A/N: Right. I'm back after my little break. *Yawn*
Time to answer some reviews :P
Readerseeker00: Yeah, she is one of my favorite characters to write (Other than Lunar obviously) :3
Anon: (¬.¬ About the name again.) Don't worry about it, last time I checked, I'm following 125 stories :P
So, new month, new goals to be placed down... 10 follows before the 31st? That should be too hard x3 Also, short chapter, didn't ant this chapter to go too long as it was boring the hell out of me, exposition. If it bores me to carry it on, it would be boring for you to read correct? I murdered like 500-800 words from this chapter to make it flow better.
Letsa GO!
Chapter 10: Mercury
Lunar and Cynder walk along the streets of Warfang, Lunar showing the way to his family's house. It was in a open area of the main square, having a fountain that looked over the square.
"Here, that one with the crescent moon on." Lunar commented as he showed the house to Cynder, who was lost as the city was all new to her. she had only seen it from the top and when a battle is going on, not much time for sightseeing.
"I see that symbol runs in the family a bit." She said as she pointed at the crescent moon on his shoulder and then back at the house.
"Yeah… just a tradition… It's my hatchday next week… We put the symbol for the next person's hatchday up. Mine being a crescent moon."
"Why is there a yellow circle then?"
"The symbol represents the Sun or Sol as it is called. Me and Sol are twins… I'm pretty sure that would be apparent by our age and state."
"Huh, something learned about you every day, you are the weird set aren't you?"
"In a sense, remember, we have only lived here for a few years. This was tradition back in Galaxy. My Father's a silver circle and my Mother's a purple and green shaded circle.
"I see. That sound cute for you to have you own symbols. But silver? What element is that?"
"That's the base element for Shadow. I inherited the colour but with my Mother's Ice element. I got the shadow breath, as you can see by my scales and stripes, but I can't use it because of my Ice base that I have, well, if you exclude Light of course. Sol has the Light element a bit stronger, as well as the shadow from my father which gave her the colour but she had a mutation where she gained the Fire element, it baffled Wyldfire to no end, 'How can you get a Fire dragon with an Ice and Shadow parent?!' He would never shut up about it until he finally got over it and accepted that Sol was a weird one. But Genetics can get confusing at a point."
"You sound like a Volteer that actually makes sense for once. Jesus, you're almost as smart as him at a young age!" Cynder said in astonishment.
"Well, being home taught and trying hard gets you places eventually… But enough of that, lets get moving before father starts getting himself in a mess."
"You sound like you have had to deal with this before." Cynder said as they walked up to the house and Lunar opened the door.
"That's because I have." He said and as he entered the room. Seeing the room in a mess. "Mercury? You here? It's Lunar. I've got a visitor." He said but no response came from the older dragon. He moved through. "Wait here, let me see what is wrong with him." He said to Cynder who stayed put in the main room, while Lunar went off into other parts of the house. He went round, looking in the meal room and then into the bedrooms. He looked through the door and saw the grey dragon laying down, looking like he was seeing ghosts. "Father? You okay?"
"Wha?! Who is that?!" He said in shock response as his head jerked around, trying to see where the noise was coming from. He was blinded by his memories. "get out here and show yourself!"
"I'm right here… please don't tell me you are having those problems again." Lunar said, sounding like a broken record. His dad had been coming down with some medical issues over the years. He had developed a kind of PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) after the battle in Galaxy, it had only been flaring up in the coming months, during and after the battle of Warfang, which didn't help matters. "Calm down, nothing is going to hurt you." Lunar said calmly.
"But what about Galaxy? That was lost and what about Warfang? How am I suppose to be calm and get away from those memories?" He ruled off as his vision was starting to normalise, but he still could not see Lunar who was standing right in front of his face.
"Galaxy is long gone, Warfang is still here, you saved the city, that's nothing to be afraid of." He said as he put his head under his father's, comforting him in his time of need. Mercury calmed down after a few minutes. His eyes returning to see the real world.
"Damn it, why can't I get rid of these memories… this can't be good for me." He said.
"Some memories can never be erased, we just have to get use to them in our mind. I had the same issue, you are not alone on this remember." Lunar smiled at his father and his father's eyes lit up with energy again.
"Ok, I'm fine now… why are you here. Thought you were with the Guardians, and what was that huge roar that I heard a few hours ago?"
"I'll answers all your questions. Now come on, we'll go sit in the main room, someone is waiting for us anyway."
"Who?"
"Come and see, you've met her before."
The pair walked through the doors and got to the main room, where Mercury met Cynder once again, this time on calm terms, instead of a defensive one. "So, how has the day been?" Mercury said as he sat down opposite to Cynder.
"Not too bad, picked up some battle scars from your daughter, Sol. Had a good time training again, nice to get rid of some of the stresses of the battle of Warfang."
"Tell me about this roar that I heard earlier today." He questioned, which made Cynder on edge. 'Should I tell him or try and hide it?' She thought to herself, but she was interrupted by Lunar who had come back in with some food for them to eat.
"Ah, about that noise… that was me." He simply stated. Which surprised Cynder as she thought he wanted to hide such a thing. "But all it was, was just me getting angry. I might have got a bit too up about myself in a training session, that was practically it."
"What about the light show that happened?"
"I'm a light dragon now, remember? I'm sure that Light element could cause that." He said simply, which again, surprised Cynder. 'So he nearly spilt it but then hid it again. What is up with him now?'
"Fair enough. I'm guessing you just came here to check on me again. Thanks for it by the way. I think I was losing all sense of time."
"Yeah, being gone and not informing the Guardian dragons of where you are is kind of a telltale sign of what you are doing. Being a shivering wreck, so coming down here was the best option."
"Thank you again… I can't say how helpful you have been over the last few months. I do wish your mother was here to help though, would stop you wasting your time on me everytime that I get into a state."
"Where is she anyway?"
"She went out a few hours ago, she hasn't returned since. She said she would be back soon anyway, no need to be worried."
As soon as he said this, a dragon shot through the door and stopped in front of the three of them. He was a earth dragon with his brown scales and brown chest plates, he had the armour on of the Warfang guard, this being noticed by the two Eclipses. They immediately got serious, the Warfang guard would not come into their house for no reason. Double serious as the rushed into the Head of the Guard.
"Sir!"
Mercury stood up, making his form tower over the three in the room. "What is that you have to report at this hour and while I am in the middle of a conversation?" He voice sounded severe like the Guard had to speak his mind or get the hell out, which ever came last.
The Dragon looked at Lunar and Cynder, his breathing becoming ragged as he bested to cool down. "Sir. It's Venus." That got the attention again of Lunar and Mercury.
"What about her? Go on, spit it out."
"Sir, She is gone."
Destiny, Folks, Destiny (it will be a running thing from now on.. don't understand? READ CHAPTER 9 YOU FOOL)