Untold

by The Anonymouse2

Every dragon has a story. But not every story is told. Allow me to tell this one. Four dragons of different tribes. Enemies become friends. And enemies challenge the happy ending. But without a villain, a story can have no heroes. For heroes rise up and face down terror and fear and death to triumph. And the ending will be glorious. Because now, these dragons' stories are told.

11. Chapter 10

CHAPTER TEN

Pearl crouched in the underbrush, shooting a disgusted look at the mud she was talon-deep in. She had been chasing that blasted Skywing for who knows how many days now. Across the mud kingdom for moons' sakes. The mud kingdom.

And now she was dirty and sticky and the Skywing was nowhere in sight. She wanted to just give up and go home. What had possessed her to go on this crazy goose chase? She didn't care about any bloody Skywing anymore. She had been away from the sea too long. She set her teeth and turned around, ready to spread her wings and fly back home.

Only to discover five hostile Mudwings baring their teeth at her. She took to the sky, flapping as hard as she could away from the Mudwings. She glanced down at the steadily receding mud kingdom. The rainforest was approaching.

The rainforest. She thought. Maybe she could hide there. The Mudwings surely wouldn't follow her, and if they did, would have a hard time finding her. And then they would leave and she could fly home. Pearl looked over her shoulder at the Mudwings chasing her and collided with something.

She hurtled backwards before regaining her balance, hoping she hadn't lost too much of her head start on the Mudwings. And then she realised that the very dragon she had run into was the very dragon she had been pursuing this whole time.

"Inferno." She hissed. "Nice to see you again." She hoped he could sense the sarcasm dripping from her tongue. "I'd love to stay and chat, but I have some business elsewhere." She glanced back at the Mudwings, who were much closer now. Then Pearl darted around the Skywing and down towards the rainforest.

Inferno followed her.

Pearl dove closer to the trees. She looked back again to see the Mudwings had turned around, but Inferno was now pursuing. She cursed inside her head and veered up, whirling to face the Skywing behind her.

He slammed into her, claws scraping across her scales. She roared in surprise and lashed back, cutting a gash in his wing. He roared and lost his grip on her, falling down to the rainforest below. Pearl hovered for a moment, watching him crash a dragon-shaped hole in the leafy canopy below. Then she swooped down. She might as well complete what she had come all this way to do.

She was going to capture this Skywing.

Her cuts stung in the wind as she dove; the first wounds inflicted on her purposefully by another dragon. Her sheltered life as a council-member had kept her safe inside the sea kingdom. And it had just come to an end.

This was personal now.