A Girl Worth Fighting For

Chapter 3

The wind gusted as the small flame went out from it. The gravestone's writing started to glow a blue and a ghost shot out of the words sitting on his grave. He made his staff as the rain came down hard onto teh building. He looked up a small figure, a dragon.

"Nishinoya, awaken." The ancestor said and the dragon started to glow orange before yelping at the missing air below him. He fell to the ground with a clank the magic rising around him.

"I live!" The small dragon yelled as he rose from the smoke, his scales were orange and black with a small tuft of blond and black on his head. "So tell me what mortal needs my protection, great ancestor. You just say the word and I'm there."

"Noya-"

"And let me say somethin' anybody who's foolish enough to threaten our family vengeance will be mine!" Noya yelled and started to growl, the great ancestor rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.

"Noya!" The great ancestor yelled, causing Noya to pause. The ghost figure opened his arms at all the animal sculptors. "These are the family guardians. They..."

"Protect the family." Noya finished his shoulders falling.

"And you. O demoted one?" The great ancestor then pointed to the open space, where Noya once sat.

"I ring the gong." He sighed pointing to the small gong.

"That's right. Now wake up the ancestors." The great ancestor said. Noya let out a dejected sigh before picking the gong up.

"One family reunion comin' right up." Noya quietly sneered and started to hit the gong. "Okay, people, people, look alive. Let's go. Come on. Get up. Let's move it. Rise and shine. Y'all way past the beauty sleep thing, trust me."

Soon the room was filled with all the ancestors of the L/n family and they sat around the great ancestor. They quickly started to argue with each other as Noya stopped, pulling out a newspaper, listening to them bicker.

"I knew it. I knew it. That Y/n was a troublemaker from the start!"

"Don't look at me. She gets it from your side of the family."

"She's just trying to help her father."

"But if she's discovered, F/n will be forever shamed." An ancestor said pulling up a diagram. "Dishonor will come to the family. Traditional values will disintegrate."

"Not to mention, they'll lose the farm." Another added.

"My children never cause such trouble. They all became acupuncturists."

"We can't all be acupuncturists."

"No! Your great-granddaughter had to be a cross-dresser!" A woman yelled causing them to bicker even more, and the great ancestors watched with a frown.

"Let a guardian bring her back." One piped up.

"Yes, awaken the most cunning." Another added, grabbed Noya and holding him to the tiger.

"No. The swiftest." Another said grabbing Noya from him and holding him to the rabbit.

"No. Send the wisest." A woman held Noya up to the ape.

"Silence!" The great ancestors yelled, causing the ancestor to drop Noya with a clang. "We must send the most powerful of all."

"Okay, okay. I get the drift. I'll go." Noya laughed, thinking he was talking about him. The ancestors stared at him before bursting out laughing, wiping their tears. "Y'all don't think I can do it. Watch this here."

Noya inhaled before letting out a small flame, it quickly disappeared but it still counts.

"I'm pretty hot, huh? Don't make me have to single nobody to prove no point."

"You had your chance to protect the L/n family."

"Your misguidance led to (Great Uncle) to disaster."

"Yeah, thanks a lot." (Great Uncle) held his head in his hand, glaring at the dragon.

"And your point is?" Noya asked.

"The point is we will be sending a real dragon to retrieve Y/n." The great ancestor shouted at him, causing Noya to gap at him.

"What, what, I'm a real dragon!" Noya exclaimed.

"You are not worthy of this spot!" The great ancestor shot back, grabbing Noya and throwing him outside. The sun was just starting to rise. "Now, awaken the Great Stone Dragon."

"So you'll get back to me on the job thing?" Noya asked from the door when his gong was slammed against his face.

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"Just one chance, is that too much to ask?" Noya questioned as he made his way to the dragon, he grabbed his gong and started to bang on it. "Yo, Rocky, wake up! You gotta go fetch Y/n! Come on, boy! Go get her! Go on! Come on."

Noya frowned when the dragon didn't wake, he rolled his eyes and climbed it to his ear.

"Hello? Hello!!!!!!" Noya yelled as he hit the stone ear with the gong, but it started to crack. "Uh-oh."

A cloud of dust was in the wake of the dragon, it was crushed in pieces and Noya stood in the middle of it. He looked down at the head and tapped its nose.

"Uh, Stony? Stony? Oh, man, they're gonna kill me."

"Great Stone Dragon, have you awakened?" The great ancestor yelled down. Noya quickly grabbed the head and held it up over the bushes.

"Uh, uh... Yes, I just woke up! I'm the Great Stone Dragon. Good morning. I will go forth and fetch Y/n! Did I mention that I was the Great Stone Dragon?"

"Go! The fate of teh L/n family rests in your claws." The great ancestor bowed his head.

"Don't even worry about it. I will not lose faith!" Noya yelled but screamed as he fell back the dragon head landing on him. "My elbow! I know I twisted somethin'."

Noya grunted as he pushed the stone off of him and sighed.

"That's just great. Now what? I'm doomed and all 'cause Miss Man decides to take her little drag show on the road." Noya exclaimed when a chirping catches his attention. "Go get her? What's the matter with you? After this Great Stone, Humpty Dumpty mess I'd have to bring her home with a medal to get back in the temple."

A light bulbed popped in his head with a gasp.

"Wait a minute. That's it! I make Y/n a war hero and, they'll be begging me to come back to work. That's the master plan. Oh, you done it now, man." Noya took off, the cricket chirped in confusion before hopping after him. "What makes you think you're coming'?"

Noya rounded around the gate as the cricket chirped again.

"You're lucky? Do I look like a sucker to you?" Noya chuckled as he chirped again and took off. "What you mean, a loser? Ow 'bout I pop one of your antennas off, throw it across the yard? Then who's the loser, me or you?"

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Buildings burnt against the mountain tops, people screaming in fear as their family's and loved ones burned. The falcon, Hayabusa, flew above the Hun Army and his master Shan Yu led them. Shan Yu pulled his horse to a stop from the canter, the men stopping behind him, Shan Yu listened before pointing to the bushes, two of his men quickly ran over with their swords and found two soldiers hiding there, they grabbed them and threw them down at Shan Yu's horse's feet.

"Imperial scouts." One of the men said. Shan Yu climbed off his horse and stepped towards the shaking men.

"Shan Yu." A scout gulped as Hayabusa landed on Shan Yu's arm with a screech.

"Nice work, gentlemen. You found the Hun army." Shan Yu congratulated the two as the Huns laughed.

"The Emperor will stop you."

"Stop me?" Shan Yu chuckled. "He invited me. By building his wall, he challenged my strength. Well, I'm here to play his game. Go! Tell your Emperor to send his strongest armies. I'm ready."

The soldiers scrambled up and took off as Shan Yu hummed and scratched his chin.

"How many men does it take to deliver a message?" He asked as a man held up his bow, an arrow waiting to be shot.

"One." The man said and fired.