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1. [DL-N] A Hero in the making: Part 2, is there a sidekick in
the house?
From: Katie <wildcat10984@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:25:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Katie <wildcat10984@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [DL-N] A Hero in the making: Part 2, is there a sidekick in
the house?
Day 12 O dark thirty
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Seeing the look of apprehension on Jocko's face Breezy patted him
encouragingly on the shoulder, "Don't worry, he'll be okay. He really
wants to help, I know he can do this! You just really need to stay in
tuned with him." As an afterthought she tied a towel to the strap
holding the flask. "Tell him if he has to sneeze, sneeze into the
towel." She didn't add that if there were still pockets of gas in there
one spark even if it was in the form of snot could blow them all to
kingdom come. No sense in alarming the fledging rider needlessly
Breezy figured she'd worry enough for all of them.
Jocko nodded and the three humans glanced at each other with
apprehensive but hopeful eyes as Bazil began his quest, the young man
letting out a deep sigh as the scaly tail disappeared from view.
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He closed his eyes; the feeling that Bazil was going some place he
could not go made his heart skip every other beat. Barely hearing
Breezy talking to him, he felt a nudge on his shoulder. Looking at
her; the haze didn't make things easy to see, he reached up to adjust
his glasses. When he didn't feel them was when he remembered that they
had gotten busted.
"Are you listening to me?"
"Sorry...." He looked at Breezy and to Amy who looked like she was
about to follow Bazil.
"You have to pay attention to me...he'll be fine."
He hoped she was right, closed his eyes again and listened to her.
Images from Bazil that looked like a hell, or what hell would look like
if it was a fallen building with burning metal and wood. He told Bazil
to listen to Breezy's dragon, that she would send him images of what
it use to look like.
[It's awfully dark in here...] Bazil told him as he laid on his belly
and wiggled under a beam. Pulling his wings close to keep them from
being singed or torn. Turning his head to look to his left, Coo had
said something about a door. There was no door, or one that he could
see. Quickly lifting up his foot as he stepped on a hot peace of wood.
Jocko grabbed his hand and let out a yelp, both the women looked at
him with concern and confusion. "He said he stepped on hot wood."
The fallen and burning building was hard to navigate, so many things
to step on. From above little Bazil looked like a mouse running in a
maze. Hitting a dead end he would look around and turn and go back the
same way. Burning wood fell from beams and hit the floor with a hiss
and sent splinters and embers flying up at him. Many times shutting
his eyes from being burnt. The little dragon's eyes were watering from
the heat and debris. A room to his right, that he didn't know was
there, the building caved in all the way sending up smoke and wood.
Jumping to his left he managed to avoid the stone wall crushing him.
Up and down over and around. He was getting tired and a little hungry.
The little brown was on the ground, his tail twitching fast as he
pushed his nose into a hole, taking a deep breath, something smelled
good. Breathing in harder and in short burst, he didn't want to forget
this smell. Lying flat he tilted his head to peer in...chunks of meat!
He
pushed his nose in and tried hard to reach them with just his mouth,
when that didn't work he snaked out that long tongue and reached for a
piece that was longer then the rest. He tasted the meat, cooked and
salty. His tongue wrapped around the longer piece and he pulled it
out. He peered down at it, taking another stiff of it. Getting down
low so he could see it closer, then snapped at it and took it all in
one bite. Licking lips, he shoved his nose in again [Rider! More Food!]
Chuckling as his rider replied that it was gross and to put them down.
He didn't and gulped them down. Very tasty, he would have to find a
meat human.
Amy was pacing back and forth behind Jocko watching and waiting. Every
so often, which seemed like ever second to Jocko she was tapping his
back asking where Bazil was and why he hadn't come out yet with her
Link. "What's he doing?!"
"He..is umm...eating." He said meekly as he heard Breezy groan.
"What!?" She stepped up to him. "He's eating when he is suppose to be
looking for link!"
"His only a baby, you know how hungry they get. He's moving again."
Jocko turned away from her; and looked into the hole.
Bazil wiped his running nose on the rag that the cookie human had
given him, and poked a few of the beams with his claw before he went
under them or over. He didn't really want to be smashed. He told Coo
that he was at a dead end and asked where to go. He sat there for a
time, waiting and trying to stay low as Jocko had told him to get
fresh air. Staring at a beam that was burning he watched the patterns
of yellow and red. The light from the embers were glowing in his white
eye, dancing in the glassy sheen. Breathing fire, he couldn't wait,
images of flying and fire breath were popping up in his head.
Sighing as he felt another tap on the shoulder and then the question,
where was he at? Turning to her he told her that the little dragon was
trying, and reminded her that Bazil was a baby.
Then Coo got back to him. Another door that couldn't, that it should
be to his right. He put his front feet on a beam and pushed as hard as
he could. Something shifted and things started to fall. Quickly
jumping back trying not to get hit. A small beam hit his right side;
falling to the ground the little browns head hit the ground hard,
things went dark.
Breezy grabbed Jocko as he got to his knees for various reasons, the
stress of the night, the pain on the right side of his body and the
massive headache growing. He could hear Breezy talking but it was like
a hundred miles away, then suddenly he could hear her again and it was
like screaming. "Jocko, what's wrong?"
Glancing up. " Do you have to yell? He got hit by something....blacked
out for a moment."
Shaking her head, knowing this may have been a very bad idea, as Amy
was pushing Jocko's back, trying to get him up. Knowing she meant well
he didn't yell at her.
The little brown shook his head and could feel his riders worry, he
told him he was all right that it would be ok. That soon it all would
be over and they could read again. He sniffed a little as he nose was
running and picked up the smell from the thing his rider had held in
front of his nose. It was faint, but it was enough. He went though the
hole that just opened up. Coo showed him some images that helped him
along the way. Soon though he hit another dead end. [Was this place
always like this?] He snorted in frustration. He was starting to have
hard time breathing and he was starting to get scared. Pacing back and
forth seemed like a good idea, he had seen his rider do it when he was
frustrated. [Where do I go!?]
"Jocko you have to calm him down." Breezy told him.
Breathing hard. "He's scared I just can't tell him not to be!"
"Listen if you don't...he, Link, and you will die."
Jocko was shocked; he had read and heard it but never really thought
about it. The fact that Bazil could die was hard on him."Ok, you two
just try to get him though safely."
"Just keep him busy while I try to figure out where he is."
*Baz it will be a minute till they can say where to go. *
[Rider it's hot! I'm scared.]
*I-I know...* Pausing to think. * You remember the story I read to you
about Diver when he got lost from the Captain? *
[You only got to the third page then you fell asleep.] The little brown
laid down and pulled the rag flask and all over his face and snout.
*Well good, then you haven't heard it all. * He was starting to sweat
and feel weak at the knees and soon was on the ground. *This was when
Diver was younger and very small. The Captain wanted to look for gold
under the sea and he and the crew couldn't go under the water for
long. Diver could though cause he was a sea dragon. He could breath
under water and all. Though he was young so he couldn't hold his
breath for long. But he sent him down anyway. He wanted gold...* He
lifted up a shaking hand and wiped his brow.
[How can a dragon breathe underwater?]
*I don't know, it's like you breathe fire and Pearl breathes ice. I
don't know how you two do it you just do...anyway he sent Diver into
an underground cave, he had a map. He started to lead him though but
sure enough he said to go a wrong way and Diver was lost and stuck. He
was at a dead end. And like you he was scared and wanted to get out. *
Bazil shut his eyes. [How did he get out rider?]
He though for a moment. *He and his rider worked together and he talked
him though it. *
[That's not how it went...]
*How do you know.... *
[Cause the map he had was to a treasure on some Island called Keys. You
told me that was the only map he had.] He opened his white eye. [You
made it up didn't you?]
Rubbing his yes was all he could do. *Maybe...you'll just have to get
out to see. * He felt a thump on his head he looked up and Breezy was
right next to him.
"Tell him we're ready."
Getting up and rubbing his head gently with his claws then went back
the way he came a little ways. Coo told him to look to his left and
that there was a hallway there for sure. He hunted and nudged his nose
around and found the smell again. He pushed though and soon was in a
huge open area. He told Coo that it smelled funny in there, and very
bad. She just told him to be careful knowing the gas was what he was
smelled and probably burning flesh. He shook the smell from his nose
and brought it low to the ground to find where the smell of the human
was coming from. He slowly came up to a pile of stuff and pushed a few
things around and jumped back as a hand fell from a beam.
[Jocko a human!]
*Describe the human to Coo. * Shutting his eyes and hoped.
"It's him its Link!" Breezy shouted looking at Jocko. "Ask him if
there is anyone else there?"
As arms where on his shoulders, knowing they were Amy's he relayed the
message. "He said there are, but they aren't moving like this one. He
said that their chests aren't moving."
[Rider now what.....he's so deep in... he's to big for me to move and
I'm getting sleepy.] The room was so hot and the smell was so bad. The
little dragon had been in there to long.
*Oh, don't sleep Baz stay awake! *
Yawning he laid down. [But I'm so sleepy; the smell is making me want
to sleep.]
Jocko frantically seared his brain. *Umm... put the rag over your nose.
*
[It is...and it's dried out.... I can smell everything through it.]
Jocko felt like he was going to pass out, he knelt down. *Have, have I
told you about my sister yet? *
[You have a sister?] He asked as he laid his head to the side, and shut
his eyes.
*Yes she's, she's my younger sister. She loves dragons...little ones
like you. * A little smile came to his lips.
[I would like to meet her...what's her name?] He covered up his head.
Name, name? His mind raced. *Her name is Loral, She twelve now. *
[She look like you?]
Jocko laughed a little. *No, she looks...* He described his sister to
the dragon deep within the building, his heart seemed to stop every
time Bazil didn't answer him, he was feeling weaker every minute. He
felt some one touch his shoulder but he couldn't get his mind away
from Bazil, he tried to pull back to talk to Breezy but his was
trapped within the connection with Bazil. They sounded muffled, like
something loud had gone off next to him and he had almost lost his
hearing. He felt his body being shook, but couldn't do anything. Bazil
had a hold of his mind and was not letting go, the little hatching was
in fear for his life and his rider, he wanted to be with him now. To
stand next him. He held on tight while his rider talked about his
sister. He was afraid to let go in fear that he would be lost.
Tag: Tree and Max
Submitted by:
Katie
aka: Jocko and Bazil
Summary: Bazil hunts for Link in the rubble of the building. Jocko
tells him a story to help calm him and to keep him busy while Breezy
and Coo talk about how to get him around some of the rooms.
Bazil manages to find Link alive
NRPG: Just wanted to thank Tree for all the help!!! Thanks :D
~ I would die a thousand deaths, befor I let you harm another ~
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