Summary: Danny is a dragon hatchling, living with his family in his den. His family was banished from the dragon tribe for his father's special powers. Danny and his two siblings inherited his father's special powers. His power was to see and speak to the spirits of past dragons that have gotten lost on their way to the afterlife. Trouble comes when a group of humans decides to camp out near their den.
A small white dragon with black stripes yawned and stretched out his striped wings with neon green membranes. He opened his icy blue eyes and turned to the dragon who had woken him up.
His brother was a black dragon with a white fire mane running from his head to the tip of his tail. The blackness of the dragon's scales turned to white on his legs.
"Get up zebra." The dragon growled.
"My name is Danny fire-horse." Danny said as he rolled his eyes. Danny knew not to make his older brother mad, but sometimes he couldn't help it.
"Why you- grrrrrr... Just wake up Dani." said Dan. With that, the angered dragon walked away.
Danny rolled his eyes again and turned to the sleeping dragon beside him. She was smaller then both of the brothers and mostly white in color, but she still had a few patches of black across her scales. Danny began to shake his little sister his his paws.
"Wake up little leopard." Danny said as he giggled at their nicknames. Dan's was fire-horse for his fire mane, Dani's was little leopard for her size and spots, and Danny's was zebra for his stripes.
"Don't call me that." mumbles Dani.
That was another thing. They all hated their nicknames.
Danny watched as Dani got to her paws and stretched. Dani turned to her brother. "Is dad back from hunting yet?" asked Dani.
"Not yet. The fruitloop isn't back yet. Probably spying on some human female." Danny said while fighting a fit of giggles back. Fruitloop was their nickname for their father. They only used it when their father wasn't around. Their father, Vlad, often fell in love with random either dead female dragons or female humans.
Danny and Dani soon gave in to their fit of giggles and were rolling around on the floor until Dan put his paws onto their tails and threatened to claw off the end of their tails. They were smart and decided to stop laughing.
Danny was now sitting on the edge of the cliff in front of their den. His older brother and younger sister were inside wrestling. Dani was losing, she always lost. Danny didn't like to wrestle that much. He liked smarter approaches. Although he wasn't that smart in anything, not even battle. He often just rushed into battle without a strategy, and would try and make one up only to fail.
Danny stretched his wings so they were as long as possible. He was too young to fly just yet. Only fourteen years old in human years, so he was only about three years old in dragon years.
The young dragon looked down at the hills and forests below their mountain. He watched as some lost spirits of past dragons flew in the sky, their translucent bodies making the sunlight twist in beautiful ways. He then looked at a rather large group of spirit dragons hovering over one place. Normally spirit dragons didn't form groups, but sometimes they would gather around humans to see what they couldn't when they were living.
Danny almost jumped off the cliff to see what was up. He remembered just in time that he was too young to fly. Danny sighed as he tucked his wings back into his body. The young dragon then began to climb down the cliff.
It took him awhile but Danny finally made it to the place where the spirits were gathered. Danny gasped as he then decided to hide in a bush. It wasn't good cover because Danny, although small for a dragon his age, was rather big.
"Ugh! Like, where's my nail polish?!" asked a black haired girl. She looked to be a teenager. Danny watched her with wide eyes. She was pretty.
"Hey shallow girl, I'm pretty sure you can live without it." said another black haired girl. This one was wearing only dark colors. She was also kinda pretty, but not as pretty as the first girl.
"Yeah right, beauty is like my life." said the pretty girl. The two girls argued for a while and Danny learned their names. The pretty girl was named Paulina, and the goth girl was named Sam.
"You two, stop fighting!" ordered a fat bald man who came running up.
"But Mr. Lancer, she started it!" said Paulina as she pointed at Sam. The argument started up again until Sam walked off...in the direction of him!
Danny backed away a bit, causing the bush to make sounds.
Danny would have bit his lip as all the humans froze and looked at the bush, but he had fangs so it would be a stupid idea.
"Did you just hear that?" asked Paulina.
"It must be some kind of animal. We probably frightened it with our arguing." said Sam.
"So what are we going to do dark witch? Wait until it eats us? Go and talk to it!" said Paulina.
Sam rolled her eyes and she got closer. Oh great. Dad is so going to kill me...if these humans don't. Sam drops to her knees as she gets closer to the young dragon hiding in the bush.
"It's okay. I won't hurt you." said Sam. It had an odd sound to it. Danny was pretty sure that it wasn't normal. He had listened to them argue just a minute ago. Maybe she had a special ability.
Sam frowned when the animal didn't respond. She pushed a few branches out of the way so she could see white scales with black stripes. It looked like a zebra with scales instead of fur. "What the-" Sam was confused. What animal had zebra markings but scales?
"Go...away..." A voice whispered so quietly that only she could hear it. A wing came into view. It had a neon green membrane. Sam gasped. "B-but I thought...no dragons live around here!" said Sam.
Paulina and Mr. Lancer looked at Sam with shocked looks. Their eyes only widened when a dragon darted out of the bush and ran to a nearby forest.
"Whoa...dragons haven't been spotted here in a long time." said Mr. Lancer.
Sam hesitated. She could talk to animals, but she was pretty sure that the dragon had just talked.
()()()()
Danny ran to the forest before he climbed up the mountain to his den. That was so stupid of him! Why had he done that?! He shouldn't have even gone there! Now he had probably just endangered his family!
When he got inside a white and black spotted blur tackled him. "Danny!" She squealed.
"Hello Daniel." said the voice of his father. A large silver dragon with a red belly and red wing membranes. He had two black horns on his head curved a in a bit.
"Dad! Hi!" said Danny.
"Where were you?" asked Vlad.
"Oh, just exploring." said Danny.
Vlad gave his tail a small flick and pushed a cow closer to Danny and Dani, who was still hugging her brother.
"Here, I caught this." said Vlad.
()()()()
Danny couldn't take his mind off of the group of humans who where living in the land below. Danny could only hope that they would leave soon.
"Hey zebra! You gonna stare out at space all day?" asked Dan. Dan gave his younger brother a shove, almost pushing his off of the cliff. Danny gripped the edge of the cliff with his claws.
In the past few days the siblings' claws had grown out more and their wings had grown bigger. They were now ready to fly.
"Hey! Fire-horse!" growled Danny.
"Don't fight." said Vlad.
Dani nodded. "This is a great day! We're going to fly!" said Dani.
"Yup. Goodbye." said Dan. Dan jumped off the cliff. Danny and Dani squeaked and covered their eyes as Vlad watched with a rather bored expression.
Danny squeaked again as his father picked up him by his neck and threw him into the sky. Danny flailed around a bit before he extended his wings and felt the cool air rush past his face. "Whoa! Hooray! Hahahaha! This is cool!" Squealed Danny.
"Wait for me!" yelled Dani. Dani jumped off the cliff and joined her brothers in the air.
"Wheeee! This really is cool!" said Dani.
"...I agree." Said Dan as he did a few tricks.
"Dan is happy...well this is the greatest moment of my life!" shouted Danny.
Danny and Dani played in the air for a while.
"Hey, look!" said a voice.
All four dragons froze. The three dragons in the air landed on the cliff rather clumsily.
A small group of humans was standing a bit down the mountain.
"Isn't that, like, the same dragon we saw a while ago?" asked Paulina.
Three of the dragons looked at each other before their gaze rested on the zebra marked dragon.
"Hey, you, I know I heard you talk." said Sam. A few of the humans gave her odd looks.
The three other dragons in his family glared at Danny.
"Really Danny?" asked Dan.
The group of humans, all but Sam, gasped.
"Did he just-" asked Star.
"No, I didn't just talk. Humans are dumb. Dumber then you Danny." said Dan.
"Oh shut up Dan!" said Danny.
"Zebra!"
"Fire-horse!"
"STOP!" Yelled Dani. Both dragon brothers shut their mouths.
"Little leopard!" shouted both brothers.
"Stop." ordered Vlad.
Before they thought about anything, they all yelled. "FRUITLOOP!"
Vlad paused. "What?" He asked.
"Oh man...did we really just say that?" asked Danny.
"I suggest we fly away and beg the tribe to take us back." said Dani.
"...yeah. Good idea." said Dan.
"Well Dan's in, so let's go!" said Danny.
The three dragon siblings jumped into the air and flew away from a still shocked Vlad and a really confused and shocked group of humans.
"Well...what just happened?" asked Mr. Lancer.
"Oh great. My kids just flew off and I never got to tell them that their mother was a human..." said Vlad.
"What?!" screeched the group of humans.
"...nothing."
()()()()
"Our mother is WHAT?!" asked Dan.
"Your mother is a human." A blue and purple dragon said calmly.
"Ooookay...well it kinda makes sense. Dad is often watching human females." said Danny.
"Yup, it makes sense." said Dani.
Dan thought for a moment before nodding.
"So what can we do Clockwork, can we join the tribe?" asked Danny.
"Yup. Dan, you are now ranked as a Bloodclaw." said Clockwork.
"A what?"
"You get to kill bad guys who are sentenced to death." said Clockwork.
"Yeah! Go me, I get to kill things! Oh yeah!" said Dan. He did a little dance.
"Danny, you are now the lead defender's apprentice." said Clockwork.
"So I get to defend and protect people? Hooray!" shouted Danny. Danny joined his brother in the little dance.
"Dani, you get to be the lone explorer who travels from place to place in our territory while guarding it." said Clockwork.
"Hooray! I get to travel and be alone!" said Dani. Dani joined her brothers in their dance.
Clockwork watched them with amusement showing in his eyes.