Chapter 4
The next morning. Darkwing woke up next to his mom. "Mom..are you ok?" He asked. Lightly tapping her head. But there was no response. "Mom?" Said darkwing once more. Still... Silence. "Mom!" He shouted lifting up her leg. It fell weakly to the ground. Tears began to fall from darkwings eyes. "N..no" he sobbed. "Moooom!" He yelled. But he knew by the way she lay there slumped that she was, gone. Big blue tears were falling uncontrollably from darkwings eyes. He walked over to her and nestled in between her two front legs. "Come back" he whimpered
"Silverstar?". Darkwing flinched as he heard a raspy voice call out his mothers name. Darkwing was still lying with his mother. He refused to let her go. An old nadder came to the entrance of the cave. "You ok sliverstar I heard you were injured last ni..." . Then he saw sliverstar lying dead on the cave floor , her baby crying in her arms. "Sliverstar!" He gasped. Darkwing moved out of the way still crying.
"No no no, this is a disaster" moaned the nadder. He looked at darkwing who stared back at him with big tear filled eyes. " who's going to take care of you" he said sadly. "I will father" said a sudden voice. Darkwing looked around. Another nadder was standing at entrance. She was younger then the other one. Her scales were a lavender purple colour and her underbelly and spines were white. "Lillyanna" said the old nadder
The old nadder and lillyanna went outside the cave to talk. " lillyanna I don't think you can take care of that little dragon" he said. "Besides, you have 3 of your own to look after and he is just one more mouth to feed". "His mother is dead, his father is missing" said lillyanna. "And he..is all alone". "This is not about me 'having' to take care of him, it's that I 'want' to take of him. The old nadder sighed. " alright" he said.
Darkwing walked up to the cave entrance and just managed to hear some of the nadders conversation. "Take care of him lillyanna" he heard " for all we know, he might be the last night fury alive". The words pierced his heart like a knife. He had no idea that night furys were so rare. He began to cry again.
"Hey there sweetie" said lillyanna softly looking down at darkwing. " come with me, I'm going to take care of you for a while". Darkwing reluctantly followed her out of the cave. He looked at his mothers body and said "goodbye" for the last time. He followed lillyanna along the beach and up a steep pathway. They walked for a while until they reached a nearby cliff. Lillyanna told darkwing to wait as she jumped down onto a large ledge of rock jutting out from the cliff
2 baby nadders emerged from a small cave. "Mom!, your home shouted one. "Did ya bring fish mom,did ya?"." No scorchbreath I didn't bring fish" laughed lillyanna. "Aww" sighed scorchbreath. "But I do have a surprise". "Yeah!,what is it?" Yelled scorchbreath. "Come on darkwing" said lillyanna. "Don't be shy". Darkwing jumped down. "Sons bet your new brother". "Darkwing these are my sons scorchbreath and spike. Both nadders had white under bellies and spikes. Scorchbreath was blue and spike was green.
"Woah! A night fury!" Yelled spike. "Oh my gods" said scorchbreath. "I heard you guys are faster then lightning!"." Yeah well I heard you can breath giant plasma balls" said spike. Darkwing looked down at the ground awkwardly not knowing what to say." Will you 2 muttonheads stop" said a voice from behind them. A female nadder jumped out from behind. "Ignore those two" she said. " come up to the headland with me". "Oh and I'm Sasha by the way". Darkwing smiled and followed sasha to the headland.
