...sigh...when I think i have made the chapters longer, I go back to look and find that their not longer XD IM SORRY.

[laughs while trying hard to be sorry]

Oh! quick thing! Talon for me means the entire paw claws and all, and claw means just the nail or 'pointy bit'

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Shadowtalon sprang to her talons as the Scavengers slid off their respective dragons and looked at her, small mouths agape. Shadowtalon turned to face them and lowered her head slowly and hissed threateningly. She arched her back slightly and flared her wings beside her, making herself look as large as she possibly could. She noticed that a particularly chubby Scavenger started to squeal like some sort of newborn pig and start talking rapidly in some sort of language to the skinny scavenger who was missing a foot.

Shadowtalon narrowed her eyes, so these tiny creatures actually had a language? this DEFINITELY was NOT Pyhrria! Shadowtalon glanced briefly at a female Scavenger who held an axe and seemed to be wary of her. Shadowtalon noticed how this daring female seemed to challenging her, Shadowtalon scoffed lightly, earning a baffled reaction from the Scavengers. Who were they to challenge her?! puny scavengers to a mighty nightwing of Pyhrria!

Shadowtalon was about to lunge for the scavengers and..well...taste this lands cuisine, but was surprised to find the skinny scavenger slowly approach her with a paw outstretched. Confused as to what this creature was doing, Shadowtalon tucked her wings beside her and dropped her head a bit further to see what this creature was doing. The creature seemed to like this reaction and promptly tried to place its paw on her snout. Shadowtalon snapped her large jaws at the scavenger as she realized it was trying to touch her, only barely missing its paw. Oh well, probably was stringy anyway.

The smaller, black dragon fired a shot of some sort of purple fire at her scales. This didn't hurt of course, she hardly even felt it! but no matter, what an insult! snarling, Shadowhunter breathed in, held her fire at the back of her throat for a couple seconds to make it nice and burning before firing and long blast at the dragons and scavengers. To her disappointment, they scattered as soon as they saw her building the fire, letting a perfectly good burst of flame go to waste.

But, when she thought about it. It was very satisfying watching them scramble for their insignificant lives and literally jump onto their dragons and fly away with their tails between their legs. Shadowtalon chuckled nastily, perhaps she shouldn't have been so hasty to chase away other dragons, but they were hardly dragons at all! two didn't even have front legs! like, it was born that way! and one had two heads, what the three moons!? she found it hard to wrap her head around it. And why were all of them so...tiny? Shadowtalon was a full dragon larger then they were! like if you were to combine the width and height of another dragon exactly the same as the two headed one, then that's how much taller she was then them. INSANE! And Shadowtalon was only just an adult too!

Once the odd creatures and the not really dragons were well out of sight, she huffed in their general direction before going back to exploring the island. But this time on talon, who knows, might be a suitable cave around here. While exploring, Shadowtalon, couldn't get her mind off of the strange, skinny scavenger. What was it trying to do? Shadowtalon pushed away these thoughts as she discovered a nice large cave that lay directly beside the sea, it lay embedded in the cliff-side, only a couple meters above the ocean. Perfect! this is the perfect place, sure it might get a bit wet, but if any passing Seawings were to come on by, they would see her for sure!

But for now, she would sleep. Moons know how she was tired, turns out portals really drain you, especially when you then meet not really dragons and intelligent scavengers. With sarcasm still present in her mind, Shadowtalon lay down in the back of the cave, curled her tail around herself, and shut her eyes. Letting herself drift off into sleep, she tried not to think about the growing gnawing in her stomach.


A few hours later she was rudely awoken by the sound of wingbeats hovering around her cave, yes, it is now HER cave. She opened her eyes and only groaned to see the pitch black dragon with its skinny scavenger and the fat scavenger with its boulder like dragon. She lifted her head and growled, flicking her ears back as they landed down at the very entrance of the cave. But luckily for them, they didn't try to touch her again. But this time however, the fat one and its not-really-a-dragon stepped forward, presenting several large baskets. Shadowtalon hissed at them quietly, warning them not to come closer. The fat one seemed to take a hint and set the baskets down, the dragon, who had been carrying one in its mouth, did the same.

The fat one kept its eyes locked with Shadowtalon, as it slowly tipped over the baskets, revealing an assortment of random objects. Shadowtalon extended her neck warily to look at the items. Fish, rocks, random plants, and a couple other items. Shadowhunter looked at the scavengers, slightly confused. The fat one then picked up a rock and gave it to his dragon, who proceeded to eat the whole bloody thing. Shadowhunter's eyes widened as she watched the equally fat dragon eat the rock, but she picked up the message. They were bringing her food. 'well then, are they trying to please me by bringing me offerings? well, it was a good idea, may as well humor them'

Using her claw to search through the items, she tried and failed to find some red meat. Going for the next best thing, she picked out several fish, blackened them with a bust of fire and promptly ate them. Looking back to the fat scavenger she saw him back over with the skinny scavenger, both of them were writing in a notebook or something. The fat one, seeming to forget itself came back to her, but much closer this time and started pointing to the underside of her wings, which at this point, were slightly open and tipped upwards. Shadowtalon growled softly, choosing to be kind. they had brought her food after all, so, you know, manners now came into play.

Well, manners actually called for her to speak to them bu-...hold on a minute...what if they could understand her?! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FOOD THEY COULD BRING HER IF THEY KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED? excited at the prospect of more food (don't question her love of food if you want to live) she cleared her throat to gain their attention. Once their eyes were on her, she tried to speak as clearly as she could "do you understand me?" their eyes widened and they seemed to become very excited, but they were showing no signs of understanding what she said.

She tried again to make sure "If you understand me then respond...please" They started chattering even more excitedly, if that was even possible, but again gave no evidence that they understood her. Shadowtalon sighed heavily and tried one more thing. In the small layer of dirt and sand, she wrote with her talon CAN YOU READ THIS?. She then huffed in their direction and when she had their attention she pointed to her writing.

The hurried over and the fat one squealed again when it saw the runes, but did nothing to respond to her message. Great, just great. She had creatures who couldn't understand her and who couldn't explain to her where she was...and who were running around like rats with their tails cut off in poorly placed excitement. Stupid portal...