Shay: Threeeeee

Capter three: A beautiful creature

I stared out the window counting the lines of the road as then past, only when I got to seventy did I notice my mother calling me.

"Andrew!" she yelled, I simply lifted my eyes to meet hers. "Did you hear what I said?" I shrugged and sat up straight, running a hand through my slicked back hair. "I said that this time I know for sure that we'll find one, we find a dragon..." I started blocking her out again and stared out the window of the limousine. This would be the thirtieth auction house in these two months. My family and I have been serching for a dragon for years ever sinch I turned seven, I'm eighteen now. We looked every where, talked to hunters, everyone that could possibly know anything about them. I guess this is what i get for being born into the Hester family. My family has been riding dragons for generations and I was the next in line for a one. The only reason I hadn't said no to this is because my parents said after this we'd lay off the 'hatchling hunting' as my mother called it. The auction house soon came into veiw. It wasn't the fanciest ones I've ever seen, but I've never seen so many well behaved hell hounds in one place. We parked our black vehicle in a private V.I.P area and joined the rest of the people in the seat. Thought the auction wouldn't start for a while we got there early to have the best seats.

*Time Skip*

The sun was low on the horizon and the seats around us were filled as the auctioneer came onto the stage.

"Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Now let's skip past all the chitchat and get to the reasons y'all are here." he said. "Now our first piece is a unique one, an all black pegasus, respectfully named Beauty. Bring her out." The large horse was lead onto the stage and stood in the spotlight, neighing loudly and spready out the large feathered wings. She sold for a few hundred thousand before being lead off. Next a mermaid, extremely rare to find and ,true to legend, amazingly beautiful. Followed by a unicorn and her foal. A few nature spirits, some roudy fox demon and another unicorn, this one male and bought by the man who bought the mother and foal.

"Trying to have his own blessing." an old portly man infront of me whispered to a young perky looking women next to him. The women nodded and watched the man who bought the magical horses intently.

"And now ladies and gentlemen we have a very special piece today. A rare beauty, that you won't find at any other auction house, a dragon!" he yelled and a black dragon was walked onto the stage. Midnight blue accented the scales but it really stood out around his eyes which were the same dark blue. I took in the beauty of this creature until I noticed its wings, now I've grown up with dragons I know how every speices should look and the wings on this one were dropping below where they should be. They were almost dragging against the floor instead of resting on the back. Now this could just be the way their set on his shoulders or he just walks with them like that, but I was getting a bad feeling about it. I was so focused I didn't even notice the bidding had started an reached four million dollars quickly. Another man called out five million and others started looking around at eachother to see if anyone was considering going any higher.

"Seven million!" I called out, no way in hell am I losing this.

"Seven million going once, going twice, all in fair war, sold to number 485, please go to the pick up area around back." the auctioneer said and I went off to the back while father pays for the purchase. The pick up area was just several rows of small concrete buildings, a large man dressed in all black led me to the one my dragon was in and unlocked the door. I opened the door quickly a smile on my face as I came face to face with the beautiful dragon. I pulled out the bonding crystal and walked forward only to have the dragon growl and move back. I looked down to where is was and saw a small puddle of ididgo that streaked toward the dragon. I frowned and moved slowly to the side of it getting a better look at the injury. It was a large circle cut right into the middle of the wing. My frown turned into a scowl as I sat down on the ground next to it. It looked at me cautiously as I sat there scooting forward inch by inch. "You don't have to be scared, I'm going to get you out of here." I said calmly staring to inch my wy forward again. It tilted it's head to the side and we continued our staring contest.

"You are strange." it, which turned out to be a he, said and I chuckled.

"I get that a lot." I replied

"As do I." he said.

"And why is that?" I questioned.

"I just am, maybe not as strange as you, but strange." he said not paying any attention to me until I was within petting distance.

"Ah, I don't even know your name mine's Andrew." I said then motioned to him.

"Vigor" he answered.

"Well Vigor, I think it's about time we leave don't you? Then we can be strange together." I said pulling out that glowing green crystal and placing it on him. I pulled out the similar blue one and placed it around my own neck. Enjoying the sense of confusion, curiosity, happiness, and relief. "These necklaces bind us, we can sense how the other is feeling, even read eachothers minds." I answered his unspoken question and started toward the door with him following behind.