Moordryd's Lullaby
Chapter 6: Lyra's power & Kidnapped?
It took months for Meeka and Lyra to recover fully. The upper city racing league had been searching for those responsible after they interviewed Cain for the crew symbols he saw. When they started racing again the standings for the academy had begun and both saw Moordryd was in the lead with Artha right behind him. Lance spent a lot of time at the girls Tent during the breaks between races. Brain mothered him a lot and Lyra taught him how to race Fracshun better. Brain taught gear while Lyra taught tactics. Today was the horn of Libris challenge. Lyra saw Cutta and wished him luck with a nod of her head. He did the same while looking over their dragons carefully. They sent lance back to his team and got on Nyghtmayr. The black and silver dragon growled amused seeing his brother and the female they had decided to share. His Lyra was a wonderful human who treated him as an equal and not just a pet or something to race on.
When the race started Lyra and Brain quickly jumped into 3rd place due Lyra's experience of mag jumping. She used her staff to smack targets and bring them to higher levels of the track with only Cutta and Moordryd ahead of them. She caught up to Moordryd and smacked his target leaving him behind. And putting them into 2nd place. They caught up with Cutta and within two lengths had upped and left him behind as well. As they got close to the peak Lyra mag jumped and when she reached the height of her jump and reached out for the trophy someone cut her mag stream and as she fell she grasped for the trophy and missed. Moordryd got it and went to check on Lyra. Her dragon had caught her some 50 feet below but it had jarred her. "That was scary." Moordryd's victory was what Word had wanted the entire time. Little did Lyra know Word's wraith dragon had been the one to cut her mag stream and nearly killed her.
When Cutta tried to get the horn back he was captured, Artha went in after him as Dragon booster. When the fighting began the great Dragon Libris was called. Lyra who had been watching of the fight but had missed Artha's transformation into Dragon booster. One of the lower black Dragon eyes pushed Lyra in front of Libris in order to get away. The great Gray Dragon stopped before the woman. He realized he could not use her Draconium color against her for she was gray like him. She reached out and gently pressed her hand against his muzzle, the bones beneath her hand glowed, neither saw it but both were wrapped in a powerful gray sphere of Draconium. The others watched awestruck, as Lyra calmed the great Dragon it bowed to her and then to Beau before leaving. Lyra turned to look at the Dragon booster. "I'm sorry I got in the way but somebody shoved me, I knew he wasn't going to hurt me. I can't tell you how, I can't tell you why, but I knew he would not do me harm." Dragon booster left and Artha returned. When they "Explained" to Artha what had happened, he looked at Lyra and saw her staring off in the distance.
"Lyra, are you alright?" Moordryd winced thinking he should have been the one to ask her that. "I'm okay. It was incredible! I could see his confusion but he didn't want to hurt us. He just wanted to stop the fighting." The others looked around. Cutta walked over with the horn and handed it to Lyra. "This should have been yours." She smiled and after examining it for a moment gently placed it back in his hand. "I don't need it. Its your crews duty to protect it. Do your best." Cutta was astonished, she willingly gave up power to restore his honor. He bowed to her and a few moments later he was gone. Moordryd's eyes flashed shortly as he looked around at his crew. Then he looked for his dragon and found her nuzzling Lyra. "I guess that means your my ride out of this weirdness?" Moordryd laughed and nodded. The stable brat rode with them for a bit as did Cain. Lyra realized there was still no Kit among them. But on seeing Artha's miserable look said nothing. When they passed the Penn stables They heard Brain yell. "Lyra! Thank the magna Draconis your all right." Her dragon gently magged her free and onto her saddle. She waived and said thank you and both girls left towards upper city. Never knowing they were being followed by both the Dragon booster and Shadow booster.
Lyra went to Down city a few days later, she was headed to the all city track. Brain was right on her tail. They stopped off at the Stable on the way and Lance saw them and cheered. "Your here!" Connor came out and saw the girls. "I need more training Connor the energy is getting stronger."
Artha was in stitches of laughter, he watched Lyra scold his father and Word Paine for arguing. He looked over and saw Moordryd was in no better condition laying on his back laughing so hard he was silent. "You sound like your mother." Connor said and Lyra stopped. "I've been told that alot by the staff and people who served her. I miss her so, my father also. As a child until I met Brain I was so alone after they took me away." Both men hung their heads slightly in remembrance of the woman they fought over as boys before Connor fell in love with Fira and Word was forced to marry Zulay. Tannis and Zulay never spoke again after the announcement had been made. Fira had tried a lot to get Tannis to see past the hurt she felt but couldn't get her to let it go. When Tannis married, Fira had confided to Connor it was for duty not love. But when she had Lyra things changed. Zulay already had Moordryd and Fira had given birth three months prior to Artha.
One the track the following day Artha, Lyra and Moordryd all met up at the starting line. "Hi guys!" Lyra chirped. Moordryd waived, Artha looked down. "She still hasn't returned huh?" He shook his head no and the three got into their positions to get started. Brain, Parm and Cain were in the pits getting ready to help all they could. "Uh oh.." Brain said and Kit rode onto the track taking the second to last spot, Wulph took the remaining one. Lyra growled at Kit and flexed her feet to signal Nyghtmayr. His muscles rippled with understanding. The gong sounded and they were off. Turn by turn, jump by jump Lyra moved closer to Kit until they were running side by side. "Why did you leave them?" Lyra asked as they took a straight away it lead into a sharp turn to the left then a leap. "Wulph loves me. Artha doesn't have the time for me that I deserve. So I am staying with the Army of the Dragon."
Lyra saw red. She pulled her stick free and smacked Kit a good one. "He is miserable because of you! If he doesn't come in at least second place he will lose his chance to go to the Academy! Its your fault." She used her thrusters to get ahead of Kit and Take the turn at a dangerous speed. She patted her dragon just before the jump and Took to the sky using both her aero and thrusters to catapult herself into a leading position. Moordryd's eyes were wide seeing the moves she made not even Wulph took the turn that fast and she was only getting farther and farther away. Brain looked at her speed and saw she was way over normal. "She's gone vortex! Cain come here please." He did a slight flush on his face. "I need to slow her down. I don't know how she is maintaining this speed but she is going to pass out again using her energy like this." Lyra was channeling her gray energy to her dragon who used it to boost his own.
Artha and Moordryd's eyes met and together they sped up, channeling their dragons energy they caught up to Lyra in the turns. "Lyra slow down!" Moordryd yelled. But she didn't hear him. Artha gained a little more speed and saw she was crying. "Lyra!" She turned her head and a tear smacked Moordryd in the face. "She doesn't care! She only thinks of herself!" Lyra yelled and Both understood she must have spoken to Kit. "Its ok Lyra the finish line is just ahead. We can talk after the race." Lyra started to slow down and her dragon began to lose momentum. On the last curve one of the other riders launched a drain whip and it caught Lyra at just the right moment to make her dragon stumble and fall. Lyra was thrown from her saddle and rolled to a stop on the track. Moordryd and Artha hadn't seen her fall so they kept going. Nyghtmayr looked around him and saw his Lyra was going to be trampled. He roared. Gray energy stretching out from his claws and making twin trails down the track. He needed their help, they were his only hope.
Both men crossed the finish line as the line reached their dragons. 'I need you, Help my Lyra. She will be trampled to death. My brother My mate help me.' His message was loud and clear to the dragons. They spun around jarring their riders who finally caught on to the problem. "Go!" Artha urged Beau and Moordryd prayed he could reach her in time. Black and Gold energy sped back along the ground towards the fallen dragon their message loud and proud. 'We come, fear not' The dragons were getting closer to Lyra but she was out cold. Artha saw her first and pointed. "There!" before they could do anything A wraith dragon snatched Lyra into its claws and ran up the track. The dragons came to Nightmayr's side and helped the dragon up. 'It took my Lyra' Nyghtmayr snarled joined by the other two. After getting off the track and collecting their prizes they went looking for that wraith dragon. As Dragon booster and Shadow booster. But they could not find her, as she had been taken to the citadel Word called home.
