That evening, right after school ended, they started to stir again and woke up.
Zito looked at her and smiled at her.
"Good evening" he said softly and nuzzled her cheek.
Seela squeak in surprise and did her best to hide her red cheeks, wondering what made him do that, but deep down she was very much flattered by the expression.
"Good morning" Seela said shyly, she was never been shy, especially to her close friend that she knew since they were hatchlings.
Zito raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
Seela realized what might be the reason for Zito's strange behavior "Come on let's get out of here before something inappropriate happens"
"What why?" Asked Zito completely confused.
"It is the flowers they are making our thoughts fidgety"
Zito felt hurt, but shook himself, she was obviously not ready for this, and he shouldn't take it so hard.
He gave a nod of agreement to his disappointment. "Yeah, I am not acting like myself right now"
They left and went to the flower shop, knowing that school was over judging by the height of the sun.
They walked a few blocks until they reach the flower shop.
"By the way, you don't mine taking employment, do you Zito?" She said in her usual business voice
"I don't know" He really didn't know, he loved what he did at the shop but never had a real job before.
"It's ok" She put a wing around him, which made him blush "Do your best, if you don't like it then quit, but you can still help if you want"
"Ok" said Zito a little embarrassed.
Seela took her wing off of him and went in to the store.
Zito shook himself and went in as well.
His first day at work began.
Seela gave him instructions on taking care of each plant individually.
"This one needs little water but need an amount of sun light"
Zito nodded and once she was done with instructions, he went to work.
The sun went down and he was getting more exhausted by the hour.
Finally it was time to close the store for the day.
They walked out, Seela put the sign to say closed and walked off like a graceful dog, Zito walked with her.
"May I walk you home today?"
Seela looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Hmm, it seems the scent from the flowers is still messing with your head"
Zito couldn't help but laugh.
After a moment she joined him.
They loved this somewhat passionate moment, or at least that's what Zito thought.
"Thanks I have been tweaking my head for a while but I can't seem to close the vents yet"
"That goes without saying"
They started laughing again.
They didn't speak after a few minutes
"Nah I don't need an escort Romeo, I will be fine"
Zito felt another punch in heart, but he kept himself looking content.
"Ok well then see you tomorrow" Zito had to bite his tongue to keep the sadness out of his voice
"See you tomorrow" said Seela, who didn't see his feelings taking a dark turn.
Zito bolted in to the sky and raced away before Seela could say another word.
"Wait!" Yelled Seela, suddenly realizing his feelings were hurt, by the way he raced away so quickly.
"Damn it, good going Seela, you really made his day" grumbled Seela.
Seela had no choice but to go home.
Before she could take a step, she suddenly had a flashback.
Smoke and ash filled the air, making it hard to breath, tents were burning.
Screams of innocent dragons around her.
Dead bodies all around her in a gory way.
She looked at the same dreaded direction like Seela had all those years ago; her parents.
Spears had pierced their beautiful, elegant scales and armor, they lay there motionless and their bleeding stopped, dried never to be used by their respected owners again.
"No!" Screamed Seela in her five year old voice, tears spilled on the charred battlefield.
A scream made her look when she saw something that still haunts her to this day.
Apes carried one of her best friends Kyra out of the tent that she was hiding.
Seela eyes were wide with horror as the apes decapitated Kyra.
Seela felt her stomach somersault.
Tears spilled the ground, she couldn't believe that she was gone.
A grunt made her look up to see the apes looking at her.
Fear flooded her heart as they walked towards the helpless hatchling.
The largest of the group gave a sinister smile "I see that you watched enough, but don't worry we will ease that pain of yours" The leader raised his sword.
Seela couldn't move, fear hold her in place, all she could do was close her eyes and wait for the blow.
But it never came.
She opened her eyes in horror as she watched her big sister Zeeka sent the ape that was going to kill her flying.
"Run!" Zeeka ordered at the top of her lungs.
Seela bolted behind a burning tent but stopped to hear a scream that sent shivers down her spine and turned to look and see her sister falling lifelessly.
She didn't watch anymore and ran away from the camp site but then remembered someone she forgot about, Zito and her other friends and family.
Seela turned around and went racing back.
She looked through the rubble, after a while she thought that he was dead.
She heard crying and ran towards it to find Zito with his back to her, staring at his dead parents, two little brothers and sister.
Seela slowly walked to him "Zito?" She said with worry in her voice
Tears were flowing down his cheeks like a waterfall, his eyes squeezed shut.
"Zito?" She said again, with more worry.
All of a sudden apes surrounded them.
Seela screamed in fear and curled in a ball in fright.
Zito snapped his head up from his trance and looked at Seela and the apes around her.
"No, not her too, I can't lose her too" His voice full of sadness, the apes slowly advanced on the helpless ice dragoness.
"No! Not her!" He said with more force with his seven year old voice.
The apes turned their heads towards him; they looked at each other and nodded.
They surrounded him and advanced.
"Nooo!" He screamed and his scales turned jet black, his eyes bright white.
His body emanated with black power.
"I am going to kill you! I am going to kill the ape race for trying to take my friend away from me!" He roared at the top of his lungs.
Seela heard his words and looked from her lifted wing to see him in his most distressed stat.
Thunder erupted, from the darkened sky and hit next to Zito and one hit him, but he didn't seem to notice and was charged with electricity on his scales.
Seela looked up and saw the clouds turn black and started to spin until a tornado appeared and hit Zito, but it did not harm him, he floated in the center.
The apes gasped in surprised and looked at their leader, who was trembling in fear.
Zito hit the ground and sent a wave of earth at the apes around him.
Seela jumped in to the air and did her best to stay afloat with these unused wings.
The wave hit the stunned apes, Zito hit the ground and the wave exploded and sent the apes flying and into Zito's personal tornado.
They screamed.
Zito sent his charge of electricity at the helpless apes and they incinerated.
Zito went deeper into the camp and found the other apes; who were screaming and running for their lives.
Zito sent a deafening roar that would have been similar to the destroyer's.
The apes covered their ears, but it was useless.
Zito fell and slammed into the ground, the earth cracked up and lava shot out and landed on the horrified apes.
Zito looked around and saw no more apes.
Zito felt his anger leave him abruptly and his tornado disappeared, the lava stopped flowing, the thunder clouds disappeared.
Zito's scales and eyes turned to normal, but darkness took his vision and conscious.
He saw himself hit the earth and went into unconsciousness.
Seela was horrified, she flew down to Zito and put him on her back and ran towards the city of Warfang.
She continued for days until she was at the gate, the guards rushed to her aid, right before they reached her, she fell and too fell unconscious.
The guards picked them up.
"Get the healers!" Yelled one of the dragon guards.
That was the last thing she heard as she her mind went blank.
Seela snapped back into reality.
Tears were spilling on her cheeks.
She hadn't seen that memory for years now.
Seela was trembling with fear and her stomach was doing flips.
She took deep breaths and after a while calmed down.
She walked home and went inside; she got on her older sister's bed that was the only one that was right for her size.
She wept through the night.
It was the next morning.
Zito woke up and got up, not caring about sleeping a bit more.
Zito got breakfast and once done, left his home for school without waiting for Seela to join him.
Zito walked the streets without Seela for the first time in his life.
He remembered where to go to get to school and continued on, with his head lowered in hopelessness.
"Well Zit-boy, where is icy-butt" that voice was annoyingly familiar.
Zito turned to see Serla walking down an alleyway towards him.
"Well if it isn't the irritation in my tail"
Serla didn't seem offended which irritated Zito further.
"I see you two finally made your separate ways"
Zito felt his heart sink, because it was true they did go their separate ways last night.
He lowered his head in disbelief.
"Well it was for the best really"
"What?" Said Zito, snapping his head up, in bewilderment.
"Well I noticed that she is getting uncomfortable around you"
"What do you mean?" he said in low tone and glaring at her.
"I am saying that she doesn't want to be around you anymore, in fact she told that to me personally" Said Serla in sympathy like voice.
Zito felt pain and sadness rise up in his heart. "No, you….you're lying!"
"I am sorry Zity, but I speak the truth" She shook her head in disbelief.
"What did Seela say" Zito said with so much sadness that it tortured him and he wish he was dead at that moment.
"She said that she is tired of you, hates having to worry about you not going to school, your weird behavior is making her very uncomfortable and walked away leaving me dumbstruck" she said with truth in her words.
Zito couldn't breathe; tears flowed without interruption and hit the ground.
He was trembling "If she doesn't care for me anymore, then I have no reason to be here" Thought Zito, it hurt him to think about it, the dragoness that he loved the most out of all others is throwing him away like dirt and unworthy of her time.
Zito jumped into the air and flew till he was over the wall and into the enchanted forest and he would never come back.
Serla watched him go.
Zito was about dot in the sky and after awhile was gone from view.
Serla smiled and giggled in satisfaction.
Dark magic came back to her and she absorbed it.
She wouldn't have been very successful in getting rid of him so that she could take her revenge on Seela for freezing her in front of an entire class of dragons and dragonesses.
"Zito" said Seela outside his room, no answer.
"Zito, come on, let's go!" Seela said a little louder, still no answer.
Seela got a little irritated by the silence.
Seela opened the door and peeked in.
Her eyes moved around the room for the earth dragon.
He was nowhere in sight.
She grumbled then stopped and wondered.
"Did he go to school by himself?" she raised an eyebrow by the thought.
"Well, I will find out soon"
Seela left Zito's home and went to school.
Seela was unaware of the predator like green eyes watched her go to school.
The black dragoness took to the air and went to school at sonic speed without making a sound and alerting the ice dragoness.
The walk to school was quiet, almost too quiet, besides the wind blowing lightly against her beautiful white scales and of adult dragons having conversations with their neighbors.
Seela felt lonely without her friend with her.
She remembered the incident yesterday.
"I didn't realized that it hurt him that bad"
She thought to herself, and then a question mark popped in her head.
"Why did he reacted like that anyway, I mean I know that he wanted to escort me home to do his part in our friendship, but why, why did he take it so hard when I said that it was alright, that I can make it home?"
Seela continued to ponder yesterday's event as she entered school.
"Well I will have to apologize for it I guess, maybe I will let him escort me today"
Seela raised an eyebrow about the thought of her best friend taking her home.
"Still why did he even ask me that in the first place?"
She entered her classroom for first period and just in time as the bell rang.
Seela looked around to try to find her friend, but he was nowhere in sight.
"Great he ditched again"
Seela sat down on the benches and for first time felt like an outsider among the other students.
"Morning Seela" said Shella with a happy smile on her face.
"Good morning Shella" said Seela with a hint of sadness and loneliness.
Shella's smile disappeared.
"You okay?"
"Yeah"
Seela waited for the class to get started for her training.
Someone sat next to her.
Excitement went through her, she look to see if it was her best friend, but it wasn't to her disappointment.
The black dragon that sat next to her was Jaka, Serla's friend.
"Hey" he said in a low mature voice.
Seela felt uncomfortable.
"I noticed that you were lonely, so I decided to come over and give you company"
"I'm fine really" she reassured him.
Jaka raised an eyebrow "I concur"
"Ok maybe I am a little" Seela blushed, saying the truth.
"Then I am here to keep you company"
"Thanks, I guess" she said, feeling a little better.
"You're welcome" he said smiling.
Jaka placed his tail on hers.
Seela jumped in surprise and blushed, Seela didn't realize that dark magic shot into her mind right when he touched her and twisted her mind.
Jaka acquired this from Serla and right now found it to his liking.
Seela relaxed and her mind calmed a half second after the touch.
She leaned against Jaka's warm side and twisted her tail around his without complaining.
Jaka smiled and nuzzled her forehead.
She cooed in passion.
Out of nowhere they were smacked in the back of their heads.
They glared at their teacher.
"Pay attention you two, this is a training room, not valentine day" the teacher said sternly.
"Yes sir" they said in unison.
Seela rubbed the back of her head; it hurt but not too badly.
"You okay?" Said Jaka, a little worried.
"Sure, for now"
"What do you mean?"
"We are in the training room silly" She said giggling and poked his shoulder.
Jaka felt stupid and blushed.
Seela giggled a little more.
Jaka poked her back on her shoulder lightly.
"Owy" Seela whined, then gave a small smile "Meany"
Jaka gave a devilish smile.
They went into somewhat a cuddle.
Meanwhile on the bench above them, Shella watched in confusion and dismay.
"What the heck is she doing!" Thought Shella "I thought Jaka gave her the creeps?"
"Something is not right here"
Then she notice dark magic twisting her mind, Shella had been barrowing magic books at the library and learn how to detect it where ever it may be.
She knew what kind dark magic it was, and it won't be easy to break it.
She jumped when she heard "Shella and Seela, you're up!"
Shella walked to the center of the ring.
"I will see you later blacky" smiled Seela, then kissed his cheek and walked to the ring, leaving a loved drunk Jaka.
The other students were completely confused and murmured among themselves
Shella agitation went through the roof and spat a small fire in her direction.
Seela jumped out of way of the golf ball sized fireball and glared at her "What is your problem"
"You want to know"
"Yeah, I asked you that question dumby"
"You are my problem"
Seela raised an eyebrow "I don't see why"
"the reason is why would you leave Zito like that!"
Seela blinked "I have no idea what you are talking about"
"Gosh how dense can you be?"
Seela growled "let's just-"
"How could you forget him, he was with you all your life, literally!"
That name sounded familiar to Seela, but she couldn't put her talon on it.
"I was six when I saw you, you! Carrying Zito from the enchanted forest bleeding!"
"What?"
"I watched as you and Zito cuddled at the flower garden"
Seela was stunned.
"You two worked in the same flower shop and you gave him three flowers as a gift of your friendship"
"Stop it!" Seela was getting a headache.
"Zito cares for you, he would do anything for you, he would always be by your side, and he-"
"Stop it!" Seela screamed and slammed Shella into the wall with incredible force.
"Oof!" winced Shella.
A tail blade tip was at her wind pipe.
Fear went through Shella.
"I will silence you, permanently!"
Shella finished her sentence "-Loves you"
Seela was frozen in place and there were a few gasps from the crowd.
Memories flooded her mind like a hundred pound weight.
Seela let go of her tail blade and helped her back up.
"Is that true?"
Shella nodded, seeing her mental confusion "He told me himself" she spoke the truth, Zito had told her so that he would be able to ask her for help if needed and she did help him right now.
Seela couldn't believe it, she remembered her and Zito at the garden and last night wanting to escort her home.
"So that's why he was acting like that" She thought to herself.
"He loves me"
"Shella do you know where I can find Zito?"
Shella shrugged "You know him a heck a lot better than I do"
Seela pondered on where he could be.
A light bulb turned on over her head.
"The flower shop" she thought out loud.
Without warning and another word bolted out of the classroom.
Seela ran out of the front doors of the school and jumped into the air, and then flew towards the flower shop as fast as she could.
Meanwhile Jaka sat next to Serla.
All of the sudden everyone froze, conversations halted.
"You fool!" Growled Serla and slammed Jaka without warning.
"Oof" He hit the wall and landed on the ground.
"I gave you that magic to destroy her, yet you used it to make her fall in love with you!" Serla rapped her tail around his neck, lift him off the ground, spin in one full circle, and then threw him against the other wall.
Jaka gasped hitting back against the wall, losing the air from his lungs, he sucked in air as fast as he could and coughed it out.
He looked up at her with absolute terror in his eyes.
"I am going to make you suffer, and soon you will no longer breathe the world you live in.
"Please don't! Give me another chance!" Pleaded Jaka, terrified.
"I already gave you a second chance!" The tone in Serla voice was very terrifying.
Shivers went down the male black dragon; his life's end was near.
His eyes went wide when she breathed in.
Serla let out an unnatural black fire on the black male.
She heard his screams of agony, after a while they stopped.
She continued, wanting to leave no trace of the whelping.
Serla stopped and saw nothing of Jaka, just a black smug.
"I am sorry Jaka, but you proved to be a problem and an annoyance"
Serla waved her paw at the black smug, and the smug disappeared completely.
She then looked at the crowd who were looking in the direction where Seela ran off then at Shella, who she knew was a dangerous element and would be a fool's errand to leave her around.
Then an idea popped in her head, she smiled.
Serla went over Shella and grabbed her and threw her on Serla's back.
Shella squeaked from the touched and now part of the stop in time.
Serla used her teleportation magic.
The last remains of evidence were Shella's faded screams of terror.
Time resumed, the crowd looked back to see sudden disappearances, some were wondering and others were worried.
Seela finally made it to the shop and went inside.
"Zito, are you here!" She called around the shop; the shop was closed, so no one would be here at this point, but Zito does come here sometimes even then.
Silence.
Seela looked around for him hoping that he was just hiding under the tables like he always does so that she could find him.
Then that thought occurred to her "So that's why he never chose a better hiding spot, because he wanted me to find him"
Seela smiled; every time she found him under there he would give her this slightly goofy smile that said "You found me"
She giggled a bit and shook her head.
Seela looked under that same table and saw no one.
Seela got worried and looked all over the shop franticly.
On her fifth time looking around the shop she noticed two flowers wrapped around by a small strip of white cloth around the middle.
One was a red Chrysanthemum and the other was a Cyclamen.
There was writing on the cloth.
It was Zito's.
One side said "For Seela"
The other side said "From Zito"
Seela looked at the two flowers and started to remember their meaning
The red one meant: I love you.
Seela smiled "So she was telling the truth" She remembered his weird behavior every time they were nose to nose; he was just loving her touch.
Seela for the first time thought about whenever she did that.
The memory of his warm nose against hers made her heart skip a beat.
A sudden thought made her jump in realization, she started doing that to make him pay attention when she was five and he was seven. a few weeks after the attack from the apes on their camping trip.
She realized that they have been mates since that day, yet it was weird to think about it starting at such a young age.
She was now fifteen and Zito was seventeen.
Seela realized her true feelings for him for the first time in her life. "I had a crush on him"
She couldn't believe it, how could she miss that kind of feelings for him.
Seela smiled to herself "I am more of an idiot than I thought" She thought out loud.
Seela then looked at the Cyclamen. "Wait a minute" She looked at it closely "But, this flower means…"
Seela looked out the window in fear and said out loud "….Good-bye"
She then looked at both flowers and stared at them.
Sadness pained her heart, tears started to weld in her eyes and dripped down her cheeks, but half way down they froze, fell to the ground, and shattered.
She was trembling "Zito why?" She breathed.
Seela lay down and curled into a ball.
She put the flowers close to her chest, trying to feel Zito's warmth on them.
She cried.
And cried.
And cried.
All of a sudden a spark in her heart lights a candle and flame grew.
She got up and looked out the window with determination.
The flame kept growing till it was larger than her body could contain.
Seela wiped her frozen tears away "I can't give up now, not while there is still a chance"
She picked up the flowers and walked out the shop.
She looked at the enchanted forest from where she was with determination in her heart.
Seela took off the ground and flew to the enchanted forest.
She looked around for Zito left and right.
She landed a few times, ran around calling his name, and then took off again.
"Come on, where would he be" She thought desperately.
Then a lightbulb turned on in her head.
She flew to the cave that she had to stay the night before she got Zito to Warfang after the attack from the apes.
Seela saw something in front of the entrance when she got there; she went to take a closer look.
To her relief it was Zito sleeping soundly.
She heard his soft growling of happiness, his tail wagged and thumbed on the ground.
Seela smiled at him, this was the first time she saw how he slept and thought he looked cute when he was sleeping.
An idea popped into her head.
She went over and lightly scratched his tickle spots like she used to when they were nine and seven years old.
Zito giggled, tossed and turned, he woke up laughing. "Stoohahahohappphahaha!"
She didn't and giggled to herself as she teased him.
"Pleahahahaesshahahaha havhahahahahah merchahahahahahaha!"
Seela decided to show her love for him.
She leaned over, she had stop tickling him.
Zito didn't notice her approach and was panting from all the laughter.
Seela nipped the sweet spot on his neck.
Zito eyes went wide looking at her, but then closed slowly, and tilted his neck back giving her more access.
A small distant moan came from his mouth.
Meanwhile the dark magic in his mind faded and his former conscious took over.
His moans were louder in passion as Seela continue to nip several parts of his sweet spot.
A smile went across his face and his tail wagged in delight.
Seela stopped so that he could look at her.
Zito smiled at her.
Seela felt something wrap around her neck.
She yelped in surprise and looked to see Zito's tail.
Zito giggled "How ironic"
She smiled softly. "If you wanted me closer all you had to do was ask"
Zito blinked
She laid her body against his; let her tail twist around his in passion.
Zito thought for an ice dragoness, she was warm and made his heart jump.
They looked into each other's eyes, love drunk.
They put their arms, legs, and wings around each other.
Seela laid her head against his chest and went to sleep and Zito followed so, they were happier than they ever been in their lives.
Zito started to stir; he opened his eyes, and yawned.
Then he remembered Seela on top of him sleeping and the fact that it snowed.
Wait snow, it is the middle of summer.
Then Zito remembered her sleeping habits.
"I am sleeping with a constantly snowing dragoness" Zito laughed, it was funny to him somehow.
His laughter woke up Seela.
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow with sleepy eyes "What is so funny?"
Zito stopped laughing "It's nothing"
He teasingly glides the side of one of his talons up her back.
Seela shivered in pleasure and raised her head from it, and then she giggled "Stop that tickles"
He stopped. "Why should I, my love?"
Seela's mind jumped in surprise "Did he just say that, did my ears deceive me, is this a dream ….no this is the truth"
Seela relaxed and looked at him passionately.
Zito noticed it and her intentions.
He smiled "Can we?"
Seela placed her nose on his and rubbed his nose a little.
Zito closed his eyes and growled in pleasure.
"Not now really, I want to keep my virginity for a little longer, ok?"
Zito's eyes open with disappointed in them, but he did understand where she was coming from.
"Alright, but we can still have fun in other ways"
"True, but I just….I don't"
Zito looked at her "We don't have to if you don't want to"
Seela smiled, she liked that Zito knew how she felt about things that would make her uncomfortable.
"Yeah, we have to go in baby steps, now I want you to close your eyes" Zito did as she said; she slowly tilted her head to the right and pressed softly on his lips then let go quickly testing the water.
Zito heart leaped ten feet when he felt her lips press his; they were so soft, heartwarming, and he wanting more.
His tail wagged in delight and a smile went on his face.
Seela smiled and kissed him again then let go again then.
Zito tail wagged faster as did his heart beats.
Seela kissed him again and let go, this time was just teasing him.
Zito couldn't take the wait for the real one and hated to wait for it.
Seela kissed him and once again let go.
She noticed his thing grew.
She shook her head "Boys" she thought to herself.
Seela leaned over and kissed him again, this time didn't let go.
They wrapped their arms around each other and kissed deeply in passion.
Zito's thing turned rock hard and grew to full size from the passion and he noticed.
"No not now, this is not the best time at this point" He thought to himself.
They kissed deeper, wanting it to be more pleasurable.
Zito started to moan, Seela was moaning as well.
Then they heard a scream that ringed in their ears.
They let go abruptly and looked at each other asking which one of them screamed.
They get up and they started searching for that sound.
They heard it again this time of horror, but then it was cut off.
The scream was not far from them and they went into a clearing and….
"Well hello Zit-boy and ice princess" said Serla with an evil smirk on her face.
"You!" growled Zito, he ran towards her before Seela had time to stop him.
Something slammed him hard back to where he started.
Zito looked up to see a bulky mass blocking the sun from his view, there was only one explanation to what he is looking at "Apes" he breathed, his eyes wide.
Zito swing his tail blade at the apes face sending it to the side.
Zito go up to see that there were apes everywhere, surrounded them.
Seela was horrified, breathing hard, she hadn't seen them in years and she does not know how to fight them.
"You know, if you listen you will live longer" pointed out Serla.
They glared at their traitor. "Whatever it is we won't bother" retorted Zito
Serla raised an eyebrow "You would let your last true family member die in front of you, Zit-boy?"
"What!" Zito shocked and had a look of disbelief.
Apes dragged out a pink dragoness from the shadows of the trees.
"Shella" Seela breathed
Shella looked at them, she had bruises and cuts from previous torturing sessions.
"Take a good look at her Zito, see your family resemblance"
"You're crazy" said Zito in complete disbelief.
"Am I, why don't you look into your past, and if you don't" She nodded to one of the apes, who smiled with lust for blood in his eyes, punched Shella's under belly.
Shella screamed in pain.
"Don't! You monster!" said Seela in horror and anger "I thought that you would change your ways over the years!"
Serla only laughed, and the apes grunted and laughed with her.
"What?" Seela and Zito were utterly confused.
"Like I said, if you don't want you youngest sister to die, looked deep in you past"
Zito looked at Seela and never saw so much dire hopelessness in her eyes in many years.
"What choice do I have" he thought to himself.
All of a sudden memories hit him harder than he expected.
Zito giggled "You can't catch me nah-nah-naw-booboo" He ran through the grass, being chased by his best friend Seela.
They were the same age as they were a day before a traumatic event caved in on their very soul.
Seela said, frustrated "No fair, you got a head start"
Zito only laughed at winning at their game of tag.
"Come on you two our parents are waiting for you to come in for breakfast" Said Zeeka.
Seela and Zito went up to her, Seela nodded and tilted her head to the left a little "Wow sis you look pretty today"
Zeeka smiled "Aww, thanks" Zeeka nuzzled her little sister, who cooed. "You are pretty too"
"I am!" said Seela with excitement in her eyes.
"Sure, I bet any boy would want to be around you" She smiled truthfully.
Seela's eyes went wide and cursed her white scales that show her cheeks completely red.
Zito blushed slightly at the thought, but deep down he wouldn't have it any other way.
Zito looked at her, and made his tongue stick out like a dog and said with his tongue still out "Pretty"
Zito, Zeeka, and soon Seela laughed.
Once Zeeka stopped laughing she said "Well come on"
They walked to the campsite that they set up on their camping trip.
Zito and Seela walked into Zito's tent.
Zito was tackled by a pink, smaller dragoness.
"Shella" laughed Zito "Get off"
Shella just looked at him closely and wagged her tail in excitement of seeing her oldest brother.
"Come on sis get off of him" Said a red dragoness that was somewhat a little bigger than Shella, her name was Glazer.
"Ok" said Shella squeaked in excitement and got off of him.
A black dragon came up.
"Hey Jaka, how you doing?" Asked Seela.
Jaka looked at her dreamily "Fine"
Seela raised an eyebrow and whispered to Zito "What's wrong with him"
Zito shook his head, smiling, and whispered back "This is what happens if he steals too many cookies from the pantry"
Seela giggled.
Something jumped on Zito from behind "Tag!"
Zito laughed "Jagger, we aren't playing tag anymore"
"Oh" Jagger blushed in embarrassment; he was an earth dragon like Zito but a bit smaller.
"Come now you all, let's not ruin your appetites with these games" Said their mother, she was a black dragoness with magenta under belly and wing membrane, had six horns and three spinal horns, had greenish aqua eyes.
"Yes mom" They all chimed.
"Seela you can stay for breakfast if you want"
Seela nodded and giggled, pointing at Zito as she said "Got to keep speedy here from running himself into the wall"
Everyone laughed except Zito, who blushed in embarrassment.
"Cynder, kids' breakfast is ready" said a masculine voice.
They went to the kitchen side of the large tent.
"Daddy!" Shella jumped and hugged her father's forearm.
The purple dragon smiled and nuzzled her.
She cooed in happiness.
"Wow Spyro the food smells delicious" said Cynder amazed.
Spyro smiled "I aim to please"
He leaned over and pecked her lips.
Cynder's eyes were in new found excitement as she kissed him back.
"Ewwwwwwww" Said Seela, Zito, Shella, Jagger, Jaka, and Glazer at the same time.
The night after that day Zito watched the trees sway back in forth from the wind.
He watched after a while when he saw a black figure, looking straight at him, with green predator like eyes.
Zito snapped back in to reality
"You!" Zito roared in anger "You killed my family!"
Serla smiled and laughed manically which only made Zito angrier.
All of a sudden the clouds departed from each other, the sun went down a lot faster than normal and the moon came up till it was at the highest point in the sky.
The moon shined its rays completely on him.
Energy waves pulsed around him, his scales went bright white, and his eyes pitch black.
Red eye pupils showed in the middle of his pitch black eyes.
The apes looked at each other in worry and wonder what they should do.
Seela and Shella stared at Zito in horror by his sudden power.
Zito's revenge began.
Shella looked at her brother "Zito" She breathed with pain.
Seela slowly backed away from Zito, scared.
Serla blinked and looked at her apes, gave them a slight grunt.
They nodded and charged Seela.
They ran past Zito and at her.
"Where do you think you're going!" Yelled Zito and then he saw why "You won't even dare touch her, you overgrown fur balls!" he shot a silver beam at them from his mouth.
The beam obliterated them when it made contact.
Zito stopped and the beam disappeared.
Seela just stood there frighten.
Zito looked at her in the eyes "Go" he mouthed.
She nodded, this was his fight.
She ran.
Serla smiled "Pathetic, she doesn't realize that I have apes all around this area if you try to escape"
Zito looked at her and glared "Why waste your time on her, when you can fight me or are you going to cower behind your apes again"
Serla looked at her apes; Zito put her in a pinch.
She looked at him "Very well, I see you been wanting a rematch for some time now, you already know I am more than a match for you"
Zito showed his clenched teeth "We will see about that"
Shella slowly escaped the battle without anyone noticing.
Serla scales glowed purple power.
Zito glared "Convexity" Shella had mention it a lot at school, and now he gets to see it firsthand.
Serla launched a purple beam at him.
Zito retaliated with his own unnatural power.
The two beams collided.
Zito for once was holding his ground in a battle, however so was Serla.
They struggled to gain an advantage over each other.
They pushed forward; the energy in the center grew from the stress.
The two combatants started to struggle more, and then the ball of energy combusted.
They flew back, end over end.
Zito got up and glared at her.
Zito notice that Shella escaped "Good, I don't want her to get hurt" he thought in what was left of sanity in his mind.
He charged Serla, as she did.
Zito jumped to gain an advantage over her.
She saw that and jumped as well.
They swing their tail blades at each other, they collided, and mercury sparks went off.
They landed and waiting for who would start the battle again.
They watched each other as wind breezed against their beautiful scales.
They looked for their opponent's self-distraction, for any move of advance.
Zito finally for the first time realized the power he possessed.
Yet he didn't know he is far more powerful than he will ever imagine in any of his years as a dragon.
He smirked.
Serla raised an eyebrow "What?"
"Why would I keep fighting, when I already won"
"What!" Serla's eyes wide in dismay, then rage.
Serla glared at him with killing intent "you haven't won, we just started to fight"
"True, but why waste my time fighting for revenge when I should be warning others of your traitor like acts, the reason I won is because I can beat you without effort"
Serla was angry beyond imagining.
Zito turned around and walked away leaving a defeated black dragoness where she stand.
Zito continued to walk away.
"By the way I have more to say"
Zito stopped and turned his head towards her.
"That I had a reason to kill our mother"
Zito looked at her in true bewilderment "Wait you are my sibling!"
"Half sibling dimwit"
"Then who is your father?"
"Who did your father face when he was fighting in the war?"
Zito hated answers being questions, he look deep in thought, and went wide eyed "Malefor"
As if on cue the thunder came from the distance from the sound of the monster that terrorized millions of young dragons.
Zito felt a sudden connection to her in a way, came to him, he felt pity for her and her heritage.
"Now I will end you like I did to your father"
Zito looked at the ground "I don't want to fight you anymore"
"What" said Serla confused.
"What is the point of fighting if I kill another family member" Zito then looked up at her "I hope you find inner peace Serla"
Serla was stunned by his words and her own dark magic faded away from her very soul.
Serla was hit with memories of what she did, she trembled, started to cry, clench the dirt in her claws.
"I never wanted this, I never wanted this…" she kept going off.
Zito notice this and came over.
Serla felt a wing around her and stared at Zito, the one that she used to hate the most, she thought that he wouldn't forgive her.
Zito wiped away her tears.
She sniffled as she laid her head on his chest and cried.
Zito and Serla were lying down on the charred ground from the previous battle.
Serla curled into a tight warm ball, Zito curled around her with a wing hanging over her from the previous rainstorm.
Zito's muzzle was on her neck, keeping his somewhat younger half sibling warm.
Serla feet twitched of chasing something. "Maybe she's chasing squirrels?" thought Zito, who just woke up, he smiled and tried to keep down his giggle so that he wouldn't wake her up.
A huge smile came on her face and she cooed in her sleep.
Zito laid his head back down on her neck.
The sun started to come out and Zito put his wing over her eyes when he notice that his wing membrane was thicker.
"I guess that's a maturing thing" whether it is or not the sun was completely block from showing its rays on Serla.
Then he notice that her eyes were open slightly and looking at him sleepily.
"Good morning Zity" Serla said in a soft voice.
Zito blinked at his new, yet non-insulting nickname, he tilted his head to the left slightly in wonder.
Serla got out from Zito's arms and stood then stretched till she heard her spine popped.
"Wow, that was almost too comfortable" She said out loud.
Her legs needed a certain type of exercise to get rid of the exhaustion.
"Is that a bad thing?" Asked Zito, who also stretched.
"No Zity why would that be bad?" raised an eyebrow with a smile on her face.
"Uhhhh..."
"I thought you got smarter" She laughed.
Zito grumbled, but then started to laugh with her.
"Well come on I am ready for a run, are you?"
"Sure could use it"
They started their run, what they didn't know that what will happen, will change their lives forever.
By the end of the morning they were tired from all the running, panting hard.
"Well that was fun" said Zito trying to regain his breath "Man I am out of shape"
Serla smiled at him "Oh what a shame"
Zito lightly punched her shoulder.
"Owy" said Serla.
They sat down on a log and looked at the fascinating forest.
Serla looked down at her paws in thought.
After a while she said "Zito I don't know how to thank your forgiveness"
"You don't have to Serla"
"No I do have to find a way!"
"Lo-"
Serla's lips pressed against his.
Zito's eyes were wide as saucers; his mind was racing, wondering what is going on.
He did not know.
After a while Zito calmed down and delved into Serla's lips.
Serla let her tongue slip into his mouth.
Zito felt electric shocks of pleasure hit his heart.
Seela came back to see if Zito was alright, when she saw the impossible.
She watched as they kissed each other with passion as she did her heart sank to the bottom of her chest and shattered into pieces, she felt lost, helpless, indecisive, homesickness, worthless, frustration, insecurity, fear, alienation, and amnesia.
Her heart shattered into smaller pieces as they kissed deeper, and her heart turn to dust then nothing, never to be fixed again.
Seela felt very empty and alone, tears went down her eyes as she ran away from the source of her pain.
Shella escaped the evening before the battle between Serla and a ferocious Zito.
"I can't believe that Zito is my flesh and blood relative" Shella thought to herself as she continued to run away from the battlefield.
Out of nowhere an ape came out of the trees and in front of her.
Shella squeaked in surprised.
The ape hooted and hollered at her.
Shella was so scared that she couldn't move.
The ape lifted his sword up for a killing blow.
The memories of that day of the camping trip came back to her, and she couldn't stop shaking in fear.
All of a sudden shadow blasted the ape, who was instantly obliterated.
Shella looked at the dead ape, saw his liver off to the side, blood leaked enormously out of the ape, his skeletal chest was showing, blown to shreds, exposing his disgusting organs.
A blue figure came from the left side of her vision.
Shella looked at the figure, it was a dragon.
He was blue with yellow markings on his back; his eyes were strangely bright red color.
Shella looked closer to see that he was mixed with a green color on his shredded wings, his legs, chest, and underbelly.
The dragon also had some bandages on his forearms, also strange marking on his body and face.
"Are you alright" he said with a deep masculine voice, but he was not even looking at anything when he said that.
"Yeah thanks to you"
He looked at her when he heard her talk.
"That's good"
"How did you know I was here?"
"I sensed your fear when that monstrosity attacked you, so I came to you aid"
There was an awkward silence between them.
"So what's your name?"
The dragon looked at her with a blank expression "My name is Styx"
Styx for some odd reason stuck his tongue out as if tasting the air.
"We should get moving, the apes are close"
Shella shivered, not want to be in a fight with the apes again.
Styx went into a direction and Shella followed.
Shella walked up next to him "So why are you out here anyway?"
"Hunting"
"Oh, well I could help" asked Shella, wanting to help him, well he did owe her for saving her from the ape.
"No, I won't need it"
Shella thought "Well someone is a little selfish; wait is that the right word to describe him? I guess not still he owes me and won't let me help, wait how much does he need to hunt? Hmmm well not very much for how big he is and the fact that he is just one person" Shella looked at Styx and studied him a bit "Well he is not a kind of dragon I have ever met before, and I wonder where he got those bandaged wounds from? " looked at his tattered wings "Did he get these injuries from an accident or a fight…hmmm possibly, however he might of just put on those bandages just to scare his foe thinking that he had been in a huge fight and make him pee his pants or something like that, wait does anybody wear pants around here? What are pants anyway? Ugh I got off subject again"
Styx suddenly spoke, making Shella jump "You are a very quiet one aren't you"
"Well….I am quiet when I should be"
"There is never a should be quiet thing in a calm situation like this"
"I know, I guess I just been through a lot recently"
Styx was quiet, thinking on what she said.
Shella suddenly tripped and fell.
Styx caught her before she hit the ground.
Shella looked at his arms and blushed from his somewhat warm touch.
"You have to be more careful around here" he said as he helped her back on her feet
"Yeah…." Shella was pretty embarrassed right there.
Styx continued on with Shella at first hesitated then started following him.
Shella "So what do you do around here?"
"Why do you want to know all about me?" he said looking at her, questioning.
Shella hated being answered with a question.
"Because I am curious"
"Well that will lead to being mislead by someone"
Shella blinked at his words, she didn't say anymore.
"So what has recently happen to you?"
Shella looked at him with wonder.
"Um I found the monster who killed my family, and I want to get revenge on her"
"You shouldn't really"
"Why not, I want payback!"
"It is not the right goal to achieve, and trust me payback is a bitch"
Shella groaned as she followed her savior.