I don't really have anything to say and it's 10 at night, so I'm screwed at school tomorrow. By the way, I won my first High School Bowling Tournament about a week ago; never been more happy in my life.

(Freakwave's POV)

"So, it's still here?" Tempest asked me. "After all these years?"

"Yeah, well the queen wanted Anemone to learn how to swim without being in danger," I replied, telling her the cavern's main purpose. "She might be down here, but she'll leave us only if I ask her."

I led Tempest down to the cave where we used to meet up before we were caught. We walked side by side as we chatted about small things that we did to catch up. It was nice to be back with her, especially the amount of sorrow I experience the few years after we were separated from each other.

Tempest's bright blue scales made the walls of the cave we were going to dull. Her body moved with anxiety, and I smiled when I felt her tail twined onto mine, and I did the same the moment after. Her eyes and smile seemed to brighten me up, and I couldn't help but wrap a wing around her, as if I never wanted her to leave. She looked up at me in the action, giving a toothy smile before we entered the main cavern.

Sure enough, Anemone was practicing her strides, even though the rest of the SeaWing dragonets were taught years ago. She must've of heard our footsteps because the whitish-pink princess whirled her neck around to see us. Her face lit up in surprise and joy, which caught me off-guard; it seemed that the SeaWing princes were either ignored, or annoyed by the true royalty within the family. I thought of Tsunami, who really enjoyed the system. Then it came to mind that she did this act so she couldn't be touched by me ever again. I wasn't surprised, as usual.

"Hey Wave!" Anemone pounced over, giving me a hug with her wings. A few moments later she hugged Tempest too, who had a gleeful expression as the dragonet. "Hey Tempest! Are we ready for combat training already?"

"Combat training?" I asked, looking at Tempest.

"No, that's tomorrow Anemone," Tempest said quickly, and the SeaWing Princess dropped her head, pouting. "But maybe I'll show you a few moves later, okay?"

"Okay!" Anemone cheered, before looking at the two of us, this time with a curious expression. "Wait, what are you two doing down here?"

I gave my cousin a shy smile, while out of the corner of my eye, Tempest had a faint blush on her cheeks. "Anemone, could you please leave us for a little bit? We got a bit of . . . catching up to do."

This immediately caught the pink SeaWing's attention. "Oh! Alright," Anemone answered, then I noticed faint red on her face. "I-I was getting . . tired, yeah, tired anyways." She immediately rushed her way back to the mansion, leaving Tempest and I in the quiet cavern. The water was still moving from Anemone's swimming, and there was a faint sound of dripping into the underground lake. The dome-shaped cavern was all our's, and I couldn't wait. The both of us lied down on a smooth surface of rock and I decided to ask her a question.

"So you're training Anemone in combat?" I asked her, and Tempest nodded.

"Well, the queen assigned me to do it, since I'm just outside the Elite Guard," Tempest replied, looking around the room and up at the ceiling

"So you're a Lieutenant?"

"Yeah, soon I'm going to be a Captain. Well, probably in the next few months." Tempest draped her tail across mine and moved her head in to lay it on my shoulder, her head tilted against mine.

"How long?"

"What?" Tempest looked up into my eyes in confusion.

"How long have you been in the guard?"

Her eyes darted away from my gaze, and she was quiet for a few moments. "I think it was close to, um, five years? Yeah."

"So you were in the guard since you could join," I said, and she looked at me in confusion. "I find that very interesting."

"I thought you would," she let out a giggle, and so did I. "I missed your voice for too long, Freakwave. It was never the same without you."

"Well, I thought we would never see you again," I admitted, but she didn't move an inch. "So I looked for other SeaWings, but none of them were like you."

"And why is that?"

"Because none of them understood this," I told her, gesturing to myself with my wings. She let out a small laugh in amusement, and I couldn't help but smile at my own joke, too. I looked down at her, my eyes meeting hers. "You were the one who really understood me Tempest, I mean it."

"I know you do," Tempest responsed, "but I want to hear about what you've been doing this entire time." She gave me one of her signature grins, and I sighed.

"Well, a few months after mourning our seperation, I got a job at the video game store at the mall," I started, "At first it was a dream come true, then I-"

"I bet it was a dream come true," Tempest interrupted. I frowned at her, but she didn't see it. "You've gotten chubby over the years." She poked me in my upper stomach, before moving her talons softly across my cheek and snout. "Especially that handsome face of yours."

"Can I continue or do you want to keep admiring me?" I asked her, and she closed her snout, lightly scratching my chin before withdrawing her claw to the ground. "Anyways, then I met the most interesting dragons in Pyrrhia. One was a NightWing and the other a IceWing. The craziest part was that they were friends. The best of friends, perhaps."

I looked at Tempest, who looked up, thinking about what I just said.

"Hmm . . ." Tempest thought. "Well, that's certainly a first for me."

"Same, but the NightWing also told me something that only about four other dragons know today," I informed her, and her eyes lit up with curiosity.

"Can I know?" Tempest asked, but I shook my head.

"It's something that concerns his safety," I replied softly, and she nodded in understanding. "Anyways, on with my life. A few months ago, I met a SandWing named Qibli at Jade Mountain and we formed up a band."

"Really?" Tempest raised an eyebrow at me, and I grinned. "And what do you play? The triangle?"

"Hahaha," I mocked laughed, causing Tempest to grin in amusement. "Very funny. No, I actually play the guitar. You can hear a demonstration up in my room if you want, but I need to ask you something while we're down here."

"Yes?"

"What exactly did your parents to do you?" I asked softly, and her joyfully expression went into depressed rage. "Tempest, I need to know."

"I'd rather not say," she told me. "Besides, you wouldn't want to know."

"Yes, I do," I countered her sentence. "I care for you, Tempest. Trust me on this, I can help you." She went silent for a few seconds before finally blurting out a response.

"Fine." She said, still not thinking it was a good idea. "My parents *cough*, struck me after they forced me back into the house. I still have the reminders." Tempest got up in front of me and lifted a wing, revealing the side of her body. I was shock and slightly horrified at what I saw.

"They whipped my side so, s-so many times," she stuttered, her eyes closed recalling the memory. I gazed upon dark marks implanted in her side, and I shuttered when I thought of what her parents did.

"I-I had no idea that would happen," I spoke softly. "I would've come to help you, but I was stupid." I felt guilt start coming into my mind, and I let it: there was no reason why Tempest had to suffer for this. "I'm sorry, Tempest. I shoud've protected you from them."

She looked down at me, blinking tears from her eyes. "You didn't know what would happen, and neither did I. That's in the past now Freakwave, and the only thing I want now is to forget the past few years of my life. I want to forget my parents."

If only I could make them disappear, I thought, looking down sadly.

Then an idea snapped into my head. My animus magic. "I know how that can happen." I told her, but she tilted her head in confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"Follow me."

I pounced over to the underground lake, and Tempest followed, walking curiously over to my side. I gave her a cheeky smile, but all she did was frown in response. Twining my tail with hers once more, I put a talon into the lake.

"Enchant this lake to heal any type of injury," I commanded.

"Nothing happened," Tempest told me, rubbing a wing on my back. "By the way, are you saying you're an animus."

"Yeah," I responded, my eyes shifting to her for a split second before going back to the lake. "You don't believe me?"

"I would've known about when were younger if you were one," she responded, and I put the logical explanation she had.

"Well, we can find out!" I exclaimed, grabbing her upper-torso.

"Freakwave! Wha-" she shrieked in surprise before I fell into the lake, her in my arms. Feeling the liquid splash around, I couldn't help but smile as Tempest flailed around, shocked at what I just did.

I let the water engulf me as I used my tail to shoot through the water, and soon up to the surface. A few moments later, Tempest did the same thing, before swimming over to me. She had a frown on her face as I laughed in enjoyment. Well, my enjoyment ended when I got a hard slap to the face.

SLAP!

I felt my face erupt in pain, and I placed a talon on my left cheek. I let out a small groan in pain before recovering from the blow. Tempest now had a smirk on her face, triumphantly watching me as I looked at her.

"I guess I had that coming," I thought loudly.

"If you wanted to go into the lake, then I would've done it," Tempest informed me.

"Now where's the fun in that? Oh! By the way, check your side," I suggested, and she took my advice. Tempest lifted up her wing to reveal her whipped side, but something was way different from before.

The marking were gone, revealing nothing but pristine, turquoise scales that looked beautiful. Tempest was shocked, speechless at how the memories vanished. She looked up at me, both with a look of shock and awe. Her orbs gazed right into mine as I smiled at her.

SLAP!

"Ow! What was that for?" I demanded, covering my right cheek with my claw this time.

"That was for being sassy with me," she explained, then she lunged at me at pressed her snout into mine. (We're getting into a slightly mature scene: Read at your own risk [just kissing, nothing more]) We locked into the first passionate and loving kiss I have ever had in my life. I closed my eyes as let her lips engulf mine.

Was surprised me even more was than she was pushing her tounge against the rim of my mouth. I opened my eyes slightly, raising a eyebrow at her, but she still had her eyes closed shut. I thought a little before deciding to let her explore my mouth, and her tounge pushed through. Soon, our tounges crossed paths and we kept the kiss for a minute straight before seperating. The only thing left from that kiss was a string of saliva that snapped under its own weight in a second. I was speechless, too drunk with love to have words go out of my mouth.

"And that was for infinitly making my life better."

I looked at her with my eyelids half-closed, still stunned from the kiss. Tempest then splashed water at me to break me out of my trance.

"Well," I started. "I will do anything to make you happy." I pressed my head against hers and stared into her blue orbs. "You deserve to restart and have a better life from your parents."

"I am restarting," she spoke softly, the water splashing around our necks. "And my life will be better with you." Tempest then planted another kiss on my snout before wrapping her wings around me. She then pulled me under the water, and I couldn't help but laugh. We spun downward with our luminescent scales flashing rapidly, and I remembered that we did this when we were dragonets.

Memories. I smiled warmly with my eyes closed. I only kept the thought for a moment before she let go of me, leaving me in the water by myself. I shot my eyes open and looked around, only to see Tempest floating across from me.

I love you. I flashed with my scales, and she replied, flashing the same message. Then, I knew that my life would change today.

And it will change for the better.

(Galactic's POV)

Waterfall and I were walking away from the movie theatre and to the car. Our tails were twined together and we walked under the evening sky. It's orange, red, and yellow colors hid the stars, and they wanted to be free from the orange light so they could shine freely.

"Thanks Galactic," Waterfall said, stopping to look at me. Her eyes were filled with gratitude. "I didn't think I had the time to ask you."

"What do you mean?" I asked, curious at her statement.

"Oh, Well . . ." Waterfall looked down, scraping a talon across the concrete. "Well, I didn't want to take time out of you're busy day."

"Well, I got something to tell you," I softly put my talon under her chin and moved her head to look at mine. "I have all the time in the world. All you have to do is ask and we can plan it later in the day."

"So I'm going to be schedule your exercise days," Waterfall told me, and I sighed.

"We're still doing this?"

"Well, you're becoming chubby, just like my brother," she told truthfully, squeezing the relaxed bicep on my arm. "It would be good to get some exercise instead of lying around, 'healing' from something two weeks ago."

I wrapped a wing around her in appreciation. "I'll go, but is there anymore you want."

"Now you say that," she frowned, looking up slighly for a moment. "I'll be going with you. Well, to make sure you're actually exercising. Deal?"

I was silent for a few seconds, but she leaned in with a disapproving expression. "Deal," I sighed. Then, we continued to walk to the car, this time the sky was a little darker than before.

We got to the car, but I thought of something right before I turned on the ignition. Swerving out of the parking lot, I took a left instead of a right.

"Wrong way, Galactic," Waterfall informed me, as if I forgot.

"I know," I replied.

"Then why are we going this way?"

"Because I want to show you something," I told her, glancing at her for a few moments. She looked confused, but she didn't say anything about it for the rest of the ride.

(* * *)

"Okay, Galactic, now what do you want to show me?" Waterfall asked, but it sounded more like a command.

"Well, I won't show you with that kind of attitude," I teased, and she playfully hit me. "Okay, right this way."

"But all I see is forest," she told me. I ignored the comment and went through the brush. This time, Waterfall followed closely, her tail twined around me to make she didn't get lost. It was a minute through the forest before we got to the destination. I moved out of the way of the path and made room for Waterfall, who still didn't see it, yet.

"Okay, Galactic, what do you . . ." Waterfall stopped talking when she saw. The only thing audible left in her mouth was a gasp of awe as she looked to the sky. "Wow," she breathed.

"Do you like it, or is it to romantic," I asked in a sarcastic tone. She lightly hit me with her wing, shutting me up. She then sat down, and I followed the action.

"This is amazing," Waterfall breathed, leaning her head on my neck. "I've never seen Pyrrhia in this view."

"Well, I found this sophomore year," I told her. "It was a particularly long day at school."

"Didn't see fall face first into my lunch tray?" Waterfall asked with a amused look.

"You could say I was 'falling for love'" I joked, which got a small giggle from Waterfall. "But no, Silt tripped me, thinking it was hilarious."

"About Silt . . ." Watefall said in a sad tone. I looked down at her, confused at why she was sad at the mention. "He was a good dragon, but when he became my boyfriend, he got the impression that 'bad boys' would make me like him more. He probably thought if he was bad enough, he was going to get laid by yours truly."

"Really?" I asked, a bit surprised at the last sentence.

"Yeah, he was actually dorky like you were, but soon fell into the wrong group: the group I created," she told me, shaking her head sadly. "I feel guilty for making him who he became today."

"Well, I didn't know that," I informed Waterfall. "But it must be nice to get it off your chest for so long. You feel better?"

She thought for a minute before smiling a little. "Yeah, I do feel better. Come on, let's go before Celsius realized we've been gone for too long." She got up and waited for me to do the same thing. Twining our tails together, I led her through the path and back to the car, where we drove back to the dorm for the evening.

End of chapter. Sorry guys, but I had a first round qualifying tournament for a High School Bowling State Tournament this Saturday. It also had to be on my birthday. The next two days were hanging out with my brother before he went back to college.

See you soon

-Zmike