[SweetSuicide]

I looked at the dragon and said a little prayer. “Whoever is up there.. I’m begging, pleading with you. Let me get out of this alive. I know that may not be what you have planned but please.. I love Swift. I need him. And he needs me. Let me get out of this somewhat alive and I’ll prove to him I’m a girl worth keeping.” I closed my eyes and for a second I swore I saw Swift. Fighting next to Tatsu, alive and okay. It looked as if a war had just taken place. I opened my eyes and looked at the dragon from around the corner. I raised my sword and turned to face the dragon head on. I sighed. It was now or never. The dragon had its back toward me.

“Come here dragon! I want you to fight me and face me! I want to see your eyes while I fight you!” That made the dragon very anger. She turned around and faced me just like I had wanted but what I didn’t expect to see was her. It was Lyren. She was the one dragon who had tried to kill me years ago. I had forgotten how big and majestic she was. Although she was a fire dragon, when she spoke her words were like ice that pierced me.

“Suzette. How wonderfully dreadful it is to see you again. I thought I had gotten rid of you years ago.”

I raised my shirt to show my stomach and the burn scars that she had left on me. “No, you didn’t kill me. Only left some great story scars.” I raised my sword a bit higher now. “I want to finish this once and for all.” I took a step towards her, but as I did this great bolt of lightning came from nowhere and hit her. She got a good blast from it and she was injured badly. I ducked down from the lightning in fear of getting struck myself. But instead, I felt this new power, this new feeling, building up inside of me. I could feel myself somehow starting to grow and change. I fell over in pain and agony. This was getting to be unbearable. I blacked out for about 30 seconds. They seemed to have lasted forever because of the pain. But as I came to it I felt, different. I regained my bearings and looked around and realized what had just happened. I had become one of them. I was now a dragon. I looked at myself up and down. This was incredible. I should have known I was part dragon from my mother but I never thought of trying to control it and morph like she had. I turned and faced Lyren.

“Now, it should be a bit more interesting of a battle!”

I was still trying to figure out what kind of dragon I was when she attacked me. I was thrown into the castle wall. I hit it full force and that made me realize I needed to act now before something worse happened. I whipped my tail around and hit her right in the chest. Not a fatal blow but it bought me some time since she was already injured. I came right at her and hit her back into the wall. The wall broke and we both went tumbling out of the new window we had made. I tried to grip onto the side of the castle as we went down but I couldn’t catch a break. Well, now was the time to see if I could fly. I started to move my arms but was really flapping the huge wings that I have never known I had before. They created a huge gust of wind and lifted me higher as it pushed Lyren down farther. “So I’m a wind dragon huh? Okay, I can make this work.” I started to beat my wings harder and harder. The air around me became almost like a tornado. I saw Lyren get swept up into it and I took a deep breath and blew out and sent the tornado flying miles away with her inside of it. She crashed into the side of a cliff and fell to the ground. I flew over to her now motionless body. I changed back into human form (again very painful and needed some work now that I knew I could do it). I grabbed my sword and walked up to Lyren.

“You thought you could beat me once, and you failed. So why did you think you could a second time?” I raised the sword above my head and slammed it down into her skull. I heard the bones breaking as I drove the sword deeper into her skull. Never again would she bother me.

I started walking back toward the castle but Kam was already on his way out to meet up with me. His face was a mix of shock, pain, and disbelief. He spoke to me first. “This is gonna make a great story to tell everyone when we get back.”