Part 26 - Actions

Peril looked around. After they had gone in almost all of them had been secretly freed of Scarlet's spell. Jaguar hadn't said much but, Equinox had told her that it was because he overcame the spell after remembering their friendship. As if Peril thought, I bet Jaguar likes her. Clay entered her mind but she quickly shoved the image out. She was doing this for him, so that he would be safe, so her friends would be safe. Then she remembered Peak. Her friend that had died because of Scarlet. And Ash… she felt a tear come to her eye and quickly wiped it off her scales. She sniffed, Burn shot her a confused look so she straightened up. She changed her thoughts to her new friends, Phoenix, Sandstone, Shiver, Seaweed, Willow, Equinox and Jaguar. Willow, Seaweed, Equinox and Jaguar we're all still young Dragonets. Only at 4 years old, yet they had stepped up to this journey. Equinox and Willow were like little sisters to everybody. They had all grown so close, Peril was about 8 years old. She saw the room they were approaching. The dragonet dormitory. Now why would we go here first? Peril thought to herself. She looked over at Phoenix.

"Rose," Scarlet commanded her, "You and Amber go guard the door." she reluctantly nodded. She had to do what Scarlet wanted, even if she didn't want to. She and Phoenix (Amber) walked out and stood by the door. She listened to what the little dragonets were saying to Scarlet and tried to contain her laughter. Then she heard Cliff's name. The Ex-Skywing Queen walked out with the terrified dragonet. She saw Soar and the others come out behind her. She shot Phoenix a worried look and then followed, what horrible things were in store for the young prince?

She could hear the small prince singing a song under his breath. Something about We the dragons of the Sky it sounded nice. She noticed him starting to shiver softly. He drifted off into sleep, obviously extremely cold. She quietly walked over to him and laid down, putting her body around his to keep him warm. She rested her head on her front talons and could feel his body slowly stop shivering at her chest. She drifted off into sleep, wondering what the next day would bring.

"GET UP!" Scarlet yelled, Peril felt a stab of grief shoot through her heart. Kestrel, Ash, the last time she was here… Kestrel. Her mother, whom she had left to die. She tried to push away her memories as she got up. But it was to no avail.

Ash was chasing her around in circles,

"You can't catch me!" She taunted and lept into the air, opening her wings to do a short glide.

"Yes I can!" Ash protested, "I have supa speed!"

"NO!" She told him, "I go the fastest!" Ash was laughing behind her. They were still learning how to fly and weren't that good at it, Peril was no exception. She leapt into the air a second time and tried to flap. She went higher! Then she tried again and failed.

"AHHHHHHHH!" She screamed as she plummeted to the ground, her small wings flapping wildly. Kestrel entered the room, her eyes widened as she saw her daughter falling and ran towards Peril. She jumped into the air and caught Peril. She slowly put her back on the ground. She looked straight into Peril's blue eyes.

"What did I say about flying?" She questioned the young dragonet,

"To not do it when your not around…" Peril answered meekly.

"YOU COULD OF DIED!" Kestrel shouted at her, "If I wasn't here when I was then you could've died Peril! Died!" Peril could see a forming tear sparkle in her mother's eye and jumped on her mom and hugged her. Kestrel looked down at her daughter. Peril wetted her mother's chest with her tears.

"Thank you mommy." She hiccuped, "I love you." Kestrel wrapped her wings around her,
"I love you too."

"WERE YOU FOOLS NOT LISTENING!" Scarlet shouted, "I SAID TO GET UP!" She snapped out of the memory and sat up straight. Cliff struggled to get up, he looked into his grandmother's angry yellow eyes.

"S-S-Sorry Grandma…" Cliff apologized,

"It's Queen Scarlet" She sneered at her grandson, "I have some business to take care of, Everyone come with me." Everyone nodded and followed Scarlet out of the room. Equinox walked over to Peril,

"Everyone's free" She whispered, "It's go time." Peril nodded. She hated being Rose. She looked down as she felt something touch her side. Cliff was nervously walking next to her. She smiled down at him, then she looked up and saw Ruby in her cage. Didn't this happen yesterday? No, this time Ruby launched herself out at Scarlet in pure and utter anger. But Scarlet easily flipped over and pinned Ruby to the ground. Cliff gasped,

"You fool…" She heard Burn mutter from the background. She turned to Equinox who nodded. Scarlet rose her talon up to kill Ruby,

"NOW!" Peril yelled, she and Phoenix grabbed Scarlet and ripped her away from Ruby. Spell given super strength, helpful! She thought as she watched Phoenix pin down Scarlet. Seaweed and Jaguar were both on top of Burn. Well, Seaweed was pinning her down while Jaguar laid on top of her. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Soar start to turn around, getting ready to run. Peril dove after him, quickly pinning him to the ground.

"Thank you." she heard Ruby say, Peril reached up to her ear and took out the earing, trusting her own strength to hold Soar down. She slowly morphed into Peril once more. She looked into Soar's eyes,

"Give me one reason that we shouldn't put you away forever." She growled at him. He smiled at her,

"Peril, I am your father."

Author's Note -

OH MY GOODNESS! IT'S LIKE STAR WARS ALL OVER AGAIN! EXCEPT THIS TIME WE ALL ALREADY KNEW THAT!
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