i woke up in the morning realizing that this island habitat thing isn't going to really work, so i decided to wake up Blaze and Grallya and tell them my plan. I then went over to Greenroot who was watching the egg today, and asked him to help out with my plan, and finally i asked Breeze. Then at around midday, the plan went into action; Grallya had taken Atlantia out for the day to get to know each other better, then i asked tidal to help, he was a bit skeptical but he evntually agreed. so then the five of us went to the dead island, i uncovered the signal fire and put it out.
"Alright guys, Grallya and Atlantia are supposed to be back here in around four hours, so lets get moving." they all nodded and we began getting to work. Blaze and I were in charge of burning out all the charcoal on the island and making sure the volcano was entirely dead, not dormant. So the two of us were flying back and forth breathing fire on all that we could, and within the hour the flames settled and there was nothing left but ash; that's where tidal came into action. He was in charge of sweeping over the entire island with water to make the ash either sink into the ground or sweep it off, then once the tides settled Greenroot took action and started a kind of long process of reviving the island. While he was taking care of that Blaze and i went to the volcano and saw that the lava was still visible from up top, so we just needed to fix that; Blaze and I rammed into the top cone of the volcano which caused some rocks to crumble down into the lava, then the two of us breathed enough fire for the rocks to begin melting and fusing together, we called Breeze up here so that she could blow gusts of wind to cool down the rocks. We turned away from the mountain and saw that Greenroot did an amazing job with the life of the island, the trees were tall and green, there was grass and vines everywhere, and even a perfect open clearing for mine and Atlantia's home.
"This is perfect guys, amazing job everyone. Now judging by the sun's position we have about an hour left to construct the nests, so Blaze, Greenroot and Breeze, you guys can go, but when Atlantia and Grallya get back to the island come to us. Tidal stay here, i need your help."
"With what else exactly?"
"Atlantia's your sister right? you probably know her better than i do, you should know what she would like in her own nest." He just smiled at me and noddded, which was surprising since i've always sensed him be kind of hostile to me, but now it's almost like we've become friends. We got to work on the nests, of course i created a charred piece of land about twice my size, but enough so that it wouldn't burn the whole island down again, the nest was fueled by a pilot flame underneath so it would never be cold, it would keep warm, it had a reddish glow to it. Tidal was creating a dip within the ground that got shallower as it got closer to the edge, then he began filling it with water, but as a finishing touch he placed some small blue crystals around the nest and within a few seconds they sprouted into larger crystals around the nest, not so much that it surrounded it, but enough to give it a flare.
I finally saw five draconic shapes coming towards the island and stood up front, i could see that they had Atlantia blindfolded so that she couldn't see what was coming. They landed on the island and we all walked towards the center.
"Alright guys, what did you want to show me? i've been waiting for this since we started flying." I walked over to her and went behind to reach for the blindfold.
"Remember the charred up island we visited a few days ago?"
"Yea, wait don't tell me we're back here, was this my "surprise"?!" I slightly chuckled and removed the blindfold, but she kept her eyes closed.
"Atlantia, please, just open your eyes." She slightly cracked them open, but just as soon as she did, they sprang open and she was left wide eyed and gaping. she looked around to find, not a lifeless hunk of charcoal, but a blooming paradise of greenery. she looked at me with, what i could guess were tears of happiness, and kissed me for this.
"Inferno, did you do all this for me?"
"No, for us. And don't just thank me, they were all a part of this too." i gestured to the others behind us, and she went over to them.
"Thank you, all of you for this, i can't believe that you guys actually put effort through and helped Inferno with all of this, I especially can't believe that you helped him out little brother." Tidal slightly blushed at the fact that his sister was congratulating him, or the fact that she called him little brother, or probably both. We went over to the nests and she loved them as well; but just before the others could fly off, we heard a cracking sound, then it got slightly louder, we turned towards Greenroot's tail and saw that the egg was hatching. Greenroot set it down and we all gathered together at the hatching of this little guy, and in one final push, the little dragon was out. The little life dragon was scooped up by Grallya who was immediately joined at the side by Greenroot.
"What should we name him Green?"
"How about Spouter?" She smiled at him.
"I think that's a perfect name." Sprouter gave a little giggle, but what happened afterwards was amazing, all over the island, trees were blossoming, there were flowers growing everywhere, even fruit began to grow. But then he fell asleep; then the others said their goodbyes and flew back to the island. Atlantia and I went to our own nests to sleep.
"Good night, Atlantia."
"Good night Fernie." Then we drifted off to sleep. In the middle of the night i could hear something, i woke up only to find out that Atlantia was shivering from the cold, it was starting to become Fall and the temperature was beginning to drop, so i decided to pick her up and carry her over to my nest where she would be warm for the night. She snuggled up next to me and i could feel her stop shaking, i then closed my eyes and went back to sleep with my head resting atop hers.
Author's note: Again, sorry i couldn't update as fast as you guys would have liked. I've just been busy with school, i have cross country until 5:00 everyday after, my computer's been acting up and not working properly (hoping to get it fixed soon) and overall i've just been busy with other things. But anyway this was the next chapter, and i hope you guys enjoyed.