Chapter Two

By the time V found me, it was nearly evening. "What are you doing?" She yelled. I stared at her coldly off the roof of the inn. "You're not actually going to try to save her? That's suicide!!" she said, crying. "She's a slave that belongs to Sir Andreus!! The Shield and Spear!! How will you survive the guards alone!?"

"It must be done. She is not a slave, but a warrior. My blade will cross hers in a dance of elegance." I said, smiling at the sound of blades clashing. "If your lover was taken from you, wouldn't you do the same?"

When night finally hit, I spread my wings, showing my left wing as a blood red, matching my right eye, and my left eye and right wing as emerald green, the same color as the rumors mentioned. "I made a promise and I intend to keep it. I'm not dying yet."

And with that, I took off, leaving V standing there, amazed.

I reached Sir Andreus' manor, killing the two guards before landing. I open the gate, just to be met by about 50 guards. "Well, shit. I thought you all were better placed." I said with a smug look. I put my hands up, making my weapon disappear before they noticed it. "So, if I take you all out, what would happen? Would your leader come out?" I said sarcastically.

"There's no need to go that far," a mysterious voice called out from the crowd as the guards separated. A human walked towards me with a full set of golden armor, with a hooded figure next to him, all in chains. The man started to speak in a tone of over confidence. "You got guts coming here with no weapon. I am Sir Andreus, and I will make you my pet." I wanted to rip his head off so badly when Andreus said that. "Are you willing to die for that statement?" I asked, trying to keep my anger from showing. "Oh no, I'm not the one you'll be fighting," he said while pointing at the hooded figure, "She is."

The chains broke off and the hood was removed. That was when I saw her. Her wings unfolded, showing her beautiful emerald green wings.  But I could tell she was beaten many times for resisting. She looked at me, with a tear in her eye, and spoke to me in Dragokins tongue "Must I kill one of my own?"

All I said back was "I have a plan. Trust me." I spoke to Andreus. "Why make me fight? If you were wise, you would've taken your prize with greater numbers. Your own tactic failed anyways." Andreus, confused, looked around. "How have I failed? I already beat- "

I stood behind him with a knife in his back. "You know, there's an old saying you humans say. What was it? Never underestimate your enemy." I snapped my fingers and the illusion I made disappeared, all his men fell to the ground, all bleeding from their necks. "You are my next trophy, Leader of the Spear and Shield," I said before decapitating him. I sent Andreus' head through a portal that I had premade and made the other end let out on the door of the guildhall. I picked up the Dragokin and took off, vanishing into the night.

I reached a forested area where no one would come by and laid down the female. I sat down across from her. I must've dozed off, because when I woke up, the sun was out, and a blade was by my throat. "Well, that's one way to thank me." I said, noticing the knife. She started to speak. "Who are you? Why do you look like me? Why did you save me? Where are- "

"Woah there. Slow down on the questions. I just woke up." I said, yawning. "It wasn't easy carrying you here." She blushed out of embarrassment. I continued, "Just like you don't know me, I don't know you. All I know is you speak my language, you look like me, and you can fight." I wish that was true, but I knew her as my bride.

I started speaking in dragokin. "My name is Night. I'm a Dragokin from the Tail of Stars tribe."

"I'm Hope, from the Horn of Knowledge tribe. But I feel like we've met before."

"Maybe, maybe not. Maybe we were lovers in another lifetime. Maybe, we were creating an everlasting alliance with the tribes when we fell on each other. Cliché, isn't it?" I would chuckle, reminiscing the time.

"Wait, do that again," Hope said with a perk of curiosity.

"Do what?"

"The thing you did after what you said."

"You mean chuckle?"

"YEAH THAT!" She said with a bit of excitement. I would chuckle again. "You sure are a loud one."

"Night? Is that really you?" Hope whimpered.

"The one and only. No one can become me."

Hope was lost in thought when I said that. "You still don't believe me," I said. It was a gut feeling after all, what did I expect, an instant 'I remember you'?  "There are two other things that only my lover knows. If you are him, you would prove it NOW." she demanded. "Well, for one, you were known to me as my emerald in the sky. And two, there was a claw mark I left over the joint of your left wing from when we…." I teased because I could see the blush from Hope. "Th-there's no way that's true." She mumbled. I continued on, "in order to show our love, one of my wings and the opposite eye turned the same color as your wings." I would wrap my tail around her, bringing her in close. "I also know what this spike here is sensitive" I whispered in her ear as I flicked a spike on her lower back, close to her tail.

"Okay, now I know it's you. I'm sorry for doubting." She said while catching her breath from what I did. "How did you know which one it was?" she asked me, blushing at the fact that I knew the one spot that made her loose control.

"Let's just say I lost a bet and had to give you a back massage. I wasn't much help there either." I replied, with a little bit of self-pride. Don't ask me why, but I was proud at the fact that was my way of stopping her from doing crazy stuff, like set a temple on fire. "Well, let's get going. This place won't hide us forever." I started to open a portal when I heard two arrows. "This place is no longer safe." I grabbed Hope's arm, pulling her through the portal.