Song: Cry of the Dragons music by Brunuhville/ vocals Sharm

I fly as fast as I possibly can to Quartz Cavern. The cavern is hidden from view and you have to make several twist and turns to get to the opening. This is the healing area where we all go too. I know the moment they see me that it is not good by the way they look at me.

"Azurite...it's so good to hear that you are back home. We all heard the news." One of them flies over to me and embracing me in her arms.

I don't want to be rude but I really want to get to Rowan so I set back from her embrace. "Thank you. Where is he; where is Rowan?"

"Come I will show you," she says with a flat smile, not really smiling but not really frowning either. Just the look on their face really worries me. I fear that he is on the brink of dying. I let her lead me to him and the whole way I am biting on my bottom lip.

The moment I see him everything in me shatters. He is just laying with his head down on the cold cave floor. He looks so weak. I rush over to him throwing my arms out and around his neck. Tears immediately start flowing and dropping on the dryness of his skin. I kiss his scaly cheek. "Rowan...I'm here...I'm here now. Please wake up...look at me...please," I beg him.

There is a sad moaning groan that comes from the back of his throat. His chest rises slightly and then falls again. I reach up and speak lightly in his ear. "I can't lose you Rowan...please you have to wake up now."

"He has been asleep the past few days. He took a hard hit see right there." She shows me. I look over to where she is pointing. The area on his side is all bandaged up with these huge leaves stuck to it and several other herbs and minerals. I know it was caused by Thristle the day in Onyx Quarters.

I close my eyes for a brief moment back to that moment. He hit him several times with his long tail. He hit me the one time but it was nothing compared to the way he hit Rowan. This is my entire fault. I should have never gone in there. Everything from that one moment has changed my whole life...changed Rowan's.

Rowan has always been there to protect me and be by my side and I am supposed to do the same for him but in that moment I failed him. "I'm here now Rowan...I'm here," I speak lightly in his ear and then climb up on his back and nestle in the bend of his silver bluish wings. These wings have carried me so far and so many times that I can't remember.

The first time I met Rowan he was hatching from an egg. It feels just like yesterday. I was wondering in the forest with Scolecite and there it was under the Red wood. I almost walked right past it but it was like it was calling my name, beckoning me to pick it up. The egg was a magnificent bluish green color and had a zillion of little glittery specks all over it. I picked it up and in that quick second it started to crack and hatched right there in my hands.

He poked his little head out and it was the most adorable thing I have ever seen, a metallic bluish green color.It's said that if you are granted a dragon that together you are one. Without the love of the fairy, they will die. Not all of us have one they are very rare to come by but if you are one of the lucky ones then you are responsible for its well being. You have to take care of it and train it everything.

My parents were super excited to find out that I had found. I will never forget the smile on their faces that day; of course they told me that it came with a lot of responsibility.After that day, Rowan and I spent so much time together. He would even sleep with me at night and everywhere I went he followed me.

We always knew how the other felt and if I was feeling under the weather so was he. Many nights I talked to Rowan about my thoughts, desires and dreams...many nights he listened to me talk about Scolecite and how I prayed to be with him in the end. He knew how much I wanted to win that day.

So seeing him like this really hurts because I was gone too long. I left him hurt from Thristle side swapping him in the side. I never imagined that it had done this much damage and if I had been here he would have already been healed by now. The love that the two of us have for each other is what makes us stronger, makes him stronger. I will never forgive myself if he is not able to heal. If he doesn't make it a part of me will die right along with him.

I snuggle up with him even more and fall asleep hearing his faint heart beat. I start to sing to him, hoping that he will hear me. Hours later I wake up to feeling him moving slightly underneath me. I slide down and kiss his scaly cheek. I watch him closely as he bats his eyes open and looks right at me, one lonely tear escapes.

I feel a smile creep on my face as tears silently fall. "Rowan...oh...Rowan...I'm so sorry. I never should have gone in there. If I had known that all of this was going to happen I never would have done it. It's just...I so wanted the Painite. I wanted it so bad. You knew how much I was in love with Scolecite," I sigh and wipe a few of the tears from my cheek.

"Oh what does it even matter...here I am still wishing to be with him when all I need is you. And...and besides it's all over now anyway, he is with Jade. Maybe it was just meant to be this way." His head rise up and he nudges me with his face. "I know...I'm here now...I will always be here for you. I never should have left like that. If I had known that you was hurt I never would have tried to go after her. I should have stayed. But you know what there is a whole other land out there one so far away. You wouldn't believe it if I told you. Oh Rowan, there they don't have winged beings like us and the trees and flowers and all the animals, it's like they don't understand the beings there...not like here. It's just so different there."

I hear a small clearing of a throat. "Excuse me Azurite, you are being summoned now." I look up to see Citrine looking at me with a kind smile.

I nod my head in agreement. Then look back at Rowan. "I have to go...Malachite is not happy with me. I know I will be punished for what I have done." I'm not sure what the punishment will be but I have a bad feeling that it will be really bad only because of Silver I never should have brought him here. I should have known better.

Rowan nods his head slightly and blinks his long eyelashes at me. He understands what I am telling him.

"Rowan, you know it really doesn't matter what Malachite thinks. It's what you think. I can't apolize enough for what I did to you. I need you to forgive me. I need to know that we are ok."

He gets up on all fours and stands tall above me. He stretches out his lavish wings high in the air and then back down, calling me over to him.

I throw my arms around him. "Rowan, thank you for understanding. Thank you for giving me another chance. I will never let you down ever again. I promise you that." I reach up and kiss him. "I have to go now."

As I am walking away I hear him moan. I don't want to leave him here but I really have no choice in the matter. I get to the entry of the cave and jump into the air and fly off. I know he is right behind me without even having to look. In seconds he is right by my side and we both turn to look at each other. He tilts his head for me to come to him and I fly over and jump on his back and I let him fly me.

I rest my wings and let him lead the way, letting the air comfort me. Since he is still pretty weak he flies slowly in the air but that is alright with me because I so need this right now. I need to be close to him. I need to feel his energy...his beating heart grow stronger by the second. For the love of a fairy for her dragon and the love of a dragon for his fairy we are meant to be together.

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Author's Note: Curious??? What do you think will happen next? Azurite has to go on trial for what she has done. Going into Onyx Quarters and then bringing an outsider to the land, not sure this is going to go over well.

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