Dragon Haven Book 1

Chapter 21

Kyle's POV

"Rain." I sighed staring out the window of the room.

"Something wrong with the rain?" Inky asked approaching me and I didn't turn to face him. "Hello? Earthland to Kyle..." He said but I ignored him. Rainy days always reminded me of him.

"Culo..." I said.

"Culo? Whose Culo?"

"Culo is.... Was a wizard in our guild... He's of no concern to you okay?"

"But..."

"End of story... Okay? It's not exactly an easy story to tell."

"S-sorry." He replied and I turned around and looked him over.

"They gave us matching outfits? What are we a cheer leading team?" I asked, his outfit was identical to mine, it was a black jacket with matching pants, a white under shirt with the words Dragon Roost Island on the back, our guild logo was on the collar of the jacket.

"Yeah I know right? I had to cut a hole in them for my tail... They have a Dragoon for peat sake... They can't be bothered to make room for our tails?"

"Ugh, I hate shoes..." I groaned and kicked them off, I removed the socks I wore and exchanged them for my sandals.

"Those don't go with the outfit." Inky said his tail swaying.

"Yes but it's what I'm accustomed to... What if I said your tail doesn't go with it?" I challenged grabbing his tail and he pulled it back.

"Ha, ha very funny... You can at least change what your wearing, I can't get rid of this even if I tried... The basis of my body as a half ink dragon is ink... Anything severed would just reattach itself." He said mimicking a cutting motion.

"Sorry to interrupt, but are you two ready?" Orochi asked appearing in front of us.

"GAH! Where'd you come from?" Inky shouted in surprise at the sudden appearance of the wizard.

"I've been here the whole time. You two were so wrapped up in talking about this 'Culo' and about the clothes that you didn't notice me." He replied his scarf hissing at me.

"Ugh what's this scarfs deal?" I asked pushing the dragon head away.

"Never mind that, you two have a job to do. I've received word from Zennia that Foxwood is heading down to the port. That's your signal... You two are to head to the south beach." HE said and we nodded.

"Right. Let's go Inky."

"Yeah..." He answered and we headed off towards the beach.

Chapter 21: Depths of a Dragon's Heart.

The south beach was much larger than the beach where I found Elijah. The rain had turned the sand to mush, the perfect kind of sand for making castles. My sandals stuck to the sand and I constantly shifted them to keep from sinking. "Where are they... He said they would be here by now." I said and sniffed the air. "Hmm, the rain is messing up the scents... I can't tell if anyone's coming or not." I sighed and held out my hand catching raindrops on it.

"Yeah... The sound if it hitting the water makes it difficult for my highly tuned ears to... Watch out!" Inky shouted and a blast of Magic rushed past us. "T-that was just one attack but it was so much magic... Were they trying to end us in a few seconds?"

"You missed." Someone growled and two people appeared over the ocean.

"It was your fault Naboru you were moving too fast..." A sleepy voice yawned and the people approached us, one was a sleepy-eyed boy with a gentle demeanor sitting atop a cloud who was all too familiar, the other was angry, that's all that could describe him, angry.