Chapter 2: A Strange Creature

Story by Silver Brighttooth on SoFurry

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#2 of A Family once Lost


Now we go to a different setting.

Location: Human Realm

Time: 12:00 A.M Midnight

It was the middle of the night as our new character awakes from a nightmare. Quickly he grabs a nearby journal and sketches a picture of two dragons. It wasn't too long before he was done and quickly packed up his stuff. Lastly he picked up his journal and tossed it into his black duffle bag. Once he quickly zipped his bag up he was off on his way. He walked a few miles in the moon light before he reached a party store. It was pretty old looking with some paint peeling off, some old style gas pumps standing in the front, and the building design of the place. Luckily for him it was open and he continued his way in, but on his way in his eye caught a young girl. She was wearing a black t-shirt with blue jeans. She seemed as a young adult and was talking to a bunch of bikers. He thought she might have been one of their "Special" girls and decided just to mind his own business and walked passed the already opened door. A bell ringed above his head warning the cashier of his presence. He looked up at the young costumer.

"How may I help you?" The teen looked at him but continued his way into the store.

"Thank you but I'm fine." The Cashier nodded and turned his attention back to his magazine.

He wasn't in there for too long. He just grabbed some hotdogs, chips, sodas, some monsters, red bulls, and some candy for the road. As he was having the cashier check all the stuff the news came on.

"Attention. Be on the look out for a dangerous teenager. Here's his picture." A picture came on of the teen. Luckily the Cashier didn't look at the television in till it was mentioning the last place he has been seen, and not his face. Quickly he paid the cashier for his items and left. Yet as he left he noticed the bikers surrounding the girl he saw earlier. She was trying to fight one of them off as he kept trying to grab her so the teen quickly dropped his stuff and ran to the girl. As he stood in front of the girl a biker quickly ran to where the bikes were. Soon he came back with another guy, and by the size the teen could tell he was the leader.

"Lookie here fellas. We got ourselves a hero. Let's show him what we do to heroes around here." The teen looked around, only five guys surrounded him while the other one just stood back and watched. He turned to the girl and tilt his head signaling her to get away. She did leaving him to fight the six guys.

The teen prepared by taking his stance with which made the bikers laugh. He stood in a baseball stance with one hand at his waist line and the other at his chest long. The position readied for a minute before one attacked with a punch, he missed and the kid popped up behind him and round house kicked him in the back of the head. Soon another one attack, the kid dodge and grabbed his arm and quickly turned causing him to twist the biker's arm. He grabbed the biker's wrist with one hand and placed the other on the biker's elbow and with a quick trust of his arm snapped the biker's arm. He let go of the biker's arm and back flipped kick him in the jaw sending him back several feet. The kid stood back where he began acting if not a single portion of his energy was spent. Seeing this, the other three bikers jumped at him, each of them wielding a 6 inch knife. He still stood there unafraid but when they got close he quickly disarmed them and smacked two of the biker's heads together, leaving the other one to run. The leader saw this and quickly pulled out his 22 double barrled shotgun with the barrel sawed off along with the stock giving it a pistol grip and aimed at the kid. The kid responded by lifting up his right arm and pointing at the guy.

"Ha what are you going to do?" The kid grinned and quickly pulled the glove off his right hand showing a dragon shaped mark." It can't be buAHHHHH!" He couldn't finish his sentence as he went flying back with a raging fireball disappearing in his face. The kid walked over to the girl, she was so shocked he helped her up to her feet. He went, got his bag, and walked away. The girl seeing this quickly ran after him.

"Hey!" He stopped and turned around.

"Yes?" She came up to him and leaned overtaking in deep breaths.

"Thank you for back there." She got up and looked at him. "Name's Champagne and you are?"

"No problem. The name's Aaron." He started to walk off again but she quickly got in his way." Can I help you?"

"Would it be ok if I come with you? I'm trying to get to Charlotte."

"Why so far?"

"I was out here to be with my dad. My parent's are divorced and I had to go to my dad's for the weekend. He left and hasn't been back for two days and I couldn't find a phone and mine is dead. So I'm trying to get back to my mom's office which is in Charlotte." He nodded while thinking.

"Ok you can come but it's going to be a 4 hour walk."

"I don't think so cause I see someone coming this way." Aaron looked and saw a head light coming down the road and before too long the guy stopped on the other side of the road. As he approached Aaron saw it was the guy he beat a while ago, but this time with a burned scorch mark on his along with a gun pointed right at Aaron. He shot Aaron in the face, but nothing. This shocked all of them but Aaron quickly snapped out of it and looked, saw a chance, and took it. He hit the biker in the guts making him fall down, drop his gun, and hold onto his stomach. Aaron took another chance and quickly got on the bike, lucky for him the keys were in the ignition. He quickly left with Champagne and his back holding onto his back. It wasn't long in till the city of Charlotte was in sight, and even sooner before they were inside the city.

"Ok which building is your mom in?" Champagne looked around at several building as they speeded by.

"That one!" She pointed towards a building.

"Ok hang one." He did a quick turn almost grazing the right side of the bike against the road. Before too long they were in the parking lot in front of the building, and Champagne quickly ran inside while Aaron waited outside like she told him to do. Soon she came walking out with a much taller woman. She was wearing a perfesonal blue dress and she looked much like Champange but had her hair in a bun.

"Mom that's him!" The guy who saved me!" They both walked over and the taller woman shook Aaron's hand.

"Thank you so much for saving my daughter!" He smiled and she let go of his hand, but looked at his glove." What's with the glove?"

"Nothing just something I wear." She looked at it again and thought for a second.

"Please remove it. Since there is nothing it wouldn't be a problem." Aaron gulped, she had figured him out. He looked at the glove and slowly removes the glove and she gasped." Get out of here. I'm graceful you saved my daughter so I won't call the police....for now!" He nodded and turned to the bike when out of nowhere Champagne quickly hugged him. Her mom pulled her away and Aaron just kept walking as she yelled at him.

"Aaron. Thank you." Aaron just kept walking in till he was on the bike and quickly took off. As he rode off he couldn't help but think.

"Why would she say that? She saw how her mother reacted to me. I'm a monster. All because of this mark." He looked at his hand and as he looked back up a big shadowy dragon popped out of nowhere in front of his bike. He quickly flipped backwards off of the bike. He landed in time to see the bike split in half as the dragon sliced it with his claw.

As Aaron got back up the dragon quickly moved and punched him across the face sending him a few feet to the side. The dragon chuckled" This is going to be too easy." Aaron got up and looked at the dragon.

"Don't say that too soon." He quickly ran up just like the dragon and uppercut him in the jaw sending him 5 feet up before doing a back flip kick into the dragon's back but the dragon grabbed his foot and flung with him using that push Aaron gave him to slam Aaron against the ground. He lifted Aaron up from the ground and stared at him with a glare.

"You are him. Time to take you back." He slapped someone onto Aaron's hip and soon some dark gooey stuff crawled out of his arm and up to Aaron limp unconscious body and started to absorb into his skin. Soon Aaron awoke from his daze and saw the dark stuff and quickly launched his lower body up and wrapped his legs around his arm causing the gooey stuff to stop.

"I'm not that easy to beat!" Aaron quickly trusted back snapping his arm. The dragon let go of him letting him land on his feet before jumping back away form the dragon.

"Hmm... some way to treat someone who saved you." The dragon said holding onto his broken arm.

"What do you...wait? THE BULLET! That was you who stopped that shot."

"Yes. Now as payment for saving your life, I'd say you come with me nice and quiet." Aaron thought for a second.

"I'd rather not!" He ran over and quickly flipped over, grabbing the giant dragon's neck with both arms and with a twist of his arms a crack that would send a chill down your spine broke out from the dragon's neck. As Aaron let go to let the body fall, the body just disappeared in a puff of black smoke surprising Aaron. He looked around and found his back still attached to his back and he walked away from the spot the dragon dissapeared and thought to himself.

"Hmm copy, but how AHH!" Out of nowhere a portal opened up and swallowed him up sending him high into the. Soon he was falling and smacking a lot of branches, one snapping off as it entered his leg, another one cut along his chest leaving a nice big gash, and another as it smack the back of his head knocking him out before he hit the ground hard followed by his bag landing on a branch. After a few hours he awoke in a pool a blood, not a memory came to mind. Not where he was, when it was, or even who he was. When he breathed in his chest expanding opening the gash more and sending agonizing pain through out his body. He tried to stand but quickly fell in agonizing pain from his leg, where a branch stood out still stuck inside his right leg. He quickly pulled it out allowing a bit of blood to squirt out, but also getting rid of some of the pain, barely enough to let him walk.

As he stood he grabbed his pack and looked out to see a tall building and quickly headed towards it as fast as he could go with his injured leg and chest. Before too long the sun was just starting to rise as he limped to the front door before falling down. He tried to look up but his vision was blurry do to the amount of blood loss. He could barely make out the design on the door let alone what could be inside. He could see a glowing lights that shined bright but would soon dim and repeat again in the door but what stood between it he did not know for it look like a giant green blob to him, but soon loud booms took him by surprise as he crawled slowly towards the blob. He picked his head up once more looking at the blob before finally fainting from the blood loss.