The Mates of Dragons

The Search Begins

Thirteen hours later they landed on a rather large privately owned island. It was a no fly zone other than authorized planes. Kendra stretched and moved to get off the plane. Following Derrick out she jogged down the steps and darted out the fencing before anyone else. She ran fast, faster than any one human could. This was her time to feel free and Kendra embraced it.

She ran down toward the ocean from where she could see it. No one stopped her and she was glad for it. Kendra smiled and went in up to her calves. It felt like home to her and she couldn't explain it. She glanced over her shoulder knowing that someone was coming toward her.

Kendra moved out of the water and over to the aged gentleman that was standing there. he was getting older now, something that would happen to Kendra unless she changed to one of the immortal races. Survive on blood, or crave raw meat for the rest of her life? She didn't know what was better.

"Figured you would be down here. You ran off before they could stop you to bring you to headquarters for a briefing."

"I just got back. we just got back. I'd like to relax. Besides, it looks like you were waiting here for me." She accused. This was supposed to be her time to relax. Why was he here?

"I was, knew you'd run to the ocean. You're very attracted to it." He shrugged. "We have another job for you to do, this one is a class ten." She sighed. There were ten classes, and one through five were ones that they caught and brought back. None to moderate danger. Six through ten were moderate to extreme danger and the ones that they normally had to destroy. It made her sad. She felt that they had the right to live. Was that human or homunculus talking, she didn't know.

"Well what is it? A Hydra?" She said laughing and he looked serious.

"That's not funny, thankfully we have never run across one since I've been director here. They are extremely dangerous creatures." She had been joking, she didn't know that they had actually found a hydra. Her interest was peaked now. Just what had they found? Looked like she wasn't going to get a rest.

"You only send me along if you want to capture it." She said eyeing him, his name was Thomas Biegon. Clearly like he said, he was the director of this facility and put the missions and crews together.

"Or learn from it before we must destroy it, and you have yet to be unable to calm anything with your touch. You might get close enough for samples." Oh goodie.

"I've never tried on anything above a class six. And six was still jumpy with everyone else." He gave a shrug.

"We have a meeting to get to, come." Biegon said as a small golf cart came up to the edge of where the sand started. She moved with him, they got into it and went up to the larger building. On the way she passed the Pegasus being moved and it looked rather dejected. She saw the intelligence there that humans never gave credit to. Inside she wondered her own fate. Humans out numbered the mythical world a million to one. She looked away from the Pegasus feeling shame that she had brought this creature to a shiny cage. One that she herself was in, she was just one of the lucky ones that got to go out on a leash she guessed.

__The Briefing__

Derrick looked at Kendra as she came in the room. Her wealth of dark brown hair falling straight below her shoulders. Her eyes were that exotic ice blue, and her figure a man's dream. It was hard to remember that she was made that way because of what she was. She drew the eye of most men in the room and he couldn't help but feel happy that she was sitting down next to him.

Her voice was soft and sweet. It ran through your body and made you think of hot steamy sex. If he was being absolutely honest. She was aware of her effect but he really didn't think that she understood her effect on the opposite sex. He was so glad she couldn't read his mind, nor the others in the room. He was sure that he wasn't the only one, but she was aloof and didn't let others near her. To bad he would really like to be a whole lot more than the friends thing. Derrick honestly cared about Kendra, but she always kept a distance.