Chapter 5
Preparation and for what?
Packing my things i got my last goodbyes from the investigator.
Walking out of the precinct I noticed how fresh the air was now.
Though now I kinda missed the inclosed air for it reminded me of home.
It always had a heavy feel to it but alive and dead at the same time.
It was only after hearing footsteps did I turn around into the sun
It was Mizuki and kokoro came walking out..
Wrist red and mouth... pff blue.
I couldn't help myself and laughed.
My laughter echoed.
Fury flashed in her gaze.
She folded her arms, scowling hard.
"Are you done laughing"kokoro said coldly voice deep and growly as ever.
Then I heard a flicker of a thought.
Not of my own.
I cant believe i imprisoned myself for this ungrateful child.
Confusion stopped me from laughing.
A queit filled the outside of the precinct.
we all recognized the moment.
for what it was.
"We heard each others thoughts" we said in unison.
Mizuki covered herself as though to keep us from prying into her thoughts.
Feeling awkward I broke the ice.
"It's about time yall noticed" I stated with a puff.
Mizuki laughed as though it was the funniest joke in the world.
Kokoro just rolled his eyes to the air.
As if praying for patience.
"Did you only now just find out dragon contracts did this?"
Silence.
Withought elaberating he just shrugged a smug look on his face.
Mizuki in turn fumbled around her words in embarrassment "I- I just didn't think it wss real okay?!"
Her voice light as a feather.
Folding her arms,
I spoke trying to distract kokoro from our embaracement.
" so whats our action plan"
They stared at me blankly like I was the stupidest person in the world.
Obviously were gonna fly, this time to our destination...
"Oh" with a pause "right of course" confusion still on my face i just straight up asked" won't we cause a panic though?"
Again they stared "no you fool once they see a human atop they know its a dragon rider"
I thought about it for a moment then spoke.
"Ya know after thinking about it that makes a strange sort of sense"
Weird enough though only kokoro transformed fire roiling around him the the ground below him.
began to scuff below him as magma apeard in the form of a dragon.
then with a boom he fully materalized he was
Gulp.
3 to four stories tall at...
18 years old.
Hes gonna be Big when he fully matures.
Let alone after that.
He had shiny black scale coating with reddish orange flames between them giving him the appearance of drying magma.
Along with the immense heat radiating off his body i began rethink my life choices
" no i think im riding atop mizuki."
With A begrudging snort of smok he detransformed causing smog to appear around us.
Coughing i flapped my hands to blow the smog away from me.
Then mizuki transformed and blew away all the smog.
me and kokoro got on the nap of her wyvern neck. fumbling through last of the smog. I found footing along with kokoro with far more grace i thought loudly.
Show off.
My neck prickled as I begon to turn around.
only for mizuki to lift up into the air tired of our exange.
Flying high in the air we manage to soar halfway through the air wind rushing i began to open my arms feeling the wind and said.
" man i feel like we can handle anything!"
Then i saw flicker of movement below..
Like unsusly black movement were there usually isnt...
Then I saw it the black brigade the first responders to dragon threats.
We immediately began evasive maneuvers kokoros usually chill eyes bugging out.
That had me worried more than the black brigade
Dodging.
Weaving and between buildings we started to gain ground ahead of them intell..
I slipped nearly falling off!
I screamed loud as as Mizuki flipped folding her wings as kokoro caught me roughly.
That's all im gonna say okay?
Little known fact about me, as we bank right.
I have an extreme fear of heights.
Kokoro glared at me " your stupid" only for us to be shoot and pulled out of the sky by a big black net!..
As they began to air lift us down mizuki detransformed.
Carfully.
"What the hell is your problem" she yelled.
With kokoro expectent gaze i had to answer.
"Im.. afraid of heights."
Their.
Jaws.
Dropped.
Kokoro muttering to himself said allowed
"of course only unclaimed, i flinched
"dragon rider son is afraid of heights."
Even mizuki couldnt take me seriously for once. Then we were unceremoniously dropped to the ground net weighing us down.
Right as the were about to kill us thinking us evil dragon riders
We were saved by the police something about questioning before killing us.
Oh gee,what fun, we can get tortuered to death.
before we die,what glee.
My eyes rolled halfway to my head before Mizuki smacked me.
"Rude" is all she said
Only to be brought back to the precinct
With the investigator shaking his head in sad announance
He whispered " what did I expect from children" kokoro with an unusual show of aggression snarled deeply.
A dragon and a wyvern walked into a precinct and asked.
"You got any chips?"
The investigator face palmed
"No we dont have chips for you." pointing at mizuki "at the precinc"
She stood there stunned at the aggressive response.
Seemingb dumbfounded that she was denied her just reward..
for surviving.
I put my hands to my face wondering how I managed to get here.
Oh right.
I didn't, I was all but dragged here.
Mumbling "these crazy lunitics."
Kokoro glared at me hotily.
Don't lump me in with her" he point at with empadhes at me "so called dragon rider"
" hey I never asked to be a dragon rider!
The precinct went silent.
as though not knowing what to say
"I only became a dragon rider because I have a responsibility as the Heir to the Nagaraboshi family." His finger faltered as mine risen.
"And as the guardian clan of the skys!
They simply looked at me suprised at my outburst.
Heated i realized why, my blood boiled.
"That's it! nothing more made me into what my father became!"
Breathing hard.
i relised what i just said.
What i just did.
I denied my father's work, his legacy over my petty feelings.
"Kid" the investigator looked at me with concern.
But It was to late.
my vision began to blur as I swiftly turned.
The investigator looking at a loss for words.
Mizuki paused her rant about chips.
Looking at me. Pink eyes glittering with flames.
Kokoro even looked almost..
ashamed of himself.
even the assistant looked at me with sympathy
memories began to blur as I started to walk out.
I saw my father strict almost dead look in his eyes.
My father training me in the basics.
As if he expected a future in which I fight.
But then.. as left the the building
I saw it.
The only time I had honestly seen my father smiling.
Genuinely smilling, was when he training with mother.
As though he were finaly free from his crushing responsibility.
To protect the sky itself.
Not just.. a family dinner in which he looked.. Dead
My father wad dead to the world when he was with me.
Worst part was
When he looked at mother's concerned face. you could see a flicker of life in them.
And never me