Follow the Moon 4

Pic of Drag

oLunao

I pulled Aden inside and called to Winter, "Can you bring me some hot cider please?"
"Yep! I was just about to make some for myself." her cheery voice responded.
There was a short silence. "Who's that?"
"My twin. Winter."
"Oh..does she look like you?"
"No. Fraternal." I put my hand on the arm of the couch across from him and leaned on it. "Where did you come from?" Aden stayed silent. He played with his fingers nervously. I sat on the couch, face to face with him.

"Luna are you talking to yourself or do we have compa-" Winter stopped when she was Aden. "Oh!...hello." She gave him one of her famous Winter smile, perfect teeth and all. Her light features so different from mine. That one smile relaxed Aden visibly
"Ello." Aden said.
"The cider is for Aden. Poor kid was shivering. Can ya take care of him?" I stood up when Winter nodded and headed upstairs to my room. I took another shower to relax and then crawled in bed. I was out as soon as my head hit the pillow.
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Suddenly hands were on my shoulders shaking me from a deep comfortable sleep. My eyes fluttered open to see Winter. "Luna, you gotta come hear this.." I was pulled back to the living room in my pajama shorts and oversized shirt. My hair was flying in every which way.
"What's going on," I stood in front of Aden, Winter sitting beside him on the black couch. My hand ran through my tangled waves as they looked at each other, silently asking where to start.

"Well..let's start with the WHY," Aden now sat straight, his eyes wide...Winter had used her charm, I smiled inside. "Winter here has tugged me to the good side."
"You were bad?" I chuckled.
"You kidding me?" the Irish in him was obvious. "I'm the most ter'fyn thin' you guys have seen!" Winter and I chuckled. "..anywhoooo, there's a man..who doesn't like you very much."
"Ha, what else is new?" I plopped onto an arm-chair and hugged my legs to me.
"This one..is..is different." Aden suddenly seemed afraid.
"Who is he?"

Aden glanced around like someone could hear, he leaned in closer and whispered. "My master's name...is Lennox." fear danced in Aden's green eyes.
"Lennox.." I repeated.
"Yes ma'am, and he..he wants you." His words were dark with meaning. Something about the situation made a shiver run through my body. "He's coming for you.."
"Are you kidding? I just got back from being hidden! I'm NOT going back!"
"We have to call Craigon.." Winter's eyes filled with tears at the thought.
"Who?" Aden asks.
"Craigon. Our mentor. He protects Luna and her powers." Winter's tears started to leak from her eyes.
"Ya mean the bloke wife white hair?" Aden wrinkled his nose.

"Yes.."
"E can't do anything, Lennox 'as more powa in his lil finga than that guy! E'd find you in days Miss."
"What do I do?" I ask.
"You run...run far miss."
"What does he want!!" my eyes teared up.
"He didn't say miss..bu' 'es dangerous. 'ere," Aden grabbed a folded up pamphlet in his back pocket. "Take this." I looked at it...it was a plane ticket.
"Where in the world am I going?"
"Ireland. Lennox was born there and so was I. That'll be the last place 'e suspects you to go. Go there...and find my friend. He'll be in my cottage. We call 'em Drag. He will know what to do. Go pack. NOW. Lennox isn't gonna wait patiently for my return."
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Plane rides aren't pleasant. Especially long ones from bloody Nebraska to Ireland. My butt hurt, I was nauseous...and ugh. I needed to lay down, I walked out onto the streets. The air was moist and everything was sooo....beautiful! A taxi picked me up and I gave him the address Aden had scratched down on a Hershey's wrapper. The car ride was long as well. All the way out on the beautiful secluded hills. Everything was green and fog made it look eerily beautiful. I thanked my driver and pulled my bags out and went straight up to the beautiful little house. A garden wrapped around it with little flowers franchising the air.

I took a big breath, and knocked on the door. There was shuffling inside and a frustrated grunt. "Come on in," A smoother Irish accent called. I pushed my way inside.
"Hello?" I called.
"I'm back here! Go ahead and put you things in the spare room to your left." The room was quaint and had a special charm. The walls a mossy green and the brass bed looked sooo inviting. "Are you the American Aden called me about?"
"Ya.." I called back still glancing around my room and bathroom. The whole house spelled of a fireplace...it was delicious.
"Please excuse me I was just fixing the sink in the kitchen." The voice started coming to the bedroom while I was still scoping around the shower. "I'm....well where are you..."

"Here-" I started to round the corner from the bathroom back to where he was in the bathroom but instead we collided. "Oof!!" I yelped as I landed on top of him.
"Ahh.." He groaned in pain.
"Ahh is right!" I put my hand over my blue eye where his elbow and entered.
"I'm so sorry," he sat up and took my face in his hands. He was....heartbreakingly gorgeous. His dark hair was short and messy in a whole..Eat-your-Heart-Out kinda way. His skin was ivory tinted and smooth with his rose-colored lips set in a side ways grin that made my heart flop. Those high cheek bones..I wanted to touch them. His body was perfect..muscley but not steroids.. but the best part about him..was his eyes. He had one eye as silver as my most expensive jewelry, the other was a yellow...like a wolf. He was powerful...like me and Winter. I sat there like an idiot with a hand over my watering eye and staring with the other.

"Oh..oh its fine!" I finally spoke. "I'm clumsy."
"Not what I heard..Aden said you walk on air, even when you tackle him." The man grinned.
"And what else did dear Aden say of me..."
"Nothing at all. He literally said, 'ask the American about her story. She took me down like none other. take care of 'er,"
"You must be Drag.."
"I am." he gave a full bone melting smile.
"I'm Luna," I took out the hand not nursing my tearing eye and shook his warm callused one.
"Luna.." The way he said my name, I felt my insides drop. "Now let's have a look at that eye shall we?"

As he peeled my hand from my eye, I could hear him gasp.
"Magic.." he whispered. I nodded. "Your..you are the Night princess.."
"I am.." I watched his reaction.
"They're beautiful," he said still looking at my eyes.
"As are yours. your one is like a wolf..or a dragon." I studied the strange yellow one.
"That's how I got my nickname. Drag. Dragon." Another smile.

(*)Drag(*)
She was quite hypnotizing. Those eyes were stunning. One of the most beautiful girls I'd ever seen. "So Luna...What in the bloody hell is going on?"