Paradise Island

7:33 A.M

E.S.T

"I wish you would stay longer, my little warrior," Grandmama wishes as she helps me prepare for the flight back to the mainland.

"I wish to stay as well, but my family on the mainland needs me," I state, taking a large breath of the sweet, fresh air of Paradise. "And besides, if I need to train with my powers, I can always take a trip back home."

"And there will always be a place for you here," Grandmama smiles, holding my face gently between her palms. "Stay strong, Adeline. Fear nothing. And expect Troya and I to visit you soon. I want to meet this… Haneul, and see how great he is for myself."

"I'll be on alert," I chuckle, taking her hands within my own. "I must be off now."

"Best of wishes, my Adeline," She smiles, releasing me to the jet, Skotádi jumping in right next to me. "And may Hera's will be in your favor!"

"Goodbye Grandmama!" I shout, closing the heavy doors of the Jet, locking them in place with a 'click'.

"Alright Skotádi, are you ready?" I ask the dragon, placing my headphones over my ears, and flipping the switches to 'on', hearing the jet's engine roar to life.

'Goodbye, Paradise…' I state longingly, as the jet takes off on the beaches of Themyscira. 'Hello Haneul.'

It takes a few hours to get back to D.C.

The clouds over the Atlantic looked strange as I was returning. Not in the sense that they were colored different, but in the sense that they were less 'pop-corn' like, and more… smooth… I know that the Bermuda Triangle has some weird electric fog that pops up once in awhile to hide the island, but this is not fog. Nor is it attracted to the jet like it would normally do.

An uneasy feeling settled in the back of my mind, warning me to stay alert.

"I don't think I like this, Skotádi," I state wearily as Sko's hood narrows as if in apprehension.

"Good to know that I'm not crazy," I sigh, reaching over to pat his head lovingly.

'Remember when Sko layed next to Jaso-' I halt my mind in it's place. 'That didn't happen. It was a dream sequence that I created to protect my mind. Remember?'

'But it was nice, wasn't it?' I wonder. 'They were just dreams… Who would it hurt if I just daydreamed about if it could happen?'

'Me. It could hurt me,' I deadpan at myself.

Sko seems to spot my internal struggle.

He paws at the dashboard, and cocks his head to the side in curiosity.

"Don't worry, Sko," I smile at the dragon. "I'm okay."

He 'smiles' back at me, his forked tongue hanging out from the side of his mouth, and his red eyes closed.

'Cutie…' I giggle at him as I re-focus on the sky.

Then, my aircraft alarm starts beeping wildly.

"Huh?" I voice my concern, tapping at the sonar readings.

Sure enough, a little green dot is spotted on my scanner, and it's approaching quicker than a civilian aircraft.

"Are you seeing this, Sko?" I wonder, diving the jet down to avoid a collision, and to avoid detection.

As I place the jet in a slight nose dive into the clouds, I begin to hear a screeching sound over the radio.

"What in Hades name…?" I wonder, trying to find the proper frequency to try to hear the words more clearly.

Sko's head tilts to the side, as if he were listening to the sound as well.

"Do you hear this too, Sko?" I ask, my brows scrunched together in confusion.

His head tilts every few seconds as if he were tuning an internal radio.

"You okay, bud?" I ask him, reaching out to touch his long, blue face.

He huffs in irritation and begins to shake his head, trying to rid himself of the sound.

"Alright," I begin to worry for him. "Okay, I'll get us out of here. Hang on, Sko."

I push the jet into a faster speed, and hope that whatever it is making Sko go crazy, will just leave us alone.

"Hang in there, bud," I comfort him. "When we get to D.C, we'll go straight to the Hall of Justice, and have Atom take a look at you, okay?"

Suddenly, a large black mass of...something flies into the direct path of the jet, all but crashing into the nose.

It makes a horrible screaming sound as it almost cracks the glass of the windshield, before the force of the jet forces it over onto the side of us, taking a turbine with it.

Warning alarms start blaring through the jet, signaling a loss of an engine.

'GREAT! FUUUUUUUUU- Okay. Chill. We need to make a safe landing first! Maybe a nearby island, or just coast on the water?' I freak out just a bit, trying to stabilize our descent. 'Call it in! Mayday!'

I get on the radio, and send out a signal to the one place I know it will get to, the Hall of Justice.

"WONDERBAT CALLING A MAYDAY, MAYDAY! I shout over the alarms. "Loss of engine, does anyone copy?!"

White noise fills my headphones.

"HALL OF JUSTICE! DOES ANYONE COPY?!" I shout.

No answer again.

"Watchtower! Wonderbat calling Mayday in the Bermuda Triangle! Requesting immediate assistance!" I shout once again into the radio, all the while trying to keep control of the joystick. "Engine two is out! Nose dive initiated!"

All I receive is static in my headphones.

"Great!" I laugh humorlessly. "Radio must be jacked! Alright Sko, this is gonna be rough! Hold on!"

I take the Jet off of Autopilot, and switch to manual.

I take the joy-stick and pull upwards, hoping to avoid becoming yet another lost jet in the Bermuda.

As we breach the clouds, I spot the ocean approaching us faster than I'd like.

Gritting my teeth, I try to slow us down by deploying our back parachutes.

As I all but smash the release button, I hear a horrible 'CREEEEEAAAAKKK...WAHFOOM', and suddenly, our tail is gone.

"Son of a HALF-BREED!" I shout over the loud winds.

'Don't focus on that!' I remind myself. 'Land first, retrieve later!'

My eyes narrow in determination as I let the jet skim the blue waters of the sea.

I barely have time to register Sko hopping off of his seat, and jumping onto my legs as I almost fly out of the cabin. Even with my seat-belt on, the wind vortex behind us is just a bit stronger than that of fabric.

In a last ditch effort to save the jet from total destruction, I shut all engines off, and let gravity take hold of us, slamming us down into the water, the momentum of the crash gliding through the water.

"Hrooooouuuuu… hroou, hroooouuu," Sko whimpers at me, nudging my torso with his head.

"I'm okay," I pant heavily. "We're okay, Sko…"

I lean back in my seat, and run my hands over my face.

Sko huffs lightly, and collapses on the ground next to my feet.

I open my eyes, and glance down at the space dragon.

'He jumped out of his seat, while a swirling vortex of wind was right behind us, to protect me…' I note astonishingly, as he takes some much needed rest. 'I could have just died… and he saved me… Loyalties sure do run far in dragons...'

I smile lightly at the blue, red and gold dragon on the floor of the plane.

"...Sko… Diana's so gonna kill me… isn't she…?"

Skotádi

My human is safe. Time for a rest now.

I know what you're thinking.

'Why is a Drake talking?'

Because I can.

Well, not out loud.

Think of me as being mute. I can make roars that terrify my enemies, and force them into submission! But If I want a potato, best believe that I'm about to be acting like the cutest thing you've ever seen.

My human is a strange one. She can fly by herself, but prefers a machine like this one to do it for her. I do not like this machine. It makes noises, and it shutters, but I have my seat next to my human, so there's a plus.

My human is my favoritest thing. She loves me, and gives me food, and rubs, and toys, and takes me on deadly missions with her. My human has a lot of trust in me.

I should probably address the whole 'drake' thing earlier.

I am not a dragon, as I often hear my human, and other humans call me. Dragons have wings. I do not. There is very little difference, but I am still not a dragon. I don't particularly mind though, as long as I get my potato.

I have been assigned another common name among the citizens of this world. They call me Monster. I do not like this name. I am no monster. I am a Drake and I like potatoes.

My human has another human that keeps her company.

I like this one better than the last one.

This one teaches me things, and makes sure that I have a cozy spot next to my human as she slumbers.

This human is no human. He is a magician. He and my human did this thing a while back, and I was scared he was trying to devour her. My human pushed me away when I attempted to save her, so I guess if she gets eaten from the face, it won't be my fault.

My human had another human around for a while. I did not like it. It was always green, like vegetables. I don't like vegetables. Then it turned yellow, like squashes. I don't like squashes either.

This one tried to hurt my human not to long ago, but I bit into it's arm, and made it scream.

That made me happy.

My human's superior is not here at the moment, but I like this one as well. I like the island we go to, and the other humans there. They feed me, and give me rubs. Rubs and food are my favoritest thing.

I like the ponies with the wings. They can be scary, but they too like food, so I guess they're not so bad.

My human begins to shuffle from her spot on her seat.

I open my eyes, and tilt my head up at my human.

"It's okay, Sko," My human sighs in distress. "If I can find something to write with, I can call Han, and he can help us get out of here. If all else fails, looks like we'll have to pull the Jet to shore, and call for a pick up on the Mainland."

'Human. I can do this human,' I whimper at her, pawing at her armor clad feet.

"What is it?" She asks, kneeling down to face me on the ground. "Are you wounded?"

She begins to search me for injuries.

I howl in surprise as she touches my back leg, making a shock of pain shoot through my spine.

'Why?!' I narrow my hood at my human.

"Sorry, Sko," she apologizes, making to rub the bridge of my face. "If I had just stayed on our path, and not have dived, we wouldn't be in this mess."

'Human, I am a Drake. I can handle this,' I comfort, nuzzling my nose into her torso.

"Okay, so pushing the jet home is out of question," She summarises. "If I can get a knife, or something sharp, I can carve Han's sigil into the floors, and call for a pick up."

'Human,' I whine.

"I know, Sko, I'll try to be fast-"

'HUMAN,' I whine louder.

"Oh, quit being so dramatic," She pouts, standing up, and moving to the cargo hold to find her items. "If I can't I better go and get our tail. I'd suck majorly if our enemies were to find that tech."

I huff at my human's misunderstanding, and I begin to draw the Magician's sigil in the floors beneath me.

A line, in a triangle, in a circle, in a square, in a star.

"Audite vocem meam, Haneul," I vocalize. Of course my human can only hear growls from me, but this is what I am saying.

"Sko?" My human inquires.

The symbol glows a bright red before it turns clockwise, then counter-clockwise.

"Annyeonghaseyo?" A soft voice replies.

'This is not my human's human…'

"Jeong?" Adeline asks. "Where's Han?"

"Adeline?" Jeong counters. "Are you contacting me from Paradise?"

"No, actually, Sko did this," Adeline clarifies, still a bit shocked that I did this. "And since Han is unavailable, I suppose I could ask for your assistance?"

"What is wrong?" His heavily accented voice inquires worriedly.

"We were on our way back when we were kamikaze'd by some large black creature. We lost engine two, and our tail flew off. We're sitting ducks out here," She states, trying to evaluate the damage in the cargo hold.

"Where are you?" He asks.

"Not sure," She admits. "We've exited Bermuda, on our way to D.C, but our comms are all cut off, so I don't know our exact coordinates."

"I'll have Hwan locate your position," Jeong assures. "We'll be there soon."

"And another thing! Why isn't anyone answering at the- hello?" She asks as the communication cuts off.

"Magicians…" She sighs.

'Agreed,' I huff, settling my head down on my claws.

"What's taking them so long?" My human complains, beginning to pace the wobbling floors. "I know they can teleport. Are they having trouble locating us? We are in the Bermuda triangle."

I huff, and roll my eyes at my human.

They will be here soon enough. Magicians are just slow.

"I'm worried, Sko," my human admits, plopping down on the floor next to me. "And what is Han doing? I thought I told him to rest after I got captured."

'Her magician has been acting strangely. He smells funny too. More so than usual,' I admit, recalling the heavy scent of iron deep within the magician's blood.

"He better not be getting into any more trouble," She frowns, placing her head on her folded arms.

A few more moments of silence pass as we wait for Jeong.

"Alright, I'm bored," My human complains, shooting back up. "I'm going to go get our tail. It can't have gone too far."

"Human, no. Stop it. Don't go without back up human!" I whimper and whine at her.

"I'll be safe, Sko," She affirms. "I'll just use my lasso to pull it along, and I'll secure it to the rear."

I watch helplessly as my human takes off behind the jet in search for the back end of our flying machine.

"My human needs me," I groan, settling my head back down onto the ground. "She'd be dead right now if I weren't here. My human is hopeless."

I allow myself to close my eyes, feeling the water rock the totaled jet, lulling me into a deep sleep.

I have a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. AP testing, SOL Testing, College testing, COLLEGE APPROVAL LETTERS!, and Senior Speeches, and Now Prom in a week.

And to add on top of that, I seriously jacked up my leg on spring break. I was at the beach, and no one told me I couldn't climb on the rocks, so I did, then the ocean scared me, and I fell through the rocks, and got a nasty, claw mark looking scar on my right calf, and the back of my thigh. But hey, it's only fun if you get a scar out of it, and it looks like I had double fun. Funny thing is, my friend was freaking out more than I was. She was practically carrying me to the car (i'm the only one with a licence, so I had to drive. And the gas/break pedals being where my right injured leg are, it wasn't fun. But I'm okay now! There was a lot of blood though. But I'm good! No infections! I just now have the blood of the sea.

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