Prologue
No one's POV
2 Dragons were in the sky, migrating away from home, why? Only they know.
2 Sandwings, driven from their home, maybe that's the reason why.
1 Oppressive 'Queen', wants to destroy the new parents egg.
How unfortunate. For them, for the Queen, she's got a good reason to burn this egg.
Burn… huh, that's the Queen's name, well, not Queen yet, she is fighting her 2 sisters for the throne. More interesting than what you're reading perhaps?
Anyway, back to the 2 Dragons, they've steered clear of any Sandwing patrols so far, seems as though they might make it through this alive.
Alive.
Something Dragons during this time always want, to be alive, to breath, to walk upon this War-Torn world. Pyrrhia, the continent of 7, 7 Tribes.
Mudwings, Sandwings, Seawings, Skywings, Icewings, Rainwings, and Nightwings.
Sounds like a nice group of friends right? Heh, no. These tribes hate each other. All have taken sides for the Sandwing Heirs. The Mudwings and Skywings support Burn. Seawings support the smart, cunning, and mysterious Blister. Icewings support the Self-Loving, Beautiful but annoying Blaze.
Wait, dear reader, you already know this, don't you? Heh, well let's skip all the facts and head into what's about to happen to these Dragons.
Again, 2 Dragons, both Sandwings, both flying, 1 carrying a Sandwing egg, running away from home, their names? Mojave and Torch, but that doesn't really matter, let's listen for a moment.
"Mojave," the Sandwing called for her mate, "We've been running for weeks on end, and we aren't even close to the Seawing kingdom.
"Torch…" Mojave stopped, he looked up to the moon, it's light glistening down towards the desert sands.
"I-I'm sorry." He apologized to Torch, his dirty yellow wings drooped to the sands below, his obsidian black eyes had tears starting to form.
"..."
"If it makes you feel any better… Burn was going to find out soon anyway."
More silence.
"Cmon Torch, don't give me the silent treatment." Mojave pleaded.
"How is that supposed to make me feel better, Mojave?" Torch asked, her question burning through Mojave's head, how ironic.
"I… don't know." Mojave said, his eyes moved to match Torch's. "Look, I regret not telling you, but I didn't want to risk you-"
"Risk me doing what?" Torch demanded, "Revealing that you are a spy for Blister?"
Silence once again filled the air.
"Mojave.." she started, "I wouldn't have told anyone. I wouldn't want to risk your life."
"..." Mojave didn't know how to reply to that.
"Mojave, I would have never told Burn." She said again, "It's not your fault that Smolder caught on to what you were doing."
"Yes it was." Mojave said with shame, "I knew what I was getting into, I should have known that someday I would be caught. I got careless, and I got you wrapped up in this."
"...I'm glad you did."
"What?"
"Mojave, you were the best thing that happened to me in my life." Torch said with honest eyes that reminded Mojave of a young dragonet. "I'm glad that you got me into this, I'm glad that we ran together, and I'm glad we are having a dragonet, but you are blaming yourself… Please don't. You're making this harder than it should be."
Silence, Mojave hated it, but he didn't know what to say after that.
"Scorpion." Torch suddenly said while staring at the Sandy Yellow egg with little black spots.
"Huh?"
"It's the perfect name isn't it?" Torch asked, "Our tail barbs."
"Yeah," Mojave agreed, "Scorpion, rolls off the tongue well."
Torch then looked down solemnly at the egg, she nuzzled it.
*Snap!*
Mojave instantly went into a defensive position.
"Shoot, we lingered here way too long," Mojave's calm voice quickly turned into a desperate call, "Torch, they are coming, once we get out of the desert, I don't think they'll bother trying to find us."
"Mojave," Torch started, but was quickly silenced by Mojave
"Torch!" He snapped, "We can't wait much longer, follow me!" He opened his wings and quickly drifted with the wind over the dunes of the desert, Torch followed suit, Scorpion's egg in her talons.
"How far should we go?!" Torch yelled over the loud wind.
"As far as we need to!" Mojave yelled back, "They are hot on our tails, we just gotta lose them."
"Ok.." said a worried Torch, in truth, Torch was terrified. Sure, she was in this kind of situation before, but each time, it is not a fun experience. She didn't want to die, she wanted to live, just like most other Dragons. Death was not something she wanted right now.
After an hour of flying, Mojave considered it safe to land and take a break.
"Oh my heart." Torch whined slightly.
"And this is why I didn't want you to come with me." Mojave said, shaking his head at Torch.
"What?"
"I didn't want you to be in danger." He stated.
"I knew of the consequences when deciding to come with you." She told him.
A few dreadful moments of silence went by.
"Let's continue." He motioned towards their current route, "We can't waste any of our precious time."
"Let's go then."
They both took off, after a few more moments of silence, Torch tried for a little bit of small talk.
"So…" she tried starting a conversation.
"Torch, Let's just fly, I don't want to talk. Not after what we encountered."
"..."
Mojave sighed.
"Fine, what do you wanna talk about?" He forced himself to ask.
"Why are you acting like this?"
"Sorry Torch." He apologized, "I'm just on edge."
"I-I understand." Torch sympathized, "I'll just stay silent."
"No." He said.
"What?" Torch said, Confused.
Mojave suddenly turned and nuzzled her for a full minute, when he stopped, they both started blushing.
"Torch! I'm sor-" Torch nuzzled him back.
"Wha….?" He was completely stunned.
"Mojave, please, let's go through this together." Torch pleaded, "I get it, let's just go."
"Of- Of course!" Mojave said, still a little surprised, he got out of that state and started to spread his wings again.
"Well, let's get going." Mojave said, then he saw Torch's face.
"What? Is there something on my- Oof!" He was interrupted as he and Torch rolled down a dune.
"Dang!" A voice said with frustration, "I missed."
"Who are you?!" Mojave said getting into a defensive stance.
"Me?" The voice asked, overly dramatic, "My name is Nile, and I was ordered to attack anyone close to my master's territory."
"Nile?" Mojave mused, "masters.. are you from the Outclaws?"
"Who told you that?!- I mean… no!" He stammered, desperately trying to hide his cover.
Mojave and Torch were chuckling a little bit.
"Hey!" He yelled, "Stop laughing! Fear me!"
"Okay, that's enough Nile." A feminine voice said.
"Mom!" Nile yelped, "Hehe… fancy seeing you here…"
"Did you attack these poor passersby?" His Mother demanded, Nile looked down with regret.
"Yes Mom…" he slowly admitted.
"Sorry about my 10 year old son," she apologized, "My name is Phoenix"
"Beautiful name." Torch commented.
"Why thank you!" Phoenix said, delighted. "Yours?"
"I am Torch, and this is Mojave." Torch did the introductions for Mojave.
"I must comment that your names are quite great as well, our parents must have been very creative." She remarked.
"So aside from introductions, what brings you guys here? You may not be in the Scorpion Den, but you are in its territory." Phoenix asked.
"We are just passing by." This time Mojave answered for Torch.
"Alright, I'll let you go and do that," she said before noticing the egg.
"Ooh! You have an egg, you are a mother." She noticed.
"Yeah… my mate died in battle against Seawings."
"Oh, dear I'm so sorry for mentioning it-"
"No, no, it's alright," Torch sniffed, "He died doing what he loved."
"Fighting?"
"For his tribe."
"Ahhh, I see." Phoenix said, "Okay, well, I'll tell the Sentries up by the den that you guys are going to pass by."
"Thanks! It was nice talking to you." Torch told her.
"It was." Phoenix agreed, they said their goodbyes, and the 2 were back in the air, trying to get to the rainforest.
Mostly silence was present during this whole flight scene, with occasional talk from time to time, other than that, nothing really of interest happened.
The cycle continue for a couple of days, hiding out when the sun was out, and when the moons came out, they were flying frantically to make it to the rainforest as quick as possible.
Then… it happened.
It seemed as if nothing would happen, things were going good, the rainforest was within sight.
"Stop!" Mojave ordered suddenly, Torch nearly dropped the egg.
"What?" Torch whisper-yelled.
….
"The trees." He whispered over to Torch.
"Wha?" She wondered what he was talking about.
"GET DOWN!"
What happened next was a blur, 5 Sandwings came down from the trunks of the tall trees of the rainforest, their intent was very clear.
Mojave quickly got into offense and started lifting and swiping with his tail, occasionally lashing out with his claws. Unfortunately, since Torch was holding a egg, and she didn't have the flexibility to move like Mojave.
Pain erupted in her right front arm, blood was running through her scales.
Just a claw. Torch thought, Don't panic
She had 3 of the 5 on her, clearly to her disadvantage.
They started surrounding her, she put the egg under her belly, and watched her attackers with a keen eye.
Then Mojave came and tackled one of the Sandwings.
They panicked and took their eyes off of Torch for a second too long.
She came behind the 2 doofuses and knocked their heads together, she felt one get right on top of her back.
The other 2 came back, one of them tackled her with the other still on top of her.
Here we go again, She thought while wincing in pain.
They plummeted right down a dune, and she landed right on top of one of the Sandwings.
She closed her eyes, knowing the pain that will come next as one of them raised their barbed tail.
"NO!" One said to the guy about to kill her. "Remember what we were told?!"
"What?!" The executioner yelled at him.
"We are supposed to bring them back alive!" He scolded him, "Why do you think Smolder gave us chains?"
"Oh."
The other 2 Sandwings fell down to where the 3 were, sitting on the top was Mojave.
"If you touch her, your face burning would be the last thing you'll worry about."
"Your threats go through me like a river." One said, "They will fall down until it hits the salty ocean!"
"Not bad, but let's see your fighting back that statement up" Mojave shot towards the group of Sandwings.
They reacted quickly. 1 held down Torch, while the other 2 got out of the way to make Mojave fall head first into the ground. He quickly shook the sand off his face and used his tail to throw some of the sand below into the eyes of his attackers.
The first one saw the sand and dodged it, but the second one didn't get warned about it and got a claw full of sand right into his eyes.
"1 out of our battle for now." Mojave motioned toward the screaming Sandwing desperately clawing at the sand in his eyes.
"That may be true, but you don't know my fighting skills." The Sandwing shot back.
"Let's see then." Mojave challenged.
The 2 Sandwings circled each other for a while with the occasional lunge and quick retreat.
Mojave heard the Sandwing behind him charging, he waited till the last moment, and he sidestepped out of the way, pushing him further and ensuring that they would knock into each other.
But they didn't.
The Sandwing that was supposed to fly into the other tripped over his own claws just before he rammed his buddy, who was preparing to jump out of the way anyways.
"Ahh… the old 'make 'em fight each other' move" he teased, "How original."
"To my defense, he would have hit you if he wasn't an idiot." Mojave protested.
"Probably true." He muttered.
"I heard that!" The idiot Sandwing yelled at him.
Mojave snickered a bit watching the 2 argue.
"Hey!" Another Sandwing came into the fray, "Our mission was not to argue amongst each other!" He reminded the other 2.
Mojave stopped laughing and noticed that the 2, and another one, was back on track.
"That was priceless." Mojave noted, "You 2 argue like an old couple."
The 2 Sandwings cheeks looked a little rosy.
"Okay! Enough!" The other one screamed, "Just fight!"
Three against one, Mojave thought, Two of which are idiots, and a new one that might actually pose a threat.
"You're outnumbered!" The non-idiot taunted, "Just give up."
"In your dreams." Mojave answered to the command.
Their way of approaching Mojave was simple. One stayed in front of Mojave, while the others circled him from the sides.
The idiots charged too early. Mojave shot up into the air while they collided, but then Mojave realized that that was part of their plan.
The Smart one shot towards Mojave after his realization and hit right on target.
Mojave fell into a dune, hard. It was the dune that the egg was on. The egg started rolling down the dune, into the rainforest.
"NO!" Mojave screamed as he clawed towards where the egg fell.
"Dang it!" The Smart one yelled as he looked down where the egg rolled.
Mojave also realized that he forgot about Torch, he took this opportunity to knock out the Sandwing which was now cursing under his breath.
Bam!
Mojave grabbed a nearby branch and whacked the Sandwing on the side of his head.
Mojave then raced to where Torch was. His heart also racing as he got closer and closer…
Cliffhanger! I'm back! Did ya miss me? Probably not, you guys probably forgot I existed, which is fine, I'm easily forgettable. So…. quick update on my stories, most of them if not all of them I want to scrap. Anyways, in terms of this story's update schedule, I want to try and get chapters out more often. Since I've never finished a story of mine, which I'd say is pretty sad.
But I've been thinking and thinking about making a story, and I have to thank 'TheGamersDragon' for the whole OC Talk He did in his A/N in his story 'Lightning Striking', (Can't remember which one, since he made a couple mentioning the whole thing). It really made me confident to start making a story on my OC. So… yeah, thanks.
Also, I've finished writing the Plot for this story, so I've actually planned it out in advance, which is something I haven't done for any of my other stories. All I gotta do is reread some parts of the books to double check on some facts and I'm done. I then just gotta write the story itself.
Before I leave, tell me what you guys think about the Prologue. Post your reviews and be honest about them, give some criticism if you want to so I can improve the story and my writing. I will also 'Reply' and interact to any review I get, since I love reading them.
Now that's all, cya guys in the 1st Chapter.
~Divine
