.Dragon's Legacy.

-9-

I walked wordlessly through the jungle Seraphim left me alone in.

I ended on the edge of a small pond I sat down by and hugged my knees to my chest, starting to cry.

Was I really the bad guy here? 

Was I really the one at fault here?

I didn't know how to feel, on one hand it was Mystery's fault for not realizing what I was going through.

on the other hand it was mine for interpreting her words this way.

But she should have noticed how it hurt me.

But I shouldn't have took it so at heart.

But she refused to explain her reasons to me.

But--

"Shut up!!" I yelled, shaking my head, not wanting to hear my thoughts and opened my eyes as I heard several scared squeaks and saw mice sized transparent rabbits with a spiky dorsal fin run from me, having gathered before hand.

"I'm sorry." I said, sniffling as I picked one that fell in a hole up and set it on the ground, watching as it hopped away from me.

"Have you come back to rub it in?" I asked Seraphim as footsteps came towards me.

"I haven't come here to do any off that." I turned back.

"Uncle Leo..." I whispered, not standing, just staring at the man I just knew for a little part of my childhood, the story of his death had been told many times and was partially why I wanted to be the best mage I could be, to be able to help people like he did. 

Him and aunt Calypso had been sent out to the mountain villages to evacuate them, the winter being harsher then anything we've ever seen before, unfortunately for them the whole facade of a mountain was struck down in a thunder storm.

Using her magic she created a bridge to safety on the other side of the mountain, freezing a raging river was hard so she had to concentrate on that while he stood back and, alone, fought back the avalanche of stone and snow.... Holding on until he was sure all ever safe and with a final blast sending my aunt sliding across the breaking ice bridge before the elements buried him.

He truly was who inspired me to want to be head mage since even at the time I knew Mystery could have stopped that and I thought if I was head mage I could too without thinking of the responsibility that came with.

"Hello kiddo." He wasn't different from the painting of him I saw but when he moved his body behaved like smoke, swishing around and dissolving before forming back into the limb, I guess everyone that dies has a unique look as a spirit. "Trouble brewing inside doesn't it?"

"You could say that." I said while he kneeled down by my side, I wasn't familiar with him as I've known him for so little but all the stories I heard from each of my aunts and uncles made me know more then I should, as if he never had left.

"Her words might not be the most tactful but understand Seraphim, Mystery does indeed care, she just has a weird way of showing it, none of us really had the chance to be taught how to feel and explain our emotions plus she is a dragon and dragons have not the same point of view on things like humans do."

"But why don't I see that? Why don't I get it? Why am I the only one that doesn't get it?"

"Kia is a dragon too so she has an innate understanding of dragon behavior, Siera loves your mother Audrey a bit more then she does Mystery but she spent her years learning to be future queen and was taught how dragons act and behave so she was never hurt by my sister's words, her siblings grew up with her and understand, your mother lives with it and loves her for it, Fin and Fen find her much nicer then their old abusive parents but you on the other hand.... You never really got any of those connections, you only saw the cold bluntness and harshness of her words without knowing that's how she is since Belladonna left, I died and you almost died, as the oldest and a mage, she fears more for your safety then any one else."

I looked silently into the pond, unable to really wrap my head around it.

"I know it is confusion, feelings are easy and also are actually really hard to deal with, you lived one way your entire life just to be proven that that way was false can be a brunt shock, it will be hard to accept all those feuds were for nothing so what I advise you is too talk it out with her, tell her how you really feel, be truthful because I doubt she knows why you hate her."

"But I just can't see it." I whispered.

"Then look into the pond, it will reveal the truth to you."

I looked at him but he was gone in the wind.

"It was nice to meet you.... Uncle." I said and stood.

I looked around and at the pond, seeing something shine at the bottom of it but I couldn't make it out.

I leaned closer and stepped into the pond.

I saw the rabbit spirits gather again, curiously watching me as I marched into the pond and tried to reach the shine.

I realized it was much much deeper then I thought when I stepped off a ledge and was plunged into cold dark waters.