The dragons were facing each other on opposing sides, and I was in the middle of them.
Snarls erupted from every dragons throat, including the one standing protectively over me. I looked up at her from my fetal position on the ground.
Her black scales contrasted beautifully against her dark purple ones. She's so much like her mom... Tears threatened to appear. I closed my eyes, breathing deeply until the urge to cry faded away.
"Is that a human under that nadder?" My eyes opened again as I heard the faint question. I slowly uncurled and got up to my feet. Sunfern shifted over to give me room to stand.
I could finally get a good look at at each one of them. "It is..." Things to faint for me to hear passed around the group of riders. A brown haired rider slid out of the unfamiler dragons saddle and took a few steps towards me.
Sunfern snarled immieditaly, flaring her wings. The other dragon reacted similarly. I reached out beside me and laid a hand on the side of Sunfern's head, soothing her by moving it slowly in a circle.
Neither one of us knew what to say, so instead we just stood there. Silently waiting for the other side to make the first move. Tension filled the air so heavily you could cut it with a nadder spike.
Typho suddenly shifted impatiently behind me, and that was too much. Dragons on both sides jumped in surprise, letting out blasts of fire. I flinched backwards, shielding myself. The blasts hit at random, nothing was aimed even a little bit.
A moment later purple wings wrapped themselves around me, protecting me from the mini explosions they caused. I recognized Sunfern's familiar scent.
The noise died down a moment later and her wings retreated away from me.
Dust clouded my vision. I squinted trying to see through the dirt clouds. Claws wrapped themselves around my shoulders and pulled me up out of the fray. Sunfern roared below me when I was yanked out of her reach.
"Hey! put me down!" I demanded. I looked up straight into the eyes of Typho. "Typho! Put me down now!" He looked back up.
I looked back down. Sunfern was still looking around for me on the ground. "Sunfern's still down there! Put me back now!" I yelled, attempting to kick his claws away from me.
Sunfern grew smaller and smaller as we got farther away. "Altimore!" I yelled. She looked down from her seat in the saddle. "Put me back down there!" She shook her head. "Can't do that. We don't know them. And you shouldn't have run off in the first place." She lectured.
I growled, a habit I'd picked up from living with dragons. I reached back and pulled out the nadder spike I used to keep my hair tied back. The poor hair tie that had been wearing away fell away to ground far below.
Sorry Typho...
I reached up and hacked away at one of the claws holding me. Typho let go with a surprised roar and I slipped out of his grasp.
I let go of the nadder spike and pulled at my outfit. The thin fabric reappeared to slow my fall. I turned around started gliding back to where Sunfern was.
I'm coming!
The second episode of the new fifth season of Race to the Edge :0
-Moon