Black dragons at the Clearwater High

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Dragon P.O.V

After a few hours, I am woken up by my sister in a very loving way. At least that is true at the beginning.

I hear my sister climbing out of the bunk bed where she and Saphira are lying. Saphira is lying in the lower bed so that she can intervene immediately if something happens and opens her eyes briefly as Tempest walks past her, only to close them again almost immediately.

Barely a minute later, I feel her hot breath on my ear.„Hey, Dragon. Wake up! Your beauty sleep has been long enough already.”‚ she whispers.„I'm not even getting beauty sleep.” I growl and turn away.

Now, unfortunately, the hard part came. And that was my own fault. If I hadn't turned away but had gotten up when Tempest asked me to, I wouldn't have to go through this now.

Tempest slaps me and says a little louder:„Get up, now!"When I still don't want to, she throws all the pillows in the room at me. Finally, she throws herself on top of me.

„Get up, now!”‚ she repeats over and over.„That's very difficult if you're lying on top of me.” I reply. Tempest gets off me.

Wow! She can be understanding sometimes!

"Dragon.”‚ she suddenly says. "Yes? What is it?”„I think in your book you have to write at the beginning in capital letters and in bold: PLEASE DO NOT REPRESENT THE STUNTS AT HOME! THEY WERE PERFORMED BY REAL PROFESSIONAL IDIOTS."

„I could just work that into my story.  Should I write that in bold and capital letters?”„Oh yes, please.”, Tempest replies, looking at me pleadingly.„All right.”

I get up and go to the door.„I'm going to stretch my legs a bit.”‚ I call over my shoulder and pull the hood of my jacket over my head. Then I go outside and through the school building.

As I turn a corner, I see Carag and a red-blonde girl with freckles talking. I quickly hide behind a snack machine to overhear them. Although black dragons can actually hear very well, I only understand a few snippets of what the two are discussing. I hear "Andrew Milling" and "Sunny Meadows."

Sunny Meadows? That's the zoo nearby!

I quickly walk on and pretend I didn't hear anything. Then I walk out of the school building and into town..

It is already evening when I finally arrive at my destination. The"Sunny Meadows" zoo.

Visitors to the park are streaming out of the zoo in droves. But I am only now entering the zoo. I cheat my way past the security check by simply hiding in a place where no one can see me and teleporting myself into the park. Then I take a brochure out of my bag. I had "borrowed" this brochure from a visitor to the park as I passed by.

Suddenly I hear voices. I quickly hide behind a building nearby. Two guards go to one of the enclosures and open it. A black jaguar steps out of the enclosure. Then it suddenly changes shape and within a few seconds a young man with blond hair is standing in the place of the jaguar.

What the...! Is this a prison for shifters?

I quickly teleport myself away. Luckily, the zoo's brochure describes almost the entire park perfectly.

When I open my eyes again, I'm standing in front of a large enclosure with a puma in it. On the poster that hangs on every enclosure and has the name and the origin, is the name: Andrew Milling

Andrew Milling P.O.V

I stare into space and think again of my daughter June and my wife Evelyn, who were killed by a hunter.

When I turn around, I see a young woman standing in front of the enclosure with her face covered with a hood. She is watching me with interest.

A human!

Anger flows through me. Anger at people. Because they are responsible for my wife Evelyn and my daughter June being dead. They are responsible for my world collapsing.

I storm angrily towards the woman and hit the pane of glass that separates me from her. But the woman doesn't seem to care about anything of this. She just looks at me. I even see a certain feeling in her eyes that I have never seen in anyone's eyes before when someone has looked at me.

Compassion!

I pause for a second, surprised. The woman smiles and suddenly disappears. When someone touches my back, I flinch and turn around.

The strange woman is now standing behind me.„Hello, Andrew," I suddenly hear someone say in my thoughts.„What the...! Are you the woman?”I ask, trying to understand what is happening.„Of course I am the woman, you idiot. There is no one else here.”‚ the woman answers, laughing.„But if you are a shifter, why can't I feel it?” I ask, surprised.„It's very simple. I am not an ordinary shifter. I am a black dragon.”

I let a few seconds pass to process what the woman has just told me. Then I ask:„What is your name?”„My name is Dragon.”„And why did you choose me to talk to?”

I see Dragon hesitate for a moment. She is noticeably torn between whether she should tell her secret to someone she has only known for a few minutes. But then she has made up her mind:„I chose you because you and I are very similar. We both hate humans. For the same reason. We have both lost someone who are important to us because of them. I will get you out of here in the night tomorrow . Then we can think together about how we can finally destroy these humans once and for all.”

With these words the woman disappears and stands behind the glass pane again a few seconds later.

How does she do that?

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