Chapter 2

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"Wait so let me get this straight. I somehow managed to get myself transported to some place that is London but isn't London called Reverse London and you guys have dragons..." I look at Ninny, Noel, Balgo and Billy Banx Jr. they all nodded, "What have I gotten myself into..." I groaned, "How did you even end up here?" Balgo asks, "I couldn't tell you. I was at my mum's grave and somehow I got taken here." I shrug, they touched their chins, "There also seems to be an illegally reared dragon. We got a tip that someone's doing just that in Reverse London's West district." Billy says, "Illegally reared dragons! That's huge if it's actually true. But why do we get stuck with it?" She sits on the table, "Well, our job is to rear and take care of dragons. I guess illegally reared dragons count too." Billy drinks his cup of coffee, "Seriously? That seems like a reach to me." Ninny frowns, "Count yourself lucky, that 'reach' is putting money into your pockets" Billy smiles, Ninny's eyebrow twitched and slyly pushed the stack of papers onto the floor, "Hey! You did that on purpose!" Billy picks them up, "Whoopsies, did I do that?" Ninny grins, "Looks like the stuff you guys did yesterday didn't show up in the papers, that's strange. I mean you guys did save the city from a dark dragon." I point at today's newspaper, "That's because you're reading the Front London papers, here are the Reverse London papers." She drags her thumbnail over the title and it changed, the paper transformed to a completely different paper with different articles and pictures, "Woah, this magic stuff is awesome." My eyes sparkled, "Noel, it's you! Woah, that's so cool," Balgo steals the paper from me, "Uh hello? I worked my butt off too." Ninny inches over, "Wait what's this?" I point at an article, Noel bends over, "Oh that. That story's been in the papers for the past sixteen years. It's about a dragon, fully grown and reared but many people have tried to ride it or tame it for themselves but it doesn't budge, even when they spur or force it up. It never moves. It's like it's waiting for it's master. Even Ninny and I've tried to tame him. He's truly a beauty, and the most mysterious part is that he's holding a tiny scroll in his claws, its clasped closed and no one's ever been able to pry his claws apart to read or grab it." She looks at the white dragon, "Woah, well it sure is pretty." I smiled. 

"Why did we have to bring him along?" Ninny scowls at Balgo as he was on Noel's dragon, "Hey I'm kinda offended, I got dragged along too, do you want to kick me as well?" I punched her head, I was riding Marshall with her, "Hey you're tolerable, but that guy just is a pervert all over Noel, it's kinda creepy." She sticks her tongue out, "I've got to agree with you," I shudder, we were sent out by Billy for a new order, "Well since Balgo attracts dragons, he's perfect for helping us find them." Noel explains, "I know! I was in the room too!" Ninny turns around, "Then why are you mad?" Noel asks, "I'm not mad! I'm mad because I have doubts about this whole thing! if you drew the short end of the straw and you had to look after the class frog you'd be pissed too right? Even if you still did it! That's why I'm mad right now!" Ninny explains, "So you're saying Balgo is the class frog..." I look at her, Noel had a blank look on her face, "Balgo, she seems to have an issue with you. Don't you have anything so say back?" Noel asks, Balgo was fantasising, "Jeez, that perv has no dignity." I pulled my eye at him while Ninny stuck her tongue out, "You do realise that if I drop you you'd die right now right?" Noel says, "Huh?" Balgo blinks.

"Oh right, I have something for the two of you." Noel passes us a black and red checkered mantle and a pipe, "A Piper's mantle and pipe. You'll be working and tagging along with us so Chief wanted you guys to look the part." She explains, "I never even signed up for this..." I slumped, "I can't even ride or rear a dragon." I scratched my head, Balgo put his mantle on and put Osushi in his hood, I clipped mine on and tied the pipe to my thigh, "I feel like I'm playing dress up at this point." I blew the pipe as a joke, "You're tagging along because there must be a reason that you were transported to Reverse London, there's no way a normal civilian could've made their way here. I feel like there's been something at the back of my mind all day but I just can't put my finger on it, oh well." Ninny taps her chin, "And Balgo's pipe couldn't look any faker. You have a real one though." She grabs my pipe and looks at Balgo's, "You look happy, you wanted to wear that mantle so badly?" I saw him prance around, "Of course I did! I mean wearing the same thing as Noel, it feels like Noel's holding me. It's awesome!" She squirms around and blushes, "Gross!" All of us shout. 

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