Dragon Riders
By: The White Dragon Rider
Disclaimer: I own Nothing!...besides Brass my OC P.S. Please don't sue me
Warning: All opinions expressed by Brass are purely for comic value and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the author. Do not get mad at me if you are one of the 33 percent of American people who agree with George W.
Chapter 10: Follow the Leader
Emmy looked around at the surrounding area
She was in the darkness again on top of the odd looking tower
"Not again" she said looking into the endless and foreboding darkness that looked like eternal night
So have you learned about what has happened in the depths of the dark past?
It was that voice again
"Who are you!" asked Emmy frustrated into the darkness
Have you?
"I have" answered Emmy hoping to get some answers as to what was going on
Good
"What is going on!" asked Emmy frustrated
Still so much to do…
But do not worry for you have plenty of time
"Time to do what!" she called out
Those who once harmed the dragons still roam the world…
They seek to complete what they started so many years ago…
They wish to destroy what they believe to be evil and convinced so many others to be true evil
"What?" asked Emmy confused "Those that want to hurt dragons?"
Yes, but there is one who is a even greater threat to dragons
"Who?" asked Emmy into the endless darkness
Find the warriors in Red, Black, and White…
They have the power to undo the dragons' sins and clear the dragons' names
"What do you mean!" asked Emmy annoyed it had completely ignored her question
"Answer some of MY questions!" she called out into the darkness
"What do you mean by the dragons' sins?" she asked
Not even the dragons are completely innocent…
You must find the truth for yourself…
Suddenly everything began to go black
"Hey wait! WAIT! WAIT!" Emmy screamed as the darkness covered her
Emmy's room
Emmy woke up violently covered in a cold sweat
It was early morning and the sun was shining brightly through her window
She was in her red dragon pajamas and her messy brown hair was undone
She wiped the sweat from her brow and gave took several deep breaths
It had been the second time she had a dream like that and each time was scarier than the last and more confusing too. The first time had been when she was hit by the statue and now it had happened again. She was not sure whether to tell the others about it or not. She wondered weather the others had odd dreams too since what had happened but she was too nervous to ask the others about it
"Was that a dream? It felt so real" said Emmy still breathing heavily
"What was it talking about?" she asked to herself remembering its cryptic words
Emmy was getting really sick of odd things happening since they had become Dragon Riders
'But…' she thought 'At least I'm not dead' remembering the alternative if she hadn't become one
She gave a heavy sigh and got out of bed slowly
She put on her slippers and walked down the hall towards the kitchen to get breakfast
Study
Emmy passed by the door to the room her dad usually worked in
The door was open a tiny bit
As she passed she glimpsed Max sitting at the desk messing with something
Emmy got suspicious and decided to get a closer look
She went in and saw Max messing with their dad's laptop
He had his cowboy outfit on over his pajamas and a pair of black sunglasses
"Max what are you doing?" asked Emmy as she walked in
Max quickly turned to Emmy
"Look I'm Brass" he joked typing away at the computer
Emmy let out an annoyed sigh
It wasn't even the afternoon and Max was messing around already!
"Max be careful! You don't know how those work" warned Emmy as Max began playing with the computer recklessly
Emmy noticed the computer was on and didn't want Max to mess up their dad's work
"Don't worry I know a lot about computers" he said as he began clicking on stuff
He clicked on an E-Mail marked "Invitation"
Suddenly an Olympic torch popped up on screen
"Hey Emmy look at what I did" said Max excitedly as it burned
"Max! Be careful!" she warned
Too late
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZPT!
There was a loud electrical sound followed by the computer lighting up like a Christmas Tree
Max dove out of the seat as blue strands of electricity arched around the computer madly
When it was over the computer was dark and smoking, the smell of burnt plastic was in the air
Max got up off the ground and looked at the charred computer
"Uh Oh" said Max with dread as he poked the smoking computer with his finger
It was very hot and he nearly burned himself
"Max!" scolded Emmy
"Sorry I didn't know it could do that!" he said defensively
"You are going to be in soooooooo much trouble" said Emmy
"What do we do?" asked Max in a panic
"You gotta tell dad" said Emmy
"No he'll ground me forever! Let's hide it!" suggested Max
"Remember what happened with Wheezie's trumpet?" asked Emmy
"Oh yeah" he said remembering how hiding the problem only made it worse and in the end Wheezie found out about it anyway
"Maybe we can fix it?" suggested Max
"That didn't work either" said Emmy
Max knew how Emmy had tried to fix it but it didn't work since she didn't know how, Quetzal had to fix it with his magic
"You shouldn't of been imitating Brass" scolded Emmy
"Wait a second, That's it…Brass!" said Max as an idea hit him
"What?" asked Emmy confused
"He'll know how to fix it" said Max happily
"I don't know" said Emmy unsure of the plan
"Come on! Do you still have the address? It'll be easy and Dad won't have to know about it. Please?" begged Max
Emmy thought about it for a second "Ugh…Fine! We'll have him fix it"
A huge smile of relief spread across Max's face
"But from now on be more careful!" scolded Emmy
"I will" said Max happily
"We'll hide it for now and after breakfast we'll get the others together and call Brass so he can meet us" said Emmy
"How will we call him? This computer's broke" asked Max holding up the laptop
"We'll go to the library where we met him and use one if them, Dad taught me a little about how to use them so I think I can get Brass a E-Mail" said Emmy
"Ok I'll go put this in the secret drawer" said Max
He then left the room to hide the laptop in the playroom
"Little brothers" said Emmy annoyed as she left for the kitchen
Warning : This is a public service announcement, there is a virus called the Invitation virus going around on the web. It comes through E-Mails from people on your address list. Do Not Open anything marked "Invitation" on your computer. It will destroy your computer. I'm not kidding
(Now with that out of the way let's go on)
Kitchen
Emmy was sitting at the kitchen table eating her breakfast. Her mom was busy still cooking for their father and Max, she had the radio on as she usually did in the morning. It was playing some Spanish music and she was singing to it at some parts. The kitchen was bright and warm from the sun shining through the window and the smell of cooking food filled the kitchen
"Emmy where is your brother?" asked her mother
"I think he left something in the playroom and went to go get it" said Emmy
She HATED lying to her own mommy
Just then Max came running into the kitchen still dressed in his cowboy outfit over his blue PJs
"Max take that off, you can play later" said their mother
"Ok" said Max
He quickly took off the cowboy outfit and hat and sat down to eat
As they ate they didn't talk to each other, they were too tense from what had happened
Also as they ate they listened to the radio that had now switched over to a news report
"Good morning everyone this is the morning news" came a voice over the radio
"We have news that their has been another sighting of the so called "Dragon Riders"
This caught Emmy and Max's attention
"This latest sighting happened around 9 o'clock last night in the commercial district"
Emmy looked at Max thinking he had something to do with this
He just gave her a confused look
"The purple and green Dragon Rider was spotted last night on Third Street"
'Enrique's been out alone again' thought Emmy
"The rider and dragon were seen attacking a carjacker as he tried to steal a sports car that was parked outside the Ring of Fire dance club. Eyewitnesses claimed that very short humanoid looking thing in a cloak hit him with several sword attacks before the dragon with two heads chased the suspect away with "Laser Breath". The suspect was mildly injured and was found nearby knocked out cold. He was taken into custody and an investigation is now underway and charges are being…"
They stopped paying attention when their father walked in
"Has anyone seen my computer?" he asked the second he walked in the door making Max very nervous
"I haven't" their mother answered
"I swear I left it in the study. Max, Emmy have you seen it?" he asked
Max turned ghost white at the question and began shaking madly
"Now we haven't" said Emmy quickly while Max looked like he had just committed a murder and was in police questioning
"Max are you ok? You look so pale" asked their mother
"I'm fine! I'm Fine! I'm fine, fine, fine!" he said nervously
"Ok" said their mother worriedly
Their father looked at his watch
"I don't have time to look, I gotta get going. I will find it after work" he said heading towards the door
"What about breakfast?" asked their mother as he left
"If I'm late we won't be able to afford breakfast" he joked as he left leaving Max shaking like he was freezing and looking pale as a ghost
Later at the Park
Enrique came by later after breakfast. Emmy and Max told him about what had happened and how they had to call Brass to fix the computer. They had quickly called the dragons, transformed, and then taken off to the library to use the computers there. Emmy, with the help of Enrique who E-mailed his friends in Columbia often, posted a message telling Brass to meet them in the dense part of the woods in the park where no one would see them and the dragons had plenty of room
They were currently waiting at the park for Brass to show up…If he was going to at all
"How long has it been?" complained Max hanging upside down off of a rock he was laying on
"He's running ten minutes late" said Enrique watching Zak and Wheezie play their scales
"He must be lost or something" said Cassie looking up from the book she was reading with Emmy
"Maybe he can't come" said Ord sitting on the ground
"They we'll have wasted all this time for nothing!" said Max "And Dad will still kill me" he added with dread
"Come on, it can't be that bad" said Wheezie
"Yeah, even Wheezie didn't get too mad when Emmy broke her trumpet" said Zak
"But this was really! REALLY! important" said Max
"It's that bad?" asked Ord
"Oh yeah, it had all his work on it. He's not going to be happy when he hears about it" said Enrique
Max just let out a groan
"Cassie is that the book I let you borrow?" asked Emmy hoping to change topic to cheer her brother up
"Yeah, I'm reading about this weird thing called de...democ…democracy" said Cassie still getting used to all these new words
"Oh! That's basically how we chose or leaders" said Emmy
"Really how does it work?" asked Cassie
"I don't really know. Maybe Brass can explain it when he gets here" suggested Emmy
"IF he gets here!" said Zak "We shouldn't have trusted him, he's so weird!"
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Suddenly a strange roaring sound could be heard coming from behind Zak and Wheezie
"What's that?" asked Wheezie curiously
Before they could turn to look Brass came flying over their heads on a black Quad
Zak screamed and ducked as Brass nearly took his head off with the tires
"YEE HAW!" Brass screamed as he flew over them and came crashing down with a loud bang
He rode for a few more feet before takeing a sharp turn and skidding to a halt
Brass turned off the Quad and turned to the others
"Someone call?" he asked in his very western accent
Brass had on the same outfit as before the only difference was he had on a black t-shirt the said "Bomb technician-If you see me running try and keep up"
"That was COOL!" said Wheezie
"That was horrifying!" screamed Zak
"Glad you're finally here" said Emmy walking over to him as he got off
"Why are you so late?" asked Enrique
"Got lost" he explained "Next time specify an exact location so I can find it and not ride around aimlessly in the empty part of the park for ten minutes"
"Opps, sorry" apologized Emmy
"So what's up?" he asked calmly "Need something hacked, decrypted, fired, stolen, or just blown all the way to New York?" he asked as he took a stick of TNT out of his pocket
"Um, no. We need something fixed" said Max
"Sorry my area's in de-construction not con-struction" said Brass
"Please?" begged Max
Brass groaned as Max looked at him with a "Please help me" look
"Ugh, what is it?" he asked half heartedly
Max took out the laptop that he had Ord carry in his pouch
Brass looked over the laptop
"Jees! What the heck happened to this! Did you have one of the dragons blow fire on it!" asked Brass
"No, I was playing on it and suddenly a flame video came up on it and then it blew up" said Max
"Flame Video?" he asked puzzled
"That sounds famile…." Brass stopped mid-sentence
He quickly turned to Max
"Did you happen to click anything beforehand?" he asked
"Yeah an E-mail our daddy received" said Max
"What was it called?" asked Brass urgently
"Umm, I don't remember. I think it started with an I though" said Max
He hadn't clearly seen just what he was clicking on
"INVITATION!" yelled Brass when he recognized it
"That was it!" said Max
"Have you heard of it?" asked Emmy
"Yeah it's suppose to be the strongest virus on the net besides the ones I have. Some say computers that are hit by it can't be fixed" said Brass
Max fell to the ground in agony at this last bit of info
"So it can't be fixed?" asked Emmy concerned
"Some say it can't be fixed but I know how!" said Brass proudly
"Really?" asked Max happily as he got up
"Yeah" he said grabbing the laptop and hooking it up to his own computer
"Basically the virus destroys all the 1s in a computer's programming" Brass explained
"What does that mean?" asked Wheezie
"What does that mean?" asked Enrique
"Computers only speak in two numbers 1s and 0s" said Brass typing away at the laptop
"How do you only speak in 1s and 0s?" asked Wheezie
"How does it speak in 1s and 0s?" forwarded Enrique
"Basically a 1 means "On" and a 0 means "Off". I won't go into details but if you get rid of all the 1s which has all the info all you are left with is 0s which just completely messes up the computer" said Brass pulling a CD out
"How will you fix it then?" asked Emmy
"Easy I got a program that fixes all the 1s, but it will take time" said Brass inserting the CD into his keyboard that was hooked up to the laptop and his goggles "Also I will need to repair the damage to the computer itself due to the fact it probably shorted out and got fried a bit"
Max let out a deep sigh of relief
"Why do people make these viruses?" asked Emmy
"Yeah they seem pretty mean" said Ord even though Brass had no idea what the dragon was saying
"Easy they are scumbags" said Brass
"A what?" asked Emmy
"Scumbags, people who do nothing for society but cause it problems by causing other people to suffer" said Brass
"You have people like that?" asked Cassie shocked
"Who on earth would do such things?" asked Emmy shocked
"Well let's see, you got these annoying as heck idiots who make viruses to screw up peoples computers for no reason at all" said Brass
"Don't you do that?" asked Cassie
"Don't you make viruses too?" asked Emmy
"Yeah but I use them for specific targets, I don't release them out into the open net to mess with random people for absolutely no reason at all" said Brass
"But you said you like to cause chaos" said Emmy accusingly
"Every once in a while on a small scale that's all" said Brass innocently
"Trust me there are a lot worse people out there than me, like telemarketers" said Brass
"What are they?" asked Emmy
She had heard her father complain about them more than once
"Why do they always call around dinner!" he said as he slammed the phone down at dinner time one night
"They are people who call you and offer to sell you stuff" said Brass
"How's that bad?" asked Wheezie
"What's wrong with that?" asked Enrique for her
"A lot of them are scammers! They offer you great stuff and rip off and steal your money. They often times strike old people especially" said Brass
"Why?" asked Enrique
"Do notice how old people are usually trusting and nice?" asked Brass
"You mean like Quetzal?" asked Whezzie even though Brass could not understand her
"Yeah" answered Enrique
"Telemarketers take advantage of that and steal all their money" said Brass
All of them gasped
The idea of someone stealing all of someone so nice's money was alien to them
"That's horrible!" said Ord
"I once saw this thing on TV. Some boiler room scammers offered some people "Beautiful copper engravings of Abraham Lincoln" for 50$. They paid and got pennies glued to a piece of cardboard" said Brass (This is true)
"How could they get away with that!" asked Emmy outraged
"They technically didn't lie so it's legal" said Brass
"It shouldn't be!" said Emmy angrily
"Yeah well scumbags always take advantage of holes in the legal system. Speaking of which our next scumbags are Lawyers!" said Brass
"I thought they were good" said Emmy
"They can be helpful from time to time, but mostly the warp the legal system to help bad people, like O.J!" said Brass
"Who's that?" asked Max
"Just someone who got away with murder on a technicality" said Brass
"Pretty mush if you can afford the most expensive lawyer on the market you can get away with anything here" said Brass
"So if a human has enough money they don't have to get punished!" asked Cassie shocked
"That's not fair!" said Emmy
"Not everything is fair in the world" said Brass "I should know" he added bitterly and quietly
"The world has many scumbags; The KKK who hate EVERYONE and everyone hates them, scammers who rip you off and disappear, Oil executives who are making 1000 more than your daddy probably for no work AT ALL, Celebrities who can get away with murder or worse COUGHmicheljacksonCOUGH because everyone loves them, and Dick Chaney" ranted Brass
"Wow that's a lot of bad people" said Cassie
"But there are a lot of good people too" said Emmy
"Correct, there is a lot of good in this world. The only problem is that evil is a lot more easily noticed" said Brass
"How's the computer coming along?" asked Max looking at the screen that just had a lot of 1s and 0s all over it
"It's getting there" said Brass typing away at an insane pace
"Oh Brass? I wanted to ask if you could explain democracy to the dragons" asked Emmy
"That's easy to explain! It's a good system for choosing leaders and running a country but it only works if you have good people in the system. We can see the results of having bad people in the system currently with good ol' George W." said Brass
"Who's that?" asked Cassie
"The President" said Emmy
"Oh, that king guy?" asked Cassie
"Not quite" said Emmy
"He's only one part of the system that controls the country, he's important but he's still only one person" said Enrique
"So you have more than one person as king?" asked Cassie
"Umm well that's not quite right" said Emmy unable to accurately describe how it works since she is only 6
"Brass can you help us? They don't understand that the president can't make decisions alone" asked Enrique
"Ok, I'll try but since I can't understand a single dang thing they're saying it'll be hard" said Brass
Brass got away from his computer and walked over to the dragons
"Will that be alright by it's self?" asked Max looking at the computer still doing something even though he had no idea what
"It'll be fine all the computer has to do run the program and it'll all be fixed" said Brass casually
He then turned back to the dragons
He walked up to them
He began examining them since he had not yet gotten a really close look at them
"One question? What's up with the two heads?" asked Brass to Enrique after seeing Zak and Wheezie up close
"The green one is Zak and the other is Wheezie" said Enrique
"Um…are they both the same gender?" asked Brass
"What's gender?" asked Enrique
"Boy or girl" said Brass
"Oh, Zak is a boy and Wheezie is a girl" said Enrique
Brass shuttered "Oh boy that's creepy"
"At least you don't have to live with her" said Zak
Wheezie let out an angry growl
"Let me guess he just insulted her?" said Brass
"Yup, how could you tell?" asked Enrique
"I might not understand them but I understand siblings fighting" said Brass
Brass walked in front of the group of dragons
"Ok, welcome to politics 101" he said to the dragons
"First off the deal with the president is that he can make big decisions but he needs approval from a bunch of other groups first" said Brass
"Why?" asked Cassie
"Why?" asked Emmy for Cassie
"It's to keep balance, there are three groups and one cannot override the other two. This keeps one group from holding all the power and ensures that all three have to agree on something before they do something" said Brass
"Just like how me and Wheezie have to agree on what we want to do for the day" said Zak
"Yeah" said Enrique
"But from time to time one ignores the other to do "stuff" that might not turn out well" said Brass
"Like when Wheezie does dangerous stuff without telling me and it lead to disaster!" said Zak angrily
Wheezie got mad and began arguing with Zak
Brass watched as the two headed dragon fought with it's self in inaudible growls and small roars
"Let me guess they fight a lot?" asked Brass watching Zak and Wheezie argue
"Yup" said Enrique
"Anyway, right now the president is in serious trouble for a lot of bad decisions" said Brass as Zak and Wheezie continued arguing
"Why? Did he break a rule?" asked Ord
Max translated for Brass
"No he just did a lot of stupid stuff" said Brass
"Like what?" asked Ord
Max again translated
"Like start a war in the wrong country" said Brass
"What's a war?" asked Ord
"A really big fight" said Brass
"So he started a fight in the wrong place?" asked Emmy
"Yeah, apparently he didn't study his ABCs and got a Q mixed up with an A" said Brass as Enrique finally got Zak and Wheezie to stop arguing
"I did that once" said Ord
Max translated Ord for Brass
Brass turns to the readers
"See, this is the level of intelligence that's running the country" he says gesturing to Ord before turning back
"Then there was the whole incident with Dick Chaney and the shotgun" said Brass
"What happened?" asked Ord
"He shot someone in the face" Brass said casually
Everyone gasped
"Yeah, now we know what happens when we let an old, rich, soulless guy who has helped start two wars go hunting low flying birds with someone dumb enough to be around him when he's armed" joked Brass "Personally I think Don King would be a better vice-president, it'd so wonders for his PR" he added
Brass took out a Don King wig and put it one and imitated being at a press conference
"Me and my client have gathered you all here to announce a war report. The terrorists are still fighting but we are the greatest! We shall beat them down and any other who dares fight us. China, Iran, Mexico! Tune in on Thursday at 8 o'clock to HBO to see us fight them all LIVE on national TV. The price is $29.99! For a live seat join the Army! Prepare for World War 3: Vengeance!"
The dragons and children just looked at him blankly unable to understand ANY of what he had just said
"Though crowd" said Brass putting away the wig
"What's a vice-president?" asked Cassie to get back on track
"The person who's second in charge" answered Emmy
"Oh" replied Cassie
"Speaking of which, who's in charge of your group?" asked Brass
"What do you mean?" asked Emmy
"Who is your leader?" asked Brass while imitating an alien from a 50's movie
The dragons and children all looked at each other for a second confused
"We never…picked one" said Enrique
"Do we need one?" asked Wheezie
"Do we need one?" Emmy asked Brass
"Of course! You need someone who can decide what is the best thing to do in certain situations and to take most of the blame when things go bad. You need someone who will decide what to do in a hard battle so you don't spend valuable time arguing about it and die" said Brass in an unusually happy tone on the word die
The dragons and children looked at each other confused again
"I think I should be the leader!" said Max
"No I should!" said Wheezie
They looked at each other angrily
"How do we chose who is the leader?" asked Enrique
"Rock, paper, scissors!" suggested Max
"Draw straws!" suggested Wheezie
Brass went up to the two
"No" he said to Max "And no to whatever it was you just said" he said to Wheezie
"We'll do this the democratic way! By insulting each other and making people think we look good!" he said in an important tone
"I though they had an election" said Emmy
"There's that too" said Brass
"What's an election?" asked Cassie
"We try and get other people to choose us by telling them why we should be leader" said Emmy
"Yeah the person who gets the most people to choose them wins" added Enrique
"They just asked about an election right?" asked Brass
Emmy nodded
"Ok, here's how it goes. Each possible choice tells people about themselves and why they should be leader. But you must remember that you also have to pay attention to the bad. Think about what's good about them and what's bad, then make your choice" explained Brass
"How about you have a human be the leader since they seem to know what is going on and have a dragon be second in command" he suggested
"There's nothing bad about me!" said Wheezie proudly
Zak just let out a laugh
"What was that for!" asked Wheezie angrily
"You're loud, messy, you never pay attention to stuff, and you keep doing dangerous stuff!" replied Zak
"Yeah well, you are too, boring, safe, clean, and you always have to ruin our fun!" yelled Wheezie
Brass watched Zak and Wheezie argue again
He leaned over to Enrique "What are they fighting about?" he whispered into his ear
"The usual, Zak being too clean and safe, Wheezie being too messy and reckless" answered Enrique in a whisper
Brass walked in front of Zak and Wheezie and turned to the others
"Ok here's a good example of what I meant about bad things" he said pointing to Zak and Wheezie
"These two fight too much and are completely opposite. They are a two party system in one person…Um, dragon" said Brass
"What's a two party system?" asked Cassie
Emmy translated Cassie's question for Brass
"It's when you have two groups of people to make decisions. Both are completely opposite and never agree on ANYTHING! Like for us we have Democrats and Republicans. I can't be a democrat since I like to spend the money I stea..make!" he corrected quickly "And I can't be a republican since I like to spend the money I make on guns and bombs. Anyway basically in the two party system the two groups argue about the STUPIDEST things for sooo long nothing gets solved and all we do is waste time so don't bother picking them" said Brass pointing to Zak and Wheezie
"Hey!" both yelled angrily at Brass who didn't care since all he heard was a growl
"Well he might be right" said Enrique "You do fight a lot and if you are busy arguing during a fight something bad could happen"
"Ok then with them out of the running who's up next?" asked Brass
"How about me and Ord?" asked Max happily
"Well you do look strong" said Brass
Max flexed his non-existent muscles proudly for Brass
"Well big blue over there does anyway" said Brass pointing to Ord
Max let out a moan of annoyance for being ignored
"And a lot of people do like strong leaders, but half the time they usually have IQs lower than gas prices" said Brass
"What's that mean?" asked Max confused
"Let me put it this way, you two don't look like the brightest crayons in the box. But that didn't stop ol' George W. did it?" said Brass
"I still don't get it" complained Ord
"I think he's saying you aren't the smartest of the group" said Cassie politely as she could
"Hey! He just called us dumb!" said Max angrily
"Well Max you and Ord….kind of… aren't exactly the bravest either" said Emmy as politely as she could
"Me and Ord are really brave! Come on Ord show them!" said Max
Ord and made a heroic pose with Max on his shoulders doing the same thing
Brass looked unimpressed
Instead he looked down at Ord's feet
"You have a spider on your foot" he said blankly pointing to Ord's feet
Ord screamed like a girl, turned invisible, and ran away at top speed causing Max to fall to the ground
"Ord wait!" said Max getting up and chasing after him
He let out an "ooof" as he ran into Ord's invisible body hiding behind a rock
Brass just bent down to look at the spider
"My bad! It was just a twig!" he said holding it up
"Ord it was just a twig calm down" said Max trying to calm Ord to visibility again
"It was?" asked Ord fearfully with a stutter slowly becoming visible
Brass looked at the scene with amusement
"Quick we have a problem! Get our leader!...Someone find the leader!" he joked
He the fell to the floor laughing
"Hey! That's mean!" said Max angrily
Brass got up
"Sorry, but no offense. I don't think that will work out too well" he said with a slight chuckle
"All that leaves is…" said Enrique
He and the others turned to Cassie and Emmy
"US?" asked Cassie shocked "But we can't be leaders!"
"What's up?" Brass quietly asked max
"She says they can't be leaders" answered Max
"Only middle eastern countries, here it's fine for a girl to lead. Well unless you're aiming for president that is then HA you're going to have a hard time getting past those idiots in Washington" joked Brass
"Why can't we Cassie?" asked Emmy
"Because…um…because…" said Cassie hesitant to say why
"What?" asked Emmy
"I'm not a good leader" said Cassie sadly
"You did fine on teacher's day in the kitchen" said Emmy
"Yeah but that was cooking and not something this important! If I mess up someone could be hurt or worse! I can't do it!" she said sadly
Cassie then began to shrink to the size of a doll
"Is that common for dragons?" asked Brass calmly as she shrunk
"No she just shrinks when she is sad or nervous" said Emmy
"So big blue can turn invisible with fear, and she can shrink with sadness" said Brass
He then turned to Zak and Wheezie
"What can you do?" asked Brass
"SINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!" sang Wheezie loudly
All Brass heard was an absolutely horrible screech from Wheezie
"I wish you wouldn't" said Zak covering his ears from that last note
"That was absolutely dreadful, absolutely horrible!" Brass said imitating Simon Cowl
Meanwhile Emmy went over to Cassie and had picked her up and was trying to talk to her
"Aw, come one Cassie you can do it" said Emmy comfortingly
"But what if I mess up? What if I take too long? What if I don't know what to do!" she asked franticly
"I'll be with you Cassie, remember? We'll be in it together" said Emmy
"Really?" asked Cassie half-confidently
"Yeah! And besides you'll do fine. You're really smart, you come up with a lot of good ideas, and you don't give up" said Emmy
Cassie returned to normal size
"You're right Emmy! I can't give up!" she said proudly
"Yeah! Defiantly!" said Emmy giving her a thumbs up
Brass and the rest watched the scene unfold
"Why do I get the feeling something important happened?" asked Brass unable to understand most of the conversation
"So you'll be the leaders?" asked Zak
"I guess" said Emmy
"I still want to be the leader" said Max in a disgruntled tone
"We'll just do it how they do it for the country. Even though we're the leader we'll still have to all agree on something" suggested Emmy
All the others nodded in agreement
BEEP!
"What was that?" asked Max
"Oh, the computer's ready" said Brass walking over to it
"Alright, I replaced the chips and other fried parts, and I restored the base programming. All that's left to do is access the OS files, restore the R.O.M, and bring back the files stored in the R.A.M" said Brass messing with the laptop
All the kids and dragons looked at him blankly
"Give me two minutes and it'll be fixed" said Brass in simple terms
Max just let out a sigh of relief
"I'm not going to be grounded till I'm a bazillion years old then" he said sitting on the ground
"Max I hope you learned your lesson!" said Emmy sternly
"Yeah, don't click on flame videos" said Max
"AND?" asked Emmy
"Don't mess with other people's stuff" he said
"Yeah! That's my job!" said Brass
Brass then handed Max back the computer and got on his quad
"Thanks for everything Brass" said Max
"De nada" said Brass
"Is there anyway to thank you?" asked Emmy
"Yeah tell me the next time something interesting happens, I love to be where the action is and you guys seem prone to interesting things" said Brass "Also I'm curious to see if I can get myself waist deep in trouble"
"Why?" asked Max
"So I can blow stuff up!" he said happily
"Ok we'll call next time" said Emmy
"Ok then I'm off, I got some dang postal issues to short out" said Brass pulling out a baseball bat
"Is that for mail boxes?" asked Emmy hearing something about knocking them down with a bat
"No PostMEN He He He. I'M OFF!" he said tearing off into the distance on his quad
The dragons flew up and could see Brass riding around chasing a postman on the road below
"LOSE MY GUN MAGIZINES WILL YOU!" yelled Brass like a madman as he approached a mail carrier on foot
He decked him with the bat and then took off full speed down the road laughing evilly making sure to scrape several white cars with his black quad along the way
Later that night
Max had gotten the computer back in the study and his dad didn't even notice anything odd
While Max and Emmy slept their dad was busy catching up on his work on the laptop
Suddenly he saw a new file he had never seen before
It was marked "Invitation"
End Chapter
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Next Chapter:
Chapter 11: The Baby Sitter
Max and Emmy's parents are forced to stay away from home longer due to a promotion. They have to find a baby sitter to take care of the children while they are not home. They find one who is quiet odd. They have to get over their first impressions of him and see that he might not be as bad as thought. Also they have concern over a new hero on the scene that is very mysterious and only goes by the name "Phoenix"