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After escaping the Dylos--for now--and having been eaten by Koopa my first night sans all fish features (even my gills), I sat down across from Nogard and looked at her sleeping form. She had dissappeared shortly after entering the WTGR; but before Koopa ate me--only to wind up in my fully restored house.

When I first went to my house for the first time after it had exploded, I was shocked to see that it had been completely restored. Amazed, I slowly opened the door and saw that everything had not changed. Going downstairs into my lab, I saw Nogard stretched out on the examination table. Instantly alert for any of Nogard's typical shenanigan, I cautiously approached her.

"Well I'm not going to bite if that's what you're thinking," Nogard said with her eyes closed. "At the moment, I'm completely at your mercy."

"You're at my mercy huh?" I said, eyeing the floor and counters of my lab. "And I'm a mouse."

"It would seem so with that neko friend of yours," Nogard said. "She ate you last night then your four blooded demon friend saved you tonight?"

"You should know their names by now," I said, rolling a chair up to Nogard to begin examinating her wounds. "Koopa and Chazu."

"Whatever," Nogard said, looking down at her stomach where she had been hit by the Dylos blast. Looking up at me from the corner of her eye, she said, "They didn't hit anything vital?"

"We'd be dead right now if they did," I replied, having stitched up the muscles in Nogard's stomach. "And I know what you're thinking. This'd be a helluva lot easier if Dylos spells were easy to heal and if I could get back last night to sew it close sooner."

"Those did cross my mind," Nogard said as I began to sew her skin shut. After a moment, she said, "We're still in danger aren't we."

"Yes we are," I replied, tying off the last stitch. Pouring some antibacterial salve onto a piece of gauze, I put it over Nogard's five inch gash. "I would like to go check to see how Shal and the others are after what I did..."

"It's not your fault," Nogard said. Something in her voice made me pause, something I never thought I would hear. "Blame the Dylos. They forced you to harm your daughter and your guardians. Hell, blame Chazu and Koopa for not being there to watch out for Shal!"

"It's not Chazu's and Koopa's fault!" I said, pulling a binding piece of gauze a little tighter than I meant to. "How are they to know what's going on when I barely know right now what our next step is going to be!"

"Our next step?" Nogard echoed as I got up and crossed the lab.

"Yes, our next step," I replied, sharply turning to look at Nogard. Because I had turned so fast, I did not realize that Slinky's ends flew dangerously close to one of Ikkit's electricity expiriments.



Climbing off the examination table, Nogard knelt next to me, "Dragon? Are you okay? Your hair's smoking."

Running my hands through my hair, I dampned it to prevent a flash fire and to smooth it out. "I'm fine. I've been hit with more volts than that."

"I remember," Nogard said, helping me up. "Um. Something's missing on you. Your scar and eyepatch are gone."

Raising my left hand to feel between my eyes, I realized that I could see out of my left eye, the same eye that had been covered by the eye patch. "Draco's scales..." [1]