Savanna's Story – Chapter Eight


At first, as we parted away the ivy stems that sheltered the front of our caves, nothing happened. However, as my Father waved us away from our home and over to the edge of a platform that served as our landing platform, he suddenly threw us some pelt sacks full of water.

"Jian, what are you up to with these?" Chineka just scolded as a screeching roar made us all cover our ears, except for our dragons, who just ducked back into the cave.

"Listen to me very carefully," he said, signaling to someone, or something, over the cliff, where nothing but the water rumbled. "I need all three of you … On the count of three, pour that water over yourselves and …"

"Jian, this is crazy," Chineka screamed over the screeching noise. Looking down, she noticed that the ground around her long skirts and sandals were vibrating as the land beneath them started to shake. "What did you bring with you?"

"Elanie, now is not the time for asking questions … Just do what I told you … NOW!" he shouted as he ran our way to pull me and Calder out of the way as a rushing stream of water shot out at the wall, just over my Father's head. Forcing us to duck, he gathered Calder up onto his shoulders as he took my hand and guided my eyes over to see a huge head peek over the landing where we standing.

As the spray bashed at the mountain, it sent Chineka falling back until she was knocked back by a familiar purple tail as Lumina clamped down on my Aunt's hood and pulled her out of line as the rushing jet of water sent steam ejaculating from its impact. As fog formed around us, small droplets of vapor landed on us all as the pelts of water just sloshed to our feet as we gazed up to see a beautifully scaled dragon, with its front two legs nimbly holding on to the ledge, staring at us with a keen and surprising interest.

As Father gently caught to his feet and quietly signaled for us to do also, he spoke up as he said, "Everyone, I would like you to meet, Nula."

Another roar pierced from her as my Father stretched out his head towards her softly. Coming down to our eye level, Nula graced her long neck over to nuzzle his hand as we heard vibrating rumbles emulate from her throat.

Her glassy jade glossed scales reflected in my own as I felt her curious eyes gaze over to mine. Lowering her graceful neck, she peered under my Father's arm until she was head to head with me as I just stayed perched to my knees under Dad's arm and other side. I felt so small next to her that a memory of me as a little girl snuggled up to my Mother made its way to my subconscious. Seeing that familiar look in her eyes, the same one that my Mother gave me to calm me down, I just let a small smile form over my lips as I reached up one of my small hands to stroke her.

"How ever did you train a Scauldron?" Chineka spoke up as Lumina protectively peered up over her rider's shoulder.

Surprised, Dad looked up from where he was smiling at me and peered over at her as he said, "I didn't, she trained me, I guess in a way. Now, wait a minute, how would you know about Scauldrons?"

"I don't," she replied simply, stroking Lumina's side. "I have only heard of them from stories, and from what Johann had to say about them during one of his rounds. He was partly the reason I overheard Berk having the troubles with dragons over there. I had even heard of one circumstance where some of the people of Berk had to go and track down one just to save some of their own, but I never heard or understood why. All I had heard was that they were highly dangerous and non-trainable."

Nodding his head, Dad just sighed as he agreed. "That is true, but … I know from experience that it takes one beast to know another."

"She's so gentle," I whispered as I watched her nudge Calder as he ran over to meet the rest of us. "If she is that predatory, how did you ever discover her?"

"Actually, she found me," he said, starting his story. "When I got separated from your Mother, I was carried through those waves as the rain came pelting down over my head. I was trying to find something, anything, I could use to turn myself back around to get back to the wreckage that was fading from my sights as the waves dragged me further along in its currents. I thought I had actually seen a glimpse of your Mother as a huge wave suddenly poured over me and snagged me under the thrashing ocean. What felt like several minutes, I kept trying to buck myself back up to the surface, but I was only pinned back under as I finally surfaced long enough to see you hanging limp from a dragon's claw as I suddenly sank back down. Seeing you, I knew I had to find you again, but it was only when I later came across Chineka that I never knew that your Aunt had spotted your Mother soon afterwards she rescued you."

Looking past my Father, I walked past him and Nula as Chineka stood by and meet me in the middle as she hugged me to her.

"You were with my Mother?" I whimpered as Skyling came over to nudge my hand in comfort.

"I was, Shu Kanya," she said, calling me by my dragon name.

Dad was next as he ruffled Calder's hair as my brother watched him as he asked, "I need to know what happened, Elanie. What happened to her?"

Sighing, she partly released me from her hug as she said, "I couldn't do anything, Jian. I did try, but nothing I did helped her. When I found her, she was barely conscious. She was so cold, but she was still fighting that current with what was left of that boat. When Lumina spotted her, too, I realized I had to do something, especially when she alerted me about …" she said discreetly, emphasizing to Calder as he came over, hanging on to every word.

As Doran came running out of the cave for a quick flight, Calder immediately lost interest as we watched him run after his friend.

Continuing where she left off, Chineka just sighed as she told him, "Jian, she only stayed alert long enough to past Calder into my arms. After that, she did turn to where I had Savanna resting nearby and just smiled when she saw Lumina laying contentedly nearby your daughter, but she was soon gone and there was nothing more I could have done. I'm sorry."

"But you did …" he said, coming over to us with a grateful smile. "You took care of them."

She nodded without earnest as he just hugged her. "I did," she said simply. "But don't you ever forget, she loved you, Jian. Those kids do, too. And, they need a Father."

"I know," he said, turning to me as I just beamed as Skyling came up to nudge him over to me as she pushed him from behind. As Calder came running back over, Dad suddenly swept him off his feet as he swung him in the air as he sat an arm around me as well. "And, I need them, too."

"How did you end up in Berk, though?" I asked him as Nula sank back down from her grip on the ledge and splashed back into the water to submerge herself.

"Would you believe she carried me all the way there?" he replied as he laughed as spray splashed up to soak us all, again, but this time, Chineka was right beside us just enjoying and laughing close to my Dad's side. I wasn't sure why, but something about them being that close just made me smile and wonder what would come our way next.


Yay, finally back with another update. I hope this chapter was worth it.
Cliffhanger averted, Yes, Anna's Father has his own dragon. Why did I choose to go this direction? Well, I'm still kinda curious about that myself.

I'm still trying to get this story together, and I apologize if it was taking too long without a post. I have been busy this year, but I hope to get some things taken care of with Fanfiction, where I can come back and write some more things. So, thanks for taking the time to read this story and enjoying it thus far. I promise, more to come in the future. So, for now, I will say "Ta-Ta" for now until the next chapter. So until then, keep flying. :)

- For those of you having trouble reading this with the Spanish inserted into the dialogue, I apologize for that. So, just to let you know, I am working on either replacing everything with English or inserting little interpretations under them. Again, I'm sorry for that.