CHAPTER ONE
DISCLAIMER- I do not own these wonderful characters, setting, cover picture, e.t.c. I only own the plot.
Deathbringer ducked under a moss-covered branch and wondered – AGAIN- to know how the RainWings manages to navigate this accursed rainforest. He'd already banged his head, stubbed his claws, snared his wings, and once caught his tail in a thorn bush. Going by foot was not an option. In the past six months, (only six months? It had seemed like years) he had grown a lot larger and bulkier, and could no longer move through the thick shrubbery. (He was still rather dashing and graceful, if he'd say so himself.) Deathbringer whacked his face into a branch and glared at it. Sitting up on his back legs, he flicked his forked tongue at it and tried to remember the graceful way RainWings swam through the forest. If he recalled, they kind of curled their tails along the branches… "AHA!" That's it! He just needed to use his tail to swing to the other branches…He wound his tail carefully around the limb and tried swinging on it. "Whoa…" He peered dizzily at the ground bobbing below him and swallowed. His wings would be of no help if he fell- his wings were too large to fully extend if he happened to plummet. Deathbringer tore his thoughts from the dangers of falling and attempted to swing to the other branch. On the peak of the arc, he let go, half-extending is wings, and reached for the limb. The result? Deathbringer collided with the branch, bounced off with an OOF! and barely managed to grab with his front claws, and hang on. He franticly clawed at the branch for a good talon hold, scrabbling at the wood before finally managing to swing himself onto the bough. He breathed a sigh of relief. "At least this one is safe enough to walk on, "he thought, gazing at the bough with amused expression. He cast an annoyed look at the gouges left in the wood from his scrabble for safety. "Even a dumb dragon can realize that those marks weren't from a member of its own tribe, and judging from how quickly Glory figured out I was supposed to kill her, RainWings are anything BUT dumb. "He shook himself and started to walk along the spur, hoping that he could arrive at the village before the RainWings noticed. Deathbringer was daydreaming of the sarcastic, grinning Glory he hoped to meet when suddenly he tripped over a taut vine… And suddenly found the world turned upside down.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, I am really, really sorry about the cliffhanger at the end. I just couldn't help myself… you know how it is. And I will TRY to update daily, but my geometry teacher likes to assign homework over the weekends, so the daily updates are a MAYBE. I didn't want to get your hopes up; I know how frustrating waiting for a story is.
~TheGirlWithTheBird