[SweetSuicide]

“Let me go first. I cannot die and I can find the strong points so you can cross easily.” I stepped back and let Kamikaze go across first. He moves so quickly and gracefully. It’s like he doesn’t even touch the wood as he went across. He turned back to me. “Okay, you’re turn.”
I took one step onto the remains of the bridge and the old wood creaked. My heart started to race. I looked down into the redness of blood and heads and bodies that lay under me. I shuttered thinking of how painful of a death they had all suffered. I had to look at the planks of wood to remember where Kamikaze had just gone across and found the strong points. I held my breath as I took another step. I heard the wood start to snap. I quickly hopped onto the next plank of wood. Then, without any warning, I heard the loudest snap in the world. The plank had given out under my weight. I started to fall into the bloody moat. Kamikaze grabbed my hands and tried to pull me up.

"Kam... I'm too heavy for you to pull up alone. Just let me go. I'll..." I tried to imagine swimming through the blood and floating bodies... "I'll swim to the edge and climb up."

He looked down at me. He had a fire in his eyes that I'd seen in Swift before. It was of determination and... Love? Compassion? "I'm going to pull you up. You are not going in there. I promise." I tried to see if I could reach the land on the other side but I was too far away. Kam got down on his knees and looked me dead in the eyes. "I will not let you fall or let you go. Ever." At that moment he pulled up with all his might and I was able to get my footing and help him once he got me up a bit more.

Kam stood up to pull me the rest of the way up and as soon as I was up fully, we both fell onto the castle grounds on the other side of the bridge into each-other’s arms. I looked at him. He had just helped me, like I had helped Swift. The more and more I stared at Kam, the more I saw Swift in him. My heart started to ache. We had only been separated for about 2 hours now but this was the longest since we had joined together that we had been apart. I had to push these thoughts out of my mind but I could not. I just stared into his eyes and was praying that things with Swift were okay. I stood up and brushed myself off and looked away. I heard Kam get up next to me and do the same.

I started walking into the castle. It was still in-tact pretty much. The table that was in the main dining room was still set. I called out to see if anyone was in here but nothing was returned. I stopped in my tracks and dropped my head. I knew we were too late but something still did not seem fully right in this place. “Maybe the people who survived are in the castle deeper, away from the danger. You cannot give up now.” Kam stood next me and took my hand. I could tell he was really trying to have me hold out any hope. We walked further into the castle. “Let’s split up. This place is huge. I’ll talk the upper levels and you take the lower ones. We’ll meet back here in 10 minutes and if we find something, great, if not, we’re getting out of here.” Kam nodded in agreement. It was a smarter move. We needed to get back to Swift and Tatsu. We were stronger when we all worked together instead of being so far apart.

I walked up the staircase and looked in the first two bedrooms. There was no sign of any life there that not even people had lived there when the town was alive. I kept walking further down the hallway. I heard a strange noise coming from one of the bedrooms at the end of the hall. “Hello? Is anyone there?” The sound went silent. I drew my sword and got ready to fight. The hairs on the back of my neck started to stand up. I knew this would not and could not be good. I crept around the corner to where the sound was coming from. I stopped. I had to fight back a scream. There was a dragon there. I took three steps back and ran into something. It fell and landed on the floor and shattered. ‘Stupid rich people having breakable things in hallways.’ I heard the dragon get up. I started to run down the hall and down the stairs. I had to find Kam. I ran as fast I could to get lower.

I literally ran into him as I hit the dungeon. “Kam... There’s a dragon in the upper level. I have no idea how big or what type it is. All I know is that judging from the destruction of the town… It’s a fire dragon.” I dropped my head. “I knew that we were too late. It was pointless for us to even come here. Now we’re just both in danger. This is my entire fault. I need to face this dragon alone.” I looked at Kam and kissed him. “If you can get this message to Swift, tell him I did this for him. If I don’t make it out alive… Go back there and fight with them taking my place.” I gave him one last hug and then walked back up the stairs.

What I saw standing there was the biggest dragon I have ever seen... 'Oh boy...'