Chapter Four: Secret Pet and Second Vision
"So what if he's stubborn," Rowan asked herself as she walked through Olde Town. "Doesn't mean that he has to take it out on me." Just as she was in front of Sapphyra's Tower a strange gleam caught her eye. There was a house across the street with the lights out but something inside moved and caused the gleam to appear again. "What in the Spiral?" She muttered as she walked towards the house and looked around before opening the door curiously. She looked inside but it was too dark to see until something moved and slithered over her foot. She yelped and jumped slightly as the creature started to glow slightly, illuminating the room to help her see a lot of creatures until they froze and stared at her. There were creatures ranging from Holiday Pets to Dropped Pets to Hybrids. "Wow." She said as a couple went forward to sniff her before going back to what they were doing before.
"Who has this many pets?" She asked as she laughed and tried to move while not stepping on the pets that either slither or has four legs. There was a table in the middle of the room with fragmented rock circling around a Web-Covered Egg. "What in the world?" She said as she reached out to it but instantly retracted her arm when the rock moved to growl at her and revealed itself to be a Fragmented Dragon. She was not expecting that it reacted to her or that it would be protective of the egg.
She froze before a crack reverted throughout the building and captured every creatures' attention towards the egg. It shook and rattled until a crack formed on the shell and got larger and larger until something inside it caused it to explode. "Whoa!" She shouted as pieces hit her but the others weren't affected at all. It was a dark gray dragon with black spider leg-like wings but the 'fan' part of the wings was made of cobwebs, its tail changed from gray to black until it reached the tip where a few cobwebs were hanging from it, and its eyes were a burning red until it saw her and instantly the color dimmed to a dull red.
It flew to her before sitting on her head and squishing her hat until it moved underneath the hat and then stuck its head out to see what was going on. "I guess you're coming with me," She said before realizing something. "Are you a boy or a girl?" The dragon just stared at her before she decided to try and take a shot. "Are you a girl?" The dragon instantly pulled her hair furiously before she finally realized what it was doing. "Okay! You're a boy!
"But what kind of dragon are you?" The egg fragments were easy to spot and collect before she went to the door. "I guess I can have Boris or Harold examine the pieces to know what kind of dragon you are," The dragon just stuck his head back under her hat and curled up to sleep. "And you can go to sleep on my head. As long as you don't burn my hair." She left the house noticing that none of the other pets followed her and thought that this was their safe house.
As Boris looked over the pieces of the egg shell under a magnifying glass, the dragon that was under her hat woke up and flew to the table where Boris was. She snatched her hat back as she noticed the dragon wearing it. "So do you know what kind of dragon he is?" She asked as he turned to examine the dragon now. "It looks like a Fragmented Dragon," He said as he noticed the cobwebs on its wings and tail. "But it has the cobwebs of a Lava Spider, so I'd say that it's the offspring of the two." So that's why the Fragmented Dragon snapped at her, it was protecting its egg.
"So then what breed should he be called?" She asked as she gestured to the dragon before it flew and landed on her uncovered head to fall back asleep. "How about... Arachnid Dragon," He offered as he stared at the sleeping dragon. "Since it's the offspring of a dragon and a spider." She nodded before cautiously putting her hat back on which still covered the sleeping dragon. She left the library and walked into the Ravenwood tunnel to head to her dorm until something, or someone, crashed into her and woke up the dragon.
He growled at the newcomer angrily before a voice caught his attention. "Shadow no!" Rowan shouted as she pointed at the Arachnid Dragon. "Down boy! Come here now!" He glared at the newcomer before flying to her side and perching himself on her lap. "Haha! You trained a freak yourself!?" The newcomer, a boy by the voice, asked sarcastically before she glared at them. "Oh shut up!" She shouted as she stood up and Shadow perched himself on her shoulder. "And Shadow is not a freak!" The boy that crashed into her was a year older than her with silver hair that was in the same hairstyle as hers except it was shorter and red eyes wearing a light blue-and-white Cleric's Hood, the hood wasn't covering his head, a light blue-and-white Ashen Cloak with matching Adventurer Boots.
"Yeah, says the girl that faints!" He said as he watched her glower at him and try to keep Shadow from tearing him apart. "I do not faint!" She shouted as Shadow growled in agreement. When did the dragon know that she fainted and had a vision? Oh well. Unknown to them something was slowly happening to her. "Why were you in such a hurry that-" She stopped in the middle of her sentence as she put a hand to her head and swayed slightly. "What..?" She mumbled as Shadow hovered next to her and watched in confusion.
The boy also watched in confusion until she fell on the ground and laid still. "There she goes again." He said as he walked over to her before holding her up by her waist and walking over to Ambrose's castle. Why does this always happen whenever he's around her?
"What's going on?" She asked as she slowly opened her eyes to see a ceiling. What? She thought as she stared at the cream-colored ceiling before looking around the room. It was a medium-sized room with soft peach colored walls and a white carpet. There was an oak dresser with four drawers built in it covered by a jewelry box, a mirror, and a notebook sitting on the top of it on her right. There was an oak door next to the dresser, probably leading to a bathroom. The bed she was laying on was a twin bed with dark red sheets, orange posts which was probably the wood aging, and yellow pillows with two medium-sized windows on each side to allow a view from no matter what side of the bed she woke up on. In front of the bed was a chest that was made of white birch with a silver keyhole, silver hinges, and delicate golden lining.
The door suddenly opened and a girl walked in, meaning that the door did not lead to a bathroom. "Rowan are you okay?" The girl asked curiously as she looked her over. The girl was in her late thirties with elbow-length pink hair with half of her bangs covering her right eye, her eyes were a soft brown that were covered in worry, and she wore a silver jacket over a dark red shirt, a dark tan-colored skirt, and white boots going halfway to her knees. "What?" Rowan asked before the woman put her hand on her forehead.
"You don't have a temperature anymore," She said before smiling softly. "That boy really made you faint didn't he?" Rowan looked at her confused unitl she noticed the similarities between the two. Is she who I think she is? She thought as the woman sat down next to her and gently held her hand like it was a delicate cup. "Maybe I should tell you about a secret I've been keeping from you." The woman said as she stared at her. A sudden crash interrupted her from saying anything else. She got off the bed and slowly walked to one of the windows, and as curious as she was Rowan followed to see what the crash was.
"Athenyra, we have the building surrounded," A man that could either be a construction worker or from the government shouted through a megaphone. "Come out with your hands up and nothing will happen to your daughter." Athenyra looked torn between fear and worry as she stared out the window and suddenly turned to Rowan. "I can't keep it any longer," She said as she grabbed Rowan's hand urgently. "My daughter, your father isn't a normal human like me. He is a dragon from another world called the Spiral, and he told me that in a time of urgency I have to send to his world for protection. But so you won't forget me, here take this." Hung around her neck was a crystal that had a soft magenta light in the center.
"Promise me you'll be safe." Those were the last words Rowan heard before a portal appeared and the last thing she saw was her mother looking out the window.
"MOTHER!" She shouted as she suddenly woke up and reached out to grab something. "Are you okay?" Saffron's voice sounded out beside her, making her look to her right to see Saffron, Sabrina, Shadow, and the boy that crashed into her. "You suddenly stopped breathing," Sabrina said as she sat next to her on the couch she was laying on. "And when we thought it was to late, you suddenly sat up and reached out while shouting 'mother'. Did something happen?" Rowan ignored her in favor of staring at her hands while Shadow flew to sit on her shoulder.
"My mother..." She mumbled before realizing what had happened in her vision. The others stared at her as she looked at her hands in horror before she started to cry in anguish. "Mother... Mother!" Saffron and Sabrina patted her back in comfort since they had the idea of what happened in her dream. They lost their mother too by Malistaire's minion that tried to kill them but she put herself in the way and took the pain for them.
Everyone stayed silent as Rowan repeated the word over and over again. "Mother! Mother..."