Um...Don't have much to say today...But now that I think about it I think this Red Dragonfly story is going to be pretty long (I guess that makes up for the short chapters though). I don't own the characters of TNBC and if you don't know who they belong to then there's something wrong with you.

Chapter 6: What Normal People Would Think

"But Jack-" Sally protested.

"I said GO!"

Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Sally began to run after the Mayor and Torako who were already out the door.

Once she got out the door, Sally felt that something was wrong; none of the guards were following her. She looked back and saw Jack being beaten by the guards!

"Don't stop until he's dead!" The captain shouted, then he turned his head and made eye contact with Sally. He gave her a sinister grin. "Once your little friend is out of the way, we'll take care of you!"

Sally shuddered and began to run away.

"I'm free!" She thought, "I can leave him… and get out of here! There's no point in going back… I just need to think about myself... Or at least… that's what normal people would think!"

She spun around on her heel and began to run back to the jail were Jack was. The red imps began to fly out of her flute as she played the same hypnotic tune she played earlier.

Jack looked up, now too weak to defend himself, and saw Sally and her imp's running back to him.

By now, Jack was half-dead (or half un-dead) on the floor, and the guards continued to beat him showing no signs of mercy. Then in Jack's blurred vision he the shaped of a woman with blood red hair running to him. "She…c-came…back…." Jack reached his hand towards her, but soon everything went black. The last thing he saw was Sally bring him closer to her and shelter the attacks, as the imps fought off the guards.

…..

"Hold on, Mayor!" Torako shouted. Torako looked behind her and noticed Sally wasn't behind her. "Sally? SALLY?" Torako screamed. She began to look around frantically for sister, constantly sniffing the air (because she's part cat).

"Oh no," The Mayor said, "maybe the guards got her?"

Torako looked back at the Mayor; her eyes were full of rage. "They…took Sally?" Torako mumbled, her breathing was getting heavier and she began to sound more like a beast than she did a human. "No one touches my sister!"

Suddenly all the shadows of the town began to seep away from the buildings and people, creating a black pool at Torako's feet. Torako dipped her hand into the pool as the shadows crawled up her arm. The shadows slithered and wriggled about like restless snakes. Soon they were all over her, and began to form a new shape. The Mayor recognized that shape; it was the shape of the beast he and Jack found in the forest.

Her new form was horrifying, and the Mayor felt like running away, but he didn't. He didn't want to be the spineless wimp the captain described him as.

The clouds above them were whisked away by the wind, as the bright full moon began to shine on Torako's beast-like body. And inside that body was silhouette of twilight that outlined Torako's original body. She turned to the Mayor and smiled, her white teeth shined through the darkness of the tiger-like beast.

"Forgive me, Mayor."She whispered, "But for a while, I'm not going to be myself." Torako began to snarl and growl, then she charged after the jail cell. The Mayor chased after her, while reloading his pistol.

"You're not going in this alone." He said.

…..

Sally tried hard to run away, but she was too weak. If she didn't get out of there she'd pass out, just like Jack, and her imps went from 700 to 7. Occasionally she would swing her sword about to keep the guards away, but it was getting harder. Her body was getting heavier and it was getting harder to protect Jack. Especially since the guards would try to reach under her and steal Jack away, but whenever they did Sally would swing her sword again. Except for the last guard; Sally bit him.

Once she realized that her teeth had made contact (and injury) to one of the guards, Sally pulled away in shock.

"No," She mumbled, trying to keep her sanity, "I can't do this; I can't end up like Torako!"

The battle had gone on for almost an hour now, and the captain was getting annoyed. "Ugh! The cat and the wimp have probably escaped by now!" He screamed. "Just put those two in a jail far away from here and then go hunt down the others!"

The guards obeyed, and grabbed Sally by the shoulders. She was still clinging on to Jack.

"No! Please stop!" She cried. "I can't….it can't end like this! I…I need help…I need….TORAKO!"

Sally looked ahead of her and saw a huge tiger with eyes blind with rage attacking the guards. Beside the cat, was the Mayor, who was shooting the locks off of the jail cell, thus, freeing the prisoners. The prisoners quickly joined the battle in an attempt to help Jack; their gratitude for him knew no bounds.

Jack looked up and saw what was happening. Weakly, he gave them a thumbs up and then fell back into unconsciousness.

"Torako!" Sally shouted, "Stop it! Your body can't take it!"

The tiger looked at Sally, and began to run towards her. Once she was close to her sister, Torako lowered herself down, growling something that sounded like "Get…on…"

Sally quickly mounted Jack and herself onto Torako, the Mayor did the same.

Torako hunched over, getting ready to pounce out the door, but a cold silver circle was brought to her face; it was a gun that the Captain was holding.

He had a black eye and his uniform was in tatters. "You're not….getting away….with this …" He huffed.

Torako wasn't fazed. "Sorry," she said, giving him a smirk through her beast fangs. "Maybe if you didn't hurt my sister, I would have sympathy for you. I mean look at you, you're more of a spoiled little brat than you are a man!"

Then in one swipe, Torako smacked the captain away with her massive paw and dashed out of the jail, and over the wall of the city.