Chapter 4

Author's note

"Hello, I am sorry it's been over a month since I posted, I have had a lot of school work to deal with, I shall make a more regular schedule once its summer break, I hope you enjoy it!"

*Sarah POV*

Sarah followed, feeling excitement tingle up her spine, could she really fly? Was she ready? Did she even deserve it? Could she even do it? She was nothing like Luna or Bethany, she wasn't strong, she wouldn't ever hurt anybody! But wasn't that what being a dragon was all about?

She walked up beside Luna, who was walking with her head up, her friend's scar on her shoulder was still bleeding a little. 'We'll be flying? Like with our wings?" Sarah asked nervously, she didn't want her friend to know how scared she really was. Sarah saw her friend holding back a laugh. "Yes, with our wings, not our feet." Luna said giggling.

Sarah looked at her friend's shoulder again. "Hey Luna, what about your shoulder?" She asked, worried for her friend. "I'm pretty sure it'll be fine," Luna said, giving her a toothy grin.

They walked on the beach until Luna pointed to a large boulder that veered into the Lake. "That's where you're going to learn to fly!" her friend said cheerfully. Sarah watched as Luna jumped up, her friend's claws clung onto the rock and Luna started to climb up slowly. Her muscles, hunching each time she jumped. Luna's movements were slick and strong.

Sarah watched as Luna climbed to the top, looking up at her from below. "Come on!" Luna yowled down to her. Woa…. How did Luna climb up so easily? She wondered.

Sarah looked at her claws and flexed them, She could do this! She'd never really climbed before in her life, but she could still do this! She hunched her muscles and jumped, putting her claws out and towards the rock.

Her body slammed into the boulder, making her fall backwards onto the sand, she fell with an "oof", the wind being knocked out of her.

"Are you ok?" Luna asked her from above. She got up and nodded at her friend, she didn't want her to worry. She hunched her muscles again, she looked for a crevice this time that she could hold onto with her claws. She jumped again, her body slammed into the rock again, but this time her claws caught onto the rock. She breathed heavily, she did it! She actually did it!

Luna pointed to another crevice in the boulder. She hunched her muscles again, jumping to the next crevice. Her body hurt, and her claws felt as though they were going to pop off, but she continued anyway. She slowly climbed, her breathing heavy and her body started to ache, when she thought she was going to fall again, she saw Luna right above her. Her friend grabbed her arm and pulled her up.

She got onto the ledge and fell on her side gasping for air. "So... Tired…" She thought and looked at her claws, which were dirty, yet still looked like they were in perfect condition.

"You alright?" Luna asked. "Ya, just tired." She said breathlessly. "Well, let's go then!" Luna yowled and ran over to the side of the boulder. Sarah followed hesitantly, she saw water below them, making her shiver with fear. At least falling into the water was better than crashing into the ground.

"I'll show you first, then you try, how about we start with gliding?" Luna asked her. Sarah nodded and watched as Luna opened her wings to its full length and waited. Then there was a gust of wind and Luna jumped off, starting to glide softly until she splashed into the water.

Sarah watched as Luna swam out of the water and climbed back up the rock again with ease. Sarah looked at her wings, she didn't know how to move them, they were practically being dragged on the ground as she walked.

"Luna, I won't be able to fly, I can't even raise my wings up and down, much less fly." Sarah murmured, looking up at her friend. She said and was surprised when Luna started to smile mischievously.

"That's what instincts are for." Luna said with a wicked smirk. "I have a bad feeling about this." Sarah thought as Luna nudged her to the side of the ledge.

"Jump."

"Is she serious?!" Sarah wondered, she looked down at the water below, it looked black and wicked-looking, she looked around, she started to panic.

She felt the extra limbs on her back, she shivered. Sarah started to try holding them up but failed. "I don't think I can do this, not yet anyway," Sarah said she didn't want to make Luna think that she was weak, but she couldn't do it.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine," Luna said with a mischievous grin. "What are y-" she tried to say as Luna pushed her off the ledge and Sarah saw the water below her and waited to splatter into it.

This is going to hurt...

She waited, and waited, she didn't feel the water, she felt her entire body shiver as she felt the wind in her face. She opened her eyes, looked down and saw that she was right in front of the water, but she wasn't falling into it.

Sarah heard a yowl of triumph, she turned her head to see Luna jumping up and down. She was slowly drifting further away from her friend and the shore, what was happening? The realization hit her like a brick, She was GLIDING with her WINGS! She turned and saw her wings fully extended, how did they do that on their own?

She started to panic again, she was too far from land! She needed to get back! She tried to turn but instead, she plopped into the water like a piece of bait on a hook.

Sarah landed in the wicked black water, she flailed, not knowing what else to do, slowly as the water engulfed her scales she started to relax, she knew how to swim! Slowly, she swam back to the shore, her wings and the waves held her back, but she continued on, feeling as though she were swimming with a bag of rocks on her shoulders.

"I think it might be a good idea if we finished flying practise for today." Luna breathed as she came back to shore, soaked. Sarah growled, Luna had no right to push her! She could have jumped off on her own!

Luna jumped down and smiled at her. She couldn't help but growl, she went nose to nose with Luna and snarled. "Why would you push me like that?!" She hissed angrily.

She immediately felt guilty as Luna's ears drooped, then surprisingly stood up straight and glared at her. "Look, I knew you wouldn't do it yourself, and instinct can be a very important tool while learning to do certain things that you can't really learn or teach, I basically jumped off and fell flat on my face over 15 times before I was able to fly." Luna said.

Sarah felt outraged, why was she being such a jerk?! She could have at least said sorry! Luna also basically just said that she was worthless, by telling her that she wouldn't have jumped!

"I wouldn't have though…." The back of her mind whispered. She growled slightly and shook the thought away, she raced over in front of Luna and stopped her, looking up at her friend's big grey-blue eyes. Sarah was surprised to see annoyance flash in Luna's eyes, she felt as though she were being mocked! She didn't think she had ever been this angry at any of her friends before.

"Why are you stopping me? I think we had enough training and you should sleep, I'll keep a guard in case a hovercraft comes trying to find you or Cressida." Luna grunted and looked into her eyes again. "I'm sorry if I offended you in any way by pushing you off, I just know that there's a likely chance that we need to fly as fast and as soon as possible if someone comes."

Sarah felt her heart warm slightly, her friend was sorry! She was also going to stand guard, which would be hard because of the little to none sleep. Slowly, she let her friend pass, not saying a word as Luna flew up into a large oak tree and sat on a thick branch.

*Bethany POV*

*Hours Later*

Bethany yawned, she looked around to see Cressida right next to her, and luna on a large oak tree half asleep with one eye open.

"Well, I'm dead, I hurt EVERYWHERE." Bethany groaned to herself looking at the wound Luna had inflicted on her just yesterday, she had cleaned it with the water but it still hurt a lot.

Cressida woke up and just stared at her before her face turned enraged and she pointed one of her lean wrinkly fingers at her.

"Your dragon side is getting the best of you Bethany, and it's making you selfish and wanting power." Cressida said angrily. She didn't fully understand what she meant, she was just angry. She regretted her decision about fighting Luna, but she didn't understand what her 'dragon side' meant.

So instead of saying anything she just nodded. She was just angry at Luna, since because of her they got into this mess, and everyone thinks they killed two people, it just wasn't fair, or right!

Bethany turned back to the oak tree where Luna was, looking half dead. Had she been keeping watch all night?

"You scare me." She said to herself looking up at luna, then she turned to Sarah, who just seemed to be waking up. Bethany watched as Sarah made direct eye contact with her, immediately Sarah's sleepy face turned angry and disgusted.

Bethany watched as Luna's friend jumped into a tree, quite sloppily she might add, and poked Luna's snout, making the half-asleep dragon wake up. Luna's sleepy form looked up at Sarah, giving her a genuine smile.

I never saw her give one of me those, I guess I haven't been the best lately, but I mean, can you really blame me? She thought, glancing at the talking dragons before Luna jumped down and started walking towards her.

Soon enough sat beside Bethany and nodded to her.

"We need to get moving, I'm surprised there have not been any helicopters yet, this forest is pretty big though." Luna murmured. " Sarah doesn't know how to quite fly yet, and she said she wanted to take the journey with us, since she can't go back home as a dragon, and since we are stuck like this we might as well find somewhere we belong," Luna said flatly.

Bethany groaned "Why ME? I am the worst, ugliest and dumbest person and I am turned into a dragon! AND I am STARVING! We haven't eaten in like two days!" She couldn't help but yell at the top of her lungs. She was hungry, tired, she missed her family, she just wanted to go back to school!

Bethany saw that both Cressida and Sarah were turned in her direction and Luna was looking at her in annoyance. "You can keep your voice a little lower, you know, it's almost as if you WANT the humans to find us!" Luna growled, but her voice seemed shaky.

"I DO though! We can explain what happened to us and we can find some way home!" Bethany said, at this point, she didn't care about logic, she just needed to get home!

"No, that won't work, they'll attack us before we could show we used to be humans, and then they might think there are more of us and search for them. If they are though we are all in terrible trouble."Luna said.

Bethany heard a muttering sound and turned around to see Sarah, she had never actually taken a good look at Sarah glancing down at the dirt, she seemed to be writing in the sand with her claws. Bethany had never really taken a good look at Sarah, but now that she did she could see every distinct feature.

The first thing she noticed about Sarah was that she was a lot smaller and thinner then she was, and that she was slightly shorter then Luna, she also noticed the specks of stars on her wings, and her head frills where rounded and her scales looked polished. No wonder Luna used to have a crush on her, she looked perfect….

Luna looked in Sarah's direction, smiling. Luna's friend saw them glancing at her and she bounded over to them. "I need to tell you something." Sarah said suddenly.

"There are more dragons, Cressida knows about them, the Hidden World is real."