Disclaimer: Me no own Zelda.

A/N: Finally I got a new computer! And boy is it fast! This is like a dream come true! Though my mother's saying that she's gonna take this one and my brother and I'll have to use the old one, but I'm hoping that either happens in the late future or never. I'll be damned if I have to go back to the old one. Anyway, sorry about the long wait, but now I'll finally be able to get back on track with my updates. Now the only things that'll prevent me from updating are writer's block and time consuming activities. Anyway, here's the chapter.

Chapter 15

"Lira?" The Hylian's voice cut through her thoughts and she snapped back to attention. She blushed slightly, noticing the look of concern on Link's face and inferring from it that he had been calling her name for awhile. "Is everything alright?" he asked gently, laying a hand on her shoulder.

She smiled half-heartedly and nodded. "Yes. Please don't worry, I am fine. I was just…thinking about Firagaht and hoping he is alright," she replied. Link nodded, looking somewhat disappointed, but tried not to let it show.

"Don't worry about him. He's strong and can take care of himself. He'll be fine," he reassured, feeling strange about defending Firagaht.

Lira stared down into her lap with a sad smile. "Thank you," she whispered. Sharai shifted in her sleep, leaning against Link's back with her left shoulder resting on the Hero's back, facing Lira. Link readjusted the blanket that covered her.

Link was looking rather sleepy himself, fighting to keep his eyelids open and his head up straight. The night was near its end and the sky was beginning to light up. The stars' twinkling lights were starting to dim as the first sunrays were emerging from the horizon.

Shizuka soared swiftly and gracefully through the air, drawing them closer and closer to the dragon village. Lira sighed and glanced over at link and the young wyvern, smiling when she saw Link fast asleep. She hoped Firagaht had defeated Velnar and the demon.

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Kairi sighed, walking past the multitude of dead bodies with nonchalance. He headed towards the temple to check on Firagaht, whistling all the while. The silver-haired dragon stepped over a wyvern's body that had been strewn horizontally across the steps and pushed the heavy double doors open.

The stench of blood and death was thick within the large structure, and Kairi wrinkled his nose in disgust as he was hit with the full force of the smell immediately upon stepping inside.

The doors to the inner chamber where the seal on the demon had been housed had been blasted open and were in pieces on the floor. As he approached the devastated room, Kairi took in a deep breath and nearly choked on what he smelled.

"That smell…! That's Firagaht's…!" he muttered out loud, dashing forward.

Within the large back room, Kairi shoved a particularly large ceiling block that had crashed to the floor out of his path and quickly searched the room with his eyes. He spotted Firagaht lying crumpled on the floor not too far away.

The blue-eyed dragon rushed to his leader's side and pulled his upper torso up from the ground, shaking him gently. "Firagaht-sama! Firagaht-sama!"

Golden eyes fluttered open and slowly focused until the blurry image of Kairi became clear. Kairi smirked as the normally composed Firagaht groaned while sitting up on his own and rubbed his head. He let out a low hiss when he tried to stand and clutched his leg painfully.

"Heh. You're beat up pretty badly. So, did ya win?" Firagaht's piercing glare made Kairi cringe slightly. "Why are you here and not with Lira?" Firagaht demanded sharply. Kairi blinked at the suddenness of this question, and then scratched the back of his head, grinning.

"Well, the kid thought of this amazing idea to get the wyvern's off of Lira's back…and well, it consisted of us splitting up…" Noting the look of rage on Firagaht's face, the silver-haired dragon quickly added, "But Shizuka's still with her!"

"Shizuka is not enough to protect her, you idiot!" the dragon leader snapped. Kairi stared blankly at him. "Huh? Why not?" Firagaht sighed.

"Velnar is dead but the demon is not," he growled in reply. Kairi raised his eyebrows, glancing nervously around. "How did that happen? Weren't they magically bound together?"

Firagaht closed his eyes, conserving his strength so his wounds would heal faster. "He broke the bind, obviously," the dragon leader answered.

Blue eyes suddenly widened as they spotted Velnar's tattered corpse covered in debris. "Whoa! You really did him in, didn't you, Firagaht-sama?" Kairi mused; wrinkling his nose as he suddenly could smell the drying wyvern blood. It seemed now that he was dead, the wish that had been granted to him by the great demon was no longer valid and Velnar returned to his original wyvern state.

"We must go now," Firagaht said suddenly, using his scythe like a cane to stand slowly to his feet. Kairi rose as well, reaching out to help him as he wobbled in place. Firagaht knocked his hands away with an impatient grunt.

"He is searching for Lira," the dark-haired dragon added. Kairi's eyes widened in surprise. "He wants to use her like he used Velnar to regain his lost powers."

Kairi clenched his fists, his nails digging into his palms and nearly drawing blood. "If he dares lay a hand on her, I'll…!"

He was cut off abruptly when Firagaht suddenly spouted into a violent coughing fit. Blood dribbled down his chin and his whole body trembled. He would've collapsed to the floor, had Kairi not caught him.

"Whoa! You still need to recover from that beating you were so obviously given not too long ago!" Firagaht growled and pushed him away. "There's no time! That demon could already have gotten to Lira!" he protested fiercely.

Kairi rolled his eyes at his leader's stubbornness and reached into his pocket, pulling out a vial filled with a red liquid. "Here, drink this. I stole it off that Hylian kid. It'll heal your wounds right away," he said, offering it to the other dragon man.

Firagaht glared at him contemptuously for a good while before finally giving in and snatching the vial from his betrothed's cousin, drinking it down in a single gulp. After a while, he could already fell its healing components working on his bruised and battered body.

Just moments later, Firagaht was able to stand without the help of his scythe and he already felt the throbbing pains of all of his wounds become reduced to just a dull stinging sensation.

'Once again I am indebted to this boy for his strange magical items,' Firagaht thought, referring to Link. He closed his eyes briefly, before turning to his annoying companion.

"Let's go."

"No argument there!"

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Short huh? And it's not like it's really a cliffhanger cuz it isn't and don't you dare try to say it is! Please don't be mad. I just haven't been feeling it lately, with Breath of a Dragon anyway. Hopefully next chapter will come sooner and will be better and longer and stuff.

By the way, I hate Quick Edit. Just wanted to let all of you know that.

-LunaRyuu