Author's Note: And here is Chapter 4! This chapter introduces a couple of the other OC's in this story. Enjoy!

-Dragonrider's Fury


Ocean Rose climbed onto Moonlight and they launched into the air. It only took a moment for her to hear Javon's cry for help. "Faster Moon!" She exclaimed, while grabbing her bow, which was hanging on the side of Moonlight's saddle. She the took an arrow from the bag beside it. "Get ready to fire, Moonlight."

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Meanwhile, back in his hut on the Edge, a black-haired youth of fourteen years, blind in his right eye, suddenly awoke, his emerald-green left eye snapping open. Sparrow Hawk, for that was his name, looked around groggily. "Who… What…" he suddenly became alert, glancing around in confusion. "Where's Shadow? SHADOW?!"

A shadow fell over the bed, and an unfamiliar voice rasped, "He's gone. And it's lights out for you!" Sparrow felt a sharp pain on the back of his head, right before his world went dark.

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Ocean, flying on Moonlight toward the place where she had heard Javon's call for help come from, scanned the ground, waiting to spot… "Dragon hunters! And they have Javon." She took a deep breath to calm herself. "Okay, Moon," she addressed her dragon, "Head into the trees, out of sight. We'll sneak up on them."

Moonlight complied, and they disappeared into the forest.

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While this was happening, Shadow, Sparrow's unique black dragon, a Wooly Howl (who may have been part Night Fury), was running toward Javon, alerted by his calls for help. As he was running, though, a bola struck his legs, entangling them, resulting in him falling to the ground. He looked up into the angry eyes of a hunter.

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As it happens, his rider was in a very similar situation at that moment in time...

Sparrow woke up, groaning. After a quick scan of his surrounding, he assessed that he was on a small boat, with a dragon hunter. He cleared his throat, grabbing the hunters attention. "I always sleep with weapons." He announced, pulling out his two 12-inch daggers, his weapons of choice. "I think I'll leave."

The hunter sighed while grabbing a longsword. After a small struggle, Sparrow managed to disarm the hunter, before jumping into the water. "Ha!" He shouted over his shoulder as he started to swim towards the Edge, "Don't try that again! It was really not a pleasure."

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Moonlight came in for a landing, and Ocean spied Shadow. "Shadow," she whispered, "Okay, Moon, one shot at the hunter, but only knock him out. We can question him later."

Moonlight shot a small plasma blast, knocking the hunter out, and Ocean quickly ran toward Shadow. "Hey boy," she said softly as she reached his side, "Let's get this off of you." She quickly loosened the bola, freeing him. Shadow huffed as he shook the bola off, then nudged Ocean, gesturing as best as a dragon could in Javon's general direction.

"I know boy," she whispered to the dragon, nodding her head. "Come on Moonlight." She began walking in the direction Shadow indicated, flicking her auburn braid off her shoulder so it fell down her back.

As she got closer to the spot, a dragon hunter spotted her. She smirked, asking, "Hi! How ya doing?" then engaged him in a swordfight.

Moonlight, meanwhile, continued heading toward Javon

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Sparrow, after a rather long swim, finally pulled himself to shore, his clothes entirely soaked through. He grunted, then muttered to himself, "Let's find Shadow now, shall we?"

He glanced around. "He probably went in the direction of shouting and fighting. Great," He muttered sarcastically. "Just perfect." With that, he began running in the direction of Ocean, Moon, and Shadow.


Author's note: Well, that was Chapter 4. I hope you enjoyed it! If you have any questions, comments, or complaints (or any kind of feedback at all), feel free to leave a review! We'd appreciate any feedback you might have for us! Until next time!

-Dragonrider's Fury