Emmy slowly opened her eyes. She winced at the thobbing pain in her head. "Where am I?" she thought. She tried to remeber something, anything, that gave a reason to where she was. She noticed that she was in what seemed to be a prison cell. "Hello? can anybody hear me?" she cried out. She frowned at first, not hearing a response, but smiled when she heard a familiar voice call out to her.
"Emmy? Is that you?" It was Cassie. Emmy noticed a small peephole that showed the insides of the two surrounding cells. "Emmy! Are you alright?" Asked Cassie. "My head hurts, But i'll be okay." replied Emmy. "Where are we?" She asked. "I don't know. I wonder where the others are." replied Cassie. "I hope they're alright." said Emmy.
Just then, a voice spoke out from the adjascent cell. "Emmy?" It was Max. "Max?" Emmy called out. "Emmy, You're alright!" said Max happily. "Max, are you okay?" asked Emmy. "I'm fine. I'm scared Emmy." said Max. "Do you know where the others are Max?" Asked Emmy. "The bad guys took the others away. What are we going to do Emmy?" said Max.
"I don't know." Those words hurt her so much. She was usually the one with the plan, but now she was just as helpless as the others. Just then, she heard the sound of a door opening. Some guys in uniform opened the cells and dragged them out. She thought of just running away, but worried what they would do to her friends if she didn't comply.
They took her to the end of a large hallway. Within a few moments, they were strapped down to a chair. "Well well well. It seems the siblings are alright." The man came out of the shadows.
"Who are you?" asked Emmy. "I'll gladly answer that question for you, but first you must answer MY question." He pulled out a remote and pressed the button on it. The rest of the lights came on.
The floor in the middle of the room. From the new hol rose a large glass dome. inside were Emmy's friends and family. Even Quetzal was Trapped! "Emmy!" her mom called out. "Mom!" called Emmy. "What have you done to them?" asked Cassie. "It is no concern of yours." Said the man as he shot a beam at Cassie, lifing her out of the chair and dropping herin the dome.
"Cassie!" Cried Emmy. Seh the glared at the man. "You let her go!" She yelled. "Not until you answer my question." replied the man. He then looked over at Max who was frozen with fear. "You must answer my question as well...That is, if you can muster up the courage." He laughed to himself as walked back over to Emmy.
"Now then, will you cooperate?" Emmy began to tear up. "Y-Yes." she stuttered. "DON'T YOU DARE LAY A HAND ON HER YOU SLIMY-" Alex, Max and Emmy's father was knocked back by a bolt of lightning. "Silence swine!" growled the man. "Now then, Can you tell me what this is?" he whipped out their dragon scale. "The dragon scale!" exclaimed Max. "Wrong! It's just one of many scales hidden throughout the world." Said the man. "What do you mean?" asked Emmy.
"Read my lips. THIS. IS. JUST. ONE. SCALE. OUT. OF. MANY." he mockingly ennunciated. "You know the story of the dragon who spread her scales across the world." He continued. "Well, there's two sides to every story. Do you know why the Dragons created Dragonland?" He asked.
"Because humans weren't being nice to the dragons?" asked Max. "THAT, my dear boy, is a HUGE understatement, But yes. Humans began fearing that the dragons would try to destroy what infintesimle power the humans had and began plotting the extinction of dragonkind." Max , Emmy, Enrique and the young dragos were shocked. "That's not true!" yelled mmy in disbelief.
"Oh, but it is. You see, Humans are greedy little creatures that are about as important than the dirt beneath one's feet. They are the sole reason that the world is dying. They kill others just for laughs. They kil under the guise of religion. Human civilization is completely incapable of virtue. And a race that cannot learn is a disease that this world must be purged of."
"How could you think that way?" asked Emmy. "Because I speak from experience child. Or should I say dragons?" Max and Emmy parents, as well as Quetzal, looked up. "What do you mean?" asked Max. The man looked over to Their parents. "You mean to tell me that you never told them Alex?" Alex looked at the man in shock."Jason?" he asked "That's right Alex. You of all people would know." Said the man now known as Jason.
"Just what are you up to Jason?" asked Maria. "You know him" asked Emmy. "They should know about the friend they left for dead. I never forgave you two or Quetzal for what happened that day." Jason said. "You wanted to use deadly curses to destroy humans." said Quetzal. "And if you three hadn't stopped me, I would have succeded." said Jason. "And now, to get my sweet revenge. But first," Jason turned back over to Max and Emmy. "It's time to put an end to tthe charade."
He then began chanting in a fashion similar to Dusk's magic, but it felt far more sinister than when Dusk used magic. The straps holding Max and Emmy to the chairs came undone, but the relief was short lived. A few second later, Max and Emmy Doubled over in pain and began crying for help. Just then, the two began to transform. Their clothes disappeared as they both began growing a tail and scales began to grow all over their bodies.
When they transformation was over, the The siblings were nowhere to be seen. In their place stood to young dragons. One was Bright red and lithe, had light feathery scales running down it's back and had small feathery wings. The other was deep green and slightly stout, had sawtooth like scales running down it's back and had similarly styled wings.
"Ow my head." said Emmy as she put her claw to her head...Wait, CLAW? She looked down at her arms and then examined the rest of herself in horror. Max's reaction was identical to Emmy's. "what did you do to them?" Asked Zak. "I simply brought out their true nature." said Jason. "Wait, you mean..." said Alice in disbelief.
"That's right." said a voice in the shadows. Dusk walked into the light. "What are you doing here?" asked Jason with disdain. "I caught the scent of a rat and followed it here." replied Dusk. He looked over at Max and Emmy. "I guess the secret's out then."
TBC IN PART 8