Jet and Jade | Black and White 1

Chapter 8: Jade

I followed Jet, almost not able to keep up with her quick steps. She... was so terrifying when she was angry for me. I could feel the rage radiating off her from here.

All of a sudden tears flowed out of my eyes. She cared so much about me yet she cared nothing about herself. So many times she had sacrificed herself for me. Why? Why did she do so much for me? She had so many chances to abandon me yet she didn't. I was half-afraid of her and she knew that. Why, then? Even though she knew the way I felt towards her was oscillating between sibling love and fear, she still would do anything for me. She would give anything in the universe for me but she gave herself nothing. She fussed about every little wound on me yet she wouldn't even bandage her own. Why did she care do much about me? I did nothing to deserve this...

"Jade? Are you crying?" Jet turned around.

"H-huh? What? No." I waited until she had turned away then wiped my sleeve over my face a couple of times until I was sure my face was dry.

"Where did you put that creature?" Jet asked me.

Wordlessly I pointed at a cage made of light. Inside was the creature that had spit fire at me, and it was nearly bursting the cage. It had grown a lot.

Jet crouched next to the cage. She could see in the dark but I couldn't, so I made some light spheres to light up the dark attic. She winced at the sight of light but didn't stop me.

Jet frowned at the creature in the cage before opening her mouth, to my shock. "Lialmar rudina?" she asked the creature.

The creature actually replied with "Rarnorva favre."

"Lavousi rabica harn?" my twin sister asked again.

What language was that? I only knew I was not familiar with it.

"Avaniskl lavouria nuwanzf farovsed. Jade losmante rondo daeuno," the creature told her. "Ravuni kadense ruvin la wyntiskew."

Jet's brows furrowed as she turned to me. "Jade, she's not just a 'creature'," she began. "She's a dragon. A flame dragon, which are known to be extinct. It seems there's a whole tribe of them. Her name is Rarnorva."

"Then why did she blast fire at me?" I asked.

"Vu sansorr?" Jet asked Rarnorva.

"Lasuna," Rarnorva said desperately. "Lasuna revan ni."

Jet nodded. "Ven sona," she said. "Break the cage, Jade."

"What?!" I cried. "But--"

"Tenebris! Listen to my command!" Jet shouted, unable to wait for me.

What? I thought she was mad at that reddish-gold dragon?

Shadows broke the cage in a split second.

She was so powerful.

I would never be able to do that...

"Deluria," the dragon said with tears streaming out of her luminous black eyes.

"Vin. Arvani larvua," Jet replied with a genuine smile. "Ru, nam. Nam falva Lasuna. Leruvia lasune nonl deru."

Rarnorva removed something from around her paw and put in Jet's hand. The something matched a choker around the golden-red dragon's throat. "Varujsha," she told my sister in that beautiful language that I did not understand.

Jet replied, "Narvan. Ru nam. Leruvia lasune nonl deru."

Rarnorva nodded gratefully, and, with one last look at us, she flew out through the open window in the roof. We looked out of the window in the wall and saw the golden, red-scaled dragon flying away through the slowly setting sun.

And it was a beautiful sight.