Intro

Welcome! My name is Yoshito Izari, I am the creator of The Uncanny Septinary's Dragon Diaspora Series.This Page depicts the 1st chapter of The Uncanny Septinary's Dragon Diaspora 'Living in a New World', where you will meet Dito, Jackie, Rae, and the other dragons while a mysterious figure rises from the background.
Watch as Dito the Cyclops/Ditto Dragon is thrown onto Earth and struggles to survive.The series explores the great shame of a life lived in fear, and what it means to truly find faith.Will it be Love or Fear that guides this Dragon's path?
Let's find out!
Ready? Spread your wings.
And Let's Fly!

Prologue

A boy opened his eye, sweating, as he gasped for air.
With each breath, his lungs tightened as a fire grew around him.
…The Nightmare began again…
Alike a ring, smoke circled the boy until all he saw was a black void.
Screams of pain and agony echoed from afar.
Men…
Women…
Children……I’m sorry…He glared toward the floor, as a creature of massive size loomed its shadow over him.
It possessed a single eye, and its wings stretched for miles.
It looked down as its golden pupil pierced through the boy. His heart throbbed while his body turned to stone.
Silent, he stood as the menacing Dragon leered its maniacal eye at him.
A thunderous step shook the earth around him as the immense monster inched closer to the boy.
A tear of agony dropped from the boy’s eye.…I’m so sorry…In the darkness, the boy’s head jerked at the sound of footsteps approaching.
Eye wide, he stared at the ash-burning smog, though he saw nothing until the smoke rose, as a girl wearing a cowboy hat walked through.
Eyes glistened from the chapped and ash-enveloped face of the little girl.
“…Why couldn’t you save us…” her voice cracked, “…You were my hero… You failed me…”
“No, I…I never wanted this to happen again…” He muttered.
“But it did.” The girl teared up with the words.
Her skin turned gray as each patch turned into ash. She drifted off into dust by the burning breeze.
“…I am…so sorry…”
The wind took her ashes before the boy as his arched brows took a gentle dip.
His eye grew fierce as his teeth gritted.
In a loud roar, the fire raged as the darkness transformed into a blinding light.
“RAAAAARRGH!!!”

“Agh!”
The boy opened his one eye.
Awoken in a cabin, avoiding a large storm outside.
The rushing rain squeaked the cabin back and forth. Strikes of lightning brightened the room.
Straws of hay brushed his trembling skin as he sat up from the silage floor placing his knees to his chest.
He stared in silence at the floor as a sheep curled up next to him. He turned his head toward the sheep, brows furrowed, glaring into its eyes.
The sheep stared back, giving him a simple look before sprouting its tongue to slide up the boy’s face.
He squeezed his eye shut as he shuttered his saliva-drenched face, turning away as he muttered,
“Well…That’s the last time I’ll be sleeping for a while.”

Chapter 1

The Dragon boy from another world!!!

1

A boy walked down a solitary road.
The boy wore a white cloak that wrapped around his entire torso. Cyan hair peeked from his hood, and his one red eye glimmered a diamond-gold pupil. A blue eyepatch wrapped around his right eye. Holes and rips in his tattered attire allowed visible his pale white skin.
This boy is like no other.
He walked down the dirt road as he approached a stone town. He stopped to raise his hood as he muttered,
“Great. This again…”He entered the town, head down to avoid any attention.
I just have to keep walking through the town, no reason to stop, I just have to keep going and nothing bad should happen.
With a nod of self-certainty, the boy sniffled.
He caught a familiar scent as his head jerked to a redwood carriage.
Head tilted, he squinted his eye to glare at the carriage before his sight wandered to a guild behind it.
The guild’s door opened as the boy’s eye further narrowed.
Before long, he spotted a man with a bow in hand and arrows strapped to his back.
Archer.
He recalled the man’s name as his eye widened.
His eye leered toward Archer as his party followed behind him.
While analyzing the group, he spotted one member holding a poster with his face on it.
A wanted poster that read:

Dito the Ditto/Cyclops Dragon
Wanted Dead or Alive

Dito stumbled back.
“Great.”
I didn’t think they’d actually go this far out.
He whirled around as he faced away from them.
Can’t believe I went this far out to get away from them just for them to find me here.
He glanced at the group as they entered their carriage.
What type of adventurers even hunt a Dragon outside of their own country!? Don’t they know that’s dangerous?
While complaining, he whirled his head in the opposite direction as he searched for an escape route.
Oh well. The important thing is, is that they don’t see me. Otherwise, that’ll mean trouble for the whole town.
His lips fell to a cold frown as he lowered his head. Ashes spread throughout the wind, entered his mind. Dito’s head swayed from side to side before a lone alley caught his glance. Perfect. He took a step forward, before he heard the whip sound of horses setting off. Not Perfect.
Dito glanced back, hoping they weren’t heading in his direction.
Ahh poo…
Dito’s eye widened, as his brows knitted in a panic while the carriage charged towards him. Before his eye caught on to a child running across the dirt road.
Dito’s focus took to the boy as the kid sprinted to the middle of the street while the road’s tremors grew fierce.
It wasn’t a moment later that the carriage flew past Dito, as the wind rushed through his hair.
With wide eyes and feet rooted to the ground, the child watched the carriage zoom toward him. In an instant, Dito’s eye widened as he roared,
“STOP!”
His wings spread from his back as Dito launched toward the boy. The driver of the carriage gave a fierce tug as the horses reared, standing on their hind legs as they slowed.
Dito snatched the boy before the horse’s hooves crashed down on him. Hooves scraped his arm as he lunged out of the way. Dirt picked up from the floor as the horses stood inches away from them.
While Dito stood up with the boy, the carriage doors swung open. The child looked up at him.
“Thank you, mister.” The kid thanked him with a kind tone. Dito emanated a sincere smile in return before the boy’s face shifted to a little girl’s.
His mind raced as Dito saw the girl’s cowboy hat clear in his head.
The memory of the girl caused Dito’s smile to fall into a frown.
The child knitted his brow in curiosity before Archer warned.
“Step away from that Dragon, child!”
The boy listened, turning his head to the Archer before glancing back toward Dito.
“Go ahead, kid. Get back to your parents. I got this.” Dito assured as he nodded. The boy smiled as he ran off to Dito’s words while Dito lifted his head to the sky. He sighed before a smirk crossed his face.
“Y’know, that’s pretty ruin screwin’…” Dito remarked, as he swerved his head to the archer. The party grabbed hold of their weapons as they inched closer to Dito.
“I just saved that kid from you and I’m the bad guy.”
“One good deed does Not make up for what you have done.”
“Is that how it works?”
“Now, you can choose to come with us peacefully or we will have to take you in by force…”
“Now, why would I do that?”
The lot of adventures continued to close the gap while Dito analyzed the crew’s non-verbal signals as they prepared for battle.
“If I come with you, I’m pretty much dead…”

A girl on his left reached for her knife while a giant man approached Dito from his right.
“You’ll take me…wherever you have to take me, if I’m lucky I’ll go to court, probably just to go to prison for the rest of my life. Or…”
Archer prepared an arrow, while even the driver readied himself for the fight that lay ahead.
“What will most likely happen, since there’s pretty much no prison that can hold me, is I’ll be sentenced to death, in which case I could also easily escape from.”
The big man readied his enormous bat while the archer took aim at the Ditto Dragon.
“So when it comes down to it, which one do you think between getting caught and being killed or running off where at least I’ll have a chance of survival? Which one do you think I’ll choose?”
Dito turned away to glance at the dirt floor. While Archer cast a spell on his arrow as the entire party charged at him. Dito raised his head as the Archer let go of his arrow.
Dito ducked. Crouched down, Dito sprouted a white tail from the bottom of his spine. As it grew to body length, its red spikes defined as they led to a red stinger that popped out from the end of his tail.
Dito spun around as he formed a whirlwind of dirt from the ground.
With the giant man and girl blinded, Dito lunged towards Archer.
Before Dito furrowed his brows, as his eye zeroed in on the archer’s loose shoulders and still posture.
The Archer’s brows furrowed while he glared into Dito’s eye. No? Dito became bewildered before he stomped his feet into the ground.
He took his stand yards away from Archer as they glared deep into each other’s eyes.
Before a shriek pierced the wind.
Dito’s eye widened as he glanced behind him to see the earlier arrow flying right back at him. Dito ducked again, but caught off guard, it sniped his left wing.
“Argh! Stupid magic arrows!”
Dito reached for the arrow in his wing when the driver tossed a rope to bind him. Archer prepared another one of his trick arrows while Dito ripped through the driver’s rope. While Archer aimed at Dito, Dito took notice as he jumped up, thrashing his wings as he further lifted off the ground.
But his injured wing couldn’t do it.
Archer shot another arrow at Dito, to which Dito tried to deflect as he spun himself midair.
He swung his tail at the arrow as he yelled, “Magic’s Not Fair!”
The arrow exploded upon impact as it sent Dito rocketing into a nearby building.
This is exactly what I didn’t want to happen.
Dito blew out the opposite side of the building, twisting his body to land feet first.
He caught his balance before he bolted.

With the massive man charging behind him, Dito kept up his sprint. Dito grew some distance away, before he shouted, “What are you, a giant!?”
As if offended, the ‘giant’ replied, “Hey, you’re quite tall for a human yourself, you know!”
But I’m not human.
“Yeah, but at least I’m not freakishly tall!”
Dito got in a fighting stance, spreading his legs as he looked up at the frustrated giant.
“Excuse me!?” The big guy yelled while he swung his enormous mace down on Dito.
“Calm down ya, sack of muscles.”
Dito jumped over the big guy’s head, avoiding his attack, as he announced,
“I’ll be sure to make this quick.”
Dito mounted himself on the giant as he punched him in the back of the head, sending him falling. The guy face-planted, picking up a cloud of dust while Dito stood fastened to the giant’s back.
The dust settled before Dito sighed.
“Ooo, I hit him in the back of the neck…aaaah, I didn’t hit him that hard. He should still be alive.” Dito commented as he walked off the man’s back before the girl with the knife jumped from the rooftop. She landed next to Dito before she jabbed her knife at him with lightning speed.
Dito jumped back as he avoided her blade. He landed yards away from her, but as he raised his head, she closed the gap in seconds.
“You’re fast. Are you some sort of thief?”
“Why would I tell you!?”
Well. She has the attitude.
She jab, kicked, punched, each hit swifter than the last.
While Dito struggled to dodge her, he stated,
“You’re a little too fast for a thi—”
She kicked the rest of his words out of his lips as he stumbled back.
“Got you now.”
The supposed thief told him as she swung her knife. But to her surprise, he ducked down.
“Well, you are fast. I’ll give you that. But luckily…”
Dito remarked as he slid his foot into gear. He sprinted around the thief faster than she could pull her dagger.
“…I’m faster.”
He punched her with two fingers in the neck.
She whirled around to counter, but as she did, she felt a spike in her neck, as she fell flat on the ground.
Dito stared at her unconscious body, brow raised as he commented,
“What? Nobody taught you about pressure points?”
The air shook as a high-pitched screech echoed through the sky.

Dito furrowed his brows before whirling around to catch a flying arrow.
Dito gripped the arrow, growing a fierce glare toward it.
He waited to see what special trick the arrow held while the archer walked out from the shadows.
“So what? does this arrow not have a trick?” As Dito spoke, the arrow lit up in a blinding display.
With nothing but light in his eye, Dito tossed the arrow while Archer charged at him.
A sprinkle of footsteps gained bass as Dito’s ears perked up.
He shoved his arms up as the sound grew inches away before being kicked in the forearms.
The kick caused Dito to take a step back, before jumping away to recover his sight.
Archer jumped back as well, before he shot another arrow into the ground. It emitted a gust of air as it blew Dito into another building.
Dito landed on a wooden floor, as broken planks fell all around him.
Flat on the floor, Dito moaned while he built up the strength to stand back up.
Dito rose from the floor, grunting while the driver leaped through the building hole. The driver threw his rope at Dito again, but this time Dito caught and tugged on the rope.
The driver of the carriage rocketed toward Dito while he extended his arm.
His arm stretched, Dito held it stiff as the driver rammed into it.
The driver fell on the floor unconscious, prompting a pitiful look from Dito.
He glowed an apologetic smile as he spoke with a sincere tone.
“I apologize to whatever part of you that thought you could beat me. Truly. Sorry.”
The archer charged through the front door of the building as he fired thousands of arrows.
Dito’s head whipped towards the barrage before he twirled around.
In a twisting display, Dito used his tail to deflect the arrows before cutting out the arrow lodged in his wing.
Archer hid behind the countertop, readying another bunch of arrows.
“Tell me. How come I can beat a guy twice my size and a girl that’s probably even faster than your own arrows, but I still can’t manage to beat you?”
Archer emerged from the counter, firing a barrage of arrows at Dito.
Dito ducked as the arrows flew over his head before one of them burst into a mini-black hole.
What the? Is black hole arrows even possible?!
The vortex lifted Dito by his legs before he lunged his hand into the ground. He held himself in place while the archer allowed the wormhole to pull him toward Dito. While the black hole zipped into nothing, Archer rammed his knee into Dito’s face.

The blow knocked Dito back as he used his tail to stay balanced before he wiped his face off. His eye closed, his ears perked up to the screech of another arrow.
Dito threw his head up to catch or deflect it, but as Dito glanced up, he noticed the shot arrow etched into the roof.
Did he miss?
A light ring spawned from the arrow, causing Dito’s eye to widen before he wrapped himself in his wings.
Trillions of arrows flung from the ring as they showered him, tearing into his wings and through his clothes. Before the magic light disappeared, Dito fell to his knees, as a burning pain spread through out his entire body.
His wings now carried billions of arrows and holes.
His body stood covered in scrapes and scratches.
Not one landed a direct shot but they still shred through his skin.
Dito grunted as he gritted his teeth in a raging pain. He even struggled to raise his head, as he glared into Archer’s eyes.
“Ugh, that was pretty good. Are you some kind of a pro?” Dito’s question laid dormant as the archer took aim at the Dragon’s head. With a pounding heart, Dito stared at the arrow, as time seemed to slow.
His eye dimmed, each breath grew longer than the last, while his lungs closed.
No movement but his tail as it waggled with a sprung stinger.
This could be it. This could be the end of me. All I have to do is let him shoot.
Dito loosened his shoulders while his heartbeat slowed. A glossy shine erected from his stinger before it retracted into his tail as he whispered,
“…I’ll be with you shortly…My friends.”
“For your crimes against the Kingdom of Prithutam, you will now be served justice in the name of thy righteous. Judgment. Death.”
Dito’s eyelid swayed shut as the air grew heavy. He took what he assumed to be his last breath before the bowstring rang.
Huh, so death feels like falling. Who would’ve thought…Wait a minute.

2

Dito opened his eye, as he grasped a glimpse of a night sky.
“I am falling!” His eye went wide to the twinkling stars that circled him.
He spread his wings as the rivaling air current ripped the arrows out of them. A shattering pain rushed from the gaps that grew wider in his spread limbs.
It burned down to his spine as he groaned before spinning his head up to a hole in the sky.
A portal?
The portal above him shrunk as he watched Archer fighting someone inside. He only caught a shred of the individual’s silhouette as the wormhole shut.
With nothing else to see, Dito’s head shot down as he recollected where he might land;
a pond.
Or trees that carried many thorns.
Dito’s brows knitted as he guided himself towards the pond. His wings spread, he clenched his teeth as he reached the water.
Almost there.
His thoughts deceived him as a wind stirred him out of control.
“Oh, you got to be kidding me!”
Dito hid his wings in his back as he spun towards the thorns.
Can’t let you be torn apart anymore.
Curled up into a ball, he smacked into the trees.
“Ow—Ouch—Owey!”
He fell from branch to branch as Dito continued to announce his pain until he ran out of wood. With nothing but the air in between him and the ground. Dito shut his eye tight as he fell face first.
Inches away from the ground, threads caught on to his leg. A grip held him like a cactus holds a finger.
Hung meters above the ground, he squinted his eye open. Eye rounding as he reconciled with his current state. His sight swept up to his feet as he spotted a vine wrapped around his leg.
As it stretched.
The trees pulled down as they all bent toward him, preparing to launch him back into the air.
“There is no way a tree like this could exist to be so cruel!” He shrieked before the trees vines launched Dito back into the air. Flung through the sky, Dito closed his eye and gritted his teeth. The pond water splashed into the air as he crashed.
He raised his body from the water as he sat in it. His eye opened with a drowse as his brows inched lower.
Like a fountain, he spewed water from his lips to clear his throat.
Before he raised his head to the sky as he sighed.
“I was so close, so close.” Dito shook his head. He took a deep breath before he pulled himself out of the pond.
His clothes soaked, he trickled water on the grass as he walked. He raised his head to the night sky as he stretched. His back came into place with a pop before he rotated his shoulder.
He rested his hand on his neck as he squeezed his eye shut to the sensation of his muscles rattling.
But as his eye opened, a light caught his sight.
He turned to gaze around him as a massive city stood before him.
Roads of concrete and lights beamed at every corner. Machines of wheels took the streets as Dito’s eye pinched to the sight of them.
“Earth?”

He took a step towards the city as he shook his head.
“Earth? How am I on Earth, and who teleported me here, anyway!? This doesn’t make sense. Ok, ok, let me think through this slowly. I was just on my planet, Tirar. Now I’m on Earth. Clearly someone sent me here before that archer guy executed me. But who?”
Dito looked up at the city as he approached it.
Brows knitted before he muttered,
“I should probably take some other form, something that doesn’t scream ‘I’m a dragon from another world’.”
He closed his eye as his body melted and melded. Skin shifted like a wave as he shrank down. Each pour turned white before blue fur sprung out of his skin. Clothes sank into his hair as Dito turned from human… to cat.
In feline form, Dito’s stature stood at a foot and a half. Fur wrapped his entire body, as even his missing eye was now covered by a sole clunk of fur.
Dito walked into the city unnoticed, despite being a cyan colored cat.
He contemplated his new form.
Well, I tried my best. Seems like it’s working for the most part.
As Dito walked on the road, a car approached the dragon from behind. Dito turned around as he stared at the blinding lights of the vehicle.
What the heck is that!?
The dragon, now cat, jumped to the sidewalk as the car zoomed by. Dito watched it in amazement before a guy with a hoodie walked past him. Instinct took over as Dito hissed at the guy. With just a glance, the man continued to walk away from Dito.
What is that guy wearing? Is it a cloak of some sort, a jacket? But aren’t jackets bigger? And bulkier?
Dito looked down at the alleyway next to him, seeing a dumpster.
“A box?”
Why does it smell? And why is it so big? Oh! I should probably be careful not to speak in cat form. And I need to focus!
A truck passed by Dito while letting off a big Hoooonk!
Whoa-ho, now that’s big. Focus!
Dito whipped his head ahead of him, while he walked on the edge of the sidewalk.
I need to get out of here, back to Tirar!
…
But how?
Dito wondered, as he looked down at the floor, walking through the city as he contemplated.
Ok, so someone sent me here. Which means someone can send me back. Right? I hope. Either way, portals are made using magic. So I have to find a magic user. But How? There aren’t many magic users on Earth but there are some. Heck, there are even some magic users here that come from Tirar.
Dito walked up to a signal light, staring at the light changing, as he stopped, sitting down while he thought,
Still. How would I find someone like that?
He looked down at the road before taking a whiff of the air as a fragrant scent caught his nose.
He whipped his head in the direction it came from.
Oooooo, what’s this delicious smell? As his brain melted down, Dito’s eye landed on a restaurant. Fooooood.
His stomach grumbled as his mouth opened wide. A smile came across the cat’s face as drool spilled from his lips.
No! He whipped his head away from the restaurant. I have to focus…
With the squeezing shut of his eye, his stomach retumbled.
…Although…I am pretty hungry, and I’ve never smelled such a delicious aroma in my life…
His eye broadened as a revelation dawned.
That’s it! I can smell them!
Anyone who comes from Tirar is got to have a different scent from the humans of Earth. Plus, magic tends to leave quite a stench on those who use it…
Dito gazed up at the night sky, determination written across his face.
…I just need…to focus.

His eye swayed shut as Dito took in a maxed out mountain of air.
The fragrance of food in the restaurant with a touch of dumpster recurred in his nostrils. With his sense of smell, he could even smell the pond that he landed in, ten miles back.
Alright, that’s everything I’ve been through… now what’s ahead?
He reexamined ahead, as the aroma of the hooded man and two cars at a light filled his snout.
Streets, buildings, and a light pole followed before for a second… a dragon. Dito exhaled, sending all the air and smells he caught out back to the city.
A dragon? Was that a dragon I smelled for a second there?
He took another deep breath of air. Scents recurred but without the hint of dragon.
Darn it. It’s too far away, whatever it was… It’s probably the best chance I got at leaving this world.
Dito nodded his head, expiring the city’s aroma as he walked towards the mysterious scent. With a road crossed, Dito sprinted as he made quick time to the smell’s origin.
I guess I’m not really in a rush, am I?
At this, he slowed himself as he crossed another street.
He gazed past the tall buildings to a canvas of twinkling stars before a sigh escaped his lips.
This seems like a nice city… maybe I should try and enjoy it.
Dito’s eye widened, as something else came to mind.
His head dropped down as he stumbled in his step.
Flames and ashes faded into his mind.
A dark cloud of an ash-filled mist, and a black spread ground.
The notion of fire raging behind him.
His pace slowed, almost to a complete stop as his ears drooped down.
Dito sighed as a black void engulfed him.
But then a growl cut through the silent air.
His head cocked up, brows knitted, before Dito looked into a dark alleyway to his right. A bulldog emerged from it as it continued to growl at Dito. Dito arched his back like any cat while he glared into its eyes.
I thought dogs and cats were supposed to be friends.
The dog barked at Dito.
I thought the whole Dogs hating Cats thing was just a myth.
The dog’s barks grew louder as the dog grew closer. Before it lunged at him.
Guess not!
Dito bolted, running across another street while the dog chased.
Alleyway, alleyway, alleyway!
As he ran, Dito spotted another alleyway before he stopped next to it. He looked down the alley to see a safe, empty path.
How come the day I find out dogs hate cats —Danger shot up as the dog leaped at him. Dito evaded into the alleyways as he continued— Is the Day I chose to be a cat!
He glanced back as he ran through the alley.
His gaze caught the dog ramming into a garbage can, as it failed to slow itself down before taking the turn. Dito whirled his head back as he observed the surrounding walls. His eye narrowed while his brows knitted. Eh. close enough.
He tilted his head in a nod, as he picked up pace. His paws left the earth as he jumped. He leaped wall to wall, climbing up the two buildings, as if he ran on air. While the dog continued to run through the alleyway.
Oblivious to Dito’s whereabouts. Dito reached the top of the building before he glanced down to see the dog run past. His eye closed while he lowered his head as a fresh sigh came from his heart.
I guess dogs really are stupid…naaah that’s not fair.

3

Dito crossed the city from roof to roof as he arrived. His nose filled with a draft of dragon and magic like a dust cloud.
He jumped to the corner stone of the roof as he announced,
Finally, I’m here.
His eye zipped up as his nostrils gaped.
The dragons aroma intensified similar to a heavy perfume.
Weird.
He stated, as the dragon scent churned a familiar tint. His brows knitted as he plipped, plopped his paws to the very edge.
Oh well… He tossed the thought aside. Now I need to worry about getting down from here.
His sight cocked down as he let up his bottom. He circled the corner as he gazed down for an escape.
But a flash barraged his view as he squeezed his eye shut.
He couldn’t help but turn his sight towards the disruption before his heart sank. His brain warped as his gaze caught onto a woman with blond shoulder-length hair. She seemed engrossed by stars and light like a fire; it enraptured Dito.
Whose that? Dito’s eye fluttered to clear way the blinding sun of her smile. Head leaned forward, he took a step towards her. A step into thin air, as he betrayed the confidence of his place.
Uh oh.
He fell. Ahhhhhhh!
His mind screamed as the wind thwarted his fur.
Before his gaze landed on the woman, who swept away his yell. She strolled off passed a corner, with a denim jacket coated to her torso and bell-bottom jeans that wrapped her thighs. A chain embraced her neck with a cross that glimmered in his eye.
Dito’s brain wish washed to the sight as a spark lit in his mind.
“Hee-hee-hee…Dito.”
“Huh?”
His brows knitted before he looked to see a shadow of where the woman stood. With nothing in view, Dito’s head lifted like a mist to a floor.
Before his gaze swung towards the pavement as his conscience caught a grip.
He-he, kinda funny to think that cats are known for landing on their feet… Too bad I’m not a real cat.
Dito still stuck his legs out to land, but without angle, he flipped.
Back first, he plummeted toward the ground. Well, this is gonna hurt. Dito fell fast as he came to accept his fate; He tied his eye and gritted his teeth.
Wait! My wings!
The thought came too late.plap!
…
Wait a sec, that wasn’t a hard landing.
Dito opened his eye, nuzzled between the arms and chest of a human woman. “Gotcha!” Dito stared at the lady’s face, confused as he wondered,

You…caught me?
She looked at Dito’s face in his cat form as she spoke,
“You should be—”
But before she could finish her sentence, her breath turned ravaged.
What the?
“Ah—ah–ah–achoo!!!”
She sneezed on Dito, before he jumped up and away from her. In a rush, he hid behind a corner as he thought,
Ill, she got boogers on me.
The woman pulled a nap from her purse as she wiped her nose. Her eyes raised after, as she spotted him again. She glanced back before lifting a smile.
Her smile flowed with a gentle brush that flushed his fuss, before her knee fell to the floor.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sneeze on you.” She tapped her fingers against the ground. “Could you… come here for a second?”
Dito popped his head out from the corner of the wall. His brows tied, while he glared at the female.
What is this woman planning?
“Come on, come here, here.”
Dito stood in place, suspicious of her, while the lady pursed her lips as she raised a brow. Her head cocked as an idea crossed her mind. She grabbed her purse to rush through it while Dito sniffed her scent.
Huh, interesting.
Her aroma registered a harmless hue, with a touch of magic wrapped around her.
Dito’s brows knitted to the odor before she popped out a pastry sweet from her bag. She ripped it from its wrapping before placing the treat on the floor. “Come here, come on, it’s ok. You can have it.”
Dito tilted his head. What’s that? It looks good. Dito’s jaw hung as he took a step forward.
He stopped.
No. I must…Resist…Temptation.
Dito’s stomach rumbled. His ears drooped down as he tiptoed toward her and the snack.
Oh well. One bite couldn’t hurt.
He inched step by step, as he looked up at her, her gaze meeting his.
A gentle smile glistened across her face. To which Dito’s eye narrowed. Before facing down in sorrow, biting the tasty treat. Upon a nibble, his eye lit up before he tore through it.
I’ve never tasted something so delicious in my life!
The woman’s eyes swept over him, her head wayward with a glowing smile. “You don’t seem injured. I guess you just gave yourself a pretty good scare.”
In Dito’s last bite, his gaze raised to her. He licked his lips before the lady chuckled as she commented, “Oh my. I guess you have quite an appetite.”
Dito frowned as he thought to himself. Yeah… guess I’m not the only one.
He teased her pouch stomach before his head dropped, as guilt crept up on him. That was mean. Oh well, she didn’t hear it, so I’m ok.
He jerked his gaze up to her while she stood tall. “Well, I better be going now. Try not to fall off any more roofs.”
She smiled again, with a sweet hue to her lips and a nod to her step before she turned to make way. As Dito kept view of the walking woman, he glanced at the floor whispering, “She was…kind.”
He continued to gaze at her stroll, as a furry, fluffy smile emerged from his face. Before his eye widened, jumping up in a loop.
Wait! The Dragon.
He looked around before sniffing the air.

“Sniff–sniff–sniff.”He stopped, now unable to smell it.
Darn it. I lost her. Dito sighed before returning his gaze to the madam.
Still visible in the distance.
I guess I have no other option. He smirked, tilting his head before he sprinted toward her.He followed the lady while doing his best to blend in. He stood as a distant tail while she crossed the street, taking a glance at her silver metal watch.
Her eye cocked up as if a shot called to begin a marathon. She rocketed from her place as her trench coat flapped to the breeze. Dito picked up the pace, following her to a wide door. It led the two to a flight of stairs that walked underground.
Stairs that lead underground… This can’t be a good sign.
He pressed his brows while the woman walked through a flock of persons that opposed their direction.
More people coming out than going in… I’m not sure how to take that.
His heart raced as he hurried behind the lady. She passed a set of mechanisms before his eye caught her entering a giant metal box—a subway train.
What in the world is that!?
He tailed as the doors swung shut behind them. He raised his sight, staring through the vehicle at its many seats and bars before viewing her again.
Sat left of the machine. He kept acute attention on her while making haste to a chair that crossed hers.
With his seat beneath him, Dito’s weight shifted to the start of the train. He pulled himself in place before his gaze lifted as he embraced her view.
Snugged snow jeans and a wrinkled buttoned shirt made mate with her trench coat and a paper dosed purse. Her hair flowed an orange thread, resting over her higher back. Eyes dipped with milk chocolate with a touch of grass at every light. With every glint, Dito’s eye caught an over dilate of her sight.
Is this girl blind?
He questioned while her view swerved over his head.
Why isn’t she wearing glasses? Wait, does Earth not have glasses?
Dito pondered the high tech society without glasses as the train pulled to a halt. The woman gave a small “puff.” as she raised from her seat. She gripped onto a bar while the doors swung open with a chime.
beam-beam—beam-beam
Dito took stance as he prepared to follow the mandarin blond out.
His gaze stood full while he tiptoed behind her as she left. His tail raised, he mounted his weight before he pounced. The doors sealing as he pulled through.
Nailed it!

He celebrated before a foot fell on him. He shot back as people walked over him, some inches away from crushing him.
Crud. Dito twisted and twirled past each step while he lost sight of the woman. He jumped up before he launched after her. His gaze twirled as he made out the crowd. He raised sights to the smaller buildings that filled the edges of a dormant road.
His eye leaned left before the woman’s trench coat fueled his view as she faded behind a corner. Found you.
He sprinted toward the edge before he turned. His sight landed on the woman as she crossed the street. As a distant tail, he waited for her to walk away from the cement before crossing it himself.
The lady made another turn before Dito shot to it. His eye peeked from the building’s edge as he watched her walk ahead. She settled his gaze before she stopped at a door. Her eyes above it, before she rummaged her purse. A pair of keys pulled out of it. The woman squinted as she aimed the tool at the lock.
Alright, this is gonna be a tight squeeze.
Dito tilted his head in a nod. His four paws stretched, a focused eye on the door’s crevice. His glare raged as he lifted his tail.
Click! The door opened as he shot to it. He flew like a comet as his feet danced over the floor. The gap squeezed paper thin while Dito’s brows further fell.
Before he thread through, inside the building, as his eye closed in his slow. His noggin swayed as a breath reaped from his lips. Before the lock clunk! Shut.
I made it.
He raised his gaze as the woman unlocked another door ahead of him.
Oh, come on!
His head dropped like a doll as it opened. She stepped out the foyer while the cat jerked up in a pounce. But with an extra shove from the lady, he fell face first into the solid.
Ow.
Dito laid on his back with his tail in the air as he slid against it.
He slumped on the floor before his eye cocked up to a transom window above the door. “That’s high… and tiny.” The dragon whispered as he heaved a heavy breath before he rolled to his feet.
He stood on all fours with his eye up as he knitted his brows in preparation. His tail waggled as he charged his legs before announcing,
“Here we go.”
He leaped, shrinking his body. Dito slid through the transom and over the door. Paws meeting on the other side, he whispered, “Yes…” He air pumped his paw, victorious.
After the moment of celebration, Dito surveyed the hall as he spotted the woman enter a closing elevator.
“Really?”
His ears drooped as the mechanism rose. He frowned before catching blinking numbers over the lift. The last flicker resting on seven..
Seven. She must be on the seventh floor.
The dragon looked around the room
Staaaiiirs, where are the stairs?
Dito cocked his head as he recognized a sign with a picture of stairs. As he walked toward the post, he observed an object underneath it.
“Door. My old enemy has returned.”
Dito stated, as he frowned before he followed the door’s trim.
No window slit, huh… how am I supposed to get past you?
He looked down while his face shifted in thought. Before his head jerked with a spark in his eye.

Moments later, the dragon opened the passage, using his hand, now in human form. His lips spread cheek to cheek. “Work smarter, not harder.”
He stated before sprinting up the stairs as he made his way to the woman’s level.
Dito pulled the seventh door open, shifting scales back to his cat body as he entered it. A pounce in his step. He could see the woman in the distance as she opened the passage to her unit. Dito’s eye popped round before he shot at her. In a sprint, he launched at the entrance as she walked in.
The mass closed in on the dragon as he sealed his eyelid and gritted his teeth. He mounted his head forward in a charge. The gap shrank as he sucked in his stomach. His paws scraped the floor as he squeezed through.
While the door shut behind him. But caught in momentum, he skittered under the lady.
“Hey!?”
The woman yelped, looking down at him, her brows shot up while her eyes jumped out to him.
Sorry.
Dito thought, as he continued to run through the hall.
“Kyara?”
Another woman’s voice raised, as she peeked her head out from a doorway to his left. Dito’s eye cocked up, before meeting a violet terror of a glare.
No…
A shiver ran down his spine. Before his gaze caught hold of this girls green looped hair. He made his sight of her emerald gown. Patterned with a yellow dragon-like armor falling from her chest to the hem of her dress. His eye rounded to her drawn sheer olive sleeves. Heart aching to the purple accents of her overlapped skirt. Diamond patterns as that of scales printed through out it shook his bones.
A Green Dragon. Maybe this wasn’t the right place to go to.
Still, he dashed passed the woman to a massive door way at the end of the hall. Which he sprinted through as he entered the dining-living room complex. As he ran through the dining area, he caught two figures that sat at the couch in front of a small TV. One of them looked over the sofa, spotting Dito before they yelped, “A Kitty!” With her voice squeaking like mice, she leaped from her seat.
His eye jumped up at the girls short stature.
She squeezed her bubble-round cheeks and black eyes with a blazing smile. Dito’s brow lifted to her magenta hair twirling about behind her.
With a wrapping sable one-piece skirt on her torso. Loose on the shoulders with a hanging sleeve and a white belt with a pinkish ring buckle around her waist. Lower on her figure, she wore thigh-high socks, which charged towards him.
“Jackie! Catch it.”
Dito’s heart sank as Jackie with lifted hands ran faster to him at the Green Dragon’s word.
She wiggled her fingers as she leaped a grasp. In cat form, his quick nature avoided Jackie’s grip.
Sorry, not today Jackie. Was that her name?
He rocketed to the other side of the couch, where his eye raised to the other sat figure.
A girl, a teen in skin, with silver hair that fell to her shoulders. A purple tank top with fluffy silver feathers in its inseam played meat to her boney body. With lime shorts that had fluff poking out of its inseams, too.
Dito’s brows knitted before his gaze cocked up to her pearl eyes.
Is she blind?
“A cyan cat, I’ve heard of black cats but I’ve never seen anything like this.” The girl with the silver iris commented.
Nope not blind, very intuitive. But that’s not good for me in this situation, right now.
“So you’re saying she’s unique!”
Jackie exclaimed as she approached Dito, her brows knitted while she asked, “Or is it a he? hmm…” Her lips pursed, Dito’s eye cocked to the flame igniting in Jackie’s dark void iris. She leaped toward him, bringing a sigh as he scurried underneath the living room table.
“Lyrai, Help!”
The Green Dragon ordered,
“Got it, Rae.”
Lyrai replied, while Dito ran out from under the counter.
The three girls hunted him like a pack of wolves. They surrounded him leaving his heart jumping from his chest before he jerked up. His eye zeroed in on the shadow of the couch as he flung underneath it. Covered in shade, he stood still as the women circled him. Dito’s noggin cocked up with a thought.
Wait a minute, green hair, purple eyes; Green Dragon. Silver hair, silver eye’s, can see— magenta hair, black eyes—
He raised his nose as he inhaled their scent before his eye rounded like a misplaced child.
These girls are all Dragons!

“Do you really believe that will be enough to escape me?” Her words passed, the couch flipped over his body.
Dito jumped up as a blinding light shined in his eye before he ran right into the smaller girl, Jackie. “Gotch-ya!” She picked him up, raising him over her head as she looked up at him. An enormous beaming smile across her face as she exclaimed, “You’re sooooo Cute!”
Well, I guess if someone was gonna catch me, glad it’s her.
Jackie hugged Dito, her massive bust suffocating him before he added,
I take it back. Rae walked toward the two, as she asked, “You have him gripped well, correct?”
Jackie rattled her head up and down with a giant grin on her face.
“Good. Now throw him out.”
“No!” she replied as she thrashed the cat away from Rae.
“Jackie—” Before Rae could continue, Kyara walked into the living room, saying, “Hold on, I saw that cat earlier. He might still be scared.”
Rae turned to Kyara. “Scared of what?”
Without a chance to answer, Lyrai, the girl with silver hair, pulled at Rae’s sleeve as she asked in a sarcastic tone, “Rae, please allow me to analyze this uniquely colored cat before you throw it out.”
“No.”
Lyrai grunted, before Rae continued to speak to Kyara.
“And it doesn’t matter anyways. You’re allergic to cats, and I will not allow any more cat fur to be spread amongst this house!”
Lyrai questioned Rae on Kyara’s allergy with knitted brows, while Jackie shouted, “No! She’s mine.”
“Jackie, give me the cat!” Rae ordered.
“No.”
“Give it to me, Now.”
“No.”
The two continued to argue while they ran around the room as Rae attempted to take Dito.
As they did, Lyrai walked toward Kyara, asking, “How’d that cat follow you, anyways?”
“I may have fed it.”
“Oh, then it’s settled. We have to keep it.” Lyrai remarked, before Rae interjected, “You fed it!?”
Kyara shrugged as she replied, “Only one dorayaki.”
“You fed it a dorayaki!” Lyrai cried out, before she lowered her head as she muttered, “I’m surprised that cat’s still alive.”
Rae frowned as she knitted her brows, grunting before Jackie shouted from the other side of the room, “Aha! So now we have to keep her!” She faced Dito toward her, as she stared into his eye. “Now all you need is a name.”
Dito’s stomach twisted and turned to the rapid movement before he thought, Kill me now.
Rae flipped the couch back on its feet as she stated, “Jackie, You will not name that cat.”
Without a shred of attention to Rae, Jackie ran through her name gallery as she held her distance. “How bout Blue, no that’s no good. Katty, ha-ha, like Kitty.”
“How bout blue menace.” Lyrai suggested, before Jackie replied, “Why such a cruel name for such a cute cat?”
“Do not aid her, Lyrai.”
Rae ordered while Kyara tilted her head, raising a slim smile, as she stated,
“Oh, let them keep the cat, Rae. I think it’s cute, plus we can add another member to our family.”
“I don’t want another member to our family, especially a blue feline.”
“Technically cyan. Or is it turquoise?” Lyrai commented while Jackie suggested, “How bout Cat, No, Kat.”
“There’s no difference in that.”
“Uh huh, if ya pay attention Lyrai, one of them starts with a ‘c’ and the other with a ‘k’.”
Lyrai scratched her head before she replied, “Ok…But it doesn’t matter, It still sounds the same, and how are you gonna name a cat without even knowing what gender it is? Did you just assume it’s a girl?”
“Oh! You’re right, I totally forgot.”
“Stop.” Rae ordered as she walked toward Jackie, who continued to ignore her. “Hmmm, let’s see.” She lifted Dito, causing him to think,
Wait, what!? Dito’s eye cocked open before he flailed about in a flared frenzy. His paws swirling through the air, smacking Jackie in the face, as she lost grip.
The cat fell to the floor before he rushed blind to the closest and safest place he could. He sprinted to a cover, with a soft cloth wrapping over his body as he stopped to breathe.
Wait, where am I? His eye raised, Dito could tell that he was under some sort of large fabric. Only realizing exactly where he had fled when he spotted someone’s foot next to him.
Oooh, no…
He titled his head as he furrowed his brows. While above, Rae looked down. Her eyes wide, while her brows crossed as Dito sat underneath the skirt of her dress.
“Rae, don’t move.” Kyara attempted to help, but her call to Rae caused her to flinch. She took a step back, before a cry screeched from under her. After the scream, Rae lifted into the air, as if a seat emerged underneath her. She bounced up as her head smacked the ceiling, before falling down and on top of something.
Sat down, The Green Dragon felt a warm, well-structured, gentle yet firm object pressed against her bottom. Her brows knitted over her eyes while her head jerked down like a clock needle.
Before her gaze fumed in flames, her chest tightened while her face burned red.
Dito, now in humanoid form, popped out from Rae’s skirt, rubbing his hair as he said,
“Ow.”
He continued to rub his forehead, before his eye rose to the room. His sight filled with everyones eyes on him as he froze.
Jackie gazed of amazement, Lyrai of amusement, and Kyara of worry.
His brows knitted, Before his pupil pulsed to his human hand.
Oh noooooooooo…
His eye widened as he paused, before hearing a heavy breath behind him. He swerved his head around as slow as a ship in the ocean. Before his eye met the furnace flames of Rae’s violet coal eyes. A gentle, but sweat ridden grin illuminated his face. Before she stated,
“I will kill you.”

4

“You’re lucky I do not wish to destroy the furniture!” Rae yelled as Dito stood on the opposite side of the couch.
“Look, I’m sorry. What else do you want me to say? I didn’t mean to do it!”
The Green Dragon leaped over the sofa at him. He ducked in response, running beneath her before he twisted to face her. “It was an accident. Really, if you would just hear me out, I promise, I really didn’t—”
Her hand smashed the countertop between them as Dito lost his words. Rae swung the table out of her way as she snared, “You think I’m going to listen to you…after…After what you did! I will be sure to put you under the Earth myself!”
Wow, she’s dark.
She unleashed her claws as she prepared to tear the dragon apart. He pulsed a booming gulp as he thought,
I might actually have to fight this one.
She lunged at him.
“Rae, Stop!”
A voice cut through the air between them. Rae’s wings extended as her eyes shot open. She used them to return to where she stood. As Kyara held her stance between them. Arms out as she protected the Ditto Dragon.
While Rae landed, her protruding tail smacked the TV, sending it to the floor as it shattered.
“The TV…” Lyrai muttered.
“My Anime!” Jackie shouted.
The Swaun Dragon furrowed her brows at the words as she retorted,
“You know how much knowledge you can gain from that TV and all you care about is your silly cartoons.”
“Take that back.”
“No.”
Jackie swung from her, frustrated.
“Kyara. Move.”
“No, now calm down Rae.”
She gaped her mouth, ready to argue in return. Before instead glancing away. The Green Dragon exhaled her frustration with a heafty sigh. She calmed herself while she retracted her claws, horns, tail, and wings.
Meanwhile, Dito looked over Kyara’s shoulder with a worrisome knit of his brows. Before Kyara lowered her arms at the pace of a snail. “Good.”
Rae stared into her hazel eyes before she hissed, “Kyara. What exactly do you intend to do with this boy now, huh?”
“…Well, I think I’m gonna speak to him.”
“Spea-hu…”
Unable to muster another word, Rae shook her head, while Dito’s eyebrows crossed.
Why is she speaking like I’m not here? His eye narrowed before Jackie caught his view. His gaze swept towards her as she scanned him with owl eyes. His brow raised before he leaned away from her.
“...Hi…” He muttered, as she continued staring with dazzling stars flying through her pupil. Before a spark lit in them.
“I know you!”
Oh no.
“You’re Dito!”

Dito shuffled his head right to left while he rattled his palms in response. Kyara turned to the words as she stated, “Look at that. It seems this kid is a friend of Jackie’s.”
“That’s even more of a problem.” Rae replied as she grunted.
“Nuh-uh, we’re not friends.” Jackie shook her head at Kyara before she continued, “Although that would be cool! Nah, this guy right here destroyed an entire kingdom!” She exclaimed, a beaming bright smile on her face, as she added,
“The kingdom of…of…Per…Perrr…”
Dito frowned, sighing, as he looked down. Guess that cat’s out of the bag.
“Perrrr… Oh well. I guess it doesn’t matter since you turned it into dust.”
Jackie chuckled at that.
Before Dito jerked his head up. His brows furrowed, as he grew both baffled and worried.
“So anyways, Dito! How’d ya do it?” Jackie asked, a beaming smile glistening off her face. She propped up on her tippy-toes, closing the distance between them.
Dito froze with blank thoughts as his brow raised in bewilderment.
Kyara swerved her gaze to his eye as she churned, “Is that true?”
The Ditto Dragon leaned his sight toward her, while Rae lamented,
“More of a reason to get rid of him.”
He glanced at the voice, before Kyara’s eyes followed suit. “Sshh.” She hushed, before Dito returned his view to the human. Her brows knitted, before she turned to meet him.
“Don’t pay attention to her, just look at me.” She stated, tilting her head, before she asked, “Is it true?”
Dito’s face softened as he lowered his gaze. Yes.
Kyara nodded in return as she looked down. The cyclops raised his eye to her processing the information.
But before she could finish, he spoke, “I shouldn’t be here.” He glanced at Lyrai. “I’m sorry.”
As he took a step back, someones fingers grasped his arm as Jackie voiced,
“Wait. You haven’t answered my question.”
“I too have many questions I’d like to ask.” Lyrai added.
Before Dito turned to them.
Jackie squeezed her grip while Lyrai lifted a notebook and pencil.
“You don’t have to leave, Dito. This is a place filled with Dragons with regret. It’s a safe place. The least you could do is… Just take the time to rest.” Kyara said.
“What! Regret. What makes you so certain he even has regret?”
Rae interjected.
“Well, why don’t we ask Lyrai, then.”
Kyara looked at the teen for an answer, before she nodded in return. She turned to Dito, opening her nostrils as she inhaled his scent. Dito’s eye widened to the sight.
Wait, is she smelling for emotions? That means she has to be a Swaun Dragon, right? Now I just gotta figure out what Jackie is.
After taking his smell, Lyrai aimed toward Kyara, saying, “Yep, definitely regret.” As she said that, she doubled back a glare.
His eye narrowed to her stare before the human clapped her hands.
“Wonderful!”
What’s wonderful about regret?

“Now, dinner should be ready soon. When it is, you can have whatever you want.” Kyara ordeal’d with a blooming smile, before the Green Dragon cut in, “What?! I’m not cooking for him.”
Kyara turned to Rae, responding, “Now, now, he’s a guest. We can’t let our guest go unfed before bed.”
Rae swung her head away, as she was resigned to feed the boy.
“You truly are kind, Kyara… But I can’t stay, I can see I’m not welcome here, and beside I-I need to find a way back home as quickly as I can.”
“If that’s what you’re looking for, Dito, then I think this is the best place you could be.” Lyrai turned to Rae, nodding as she continued, “Right, Rae?”
His brow raised as he aimed view at the dragon while she answered,
“I suppose I could make a portal back to Tirar, but it would take me a few days,” She grabbed a hold of her arm.
“My memoir flow has been running dry…Seeing as I have not nurtured it for a while.”
Is that how magic works?
Kyara smiled at the Cyclops Dragon, saying, “Wonderful. That means that you can stay here for a few days before you head back home.”
Dito stared at her, mute in words, before a woman with a golden gown and tiara entered his mind. No, not again. He took a step from the woman.
“I’m sorry, but I ca—”
“Please Dito. One night.” Kyara cut him off as she placed her hand on his cheek. “You seem tired. Please, at least just for tonight. Tomorrow you can do whatever you want.”
He glanced down as he sighed, muttering, “Well, I am tired.” He looked into her hazel eyes as her gentle smile eased him.
How could I say no to this woman?
Unable to deny Kyara’s aid, he nodded. “Ok. You win.”
The edges of the woman’s lips jerked up as she replied, “That makes me very happy to hear. Now, why don’t you sit over there.” She pointed at the dining table. “And let’s all eat together.” Kyara suggested, before Dito raised his noggin in a nod.
They all moved to the feast room, while Rae walked past them to the kitchen. Her face burned bright red, as a vein bulged from her forehead. Her brows heaved low as she muttered to herself, “I never said I would help him.”
As the boy entered the dining section, Kyara pulled out a chair for him to sit. Before he nodded a ‘thank you’ as he sat down. He took a sigh, as he glanced down before his eye leered to his right. Where Jackie, still holding on to his arm, beamed a bright smile, as she inched closer to his face.
The man leaned away before she exclaimed, “Look! You’re my height.” She smiled, chuckling as she continued, “I’m just kidding. I know you’re sitting down.” Dito’s head bobbled as he stood speechless.
“So! How was it?” Jackie asked.
Dito knitted his brows as he shuffled in his chair. “How was what?”
“Was it like in one big explosion? Or did it take, like, time? Did you fight millions of knights before you made it into the King’s quarters, where you slowly decimated both him and the Queen, as they slowly turned tuh dust?!” Jackie exclaimed, with a mass of a smile as a flicker of orange light sparked in her eyes.

Dito furrowed his brows further, disturbed as he asked, “Are you ok?”
“She gets like that from time to time. Don’t worry about it.” Lyrai interjected as she sat to Dito’s left with a notebook and pencil in hand. “So, first question; What type of dragon are you, exactly?”
“Uh…”
“He’s a Ditto and Cyclops dragon!” Jackie answered for him.
“Interesting, So that’s why you’re able to transform into a cat, and without the use of illusive patterns no less.” She paused to write in her book.
“Uh, yeah.”
Dito replied, before he looked at the other girl, asking her, “How do you know that?”
“Jackie was the last one of us to leave Tirar, so she is the most likely to have heard of you before she left.” Lyrai answered.
“Yep! I know what yah are and what-ya did… Well, kind of.”
I guess it’s true, word travels fast.
“But—”
“So, can you shapeshift another eye or is that the reason you wear an eyepatch?” She interrupted him, before Kyara halted. “Lyrai, leave him alone.”
“I only got to ask him one question.” She replied, raising her shoulders as she did. Dito faced the gentle cat catcher before he said, “No, no, its ok, umm…” He paused in thought as he returned to Lyrai while Kyara sat.
“Yes, I-I can’t shapeshift another eye. That is why I wear an eyepatch.”
“So you can’t just shapeshift into anything?” Lyrai asked.
“Well, it’s not as simple as that,”
And I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but…
“I can shape an eye. But an eye has internal components that I can’t replicate. I actually can’t do anything to change my internal organs. So if I were to make an eye, It wouldn’t work, and I wouldn’t be able to form another eye similar to my left.”
“Hmm.”
“It’s also why I can’t copy magic, or rather, that technically has more to do with my genes, since I’m part Cyclops Dragon.”
“Right, Cyclops Dragons can’t use high frequencies.”
“Well, not all dragons can, I know most do. In fact, that’s how you all look human, right now.”
As the two spoke, both Jackie and Kyara watched them in wonder, although Kyara also gazed in worry.
Lyrai tapped her pencil against her chin as she asked, “That actually brings me to another question. I know Ditto Dragons are rare. In fact, I thought they were a myth before today, but…Which one was your mother, and which one was your father?”
Dito froze.
The smell of rotting vegetables and burning wood filmed his mind, as he muttered, “That was a…”
Lyrai lowered her brows as she sniffed the air while he repeated, “That was a…”
Jackie tilted her head as she swayed toward him, asking,
“Did you forget?”
Dito’s eye swerved to her, but his vision blurred. A dark cloud shifted into his mind. Balls of light fell from the sky. His heart raced as his pupil slimmed.
Before Lyrai churned, “Dito?”
“Lyrai, Jackie, that’s enough.” Kyara’s voice called to his attention as his gaze turned to her. His sights flowed back to him as the gazy syndicate of his view dissipated. A single yellow lamp warmed his skin. A serene moon looming behind him.
Before Rae came, five plates with a multitude of delicacies in hand. She walked toward them as she served before announcing,
“Alright, food is served. Everyone, please enjoy. Not you.” Her eyes shot to Dito as she glazed an icy glare over him. His plate passed to him. He sighed while Kyara thanked the Green Dragon before Jackie and Lyrai did the same.
Wow, I haven’t had food like this in a long time. His eye to the dish, his brows knitted before their voices called to him. He lifted his view to the others, smiling at each other before eating.
Except one who stared at him. Her eyes squinted at him before he nodded in return. “Thank you… Truly… Thank you.”
“Mhmm…” Rae replied, before she raised a smile toward Kyara, who spoke to her. Dito watched before looking down to his meal. The edges of his lips tilted up. Before he took a bite.
What in the world? It’s either Rae is a master chef or Earth just has some of the best food I’ve ever had!

5

After dinner, everyone rested in bed except for Kyara and Rae. As Rae washed the dishes, while Kyara exited the bathroom. She dried her hair with her towel as she caught sight of Rae through the small kitchen pass through. Rae glanced at the room Dito slept in, frustration and resentment burned in her eyes.
Kyara sighed, a gentle smile bloomed over her lips, before she made to the Green Dragon. Who’s eyes raised from the dishes, as her gaze rounded to the bathed woman walking toward her. “Ugh, I cannot believe you let that dragon stay in here.”
“What did you say?” Kyara asked as she entered the kitchen. “Nothing.”
Next to the furied dragon, she grabbed another towel to dry and store the plates while Rae continued to wash.
“Rae?”
“Hm?”
“Are you ok?”
“I’m fine.”
“…”
Silence filled the air, before Kyara glanced at her. Rae ignored her presence as they stood silent.
“…”
“…”
“How could you let that dragon stay here?”
Kyara smiled at Rae’s burst of rage.
“And I do not like the idea of him sleeping in the same room as Jackie.”
Kyara raised her brow as she swerved toward the shared room before assuming, “Are you worried they’re going to fall for on—”
“No!”
“Shhhh, Rae, are you jealous? Have you fallen for the one-eyed man?”
Kyara smirked at her friend, who expelled a deep exhale.
She turned her head while she rolled her eyes as she answered, “You should leave the jokes to Lyrai.”
“Well, maybe you’re right. But if you were to have children, and they asked the two of you how you met. You would have quite the interesting story to tell.”
“…Silence.”
Kyara stored another plate as she smiled at Rae with her brows tilted up. “I’m sorry. But when I first saw that boy… I couldn’t not help.”
“I know, but opening a portal back to Tirar will not only take time, but is dangerous, Kyara. We should just tell him to leave. It is safest for us.”
Kyara glanced at the empty sink as Rae finished her duty, before she replied, “Just give him a chance Rae. Maybe, I don’t know…He’ll choose to stay, and we won’t have to worry. that’s all I ask.”
Rae looked outside the open window as she stared at the knocked over TV. “He broke the TV.”
“No, actually, you did that, Rae.”
She sighed in response as she dropped her head. “Whatever.” She replied to Kyara’s plea as she nodded.
Kyara twisted her lips while she returned a nod, before staring out the kitchen pass through. “About the TV—”
“I know. I’ll see if Varieala can pop up tomorrow.”
“Thank you.” Kyara smiled again before she made her exit, whispering to herself,
“I wonder what sort of adventure this one will bring to our lives?”

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