Authors note
Hello! It is ME! Coming to you from quarantine! I recently got my Chromebook so I won't have to rely on my parent's computers to do all my work.
(I live with my parents and don't have a lot of money, mainly because I'm not sixteen yet) I am excited about this chapter! It reveals some of Cressida's and Dean's backstory. (Which isn't at all true, I made it up) . I also want to mention quickly that to feel like the story is going very quickly. It's just my opinion. Turns out writing is a LOT harder than I expected. Anyway, tell me what you think and review if you have anything you'd like to ask or bring up!
Also, there is gore and pain in this chapter, so if your not into that stuff skip Sarah's dream.
*Sarah POV*
Sarah looked down at the word in front of her. She looked back at the black dragon in awe and shock. She didn't know what to think. All her life she had loved how to train your dragon. And now the most important essence of that story was in front of her. It was hard to believe, also that the night fury hadn't eaten her instead.
"C-can you understand me?" she murmured, glancing at Cressida looking at her and back at the dragon. The Night Fury nodded slowly and licked her quickly, making her clothes wet.
"Ugh!" Sarah said and looked at the dragon again. "Why would you do that?". The dragon gurgled happily and started to write again.
Because I wanted to, I came to say goodbye to you.
The dragon wrote and cooed softly. She didn't understand, goodbye? She didn't even know who the dragon was. 'W-who are you? I just met you." She said and was surprised when the dragon shook its head.
"My name is Luna, sound familiar?"
Sarah started up at the dragon in shock, tears started to roll down her eyes. She immediately hugged her friend. "H-how did this happen to you? Who is the other dragon? Why did you take Cressida?"
"We took Cressida to ask her if she can help, the other dragon is my friend, Bethany."
A pang of jealousy stung Sarah when she looked at Bethany. Why wasn't she a dragon? Why hasn't she mentioned Bethany? She looked at Cressida, who was glancing at the writing.
"How could I help you?" Cressida asked the dragon. Sarah looked at the author in disbelief, THAT was her first question!? Not, DO DRAGONS EXIST?! Or maybe how on earth did a person get transformed into a dragon?!
Luna simply started to write in the dirt again, the dragon talons were smooth and sharp, Sarah couldn't help but admire them.
"We thought you might know how to turn us back into humans since you most likely would be more helpful than dean, and he would be too heavy for us to drag."
Cressida snorted with laughter and nodded. "I honestly don't know what happened, or how I could change you back, could you please explain to me what happened?" The author asked.
Bethany walked up to them and pushed Luna out of the way and started to write herself.
"We got blasted by a Night Fury, both of us."
The author looked up at them, her gaze steady and calm. She shrugged. "Sorry, I don't know what to do, you're stuck like this."
Sarah nodded again and looked around, they were in the literal middle of nowhere, She felt scared, her mother was probably so worried, and people could start hunting Luna and her friend.
Luna opened her jaws to show her smooth sharp teeth, the dragon laid down and huffed. Sarah watched as Luna swerved her tail and the fin blocked her face. Before Sarah could ask what she was doing she started to hear snores erupt from the two dragons.
Sarah glanced at Cressida, thoughts and questions swirling in her head. The author gave her a genuine smile and sighed. "Well…. This was certainly not how I expected my day to go!" Cressida laughed.
She giggled. Enjoying Cressida's presence. Questions formed into her head and she couldn't help but blurt one out."Why weren't you scared of them when they took off with us?" She asked.
Cressida looked at her and sighed.
"Well, I have never been afraid of dragons, large or small, they are all connected. I was surprised when they took me. But I should have known they where alive, they were breathing very lightly, but I didn't pay much attention to it. I certainly thought something was… different about them. But I never would have guessed that they would have kidnapped me and some child!" she laughed.
Sarah felt sick to her stomach, had Cressida met a dragon…? The author glanced at her, giving her a look of slight pity… and envy? "Let's go have a little chat," Cressida said and started to walk away as Sarah followed feeling a pang of fear as they started walking deeper into the woods.
She looked at the old woman with wide eyes as the author sat down on a large rock. Sarah sat beside her"So what do you want to tell me?" She asked. Feeling as though there was something important that she needed to know.
Cressida looked at Sarah in the eyes and started to speak, her tone was soft and had a pang of sorrow.
"It's a long story, it goes back from when I was young, I always believed in dragons, since I was little. I would go and explore the island I lived on to search for them, although I would just always come back with bruises and cuts because I would fall into the multiple caves on the island, get scraped from rolling down a hill and splinters from falling off trees.
I never found anything, I tried for years. When I was around ten I decided to go searching one last time, and then give it up. I felt as though I had lost hope. My mother hadn't liked my beliefs and thought it was ridiculous.
But as I searched the island I saw a small cave. I had never noticed it before, my mother had always told me I should go there since there were usually high tides. I looked into it and I saw it went downwards, which meant I could get stuck and drown if there were any high tides.
But I went inside anyway, my curiosity got the best of me. I went for a long way until I realized that the cave was getting taller and wider until I was able to stand up, I continued downward expecting seawater to come up any second, but it never did. I went deep underground, it felt like hours of walking, and it was dark and I couldn't see my hand in front of me.
I couldn't see and I didn't see a hole in the cave, I walked right into it and I fell into the inside. I splattered into the water, I was scared and I couldn't see very well, I was in unknown waters in the middle of nowhere. I swam until I found shore, the ground was smooth stone, not like any beaches I had ever known.
I could see a slight light, it glittered on the rocks and I looked around, seeing I had fallen into an underground cave with a small little pool of water in it. I tasted the water and it was fresh, not seawater, which surprised me because the island I lived on was surrounded by salt water.
So I got up and followed the light until I found a hole probably as big as my hand." Cressida said opening her hand. "I looked into the hole, I wanted to know where the light had come from.
I saw a whole world before my eyes, I saw glowing plants, rocks that spiralled up like a twisting horn going higher than the biggest mountains, and I saw crystals growing from the rocks shining brightly in different colours and sizes. I was about to go and try and find a way out when I saw something moving in the hole. I looked more closely and saw something small, and green with long back frills.
I remember watching it for long moments. Eventually, I saw its large eyes look at me, they were a fiery orange that looked as though its eyes were made out of flames themselves. The thing started to fly towards me, When it came closer I could see it had horns and small green wings with small red scales. I finally realized that it had to be a dragon, the thing I had looked for since I was young. Before I could fully distinguish its features it flew away, back to its flock.
I stayed and continued to watch from the small hole, I saw many different dragons. Ones that were tall and had large wings larger than ten feet. I saw dragons rise from the water and roar mighty roars. I watched in amazement and probably stayed for hours.
I decided to leave after a long while, but I always came back, I never told anyone. It was my little secret. I would write and draw them, eventually, I saw the same dragon that I had seen the first time I was there. It had been hesitant to me. The dragon would squeeze through the hole and would watch me from the other side of the cave." Cressida explained and gave a weak chuckle.
Eventually, the dragon saw I wasn't a threat, he eventually came close enough to me that I could touch him, he growled. Then I did the same thing hiccup did in the movies. That did the trick.
That dragon became my best friend, I based Toothless off of him, Their where many times I would come and he would be waiting for me, we played the best games, he would also steal my lunch if it had meat or fish in it.
He was the best thing that ever happened to me. But dragons don't live forever. Unfortunately, Toothless's was cut short. He died in my arms, he fought another dragon and got badly hurt. I found him sounded, I tried to help him, but I wasn't enough." The author said with a few tears going down her cheeks
"But I wrote in honour of him, he was an amazing friend and our bond was close, The stories of hiccup and toothless where….. Partly true, along with dragons I found old scrolls that were in Norse, it talked of a child and dragon that did great things together. The child's name was hiccup….. And I honestly must say the dragon was a night fury. But I changed it to my dragon friend. I wrote about the things the boy and dragon, and I wrote my own stories as well. So toothless would stay in my heart.
Years passed, and I continued writing, but I felt lonely, I wanted affection, so I started to go on dating sights, it turns out Dean wanted the same thing, because he was a match for me, and I eventually met him.
The author huffed and looked at Sarah. "I deeply regret this part of the story." She said and continued.
"We talked for the first time and he seemed so interesting, he asked me all these questions, he taught me so many things. After three years of dating I asked him if he could be trusted with a secret, he said yes and we went through the tunnel.
I showed him what I saw, he was amazed, and we saw a dragon that I had only seen in pictures of the old scrolls of hiccup haddock the third. The light grey dragon looked quite old and frail, but still powerful.
It was a Night Fury with some Light fury traits, such as the smooth tail and smaller feet. Dean and I were both amazed, I drew it for inspiration purposes. Dean couldn't stop talking about it, he rambled on and became angry how I haven't shown this to the world and made a huge profit.
I tried to explain that it wouldn't be fair to the dragons and that they would most likely be killed. He still didn't listen and a few weeks later he went to Dreamworks studios and said he had a new movie idea, based on my book series. I was disgusted and immediately rejected the idea. But he blackmailed me and told me that if I don't except then he would tell the whole world about the dragon's existence, then they would all die.
So I had to agree to the movie, and we broke up obviously, but he still got what he wanted, and I learned he never wanted me, just my secrets...". Cressida said with slight tears in her eyes.
Sarah was shocked, she was first surprised that Cressida and Dean used to DATE, but also the fact that Cressida SAW the hidden world, it was amazing, and it explains how Dean came up with the movie.
He was a liar. They both stayed quiet for a moment, not knowing what to say next. Then Cressida got up. "We should go back." Sarah couldn't form any words, so she just nodded.
Sarah walked back with the elderly author, she understood now why Cressida wasn't as afraid of the dragons, it made sense. Sarah was also upset, everyone's favourite producer blackmailed Cressida and used her, it was awful! But she still didn't understand why Cressida had told her this, it didn't make any sense, why didn't Cressida tell Luna and her friend instead?
As they walked back into the beach, one of the black dragons shot its head up, Sarah realized it was luna and smiled at the dragon.
Luna titled her head to the side and got up and started to wite in the dirt.
"Where were you?"
Sarah opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by Cressida."We just needed to stretch our legs." The author simply stated. Sarah looked at the woman startled, why didn't she let her speak? Why weren't they allowed to know about the hidden world?
Before she could ask the author anything her dragon friend huffed and opened her wing, Slowly she walked over to her friend and laid down. The ground was hard, but Luna's wings were warm and comforting.
Sarah looked up and saw Luna's face and the huge wing around her, she could see her friend looking at her with happy eyes, but she could see something else, she didn't know what. But as soon as the new emotion appeared on her friend's eyes it disappeared.
She looked around one last time before closing her eyes, she saw Cressida sitting upon a rock, looking up at the sky as stars came into view. Sarah couldn't help but feel bad for the woman, she had been through so much and couldn't tell anyone about it, other than her for some reason.
She finally closed her eyes and drifted slowly off into sleep.
Sarah opened her eyes and she realized she was flying, she was a dragon flying free. The thing she had wanted since she was young. Soon she slowly drifted into sleep felt the wing underneath her wings, it felt so good, she roared with glee and she heard echos in the distance. She felt herself fly towards it. Suddenly she felt pain, it felt as though her heart was being ripped from her chest. Her eyes opened and she saw herself falling, her wings were torn and her vision was bloodied. She felt blood erupt from her mouth, tasting the salty tang of it as it dribbled out. She tried to roar for help but blood was choking her, she gagged and saw a dragon flying towards her, someone was coming to help her! The dragon approached her, her talons went up, trying to reach for the dragon, they were going to save her from this pain!
She was wrong.
The dragon flew down and she could see its face, it was Luna, why want she catching her? She wasn't helping her at all, she seemed to be laughing as she was plunging towards her death.
"H-help me….." She choked out as she looked down and saw the ground, covered with sharp spikes, they were oozing with green liquid. Luna laughed at her.
"You will NEVER be one of us! You are no dragon, You shall watch everyone die, and it's your fault!" The dragon she had called her friend for so long laughed. Out of thin air, her mother appeared, in the claws of Luna, before she got impaled by the jagged rocks she heard a sickening snap, a scream of terror from her mother, and Luna's cold laugh.
Sarah woke up, panting and gasping for air, she still tasted the blood in her mouth and the pain in her chest. Her eyes widened when she saw Luna, on instinct she wriggled out of Luna's grasp. She looked at her friend, peacefully sleeping.
"W-What happened…..?" she gasped. It was a dream she had just had, but it felt… so real. She couldn't look at Luna, even though she knew that none of it was real, she still saw the images of Luna snapping her mother's neck snd laughing so evilly.
She got up and slowly started to walk towards the forest, she needed a moment, she wasn't sure if she could sleep again tonight…..
As she walked deeper into the woods she felt a cold breeze surround her, she shivered and continued, feeling mud squelch onto her shoes. Sarah turned around and couldn't see the beach anymore, only her muddy footsteps, she sat down on a tree root and she felt tears going down her face, she tried her best not to wail, she felt so much fear and pain. She wanted to go home, where she could embrace her mother in a hug, smelling her warm scent of food and fabric.
She sniffled and her head shot up when she heard a loud snap of a twig, she looked around, seeing nothing but darkness and the faint moonlight.
"H-hello?" she asked. Glancing around fearfully, had Luna waken up to her not being there? "L-luna?" she called quietly, whipping the wet tears of her face.
Two large blue eyes opened a few meters away from her At first, Sarah thought it was Luna, then realized that the eyes were different. They weren't a dazzling dark blue like the ocean water on warm summer nights, the eyes where the blue of ice under the moons bright glow on a long winter night.
Sarah tried not to scream, feeling fear swell up inside her. She didn't know this dragon, and she didn't know its intentions. Slowly the dragon came out of the shadows, the dragon was tall and healthy-looking, with a sturdy build. She realized it looked like a night fury, but…. Not quite.
The dragon's nose was a snowy colour, and its underbelly, paws, and ear tips were all white as well. The body seemed slimmer and the scales on the dragon's body were smoother. The rest of the body was midnight black.
The dragon's wings opened and she looked at it, their eyes locked for a few moments. The dragon looked like one of the night lights from the third How To Train Your Dragon movie. But that was impossible…. Dragons couldn't live that long, could they?
The dragon edged closer to her, it's piercing straight on her. Sarah stepped back and felt the tree behind her, making it she couldn't back up any further. She looked at the tree and back at the dragon, who was crawling up to her, inch by inch, until the dragon was barely five inches away from her face.
The dragon made a slow rumble and Sarah tried to back away, "D-don't hurt me…" she murmured, surprised that she said that, she was always curious to meet a dragon, and now she was meeting one that wasn't someone she already knew and she was afraid?
The dragon quickly grabbed her and she screeched in terror, the dragon wrapped its tail around her so she couldn't move and the dragon started to sniff her with curiosity.
As she calmed down and looked at the dragon as it was sniffing her hair, she realized she could faintly see through the dragon? What was happening? Was she still sleeping somehow?
"W-who are you?" she asked. The dragon looked at her again and stared into her eyes. Sarah wriggled and was able to take her hand out of the dragon's grasp. She put her arm out like how hiccup did with toothless and looked away. "I hope this works….. If this is the same nightlight then maybe it doesn't pose a threat." She thought.
She waited, and waited, but the dragon's nose didn't come into the palm of her hand. She heard a loud noise like the noise from an electric fence. She opened her eyes and saw the dragon's mouth open and wide, purple light coming from the back of its mouth.
"Nononononononononononononononono! This can't be happening!"
She tried to wiggle free, thrashing back and forth trying to get out of the dragon's grasp. "HELP!" She screamed, afraid for her life, how could this happen? She wasn't threatening in any way!
Sarah looked at the dragon pleadingly, the fire was still being built up, and the nightlight didn't look angry in any way, what was happening?
She heard the fire being shot, the dragon let go of her and she fell backwards as the ball of fire hit her head. She felt her whole body engulfed in fire, she felt pain, worse than her dream. She gasped and tried to move, but couldn't. She was suffering, why would the dragon do this?
"I'm dying…. I wanted to be able to hug my mom... One more time before I left…."
Finally, she closed her eyes, taking in an agonizing breath of smoke before finally falling into unconsciousness.
*Luna POV*
She was sleeping peacefully, she was dreaming of her family, celebrating her little sister's eighth birthday. She smiled as her sister blew he candles out, she smiled and hugged her sister.
Suddenly her sister screamed, it sounded distant as if she was far away.
"What's wrong?" she asked frantically, holding onto her sister with her hands….. Why did she have hands? She was a dragon, her sister screamed again. She closed her eyes and opened them again, she was no longer with her sister in their warm house. Instead, she has outside, on the sandy beach, once again a dragon.
Luna opened her wings o see if Sarah was awake, she wasn't there. Someone screamed, it was Sarah…...
Luna shot up and roared. "Sarah? Sarah?! SARAH?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Someone tapped her shoulder and she turned around to face Bethany and Cressida.
"What are you yelling about?" Her friend asked sleepily.
"Sarah is gone, and I heard her scream come from the forest!" She yelled. Bethany didn't seem fazed.
"She probably went on a walk and got spooked by something in the woods," Bethany said and shrugged. "Besides, it's most likely she tried to get back to her mom, she probably plans on telling them on our location." She continued.
Fury erupted from her chest, "Don't you EVER say that! She would NEVER do that!" She growled, her claws digging into the sand.
"I know she wouldn't go back without saying goodbye, and she would NEVER tell anyone, she is one of the people I trust most. Did you get that? So shut your maw before I do it for you!" Luna growled in rage, Bethany nodded, looking somewhat surprised at her response.
She sighed, she didn't like rage controlling her, but at the same time it was hard not to get mad at Bethany, sometimes she could be so rude! Bethany also knew NOTHING about Sarah, she had no right to judge her like that!
"I'm going to look for Sarah, you don't have to come if you don't want to." Luna huffed and walked away, her tail dragging across the sand until she walked into the woods. Luna needed to find where the screams came from, she hoped Sarah was alright.
As Luna continued to walk through the thick forest she felt the earth become moister, the trees started to grow thicker the further she walked along, almost covering the moon from sight.
"Why is this place so different from where we made our camp?" She asked herself. It was as though the forest was closing around her, she felt as though she was trapped.
After what felt like hours of walking, she saw a large willow tree, larger than all the other trees, its branches twisted and the leaves were long and smelled fresh. The trunk was larger then she was, its bark was study and thick. As she grew closer the saw something limp in the shadows.
"Sarah?" she asked and ran up to the figure. She dragged it out to where she could see it in the moonlight. Not noticing how big the body was. She panted as she finally dragged it to where the moonlight was. She gasped at the sight, the body was a dragon, more specifically a night fury. Its body was lean and the dragon's scales glimmered in the light of the moon. Lighter scales went down the dragon's body. She was smaller than Luna and the nubs on her face were smaller and rounder. Her scales were shiny and perfect, smooth and round. Her own which were dirty and were larger and overlapped each other.
Who was this dragon? What happened to Sarah? Had the dragon had something to do with it? With a panic she realized that the dragon hadn't moved, she nudged the dragon roughly, no answer.
Was the dragon dead?
She went over to the night furies chest, there was a heartbeat, and the dragon was breathing softly. Luna sighed and grabbed the dragon by the neck and threw her onto her back.
"I'll take her back, then I can continue to look for Sarah." She mumbled to herself as she grunted and continue to walk, the other night fury was smaller then she was, but it didn't mean it was any easier to carry her.
Luna crawled back to Bethany and Cressida, both were looking confused and their eyes widened when they looked at her back. She dropped the dragon off of her back with a grunt and fell in defeat. "Can't, walk... so, tired." She said and looked at the dragon.
Bethany and Cressida walked over to her and the other dragon, both with confused glances.
Bethany grunted, "More weirdos to come along on this exhilarating adventure?" She joked.
Luna stood up and whipped her in the face with her tail, making Bethany go backwards and chuckle. "I was joking!" her friend said. "What happened?" the author asked and inspected the other dragon.
"I found her in the woods while I was looking for Sarah."
She wrote, the author nodded and continued to look at the dragon. Bethany walked up to Luna and smiled at her. "We'll find her, don't you worry, I'm sure she's looking for us now." Bethany murmured, trying to seem sympathetic, but luna heard a hint of sarcasm in the dragon's voice.
Luna stared at Bethany and sighed, she knew Bethany was trying to be friendly, but she knew for whatever reason her friend didn't like Sarah very much. She got up and stretched, about to leave luna started towards the woods until she heard a faint groan and she turned around. The new dragon's eyes were slowly blinking open. The night fury's eyes were a bright red, reminding Luna of blood.
The dragon looked around, clearly confused and scared. "I-I was just outside, what happened? Why am I with all of you? Was that dragon attack just a dream?" The dragon asked. "Who are you?" Luna asked. The dragon sounded familiar, and she was talking like she knew them.
"Luna! How I can understand you? How is that possible? I must still be dreaming!" The dragon said and smiled and looked around. "You all look so real though…"
Luna looked at The night fury confused, she knew her name? How? Then it struck her like lightning, but how was that possible? How could Sarah have turned into a dragon?
"S-Sarah?" Luna asked. "Yes? Why do you look so confused?" Sarah asked her, obviously not knowing what had happened to her. "You aren't dreaming." luna said. "Wal over to the water and look at yourself…" Luna said and her friend looked at her confused. Sarah got up and looked at luna.
"What's on my back?" Sarah asked and luna pointed to the lake, "LOOK!" she said. Sarah looked at her confused and obeyed. Luna walked beside her and they both looked at their reflections together. Sarah's face was shocked, her friend's mouth was wide open.
"Did I mention your not dreaming?" Luna said chuckling. She looked at her friend, but she was just surprised to see the sorrow in her large red eyes. "What's wrong?" luna asked and Sarah turned to her. Her friend hugged her tightly. "I'll never be able to seem my mom again…" her friend muffled in her shoulder.
"Sarah…. I know its hard….." she said and sighed and hugged ber back. "It's hard for me too, but we'll get through this together….." She said. Sarah growled and unlatched the hug and glared at her. "I don't WANT to get through this! I want to go home!" Her friend screamed.
Sarah stalked off, her tail lashing behind her. Luan sighed and watched as Sarah went to the other side of the beach. She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked down to see Cressida looking up at her, giving a smile of sympathy.
"I'm sure you were like this at first, right?" Cressida asked. Luna thought about it, a stab of guilt surged through her. No, she had never felt such strong emotions about leaving, she felt sad, but she just continued. Guilt overtook her, how could she have been so selfish? She had two little siblings, her parents were probably worried sick!
Cressida sighed and smiled weakly at luna. "No, huh? I guess that's somewhat understandable, I assume you didn't think much about them at all these past few days have you?" Cressida asked again. Still pricking with guilt her ears flopped down and she nodded slowly.
Cressida just continued smiling. "I admit… that's a bit selfish, but you have a lot more on your plate right now don't you?" Cressida asked and luna turned her head away from the author in shame. The author continued talking, "Its alright, I understand, having a new role can make you forget how important things are to you." Cressida said and walked away.
Luna sighed and saw Bethany looking at her, with a glare, saying "You are selfish." Luna walked away and went to the farther part of the brach and looked down at her reflection. All she saw was a night fury. She couldn't help but wonder why her family hadn't affected her. She still didn't feel very much pain, except for a few people in her life, her brother, her father, and her grandmother. Mostly the rest of her family felt more distant towards her.
Her mother always worked, she didn't get along very well with her sister and step-parents. And her other she didn't have a very strong relationship with her other grandparents. Guilt continued to prick in her belly, she might have not had a very strong connection with them, but she should be feeling more sadness, pain. She had barely even thought about her family at all, was she just that selfish? Had being a dragon been something she wanted for so long that she just blocked out everything else that was important to her?
She just sighed again and looked up at the stars, they twinkled at her, she just wanted to say goodbye, one more time, so everyone could know she was alright. As she expected to have an ordinary life. Ut this was her life now, she must have just accepted it sooner than the others. She looked back at her two friends, Bethany was still glaring at her. And Sara was still on the other side of the beach.
She looked up at the stars "I promise ill find my family, and I can apologize to them myself." she said up to the stars. She thought for a moment one twinkled but shook it off. She sighed and looked down at the pool once again. "I promise…."
*Sarah POV*
She sighed and glanced at Luna on the other side of the beach, she shouldn't have yelled at her. How could she have been so mean?
She looked in the water of the lake and looked at her reflection. "This is me…" She thought ad sighed, her round head was smooth and she had large red eyes. Why was she a dragon? Had Dart done it too her?
Questions whirled around in her head like a tornado. Her mi whirled and she slumped down. Why did the world do this to her? She wanted to be a dragon so badly for most of her life, but now that she was… she felt almost empty.
Sarah continued looking down at her reflection, she sighed again and her head shot up as she heard a growl. Bethany was stalking behind Luna. Her friend hasn't noticed and she yowled.
"WATCH OUT!" she screamed as she saw Bethany lunge at her friend, the two black bodies tumbling in the sand.
Sarah got up and started to run towards them, her tail and wings dragging in the sand. She watched in horror as she came closer. Both dragons had claws dug into each other, their teeth both in a snarl, Bethanys was dripping with blood.
Luna slashed at Bethany's shoulder making the dragon scream in pain, she saw as Bethany lifted her claws up and on instinct Sarah started to run. She rammed into Bethany at full force and felt herself spin in the sand. She pinned the other dragon down and snarled. A primal force came over her and her claws dug into Bethany's scales.
"Sarah stop!" she heard and turned to Luna running up to them, having multiple cuts, on her shoulder, a large bit on her arm, and her cheeks had claw marks on them. Her claws were bloody and dripping with Bethany's blood.
"She tried to kill you!" Sarah said, still holding on tightly to Bethany. "No, no she didn't! She attacked me, and I don't know why, but I don't think she was trying to kill me, right Bethany?'
Luna's friend snorted, "I thought maybe if I could beat you that I could be leader, you keep making the shots, and I'm sick of it! Sarah made me realize that I can stand up to you! You don't even care what I'm feeling! You only care about yourself!"
Sarah glanced at luna and in horror watched as her friend's eyes clouded with sadness, did she do this? Was this her fault that she was sad?
She watched as luna looked at both of them "Bethany's right, I never realized how hard this must be for both of you, and I let my excitement get the best of me, making me almost forget about my family. I feel selfish and awful. Now that I had time to think I now understand your pain. Of family, if I'm being honest I barely thought of my family at all. This entire time I was only thinking what was ahead of us."
Sarah felt her heart melt, she walked up to luna and looked up at the larger Night fury. "I forgive you." she murmured and luna smiled and wrapped her arms around her in an embrace. "Thank you…." she heard her friend murmur and release the hug.
Bethany coughed and she and luna looked at her. Luna glared at her. "You could have told me how you felt before attacking me," Luna growled. Sarah looked back at Bethany, seeing her wounds. Bethany had a long scratch down her side, one of her shoulders was slashed, oozing blood, and she had the claw marks in her sides which Sarah had given her. She felt a stab of guilt but ignored it. Bethany had tried to hurt Luna, she had a very good reason for hurting her, to save her friend.
Bethany walked away and went to the lake and started to clean herself. Luna went to the other side. Sarah followed her friend and Luna gave her a grateful smile.
"Sorry about that," Luna said, Sarah shook her head. "It's fine to let's just worry about your wounds," she said.
"The wounds aren't that deep," Luna said to her and started to rub water on the wounds, making the blood go into the water.
"Well thank you for helping me."Luna said to her, "I think I could have finished her off myself, but you certainly stopped the fight sooner, I thank you for that." her friend said.
Sarah gave a small smile and her nose twitched at the salty smell of the blood. She watched as Luna started to lick her wounds, then remembered that night fury saliva was supposed to have healing remedies.
"So, after I finish up would you like to learn how to fly?" she asked and Sarah looked at her in surprise. "M-me, I don't think I can." She said
Luna laughed and gave a toothless grin. "Of course you can! Were night furies! We are born from lightning and death!" her friend laughed and ran away from her.
"H-hey! Wait up!" Sarah said laughing. She followed her friend to a large rock and over the horizon, they could see the small lights of a city.
They walked to an opening where a lake stretched out as far as the eye could see in the distance, she sighed.
"What's wrong?" Luna asked her. "My mom, my brother and sister, my dad, I can't go back now, I'm a dragon," Sarah said. Luna nodded sadly. "You have to stay strong." her friend said and smiled at her and nudged her.
"Let's get you into the water," Luna said and jumped in, splashing Sarah in the process. She laughed and jumped in too. She shivered, the water was cold.
She smiled and relaxed, Luna sat beside her. "Soooo, wanna play?" Luna asked her.
"Wasnt I supposed to learn to fly?" she asked and luna shrugged. "Playing is more fun," Luna said and lunged at her playfully.
She dodged and batted her friend playfully and Luna jumped again barreling both of them under the water. When they came back out she was gnawing on Luna's ear.
"You win." Luna laughed as Sarah got off and laid down and smiled. "Now let's get out of the water! It's time to fly!" Luna roared happily, running out of the water. She followed close behind.