The Newest Addition To The Flock

Istalri my little dragon, started trying out her wings they were about three feet long of delicate skin. I ran over to help, she snapped at me!

That's not very nice I was only trying to help. I thought angrily

How can you help me to learn to fly? Came the voice from inside my head.

Are you the dragon?

Yes. A single answer.

How can I hear you?

We are bonded. You are my rider.

Uh… ok. How do I ride you?

When I am bigger you can sit on me and we will fly together.

I can already fly.

How?

I will show you. I opened my wings and felt the small dragons shock and surprise. My wings allow me to fly.

Will you teach me how to fly?

If you would like me to.

I do.

Ok, would you like to try now?

Yes.

Ok, hunch your shoulders, head and neck low. Bring your wings up over your head.

Istalri did this and held her position.

Now jump up with your feet and down with your wings. The small dragon jumped into the air and stayed aloft for a second before falling back down.

It worked! I was in the air.

Yeah, very good. When your in the air you need to carefully pull up your wings again to flap

LATER THE SAME DAY…

"that's it you got it!" I shouted excitedly. By now Istalri was up in the air for about five minutes before she had to come down. The flock had come to support the little dragon and correct any bad flying habits. We had all moved out side and I once again picked up Istalri and flew her up to a ledge above the cave.

The flock also flew up with us and on the count of three we all cannon balled down through the air, whooping and cheering. I was so glad to see my family so happy it was a rare occasion having a day with out attack or mission. Even fang was doing intricate dives and spins through the air, he smiled at me once or twice, which made my heart beat twice as fast.

It was times of freedom like these I loved being a human cross bird hybrid because I could fly, unlike all those people who had never felt the joy of flying!

Fang glided over to my and touched my wing with his, "max,"

"Yes, fang?"

"What about the other eggs?"

"What about them?" I was distracted looking for possible threats.

"Well, what are we going to do with them." and he adjusted his wing slightly and swooped down to nudge and angel.

"Dunno." All's good no one to be seen for miles.

Following fang I landed in a tree with nudge and angel. "What are you up to?"

Nudge looked up excitedly, "hi max, we are playing with out new powers look." She held her hands apart, palms facing each other and with a crackling bang, electricity shot from both hands and into the opposite.

"Wow, nudge that was great. Angel do you have a skill too?" I was still slightly shocked by nudges demonstration.

"Yeah I do." Angel warned us just before she shot thick streams of gushing water at fang and I. I grabbed hold of the tree in time but fang was caught completely of guard. He was thrown out of the tree and hit the ground hard. I started giggling, fang gave me a death stare, but it only made me giggle harder.

Angel looked at me "will you show us yours?"

I was about to ask what she meant then it clicked, I had used fire to destroy the flyboys, or so I had been told. "Um… I could try." How do I do something I didn't know I was doing in the first place?

I concentrated really hard on the tree stump next to fang. After a few seconds the stump burst into angry red flames. I was stunned.

"What can fang do?" following nudges words we stared at fang, who mumbled something uncomprehensive.

"Come on fang!" I encouraged.

A slight nod, fang stared at a dieing bush. We waited a long time before fang finally gave up.

"Shit! You're all aware Iggy and Gazzy have had a very long time alone." I was right when we walked back to the cave, Iggy and Gazzy both had very innocent faces on, to innocent. Not to mention the wires sticking out of Gazzy's shirt.

Istalri gave a gleeful squeak before bounding over to me. Max!

Getting everyone to sleep was harder tonight the flock was too exited with the new skills. Iggy and Gazzy had also discovered new skills too. Iggy could speak this weird language fluently. And Gazzy found he could direct dead sticks, dunno how that was gonna help us.