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Season 2 : Tatsu ~ An Unexpected Ally - 10-23-2010, 02:32 AM

**Awesome dragons Nard-kun. I am glad that I left the last three up to you. Looks like Shakura has her own personal execution squad. The elites must be jealous.

Definitely will be source material for some interesting battles in the future.**

TATSU:
I awaken suddenly to a frigid bath. I didn't even remember falling asleep. In earnest, I gather myself and move out of the tub, grabbing on to one of the drying cloths that were stacked neatly on top of a low cabinet. I wrap it around my waste, and grab a second one and start to wipe the water from my chest and shoulders, trying to warm up in as little time as possible.

Once dressed back into my pants and white shirt I notice a small window just across from the tub. The two bottom boards had been removed from the pane. I bend my knees and look out. Night had fallen. I couldn't see anything out there. It was so dark, when I looked at the window, my own reflection looked right back at me instead. I had wondered why Aisha's house was so old and uncared for. All the windows were covered over and nailed closed. Was she hiding herself in here? Was she ashamed of this place? Random thoughts moved in and out.

In the other room Nozomi was asleep on a portion of the couch. Three bowls were littering the floor around her. Aisha was asleep in the chair, her shawl was draped across her front. The light from the fireplace waxed and waned, a orange glow bounced off the frames on the walls. The whole house was completely silent.
This moment comforted me. This security. This peaceful place.
I didn't want to sleep. Yes I was completely and utterly exhausted, but some sort of feeling was keeping me awake. For the entire time I had been in this city, I had continued to sense Swiftant's presence. It would come and go at times, but it has progressively grown more intense. It's almost as if I could reach out and touch him. I was trying to convince myself that I was just over worked, and I just needed to put my mind at ease for a few hours. But then suddenly-there is was-clear as a bell-I could feel Swiftant's being.

I closed my eyes and focused; placing the fingertips from both my hands on the sides of my temples. I whispered into my head "Swiftant?" It felt to me like I could hear someone's thoughts. In a blink I had seen a woman. It looked like she was standing in front of me. I was remembering what Yogensha had told me. How I had inherited a portion of his soul, and therefore I could sense people that I had met, just as he could in life. I always wondered how it was that he found me, and how he could see me from the other world. Was he able to see through me eyes? Was I seeing through Swift's eyes just a moment ago?

No. Only a dream. It has to be that. I need to lay down.

Dazed and confused, I didn't notice that someone had come to the front door of the house. Quickly and quietly, I grab Sora and slink behind a post. I couldn't make it out too well, there was at least two, the old wood of the porch gave them away. Aisha didn't mention that she was getting any visitors. Regardless of this, a feeling told me that on one comes here...
The two outside weren't salesman. Not at this hour...

The knob turned, and the door was slowly opened. I raised my blade. Stepping out, placing one foot directly in front of the other, I crept to the side of a bookcase, ready to strike. I could hear a woman whispering:

"Shh, don't make too much noise. I don't want to wake her up."

There in the dark, I recognized the masculine form. The light from outside was hitting him in the back, illuminating a fraction of his face, but I did know this for Swift. I hadn't seen him in a long time, but there was no mistake. It was him.

"Swiftant?" I speak aloud from my hiding post.

The two twirl around.

"Who?!" Swiftant blurts out.

"It's me, Tatsu." I step forward from the shadows. "It's been a long time." I approach him. "Somehow I knew you would be coming here."

"Tatsu? What are you doing here??" His voice raises with surprise, his arms outstretched.

The commotion had awakened Nozomi and Aisha.

"Waaahhh??" Nozomi grunts as she rubs her eyes.

"Who is it?" Aisha sits up. Half mumbling to herself.

The woman with Swiftant cringes, and takes a step back.

Aisha's eyes widen "Suzette?! Ohh! Suzette! You came home!"

Aisha gets up from her chair and runs over the the front door.

The woman, apparently named Suzette, stutters over herself "Y-yes mother, it's me." Aisha bursts into tears and throws herself onto Suzette. "It's been years!" Suzette lifts up her hands and places them loosely over Aisha's shoulders. "I'm sorry mother. You know why I haven't come here. It was for you. I was protecting you." Swiftant, Nozomi and myself are silent.

Aisha forces back a tear. "I know, I know! But you didn't even write a letter. Nothing!"

"I was under constant surveillance from the Dragon military. There was not that I could do. If I had given them the smallest inkling of your position they would of began the hunt."

Aisha is silent.

I break the silence. "Aisha...I am sorry, but I have to ask. Are you in hiding from the Dragon nation?"

Aisha closes her eyes, and sighs heavily. " I suppose I can't evade the truth forever. I didn't want to have to remember. Yes. It is true. For years the clans have searched for me. I have escaped them, and have remained here for half a century. I committed the ultimate crime..."

Nozomi blinks in confusion. "Aisha, what is going on? What are you talking about?" Nozomi rubs her head. "You never told me about this before."

Aisha turns from Suzette for a moment and faces the three of us.

"I know Nozomi...Perhaps if I just showed you rather than explain myself.. Then you will understand. Hang on."

Aisha steps away from us all and places her hands together, clasping them tight. Then, in a bright white light, Aisha's form changes. She transformed into a dragon. About half the size of a regular dragon. Her structure was frail, even still, her wings drooped, and her greenish-yellow scales were flaked and cracked... This knocks me clean off my feet, I stumble back under this sudden change. What is this?

"Please don't hate me. I am a dragon. Yes, a dragon. A dwarf dragon. My clan perfected human transformation. It was us who were the ones who would go on operations of espionage and infiltrate human cities. Gain knowledge of it's fortification and then report back so the army could overthrow them In the end, I stole something of extreme value from the empire and then escaped with a human...This human, became my husband. He knew I was a dragon on the inside, but he didn't care. He forged a family...Had Suzette. When I told her about her heritage and showed her myself she became incredibly intrigued by the Dragon's world and left this sanctuary."

Aisha changes back to a human. "I haven't changed in years. In all honesty, I was hoping I would never have to again, for a moment there I was unsure if I could."

No one knows what to say... So this is why Aisha stays in hiding in here. The city must know of her, and have shunned her to the far edges of Shinkirou.

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