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I started laughing really hard, so hard I couldn't breath but just as fast as the hilarity came so fast has it left me as no one else laughed.

"Wait you can't be serious... I am human.... I had a human mother, a human father.... I turned into a dragon and not of any kind but a'silver' one? A whole silver dragon?"

"I wouldn't joke about this." Belladonna said as I stared at her.

"One moment please." I said with a smile before fainting from shock.

I opened my eyes in a place I saw once looking at familiar eyes.

"You aren't a dragon guarding death are you?" I asked softly, my red eyes looking into its own as it sat before me. "You aren't some force at the gates of death that saved me... You are me."

"You are already speaking like this while you looked ready to argue when awake."

"Because I didn't have you in front of me... Because it didn't feel real to hear her say that.... But seeing you? I remember seeing through your eyes, flapping your wings, arching your neck, spitting your flames, all is coming back and my own memories can't lie to me."

"You are wise despite how young you are."

"You are older then me aren't you?"

"By many years Mystery, many many years, I was there when you first came to be and waited until now, when you had no more strength to fight alone, no more strength left in you to have the magic bind me away from you, I reached through and freed myself and you alongside me."

"How can you be so much older if we are one?"

"That will be told by them."

"Them?"

"Don't worry your little head, the truth is around the corner."

"Right.... What will become of us now?"

"You either accept me as part of you fully or I'll be forgotten again, buried too deep under your magic to emerge like this again."

"This explains many things..... My abilities.... My eyes.... My hair.... But how..."

"Again, they will tell you."

"Alright, I'll trust you.... If I accept you this, the two of us, it will be no more will it?"

"No, we'll be one once again, not two sides of the same coin but the same coin itself, you'll be me and I'll be you."

"I'd..... I'd wish to be whole again." I held out my hand.

"Good choice." It used its paw to grip my hand slowly scales flaked away from its body. "It's good to be whole again." This went on until the dragon was gone and whirl winds of scales surrounded me as it glowed brightly before fading to black as I faded away too.

I sat up and grunted, the back of my head hurting from my fall.

I brought my hands in front of me and stared at them, I didn't feel different and yet there was something more to me, something....

"Are you okay Mystery?" I felt a hand on my shoulder. "You just passed out I was so scared." I looked up at Audrey, vision sharper then before.

"I'm fine don't worry but you." I grabbed what was once long hair that barely reached her shoulder, passing a hand gently on the burn on her face before grabbing her hand to look at those burns, she seemed much calmer then before.

I looked around hearing soft breathing and it came from the complete opposite of the room.

Leo, Em and unfortunately Eleric and Meridith were all injured in some way, Leo and Em those I knew but Eleric and Meridith must have been after my feat, Eleric's arm looked really badly broken but he was still comforting his younger sister who leg had a deep cut.

"Em." I whispered, standing up.

Everyone looked at me as I approached.

"I now remembered." I told Belladonna. "But I do not know how and why that happened I just know that I indeed was a silver scaled dragon for a while before the elm's root grabbed my raging self and held on until I passed out." She nodded.

"That was....Cool." Em whispered, barely here, skin pale and weak, eyes unfocused. "If I would have known you were a freaking dragon." He chuckled softly before coughing blood.

"We couldn't help him... The wound too deep." Amalia said to me softly.

"No." I watched him close his eyes.

"We are sorry."

"Fuck no you can't die!" I crossed my hands over his stomach wound.

"Mystery."

"You can't fucking die!" I said determined, magic bubbling.

"Let me go..." He whispered weakly.

"Mystery!"

"Shut it Belladonna!" I yelled making her shocked that I talked to her like that. I sighed. "You wanted to know my secrets right?" I asked rhetorically as is would be revealed anyway.

I closed my eyes, magic overflowing from my hands.

I heard gasps of awe and pure wonder as I opened my eyes, looking at Em's face.

My body along with his was glowing a soft green from my magic, tendrils of green reaching through the room, filling it all in a green glow that drowned out the crystal torches light.

My hair and the loose parts of my clothes floated around me as I didn't take my eyes off the wound that was mending itself under my fingers, tears flowing down my face.

"Wild magic." I heard the whisper of the queen in the almost silence of the room.

The green wild magic sang a soft song all could hear but was indescribably, all my love and care channeled into it, all the memories I made along his side living through it, all the good, all the bad, the magic humming Em's story with me.

"Hey Mysty!" I looked back at the young boy I didn't know the name off.

"What do you want?" I just wanted to go to my room and be left alone, I wanted to go home.

"Would you want to play with me?"

"No leave me alone."

"Don't be like that." He whined and grabbed my hand. "Come on lets go!"

I stood over him with a staff way too big for my body pointed at Emersme's throat.

"You loose again, I don't know why you keep insisting on wanting to fight me." I huffed.

"Because you are the best! And I never give up!" He declared proudly. "If I go down I will die because I'll keep standing up as long as I live to ensure no one will hurt the innocent."

"So you're saying you'll go out as a blaze of glory?"

"Of course! I won't be an untold story!"

"In that case." I smirked at him. "Get up and see if you can beat me."

"Hey Em?" I asked, peaking into his room.

"Yeah what's up?" He looked up from the book he was reading.

"Well I was think.... I don't think like I am like other girls."

"Of course you are not, you are the best mage ever in forever! Lucky will be the man to catch your heart."

"That's what I speak of."

"Huh?"

"At least say 'what' not 'huh'? And yeah, I don't know if I fancy men actually, I can't find myself thinking of being with one, is that normal?"

"You ask me this after I told you my goal was to get noticed by the prince?"

"Well I know but it's the same for woman too?"

"Of course it is! Don't worry sister in that case you'll find a lass to your taste one day."

"Mysty you should sleep." Em said gently.

"No this is too important." I shook my head, watching the closed blossoms.

"But you can't neglect your own well being sister." He kneeled down next to me, almost shoulder to shoulder, watching the flowers like I was doing. "You can't keep staying up all night."

"Em I must finish this, it is really important to me, like you have your own goals this is one of mine."

"Fine then." He hummed. "I'll stay here too."

"What no, you should sleep."

"If this is as important to you as you say I'll stay, what brother would I be if I didn't? You stuck by me through my hours of training to master the art of earth so staying with you would be the same or repaying you if you prefer thinking off it this way."

"Fine you can stay."

As the sun rose finally the petals of one of the flowers started to open, I leaned in with a bright smile to brush my fingers along the delicate petals of the first flower too bloom silver with red in the middle.

"It is beautiful." I smiled back at him as he looked so proud.

I blocked his hit before the chain caught my leg and pulled them out from under me.

I felt a boot crush my throat as I looked up at Em.

I smiled brightly at him as he looked shocked in his win before smiling so brightly it could light up the whole world.

Em had become much more then a brother in mage-hood, more then a partner in crime I called brother from another mother, he was much more.... He was my brother, my other half, someone I could always count on, the other side of the coin I was, without him.... I wouldn't be who I am today.... Without Em I don't know who'd I be.... Without my brother I'd be nothing...

So many times he was what kept me going, his cheery enthusiasm and how he looked up to me, the want to prove him his believes were well placed, without him I'd have given up on this long ago.

The glow subsided and the silent song faded away.

"I'm.... I'm healed" Audrey whispered in the background.

"My arm.... Your leg." Eleric said louder and happily.

"Mystery." Leo muttered as he sat up and touched his perfectly good side.

"Mysty...." Em mumbled with wide eyes as he looked up and pushed himself up before hugging me tightly, I gave it back just as tight.

"Don't you dare chase your glorious death once again." I whispered through tears of relief.