Family is Forever

Chapter 14

A/N Ok I'm back and as I said it's for another chapter of this story, I'm so sorry I ran off and did other things but its how I deal with writers block. I move to something else for awhile but I kept getting ideas for other things and thus I have three other stories now. Well anyway I'm sorry let's go.

Chapter 14

Kirk had landed back at the house about half an hour ago and had placed Sicle in his bed. When he finally awake he cringed as the bruises and lumps hurt much more than last time and he heard chuckling. He looked around with a stiff neck and saw his father laughing at him and said "Not a good feeling is it?" He asked and Sicle merely nodded in agreement.

Kirk smiled as his son slowly got up in a pain and said "Well now you can make some crazy story for Mist about how you wrestled a bear or something for the feather" he laughed and Sicle asked "Why would I do that?" Kirk smiled and said "Well I guess you could always use the real story on how your father saved your butt and you tumbled down a cliff" Sicle said "Ok I understand" the only response he got was more chuckling.

After laughing a bit more Kirk said "Well are you going to go show her or not?" Sicle groaned and said "Well I'll have to wrap them and…" he saw his father pull out a small box with red wrapping and a yellow bow smiling smugly and Sicle said "FINE I'll go show her, man you're so pushy" Kirk smiled as he jumped off the bed and took the present and went downstairs.

He found Mist drawing on the table in the living room and he walked closer hiding the present between his wings at the base of his neck and said "H-hey Mist" he was so nervous he was stuttering. She smiled and cheerfully said "Hey Sicle, whatcha doing?" He said "N-nothing much what you drawing?" She turned her head smiling and lifted the paper to reveal a partially colored flower that had blue pedals and a yellow centre.

Sicle leaned closer to see it better and said "That beautiful" she smiled and blushed "Thanks" Sicle scratched at the carpet a bit not knowing what to do next until Mist suddenly said to his right "Hey who's the present for?" He jumped and tried to hide it again by facing her and said "What present?" She laughed looking at him weird and said "Umm the one on your back"

She tried to think but only said "Oh… you mean this one?... Umm…" She smiled and said "Come on who's it for?" Sicle couldn't take it and merely said "You" She smiled and said blushing slightly "Me, umm why?"

He shrugged and said "Just cause" She said impatient "Well, can I have it then?" He said feeling dumb "Oh, uh ya" He lowered his wing and it slid down then he slid it over to Mist who looked excited to see what it was.

She untied the bow then removed the paper hastily and she saw the box and said jokingly "You got me a box! I love it!" Sicle chuckled and said "Well then you'll like what's inside more" he said chuckling. She proceeded to lift the lid and saw the necklace and lifted it up and said "You got this for me?" she asked in disbelief. Sicle only nodded his head blushing just waiting for her to disapprove.

She said "Thanks Sicle I like it" she put it on and smiled then saw the feather also in the box and said "Why'd you get me a feather?" Sicle thought about what his dad said "Well I thought the feather would look nice on your horn…" he pointed up at her horns and continued "But you have no idea how I got that thing" He rubbed his right front leg with his other leg showing how sore he was.

Mist laughed and said "You went for that bird up on the cliff didn't you?" Sicle said "What, how come you knew that too?!" Mist replied "It's the only bird with this type of feather around here" Sicle nodded and said "Well are you gonna put those on?"

Mist nodded and put on the necklace but said "I'll go grab something later to tie the feather on" Sicle nodded and said "Well, you're welcome I guess I'll leave now" Mist nodded and Sicle jumped back down and let out a breath he had been holding.

He walked back inside to find his father smiling "Good job son, I can see she loved them" his son nodded and said "Thanks for the help dad, and for frying those spiders" Kirk nodded but had those spiders still on his mind he had never seen any that big, he was hoping it was a fluke or a long lost species but he felt his gut wrenching. He thought "I should go speak to the Guardians see if anything else odd has been happening"

Luckily for him Lightning and Moon still hadn't gone anywhere and he told them that he was leaving for a bit and they waved him off. As he flew the he met up with everyone else who had left for Warfang who were coming back and everyone waved except Glacia and Flare who stopped to talk to him and Glacia said "Well took you long enough to join us but you're kinda late but look what Flare decided to get"

Kirk looked up to his daughter who was just peaking over her mother's head and saw she had gotten her scales polished a bit and some bracers that were slightly more red then Flare and had a fire symbol gem in the middle of both. "Hey those look good on you" Kirk said making Flare smile and wag her tail "Thanks daddy" Kirk smiled to her and said to Glacia "Well I was actually going to Warfang to ask the guardians about something, I found these huge spiders that I've never seen before. They nearly killed Sicle but I fried them"

At the mention of Sicle Glacia asked "Is he alright?" Kirk nodded "Only a few bruises from a fall" Glacia sighed and said "Well go on, we'll meet you at the house" as she turned they heard Flare say "Wait can I go with Dad, I wanted to spend some time with him"

Glacia looked over to Kirk who had heard as well and was smiling and she said "Well you do owe her" Kirk already had his mind made up and said "Sure, but you're flying I wanna see how well you've progressed" She smiled and jumped off her mother's back and opened her wings and caught enough air by losing a few meters of height and came back up and Kirk waved to his mate and they separated.

As they were flying Flare asked "How'd Sicle fall?" Kirk chuckled and said "He wanted to get Mist a feather and looked for that red and orange bird on the cliff…" before he could continue Flare said "And he fell off trying to get one?" He nodded with a chuckle and she giggled at her brother.

They arrived at Warfang and they flew to the front door of the temple and Flare hopped on her dad's back. They walked to the Guardian who probably knew the most about this and knocked on Volteer's office door.

As usual the big yellow dragon opened and said "Kirk nice to see you again, and Flare I haven't seen you since you were very young" Flare smiled nervously not remembering him from her first days and her father walked in carrying her with him. Volteer sat behind the desk and said "How may I help you?"

Kirk walked to the other side of the desk and let Flare down so she could go walk around and said "I want to make a report on a strange sighing" Volteer pulled out a book and said "What is it this time?" Kirk raised an eyebrow and said "This time?" mimicking his words but as a question.

Volteer nodded and said "I've been getting suspicious reports since yesterday afternoon; they've been ranging from earthquakes too strange creature sightings" Kirk was surprised and knew this had to do with his problem and said "I found some huge spiders earlier today attacking Sicle" Volteer sighed as he put down a check mark beside a word and said "That's the forth sighting of spiders today, how many?" Kirk said thinking back "Three, how many have there been before?" Volteer was surprised by his answer and said "The average has been around five to seven"

Kirk thought "Maybe I missed some?" but asked "What else have people been seeing?" Volteer went on to say "Well I've had people come in telling me of creatures that are humpbacked and hairless, they always spot them from glowing yellow eyes and ranging is size like on was a full grown dragon size and another was about your size" Before Kirk could ask Volteer continued "I've also gotten a few reports of something that carries around a club and is covered in hair and is always seen in groups but run away before they can describe them better" Kirk nodded and said "Have you been following up on these reports?"

Volteer nodded and said "Yes guards and anyone who wants to have been sent out and haven't seen anything" Kirk said "So what are you going to do?" Volteer said "We don't know, we're still trying to find a replacement for Ignitus and by the rules of the Guardians is more important than this right now" Kirk said "Well if you want we could supervise the search while you try to find a replacement, ever since Demodius broke in I'm extra cautious now"

Volteer was surprised by his willingness and said "Well you could do that, but you'll need more to help and anyone who has some idea of animal habits, that will probably help you tell where all this is coming from" Kirk nodded and said "I'll get Nick he lived by himself for awhile in the wilderness and I'll bring Spyro so the guards will follow us better. With Spyro we might be able to use his popularity to get a bit more 'oof' from everyone"

Volteer nodded "So what exactly will 'you' be doing in all this, you're no battle tactician" Kirk nodded knowing that and said "I will help with the search parties and Nick can help us with likely places to search. Are you ok with that?" Volteer thought and answered much quicker then Kirk had expected because of his quick mind and said "Well we have no better plan since we are trying to find a new Guardian so yes, I'll inform everyone of what's happening. Be here tomorrow with whoever you need or wants to help"

Kirk said "Your welcome Volteer, I'll be back" He turned after he nodded in thanks and found Flare looking at him worriedly "Daddy you're not going to leave me and Sicle are you?" Kirk was surprised but understood what she meant and said "Hop on, I'll explain in a second" She did as he asked and when they left Volteer's office she said "You're not going to leave us to fight monsters?"

He could tell she was serious and asked "What would give you that idea?" She took a second to answer and said "I heard you talk to Uncle Nick about your parents when I was much younger and you said that your dad left Nick behind to fight monsters" Kirk had no idea she had heard them talk and said "Honey what my… our father did wasn't his fault, he had to go fight to save future generations. He did what was best for Nick… and later me"

She didn't know what that meant and Kirk could tell she wasn't ok with his answer "Flare I'm only gonna be gone for only a bit and I'll keep coming back home everyday" She felt better with that answer "Ok daddy, can I come with sometime?" He smiled that she wanted to be with him and make sure he was going to be ok but said "I know you wanna make sure I don't leave or anything but you can't, it's dangerous" She sighed and said "Ok but promise you'll be back every night to tuck into bed like you always do" she said and Kirk said "I promise"

She smiled as he walked out the Temple through the huge doors and took off for home. On the way he could swear that he saw creatures that looked skinny and long like snakes flying in the wind but when he was about to investigate they disappeared in a cloud. Kirk was on his guard all the way home and luckily he never saw anything else.

He told everyone what was going on and asked Spyro and Nick if they would help him and surprisingly they both agreed without much convincing saying that they could also feel something weird in the air. After they had agreed Zach came over and said "You didn't think you'd go on an exciting adventure without me did you?"

Kirk asked "What can you offer to the effort" he wasn't asking to test him but more to just learn what he could do and Zach replied "Well first my father is a Guardian, he could pull some strings for us and help a bit more not to mention I'm strong too; I can offer myself. Now am I going or not?" Kirk smiled and said "Of course my red friend you're always welcome but I warn you, it requires you wake up early" Zach rolled his eyes "I can do that so see ya tomorrow" Kirk nodded and was about to leave for bed when he heard a deep voice call him and he turned to see Lightning.

"Lightning? What is it?" he asked politely and he said "I want to help… earn my keep for helping my family" Kirk smiled and said "You don't have to do that but since I know you're an honorable dragon I'll let you help. Maybe you help us with the area you lived in?" he suggested and he nodded. "Now good night"

He went to bed to find Glacia had already taken an early leave and smiled seeing how peaceful she was and knew that if the sightings had anything to do with something with the darkness or something he had to keep her at peace by stopping it before it becomes too bad. He crawled into bed and suddenly didn't feel sleepy.

Today had him thinking about what was to come and what was causing this but mostly could he protect his family. He couldn't sleep knowing these creatures were out there possibly trying to find their way inside. All these thought raced through his mind when he heard a voice beside his bed say "Daddy?"

He peaked over the side and saw Flare there looking very worried and Kirk asked "What's wrong Flare?" She hesitated and said "Could I hop in with you?" He smiled warmly "Sure hun, just don't wake mom" she smiled and hopped up and curled up to Kirk and he asked "Can't sleep?"

She nodded and said "I'm worried dad; I don't want you or anyone getting hurt especially you" Kirk smiled again at her "I told you Flare I'll be fine, it's probably just a few monsters that have come by from another land" She sighed "But what if it isn't, or they get lucky and hurt you? I don't want to lose my dad again, not after you lost your memory" She almost cried and Kirk nuzzled her "Tell you what, if it will make you feel better I'll bring you along tomorrow just this once, what are the odds we'll find anything on the first outing?"

She was satisfied with the answer and said "Thanks dad I'll watch your back, we can be partners and stuff" she was getting all enthusiastic and Kirk chuckled before saying "Alright but you need to sleep" She smiled cuddling up to her more and fell asleep. He did the same but his mind was still on the creatures and he hoped to the ancestors that he wouldn't encounter anything tomorrow for his daughter's sake.

Well there's the next chapter it a bit shorter then I'd like around 2,7 k words but it will do. Anyway tell me what you think or any opinions you have and the chapter may be up soon.

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