Chapter 7
A New Friend
Creeping closer and closer to the beast my hair stood on edge. My heart quickened. Time was not on my side and my mind was racing with ideas. I had never actually approached one of these types of dragons before and I was extremely nervous. I was shaking. My small digits extended towards the beast, I held my breathe.
The orange eyes automatically fixed on my back to the shadows the beast began to show a strange behaviour. Its wings stretched out into the sunlight and the face emerged. The claws on the tips of the wings were like miniature daggers, able to rip through most materials they encounter.
Scratching at the floor the dragon began to show much more aggressive and lunged towards my hand.
For a split second I thought my hand was gone but when I opened my eyes I saw a cute looking dragon about half the size of my last incident. Dry scaly skin pushed against my hand, the bond of friendship had begun.
Emerging from the gloomy shadows the true form of the dragon was relieved. It turns out that the so called beast was actually a cute little dragon. It had large batlike ears (obviously) and small wings. It was big enough to ride but it seems that the dragon makes itself look big when actually its cute and cuddly. The spikes seem to retract when happy and spring back out when angry. The orange eyes turned to a light yellow ans the teeth go into the gum making the dragon look like it has no teeth!
It seems I have made a new friend, but the happy moment was suddenly stoped as squelching noises came from the bottom of the beach.
It seems that the beach was now being over run by Wintersnappers. Almost instantly the dragon I had just met turned from cute to vicious, the teeth shot out as fast as lightning; the spikes came out and the eyes went back to an evil range. It sprung forward aimed its mouth and shot a ray of super high pitched sound.
"Cover your ears ",I yelled to everyone else as I hid behind a rock and covered my ears. The dragons sound hit the Wintersnappers square on causing them to retreat into the water. Shells on the beach shattered like glass and the rock I was behind crumbled to the ground. After peeking back out into the open I saw no Wintersnappers only my friends and a happy dragon.
Raising to my feet clearing sand of my shoulder, I announced to everyone, "Meet Echo".
