Mission 3:

The Deadly One

Catherine's POV.

Adam and I continued down another hallway. This one seemed longer and colder than the others. The atmosphere was stale and grim, and that was the same expression on everyone's face, including Adam's. His mouth was pressed in a hard straight line. His eyes looked glazed over and hard. His face looked like it belonged on a doll. We walked through the hall in silence. Leery sickening silence. That was until I couldn't take it anymore.

"What's going on? Why is everybody so grim in this hall?" I asked frustrated.

"It's Aurora," Adam said through his teeth. That's all he said. While we continued to walk, I remembered the look on Terra's face as she spoke about Aurora. It was the same look Adam had right now. What's with this Aurora girl? I thought.

A few grim minutes later, we stood in front of another tall door. This one was Gothic style with iron bars around the edges of the door.

"Please excuse what ever you see in here. Aurora is very emotionally unstable sometimes, so it's hard to determine what's going to happen next." Adam said, his eyes softening as he looked at me. I simply nodded and he opened the door.

It was dark. Really dark. The room was cold and sterile, like a hospital. And as I entered, the room's atmosphere went from grim, to death. It was as if someone had died.

"Aurora?" Adam whispered. "Are you up?"Just then, a stream of light floated toward us. As it got closer I noticed it was a white dragon. I screamed and Adam clamped a hand over my mouth.

"Relax, it's only Haru. Aurora's guardian." Adam said in my ear. I stared at the dragon as it floated in front of us, its tail flicking in the air. Suddenly it began to change. Its long willowy dragon body began to take shape into a man's body.

"I'm sorry did I frighten you?" Haru asked as he stretched.

"N-no I'm fine." I said my eyes fixated on him. Haru had chestnut skin with long black hair. A flowing white martial arts outfit fell neatly over his muscular tall body. He was gorgeous. From head to toe. But what was his most striking feature was his eyes. They were bright yellow like a dragons. His pupils were like a cat's they sometimes were thin and others they were big and round. Right now they were a normal human size. He blinked and then cocked his head to one side. He knew I was staring at him. I blinked twice and then move my eyes to the high beam behind him. On the high beam there was a girl curled up on it like a cat. She was slowly petting a little dachshund that was curled against her body its head resting on the girls other arm that was tucked under her. Haru and Adam followed my gaze to her also.

"That's Aurora." Adam explained leading me toward her. Haru stepped to her first and climbed up to her and whispered something in her ear. She then looked up at Adam and me. Her face was the first thing that took me by surprise. It was light brown and even. Her skin seemed to glow despite the darkness around her. Her eyes were a slate gray. They were big and glossy as if she had been crying.

"Aurora this is Agent Mills, she's going to be my replacement while I'm gone." Adam said his voice caring and soft. Aurora winced and curled up into a tight ball. Her peircing eyes began to well up with tears. She stared at me her face pained, it looked like she was pleading, like a call for help.

What is with this girl? I thought to myself. Suddenly Haru floated in front of me and looked at me hard in the eye.

Aurora is having some problems. She had to-

Suddenly an alarm went off and Tony's voice boomed from a loud speaker.

"TERRA, TULA, AND AURORA PLEASE REPORT TO THE CONFERENCE ROOM, IMMEDIATELY!" Next thing I knew Adam was dragging me from the room and Haru was drawing a curtain in front of Aurora. The last thing I saw as Adam dragged me out was Aurora's pleading stare and her eyes crying out for help.......

HEY ALL! SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO POST THIS CHAPTER. BUT IF I GOT SUM REVIEWS I MIGHT POST FASTER. HAHAHA SEE YOU ALL SOON.