Alright I'm what? Two days late? *Sigh* Well I wanted to get ti done before that but I guess it better late then never right? So Enjoy read, critise, and I thank you in advance for reading.

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Chapter 8

Her voice was pretty cheerful as she spoke, considering what happened last night. I wasn't even over that. But, obviously she either didn't remember, or she got over things quite fast.

"Eona?" Her voice began to grow impatient.

I looked back at her, trying to figure out if I should lie to her, or if I should tell her the truth. The latter sounded pretty tempting, I shook my head. No, I've lied for a good part of my life, I won't lie unless she wants me too. So I decided to do the only thing I could. I asked her,

"Honestly?"

"Mhm" She hummed, but it faltered a bit. She was—no she seemed happy, and I didn't want to dampen her spirits, even if it was a cover, by saying the one thing I knew she didn't want to hear. Heck, I didn't even want to hear it.

"That's a slight problem." I muttered looking at Ryko to see his reaction.

"Why?" Her voice sounded accusing, she suspected this.

"I can't tell you how I did it, when I don't even know how I did it." I said in a spill of words, partially hoping she didn't understand what I had said.

"You don't know?" Her voice sounded incredulous, I don't blame her.

"No." I sighed, "No, I don't."

"How can you do something and not know how you did it?" She asked—no yelled. She was frustrated. Why was she frustrated? I'm the one who healed and can't figure out how to heal again.

But again, I didn't blame her a bit. She was right how did I not know? But I didn't have the answer to that, and she knew I didn't. She looked at me eyes fierce, let out a harsh sigh and started to walk away. I opened my mouth to call out to her but I was interrupted. A man unknown to me, came running over. He tripped a bit, as not used to the terrain but other than that he was pretty athletic. He was skinny but sort of muscular, I imagined he was a Moonshadow.

He wore the Pear Emperor's crest so he was on our side, at least I hoped he was. I wasn't the least bit convinced. After last night it was going to take him dying for our side to convince me, but by then he'd be dead so...

"Ryko we need help back at camp. Sethon's on the move so we have to start packing what little we have." He said addressing Ryko and not even acknowledging me; which kind of irked me in the slightest.

"Alright." Ryko nodded his head, then he turned to me before he left, "Stay with Kyra."

"Yes, Sir." I muttered while looking for Kyra. I heard footsteps and I turned around and watched him walk away. Then, once he was out of sight I called out to Kyra.

"Kyra!" I yelled, it probably wasn't the smartest idea but I was told to stay with Kyra.

Now even though I should be offended because I'm a Dragoneye, I wasn't because it was Ryko. I sighed and decided to start walking the way I saw her run. It didn't take me long to find her, I went around a couple trees and she was sitting there looking up at the sky. I sat down next to her, and she looked calm but I didn't doubt her anger was still there.

"I'm sorry." I whispered looking up to where she was, it was the only thing I could think of saying to her. I'm not used to comforting others, I'm surprised I managed to comfort Chart as much as I did. Kyra looked over to me,

"Why?"

I looked back at her, "Because you, because everyone expects me to know what I'm doing. Everyone expects me to help and I can't even tell you how I healed you. How can I take back what's rightfully Kygo's if I can't even do that?" I slowly whispered, I was afraid of the words. I was afraid of admitting it, and it just came out on it's own accord.

"Why didn't you lie?"

"Mhm?" I asked surprised, did she want me to lie?

"Why did you just tell me all that. You could of just told me some story of how you healed me, and then be done with it. Why?"

I laughed shortly, "Lets just say I'm trying to be a little more honest."

Then Kyra smiled at me suddenly, "I'm grateful for that." She whispered, I don't even think I was supposed to hear it.

She got up and pulled me up with her, she took hold of my hand an lead me further into the forest. As we walked the landscape changed. There were fewer trees and the land was flatter. We walked for another moment or two and came to a shore. Well, a cliff looking over the shore. She lead me over and sat down. The wind blew in our faces, as I listened to the sounds of the water. To others, not where we were would think this nothing. But it wasn't it was very much something, and its very peaceful. I watched the sea foam lick the sand as the water crawled up the shore.

"Isn't it nice?"

I nodded, still watching the water, so she said, "It's a good place to think." I nodded at her words once again.

"Eona there's a lot of natural elements," My head snapped towards her, where was she going with this?

"Yes, I'm aware of that." I said looking at her suspiciously.

She looked a little nervous as she open her mouth to speak. Her hands were writhing, "Do you—do you think you could heal again?" .

I looked at her not very surprised, "Is there a specific reason?" I said softly, and I wasn't trying to be blunt, truthfully I didn't think I could ever be blunt, but looking at her blush and the fact that she avoided eye contact after that, I assumed I accidentally did.

"I—well—it's just I figured if you practiced, you'd get better at it."

Well there's half the reason, I reasoned, will she tell me the other half? As I awaited the next part of her answer I stayed silent and just looked at her. After a moment or two of this I sighed, she wasn't going to tell me. I went to speak but she interrupted me in a low voice that was just way to calm for what she was saying.

"Only a few of us got away from Sethon. There's only a handful of men here with us. You, me, Dela, the Pear Emperor, and Ryko. He took everyone else, or they went with him on their own free will for all I know. But I do know that if what he did to me, trying to get you to talk, when he didn't even know who you really were. Then what he would do to them after you got away with me would be much, much worse."

It took me a moment to fully absorb her words, and when it did I felt shame and understanding. It flooded through me like a tidal wave. She hoped that I could heal who ever needed it when we saw—if we saw them again. Right then I also understood her anger at my attempt to remember how I did it exactly. She pinned her hopes on me, and I let her down. I didn't want to do that again, I've already let too many people down. Everyone at that camp depended on me for protection from him, or at least most of them did. I needed to be able to help them if I could.

"Alright." I whispered.

Her eyes lite up but then it faded, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure." And for once I think I actually was. At that statement she got up and went over back near the shrubs and plants. I watched her as she picked some healthy looking plants, they were small but looked sturdy. When she had three she came over and dug a small hole in the dirt in front of me. Then she placed two of the plants in the holes she dug.

"Okay," She started, "Since we can't go around causing people pain and breaking limbs and stabbing them, we'll use plants."

She didn't even wait for a nod from me to agreed she just kept talking,

"I'll break one of these plants in half, symbolizing a broken bone. The second one I'll put a slice through, symbolizing broken flesh and damaged organs. The third one," She gestured towards the third plant, "Is dead. I want you to try to heal them one at a time."

I smiled thoughtfully, she put a lot of though into this. The only thing I didn't smile at was the dead plant, I had no idea if I could bring people back from the dead. That would go against human nature, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. But something in the back of my mind was still nagging at me not to try it. I wasn't sure how I would feel, physically though. Last time I did this I was physically tolled, so I hoped I wouldn't faint again.

"Every time you heal I'll just maim the plant again, so you can get practice. Okay?"

I nodded, surprised she wanted my consent on it. She hadn't asked for it any other time today..

"What's wrong?" Kyra asked evidently sensing something wrong.

"I'm not sure what's going to happen—physically and any other possible thing that could possibly go wrong." I sighed, "So when I'm doing this only come near me if I've fainted," And even that's a stretch,"Okay?"

"But—"

"No buts." I gave her a hard look, at least I tried to. "You are going to stay away until either I've fainted, or I tell you it's okay to come over."

She had no idea what happened the first time I tried to call my dragon's power and I was attacked, I didn't want her to get hurt...Again. Her eyes widened a bit at the sudden command but she nodded. She went about ten feet away and sat near a rock watching me. I sighed suddenly dreading what I was about to do, I knew I had to learn to use my powers but;

What was I getting myself into?

I touched the sliced one gently, this one was most likely the easier to heal. Then I entered the energy world. I saw my dragon, she was waiting patiently, but she looked slightly anxious.

What's wrong? I asked, I wanted to help her.

I can't say. She replied sounding strained.

But I'm your Dragoneye! Why can't you tell me? I replied slightly angry at the fact I couldn't know.

Shh all in time, child, all in time.

I exhaled in frustration, then I remembered why I was doing this. I refocused on that and hesitantly reached for her power. I half expected her to deny me access for my outburst and sudden anger that was deserved; but she didn't. I focused on the plant's Hua, it wasn't anything complex, it is a plant. But it is a living thing, so it's better than nothing. I focused on what I wanted like I did last night but unlike last night she didn't start humming. Frustration again took me over and after of about a minute or two of this, I unknowingly glared back at her.

Why isn't it working? Why aren't you helping?

I can't do everything for you.

I can't do everything for you. I can't do everything for you. Then the realization of that sentence hit me. I don't know how to use what I have, so she helped me last night because it was urgent. But if I was going to learn I had to figure it out by myself. She couldn't come in at the last second every time and save the day. I realized I was depending on her way to much. With my brows furrowed I tried to remember the tune I used for Kyra. But of course, it didn't work.

Different things heal different ways.

This confused me a bit, because it wasn't my dragon telling me this. But somehow I knew it was right. I couldn't heal everything with the same tune, everything has different energy pathways and different injuries. They can't adjust to the tune, so I have to adjust to their injuries. I set my attention to the plant's Hua. Its a living thing so it does have the same type of Hua pathways. I examined the energy pathways. I found the part that was damaged and focused on that part of the plant. Then I started a low hum, but it didn't work. So I adjusted it slightly and tried again. The energy began to react to my power. I kept the rhythm and the plant started to stitch itself. Once it did, my dragon started to hum approvingly. Then she hummed the tune I was with me. Once we were in sync the plant started to heal itself faster, but not to fast. Something that heals to fast won't heal right. Once I safely healed the plant without ruining it's pathways, I touched my hand on the stabbed plant. But I found the wound different, so I quickly explored the damage and adjusted my hum and the plant healed just like it should. I started to feel slightly dizzy so I quietly thanked my dragon, and eased out of the energy world to see Kyra sitting right in front of me.

"I thought I told you to stay back!"

"But you looked so peaceful so I thought—"

I sighed and shook my head, "You could of gotten seriously hurt if that would have went wrong!"

"But it didn't." She countered then asked, "Did it work?"

"See for yourself." I said pointing to the plants indicating her to look at them.

Kyra gently dug out the plants and inspected the plants looking for injuries.

"That's—wow." Her jaw dropped, "Anything that was wrong with these plants is gone." She hesitated before asking, "Did you try the dead plant?"

"No, not yet."

"Then try!" She sounded desperate, "You healed the other ones, heal the last one. Please."

I looked over at the sun, it was setting. It was getting late.

"No, it's getting late." I voiced, "Maybe tomorrow."

She nodded not quite understanding and stood, "How do you feel?"

"I feel fine, just a little dizzy. I said standing, " I should be fine once we start walking back to camp."

"Maybe you're getting used to it? Maybe that's why you're only dizzy and not fainting?"

"No a plant is less complex than the human body," I sighed, "No, I'm only just getting started."

I let Kyra lead me back to where we would stay the night. When I could heard talking and could see a faint fire light, I knew we were close. She lead me to an opening in the bushes that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Which was probably the point. When we got into the heart of the camp I went in search of Lady Dela. I needed to know what was going on, so I could plan my practices. When I saw a tent I went in without thinking, Dela had to be in there.

"Dela I need—"

At least that's what I thought.

But I stopped dead when I realized I walked in on Kygo, changing. I felt my face heat up and I made a strangled sound, averted my eyes and made a move to leave.

"Sorry I thought—"

"That I was Dela?" He asked and chuckled. I heard some rustling and I assumed he put on his shirt back on.

"I'll leave, sorry." I mumbled.

"No, it's fine. I was just changing my shirt. Dela was in here before, she left a few minutes ago. What do you need?"

"I want to know what's going on." I mumbled still embarrassed. God knows why I mean he was the one changing not me.

"What?" He asked, amusement colored his voice.

At first I though the amusement was because I was blushing.

"What is our plan?" I asked speaking more slowly so I could focus on speaking louder.

"What we plan on doing?" He asked a little too sarcastically for my taste. My eyes narrowed as I watched him look through a bag

"I handled it, all you need to know is that we're leaving first thing in the morning, we're heading west." He said in a dismissive tone. He couldn't have been more blunt. I frowned and my eyes darkened.

"I need to know."

He finally looked at me. "I told you—"

"I don't care what you just told me." I growled. "I don't care that you're the rightful Emperor. All I care about is not getting killed and making sure no one else dies. We are not in the palace and I may be a woman but I'm not stupid. I'm the Dragoneye who's trying to help you get back your thrown. I am trying to make sure I can help you do just that. You need to tell me, whether you think it's the right thing to do or not."

I didn't mean to sound rude, but I was fed up. He was perfectly fine yesterday, there was no trace of regret, or anger in him. Was that all an act? I didn't blame him for not trusting me, but he could have told me he was still mad. Regardless, he was not going to act like I was just some girl he saved in the streets I am a Dragoneye and I've tasted respect and I didn't want it to stop now.

"That may be but," he said walking up to me so he was only a few inches away. "I don't' know if I can trust you. My empire lies in the hands of a woman, a woman who lied and cheated to get where she is now. Yes, you healed, so I know you united with your dragon. But until you can handle your powers and I know I can fully trust you, you will make do with what I give you."

I tried to hide my anger at his sudden outburst. I knew this would come up sometime, but I hoped it was late than sooner..

"I understand." I said trying to talk levelly. He looked at me and raised his eyebrows. "If you won't trust me until you know you can, I can't do anything about that. But the power situation, I can do something about. I'm going to rescue the only person who can help me, if that's what it takes. Which, it seems it is."

"Oh? And who is that? All the Dragoneyes are dead."

"Ido isn't."

I said then marched out of the tent without consent from Kygo. I went in search of Dela and Ryko. When I found Dela, I found Ryko so I told them what I hoped and planned to do.

"Dela?"

"Yes?" She answered packing something in a bag,

"We're—well if you don't want to come I'm going on a trip. As soon as dawn comes we—or just me—are heading to the Palace."

"Good heavens, why? I thought we were trying to stay away from Sethon not walk right to him!"

"I need to learn how to use my powers, and right now the only person who can help me is prisoner by Sethon. We're attempting to rescue Ido."

Ryko's face was grave. Dela's jaw dropped, and right then Kygo came running out of his tent. Probably to try to stop me, I didn't care I was going whether he like it or not. I was going whether Dela and Ryko were coming or not. I was giving them a choice, because I don't want them doing something that they don't want to do and get hurt. Dela looked like she was about to oppose me, and try to convince me out of it. But she stood up and I didn't expect her to come back with this answer,

"Ryko will serve you and the Emperor to the end. And so will I."

I was relieved by the words, just like I was at the palace when she first said them. I knew this was the last thing they expected me to say or do, to be honest it was the last thing I thought I'd ever say or do. But I had to, I had to do it. For me, for everyone I care about. I just hope it works out.

Hope ya liked it! (: And sorry there's really no action, I LIVE for action in these kinds of stories so hopefully you'll get some the next few chapters? Mhm? ;)) Well maybe, so let me know if you want action! This way I know I'm doing something right. (: