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   With a roar the dragon thrashed and the blue, broken body of Nic went flying.
   A rage came over Tala like she'd only felt once before. "No," she groaned. She couldn't let it happen again. Not after what had happened last time. But the dragon didn't care about her past, it went after Nic and the last of her constraint broke. She cried out in rage as her body transformed into her true, hated, self. Her face grew longer, as did her teeth. Her hair joined into thick, scaled strands. Her skin darkened and hardened. Her fingers became claws. She dropped her sword and leapt into the air straight at the beast.
   With its attentions on Nic it didn't notice her until her claws sunk in at the base of its neck. With a snarl of pain and rage it turned its anger onto the small black, half dragon figure digging into it.  It snapped at her, she was easily able to dodge its attack, and assault its shoulder just below its wing. Unable to reach her with its head, it swung its tail at her. She dodged again and the sharp edges of its tail cut deep into the already red scales like they were a human's weak flesh. Irritated and dripping with blood the dragon was more dangerous now even than before. It thrashed and swatted at her, but she was smaller and quicker and it always wound up hurting itself even more.
   Tala somehow wound up about a hundred feet above it and the dragon let out a burst of flame at her.
   This was her chance.
   Her scales made her fire proof so she dove in, the dragon could not see her through the flames and she dove straight into its mouth, claws extended.
   "Tala!" Nic yelled in a hoarse, weak voice. From his angle he had seen everything.
   "You need to shift," Ladon snarled flying past him.
   "I-I can't," he winced as his shattered bones protested his every movement.
   "You can," Dusa growled, limping up to him. "She's going to need you and you cannot do anything for her in this form. It's going to hurt, probably worse than anything you've ever imagined. But you must."
   The dragon moaned as Tala dug into its throat from the inside, ripping it to pieces. It was done. She tore out of its throat and spun to watch it. In a final desperate attempt at killing her it spun it's hindquarters around and swiped its tail at her, she wasn't able to dodge fast enough. The huge body crashed to the ground, with a final moan of pain the life melted out of its huge, multi-colored eyes.
    "Tal—ah," Nic cried out as his entire body shivered in pain at his getting to his feet. His feet, not his claws. He had to concentrate on remaining in his human form, it would be so easy to just slip back. He took one unsteady step and started to fall as his legs, one broken and the other deeply sliced in more than one place, collapsed under his weight. But Dusa caught him and helped him forward. Ladon was hovering franticly over a mess of bloody ashes and tangled hair. Her body shook as she sobbed, she was curled in the fetal position on her side.
   Nic hesitated, "Go to her," Dusa said in as soft a voice as he could manage.
    "But, I'm not—"
    "She needs you."
    "She needs him."
    "Well he's not alive," Dusa snapped. "Go to her or don't, but do not pretend to love her and then abandon her when she needs you the most. This is a dark moment for her, a moment the likes of you could never understand and without you she may never come back from the brink."
   Nic looked away from the wolf and towards the prone, innocent looking figure of the woman he loved. A side of her he'd never seen. The cold hearted assassin was gone; it had died with the dragon, but was what was left in its place any better. With a sigh Nic lurched forward without Dusa. He took a few shaky steps forward before falling to his knees beside her. "Tala," he reached a hand out to her but with a growl she rolled away from him and into a cat-like, offensive crouch. But only for an instant before she collapsed again. He drug himself over to her and grabbed her arm, she was laying face down and did not move but gave out a very menacing growl.
    "The human in her soul is suppressed," Dusa muttered from where he stood by the dragon's head.
    "As in, the human in her can't deal with having done such a thing." It was more of a statement than a question.
   Dusa gave a snort of irritated amusement, "Have you learned nothing in your time with her?" Nic looked back at him with a bemused look. "The animal in her gives her strength and agility, the ability to fight the way she does. The human in her gives her anger and a need for violence, the reason why she fights the way she does. The animal in her is enraged that this has happened again, especially to one of her own kind, and is suppressing the human. Right now she is the equivalent of a wounded animal, not knowing who to trust, but knowing that she will die if she doesn't and she might if she does. Tread carefully, if she hurts you, she might not ever fully return to herself again."
   Nic turned back to her; the fire had incinerated what was left of her clothes and she was covered in bloody ashes, hard to tell how much was hers and how much was the dragon's. But he did not see all of that, he saw a girl that needed someone to care for her, to need her and to be needed by her. He wasn't sure if he could fill in the hole that he had left, but he could try, he had to try. He gripped her arm and rolled her over, with a snarl she twisted and sunk her teeth, still elongated, into his arm. His face screwed up in pain but he didn't make a sound, or try to jerk away. He held still and after a moment she let him go and curled up again. Wincing in pain he gathered her up in his arms, ignoring the growl of protest. He started to stand but fell back to his knees, causing himself even more pain. He sat there and just breathed for a moment until the incapacitating pain faded into just a blinding pain and tried again. Again he failed but as he fell a strong hand caught him. He looked up into the face of Longwei. He could just barely detect a hint of worry in his eyes. Longwei helped him up and handed him Tala's cloak which they wrapped around her. Longwei kept him steady, but did not take Tala from him.
just a clip from a story that never happened
but i wanted to write it out anyway and get it out of my head, where it's been causing much annoyance

Dusa's a wolf
Ladon's a dragon
Longwei is the Tala's brother
and Nic is a man that can change into a dragon

oh and he is the man Tala used to be in love with that is now dead
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