DragonHeart

7: Remi

My mind was too jumbled for sleep.

I sat on my mat in the dark, listening to the rain, thinking about our parents of all things. I wondered what they were doing. My aunt and uncle would be asleep. They probably wouldn't worry at all. I often came out to our clearing after school, or spent the night at Hazel's, besides, my aunt and uncle didn't really care enough to notice, unless I was out longer than two nights. Hazel's grandparents wouldn't worry either, they knew about Dragons and what Hazel and I were and of course, this had happened before where my Dragon fever lasted longer than normal, so Hazel and I spent the night there and went home in the morning. It got too dangerous with the guards patrolling at night to risk going back into Pira right away. Hazel's grandparents would cover for us and say that after I got 'sick', Hazel took me to her house and I spent the night there. Simple. What Nick's parents might be doing or thinking, I didn't know. Would they have called the guards? The Zorg? Were there search parties looking for us right now?

I tried for about the four hundredth time to remember what happened. Only one memory had come to me. I'd  had the wind in my wings and I was soaring high, the sky was mine to dominate, but then, another Dragon swooped up from behind me with scales of dark blue and aquamarine, the new Dragon. Her name was Nicholina....

I then remembered unbearable pain and then darkness for quite a while. I assumed Nick flew me back to the hut, because that was where I woke up, staring at the ceiling and feeling horribly nauseous, shaky, and cold, like I always was after a Dragon fever. I sighed as the memory faded back.

Nick! A Dragon? How could some random kid from our school just happen to be a Dragon and get tangled up with us? We would have to talk about all of this in the morning. But wait, we can't. I realized, not if Gen is still here... she isn't a dragon as far as I know.

Another memory sliced through my mind. Well, not really a memory, more of a feeling. Pure exhilaration mixed with triumph and something violent.

"Hey," said a voice in the dark, making me start and nearly scream aloud. I managed to stifle the scream to a small squeak.

I tried to look past the glowing embers left of the fire to find the owner of the voice.

"Cant sleep?" Hazel said, propping herself up on her elbow and rubbing her eyes. She was the owner of the voice.

I shook my head slightly, "How could I?"

Hazel got to her feet, "You want to come outside? It's raining a bit, but-"

"Yes," I said and tried to get up. My legs didn't want to listen to me though and only Hazel stopped me from falling backward on top of Gen and Nick.

"Whoah, steady," Hazel said and pulled me to my feet.

I put an arm around her shoulders and she helped me to the door. We went outside and I collapsed against the outside wall.

Hazel was right, it was drizzling a little bit and soon my clothes were damp but I didn't really care.

"Are you alright?" I asked Hazel.

She snorted, "Me? Remi, this is not about me."

"Are you kidding?" I protested, "You were left alone here with a random human after I turned into a Dragon and left with Nick who at the time neither of us knew was a Dragon. You must have been out of your mind not knowing what to do."

"I-" Hazel stuttered. She always forgot that I knew her way too well. "Yeah I was pretty terrified, and I'm still a little shaken, but It's kind of over now, and Nick is alive, we know she's a Dragon too, crazy as that is, and I have you back, so I think I'll be ok. Anyways, enough about me. What do you remember?" Hazel said gently and crouched next to me.