The Wild Master

Learning About The Wild

Chapter 7

Romeo's eyelids slowly flutter open and he finds himself staring up at a wooden ceiling. Through the clear window that lay on his right side, he could see that night has fallen and a full moon was out and was providing the only light in the room.

I think I'm back in the cat head building", Romeo realizes as he laid there for a moment trying to figure out what happened. He then notices that he was laying up against something warm, something extremely warm, almost as if he was next to a fireplace. But he glances across the room and spots the fireplace on the other side, unlit.

"Huh?", escapes his lips and the next thing he knew, there was a tremendous shift in whatever he was laying on and two familiar yellow eyes enter Romeo field of vision, looking down at him from above. Through the moonlight, he is able to make out a scaly face.

"Fonaar?", Romeo questions and is answered with a slobbering tongue which covers his whole face.

"Ack! Stop! Stop it, Fonaar!", the boy screams but to no avail as the young dragon proceeds to licking his face in affection as the noise the two were making rouses the whole building.

"What's going on?", Romeo hears Porlyusica shout from somewhere in the dark.

"I think Romeo is finally awake!", he hears Wendy says in the pitch black.

"Light the room up!", Roubaul commands and a few moments later lights flood the room, provided by torches and Romeo sees that Porlyusica, Roubaul, Wendy, and Carla were standing around Romeo and Fonaar, looks of relief washing over their faces.

"Romeo! You're okay!", Wendy says as she takes a knee in front of him and moves to hug him, only to be stopped by Fonaar, who moved his head in front of her and bares his teeth while letting loose a threatening growl.

Wendy, for all her worth, returns the growl with a glare and Romeo could feel a slight breeze going through the room, despite the windows being closed. Hoping to keep them from fighting again, Romeo instantly takes hold of Wendy's hand and places his other hand on Fonaar's neck and began rubbing it, like he did with the dogs in his neighborhood. The breeze goes away and Fonaar relaxes a little bit, enough that he moves his head back, but still keeps emitting a low growl as Wendy hugs Romeo while Porlyusica checks him over. During this time, Romeo notices bandages wrapped around Wendy's arms, as well as Carla's head, but says nothing on it.

"You gave us all quite a scare there!", Wendy told him, "One minute you were touching Fonaar and the next you were pass out on the ground and the back of your head was bleeding!"

"I what?", Romeo questions.

"Yes, it seems healing your dragon familiar twice within the span of a day put an enormous strain on your body, so much that it aggravated your wound from earlier", Roubaul said as he moves closer to the group, "You were out for four hours with Fonaar here never leaving your side."

Romeo turns his head up toward the dragon who looks back down at him with his yellow eyes.

"But how did you get Fonaar to come back to the village?"

"Well you see, after you heal his wounds and passed out, Fonaar, for lack of a better word, starting freaking out and began nudging you, completely forgetting about the hunters or anyone else", Roubaul began, "At that moment, I offer assistance and told him that we can help him back in the village and he was more than welcome to come along if he behaved."

"And he did it just like that?", Romeo wonder, remembering Fonaar's reactions from earlier.

"Of course, it took some convincing from our side to let anyone besides Porlyusica near you, but once she promises that you would be alright if you were treated back in the village, he allowed us to take you back. Granted, we had to let him take you to the village on his back and Wendy had to stay a good distance away", Roubaul explains, "Furthermore, he almost didn't let her stay in this very building."