"You aren't preservationists, you're druids," the keeper coughed, looking back and forth between Ahnah and Goldenscale, "That fool shaman sent you two didn't she?"

"No, I am on a personal journey and my friend there, the one hilding you down is accompanying me.  We are not druids either.  I am a nature spirit, and she is a dragon.  I suggest speaking no further lest she squish you where you lay." she said without breaking her concentration.

"Don't give me tha-ack," Ahnah cut the keeper short by adding more pressure to his chest.

"You will remain quiet, the threat is not empty," she said, ice starting to form around the keeper where she held him, "You and your friends will not get away with this."

As the dragoness' aura became whole again, she released Goldenscale's link and promtly collapsed to the ground as her aura started reaching into the ground.

"Thine soul shall become one with nature once more, and it shall happen in the name of Moonlight, the Earthen.spirit.".she whispered.  But she did nothing else to help her.  Nature will reach out to her, she was sure of it.  But Goldenscale then turned to the keeper, picking him up by the neck and holding him up.  "Now to deal with you." she hissed.

"You wont get away with this. Even if you kill me, the whole town will know what you are," the keeper said, pulling up to keep from being strangled by gravity, "They will make sure you're never make it out of here alive."

While the keeper spoke, roots and vines pulled out of the forest and wrapped around the dragoness. After a few moments, the roots and vines retreated to reveal a black tulip  planted firmly in the dragoness' chest, fused perfectly with her skin and scales.

"You can't kill a nature spirit very easily, and who said I was going to kill you?  I certainly don't unless I have reason, and though you have done some bad things, I have no reason to kill you." she said with a snort.  She kept a firm grip on his neck to make sure he didn't run away, but gently enough not to choke him.

"Then that is your mistake. My colleagues and I will make sure you don't get away with this. You are stealing property of the Keepers," he said, starting to struggle against Goldenscale's grip, "Not even a spirit of nature can survive the might of seven keepers."

Starting to pick herself up the dragoness looked over to Goldenscale. "I feel different. I no longer feel a warmth coming from within, I only feel cold," she said, her voice faint and staggered from her constant shaking.

"But I am much stronger than you think.  I have destroyed several dark spirits, Archen, as well as two demons.  Each time, someone thought I wouldn't survive, yet here I am.  Now. I am not going to kill you nor did I take your property.  She was not property, but yet another sentient being.  I freed her from her fate of slavery." she said with a hiss at the Keeper.  "I do not know how to fix that..." she said to the dragoness quietly.

"Then what are you going to do with me? Surely you aren't just going to let me go scott free," the keepepr said as another orb hit the barrier, "One mistake is all it will take to be rid of you. Archen was a single hopelessly power hungry soul, and twodemons hold nothing to our combined abilities. Even if I can no onger use my magic, the others will still have enough power to wipe from the this planet, one way or another."

"I can feel the trees and every plant in the forest," the draoness said, carefully standing with Ahnah's help, "What are these feelings and emotions? They come from everywhere."

Goldenscale merely flicked an ear when the orb hit.  "I shall return you, but your power is gone, no other creature has to worry about you anymore." shesaid with a frown.  The she turned to the dragoness.  "What you feel is all from the forest itself.  Their emotions as well as their life force, their auras." she said with a smile.

"So be it, but I'll let you know the magic I can control is only so because I worked for it. A human must work hard to gain use of such power," the keeper said, finally giving up on trying to escape, "I will rise again, I give you my word."

"It feels wonderful. They all seem to familiar yet so stange. This must be what mother always talked about, being one with nature," the dragoness said, finally standing straight without help, "She always said nature felt wonderful, but I think she didn't mean this specifically."

"It is true.  It is what I have felt since a year after I hatched.  Ahnah, I am going to return him." she said.

"Alright, I'll take this one  and bring her close enough for her to find the willow on her own," Ahnah said, nodding as she was about to lead the dragoness , but was stopped.

"Wait, can I go with you," the dragoness asked, turning to face Goldenscale and pulling away from Ahnah, "There was a tree like dragon in my vision when you freed me. It said  something about you two being on some sort of jouney before doing something strange and leaving."

"Weare on a journey, but for now, weare trying to get information from the humans for something." she said.

"Still, can I join you? You freed me from the keepers, I want to repay the deed," she said, "You and your friend are the only two people I know, and I hardly know myself. I want to be useful."