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I woke up, looking round the cage, it was quite, too quite. I sprung onto my feet, where are they. I searched all over the cages, they where just not here. Where are they? They where taken away during the night? Lets just hope that they return soon.

*****

I started to wake, only to be met by Luke's face staring at me. "Ar, why would you do that!?!" I yelled at Luke.
"Because it's funny." Was his only reply. I snorted at him, then walked over to the water, drinking some of it. Luke walked up besides me. We then walked over to the plants. We found a blueberry bush, so we ate our fill of the soft berries. We then went and laid on the grass, in the moonlight, soaking up the moon's energy.

We stayed like this for a while, before we saw a small bird fall through the mesh. I dived forwards to catch it. When it landed on my back, I flew back over to luke. We could both see that it was a baby owl. As I placed it onto the grass, we heard a crash, as a predictor bird, flew into it, trying to get to the owl. We both stood in front of it, protecting the little bird. When the larger bird did not stop attacking, we both flew into the air, causing the other bird to briefly stop its restless attack. We both spat a fire ball at the large bird. This caused it to fly away, with a slightly burned talons.

We turned our attention back the small owl, that lay, shivering in the grass. I landed next to it, looking over it, to see if it had any ingerys. Its wing was bent in a weird, position. It's dislocated it's wing. I thought over to Luke. He walked over, and grabbed the bird in his talons. I pushed the wing back in place, causing the little bird to faint. The moon was getting lower, so we quickly walked over to the pair of little tree, by the lake, placing it in the hollow one of them had. We walked out closer to the lake, waiting to sing The Moon's lullaby. "I never knew the lyrics that you sung, guess I know now. I still wonder why we do this, but only that it fills something in us, something we did not know that we where missing." Luke said to me, as we stared at the sky. I nodded my head. We sat there for a few more seconds before we jumped into the air. We sung the song, then flew down to the bottom of the owl tree, as I am know calling it, and fell asleep cuddled into each other, at the tree's roots.

When I woke up, I saw that Luke was not here. Where is he? Luke, where are you?
"Other side of the lake." He replied back, I could see him. He was flying back over, carrying some fruit with him. In one of his talons, he held some worms. "Though it would be best to feed the little owl." He landed besides me, placing the fruit on the floor, before we both flew up to where the little owl was. When we got up there, we could see that he was awake and staring at use. Luke passed the owl a worm at the time, till they where all gone. The owl looked contempt with himself, and shortly fell back asleep. "He will be flying by the end of the week. This little bird will be ready for the wider world, though he may just stay here."
Yeah, I agree with you. We then both flew back down onto the floor. We sat in silence as we ate our food. We then flew over to the lake, taking long gulps, Luke turned towards me, then asked me, "What are we going to do, spend the rest of our lives in this room?"
"That maybe what happens. Sad to say, but we may end up spending our lives in this room, how ever many years that is." I replied back to him. We both looked at the ground, but then quickly looked up, and went over and moon tanned.

This routine went on for weeks, we would eat, drink, tan, sing and then sleep. Within the first week, the little owl was flying. He decided to stay with us, in the forest room. No humans entred, we where left to our own devices. This all changed, when I was having a drink. I had stopped having the moon tan, to drink something. As I was at the waters edge, I failed to notice the giant pike, creeping up one me. It jumped out of the water, grabbing my wing in his jaw. It dragged me under, I could not swim up to the surface, I was going to drown. Luke! I called out weakly. I heard a splash, looking up, I could see Luke swimming down to grab me. The pike must of noticed him, because it let go and swam away.

Luke dragged me back up to the surface, causing both of us to gulp at the air. He swam me to the shore, dragging me up the bank. I just laid there, breathing the much needed air. Luke must of touched my wing, as pain flared through my body. I let out a pain filled roar, as I fell into darkness.

When I woke up, I was laying in a tree, under the moon. When I swiveled my head round, I could see that my wing was placed in a make-shift cast. As I looked at it, I heard a cry of joy. Luke rushed towards me, nuzzling his head against mine. "You scared me so much. Please, never do that again." He said to me, tears welling in his eyes. "Your heart stopped breifly, I thought that I had lost you." He then said, tears falling down his snout. I heard a squeak behind me, and, turning my head around, I could see that the owl was looking at me. It looked like he was crying, although that should not be possible. "Yeah, this little owl did not leave your side." Luke said to me. I reached my talon up and stroked the bird.
"How long was I asleep for?" I asked Luke.
"Long enough for the humans to come in. They saw our little owl, but did not bother with it, because it sat next to you." Luke replied. I nodded my head, they laid down fully. My stomach started to growl. This startled the owl, but Luke just chuckled and flew of to get some food. He quickly returned with a mango. "They saw that your wing was in a cast, so they left us some mangos." Luke said.

I quickly ate the mango, the pip was given to our owl. He seems to like to collect them. Luke collected some water for me to drink, then we just talked. The moon was beginning to set, all I wanted was to jump into the air, but my damaged wing did not allow for that. Luke also did not fly, so that he was next to me, he sat next to me, as we started up at the sky. We started our little song, calming down. The little owl joined in with us, chirping in time, he seems to of got the hang off The Moon's Lullaby. The song drew to a close, our little owl went to his home, I laid my head on the tree, falling asleep. Just as I was about to nod off, Luke climbed in next to me, curling up around me. And with that, we both fell asleep, to the sounds of the animals waking up.

When I woke back up, I saw that it was late into the night. Luke was bellow the tree in the grass, moon tanning. I felt some movement bellow my good wing, a head popped up. The little owl stared at me with his big brown eyes, he turned his head to the side, this caused me to laugh, lightly. I heard more movement, then Luke's head appeared next to me, this scared both me and the little owl. Luke laughed as we jumped slightly, this annoyed both of us. The little owl started to have a go at him, this only caused him to laugh harder, almost falling of the branch he was perched on. I snorted some smoke into his face, this caused him to cough, this also succeeded in making him fall of the branch. Me and the owl poked our heads over the side of the tree, Luke was laying on the grass, laughing his head off. "Ha Ha, we get it. Now Stop laughing!" I said down to him. He stopped imidiatly, hearing the edge of anger there was in those words. He flew back up, collecting another mango on the way. He passed the fruit to me. I ate it slower this time, then passed the pip over to the owl under my wing. As the owl flew away with it, I had a look in his nest. He had these pips surrounding it. He had hollowed them out, using them as shelving and storage. That is an amazing idea, this owl is a lot smarter then we first thought. I tried something, I tried to create a mental link with the owl. Hello?
"Hello, who is this?"  I got a reply back.
It's me Gems, the dragon who saved your life.
"You can talk?" I snorted at his answer.
Yes we can, both me and Luke can.
"Oh, that's cool. Where you humans turned into animals?" Maybe he is also human.
Yes, are you?
"Yes I am." So he is.
Luke! get your but over here right know! I thought out to Luke. He arrived shortly after. "What is it?" He questioned me.
"This little owl is also a human turned animal. Just look at his storage system." I replied back. Luke looked over and saw the storage.
"Wow, thats amazing!" He replied over to me, and the little owl.
"Try talking to him." I told him. He started to open his mouth to talk to him, but I stopped him when I slapped him on the back of the head. "Not like that, with your mind, idiot!" I said. He closed his eyes, concentrating, but shortly opened again, with a loo of surprise across his face. "See." I said smugly.
"Hello. Guess I best introduce myself. I'm Ben. And you two are Luke and Gems. I did get that right?"
Yes you did.
"Wow, know we have someone else to talk to. We can't talk to any of the other dragons, we are the only ones with mind reading abilitys." Just as Luke finished that thought, pain shot through me head. Images flashed through. I clutched my head in pain. I saw myself in a nest, sleeping peacefully. I then saw a human barge in, grabbing me, I fought desperately, trying to get back to the nest, I saw Ben fly out, diving at the person. He was only knocked away, landing on the floor, his wing breaking. Luke dived out, trying to get to me, but was caught in a net. Hitler walked up, saying something to him. Luke sagged, agreeing to what Hitler said, I was let go. Fleeing back up to the nest. They hauled Luke of, not caring for my desperate crys, calling hem to bring him back. I fell to my stomach, my head finally clearing, Luke rushed over, hugging me close to him. "What happened?"
I... I saw myself sleeping, then men walking in, talking me from the nest. Ben tried to stop them, but they just broke his wing. Luke dived out, but was caught. He then agreed to something Hitler said, I was released. I flew back over to the nest, then they hauled Luke away. I thought, tears rolling down my snout. Luke hugged me closer, allowing me to cry onto his shoulder.
"That sounds like you just foretold the future. That they are going to take Luke away in the future. They have you here, to use you. Those people are horrible, using use for there own devises. They are monsters!" I nodded my head, agreeing with the statement Ben thought.
Yeah I agree. I think I know what Hitler says to Luke. Agree to work with us, or Gems gets hurt. He is using our friendship to get us to work with him. There is probualy camares around, watching us. The stalker!
"Yep, he is watching us, that would be how he new that you where hurt." I nodded my head, laying it back down when I felt a wave of sleepiness. I yauned, causing both Luke and Ben to chuckle slightly. I closed my head drifting into a light sleep.

******

She's sleeping a lot, that is never a good sign. I wish I had one of those healing scanners. It's what they use on the other dragons when they get hurt. I know, I trick them onto using it on her. Ben, I have an idea. I'm going to get them to heal her. There is this hand held scanner we use on the other dragons when they get hurt. If they think she wont make it, they will have to use it. Quick look like you are paniking. Ben did as he was told understanding what I was doing. Gems pretend not to wake, like something is wrong. It will trick them into helping you.
"Ok." I started to nuzzle her, she did not respond, just like I said to. I heard the door open, and the sounds of boots hitting the floor, as the humans ran over to help. I continued to nuzzle and poke her, seeming like I am desperete. As they got over, they saw that she was not responding. One walked over, scanner in hand, pushed me aside, then healed Gems. My plan was working. Her breathing got easyier, her wing started to move, her bones fixing. After a few minuits, they stepped back. I walked back over, then removed the leaf cast, the wing moved in next to each other.

*****

I moved my wing closer to me, before I slowly lifted my head. I looked around, spotting them all looking at me, I chirped my apreciation at them. They seemed to be fine with that, because they quickly left, locking the door behind them. "Does it hurt?" Luke asked me. I shock my head, it felt compleatly fine, like how it was before the attack. I slowly stood up, spreading my wings out. I leapt into the air, flying around the lake, chirping in exitment, my wing is fine, healed. I landed, walking up to the lake, taking big gulps. I looked up to Luke, a toothy smile covering my face. He laughed at me, but flew down anyway. "Enjoying yourself, are we?" He laughed at me. I nodded my head, then ran off to go get some fruit. I came across some strawberry plants, I started to eat from them, enjoying being able to move. I ran straight back over to Luke, strawberry juice still dripping from my mouth. I jumped into the pool, splashing aroung having the time of my life, when I exited the pool, I ran over to the sand, scrubbing myself of. Luke walked over to me, helping with the parts I could not reach. It was wonderful, finaly able to get the dirt of my scales.

The moon was starting to set, so we jumped into the air, only this time we flew next to each other, our tails wrapped around each other. We sang The Moon's Lullaby. We slowly flew down, I landed in the little nest, and Luke curled up around me. Ben looked at us in wonder, as we fell asleep.