It's cold outside...
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Chapter Seven (Sky's pov), Learning:
I look in the window and I see Deadlox slowly move toward the food. He picks up a steak and nibbles at it. Then he apparently sees how hungry he is and starts chowing down on it.
"He's eating," I telepathically respond. Sarah lets out a sigh of relief.
"Good. If he had gone any longer without eating, he would have started starving. I wonder why he wouldn't eat," Sarah says.
"Maybe to pass the time, you could teach me how to fly?," I hint. She laughs and goes to the ground and lands. I climb off her and I change into a dragon. "Woah," I say while stumbling around. "Sorry. I'm not used to this."
She just laughs again. "Hahaha. It's fine. I'll wait until your used to it." I start walking around to get used to my new way of walking. "Okay. Now stretch your wings." I try, but I never used wings before, so I didn't know where the muscles for them were.
"I don't know how," I admit. Sarah walks over and rests her wing on mine. Then she moves her wing underneath mine and lifts it up. I can feel my muscles moving.
"You feel them?," she asks. I nod. "Try moving them up and down now that you do." I start moving my wings and they go up and down. "Do you need help extending them too?" I nod. She turns into her half form and places her hands on my wing. She slowly starts extending and retracting my wing. "Now try." I slowly extend my wing. "Good job. Now try moving it up and down with your wing extended." I do, and I feel the air rush around my wing.
"Woah. That feels so weird but cool," I say. Then we faintly hear a scream. "That sounded like Deadlox!" I quickly change to a human while Sarah changes to a dragon. She grabs my jacket when she takes off because it would take a while to mount her.
She puts me inside his room while she starts to change. I get up and Deadlox was on the ground with his hands on his head. "Not again!," I say. I rush over to him.
Sarah climbs inside. "I can hear the ringing too. It's really high pitched," she says.
Then I think of something. "Wait. Why aren't you being affected?"
She looks at me. "I've gotten control over my dragon side. To me, I can barely hear it." She looks back over to Deadlox.
Switch to Sarah's pov:
I look back over to Deadlox and I put my hand on his forehead. It was burning hot. "Sky, go get me an ice pack as soon as you can. He is overheating." Sky quickly runs out of the room. Deadlox suddenly closes his eyes tightly, because the ringing got higher pitched. I talk to Deadlox telepathically. "You're going to be fine. We'll all help you through this. Now look at me," I say. His eyes open. "Focus on me, okay. You can't blink." I look right into his eye and I go into his thoughts. That was something I could do somehow. I have no clue where I got it from.
I end up landing in a dark forest with a younger version of Deadlox. His hair was shorter and he didn't have his headphones yet. He was running in front of two young boys that were about his age. One would always stop and pet pigs, 'Jason', and one would run away from any type of water, 'Sky'.
They were all laughing and having a good time when a dragon tail lands in between them. Deadlox was cut off from Jason and Sky and was screaming. A pair of purple eyes come from the darkness and the tail grabs Deadlox. The other two run after the dragon and Deadlox when the dragon flies off, but they were to slow, and he was lost.
The scene changes, and I see the dragon that caught Deadlox was not my father. This dragon was a dark grey, not completely black like Goron. This dragon throws Deadlox against a wall, where a few of his bones break, and he is unable to move. The dragon grabs Deadlox and he starts changing him.
But then a man walks in and sees Deadlox being changed. The man changes and turns into a black dragon. 'Dad?,' I think. My dad claws the other dragon and causes the dragon to drop Deadlox, but it was to late. Deadlox was already part dragon. My father runs to Deadlox and steps in front of him.
"Lady, you already have me as half dragon. Did you really need a child as one?," my father says. 'Lady. That's her name.'
Lady just growls. "Your lucky I chose this kid instead of your daughter Goron." My father has surprise on his face, then he growls. He pounces on Lady and attacks her. Deadlox just backs up against the wall with horror on his face as he watches the scene unfold in front of him.
My father eventually pins lady, as he was only slightly smaller. "I'll make sure that the enderdragon gets a better title," he says. Then he chomps down on Lady's neck and she fades away. My father grows, and his eyes turn purple from the blue eyes he used to have. He turns to Deadlox, picks him up, and flies off with Deadlox.
The scene changes again, and I was in Deadlox's point of view. I watch as my real self starts getting changed. Me as Deadlox starts to panic, as he had already been through changing once. He found my father, or just Goron at the time, familiar but frightening.
When it came to Deadlox's turn, he remembers what happened before and started to panic more. Then I say to be willing, and he calms slightly, as I wasn't broken and battered. But he was still frightened. Then the memories stop, and I come back to reality.
Deadlox's pov (before he got the ringing again):
The two leave, and I start looking at the food. Man I was hungry. I didn't want to eat because I knew that I would start wolfing it down and it would be a little embarrassing with both Sarah and Sky in the room. I reach for a steak and I nibble at it, but then my hunger gets control of me and I start wolfing it down like I knew I would.
I finish eating and I felt way better. I got thirsty, but I couldn't reach my water. I get up to walk over, but the ringing starts again and I fall to the ground screaming.
After a bit, I see Sky get launched into the room. He gets up and sees me on the floor, says something, then rushes over. By this time Sarah had changed back into human form and also came over to me. They talk for a few seconds but then she turns back to me.
She puts her hand to my forehead. It was only then I realized my head felt extremely hot. She orders Sky to do something and he leaves the room. It was then the ringing got really high-pitched and I close my eyes.
After a second I hear Sarah in my thoughts. "You're going to be fine. We'll all help you through this. Now look at me," she says. I open my eyes again. "Focus on me, okay. You can't blink." I look into her crystal blue eyes and I feel someone intruding on my memories.
Switch to Sarah pov (back to normal time):
I sit up again, and I tell Deadlox that I'm done. Now I know why his pains were far worse than my own. He had to go through the changing process twice. That means he got way to much power. He was looking at me, like he knew that I saw his memories.
I put my hand on his shoulder. He starts calming a bit. "Now that I know what's wrong, we can help you with this. This won't go away until this is fixed. You don't need to keep the secret anymore. We are all part dragon now." He calms down even more, knowing that he wouldn't be in trouble if the others found out.
I start calling the others telepathically. "Everybody meet me outside. We have to talk." Sky comes in with the ice pack a second later, and I get outside where I change and Sky puts Deadlox on my back and climbs on too so that he can keep Deadlox on and can keep the ice pack to his head.
Luckily, it was night now so all the recruits were asleep, and wouldn't panic at the sight of a dragon flying away with the leader and a high general of the Sky army. I see everyone else leaving the base and I roar. They look up and see me and follow me. I land in the middle of a field and they come up to me.
"It's happening to him again?," Bajan says when he sees Deadlox on my back.
"Yes. There is something I need to tell you for Deadlox. Or maybe I should show you." I focus and I give them all Deadlox's memories. They all go stiff, and stare into space. They were seeing his memories. Deadlox starts shaking from the cold. "I'll heat you up Deadlox," I say. I lightly blow fire above him and he stops shivering. He looks at me thankfully and I nod my head.
After a while, the others come back to reality. "Why didn't you tell us biggums? We could've helped you," Jerome says.
"Or you could've panicked about a half dragon in the army and either attacked, exiled, or killed him. He told me himself that he didn't want to take that chance. He was going to tell you but then the ringing started," I say. The others flinch because I growled at the first part. "Sorry. I'm just worried."
"What should we do? It doesn't seem like there is anything we can do to help," Kermit says. I shake my head.
"You can't stop the pain, but you can help. In order for Deadlox to be cured, he needs to go to the end. It is a long journey without Goron, and I need a few others to come with me. That means the army needs to know. You need to tell them."
SSundee just looks at me. "And what happens if they panic or rage? The Sky army would fall and the world would be taken over by the squids."
I shake my head. "You are the trusted army leaders. You are the ones who keeps the world safe. You are the ones who lead battles. You are the ones who have always been trusted. You are and forever will be the trusted and honored leaders." They all just look at me amazed.
"She is right. Our army has depended on us the whole time. They will not turn their backs on us. Now we just need to figure out how to tell them," Sky says. Deadlox wails again. We all look at him. His head was burning hot but he was shivering from the cold winter night air. Sky puts a blanket over him that he brought but keeps the ice pack to Deadlox's head.
"We need to get him inside. He's getting worse. The army needs to be told as soon as possible. Let's go into the meeting room," I say. The others all agree. 'That's weird. They act like I'm a general or something.'
Thanks to all of you for reading the seventh chapter of The Wings Of Wonder. Reviews are always appreciated, as are favorites and follows. Thank you PonythekidRS and EnderBlazeHybrid for reviewing. And EBH, there is a MUCH better action scene later in the story. So, until tomorrow, Bye!
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