CHAPTER 22: The Hidden Family

Michael took a knee next to the bed at the far side, "She's really in bad condition huh."

"I told you." Scar said softly

"This place is a mess," Naomi added.

"I was doing my best to survive. This was the only place I could afford in an expensive city."

I take a good look at the blond girl on the bed. I crossed my arms and started to think for a bit. My hand started to run its fingers in between my hair.

"What are you thinking about buddy?" Michael asked me.

"I have an idea but it sounds crazy."

I went ahead to sit on the other side of the bed where the sick blond girl was.

"What's your idea?" Naomi looked at me worried.

"The dragon magic has a healing ability, unlike the magic I possess. If I can use that I can maybe know what the problem is and fix it."

Michael claimed, "I thought you still can't use your dragon magic very well yet, can you?"

"No I can't but maybe the sword will help." I proceed to take the cover of the katana out of the sleeve.

Scar started to get concerned, "H-hey what are you doing?"

"Stay out of this." Naomi gives Scar a warning gesture.

"But-"

I reaffirmed Scar, "There is nothing to be worried about. I do not plan to hurt her. I just want to see if this will help her feel better."

I took the sword and gently placed it horizontally across her chest. Immediately after, a golden light starts shining brightly in the room. I closed my eyes and tried to keep myself focused on not messing this up. I need to focus on using Katy's healing magic. Scar got out of the bed as soon as the flash of light came into her eyes. When it was all done, the light dimmed and the sword was back to normal.

Michael asks, "Well? Anything?"

I was shocked, "I think I was able to heal her, it appears that her chakra was almost destroyed, and her body was not strong enough to produce more. But…

"But what?"

"Her aura, it is not human."

Naomi was seriously confused, "What do you mean?"

Michael forwards another question, "Is she a demon?"

"No, not even a dragon either."

Naomi, "Then what is she?"

The blond girl opened her eyes and looked at Shadow which were bright blue eyes. Her eyes represented the color of a clear blue pure diamond. She started to look around and started to move her arms and legs again, eventually moving her entire body around the bed. I removed the katana off her chest and she started to sit upright. I pulled back a bit, worried what the result might've been since this was my first attempt.

Scar couldn't believe her eyes, almost about to cry, "Harper?" She ran up to Harper and gave her a big tight hug, "You are finally awake."

The blond girl named Harper, I suppose, tried to speak, "W-what h-happened."

Scars eyes start to tear up, "I don't know, these people said they could help you and they did some magic stuff and you are here now." She goes back to hugging her friend.

"I see." Her eyes look dead inside. Probably from waking up and trying to recover fully from the long nap and all that sickness. She turns her head to face me. "You use magic too?"

Naomi was surprised, "Too?"

Harper responded quickly before I could even answer the question I was given, "Yes."

Naomi quickly jumped to assume, "Are you a demon as well?"

"No, I'm a witch."

A witch?!?

"Aren't the dragons and the demons the only ones able to use magic?" I asked.

"Well, not really. If you go back to the history between the demons and the dragons, there was also a small family of witches, the Frensby family. When the war began between the Rose family and the demons, we were neutral. But when we saw the demons take the upper hand and started to kill innocent people unrelated to the war. We chose to stand against them as well, but since we were a small family we didn't stand a chance. And the Rose family were too weak at the times to help themselves, let alone help us. My grandfather made it and came to this country hoping for his kids to live a normal life, away from this world. But we were eventually discovered and they killed my parents, I luckily didn't die but I was left with severe injuries."

"Which is why you are here right now?"

"Exactly."

Wow! This story would amaze anyone as this one girl fights for her survival for several years. Insane how come they don't teach us this in school. I never heard of this family before but they seem like they were real close partners with the Rose family. Now I'm imagining how bad this war was since that one battle that I had was terrible, imagine the entire war. I wonder what it was like. My mind begins to wonder.

"How come I have never heard of them?"

"Again, we were just a small family. We tried our best to contribute as much as we can to the war."

Michael picks up Scarlet by the hoodie slightly to get her attention, "Did you know about all this little girl?"

Scar got a bit nasty, "Don't call me little girl, my name is Scarlett Gemstone. Just call me Scar."

"I like that name."

"Oh, I forgot, my name is Harper," Harper finally introducing herself, "Harper Frensby, and thank you for healing me."

We shook hands

"My pleasure. My name is Shadow, Shadow Shakri."

Harper started to blush a bit.

I remembered, "Oh right, these are my friends Naomi Yamamoto and Michael Zerg."

Harper asked, "What are you two suppose to be?"

Michael explained, "Naomi and I are both human but Shadow is… well…"

"What? A dragon?"

I scratched the back of my head and looked away, "N-no."

"A demon?"

"You can say that."

"WHAT!" Harper started to get scared.

"No no no please hear me out. This is not what you are thinking about. I'm not your enemy."

"Then what is it huh?"

"It's a long story, but I swear I am on your side."

"Well… we have time."

"I-... sure." I submitted to the request and went through everything with her. Even the most painful part of the story is the reason why I am not fighting for the demons.

Scar, "Sooo…. You and those two are working together to fight those demons."

"Yes… once and for all."

Harper thinks about it, "If what you are saying is true… Then please let me join you. I want to fight them as well for killing my parents after all. It is also thanks for saving my life."

"Are you sure? Your parents came here for you to live a normal life. I'm pretty sure they would want you to stay out of this whole thing as much as possible. I can't promise you will make it back alive in the end."

"I wasn't supposed to even survive the attack. Plus, they might even come back to kill me anyways. You know I wouldn't stand a chance against them by myself. Since I already have this chance to die anyway, I would rather die trying to help than being stuck here." Harper gave a convincing reason.

Scar jumped in front of me, "I'm coming too."

"What?"

"If you are going somewhere, I want to be there next to you."

Michael explained, "Shadow, we need to get going. It's getting seriously late."

"Alright." I stood up from the bed, "Hurry up ladies, get your stuff ready because we are taking you with us."

Harper and Scarlett responded happily, "Yey."

Michael, Naomi, and I went outside to wait for them. Michael still had the candy in his pocket to which we needed to bring back to Yanni.

Michael had second thoughts, "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"It's never really a bad idea to have more people on the team. Plus some more magic people will be beneficial right?"

"You know best."

A few moments later, the door to the apartment building opens up and big bags of luggage start to flow out of the door.

"WHAT IS THIS?" I yelled

"Our stuff, silly." Harper explained and handed me some of her bags.

Scarlett gave her bags to Michael, "Carry them for me please."

I was struggling, "What's in these bags?"

Michael tried to give me a morale boost, "Come on man, we can do this." As I see Michael just carrying the bags with ease.

Michael and I had to carry the bags all the way to the house while Naomi, Scarlett, and Harper were chatting together. They were getting along well but I was struggling to keep up. I wasn't expecting to do any heavy lifting, but here I am. Asking for more teammates to join my cause didn't have this signable contract on the sheet saying 'you will have to carry heavy bags.' Augh! We got to the house and the first thing we saw was Yanni screaming at us.

"WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG!"

"It's fine Yanni don't be mad, we just had some issues," I explained.

"Did you at least get the candy?"

Michael gives it to Naomi to give it to Yanni. Naomi took a knee and gently gave it to Yanni. Yanni was so happy to see it as she takes the box, screams for joy, and runs to her room. Probably to enjoy eating the candy.

"There she goes." Naomi looks at Yanni in awe.

I declared, "Mission success."

"What's going on here?" Nina shows up and sees two new girls standing at the front doorstep.

Naomi, "Hi Nina."

"Excuse me. What is this?" She was starting to get mad. Mainly at me.

At this point, I knew I messed up, "Oh no wait." I forgot.

"Oh no indeed," Michael said.

"Listen, it's not what you think."

"Shadow… You have FIVE SECONDS to tell me what you did."

Michael tells Scar and Harper, "Everyone run! Before Nina destroys us." The two girls follow Michael upstairs."

"I- uh- waaiiit~. Don't leave me behind."

Nina gets fully enraged and gets closer to me, "HOW DARE YOU BRING BACK GIRLS WITH YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!"

"We were only trying to help them. One of them was extremely sick and-"

"You were clearly trying to comfort them, That's for sure." Nina was pissed. She didn't even want to hear another excuse.

"No Nina I swear. One of them stole my wallet and some medicine and-"

"I DON'T want to hear it." She storms off to her room."

I sighed and didn't know what else to say. Let alone be able to say anything. I went to my room to see the rest of the team there as well.

Michael asked, "Is everything okay with Nina?"

"She'll be fine. I'm sure she is just overreacting."

Naomi fires at me, "You are such a bad boyfriend."

"HUH? WHAT? No wait, I'm not."

"You really are."

Harper, "I agree."

Scar, "Mhm, bad."

"Augh, Michael, help me out please."

Michael thought about it, "Well… you really can't come home with two girls in the middle of the night y'know."

Naomi, "Nina is so unlucky to have you"

Scar again, "Seriously."

The three girls were covering themselves with the blankets on Shadow's bed. I was about to fire back but as I looked around me I saw three girls in my bed. If Nina were to walk in right now, she would be in more fury than before. It won't seem like I would be telling the truth so I stopped myself. Realizing, "I'm being sabotaged here."