Frank was surprised that he was a dragon, but he was even more surprised to find that his friends were dragons too. He was hiding from some other dragons that have been hunting him and he hid in a big puddle of mud that he somehow blended into. Frank has been hiding there ever since he awoke in the middle of a swamp. when he heard Jason's voice and it would be safe to come out.
He was surprised to find Jason as a different dragon with orangish gold scales, Leo as a thin dragon with flame colored scales, and Thalia as a dark red dragon, all of the same breed. Then there was the new dragon, sitting in boiling water like it was just a regular warmed bath made just for her.
"Frank, no way. You are here too"? Leo asked looking as surprised as Frank felt. "Yeah, I was hiding here for who knows how long and yes it was boring. What are you guys doing"? "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a second Frank, why were you hiding? Is there something wrong"? Thalia was freaking out and her words awakened the others into high alert.
Frank remembered the incident and it haunted him to stay put in that puddle. When Frank had woken up he was on a grassy island in the middle of a mucky swamp. When he looked at himself in the water, he was a brown dragon,a strong, armored dragon with an image of a sword seared in black on his shoulder.
He remembered walking in the mud and something grabbing his talons and trying to drag him underneath. While he was fighting with that, he hadn't see the large deep brown dragon with an eyepatch come up behind him. As fast as lightning, the dragon had whipped a chain around Frank's neck and pulled tight. Frank had no choice other than to fall down or he would be would be choked to death. He remembered being pulled out by the horns and the dragon had spoken in an unsettling, raspy voice. "Hello little demigod, time to say bye bye", the dragon had said and with that, Frank turned into a parrot and flew away as fast as he could. He remembered hearing the roar of the dragons below and when he dared to look behind him, he saw that they were on flying after him. After a long amount of flying, Frank had captured enough time to turn into a crocodile and loose the dragons for a while and hope he had just enough time to get his bearings and figure out how to get out of there.
"Ok well what do we do", whined Thalia who was so startled from the story, she was hyperventilating. "Ok Thalia, calm down, everything will be alright", Jason spoke in a calm voice even though Frank could tell that Jason was very nervous, "Don't worry, we have dealt with worse before. "Leo, you and Frank remember our quest to defeat Geeha, there was plenty of monsters worse than a few, creepy dragons". "Well at the time we had an entire war ship with basisti, Greek fire, and Festus. Now it is just Me, you, Thalia, Frank, and Peril. How will that help in defeating these dragons", Leo began pacing and Peril got out of her bath. "If you don't mind Leo, my touch can melt the scales off of dragons so you aren't entirely alone". "And I have Aegis", Thalia said revealing her shield with Medusa's head on the front of it. Peril backed away from the shield and so did the others
Then a voice came from the bushes saying, "Aw look, it seems we found our escapee and look we found his friends too". Then, the dragon Frank had faced off, lumbered out of the shadows with his three buddies. Jason drew his sword, fire balls appeared in Leo's palms, and Thalia nocked an arrow in her bow.
"Im glad we didn't miss anything", mused a voice in the other direction and two red dragons came out. One who smelled really bad and the other who had a big band of an odd metal around his neck. There was silence for a long while until Jason spoke. "Who are you and what do you want with us"? He asked. The brown dragon with an eye patch chuckled, "Silly little demigod, I am Python, the general of the mudwing army and we can do this the easy way", the dragon paused and brought out a chain lasso, "Or the hard way".
Peril answered their question for them, she launched at the first at the skywing with the neckband and all of the dragons attacked each other. Jason and Leo went after all three of Python's guards together, Thalia went after the stinky skywing, and Frank went after Python himself.
The dragon was strong and quick and new almost every tactic that a dragon could use. He spun around, his tail went with him and whipped Frank's feet. Frank fell over from the force before it could break his leg, but Frank rolled out of the way it time to grab a heavy stick and put it in front of his face just in time before Python's chain flew through the air and wrapped itself around the branch. The branch flew out of Frank's talons as the chain was pulled back toward its master. The big branch hit Python in the face so hard, a huge cut appeared on the side of his face, leaving an ugly scrape, dangerously close to Python's good eye. In seconds Python's howl of pain turned into maniacal laughter. Frank gulped down his last meal before it could come up as he watched the cut boil, forming new scales on the general's face.
"Foolish demigod. I cannot be killed, but you can. Unfortunately I have to keep you alive". "Alive? Alive for what"? Frank asked, but the dragon didn't answer. He wrenched the stick out and tossed his lasso again, but this time Frank didn't have a stick nearby. In a flash, he turned into an eagle and dove towards the dragon's face, flying through the loop. Frank turned back into a dragon in time to wrap his talons around Python's mouth.
The larger dragon thrashed with no use because Frank was just the right weight to hold the general down. He felt how powerful the general was and Frank felt the dragon making progress. Just before Frank was thrown off, he grabbed the eye that was covered by the eyepatch. Python howled in pain, flipping Frank off of his head and Frank landed in the bushes.
Once he shook off the headache that Python had caused him, he found that he had the eyepatch with something round in it. First he thought it was the dragon's probably very scarred up eye, but when Frank felt the ball, it was solid, cold, and smooth. When he took the eyepatch out of his palm, he found that he was holding a round metal orb.
Frank looked out of the bushes and saw that Python was gone and his friends were still fighting then an idea popped in Frank's mind. "Guys, go for anything metal on them, I think its their weakness.
the new dragon, Peril, was the first one to take action. She grabbed her opponent's band and it melted right off. Her opponent screamed and cursed as his body dissolved into the wind in a flash of dull light.
Jason and Leo saw what happened they began looking for the dragon's metal spot. One of the guards got stabbed in the back by Jason's sword, the other had a fireball thrown at his chest, and together the last one was defeated by Jason wrenching a piece of metal out of the other dragon's chin. The piece had flown into Leo's palm and Leo melted it into a sticky ball of molten metal.
Thalia was having a harder time with her dragon, he had no metal spot in sight, but her arrows had no effect on his scales. He grinned and cackled wickedly, releasing a whiff of gross smelling air. "I think that the metal pieces are on their death spots, shoot an arrow into his stomach", yelled Peril. Thalia did what Peril suggested and shot an arrow into the dragon's mouth. He swallowed that arrow and smiled wickedly at Thalia. Then his expression turned to horror and he began to blow away, leaving a big, metal replica of a stomach with an arrow sticking out of it.
Frank and the others were very tired after the fighting. Leo didn't have the strenght to summon even a whiff of smoke, Thalia complained that her shooting arm hurt, Jason just plain fell asleep, Peril couldn't get up and Frank didn't care about the fact that he was chest deep in mud. "Ohhh. Peril, how did you know that would work", Thalia asked while she was leaning back on a tree. "Frank. Frank was fighting Python, he died four years ago thanks to a sandwing stabbing his eye out. The dragon I was fighting, he was an old guard that had his neck cut all the way around when some icewings attacked. The dragon you were fighting Thalia. I remember him when I was little, he was the dragon who ate weird things. He died a long time ago because of a prank queen Scarlet pulled on him. She poisoned a dead cow carcass and gave it to him to eat and he died. All of the dragon's here had metal parts on the injuries that caused their death". "Why would they have them there"? Leo asked while he was braiding some copper wires together. "That metal, it fits the description of a type of metal made by amunis dragons", Peril said. "What is an amunis dragon"? Frank asked, not wanting to move from the nice mud that was seeping soothingly along his scales. "An amunis dragon is a dragon that does magic, what did they teach you when you were dragonets". "Wolves", Jason mumbled, "Running from foster homes and how to tell jokes", answered Leo, "Running from monsters and learning about types of monsters", Thalia moaned, "Grandmother yelling at me to be more Chinese", Frank said. Peril just looked at the group in confusion and then began explaining what that stuff was. "Well that metal is ghost metal, with the right spell you can summon ghost that had a lot of hatred and it will bind its spirit with the metal and the metal would become a warrior that will serve the spell caster, but all of that metal was destroyed a hundred years ago in a great fire".
Frank officially didn't like that metal. He let go of the orb and let it sink in the muck and hopefully be gone forever.
"So what now"? Frank asked. Everyone was silent except for Jason's breathing until Peril spoke. "I was heading to the rainforest kingdom to see my friend Clay before the dragons attacked. You guys want to come with me"? Peril asked everyone. Leo's stomach growled like a hungry wolf ready for deer. "Does it have food"? He asked. Peril nodded, "But we should wait until when Jason wakes up and when Frank gets out of that quicksand". Frank looked down at himself and wondered why no one told him this was quicksand.
With that, Leo suddenly jumped up grabbed Thalia's hand and pulled her up, pulled Frank out of his quicksand tub, and shook Jason awake. "Wha… Leo I'm awake now stop shaking me". "Ok everyone follow Peril to the rainforest kingdom", yelled Leo and urged Peril to start moving.
Hello readers. Thank you for your wonderful reviews. I really hope you like this chapter because I have been working really hard on it. Sorry, I haven't been putting a lot of author's notes on these because I want to get these out as soon as possible. This one is a little late, sorry, very busy. Well anyway, tell me what you like or anything that bothers you. Keep dreaming my friends.