Dragon's Legacy
Declaimer- I don't own the monkey team Ciro Nieli does. But I own the other characters. I'm sorry if I confused anyone I'm new at this and put this story on in a rush so I messed it up. Sorry!
I'm working on Chapter five and six currently.
Chapter Four: Mountain Scramble They reached the bottom of the mountain around a ½ hour. "We better get snow now for water I doubt there is any up there." Icefire said. They ate snow until they could fit no more, then they began their land climb. At first there were no trouble but a few loose stones here or there. Now there were loose stones every other step. They were only 1/4 of the way up when Icefire began to tire, Her determination is what gave her strength to continue.
They were half way up when Icefire found a ledge to rest on. Once on it Icefire lied down on the ledge. Her talons gripped the edge.
Icefire raised her head high and surveyed their surroundings. A few of the others had just reached the bottom of the mountain. Others were still picking their way through the snow and were not to far behind.
This caused Icefire to get to her feet even though she was not quite ready yet. "Icefire you should rest. You are still tiered from the climb up." Chiro said.
"No, we must continue, the others are catching up." Icefire replied and walked over to where she could start climbing again. She reached out one of her fore paws but she froze when she felt the reigns tighten.
"You must rest, Icefire!" Chiro cried, there was obvious strain in his voice from holding the reigns taught. "I can't allow you to continue until you've rested enough!"
Icefire sighed and placed her paw on the ledge. Because Chiro was pulling on the reigns so hard her head almost touched her chest. "Let go Chiro," She said calmly. Chiro hesitated for a moment then did as he was told. Icefire stretched her neck out then turned to face the boy. "I'm fine, we must continue or we might not be able to keep our lead. I can recover when we reach the desert where the sun is warm." Slowly and reluctantly Chiro nodded, there was obvious worry in his eyes.
Icefire returned her attention to the mountain and began to climb. As she climbed there was less, and less rocks and more, and more cracks and notches for her taloned paws.
Soon there was barely and notches or cracks so Icefire had to make her own. By the time they made it to the top Icefire was exhausted. Her body quivered with each panting breath she took.
Chiro patted her scaley neck as a silent praise. Icefire looked over the edge to see they still had an advantage. The others had only just reached the ledge they had left only one or two were resting toward the middle. Icefire looked down the side they were supposed to go down.
She sighed in relief. There was ledging all down the other side. She could easily slide from the other. She began her decent with haste but not without caution.