The Wolf and The Dragon (Book 2)

35 - The Troubleshooter

Let me introduce myself, I am Copper... Coppertine Montgomery Akron

A special being... a troublemaker, just like my mother... So I was told by a crazy old lady, my 'fairy godmother', she would define herself... Gods! I love her! She is so much fun!

But, to be fair on my cause, I am more like a Troubleshooter...

I was born many, many existences before, a different timeline altogether, circa of a million years back from now, on human definition of time... for me, time is completely irrelevant, I am, with both my progenitors, a Time Lord, the last of a rare species of Dragons, extinguished millions of years before my arrival.

My birth fulfilled a prophecy, the child of the time lord returned to Never Realm. Born on the springs of time itself, purified of any trace of demon blood in my veins, inherited from my father's side.

I had an amazing childhood, I have grown up free and wild, exploring the lands of my realm. Making friends among humans and creatures, of course, nobody knew who I really was, it is a big secret kept between family only.

I learned all about my legacy with mom, and dad helps me with my powers. By the age of 10, in human time, I was a Master of all skills required to be a Time Lord.

My father is one of a kind... I know, I am a Daddy's girl, and I am proud of it, the thing is, we have so much in common, we were both created in labs by a monster, to become monsters ourselves, however, how we were made didn't define us... somehow, something inside my father's heart sparkled a revolution. He betrayed his master in order to save my mother and me.

My mother is an amazing woman, intelligent, strong, loving and caring... she went through so much to have me, and be with me, after all, her life has always been divided between two different universes, distinct but distant, her two children, her two loves (let me make it clear that I am not including my father, as she has always made very clear they are only friends), her two forms, somehow I do admire her for being able to divide herself instead of choosing one over the other.

However, the truth is she sucks on her powers, she can't control, she never managed to. And worse of all, she always created massive temporal voids, where everyone involved will forget everything, including herself, and I have to fix it... Lucky for all of us, that is what I am good at.

And then, there is my brother, my big little brother, technically he was born before me, but on timelines, I was born ages before him...so, one can never be sure if they only see us, though I look much younger than I really am.

We have been together a few times, I completely adore him, but for him, it was all only a dream. I promise mom one day I will find a way to fix that and he will always remember us, doesn't matter what.

-"Moma, may I speak to you?" I approached my mother after we finished with the scrolls.
-"What's it Coppie? Are you alright darling?"
-"Yes I am fine, I thought I would better speak to you, before talking to Dad, because I am pretty sure he will just say 'NO'."
-"'No', to what?"
-"Mom, I want to fly solo a bit, explore the universe, and visit other Realms and Timelines."
-"I see"  She said looking directly into my eyes. "I guess you are right, he will say 'NO'. But Copper, it is your life darling, and you are old enough to make your own decisions."
-"Would you back me up?"
-"What do you mean by that?"
-"You know, do the mother's magic thing 'Yes, she can go Akron, she will be fine'... he never say anything when you do that"
-"I don't do that." - she said giggling.
-"Yes you do..." - I smile back.
-"Copper, you are now a young woman, powerful, clever and very sensible, I am pretty sure you can make your own decision and your father has to learn how to accept that. Just go and talk to him."

-"Never!! Absolutely not, Coppertine! I will not let you go solo anywhere, I will take you wherever you wish to go, but we stay together."
-"Dad, I am not asking your permission... I am telling you I am going, and I am just trying to establish a way we stay connected..."
-"Does Misako know?"
-"Yes... I spoke to her early on."
-"And, is she ok with that?"
-"huuummhm" I nodded -"I guess she trusts me more than you do." I play my 'mom vs dad' game...

-"Coppie, that is not about trust, I trust you, completely, I just... just..."
-"I know Dad, you afraid someone might get me, but you know well no one tracks me, no one even knows I exist. As a matter of  fact, I am safer by myself than with you."

He knows I have a point and he goes really silent, and I feared I broke his heart, just like Mom does every time she leaves.

-"You know I will come back, this is my home, I love this place, I love you Dad. I just need some time on my own, maybe meet someone... fall in love... who knows... have a family... "
-"Are you serious about all this?"
-"Yes, I am... Dad, please, be my best friend as you have always been and support me on my decision. I will come back home safe and sound, I promise you!"
-"OK"

And that was how on my 18th human birthday I left my home flying solo for the first time. I kept coming back every so often for a while, I would worry about Dad all the time. Slowly I detached, and my returns become less often, and then I got really busy, on a totally distant existence, far away even before my own time, I meet someone.

A spoiled little brat Goddess, a daughter of Agape, she was so convinced she could have anyone she wished for, that she didn't see it coming when her power didn't work on me. We become friends, partners in crime, sisters and lovers, we lived a 'happily ever after' life...full of music, art, poetry, performances, we love a stage... eventually we funded a school for girls and became teachers.

One single thing concerned about Silver, her close relationship with the creature I had reason to believe it was the head of the Conspiracy, a God, or a Demon on a disguise, child of Alpha, he was always friendly towards me, but something really smells fishy about him. And that was the only reason I kept my secret from Silver, she always thought I was just a human, and I let her believe so.

One day, after many years together, we were having a party in our school, and her 'friend' brought a drink, it was meant for her, however, completely unaware of his intentions I drank it, as soon as I did I saw the look on his face, it wasn't for me, but take me away from Silver would do just fine. I felt ill, my powers were trapped and I call for Dad, but he never came.

Over the following days, my health quickly deteriorated, Silver became desperate and asked her mother for help, it was the first time I met Amaterasu, the female part of Agape, she read through me, immediately she knew who I was, she couldn't heal my body, the venom was dark, she released my soul instead making easy for me to leave when I wish, so I could stay a bit longer and say goodbye to Silver. I tried to tell Silver what really happened, about the venom and about who I was, but I couldn't, I physically couldn't, so I just left, before I did, however, I asked Agape to not reveal my secret and to one day take her somewhere we could find each other again.

I returned to the chamber of time only on my spirit form, father wasn't there, I called for him, he wouldn't answer, I worry about him. Without a physical body I was trapped, powerless inside the chamber of time, only mother could free me and help me to restore my powers, but I couldn't get her either.

Without the time lords' powers in the Never realm, hours speed away, the days, months and years pass by before you can register. I have been trapped inside the chamber of time for many, many decades, centuries even, enough time for me to slowly regain my power over the streams of time, so I was able to find out what has happened, why is taken so long for them to get back to me.

Father was captured by his Master when he was trying to find me, and forced to go after Mother... that is bad, very bad... when he intercepted her, she was on a rescue mission obviously something to do with my brother, she fought father back, and accidentally created a huge temporal void and trapped not only herself into it, but also a bunch of other people, including Amaterasu...

Oh dear, oh dear ... how am I going to fix all this mess now? Moma, please, you have to remember who you are ... I need you...