The Dragon's Assassin, Secret's of the Eclipse.

"Repeating history"

Maya woke up the next morning, her eyes half open as the sunlight danced off her brown eyes as she took a deep breath and exhaled before closing her eyes again, she lifted her hands above her head stretching her whole body as she yawned, she then let her hand fall down to her side as she brushed passed an object, something sitting in her bed behind her, she reached out behind her to realise it wasn't an object, but a hand.

"Hmm" a deep voice came from behind her, Maya shuffled onto her back, turning her head to her left to see Lazarus sound asleep in her bed.

"Oh no..." She thought to herself, she lifted up the blanket to see that she was wearing nothing.

"Oh no!" she blurted out, she got up abruptly to grab her pajama's from her nightstand as she rushed to put them on.

"What's going on?" Lazarus said, half awake from his slumber.

Maya pulled her shirt over her head as she ran over to her bedroom door as she yanked the door open, she froze, not knowing what to do, or what to say, she was confused and yet, she felt stuck.

"Turn around" Mar said, watching her from the other side of the dimension as he watched her stand in the doorway, even though she couldn't see Mar, he could see her, he desperately wanted to her to move on, and to stop holding onto the past.

"I can still do it, I have the power" a familiar voice came from behind Mar, it was Nyria and she had the power of the realm that they were stuck in, Mar watched the horror in Maya's face as a single tear fell down her cheek, Mar looked down holding in the waterfall behind his eyes as he looked up to look at Maya one last time before turning his back on her.

"Just do it" Mar said. "I can't stand to see her like this anymore" Nyria bowed her head in respect as she took a step forwards towards Maya and opening her jaw's as she blew out a frost of air onto Maya's face.

"Maya?" Lazarus asked, confused about what was happening, and why was she standing in the door frame frozen.

Maya shook her head in confusion. "Why am I standing in the door frame?" she thought to herself. "I love Lazarus" Maya turned around to see Lazarus sitting up in bed starring back at her. "I love..." She muttered in confusion.

Laz looked back at her, his head cocked to one side in slight confusion.

"I love you" Maya whispered loudly, her heart fluttered at the thought of falling in love with him.

"I love you!" She said louder now running up to him as they locked lips, Lazarus pulled Maya off to adjust himself as he looked back into her  eyes, Maya was impatient and waned to kiss him badly.

"Slow down" Lazarus huffed, planting his hands on her shoulders.

Suddenly they both heard a thud coming from the dinning room as Maya jolted up from the bed running to her bedroom door. "Could that finally be Kala?" she thought to herself yanking the door wide open and running to the living room to see Kala leaning over a dinning room chair as she looked up and locked eyes with Maya.

"Kala" Maya hushed as Kala pulled herself up from the ground.

"I'm...I'm sorry" Kala said, Maya rushed over pulling Kala into an embrace, holding her tightly into her chest before pulling her away to slap her on the face.

"Do you think running away is mature, even if anything were to happen to me!" Maya said angrily. 

"You would most likely to be the next person to fill my shoes if I weren't here" Maya grabbed Kala by the arms pulling her into her chest  wrapping her arms tightly around her daughter.

"Your my daughter, I need to you to be strong" Maya hushed as tears began to fill up her eyes.

"Mum..." Kala whispered into her ear as she began to cry too, Maya looked up at  blank wall as a sharp pain grew from the pit to her stomach radiating through her whole body as she fell to the ground as the sound of Kala's voice drained out in the background.

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Maya woke up in a unknown hospital bed , she had no idea where she was as she lifted her head looking from left to right scanning the room.

"Your awake miss"  a nurse rushed over to aid Maya, she turned her head to the right to see a deformed human like creature starring back at her that kind of looked fish like, her green  and brown scales covered her from head to toe including her face, two slits on her face that showed two bright yellow eyes, Maya looked at her in shock unsure what to do or what to say.

"Some fresh water, it will help refresh you" The nurse said lifting up the water with her scaly hands, Maya looked down at the water in the glass as she picked it up, almost letting go of the cup as she saw her reflection, she almost looked just like her. 'Where am i?" She thought to herself, she looked up and realize that she was in a town that was submerged under the sea, the windows did not have glass but a wide gap, the building she was in was built in old concrete slabs covered in green algae that floated in the water swaying side to side with the waves.

"Are you OK miss?" The nurse asked, Maya looked down at her body, and instead of finding legs she found one big fat scaly tail at the bottom of her waist, Maya gasped, her mouth half open at the site.

"You're in South Rock's Hospital" The nurse said realizing what was happening, Maya pushed herself up onto her elbows to look outside the window to see an entire cavillation going about their day, buying raw meat from market's, trinkets such's as assorted shells and lost watches, fishing rods and phones that people had dropped from the boat and rested on the bottom of the ocean.

"Maya!" Emerald gasped as she entered the room, her skin was the same as the nurses, but her features were more elegant, and a certain pattern of gold glimmered from the light and onto her scale in a particular pattern, her arms behind her and her black hair blown back by the ocean behind her, it had been a few weeks since Maya saw Emerald last.

"Your OK" Emerald said wrapping her arms around Maya. "Well, not exactly but I'm glad your awake" Maya furrowed her brow as she looked at Emerald.

"What do you mean?" Maya asked.

"Well..." Emerald said biting her lower lip "Since the war and well, the open wounds a lot of people died from a disease known as the Rych" Maya looked at Emerald with confusion unknown what she was talking about. 

"It's a really bad disease Maya, the last time it happened was three thousand years ago, it took out at least eight hundred people" Maya looked at Emerald in terror.

"The war was three weeks ago" Maya began as she looked down at the floor before looking up at her. "So how many people go it now?" 

Emerald seethed through her teeth her eyebrows furrowed with a worried look on her face.

"Three hundred and one" Emerald finally had the guts to say. "And that's including you."

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