Why don't I see any Silverwing FF's on here for Goth? That's for me to fix I believe. Even though I haven't read the books (but I plan to get my grubby little hands on them soon.) I saw the cartoon and plan to use that because it was awesome. Besides, Goth looks hotter in the cartoon. [lululululul]
Sleep came easily as the warm ray's of the sun hit the wing's of a group of bats resting in a tree. Even a few mornings after the battle between the birds, beasts, and yes even the bats; They were still unable to keep their eyes open during the day. They had spent so long flying in the dark that when the sun came up they grew tired and only wanted to get to sleep. All wanted to sleep in the sun- now that they could- all that is, but one rambunctious female. She stayed awake while the others slept, and dozed off at night while everyone else was up. The female just couldn't bring herself to waste the fact that now she could look into the sun. It was a particularly warm winter morning, allowing the bats to roost in the tree, it was rare to be able to and of course this young female bat was eager for the chance to enjoy the beauty that the sun created.
"Kyra? Are you still up?" Asked a tired looking Shade as he stretched out his wings, accidently knocking his mother, who just grumbled and turned slightly. Shade winced slightly expecting her to wake up but relaxed when she simply ignored him and he scuffled over to hang next to the female silvering. The female was slightly bigger than him, but was also older. He had noticed a few males- including Chinook talking about her. She was at the right age to pick a mate for herself but she still hadn't done it, but she did always talk to shade, in fact was the first to ask him if he was going to mate with Marina. Of course he had denied it, he didn't think the pretty bright wing would be to happy with mating with a silverwing runt like himself. Though with Kyra's constant support on the subject he was getting closer and closer to Marina every day, without getting smacked off his roost, that had to be a good sign.
Kyra looked over to the one who had made watching the sunrise possible and she nodded with a happy look. "Yes" she said as she shivered a bit and promptly wrapped a wing around the young male to keep him warm, she could see he was shivering. "Warm enough, little brother?" she asked him.
He nodded but seemed to pout slightly "I'm not little...and I'm not your brother" he added, though wouldn't mind if he was her brother. She after all acted like he was her own brother. She was always there for him when he needed her, even to the point of trying to help defend him from the owls. He paused from thinking and looked at the gash in her sensitive wing, it was from her trying to keep an owl away from him. He knew that despite how she would tell him how it didn't hurt, he knew it made flying a lot harder for her. The journey to Hibernaculum seemed to wear on Kyra, but only Shade could really tell, despite her not going through as much as he did, he knew she was more venerable than ever.
Kyra looked down to the worrying silverwing male and she nudged him a bit "you should be getting warm with Marina" she said and shooed him off "go on" she said, motioning for him to get going, "I'm going to stretch my wings" she explained.
Shade opened his mouth to say something but Kyra already had her mind made up so he had to close his mouth. He looked down and nodded "Ok have fun" he said and headed over to where Marina was sleeping and made himself comfortable beside her.
Kyra relaxed once Shade was distracted by someone else and she let the air current carry her over to another tree. Once she was there she roosted and held her wing close to her body. The cold wind made it start to dry out and get brittle, so the gash in it seemed to get worse. Trying to ignore the wound was becoming dangerous, but Kyra just wanted to ignore it. She shivered a bit and tried to ease herself into a warm crook of the tree. It was when she felt the branch that she was on move, when she started to feel an unknown sense of dread. She wondered if it was a bird that had landed on the branch so she looked out from the small hole she was hiding in and noticed a large figure hanging on the very same branch. It couldn't be a bat of course, she had never seen one so big. Though she stiffened, having heard of one. A chuckle was heard from outside her small hiding place. It sent chills through her bones.
The figure stared at the hole that the Silverwing had squeezed herself into for warmth and almost seemed envious, he was freezing his fur off while she seemed nice and toasty where she was. "How rude it is, not to greet a visitor."
The voice was smooth, exotic sounding, something that Kyra had never heard before. She slowly came into view of the light, as well as the other bat on the branch "I don't even know who you are, why should I greet you?" she asked him, making sure she did not let the fear she held for this bat, slip out in her voice.
He suddenly laughed as his wings slowly moved down to show his face, in the cold air his breath came out in wispy clouds. "The females of the north, are they all so...outspoken?" he asked, as if he had trouble trying to find the correct word.
"I would hope that all females are, after all we would be just as strong as males if we didn't have to worry about making sure the next generation would be secure" she said, sounding completely serious. She jumped slightly before shying away from a loud noise that had suddenly come from a very amused, and very large bat.
"HA!" The bat laughed, holding his sides "You make it sound as if it's your duty, it almost sounds patriotic to bat kind," a smirk formed across his face, showing his sharp fanged teeth. "Your obviously unmated," he said clearly. "Most females quickly find out how easy it is once they mate, the male takes care of them, they get lazy and eventually don't have to do anything until they have another spawn," he said as he waved one of his hand like claws around to emphasize his speech.
"From how you put it you seem to act like you have a very lazy mate..." Kyra muttered. Just imagining what this huge bat had to go home to every morning. In fact she began to laugh, covering her head with her wings to try and stifle the laughter.
The large bat wasn't amused at this and he just growled. "I do not have a mate, I was taken from my home in the jungle before I could take one," he scoffed a bit. "No female would have the ability to say no to being my mate, the mate of the prince of darkness!" he exclaimed dramatically.
"No," Kyra said simply before spreading her wings and letting her body drop from the tree, It was the last thing she could do before feeling as if a plane hit her. She felt as if her back was crushed by a falling rock and then the rush of air before she hit the soft newly fallen snow below. Kyra let out a cry of pain as the cold stung her wing.
The large bat simply growled as he held her down in the snow before lifting her back up and turning her towards himself, his claws around her neck. "You, little silverwing should know your place" he growled, tightening his grip a bit. His eyes narrowed watching her struggle, though he paused and looked down, his grip loosening noticing one of her wings was limp and bleeding. "Hm? what is this?" he questioned and dropped her, taking her wing in his grip only to see the gash that had been there before was now larger.
Kyra whimpered as she was dropped, her body weak from the pain in her wing so she simply went limp as the large bat took her wing. She wanted to scream but she held it back and looked up to the bat. "That hurts you- you..." she couldn't even figure out what to say to him, she was in too much pain to think.
Of course the giant bat took this another way, he thought she was trying to figure out what his name was. "Goth, my name is Goth...you should know before you die after all" he said to her smoothly, smirking a bit as he took a sample of her blood on his claw and licked it off.
Kyra whimpered from the feeling of his claw running over the gash on her wing and she went limp once more. "You're the bat that shade killed!" She suddenly exclaimed as she looked up to him in fear. "The cannibal!" she pointed at him with her claw, obviously even more shaken than before.
He simply laughed at her once more "Who did you think I was? An overgrown silverwing?" he asked mockingly. His tongue ran over his fangs as he stared down at the helpless female. "Let's play a game. If you can fly away and somehow escape me, you won't die," He said, knowing full well that she couldn't fly with her wing like it was.
Kyra got up, holding her wing against herself and she narrowed her eyes at him. "You're on," she said stubbornly before leaping into the air and letting her wings take her up further. The cold wind through the rip in her wing pained her, but as she was taken up into the air by the wind, the smirk on the face of the cannibal bat ripped into her soul- she realized that even with the wind on her side, he would have the upper hand. The wind could carry him right to her as it was carrying her away right now.
To Be Continued.