Chapter 6

" Take cover! Suppressing fire move , move! Bullets whizzed and snapped over Daniel's head as moved through the city street. A technical's DShK firing full auto, slinging high caliber rounds down range, Daniel ducked into a building to his right when the gun's barrel swiveled towards him. Daniel jumped through the doorway just in time, as he felt the door behind him ripped to shreds. Dust and wooden splinters showered down on him.

A high pitched battle cry surprised Daniel as he was half way onto his feet. He fell back drawing his M9 from its holster on his chest and quickly without a second thought he pumped four rounds into his attacker. When the dust cleared it was a young boy holding a wooden gun, four bleeding holes in his chest, the boy crumbled to the floor the toy gun skidding across the floor and stopping at Daniels feet.

"No..." Daniel thought "Yes..." A dark voice hissed in the air around. "You did this, your anger, your fear, your hate, it consumes you. And I will bring it forth, you will be my slave..." "STOP!" Daniel roared with all his strength, he fought back the dark tendrils that threatened to take his mind. "Get out of my head! I will never serve you."

"YES YOU WILL! I am Malefor the Master of the dark elements and you will serve me!" The voice roared thunderously the dream world around him turned into black wisps of dark fog.

"NEVER!" Daniel boomed back with all his strength. The dream world was lit up by a sudden flash of light everything turned white and a powerful voice echoed through the dream.

"Be gone Beast, this human is under my protection and if I find you in his mind I will not hastate to destroy you."

Everything faded and real world sounds took the dream worlds place.

"He's waking" a female voice said

Daniel opened his eyes to find multiple heads greeting him, one was a dragon with smooth black skin that looked more metallic then scaled, red line started behind both its eyes and ran down the length of its body. another dragon had black scales and a blood red under belly, but what set him apart from the others was when his eyes focused in and out. the three blue swirls around his pupils moved on their own accord.

In the back of the group was Dragon that definitely couldn't be natural its body coloration was a desert camouflage and a massive cannon was housed on his spine. The last face was that of a blue scaled dragon with a snow white underbelly. But they all had friendly smiles and seemed pretty happy that he was awake and fine, which was a surprise since the last native he meet left a knife in his chest after torturing him for sick entertainment.

Daniel sat up, "um where am I?" He asked the as he looked over the walls and began to assess the room.

The black scaled dragon whispered into the blue scaled dragon's ear, she nodded.

"Cameron" she nodded towards the black scaled dragon "Brought you here from the crashed ship, he also said that your friend Ark has left you under our protection."

"What is 'here' exactly?"

"The Dragon city of Warfang" The Dragoness answered his questions "I'm Jasmine and this is my friend Cameron" she motioned to the dragon who saved him, "And these two are our neighbors" she motioned to the other two. The two nodded and smiled at Daniel.

Cameron whispered into Jasmine's ear again.

"I guess you'll also be staying with me and Cameron, and the doctors cleared you to leave when you were asleep." Daniel nodded his response and swung his legs of the bed.

He took a few wobbly steps before he regained his composer and walked across the room to were his combat gear and rifle laid with his BDU shirt folded on top. Daniel put the shirt on and slung the combat vest over his shoulder, and then attached his rifle to its lanyard letting it hang in front of him.

Jasmine motioned for him to follow her and he did with Cameron following behind. The other two dragons departed saying they had some shopping to do, leaving the trio to head back to Cameron's house.

Cameron lead the group through the crowded city streets while Jasmine guided Daniel so he wouldn't run into anything, he was so busy looking at there was to see he almost ran into the side of a rather large and intimidating dragon. But luckily Jasmine guided him away before anything could happen.

The multitude seemed to thin out and Daniel finally returned his focus to where he was walking, much to Jasmine's delight and this also allowed her to enter into polite conversation.

"So Daniel where are you from?"

"Well in my world it was in the country of America, I was born in a city called Denver, in the state of Colorado." He answered with a smile on his face.

"Ahh... I had good times then, hunting elk to help feed the family, camping in the winter, and some rock climbing in the summer. And I gave it all up to join the army."

"Why did you join?" A Low but deep voice asked, it almost sounded as like two voices speaking at once and it was quiet Daniel almost didn't hear it. Daniel turned his head to see Cameron looking at him, the dragon's odd eyes locked on to him and an eye ridge raised in a very human form of question.

"Honor, to see the world, and to do what others wouldn't do for their country." Daniel answered him honestly.

"And what is it that others won't do?" Cameron asked, his gaze a little more intense as if looking for something.

"Die, die for their country, to make the ultimate sacrifice"

Cameron stared at him for a few second and then nodded his head and continued walking, but not before leaving one last comment.

"I was a soldier to"

Daniel wasn't shocked to much seeing as the dragon was quiet which already made him think that the dragon had some not so kind memories, but he didn't ask about it. "It's not my place to ask"

Daniel was surprised at how large the two's house was, it was two stories made of polished stone and the inside was amazing. The walls were wooden with paintings and depictions on them, and the floors were also wooden but made of a darker and harder wood then the lighter wood that lined the walls.

The front door opened into a hall which continued straight ahead, a living room to your right and kitchen to your left. Candles in nice brass light fixtures lit the inside with a warm glow.

"Wow this place is very well decorated" Daniel complemented

"Thank you, it was my parents" Cameron said, his voice wasn't sad, it had a little kindness. like he appreciated the fact that someone was complementing an old possession of his family.

"Follow me, I'll show you your room." Jasmine said already walking down the hall.

"Yeah sure" Daniel said as he watched Cameron walk into the Kitchen, he turned just in time to see the dragoness take a right at the end of the hall and quickly made off to catch up. "This a nice place, and I'm glad to be able to sleep here instead of the crashed ship." Daniel thought as he did a slight jog to catch up to the dragoness who was already half way up the flight of stairs. His mind recalled all the place he slept during his years

"Alright you'll be sleeping across from Cameron's brother, I'll be at the end of the hall, and Cameron is right next door." Jasmine informed him

The second story had six bedrooms total, since the stair case lead to a T at the top of the stairs. One on either side of the stairs two across from them and one at either end of the hall.

"You can drop your stuff in the room, and I think Cameron is making Lunch" Jasmine said, Daniel laughed when he saw her lick her chops and head back down stairs.

"Home cooked food that sounds good" Daniel thought happily as he walked into his room.

Daniel was surprised at how nice the room was; large bed, bathroom, bookshelves, writing desk and widows with a good view of the walls. along with some nice paintings, one liked in particular was of a red dragon clad in steel armor standing proudly on a ridge with its chest puffed out and neck back with its head held high.

Daniel decided to deposit his gear in a trunk at the base of the bed, he also took of his BDU shirt and just wore his olive drab T-shirt. Daniel to head down and see what the dragon was cooking.

He didn't even make it down the stairs before he could smell the food.

Thanks for reading, also please R&R

And a shout out to UNSC Inferno (Track, Whitney) dragon outcast(Cameron, Jasmine) for their wonderful OCs.

That's all and I'm hope you enjoyed this chapter and the next chapter will be coming soon.