Chapter seven

A month passes and Jayson and Alex out to the spine while Luna strayed home to get ready for spring. The snow was melting faster than it was before and now there was more slush than snow. At noon Luna went for her lesson and when she got back Alex and Jayson was back.

"How was the trip in the spine?" Luna asked

"Jayson helped me find herbs that protected by bushes in the snow. But I didn't find the stones I was looking for."

"Okay, we have to wait till the ground hardens up before we can plow but the mountain road should be clear enough now for you to go if you wanted to." Luna said. Queen and Crato howled from outside they were watching the sheep as Jayson was fishing in the creek near. Luna darted out of the house to check on them Alex on her heals. The pups found a cougar near the sheep's pen. The pups had grown to be about a fourth the size of the sheep and had treed the cougar. Jayson had also come running. He turned in to a cat and pounced in to the tree. There was a lot of hissing and yowling but in the end the cougar that ran away as Jayson yowled his victory. The were cat shifted and said "that one was going to take a sheep good job Queen Crato." The pups waged their tails and went back to work guarding the sheep and Jayson went back to fishing. Alex and Luna headed for the house and Mya.

She had gotten far worse than she was during the winter festival. She couldn't get up any more and she had difficulty breathing. Luna spent most her time with her ailing sister.

"Luna, how are the sheep doing out there?" Mya asked as Luna walked in.

"They're fine. Queen and Crato are doing a good job in a few days the fields will be dry enough to plow."

"That's good. I have something to give you. It's in my box on the mantel can you get it for me?" Maya asked. Luna grabbed the box and gave it to her sister. Maya rampaged through it and pulled out something raped in cloth. She sighed and held it out to Luna. Alex came inside as Luna unwrapped the small bundle.

"Our family wasn't always farmers. Once a very long time ago two of our ancestors were dragon riders. This was before the fall of the riders and the return. This was when Alegashia was still young." Mya said as Luna revealed a silver scale and a dark blue scale on a .chain necklace Alex Gasped.

"These are a scales from the dragons Mink and Minx. The story of our ancestors is the one I will tell though out the next few days. This story I will start now. Jayson already knows this story for our mother told it to me and him a few days before you were born." Maya says.

"But how?" Alex said still astonished.

Luna says "these scales are passed down from mother to child or Sister to sister though out time. We will start with before the dragons chose our ancestors. Their names were Arrow and Zeakal. Arrow came from a port city and Zeakal was a traders son. They met while they were young when Zeakal's Father had died. Miss fortune had also came to Arrow Both here parents were lost at sea. They became fast friends and stood up for one another. They wanted to try to get back at least Arrow's parents. So the went to seek an Elf. This elf saw the two children and saw potential in them to become dragon riders. They were just and never did wrong if they could help it. He decided to test the. He told them that they must go to the capital of the elf nation before any elf would be willing to help them. This of course was a lie the elf gave them a map and two elf horses saying that they know where to go. He also gave them money for food and water and passage. If the two Children could make it to the elf's capital they would be presented to the dragon eggs for a chance to become dragon riders. So the Arrow and Zeakal set out for the elf capital all the way across the nation. That elf had sent messages to the capital and the captain of the dragon riders about the children. The dragon riders agreed to watch for the children. They found them on their Journey and watched them. They would not interfere. The children plagued with bad weathers and bad fortune. One time Arrow had kidnaped by urgals. Zeakal refused to go forward with our her. He went after arrow and challenged the urgals. He used his wit and turned the Urgals weight against them and defeated their leader. He got instant respect from them after that because their leader was a kull they are very hard to bring down the strongest warriors had died trying to kill one of them. Arrow returned safe and the leader kull assigned a guard to them so no misfortune could not touch them. Still though it took three years to get them to the elven capital. The urgals had come with them the way." Mya said. She started coughing very badly and Alex came to her side with a napkin. By now Luna knew about her sister coughing blood. Luna looked away and that ended the story for the time being. For the next two days Mya told about the journey that the two children, Arrow and Zeakal. How they depended on each other and changed in their three years.