ZASC
The sun came over the horizon giving an orange glow of amity over the landscape. As the sun rose in to the eastern sky it gave a warm glow on the inhabitants of the great city of Warfang and into a pavilion on the eastern part of the city.
In the pavilion laid a dragon about the size of an adult horse had thorn like horns that are long and slightly curved, mossy trapezoid eyes, a brown colored curved thorn like tail blade, had semi-muscular legs, gray under belly, green wing structure with gray wing membrane. He had a thorn like spinal membrane.
His name is Zito.
Zito grumble as the sun hit his eyes and put his wing to cover the sun's rays trying to go back to sleep, but it proved little help with the sun light showing through his thin wing membrane.
Zito got irritated after a while and got up; he stretched till he heard several pops on his back. He looked at the three flowers in the flowerbed on the windowsill. There was a Chrysanthemum flower, an Iris flower, a Poinsettia flower. Zito look at the single flower on his table next to the bed that was called a Phlox flower, all these flowers had their own specific meanings to them and all of them were a gift of friendship from his closest friend Seela who owned a flower shop in the center of the city. Zito goes there with Seela after school and is willing to help her with the shop in anyway.
They've known each other since they were hatchling or what he can remember during that time at least. They went to every school together and he is happy to have a friend like her at his side.
His jumped from mental thoughts that were interrupted by a knock on his front door. Zito went over and open the door to see Seela.
She smiled at him and said in a soft voice "Good morning"
Zito returned the smile "Good morning"
Seela was an ice dragoness with blue sapphire eyes, two long thin horns that made a ninety degree angle down and had two spikes on it, a spear like tail blade with spikes sticking out, a slender like body, white scales with a light blue under belly, white wing structure, and light blue wing membrane, she was the size of a adolescent horse but still almost as large as Zito.
"How are you doing today" ask Zito.
"Fantastic!" she said happily "Come on we have to get to school"
Then she gave him a stern look, fully aware of the possibilities of him ditching today and hiding in the enchanted forest.
Zito grumble and gave an unnecessary whimper, which he hoping the redness on his cheeks weren't showing; he wasn't that lucky.
"Come on you big baby" Seela said sternly and immediately wrapped her tail around his neck before he had an attempt of escape.
Zito found it very difficult to maneuver out of her grip, this time he whimpered on purpose also giving a puppy face.
Seela looked away, knowing full well of his tactic to escape, she look back to see fake tears going down his cheek, she felt guilt in her heart, but her mind said that he was being a spoiled five year old.
"Oh for pity sake stop acting like a five year old, you're more mature than this. I don't need to give you proof of that"
Zito gave up the act and wipe the fake tears from his eyes.
Seela still had her tail wrapped tightly around his neck, but not enough to cut his air flow.
Seela shook her head "Sometimes I wonder why you hate school so much"
"School is boring, sitting around doing absolutely nothing but fighting in a stupid training room" grumbled Zito
"You know that's not entirely the case or the reason" Seela pointed out
"Yeah I know, it's just…." Zito hesitated.
"It has to do with Serla, isn't it?"
"She is a jerk and doesn't leave me alone"
"A jerk she may be but not to everyone" Seela pointed out
"Really, Then why is she always on my case for no apparent reason?" Asked Zito getting more irritated as he continued to think of her and talking about her in this conversation.
"Who knows her reasons."
"Well she obviously doesn't know me well enough" Zito pointed out
"Well that's true" There was a small silence between them.
Then Seela tugged him closer until their noses touched, she does this when she is about to make a point.
Zito secretly loved it when she did that, the warmth from her nose made him relax and soothed his nerves, the smell of pollen on her nose from smelling the flowers in her shop, the smell made his heart skip a beat.
"Got it?" Asked Seela after she had finished her instruction on what they will be doing in the flower shop after school.
"What?" Said Zito opening his eyes in confusion, he hadn't realized they were closed, what he also hadn't realized was that he was giving a soft growl in pleasure.
His cheeks were uncontrollably red and that he couldn't turn away to hide his cheeks and the fact that she had been telling him something only made it worse by irritating Seela in the process.
She growled "Come on we are going to be late"
She jerked him to follow, from the looks of things she won't be letting go when they got to the front door.
"This is probably the most embarrassing day of my life" Thought Zito, he knew once they went through the front doors, people will be looking at them funny of a ice dragoness babying an earth dragon along. Zito gave another small whimper and looked in front of him, waiting for his inevitable doom.
Zito was miserable, being tugged along as they journeyed to the school grounds.
"Seela please let me go" Zito whined, it sounded more immature than he intended.
"And watch you run and hide till school is over:"
Zito got more annoyed than embarrassed.
"I am going to school, but I don't need this kind of torture"
"So you finally see reason?"
"I do now, now let me go"
They were half way to school. After a while Seela nodded in agree.
Then she gave him a warning glare.
"If you run when I let you go, don't think for a second that this incident will not be repeated, I won't let go even in school next time"
Zito gulped at the thought and nodded in agreement.
Seela slowly let go of him. All of a sudden Zito bolted in to the sky.
"Zito!" Seela screamed at him in annoyance.
Zito smiled down at her "If I mean to tell you, but you have ten seconds to catch up to me in a race to school"
Seela blinked and after two seconds past she jumped up in to the sky and joined him with a smile on her face.
Zito for the first time notice how stunning she was with the sun against her beautiful white scales, his heart fluttered.
"Zito!" Seela shouted at him and got him out of his trance.
"What?" Zito shook his head.
Seela grumbled "Where is your on and off switch?"
Zito blushed and shook his head again.
"See yeah!" He smiled and dashed to the west.
"Hey, no fair!" Seela raced after him.
"Well it was, but your ten seconds are up!"Zito shouted back.
Zito let her catch up to him and from the look on her face meant she wasn't in a racing mood.
They didn't speak for a while.
Seela broke the silence "So why were you looking at me like that and why were you acting like the way you did back at your pavilion?"
Zito was taken aback by that.
"Uhh…Well at the pavilion I was thinking of cute dragonesses"
"And?" Seela raised an eyebrow.
"And I was just looking at the landscape behind you back there.
Seela raised an eyebrow higher seeing the lies in his words.
"Were here" said Zito, excited to see school for once and that it change the conversation.
The school came into view.
Zito bolted ahead of her.
"Hey, wait up!" Seela yelled to Zito and tried to catch up with him.
When Zito went through the front doors of the school, he accidentally collided in to a black dragoness.
Zito got up and said "I'm sor-"
He halted his sentence to look at a very angry and growling black dragoness he knew as…Serla.
"Watch where you are going Zit-Boy!" Serla growled.
Zito was immediately annoyed "Why don't you go find a shadow to hide in" lashed Zito.
The argument hit the wandering ears of other dragons, which they were making huge distance away from the arguing dragons in case the fight escalates.
"I don't need to as long as I keep you in your place"
"Look who's talking"
"You, you dumbass"
"I didn't come here to get insulted and if I did you got another thing coming" Zito retorted.
"Whatever, like I care which I don't" Serla said as Seela entered the school to see what she had been trying to avoid.
They bickered back and forth.
They were now nose to nose as they glared at each other.
After a while Seela got in the middle of them knowing the possibilities of them to start beating each other and getting a referral in the process.
"Enough you two!" said Seela, irritation in her voice.
Serla raised an eyebrow at her as Zito back down, and then looked at Zito then back at Seela.
Then showed her signature devilish smile "So Zit-Boy, your mate came to save your sorry little ass"
Zito and Seela were taken aback, their cheeks clearly red, they looked at each other then back at her.
"She is not my mate!" said Zito aggravated
"I am not his mate!" said Seela in surprise and annoyance.
"We are just friends!" they added at the same time.
"Says the rumors"
"What rumors?" asked Seela surprised as Zito was.
"The rumors on how close you two are, how you two act towards each other, look at each other, you two are basically in love with each other"
Their cheeks were redder than anyone could imagine they would be.
Serla smiled in satisfaction and walked away giggling to herself.
Zito and Seela watch her go, dumbstruck, then they looked at each other.
Zito grumbled "See, she is a jerk"
Zito walked off to his classroom then stopped and looked back at her.
"Aren't you coming?"
"What?" Said Seela who was snapped out of her own mental trance "Yeah, Yeah I'm coming"
She walked up to join him and they walked to class together.
Their first period was the Training room. There was rocky surfaced floor that had the color of granite and there were a few parts of the floor that was recently repaired from the combat training, the wall was made from smooth solid concrete that was also recently repaired. If you want to know why they were damaged in the first place, well you are going to find out soon enough. The ceiling was a glass dome shaped that let the light of the sun in to the room. There were metal benches on the left side of the room for the candidates for the next guardians, even the wind dragons were in line to be the first wind guardian and of course there were the other elements who are training to become a guardian as well.
Zito and Seela went to their seats on the benches, they weren't too comfortable or irritating, the benches were fine to sit on really.
"Hey Zito long time no see" Said a familiar voice, it was small but warming somehow. Zito looked up at a bench above him to the left to see a sort of pink dragoness; she had red chest scales, bright ruby like eyes, a leafy tail blade that almost curved into a heart shape, she has pinkish wing structure, and red wing membrane.
"Um hi" Said Zito shyly, blushing slightly.
Zito always had a problem communicating with dragoness that he consider cute, which is most of them.
The pink dragoness name was Shella.
Shella patted Zito shoulder "Don't be nervous, I am sure the school won't be too hard on you for your ditching"
"Don't remind me" grumbled Zito.
Seela meanwhile was irritated at Shella's patting on Zito's shoulder; he doesn't like unnecessary comfort at a time like this.
"Shella please stop doing that" Said Seela irritated.
"Stop doing what?" said Shella, who stop patting Zito, which he looked more comfortable when she did.
Seela blushed realizing she walked into uncharted territory and looked back at the middle of the training room "Um nothing"
That left Shella confused.
Shella was about to say something when the teacher said "Zito and Serla, you're up!"
Zito's eyes went wide, he knew that every week they get a new opponent, but he didn't realize that he had to face the one he hates the most.
Zito smirked and mumbled to himself "Well I guess I did had some unfinished work to attend to anyway"
He got from his benches and went to the center of the training room. Obviously he didn't go out alone and turned towards Serla.
"This is bitter sweet, I will enjoy this" Said Serla cocky.
Zito smirked wider and said teasingly "Someone's full of confidence, you poor fool, the direness of your situation has made you delusional"
Serla nostrils flared in rage. Seela shook her head "He's asking for it" she thought to herself.
Serla charged at Zito.
Zito was suddenly behind her and hold her tail in his paws.
Serla yelped in surprise as Zito sent her flying and before she could recover, hit the concrete wall and broke some of it from the impact.
Now you know why.
Serla got up dizzy and her vision blurry, she looked at Zito, but he was this sort of this green looking blob.
Her vision started to come back when she saw Zito's tail blade coming down on her, she yelped and jumped out of the way just as it zoom past her by an inch from her face.
Serla took to the air to see Zito staring up at her.
Zito laughed manically "Nawwwww is the little black dragoness afraid"
Serla was now truly infuriated.
Zito smiled in satisfaction.
"You are seriously asking for it!" growled Serla
"Then where is it or is that spout of strength all dried up now?" mocked Zito.
"This is not the time to witty Zito" Thought Seela who was getting a little nervous of Serla's rising anger.
That ticked Serla off.
She sent a howling channel of wind from her mouth at Zito.
"Shit!" Zito said in surprise and just manage to get out of the way by into the air as the blast of wind hit the floor and sent rocks flying everywhere.
Zito covered himself with his wings.
He winced as the stones peppered his wings, but luckily didn't pierce through his wing membranes.
The dragons in the stands also covered themselves from the stray rocks with their wings, very few got minor injuries.
Zito opened his wings to get a punch in the gut, the force made him lurch forward and the flat side of a tail blade hit the left side of his muzzle sending him spinning in the air, then Serla slammed both of her paws on the top of his head, rendering him senseless as he slammed belly first in to the ground.
He gasped in pain and coughed up blood in his mouth; both of his nostrils were bleeding from Serla's tail blade.
Zito didn't have to speculate when he noticed Serla's tail blade coming down on him.
Zito jumped out of the way as the tail blade tip zoomed past him by half a centimeter then hit the ground with a loud DONK.
"Wow she's gotten faster" thought Zito as he dodged another tail blade attack from his side.
Zito jumped back and away from her to get a good distance.
"Someone looks scared" mocked Serla.
"You kidding me I am having fun"
Serla raised an eyebrow "You're insane"
Zito concentrated on his native element and slammed his paws on the ground, but only manage to hurt his paws.
"Oh come on earth work" thought Zito in frustration.
He tried again, only to get the same results.
"Damn it" he said out loud in irritation.
Serla smiles and sent another blast of air at him.
Zito jumped out of the way.
Suddenly while still in a dodging position, Serla slammed him from the side.
Zito felt his body hit the wall.
He groaned in pain as he got up.
A paw suddenly slammed his head into the ground; his neck hit a good size rock.
Zito screamed in pain and coughed blood from his mouth on to the ground.
"That is enough!" said the teacher roughly.
Serla stopped attacking.
Zito got up and struggled to stand.
Seela was next him in an instant.
Seela was horrified to see Zito this way, every blow that Serla sent against Zito hurt her soul.
"Seela see to him to the infirmary" said the teacher calmly.
Seela looked up at him and nodded.
"Well he deserved that" Said Serla behind Seela's back as she was almost out of the door and in to the hallway.
Seela felt her blood boil and turned to Serla.
Without a second thought froze her on the spot.
Serla glared at her in her temporary prison, her face was saying "This isn't over"
Seela carried Zito into the infirmary and placed him on one of the beds in there.
"My goodness, why do you dragons have to train so hard" said the mole doctor, washing his forehead with a rag to get clean his sweat.
Seela shrugged "Will he be ok" her voiced had worry in it.
The mole raised an eyebrow at her "He is not in a condition where it might be fifty-fifty chance of life, all he needs is to get the blood out of his lungs and get him patched up, and then he will heal in a few days. Don't worry so much young dragon, your mate will be fine"
Seela blushed and nodded; that word again.
"Now run off you don't want to miss your classes"
She nodded again and bowed then turned to leave.
Seela suddenly stopped and turned towards the healer "Is it ok if I come to see him at lunch time?"
The mole looked up from an unconscious Zito and at her "Yes you may as well see him in that time"
Seela smiled and thanked him.
She headed back to the training room to find that no one lift a finger to help the imprisoned Serla.
Seela smiled at her and went to the cage to tap it.
It shattered and Seela left a Serla shivering uncontrollably.
She went back to her seat as well as Serla.
Seela thought to herself as she stared at Serla "That is only partially what I will do to you if you say those things to Zito next time"
The day continued on, period after period.
Seela waited for lunch time, she knew that she had to calm down and clear her head to think at the task at hand; her education, but her mind kept wandering to Zito condition.
Seela did her best to keep herself from having an anxiety attack, but wasn't very successful and in the process snapped her pencil in half, making the other students jump in their seats in surprise then to look at her to giving irritated, disturbed, and shocked looks.
The teacher looked up from her scrolls and stared at her; she got up from her seat and came over to ask what's wrong, but after a few unsuccessful attempts to find out the problem, sent her out of the room.
Seela decided to go to the flower garden at the school that she supported and gave the school a better atmosphere as she says.
Seela went to the far right side of the school and went outside to see the garden filled with flowers everywhere in the glass greenhouse.
She went and sat down in the middle of the path of the garden and stared at the beautiful flowers before her.
She smelled the scent and calmed her mind fairly quickly.
Seela lay down to look at the petals of roses and violets more closely.
She started to drift and fell asleep, completely at peace.
Seela woke up from someone's nose nudging her cheek.
She opened her eyes and looked at her friend Zito who stopped nudging her awake when saw her eyes open.
Seela noticed how close he was to her, his wing drapped over her back, giving her warmth.
"Sorry, you were shivering from the cold when I found you"
"Cold?" She said sheepishly, still stunned by the expression that Zito was showing her.
"Yeah, you really made it cold in here when you sleep like that"
Seela blushed; she had a problem with keeping her element running around while she was asleep.
She looked and saw tiny snowflakes on the petals of the flowers, but she could still smell their scent well and she started to not care how close Zito was to her.
Seela shivered from the cold and scooted closer.
Zito's heart skipped a few beat and slowly moved his arms around her chest and put his legs in between hers, his tail twisted around hers comfortably.
Seela yelped in surprise and blushed deeply looking down at his arms and legs that were around her.
"Why is he doing this, well it is cold, but this is unnecessary, isn't it? Well it is warm and uhh what is this feeling? Why am I feeling this way, is it a good feeling, should I get away from Zito's arms, will he like that or….or….or?
After a while she gave in and relaxed and then cooed in happiness.
Seela drifted back into a comfortable sleep.
Zito smiled and let her sleep.
He laid his head down and fell asleep with her.
Meanwhile green eyes watched the newly formed couple sleep and after a while the black dragoness slipped away without making a sound.