father had told her was the truth or not...right now she wanted to be home and let her mind settle with new thoughts and dreams of her future,the one Josh had made her come to realise she had.And yet,here her brother wanted her to awnser such a strange question...but as she finally transformed and took air overhead to begin to venture for cover until the next morning,she told him solemnly.
"Who someone is and what someone possesses doesn't make up the definition of them,Cole.It's how they put to use what they have that defines them and not anything else.Not even a birthmark on their hand."
And without a second glance back,she soared away into the besmirched night,there were dots of light sprinkled in different directions but nothing that concerned her.She was,of course,perfectly at home in the darkness of the dead of night as usual.After a few minutes of flying,she spotted a rocky outcropping that lead to a grotto in a small hill,which she wasted little time in diving and in front of.Taking that moment to change into her normal human self,Wendy sat down inside of it and placing a foot on the other side of the entrance wall,started to scrounge around in the knap sack she had broughten and pulled out a bag of salty pretzels.Of course she had eaten when she had returned to the hotel but after everything she had been through,it hadn't seemed like a bad idea to go a little more prepared then what she had but even so the naggingness at the back of her mind kept making her wonder if Cole would take her thoughtfullness to heart,if she had done the right thing by releasing him.
Cursed...she wondered absently,nibbling on a piece.Maybe I should of-
Her train of thought was cut short and she was snapped back into reality by someone grabbing her by the collar of her shirt and practically throwing her sideways out of the small cave.She nearly took a face plant but her hands managed to break her fall and as she turned,befuddlement latching itself around her mind,to face her perpetrator she felt the person deliver a sharp kick to her rib cage.Fear instanteously fell onto her and she made it up to her feet to begin running as fast she could,her shock of having been found out was so great,that it acted like an adrenaline rush to her and she could feel the strength in the pounding of her feet on the soddy ground and her heart in her lungs,as she felt herself slanting and knew she was going down a hill.Panting some,she stumbled over to the nearby trees to her right and hid behind one that was large,wrapping herself around it's bulky roundness and trying to get a hold of her noisy,frantic breaths.
He can't be...she thought desperately,a tiny amount of guilt knotting very finely in her chest.He can't be after me...there's just no way,not yet...
As if to confirm her the onus she was starting to feel that her actions had in deed caused her yet again,someone leapt down from the tree she was hidden behind in front of her and before she could make out the person with her dragon vision,the person drove a fist brashly towards her and at the last moment,she caught it and taking her person by surprise morphed into full dragon.Lumbering over slightly who she now made out as an adult male Huntsclan member,Wendy didn't hesitate to thrust the person into the tree she had been hiding behind and that's when she got caught in that sensation she loved feeling so much...the rush she got whenever she fought someone but it also caused a sense of fear that she was overdoing it if she stayed around too long and yet before she could escape to try to get more to the center of the island where she hoped to find help,she felt something latch her ankle and was yanked from where she was to the point of where she landed at someone's dark grey boots which was the first thing she saw but before she could react someone bashed the end of what she thought was a rod on top of her head near the left temple.
Ignoring the throbbing,she managed to disperse her wings and get away down the rest of the hill,over a creak and threw the thickening timberland of the islands forest.The wind whipping againist her body made the blows she sustained more tingling but she kept at her fleeting escape from the ambush she had wound up in all the more desirous as she came to a point where a large glade meet her line of vision,she didn't pay mind to the absence of hidding places and was a good eight yards out when a green streak of radiance lit up half of the entire field and would have made contact with it's intended target,if she hadn't of curved up her body enough to avoid it.She almost felt like she was going to conquer over their attempts to get her down,when what felt like a slice tore into the side of her neck.It was quick and sent a mounting of pain into her,making her gasp suddenly and she felt herself jarred to the ground as the weapon succeded in wounding her.For a few moments,she felt dizzy and sick to her stomach,the saltiness of the pretzels she had devoured still were in the back of her mouth and she felt like she might pass out of sheer terror.
"It's over dragon,"an older gentleman's voice told her,it was fresh with the familiarity of callousness she now expected,now hated."It's been over for you for thirteen years and you're not gaining a step further in power,ever.You've lived to a good age and are old enough to where you're pelt will be of the most awesome value of any one creature I've ever hunted.Grand as you are,you will not be living in another minute."
Wendy squelched her eyes shut,trying to calm her racing heart as she was preparing for the end but when nothing happened,she had to try to resist the urge to whimper at what she might find and very reluctantly,the dragoness allowed her medium cyanean eyes to open and witnessed Cole striding up to the Huntsman.He wore no emotion on his face that was revealed from his mask being partly ripped off,opposed to the fifty something guy beside him beaming with lustful greed and pride towards the thirteen-year-old.But he observed her through eyes that didn't seem to be all that concentrating on her,for the first time,he just didn't appear to be in the mood to slay her and yet she just couldn't tell with the pain that had been fairly containable but was now becoming heavy and aching.
"You'll never get another opportunity like this...a young,priceless white dragon who is weak and without fight left..."he handed the teen off his staff and took a few steps back to allow him to go ahead,his tone now steadfastly expectant."Finish her off now,fulfill you're destiney Black."
With not much surprise,she saw him take hold of the staff's middle and watched him come over to her,his movements held absolutely no signs of scrupling and only gave her more hopelessnes with every second he advanced towards her until finally he was only a half of foot from her and she avoided his eyes.She didn't want to look into them,didn't want the last thing seen was her own brother's inconsideration towards her again.A few seconds passed and it astonished he didn't strike her as he had threatened her so many times,he was so rapid and relentless in his attacks that she wondered what she was still doing alive,was he letting her suffer like he had seemed to want to at one point?Why wasn't he attacking her?
Wendy,who knew she might not live to see another thing,dared to gaze upwards and when she did she saw something that made her feel like chuckling,her brother's eyes that could be as black and cold as a deep freeze in the dead of a night in winter,glistened as they took in her mauled,ivory body and she could see his eyebrows arched down in endeavourment.It was only really brief for the way he looked at her but she knew she would feel it forever as he went in to make his next move,whatever that move was to be,it would determine their futures.
A/N:What's this,remorse maybe?Or is she just imaginaing things from the blow she took to the head?Anyways,find out soon!Not to worry,I am toning down things down more,this is just a ch. I wanted to get out of the way so I can start on a little more of a different view of things.
LP