Chapter 8: Organisation

Gao returned to his home with his two friends and his sister.

"I'm home. I'll prepare myself for the training," Gao said.

"Good. You aren't late this time," Suzumi said.

"Where is he?" Kuguru asked curiously.

"He must still be searching for the others," Gao replied.

"That's too bad. I wanted to meet him," Kuguru said.

"We should wait for him to come back and watch how the training is going," Baku replied calmly. He went over the fact that dragon existed and that Gao could use magic card.

"Now...I have to explain my parents that you know about Drum," Gao nervously said, thinking of the worse scenario.

They walked in the dojo. It wasn't as bad as Gao said when Kuguru explained why he told them. Suzumi was just glaring at Gao, but didn't have any other consequence than that. Gao training for a while until a door knocked.

"I'll get it," Takashi said. After a few seconds, they heard, "He's back."

Drum entered in the dojo in his chibi mode, scratching nervously his arms. When he saw Baku and Kuguru, he gasped: "Oh oh!"

He was about to turn around when Gao said, "It's alright. They know everything," before his mother grabbed him and tossed him on the ground.

Drum glared at him and shouted, "You told them! I told you to keep it a secret and-"

"We knew there was something going on. He was acting differently than he usually was and we made him talk," Kuguru said with a small smile.

"We are his best friends, so we notice it when he had something in his mind. He just told us that you were that something," Baku explained.

Drum sighted and said, "Fine. You better no say it to anyone and I really mean anyone. Not just some words you are saying. You have to say nothing to anyone. This is troublesome already that Ironchain did that stupid thing."

"Why are you nervous?" Hanako asked when she saw his tail twisting around.

"I already have too much trouble. I don't want more than I already have," Drum said.

"Drum," Hanako said walking closer. Drum looked at her and calmed down a little: "What happen?"

"Well...I joined the others and they told me something bad...My father is mad and once he comes here...I'm dead," Drum replied.

"That's one strict father you have," Suzumi said. She smirked and said, "Maybe he can show me some trick."

Gao shouted, "Mom!" with fear.

Suzumi chuckled and replied, "Drum is just overdramatising."

"No I'm not! I'm serious. Not only that...But Axia is coming and I'll have to hide from him," Drum said.

"Why?" Baku asked.

"He knows no boundaries. Axia is a dragon that does anything he wants even when it's inappropriate or illegal. He breaks every rule he wants. He's called here because he's an expert in the spell cards and anything related to magic. A lot of trouble is coming for me," Drum sighted.

Everyone imagined Axia as a dragon wearing a bicker suit with a few scars and an evil grin. Scary. They thought.

"Anyway, my days are counted and-" Drum sniffed loudly and said, "other dragons are coming."

The door knocked and their heard Takashi saying, "Coming. Hel- Drum. It's for you."

Takashi entered into the dojo. Ironchain and Halberd entered in the dojo.

"You shrink!" Ironchain shouted, pointing his fingers at Drum before laughing loudly.

"More dragons," Kuguru said.

"Just too many," Baku whispered.

Halberd hit the back of Ironchain head and ordered, "Stop laughing! We are guest here and we have to be polite. Hello everyone. I'm Thunder Knight Halberd Dragon, but you can call me Halberd only. This one by my side is Ironchain Dragon."

"Just call me Ironchain," he said patting the back of his head painfully.

The others presented themselves.

"What are you doing in here?" Suzumi ordered while glaring at them.

"Look at that," Ironchain said, walking closer to her and pointing his finger at her, "She thinks she's scary."

"Ironchain," Halberd grunted.

"Well you are not," Ironchain said.

Suzumi cracked her knuckles and glared at the blue dragon.

"Ironchain!" Drum yelled. He knew how it was going to end, since he experienced it personnaly.

"Stop this now," Halberd ordered.

"She wants to fight. So-" Ironchain couldn't say anything else when Suzumi punched the stomach of the dragon before following with a uppercut. Ironchain lost his balance and was on the ground grunting painfully before saying, "What...ha-happen?"

"That's my wife," Takashi commented with a smile.

Halberd chuckled and commented, "You got what you were asking for Ironchain."

Suzumi glared at Ironchain and crawled behind Halberd.

"Why are you two here?" Suzumi ordered.

"You are the leader of this family. Alright. Let's go to our reason here. I communicated with the leader of our squadron and I have a message for Drum," Halberd said.

"What is it?" Drum asked.

"He said that you won't be punished for your action this time and took the information's you share seriously. The reason is that your father punishment will be enough," Halberd said.

Drum lost all his color of his scales and turned gray.

"Although he said, don't involve anyone of this world until Axia finished his research," Ironchain said, nodding.

"That is all?" Drum asked, returning to his usual color.

"For you yes. Also, since this family knows about our existence and this place..."

"Our dojo," Gao explained.

"Dojo is big enough. There's something I want to ask of you," Halberd said.

"Go on," Takashi said.

"Our chief said that it is obvious that it will take a long time to capture Findar the 100th. So we were wondering if you would accept to let the dojo be our base of op-"

"No way!" Suzumi shouted. "One dragon here is tough to take, but a squadron is-"

"Calm down. Let him finish," Takashi said walked near his wife and putting his arm on her shoulder.

"What I meant is that it will be our base of operation. We will only be here for the night to rest and eat," Halberd calmly replied.

"We don't have enough money to feed dragon too," Takashi replied.

"Do not worry about it. In our mission file, it said that if we have the cooperation of civilians of this world, they will receive compensation," Halberd replied calmly. "Just letting us here is cooperation and I don't want to ask more than that. I know it's an inconvenient, but we must arrest a traitor. Findar the 100th could be dangerous to your world eventually," he said.

Suzumi sighted and replied: "Only the nights..." she looked at her children and wondered if it was for the best. She sighted and replied: "I would say no...but for their safety...alright. But you have to be like Drum."

"Our smaller form...Alright," Halberd replied.

"What?! We look stupid in that form and-" Halberd glared at Ironchain who sighted, "Fine."

They transformed into their chibi form. They were smaller and cuter. The chains of Ironchain were gone and the halberd of the other dragon was gone. Halberd horns were also smaller and looked cuter with his big eyes. They were both the same size as mini Drum.

"The other's will come tomorrow with the compensation and-" Halberd stopped talking when a loud sound resonated. Halberd chuckled nervously as his red cheek turned redder as he said, "Sorry. Didn't eat for the entire day. Hehe."

"Me neither," Ironchain said.

"Don't worry. We'll make enough for everyone," Takashi said before walking to the kitchen.

"You all look so cute!" Kuguru said looking at the three dragons.

"Oh dragon," Ironchain said shaking his head.

"Thanks," Halberd said with a big smile.

A man, sitting in a black chair, was wearing a white shirt with blue sleeves, a red cape and green pants. He had peach skin, short black hair and brown eyes. He corrected his glasses as he read the report through the screen of his computer. He read a long report about the strange event of the morning.

He looked at the picture of the blue reptile and listened to the voice recording again. Nothing came in his mind. He sighted and said, "Nothing is clear about this strange event," the phone rang on the black chair he was sitting it. He picked up and said, "This is the commander speaking."

"-Hello commander. This is the Minister of Defence. I think you're read the dossier I sent to you?-" a female voice asked.

"Yes. I have read everything about it. It is a strange thing that happened on TV. I searched everything and there is nothing about a movie or publicity related to dragons like this blue one. It still could be a fraud, but the camera showed a lot of things absent," the commander replied.

"-Absent things?-" the Minister of Defense asked.

"Yes. That is the good thing with HD camera. They showed much more and also what's absent. What I didn't see, it's anything related to a costume. Normally, when you checked while zooming, you should see a small space or anything indicating that person was wearing a costume, but I didn't see any of this," the commander replied, correcting his glasses. He sighted before adding, "If what that reptile said is true, it means that they are searching for a criminal that might be in our town."

"-That's not something I like to hear. Listen, we cannot let the public be aware those real reptiles are present in town. If the population is aware of it, it will cause a panic and we can expect the USA to stick their nose into this.-"

"You want to keep this situation a secret?" Commander asked. He waited for an answer as he crossed his fingers.

"-Yes. We cannot cause a panic and let the USA do whatever they want in our country like they did in 2018,-" she said. The commander heard at the other side of the phone call the minister hitting something, "-Anyway. This is an extremely complex situation that cannot go out of control again.-"

"How do you want me to proceed?"

"-The government and myself give you, as they said in French...Carte Blanche.-" the Minister of defense replied, "-It is a situation where we need to be...open-minded.-"

The commander smiled as he replied, "Wouldn't be the same with a conservatism government. Do not worry; I will act as it seems fit."

"-Wish it won't turn for the worse.-"

Commander put down the phone; he sighted and put his hand over his forehead, "We have so much to deal with right now," he stood up from his chair and walked at the direction of the exit, "First thing first. I need to form a squadron and a plan on how to proceed now."

AC: This is the end of chapter 8.

Next chapter: The Dragowizard, Qinus Axia