Here is chapter four, hope you like it.

I don't own anything but my character, Nowien.

She walked around the corridors and thought of the time she met Smaug the first time, he had been born before her and her soul had rested with him until her body was born. During that time had she taken the form of a warm feeling within his chest and they loved each other deeply, they were two parts of the same after all.

When she finally had been born with her body did Smaug come straight to her to see her, and he adore the little human girl. He stayed with her for a while; he had promised her and everyone around her that he would always protect her. At the time had he meant every word.

But then one day when he was out hunting was he struck by something. He turned dark, and after making sure she was alright did he fly off and never returned. She could hear and feel the darkness taking its claim of him; she knew what it was but couldn't fight it as he was gone.

It took a few years before anyone heard anything about him and when they did were they shocked to hear about him taking Erebor and killing hundreds of dwarves. That was when she grew up and turned in to a teen, to face the feelings of horror that a child could not take.

You see, her people stay a child until a certain push from their dragon makes them in to teens. From teens to young adult is the next step and that is when they find someone to mate with, or a lover at least. After that can they choose to stay as a young adult for the rest of time, always living with their dragon, or grow old over time and in the end die. But as their mates usually are mortal do they choose to age slowly with them, matching their life to theirs so that they can spend every day with them.

The push that was needed could vary, sometimes was it a strong push like the one Nowien was put through. Where something horrible happens and forces you to grow up to face it, or it is a smaller push like the dragon deciding it was time for them to grow up and continue to evolve.

She is still a teen in looks, but she should have turned young adult a couple of years ago. She was stuck until she dared facing her dragon again, and that would not happen for a long time. So for the time being was she an adult woman in a teen body. She wasn't very happy with the arrangement but could live with it, as long as was seen as an adult by the others. She would hate for them to forget how mature she really was by only seen a teenage face.

She came out to where the children were now playing with the elves that probably had more important things to do but couldn't say no to their cute looks. Nowien hoped they wouldn't mind watching Jenifer and Edmund some more, she really needed to talk to Jasmine.

"Jasmine?" Nowien asked and the girl looked up along with the others. "Can you come with me for a second?" she asked and Jasmine nodded and rushed over, her normal happy self. Nowien send a look to the elves who nodded in understanding, turning the other two children's attention back to the game to let Nowien have some time with Jasmine.

They walked hand in hand to their room where Nowien put her on the bed, then took off the girl's dress to look at her back. She was right. The scales and wings were taking shape, creating beautiful bronze scales.

"Do you know about our bond with dragons?" Nowien asked as she put the dress back on her.

Jasmine nodded with a smile. "Dragons are friends who play with us!" she said and Nowien laughed a little, happy to hear the innocent answer to such a complicated question. Not that she was far off, that was usually how dragons treated the youngest. They would play with them, even the oldest dragon would spare a moment to play or tease a child, much to their delight. That must be what Jasmine remembered of the dragons in their village.

"Yes, and soon will you have your own dragon to play with." Nowien promised and the girl looked at her wide eyed before her eyes started sparkling in delight.

"Really?" she asked and Nowien nodded with a smile.

"I will be your teacher when you two meet, but until then must this be a secret. No one must know, you can only talk to me and Elrond about it." Nowien said seriously and the girl promised, but looked to be far away in her mind. Most likely thinking about all that she would do with her new dragon friend, training was probably the last thing on her mind.

Nowien explained the situation for Arwen who promised she still loved her no matter what and that Smaug's actions was not hers or his, it was the dark forces who used him. Nowien had been relieved by this and explained about Jasmine and Arwen understood, very curious to meet a young dragon and see how they are before darkness poison their minds. All she had ever heard before was how dangerous and ruthless they were, killing and plundering with greed.

Arwen and Nowien continued their training like there hadn't been a huge secret that had been told and it took five years until they found the dragon, this meant that Edmund and Jenifer had grown up to older children while Jasmine was still stuck as a child. This had brought trouble and a lot of fights but they managed to live with it. Jasmine was slightly hurt to still being small while her friends grew up, but Nowien reminded her that she could grow up to a teen before them, which seemed to cheer her up a little.

When they found the dragon, a green and brown little thing, had the news been told to every elf in Rivendell. They didn't want to shock everyone when there would suddenly be a dragon amongst them. It had been found by the lady Galadriel herself, who brought it to them. Nowien had met her before but her beauty always stunned her, it was like you forgot how beautiful she really was when she had gone but was reminded when you saw her again.

The dragon had loved Jasmine right away, and of course was the feelings returned but Jasmine pouted for three days after meeting him for not being red or pink.

This had Nowien sighing while the elves laughed awkwardly; they were all tense at the thought of a dragon living with them. Which was all understandable, even if the small thing that was delivered looked like he couldn't hurt a fly. He was no bigger than a puppy and his teeth were not very sharp yet, and flying was not possible until his wings were bigger. Nowien had examined him right away and declared him healthy, from what little she remembered from her father.

Jasmine named the dragon Grass and Nowien flinched at the name; usually did they get strong names that could make anyone flinch out of fear or respect, a name that would be easy to remember as the stories were told about them and their power. But now was the name weak and made you flinch out of the wrong reason. But there was no re-naming so his name was now Grass, much to Nowien's horror.

They trained under Nowien who showed them all the things the two could do together, and this made her miss her own companion. The bonding exercise where you would read each other's minds, feel each other's feeling or just feel the love and presence of the other. The power of fighting alongside the one person who would know your every move and back you up constantly, always covering your blank spots. She missed having someone there for her at all times, never questioning anything. Always knowing when she needed comfort or to laugh, knowing when she was angry and needed release. But when she got too caught up in these feelings did she shake them off and focused on her nephew and her dragon.

It was quite a few times that Elrond and Arwen caught her staring towards the east with a longing look, only to shake her head and turn back to the task at hand. This had them worried, they knew who her dragon was but no matter how much they wished she could go to him was it dangerous. He was still under the darkness' spell and very likely to kill her.

The dragons and their marks were hidden from everyone outside of the elves, not even Gandalf that would visit once in a while knew. They all knew he would use this and that was not going to happen if Nowien had a say, she knew meddling old men usually got everyone in trouble.

It was many years later when something took a turn; Arwen was off to study under her grandmother as they usually did every other year. So Nowien spend her time with the elven guard, Edmund and Jenifer was by now young adults and had started being troublesome. Jenifer wanted to go out and explore the world while Edmund wanted to go and meet women, but Nowien never allowed them.

The memory of the slaughter of their village was still clear in her mind; she was too scared to let them out of her sight. Scared that is she let them go outside of the safe city of Rivendell would they end up murdered or used by the orcs, anything could happen to them when she wasn't there to protect them! This meant constant arguments between them and in the end did they barely speak to Nowien anymore.

So Nowien spends her time training Jasmine and herself or being with the guard, Jasmine had yet to age to her surprise and worry but figured the girl would age when she felt it was time. She had not been in such a rush to age ever since she found the dragon, all her thoughts went on the dragon.

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