Chapter 11
"So why didn't you?" I asked aloud as if it were listening as I looked at the ropes and stones that remained of my bola. I had gone back hoping to see it again. Of course I was holding my breath but a little hope was better than none. I walked a little further and found a small grotto. No sign of a dragon let alone a Night Fury.
"Well this was stupid." I grumbled. I looked down and saw four small black scales. I bent down and picked one up to look at it. As I looked at it, a dark figure swooped past me up wards. I gasped and fell back. I looked again and saw it was the Night Fury. It was clawing at the rocks, but then it fell back down towards the lake in the middle of the grotto. I watched as it tried again. It fell again, and I quickly took out my sketchbook. I watched it and quickly drew it as it moved about the grotto.
"Why don't you just fly away?" I asked quietly. I saw that one tail fins was missing and wondered if that was the reason why. Then I smudged out the left tail fin and as the Night Fury attempted to fly again. It fell again beside the lake and looked like it had given up.
(Night Fury's POV)I laid there for a few seconds then saw a fish break the surface of the water. I took one weakening step towards the water and watched the fish nearby. I plunged my head hoping to get lucky and get something, but instead all I got was a mouth full of water.
I laid my head against my paws then I heard a gasp and a light clatter on the other side of the grotto. I looked up and saw my hatchling up on the ledge. I looked at her with curiosity. She looked at me the same way.
"So you came looking for me didn't you?" I asked as if she could understand me. She seemed to, cause next her expression change for that of curiosity, to bewilderment. She looked at me for a few more seconds and then turned and ran back up the trail.
"Please come back. You need to know how you can save yourself from the fate that awaits you." I pleaded.