A Brave Little Dragon and Best Friends Vs Leukemia

Chapter 1

Heatwave and Quickshadow Flamezer have just moved to Fort Worth Texas. They have a new house and everything. They are looking forward to starting their new lives here. They are very happy right now because they were expecting their first baby.

Heatwave works as a firefighter and he is good at his job. He is very brave and strong. He is a good husband. He is looking forward to teaching their child about fire safety.

Quickshadow is a pediatric nurse who just stared to work at Cook Children's Hospital. She works in the oncology unit.

Then many months later on November 7th their son was born. They named him Hot shot. He was very healthy baby.

They brought him home and took good care of him. They watched him as he grew. Hot shot was soon able to crawl, then walk, and talk.

Hot shot was becoming very active as he grew. He really loved to run, jump, climb and play. He enjoyed to play catch with balls. He enjoyed kicking balls too. He loved to ride his trike. He loved sports too.

Hot shot was a very healthy child. It made both Heatwave and Quickshadow happy to have such a wonderful and healthy child. They didn't think things would ever go wrong.

However things were soon going to take a turn and it wasn't going to be easy either.

It was shortly after Hot shot turned five years old.

Hot shot wasn't feeling too good today and it was the day after his birthday.  He was tired all the time. It was like he had no energy. He was just wiped out. He just felt exhausted. He didn't even want to play. 

He also felt very weak too. It was like he lost all of his strength. 

He was kind of pale too. It was like the pink of his skin left him.

Hot shot came up to his mother. "Mummy I don't feel good," Hot shot said.

Quickshadow felt his forehead. "Hmm your temperature is above normal," Quickshadow said. She took his temperature. "Yep you have a fever," she said. "Get in bed," she told him.

Hot shot was still very sick as the days went by. He was soon covered in bruises.

Quickshadow and Heatwave were both very concerned about Hot shot. They were worried about him. So they called his pediatrician Dr. Lewis.

Dr. Lewis listened to the symptoms they described over the phone. He was concerned. "Take Hot shot to Cook Children's Hospital, he needs to see a pediatric oncologist," Dr. Lewis said.

"I understand," Quickshadow said and hung up. "We need to take Hot shot to Cook Children's Hospital to the oncology clinic to get some tests done with a pediatric oncologist," she said.

"Okay," Heatwave said.

"Hot shot we need to get going," Quickshadow said.

"Can I bring Roxy?" Hot shot asked holding up his plush rhino.

"Of course you can," Quickshadow said.

Hot shot got buckled up in his car seat. Then they headed to Cook Children's Hospital. Hot shot was kind of nervous to say the least. He didn't feel too good at all. 

He was squeezing Roxy tight.

"Roxy doesn't feel good either," Hot shot said.

"Why doesn't Roxy feel good?" Quickshadow asked. Being a pediatric nurse she understood that children sometimes associate how they are feeling with their toys. She also knew they sometimes said their toys felt the same way they did. She also knew they said their toys had the same injury, disability or illness. It was one of the ways kids communicate what they are thinking and feeling and how they cope.