Draco Island...

Cole waited until he was sure she would be alright,recalling the previous night he had barely been able to see her condition in the dark but turned back around when her eyes lids finally shut,relief mingled with some regret as he faced the tall dark dragon that appraised him with cool and quiet xanthous eyes.In turn,the fourteen-year-old took up the implication and did the same,before growing tired of observing him and brought his staff up a little more readingly.

"The Dark Dragon..."he said the name as if sampling it on his tounge and then a partially decadent grin slid across his face."Very original.What say we get started,unless you've gotten some other little remark about me being an invalid to your twisted little scheme?"

"Not at all,I wasn't expecting your entrance at all but I suppose I was wrong."His eyes squared on Cole harder,saying collectively."There seems to be a difference about you,almost as if the wrong soul was bred into the species but nonetheless you are human,unworthy to walk this-"

In a split second,he was having to block a staff prodding up to his face and before he could land a strike down at him with his other claw,Cole had clicked on a new feature and clinged only momentarily to the now gravitational board,swinging himself aboard and raising his back heel to drift above the dragon's head level;he allowed the Dark Dragon's claw tips to skim the under surface of it before he withdrew as a shock wave spated through him,unbeknowingly to Cole also switching on one of the few double features that only would work a few times if it were done in this trasition.

He uses intimidation as one of his first tactics but he's more likely then not going to strive to show all these dragons how more 'worthy' they are or some nonsense.hemused to himself as the Dark Dragon recovered and his analyzing gaze turned to that of an indifferent one to the many dragon onlookers he noticed he had gathered.Huh,it must come as such a shock to all of them to see a human fighting for them a bit.The new idea sprung into him in a idiosyncratic sense.Should I be?

Cole's thoughts automatically recentered on his opponet,who let out a pierecing roar and charged up on him.An idea sprouted and reaching down to clasp the board's edges again,pointed it's nose up and when the Dark Dragon was now reaching for him,Cole moved the whole board from underneath him;dealing the older dragon a nasty kick to the side of the head,not far from the left ear region.

This guy almost makes it too easy,His mind sharpened.But above all,I musn't underestimate him.

Grounding himself again,the staff he yielded was back to itself in a few quick spins and then he did the unimpossibly crazed thing one might assume if they had no knowledge of the staffs.Easing himself onto the grassy ground,he sat indian style with his arms crossed and the staff pressed to the middle of his chest,as if not even caring anymore.He heard a few gasps escape the audience but mostly he heard the Dark Dragon stumbling a bit and breathing raggedly,before he perceived his presense on top of him.

"I know for a fact that honor is a key thing you admire."The Dark Dragon spoke frankly."Remove that mask from your face,show everyone just exactly who you are or will you show dishonor and not?"

A deep,amused laugh escaped him."You really are an immoral creature who indulges on others morals."he told him,grinningly smugly,turning his gaze upward."But you make a strong point."

"First I find out that girl is my daugther!"His father's voice rose up behind both and off to the side of them,which was clenched with incredulousness."Now I find out my cousin Brandon is in the Huntsclan and there might be a Huntsclan bloodline in my family,what's next?The sky's going to cave in on us!"

Now able to see a bit better clear daylight streaming down onto him,Cole shot out a small amount of green energy that was only a light setting of stun in which the Dark Dragon could not block and then he was up again and producing from his staff a glowing rope with two orbs at each end Bracing up for when the Dark Dragon was regaining his composure,Cole darted forward.Just missing a swipe or two brought down on him,he was about to make a clear attack when solid earth left from beneath him.

It wasn't long before he found his arms being made indisposible as two of the Dark Dragon's shade minions held him down as his enemy rose,his luminating yellow eyes filled strangely with some pride at Cole's seemingly flawless attempts at bringing him down but rememberance of what he was looked to have cause his wicked,penetrating gaze to reappar as he extended his fatal claws out in length.

"Say goodbye..."He breathed in a gruff voice,his arm raised high above his head and just as he slashed it down upon Cole,he suddenly paused and gasped,stiffening up and looking either to be in great pain or unable to move.To this,the teenager only watched ingenuously as the Dark Dragon flashed a very insistant leer his way."You acursed human,what have you done to me?Tell me this very instant!"

As Cole rose to his feet,he wore a sobered visage."No more then you deserve,"he replied evenly and taking the boa he had extract earlier,made a clean swing from the side and watching it's metal center catching a sliverish flash in the sunlight,it wrapped in a precise,delicate art about his large ankles.

Without skipping a bit and without giving any consideration to the enlargened eyes gawking at him,he kicked his staff up and twined it about face to where it's tip aligned with the Dark Dragon's head,the huge ebony lizard was calm and still but in his eyes their seemed to be an undercurrent,a secret he had yet to tell.Ignoring it,wanting to get his sister and leave before anything else happened,Cole cocked the weapon and fired a large voltage of the jade energy upon him;his whole body now engulfed in the light.

"It's too late for your sister."He told Cole with prideful finality to his voice."I have sent in a new deadly wave of chemicals into her body,it's a power I've perfected all my life and could only use once.Even with me out of the way,she is set to implode from what I've set in her and is now currently withering."

Fragments of the fallen Dragon disintergrated into the air and a familiar feeling lurked within Cole that he had never once felt in his life but only once (fear) that resulted from one of the worse situtations he had ever laid his eyes upon and was now reoccuring.Haltingly,he turned to see in slight surprise that Josh had somehow found and gotten to the same timeline as them,mostly though all he wanted to do was awaken from this nightmare and have it so that they never ventured into the past in the first place.He knew it had been a bad idea and now the result was more horried the imaginable.

Into Josh...

The new Time Travelling device he had managed to obtain from Fu Dog after he had persuaded him enough to search for the few days he had to fell to the back of his mind,as he saw the girl he loved laying quite motionlessly on the inside of a clear globe that didn't even seem to exist to him,as he very gradually kneeled down and took Wendy in his arms.His heart beat increased a few paces and all his thoughts were running wild.How did she get like this?Was it the Dark Dragon?Was she going to-

"Josh,"She spoke his name softly and his gaze connected to her eyes,which were radiant and wistful at the sight of him."How'd you get her?"her hand raised automatically to give a gentle sweep under his cheek,which he in turn moved his own larger hand around."I thought you were waiting in the present."

It didn't matter to him what had happened,as long as they were together."You should know how crazy I am about you,I'd travel to the ends of the earth if I missed you enough."he told her grinningly,bringing their clasped hands up and turning them over to kiss the top of hers."Tell me you'll be alright,Wendy."

"I don't know..."She admitted truthfully,a somewhat fuzzy kind of dullness crossing her face as she was now attempting to concentrate."I feel kind of tired and now I'm...I'm just so sleepy I could..."

Something was out of character,Josh could sense it immediately.It was almost as if she were out of her head and wasn't thinking straight.Suddenly,her body became less able and he almost thought she was weakening.Then a thought crossed his mind,a dark,unspeakable thought that made dread well up in him and he clutched her closer to his chest,her heart was thumping steadily in her chest he felt but there was a serious wrongness somehow and finally it hit him unmercilessly,the love of his life was dying.

It must have been just alittle time that passed but he finally sensed someone in front of him,looking up he only needed to see the look on her brother's face once,before he diverted his gaze down and began to lower her just barely life sustained body down.From the top of his vision,he saw Cole hesistantly reaching out and place his hand on to the left of her gently rising and falling chest.The act of someone else giving into this cruel twist of fate,only made Josh hold her now fragile body to himelf protectively.

"Is there nothing we can do?"His voice somehow managed to croak weakly,barely audible.

Cole remained silent for a moment,his coal eyes pensively fixed to his sister and Josh's own umber ones beginning to feel strained,finally,he told Josh in a slow,sincere voice."I know you love her,so do I."

Before either one could speak another word,the presense of two more figures came just to the side of Josh and he briefly guessed the forcefield had faded.It finally became too much for him to look at her and he turned to look up at a solemn-appearing Jake and Rose,hand-in-hand,next to him.Wendy and Cole's father wore an uncomfortable look,while Rose's was more soulful.But he saw their grip tighten and both of them bravely reaching out and almost like it was destiney,their hands lay upon their son's.

He felt his eyes start to burn the moment he saw only that her breathing was becoming shallower by the seconds but what made him look up again was two new people he hadn't expected to see,for one female one fell atop Jake's and a male one onto hers,as the full picture of his parents meet his gaze.It wasn't long but all their gaze's were instant to meet,his mother's warm brown eyes and his father's kind smile.And finally,the arrival of two more approached and the last from the right side of himself.

Into Cole...

His world felt unstable,unreal,as he saw his sister struggling to take even simple breaths and knowing that there was nothing that could be done for her.If she went to a doctor,how would it be explained to them how she came to be ill?Through evil magic?But the reassuring beats meeting his touch and the surrounding of the people who should be there helped ease some of the strain,only some of it though.

Suddenly,a hand and a greyish paw that fell upon the other laid hands caused Cole to raise his eyes to meet that of his great grandfather's.Eyes that appraised him uncertaintly for a moment but then softened at the apparent plight.There,in that moment,similiarty in the old man's eyes seemed to reflect into him and it took Cole a second to snap back into reality and onto his sister,who's time had nearly come...

Then,as if by a streak of magic,the thoughts of everyone around him entered his mind or perhaps it was his mind making up what everyone else's were but nonetheless he heard them as if they were spoken.

Wendy,she's going to...damn,why didn't I do anything sooner?It was Josh's.

All this time,she was my future daugther.She saved my life and not I can't hers.It was Rose's.

She looks just like her.Those blue eyes,that beautiful smile..."It was Jake's.

A brother and sister,born to be enemies,winding up as any other siblings.It was Laoshi's.

Finally,just as he witnessed the last willing rise of her chest with everyone's hands brought together on top of his,a small,girlish hand came to rest and his eyes rose to meet his future aunt's.An encouraging if not knowing smile formed across her light brown features but he could only allow himself to linger on her face;for it was the last thing he saw as a flowing white glow ascended from below joined hands.

Survive.Somehow it all seemed real enough that he could almost feel the blessed truth dawning before his eyes and yet before he knew it,he was in an entirely different world altogether,another time in fact.

To Be Continued...

A/N:Want more?I've got more comin' soon.

LP