Chapter 2
Groaning, my vision swam back and I regained consciousness. The first thing I saw was I was on a island. With a volcano. A sharp wind whistled past, and I shivered, noticing for the first time where I was. An island in the middle of nowhere. I processed what had happened. I was on a cold island, by the looks of it, far, far away from Nevada. I narrowed my eyes. The island was mostly covered in long, bright green grass, wet with dew, growing in between large areas of rocks. The whole thing looked approximately a mile or two across, with a huge volcano right smack in the center that took up practically the whole island.
I was lying down on the rocky beach, facing the volcano, when the ground rumbled. It started moving side to side, up and down, like the floor of a moving bus. "Earthquake?" I muttered, keeping my eyes on the volcano for clues. And I got one. A very big clue. A cone- shaped horn started poking out of the top, looking rather like a sharp rock. "What-on-earth?" I said, barely more than a whisper. The rock slowly, gradually started moving up, gradually growing bigger and bigger, until revealing an enormous lizard, one almost as big as the volcano. It was poisonous green, with huge scales, and resembled the Green Death from Dreamworks Dragons movies.
"Okay- this is what heaven looks like?" I grumbled. Suddenly, a wound on my knee started stinging painfully. I looked down. When had I gotten that? Ugh. I must have hurt myself when I…. It all came flooding back to me. Sinking through the dirt, and I remember a electronicized female voice saying "and your next destination is Dragon Island, age of the vikings. Uh huh. Sure. I was probably just transported to somewhere resembling Berk.
Oh, and also with a gargantuan lizard that was slowly cranking its scaly
neck toward me, a forked tongue smelling the air, sniffing for prey. I looked around. There didn't seem to be much to eat here anyway. I looked back at the lizard. It really looked like the Green Death, except, maybe a little smaller. I laughed, dizzily. Great. The kidnappers must have clubbed me in the head. No longer caring, I turned around and immediately bumped into a shiny, obsidian black rock. "Ow!" I growled, and kicked the rock, stubbing my toe.
"Stew-peed rock!" I hissed. Ever since I watched a movie in which a lady with a French accent said stupid like that, I started saying it. I turned and was about to walk around it when the rock suddenly got up and clubbed me in the stomach with a smaller lump on the back!
I stared, utterly bewildered, and rubbing my stomach. It was numb, and after a second started throbbing painfully, taking my mind off my head and giving me a new injury to deal with. Anyway, I warily started backing away from the rock. Finally, it raised its-head?- and I realized it was completely alive. It looked like Meatlug from How To Train Your Dragon, just pure black, and now that I look close, with dark blue eyes, and silver drop-shaped scales on the edges of her eyes, and a perfect silver star on her chest. Stifling a scream, I slowly edged my way back. A roar blasted from behind me, and I whirled, hands clapped on my ears. Imagine the sound of the audience of the Olympics. Then multiply that by twenty. That barely begins to describe the chilling roar, rippling through my bones and making my teeth chatter and my knees knock together. The message was clear- it wanted food. With sudden realization I looked at my own arms. Looked like I was on the menu. There was no cover on the island, a few short trees and shrubs, nothing more. There was no forest, caves of any kind to shelter in. The great lizard slowly turned it's humongous head to me, and fixed one beady eye on me. I swallowed. Do I look very tasty? I am moderately tall and thin, but muscular and tanned. My black hair was cropped at my collar bones, and my self cut bangs were swept to the side of my face. Tasty or no, I would still be edible for this beast. Suddenly, I make a decision. I sprint around the black-rock animal and run to the beach, where I skidded to the stop on a large boulder. I can't just swim off. It would catch me, if I don't drown before. I looked back to see the black thing had followed me. Great. I slowly backed away into the water, when the thing charged forward and rammed me at such an angle I flew straight up and landed on it's back. Hard. "OW!" I yelped, and it made a purring, growling sound. I twisted around and stared at the huge lizard which was slowly starting to climb it's way out of the volcano. I narrowed my keen electrical eyes. There were two flaps of skin sticking out of the Green Death replica's back, and the lizard slowly extended them, revealing to be huge, bat shaped wings. I stared in shock. Great. It really was the Green Death, or at least one of it's kids. The wings were long and thin, with torn edges and tears on the edges. Yeah, no way that thing was getting off the ground. The Green Death 2 raised the huge wings and started flapping them. My eyes widened as it slowly lifted out of the volcano and into the sky. I turned my attention back on the black thing. "Hey, girl? Is it?" She wagged her tail excitedly, which I took as a yes. "Can you swim?" She wagged her tail some more, and suddenly, two somewhat soft flabs of skin pelted me on the arms. I yelped, more in surprise than pain, then gasped. "You have wings?" I said incredulously. That settled it. Either I had completely lost it or I really had somehow, crazily ended up in the world of Dreamworks Dragons. AHHHHH. That would be bad. Then again, so would completely losing my mind.
"If you have wings, can you FLY AWAY?" I muttered, then sighed. There is no way that would work. I must be polite. "Uhh, Darkstone? Can you please fly away?" It stayed in the same spot, shifting from foot to foot.
"Blackstone?" I asked desperately. I leaned forward, looking for clues. The perfect silver star gleamed on her chest. "Blackstar?" I asked. Immediately, the dragon perked up, but still didn't take off. "Darkstar?" I whimpered, now looking at the Green Death 2 as it got a high position, looking at me and drooling. "Darkstar, please fly away now!" I screeched. I felt a jerk, and the black thing, which apparently was called Darkstar, flapped those tiny wings and impossibly lifted us into the air. I whimpered again, as the Green Death 2 slowly rotated it's wings to dive. I grabbed hold of two flaps of skin behind Darkstar's ears and lightly pulled without realizing. Instantaneously, she shot forward like a bullet. "AHHHHHHH!" I screamed, tightly holding on to the flaps. How did such a round dragon with tiny wings go so fast? Sadly, the Green Death 2 noticed, and got mad. He growled so loud my eardrums felt like they bursted, and Darkstar flipped upside down and started flying somewhat distorted. I screamed and held on with my legs and arms as tight as I could, almost giving her a upside down hug. Finally she shook her head and righted, and we dove behind a seastack. The Green Death 2 growled, furious now. It dived down, wind whistling through it's ragged wings, and gaining speed. "I'm sorry about this," I muttered to the dragon, then reached back and slapped it's rump. The dragon scream-growled, obviously thinking it was the Green Death two, and shot forward so fast everything blurred, and all I could see were my hands and the dragon. "Where are we going?" I tried shouting through the wind to the newly considered gronckle. Immediately, a bug flew into my mouth, and I coughed and gagged. I spit it out, and the slobbered bug blew away into the wind. I spit and wiped my mouth for a long time, trying to get the disgusting taste out of my mouth. After what seemed like half an hour, an island popped up in sight, One that seemed very quiet and beautiful. "Let's land there," I suggested, and the dragon carefully landed on the beach. I looked around. It seemed very pretty. "Thanks Darkstar. You saved me." The dragon grinned and stuck its tongue out. I cocked my head. Darkstar was too long to say, especially if we were in a hurry. "I'm going to call you...Star!" I decided. I looked at the dense leafy woods that were blowing gently in the wind. They beckoned to me, calm and peaceful. "Star, why don't we-" I looked around. Star had taken off and was zooming into the forest. "Wait!" I called, "come back!" She kept going, not even looking back. Maybe something is wrong. I gazed into the forest. Then I started sprinting after her.
Me: yeah, I wanted to leave a cliffhanger
Darkstar: yay! I've come in!
Me: I know, I wrote it
Darkstar: As promised, I am awesome.
Me: Ugh