Dragon Descendants.

Chapter Seventeen

"Jackson... Don't let go!" I shout as I held his hand.

"I'm sorry," Jackson lets go and falls into flooding water,

"Nooo!" I shout. "Jackson!"

"Elena! Elena!" I wake up.

"It was just a dream," Ashton is standing beside my bed. I lay back down. I try to calm down, every night for the past week, the same thing. Tossing and turning, nightmares.

"Can I ask, why are you here?" I ask Ashton as he sits on the side of my bed,

"You know very much why" he answers.

Ashton, since yesterday has been keeping an eye on me, I guess he is worried. He invited himself, not me. He sleeps on EMA's Bed, since she is never here. He lays on EMA's bed facing the other direction

"Can I ask you something?" I ask, he turns to face me. "Have you ever lost anyone?" What am I thinking?! "Sorry, bad question," I say,

"Nah, it's fine. And no, I haven't really lost anyone close."

"So you still have a family?" I ask,

"I wouldn't say that," he adds, "When I was little I was tossed over to the authorities, and soon ended up here. I consider the school family."

"Including the director?" I ask,

"Of course, he is the creepy uncle," he jokes, I laugh,

"So I guess we both don't have any blood family," I say,

"family by blood means nothing if you don't have bonds." He says.

The next morning, we get up and head for a walk to Jackson's grave, we head there every Monday. Jackson's grave is private restricted to family only, and us of course. We buried an empty coffin under a healthy tree.

I walk up a small hill in my uniform to see his grave, and a figure standing there.

"Hey, you!" I shout I run up the hill followed by Ashton, "This place is restricted," I tell the woman standing here, she looks to be in her late 30s,

"Family and close friends only," Ashton adds.

"I am family," she says,

"Impossible, I am the last of Jackson's family,"

"Elena?" She questions.

"How did you know my name?" I ask,

"My name is Violet Claireace. I am your mother's sister,"

"My mother didn't have a sister, she was an only child," I tell her,

"If your birth mother was an only child then call me imaginary, I am your mothers sister, I am your Aunt," She claims,

"I don't believe this, leave." I tell her,

"Oh... I see, you don't know just yet." She blurts,

"Know what?" I ask,

The woman pulls out a chain necklace from behind her shirt to show a symbol, It look to be a dragon, wrapped around a sword.

"What is this?" I ask,

"Just remember this, I'll be back here on Sunday, if you still don't believe me don't show up, if you do come and we can talk," The woman says.

She begins to walk away.

"Could what she is saying be true?" Ash asks

"No, it's impossible, she can't be my aunt, both of my parents had no living siblings," I say,