Warriors of Flame
Ch 2
Snowgre was worried that night as he and the others were sitting around a camp fire outside the swamp house.
He knew that being a Dragon Warrior was a great honour along with Artie, Shrek and Carley but they knew it would be hard.
"Don't worry we'll help out even though we're not Dragon Warriors." Fiona told him.
"Thanks guys." Artie replied to her.
"Hey guys
What's going on?" a voice told them.
It was Jables. He was an old friend of theirs.
He'd helped them destroy an evil Rock Demon from destroying the world.
"We haven't seen you in a long while.
What're you doing here?" Fiona asked after a group hug.
"Aww that was nice.
I heard some Dragon Warriors were in your neck of the woods." He answered sitting down next to Snowgre.
"How… do you know about the Dragon Warriors?" Leah asked him.
"I am the Music teacher at Worchester so Merlin told me.
He seemed really down." Jables answered.
He saw the kanji markings on his friends and smiled.
"So Shifu wants me to help train them in case that Oni demon breaks loose?
I'll try my best." He thought looking into the fire thoughtfully.
Shrek saw a look of wiseness in his eyes.
"What's on his mind?
It must be something to do with the Dragon Warriors." He mused as Jables poured a green liquid into paper cups.
"What is this stuff?
It looks really funny." Artie thought to himself.
"Don't worry it's not poison.
It's Universe Juice.
It 's what the cosmos drink when excited or happy.
My master taught me how to make it." He replied to him.
Fiona and the others drank it.
It tasted nice.
"Oh man that's some Universe Juice!
The cosmos got something right." Shrek told Jables.
Later that night Jables heard moaning come from Leah and Carley's room in the swamp house.
Carley was flying through the night sky feeling free.
She was wearing a long black kimono.
Suddenly she began to change, her eyes becoming eye slits, her skin became black scales and her body was more slender than ever.
She had become the Shadow Dragon Warrior like the marking on her face.
She then saw Leah standing on the ground. She looked worried.
"Help me!" she said fearfully. A strange darkness grabbed Leah and disappeared.
"You are too late Dragon Warrior. She will be mine!
She is my vessel!" it told her vanishing…
Leah saw tears in her eyes as she woke up.
"Are you okay?
W-What did you see?" Jables asked softly.
"I was flying through the sky free as a bird and I became the Shadow Dragon but then Leah…
She was in danger. A demon came and took her.
He said she was his vessel.
What if it was a vision?" Caley told him.
"I'm not sure. Maybe the Universe Juice did this.
Sometimes it does dtrange things to those who don't drink all the time." Jables told her.
Leah had a feeling it wasn't his real answer.
"We need to talk okay?
But not in here." She said.
Jables agreed as they walked out of the room.
Artie and the others joined him in the main room.
"What's going on?" Fiona asked curious.
"Your friend had a vision that Lai-san would take Leah as his vessel.
I had a feeling this would happen like before." Jables told them.
"What're you talking about like before?
I don't understand." Snowgre told him.
"Alright I guess there's no hiding it anymore.
I was a Dragon Warrior along with others.
We fought off Lai-san and sealed him in a scroll but hid it where nobody would ever find it.
But it looks like somebody found it and released him." Jables explained to him.
Fiona and the others gasped at that.
"The Dragon Warriors have mystical power but in every generation there is a Shadow Dragon Warrior.
The Shadow Dragon is very powerful but the warrior can't control it's power for fear of hurting those they love.
That's what worries me about Carley.
She's the Shadow Dragon Warrior.
She has trouble being herself.
We must help her." He replied to her.
Leah then walked into her and her friend's room.
She was worried about what Jables had said.
She found somebody outside the swamp house. Jables smiled as he came with her into the house.
"Hey Jables what's up?" Mike asked hugging him along with Shrek and Fiona.
"Dragon Warrior business. Some of our friends are the new Dragon Warriors." Jables answered him.
"Ah old times. I hope they do as well as we did back in the day." Mike replied to him.
Shrek watched as Leah went into the room she and Carley shared.
She saw her friend sitting on the bed in a ball.
"Hey how're you since a while ago?
Jables told us sime... important stuff about the Dragon Warriors." she asked wrapping her arms around her as they kissed.
"When you left for a while I felt awful but now I feel better now that you're back.
It wasn't the juice was it?" Carley replied to her.
"No it wasn't. We'll talk about it in the morning, okay?" Leah said as her friend fell asleep.
Shrek walked in. He had heard what Leah had said but was worried.
"Don't worry she'll be okay. We'd better go back to the others." he told her.
She nodded as they walked out of the room.
Lai-san cackled as he saw Leah.
"Why care about them because soon you'll be mine!" he thought as he moved into the shadows surrounding the swamp...