I flew through the blue sky. It was so beautiful today. The AI was crisp and clean against my scales, the cloud filled expanse streaking by below me.
These were my skies. I owned them. The islands below me were mine as well.
These lands used to be full of dragons. Specifically, a certain species of dragon. Nightfury.
Somehow, all the nightfury died and we went extinct. Well, not really, because I'm here. I'm the last nightfury. I'm the only one left.
Once all the nightfury died, I could claim this island as my own. Of course, I could also find the legendary dragon roost, but that would be hard for me. I was never a good navigator. It sometimes gets lonely here on the islands, but it's ok. I get visitors once in a while when passing dragons need a rest.
Closing my sleek black wings, I dived towards the ground, gyrating through the lower cloud line and flying into the torrential rain below.
Lightning flashed and thunder clapped as I flew through the trees on this island to get to my den in the base of the mountain.
I dove in quickly, trying to get out of the harsh weather. It was terrible out here. I shivered. Even though my scales were virtually impenetrable, it still got cold around here. Especially in the winter.
I curled up, opening my mouth and letting the flames rest in there in an attempt to warm myself up.
"This is gonna be a long night"' I thought to myself as the thunder boomed.
I woke up to pure darkness.
I raised my head and looked around, blinking. I couldn't see anything. It was totally black.
I reared up on my hind legs, putting my claws up to my face. I waved them around, trying to see the silhouette of them, but I couldn't.
Either the darkness was too complete for even my keen night vision, or I was...blind.
I got down on all fours and began to quickly back up, roaring and swinging my head around violently, trying to catch a glimpse of something, anything. There's no way that I went blind. I can't go blind.
Suddenly I bumped into something I could not see and whipped around, backing away from the unknown object, snarling madly.
I opened my jaws, preparing to shoot off my blue fire at this unseen enemy, but stopped and sat down. I tilted my head up and shot my flame into the air, the light, to my surprise, visible, Confirming that I was not blind.
Chuckling slightly to myself, I looked towards the entrance to my cave and saw the trunk of a large tree that had fallen in front of it.
Turning my head towards the tree, I blasted off another flame which made the tree immediately burst into flames.
As it burned, I leapt out of the cave, my scales deflecting the heat from the fire, and snapped my wings open, soaring into the sky.
Flying above the trees, I looked down, assessing the damage that the storm did to my island.
As I expected, the storm had ravaged my island, toppling a few trees and sending sticks, rocks, and other debris all over the place.
Landing with a sigh, I began to clean up my island.
I was finished around noon, when the sun was at its highest point in the sky. This is when tragedy struck.
I heard them before I saw them. Humans. They yelled to each other. Talking about rairaising the island and finding dragon skins. They were dragon hunters. I've heard stories about them from many a passing dragon.
Two of them were riding in on a Hideous Zippleback while the other two were riding on a skrill and a rumblehorn.
When I realized what was happening I ran. Luckily, I managed to escape before they saw me.
I ran to my cave, flicking my tail up and knocking out a stick that was supporting a pile of rocks that tumbled down and blocked the entrance to the cave just as I cleared it, locking me in.
I went to the very back of my cave, where even if they tried to look through the holes between the rocks, they would not be able to see me because it is too dark.
Soon enough I heard one of the riders come to my cave.
"Ey, zania, Toph. Get that zippleback over ere'. Need a blast for this landslide. I'm pretty sure that I saw something go in here." Said one of the trappers, his voice deep and raspy.
"Alright. Move." Said the light female voice that I assumed belonged to zania.
Suddenly, I saw and smelled the gas that the zippleback breathed.
I backed up more and held my breath. That stuff was very poisonous. Breathe in enough of it, an you're dead.
They had to blow it soon. I kept holding my breath. Soon enough however, I couldn't hold it any longer, and I began coughing uncontrollably.
"Heh. Ya know dagren, there's a dragon in there. It would be much easier to get its hide if we kill it first" said a slightly less deep voice that I expected belonged to the other zippleback rider, toph.
"Yes. It would." Said the deep voice again. That had to be dagren.
I could sense my vision fading as I kept breathing this poisoned air. I had to get out of here somehow. I had to make a break for it.
I exhaled, blowing away the gas that was around me, then charged up my flames and breathed them across the empty space to the gas, which immediately exploded.
Since I was already back up against the wall, the blast didn't affect me too much exept for a few wounds, but the hunters outside, however, were blown backwards.
In the confusion, I shot out of the cave, speeding into the air with incredible speed. I was flapping my wings harder than I had ever done before.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a skrill came and caught me in its claws.
I let out a roar of pain as its claws dug into my scales.
"Look what I caught" said a female voice. The rider of the skrill that I was captured by.
The other riders surrounded me.
The rumblehorn glided towards me at the command of his rider, who I could only guess was dagren.
"A nightfury! Weren't these things extinct? How'd one of em get ere'?" He asked, staring at me in awe.
"No idea," said the skrill rider. ,"but we'd better get her to the boss."
,"Her? Kiah, how do you know it's a female?" Said toph.
"Easy." Responded kiah ,"Just look at her tail. Female nightfury tails have those blue markings,, unlike their male counterparts."
Toph urged one of the zippleback's heads closer to me so that he could get a closer look, but when he did, I swung my tail hard, nearly knocking him off.
I blew fire at dagren, but he dodged it with surprising speed for a rumblehorn and pulled out a dart gun.
He blew through it three times, landing three darts in my head. Immediately I felt myself begin to lose consciousness.
The last thing I saw was dagren motioning for all of the others to follow him.
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Heyoooo errbodeh!
My god rhis took too long to write. I swear sometimes, it takes forever to write stuff. Thats not good for my lazyness. Anyway, I think that i'm pretty proud of this. I've always wanted to write a story about another nightfury, but I just never got to it. But now, here it is! :D
Anyway, un-c ya l8ter peeplez!