Scarlet Knight: An Endless Prison

The blow from the black serpentine creature knocked me back; I could feel my back hit against the wall of my bedroom as he crawled closer, my head snapped back violently knocking stars into my eyes. Another, much smaller serpentine creature followed closely.

I stretched my hand back, touching my hair. It was wet, with blood.

"This is the human girl?" said the other creature, female voice and of a magenta like complexion.

"I believe so," said the black creature, which I realized quite slowly, was a dragon.

"What are you?" I managed softly; I could feel my very life-force itself ebbing out of my flesh, the wound from my head.

"She is strong," said the black, masculine dragon, "possibly from Huntsclan blood, but without the mark," he paused, "take the father as well, and she will be good enough bait for the American Dragon and his small band of fighters,"

The female dragon laughed, "Everything is going according to plan master,"

"Doesn't it always," said the black dragon, his eyes were on me, they were filled with fire that screamed hatred and evil, and I felt as if I couldn't breathe.

Slowly consciousness faded from within my grasp, as I spiraled into a state of disarray. Darkness enveloped me in its loving embrace, the only respite I would have in the few coming days…

Chapter I: The Cat's Out of the Bag

I opened my eyes with difficulty, and felt the warm embrace of a cat beside my body. I shied away immediately, curling myself into a ball. My father was a multi-millionaire, so I was taught what to do in such conditions. The first thing was not to show fear. I whimpered, the back of my head was pounding, from the blow. Touching the back of my head lightly I could feel dried crusted blood behind it.

This was going to be even more of a challenge with the creatures who had abducted me. They weren't human; their physical forms were too real, too scaled to be false. Besides, who would go through so much trouble to simply act as if they were dragons, just to kidnap me? These dragons were real, but I couldn't imagine what they would want with me.

Dragons are supposed to be from fairytales right? Disney movies and cartoons

I even remembered reading about it in a book called Eragon.

But real dragons, I could never have imagined.

"How did I get myself into this mess?" I muttered to myself, self-pity was something that was a bit hereditary. My mother was in an institution for mental instability. Not such a great role model.

"That my friend is a very good question," said a voice.

I shifted uncomfortably, instantly scanning the small dungeon that I was in. This place was beyond cliché, I could simply imagine shackles on the walls to pin me to them.

"I'm right beside you," said the voice.

I turned to watch the small cat like creature that lay beside me, it's eyes glowed with a light yellow in the darkness.

"b-b-but you're a cat," I stammered.

"And you're a human," retorted the cat, from his voice I guessed that he was male, "but you don't see me stammering to talk,"

I swallowed.

"Let me guess? You were abducted by the Dark Dragon too?" said the cat.

I blinked, "The Dark Dragon?"

The cat stood up, stretching on his haunches, "Tall guy, snippy attitude, dark scales, booming powerful voice with a little dragon following him around as if she was a puppy dog?"

I frowned, "Yea?"

"That's the guy," said the cat, he paused, "oops, where are my manners," he bowed his head, "my name is Kenton Keron Leonardo of Maruso Cat, but you can just call me Leo, that's my litter name,"

I blinked once again, still not used to the fact that I was talking to a cat, "litter name?"

His whiskers twitched lightly in embarrassment, "the name my mother calls me,"

"Uh-huh,"

He nodded.

"What are you?" I said.

He looked confused, "Why, I'm a cat, and you're a human, what's so hard to understand about that?"

"But you talk," I said.

His tail twitched, "You humans always think that you know everything," he sighed, "I'm a magical creature, what people of my community would call an Animal Guardian,"

I blinked once again.

"Animal Guardians are tasked to protect a magical charge, usually to render assistance to them, we talk, we dance, we sing," he stretched out once again, his voice expressed the stretch, "most cats are assigned as Animal Guardians to wizards and witches, which leads to people thinking that witches always have black cats," he paused, "that's so racial, my cousin Eddie isn't a witch's animal guardian, and neither am I, I am a dragon's Animal Guardian…," his words trailed off quietly.

He curled into a ball almost instantly.

I frowned; talking about his "dragon" seemed to bother him, "Are you okay?"

He nodded, without raising his head, "I am, but the thing is, I'm not an Animal Guardian anymore," he raised his head so that his eyes were on the same level as hers, and they locked with eternal sorrow, he said "the Dark Dragon killed my dragon,"

This is my promised Scarlet Knight Short Story, which I am contemplating whether to make a full-fledged 25 chapter story out of, or simply stick to my 12 chapter plot. Either way this story will cover events from The Week Long War, The Last Hunter, The Thousand Year Curse, Blade of the Wizard and the final story of the Wizard War trilogy. This is set within my Wizard Hybrid series.

Please Read and Review. If enough interest is shown, this will be made into a FULL 25 chapter story. If not, it will stay at it's 12 chapter plan.

5 reviews please!

JakeRoss2