The Dragon Girl - The Beginning (English)

9.

Slowly I woke up. Ugh.. My head felt painful. I tried to remember what had caused that, when I remembered the hit on my head, and then the rest returned as well. Quickly I sat up. A bit too quick. The upcoming dizziness took me down again. But the memories were all too real. Eric was dead. The house was on fire. The group did I-don't-know-what with Anna. And me?

Carefully I openend my eyes. I was in some sort of room. It was pretty dark. If it weren't for that small light above me, I couldn't have seen anything at all. Did the group take me with them?

Slowly I sat up again, this time without getting dizzy. I saw a door in one of the walls. It would probably be locked, but you never knew for certain. I stood up and walked towards the door, while trying to ignore the headache. After a deep sigh I tried to carefully open the door. However, before I even had the doorknob fully turned around the door already opened!

I jumped backwards, looking at the door and the man that was now standing in the opening. He hadn't been with the group of before.

"Who are you?!" I said, more confident than I expected.

"Calm down, everything is alright. And our apologies for your dad. The doer has already been punished for it.

My dad.. Eric.. My eyes started to tear up a bit again thanks to the memories of what had happened.

"That is not what I asked.. Who are you and where are the others of your stupid group.."

"My apologies. My name is Edgar. The rest of the group is downstairs, waiting for you to wake up." he answered. The man named Edgar sounded really calm, and in some way also friendly and helpful. It totally didn't fit the picture of the rest of the group. 

"Why do you guys want me.." I asked.

"Because you are the same as us, and we need your help." he said. I kept looking at him for a while. What does he mean, same? Because of the scales? I rolled with my eyes. He saw that. "You don't believe me, huh?"

"Ofcourse not, why would I?! You guys killed my dad! And put my house on fire! And what have you guys done with Anna?!" I said. I was really angry. They could't just do what they did and then say that they needed my help! As if I would help such assholes!

He sighed. "Like I already said, we are sorry about your dad, that wasn't as we planned and the one who did it has already been punished for it. Anna is by the way safe at home, in the house of which we put out the fire, which you had caused. Not us. So except for your dad everything there is alright.

I thought about what he had said. Anna is safe? And the house too? I couldn't believe it. So it hadn't been as bad as I first thought. But I still didn't get why I and that group would be the same. Or why I had caused that fire.

"If I were to believe you, which I would be more than happy to.. how do you mean we are the same, and how should I have caused that fire?" I asked him.

"I heard from one of our guys that one of the knifes broke on your arm?" Edgar said. He smiled a bit after seeing I looked a bit down. That is indeed something that had happened. "That was because you formed a protecting layer of scales on that spot on your arm. It works really good against such weapons."

I looked at my arm. There wasn't anything weird to see on it. No scales or something like that. But then again, the first time they went away by time as well, maybe it had happened again now.

"And that fire you caused with your gift. There are only a few who have such a gift, but luckily one of our members saw you using it, thanks to which we were able to find you." Wait, someone of the group was there when I, if it were I indeed, turned something on fire? I tried to think about who it could have been. With the fire of when I was 4 years old there were a lot of people who were looking at how my house had been burned down. But wouldn't they have come to me way sooner if they were there back then? Now that I thought about it, they had come really quickly after the fire in the woods. Had someone else been with us back then after all?

And then I realised it. It was Trevor! He was a member of this group. Ofcourse! After I had told him what had happened in the woods, he must have notified this group, and that's how they found me!

"Would you then please come along with me now to the rest of the group so we can explain everything?" Edgar asked me.

"Could I first talk with Trevor?" I asked him. I wanted to know why he had told this group. Why he had to do this?

"Trevor?" He looked a little surprised. "Is that a friend or something of yours?" That confused me. Hadn't it been Trevor then? Had it just been some other member of the group who had been stalking me?

I shook my head. "I would like to speak with the one who saw me with this 'gift'.."

"Ah, ofcourse, not a problem, if that will calm you down a bit." He left the room, where he then talked with someone. I waited patiently. 

Then he came inside. It hadn't been Trevor. It wasn't some other member of the group. It was Quinten.

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Hey!

Sorry for not uploading anything Friday, but I was kinda busy due to exam stuff (I passed, yayy!), work, trips, Fathers Day, etc. so I couldn't upload sooner x)

But here you finally have a new part :D

- Your writer