My Ride or Die- Kiribaku Fantasy AU

Two

Eijirou

"FUCKING WAKE UP!" Katsuki shook Mina on his back. It was morning now, and it was our turn to rest in a cave we had found while Mina, Hanta, and Denki scouted ahead.

The pink-skinned girl just snored and her head lolled deeper against Katsuki's back. Kat groaned and dropped Mina onto the stone.

"Hey!" She squealed, awake now.

"Took you long enough." Katsuki walked over to me and curled into my body, tucked close to my chest. We decided that I would stay in human form for the rest of the trip -or at least most of it- to avoid any hunters. Hanta and Denki popped their heads in the cave.

"She's awake!" Hanta grinned. "C'mon, Alien Queen."

Mina perked up at the sound of her nickname, bouncing to her feet and jumping off of the cave's ledge to the canyon's base just a few beet below.

"EXPLORING TIME!" Mina yelled, her voice carrying through the canyon. Then she, Denki, and Hanta all took off through the mix of mud and sand across the canyon floor.

Katsuki cuddled into my neck, his soft wispy hair brushing against my chin. It wasn't long before we both fell asleep.

But we awoke a few hours later to piercing screams.

"Eijirou! Katsuki!" the scream reached my ears and made me sit up with a gasp. Mina was calling for us.

I shook Katsuki awake and jumped down to the canyon floor.

"Mina!" I yelled.

"Eijirou, over here!" Mina's voice came from what seemed like the center of the canyon. I ran as fast as I could to where her voice was coming from, Katsuki right on my heels.

A massive obsidian black dragon with ruby eyes had our friends cornered in a nook in the canyon wall. A shining silver dragon flew in circles overhead.

The obsidian dragon whipped her head towards me as I approached.

"Back off!" She hissed. "I found these three attempting to enter the egg cavern. What I do to them is none of your business, unless you'd like to suffer the same fate."

"We told you, we're just looking around!" Denki protested. "We didn't know there were any eggs or other dragons in these caves!"

"Shut up!" The female dragon lashed her tail like a whip in Denki's direction.

A low growl rose in my throat. The dragon turned away from me and back to Denki, Mina, and Hanta, raising up on her hind legs and opening her mouth with a deafening roar.

I shifted into my dragon form, darting in front of the female and spreading my spiked wings to reveal their black scarred undersides and shield the three cornered humans. My eyes blazed with anger. This bitch wasn't going to lay a tooth on my friends.

"Back away. Now." I growled.

The look in the dragon's eyes changed from anger to fear to confusion to recognition. "Eijirou?" She asked.

"What's it to you?" I raised my wings higher, nearly twice her size in my largest form.

"Do you not remember me?" the female sat back on her haunches and began to glow. Her wings melted into a black scaled cape with spikes on a collar around her neck. Her body shrank and her horns fell into long black hair. A human woman stood before us now, wearing a warrior queen's attire. "I'm your mother."

"His what?" Katsui spat. "As far as I know, all of Eijirou's family abandoned him when he was captured as a kid. You left him to die. He's spent his whole life just trying to live, and you've been here attacking stupid helpless humans? Mina's more of a mother to him than you ever will be."