Chapter 1
"The Dragonmaster must represent four qualities, one of the most important is truthfulness, without the truth, there is no hope for Lunar." –Ancient Book 'List Of The Dragon'.
"Sion, helloooo, you in there?", the boy asked again.
Sion had his face down in his arms on the food court table, hardly moving. The McDonalds burger in front of him was untouched, as was the rest of his meal.
"Come on man, you've been like this for three days now, what's up with you," the boy quickly jabbed Sion on the shoulder; before he could pull his hand back Sion grabbed his wrist. He looked up at his friend, with a half smile on his face.
"Long day?", the friend asked.
"You don't know the half of it Jeff", Sion muttered putting his face back in his arms, as if he were trying to fall asleep on the table.
"Come on man, you've got me worried here, whats got you so down?", Jeff questioned Sion, as he made a move for the untouched burger.
Sion sat up and decided to talk, "I'm just depressed man that's all."
"About what?"
"About a lot of stuff, that's what"
"Don't be talking like that man, you know what 76% of the population does when they're depressed"
"I said I was depressed, not stupid", Sion got out of his seat, and snatched the burger from Jeff. He threw away the uneaten meal, and started walking through the mall.
"You know your goanna go to hell for that", Jeff said pointing toward the trashcan.
"Bite me", Sion replied, a half smile forming.
"So come on, tell me, whats got ya down Sion?", Jeff nudged Sion, trying to cheer him up.
"Nothing", Sion snapped back.
"You know what you need, a nice little girlfriend."
Sion stopped walking and just stared down at the ground, when Jeff realized this he turned around.
"I knew it, girl trouble huh?", Jeff walked over to Sion, and put an arm around his neck forcing him to walk again, "I can help you out there".
"We better sit down then", Sion motioned over towards a bench in the middle of the mall.
"So what exactly is going on? Spill it."
"Ok you know that girl, Amy at school."
"Yeah what about her?"
"Well I've got this thing for her."
"…and?"
Sion dropped his head before continuing, "And were just total opposites, I don't know what to talk about around her, hell I can't even talk to her face to face. Its like I don't even stand a chance man."
"Well man sometimes you've just gotta take a risk you know," As Jeff finished something caught his eye.
"Yeah well I haven't even gotten a chance to ask her out. The only time I ever see her is at school.", Sion started to drift off in his own depression when Jeff shook him, pointing towards a store.
"Well buddy today must be your lucky day. Check out who's walking into Victoria Secret's."
"Amy!?", Sion got a puzzled look on his face, and then a smile appeared.
"Ok then, I'm going to go ask her", Sion started walking into the store, only to be stopped by Jeff.
"I'm glad the regular Sion's back for now, but you can't just walk into a bra shop and ask her out. We'll follow her around till they stop for lunch", Jeff pulled Sion back to the corner of the shop, and they sat and waited for the girls to come out.
They followed them all over the mall for three hours, first they came out of Victoria's Secrets, then they went to Belks, back tracked to Ann Taylor, ran over to Bath and Body works, and finally ended up at Hallmark.
"Man there like machines, don't they ever stop?", Jeff was almost out of breath trying to keep up with Sion.
"Shut up they'll hear you, but yeah it is weird. Wait a second, did you ever think that they may have already eaten lunch?", Sion questioned, looking sternly at Jeff. Jeff backed away.
"You know, you may be right about that."
As if on cue one of the girls spoke up, "hey Amy I'm getting pretty hungry, let's go grab a bite, what'd you say?"
"Sounds good where at?", Amy questioned.
"How about that German place, in the Food Court?"
"I love that place, come on, lets good", Amy, and the rest of her friends left the store, and walked towards the food court. Sion and Jeff stood motionless with a blank expression on their faces.
"Ok, that's one too many weird coincidences for one day", Sion stood up and pulled Jeff along with him to the food court. Once there they watched the three girls go into the restaurant, and order their food.
"Shoot there's too many of them, I need to get her alone", Sion was getting frustrated. After the three hours they spent fallowing these girls they hadn't split up once, how was he supposed to get her alone now. He then looked at Jeff.
"I've got an idea."
After a quick trip to the suit rental place by Sears the two returned with Jeff wearing shades, a freshly pressed pin stripe suit, and carrying a briefcase in his hand.
"Ok, so what am I supposed to do again?", Jeff asked.
"Simple, go introduce your self to those two girls next to Amy, and pretend to be a reporter for some teenage magazine. Ask them to come with you to another part of the restaurant for an interview. While you're doing that I'll sit down and talk to Amy. Don't let Amy see your face, or she'll recognize you, disguise you voice also"
"Ok chief, I just hope this works."
"Whatever, it'll work, now you're on go get 'em," Sion pushed Jeff towards the girls. Jeff walked up to the table and got their attention.
"Hello ladies, my name is Tom Mathews. I'm a reporter for the magazine 'Teen Spirit', its about teenage girls and relationships. Are any of you three going out with a guy?", the other two girls raised their hand, Amy lowers her head looking at the table.
"Wonderful, if you two wouldn't mind it, would you come with me outside the restaurant and allow me to interview you?", the two girls stood up and followed Jeff, one of them turned around and asked Amy if it was alright, Amy just told them to go on. The girls ran off, Jeff turned around for a second and offered Amy some uplifting words.
"I've seen a lot of relationships happen, trust me, I'm sure your going to find a boy friend real soon", with that Jeff left Amy alone, and went out to interview the girls for the 'magazine'.
After Sion saw the girls leave he walked up to Amy's table, and sat down.
"Sion, what are you doing here?", Amy asked, a puzzled look on her face. Sion turned around, and looked at Jeff with the two girls, he then faced Amy.
"Look at that. Jeff's interviewing for his 'magazine', not a bad job on the suit I might add", Sion said pointing to the group behind him.
"I thought that voice sounded familiar, so you've got me alone what now?", Amy asked.
"Amy look, for the past year I've been getting this feeling about you… I can't really explain it in words completely, but I really like you, and I was wondering if sometime you'd like to catch a movie or something?", Sion breathed a sigh of relief after finally getting that out. He looked over at Amy who looked a little taken back by his words.
"Sion… I don't know what to say, I never expected this from you, but it means a lot to me, but Sion I don't know you well enough to go out with you. How about we be friends for right now?", Amy replied with a smile on her face.
"For now?", Sion asked, his depression starting to return.
"Yeah for now, and once we get to know each other then…well, we'll take it from there then", Amy noticed Sion falling back into depression, and tried to cheer him up with a smile, but it didn't work. Sion just got up, grabbed Jeff, and pulled him away.
"We'll ladies you have my number, let me know if I can do anything else for you girls", Jeff yelled out as Sion was pulling him away.
Amy was laughing at the sight, she thought, "Sion did all that just to ask me out, well being friends is best", she walked over to her friends and they continued their shopping trip.
Meanwhile Sion was walking with Jeff back to their cars.
"So man what she say?", Jeff asked eagerly.
"We're friends," Sion replied grimly.
"Did she say friends, or friends for now."
"Friends for now."
"Buddy that's great."
"It is?", Sion was puzzled by this, but it brought his hopes up.
"Yeah man it means that she's thinking it over, and that she wants to get to know you better first."
Sion jumped up into the air. It felt like the weight of the world had been lifted off of him. The two friends parted ways and Sion got in his car, and drove home.
Meanwhile, in a forest somewhere
A gathering was happening, twenty or so men wearing brown robes gathered in an old temple. What appeared to be the leader of the bunch got up on a pedestal, and started to speak to the group. He held up a small pendent that appeared to glow.
"Brothers it is time. Lucia's pendent has awakened", the leader shouted to the crowd.
"It is time for us to find the Dragonmaster, without him our world will parish under Virgo's rule."
Someone in the crowd then spoke up, "but sir what if we cannot find the boy?"
The leader lowered his head, and let out a simple reply, "Then there is no hope, all will be lost."
"Sion!, hey what's up, I was hoping you'd call", all of a sudden the tiredness in Amy's voice left, and her normal one returned.
"Oh, ok um I was wondering if you'd like to do something today?", Sion felt a little more confident after hearing Amy's words.
"Sure do you know where I live?", Sion scanned the directory again.
"Yeah, 6790 Stonecircle Dr."
Well I hope you all enjoyed it, by the way if the address listed in the preview is actually any one's real address then its just a coincidence. I didn't really mean to put your address there.
-General Dragon
