Draco Isle...

He had lost her a long time ago,only when her suspicions that he was intending on doing something to her were collated,did a rational urge to fight at any costs set in.Motivation forever seemed to be her key way of getting a lot of things done,ever since she was a child.Small tasks didn't count,it was only the major events that aroused effort in her.And,it finally all sunk in to her like a lead weight what he wanted to do to her,she knew it was all up to her and no one else to save a possible terrible future.

"So..."Wendy's azure eyes took on a fathomed,accomplished glint."That's why you sent for me?Cole wasn't even useful to you but you only wanted him around to draw attention away from yourself."her next words burned with virulence."We wasted four days messing around here and it was all for nothing nearly this whole time!And you just thought we weren't going to do anything about it?"

The Dark Dragon smirked wryly at her demanding glower."Young one,there isn't anything you can to do;neither of you."he extended his claw out to where it was directed at her head."I'll be sure to make it as quick and painless as possible,no doubt aiming for the forehead is wisest,thusly erasing away all the lies and nonsense you've been told all your life about how we may mingle with humans."

Stopping to ponder out her next move in that moment,which she had always been advised to do so,it came to her then that the Dark Dragon had all his attention directed at her and wouldn't expect her to make this next move,though she was in a state of medium panic and unsureness.Groaning inwardly at that kind of speculation,her eyes glanced back briefly at the walls.Maybe his attack will deflect.

Relying on only her sole judgement,the Dragoness flopped to the ground just as the attack was then sent across at her but instead of making contact with it's intended target and yet also going against her own idea of what might happen,the ball of deep,murky appearance only seemed to hover and very slowly absorp into the wall.Wendy watched with dilated pupils as in one woosh it was spread all around them in the once clear forcefield and only then with just settling nerves,roamed her gaze around as it gently evanescenced and the orb that surrounded them became once again transparent to her.

"Nice trick."Wendy observed with a jeering to her tone,turning her eyes to him."Can you pull a rabbit out of your hat or make long,tied up rainbow sheets come out of your sleeve?"her idea was to distract him even more so she could possibly think of a plan."Because if you ask me,it was kind of cheap."

A flash of fury in his yellow eyes and she knew she had made a mistake,the hulking mass of dragon was coming down upon her in seconds and she just barely had time to throw out her own claws,the pressure of his weight sank down on her and she strained to hold him back.There,the two were in an almost cosmic sort of combat;one false move could prove fatal for the young dragon.But he never got her down more then a few inches,as she felt a warmth within her body start to surge through her veins.

"Give up and give in child..."He grunted stubbornly but she lifted her head up enough after he paused for a few moments and his eyes weren't so fixated on her,like he saw past her somehow."There have only been two other dragons to withstand my might and live...only two.The rest have perished."

She felt like rolling her eyes but instead managed to say back daringly as his strength on her lessened for a moment."Need I guess who you're mentioning?What do they have to do with anything anyway?"

"You're parents are watching."His words and eyes suddenly turned shrewd and a crooked smile was slow to form on his muzzle."Tell me who they are or...better yet,whoever you turn to face I will accept as the truth."he sniggered."You know you can't resist it,the temptation to see them for a final time..."

As his sentence trailed,she dealt him a slap across the jaw with her tail and flew up behind him.Before he could regain his composure,Wendy clapped her hands flat together and added exertion as she concentrated hard and after a few poor turnouts,a perfect duplicate of herself took up residence right on her left.The clone gave her a curious look,before the original one pulled her over and whispered in a sibilated voice.The doppleganger's eyes lit up and she nodded to the idea,both in laced their claws and interwined their tails,as everyone looked on in confusion,the two began to rotate with the great flaps of their wings in backward side angles and it wasn't long before a white flash went whizzing by the Dark Dragon to the other side;which he barely could keep his eyes upon with it's rapid speed.

"What's the matter...?"The one on the right started to taunt him,crossing her long arms across her scaly chest as she sized him up and gave the other one a little nod to alert her to finish the sentence.

"...Seeing double?"She completed it smoothly and both geared up as he kept flashing them glares.

"Double the trouble."The first one said pothingly after a minute and both broke out in laughther.

Finally,he stopped and then he shook his head slowly."How amusing naive young souls are to lower themselves to coming up with the most bizzare and pointless means of diversion."his claws rose up at the same time without him ever giving either one another glance."No matter,I am still far too much in a hurry to get this over with and have a world in which is to my choosing...a world without humans."

"Think again,ash tray face!"Came a valiant voice from above and with one huge wholloping jab from her elbow,Wendy managed to deliver a crashing blow to his head before he ever got a chance to look up."There."a pleased grin crossed her visage as she drifted back away from him and the two clones then vanished."Maybe that will be enough to knock some sense into you,if you even have any that is."

Whoots and cheers from the dragons around her sent a new feeling inisde of her,a feeling that she was finally living out a long time dream of hers.Here she was,fighting probably the greatest magical fend of all time just like her father and great grandfather before her and even though she had felt like it was a hopeless situation before,the odds of winning never seemed more in the young dragoness's favor.

"Come on,"she laughed with an almost arrogant sense about her."Don't tell me you're already tuckered out?I was just getting warmed up and if I nearly knocked you out cold.Well,we just can't have that."

Not too surprised,she saw him starting to rise from the one knee he had driven into the ground to keep from allowing his whole self the indignity of being brought down by a dragon much younger then him and a one of the opposite gender at that.It was so evident he was going to strike at her again as he got to his feet finally and lumbering with an occasional off sway,the Dark Dragon caught his balance and finally,brought his eyes up to meet hers.Leering and so full of fire that it made her smile drop abruptly.

"For trying to humilate me..."True anger dripped in his words."I'm going to enjoy watching you die."

His reactions were so fast-paced,she didn't have to react and before Wendy could ever blink,he was on top of her with the points of one of his grisly claws moving dangerously under her neck but she did not ever dare squirm because of renewed fear clutching her heart.Foolishness over resorting to a very nearly self-centered attitude surfaced and made her feel ashamed but also she knew she only had one choice if she hoped to come out of this alive.So,as he was about ready to push down with a power aiding to the claw she felt under her neck,Wendy de-transformed and did an undertuck away from it.

Safe...The salivating word managed to lodge itself in her mind but then she felt what she guessed was some after effects from the attack blast her back onto the wall on the clear concaved imprisonement.

She didn't open her eyes to take in the horrible creature as she felt herself slide down and onto the ground with her back still resting to the curved wall.It took a moment to sink in that she wasn't going to make it out alive and though it sent a numbingness through her,there was something that she needed at that moment to do,something memorable that would be a ray of clarity in a dark storm of doubt.

"Whoever you turn to I will accept as the truth..."

The sizzling of his powering up again caused Wendy to raise her head and very gradually,almost faintly as if she were in a trance,raise her comely hand to tuck some of her loose strands of long brunette hair behind her left ear and knowing what she was about to do was something completely against what she was intending to do,turned slowly to the side to face the two people who were destined to create her.

At first,the two only crinkled their brows in what appeared to be a mixed state of sadness to see her in a predicament they could not help her with and confusion as to why she had choosen them as the final two she set her sight upon.But reality then dawned onto their faces and they hastily exchanged astonished looks with one another,then turned to look at her again,awed and pained etchs in their teen visages.Too young were they to see someone they hardly knew but obviously long to know pass,too young was she to have to pass and yet she smiled gratefully at them,even as tears shined and made her blue eyes appear as that of ripples in the early tide,Wendy smiled and then turned in total resignation.

"Wendy,"A clear,older woman's voice reflecting familiarty told her firmly."It isn't your time to leave."

As if on cue to this,a surge of emerald blazed from above her and clashed with the Dark Dragon's on set of intended annihilation.Hope filtered through her again but an inner need nearly overtook her with it's calling of rest coaxing her.She ignored it long enough to see a figure dart into the air and land in one grand leap in between her and the still fuming dragon,then watched as the person turned briefly to look at her over it's shoulder,seeming to evaluate how she was before another familiar,realer voice spoke.

"This is the first time I'm breaking a promise."Cole's clever voice told her."And it'll be the last,Wendy."

To Be Continued...

A/N:Well,some unexpected turns there.Got a little ways to go though...

LP