Ch. 14

She came towards Munya and Zak and swatted Munya away from Zak. She then picked up Zak with her tail and looked at him in the eye. Zak had become terrified seeing her in this monstrous form. He tried to talk to her to see if she still remembered him.

"Alex wait a minute, it's me Zak. Don't you remember?" Zak said

Alex took only a short time to look at him, and just when everyone thought she was goanna kill him, she placed him on her back instead. Zak then thought that Alex's dragon half knew who he was and had no intention of hurting him. Suddenly a green glow formed around her, when it did she picked up her tail and slammed it down on the ground hard.

When she did a giant earthquake hit, then Zak realized what she was doing. She was using the earthquake to buy them some time to escape. While the earthquake was going on she ran to the other Saturdays and the gray men and placed them on her back. Her wings started to go up and down picking up dust. Then she took off into the sky then a yellow glow came around her.

She fired a bolt of lightning into the sky, when she did thunder clouds came in and it started to rain. She then used her ice powers to turn some of the water droplets into a thick icy mist. She then took off out of sight. When she was gone the earthquake stopped. Argost was very impressed with her strength and power, but wondered if there was more to her powers than meets the eye. The Saturdays, grey men, and Alex were flying off into the mountains. Alex hoped that she could lose Argost there. Zak broke the silence between them by arguing with her.

"Alex why? Why wouldn't you tell me about this? Why wouldn't you tell me that you were the dragon cryptid that Argost is after? Why?" Zak shouted

Alex wouldn't say anything; she wouldn't even look at him, she just kept flying in silence, searching for a place to land.

"So what, you're not goanna talk to me now, is that it?" Zak said

"Zak that's enough, Alex has been through enough as it is." Doc said.

Alex then started to descend to the ground; they saw that she heading for a small opening in the forest. As she landed everyone got off her back. The green glow that was around her earlier had come back. She raised her hand and as she did a huge chunk of earth came out of the ground. She then stabbed the rock with her tail. They saw she had created a cave for them to rest in. Every one ran inside still dripping wet with water, they saw Alex was still outside.

She took a stance and prepared for something, what she did was that she used her wings to cut a few trees. She cut them into fire wood, when she was done she returned to human form and carried a few pieces of wood into the cave. She set them in the center of the cave, and used her fire breath to create a campfire. Every one gathered around the fire to dry off or warm up.

Alex sat in the corner of the cave; she didn't need to be near the fire, because she could keep herself warm with her fire breath. Tension began to build as Doc and Drew noticed that Zak and Alex had become very distant ever since Alex's secret gat out. Suddenly Zak stood up and stared at Alex, then began to walk towards her. Drew became nervous, because she didn't want any more stress to fall on to Alex.

"So why? Why didn't you want talk to us? Why wouldn't you say anything? Did you not trust my parents or me? Do you even trust us now?" Zak asked

"Zak please, can't you at least try to imagine what she's going through right now. She has enough turmoil to deal with as it is." Drew said

Alex couldn't take it anymore; she got up and ran out of the cave into the rain as fast as possible. They all watched as she disappeared into the rain. Drew was surprised and spoke out loud.

"You know I guess she could have said something. She did seem like a nice enough girl, but then again along with all pressure she has of being a 13-year-old girl, she also has to live with the burden of carrying another half. An unstable creature that lives inside her and forces her to do all of these destructive things. I can only imagine what kind of pain she's going through. I bet that within her own body is whirlwind of mixed up emotions. With such awful and painful memories. " Drew said

Meanwhile Alex was far enough from the cave, so she stopped and fell to her knees, her hand down in the mud, and her hair covering her face. Back in the cave Francis knew that Zak wasn't going to be of much help, so he got up and was going after Alex. His father Epsollion was trying to stop him, but he just pushed him away and ran.

No one, not even his father, thought that Francis would ever act this way. Francis kept running until he saw a figure in the distance. The closer he got, the clearer the figure became. He saw that it was Alex on her knees in frustration. He ran as fast as lighting until he got to her.

He got on his knees right next to her. She was shivering from the cold rain; Francis moved her hair out of her face so he could see her. She looked at him slowly, her eyes red from the flow of tears. Right as she saw Francis's face, she jumped into his arms crying very hard. He held her tight and gave the comfort that she needed. Soon the rain became lighter and lighter until it stopped.

Rays of the sun shined through the grey clouds. Alex finally managed to stop the tears and stand up. She stayed close to Francis because she still felt un easy. When they reached the cave Zak was standing outside with a serious look on his face. Alex walked up to him and prepared for anything.

"Alex, I'm sorry" Zak said

"Your, what?" Alex responded

"I'm sorry, for everything I said to you. I was just so mad that you wouldn't say anything to me, that I took my anger out on you. Now I just feel like an idiot, you've been through enough torchure already; you don't need to suffer anymore because of me."

"It's ok Zak... It's... it's really ok."

"No it isn't. Look I know that things are confusing now, but I..."

Right in the middle of that sentence, Alex kissed him! Zak's face started to turn red again. His parents were just happy that Alex forgave him, and his brothers Fisk and Komodo were trying as hard as they could from laughing out loud. Soon after, Zak stared into her eyes and spoke.

"That was a really good way of telling me to shut up." Zak said, as face was still bright red.

"All right everyone listen up. I think we've rested here long enough. If we don't start moving now, Argost will surely catch up to us." Alex said.

They all started to think about it and decided that she was right. They got ready for travel as Alex changed into her dragon form. They loaded up and headed somewhere north.