Something a little different.
"You are going to love it here," Enigma chirped. She led the six Windstrikers to the dragon stable Iris had instructed be built. "Jager and I sleep by our humans but were both have a pen in here."
"Do you enjoy being here?" the lead female asked.
"Anywhere Iris is I am enjoy being," Enigma answered. "My birth place was much more enjoyable but the winters were so cold. Many dragons would freeze to death. I can't speak for Jager though."
"This place is far nicer," Jager yawned. He had been laying on the stable roof with the three Gronkles, Ore, Gem, and Stone, taking a nap. "Not so many crazy humans. I do miss their home though. That place was much cozier."
"And you were scared of me," Enigma laughed. The purple male grumbled at her words. "Are you going to accept any humans?"
"We don't know," the lead female said. "We never really interacted with humans until recently. The dragons with the Riders seem to enjoy it, you and the others here enjoy it, but I don't know."
"You should try it," Gem said. Her red scales glittered in the sun. "I was scared at first, we all were, but the humans we chose as our Riders are kind and loving. Mine would let me live in his house if he had room. I did hear him talking to another human about making a door that I could fit through so I might be living there sooner than I thought."
"All our humans are obsessed with us," Enigma said smugly. "If you chose one yours will be too. If you don't, well, there plenty of space here for you to live."
"Just stay on Enigma's good side," Windshear commented. The metallic dragon landed on the stable roof to peer down at them. "She can be mean."
"Your Rider hit my Rider's mate," Enigma argued. "I wasn't about to be all cheerful and nice."
"But you took it out on me," Windshear grumbled.
"Next time you know better," Jager said.
The purple male got to his feet and jumped off the roof. It bothered Enigma that he was taller than her, it had since they first met, but she learned to ignore it. She was tougher than him and her mane was bigger. She bumped his chest with her head while giving a purr.
"You'll settle in nicely," he said. He puffed out his chest as Enigma rubbed against him. "And I think you'll warm up to the idea of having a Rider. I know I did. So did Enigma no matter what she says."
"You both were wild dragons?" a small male asked.
"We were," Enigma answered. She sat next to Jager. "Iris tended to me when I was injured and Jager decided to intrude on my territory. That's when he met Dagur who approached him."
"I was just following your scent and call," Jager grumbled. She snickered as he pouted. "How was I to know you weren't serious?"
"I didn't think any other dragon was around! Besides, it was the first time Iris flew! How could I not get excited?"
"You shouldn't tease him," Toothless said. The Night Fury bounded up to them to tackle Jager, who flopped over dramatically. "It's not nice. Calling for a mate when you didn't mean it. Mean!"
"He's right," Stormfly chortled. "Are you guys settling in?"
"So far," the lead female answered. "Enigma showed us around the island and the village. The humans are nice but I don't know."
"I am so getting a human," one female announced.
"I'm getting the first one," a male countered.
"No way I will!"
"No I will!"
"Ignore those two," the lead female said as the two dragons bickered. "They are twins, hatched from the same clutch at the same time. They often argue."
"Reminds me of Barf and Belch," Stormfly grumbled. Toothless snickered.
"Get one at the same time," Enigma countered to the two. She ignored Jager's groan at her words. "Then you both win!"
"No way," the female argued.
"Yeah no way," repeated the male.
"Well now you two agree on something!" They looked at her suspiciously before beginning to bicker again. "Well that didn't last long."
"My advice, just leave them," Toothless commented. "Now, why does your human look so sad? I thought her and Dagur were doing the bonding ritual humans do?"
"She wanted it to be more special," Enigma sighed. "It's supposed to be an important thing, a happy thing, but it's happening in between war planning and she's upset. I think she should just wait but her and Dagur decided to go ahead before he leaves for war. Which Jager gets to go join but I'm stuck here because Iris is going to be stuck here. Ugh!"
"Fighting isn't something to want," Windshear said. Enigma just huffed.
Being a wild dragon, from a different world no less, made Enigma view things differently. She had fought tooth and claw with an intruding male before she had been found by Iris. Even if she had been gravely injured, she still won and kept her territory. These other humans were threatening what was her pack's. They should be dealt with like any other threat, death.
Iris didn't handle killing humans well though. Enigma had experienced that first hand attacking the Dragon Hunters with her. Even just using her plan to bring down a sea stack on their ships had made Iris distraught. Seeing how she had been was enough to curb Enigma's desire to war. Her human's mental well being was more important than that.
"I know," Enigma grumbled. "I just wish I could do something to make her happy again."
