• Once the ship docked in Osaka Cain asked "Why are we in Japan?" Baret answered "We need a pro at gorilla war fare." Blare sitting on Baret's shoulder asked "Who did you have in mind?" Baret replied "Isaac Raid the fox demon that hired me to take out the sharks remember. He lives in Okinowa, I'll meet you guys back here tomorrow." Alex replied "How are you getting to Okinowa, We'er in Osaka now?" Baret put his hand out palm toward the ocean, the water began to stur and a ball of water came up from the ocean and flatened into a disk. Baret aswered "I'll fly water dragon air."

    Baret stepped onto the disk and and tolled the others "There is a restarant in town called Sakura's, Cain knows the please, just wait for me there. Sorry Blare but your gonna have to get off of me, this thing will only carry one." Blare jumped down and Baret asked "Why do you always climb on me?" She replied "Because Cain-chan is too small to use for a human jungle gym." Blare gave a big smile, then in anime style turned around, ran toward Cain and hugged him around the neck." Alex asked Blare "What does Chan mean." Blare Looked at Alex for a second Said "Chan is an exspression for someone you love in Japanese, you say it right behind there name, but not siblings. The only reason you would say chan when talking to him is if you called him Oni-chan. Which means brother." Cain closed his eyes and said "Oni-chan, I like that."

    Cain walked away dragging Blare with him. She saked "Hey where are you going?" Cain replied "Baret left already, We need to go too." Blare looked at where Baret was standing and sure enough he was gone, she looked up and saw him glideing across the sky on his water disk. Blare let go of Cain's neck and walked beside him she asked "So who is Sakura?" Cain answered "Back when me, Baret, Nobi and Cyrus where killing demons Sakura's mother owned a bar which she named for her daughter. Well A pack of rat demons came by one day tried to take the restarant."

    "She wouldn't give it up, when we got back she was sitting on the floor with a huge gash in her belly, she tolled us to take care of Sakura. Then she died right there on the floor. Sakura was only fourteen, but that didn't stop the rats from takeing her. We tracked them to there hide out and killed them all. Shortly after that I left, then the others disbanded not long after."

    "Sakura was a smart kid she kept us alive, I just hope she has forgiven me for what happened last time I saw her." Alex asked "What happened?" Cain answered
    "I accadentaly blew up her house." Alex looked at him for a second and said, "How did you... you know what, I don't want to know." As Blare, Cain, and Alex started into Sakura's a glass plate flew out and smashed into a thousand pieses on Cain's face. "She didn't forget." Were Cain's last words before Sakura flew out the door, tackled Cain, and started stranging him.

    She started yelling "Cain you little moron, you still haven't paid for my house you destroyed." Sakura looks up at Alex and Blare, then back at Cain "Who the heck are these two!?" Before Cain could see strate enough tell who she was talking about Alex answered "I'm his big sister Alexandria, but every on calls me Alex." Blare added "And I'm his girlfriend Blare, Sak-sak." Sakura asked "Did you just call me, Sak-sak?" Blare smiled and answered "Yep, I have nickname for almost everyone. Alex is Aley to me, Your name is Sakura, so you'er Sak-sak to me, Cain is Cain-chan, and I haven't thought of one for Baret yet."

    Sakura's face turned to a look of worry, "Is Baret here... with you?" Alex answered "No, he is on his way to Okinowa. He said he would meet us here tomorrow." Sakura stood up and said "Well if your friends with Cain and Baret, come on in. I at least owe Baret that." She smiled slitely and walked inside her tavern. Blare asked "Is this your please, Baret tolled us it was a restarant." Sakura answered "It was last time he saw it." She turned around and asked "Did he tell you guys about Leera?"

    Cain replied "Yes, Leera is his girlfriend. She was taken by some mercs. her family hired. They don't like her because shes a pyro." Sakura replied "Thats not the whole story, Baret's water and Leera's fire counteract each other, They are the key to each others power. When Leera is around Baret, his water energy is surpressed so he can remove his mask without consiquince, and so long as Baret is around Leera her fire stays under control."

    Cain asked "I know you and Baret stayed in contact after we split up, but how is it you know so much about Leera?" Sakura pulled some drinks form behind the bar and answered "She is my little sister." Cain stopped just short of takeing his first drink from the mug, "What do you mean, your sister? I thought you where an only child." Sakura laughingly replied "She is not my blood sister, but I treat her like my baby sister. Truth is she just kind of wondered in the front door one day."

    "She couldn't speak back then, her clothes where burnt, and torn to shreds, but the only mark as far as injuries were a cut on her left cheek. She looked like she was about to collapse, and The cut was still bleeding, so I called for one of the waitresses to grab a blancet and a first aid kit for her. I wrapped her up in the blancet, put a band aid on her cut, and sat her next to the end of the bar."

    Cain asked "So what happened to her, I assume the burns were her doing." Sakura replied "I don't know, before I could get her to talk a shark demon named Kalno came in and started trouble. I had put Leera in his seat by mistake, he smacked her in the side of her head and knocked her off the stool she was on. Kalno grabbed Leera by the throat and lifted her into the air, Leera's face stayed blank as if nothing happened."

    "When Kalno decapitated one of the regulars, Leera lost her calm apperance. When the guys blood splashed a on her Leera started kicking her feet, punching kalno in the arm, sceaming, and anything else she could to get free." Blare inturped "Kalno kidnapped her and Baret came across her later. Right?" Sakura continued "You'er close but no, this was the first time I saw her fire powers. After a few minutes of strugling her body just stopped moveing, Leera's arms fell to her at sides, her legs just hung there, her head dropped, eyes closed."

    "Almost like she was dead, after a second or two like that her head came up, Leera looked Kalno strate in his eyes, and poof he burst into flames. Needless to say when that happend Kalno dropped her, when Leera fell to the ground she hit her head really hard and got knocked out. Kalno ran outside, fell over and died. I took Leera in the secret room behind the bar, put her on the bed and waited for her to wake up."

    "When she did she tolled me about her family trying to kill her, she was so dirty you couldn't even tell what color her hair was. So after her story I tolled her where the bath room was, but she hadn't eaten in so long she couldn't even lift her arms. So the next morning I picked her up, took her to bath room and gave her a bath. I was wrong when I thought the cut on her cheek was her only injury, Her whole right arm is covered in third degree burn scars."

    "After I washed her hair I realized Leera's hair was ice blue. When I finished her bath I gave her some clothes Luran ,one of the waitresses, had bought for her. The only problem Leera had was her Burnt arm was visable, Luran thought Leera might have more injuries so she bought some gauze too. I took the bandages and wrapped Leera's arm so no one could see her burns, She keeps her arm wrapped all the time. Baret is the only one that has seen them besides me."

    While the others talked Baret landed in Okinowa, it had turned from the beautiful island paradice he once knew, to an arid, battle scared wasteland. Baret walked past decaing bodys, dead horses, and soliders who where still alive and bleeding. Baret ignored their crys of pain and please for help, he made his way through the country side and into a small nameless town. He walked into a steet side raman stand, and sat down next to a young man wearing a black hood drinking saki, Baret asked "How can you still drink that crap?"

    The young man smiled and replied "This coming from the guy that emptyed four bottles of vodka in one swig each. By the way where is Leera? I don't smell her nearby." Baret answered "She was taken." The man replied "mercs.?" Baret took the mans saki bottle, pulled down his mask, making sure to surpress the energy behind it first, and drank the whole thing down. He put his mask back and replied "They beat me, she surrendered and went with them so they wouldn't kill me. Issac, wether you help me or not... I'm taking her back, even if cost me my life."

    Issac answered "I'm in." the raman stand owner put another bottle between them, Issac poored himself another drink then poored one for Baret too, and contined "You fought to protect her, she gave herself up to save you, and now your willing to die in order to get her back." Issac chuckled and Baret asked "Whats so funny?" Issac answered "The whole time you, me, and Leera were running together I knew you two liked each other but I never thought you would get this close. The main reason I'm going is you've known something I never will... love, I'll never know that joy so I'll make sure you keep yours."

    The night came and went; Baret returned to Sakura's with Issac. Issac removed his hood but was wearing a fox mask over his whole face. Cain asked "What is it with you guys and masks?" Baret answered "Me, and Issac are the only ones I know of that wear masks." Blare asked "Issac your a demon so, what element do you control?" Issac replied "I've never been human, only demons that were once human have the ability of elemental control, but their are three benafits to never being a human."

    Alex asked "Like what?" Issac disappered, he reappered behind Alex, and whispered in her ear "Speed," Alex quickly spun around; Issac was gone again, she heard his voice again eccept it came from above "foucs." She looked up and Issac was standing upsidedown on ceiling. A gun shot rang out, Issac's arm snapped down and snatched a bullet from the air, "awareness. All demons that were born demons have these three things, I guess this is yours."

    Issac tossed the bullet toward a man sitting at the bar. The man said "You are fast I'll give you that, but can you outrun a pro. like me" The man disappered, Issac snickered then disappered as well. A few seconds later the man reappered slideing across the ground on his back with four knifes jammed in his chest and a shoe print across his face. The man stopped slideing at Alex's feet she said "You are fast." When she said that everyone in the tavern realized Issac was back-to-back with Alex.

    Issac's cloak was lost in the instence he disappered to fight the mystery man. When he reappered Issac was wearing a white long sleeve shrit, black pants lined with throwing knives on the outside of the right leg, a kitana upside down across his back, his blonde hair hung down to about the middle of his back in a ponytail, his mask was white with blood red desgins, the forehead had a Japanese word burnt into it at the forehead." Alex asked "What does it say... on your mask?" Issac answered "Monster." He then walked back, and picked up his cloak.

    "Lets get this over with." Issac snapped at Baret as he flipped his cloak around his body, and walked toward the door. Blare jumped up and sat on Baret shoulder ,like always, and asked "Hey Baret how come Issac got to ride with you but I didn't?" Baret replied "Easy, he is less talkitve, less chance I'd kick him off the edge of the disk at five hundred feet up." Blare got mad and yelled "Hey, your being a big meanie again!" Baret replied "I'm not supposs to be nice." Blare leaned back on the handle of Baret's sword and again in anime style starts sulking.

    When the group got to the western shore of Japan, Issac made a stange symbol with his hands and said "I summon you now come forth Ishiryuu!" The ground shook as if an earthquake was about to split the world in two and ingulf them all, then the shaking just stopped. Blare looked around and said "So, what did that do?" Issac replied "What that did, was summon a stone dragon named Ishiryuu. He's a serpent dragon, who's body is made of a specal type of stone called skyrock. Skyrock is harder then steel but light as air when in its raw natural form."

    "If you try to refine it into a different form it becomes brittle, and a single piece the size of the pupil in your eye can weigh upto four-hundred pounds. Ishiryuu's body is made of the natural form so he can fly, he and I have an agreement if I help him fined and kill his uncle, he'll help me when I summon him. Before any one asks it doesn't matter who his uncle is because he's already dead, and has been for about three and a half years now."

    At that moment the ground infront of them collasped in, and a round stone about the size of small island floted out of the hole and stopped just over their heads. Everyone heard a thunderous voice "Issaaac! I just got to sleep for the first time in ten years, what do you want?" Issac replied "First off I know thats bull-crap, you sleep more in one day then a sloth does all week. Secondly quit your yap'in and I'll buy you some that nasty Ro-san stuff you like so much." Ishiryuu answered "Do you actualy have money this time or are you gonna them another fake I.O.U." Issac replied "Alright wise guy, just get us to Moscow."

    The giant stone began to unroll into a snake like form, the body streched over a mile long, and was about thrty-feet around. The dragon's head came down to eye level with Blare, he inhailed through his nose and nearly sucked her off Baret's shoulder. Ishiryuu said "This has got to be the weirdest group ever. A human, an archangel, a fallen angel, a werewolf, and a half-breed fox demon." Blare asked "Issac is not a fullblooded demon?" Ishiryuu answered "No, a full demon carries the trates of a demon more than a human, but half-breeds look more human than demon."

    Issac grabbed his ponytail and said "I may not be a human, I may not be a demon but I've got the worst of both worlds. Humans hate the demon side of me and demons hate my human side." Issac lifted up on the hair in his hand, but the hair was not real, it was attached to his mask. When Issac's mask came off it revealed four battle scars on his face, one ran along each cheek starting at the base of his nose and going back, another corssed his right eye, the final scar over laped the one on his left cheek, and his shoulder length ivory white hair and fox ears enphesized his demonaic half.
    Chapter 3: The Dragon Summoners Arrival-END