Mia
"Come on! So what if we get in trouble? Will they kill us? We're too important to the world for them to do that." I persuaded Astrid. Dani nodded her head in agreement. We were trying to explore the school, it is so big after all.
"Fine." Astrid said at last.
"Yes!" Dani exclaimed.
"How are you guys expecting to get inside the rooms if they're locked?" Astrid asked, crossing her arms. That was a good point.
"Well, I know that we are going to have some sort of transportation to get to the scientists, so they would hard-wire the locks so that we can get in, we would only be exploring what we are supposed to see at one point or another, but at least we would see something new." I said getting up from the chair. We were talking about this in the dining room, during our free time. Dani and I have been craving something exciting to happen.
"Okay then, I guess I'll come." She told us, smiling.
"Yay!" I exclaimed. Dani and Astrid both got up and walked out the double door with me.
Most of the doors we weren't able to access, the ones that we could, we already knew what was in there.
"I guess there isn't much to this school." Dani said sadly.
"There's one more!" I told her, not wanting to give up. We all went to the end of that hall and looked at the metal door.
It looked like all the others, but it didn't have any of the labels like the others had. This one had the words ED's on it.
"What do you think ED means?" Astrid questioned.
"Every Device?" Dani suggested.
"Electrical Data?" Astrid wondered aloud.
"Emergency Department?" I asked.
"How about we open the door and find out?" Dani questioned sarcastically.
"Yep." I agreed. I put my hand on the scanner and heard the dignifying sound of clicking. That means that it was working!
"It worked!" Astrid said jumping around excitedly.
The door opened towards us, unlike the others that slid. I peaked inside. It was like a nature reserve, but it was so much bigger than our one thing that made it stand out the most were the animals inside.
They were many different colored creatures. They looked like the old dragons that were in the fables and fairy tales I used to read. I looked behind me and Dani looked terrified, but she walked inside the room with me intrigued, Astrid looked like she was about to learn the worlds secrets.
When I looked back at the dragon-like creatures they hadn't noticed us, until of course the alarm sounded. All of them looked towards us at the same time. My eyes widened as I was frozen in place. Then I heard the door click shut.
"Crap." I heard Astrid say from behind me. That's when things got worse. The creatures turned extremely hostile and started to fly, jump, or run towards us. I recovered from my frozen state and yelled,
"Astrid, forcefield!"
"Got it!" She exclaimed and put her hands to the side of her, wide open.
I looked for Dani, she was already in the forcefield with me, but her hair was on fire.
"Dani! We need you to stop eating our air supply up!" I yelled.
"I can't control it!" She screamed to me with wide eyes. I shot out my hand and drizzled her in water. Immediately I heard the sizzle of a flame going out.
"Thank me later." I winked. She rolled her eyes quickly.
"Umm, guys, we need to get out of here."Astrid reminded us. The creatures were coming closer and we were running out of space. At that moment the door opened, Cole held the door.
"Come on!" He said to us over the roar of the animals. Astrid clenched her hands, breaking the forcefield. I ran towards the door and dived out of the room. Cole closed the door behind us and scorned us.
"What the bloody water were those?" I yelled angrily, getting up off the floor.
"Elemental Dragons that you weren't supposed to know about until your powers are stable enough." Cole replied annoyed.
"Well, we know now so you might as well tell the others." Astrid said. Cole's face hardened, he wasn't going to tell.
"Yeah." Dani agreed. That seemed to make him say yes, oddly enough.
"Okay, so we are all here because a few people did something they weren't supposed to do," Cole explained outside the ED room. Everyone immediately looked towards Dani and I, I could feel their eyes burning into my back. I blushed and looked back at Cole. "So you're going to learn something new tonight." He concluded.
"Is it gonna be about our powers?" Jade asked from beside Astrid.
"No, it's going to be about a creature actually, so stay calm when we get in here." He commanded us. I was the first one in along with Dani and Astrid, then the others followed behind with Cole holding the door open.
They all had wide eyes and open mouths at the ED's.
"These are Elemental Dragons, ED's for short, and you all are going to tame your own," he paused. "I'm sure you're all wondering...'how am I going to do that' well I'll tell you." He said moving back to the front of the group. "You have to do one trick with your power, one that shows the helpfulness of your ability, then a dragon will step forward and choose you. That's when you have to remind them of home, they are after all, very sentimental creatures," he clapped once. "Now, any volunteers?" He asked smirking. I raised my hand and stepped forward, people gasped. Immediately the dragons noticed us. They seemed to know that we were there to get judged by them and all watched as I walked towards them.
I have been practicing a routine for days, waiting for a time to use it. Now for the first step.
I walked over to a nearby pond and squatted, I dipped my finger in the water and twisted it, creating a whirlpool that got bigger and bigger.
Next, I moved the whirlpool out of the small hole and onto land, quickly lifting it up in the air.
Then, I spread out my hands and the whirlpool spread apart into a half, you could see the fish swimming around in it.
Finally, I lifted the water even higher, as high could be possible to see it, and clenched my hands, making the water form into tiny droplets that rained on me, while the fish fell from the sky. The ED's caught them in their mouth and ate them.
When all the fish were eaten, a dragon stepped forward. It had a small teal body with darker blues for the fins and giant wings. It had a mermaid-like, dark blue tail, and four legs, along with a very long neck that had dark blue dorsal fins all the way down the spine. It's mouth was pointed into an under-bite and had a small horn on its snout. I could see the silver slit eyes peering at me questionably.
The ED walked towards me cautiously, yet curiously. I reached out my hand, while it bowed it's head. I then reached under its mouth and scratched it underneath the chin, where I noticed it had a small cross shaped scar, it seemed to like the scratching and dropped on the ground, insisting I get on.
I put one leg over its neck where it met the body and held on to one of the many dorsal fins. It raised its wings and jumped off the ground with its back legs.
I held on to it for dear life, trying to not look down. It spun in circles around and around, then it glided towards the water. I barely braced myself for the landing. It sped up so much quicker than in the air, clearly the dragon was trying to show me its skills too.
The ED had super sonic speed under the water and basically glided. Then it went back out of the water to let me off.
"So what are you going to name it?" Cole asked me.
"Well, is it a girl or boy?" I questioned.
"Girl." Cole replied.
"Then I'm going to call her...Hydro." I answered. She loved the name and started to flick the tip of her tail, much like a snake. Then she opened her mouth and a slitted tongue tested the air! Her tongue was an especially slobbery and gray.
"I think she likes you." Dani said to me as I pet Hydro's head.
"I hope this isn't the only way she will show me." I stated.
"You are going to need to get her fitted for a saddle and reins, so try to keep her under control until everyone gets chosen." Cole explained as Dani started to walk forward just as I had done.
Suddenly I felt all the fear I should have felt when I was used as an example and my heart started to beat rapidly, I took deep breaths and tried to cool down by concentrating on Dani.
First, she went over in the front of the remaining dragons and lit her hand on fire with a smirk on her face. Dani then threw it up into the air and then caught it in her mouth and spit it out.
Then, Dani caught the flames in her hands once more and let the fire die out. The animals all looked at her seeming to think that she was crazy, along with her powers.
Next, she set herself on fire and then combusted into flames, turning herself into ashes. I was shocked and ran over to Dani's ashes, but Cole put out a hand to stop me. I wanted to scream at him and hit him, but then the ashes started forming into a line, and then the shape of a body, and then finally, Dani.
Finally, Dani heated the area around us up so that everyone was sweating, including the ED's, except one who stepped forward. It must have lived in a very warm environment, because it went over to Dani and nuzzled her hand.
The ED had a red body in medium size, with orange for the wings and feet. The dragon had two yellow horns on the top of the head next to the ears. A stumpy body along with long legs and a short neck.
Then the dragon stepped back and coughed, accidentally spitting out fire. Dani caught it with her hand hurriedly and extinguished the flame by clenching her fist. Next the ED caught itself on fire and put it out, obviously trying to impress Dani.
"What do you want to name her?" Cole asked, walking up behind Dani.
"I don't know. What do you suggest?" she questioned.
"Um...maybe Hothead or Stoker?" he suggested.
"I've got it! I'll name her Ember!" She concluded.
"I think it's perfect." I told Dani. She put one leg over the dragon just as I had done. She was taken by surprise when Ember threw Dani over her back and started flying. She held on tight as she flew around, probably afraid of falling, until it hit the ground again.
When Dani got off Ember she walked over and sat down next to me so we could watch the next person get chosen.
Everyone else got chosen by their dragon and Cole finally took us to the tack room to get our saddles.
Jade had a brown colored dragon. It loved to dig into the dirt mostly.
Raidon's dragon was a yellowish color that matched his hair, he decided to call it Jupiter. Jupiter had spikes along the wings and tail. It was very fast along with its attack. I noticed the dragons attack wasn't fire. It was more of a lightning/fire combination while it stood on its two back legs. There weren't anymore dragons like Jupiter.
Conrads dragon was black and shades of gray, after a long time of thinking he called it Casper. Casper was smoother than the other dragons, it didn't have any spikes. Although it did have three huge horns on the top of its head. It's a good thing that the dragon itself was big.
Gales dragon was a silvery color and seemed big and proud. However, it bowed to Gale when it picked him. You could tell that the dragon had a huge respect for him. Gale named her Aria.
Iris's dragon was green and was small just like her, she came up with the name for hers super quick, Clover. Clover had a vine like appearance to her in the way the spikes over her stomach looked like leaves from a vine.
"Where's your dragon?" Iris asked innocently to Cole.
He smirked and whistled high pitched. A mint blue dragon came immediately and rested on the ground beside him.
"It's name is Glacier." Cole told us. Glacier was very big, but he wasn't as muscular as the other big dragons. This one was more sleek looking, similar to an ice crystal. Glacier's eyes were a blue color that looked almost see through.
"Now it's time for us to get your dragons fitted. Hop on your dragon and follow me." He instructed us while putting a leg over Glacier. Cole hovered in the air, waiting for us to fly too.
When we were all ready, Cole took off in a burst of speed. Hydro took off into the water, we were able to overtake Cole and flew ahead towards a giant garage looking door.
We emerged from the water with extra speed and finally landed next to the door. The others quickly followed. Cole entered a key number on the lock pad and the door slid open. We all trotted our dragons inside and looked around. Saddles, leads, and bags were everywhere of all different sizes.
"Okay, one at a time. Water! You're first!" He called out to me while closing the door. He needs to stop calling me water.
"I have a name!" I called back.
"Whatever." He mumbled. I went into a small section of the room and hopped off Hydro.
"So what do I need?" I asked Cole. He walked over gathering a saddle, lead, and a few side bags. All the same material as my suit.
"Try these on her." He commanded.
"Why can't you show me how to put them on her?" I asked him.
"That type of dragon is extremely protective of you and itself, so I don't want to get my hand bit off." He said as if it was obvious.
"You are gonna want to be nicer to me." I told him with a straight face.
"Or what?" He asked staring me in the eyes.
"Or I will tell Dani you like her." I told him with his classic smirk. I didn't actually know this, I just had a feeling.
"How do you know?" He asked with wide eyes.
"I have a knack for people skills." I answered taking the dragon supplies. His face was priceless.
"I'll let you do this yourself, you seem able to take care of things well enough, Mist." He said to me, then he walked back over to the group and took them one by one to each station.
I put everything down first and thought about what would go on first. The saddle naturally.
I grabbed the blue saddle and set it on her. It looked weird compared to horses. It wraps around the base area of the wings to stable it and then around the stomach. Hydro didn't seem to mind me at all.
Next, I put the saddle bags on her. They were also blue and hooked onto the side of the saddle. They looked like they were just plain messenger bags, but since it's the same material as my uniform I inferred it's waterproof. That way none of my equipment will get wet.
Finally, I put on the lead. It went under the snout and then connected to the saddle. They most likely did this so that the dragons can still use their attacks.
Hydro didn't like the lead too much, but I figure after a while she won't need to have it.
"How's that Hydro?" I asked her. She flicked the tip of her tail again in happiness.
I looked around the room. Raidon seemed to have a bit of trouble with putting his lead on Jupiter.
I walked over, leaving Hydro to stay at my section.
"Hey, Raidon." I said. He looked around at me quickly and sighed in relief.
"Hey, Mist." He echoed back.
"I see you're having a little bit of trouble." I told him pointing to Jupiter.
"Yeah, he keeps moving his head away from me." He remarked.
"Well, if you do it like this," I paused grabbing his hands in mine while he held the lead and clicked it into place. When I touched his hands a small spark went through me, I couldn't feel it, I could only see it."it's easier." I concluded. Realizing I was staring at his strong hands.
He smiled.
"Thanks." Raidon said to me.
"Anytime." I said walking back to Hydro. I'm so stupid! Why would I just walk up to him?
I pretended like I was fixing Hydro's gear, but in reality I was punishing myself silently.