"You deserve to know what's going on," Drum told the Mikado family. He looked at them and waited for anyone to ask something.

"You can explain now," Suzumi ordered.

"I was expecting someone to cut me. Personal experience told that it happens a few times before anyone can explain things," Drum said defensively before grunting. He gave a serious glare at them that commanded silence: "When you found me gravely injured in the park Gao, it was because I was after an extremely dangerous criminal that escaped his judgement for a few years now. His title is Findar the 100th, but his name is Jackknife, a large green dragon who stabbed our world in the back."

Chapter 5: Jackknife crimes

"You mean that he betrayed other dragons?" Gao asked surprised.

"Yes. I'll give you the short version, because it would be boring," Drum said scratching his head before continuing: "It started a few years ago when our world, the Dragon world was in the middle of the war against the Danger world. Findar the 100th was one of the elite soldiers commanding a squadron during this war. From what I know, there was a dangerous weapon develop there than endangered the Dragon world. It had been used once and destroyed a few islands of the Dragon world in one blast."

"How is that possible?" Takashi asked, not believing what he was hearing.

"We have a gate that connects to different world, just like one that connects to yours. Anyway, the weapon was located in a village and the mission Findar was in was to destroy it. They succeeded in it, but something turned bad during the mission. I heard that he turned against his general and coldly killed a few dragons and helped some habitants of the Danger world to escape. This treason is unacceptable for the dragons and those murders couldn't be forgotten. He was arrested, but escaped once back to the Dragon world and a chasse started for his head. During three years, dragons searched for him until we found a world we never saw before. This world I mean. A squadron will come tomorrow and the hunt will continue, he's here after all," Drum finished.

"Why are you here now?" Hanako innocently asked.

Drum eyes were fully opened before his tail twitched: "W-well...I was impatient and I n-need to prove something. I came today instead and almost die."

"So more dragons will show up tomorrow," Suzumi said, understanding what he was implying.

"Yes. I hope they'll try not to get attention. This world never saw us and no one knows what will happen if we are found out," Drum said, keeping it vague.

"So you're going to search for him tomorrow?" Gao asked.

"Yes, but not alone. Before I crossed you're part, those spell cards weren't working," Drum said as he put the cards on the table: "Something in this worlds is different than the others, so only your kind can use them. The spells are useless for me as long as I'm here. This is where the situation is worse. There's a boy with blue hair who's helping Findar. I do now stand a chance against Findar for now and the squadron will have lots of trouble without spells. I don't know how he convince a kid to help him...He must been lying."

"A boy with blue hair?" Gao asked at the moment Drum finished. He thought about it and knew someone with blue hair. He saw him a few times at his school, but also knew he wasn't the only one: "I don't really know who it is."

"It is late and I'm sure Findar will remain hidden for a while. He knows we are searching for him here. That's pretty much all and-," Drum saw something on the table and pointed at it: "What is that?"

No one immediately replied, processing the information's the dragon shared. One thing was in everyone's mind, even Gao's younger sister: Something big is coming.

Takashi finally went over the processing and replied: "That's desert. I think we shouldn't talk more about it. I don't think anyone can take it anymore."

"Agreed. That's also everything I know like those who will come here. Findar the 100th is infamous for his treachery," Drum said taking the desert and took a bite. His eyes turned into stars again and had a big dump smile: "This is sooooooooo delicious! What is it?"

"Pudding," Hanako replied.

"That taste like heaven," the mini-dragon answered. He then looked at them: "Also, can I stay here for the night?"

Suzumi glared at him and made Drum gasped. The mini-dragon quickly finished eating before entering in another argument against Gao's her.

Tasuku sat on the sofa of the living room of his house. The room was badly painted with green and blue with a few claw marks on it which were accidental. There was a sofa and a television in the living room plus a table between the two other objects. On it, the spell cards of Jackknife were there.

It was a house he habited since the loss of his family three years ago. He lived there with his friend, but also father figure, Jackknife. The house was big enough for the dragon to move around without a difficulty, but also to hide in there. The house was obtained thanks to his heritage coming from his family. He could live for most of his life by himself.

Jackknife returned to the living room and observed Tasuku, his friend in the human world. He lowered his head and waited for the boy to say something. He grew worried inside of him when his amber eyes saw some confusion in his mind.

"What is it Tasuku?" Jackknife softly asked as he moved near the boy. He moved his snout closer to the boy and said: "There's something in your mind. I know you long enough to tell it."

"What this dragon said is true?" Tasuku asked.

"What do you mean?" Jackknife replied, unsure of how he should react.

"He said that you are a fugitive." Tasuku calmly said before suddenly snapping out: "It means that you are a criminal Jackknife! What did you do?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

Jackknife was taken aback by the outburst of the blue hair boy and dropped his head in shame and pain. He said nothing for a few seconds before looking at the boy, his lips down as he replied: "I...never had the courage to-" He took a deep breath before continuing: "-tell you the true."

Tasuku took a deep intake and sighted loudly, calming down as he looked into the eyes of the green dragon: "What did you do?"

"That dragon is after me because of the crime I committed. It is high treason of my world during the war against the Danger world. I betrayed my kind, but for a good reason Tasuku." Jackknife looked at Tasuku and saw he had all his attention. Jackknife continued. "We were a few squadrons attacking a village where a dangerous weapon was hidden. After we destroyed the weapon, I saw something that I couldn't stand for. The battle was still going on and the dragons were bloodthirsty. I saw that they were about to kill some children in the village and I couldn't let it happen. It wasn't why we were fighting for. It was just murders. My words weren't affecting their mind, so I had no choice, but to kill two of them. They didn't take it well as you guess. I was arrested and chained, by the order of the general for treason. I was about to be brought up for judgement and I knew I would be guilty no matter what I said," Jackknife closed his eyes and said nothing for a few seconds. He felt a hand on his snout. He saw Tasuku flatting his snout: "I do not lie about it. When I was back at the Dragon world, one of the dragons secretly helped me out because he felt I did the right thing and knew how I was going to end. I escaped and I eventually cross your path when I came to this world."

"You went through a lot Jackknife," Tasuku said. He added: "I believe you. We've been together for three years and you'll never do anything that could hurt me," he put his head on the nose of his dragon friend and said: "I'll do anything to protect you, just like how you protected me during all those years."

Jackknife closed his eyes and replied: "Thank you Tasuku for believing me."

The morning came and Gao woke up from his slumber. He heard someone snoring and looked down. He saw the mini dragon resting on the ground without his armor peacefully. After a few minutes the mini dragon also woke up.

They walked down the stairs and joined Hanako who was currently watching TV. They sat there and said nothing as it played the news as nothing good was one except that.

"I still can't believe you manage to convince mom to change her mind and let you stay for the night," Hanako commented when she spoke to Drum.

"You know. I was persuasive," Drum replied.

"Yeah, but not in the right way," Gao said rolling his eyes.

"Say that again," Drum asked.

"We have to get ready for school," Gao said.

"Gramma is preparing the breakfast," Hanako said.

"Then we can watch the...news. There's nothing else this morning?" Gao asked.

"No. It's Thursday," Hanako replied.

"So this is television. A magic box with image in it," Drum said looking at it amazed.

They watched the reporter giving the news as he was filmed in front of a coffee shop: "-and the customer was sent to the hospital after a fight against another customer. The police didn't leave any commentary on what happened and-"

"Excuse me strange creature," a voice said outside the range of the camera.

Drum frowned when he heard the voice and grunted, wondering who said that.

The reporter mouth opened as his eyes widened. The camera turned around and pointed to a big and tall lizardman with blue scales, long blue tail, a few horns on the back of his head, looking at the man with his two yellow eyes. He wore a while and amber armor on his body and a skirt. Around his bracelet, it had black chains.

"Ironchain!" Drum shouted surprised. "That idiot did what we shouldn't have done!"

"Did you see a dragon like this named Findar the 100th?" Ironchain asked. "Okay. Hey you!"

The camera watched Ironchain dashing away to someone else.

The family was now present as they watched the news with their jaw opened.

"THERE'S NOT STEALTH AT ALL!" Drum screamed furiously. "If Findar had this TV, he knows this!"

"This is going to cause a huge panic all over the world, unless the government managed to cover this up, but a dragon running around isn't going to work," Suzumi said.

Tasuku and Jackknife watched the news. Jackknife lowered his head and grunted: "Things are getting bad for me Tasuku. I cannot go outside now or they will find me. There's surely more dragons around here."

"Have you notice he showed a paper in his hands?" Tasuku asked his friend.

"Yes...I have a bounty on my head. They don't care who bring me anymore. The other worlds might come for my head too," Jackknife replied. He looked at the boy and said; "Even so. You still have to go to school. If you are acting differently now, it could be troublesome later on. I'll be fine here."

Tasuku looked at his friend and father figure and hesitated to walk outside and leave him alone.

"Go now. Don't make me push you outside," Jackknife said crossing his arms.

Tasuku sighted and walked outside, at the direction of school.

Jackknife sighted and said: "Things are getting out of control really fast."

AC: This is the end of chapter 5 and the end of the introduction.

More characters will come up. Gao's friends will show up and the cast will come as the story advance.

I will move the focus of the story between Tasuku and Gao as the story advance because there's a lot going on.