Shell
I swooped in and out of the arching cloud ways, twirling and doing arial tricks in the sky, ready to go over and fetch my friend Basilisk. Since we were ordered to attend the biggest games of the year! Which I was not very happy about, seemed rather dumb to watch dragons kill each other slowly and it was quite unfair as my species. Soon I arrived at where my friend usually dwelled, he was a black rainwing with a white underbelly and wings. With a colorful face of green, teal, blue, orange, and purple, the stripes on his wings were also colorful, made of pink, green, and blue. Basilisk seemed to be staring into nothing as I swept closer so I called out
"Hey Basilisk! Come on the Skywing Queen called all her allies to the palace for her hatching day! Race you there!" As I yelled that he quickly turned his head and yelled back at me, "Ok! You're on!" and followed me towards the skywing palace.
As we were getting there I had a splitting headache, "Ow, ow ow," I thought in pain. I had headaches quite often nowadays and what came with those was I would space off, they often felt like someone was hammering in my head screaming, "I want out! Let me out!", "I have to get that checked out later." I turned around to see if Basilisk was there and I ran right into a tree. "YOWCH!" I hollered to no particular dragon. Basilisk sped past me and landed right on the palace walls, "I think… this means I win," he said smugly.
"Oh yeah? You're a Cheater!" I hissed back. "Nuh uh I did not ask for you to crash into a tree!" protested Basilisk. "I saw you laughing when I hit that tree!" I said angrily back as my head was throbbing and aching. "Well I-" said Basilisk before a speaker went off, "BE HERE IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES OR WHEN YOU COME I WILL PUT YOU IN THE ARENA!"
"I guess that means we gotta go," I muttered, rubbing my head. "Awww can't we fight in the arena?" asked Basilisk.
I shot him a look and he instantly shut up as we flew into the crowd, most dragon tribes sat separately from each other, the skywings filled up most of the front seats of the stadium. Then sat the seawings behind them, their allies in the war, with the rainwings mostly having to hover above the stadium. "I often felt bad for the rainwings as it was said they were threatened into being allies with the skywings but that was just a rumor, some memory tugged in the back of my mind, of my parents dying from skywings but that could not be right as I was not there I was practicing flying with my friends, or was I chasing crabs on the beach?" I thought with a frown.
I saw some skywings giving me pointed looks and a few guards glancing in my direction, one dragon even seemed to feel there was a need to tell the queen, as he pointed at me while talking to the skywing queen, the skywing queen, Queen Kindle, gave me a quick one over and seemed to shrug from a distance. "Maybe they were looking at someone else they were looking at, maybe that I was sitting with a rainwing? Or maybe-" I cut my thoughts off, ensuring myself that there was nothing special about me and my mind must be playing tricks on me again.
It would be in my best interest to distract myself so I turned myself towards Basilisk, "So uh what do you think of these games," he seemed to think for a second turning a shade of yellow, "I don't particularly like them, they make me queasy…
I looked at him in near astonishment as normally he was much harsher in these sorts of things, but maybe it was just sort of the joke things you say like when your teachers give you too much homework you like can they die? But you would never actually want that.
"It's not very fun watching them do them, I'd rather be doing it.." he continued. I rolled my eyes as that was just so Basilisk.
I glanced up at the queen platforms and I saw the seawing queen covered in rare exotic pearls and gems found only in the sea, the skywing queen that looked barren next to her and you could barely see her face and tail, the rainwing queen which looked very small in the distance appeared to not be wearing anything. Right below the queens sat their heirs, under the skywing queen was Princess Sunrise, under the seawing queen was her 5 daughters and female nieces, and under the rainwing queen the princess I was guessing looked slightly bigger than her, must be perspective. Under them were all the males of the family and honorary family members which were packed, other than the rainwings platform.
"GET YOUR LAZY SCALES OVER HERE ON TIME! OR YOU WILL BE PUT IN THE FIGHTS! AND IF YOU FAIL TO EVEN ATTEND YOU WILL BE HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED! THE GAMES START IN 3 MINUTES!" shouted the mega speaker again.
I felt my mind swirl and disorient as the last words were said, my headaches grew so strong it was hard to appear normal. Everything faded for a minute and I glanced around the stadium. "AHHH IM SUPPOSE TO BE ON MY TOWER, I'M GOING TO BE LATE!," I thought in a panic and swept towards my callosum ready to fight for the games. A faint memory tugged in my head but it did not match up with what I knew. I saw my childhood friend Basilisk glance at me questionably as I flew away. "I did not think he attended these things," I mused to myself.
"LET THE GAMES BEGIN!" declared Queen Kindle