Green with Jealousy
Part 15
By crystalquirt
Sibey yaoi – action, adventure, boyxboy romance, mild language
Ideas for this fic contributed by:~loveless kittykat~Pandalover~Lycan-wolf96~forever tiki [Sadie] from DA
Kong Li uses a spell that causes earthquakes and even lava to spew forth in Chinatown. But that isn't his plan this time. He uses the spell to lure out and weaken the fighting trio. Sid's innocent friend, Will from his history class is recruited by Kong Li to pursue his son to drive a wedge between Sid and Tobey and to help convince Tobey to join him once and for all.
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"Tobey NO!"
"Sid!"
Nana and Sue screamed as the lava bared down on the boys. Sue looked away; Nana closed her eyes, not wanting to see the boys burned up in the lava. There was nothing they could do to save them this time. Nana hugged Sue tightly while she cried hysterically into Nana's sweater front. Kong Li smiled as he slowly walked up behind them.
Nana bravely looked back first a little hopeful for an instant that they had somehow made it out, but saw no trace of either boy. The was a slight rise in the deep lava where they had been. The cooling lava reached almost to the top of the garden wall it was so deep. It had broken windows and gone into Wu's garden before it burned the back wall down. It was cooling quickly though and already had a crust on top. Steam rose from it and with no wind, created a dense fog in the garden very quickly.
"Nana, its my fault, the cookies I threw into Kong Li's cauldron created that huge wave of lava instead of stopping it."
"No Sue, it isn't your fault at all. I should have known, Kong Li said he wasn't using a recipe for this, I should have realized it earlier and stopped you - knowing that the cookies wouldn't work."
Kong Li calmly walked up behind Nana and took the cookbook from where she dropped it to hug Sue. Overcome with grief, Nana gave no argument if she even saw him until he spoke.
"Now do you see Mei Hua? All your effort. All the fighting – all the suffering you put those kids through; and you still lost. You lost the cookbook and those two boys for nothing, but don't worry, you and Sue will join them soon enough. I - still - win!"
Where Nana couldn't seem to summon the will to fight anymore, distraught at the loss of her brother and best friend, Sue released her hug with Nana and turned to face Kong Li. In a small, but determined voice she spoke, "I will take revenge for what you have done, Kong Li. No one else in Chinatown will have to lose a loved one to you."
"I only want to kill you two. The rest of the residents here will be my slaves and become my army to help me conquer the rest of the world in a glorious final battle!"
"You won't!"
Sue cried and charged him. Nana made a grab for her to hold her back but missed. Sue caught her enemy, Sid and Tobey's murderer, by surprise and planted both of her shoes in his face. He didn't think she had any fight left in her. He fell to the crust of cooling lava and she landed near the wall. It was still hot enough to make it very uncomfortable to lie on.
Since the lava was so deep, the garden wall was only three feet tall next to where they stood. Sue gritted her teeth in preparation for a little pain and brought her casted arm down on the top edge of the wall to crack it on purpose. She pried the plaster cast off with a sharp end she found on the broken wrought iron fencing that once lined the top of the wall.
As she glared at Kong Li, she opened and closed her fist and bent her elbow a few times trying out her arm as Kong Li stood up. Nana watched about half in horror and half in amazement and realized she better join Sue and defeat Kong Li once and for all if at all possible.
Sue ran at Kong Li and exchanged a fierce series of blows with him. Even using her arm to block his hardest strikes didn't seem to hurt her. She had Kong Li backing away from her, right into Nana. He turned and blocked a kick from Nana and it messed up his timing with Sue.
Sue delivered three good punches one after another and ended it with a kick that made Kong Li fall back on his butt. In a most undignified way, he yelped and got up from the hot surface as fast as he could.
Nana grabbed the cookbook from him and put it behind her on the wall. "Kong Li - it is over, leave here and never bother us again."
"No! I won't let him leave, he has to die for taking Sid and Tobey from us!"
"Sue, no!"
In the time it took Sue to look at Nana when she yelled, Kong Li drank from the vial. Nana dived at Sue to push her out of the way, but a bubble formed around both of them. Sue went hysterical again, screaming at him and pounding on the sides of the bubble.
Kong Li motioned with his hand and did something he was not able to do before. He started to shrink the bubble around them, Sue and Nana were forced against each other and soon neither could breathe!
Nana found Sue's hand and gave it a squeeze right before she passed out from the lack of oxygen. Sue was locked in place and couldn't even see Kong Li. Within seconds she passed out too.
The first thing Sue heard when she woke up was Kong Li laughing maniacally. Sort of disappointed that this whole situation wasn't over yet, Sue tried to move, but couldn't. She tried to see Nana, but couldn't find her either. She found her hands were tied behind her back and to a section of the wrought iron fence that was still securely mounted in a section of the wall. She was pleased at least that her arm didn't hurt.
Kong Li stepped to the side a little so Sue could see he had Nana bound in a similar fashion near her. She still looked unconscious. "Kong Li! What are you doing? I thought you wanted us dead; why did you let us wake up?"
"What's the matter little Sue? Disappointed you aren't dead yet – like your brother and my son? I want to kill you in glorious fashion, using the power I stole from the dragon – just like I killed Sid and Tobey. One of you will watch the other die an agonizing death by fire and then be consumed in flames themselves. But which one will go first?"
While Kong Li pondered the question of who should die first, a rumbling from a quake not of his making began.
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When Sid saw the wall of flowing lava rushing at them and landed on top of Tobey, he still hoped he could protect him somehow, even from a tidal-wave of lava – but even Sid knew he wasn't that strong. He whispered "Tobey, I'm sorry," just as the intense heat surrounded him.
He was pretty sure he had died, so he was very surprised when he opened his eyes that he still had eyes that he could open. It was pitch black and not as hot as he thought it would be. The temperature was comfortable in fact. He could feel Tobey was still breathing underneath him and could even feel his heartbeat when he pressed gently on his chest.
They were lying in some sort of pocket, a bubble in the lava perhaps. Sid found he had enough room to slide off of Tobey and lie next to him instead of on him. So he did, and then shook him gently to try and wake him up. "Tobey? Wake up!"
Tobey moaned and opened his eyes trying to see Sid. His eyes glowed a dim green in the total darkness around them and startled Sid, who yelped, "Eeek! . . . Sorry Tobey, I was hoping that had worn off by now."
"Sid? I still can't see you, where are we? What happened? Are we dead?"
"Not dead - I hurt too bad to be dead." Suddenly another pair of very big glowing eyes appeared near their heads.
Sid grabbed Tobey to pull him away, but realized they had no where to go when he banged his head on something leathery above them. In that instant, Sid realized those eyes belonged to the dragon, and the leathery surface was the dragon's wing over his head. The dragon had dove into the path of the lava and curled around them with them under his wing to protect them.
"Thank- you again my friend." Sid said softly. Tobey moved his head like he was trying to see, but couldn't even see the green color like before, "Who, what? The dragon? Did he eat us to save us from the lava? Oh, he ate us and we're in his belly - right?"
"No Tobey, not in his belly, but he did protect us, we are under his folded wing, and he is looking at us. We must be buried several feet deep in cooling lava. The dragon's body temperature is keeping us from being too hot in here."
"Oh I hope Sue and Nana are alright!"
"But Sid, even if they survived the lava, they are probably still up there with Kong Li!"
"If they are, they are still in mortal danger . . . how will we get out of here to help them?"
I'm sure the dragon has a plan. You do have a plan don't you big fella?" Tobey asked the great beast.
"Tobey, he just saved us, be more respectful!"
The dragon moved his wing and left a perfect outline of it in the solid lava that had become hard as rock already. He used his wing to pull Sid and Tobey further under his body. With great effort the dragon pushed up, against the solid rock above them. Sid could feel his muscles tighten and the power the dragon was exerting. He hugged Tobey to be sure he stayed where the dragon put them and waited for what he thought would be like an explosion.
"Hang on, I think we're about to bust out of here!"
"Oh man – Sid!"
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The rumbling turned into a small earthquake, the lava rock shaking under their feet. Sue was staring at the spot where Sid and Tobey had been buried. With a crack, several large chunks of lava rock flew into the air over the spot and the dragon burst from the crust of lava rock.
Sue couldn't see down into the hole created by the dragon's body, but Sid and Tobey were down there; lying completely un-crispy on the decorative rock by the Koi pond. Having been protected by the dragon, even the fish in the pond survived.
The dragon stepped out of the hole and stared straight at Kong Li for a moment. Kong Li screamed like a hysterical little boy and dropped the cookbook. He leapt off the wall and ran down the alley a ways before he vanished into a portal.
In the bottom of the warm, dragon-shaped hole, Tobey whispered weakly "Sid, I feel awful."
"I know you do. I'm so sorry I don't know how to help you."
With Kong Li gone, the dragon looked back down at them and spread his wings like an eagle having successfully protecting hatchlings in a nest.
Tobey groaned and spoke softly again. "Thanks for all you've done for me Sid. I guess we aren't going to get to grow old together after all."
"Tobey, don't say that! We . . ."
The dragon growled softly, interrupting their discussion before he picked them both up in his big, clawed hands. Tobey couldn't see what was happening, and though exhausted, he still struggled a little. "No, what's going on now? Sid?" He pushed on the big fingers and felt the claws with his hands, but the hold around his ribs was soft, the claws themselves not touching him.
"It's okay Tobey relax, the dragon is lifting us out of the hole. He is moving us out of the cooling lava to be with Nana and Sue, I think."
With one flap of his great wings, the dragon carried them up to where Sue and Nana were tied to the wall. It was still very hot down below without the dragon's body to protect them. The dragon's wings stretched over what was left of the Garden wall and with one more flap, like he would take off he created a wind that put out all the small fires still burning at the edges of the lava, even the ones burning inside what was left of Wu's Garden.
After the dragon put Sid and Tobey down very gently, he used a claw on the cords that bound Sue's hands and freed her. She stumbled away from the wall and kneeled next to her brother. Sid picked up Tobey's hand just to hold it, but he looked at Sue. "I'm so glad you're okay Mei Mei."
"I'm glad you are too bro, but no thanks to me."
"What do you mean?"
"I tried to seal off the cauldron with magic cookies, but only made it explode and cover you with lava, if it wasn't' for the dragon . . . I just screwed up every time I turned around."
"I'm okay Sue, you had no way of knowing that would happen. And since we're sitting here and Kong Li isn't, I don't think you could have screwed up."
"Kids, it wasn't Sue. We have the earthquake recipe Kong Li used when all this first started. I never questioned, how was he able to do it without the recipe? It was even more powerful this time, even without the recipe."
"He said he had new power and we didn't listen and change our attack. If everything he did had been the same the cookies Sue used should have worked."
"Just great. You're saying Kong Li is somehow supercharged now seems 'supercharged' somehow?"
"Yes Sid."
Sue added, "Fortunately, he is still afraid of the dragon."
The dragon snorted. He was listening, but didn't offer more than a snort, not the smallest thought thought about what was going on with Kong Li to either Sid or Nana, even though he knew what Kong Li had done.
Sid heard him snort and whispered, "Thank you great dragon, you saved my family again."
A sharp pain radiating up Sid's arm from his hand reminded him of his own injury. He leaned forward and pressed it against his stomach with a pained look on his face.
"Sid! - what's wrong?" Sue cried.
Tobey had been quiet until he heard Sue ask Sid what was wrong and tried to sit up, even though he couldn't see what was going on. "Sid said before that he got burned."
"Let me see." Nana ordered. Knowing he would have to show them eventually anyway he held his hand out for them to see. "It'll be okay Nana – I'm fine."
"Oh Sid!" Sue got sick to her stomach just looking at her brother's hand and usually stuff like that didn't bother her.
Tobey asked, "Is that what's wrong? Where did you get burned Sid?"
"My hand Tob."
Nana very gently touched Sid's arm above the burn and turned it over to see his palm. Sid gritted his teeth and hissed.
Sue tried to explain what they saw to Tobey, "His hand looks awful, its burnt so badly it looks like one of Mr. Wu's charred chicken legs."
"Sid . . . will he be okay?"
"I don't know Tobey. He needs to see a doctor quickly."
Still listening quietly, the dragon stuck his big nose under Sid's elbow to make him hold his hand out, then he just licked the back of his hand, then the palm with his long tongue. Sid expected anything that touched the deep burns to really hurt. When he saw what the dragon was going to do, he sucked in his breath in anticipation of the pain, but it didn't hurt at all. And after the dragon was done his hand felt even better. Sid exclaimed gratefully, "Hey, that does feel better; like the burning has been cooled."
"What?"
"The dragon licked Sid's hand and made it feel better Tobey."
The dragon snorted and blinked at Tobey with his head tilted as though trying to figure him out. Sid turned his attention back to Tobey too. "I'll be okay Tob. How are you feeling?"
"Terrible, weak and really scared. Its really frustrating not being able to see what's going on, especially with all the excitement I'm missing. What if I will be like this forever?"
"Nana, do you have any idea how to help him?"
"No Sid, I'm sorry Tobey, I feel terrible. I have researched and experimented and can find nothing that has helped. This must be a concoction totally of Kong Li's making and he isn't talking about it."
"I heard him while I was on Sid's bunk, he said there was no antidote, that it was affecting me like this because I was resisting it, and refusing to submit to Kong Li's will or something stupid like that."
Sue put her hand on Tobey's back and patted. Nana remained thoughtful, expressionless.
"I will never give up and I will never go to be with him . . . will I die Nana?"
"I hope not Tobey. I will keep trying but I just don't know."
Tobey started to get up, but the dragon pushed him back down with one, long finger; the claw over his shoulder so he wouldn't poke him. Tobey resisted not even being able to see who was pushing, but Sid still held his hand, "It's okay Tobey, lie back – the dragon won't hurt you."
Tobey gasped and felt the digit that was pushing on his shoulder. "This is the dragon's? Let me up please. It's too hot to lie here anymore."
The dragon didn't take his foot away, in fact, he pressed down on Tobey's stomach and chest with one big hand and held him down his legs and all. "What's he doing to me?"
"I don't know Tobey. Great dragon, can you help him?"
As if in reply, the dragon took one claw and poked Tobey with it, just under his collarbone and drew blood. Tobey squealed and struggled. The dragon didn't stop, he dragged the point of his claw down over Tobey's heart, leaving a deep cut through the skin and muscle. Tobey screamed in agony. The dragon was methodical and not rushed at all.
When he saw what the dragon was doing, Sid jumped up and pounded on the dragon's leathery forearm! "Your hurting him!"
Nana watched, but didn't do anything. Sue leaned over Tobey, trying to see if he was okay. Sid kicked at the great dragon's leg trying to make him let Tobey up. "Dragon – Why? I thought you were here to protect us!"
The dragon wrapped the end of his tail around Sid's waist and pulled him back a few feet. He stopped punching and squirming to watch in horror, thinking he would watch Tobey die now. After the cut was made, Tobey kept panting and pushing weakly on the dragon's foot that held him down.
With the hand that did the cutting, the dragon curled a finger so that his claw punctured his own palm and dragon's blood started flowing from the wound. He placed his bleeding hand back over Tobey's chest so the wounds would meet.
The dragon stared at Tobey for a second before he pushed down hard on his slight body and it looked like he was crushing him. Tobey opened his mouth to scream, but he had no air left in his lungs to scream with. Held in the coil at the end of the dragon's tail, Sid squirmed and begged the dragon to stop hurting Tobey. The dragon put his head up and back and roared at the moon. Nana held Sue to keep her out of the way.
Tobey thrashed violently for a moment, until he closed his green glowing eyes and went limp. The dragon took his foot off and backed away, releasing Sid from his tail.
Sid was at Tobey's side in an instant, pulling Tobey up on his lap. "Tobey! Tobey! Please, talk to me! Dragon! What did you do to him?" he shook Tobey frantically and thinking the worst had happened hugged him tightly, tears running down his cheeks. "Nana! I thought you said the dragon couldn't kill a human?" he sniffled.
"Look again Sid, he didn't kill Tobey." Sid relaxed his hold a little so he could look Tobey in the face once more. Tobey was moaning softly and when Sid looked, he opened his sparkling, brown eyes. Sid squealed, "Tobey? Are you okay? Your eyes aren't green anymore!"
"Sid! Your eyes are as brown as ever too - I can see you!"
"Tobey!" Sue cried as Nana let her go. She fell to her knees at Tobey's side and looked across to Sid. She held his hand as tears welled up she was so happy Tobey looked okay.
The dragon nuzzled Nana's side, rubbing his nose on her like he was scratching an itch. She patted him and wrapped her arms around his great head before she turned back to talk to the teens, "The dragon just told me, he shared his blood with you Tobey. It healed you and stopped the poison Kong Li gave you."
"You mean I'm okay now? And I'm blood brothers with a dragon? That-is-AWESOME!"
Sue was already thinking about what they still had to do and just had to bring the mood down a little, "We have to tell Will's parents what happened to him."
Sid asked realizing he hadn't seen him. "What did happen to him Sue? I thought he left with Kong Li."
"No Sid, he attacked me and . . . I'm so sorry - he fell head-first into the lava."
"Oh no." Sid and Tobey looked at each other sadly.
"I couldn't stop him!" Sue cried.
"I saw what happened Sue, it wasn't your fault. How did Kong Li get his hands on Will again? Once we had him safe at home I didn't think Kong Li would bother him again."
"But Nana, how will we explain all this?"
"We won't be here. We have things to do. I'm sure the earthquake, and even the volcano will be taken as just another freak thing of nature, but come on kids we can't stay out here all day the rescue and emergency units are making their way toward us."
"Right Nana, everyone in Chinatown has been affected by this haven't they?"
"Yes Sue I'm afraid they have with the earthquake anyway. The lava was centralized here though and will probably take days to cool off completely. Calvin is not going to be happy about this."
"Yeah, I can already hear the yelling."
"I wonder if he has volcano insurance?"
"Do you three feel up to coming with me to Will's house to speak to his parents?"
I wish we wouldn't have to tell them. What will we say?
We will tell them the truth, bent a little. Wasn't he trying to save you, Sue, when he fell in?"
"I hear siren's, shouldn't we wait for them to get here? Maybe they will want to talk to Will's parents when we tell them what happened?"
"I want to talk to his parents first. Let them make the choice about how much they want to be involved in this thing. The news will turn this into a circus and won't leave them alone."
Tobey looked up as a news helicopter made its first pass over them and circled to come back and hover. "Yeah, volcano in Chinatown destroys fine dining restaurant."
"Stop teasing Tobey. I feel terrible about what happened to Will." Sue scolded and then added softly, "I should have been able to save him."
The dragon curved his long neck around and pushed on Sid. Sid put his arm under his jaw and patted the side of his face. Suddenly Sid's eyes opened wide and he took a step back to look the dragon in the eye. "Yes! I heard you! And that would be wonderful!"
"I heard him Nana! The dragon offered us a ride to see Will's parents!" Sid didn't mention the dragon's second destination. To have his hand cared for.
"Great dragon, do you have a name I can call you?"
Now the dragon was silent, or Sid just couldn't hear him this time. Nana explained, "He has never given me a name to call him by either Sid. Lets go before anyone sees us."
Nana hopped up on the dragon's back first with Sid, Tobey and Sue all lined up behind her. The dragon retracted the spikes on his back so they could sit comfortably. The dragon turned himself invisible before he flapped his wings and lifted off. His passengers became invisible too. Getting to ride the dragon detracted from the somber job they had ahead of them a little, especially for Tobey. He whooped and hollered "AWESOME" as the dragon flew away.
The first emergency responders who stopped their fire trucks in front of Wu's heard Tobey yell and looked up. "Hey Joe, did you hear that?"
"Naw, I don't think I did."
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Tobey continued . . .