Chapter Three:
A/N: Well, chapter three and the alchemist are here. Hopefully the character personalities are right.
Harrison had to get his mind back in order before He could push Lyenith tail off enough to clap his hands together and lay an lightning symbol down. The Queen screeched the high metallic scream of an extremely angry dragon when the shocking blue bolts jumped across her hide.
Sadiewyle jumped but fell back with a hiss when fire jumped at him. To Dazed to notice, Harrison sat up and shook his head, forcing his mind to focus on Lyenith, she was the threat here. Not that Sadiewyle wasn't given his current condition. Lyenith was the new who knew enough about her skills to do damage, lots of damage. Harrison stood up shakily and shook his head, looking up in time to see Lyenith, now extremely angry, the fragile blue scales, (the only ones on a dragon's body.) stood up along her neck and back, as well as her tail, this might prove a little difficult.
Harrison tensed, getting ready to jump out of the way, when something that looked like a wall came up out of the ground. Harrison could see no Symbols, thoroughly confused now, Harrison spun around and noticed the strangers...and blinked, one looked very much like him. It was this one that had caused the wall. Another with Black hair was watching tiny Sadiewyle, with a women with blonde hair.
Lyenith screamed again and swung her tail at the Wall, Harrison heard the tell-tale 'crack!' and jumped out of the way, only role underneath some brush.
Brillant. Harrison thought now truly agitated. What a mess. Well, Harrison who do you fix it?
Harrison had originally been about to shift back into his dragon form. That's didn't seem wise right now, but then it was probably the only thing that would stop Lyenith. So when Harrison reappeared it was not as a teenage boy, He came out of the trees, an adolescent Dragon, full of himself and his power, feeling his immortality. Harrison looked at Lyenith out his still usable right eye and she glared back. He noticed but Ignore, Sadiewyle's scramble to get out of the way. The stupid git wasn't smart enough to stay away from golden king but he knew enough to stay away from two older dragons...It was enough to make Harrison want to hit the Hatchling over the head with his tail.
Many mortals thoughts dragons like Lyenith were amazing in the colors they wore, but none had seen a dragon quite like Harrison, named the Autumn Son by His grandfather. Harrison's hide glittered in patch work of Copper, Bronze, Olive (A/N: my computer shows this to be a greenish gold.) and burnt Gold. At the same length, though smaller then Lyenith, Harrison felt nothing, only the lethargic notice of the things around him, and a steady anger at Lyenith.
Ed backed up. "I don't like were this is going."
So far neither of the two dragons had moved, each staring the other down, until the blue one moved, trying to circle the smaller spotted one, The Spotted one only weaved his head back and forth, keeping his right eye focused on the blue one.
"Hang on. Dragons exist?" Ed asked before being yanked out of the way by Hawkeye, after she failed to get his attention.
"Apparently, now stay put!" She snapped trying to see from their hiding spot was difficult, but something in the way the tiniest of the three rushed away gave her enough to want to get behind something. "We're clearly not in our world any longer."
"The Question is," Colonel Mustang said fitting his pyrotec glove. "Where are we and why are we here."
"Yes, sir." Hawkeye agreed. "They're really not doing much more then staring at each other."
"Well, let's hope that's all they do." Colonel replied. "I've seen dog fights, I'd rather not see what these two can do."
Harrison had had enough of letting Lyenith play her mind games, while she paused to take note of where Sadiewyle hid, He jumped shoving the bigger queen to the ground. Lyenith hissed, flinging her tail, anger, and a fire symbol at Harrison. He was tossed aside, almost like a way-ward hatchling is pushed by their mother. Harrison wasn't down. He would not let Lyenith pin him, that would mean almost certain death.
Lyenith did not give Harrison time to think, or at least she didn't think she had. Harrison spread his jewel bright, silken wings and with a 'crack' was off the ground. Lyenith cursed her poor luck and bad timing. A dragon off the ground is a force to reckon with, even for another dragon. Lyenith tried to follow only to have the Ator fall, just free fall, and pushed her back to the ground. Lyenith was not happy. She was used to getting her way, and so far this fight was not doing it. Harrison knew the older queen was very very peeved. Still, he was going to annoy her for as long as he could.
Harrison bite down on Lyenith's shoulder. The Blue Queen shook him off and jumped sky ward and flew off. Her anger and annoyance coming off her in waves. Harrison shook his head, and turned to look at the worst of his wounds, a scratch down his foreleg. He could have come out of the fight dead. Not only that but people had seen him.
hmm. What now? Harrison asked himself settling into his thoughts and laying sphinx like on the ground. ignoring pretty much everything.
Harrison was also enjoying being a dragon again. After being exhaled his magic, for lack of a better word, had been mostly locked away, and a prevention symbol had been laid on him. With the return of the Topaz he had his power back. This was a relief. Lyenith hadn't known he could change, now she did. This should have bothered Harrison more then it did, but he paid it no mind.
You can come out. Harrison called to them. You too, Sadiewyle.
A sulking and simmering rainbow crept out well before the strangers did. Sadiewyle said nothing and refused to look Harrison in the eye. The Strangers were wiser then the young dragon, they at least came out with caution. Though the pea-shooter wasn't something Harrison was worried about.
And What do you plan to do that that, Stranger-Women? Harrison asked, flicking his tail slightly. Don't shoot me, I'm changing back,
"Changing back?" one asked in a tone Harrison had not yet heard, but it was a question, so he skepticism?
"Yeah." Harrison shook his bangs from his eye. "I don't think talking to a dragon is something mortals find...comforting."
"Well, yeah." The smallest of the three agreed. "um, what the hell was that?"
"What? the fight?" Harrison would have not really considered it much of one, both had left with only minor wounds and the forest was still standing. "Or him?"
Sadiewyle picked up his head, and turned his eyes on Harrison. Don't give them my name, Please, Autumn Son.
Harrison glanced at the Dragonet out his good eye but otherwise ignored him. For the moment. Sadiewyle dropped his head again, he was in trouble now. His mama would be angry.
"Both." the Dark-Haired man said.
"First," Harrison said raising a hand. "I'm Harrison, This is Sadie. I've got to talk to him, and I may be able to help, but knowing what your called would be appreciated."
"I'm Edward Elric." The smallest said. "This is Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, and Colonel Roy Mustang."
It was a mystery as to why Mortals gave their real names out like candy, but maybe it was due to the fact that their names were less dangerous to them? To any case Harrison nodded and turned to look at Sadiewyle.
"Sadie," Harrison used Sadiewyle 'name'. "Why are you helping my father?"
He has my Mama. She's so mad at me, or she will be. Sadie looked behind him and shifted to a more defensible position.
"Your mother isn't in the Star Island?" Harrison was confused now to say the least. "Why did she come here? Sadie, you had better not be lying..."
I'm Not! I'm Not! Mama came because Golden King told her to. He came to visit and said something to her and then we came here. Lyenith has been looking after me too, Cuz, Mama acting strangely.
"He did what?" Harrison didn't fully get the dragonet.
He called mama, Syscle, and then she started following the orders of the man who was with him. Yup. The Dragonet Nodded, This man he told her to come here, into mortal realms to help him get somethin'. I don't know what, Mama won't tell me, and she's not around much. That's why i was with Lyenith, she helped teach me how to fly and burn things...Yup.
Harrison Exhaled. "Okay," That had not helped the explanation to much, but he had the general idea now. "Sadie, go back to the Star Isle, someone there will help you."
I don't want to. There's more people there! and Golden King and Frost Queen sayin every bodies names! or they're doing something, cuz everybody acting all weird. It's the Truth!
"Right," Harrison shook his head. "Then go somewhere." He didn't feel much like handling a hatchling at the moment. "Back to you guys, What are you doing here?"
"That's something we'd like to know." Colonel said looking at Sadie. "What did it say?"
"Him." Harrison corrected absently. "Nothing to interest you. Sadie! GO!"
Sadie only blew smoke. I don't have any where to go!
Harrison closed his eyes and ignored the Ator. "Well, maybe it does, since I'm not sure how you guys got here or if there's a way back. To any case, I've got to go see my brother, if your going to follow Sadie, at least change shape, ah.., you may not to look away." He said this most to Hawkeye.
Sadie did change, though his eyes were strangely white, and his hair color was dark but impossible to point out as anyone color. Harrison gave Sadie his blue jacket, which covered the smaller boy like a robe. "Tie that and don't undo it, it's a ways to Silver Vale."
"Silver Vale?"
"Where my Brother and Mother live." Harrison said. "You can come, or take a ride to the palace, but i wouldn't suggest it, their against any form of magics, except the council mage, and they'll call what you did magic, regardless of whether not it's true but it's up to you to decide."
Harrison walked away, with the smaller Sadie following at his heels. Out of sight and ear-shot of the Strangers, Harrison turned on Sadiewyle. "You had better behave or so help me, I'll skin you, got it?"
"Yes." Sadie heard like threats all the time. Bigger dragon blowing off steam mostly. "I'll be good, what happened to mama?"
" 'Name A Dragon, Tame a Dragon;
A Dragon Saved, A Dragon Enslaved;
So it was and will always be.' Sadie, did your mother get into a fight with Golden King?"
"No, but she did with another queen, a bright red one." Sadie said thinking back on it. "Is they coming with us?"
"Are. I'm not sure, but I hope they decide soon."
"Well?" Ed asked the other two. "I don't see much of a choice."
"We could Try the Palace," Hawkeye suggested but she sounded doubtful, " though he is right about alchemy, Sir."
"I guess your right." Colonel said though he was still thinking.
How did we get here, and why are we here? That Harrison seems trustworthy, or at least not the sort to lie, so they may not be a way back? Less Questions chased themselves in circles in Colonel Mustang's mind, the entire trip to Silver Vale, though Sadie's questions were annoying. He was a child no doubt.
Harrison had his own thoughts to entertain him until they Reached Silver Vale. So, A man was accompany His father into the Star Islands? That explained the Elders appearance. this man knew enough about dragons to know that saying a real dragons name can enslave it until set free, but Sadiewyle had said his mother wasn't around much, not something a Queen would do, and that Lyenith had Taught Sadiewyle who to fly and use his flame...it just didn't make any Sense!
A/N: Chapter three...finally. Some more details on dragons, don't worry the Alchemist play a bigger part later on.