| ....To stare back at a pair of gold eyes the size of a TV. "What...is...that?" Will whispered. "Don't you mean, 'Who is she?'" the eyes blinked and then backed away to reveal a huge black dragon with iridescent onyx scales, enormous leathery wings, scythe-like claws and horns, and a mouth full of long white teeth. My heart lurched in my throat. 'You can't be seeing this...there's no way...' my brain tried to reason but it was hard to deny what was sitting, walking and talking directly in front of me. "You were supposed to wait until they came in, impatient one," a deeper voice rumbled from the background and an even larger white dragon appeared from the shadows into the sunlight that flooded the room from an overhead skylight. This dragon was just as armored and deadly looking as the first but its eyes were ice blue and looked older, aged. "Come on, we don't bite...often," the deep voiced reptile said with a small smile and at that point, I came to the conclusion that 'it' was a 'he'. Will and I took a step forward on the polished marble floor into the sunlight and in front of the creatures that stood before us. Both of them had to be at least four stories tall on all fours and a tail that swept out another thirty or forty feet before ending in an array of spikes. "Who...what...are we doing here?" I managed to say and the two dragons looked at one another. "You are the Chosen Ones, right?" the black one asked, tilting her head. "If you mean WolfAngels...yes," Will answered in a low voice and the white dragon snorted. "Of course they are. Otherwise, how would they've gotten in here?" "I was just making sure," she shot back and flicked a pink forked tongue out indignantly. The other reptile sighed and closed his eyes before continuing. "I am StevDer and this is ShaTaka. We are to be the Chosen One's guardians. Since you are here, that would make you the chosen ones I hope," StevDer said with a hint of dry sarcasm. Tilting my head up, I looked back and forward between the two. "Sleeping Panther, my grandfather, said that you had answers for us," I said evenly. "About who we are and what we were," Will added. ShaTaka blinked and flicked her tongue again. "I guess that's my cue..." |