Dragon Blood – Chapter 4
Offspring of lightening and death
Astrid and Hayden both continued to stare at each other with as he walked to the empty desk at the back of the classroom. As Hayden sat down, he looked over towards Astrid and saw her continuing to give him a deadly glare. However, he was then distracted as three faces full of eyeshadow and lipstick, one with ice silver hair, another with blonde hair and another with brown with a streak of sliver horded around him from the desk next to him. "Don't mind those losers, they just love to live in their own fantasy world" came from the ice haired girl known as Elsa. "Hayden, that's a lovely name" came from the brown/silver streaked girl known as Anna. "Where about are you from?" came from the blonde-haired girl known as Rachel (Rapunzel). Hayden just looked towards the front, ignoring the high-pitched voices coming from his side and tried to concentrate on anything. But his senses made him continue to stare in Astrid's direction as she continued to look at him from the corner of her eyes.
Hayden was walking around the campus trying to learn his way around all the new buildings for his classes while he had some time in-between the last lesson before lunch. As he was going turn around on the stairs as he noticed he was heading in the opposite direction, he was stopped by an angry blonde in front of him. "What are you doing here?" Astrid said questioning him on the spot, while he continued to be confused by this girl, who he did admit to himself was pretty cute when pulling an angry looking face. "What? I'm looking for..." he replied back as calm as possible. "No, I mean here on our territory, don't you know the rules, you can't stay here cause if my mum and dad get a sniff of you..." Astrid said in much sterner voice as to intimidate this 'dragon boy' and defend her home and family. "I don't even know you" as Hayden replied as he started to get slightly annoyed of the way she was talking towards him. "Exactly" Astrid said while staring forcefully into his emerald green eyes, which she kept getting distracted by throughout their argument. "I don't care who's territory this is as I'm not sticking around anyway, why would I in this dump" Hayden looked directly at Astrid and she had to admit she was a little concerned by and backed up slightly. Hayden then began to raise his voice slightly "But no bossy girl tells me where to stay or GO! To which he then walked past Astrid and left her in a bit of a shock.
"BOSSY" Astrid was poking around the remains of her food on her dinner plate, thinking over and over about Hayden's comments while sat in the large canteen with Heather and Daniel. "Astrid, you did kind of start something with a guy who's barely halfway through his first day" as Heather and Daniel kept teasing her about her actions with the new kid. "Ha-ha, whatever, he just seems off to me and yet he moved here in what seems like the blink of an eye' as Astrid kept watching Hayden from across the room. 'Somebody must know something about you' Astrid kept questioning herself in her mind. The return of the queens of 'glitz and glam" headed towards the table where Hayden was sat drawing sketches of dragons. They continued to ask Hayden every possible question, but he just ignored them and continued with his work. "Enough girls, he isn't here for all this, he only just got here" Elsa replied as Astrid rolled her eyes from the scene happening, watching painfully the 'University Queens' try and work their 'magic' and 'charm' over Hayden. "He should be the one asking the questions and since we know everything, where here to help and support him" as they all pasted on their fake smiles that Astrid had seen multiple times before. Hayden turned to see Astrid watching the event unfold and decided to find out his own facts. He then pointed towards Astrid's direction' "That weird girl, who's she?". "Astrid Hofferson, Her? That country family has lived in that castle at the top of the village for centuries and have never left the area, they don't like strangers or being questioned" Elsa replied while the other girls was giggling. Astrid just looked away, but Hayden kept staring before packing his drawings away, excusing himself for the bathroom and left.
While Hayden was trying to get things out his locker, the jock boys was passing through and shoved him and just laughed and mocked him. "Watch out new boy, you don't want to mess with us, my boys here could knock you out with their little fingers if you go near our ladies again" which came from one of the lads. He seemed to be the leader of the group with posh styled brown hair and accent. He had three others stood by his side, one with blonde hair, another with brown and finally one with ice silver hair, similar to Elsa. Hayden just rolled his eyes and smirked "I really doubt that my friend, you and your 'toy boys' wouldn't stand a chance against me". The corridor full of students became quiet as to be prepare for the fight that was going to happen as no one has ever spoken back against the 'jocks'.
Astrid, Heather and Daniel appeared from one of the doors in-between Hayden and the gang, before realising what was about to happen. "Come on then, lanky stranger, let's see how much damage you can do before I have to go to the nurses office for a kiddy bandage" Hanson joked with his minions who were laughing behind him as he walked over to Hayden while pulling up he sleeves. Hayden dropped his bag and walked over with an angry growl, "Don't say I didn't warn you, my friend". Hanson and Hayden came face to face, as Hanson was going to grab Hayden by his hoodie collar, Hayden's fighting instincts kicked in and he pushed Hanson to the ground in one swift motion. Astrid, Heather and Daniels face all turned to shock, but Astrid started to sense that this wasn't going to end well and feared for Hayden's safety. As Hayden pressure holding Hanson down started to become stronger, the veins on his hands started to turn a dark green. He became shocked and backed away from Hanson, who was recovering his breath. Astrid noticed Hayden hands and saw the sign of needing to transform (From her parents) to release the pressure of showing his dragon before he showed it off to the whole corridor of students. She quickly grabbed him and took him down the corridor towards one of the old store cupboards.
As she shoved him in, she locked the door behind her. Hayden turned towards her with a face full of panic and distress. "It's alright Hayden, you need to breath" Astrid said with slight panic in her voice. "You need to get out of here, NOW!" Hayden shouted as his body started to tremble and he feel over the shelves of empty paint cans behind him. Astrid tried to prepare herself as she knew what was about to happen but didn't know what type of dragon he was about to become. Hayden looked up towards Astrid, with his eyes glowing green and veins covering his face. "I'm so sorry". His body then began to transform right in front of her and within seconds, a black dragon with bat styled wings was stood in Hayden's place. Astrid then realised Hayden wasn't just any ordinary dragon, he was a Nightfury.