Drago Guardians

Chapter 2: A Timely Encounter

When Vesuvius opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the ceiling of his home. He heard Newt and Layla yelling at each other and his father trying to calm them down. When Vesuvius sat up they quieted down and looked at him.

"You're alive!" Newt and Layla said happily and rushed toward him only to be stopped by Axel (Vesuvius's father).

"Maybe you two should go home tonight, your parents are probably worried about you." His father insisted. "But Mr. Axel we just want to make sure that Vesuvius is alright." Layla replied. Newt quickly and, quite foolishly, moved to his knees and continued to plea with Layla. After a few moments of hearing all of them go on and on Vesuvius laid back down and said, "Guys really, I'm okay! Go home."

After they left, his father hugged Vesuvius gently. Vesuvius looked at his father. He never noticed until now but he saw that his father was starting to get some gray hair. Vesuvius took a deep breath and cleared his throat "Moms beautiful." Shocked, his father stood up stammered "Wh, what are you talking about?" "I met her father." Vesuvius proclaimed. He then continued to tell his father everything that had happened.

"I see, well, I guess you need to start training first thing tomorrow morning." Axel, said seriously.

"Tomorrow?" Vesuvius asked tiredly. "Tomorrow!" His father replied.

Axel left Vesuvius's room. Vesuvius couldn't help but notice that his father didn't ask more questions. Did he know all this time that she was alive? If only he would have known about his mother sooner maybe things would have ended differently, maybe he would have had an actual mother. These were some of the flooding thoughts that put Vesuvius to sleep.

The very next day, Vesuvius met with Newt and Layla to start training in his backyard.

"Are you sure this is safe? I don't want to explain to your father how your house caught on fire." said a worried Layla.

"Oh! Come on, this is something exciting that we can do for once!" said an overexcited Newt.

"Stay back guys, I don't want you two getting burnt." said Vesuvius. He wanted to start his training by punching a nearby tree. He took a deep breath, then he punched it, but when he did, he felt his knuckles starting to burn and with in seconds a fire engulfed the tree. Ironically, it also turned Vesuvius ablaze as well. Newt and Layla started screaming and running around trying to find water. Vesuvius was surprised as well, he started to panic and tried to pat out the flames that were all over his body. He then started noticing that the fire wasn't burning him. Vesuvius started laughing, "Guys take a look at this! I'm not burning!" His Friends turned back to look at him and in their disbelief Vesuvius was naked! His clothes had burned completely off! "AAAHHH!" Layla screamed again and covered her eyes. Newt started laughing,"Dude, look down!" Vesuvius was confused, so he looked down and also discovered that he was completely naked. "SERIOUSLY?!" Vesuvius yelled and quickly tried to cover himself with his hands. While doing this his flames started to disappear around his body. Layla, still covering her eyes, threw Vesuvius her long blue robe she was wearing as a shrug. "Next time let's train near a river," Newt said while looking at the burning tree. "And bring extra clothes?" Vesuvius giggled while tying the robe around his waist.

The next day Newt found a waterfall away from the village and they continued their training. Vesuvius found it was getting easier and easier to control his flames. He trained from dawn until dusk and was now able to be engulfed in his flames and not burn his clothes off. Months went by and everyday the three friends went to the waterfall and trained. Newt and Layla were basically 'putting out fires'. As Vesuvius trained his friends made sure to support him, give advice, and put out the fires that he would sometimes accidentally start. Vesuvius soon became very fond of these days he had with his friends.