"I was a dragon slayer. I killed dragons for a living, any dragon without distinction. One day a landlord paid me a large amount to kill a certainly tough dragon. How would I know that dragon would change my life." Jag shook her head sadly.
"The dragon accompanied me through my journey, in the disguise of a red headed man. Inevitably, I fell in love, and he fell in love too. When he revealed his true self, I wanted to kill him, and to love him, and to cry and die, for the love of a dragon can never be." Jag whimpered gently, yet contained herself.
Izzy lowered his enormous head, looking ashamed.
"However, Fireflash said he couldn't leave me. A war was brewing in the continent, and we had heard rumours about the existence of a Shadebane. We looked for it, found it and flew towards battle. Fireflash said he was there to guide me, because there was a prophecy about me:
Shadow of frozen eyes.
Your destiny must be forged,
For the son of the moon,
The hidden daughter,
And the wyrms of night and day,
To triumph against darkness you shalt guide." The girl recited calmly.
"I was destined to guide the dragons to battle, and defeat the hords of Rakesh. But the prophecy was wrong. We fell. Fireflash never made it out of that battlefield, and I was saved because his enormous body allowed me cover." Jag's eyes were swollen, and tears were falling fluently down her cheeks.
"But what has everything got to do with us?" Matt inquired, glancing at the grieving dog.
"We are not sure, but this prophecy was made by Argenta, the Mistress of all dragons. Her prophecies never fail." Izzy explained, looking at the two children with excited eyes.
"But why us?" Kari inquired fearfully.
"Argenta also made a second prophecy not long ago. The war and chaos will come to open the heart and mind, and the saviours of Becenykan will arrive." Izzy mustered, looking at the two children with excited eyes.
"You honestly think WE are the saviours of Becenykan?" Matt snapped, staring at Izzy incredulously.
"I was hopping it wouldn't be any of you… but we have saved the Digital World twice… it could be." The large dragon nodded, then turned his head to look at the agonizing dragon on the ground.
"She's very grave!" Jag commented softly, tears were on her eyes.
"Koe…" Izzy's eyes glimmered with love and affection, sadness and worry extended a veil of darkness across them.
A loud, threatening shriek filled the ground. Nigra's corpse had been discovered.
"We have to get out of here!" Izzy hisses softly, glancing at the female dragon sadly.
"Go!" Jag hisses urgently, "I'll take care of her!" the female Kyre knows that if the black dragon decided to come, little could she do to protect their lives.
Izzy knew that too. He was not an idiot, but this was the way things worked. A sacrifice for the safety of a whole planet. This children were far more important than the three of them together. Nodding, the dragon motioned at his two friends to ride his back.
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"And now I'm looking for a boy… er… dragon, well… his name is Izzy, or Copper Blaze, and he is a copper dragon!" Yolei explained excitedly, her skin was red from the emotion of relating her story.
"Copper Blaze? Interesting name, but I don't know any dragon." Silven explained, shrugging. "Anyways, you do know that a dragon and a human can never be, right?" the boy said so seriously, his blue eyes fixed on the girl's chestnut ones.
"I do, but that's the point. I'm going to become a dragon!" the woman said with a happy grin on her face.
"You are what?" Silven was, to say the least, petrified.
"Become a dragon. I've heard of someone who has the magic to do that!" Yolei explained calmly.
"But Gynaro made you human for some reason, you can't pretend to go against his designs!" Silven was alarmed.
"But I love him!" Yolei complained.
"I know it hurts, but that is not the solution!" the elven boy explained, as horror struck as he was.
"I don't care what you think. I'm leaving!" Yolei bellowed, standing up angrily, fuming, and beginning to walk towards her horse.
"Where to? You don't know this land!" the elf inquired alarmed.
"It can't be too hard finding a creepy island lost in the ocean. I'll just need to reach the next port!" Yolai argued wisely.
"For the love of Gynaro, this is Becenykan! The land is vast, and the ocean is vaster. Rakesh reigns this place with dragons, knights and darker creatures. You will never make it there alive!" the elven boy argued.
"And I believe you are going to guide me." Yolei was already placing one foot on the stirrup.
"Definitely. I would not be a proper gentlelf if I allowed a fair lady like you to leave alone. By the way, I could teach you magic, young mage." The elven boy smiled smartly at the girl, making her heart skip a beat again.
"I said I'm not a mage!" Yolei snarled again, turning to retrieve her foot from the stirrup.
"Are you sure?" Silven inquired, glancing at the crackling coals thoughtfully.
With a rapid movement, the boy picked a coal and threw it flying across the air. Aimed to the woman's head, and fired by elven hands, the reddish ignition was bound to collide straight. Yolei released her foot from the stirrup and turned around, as rapid as if the enormous black dragon was breathing down her neck. Extending her hand before her, determination drawn in her face, sparkling, bluish ice was released from her open palm. The ice engulfed the coal, cooling it, and finally extinguishing the fire inside when the coldness melted into water.
"You see?" Silven said with a sided smile, grinning knowingly.
Yolei was breathing heavily. She was completely stunned, and tiredness was attacking her. It was simply impossible, she could have never done this, it was just crazy. She was a normal girl, in a normal family, and had been born in a normal world. Magic was simply one of those weird things everyone wanted to do, and nobody could. Thinking back to Izzy, Yolei realized the normality of her situation. She was in love with a dragon, had a friend with crazy dreams, another with a shameful secret, and who knew what happened to the rest. Perhaps the idea of being a mage was not so crazy.
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Jag was very still. Her small, slender body stood before the agonizing dragon's body. Lance gripped tightly on her sweating hands, the Noa was tensing her muscles and getting ready to strike with the deadly weapon. A sniffing sound was heard, a grumbling, a slight roar echoing in the very depths on an enormous neck.
The ceiling of leaves exploded with the sparkling ignition of a copper coloured blur. A blaze flew up in the air, rapid and quick like the haze of a light. Shadow lifted his head and roared. His destiny was escaping, his sister's murderer was fleeting with the children. With a booming thunder, the dragon burst the woodlands and glided after them.
"He is coming!" yelled Kari fearfully.
"Don't worry, he will never reach us!" the smaller dragon explained pridefully.
Such it was. The black reptile glided away after the distance became so vast it was unbearable. Even then, the dragon never stopped his flight. Izzy was determined to guide the two children safely towards the nearest city, perhaps avoid the persecution that what occurring.
"Izzy!" yelled Matt, calling the animal's attention.
"What?" the dragon roared to make himself be heard.
"Land! Land and lets camp! We will leave tomorrow morning." Matt was eager, and a slight pain seemed to echo in his voice.
"But why?" Izzy inquired, in union with Kari's feebler words.
"Just… do it! I have some urgency!" gasped the youth, gripping the dragon's mane tighter.
Something was happening. Izzy could smell Matt's maleish scent. It was a strong, dominant odour, and was growing stronger by the second. His instincts would have urged him to turn around and bite the boy's head off. Logically that would simply be stupid and brute. He chose to descent, a stop couldn't do them so much bad, and he could also take a good rest, since he had flown through the whole night.
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"Fine, you can come with me!" Yolei surrendered to the boy's charms. "But you WILL teach me magic." She pointed out severely.
"Don't fear, you will have the best master, and best protector!" the elf placed a hand to his chest while straightening with pride.
"I really doubt that!" Yolei muttered, eyeing the gangly body, the slim muscles, and the boyish structure. "Anyways, you have to cure that leg!" the woman realized, pointing at the badly damaged appendage.
"Right. I just don't have enough things to cure myself!" the elf seemed somewhat hopeful as his blue eyes glanced at the woman.
"Me neither. Is the next town very far?" the woman inquired, glancing into the darkness, trying to stare past the woodlands.
"Less than half a day. But we, elves, are not welcome amongst humans!" the boy explained looking painfully affected by that.
"Come on!" Yolei sighed desperate.
The youth approached the elven boy with rapid, determined movements. Tenderly, more carefully, the girl tugged at the silvery golden hair, retiring it from its position behind the ears. The curtain of silk fell, covering the pointed ears. The elf looked at the woman with wondered eyes, his blue depths sparkling with something close to admiration. As Yolei's gaze locked with the elf's, she suddenly realized some curious discovery. His eyes were blue, yet a shadow of violet seemed to glimmer in his depths.
"Well, there you go!" Yolei said standing up abruptly.
"Oh… right, right!" Silven was momentarily disoriented, "lets go!" he urged glancing at the clearing sky.
Yolei helped the man along, letting him lean his weight on the youth. With much effort, she helped him on top of the horse. Yolei was marvelled at how light he was, considering he was male. Mounting right before him, the horse started at a light gallop across the dawning woodlands.
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Izzy, as human, and Kari, were both resting calmly next to the fire. Valiantly, Izzy truly didn't believe they would encounter any more dragons for the night being. The boy was shaking the fire tenderly, granting it a whiff of life. Matt had gone stumbling towards the forest. The urgency seemed to be very acute.
"Kari…" Izzy whispered, somewhat fearful of disrupting the girl's train of thoughts.
"Hum?" Kari looked up absently, as if just being awaken from a dream.
"You two came alone?" Izzy was incredulous at this statement.
"No, Yolei was the one to bring us here." Kari explained with a light smile, "But I don't know where she went. I believe she ran away when the dragon attacked!" the youth said calmly, unable to believe something horrible could have come to Yolei.
"Yolei?" Izzy squeaked weakly.
"Yes. She came looking for you." Kari said with a clear smiled, yet it faded rapidly as she realized the boy's tormented look.
"Kari… I…" Izzy didn't know how to start, nor if his old friends would understand that they had come pursuing an impossible.
"You don't love her any more…" Kari realized through glancing into the depths of his soul.
"I do!" gasped Izzy alarmed at the sadness he perceived in Kari, "It's just… I'm a dragon! I have a mate, Kari!" Izzy explained looking down shamefully.
"Koe?" questioned Kari knowingly, yet somewhat sadly.
Izzy simply nodded slowly, fearfully. He had his gaze fixed into the interesting flickering of the flames, where figures seemed about to appear, dancing around it.
"But you can't! She's your sister!" Kari snapped all of a sudden, realizing the dragons' identities in her dreams.
"What?" Izzy snapped glancing up alarmed, "Oh, no, no. That's impossible!" the boy was shaky, in denial.
"Why is it impossible?" Kari questioned staring straight at him, "You were too small when you were taken to Earth! You didn't have any contact with your real family!" Kari explained more agitated.
"But I love her…" Izzy moaned desperate, looking at the girl sadly.
"I'm sorry!" Kari stood up and stared at him sadly.
The young girl walked away, leaving Izzy alone with his sadness. He had a lot to think about, and Kari would just be a memory of the time he spent with Yolei. Wherever she was, the girl would be devastated when she knew her journey had been futile.
Kari interned herself into the woodlands. Doubts began to cross her. Where was Matt? She just realized he had been missing for more than half an hour, and no urgency takes that long. The girl began to look around fearfully, praying that nothing had happened to him, yet knowing something was lurking the forest. A crack, a twig snapping. Kari turned around abruptly.
The youth was now face to face with a enormous, white and golden wolf. The animal was definitely a precious being on immense beauty. It also had a mouth full of teeth, and was able to snap a bone in half with just thinking about it. The wolf's eyes were the brightest blue she had ever seen. The animal stared at her fearfully, as if he doubted whether he could approach her or not. Finally he decided upon a step forward.
Kari yelled loudly. Fear had frozen her, but it was the flame of that same fear which had ignited and melted her limbs. A sprint dragged her further into the woodlands. The wolf followed her. Kari ran as fast as she could, and that was rather fast. She finally emerged into a large clearing, which was facing a cliff. The girl stopped abruptly, the height was impossible, and the town torches flickered feebly into the distance, while chimney smokes merged with the lowest clouds.
The wolf emerged into the clearing as well, and stared at her fearfully. The animal whimpered, pawing the ground. Kari didn't attend to logical reasons, if anything in this world could be called logical, or reasonable. The girl took one step backwards, nearing the cliff's edge very dangerously. The wolf turned to face the woodland, his ears flickered lightly. Raising his head, a warning, loud howl echoed in the dawning night. It was fresh and young, and it signalled position.
Kari, startled, took a rather large step backwards. The soft ground gave in, and the feeble platform she had been standing at vanished from under her weight. The youth's body toppled over the edge and began falling down like a rock. Kari screamed, but her yell was blown away.
To Be Continued…
AN: Ok, I liked writing this chapter. Next chapter will have MANY revelations, so stay tuned if you want to discover Copper Blaze's mysteries, as well as several of which are part of this story. Thank you to all of my readers and reviewers, I hope you are enjoying this story.