Greetings once again

In this chapter, something different will be happening to our protagonist

So sit back, and enjoy the ride. ^^

Chapter 2 - A Legend is Born

That night at Vulpis Industries.

While all other workers had gone home for the night, Anya and the few scientists had secretly snuck in and started performing an experiment which could erase half-breeds from Avalice. But while it was a brilliant idea, the other scientists were nervous about this. ''Professor Vulpis please, the genetic components within the half-breed cures aren't fully ready yet. The structures just don't add up without the right chemicals. Now I'm begging you for the last time, we shouldn't be doing this.'' Winston begged his superior, hoping she would listen to him.

''Don't be a coward, these risks are part of part of our laboratory experiments, I thought you would have been used to that by now.'' The arctic fox said with annoyance as she continued to prepare the project. ''Look, over all the subjects that we've tried, they all had side effects; they became really violent and were filled with the essence of insanity. There's not doubt that you'd end up the same.'' Winston explained, showing examples of what happens when the 'cure' was applied to their test subjects.

''And all the more reason for me to do this test.'' Anya said as she uploaded the cure into a machine which could turn liquid into gas. ''Look, that being the case...let me reschedule with a proper tester and research of the cure. Come on, if you just give me a few months...'' Travis said, giving the professor a chance to prepare for the experiment. ''Few months?! In a few months, we'll be behind schedule and within the next five years our company will have died already. Sometimes if you want something done right, you just do it yourself.'' She said, taking off her lab coat and smart jacket.

''Ok, get me the immunity potion.'' Anya requested to her other assistant Madison. ''Yes Ma'am, but what for?'' Madison asked the professor. ''It begins erasing the second hybrid species DNA on the subject when the cells come into contact with the bloodstreams.'' Anya explained as she was handed the vial which said immunity on it. ''Hundreds of years for energy for our planet and we've merely scratched the surface of it's potential.'' After speaking to herself, Anya drank the immunity potion in one go before placing it on a nearby desk.

Anya then got onto the table where she was strapped on tightly by her assistants. She could hardly move with her arms pinned to her sides, but this was all part of the testing procedure so she was fine with it. The professor then had Winston send the her into the radiation chamber where she would feel the effects of the cure. He pressed the machine's control pad which had the arctic fox sent into the chamber Travis worked on turning on the vortex function at 50%. Madison was then about to switch on the gasification function, but was unsure about what would become of Anya if she went through with this.

She was then signalled to activate the gasification process as the liquid from within the half-breed cure was suddenly drained out of it and vented right into the radiation chamber where Anya could feel the 'cure' working on her. The portion of the Kingdom Stone's energy that was taken was then inserted within the chamber to boost the cure's effectiveness. Winston looked at a computer monitor to see the radiation chamber being filled up with the 'cure'. He looked at another monitor to show that it was also enhancing Anya's energy and rendering her a lot healthier than any normal Avalacian would be.

However, Anya's heart rate was somehow rapidly increasing, which wasn't normal at all. Winston and the other scientists were quite worried, but not as worried when there were noises heard from the radiation chamber. A large portion of the gas then revealed Anya had breathed in too much of the cure, and what's worse is that it was causing her to go insane. Travis noticed that the cure wasn't erasing a second species...it was actually applying more species to her. ''ANYA!'' Winston yelled in panic as he ran over to the venting function to vent the gas out of the radiation chamber.

The scientists panicked in fear for Anya's safety. The Arctic fox on the other hand was suffering deeply from the effects of the cure. Panicking, the scientists did everything they could to try and prevent the professor from getting anymore infected with the cure, but all that they did seemed to make things more worse than it did for better. The worse came to it when Anya stopped breathing all together. Her heart rate on the monitor showing that her pulse was gone all together from their view. ''My goodness, Anya!'' Winston panicked, running onto the radiation chamber and unstrapping Anya before performing CPR to help her breath again.

Nothing seemed to be working at first which made Madison and Travis sad...but it's when Anya's heart rate started getting slower again all of a sudden. Confused at this, Winston saw the monitor as proof. But suddenly...Anya's eyes opened with nothing but different eyes. Almost...serpent like. Anya then grabbed Winston's lab coat before holding him up with immense strength. ''Do not touch me you pathetic HALFBREED!'' She growled before she threw her assistant through the glass window. The professor was filled with insanity from the energy of the Kingdom Stone.

But she was far more violent than the test subjects. Madison and Travis cowered in fear as Anya glared at Winston with serpent eyes as a venomous looking Scorpion tail emerged in the place of her own tail. ''Now Winston...shall we continue our tests?'' She laughed maniacally as she lunged towards her assistant with vicious teeth. Winston screamed as he tried so hard to defend himself from the insane professor, allowing Travis and Madison to escape and call the authorities.

Anya on the other hand, wouldn't allow any witnesses after what they heard from her very mouth. So she sent Winston flying as he hit the wall and got knocked out. The professor then lunged at her assistants as they screamed in terror of what they were looking at.

The next morning at the Shang Tu Orphanage

Lilac's eyes opened wide. The young panda hybrid then noticed that she had been sleeping on the floor. ''Huh? I don't remember sleeping on the floor...'' She murmured, oblivious to the fact that her hair was a total mess. She then yawned before getting to her feet before noticing that her fever had somehow disappeared overnight, she could tell when she felt the right temperature in her body. She then stuck the thermometer in her mouth to see how hot she was. But to her surprise, her temperature was normal than it was yesterday. ''Hmm, I'm feeling a lot better from yesterday...I must have been hot last night.'' Lilac thought to herself before she put the thermometer on her desk.

The panda hybrid then decided to get ready for school, so she went over to her bedside cabinet to get her glasses. But when she put them on, she began to notice that something was strangely off about her vision. When she couldn't see anything though her glasses, she took them off and saw that her vision was fine without them. Looking at her glasses in confusion, Lilac then decided to put them back on the cabinet, knowing that it was more easier to see without the glasses.

''Strange...'' She said herself before going over to her wardrobe to find her uniform. When she started to put her uniform on, she noticed that her eye sight wasn't the only thing that had changed. She had two long ponytails hanging from her very own hair and two horns on top of her head. From the looks of her in the mirror, she almost looked like...a dragon? or rather half panda half dragon. ''Oookay...what's going on? Why do I look like this? Wait...was it...that fever that caused this?'' She said thinking what kind of fever would have caused her to grow two ponytails overnight and give her perfect eye sight?

''Hmm, on the plus side, I do look kinda pretty.'' After realising that, a knock came from her door. ''Lilac?'' Chrissy called in. ''Yes Chrissy?'' She replied with a bit of panic. ''Are you alright?'' When the young deer asked that question, Lilac thought for a moment before replying. ''Er...I'm good thanks.'' Chrissy didn't expect to hear Lilac so healthy after seeing her with the fever yesterday. ''Are you a lot better this morning? Did the medicine change anything?'' She asked, deciding to question if Lilac just had a bug in her stomach. ''Change? Yep, I feel a lot better now thanks.'' Lilac said, glad to finally be better after yesterday.

''Well you'd better hurry, you don't wanna be late for school today.'' Chrissy said, making Lilac realise what she had to do. ''Oh, right...'' Lilac replied, going over to her wardrobe and getting changed. While she was putting her shirt on, she happened to notice the picture of Cleo Vulpis, her childhood crush. She then looked in the mirror at her pretty face and thought; maybe Cleo will notice me today. Thinking that it actually might be her time to shine, Lilac then put her jacket before confidently going downstairs.

Downstairs in the entrance

Miss Vira was busy hiding the party decorations just as Lilac came running down the stairs. Somehow neither Lilac or the headmistress never knew that Lilac had pulled a stunt by running on the walls of the staircase at the bottom before landing on her two feet at the first step. ''Wow, nice moves Lilac.'' Fival complemented as he got his backpack ready for school.

''Strange...I thought you were sick?'' Miss Vira said with curiosity. ''I think it was just a stomach bug. I ended up getting better afterwards.'' Lilac said with reassurance. Fival then said to Lilac that they had to catch the bus at their usual spot before it leaves for the school. ''Ok, see you after school, Chrissy.'' Lilac said to her Deer friend. ''You didn't eat anything, do you have any money for lunch?'' She asked and Lilac said that she always came prepared for it. ''Oh Lilac, don't forget to meet me tonight as soon as you come back, there's something I've got to discuss to you.'' The headmistress called out to her.

''I will.'' Lilac said back with a smile upon her face as she left with Fival for School. ''Did you see that? Lilac's getting happier every time I see that smile. Also, you didn't tell me that she got contact lenses.'' Miss Vira complemented, taking notice of Lilac's eyes. Chrissy thought that she had Contact lenses too, but she decided to leave the question aside until after the party was over tonight. Outside, Lilac and Fival were walking along their usual route to the bus stop. On the way there however, they came across Iris and her abusive/controlling mother who was trying to get the poor blind bat to stay with her just so she could be happy.

''I keep telling you that this is all for your own good and this is the thanks I get?! You really are like your father, a stupid and ignorant man! You're nothing without me!'' Iris' mother screamed at her, the little blind bat merely walked away from her home as she cried because of the yells. ''I need to go to school! I need my education!'' Iris tearfully spat back as she ran away from the abusive bat. ''Oh forget it, Who's stopping you anyway?'' Her mother said annoyingly as she gave up and went back into her home. Lilac and Fival looked at each other in concern before catching up with their blind friend.

''Hey Iris, what's wrong?'' Fival asked, scaring Iris in the process. ''Oh...Hi Fival...'' She said glumly. ''It's something to do with your mom isn't it?'' Lilac said as she figured that Iris' mother would usually be the one to control her own daughter. ''Yes, she kept wanting me to stay home and do her bidding while she went out to work...wait a minute. You look different Lilac.'' Iris said, noticing her friend's different looks this morning. ''Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So how come you've got a new look? And why aren't you wearing your glasses?'' Fival asked with the extent of his curiosity. Lilac explained that she woke up this morning and found herself looking like this.

''..I also found that my eye sight was fine without my glasses, so I just left them in my room.'' Lilac concluded her explanation. Fival and Iris were amazed at Lilac's story and even thought her new look was amazing. The trio were so caught up in their conversation, they took notice to something passing them by: The Bus! Panicking, Lilac, Iris and Fival then ran after the bus and tried to tell the driver to stop, but it was useless as the driver had no plans of stopping for them. ''Hey come on, stop the bus!'' Fival begged, trying to pry the doors open. Nothing worked thus far, and just when Lilac felt like tripping over...

''YEHAW!'' A voice called out as a familiar looking Yo-yo was then lassoed onto the bus' underneath. The trio were then scooped up off the pavement and onto a hand-me-down scooter. ''Mawning, need ayy ride?'' Ginny greeted as she tied her yo-yo onto her scooter. ''Nice timing as always Ginny.'' Lilac complemented, hanging onto Iris and Fival while riding on the back of Ginny's scooter. ''no problem, ay happend ta be a-passin' by anyway. Also, ay done noticed that there y'all was in need av ayy lift ta school, so ay done came in ayn' here we are now.

Also, kind awful new look y'all done got lilay'' Ginny explained before she noticed Lilac's new looks. Lilac told the whole story and even Ginny was impressed with how Lilac looked. Fival then asked how Ginny where she found that scooter of her's and the bunny explained that she and her pops had made it herself and it had a great speed on it too. ''You see, this here thing is a-goin' ta be our ride in case av a-missin' the bus. Anyways, let's relax ayn' enjoy the ride ta school, nothing but smooth cruising faw now.'' Ginny said as she held onto her had and continued riding behind the bus towards Shang Tu Elementary.

Later that afternoon

The school bell for Shang Tu Elementry rang, all the students went to lunch.

Lilac and the gang were all sitting around one of the lunch tables, eating their food as they were chatting away about yesterday's events. ''...I know right? He was absolutely an idiot no doubt.'' Fival said, complaining about their teacher's behaviour and how it was gonna get him fired. ''If that there's nahwt enough, he's gonna get banned frawum Shang Tu faw darn good.'' Ginny said with pride, the gang then noticed Lilac feeling a little down.

''Y'all a-doin' alraheet lilay?'' Ginny asked, trying to make sure that Lilac was alright. ''Huh? Oh, I'm actually doing fine Ginny. Thanks for asking, it's just...'' Lilac began, but decided to leave it for another time. ''Nah, never mind. It's nothing.'' She said. Ginny knew Lilac was better than this and she decided to delve further into what was bothering Lilac. ''Ay think all av us know what's the mattuurr with y'all lilay. Come on girl, y'all can tell us.'' Ginny purred reassuringly. Sighing but smiling, the young panda hybrid then decided to tell them anyway.

''Alright...It's...today's actually the day I arrived at the orphanage, being both my birthday before the day I arrived at the orphanage. I keep wanting to see my parents but they never did come.'' Lilac explained to her friends. Looking at each other with a hint of sadness, they understood why Lilac was sad. Today was the day that Lilac was born, and on the 10th of August, she was left at the orphanage where she grew up without her family to even see her. While confessing her depression to the gang, they never even realised that Caroline was sitting right behind them, hearing the whole conversation and understanding Lilac a little more.

''I know how you feel Lilac. When I was just a young monkey, I was told my mother died after I was born. When I was two, my dad died because of a terrible accident.'' Fival explained, feeling the same as Lilac. ''Every day I'd wait in my room and hope that my parents came back...but then I realised that they weren't.'' He finished. Iris then decided to speak, trying to make the pair feel better. ''Sometimes we can't expect what we want, but we've got to stay true to who we are. And even though I can't see, I still love being who I am.'' She said proudly, attracting a swan's attention.

''Really? You love being blind? That's dumb.'' He said, walking off before slipping on one of his own feathers. ''Well I wonder what his excuse is? He loves being way too feathery?'' Fival joked, gaining a laugh out of the girls and himself. Lilac laughed a little before she accidentally spilled her drink all over the table. The gang got a little wet as this happened, but luckily someone had a solution. ''Don't worry, I'll get a couple of napkins to clean that up.'' Fival said as he ran off to find some napkins. Sighing happily even if she felt as if today was not her day, Lilac then tried to move her hand.

But as she did this, she found that her own hand was somehow stuck on the water. After trying to take it off in multiple ways, she had to make sure nobody was watching before trying something. Lilac then slowly but carefully pulled her hand upwards and saw that she actually saw the water being stretched with her hand. She gasped quietly at this little trick she had obtained and tried her best not to let anyone see this.

While trying to shake off the water, Lilac suddenly managed to lift several waters from their cups in the cafeteria without anyone noticing. She panicked at this point and tried to hide her hands underneath the table where she dragged the water blob underneath too. Lilac then tried shaking her hands back and forth, but the water just wouldn't go away as she saw it. To make matters worse, Caroline's so-called friends: the mean girls, were heading their way, plotting something sinister as usual...well all except for Caroline who was watching this happen.

Urszala was about to dump her lunch onto Ginny and Iris, but before she could, Lilac somehow tried to flick the water away and it flew directly out from the table and splashed onto the mean girls. Caroline saw this happening and couldn't help but snicker a little as the four girls stood there, looking soaked and even slipped. As this happened, they all landed on their lunches and also managing to stain their clothes as this happened, which overall gave them a humiliating laugh in the process. Lilac gasped at this as the rest of her friends took notice to this.

Not wanting to stick around because of what happened, Lilac got decided to leave the cafeteria before Rhea and her bullies got up. Unfortunately, those mean girls took notice to Lilac and her strange ability along with Fival, Ginny, Iris and most of the students in the cafeteria. ''Whoa, that's weird.'' A warthog student said. ''Is she controlling the water?'' A mouse student exclaimed with fear, trying to protect her beautiful looks. ''How's she doing that?'' One of Lilac's teachers said, wondering if this was a new trick or not. ''Wow, this isn't possible. But I like it.'' Fival whispered, he already knew that Lilac had a fever, but he didn't think any of this would ever happen to her.

''Is that some kind of water balloon?'' Cleo asked one of his friends, making Lilac feel very uneasy as she continued to jog all the way over to the cafeteria's exit. All the while, Urszala and her goons looked at the hybrid with confusion and anger they noticed her little trick. ''What?...did that little...'' Rhea spoke, confused at how the heck Lilac got the best of them.

In the hallway

Lilac had managed to shake off the water that she was manipulating, but she felt that she couldn't be near anyone or her friends just in case they thought she was some sort of freak. ''This doesn't make any sense, how did this happen? Normal fevers, don't have this kind of side effects...no it must be something else.'' She said to herself as she gathered all her things from her locker before heading off to the school fountain. She never even noticed Urszala who was currently storming right behind her along with the other mean girls.

Lilac decided to sit by the fountain to try and wash her face, hoping that this was some crazy dream and that she would wake up in bed, late for school and everything would go back to normal. But it wasn't a dream. ''What's happening to me?'' She thought to herself, trying to calm down. Suddenly, Urszala crept up behind Lilac and shoved her face into the water, trying to drown her as revenge for what happened in the cafeteria. Lilac tried desperately to get to the surface to breath until...realised that she wasn't drowning, rather she was...breathing? For Lilac, the day got weirder and weirder before she was then pulled from the fountain and shoved back a few inches before an angry bear faced her.

''So you think you're pretty funny, you little freak. Well I'm gonna show you what happens to anyone who messes with us!'' Urszala growled, curling her paws into fists. All the while, Caroline appeared from behind Lilac and tried to calm her friend down. ''Urszala come on, I'm sure she did it by accident.'' She said, but nothing even changed her friend's mind whatsoever. ''Yeah right, She's nothing like her parents who left her at that orphanage, that's what I'd call an accident! Rhea, hold her band of misfits, I'll deal with her myself.'' Urszala commanded Rhea who used her wings to wrap around Fival, Ginny and Iris, preventing them from helping Lilac in any way possible.

''Please, just let it go girl.'' Caroline said again, Cleo appeared beside the green wildcat as he looked in disgust at what the bear was up to. ''Please, I really don't wanna fight you.'' Lilac begged, trying to back out of the fight. ''Well I wouldn't wanna fight me neither, so let's go.'' After speaking, Urszala raised her fists and prepared to fight Lilac, knowing that she'd win easily. Almost all the students of the high school had gathered around to see the fight, even Lilac's abusive teacher had wanted to see her getting beat himself.

Urszala then swung her fist right at Lilac's face, hoping to give her a black eye like many other times that she had beaten up the young panda hybrid. But shockingly, Lilac quickly dodged the attack without even a scar laid on her face. Shocked by this, Urszala tried again, hoping to give Lilac a good punch this time, but Lilac dodged the punch yet again. Caroline was starting to doubt her bear friend as she saw her being so slow at hitting Lilac. Even Fival and the girls were shocked with Lilac's behaviour today, almost like she had some sort of instinct which told her that she was gonna get it. Urszala then growled in frustration before trying to punch Lilac on the side of her face.

As the bear swung her mighty fists to the hybrid's left, Lilac somehow managed to duck by bending backwards at an impossible angle while keeping her feet on the ground. ''Woah, how am I doing this?'' She thought to herself as she did a backwards cartwheel and landed on her two feet. By now, everyone was impressed by how Lilac was managing to stand up to those bullies. Urszala then tried to punch Lilac in the stomach, but Lilac dodged it with some sort of cyclone type dance move as she spun and stopped where the fountain was. The big bear was left in disbelief as she looked at how Lilac got the best of her.

''Aren't you gonna do something about this Caroline?'' Cleo asked, hoping that the green wildcat would do something. She tried stopping Urszala, but that didn't stop the Fluffy and Stinkerbelle from attacking. ''Take out this piece of garbage girls.'' She commanded the two girls as they charged towards Lilac. Normally, the two girls were able to tackle any student together, but somehow Lilac proved to be more advantageous for the fight. The panda then felt a lot of power channelling through her body before she shot straight up, glimmering like a comet. All the while, Fluffy and Stinkerbelle had fallen into the fountain and got absolutely soaking wet.

Lilac landed on top of the fountain, felling shocked and a little amazed at these strange abilities. Urszala then shoved Caroline to the ground and told her not to get in her way before going after the magical hybrid. ''Whoa, this is quite an extraordinary turn of events.'' Cleo said with amazement. ''How did you get up there?'' Urszala demanded, trying to get Lilac to come down so she could whack her. ''Simple, I jumped. By the way, did you ever consider going to ballet class? Because you'd make for a pretty ballerina.'' She said, feeling brave for the first time in years. It also enraged Urszala who tried destroying the fountain until Lilac landed on the pavement again.

Fluffy, Stinkerbelle and Rhea then prepared to join the fight, oblivious to the fact that Rhea had let Fival and the girls go. ''Right then, how are we gonna take her down with all four of us together?'' Stinkerbelle asked, only to be shoved away along with Fluffy and Rhea by Urszala who then charged angrily at Lilac. The bear charged a full throttle at Lilac, attempting to hit her with everything she had, But Lilac dodged every single attack and even blocked most of them with her arms. Neither of them noticed that a white smoke panda with Sherpa blue hair was watching the whole thing from the gate. Urszala then tried to seriously injure Ginny and the others and nearly succeeded.

But suddenly, Lilac somehow made her two ponytails wrap around the bear's wrist. Lilac then made Urszala turn around before the she glared right at her. ''You've been picking on us for far too long Urszala! So next time, why don't you pick on someone your own size?!'' She growled as energy started to engulf her left hand, transforming it into some kind of dragon claw.

Lilac then used the claw to perform a powerful uppercut on Urszala who flew up into the air as high as the school was, She then fell back down and landed in a trash skip filled up with garbage. Boy was Urszala gonna need to shower for days. Meanwhile, the students then cheered for Lilac for having beaten one of the main leaders of the mean girls. Many of them had even videoed the whole fight and sent links to their friends. They were all saying things to support Lilac like:

''That. Was. AWESOME!''

''Whoa, I honestly didn't think this would happen.''

''Finally, someone had to stand up to those bullies eventually.''

''Could it be, the legendary water dragons have returned?''

The young hybrid thought that she was somehow gifted with the power of the legendary dragons somehow, but she didn't think that she was actually a water dragon. For a brief moment, the dragon girl smiled at her victory...

Until now when she suddenly saw the look on both Cleo's and Caroline's faces and realised what she had done in horror. What's worse was that Rhea, Stinkerbelle and Fluffy saw the whole thing themselves. ''Sheesh, you're such a freak you little half-breed.'' Rhea said with fear. ''Come on girls, let's get outta here!'' Stinkerbelle squealed with fear as she grabbed Fluffy and ran as far away from Lilac as she could.

Caroline on the other hand, didn't go with them, now that their reputation was ruined and that they showed their true colours, she decided that it would be best not to hang with them anymore. ''Lilac...that was amazing.'' Fival complemented with disbelief, he knew Lilac all his life, but he never saw that side of her. The complement didn't stop Lilac's fear from rising up within her however. She made a show of herself in front of her friends, beaten up one of Caroline's friends and the worst part of it all...Cleo had noticed her at the wrong moment. After this, only one thing was on her mind: Run.

Without hesitation, Lilac then ran out of the school gates, picking up her bag and running as far away from everyone as she possibly could. ''Lilac, where are you going?'' Fival called out to his friend, but she ignored his call and kept running as fast as she could. This made Fival and the girls sad, they figured that after that stunt Lilac was so embarrassed by what happened that she just did that.

Later in the city of Shang Tu

Lilac kept running, trying to make sure that she bothered nobody with her freaky abilities ever again. After Cleo and Caroline saw her with those abilities, she just needed to run and keep running until she was out of sight. When she reached an alleyway, Lilac stayed there before she broke down crying about why she was feeling so weird because of all of this power making her different.

She thought that her friends might never see her the same way ever again. It was horrible because she had been away from her family for ten years, who knows what would happen if her friends left her. Lilac then looked at her hand once again, seeing particles of water just moving onto her palm and started to think...what if fate had chosen her to become like this?

One of the students mentioned that Lilac could have been a dragon, and this morning when she woke up looking like one. There were only a couple of possibilities of dragons that Lilac could have been, one of those possibilities was a water dragon: a dragon species which had gone extinct for who knows how long, but legend said that they could manipulate water and even breath under it. She also read that dragons on Avalice were able to their own powers to create dragonic constructs which they could use for combat.

Those were the exact abilities that Lilac had used today during her fight with Urszala, she had somehow gained the power of the dragons, but how? Thinking back, Lilac then realised that it must have been The Kingdom Stone which gave her those abilities. Maybe...just maybe...she could use those powers for the good of Avalice and it's people. All she needed to do first was test out her powers to make sure they would work properly. The first thing she tried was the dragon claws.

Focusing all her energy, Lilac the used the magical energy that The Kingdom Stone had given her to create those dragon claws again. This time she wanted to see what other things the claws could do, and she had a pretty good idea on what she wanted to test them on. Without knowing what she was doing , Lilac then latched one of the draconic claws into the building, and surprisingly, it managed to hang onto the wall, the young dragon girl then tried the other, and the same thing happened. Slowly, but steadily, Lilac managed started to climb up the side of the building without anyone watching her.

As she continued to climb to the top of the building, Lilac felt like she was finally getting somewhere with her powers. Almost like there was an advantage to having all of them at once, and when she thought about it, that was when she finally noticed that she was already several meters of the ground...and giggled to herself with amazement. When she reached the top of the building, Lilac then tried out her new powers by running across several buildings lined up. Sometimes she had to jump over gaps to reach the other side, but the dragon girl knew that her luck was finally turning over a new leaf.

One other thing that had also changed about Lilac was that she was very fast, in fact she might have been the fastest being on Avalice until proved otherwise. She never noticed that many residences noticed her jumping over the gaps as they thought that she looked like a dragon...and they weren't wrong in a way.

Lilac then came to a halt when she reached a huge gap between the building she was on and the tallest building in Shang Tu. It was far too long to jump across to the other side, and there was a huge chance of gaining a fatal injury. Trying to think of a way to get across, Lilac then remembered wrapping her hair around Urszala's wrist earlier. ''Hmm, that might work. Provided it's long enough to get me across.'' She said to herself. Lilac then stood on the edge of the building before trying to get her hair to move.

She tried the first time...but it didn't work. ''Hair, take me across.'' Lilac commanded...her hair didn't budge. ''Swing mode activate.'' She commanded again, it still wouldn't move. ''By the great power of the dragons...oh come on, if you can wrap yourself around Urszala's wrist then you can do anything right?!'' She yelled with frustration. Groaning in defeat, Lilac was about to give up...until she found a way to move her hair.

The dragon girl tossed her ponytail in annoyance and that caused it to stretch a fifteen meters across the gap, it acted similar to a whip. Gasping at this, Lilac tried doing the same trick again and it worked...But it didn't stretch far enough to reach the tallest building, it was a bit of a bummer, but at least she now knew how to move her hair.

Lilac then realised that she didn't have to use her hair to get to the other building, she just needed to use her hair to get across, but how? ''Ok. What to do...if I wanted to get across to the other side, what would I do?...I can't swing across, I'd hit the building.'' She said to herself, the young dragon then noticed two poles on either side of the building she was on, and that's when she had an idea.

Moving behind the poles, Lilac then stretched her hair over to the two poles and luckily, they wrapped themselves around the poles and tightened instantly. She then stepped back from them, stretching them as far as she could before she stepped off the back of the building and went off the side of it. She had seen this strange video where two warthogs made a catapult for firing each other, she hoped that the same thing would work with her.

''Ok...here goes nothing.'' Lilac said, swallowing hard before preparing to make the big jump. Lilac then fired herself from the position and flew right across to the tallest building. ''Whoa!'' She screamed as she flew across to the other side. All of a sudden, Lilac felt herself falling from the sky. Everyone who were below then saw this happen along with screaming a little. Lilac felt like she was going to die, but then...she channelled all of her energy and curled up into a ball before glowing.

The young dragon then shot up into the sky like before. Everyone became amazed at how anyone could clear the tallest building without any trouble whatsoever. Many mysterious figures were also watching this in amazement and even Shang Tu's leader, the Royal Magister himself who was watching from the royal palace.

''Magister...could it be? The return of the water dragons?'' A big panda guard asked with absolute shock as he saw this happen, not knowing that same female panda was watching it herself. The Magister merely gazed at this with amazement before speaking. ''Impossible...'' He said as this he saw Lilac flying up to the top of the building from the distance.

''Interesting...Gong, take Neera and find out everything you can about what happened yesterday. If my suspicions are true, then we must make sure to do everything to do whatever we can in order prevent our power from being lost.'' The magister ordered, fearing the worst outcome. And with that, Gong and Neera left for the ancient resting place of the kingdom stone itself.

Back at the tallest building

Lilac shot over the building and nearly fell off the other side, but luckily she whipped one of her ponytails at the flagpole and swung around it before landing on the very top of the building. As her ponytail retracted into her hair, Lilac then whooped in amazement at today with her new powers...and her beautiful appearance. Sure there might have been a couple of downfalls, but she finally knew that her life was going in the right direction. She then noticed that the sun was sinking into the horizon in the west, a sight that she never got to see from this height before.

So after a long day, Lilac decided to end her test run with a relaxing gaze at the setting sun. She also felt bad for leaving everyone behind today, but she could explain the whole thing later as soon as she got back to the orphanage. ''There y'all are Lilay. Ay've been a-lookin' all ovuurr faw y'all.'' Ginny said, suddenly appearing behind Lilac. She looked tired and mainly out of breath.

The young dragon gasped in fright, but soon calmed down. ''Ginny, sorry I didn't see you there. Sorry for running off earlier.'' She said apologetically. Ginny said it was ok and said that she could explain what happened later. ''Why done y'all run off earliuurr girl? we was all amazed at y'all's skills befawe y'all done ran off.'' The redneck bunny complemented, making Lilac feel a lot better after that. ''I dunno Ginny, I thought you were gonna call me a freak like those mean girls were.'' Lilac admitted.

Ginny then hugged her friend, making her feel loads better. The redneck bunny always knew that whenever one of her siblings were upset or hurt on the farm, she'd always give them a good hug and help them out. "Y'all think y'all're freaky? whel listen here girl, y'all're actually preytty just a-lookin' like ayy dragon." She said in comfort. "Aw, I knew you would. There's nobody else other than my own friends who make me feel home. Especially, one who's part of a big farm business farming for Carrots." Lilac said as a complement.

It was true, Ginny was always the older sibling out of her family who always told everyone what to do most of the time, Her Pa was the one in charge of her family's farm along with her grandparents after Ginny's mother had passed away, but ever since that day, they managed to keep the farm going and though his eldest daughter was a bit clumsy, he decided to let her help around the farm.

The hat that Ginny owned (and always wore) belonged to her mother who gave it to her right before her fatal accident occurred. She was delivering a cartload of carrot cider to Shang Tu with Ginny and her father, when the bridge collapsed, taking both the cart and her mother with it. Ginny was devastated by that horrible accident and could hardly sleep for many nights after that happened, but her father said to always be strong no matter what obstacle comes her way.

Thinking about the past made Ginny upset, but it also made her feel glad that her mother wanted her to be happy. ''Don't wawry about what y'all done ta Urszala, she ayn' those there othuurr girls done had it coming ta them.'' The bunny said with reassurance, making Lilac feel a whole lot better.

''You mean those bullies who tried to hurt you today?'' Another voice asked behind the two girls. Turning to see it's source, Lilac and Ginny then saw Caroline standing right behind them, smiling. ''Caroline? What are you doing here?'' The dragon girl asked. ''Well, I came to see if you were doing ok after you ran off before.'' Caroline answered, speaking shortly but straight to the point. Wondering how the girls made it up the tower, asked the two girls the question.

Ginny said that being a bunny has it's advantages and Caroline...she said that it was a secret for another time. The trio then sat together and spent the rest of the time they had to watch the sunset. ''So...shouldn't you be with the mean girls? I mean you are the leader of them.'' Lilac asked, wondering why Caroline was alone. ''Well to be honest...I ditched them, they were too much of a pack of bullies.'' Carol admitted, almost as if she wanted new friends.

Think that it was a trick question, Ginny quickly lashed out at Caroline, but after she explained that it was the truth, Ginny calmed down and apologised to the green wildcat. ''Anyways, I just wanted to say...nice work snatching that coin from Rhea yesterday. I mean I thought we deserved that yo-yo, but I guess you won it fair and square.'' She admitted.

Ginny then regretfully, but happily hugged the wildcat. ''Aww, thank y'all.'' She said gladly. ''So...we're cool now?'' Caroline asked, Lilac nodded in agreement along with her redneck friend. ''So if you ever need a friend, I'm always here Caroline.'' Lilac said, making Caroline feel like she was respected for the first time. And just hearing those words made her say something that only she thought was what friends would do. ''Actually...why don't you girls call me Carol. I kinda like that name better that Caroline.'' Caroline said, actually changing her own name to a suitable one.

''Yeah, Carol's actually a better name for you.'' Lilac said, liking the sound of the nickname. After that moment onward, Lilac and Carol felt like they were actually gonna get along for the first time in their lives. Carol also said that she'd help Lilac out with whatever she could. The trio then decided to head back to the orphanage to see where Fival and Iris were, not noticing another figure who had been watching them in secret. ''Hmm...this could prove to be advantageous for the scarves...'' He said, looking down at the girls as if he had plans for them.

Well, we're at the end again.

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Negaboss2000 out.