Chapter 15- Dragons aren't to be Messed With!

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"You are such an arrogant, immature, irresponsible, idiotic, selfish…." Sabrina grumbled, throwing insults at the boy left and right as she trudged through the thick, slimy mud which squelched beneath her spiky, boot-clad feet.

"Quite finished?" Puck moaned, ruining a hand through his tousled blonde locks. He snuck a glance at the fuming girl to his right through the corner of his eye.

"No… you're also a stupid jerk!" she added childishly, folding her arms across her chest. Her narrowed blue eyes roamed the woods they were currently marching through in an attempt to see any signs of a red clothed little girl. Her ears were perked up and alert, listening out for the slightest sound of a twig snapping or even Red's manic laughter that gave the teenager chills running up and down her spin. Sabrina shuddered worth the thought.

Sure Red creeped her out but she was still family, and only a little girl (even if she was a hell of a lot older than any human in the Universe), Sabrina just had to find her, because not only would Red be in danger… but Sabrina would be in serious trouble with the family. Who knows what they might do to her?

Flashes of a torture chamber, being left on the streets, starved to death, eaten by wolves- the list was endless- all sprung to mind at the terrible thought.

It may not have been her fault but that didn't mean she wouldn't receive most of the blame. All she wanted was a nice long walk and some fresh air but instead she was met with pain and sorrow and fear of the unknown and the 'shadows' (as she had decided to call the silent creature who had attacked her in the field earlier today), only to them come home to hell and now be searching for a lost girl who had obviously lost her mind along with everything else with an insolent, moody fairy! Why did life always have to turn on Sabrina like this? Could she not be happy, and stay out of harm's way for just one moment? Nope, it always came back to bite her in the ass and every time she tried to fix something, it would always fall apart and Sabrina would be sent away with only a look of disappointment etched across her parent's faces.

Honestly, could Puck not do anything right? Who knew what was going to happen now, when they got home or when they found Red, if they found Red; which Sabrina was now very doubtful about.

The pair- although both resenting each other at that current moment and having rarely talked throughout the whole journey- had been searching for approximately three hours, not having found even the littlest clue or the smallest trance of evidence that Red was still in Ferry-Port Landing. For all Puck and Sabrina knew, Red could be on her way out of town and into some horrifying, dark place, completely and utterly lost! Even though these chilling thoughts weren't exactly helping Sabrina or her mission, she still couldn't keep them from swarming around her brain and smothering her. Puck was no help either, and it was starting to get dark; the Sun was slowly settling down behind the grey clouds to go to sleep, but not before exploding the sky with various arrays of colours: pinks, gold's, purples, blues, yellows… all different shades and so beautiful, so peaceful.

Although it did anything but calm Sabrina's unruly nerves.

"Listen, we'll be alright, we'll find her!" He encouraged. Puck must have sensed her worry and discomfort because he was quick to place a warm hand on her quaking shoulder. His touch seemed to have a soothing effect on the girl as her breath slowed to its natural pace and her tense shoulders relaxed.

Then she remembered all this was his fault.

"Oh get off me Puck! You… Jackass!" Sabrina cried, throwing his arm off of her. Puck furrowed his brows together at her unpredicted behaviour.

"God, I'm only trying to help Sabrina!" Puck yelled, his sudden outburst echoing through the once tranquil forest. Sabrina blinked at him, trying to know if he was actually serious about his words, if he actually knew what he had just said and how stupid it really was.

"Try-trying to help? That's what that was?" Sabrina spluttered, holding back a huge gush of laughter. Puck studied Sabrina for a while, choosing his next words carefully.

"Yes. It was." Puck replied, indignantly. Sabrina bit her lip, shaking her head at the befuddled looking boy. She couldn't hold it any longer… before she could even stop it; the girl was full on laughing, in hysterics, clutching her sides and pointing a shaking finger in Pucks face which was currently contorted into a frown, and slight shame and embarrassment. How dare she laugh at him like that? No one laughed at Puck the Trickster King and lived to tell the tale. His cheeks started to change from his usual peachy skin to a pale pink, barely visible but still there.

Only Sabrina was able to taunt him and not have his head bitten off. Only her. Then again, only she could make him like this. Only she could make him look like this. But most of all, only Sabrina could make him feel like this.

Sabrina finally recomposed herself and cleared her throat, a smirk still playing at her pink lips. Her eyes flickered up to Pucks and they locked gazes for a while.

"Well Puck, if you were actually helping, we wouldn't be in this mess." Sabrina snarled, getting a slim finger and poking Puck's chest, hard, and sending him one step back sharply. He quickly regained his balance and barked back,

"So… what? This is my fault?" Sabrina thought hard for a while, rubbing her chin and furrowing her brow in a sarcastic manner. Obviously, she was mocking him.

"Oh, I don't know Puck, do you see anyone else here who lost a little kid?" Sabrina asked him a rhetorical question.

"Red isn't a little kid…" Puck frowned and at that moment, Sabrina swore, she could have honestly punched him square in the face for his stupidity.

"Okay, okay, she's a few hundred years older, but that doesn't make a difference because she's still mental!" Sabrina says pointedly, spinning her fingers in a circular motion around the sides of her head.

"Yeah but she would have been mental at home, except you just had to leave." He shrugs, staring Sabrina down in shame. She takes a sharp intake of breath and breathes it out again in disbelief.

"Seriously? You're pinning this on me? I had nothing to do with it. It was all you and your stupid tantrum!" she gestures to the fairy boy before turning around, rolling her eyes, and striding off further into the darkening woods to keep up the search. She could feel eyes on her, not just Puck's, and the owls would hoot on their branches up in the trees, the hounds would howl to the moon and warn their prey of their coming, the bird would swoop above her head and the whistling wind would brush past her long, blonde locks. Footsteps were heard from behind her and breathing was heard.

"I did not have a tantrum! The Trickster King does not throw tantrums! I was simply mad because you left me all alone with Red!" the boy continues the argument between the teens, catching up to Sabrina and falling into step beside her.

"Oh whatever, you were barely with her for two minutes!" Sabrina scoffed, rolling her eyes at him.

"Oh yeah? Well you wouldn't know because you were prancing around town like the village idiot, seeking attention and being all dramatic! 'Oh look at me, I'm Sabrina and I'm always right and I collapsed for no reason because I'm such a drama queen and I just love attention'." Puck mimicked her, skipping and jumping around in circles around the infuriated girl. Sabrina lashed out and grabbed his arm, bringing his little dance to a halt.

"I do not seek attention. That must obviously be you! You always think you're better than everybody else Puck, but really you're not. And you call me dramatic? How about that whole long, boring speech- that no one cares about- about how you're 'the trickster king, ruler of fairies' and blah, blah, blah." Sabrina scowled. Her impatience was slowly fading away and she doubted she could tolerate Puck any longer. He always managed to find a way to get under her skin. But he also managed to make her smile and get her true feelings out. She often wondered how they could never get along, yet were so close. However, it was an understatement if she said she hated Puck. How she would just love to punch his smug face! And why on earth did he think he was better than her? She was just as good as he was if not better. Puck always had to be right about every little thing but not this time, this time he really was in the wrong. But would her parents listen to her? No. They wouldn't dream of listening to their daughter because she was expected to know better and just wasn't 'good' enough for them.

Sabrina was going to be digging her own grave very soon, and her argument with Puck wasn't exactly helping.

"Really? Who is it that always complains about their dumb family not 'loving' them? Because I think that would be you…" Puck smirked, knowing he had finally got her. Sabrina froze on the spot, slack-jawed and wide-eyed. She clasped her hands into two firm, heavy fists and had to fit back the urge to not break his nose.

Puck had crossed the line.

He knew her family was a fragile matter for the girl. So why did he that? Why did he bring it up? He should have known better…

"At least I have a family." Sabrina shot back, wanting to hurt him. Wanting to see the pain in his eyes to make up for the pain eating away at her own heart. He had made this personal and now Sabrina couldn't think straight, she saw red flash by her eyes and she honestly wanted to break down and cry.

She never would of course. Sabrina had to be strong because her family didn't realize how much they hurt her and they never could. The blonde didn't want to be seen as pathetic, and she didn't want the sympathy or all the attention they would give her afterwards. She just wanted them to notice her a bit more and accept the fact that she would never be one of them. She would never be a 'true Grimm' but she still wanted their love. Not that she didn't have it; she just wanted what Daphne had.

Was that too much to ask?

As soon as the words left her mouth, Puck's eyes darkened, and he looked down at Sabrina with absolute hatred. It wasn't real hatred, he cared for the girl, but right now it was there and it was strong; fully aimed at Sabrina. How dare she say that? He never saw his family and she had the nerve to say that? He honestly wanted to fly away and leave her stranded there, just leave and never come back but of course he couldn't because this place was all he had left and Sabrina was the person he was closest to, even though he pretty much hated her. Especially in this moment.

Her words swam around his head, and clawed their way into his head, making it pound against his skull. Puck thought he was going to explode at any moment.

She was going to pay for what she said!

"Oh please, I have a family, everyone does! I just decided to leave mine for this place because back there I didn't want to be King. I wanted to be me. Plus, this is my second family anyway. You, however, don't have one. The Grimm's are all you have and they don't even love you enough to include you in on day trips out, or accept the fact that you want to be 'normal' instead of an everafter." The fairy boy seethed, shaking a fist in Sabrina's face. She clenched her jaw and shoved the fist away, stepping forward to Puck as she did so.

"What the hell did you just say? What, that I'm unwanted? Is that it? Because, I know you like to torture people, but you really don't need to go there because I already feel like shit about it, okay? I already know I don't quite fit in with the rest of them, and I know they love me and don't get me wrong, I love them too, but I just really want to live a normal life unlike them. And when they find out that we lost Red, I'm going to be in so much trouble and then receive a whole round of ashamed sighs and disappointed looks. Puck, seriously, just shut up!" Sabrina whisper yelled, feeling those damned tears just waiting to be set free. She couldn't even look Puck in the eyes in case he saw them. She couldn't have that. Instead, the blonde stared down at the mud infested ground, with random twigs lying about everywhere.

All Sabrina heard afterwards was Puck sigh, and out of the corner of my eye, I see his tense shoulders suddenly droop and a hand reach up to brush through his scraggy strands of dirty blonde hair. He had deflated and all traces of fury or hatred had fleeted away from him and now all he felt was a sense of authority over the Grimm, like he had to protect her because she was just too helpless to do it herself.

Well, she was helpless to him.

He had never felt this way before but he had never seen her looking so vulnerable before. Sabrina mattered to him, so he obviously felt sympathy (which was clearly extremely rare for him) for her. He shouldn't have brought it up and now he felt especially guilty of his words, regretting them when thinking everything over in his head, no matter how much it pained for him to think; it just wasn't something he did.

Yet, for her, he couldn't help it. Why did she confuse him so?

He stepped forward, "Sabrina…" he breathed, reaching out to place a hand on her arm. Sabrina flinched at his movement and automatically stepped to the side to avoid it. She shook her head and rubbed her right arm, awkwardly, still not meeting his pitying gaze.

Oh, how Sabrina loathed those gazes. As if she really needed them anyway, everyone had family problems and it wasn't as if her own were that major. Sometimes she could just over-exaggerate things.

Anyway, why was Puck acting this way? He wasn't normally like this and he knew her story well enough. It was too odd for the girl and she was so confused, her mind a muddle of thoughts and feelings. She just wanted to break down and let it all out but obviously that's not something she could easily do. Sabrina was not one to show her emotions and simply kept them hidden behind a mask. It wasn't a mask as such, Sabrina was simply who she was and wasn't afraid to show it, it just came to expressing her emotions that she had trouble with.

And right now, she doubted she could survive with Puck for much longer.

She needed to get away but she had a mission to complete and unfortunately, she was unable to complete it alone.

"Sabrina… listen…" Puck trailed off, gesturing wildly, but unable to string together a suitable sentence other than 'ha, no one messes with the Trickster King' although in these circumstances, he didn't think it would really help… at all…

"Just don't." she sniffed, forcing herself to snap out of this little daze she was stuck in. It was stupid and making her seem like an idiot. One thing Sabrina Grimm was not was an idiot. Puck took a step towards the blonde, ignoring her last two words.

"Sabrina?" he said again, lifting up a finger to tilt her head towards him. Her blue eyes that usually shone with that, somewhat, mischievous glow was replaced with a teary-eyed gaze. Puck smiled down at her reassuringly. She shook her head again and placed her hands on his chest to push him away, but before she could, he had pulled her into a tight hug. Sabrina's eyes widened in shock and surprise, her arms pressed up against his body and even in the cold, blistering wind, she could feel the heat radiating off of him. She struggled against his unbreakable grip, pounding his stomach with whatever force she had left, but when realizing there was no use, she simply fell against him. For the first time, Sabrina let him hold her and squeeze her gently and she pressed her eyes closed tightly, and a small tear- barely noticeable- escaped from the corner. She sniffed and looked up to find Puck's bright green eyes staring down at her. His eyes flickered between her eyes to her lips, which Sabrina was now biting as she was lost in his strong gaze. He leaned in slightly until Sabrina could feel his hot breath against her face and her eyes subconsciously fluttered closed.

Her insides felt warm and fluttery but why? It was so suspicious and rare yet… she liked it. She liked feeling safe in the fairy boy's arms. She knew he cared and even though it was simply out of pity, she liked the hug too.

Time seemed to slow down as their faces edged closer together. A small voice in both their heads kept on chattering away, asking them what on earth they were doing and trying to convince them to stop before they would regret it, but they ignored the sound. They did what felt right and even though this was so wrong, they felt the need to continue what was abruptly stopped that day in the Hudson River.

"AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!" came a sudden, ground-shaking and stomach flipping, high-pitched screech from further off into the forest. The teenagers sprung apart, awkward and guilty-eyed, and madly searched the trees and darkness for a source of the sound. Birds leapt from their trees and swam away through the midnight sky. Everything fell silent and even the wind stopped, the ear-piercing scream silencing all and letting the inhabitants of the town know danger was coming.

Sabrina and Puck forgot all about the nearly-kiss from earlier on and shared a worried look. Both of their hearts were thumping around in their chests and their minds were going crazy trying to comprehend the situation.

They were so blind to everything around them that they forgot all about why they were out on this chilling night in a dead forest in the first place. Puck grabbed the girls arm and leaped into the air, his pink wings immediately sprouting and beating heavily as he fought against the currents of the wind and towards where the shout for help came from.

They were led adrift to a part of the woods they had never visited before, let alone seen. A place where shadows crept around, destroying everything that came near and deadly creatures lay in wait for their prey. They each took deep breaths and flew to the heart of the deep woodland. No scruple they were bound to get lost in this unvisited part of Ferry-Port Landing. It looked so creepy and eerie from above.

Something was waiting for them there… something dangerous and wild.

The pair landed in a clearing, madly scanning the area for any sign of life or movement. There was none; everything was dead here or wilting away.

Just then, a bright ripped piece of fabric caught Sabrina's eyes and she daintily edged over to it, tenderly picking it up, not wanting to disrupt the stillness of the air. She knew just from looking at the vibrant red colour and feeling the soft silk of the material that it was Red's. Soon after, she tracked down some small footprints, clearly belonging to that off a child. Sabrina turned and waved Puck over with a wave of her hand, before holding a finger to her lips and signalling for him to try to not make a noise.

They crept further into the forest, dodging distorted branches that clung to their every fibre of being, hoping to trap them in its cold, stone-like arms.

After ten minutes of travelling, they came to another clearing… but this one… so different in comparison to the one they arrived in.

Sabrina knew that the very idea of everafters was extremely far-fetched, but it was true and she came to terms with it- but this seemed so impossible, so out-of-reach and such a myth that it shouldn't be here at this very moment standing in front of her.

Not just one, but several and each one holding her into a blinding awe that stilled her senses and left her drained of emotion so that she was simply looking around.

They were beautiful but Sabrina knew not to be messed with.

She had seen them before but she had too much of a rush of adrenaline to actually realize that there they were, standing in front of her and probably wanting to eat her. She couldn't fully comprehend the moment but she knew that she was a little more than scared.

Her heart was beating and she wondered if maybe, just maybe, Red had come by here. And if so, there wasn't a very likely chance that the small child was still breathing, even in her deranged state which made it hard for her to breathe in the first place.

One thing was for sure, dragons weren't to be messed with.

Ever.

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