Chapter the Sixth
After the encounter with the Shadow Raiders, Scyler and Kallana weren't so keen to stay in the forest and every night Kallana wondered about the cat she'd seen and what had happened to it.
They had been traveling west and came across a pass between two sides of a mountain range. Kallana scouted the area and deemed that it was to tough for Scyler to traverse in any other way than the pass. The pass was made of marble and so finely carved that it couldn't have been made by any unicorn. Shapes of huge dragons loomed out over them, looking quite threatening.
A roar shook through the air throwing the two off their feet and causing an avalanche.
Visionwyrm let loose another roar satisfied that he had buried the intruders under tonnes of marble. He did a graceful pirouette in midair, the sunlight catching on his magnificent violet scales and huge golden eyes and dived down to his cave.
He was young and powerful with huge wings and a large crest. Many beings had fallen victim to his poisons, practically walking into his maw. He spied his mate, Venompride as she ambled out of the opening. They were both young adults yet neither of them had a title yet. The ancients had said that they hadn't done enough deeds to gain a title. It was a great honor to be given a title and a great shame to enter adulthood with out one. Visionwyrm wanted to gain a respectable title like Greatclaw or even better Demonsbane. He knew that his mate wanted to be named Impaler. But no summonings had come yet and they were getting discouraged. They had moved to the pass to guard it against any who came on the orders of the ancients. In the lands beyond there were the great strongholds of the dragons. So when he spied the unicorn and the hippogrif he immediately sent great boulders down upon them.
The avalance came down without warning, andi if it weren't for Kallana's sharp eyes they would have been crushed under the rocks.
"Scyler! this way!" she bellowed at him over the thunder of boulders, "Theres a half-cave!"
They dashed for the small shelter barely making it in before rocks the size of bigger than two unicorns out together thundered down smashing themselves into small, sharp daggers of stone.The boulders crashed down, then the large rocks, then the ones the size of their heads, till all that came down was a shower of pebbles. Looking warily out them made their way slowly over the new carpet of rocks to the other side.
Visionwyrm Earthquaker proudly made his way along the roads of the dragons city.
Supposedly the dragon ancients had heard his roar and seen the dust cloud from the dragon city. They had sent a messenger wyrm as quick as a tail snap.And he had proudly recieved his new name. And a good one at that. If I do say so myself. With a new title, he could bring his mate with him to live in a fine cave just outside the city that the ancients had given him. Let some youngling, noname guard that godforsaken path. I am moving up! Holding his head high and looking down his nose at everyone else he leaped into the air eager to tell his mate and to pack.
"What was that?" Cried Scyler knowing that Kallana had more knowledge of this world than he.
"It sounded like a dragon to me."
"But dragons are friendly, we send scouts out to check on them once a year."
"Not on this side o' the world they ain't. I think we passed through the territory of one an he thought we were intrudin'."
"Where do dragons nest usually?"
"Anywhere, everywhere theres lots o' different types an shapes an sizes."
"I guess we'll have one more thing to watch for then. Is it just me or does that list seem to be growing very quickly as we go more and more this way?"
"That's the wilds for ya. Nothins friendly unless it's yerself."
The pair walked on oblivious, for now of the eyes watching them.