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Chapter 3 - Yuugi's first flight

"Yes." He comments excitedly when he is taken by the animation of being able to have the same view of birds.

Then, she spreads her big powerful wings and leaps into the air towards the cliff and then begins to beat them with Yuugi feeling her gaining height as she ascends to the sky, realizing the intense happiness that radiated from her eyes and muzzle as she performed the ascent towards the sky.

In a matter of minutes they are hundreds of meters high with the young man watching the land moving away and looking back, he observes his village becoming just a speck.

After they ascend he observes the fact that she keeps her wings open and asks with evident surprise on her face:

"How are we flying if you're not flapping your wings?"

She laughs lightly.

"I'm gliding to relax my wings. I was only able to glide because I caught a good draft. You can relax your wings considerably."

"Am I heavy?" He asks, showing sadness on his face.

"No. I don't even feel your weight on my back. It's just that I intend to do some aerial maneuvers and I want to save my energy and wings." Yukiko responds while understanding why he is sad.

"Aerial maneuvers?"

"Yes. Did you know that I can stop in the air, fly backwards, up and down and to the sides? This is possible thanks to the great mobility of my wing articulation."

"Amazing!" He exclaims excitedly.

"Did you never want to see what's above the clouds?" She asks, smiling gently.

"Can we fly above them?" Yuugi asks with evident surprise on his face.

"Yes. I am going to use magic to stay dry because the clouds are very damp and I do not detect any electrical discharge in the air. So we can pass through them and I will ensure that you have oxygen. I am flying at a height that allows you to breathe but if I ascend above that level you will have serious difficulties in breathing. Furthermore, as we ascend the air will become increasingly cold and thin. For me the cold is very good and beneficial. For you, no. "

Upon seeing he did not understand some of her terms, she patiently explains them to the boy, being surprised by the information that her friend had at the same time that she was happy to learn new things.

"You need to breathe too." Yuugi comments as he remembers the oxygen part while showing concern on his face.

"Under certain conditions it can be circumvented"

"As well?" He asks showing a face that was a mixture of curiosity and amazement.

"If the air is really cold, I can absorb everything I need from it. For some reason the frozen air guarantees my life even without oxygen. I can't properly explain the process involved in it but if we consider the fact that I am a dragon of snow and that in a blizzard, the amount of oxygen in the air drops along with the temperature. So it would be problematic for my species to have trouble flying to a cold place with little or no oxygen. "

"True. It makes sense if we look at it from this angle." Yuugi comments after being thoughtful.

"Is ready?"

"Yes."

"Come on!" She exclaims excitedly.

The albino flaps its wings out of the air stream that was used by some birds and ascends again with Yuugi noticing that he was surrounded by a kind of translucent sphere, feeling warm as he watched her climb the air, ascending gradually and constantly and then be excited when they pass through a cloud with the other clouds staying below it as it flew higher and higher.

The young man looks fascinated to the sides while seeing the beauty that was there in that place with Yukiko noticing his happiness while smiling.

"I can say that it is very extreme to fly so high." Yuugo comments after a few minutes of flight enjoying every moment of the privilege that Yukiko gave by allowing him to have the same view of the birds.

"Extreme?" She repeats, arching her brow.

"Yes. Extreme. Why?" The boy asks without understanding his friend's rhetorical question and the singing smile in his powerful jaws.

"This is not being extreme, Yuugi. Believe me. You don't know what an extreme flight is. So far, I am doing a smooth flight even with my ascent in the sky. I tried to be as smooth as possible when ascending."

"What would an extreme flight be?" Yuugi asks after showing a curious and innocent face.

"Let's say that it is a flight with several sudden movements and that you would scream in fear at all times, thus testing your vocal cords."

"Vocal chords?"

"They are located around your neck, so to speak and are responsible for the words you vocalize."

Yuugi touches her neck and she smiles, shaking her head, looking kindly at her dear friend.

"It's internal, Yuugi."

"I would like to experience an extreme flight out of curiosity." He asks smiling after consenting

She is surprised and arches her brow, bringing her snout closer to him to confirm what she has heard.

"Do you really want that kind of flight, Yuugi?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure? Won't you be traumatized?"

"No. I promise. Why the question?"

"I want your company on my flights. It is more fun to fly with you than to fly alone as I used to do when you returned to the village."

"I will always fly with you!" He exclaims in genuine happiness, making her smile.

He observes the appearance of more blue strips that make him arch his brow.

"I will feel safer to do these extreme aerial maneuvers that you ask for, if you stay firmly attached to that saddle. It is my condition to show what an extreme flight is." She speaks in a tone that did not accept any objection from him.

Yuugi sighs and tries to attach the straps, seeing that Yukiko was watching his movements carefully and only after confirming that he was properly arrested, she consents.

"I need you to trust me, Yuugi. You know that all I want least is to see you hurt. I won't let you get hurt. You will always be safe with me."

At first he is concerned by her words but then he smiles gently.

"I trust you, Yukiko. You are my best friend. Well, you may be the only one but you will always be my most precious friend."

She is relieved and consents by showing a gentle smile on her powerful jaws.

"Hold on!" She exclaims as she turns her muzzle forward.

He is appalled to feel a jolt when she jerks her wings up high, gaining a few more feet with him realizing that her blue eyes are shining as her pupils are moving downwards.

She smiles and abruptly closes her wings by placing them glued to her body after tilting her body down, starting to fall towards the ground like a projectile using the club on the tip of her tail to make a vertical descent in a sudden and even protected by the sphere, Yuugi screamed when he saw that they were falling from the sky.

Yukiko kept her eyes shining with relief on her face while using magic to drown out his screams before she lost her hearing.

Yuugi watches the ground below them gradually getting closer as he realizes that his friend used the movement of his tail to dodge the occasional birds that crossed their path while maintaining their vertical dive.

As the floor became more visible to Yuugi, he felt his fear intensify because his friend gave no indication that he would spread his wings by keeping them tightly closed and close to his shaggy body.

Then he remembers her request and his promise, remembering the fact that her friend would never allow him to be hurt and that she had a very protective posture.

"Yukiko would never hurt me. She would never allow anything to happen to me. Therefore, it will not cause any injury. In fact, this is why she made me stay firmly in that saddle. I promised to trust her and that's what I'm going to do. I will never be in danger with her. " He thinks to himself.

With that conviction in his heart and mind he stops screaming, even though he is still afraid and starts looking confidently at his friend who is relieved to see that he no longer screams.

Of course, from the corner of her eye she could see that he was afraid and was expected in that situation because they were on a vertical dive towards the ground.

However, it was a healthy fear at the same time that she could see the glow of confidence directed at her and that made her heart warm, making her smile.

Then, a few feet from the ground, Yuugi feels an abrupt and equally intense bump knowing that it would have been worse had he not been firmly stuck in the saddle while identifying the violent bump as coming from the abrupt opening of his friend's powerful wings that started flapping them. vigorously while placing the body in a horizontal position with the shaggy belly passing close to the ground at the same time that he made a sudden dash towards the sky, starting to gain height again.

Back in the air it rises to a level that allowed it to glide when catching a draft.

"What did Yuugi think?"

"That was incredible! I mean ..."

Yukiko smiles when seeing that his friend could not express in words the emotion he felt.

"We are not done yet. That was one of the maneuvers, one of the most intense, if not the most intense."

"There are others?"

"Yes. I said maneuvers and don't maneuver."

He consents and she flaps her wings and starts looping in the sky along with sudden changes of direction, reaching the point where she flies on her back as she descends towards the ground and then rotates her body to fly again when turning in a screw. at the same time that she made other movements turning on her own axis besides going backwards, with Yuugi making occasional screams only when she started the sudden movement, to later control her fear because she trusted her friend.

Then she glides again.

"What do you think?"

'I loved it! It was amazing!"

"Now, let's relax. I want to show you something. For that, I need you to trust me fully."

"I fully trust you." He speaks, displaying his typical gentle smile.

Smiling with satisfaction at the confidence that her friend placed in her, she leaves the few birds that fly next to them while gliding on a plain, limiting herself to ascending a few meters while stabilizing her flight height.

Then, her eyes shine in a blue tone with Yuugi strangely seeing her own vision as it looked sharper while not realizing that her eyes were blue, too.

"Incredible! What did you do?"

She is relieved to see that he was not afraid and that he seemed genuinely happy and surprised.

"I used my magic to make my vision shared with you. I can bring things together on the ground while flying. Your eyes are shining blue, too."

"You did this when we dive." Yuugi asks as he remembers the first extreme flight.

"Yes. I needed to dodge any obstacle that arose and to do this safely I needed considerable time to be able to dodge in addition to determining the proper terrain for the aerial maneuver to be performed safely. In this case, it needed to be an area totally flat and without any rock.

"You are very cautious."

"It is a risky flight. If I spread my wings too late I will crash into the ground and if I have any obstacles I may end up crashing into it before I can take off again. So it is essential that I do this on flat ground.

"Aren't you afraid, Yukiko? After all, you can spread your wings too late by making a miscalculation."

"I like to experience high emotions. The risk is always tempting. But I would never risk you, Yuugi. That saddle is magic. If I ended up crashing, you wouldn't feel anything, as the saddle would come loose and you would float safely. I I told you that I would never allow you to get hurt. So I took all the safety measures I could take. "

He smiles and nods.

"Thank you so much for showing me the sky, Yukiko. I always dreamed of flying like birds."

"If you want, we can fly more often and if you want, we can repeat some maneuvers."

"I would love to."

"Before we get back I want to show you something and I think you'll love it. It's actually two things."