The Legend of Dragoon

Kai stretched her arms. She turned to Zephyr. "Are you going to sleep in your own room or with one of us?"

 

"I've already got a room."

Zephyr knocked on Michael's head.

"Quit that."

 

Kai smiled. As they sat down to eat, a man walked up to her.

"Cute girl, how bout you leave this guy and sit with me?" he asked.

"No, thanks."

"But I-"

Before he could say anything either, Kai punched him in the face.

"Gee..... I'm already taken...... by Michael......"

 

"Some people just don't think...." Michael said as he adjusted his glasses.

"Quite true...." Zephyr said as she mimicked Michael.

"Cut it out."

 

Kai smiled as she began to eat. 'I wonder if Zephyr could be part of our group?' "Hey, Zephyr, wanna join us?" Kai asked.

 

"Sorry, I'm not much of a fighter. I'm more of an advisor for this trip. Besides, I've got the body of a six-year old, I wouldn't be much help to you in a fight."

 

Kai sighed. "You're right. Well, I was wondering if you joined."

 

"But if you can change into a wolf, why can't you change yourself to look older?"

"Because this is my original form. I didn't use to be a wind god, you know. I was a replacement for the previous western wind god, because he went renegade and the others had to kill him."

"So you were only six when you became a god?"

"That's right."

 

"Interesting. What about your wolf form?"

 

"Never really thought about that....The others mentioned something about that form being a spirit avatar, but don't really know what that is. I just know that I never really liked that form, I'm not a big fan of dogs. I'm more of a cat person."

 

"Um..... if the Keldon are stripped of their wings, why do Michael and I have ours?" Kai asked. "How long couldn't Keldon have their wings?"

 

"Like I said before, the time that the keldon couldn't have wings is already over. They have to take their trial of enlightenment to get their wings back, though. You two have already been through the trial."

 

"When I came to terms with my past......" Kai remembered when she told Michael about what happened. "That's why each sets of Keldon wings are different, right? I saw I had white wings and Michael has black wings......"

 

"We decided to have all keldon with different wings, because it would have been dull if you all had the same wings."

 

Kai smiled. She tried to push the memories of five years ago out of her mind. "I did some terrible things in my past......"

 

"You can never rid yourself of the past, you can only come to terms with it and continue forward. That's what the trial of enlightenment does, it makes you face your past, or your greatest fears."

Zephyr looked at Michael as she said the last part.

 

"Yeah.... I came to terms with my past, and I found out I was a keldon. I didn't know that I was a keldon."

 

"Why did you become a god in the first place, Zephyr?"

"Didn't really have much of a choice. The others told me that I had the 'gift' and the next thing I knew, I became the western wind god."

"I bet your parents miss you."

"They died when I was four. This teddy bear is all I have to remember them by...."

 

"My mom disappeared when I was two, and all I have to remember her by is this medoly....." She started to sing the song her mother sung.

 

"Nice song. Well, I'll give you two some time alone."

Zephyr got up and walked outside.