Kassandra was freaking out right now. One moment she was running from a dragon and its rider, then the next thing she knew she was surrounded by a horde of both dragons and people.
She couldn't do anything as she was bound and carried in the claws of an angry green dragon. But what confused her the most was that this dragon was wearing gold armor. He also was wearing a crown, along with 2 other dragons.
Whenever she made a noise, the dragon would look down at her and snarl fiercely, silencing her immediately. This dragon seemed to be the most pissed off of all the others.
It was another 5 minutes before Kassandra saw civilization again. She was startled to say the least. All of the structures were made out of wood. A stark contrast to the stone buildings in her city. The only thing that was made out of stone was this weird building that had smoke billowing out from the top. She assumed it to be the forge. Another building that awed her was this tall building set at the top of a hill with a big staircase leading up to it. It kind of looked like her city hall back home so she could only assume it was their city hall.
Not only that but the people startled her too. All of them were really big and more than likely strong. They seemed to be covered in hair, both animal and human alike. She could barely distinguish the guys from the girls. Most of them carried some type of weapon with them wherever they went, even to do simple tasks. These were not the skinny, and fit people she grew up with. These were ugly savages!
And the last thing that strained her mind was the fact that there was a dragon everywhere her eyes wandered. There were blue and green and all shades of dragons. Some looked like rocks while others seemed to be shaped liked fire. She still couldn't fathom the fact that there were so many of them.
They soon descended to an a large opening between most of the buildings, in the center of town. The green dragon swung her forward when he was about to land, causing her to roll sideways when she hit the ground.
It growled as it roughly made her stand up with its head and made some type of whipping noise with its tail, forcing her to go forward. She trudged forward as she looked all around her.
Most of the people spared some time from their activities to look at her before they resumed with their lives. Their eyes widened at the sight of her before they whispered among themselves.
She couldn't understand a word they were saying as she looked back at them. She grimaced, knowing this could turn into a really big understanding since they couldn't speak each other's languages.
She was snapped out of her train of thought when that green dragon snarled again and whipped its tail. She quickened her pace at that, not wanting to get on its bad side.
She soon was escorted to another stone like building. The dragon stopped at the entrance. Kassandra didn't know what to do when a thin but scowling blonde woman grabbed her roughly and pushed her forward into the building.
Once stepping inside, she immediately recognized it to be a prison given the fact there were cells lined up next to each other. She was stopped before the one at the far end. It looked cramped in there, with only enough room to lie down sideways.
Kassandra moved her arms anxiously, disliking this turn of events. However, the blond woman noticed this and brought up her weapon, a deadly-looking axe, convincing Kassandra to stop.
She was manhandled as the woman checked her for weapons. The blond woman made some type of confused grunt when she removed the steel whip from Kassandra's side.
"Hey, that's mine! You give that back!", Kassandra whined.
The blonde woman growled her displeasure, tossing the whip away from Kassandra. She then turned her around, opened the cell door, broke her bindings, and finally shoved Kassandra into the cell before locking it on her.
Once free, Kassandra immediately tried to turn around and get to her whip, but was met with a solid wooden door.
"Why are you doing this? If it is about the man and his...dragon, he attacked me!", Kassandra pleaded as she grabbed onto the bars of the cell.
The woman bent over as she picked up the steel whip, curious about its nature.
"Hey! Are you listening to me?!", Kassandra yelled.
The blonde woman spoke fiercely in her weird language, making a big point by pointing her axe at her; It sounded harsh. It then said something more even-toned before it exited the building, leaving her more than dazed, scared, and confused.
Windwalker was on the verge of madness, anxiously waiting for Serenity to show up.
She whined as she looked down at her rider, noticing that he was getting paler by the second. She knew nothing about how to heal wounds and tried her best to stop the bleeding. However, no amount of licks could fix the situation.
A roar then made her snap her head up and was relieved to see her mate Tenor with his rider, Serenity, speeding toward them.
"Down here! Hurry!", Windwalker shouted.
Tenor glided low before landing with a trot. Serenity immediately jumped off when Tenor touched the ground and quickly rushed to her injured husband.
"What happened?", Serenity asked Windwalker, calmly but with an obviously evident tone of worry. Serenity began looking over her unconscious husband.
"We were just flying towards Raeya, trying to update her on the crown situation. But when we found her, she was in front of a strange human female. Based on her scent, she didn't belong here and had to be an intruder of sorts. They were just staring at each other. Chris and I figured she was going to attack Raeya, so we treated her like a threat. We grabbed her and hastily flew back to the village. I noticed something was wrong when I heard him choke, and when I looked back she had wrapped her weapon around his neck before jerking him off my saddle. He started falling and I had no choice but to drop the stranger and catch Chris. But...but I was too late as he smashes into a tree and hit the branches on his way down. I could do nothing as he tumbled down and ultimately whacked his head against a thick branch. The only thing I could do was catch him before he hit the ground", Windwalker choked out, each word like a dagger cutting through her throat.
"He's alive but won't be for much longer if I don't take care of his head wound. At this rate, he'll bleed out", Serenity declared.
"Then heal him please!", Windwalker barked.
"Windwalker calm down!", Tenor said gently.
"You try calming down when you fail to do nothing to save your best friend!", Windwalker retorted, starting to get frantic.
"Everybody step back! We are gonna have to heal him here. If we take him back to the village, he might not make it!", Serenity asserted.
The two dragons stopped arguing and stepped back a couple of feet. Serenity got up and rushed to one of the saddlebags on Tenor's saddle. Attached to it was her medical bag, full of all the remedies and tools necessary to heal dragons of all kinds.
Even though she mainly healed dragons, she healed humans from time to time. She wasn't about to let her husband die when she could definitely do something about it!
With no time to spare, she began to heal her husband.
Astrid exited the prison and was greeted to the rest of the riders and dragons.
"She's locked away and not going anywhere anytime soon", Astrid asserted.
"Good. She deserves to rot after what she did to my son", Re growled, flashing his teeth.
"Don't worry. We will question her later. Right now, we need to make sure Chris is alright", Hiccup voiced.
"Yeah. I don't want to deal with this", Astrid added as she showed everybody the whip.
"Woah. I want that!", Tuffnut voiced.
"No. It's mine!", Ruffnut exclaimed.
"I don't have time to deal with this. Let's go guys", Aurora said as she spread her wings and flew back to the forest.
"Raeya. Do you mind if you watch her? Just in case she tries to escape?", Re asked.
Raeya was doing her best to stay in the back of the crowd. She wasn't planning on doing anything. She was still musing over the fact that the human didn't back away from her. Why didn't she?
"Raeya? Did you hear me?", Re reiterated.
"Oh. Yes, I can do that", Raeya blinked as she focused on the dragon king's command. The king nodded before he too flew off. It's not like she had anything better to do. She didn't really know the male and she was curious about that female still. Even though they couldn't understand each other, she guessed watching her would suffice.
Raeya turned around and sat at the threshold of the prison, gazing at Kassandra. She was able to notice more things about her than she initially did. She had blue eyes, akin to the ocean. The human also seemed to be thin. Almost as thin as that human with the metal leg. She wasn't big like the rest of them.
Kassandra was confused as that dragon with the different colored eyes gazed at her. What was it doing? Why was it staring at her?
The two females kept on staring at each other for awhile. Sometimes one would break eye contact only to lock eyes again a few moments later. They sat there in awkward silence since they obviously couldn't communicate with each other. Or could they?
Kassandra slumped against a wall when she ran out of things to distract herself with. With a huff, she blew the hair out of her eyes and regarded the dragon, who currently was looking somewhere else, obviously just as bored as her.
"So...what are you doing?", Kassandra asked.
Raeya's ears perked up and when she heard the rest of the question, gave Kassandra a sarcastic look.
"What? It's not my fault you can't understand me!", Kassandra exclaimed.
"It's not my fault that YOU can't understand ME!", Raeya countered. But all Kassandra could hear was a series of short grunts and groans.
"What'd I say?", Kassandra asked accusingly.
Raeya rolled her eyes and slumped back to the ground, just wanting to rest.
"Look at me. Arguing with a dragon. My family would go insane if they saw this", Kassandra said to herself. She was still getting used to the whole dragons-aren't-as-rare-as-you'd-expect thing. Apparently they came in all shapes, sizes, and colors. She seriously needed to reprioritize her beliefs.
She gazed once more at the dragon, noticing it's bored expression. She couldn't believe it but she actually wanted to...talk with it. Not that she could verbally talk with it, but somehow communicate with it. If those riders could do it and gain the trust of one to allow it on its back, surely she could work out something with this one, right?
"You have interesting eyes. In fact, I have never met a soul with eyes like that", Kassandra spoke up.
She smiled on the inside when the dragon perked up at the mentioning of its eyes.
"Some people back at home would consider your eyes to be a gift from the Gods while others would view it as punishment", Kassandra added.
She watched as the dragon's face seemed to have lifted before it fell.
"I mean, I would think it would be a little weird for a person to have it, but I think it suits you well dragon", Kassandra complimented.
She tilted her head in confusion when the dragon warbled and crooned lowly. If she was back at home, she would've been condemned a fool for talking to such a mindless beast, but she knew no one here, so she felt justified to continue the conversation.
Kassandra had a lot on her mind, and thus had many questions, but she chose one that took up most of her thinking.
"I have a question to ask of you dragon. Why didn't you kill me?", Kassandra questioned.
The dragon looked down at the ground before it looked back up. It let out some type of half-growl and half-warble. It then gave her a soft expression, like it didn't know the exact answer.
'Well look at that Kassandra, it can feel', she thought to herself.
'Well duh. If it has the ability to choose not to kill you, then obviously it has feelings', she added.
The dragon then growled and crooned. Kassandra tilted her head in confusion before the dragon gestured to her then to itself. She squinted her eyes in puzzlement. What was it trying to say?
It then hit her like a stone wall.
"Why did I save you?", Kassandra asked slowly, also gesticulating. Her doubt was erased when the dragon nodded.
It was now her turn to look down in thought.
"Why did I save her?", she whispered to herself. She had so much on her mind that she couldn't think of a clear answer. Although, deep down inside, she had a feeling she knew why. However, she was too afraid to admit it, for fear of the consequences to follow.