Dustland Fairytale .:Ch2:.

Chapter 2 : Bestial Roars
At the mess hall, there were numerous people chatting about the up coming party. Two of these numerous people were Lucency and Vikas.
"I don't understand why you aren't coming? They'll be music and s'mores." Lucency questioned.
"I don't wanna come because the music will be too loud, and if it isn't loud enough, you wont be able to hear anything through the screaming teens. Plus I don't like s'mores." He said for the second time that night.
"What you don't like s'mores?!" Lucency said baffled, "You have eating habits that are extremely weird you know."
"Yeah I've been told." Vikas sighed.
"Well, Vikas, I'll be off, the party is going to start soon." Lucency said as he stood, "I'll let you know if you or Keith have won any prizes, does that sound good?"
"Yeah thats great, though I doubt we'll win anything, although everyone always gets one of those scales on a bracelet or something like that." Vikas mentioned as he placed the dirty dishes in the bin.
"Yeah, dragon scales, I can't believe that they use dragon scales." Lucency sighed, his animal activist instincts kicking in, "I feel for the dragons."
"You do know that the dragons give freely to the camp. Apparently every scale must go to the specific person or bad luck will follow." Vikas mused.
"Yeah that's what they say." Lucency muttered quietly.
"Well, the s'mores are coming out, so I've got to go." Vikas said as he noticed some of the campers carrying the ingredients for the sweetened snacks.
"See ya." Lucency said as he waved to Vikas.
As Vikas walked away from the mess hall he heard a low rumbling. 'That must be the party hitting full force.' He thought.
Just as Keith reached chapter seventeen in his book, he too, had heard the low rumble. He got out of bed just as Vikas walked through the door.
"Did you hear that rumble?" Keith questioned.
"Yeah, they must parting super hard at the fire." Vikas replied.
"That sound was no party." Keith revealed as he grabbed his coat and put his boots on, "That was a call of a dragon, and it sounded hurt."
"A dragon, but they NEVER leave T'nepres!" Vikas remarked.
"I know, this means either it's a rebel dragon, or it's running, meaning something dangerous will probably be on its trail." Keith mentioned as he ran out the door.
Vikas followed close as Keith ran through the dark. They reached the fire within minutes, where children and teens of all ages sat looking frightened. Natasha was trying her hardest to calm everyone down, so she never noticed Keith and Vikas show up. Lucency however did, he ran up to them.
"Oh my gosh, did you guys hear that?" He asked obviously freaked out, "That was a call of a dragon wasn't it?"
"Yeah, it was a dragon's call." Keith uttered just as another call erupted from the sky right above them.
As everyone looked up as a silvery shape plummeted toward the fire, when it hit, sparks and embers flew from the fire. The dragon was of oriental heritage, the body was long and thin, there was also no wings upon its back either. As it shook its head, it had noticed the children and it had begun to snarl. From the maw of the dragon came not only low guttural growls but blood, its whole body was in wreck, and thanks to the dive bomb it took, its torn flesh was now charred. Its tail twitched back and forth,and it moved its head in unison as it frantically looked around trying to find a way out. Through all this quivering, the growls became low frantic breaths for air, and as the children made it farther and farther from the beast, its whole body convulsed before collapsing into the still burning embers.
"We've got to help it." Lucency yelled.
"WHAT?!" Natasha yelled back, "It was trying to kill us."
"No, it wasn't. It was scared and hurt, he was just trying to get to a safe place." Keith's voice startling Natasha and the children.
"Keith, what are you doing here?" Natasha questioned as she shot glances at the beast and Keith, who was slowly approaching the beast.
"A dragon just plummeted to the ground, of course I'm gonna check it out." He whispered as he walked slowly up to the dragon. However as soon as he made it within five feet of the dragon, its whole body lit up and in a blast of light, and shrunk down into the shape of a teen.
"There Natasha, we have to help HIM now," Lucency emphasizing the 'him', "look he's human now, we have to."
Natasha approached and looked at the body closely to see that it was just that, the body of a human teen, no older then nineteen. "Fine, someone to get a stretcher and get him down to the infirmary." When no one moved Natasha glared and barked, "MOVE!" About three teens ran to the infirmary and some of the campers moved on to their cabins.
Keith and Lucency had already started to move the body out of the fire, where his body wouldn't get even more burned, and to where they could get him on a stretcher easily. When they had carried him twenty-five feet away, the healers came carrying the stretcher.
"Get him on the stretcher and then we can deal with his injuries." Natasha said calmly.
"Okay." The boys said in unison.
"Don't mock me." Natasha snapped at them.
They placed the teen in the stretcher, "Who said we were mocking you?" Keith asked.
"The tone of your voice indicates it well enough." Natasha said as she nudged Keith slightly, causing his sunglasses to descend down his nose slightly. Keith quickly turned away from the crowd, as he pushed his glasses back up. "Oh, Keith I'm sorry." Natasha stuttered.
"Thats fine," He breathed out, "I'm going back to my cabin, please tell me if the dragon is okay." He turned back to the cabins and walked briskly away.
"Oh dear, he's not gonna talk to anyone for a while." Natasha sighed, "How is it Vikas, that you can attempt to take his glasses and yet when anyone else who tries or bumps him, he either sulks or punches them in the face?"
"Hey don't look at me like I'm a super hero or something, he makes me clean the cabin or do other household chores, and the first time I tried, he really did punch me in the face." He paused, "Really hard for that matter."
"Oh I see." Natasha muttered. "Okay everyone, get back to your cabins. NOW!" Natasha roared at the teens and children who didn't leave.
"I'm going to stay with the guy, all right Natasha?" Lucency asked.
"Yeah sure, when he wakes up, get me, okay?" Natasha stated.
"Right."
"I'm gonna run back and forth between my cabin and the infirmary, I got to make sure Keith is okay, and he'll want to know if the dragon is okay as well." Vikas stated.
"Sure, thats fine." She muttered.
Vikas and Lucency walked down the hill, to the infirmary muttering about the dragon and Keith. As they got to the infirmary they found it to be a hustle and bustle of nurses. Lucency stood to the side avoiding the nurses, while Vikas  began talking to one of the nurses, after the little conversation was over he began to walk away.
"Hey man where are you going?" Lucency called out.
"I've got to tell Keith that the crew is getting the dragon all cleaned up." Vikas yelled back as he run back to the cabin. The walk to the cabin was easy, due to all the lights being on. When Vikas had opened the door to the cabin he found Keith sitting on the bed, he was slowly unlacing the many laces of his boots. "Hey man, the dragon is getting all cleaned up. He'll be all right, the nurses said so." Vikas muttered.
"Okay, thanks for the update." Keith muttered.
"Hey man, you need to cheer up, everything will be all cool." Vikas said as he held a peace sign.
"How can one cheer up when their heart is an empty abyss?" Keith asked with hopelessness flooding his voice.
"Jeez man, I must say, that's dark." Said a stunned Vikas.
"I'm sorry, it's just that I'm tired." Keith said as he held his head low to hide the glum look on his face.
"Well, thats okay man, I'll go check back on the dragon, thus leaving you to catch some shut eye. Kay man?" Vikas cheerfully mentioned.
"Okay," He yawned, "wake me when the dragon is awake."
"Righty oh." Vikas said cheerily as he bounded out the door.
"That guy has to much energy." Keith murmured below his breath. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.
Down at the infirmary Lucency sat in silence. He watched the nurses dress the dragons wounds and tend to the burns. "Miss, how is the dragon?" Lucency asked at one of the passing nurses.
"He's just fine, he'll probably be awake in a few hours or so." She said.
"All right, will be it all right if I stay here till he wakes up?" Lucency questioned.
"Yes, that will be fine, you have fun sitting here." She said blankly.
"I will, I brought a book!" He said with a foolish grin.
"Right." Was all that she said in an over exaggerated tone.
As Vikas walked the path to the infirmary, Natasha ran out to him. "Vikas, hey we have to talk."
"Oh hey Natasha, whats up?" Vikas asked innocently.
"The camp instructor wants to talk to you."
"Eh? Why me? He only whats to talk to me when I'm in trouble. Oh no, am I in trouble?" he uttered in a frightened tone of voice.
"No, you're not in trouble if you haven't done anything bad recently." She gave a slight pause as she stared him down, "All he wants to know what happened with the dragon and such."
"Well, why didn't he ask you?"
"He did, but he wants to talk to you, Keith and Lucency too."
"Oh well Lucency is at the infirmary, and Keith is indisposed. He's taking a power nap, but I guess I'm free, so lets go talk to the instructor." Vikas said as he grabbed Natasha's hand and dragged her down the head cabin.