I let my sorcerer's magic coarse through my veins, I feel it pulsing inside me. Should anybody ask, I'll pass it off as a rush of adrenaline.

I shove the dragon to the ground, and take a deep breath, feeling the ground beneath us beginning to softly rumble. I expect a fight, what I get instead is the Dragon running away.

I look around and watch as everything collapses. The dragons are gone now, all of them. And so is a girl. Her name was Susie, and she will be missed.

There is a meeting in the great hall. The entire town is to attend so we may discuss battle strategies, and count our numbers, and… hold… funerals...

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I wake up, dizzy and slightly nauseous. I am in a cave somewhere high up. my wrists have been shackled.

I am alone, and it is no surprise to me that Furious kidnapped me.

I grunt and groan in frustration, struggling against my bonds. I feel something rip and stop struggling as I realize that I just opened a wound. There are tears of frustration in my eyes, surely Furious knows that I am in no condition to escape like this.

I sigh once more and allow sleep to catch hold of me, on this cold, rocky mountain floor.

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Leo's a humanos panthera. A part-leopard-part-human hybrid. Not like dragons, more like a part-and part.

For example, he's got very large freckles, and multi-colored feline eyes, in addition to tanned skin and pale, floppy reddish-brown hair. He didn't look that much older than me… just around double my age, so… 22? Yup, 22.

"Hey, there, my feline friend," he drawls.

I am no fool. I know he wishes to eat me, and I know better than to look into his eyes, they're laced with a hypnotic charm.

Legend (which is like twenty-two years old) says that he's the baby of a powerful witch named Zelda, and a leopard from… somewhere?

"Hello," I smile at him. "Are you Leo?"

His grin widens. "Ah, so you've heard of me?"

I smile and nod.

"So, what is your business here, anyways?"

"I come looking for information."

"Information on…?"

"The Gem of Asdrimjir."

His eyes widen.

He laughs, finally. "Boy, you must be a fool to think that you have any chance of finding that gem. It's been lost a long time."

"And?" I dare, wishing to pry out as much information as possible from him.

"And nobody's ever come back from looking for it. Ever."

I laugh. "That's OK," I lie, "I'm all about taking risks."

He hummed. "Very well, then. Asdrimjir's gem was buried in a cave off the Fiery

Caverns down over Raven's point."

I blinked up at him. "Raven's point?"

"Yeah… Raven's point, you know, down on Berk."

My eyes widen. You have got to be fucking kidding me! I am approximately a week away from Berk, and all this time the gem's been where I've started!

"Thanks," I smile. "Do you know where the cavern's are, there?"

"Oh, well, there's three in the mountainside, but the main one lies etched into the side of a steep cove."

"Steep cove?"

"Yeah. It has a lake, and vines, and gorgeous rows of flowers…"

"Thanks!"

He smiles at me and waves me off, not even bothering to eat me, or at the very least attempt to.

As soon as I am off the island I scream in frustration.

I am just so angry. I feel teardrops on my cheeks, hot and salty, right before a couple of much cooler ones begin to fall on me.

I look up, drats, a storm.

I paddle faster, hoping to make it to a little rocky outcrop of an island I can see in the horizon. I paddle faster and faster, before my arms give way and I feel the coldness of the ocean envelop me.

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