The Dragon's Assassin, An Old Song , BOOK ONE

"I just want to disappear"

Maya's heart was beating really fast as she stared back into the lizard-like eyes of Deltora as he starred back, he began to hiss through his  teeth, snarling at Maya who had already fallen into the wet puddle underneath her.

"What do you want?" She whimpered as Deltora leant in further, examining every part of her.

'This is insane, it can't be her!'  Deltora thought to himself, wondering how many more doppelgangers are still to come, first Evelyn, then Mera and now...her.

"How many more are there of you, Evelyn" He hissed loudly.

" I don't know what you mean?" she stuttered.

"Oh, I think you do. And don't think that I don't know the affair you had with Mar, that dog doesn't know from it's left to it's right" Deltora growled, slowly moving towards Maya, scanning every detail of her with his mouth gaped open, allowing Maya's scent to drift in onto the tip of his tongue.

"How do you know Mar?" Maya said shocked, her back now pressed into the ground and the puddle, her uniform now cold and soaking wet.

"We go a long way back, we use to fight the war together before he went and formed a little cult of his own" Deltora grumbled, the thought of Mar going behind his back set of a spark behind his eyes just thinking how good it would feel to finally sink his talons into Mar, especially for what he did.

"What did he do?" Maya said bravely, after seeing Deltora's reaction to when she mentioned Mar's name.

"It's you I should be sinking my claws into" Deltora hissed. "Your little boyfriend Mar abandoned the war, just so you could give birth to those stinking twerps, you said that  you had just came from the future to stop the war!" He growled. "But Mar put all of his little soldiers on the line, including me, to protect you and for what cost!" 

"Maya, what are you doing?" A smaller voice came from behind Deltora.

It was Tom, he had just finished cleaning up and setting everything so that the restaurant was ready for the next day.

"Nothing, I fell" Maya said getting up from the ground, the back of her uniform was soaking wet as she pressed out some of the water from her back, her face literally a centimetre away from Deltora as she shuddered at the thought of Deltora's sharp teeth tearing through her body at any time that he wanted too.

Of course she was the only one seeing this, so she pretended that she couldn't see Deltora.

Deltora allowed this happen as he knew himself that she was one of the rare people who was gifted with this sight, except for Tom.

"I can still deal with this idiot if you want me to" Deltora asked Maya as he turned his head, now glaring at Tom who couldn't even see Deltora.

"No" Maya muttered.

"What?" Tom replied. "Oh never mind, stupid child" he sulked as he made his way to his car, Maya got into hers and drove off home.

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"Oh my gosh, Maya!" Jodi exclaimed seeing her daughter all soaking wet and close to tears. "What happened!?" At this stage Maya just didn't feel like talking, she had a bad argument that very morning and got yelled at by her supervisor, and not to forget to mention almost being threatened by Deltora, Maya ran up to her mother with her arms wide open, crashing into her, with her head on her mother's chest and just curst into tears. Jodi held her daughter closer than ever, she knew for a while that something had happened in her daughters life, she wasn't as happy and bubbly as she use to be, these days Jodi would catch her by the window, starring into nothing, or just sitting on the couch starring at her toes, Jodi grabbed Maya by the arms and pulled her back to look into her eyes.