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Fairwood Chapter 2

Black Diamond

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An expenisve black car parked in front of the office. The title on the yellow building said: Wentworth Hanessy Reform High School. The nicely built and welcoming office stood out from the long, twenty feet tall, red brick, barbed walls. A young dragon and his father got out of the car. The older, masculine and strict looking dragon towered his son. Not that the younger one was short. On the contrary, he was quite tall for being fourteen. He inherited his father's genes more than his mothers. The older dragon opened the trunk and grabbed his son's luggage. The tall, crimson dragon shoved the brown bag into his son's arms who almost fell from the heavy impact. The young dragon made a pleading face to his father.

"Please......dad."

"No." He said coldly.

"Please, I'm begging you." The young dragon's voice vibrated with the hint of crying.

"Don't you dare cry......I'm tired of you always embarrasing me." The big dragon's voice could kill it was so cruel.

"Dad...." His son looked with tears in his eyes up to him.

"No. I won't change my mind." He said and glared down his son. "Look at yourself! A real man never cries." David had to hold back from sobbing and crying openly. "I falied to raise you to be a decent man. They will fix your problems I couldn't."

"I don't need to be fixed." The young dragon whispered softly to himself.

"What did you say?!" His father growled warningly.

"Nothing." He mumbled and his father padded to the office, David looked up to the bright, white letters and felt he was about to enter a horrible place. He took a better hold of his luggage and followed his father.

The office was just as ominous in the inside as outside. A ram stood behind a tall counter, writing something on the sheets and documents in front of him.

"Good afternoon." The ram greeted them. No, he only greeted the older dragon, he didn't even look at the younger one.

"Good afternoon. Mr...." The black dragon said.

"Olridge. And you're, if I'm not mistaken, Mr. Carter." The ram replied and fished out a fresh, completely blank registration sheet from a drawer.

"Yes."

"And you're here to enroll your son to our institution." Olridge said and Mr.Carter just nodded. The ram put the sheet and a pen in front of him. David watched silently as his father filled the sheet and then with one last motion signed his sentence of suffering. He handed the sheet back to the ram and Olridge red it.

"David Carter, fourteen year old, good behavior......" The ram looked up from the paper. "Mr.Carter, why did you choose our school to "teach" your son? As far as I can see he hasn't been even registered by the police and you want him to attend to Hanessy High?"

"Your brochure said that you have good methods to fix him."

"Sir, we do have good methods to help young and cunfused furs to become valueable and decent members of the country. All I'm saying our students are violant. They are mostly here because they did terrible things and the state couldn't handle them. Your son doesn't seem to be violant at all. His grades are good...."

"Your brochure said: Respect and Discipline. That's suposed to be your motto. I chose this school because it's the toughest in the whole southern region. I don't care who my son's classmates will be as along as he turns straight!" The ram's expression turned to disgust. David thought for a moment that Olridge could help him, to make his father change his mind. His momentary hope vanished as he saw the look in the ram's eyes.

"I'm sorry Mr.Carter for prying. I totally understand your decision. And you're right. We have the best methods to help your son find the right path." The adults looked at the poor dragon, David couldn't stand their gaze and looked away.

"I'm glad to hear that Mr.Olridge."

"Now Mr.Carter. You can visit your son occasionally in every three or four weeks. It's better if your son doesn't get to see you too often, it would just slow down his progression. From tomorrow David will be our student and.....wait, did you bring his formal schoolpapers?" The big dragon just reached into his inner pocket and handed David's certificate of elementary school, a copy of his register of birth and ID.

"Thank you." The ram took the papers and put it in David's newly opened personal files. Olridge was silent for a moment, like he was thinking what he forgot to say. "I almost forgot. Our school highly supports the students like David to play sports. Our second motto is 'Strong body, Strong mind'. So which sports do you want David to play?"

"Which would you recommend?"

"Football. It's the best sport to play if you want David to become a man."

"Okay."

"Do you want him to practice martial arts?"

"What would the school teach him?" Derek asked back. He started to like the school's attitude.

"Karate, judo, boxing."

"Is it manageable to practice all of them?" David's eyes widened.

"His schedule will be a little crowded, but unlike other schools, we teach on Saturdays too so he will have time for everything." Derek Carter smiled with satisfaction. The big dragon thought he put his son into the best place in the world. If only he realized what would be the best for his son, he would take David back to his car, hug him and drove him home. But Derek Carter wasn't a good father. He didn't care about his sons soul, he cared to make David do whatever he thought was right. That's how David had been raised. Constant expectations, fear that he wasn't good enough, his father only hit him once in his life, the day when Derek figured out that David liked boys more than girls.

"All right Mr.Carter. Everything is done. Do you want to have a word with your son?"

Derek looked at his son and his smile disappeared. David didn't dare to meet his eyes, the only thing he wanted was to run away, he didn't know where, just away, far from his father and the school.

Derek put his paw on David's shoulder and David wanted to pull away. But he couldn't do that, it would just make his father angrier.

"I know David you don't want this. I know that you hate me at the moment." David silently screamed in his mind: I DO HATE YOU!. "But one day you'll thank me. You'll thank me that I didn't let you become a tailrasier." The young crimson dragon kept looking at the white marble at his feet.

"Goodbye, David." David didn't look up to watch his father leaving. Then a harsh word echoed in the office.

"CARTER!!" David turned to the source of the intense yelling and found a collie at a door leading to another room. "CARTER!! When I say your name, call you, or even look at you, you're supposed to salute!"

David raised his right paw unsteadily to his forehead.

"Good. You learn quicker than the others." The big collie said. "Show me your luggage!" David moved to the collie without a word. The collie opened it and took a good look at everything David brought. Then to the dragon's great outcry the collie began to put his stuff into a box. He put the pictures of his friends away, his ID, and almost everything. Only some clothes, shampoo, towels, soap and his toothbrush and tootpaste survived the selection. Then the collie sealed the box with some glue and put it int the room behind him. David peered into the room, it was full of boxes.

"Don't hope to see your stuff back for a while." The collie said darkly.

Then the collie lead him into another room. A pair of grayish green pants, a shirt and a pair boots waited for David.

"Change your clothes. And don't you dare tear them or you'll regret it." David quickly changed and put his "real" clothes into a decent pile and left the room, his colthes in his paws. He looked into a mirror in the office and almost cried. He looked like a young soldier in the uniform. David Carter....the brave marine of the the nation.....his friends would say. He couldn't help but feel disgust by the uniform.

"You'll have six garments of clothes, the school will wash them every Sunday. We provide you clothes for martial arts as well. Your football equipment will arrive in a week. Move your tail." The collie said and they left the office.

David stopped dead track in his steps as he saw the school. It wasn't a school. It was a prison. He didn't notice it first when he saw it from the car. Latticed windows, thick, concrete walls, iron doors.

"Your head of section is Sir Plens. You regard him as Sir, so do me and the other members of the staff. You'll do what we say, whenever we say, you don't object, you don't question us. If you do you'll be punished. We don't believe in the modern philosophy that children needs love and other stuff. We believe in, as our motto says, Respect and Discipline.

David just nodded and watched in horror as the building seemed to get bigger and bigger as they aprroached.

"I'm Sergant Gewan, you'll practice football and karate under my paws." Gewan said and took out a heavy set of keys from his pocket, he fumbled with the keys, serached for the one that opened the entrance. It was a huge, iron key, a little rusty from time.

"Welcome to Hanessy High, Carter."

***

A bunch of young furs waited on the first floor. Each wearing green pants and gray shirts, boots shining from the daily cleaning. They lent on the cold metal bar that kept them from falling straight downstairs.

"I'm telling you guys, Butcher wants to poison me." A hyena said and made an unbelievebly painful face.

"You're just paranoid, Spots." A lizard replied.

"Shut that cocklover muzzle of yours or I'll break it." The hyena growled back. The others listened wihtout surprise. This was common for them.

"Spots, Spots....if Butcher wants to kill you, he wouldn't have fixed your broken finger just cut your throat with a scample right there."

The hyena growled which turned into a small "hmmm". "Yeah, right." He said.

"Where is the King? He said he would meet us here." The lizard asked the group.

"I don't think I gotta' report my every move to You, Icetail." A calm, but cold voice hit their ears and Icetail, the green lizard turned around like he was struck by electricity.

"I...I didn't ....."

"Shut up, Icetail.....we have section C on the move." The bear said and grabbed the lizard by his collar and pushed him away to make space for Keith. Keith was a dragon. Sixteen year old, black from the tip of his tail to his snout. His hazel eyes shone with brutality, coldness and anger. Nobody could look into his eyes without the freezing feeling of fear. Every student feared this dragon, seniors and juniors as well, the other underclassmen literally hid from him if he was around.

Keith padded to the bar and looked down, approximately one hundred furs marched through the entrance hall to get to the cafeteria. It was the routine. First Seaction A, the most dangerous furs, than Section B, the less dangerous, than Secition C, the least dangerous students of Hanessy High went to have lunch.

"Look...that little bunny just stole a pack of cigarettes." The bear said suddenly, his voice carried some longing. Maybe after the cigarettes or just for a good, tiring fight. Well, that's the two things he usually did as entertainment, smoking and fighting.

"What is it, Porter, you're already out of cigarettes? I thought Icetail stole you two packs last week." The hyena said.

"He did, but I have already smoked them."

"Dude, at this rate you'll develop lung cancer before you graduate." Porter just snorted to that.

"That one ....." The hyena spoke.

"The racoon?" Keith asked, and his eyes followed the racoon who did a really good job hiding a knife in his pants but the hyena and Keith spotted the form of the knife through the fabric. "Only I gotta have knives. I'll have a small chat with him later." Keith said with a small smirk.

"You and your obsession of knives." Porter sighed.

"If you have a problem with my little obsession, don't expect me to save your ass next time you got cornered by a bunch of claws ." Keith said back with a small but audible growl." It was enough for Porter to flatten his ears and mumble an appology.

The rumor spread and changed since the very first day Keith had spent in Hanessy High. Some believed he got to the school beacuse he killed his whole family, others thought he killed his teachers, and some furs actually believed he was a foreign fur who slaughtered an entire school and the government sent him here to be fixed. None of them knew the truth....

"Aww.....we have a newbie." Icetail cooed in a disgusting tone. Everybody looked at the entrance and saw Gewan and a crimson dragon enter the school.

"He seems young...." Porter mumbled

"Maybe fifteen or a little older...." Icetail added. "What is he? Dragon or lizard?"

"He's a dragon you last, sorry excuse of scalies." Keith said and followed the dragon with his eyes.

"How do you know that?" Icetail asked back, he didn't seem to take the offense.

"Because of his features. By the shape of his muzzle. And his eyes are not slits like yours."

"You can't know that."

"Of course I can." Keith said.

"Okay, he doesn't have wings, or horns, as far as I see he is more a lizard than a dragon."

"Dragons don't have wings now. We used to have half million years ago."

"You're just lying." Icetail growled and every head turned to see the consequences.

"Watch your tone, Icetail, or you'll see what the real side of my obsession is." Keith didn't growl back, he just looked into the lizard's eyes, his icy glare seemed to freeze Icetail right there. "We call you icetail because you have cold blood. Dragons have warm blood. And not every dragons has horns. That characteristic is not dominant. I'm sure his father is horneless too."

"How do you know so much about dragon gene.....ummm." Icetail said.

"It's called genetics, moron." Spots, the hyena laugh barked and Icetail shot an angry glare to him.

"I red a few books about it." Keith replied, and looked back to the crimson dragon who followed Gewan through another iron door.

"So you don't have horns because your father doesn't have horns as well?" Porter asked.

"Exactly."

"Seems he is in section C. The kid is not hardcore then." Icetail grinned happily as he saw that David entered Section C. "That means I'm gonna have a nice chat with him and....."

"No." Keith said and the tension rose immediately.

"Um....what.....?" Icetail asked taken aback.

"You won't beat up that kid and rob him."

"I'm a senior and I'm in Section A, thath means I can do whatever I want. We have laws here!" Icetail growled again.

"I'm the law." Keith said with so much coldness and agression that made Icetail take a few steps back. Even though Keith was a little shorter than Icetail, the senior lizard was afraid of the sixteen year old dragon. "If I say to leave him alone, you'll damn leave him alone." Keith followed the backpedaling lizard, his eyes and staring could burn a whole into the green lizard. The others just watched silently their battle of will.

"Did you understand me, Cameron?" Calling Icetail on his real name did the trick. The lizard ducked his head and looked away, mumbling a small "Yes" .

"Good." Keith turned back to the others. "That goes for you too." They all nodded without hesitation.

After a few minutes of silence and watcing furs come and leave Porter looked at Keith. "But why do you want us to leave him alone. Newbies always have good stuff to steal."

"Because I am going to "chat" with him." They all nodded silently again.

***

"I'm sorry Gewan, but I have no free beds. We're completely crowded here." Plest, the bull said, looking up from his paperwork.

"I don't have a free bed either in Section B. So that means I'm gonna have to put him in Section A." Plest hummed in response, then put his pen down.

"They will tear him in no time. I red his files, he's not a villan. They won't tolerate him."

"Does a fag have to be tolerated?" Gewan asked back with an evil grin.

"Not really." The bull answered and changed the informations from Section C to A.

"Lenward will be happy to have a new toy." Gewan said and took the papers away.

***

"Look at that. He's coming back....." Porter said and pointed at Gewan and David.

"They are headed......to our Section. Maybe the kid is hardcore...." Spots interjected.

"Maybe...."Keith whipsered. The group straightened and saluted as Gewan reached the first floor. The collie stopped in front of them.

"Which one of you has a free bed in his room?" The boys shook their heads....

"I do, Sir." The black dragon replied, the others exchanged meaningful looks.

"Allright then. Number of room?"

"Number five, Sir."

"Carter, follow me." David followed the collie without a word, but coudn't stand to look back, his crystal blue eyes met the black dragon's hazel ones. The black dragon just looked away.

A loud ringing noise filled the corridors, it made David shiver lightly. It had to be the bell.

"The afternoon classes just started, Carter. You on the other hand don't have to study today. Consider it as a present. Report at Mr. Colins' office after dinner, he'll give you your timetable." David hasn't said a word since his father left. But he didn't feel like talking at all.

"Here is your room." Gewan said, then padded back towards the entrance hall. David entered the room. There were six beds in there, and in the corner was a backpack, some clothes, it seemed that the only one fur slept here. David sighed sadly, his cruel future was painfully laughing into his face wherever he looked. Then a black dragon entered the room, he was taller than David, his hazel eyes looked right into his and David awerted his gaze immediately.

"Why did Gewan place you here?" Keith asked coldly.

"What?"

"Rule number three: I ask you answer." Keith said in his usual cold voice. "Let's try it again. Why did Gewan place you here instead of Section C, where you were originally placed?"

"He...he said there was no free place in Section C." David answered a little shakily. He didn't want this.....he wanted to be at home. He wanted to play with his friends. He didn't want to sleep here, he didn't want a roommate whose eyes were like freezing ice, and God he wanted to know the answer why this was happening to him. Being gay was this horrible? It had to punished? Everybody treated him like he was sick....

"You don't belong here." Keith said suddenly, his eyes seemed to look into David's soul.

"Ye-yeah.......?" David asked back timidly.

"So what are you doing here?"

"I don't know."

"Than think! Did you see a german sheperd talk to Gewan or anything?"

"What? German sheperd?"

"Yes, a tall, athletic german shepherd, he is the school psychologist. Did you see him?"

"No. I have been here for only twenty minutes!" Keith seemed to believe him, but David was getting fed up with being interrogated.

"What's your excuse?"

"My what?" David asked back.

"Your excuse. Furs outside the walls say there is a reason why we are here, we on the other hand just call those damn' reasons... excuses....so what's yours?" Keith asked, his voice never seemed to get kinder. But what did David expect? Olridge said it.....the whole school was full of psychos.... and his new roomate seemed to be one of the extremely dangerous psycho killers...

"I don't know what you mean....." David said carefully, but it just made the black dragon growl.

"You're a bad liar. Now say it." Keith padded closer to David.....and the crimson dragon had to admit Keith was one hot dragon. He was good-looking, had a strong but not too bulky physic, but the look in his eyes scared David.

"Look, I'm new....I don't know the rules." David said, his voice quivered slightly as Keith got so close he could touch him.

"I'll tell you the rules...just answer the question." The black dragon answered.

"I.....I...." David tried to think about a good lie. But failed. The closeness of another, hot male seemed to make his mind concentrate on Keith. David noticed that Keith wasn't too tall. The black dragon had a small scar on his paw and David even caught a glimmer of longing in the hazel orbs.

"You gotta' make up a better lie than a simple "I", if you don't want the others to know your secret." Keith whispered and then turned his head to the door and yelled on top of his lungs. "ICETAIL! GET YOUR FUCKIN' ASS AWAY FROM MY ROOM!" A high pitched whimper, rustling and sounds of several boots clamping on the tiles in a hurried way could be heared from the hallway. Keith just smirked, Icetail wasn't eavesdropping alone after all. David took a step back from the black dragon as Keith looked at him again.

"Are you afraid of me?" He asked. David didn't dare to answer. What would a psycho like the black dragon consider as a 'good' answer? "The others will have the 'fag' probe tested on you in the shower. A small, white cat will come to you and he will try to suck you off. Don't let him have his way with you. Hit him. Kick him. Call him a fuckin' fag, spit on him. Put the show on like a real homophobic would do."

David couldn't really understand it at first.....wait.....fag test? Blowjob in the shower? Why would he stop the guy when it would be the best way to get revenge on his father. He almost smiled to the thought. His father sent him here to get fixed and he would get his first blowjob as a welcoming gift....Why would the black dragon want him to hit the poor cat when he just wants to pleasure him.

"Don't tell me you're actually considering letting that cat go down on you...." Keith whispered and shook his head. David snapped out of his trance immediately.

"I ...no, of course not. I hate fagots. I'm straight!" The crimson dragon said, trying to look tough and cool, he actually pretended he was proud of being straight. It made him feel even more miserable.

"As I said....you're a bad liar." Keith said and sat down on a bed. "When I said to hit that cat I meant it. You must show you're straight or the others, waiting in the locker room will beat you pulp and even Butcher won't stitch you up. They would even knife you." David listened with his muzzle hang open. He would be beaten. Or even worse .....knifed.

"Are you telling the truth?"

"Yes." Keith answered, he turned his head towards the door, but heared nothing this time. He got up from the bed and checked if anyone was out there. "So why are you here?" He asked from the corridor then came back.

David hesitated.....why would he tell the truth to a complete stranger?

"You're here beacuse you're...." Keith spoke ever so softly it even surprised David that the black dragon could muster such a gentle tone. "......gay, aren't you."

David seemed to panic. He got pale, his breathing came faster, his heart throbbed in his ears.....the first fur he actually talked to figured out that he was gay in a blink of an eye. He couldn't be screwed up more....

"Don't worry...I won't tell anyone." Keith said softly again. David blinked, then finally understood why Keith said that strange locker room advice. The black dragon ......cared about him? "I gotta' go, see you around." Keith said and padded to his bag, pulled out a book, the 'Evolution of Furs', "By the way, you're a hooligan from the streets, you used to attack furs for their money, got into streetfights, then the police caught you when you and your band tried to rob a a liquor store. You got into Hanessy High because other reform schools refused to deal with you." Keith said before he left the room. David stood there, completely numb for a second, then Keith leaned lazilay on the doorframe. "If anyone asks, you headed to Section C first because the office messed up your registration and confused your dorms. You were placed here in Section A from the beggining. When you talk to someone....try to sound calm, and don't even afford the smallest gestures of kindness."

"What...what am I??? Talk to who?"

"Mr. Carter, I'm trying to teach you the basics of survival. So pay attention.....Do you remember why you're here?" Keith asked and his emotionless, cold expression turned into the smallest smile of the world. David had no idea but Keith hadn't even smiled for two long years now.

"I'm a vandal. A tough guy from the streets. I robbed a liquore store and .....got caught. Now I'm here." The black dragon's smile faded then sighed deeply. David didn't know what to think about the black dragon. First he thought he was a murderer. A heartless, insane killer, than the black dragon turned out to be the kindest guy in Hanessy High.

"Don't trust anyone, Mr.Carter. That's rule number two."

"And what's number one?" David asked carefully.

"Always watch your back." Keith left the room before David could ask his name.

***

"Have a seat Keith." A german sheperd said and motioned with his paw to the black dragon. "What do you have for me today?"

Keith took a long breath and looked into the sheperd's eyes. It shone with intelligence. The german sheperd sitting behind the desk was Carl Lenward, school psychologist and teacher. And he was the most feared fur in Hanessy High.

"Got another knife." Keith said and handed a knife to the dog.

"Where did you get it?"

"A student, from Section C."

"Name?"

"I don't know."

"Keith, remember our little pact. You give me informations about the school, teachers, students ... and I keep your little secret." The dog said almost kindly. It made the sclales on Keith's neck shiver. He hated the damn dog. In every way. Carl Lenward was the real psycho in the school, and to worsen the case, he was very intelligent and clever, he had the strange and rare ability to notice when somebody lied to him. He was manipulative and cruel. He never put his paw into dirt, he let others do that job for him.

"I don't know his name. I had to steal it, I had no time to ask questions."

"Do you know Keith why I find you interesting?" The sheperd asked without taking his eyes off Keith.

"I don't know sir."

"Because out of thousands of furs I met in my life...you're the only one I can't catch on lying."

"Is that good sir?"

"Hahhaaa..........you actually learnt a lot from me.....though I had no intention to teach you anything but physics and chemistry." Carl answered with a small laugh. "But let's talk about your new roomate.... what is he like?"

"Crimson dragon, he said he robbed a liquore store than got caught."

"Not too interesting I guess, especially if I compare his story to yours." Carl replied with a satisfied smirk.

"Yes, sir." Keith nodded, silently cursing the dog to the deepest hell.

"I red his files and he lied to you. He's not here for being a robber."

"Then what?" Keith asked with the slightest (pretended) curiosity in his voice.

"Oh....I don't want to ruin the fun of figuring things out on your own, Keith." Lenward said playfully, he was even scarier when he was in a good mood.

"Yes, sir."

"Why do I have the feeling that you're hiding something from me?"

"What would I hide from you sir?" Keith asked back completely calm, he never showed emotions, especially around this german sheperd.

"Maybe you're not hiding anything.......maybe you do. Then again, you're the only one I can't catch on lying...." Carl said and watched the dragon closely, trying to read his moves.....but nothing. Keith didn't even flinched. The sheperd took a deep breath, his well-known power and effect didn't work on this certain dragon. Carl Lenward always figured out furs' weakness and strength in no time. A copule of words, a small gesture....and Carl knew almost everything about the fur he talked to or observed. But he never managed to get the smallest emotional reaction from the black dragon...

Carl Lenward played a game with Keith. It was about making the black dragon do things for the sheperd. Sometimes Lenward asked him to do insanely complicated things....like stealing another teacher's stuff right under its nose. Lenward used the clever dragon to monitor the whole school. Keith would report him every day about every suspicous thing, he would give him informations about how cigarettes and weed were smuggled into the school, who beat up who, how furs managed to bring knives into the school....Keith knew everything about everyone....he had to or else Lenward would punish him. It was their deal....

"Remember Keith, you rule the students just beacuse I let you. Never forget that I can turn this place into hell if I want." Carl said softly, Keith nodded and left the room.

***

David checked his watch every passing minute. He had never been afraid of dinner. But now he was fifteen minutes away from spending his first dinner in Hanessy High...with approximately one hundred cruel and more importantly dangerous furs. He haven't seen the black dragon ever since he left...David spent his whole afternoon in his room. A few furs stopped at the door to peer in but quickly moved away after a couple of seconds. They were all curious about Keith Bailey's new roommate.

The young criomson dragon let out a small sigh and lay on the bed next to Keith's. The bed wasn't really comfortable but David didn't really care about the quality of the matrass at the moment. He thought about his friends, his 'home'........he called a house his home for fourteen years and now.....he didn't know if that white house with the cherry trees have ever been his home. No...it wasn't....home is the place where you are welcomed, where you are loved and you love others back. His mother and father said they loved him......then how could they just throw him away? No, they didn't love him....his mother hadn't even protested against the whole reform school thing.

"Well Mr. Carter.....enjoyed your time with the silent walls?" David sat up quickly in the bed. Keith was standing in the doorway, his tail swished lazily on the floor behind him.

"Um....it was boring."

"Yeah. I guess the guys came to have a look at you but they didn't entertain you so much....."

"No...... Do you think they already know?" David asked and the black dragon just shook his head.

"They don't know. But that could change depending on your performance at dinner and....your performance in the showers."

"I really have to hit him?"

"Yeah, a pissed off homophobic badass would do that. And you're a homophobic badass if you have forgotten while I was away." Keith replied. David couldn't help but feel that Keith was smiling. But the black dragon might just want to lure him..... The second rule was not to trust anyone.....

"How do I know I can turst you?" David asked suddely, his blue eyes gleamed with the begging look of a beaten, outcast puppy.

"Rule number two: Don't trust anyone. Don't trust me." David expression turned from begging to despair.

"But....then why? Why are you saying those things? Have you been just playing with me?"

"No." Keith said sotly, his face showed nothing just emptiness. "But trust is not the thing you can achieve in a single day. I don't trust you, Mr. Carter. And I will take my paws off you if you betray me."

David felt the crushing weight of hoplelessness again. He thought that the black dragon could actually be his friend. That he could be his rock to cling to in the storm. His hopes fell apart in that minute.

"You can't trust me either. I will throw you away if the circumstances require." Keith said.

"How can you live like this? How? Is everybody here just like you? Cold? Soulless? Empty?" David yelled with anger. The long torture that began a month ago for David finally got to him.

Keith have never felt such guilt in his life. Making the cute, crimson dragon angry really moved something in his soul.....he banished those feelings a long time ago. He simply couldn't afford to feel guilt or to have a concience. It would just make him weak. The others would have noticed that he was different......he had to put on the mask of a murderer.

"If you cry you will look weak in other's eyes. And weak furs are preys. I can't protect you if you don't put it together." David really got surprised at the last sentence, but his momentary surprise wasn't even near what Keith experienced.....he actually said something caring.

"Protect me?" David whispered. "Then what was that crap about trust? Why the fuck couldn't you talk like a normal fur?"

"You can't act like normal furs here! Got it? In this place you gotta play with other rules. Forget trust, friendship and stuff your mum had read for you before going to bed. It doesn't exist here! There is only one thing you gotta keep in mind: you have to do everything to survive! If you have to steal to live you do it, if you have to fight you damn do fight so you can leave this place one day. We need to ignore our concience."

David pleaded silently with the black dragon, his blue eyes begged Keith to take back his words. David just wouldn't accept the cruel reality, but how would anyone expect him to do it?

"Look, I know it's hard. Getting accumstumed to this place is insane..but you have no choice. You will brush those tears away, you'll put on the tough face, you'll act like a real fur of the streets......and if you do it well....you may sleep peacefully sometimes. You can be yourself in the darkness." Keith felt his voice trail off...he haven't been this emotional in years. The effect the crimson dragon had on him scared him and calmed him in the same time. He was scared that a fur he just met could make him feel things like this. And he felt something else too......he didn't lose himself completely in the process. Under his mask of agression and coldness....still lived some of his true self.

"You just said I can't trust you!"

"I know!" Keith said, his voice sonded beautiful, it was his true voice. Not the cold, careless tone he forced himself to speak with. It was the voice of the innocent, fourteen year old Keith Bailey. His face and expression showed his real emotions, he was just as afraid like David. But he was good at pretending to be somebody he wasn't. His usual stoic and cold look returned after a second.

"Can I trust you?" David asked for the last time.

"We don't even know each others names." Keith answered. David padded to the taller dragon and extended his right paw.

"David Carter." He said hopefully. Keith seemed to hesitate for a moment. Then shook David's paw frienldy.

"Keith Bailey."

***

"Well David....sleep well, you earned it." Keith said as he changed his uniform.

"I can't believe I actually hit someone." David said from his bed, he pulled the covers to his chin. Keith couldn't help but smile to the scene. David was unbelieveably cute.....Keith quickly shook his head to think about something else.

"The others are thinking you're really hardcore. I'm sure Section C and B will know tomorrow how bad of a nosebleed that cat had." Keith said.

"But I hurt him. It's bad."

"Yes, it is bad. But the cat deserved it. He would have gone farther than a punch in your face and guts. So be glad he wouldn't dare to even get close to you."

"But if everybody hates gays here, how come that cat is with them."

"He's the weakest fur in Section A. He is the bottom of the rank. He has to do what others say. If he has to touch another guy then he does. He's not gay, I'm sure, but he has no other option."

"So if the others say to do stuff then I have to obey?"

"No, it's more complicated than that. You proved that you're not a tailraiser. I have to say the others are really fascinated by your moves. They will be tough on you, but it's manageable when you're accepted.

"Manageable?"

"Yeah, just be quiet when the olders speak, don't get your tail into their stuff. They will leave you alone but you always have to watch your back."

They were silent for a while, then the lights went out and David heared the matrass creak under Keith's weight.

"I forgot to thank you...for everything you have done for me." The crimson dragon said in the sudden darkness.

"You done everything by yourself. I just gave a few tips."

"Thank you Keith."

***

A year later...

David pulled his jersey over his head and threw it into his locker.

"Nice work, Fist." Spots said and slapped him on the shoulder. David grinned for a moment then turned back to his locker. The naked males around him made him nervous, but he managed no to get hard. He figured that fantasizing about females in the locker room made him unable to have an erection. He just had to think about it fast sometimes when he saw a really cute or good looking guy.

"I'm telling ya' dude, you would become a professional football player if you weren't locked in here with us." Porter said and shut his locker.

"Do you remember his first day. How he knocked Kitty out?"

"Course I do! I never saw a fourteen year old punch like that." The hyena added.

"It was nothing!" Icetail growled. "Even a baby could knock out Kitty."

"Hey! You have a problem with me?" David said bravely, he stepped close to Icetail. The difference between their bodies was easy to see. David was putting some serious muscles on. His tall but slender physic filled with muscles from the constant practices and working out. He grew a lot too, he was only an inch smaller then the lizard.

David used the moves that Keith taught him. He looked straight into Icetail's eyes without blinking and glared down the green lizard. Keith was right: Icetail hated eyecontact.....the lizard awerted his gaze after a few seconds and threw his backpack on his shoulders, then left.

"Dude, I may be wrong but as if we just caught a glimpse of the next King!" Porter laughed at his own joke. David smirked lightly, that's another thing he learnt from the black dragon. He saw Keith so many times at 'work', when Keith demonstrated his ....well....he demonstrated that he was Keith Bailey, a psycho with love for Knives, the King of Hanessy High.

"I'm not going for that title, Smoke. It belongs to him." David said and the students dressed up and got ready to the next class.

David padded up to the second floor, his feet moved automatically, taking the course to his room.

"How was practice?" Keith asked from his bed, he red a thick book of physichs, something pretty complicated that David didn't want to hear about. The basic physics he learnt was enough. With Keith's help he always got A, but he hated physics.

"Good, I kinda like it now. I used to hate it when everybody could knock me down easily." The crimson said with a small smile. "But Icetail is getting weird lately. He was mocking me again."

"Again? That's the fourth time he did that in a week...." Keith said, the look of concern shone in his hazel eyes.

"Yep. But I handled him. Stared him down just like you said."

"Good." Keith nodded and went back to read his book, though his mind only worked on Icetail. The lizard would be out in the evening. He shouldn't try to mess things up.......

"Did Lenward say anything suspicous?"

"No. He was actually pleased that I told him how the old bull, Plest smuggles cigarettes for the students in exchange for sex."

"What?" David asked, turning his head so fast it hurt him.

"Yep, the old, homophobic bull made the students of Section C pleasure him for cigarettes."

"For cigarettes?"

"Yeah, Porter would have been the first to suck his cock if he had known about it. But Lenward will fire Plest....maybe he already have." Keith replied and closed the book.

"This place never fails to surprise me...." David whispered. "Colins put me on the cleaning team. I have the whole sixth and seventh floor to mop and the toilets to clean after dinner...." David made an annoyed face. "I hate to do household chores."

"I think my job is a little more difficult than yours, after all being Lenwards little spy is not that easy." Keith said and took out another heavy book from his bag.

"Oh...sorry." David said softly. "Hey it's almost six. I'm starving! It's macaroni today."

They closed the door and went to the cafeteria. The furs of Section A ate silently their meals. A few teacher stood at the entrance of the kitchen and the hall, making sure that the late students wouldn't get dinner.

David got used to the cook, he ate everything they put before him. After all, he needed his strength, and even a missed meal could cause real trouble when you're put on detention in the 'chamber'. David has been there only two times. But those two encounters with the small, cold cell banished his every want to spend time in that hole. First Gewan locked him there because he broke a window. It was a mere accident but the consequences were brutal. David had to spend two whole days in the chamber, he was let out to use the bathroom each day and could drink some water. The second time he got locked up was a little easier......it was only one day to spend with the cold and completely boring walls. Though the chamber had a window, or more like a a hole......where the brick fell out, you couldn't see the landscape from the hole, only the sky. At least that was relxing in that horrible place.

Even at dinner the students of Section A kept their ranking. Keith ate at the end of the main table, he got to eat first, than the others. The black dragon chewed his macaroni slowly, he looked around, examining the faces at the long table. Everybody seemed relaxed, if you can call emotionless expressions that. Keith nudged his food with his fork, then something strange caught his attention.

Icetail.......

The green lizard didn't really touch his food. Maybe he was excited that the time of his freedom drew so close. Icetail fixed his gaze on his plate of macaroni then slowly, slowly ..... looked away. It was a sneaky look, but completely professional. Nobody noticed it and Keith tried to follow Icetails gaze. It seemed like Icetail took a small peak at Porter on the other side of their table. Maybe.....

Then the lizard stood up with his plate and padded to the kitchen, put it on the counter then headed to the hall. Keith followed Icetail with his eyes and the green lizard turned his head to look back at the eating furs. His look seemed to fell on Porter again. Then Icetail vanished behind the iron doors. One and half an hour and he would be free.....

After fifteen minutes everybody finished their meals. The furs left the cafeteria and headed to their dorms, the others who were put on household chores stayed in the hall then went to get their mops and buckets. Keith watched David take a mop and a plastic bucket with a sponge. David flashed him a small smile as Keith padded up to the second floor. He went to his room, sat on his bed and continued reading his physics book.

"King, have you seen Icetail? He's not in his room. I thought with the other guys we should say goodbye properly, after all he was our pal." Porter the bear said from the door. "He said he wanted to talk to David about something....I dunno."

"Haven't spoken to Icetail for a while now." Keith said back, not really looking up from his look. Icetail, the dangerous lizard was not his concern anymore. With Icetail being free, Keith could finally breath a little. He was really tired of fighting with him.

"Well.......goodnight, King." The bear said and left.

Keith looked at his watch, one hour and Cameron would be out. Still the black dragon couldn't keep his mind off Icetail. The lizard's strange behaviour might be just a sign of excitement......seeing the outer world still made Keith's heart beat faster. He haven't been outside the tall walls for three years.....

Then something clicked in the black dragon's brain. His memories flashed in his mind in a heartbeat.....Icetail mocking David over and over again....Porter saying Icetail wanted to talk to David.....the green lizard looking at Porter in the cafeteria....but Icetail hadn't been looking at Porter....he had been looking at David at the other table, right behind Porter. "How didn't I notice it before?" Keith whispered, his whole being shivered for a moment with the odd felling of something bad.....something terribly wrong.....

***

David entered the men's room on the seenth floor. It wasn't used at all, but the staff wanted it to gleam like a diamond. A diamond with broken basins and toilets.....

The red dragon bent over a little to grab the bucket from the floor, full of water then he felt something cold against his neck. He froze right there, his hearth and breathing almost stopped as he heared Icetail whisper into his ear: "A word or a sound...and I cut your throat." David almost whimpered, he didn't dare to move, his hearth throbbed in his ears. He could see the green lizard's paw at his shoulder....and a long knife at his neck, he couldn't see the tip but it was really big judging from how long Icetail kept his paws.

"Let go of that bucket." Icetail's cold voice assaluted David's ears. There was no joking behind the lizard's words. Just pure anger. David did as he said so, he let go of the bucket. Then to David's horror Icetail bit his neck. It was hard, and almost punctured his skin....David felt his stomach turn into knots as Icetail pushed the knife dangerously close to his neck, he felt the cold metal scritch his skin, then cut him slowly. David was sure it drew a little blood. Then Icetail pulled him closer. The lizards cooler body made David shiver....the red dragon never felt such overwhelming fear in his life. It paralized him, blocked his every instinct to pull away. The knife at his neck was a stronger reason then Icetail's breath on his neck......

"Take your shirt off..." Icetail said in a lustful tone, making his words more demanding with another cruel scratch on David's skin. "I said take it off." David didn't dare to move for a moment, then he felt his paws rise a little then began to unbutton his shirt. The thoughts of things that Icetail could do to him froze David's mind. He could be killed, stabbed and as Icetail's breath and teeth on his neck told him....raped.

Not in this precise order.

David unbottoned his shirt and let his arms fell to his sides, with his shirt, but the piece of cloth didn't fall on the floor, just hang on his left elbow. Icetail removed it with his other, free paw. David felt his tears well up in his eyes. He wanted to shout for help...but he would be dead immediately. He had no other option but do whatever Icetail said.... to live for another minute.

"Now your pants....." The green lizard whipsered into his right ear...then gave a long lick.....it made David nauseous. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do this, David......Every time......when I saw you in the showers....I knew you were a fucking tailraiser. I knew it from the beginning, David." Another long lick, Daivd closed his eyes and cringed, Icetail growled into his ears and nipped at his neck as a warning. "You might have fooled the others, but not me....I saw how you looked at Keith.... that dragon is really stupid if he didn't figure out you were a fag. The famous Keith Bailey, the King can't even look further than his own snout. Take off your pants, David." Icetail said and David whimpered to the stinging pain he felt in his neck. He reached to his fly, unzipped it, then undid the tail snap. " I wouldn't do this David, if you had payed attetnion to me.... but no......your big black guardian angel always watched your back......didn't he, David? I'm sure you would have died without him. But tell me......you really fooled him...or is he just another tailraiser like you?" David didn't answer....

"Owwww...you are allowed to talk now.....but not too loud....couse I might hurt you.." Icetail cooed into his ear and David felt like he was in hell. Literally, there was no way he could survive this. Icetail would rape him and kill him afterwards. The precious karate and judo moves he practiced so much and knew so well couldn't help him. Not when a knife was about to sink into his flesh.

"Tell me, David. Did you fool him too? Or has he been helping you all way long? That would explain why you hit Kitty immediately when he was hitting on you....you always knew what to do....he protected you, didn't he....when he said I couldn't rob you...he just wanted your body to HIMSELF!" Icetail growled like a beast, his eyes were only slits, burning with anger and lust.

"No...." David whispered.

"NO WHAT?" Icetail hissed furiously...and David felt a small drop of warm blood on his paw...his own blood. "NO WHAT, DAVID? You raised your tail didn't you? You fucking fagot!"

"No....he didn't touch me..." David whispered and his tears rolled down on his crimson cheeks.

"You're a bad liar David. But now....Keith isn't here to protect you....he won't tell you what to do......there is only you and me......I'll get you this time.."

There was small whimper.....David tought he whimpered and his body was out of controll....but he realized it came from Icetail. A new scent filled the dirty bathroom. A new yet familiar scent, David smelled such agression in the air it made him shiver.

"Put that kinfe away, Cameron. If you hurt David, I'll kill you." David's heart skipped a beat as he reckognized Keith's voice.

"You won't .......you won't fool me anymore. I know you're not a murderer. Those rumors about you were all fake. I know you never killed. You wouldn't kill this time either." Icetail said with a little laugh.

There stood three young fur on the seventh floor. Keith having a knife at Icetail's neck and the green lizard keeping his knife at David's.

"Maybe I didn't kill...maybe I did, Cameron.....but if you really think I won't kill you if you hurt David .... you'll see the devil himself." Keith said softly and his voice gave the strange feeling that they have never seen Keith serious before. His voice was demanding, powerful....Icetail almost dropped his knife...

"I count to three, let David go. You'll leave Hanessy High without a word and we'll never see you again. ONE!" David whimpered and that made the lizard grip his knife even tighter.

"You wouldn't kill me." Icetail growled.

"TWO!"

"You wouldn't risk his life!"

"THREE!!!" David didn't see the quick events behind him he was so afraid to even open his eyes not to turn his head.

When Keith counted to three Icetail pulled his paw away and ducked his head to avoid Keith's knife, he was succesful, he only got a slight scratch, the lizard pushed the black paw away with an effective karate move.....Icetail turned around fast and tried to stab the black dragon in his abdomen. Icetail stopped dead track in his motion, his arm froze in the air, halfway to Keith's abdomen........the black dragon was holding a knife at the right side of his neck.....how could that be? He just got scratched from a knife that Keith held in his right paw....did the dragon put the knife into his left paw while he turned around so quickly? No Keith was good at martial arts that's true but ........Icetail finally realized: Keith had two knives. One in each paw.

"You move and I cut your artery. You'll bleed out and I survive." Keith said in his usual cold voice. "You can still go away Icetail, just drop your knife."

The green lizard stared into Keith's hazel eyes. Even Keith couldn't decide what would Icetail choose in that moment...he was ready for the worst.

Then Icetail dropped his knife on the floor and after a second started to back away, Keith turned, knife high in in the air, pointing warningly at Icetail. Then the lizard ran off.....

There was a few moments of silence, then a faint sob escaped David's muzzle who still kept his eyes closed, trying to shut out the world, searching for a better option......trying to believe this was just a nightmare he would wake up from. His whole body trembled as warm paw touched his own. David's next reaction was to pull away immediately, his whole upper body naked, his pants about to fall, his tears stil glistening on his muzzle. He didn't even realize Keith touched him and not Icetail. It was the same for him in that moment, every physical connection with another fur carried the possibilty of being killed, raped, knifed, shot, tortured.... the worst things a fifteen year old, inexperienced young dragon could imagine filled David's mind...... But it was Keith.....the black dragon he loved, his black angel who always protected him.....a black angel with hazel eyes, holding two knives in his paws. David backed to the corner of the room from Keith. It wasn't the black dragon who scared him...but more the knife that glistened in blood. Icetail's blood.

Keith didn't know what to do. He feared that Icetail might come back in any minute. If the green bastard comes back Keith would damn kill Icetail right there even if he just look at David. In the middle of this insanity where beatings and pain were usual, he couldn't decide where to begin.....Make sure Icetail stays away from David....make sure the green lizard leaves the school.....comfort David, take him to their room and hug him to his chest, whisper soft, meaningless words to calm down the crimson dragon who seemed to have a break down in the dirty corner of the room. Then again a teacher would come to check on David and his work. And David wasn't finished. If he got caught ignoring his chores he would end up in a cell, or worse....in the chamber. He would get a few hit on the muzzle or in the guts, depends on the teacher, then would be trown into a freezing cell with his pain from the beating and haunting memories of Icetail. That's waited for the poor dragon......if Keith didn't work fast.

The black dragon grabbed the mop shoved it into the water. Cleaning.....doing the damn mopping......when he should be talking to David. Keith shouted so many unheared and uspoken swears in his mind even a sailor could be offended. But he had to work fast and good. Choosing the smaller bad between two. Keith worked fast and the bathroom along with the seventh floor gleamed clearly in the neon lights of the corridor.

David still stood in the corner of the bathroom, sobbing faintly, hugging his arms to his chest. Then he heared a noise and Keith marched back into the room. There was Icetail's knife on the floor and Keith quickly grabbed it and put it in his pocket. David watched in fear as the knife disappeared in the black dragon's pants. Then he was scared even more as Keith padded to him. David didn't know why he was afraid of Keith, his mind slowly worked on the informations and things that happened to him in the last twenty minutes......

"David......I want you to know that I'm sorry....but you have to regain your calm and dress up.....If the teacher sees you like this he will start questioning you and that can't happen....So be strong.....dress up......put on the mask we always do.....can you do that David?" Keith knew how ridiculous that sounded. Asking David to act like nothing happened just a decent wash of the floor, it was completely insane.

Keith grabbed David's shirt from the basin where he put it before and gave the piece of clothe to David. The crimson dragon was shaking lightly, his paws couldn't find the path into the sleeves.....the dragon was messed up big time. Keith helped David dress up, did the tail snap for David, because he always missed the hole. David wasn't sobbing anymore, Keith took it as a good sign, but the crimson dragon still didn't look like himself, his muzzle was pale, his eyes stared into the emptiness.

"David....David!" Keith tried again with a little more commanding in his voice. That did the the thing. David came back to reality. "David, take the mop and the bucket, wait for the teacher outside.....act normally. Can you do that?"

The younger dragon nodded.

"Good." Keith said and touched David's paw tenderly, the dragon didn't pull away this time. David moved like he was a robot. He leant down, grabbed the mop, then the bucket and left the room. Then came the distant sounds of heavy boots stomping on the floor, getting closer every moment. Keith hid in a stall, closed the half broken door behind himself and listened.

"Carter, you finished?"

"Yes, sir." Keith heared David reply. The dragon's usual calm voice vibrated a little but it wasn't suspicous.

"Let's see." The heavy footsteps echoed in the bathroom, the teacher who Keith reckognized as Colins came and checked David's work. "Fine. Put the stuff into the cabinet at the end of the corridor. Then go to your dorm."

David obeyed and padded away.

The brown otter let out a low hum, then walked away. Keith waited till the loud steps of the otter died, he carefully opened the door, peered out then moved to the entrcance, checked if Colins was still out there but the otter was out of sight. That's when the black dragon broke into a sprint, he ran to the cabinet but David wasn't there. Keith hoped David would wait for him but Colins ordered him to leave. The black dragon ran down five floor, he only stopped when he reached his room.

There was David, sitting on his own bed, his tail that used to lash back and forth slowly or a little more playfully if his mood was better, now lay limp behind him. Keith felt the rush of emotions again....every time he looked at David his heart beat in happiness, he loved David. He didn't exactly know how long....it was like a supressed feeling he always ignored but came back. Keith couldn't believe he would fall in love with somebody in Hanessy High. He hated everything in the school, from the walls to the broken toilets, the chamber, the cells, the gym, the teachers, Lenward and his own father!

The great walls he raised between himself and the world shook along the ground with elemental force every day he spent with Daivd, making his imagined last defensive line fall apart gracefully, breathing out its own last air to free Keith from his own cage.

In the middle of suffering and sea of cruelty.......he found a fur to love...to take care of and protect with every fiber of his being.

He thought first he would soften.....that he wouldn't bear the life he had to live. But it wasn't weakening him, it just made him even stronger.

Keith padded into the room and closed the door, turned the key and the click made David shake a little. Keith felt love and burning rage in the same time. He should have killed Icetail right there for what he did to David. The black dragon sat down next to the crimson one, Keith was still taller than David but the crimson dragon grew fast.....it was obvious that David will be a big dragon and will ceratinly be taller than Keith. But it needs a few years to see that.

The black dragon took a deep breath.

"When I got here....on my first day, a dingo was the King. He noticed me at lunch. I tried to hide in the crowd, but he saw me. He was leaning on the bar, I felt his gaze on my back.......I was in Section C first. Then after martial arts I went to shower, just like the others. But after I finished, my clothes were gone.....I tried to find them. The others didn't care that a newbie lost his clothes. They knew somebody stole it. It's a way to make furs stay in the shower so others could 'chat' with him. After everybody left, the dingo came. He wasn' t too big but muscular." David looked at Keith with fear and pain in his crystal blue eyes. "He grinned at me.....and I knew he was going to do something terrible.....and I ran, with only a towel on my hips......he caught me after a few steps and held a knife at my throat. He said he would kill me right then if I even move ... so I didn't move. He said awful things..... he whispered into my ears how much he would enjoy taking my tail...... he said he would mount me and I would love it. He was called Jeremy Aust....he dragged me in the shower turned on the water so the splashing noise would overpower my screams.... he spoke to me all the way, he grabbed the towel and touched me like no one did before. Then something snapped in me and I wasn't myself anymore..... I pushed him away roughly....I wasn't so strong, but I caught him off guard, he thought I wouldn't dare to move. His kinfe fell on the floor. But I didn't care. I tried to kick him but he caught my leg..." Keith whispered softly, he didn't seem to notice his voice got so low.

"We both lost our balance and he fell on top of me. He grabbed my neck, his claws almost tore my skin. And his knife was right next to me....he didn't notice it, he was furious and bit my shoulder. Somehow he thought his fangs would be better then the knife.....maybe he completely forgot about the knife or thought it was too far away, maybe he lost his mind.... then I grabbed the knife and stabbed him on his side. He howled and rolled off, and the next second I caught myself lying on the floor, naked. He lay next to me, his paws on his his wound....whining patheticly. Then after a second I realized what I did.....I knifed a fur. The knife was still in my right paw, bloody. And I ran, clutching the weapon that saved me, out of the showers and locker and I found Jeremy's little group outside. They saw me, naked, my paw covered in blood, I might have looked like a psycho.... and they were affraid of me....yeah the fourteen year old newbie, the little dragon fucked up pretty bad their precious King. They ran to the shower and found Jeremy whimpering on the floor probably in a small puddle of his own blood. They brought him to Butcher, he stopped Jeremy's bleeding and probably saved his life. The school took Jeremy to a hospital and he didn't come back. I don't know if he died or just didn't have to come back. The others said he would have been let out the next morning. Lenward never told me the truth. Of course the staff wanted to know who knifed Jeremy and I couldn't really deny what I did after Gewan found me with the bloody knife. I was in the chamber for a week.....they fed me, then they let me out, placed me into section A. Then Lenward came, he said he found me interesting and he had a really promising deal to offer. He said if I become his eyes and ears he would provide me a better life here. He gave back the knife so I could protect myself and he made sure the other teachers and students got to know my personal files after he changed a few things in the documents...." David opened his muzzle in complete surprise. "I thought they would kill me after what I did to their King. But they didn't want to kill me, on the contrary..... they congratulated me. It seemed lots of furs in Section A hated Jeremy....and they were happy he was no longer in the picture. And another thing I noticed....they were still afraid of me. I became the King.....and every fur in school knew what I did. The others were even more fascinated, they thought I managed to steal the knife back." David looked with complete shock at Keith. But it was only the half of the story.

"My excuse is murder, David." There was a long silence and David couldn't even wrap his mind around the sentence Keith said. "I got here because the police stated that I murdered a man. He was called Elijah Cross. He was a professor of the local university in the capital. After a competition the university had for young furs, he called me to talk with him. I visited his house, we talked about why I lost against the rabbit. I don't even remember her name..... the rabbit.......The prof said I had a great and promisong future ahead. That I could become a great man of the nation if I keep working and learning that hard. My father was pissed off that I lost. He expected me to be first in everything. After I went home my father waited for me. He discovered some stuff I tried so much to hide from him. It was my diary......I kept it under a loose part of the parquet in my room. He red it....every page. Everything I feared and thought of the world...... my deepst secrets. He realized how much I hated him and how afraid I was of him. He was furious, but not only for that part.... he red in my diary that I liked males. He shoved the book against my chest and hit me, he shouted he didn't need a sick son, that I was just a pathetic excuse of a male dragon. He burned my diary and locked me into my room. Around nine o'clock the police came. They were looking for....me. They accused me of murdering professor Cross in his own house...... They took me away, the trials were quick, they found me guilty, all proved by my fingerprints that was all in the house and on the weapon they said I used. It was a big kitchen-knife I used to cut bread with for professor Cross. The otter's hand were really shaky, he had a neurotic disease. The police stated that I stabbed professor Cross in his lower back from behind. The wound was perfectly placed for my height." Keith said and took a deep breath, David listened with horror to the black dragon's story. "Many witness supported the charges, saying that I was the only fur who visited Cross that day. The crime investigation said that Cross was killed around noon, and the funniest thing is that Cross was alive, having a sandwich I made for him in his living room at noon. But no matter what I said, how desperately repeated that I was innocent and Cross was alive when I left his house. No use. It was much more later I realized that the police was right, Cross had been murdered at noon, because the murderer changed the time on the grandfather's clock with an hour. I admitted that I was in Cross' house at noon beacuse I thougt I really had been at his house. I was confused when I got home..that day. Now I know the murderer made everything like I was the criminal. He planned everything." Keith stopped for a second then continued. "The court sentenced me to attend to a reform school, the state laws and my age couldn't let them punish me harder. My father wasn't really helping me either. He watched without a word as the court found me guilty in all charges. There was great smoke around my case. Half the citizens believed I was innocent, the other believed I was a liar and murderer. They soon forget what they were arguing about. The state wanted somebody to punish for killing Elijah Cross, and without other suspects they sentenced me. I got here. Then half a year later the police found the real murderer. He was Cross' formal friend. He said he killed Cross for ruining his life. I don't know much more about him couse Lenward didn't say more. The court found me innocent afterwards and I was allowed to leave Hanessy High. But my father didn't want me to. He came here and he said I won't live with him as long as I'm a tailraiser." Keith finished and closed his eyes, waiting for David to say something.

There were so many questions David wanted to ask, but he couldn't pick one. His thoughts chased one another, towered in waves and fell as the most simple question conquered the others.

"Are you gay too?"

"Yeah." Keith said and nodded. The lights went out, only the dim light of the moon illuminated a part of the room. It was strange and beautiful..... Keith sat on the bed, bathing in the silver light, his eyes hazel eyes sparkling with life, they weren't cold like the first day David looked into them. David sat in complete darkness, his features were hardly visible, only his blue eyes gleamed a little.

"Does Lenward know that you're....?"

"No..... he had been really curious why my father wanted me to stay, but I lied that my father couldn't tolerate me with the shame I brought on him. I told Lenward about my diary, I told him how deeply I hate my own father for being a close-minded, mean man. And Lenward believed me."

"You're not a murderer, then?" David asked softly. The heavy weight that seemed to strangle David's soul lifted as Keith shook his head. David often heared the stories about Keith and he just couldn't believe they were true. He knew deep in his heart that Keith wasn't a murderer.

"I'm sorry for what happened today David, I know what it's like. I know.... I'm sorry I couldn't get there before...I'm so sorry I didn't see the signs in time....."

"Signs?" David asked back curiously.

"Yeah...but those don't matter now..... I wanted to say this for a long time David...." Keith trailed off, he couldn't bring himself to say what he wanted.... David have alomst been raped...he should not make things harder for him. Maybe tomorrow he would tell him.....

But then David put his paw on Keith's.

"What, Keith?" David gave him a small, weak smile. The way David looked at him made Keith's stomach flip and heart race.

"When I first saw you...in the hall, I saw myself in you... I wanted to protect you..... I will always protect you, David."

"Oh..." David said softly, his eyes betrayed that he wanted to hear something else. But as a newbie on the fileds of emotions, Keith didn't see it. He just kept looking at the floor, not daring to look into David's eyes.

"Thank you." The crimson dragon said.

"I....I don't know how to say this.....David....you're important to me...more than anything." Keith finally looked into the smiling blue eyes. "I love you, David...." The black dragon waited with his heart pounding in his chest.

David haven't been happy in the past one year...he knew that Keith was special ever since they shook paw on his first day. First he was afraid of the black dragon, frightened by his faked behaviour....but he saw what was under the mask Keith put on to hide his true self. The dragon in front of him was a black diamond hiding under the see of dust and rocks, to protect itself from evil furs who wanted to tear him apart. The diamond who only showed his real self for him.

David scooted closer to Keith, their bodies trembled from exctiement and emotions. They lent closer, their eyes shone with youth and inexperience, their heart raced, their breath mingled......and they kissed.

It was strange, still full of love, caring and fear that they would mess up and ruin the whole moment. Their lips sealed softly, paws and arms embraced the other's body and warmth, and they broke the kiss, no sounds, no words just the loving look in each others' eyes. They said everything to each other without talking. David kissed Keith this time and the black dragon kissed him back. Their stiff lipped kisses soon turned into braver ones as David parted his lips and licked Keith's lips. Nothing could describe the joy and unfamiliar warmth and happiness they felt in that moment.

The black dragon parted his muzzle and licked back tenderly. They both froze for a moment, if they thought that kissing just with lips was good, then kissing openly with tongues was fuckin' amazing! They parted for a moment just to continue where they left with more intense passion and lust. Their tongues wrestled with each other's, they licked, twisted, and explored the other's muzzle. Their scent and saliva mingled together, and David let out a small murr as Keith pulled him even closer, the black dragon's paws rested on his hips for a moment, then began to roam and caress his back lovingly.

They didn't know how long they kissed, it was an enternal symphony of tender touches and making out in the dark that completely covered the room now. They just couldn't get bored of it, their kisses never seemed to be the same, every touch of their lips, every move of their bodies just brought new ways to express their love...

The two dragons were in heaven. The school and everything they feared and hated vanished. Keith softly pushed David to lay on the bed and the crimson dragon let the older and bigger one push him down, his legs came to rest on the bed, Keith on top of him, his wonderful muzzle and tongue kissed him lovingly and lustfuly now. David knew what males did when they mated....he saw it many times on the net, that was how he got caught by his father. He knew what they could do, and by the look of the males in the pictures he was sure it would be fantastic. Keith gave a soft kiss to David's lips, tugging on them gently then they parted. David licked the black dragon's muzzle playfully and the older male chuckled, his hazel eyes smiled at him and David felt overwhelmed by the intense feelings his soul and heart swam in...

"Keith......" The black dragon just stroked his muzze lovingly, his paw was hot, it made David shiver as Keith's claws sensually prickled his skin. "Have you ever had......" David felt embarresed by the word.

"Sex.....?" the black dragon whispered and kissed David again, he softly bit down on the younger dragon's upper lip and the effect was instant....David murred in lust and pawed at his chest, Keith let go of his lover's lip and kissed the crimson dragon deeply, his tongue found its way into David's muzzle easily and he didn't even notice he was actually between David's parted legs, their hard erections they forgot about were only a few inches away. But they became aware as soon as Keith pressed his crotch to his lover's and they moaned together, muffled by their lips. Keith broke the kiss and looked away timidly, David could see some uncertainty in the hazel orbs...

"I don't know what...." Keith seemed even more embarrased. " I heared other guys talk about it.....but I never had sex." Keith admitted, and he felt ashamed. David must be expecting him to had sex lots of times, that he would be experienced, David must have done a couple of things...

"I never had sex either......but we could.....I could...you know. I saw what males do with each other....and.....let me show you...." David whispered and Keith almost jumped with joy. David softly pushed him on the matrass, his pants tented out from his painfully erect and trapped maleness. David climbed on top of Keith, he actually sat in the black dragon's lap, the friction for Keith doubled as David's weight rested on his crotch. The younger dragon slowly unbuttoned Keith's shirt, he couldn't see too clear, but his vision got used to the darkness. David almost drooled over Keith's washboard stomach and muscles.....the black dragon never seemed that ripped with his clothes on, his muscles were difined, his nipples hard, then David's paw brushed over a small scar on the black dragon's sholder....where the previous King bit him..... the younger male leant forward a little, gave a long, passionate kiss to his lover, then lowered his kisses. His tongue lapped sensually over Keith's neck, making the black dragon pant and murr in anticipation. David took his time, he explored every part of Keith he could, he licked and suckled on his nipples, Keith seemed to love that because he growled in lust even more. It wasn't the warning growl he used to frighten the others...it was brand new, never heared before.....it was the growl of need and lust. David went even farther, he trailed down with soft kisses to reach his final goal. Keith swam in the world of need and love. He wanted desperately to be out of his clothes and let David have his way with him. Then he hissed a little as David placed a paw on his cock. His maleness throbbed and leaked precum into his boxers as David began to tease and massage his erection.

Then David unzipped his fly, and took off his pants and boxers with the same motion, Keith helped him a little and the hated green pants, brown boots and socks fell on the floor with a small thud.

David stared with his muzzle hang open at the cock before him. It was way more bigger than his. The black flash stood proudly at nine inches, a silvery drop of liquid glistened on the perfect cockhead, waiting for and daring David to lick it. And the crimson dragon happily took the dare. He leant down, his tongue sneaked out of his muzzle and he gave a warm lick to Keith's cock. The black male murred and sighed, his cock leaked precum even more and David began to lick like he was dealing with a sweet, but nine inches long lollypop. That almost made Keith crazy, he tried to fight the urge to thrust forward and held his tensed muscles and hips back. He didn't want to ruin David's fun.

David felt as if his pants would burst from his erection. But all he cared in that moment was Keith, and to please the black male the best he could. He opened his mouth and slowly took the glistening head of cock into his muzzle, earning another throaty growl from Keith. The taste and scent filled David's muzzle, Keith's scent washed everything away and David wanted more, he pushed his muzzle farther on the thick, black cock till he felt it poke his throat, he almost gagged but fought the urge, he waited for long seconds, gently breathing through his nostrils, trying to lick Keith's shaft that filled his muzzle.

The black dragon moaned and unexpectedly thrust into David's muzzle, making his throat open a little, almost choking the crimson, but David pulled back and put his paws on Keith's legs to keep him down. He didn't mind what Keith did. David started to bob his muzzle in a slow rythm, his tongue licking the underside of Keith's shaft, then the black male let out a small yelp of pain and gripped the sheets. David opened his muzzle even wider, making sure his teeth wouldn't hurt the wonderful cock in his muzzle again.

Keith never felt so much pleasure before. His mind and body flew in the euphoric state of lust. He didn't really know where he was, just the warm muzzle and tongue existed for him, the wet, velvety muzzle that sucked his cock. Keith moaned and trashed, his muscles tensed and relxad in a constantly accelerating pace. His breathing turned into panting, sweat clung to his scales and he felt like his blood would boil in his veins, his muscles and whole body were on fire.

His paw was just a pathetic tool of pleasuring himself compared to David's muzzle. The crimson dragon bobbed his head faster, he didn't gag so much and listened to Keith's moans and growls of pleasure.

Then he placed his paws on the base of the black's penis to stroke Keith's sensitive flesh and cupped his balls, and the black dragon cummed like never before, he trusted into Daivd muzzle again and the first wave of cum went right into David's throat, making the dragon yip in surprise. David pulled back a little, the next shot filled his muzzle and he swallowed the white cum. His tongue licked Keith's cockhead and wrapped around it. Keith moaned louder and David had to swallow many times before Keith's orgasm faded.

The black dragon felt as if he walked on clouds, high in the sky......but slowly his orgasmic bliss ceased and he panted tiredly. He distantly realized David's muzzle was just an inch away from his, the blue orbs smiled down at him with love. Then the crimson dragon kissed him deeply, his tongue explored the black's muzzle and Keith tasted his own cum. They parted with a small clicking sound and Keith said: "I love you."

"I love you too, Keith." The young dragon replied.

They kissed in the darkness, hugged, caressed the other, fingers twisting with fingers, holding each other close, muzzles meshing in heated passionate kisses...and it was just the tip of the iceberg.

"It's your turn." Keith said with a small chuckle and unbuckled David's belt. The younger dragon kissed him again, then fell back on the matrass.

They had the whole night ahead of them.

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David and Keith lay on the bed, completely naked, the black hugging the smaller crimson from behind. They smelled like sex, sweat and the scent of cum clung to their scales. Everything was perfect in that moment.

They knew they had to get up and put on the mask they always did. They needed to hide themselves behind the names of King and Fist, so they could be together at night. They would deal with everything the day could bring against them just to love each other in the protective darkness that hid them from the others.

"I know now why you like more the night than day." David whispered softly and the black dragon just nuzzled him.

to be continued...

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That was chapter two folks.....hope you liked it. Comments and criticism are welcome. You may notice that the title of the whole series is Fairwood and that it has nothing to do with the chapters I posted....yet. Stay tuned to see what happens to our beloved characters. And you'll find me extremely cruel, when you read the third and fourth chapters.