Identical Yet Unidentical
Enigma I- Search of the White Egg
In the sky above a thick mountain forest was an airship. It circled in the air looking for an opening for landing. Inside were three men, a beast and a cat robot. "Man, this forest sure is large. What is it called again?" A man asked with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Sarpa Mountain. They said a legendary White Serpent lives there for thousands of years. And I suppose to get its egg for a client." Answered a man with blonde spiky hair. "What so special about the egg, Cloud?" The robot cat sitting on the red furred beast asked.
"I don't know myself but I heard it can be sold for a price as high as heaven." Cloud said as he looked down at the forest. "So, it was another treasure hunting that will hurt an innocent creature." The man in red cloak said disappointingly. "Maybe." The beast, Nanaki said.
"Finally. A perfect opening to land. Everyone brace yourself." The pilot, Cid said as he began to land the airship. The opening was vast and enough to land two more airships. Cloud, Vincent, Nanaki and Cait Sith got off the airship leaving Cid to guard his precious transport.
The forest was truly as thick as the people who knew about it said. There were a lot of monsters dwelling about but none of them make attempt to attack the group. "Strange. The monsters saw us but didn't mind us at all." Nanaki stated as a land dragon watched them past its tree lazily.
"It's weird enough. But we still need to find that egg." Said Cait Sith. The group walked through the thick forest carefully. Even thought the monster didn't attack but the geography of the forest was an excellent trap by nature. The tree roots, the hidden holes covered up by dried leaves and others had cause the group a troublesome time from getting trip over by roots or being trapped inside a natural trap hole.
The legendary White Serpent was said to live in the deepest part of the forest rarely showing itself. They only breed among themselves and only laid eggs once in fifty years. Now, our heroes had luckily survived the natural maze and reached in the deepest part of Sarpa Mountain.
That part almost had no sunlight piercing through the thick layers of tree leaves. It was like a cave made out of tall, thick trees but only one spot had sunlight. The light was shining upon a nest of silver eggs the same size of a material. "Looks like we found it. But where's the mother?"
That's true, it was too easy. Monsters didn't attack them, nest of eggs lying around without a guardian. 'Is this possible?' Vincent thought as he started looking around for anything that might ambush. Cloud experimentally walked towards the nest and touched one of the eggs.
Before he could touch it, a clawed foot appeared and smashed on the ground beside the nest, trying to attack Cloud. Cloud leaped backwards and avoided it. Another clawed feet appeared on the other side of the nest and a huge reptilian head showed up.
"That wasn't a serpent! It's a dragon!" Yelled Nanaki as he realized the huge creature before them. It had shiny silver fur and golden spiky back fur on its back. Its eyes were the brightest light blue you can found and a cloudy wolf earring was hanging at its right ear. The serpent-like dragon roared loudly and charged at them. The group spilted to avoid the attack. Vincent started to shot bullets at the dragon, Cait Sith and Nanaki sent Bolt 2 at her. Cloud was waiting for an oppunity to slash her.
The dragon seemed to know what they were thinking and took action. She used her long, slim body to sweep the area clean and used a wind base spell attack to made Cloud loose his balance on the uneven ground.
"What? It knows how to fight like that?" Said Vincent as he saw the dragon's attack and unaware that the dragon's tail was about to slam on him. Nanaki tried to warn him but it was too late. The tail had slammed down on both Vincent and Nanaki sending them to the ground. Cloud's buster sword was also blown away by the dragon's spell.
The silver dragon turned her head to him, baring her fangs at him. Out of the blue, she charged, ready to make him as her snack for the evening meal. Cloud closed his eyes ready for the incoming attack. Vincent, Nanaki and Cait Sith can only lied on the ground and saw the monster swallows their friend.
There was silent...