Those With Wings

Lives on the Line

Luanna

If someone said three years ago that I may lose my brother, I would have laughed.

If someone said three years ago that I would be friends with a Dragunda of all people, I would have laughed.

If someone said three years ago that I would have fell in love with an ordinary human, I would have laughed.

If someone said three years ago that I would become the leader of my branch, I would have laughed.

If someone said anything about what was happening right now three years ago, I would have laughed.

I guess I must have changed over the few months that I'd been gone. It had only been five months, but in that time...I've really changed.

I burst open the doors to where Piper was, because I figured out how to save her. She looked okay, but I knew she really wasn't.

"Luannitha!" Zero shouted, thinking I went black.

I reassured him, "It's okay Zero. I'm fine. I know how to help Piper but it's risky. Alex may or may not make it, but it's our only choice if we want to see the Piper we know. If it doesn't work, we lose both of them, or well, somewhat Piper. If Alex dies, then, yeah."

"What?" Zero asked, looking at me inquisitively yet determined. Piper's father looked at me with a almost burning stair shouting "NO!"

"If we don't, we'll never see Piper again! They just haven't shown you the test results!! Because they knew you'd flip!! Do you really want to know the truth?! Because I can tell you!!! Piper's bleeding from the insides. She'll die in a matter of days if nothing is done. The only thing we have, is to bond her to Alex!" Daisy waddled in, and Piper's glance followed her, as she waddled over to me. She didn't even go to Piper, or the others, but to me. I don't remember what happened next, but something like a dream....

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I was standing in what looked like a dragon cave. It was near a volcano, because I felt the burning warmth on my skin. I peered around, to get a nice look at the surroundings, and saw a girl, wearing a burgundy colored scaly dress, almost the color of Daisy. The hair was the same, and her eyes...her eyes were a bright orange, almost the same as Daisy's. Her short Nagisa-style hair blew slightly in a faint breeze coming from the cave entrance.

"Hello?" I asked, questioning her existence as I took a step closer to her, "What's your name?"

"You know me, Luannitha. I'm Daisy. You're only seeing me in my real form right now. I have brought you here because I wanted to tell you something." So this dragon could also be a human....

"What? And, why me?" Why was it always me?

"I can feel in Piper, like you said, she will be fine if you take her powers out of her and she becomes human. But Alex, I'm not sure if he'll make it. Piper may never get to see me again after she becomes human. She'll be fine and remember these things, but they will all seem like a dream."

I crossed my arms, "Yeah, but what you are saying is...?"

"After she becomes human, she may hate herself because she wants to enter this world of her dreams. And Alex, who may not make it, will already be gone."

"So you're sayin' that these two are going to end up like Romeo and Juliet in the end after a while...?"

"Yeah, Alex thought Piper was dying, so he hurt himself. If Piper saw Alex hurt like that, she'd hate herself too. That's what this is." Tragic heroes....the flaw in themselves wins in the end...always....

"Well, then what are you saying I should do? Let Piper go now, when she will never be able to understand anything or leave her to become human and end up like romeo and Juliet because my brother is a gonner...?"

"Yes, I don't know. Either way I know you'll make the right decision."

"It's always up to me, why is it always me..." I grumbled, "And hold on, why am I seeing you like this? I thought only ones of the drag-"

"Because you are the head of your branch now you can now use basic plans of the other branches. The thing you could do of ours is see, hear, and possibly control the dragons."

"But I could-" 

Daisy elaborated, "You were born a leader and so was Zero. I knew from the first time I smelled you two. The others weren't. I could smell the scent of tragedy on them. As soon as Piper...can no longer see me...I'm yours. That's who she would've given me to. I believe. Just please do your best for helping her. I want to see her smile just one more time."

"I will. But, I just wish there was another way"

"The way of a leader is always a hard one. That's why you were chosen, because you can stand it. Now wake up, Luannithia"

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Gasp!

My eyelids fly open, as I notice I was on the floor. Daisy was looking me in the eyes, and Zero was sweating from panicking. I lifted Daisy off my chest where she was laying on me and I sat up. I eventually stood up, putting the little....girl....on the ground, before I spoke. "We will go on. She needs to remember. She can't die like this. It's not fair. We are not going to give up. Zero, I need you to get me the jar of sparkly purple glitter labeled unicorn dust, Pronto." Zero looked at me strangely before running off.

There were lives on the line, and I wasn't going to let them go that easy.