The Young Guardians Series: Shall We Kiss?(A young Terrador story)

Shall We Kiss? – Chapter Two: Of Parents and Tour Guides

"Dad, Mom, this is Terrador. Terr, this is my father Gale and mother Silvia."

"Hello Terrador," greeted the two parents, one a white dragon and the other a silver dragoness.

"Oh, that's the food!" exclaimed Silvia as she hurried to the stone fireplace. As the rest of the group sat down on rugs in front of the fire Gale struck up a conversation.

"So Terrador, we're new here and I'm wondering if you would like to give us a view of the place, these forests of?"

"Skylen sir, forests of Skylen," Terrador helped.

"Well I must say that these forests of Skylen are magnificent and it would be much appreciated if you would show us around."

"I'd love to," replied Terrador, at this Flora emitted another eek which brought the gazes of every dragon in the room towards her blushing face.

"I've never heard you make that sound in all my life Flora, are you alright?" asked Silvia as she cast a knowing glance at Gale who returned it.

"Um…hungry I suppose," said Flora sheepishly.

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The new day dawned early for Flora's family, Terrador had only just got up. As he reached the bottom of the stairs he looked around, Silvia was holding the trays over the fire to burn away any scraps unfeedable to the birds while Gale was outside talking to Petwée, the well known town gossiper who could out gossip any newspaper that side of the dragon realms.

"Morning Terrador," greeted Silvia. As soon as half his name was out, Flora barreled into him, sending them both to the floor with Flora on top.

"Hey you," greeted Terrador as Flora nuzzled him.

"Morning Terr," she greeted. The nuzzling had caught him off guard, but he attributed it to the fact that he was her first friend. Gale walked into the house.

"Now how about that tour?" he asked, seeing the two teenagers in their position he quickly added, "of the village?"

*****

The four dragons strolled atop the branches that held the village aloft. The village had been built on top of the giant network of interwoven branches and some building consisted totally of them.

As the dragons passed onto a different section of branches they came upon a music store titled 'Siphaun's'. Outside the music store was a light blue dragoness rearranging music cylinders on the outdoor display. Flora's parents soon left the younger two to do some shopping while they (parents) went to get acquainted with some villagers.

Terrador walked up to the dragoness, "Hey Della!" Suddenly the dragoness's head shot up, nearly catching an overhead display of some classic looking music album cylinders.

"Hey Terrador, who's your friend?"

"Flora this is Della, she's a water dragoness," explained Terrador.

"Don't get on my bad side or you'll be in hot water," Della joked, "And Terrador, to you I mean it. You know I lost my last job because of you?"

"Sorry about that," he replied, as Della turned back to the shop Terrador whispered into Flora's ear, "she used to be an animal caretaker until I accidentally scared them away." Flora only replied with a small nod, Terrador was quick to notice this and realized that unless she was with him or her family she was really quite shy. "Let's take a look at the music in here," he said as he nuzzled her cheek and began walking towards the shop. After walking through the aisles looking for their favorite music they looked through the various titles but other than ones that they had either already bought or had no interest in they found none. As they looked around Terrador pointed out an old silver dragon who was bustling around along with Della rearranging music, "that's Siphaun, his shops used to dominate nearly the entire second level of the forest, but now he's just settled into this music shop."

The rest of the day continued as it eventually found Terrador and Flora totally covered in jewelry each, as they exited another store laughing. "Here," said Terrador as he removed a beautiful black choker with a diamond embedded in the front and placed it around her neck, "This looks better on you anyway." Flora nuzzled his cheek affectionately and purred as Terrador returned her nuzzling with just as much (if not more) affection. The couple walked through the doorway of a restaurant titled 'Della's Diner'.

"I thought Della worked at that music shop?" commented Flora.

"She does but her parents own this restaurant and they named it after Della," he replied. They continued through the bustling restaurant.