Merry Christmas. For the gift I'll post the next chapter.
Chapter 12: Dreaming
She lifted a hand to her head as she sat up. She noticed that she was in her room. One down, Amber thought, seven to go. Amber dragged her hand through her hair.
“Why do you continue to fight?”
Amber turned her head. Courtney was sitting in the corner of her room by her bed.
“Why do you ask?”
“You’ve lost all that you once were. If someone you knew from the past seen you too day they wouldn’t recognize you.”
“And what about you or have you forgotten you too are a dragon?”
Courtney shook her head.
“I’m not like you. I was an orphan. No parent, no sibling, I didn’t even have friends. I was living on the streets before I became a dragon, but you…you had all the things I longed for.”
“I see,” Amber sighed, “I might have love and lost, but I have lost at love.”
“What?”
“It means I fight for the people I love. For my friends,” Amber smiled, “I might be a dragon Courtney, but I’ve gotten to the point where I have no regrets.”
“And what about your family?”
“What about them? I love them Courtney even now, but I can’t change what’s happened. I can only move forward, continue on with my life. I’m sure that what they’d want me to do.”
“You’re pathetic,” Courtney said raising, “Do you even care that Matt worries about you and yet you continue to fight. You say you fight for your friends, but I think you fight just to fight. You’re just like the dragon you kill.”
Amber’s eye’s narrowed. Why in the hell was Courtney saying this?
“You’re wrong. I care more about Matt then you think, but at this moment my life means more to me.”
“Your life? The only reason your life is in danger is because you couldn’t keep out of the way. Why couldn’t you just let the humans die?”
Amber jumped up, now standing on the bed. She knew somehow that that was not Courtney.
“Because I refuse to believe that killing human is the only way to gain their respected.”
The illusion faded. Standing before her was a dragon she hadn’t seen before. His hair and scales were brown and his eye's were purple.
“Who said anything about gaining their respect? Do you think that humans deserve to rule the world? Look what their doing to her with their pollution.”
“And you think dragon can to a better job.”
“My dear girl I don’t think I know.”
“And you’re delusional. Dragon aren’t much better then humans. It’d be only a matter of time before dragon would start ruining the world just like the humans.”
He laughed.
“Delusional says you, crazy says another, but whose really to judge me. Surely not you, you who lives with a very dragon that took her humanity.”
“Leave Matt out of this. He had nothing to do with the death of your sister.”
“Bold move girl, very bold,” he chuckled, “I could kill you now in your sleep and no one would know, but I let Logan have his fun with you.”
Amber was getting real tired of hearing Logan’s name. The dragon turned and started walking away. He stopped and turned.
“Oh and just so you know the name Neo.”
Once again he turned and walked away fading through the walls of the room. Amber’s eyes opened as she awoke from the dream. We will meet again Neo, Amber thought grimly, and the next time she’d make there wouldn’t be a third meeting.
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Chapter 13: Next Step
“Yeah, but we’ll beat them like last time. You, yourself, have proven that they’re not immortal,” said Kuwabara.
“It’s not going to be that easy you fool,” said Hiei.
“What’d you say short stuff?”
“Chill you two,” said Matt, “and Hiei’s right. It’s not going to be child’s play anymore. Now that we know they can be beat you can be sure they know and then they’ll take extra measurements to try to save alive…err…the living dead.”
“Not to mention that the fragments are in their tails. It’ll be very hard to get at them especially with the most skilled fighter like Logan, Eve, and Neo,” said Amber.
