Sorry the Chapter was really short I will get this updated and longer once I finish my re-edited story
'My new life with my new family was the best thing that happened to me in three years and my new brother, Zyrus, was the best big brother in the world!'
Two night furies were flying in the forest playing tag and the bigger night fury is trying to catch the smaller one. "Slow down, Nightshift, or else I won't go easy on you." Zyrus roared to me. I turned my head and spin to the right to avoid Zyrus's tackle and smirked along with a laugh. "You were going easy on me? I thought you were too slow and too fat to catch me! HAHA-OOF!" During my rant Zyrus was able to sneak below me and charged my stomach, knocking the air out of me and allowing me to land hard. Zyrus laughed and I growled playfully at him. "Cheapshot!" I yelled at my brother. 'At least he caught you.' Wolf spoke in my mind. 'He still cheated.' I grumbled in my head. Soon a growl interrupted my conversation with Wolf and it involved my stomach. Zyrus's stomach growled as well and chuckled, "There's a river nearby with fish in it. We can eat them. And remember no eating eels." I shuddered remembering what happened last time I ate an eel when I was catching fish with my new parents for the first time.
It took a few minutes but we made it and Zyrus started splashing the water trying to catch fish but they always escaped but I was smarter and a patient hunter. Thanks to my abilities I am able to produce gills and breath in the water, letting my mouth open for the fish to inspect and when they get in I snapped my jaws onto the scalley and slimy fish and flipped onto land and repeated the process.
Soon I had a big pile of fish and smiled at my victory until Zyrus came out of the water and the only thing he had was a tiny fish that couldn't even satisfy a terrible terror. I smiled and motioned my head to the pile having a happy brother throwing the fish he caught back in the water and tackled the pile and started eating. Unlike Zyrus I slowly enjoyed the fish in my mouth while Zyrus chunks it down his throat and leaves a big mess of slobber that sometimes lands on my fish but I just swallowed it like its nothing. What has my life come to eating slobbered fish?
Soon there was only one fish and Zyrus was eyeing it until I growled in protests. He looked up and showed his determined face while I narrowed my eyes and got into my fighting stance ready to fight for the fish. Zyrus sprung first, launching himself to the fish but with my tail, I whipped Zyrus's side allowing me to tackle him to the ground but he used his back legs to knock me off and charged me with a plasma blast. I turned my body into pure shadow allowing the plasma to go through my body and surrounding Zyrus who flapped his wings to dissipate the smoke. I transformed back into my physical form and slammed into Zyrus into the river so fast and so hard that the water exploded and something landed on the land. Zyrus and I looked onto the land and saw a giant of a fish trying to get back in the water but was stopped by two paws of scales. Each belonged to me and Zyrus and we grinned at each other for our ending fight with this accomplishment.
After awhile of eating the giant, Zyrus licked the back of my ear finding a piece of fish on it and said, "That was delicious." I chuckled agreeing with him. 'Nightshift we should return to sire soon. He might be worried.' Wolf spoke in my head. I nodded my head and turned to Zyrus licking his chops. "Come on big brother we have to return to sire." I said gaining his attention and nodded eagerly taking flight and yelling, "Race you there!" I rolled my eyes and entered the shadow verse and teleported in front of Zyrus who screamed in shock. Never challenged a shifter with teleporting abilities. "I win!" "You cheated!" "You got a head start which was cheating as well!" "At least I didn't use my 'powers'!"
We argued after I won the race but Zyrus was throwing a fit like a hatchling but we still loved each other. Soon our sire, Styrke, appeared out of nowhere and roared with fury. We screamed and I may have accidentally unleashed shadows everywhere blinding our sire and I climbed a tree followed by Zyrus who was scared out of his wits as I was. Our sire blinked when the shadows dissipated and we were nowhere to be found and started to sniff for our scent until he reached the tree we were in and looked up to see us looking like scared monkeys. He chuckled and yelled to us, "How's the view up there!?" Zyrus and I screamed, "SCREW YOU!" "WATCH YOUR TONGUES!" Our sire roared in anger.
I was so scared that I found a hole in the tree big enough for me to fit through and hid. His anger reminds me of Argur. Soon I heard Zyrus climb down to our sire and I heard a gruff and soothing voice. "Nightshift I'm sorry I yelled but you and Zyrus did disrespect me. Please come down. That stunt I did was just for fun and games. Please come down." My head exited out of the hole and looked down at the concerned night furies and slowly glided towards them landing in front of sire. I avoided eye contact in fear of being yelled at but I felt a wing over me and it was sire. "Again i'm sorry but please don't talk like that again. I'm trying my best to help raise you and Zyrus to become great dragons but if you keep disrespecting your parents it's going to be harder." I leaned onto Stryke's body and was about to apologize until I heard the ground shake.
Zyrus shriek and was on my side trying to hold onto me but I felt the ground cracking beneath me and before I knew it Styrke pushed us out of the way and a big dragon with no limbs except for a sharp spiky tail and spinning teeth came out of the ground and roared. "What do we have here? A night fury and…." it looked towards our direction and sniffed, eyes widening and then grinned evilly. "Delicious hatchlings." With those words it charged at us but what it didn't expect when I teleported along with my brother near our father and fired our fire at the dragon. The dragon roared and was tackled to the ground by our sire and they fight with tooth and claw until the dragon's spiked tail pierced Stryke's chest and a gasp was heard before it threw our sire to the ground bleeding heavily. I cried in horror and yelled, "SIRE!" "You monster!" Zyrus yelled and latched his teeth on the dragon's tail.
The dragon screamed in pain and tried to bite my brother but instead I jumped on the dragon's face and clawed half of its face making me try to get off of it but I refused to let go and kept attacking. The dragon had too much and went underground to escape but before it escaped I fired my fire onto the dragon's left eye leaving it deformed for the rest of its days. I was so focused on the dragon's escape route that I almost missed Styrke's voice. "M-my s-sons…." he whispered hoarsely. I quickly ran by his side where Zyrus was already on his other side. I cried for seeing the wound that thing did to him and almost threw up my fish when I see the blood pouring out. I broke down.
"It's all my fault! If I came down like you said instead of being fearful this would never had happened!" I cried to my dying father. "No" he whispered, "This was not your fault, if I didn't scare you two then perhaps we would be home by now but I guess not." "But what of mother!? What of US!? You can't leave us yet." Zyrus pleaded with our father. I put my paw on my brother and comforted him. "It'll be alright Zyrus." Sire spoke to the crying hatchling. "One day we will see each again. And by the beauty of the dragon goddess, Noctis, I can't wait until we are reunited with you my sons…" then he closed his eyes and his breathing ceased. I cried and told myself that it was my fault over and over again and expected Zyrus to comfort me but he didn't do anything and just stood with his head down.
Then I heard a whisper that I didn't want to hear from the very brother I loved. "It's your fault." Zyrus whispered. My eyes widened in horror and he turned to me with his face enraged and eyes slitted. "IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU THAT SIRE IS DEAD!" Zyrus roared. I backed up fearfully and whimpered when my brother approached with hostility. 'NIGHTSHIFT! RUN!' I heard Wolf yelled in my mind. I took to the skies with no argument with Zyrus doing the same and I felt an approaching burning fire towards my head. I screamed and rolled away from the plasma blast that Zyrus shot. "Come back here!" he roared and increased his speed catching up to me and knocked me out of the sky and landed on a hill.
I tried to get up but I was pinned down by Zyrus and started charging his fire until a horrified scream was heard. "ZYRUS!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" We turned to the sound and saw mother horrified with Zyrus about to kill me. After a bit of silence I felt Zyrus gripped loosened and I took my chance escaping by turning into a shadow and reappeared behind mother and whimpered. Mother turned to me and comfort me until Zyrus yelled, "Sire's DEAD!
Mother quickly turned her head toward Zyrus and saw the tears in his eyes and anger towards me. Mother was shocked but she asked how Stryke died. Zyrus told her everything of how I was too scared to come down to the point of father dying to the monster dragon. Violet waited calmly but I knew she was tearing up inside and probably blaming me. 'Stop thinking that! IT. WAS. NOT. YOUR. FAULT.' Wolf scorned in my mind. "He should not be here! He needs to leave!" I heard Zyrus yelled at mother.
He was right. I shouldn't be here and the guilt that father's death is on my claws is too bearable. Unwanted once again. I finally made a decision and hugged my mother who was surprised by this contact since it was rare for me to use my paws instead of my wings. Zyrus stopped his rant about me and started to worry a bit. I then let go and stepped a few away from them and started to see the concerned faces but it didn't stop me. "Thank you for this wonderful gift of being one of you and that I love you both very much. Goodbye. Forever." I then took to the air and left the island ignoring my mother pleads and my brother's voice. I expected Wolf to stop me and try to convince me but he responded with understanding. 'Your choice is your own and sooner or later you would have left them. But I am more concerned with how you left them.' I nodded my head in agreement but what's done is done and now I need to find a place to call home.