The Dragons Maiden ~Watty Awards 2013~

The Dragons Maiden 2

A glow in the distance caught my eye. The darkness still surrounded the light just like it had when I passed out. I pushed myself up from the hard ground of what seemed like rock. My eyes dashed around to make out any idea where I was.

The glow seemed like a small fire, I could feel the heat from it and soon when my vision began to clear, I realized that it was. Where am I..? I thought as I still looked around the cave, it seemed, once again. I touched the cold rock and then let out a sigh.

"Your awake." A deep honey sweet voice mumbled quietly. It echoed throughout the cave so I couldn't pinpoint the exact location of where he was. I backed up against the wall and looked for any outline or anything that would show me where he was at or if he was someone I should really be scared of.

I cleared my throat and croaked, "Who are you? Where are you?" My questions echoed just as his voice had when he had talked to me. For a while, I felt like I was the only one in the cave because of silence of the reply back to me.

"Does that really matter?" He finally answered back. My heart began to flutter from his answer. For some reason his voice gave me a soft and sweet feeling that made me want to trust him; yet, I was in an environment of experiments running around in a concealed area. I let out a sigh not knowing what to say after his comment.

I pulled my knees close to my chest and shivered slightly. Even though I was out of the cold wind of the winter, it was still very very cold in the cave. "I just wanted to know..." I paused and then closed my eyes, "if you were someone that I could trust, but its alright if you don’t want to tell me." My teeth began to chatter and I squeezed my eyes tighter as I wrapped my arms around myself.

Suddenly I felt a heavy, soft fabric land onto my shoulders. I opened my eyes and looked around hoping that I would at least see an outline of the man but there was nothing around. I tugged the fabric around my body and began to warm up slightly.

"If you sit by the fire, you'll be a lot warmer. You should also get some rest, its dark outside and you won't be able to travel back to where you live until its light." His voice was emotionless and gruff that it only made me want to see his face even more than ever especially with the kind act of giving me a blanket and building a fire for me. I hadn't felt this much kindness in a long time. My heart felt a bit warm at the moment but I knew I couldn't let my guard down.

Slowly I crawled over towards the fire and the warmth engulfed me once I had arrived close enough. I didn't know if I could fall back asleep especially when it was as cold as it was and there was a mysteries man in the same cave as me, anyone would be very suspicious of that.

"I don't feel to comfortable sleeping now. Especially not knowing who you are and who are you..." I mumbled the last part quietly to myself just in case he was some regular old human being. The better fact would be if he was, if he was something else then I don't know what I could do especially when he had the advantage of the darkness and my already weakness.

Suddenly I saw, from the corner of my eye, the bottom half of his body as he stepped closer to the fire. My heart begins to pound as I realized how tall he was. My eyes trailed up his body to see if I could get a glimpse of his face but still nothing. He was well hidden and I didn't like the feeling that it gave me.

He let out a small sigh, "You really should sleep. I can tell the weakness your feeling by the way your face looks." Without thinking my hand reached up and touched my face softly. I knew that I looked terrible but I didn't know it was that noticeable. "You'll be able to regain your strength and make it home. If I wanted to kill you, I would have done so a long time ago."

Well I knew that didn't make me feel any better. He was still capable of killing me anytime he wanted. I looked towards the fire and rested my chin on my knees and without thinking I said, "There really is nothing for me to go back to. I'm hunted and I'm probably going to die anyways because I can't stomach anything I eat! I don't know what’s wrong with me and I'm tired of being concealed in this hell hole!" By the time I finished, I noticed that my voice had reached a bellow and soon my face flushed out in embarrassment. "I'm sorry..." I whispered, still not looking in his direction.

He suddenly sat down next to me, "You and me both sweetheart." My gaze shifted over towards him and I could make out a small amount of his facial features. For some reason he looked so familiar. He had a bit of scruff on his face and his hair appeared to be a blonde color by the way the fire illuminated it. His gaze shifted over towards me and my heart began to drum in my chest. His strong looking jaw and the dark clothes that he wear made him appear as if he was an athlete and a very toned out athlete.

It was a good thing that it was dark because of the embarrassment I was feeling. He very well saw that I was checking him out and I could feel his gaze on me. The thing that kept jabbing into my brain was that he looked way to familiar it was scary. I didn't know anyone here, so how come he looked so familiar?

My heart was racing and I felt like a little schoolgirl again. I was a grown lady and I was acting like a little kid in front of a very good-looking man. "So you can't stomach food either?" I asked remembering that I had said that before his comment.

He shook his head and gave a small smirk, "No, I can eat and I can stomach it. Why can't you?" He asked after chuckling to his first comment. "Are you some bulimic girl? I don't think that’s a good idea especially in this place."

Rolling my eyes, I answered rudely, "I'm not bulimic for one and two, I don't know. Nothing will go down especially after..." I paused and glanced in his direction. He raised his eyebrow at me and waited for my answer. My eyes gazed back at the fire and I let out a small sigh, "Never mind." I knew that he was staring at me and I could feel my skin crawling from agitation.

"Your one of the experiments aren't you? The one that got away without being experimented on? Am I right?" his voice was emotionless as he asked this but I felt my jaw slightly open in confusion as I looked back towards him. He was on the mark. Who was this guy?

I focused on his features and glared at him, "How did you know that?" How did he know that?! I thought to myself as I waited for his answer. I stared at his features more and more waiting for the answer I wanted while trying to figure out where I had seen this man.

He was looking at the fire and then he leaned back, his hand holding body up. His smile curled up at the corner and he said, "I guess you could say I'm an experiment too. The only difference is that you were chosen. I was turned into an experiment because I let one of the test subjects go." His eyes suddenly met mine; confusing and shock twirled and danced in my brain and I began to put the pieces together.

Suddenly, a memory crawled into my mind and I saw a doctors blue eyes staring down towards me. His mouth moving as if he was shouting something but I couldn't hear it. Then reality smacked me in the face and I was staring into the same man's eyes and began to move away from him, "Your the doctor..." I whispered. He was the doctor that had set the chip into my back and he was the one who was going to test on me.

"The names David... and I already know your name Devi." David took his eyes from me and stared at the fire. He let out a sigh, "Now I guess I'm just like the rest of the people that they experimented on. I couldn't take it anymore though, it was seriously pathetic what they were doing." He growled quietly so the echo wouldn't hurt our ears.

Why I wasn't scared of him at all was beyond me. Maybe it was because he looked so different, maybe it was because he seemed like he wouldn't hurt me. If he was an experiment which of the many species was he? My mind was wondering again and then I realized that the blackness of my brain hadn't come back when I had the memory. I looked at his good-looking features and asked, "What experiment are you?"

His eyes glided over towards me, "One of the worst." He smiled slightly, "I'm a shape shifting dragon."

I knew he would be one of the bad ones out here… He held my eyes with his and my heart only raced more and more. If this doctor was the reason I escaped the lab that they were holding me in then maybe he could do so much more for me. I was willing to take advantage of this kind doctors heart in order to get what I wanted; I was going to do whatever it takes.