This choice: continued to stand unfazed by the arrow • Go Back...Chapter #8continued to stand unfazed by the arrow by: Dragonlord   "Oh god no!" Sarah screamed seeig the arrow had hit Drachzack's heart.
Drachzack didn't even seem to notice that he'd taken the arrow he simply charged the monster slayer and his wrist snapped off to reveal a sharp pointed sword that ran the man through. The monster slayer seemed shocked as blood poured from his mouth and he fell over dead. Drachzack then crumpled into a heap that a human body should never have been able to shape.
"A puppet?" Sarah asked shocked not believing that her friend had been nothing more than a puppet.
She heard a sharp whistle from the roof of the orphanage and saw Drachzack sitting on the roof waving. Drachzack motioned for Sarah to come up and join him as he started to pull on the strings that controlled the puppet to bring it up to his level. Sarah quickly winged up onto the roof and hugged Drachzack before sharply peaking him on the head.
"Ow!" Drachzack cried rubbing his head, "What you do that for!"
"That's for making me think you were dead down there," Sarah said glaring at Drachzack.
"Well I couldn't let him kill you and that seemed to be the best way to do it." Drachzack said as he pulled the puppet onto the roof and examined the damage the arrow had caused it before saying, "I think we could probably just seal that up. What do you think bro?"
Who's he talking to? Sarah wondered.
"I think it might be better just to replace the entire chest piece," Drachzack's hidden half said.
"We'd have to get more material to do that!" Drachzack argued.
"It's still better than having it break open in the middle of battle," Drachzack's hidden half growled.
"Fine we'll do it your way this time." Drachzack said shoving the puppet aside and seeing Sarah's inquiring glance.
"Yah this was part of the reason I wanted to talk to you up here," Drachzack said scratching the back of is head, "I'd like to show you what I've been hidding all these years." Drachzack pulled off the mask that hid half of his face as well as his dark clothing that hid the rest of his left half.
Sarah almost screamed at what she saw, Drachzack was literally half dragon. Fused together just along the nose a small dragon with blood red scales smiled at her from Drachzack's otherwise comly face. A single large wing grew from Drachzack's left shoulder blade and a long tale was wrapped around his waist. The claws on Drachzack's hands and feet were large and sharp, but didn't bother Sarah as much since she had those to.
"I'd like to introduce you to my brother Drach, Sarah," Drachzack said pointing to the scaly half of his face.
Sarah clasped her hand over her mouth when she saw the dragon half of Drachzack's head pulling away from his human one and becoming a seperat head on its own long scaly neck that bowed to Sarah and said in its deep voice, "Hello Sarah, I have longed to see you with my own eyes for some time now."
"Wha-? Wha-?" Sarah tried to get the words out but failed.
"What are we?" the human Drachzack said for her, "We're conjoined twins who have learned to seperate from each other."
As if to prove this Drach continued to pull away from Drachzack and eventually seperated as a fully grown dragon. Drach lay down behind them and simply watched as Sarah finally got her beak to work.
"Drachzack how did this-?" Sarah started before Drachzack finished her question for her again.
"How are we possible?" he finished for her, "Well first off, when me and my brother are seperated please call me Zack. How we are possible is because of the experaments of an evil sorrccer."
"He created us to try and destroy an enemy of his who had been given him trouble," Drach said behind her his voice dark, "He created hundreds of human-dragon creatures, we were the only one who surrvived."
"The reason for that was that we were twins while the others weren't," Zack continued, "When the others brain tried to control their bodies they found half so alien as to reject it, including half of the heart. Since we had two minds, each mind controlled one half of the body."
"This resulted in madness in both of the minds," Drach continued, "Each mind tried to control the other and the constant agony of two alien bodies struggling to live with each other. Our creator used this madness to fuel our hatered of his enemy by telling us it was his fault we suffered."
"When we finally found his enemy he seperated us," Zack finished, "He taught us how to join and seperate, though we almost never join as far as we were the day we were born."
"Why," Sarah asked.
"Because even a few seconds of that would drive us mad again," Drach said simply.
Sarah wasn't sure what to think about this, her best friend had turned out to be so much stranger than she was and she wasn't sure she could take it. Sarah finally...   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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