Chapter four
The tides turn
The sea got rougher and rougher every passing minute, and it wasn't doing Joules any favours. Burpy was starting to worry about his regeneration, he could feel it burning his insides. Soon he thought, I will change and be a different person. He decided to talk to Nuffink to take his mind off it. Nuffink seemed to be nervous around him, but Burpy knew how to talk to children, he had been with Eli as a kid, this couldn't be any different.
"How are you?" Burpy asked, as he sat down next to Nuffink, he didn't respond, he must be shy, "do you like dragons?" Burpy asked him, he did respond this time,
"I've only seen Toothless, none others" he said, rather nervously, "though I have heard of this dragon that can blend in with the night sky, and is apparently the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself, but I don't believe it".
"BURPY!" Screamed Joules from the edge of the boat, "YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THIS!", Burpy ran to Joules and looked in the direction he was pointing in, and he saw what Joules was worried about, there was a massive hole in the sea in front of them, and on the rocks at the edge of this hole, was a small longboat, and in the small boat was a cage that seemed to be made of bones!
Camicazi expertly moored their boat next to the small one and they each jumped ship, literally. They landed in the small boat and saw in the cage that was indeed made of bones, an old, white dragon. Camicazi was thrilled,
"Stormfly!" She cried as she opened the cage to free the little dragon, and then continued speaking in dragonese, "do you recognise me?", The dragon looked at her and said in a calm voice,
"No" Burpy thought that that kind of ruined the moment, even though she spoke English, but the dragons scales then seemed to turn from pale white, to a glorious indigo,
"She turns purple when she lies, she can't help it, it's in her nature" Camicazi explained to the group, Toothless was flying around Stormfly in excitement, he most certainly had a crush on the old dragon. Stormfly then looked shocked and the colour faded from her, literally, and she said in a terrified voice,
"You have to stop him before he wakes up that monster!"
"What monster?" Asked Joules, then, with an ear piercing roar, a big black dragon flew out of the hole with the ragged man on its back!
"That monster." Stormfly said while pointing with one talon at the beast. Nuffink was looking at the monster in awe, he pointed and said,
"It's a NIGHT FURY!"
They all jumped back into the boat and cut the mooring rope and tried to sail away, Burpy was throwing fireballs at the beast, but it kept coming! It's fireballs we're purple and they exploded on contact with the boat, and, oddly enough, Stormfly was trying to stop Camicazi from steering the boat away from the waterfall! The dragon swooped low over the boat, and without thinking, Burpy grabbed hold of one of the dragons stubby legs, and was whisked away, leaving the boat hundreds of feet below him. The regeneration was really taking over, Burpy could feel it sapping his strength with every second that passed, he had to stop this beast NOW!
Down on the boat, Joules had realised that, even though the dragon had taken supposed control over Stormfly, Toothless was still thinking for himself, he was trying to stop Stormfly from hurting Camicazi. Joules then remembered what Camicazi had said when describing Toothless to them,
"the most disobedient dragon in the inner isles." She had said. Maybe he was just disobeying the dragons orders? And if that was the case, then maybe he could help Burpy, except Joules couldn't speak Dragonese, so how could he talk to him? Joules decided to try talking to him in English, but Toothless has already started flying towards the dragon himself, but was he going to help Burpy? That was the question.