Sup Everybody, I know I know, and I'm sorry for disappearing on you like that. But in short, *sparkle* LIFE *sparkle*

The long version of my absence in at the end of the story. Just a heads-up

Warning: Nothing much

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Shot 22: The Story of Cole And Rocky (Part 2)

Something was interrupting his sleep. He had no idea what it was, but it was constantly nuzzling his cheek, trying to force his eyes open. Which Cole really didn't want to do since he had that killer headache. He shuffled away from the discomfort

Or he would, if his right shoulder didn't decide to erupt in pure agony

A scream escaped his lips as his mahogany eyes snapped open. Whatever had been nuzzling before shifted, and through blurry vision he could see it was his dragon.

The reptile that controlled the very ground he walks on at will.

The one creature he's terrified of.

The over 200 pounds reptile was approaching him slowly. Was it gonna kill him? Maybe his planning to eat him.

Despite the horrible pain, Cole tried to scramble away. But unfortunately, there was nowhere to go. He didn't study his surroundings before (not that he had time to), but now that his back was met with a ragged wall of rock, he could see that he was in a cave.

His eyes left the dragon for an instant as he madly looked around for an exit. But the only one he could see was behind the winged reptile.

In other words, he was trapped, with the most terrifying creature on this world which he was incapable of defending himself against.

In other words, he was screwed. So very screwed.

The dragon was close now, so close that he could feel it's breath on him. He instinctively flinched away, his eyes tightly shut awaiting his inevitable and gruesome death. The dragon was gonna eat him raw and nobody would know.

His dad would never know...

A soft nudge.

What?

Tentatively, he peeked at the dragon. He was greeted with giant nostrils and teeth bigger than his arm.

He immediately shut his eyes again, his trembling getting worst.

The dragon nudged him again, this time making a noise that sounded suspiciously like a whine.

He risked glancing at the reptile a second time, who, this time, back away. Relive flooded the raven head as he took in shaky breaths.

Seeing progress in the human, the earth dragon gave him further space before sitting down and watching him.

They both stared at each other before Cole decided that the dragon wasn't going to eat him. Yet.

The earth ninja looked at his hurting shoulder. It sagged a bit and there was swallowing, plus he couldn't move the arm at all, not just because if the pain, but he literally couldn't command his pinky to move. It was obvious it was dislocated.

But how? Last thing he remember, his team had started a dragon race like usual (which really didn't include him) then... His dragon went in a different direction!

Instead of following the path like it usually did, the flying reptile changed course and went east, for some reason.

He recall panicking, yelling for his brothers he knew was too far away then attempting to take the reins in a vain attempt at redirecting the dragon in the right path.

How well that went.

He somehow made the dragon skydive, throwing himself out of his saddle and go for an unplanned skydiving session himself without parachute.

Both of them plummet towards a forest (their doom) and Cole distinctly remembers grabbing for one of the branches to halt his fall.

It didn't work, not only did the branch broke off, but it now explain the shoulder injury.

Note to self; grabbing tree branches when falling from over 10 meters up is a terrible idea.

He must've lost consciousness when he hit the ground... Back first, judging by how much it hurts.

But that doesn't explain how he ended up in this cave.

The dragon? Nah, his mom told him enough about DeathBringer to never trust these creatures at all.

But still... Is he having an argument with himself? Nevermind that, he'll grow out of it one day. He should be focusing on the situation at hand

He's in pain, trapped in the middle of nowhere with his greatest fear for company.

Yeah, not the greatest situation.

Maybe the guys noticed he was missing and are searching for him.


Meanwhile

"No, my foot clearly touch the ground first so, I won" Jay argued as the other 2 ninja masters voices their protests and reasons why they won


Knowing them, he probably shouldn't count on it.

Let's see what are his options?

He can still use his left arm and legs, so that a plus. Also, the dragon doesn't seem to want to kill him, so that's a plus. (Although, it really needs to stop staring at him)

He should probably take a look around, maybe he'll know where he is. He did spend a large portion of his days before ninjutsu alone in the wild.

Nodding to himself that this was the best course of action, Cole started to get up. But alas, even the slightest of movement to his shoulder sent the member to pain-town.

He couldn't stop the pitiful muffled scream even if he wanted to and the watching dragon decided to intervene. Which really, just made the ninja master panic again.


And that's it! Sorry buds, I know that after a full year of wait, I should have made it worth it but really, even I have no idea what I'm doing

Hopefully, now you are aware that I'm not dead and will try to update more often once again.

To all my reviewer, followers and favourites, THANK YOU. Quite frankly, its literally these little things that reminds me people like these stories and writing them makes them happy so I never give it up.

To the reviewers:

To Kitten: Hey my ever faithful reader. Thanks for you continuous support. Also, I think I'll just rewrite the whole thing one day, as a new chap ;)

To Wildflare Viking: Yo buddy, what you said really filled my heart with joy so thanks for that. Don't worry, I'll write enough to suffice your new addiction ;)

Also, it is cool if I just call you Vik?

To Pure Chroma: Let me guess, is it Not Okay? You better buckle up girl, cuz there's more to come :)

To Red: Your such a sweetheart, hope you enjoy

To Shadow Wolf Warrior2: At your service ;)

To Phyco-lemonCake: That a great idea!

Now whose interests in the event if my years absence? Great, continue down

So I was going to get married, it's arranged not my choice, and that fuck me up a bit more and more as time go on, it was suppose to be in 2020, but with covid it got push back, fast forward a little, had a massive fight with my parents to break off the marriage. Few more problem arised and they decided it was best to call it off. Not because I told them, no, that would be too easy. My "promised partner" himself fuck up and now we are here. Anyways, I was also dealing with internal shit, if anyone remembers, sorry I'm repeating myself, but I went to a phycologist (at my own request) and was diagnosed with severe depression. My younger brother and I both went into a couple of session before for some reason, they decided it was useless and stopped it. Also, they send me off to exorcism, cuz according to them, a ghost possessed me with depression. Life just messed me up and I'm still struggling, I've been drawing a lot recently and been taking commission, so if you want me to draw you something, tell me in Instagram@levesque_siblings. Fair warning, act professional cuz my parents are controlling it. Like watch what I post and read all my messages kind of shit. Sorry for this guy and whoever read this, thank and don't let it bother you, k? Also, what do you want to see updated next or an idea if your?