Karen the Dragon

Karen

White was led out of her cave by the large brown dragon. Then -

Green-Gold and Small Blue were beating up a new dragon, an unusually shaded bronze -

White was talking with Kind Bronze.

I opened my eyes and yawned. I wasn't really sleepy; I never was. The yawn was for looks.

"Your teeth are impressive now, Karen." Aelita hadn't left yet. That wasn't surprising, but was she talking about –

I tried to speak. "Aarrh-" No use. My mouth and vocal chords were not suited for human speech! How would I tell her what my dream was about?

Aelita asked, "Now that your head and neck look like one of your pictures, how are we getting you out of the dorm?"

Then there was a loud knock on the door. "Stones! Shayli! Are you two up?"

Aelita answered first. "Yes, Jim." I let out a kind of squawk.

Jim opened the door. "I thought that might be the case. Let's get you two down to breakfast bright and early so that no one sees you."

I nodded. My nod went all the way down my neck, which had grown considerably compared to my original neck.

Jeremie

My cousin Patrick was coming to the school. I wasn't very happy about it. See, he had this tendency to take away my friends. Karen's new dragon form was not very enlightening to any of us, either. Now we wouldn't have any Xana-attack warnings unless she could come up with a kind of code.

We did eventually discover the Xana attack: both Sissi and Herve were possessed! Patrick did his best to take them on while I virtualized all but Karen. She flew in so boldly to assist that I figured there would be a return trip.

Finally, Herve and Sissi stopped attacking. Aelita had deactivated the tower. I ran over to Patrick, who was at the bottom of the stairs. Karen was nosing at him anxiously, so he must have been thrown down. I called the supercomputer. "Guys, you'd better launch a return to the past."

Karen

I found myself outside on the school grounds. I decided to stay out here from now on. Or at least, from now until I found out how to fix this problem.

Jeremie came out to talk. "Patrick isn't staying at the school after all."

I shrugged. Yeah, and you're really happy about that, aren't you?

"Well, now I understand him better. He just wants to be my friend as well. To change the subject, now that you're a dragon, we'll have to work out some kind of code for you to tell us about your dreams."

Suddenly, I froze. Jeremie?

"Yeah?"

I'm not saying anything. I proved my point by letting out another squawk.

Jeremie turned and stared. "You've become a telepath!"

Great! That means I can tell you all about my dreams without having to speak!

"And we still have to figure out how to fix this problem. You realize that, right?"

Yes. I did, too. But I wasn't sure I wanted to fix it right away. I felt like there was still something for me to do.