CHAPTER 16
DARK ECO OPPOSITE
XM didn't seem to be at all frightened by the sudden arrival.
"And what are you going to do about it midget?" he asked.
Anny pulled out a bottle of red eco that was hidden under a platform in the tree and fed it to Rose.
"You'll see" she said angry. "Go get him girl".
Rose charged at the metalhead for the second time, now sparkling of red eco and more determined than ever.
But XM was too fast and jumped out of the way before the dragon hit him.
Rose turned around quickly to avoid hitting the wall.
She fired a bolt of yellow eco at him again, somewhat mixed with red and it hit XM's metal covered tail.
"Don't think your feeble eco-powers can pierce through my metal" XM said laughing, and sent a beam of dark eco towards the two.
Rose tried to fly away, but was hit in one wing and fell to the ground.
"Hah! You're no match for me!" Xm said proudly.
Balder hurried over to Rose and pulled out a small bottle of green eco, he had in his pocked just in case, and used it to heal the dragon's wounded wing, one small cut remained that the eco couldn't heal, but it wouldn't keep her from flying.
"You've got to be quicker than that Rosy" he said silently. "And I know just how".
Out of his other pocket, he found an equally small dose of blue eco, which Rose quickly absorbed. (Zakura: that's a lot of eco. Miss.Ecofreak: she'll be fine)
This had a rather strange effect however,
Rose got to her feet and suddenly she started glowing!
The cut on her wing disappeared as if it was never even there and the usually pink dragon turned pure white with a light blue glow.
"What the…?" Balder said surprised.
"Hah! Don't think a little light can scare me!" XM said laughing.
Rose flew at him at an amazing speed, heading straight towards the metalhead's stomach.
XM was still laughing but stopped dead as the tiny dragon flew straight into him, tossing him into the opposite wall.
"What was that?" Buster yelled from his safe-spot.
"How did she get that strong?" XM asked, sounding equally puzzled.
Rose got ready to launch another eco bolt at him but before she could do that, the metalhead turned his tail and flew of trough the hole he had created.
Suddenly all the ottsels that had been hiding in the caves cheered and ran out.
Rose seemed more shocked than happy about her victory and flew straight across the other ottsels (who had been coming to greet her) and landed on Balder (knocking him over) just like she had done when she hatched.
She twittered nervously to him as Balder tried to move (the rather big) dragon from his stomach.
"I don't know what happened to you Rosy, are you feeling alright?" he asked.
Rose nodded, and Buster came towards them.
"That was amazing! All the eco she was channeling must have combined" he said.
"Combined? Meaning what?" Rambo, who had just arrived, asked.
Buster touched the dragon's skin, and the light blue spots started flowing on to his own arm, spiting out several sparks of dark eco that had remained in Buster's body after all these years.
"This is amazing!" Buster said again. "We've always tried to combine certain types of eco, but never tried to actually combine all of them!"
"Dad, what's going on?" Anny asked. "What's this white stuff?"
Buster bottled some of the "white stuff" that bounced around on Rose as she slowly was starting to regain her old color.
"This, everyone, is the stuff that's going to help us defeat the dark makers. Light Eco!" Buster said proudly and lifted the bottle over his head.
The bottle glowed just like Rose had done, but since the eco was bottled up, it didn't fade away, and it lighted up the entire cave, sometimes shifting between red, blue, green and yellow.
Two weeks later
There was just one problem with the light eco, ever since Rose spent all hers in a matter of one minute all that existed of it was the one bottle Buster had kept.
The bottle was now standing in Buster's laboratory, in the very same incubator which once contained the very first dragon egg (XD wasn't hatched so Rose's egg was technically the first)
At first it seemed like all that was needed was to combine four different kinds of eco, but after trying and failing (usually ending in an explosion) Buster realized it wasn't that simple to get the exact right amount.
He returned home to Balder and Rambo (Anny had moved out with Kiko) late at night, all covered in burnt marks.
"Let me guess, it blew up?" Rambo asked from the couch he was sitting in (or most likely lying down in)
"No. It just evaporated. Too much yellow eco I suppose" Buster said.
"Then… what about the burnt marks?" Rambo asked.
"This? Well… the cappuccino-machine exploded" Buster said before heading of to bed.
Rambo just stared at his back with a puzzled expression for a while, before heading for bed too. (Miss.Ecofreak: wow, there are a lot of scary things going on in that laboratory. Zakura: ottsels have cappuccino? Miss.Ecofreak: now they have)
Rose was curled up in a corner of the room; the ottsels had given up putting in a box for her to sleep in so now she just slept on the floor.
"You have no idea what all the fuzz is about do you girl?" Balder said to her.
Rose looked at him for a moment, and then nodded.
"I knew it" Balder said and bent down next to her. "Do you want to tell me how you did it?"
The dragon got up, nodding her head towards the cupboard where Buster stored the four types of eco, "just in case" he said.
Balder walked up to the cupboard and took out four bottles, each containing one type of eco, and placed them in front of Rose.
Rose looked at the bottles of some time, as she was trying to remember just how the eco had mixed in her own body, and then charged a blast of the draco-birds secret weapon.
A little biology-lesson might be useful here.
Draco-birds had a special ability to spit acid at their enemies if a precdator or a tree-wolf tried to steal their eggs.
Rose had inherited this ability, as she was part draco-bird and now she spited this acid at the four bottles.
The bottles broke immediately and literally exploded as the contents mixed with the acid.
Balder had to cover his eyes, Buster and Rambo came into the living room.
"We heard a blast? What happened?" Rambo asked.
Balder didn't answer, he just stared at the corner where Rose was sitting, smiling, for in front of her lay a puddle of Light Eco.
Miss.Ecofreak: okay, so that was maybe a bit quick, but at least it's progress
Zakura: birds that spit acid?
Miss.Ecofreak: That was not something I just made up if that's what you think. There are birds that can actually do that, I doubt it's as powerful as Rose's acid is but its enough to keep predators away
Zakura: sometimes...
Miss.Ecofreak: stop being so pessimistic. Please review