the following is two years precious to events now transpiring within the night furys once again organized under perseverin. this takes place at a time even before nightflight became known as best finest fighter out there as transfixed by the night sky and harkens far back to how a minor fury named silverwingthefury led the kin of his family and soon the species down the path to conversion as thier bestowed leader loaw Okar kahuakhaun.
in the time before time there was a place where all creatures lived in relitive peace with eatch other. a time when all things looked to know that their was others lesser in might then them but willing to share the land with them. thee creatures wer the beyond legandary night fyrys aaksio kniown as "nert furt: devastators" by the two leged flesh and bklood human viking villagers in yjiewr scatterd vikllksgersz. the humans didnt see them mutch but that was all tht aed to the mystery of them. in the nest of a certauin ebon and blue scaled draginic figure, he felt shunned by the fellow nest dragon night furys becaisw of a quarrel over his dininance iver the wholew nest: he was the best one he thiught, it showed in his mannor. the furypaced on all fiours restlesly in buily up frusteration. "it should be me out there leading the furys on hunts and diminating tjis nest. but some weak blue brother of abydos thinks he is smarter and more tactful than i. he could not be more wrong." the drahgonic figure paced angrily resoluteky in the darkness of the cave, clentching his extended teeth. "ill show them all that im not to be trifled with."
"whatever are you doing dep in here?" the voice asked in curosity with a hint of knowing as she emerged from the entrance of the shadowed cave. the huffy dragon turned guiltily wuth a startled hissung siund. "you know full well you shoyldnt do that siort of thing ariound me its very hazerdus to yiur health. what i seemed to be doing is none of your buisness." he hesitaited to wich the mystery female night fury raked her wings along the sides of the tunnel up to him. "silverwingthefury you know the rightful leader of this nest wil renain so until he grows old and yiou know that as have many of us informed you of the consequences of schmeing up plns to challmge him. leave the borhersime plotting and the anger begimd; its time to hunt. may i ask why you are not out hunting?"
"but of course" he grinned cooly in defiance "the truth is im estranged aleeady that i relise in my goals. i am many things its true but a loser isnt ne of them, ive always derempt moe and needed more than i currently posss in our nest or any others. i wil suceed at any cost. i shall not be cast out like a one winged lizard folishly graping my talons at little but air. no i shall challage the ruler of this nest and possibly join the others." the female fury took a few pawsteps back in dismay. "but you cannot!" silverwing, whos name would be later known as silverwing loaw okar kahuakhaun, most feared battler dragon in the entre histiry of the night furys, swivled the side of his right eye to take her in as he flashed a chiky grin that foretold more dangers to come. "really? is that so? watch me, obuekhov...watch me."
he turned back to his young son named copperwingthefury who others called korin bhhind him to ignore the keen young dragoness. "obuekhov your worries are trabspartent; i know who you are i even know what you are. leave us alone or i wont really be all that sorry for what happends to your wings when my talons meet sensitive scales of your wings." korin ment more to him anyway then some bothersome night fury that kept pocking into his seret business, the rest of the nesting roosting dragns here wernt quite ready to learn of his inner business. lettig loose a menacing growl out of his throat served to make his point for soon after he heard the receding flapping wingbeats of obuekhov. only his son needed to know what and how to act wgen silverwing acted on his plan: to challange the ruler of the nest secretly so he would be the dragon of power in her place.
silverwing schmied and plotted ecretly the more he was left alone from the hunts or defnding the nest. korin his young son usually stayed by his side but had flown off for fun playing with the other night furys around. he was just winging back to his fathers cave when unguarded shouting exchoed back to his ear plates from silverwinghefury and another female. "i know that you are biter and as sutchplot behiind our tails. but that willnot make you any mor respected. we fight for peace. most of our entire lives hve been ust so." "i dont care about what your whim and desires are ruler. i know i am not licked by you or any others. thats more than clear to me for a long time. try to scourn me is what i feel you all whisper at me. what is wrong with me that you treat me and my son so harshly?" silverwing roared.
copperwingthefury paused outside the cave entrace. he voice seemed even louder now. "secretly uo blame this all on us yet remain so blind becaues its your own overconfidace and arrogance tht makes us dislike you, not hate you. soproud and bold you show to many of our brothers and sisters if only youlet go of sutch bothersome behaviour." the female vgoice advised with a sigh. "get out! you and your empty heded lizards know nothing how generous ive been to alot of you. you dont know anything abut me! so dont claim you do! youre only a leader!" an ugly silence followed as korin hoped he wouldnt be seen. hed ot even seen is father so openly flutered before. another female sigh. "if you cannot figure it all ot them im sory. i truely am."
a warning growl diudnt make his father sound very aggreeable. "i do understand! its you and your colony of foolish ungratefl lizards that i have a problem with. when will they figure that out? ive tried to be nice! what do i get for it?" i came to you to try abd make you see reason. i feared this wouldnt work. i see this will have to be done another way: battle me in front of all the nest and challange me. i know thats what you really want. someone has to show you youre not as tough as you think youve become in the eyes of my colony. ive tried to be reasonable." she exlained to silverwingthefury that she wanted him in her nest because of his skilled string stamina and terriffic fighting priven in hunting trips but that this was the leaders only otion. "maybe a defeat will teatch you respect."
his fahther shouted at her to get out of his cave. as she flew out she caught korin hovering out of sight on the caves rim and smiled warmly: the current leader was getting a bit past her prime but almost al the nest respectd her for her wisdom and so refused to challange her for her ruling. coperwing adored her sarcasm too. by her look she knew silverwings son had been listaning in. "you seem to show a lot of obediance toward me; its a shame your father does not." she flew off leaving korin to ponder the meaning of her words. silverwings son winged into the cave to see his irriotable ebon and grey striped father paciing his cave. his frious muzzle snapped up to him them resuked storming about. silverwingthfury in his more calm moments took time to care for his innocent son amd didnt talk about scourn amd fighting back as mutch. copperwingthefury could tell this wasnt one of these moments.
"i thought it was that female come to snap in my face again. ive nearly had it with her." korin stayed out of the range of that blue striped facinaiting lashing tail and sighed: here they go again. "you know it isnt her fault. just forgive her iike you usually do. i still like her as a ruler. shes nice. id say shes farer then thew last one you told me about." theyd had a version of this conversation nearly every other time he flew back to hos father from plaing. silverwing didnt bother to hide his cobtemptous orbs from glarinh at korins innocent eyes. "you know the answer or you would not ask the question." "just saying: in my opinion id rather be her friend then be sour over the fact that you didnt do that well on a recent hunt. and your plans an running the nest. i find your rants get timresome: cant you face the fact that there are other night furys better then you?"
this time silverwings glare was severe enough to sythe right through his scales. korin took that as a no. "so how has the hunt going?" silverwingthefury tok his time replying as he paced the cave still. "ooh its fine. the brown one with ragged looking wings seems tolike me; skitiiva her name was.i ould have a mate one day i guess. but i do have you too." korin tried to smile in return but was worried about hos fathers darker plans inside. but now he seemed soothed out. "well maybe that will be so, father. can i go sleep now?" the future evil leader of the followers heard a unique screetch outside the cave entrance and smiled in a diffferent way at his son. "why not i have to go hunt with the nest thats going as well. this time ill show the others my strength is my strength. i cannot wait to see the iusmay on that dragons face haha!"
and in a flapping of his lovely long blue and grey banded wings his father was gone. silverwingthefury had gitten his courage and arrogance back but copperwing couldnt help but worry about that conversation with the ruler of thgis nest and hw mutch more violently fuming his father could get.
the nearly daily hunt inclued many of the more sharp eyed if not more powerful furys. among this nest there was only a single known dragoness with a white hide. valdis scanned the twenty or so night fyrys around her fir some sign of the brown raggged looking dragon abnd soon saw it. despite the sall number of the hunting party to feed the whole nest from whence they flew they al tried hard to fly at the middle f the day when the sun was at its highest and most lickly to not be spotted by the flesh and bloods. a slight rustle in the hunting wedge and a voice crackled in valdis sensitive ear plates. "herd you were looking fr me...although i dont know why. no other soul really enjoys the sounf of my voice; heh." valdis turned her anvil white snout to take in the brown fury wuth ragged wings.
"your skitiiva artnt you?" (of whom became her evil cnverted name loaw ranak branarr mutch later who tried to sieze cntrol of silverwings position in the last grwat battle months later.) "wose asking eh? i wanted to impress the confiane right off that bold dragons muzzle today when i catch a live rabit in eatch talon and a third in my jaws. or maybe two in eatch talon! hahah. what do you think?" her voice cntained an unpleasant sneering cackle even if she dudnt sound like it. not exactly a dragoness valdis liked even if she was bigger then her and impressive at hunting. the head night fury made a roar to gaher the others attention and stay in formation. not far behind him flapped silverwingthefury in a thoughtful mood: valdis assumed his mind was somewhere else besides the task at claw.
"last i heard silverwing would beat that record for meals tonight" valdis offered. skitiiva snorted oud enough for the whole party to hear. "let him try: sstrog and arrogant that black banded night fury and his big ego is he isnt worthy to match my stamina. ill come home with enough morsels to feed the whole family. let him come back with just one rabbit." valdis sure knew who had the bigger ego right now and it wasnt silverwingthefury. valdis flew ahead of skitiivas firm in the hunting formation to korins father who threw her a smile of victory. "you dont even need to explain to me what that imbicile was saying: she elaborated loudly for the rest of us to hear nor do i even care what she thinks. actions mater more then words she wanted a copitition shell get it in her muzzle."
no sighn of twoleggeds yet below them. the hunting leader night fury called that theyd spotted prey on the ground between the tall trees. white valdis dove with the others. sudenly silverwings broad appentages winged away from the party on his own and valdis started in surprise before finding herself followig him on her own will. others wouldnt even notice thier absence anyway. in an isolated area valdis observed in wonder as the dragon wonderouly folded his wings to ground anmd made a small hole in the dirt around a tree, squeaking coming from it. silverwing shoved his frontal talons cleverly and fished out a defiant hopping mole. without mutch thought he sliced his claws into its face and seartched for more. his skill impressed valdis who watched and hovered in the far shadow of the forest.
the big fury dissappeared for a moment and then the harsh voice came right beside her accusingly: "and if i were a two legged fool i wouldve already been running my metal tooth through you. honistly i have heard of a dragon with blood between thier paws never in them. you ae all so uterly predictable." growled silverwing right beside valdis, so mutch for her being hidden. "how many others followed you spying on me? and dont tell me that brown raggedy one did too." valdis recovered and informed him it was only her. "if you claim s; i have more imrtant matters of business to attend to. just stay out of my way while im doing it." silverwingthefury wasnt one to posess manners. valdis muttered under her breath and winged after his deaparting tail.
she quicly caught up wuth him in another clearing doing the same thing. "impressively done i must admit. your rudder fins are perfictly aligned just so when diving to ground. how do you manage it?" silverwing just ignored her this time around; not even bothering to indicate that she existed. he colleted his morsels and flew back alone to the nest with valdis trailling behind. the tan aged wizend ruler of the nest examined thier catch happily. until she arrived at silverwingthefury, all puffed up and proud. "and where were you again exactly?" she scowled, hearing the hunting party night furys tell her he convienently dissappeared on them. "you know what ive told you of dangerous encounters with flesh and bloods? they kill. they take our diffiult won catches from us. they kill us because they fear us. we must stay in hiding. you test that boundry every time. what am i to do with you?" earkier brash confidance had worn off quickly and now his orbs clearly told the female what he wanted: defeat her in combat and take her place.
a bout of favcitious gggling drew the ebon banded furys attention to gleeful skitiiva of who clutched two dead rabits in all her talons. "couldnt do the impossible task you so desperately dreamd of huh? thats so alright seeing as i did!" she brickly flung them at the tan leaders paws nice as you please. "how shameful that must feel. besides it doesnt matter how you play the game; its wether you win or yu lose." and with that skitiiva took off still laughing as silverwing steamed behind her still on the ground. the dragon grabbed a dead rabbit from the pile and darted off. white valdis sighed loud enough for the tan female t male eye contact with her. silverwings misunderstanding rage was becoming worse.
several hunts came and went eatch time skitiiva or some other night fury would catchmore then him especially if it was skitiiva. the final stick to silverwings raging bondfire was ignited when they were winging away back to the nest to present thier catch to the tan fmale ruler when a familliar fit of snorting/giggling from skitiiva reached silverwingthefurys ear plates. "every dragon in this party and id recon the rest of my colont knows im the best at what i do. you cannot argue at that. hah silverwing cant hear the complete contempt in my voice id wadger my wing." she was snickering with another fury near her, a favorite of hers. but the whole hunting party most cetainly COULD hear it. the black and grey banded dragon seethed at her ranting. could he go fly over and have that wing ripped off shed just betted on?
at least his son copperwing was always grateful for the morel his fathger brought back to thier cave o share. this calming moment was broken off as his ear plates caught skitiiva still gloating over her numerous catches amd howd shed gotten them. and her ludest snippet yet: "of course others coukd not compare and silverwing wasns to be the best in the nest. forgive my sneer that this plan to disgrae the leader and take her place isnt going to work. let him try!" siezedd by an overwhelming anger, the dragon tore through the ranks of night furys to crash into skitiivas side and drive her to the ground. he jabed lighty at her muzzle to shut her up. "you think this is funny, dragon? you think this is meant to amuse you? please me? get it straight: i am second to no one or skill combat. my wits are shaoer then they have ever been, my skills are unbeatable, my analytical mind unfathomable. what i see in this dragon is a jawful of empty hot air."
he slammed her to the forest floor with the force of his fury. even skitiiva knew not to anger the fury too far. his arial cobat was extremely vicious and clever. still she didnt let up that ugly lisp escape who sjhe was. "i caught miore moles today then you did. why all the slash and roar? i just did what was natural. the dislike is all on your side." silverwing left her there, claws bracing against nothing. he was far above fools like her. he avoided the female rulers caculating gaze that day and flew right to thier cave. korin was preasent. so was another young dragoness of bright blue. his glare at the female sent her wings flapping madly to get out of there, not helped by a "get out!" and a sterner "what has daddy said about younger unpretty furys in my cave accept the both of us and only us?" copperwingthefury could already tell this wouldnt be a pleasant night. "yes father."
a long silence stretched between the two sitting dragns before his father spoke in a low secret-sharing voice. "its time i told you a few things, my son. a secret only you and me will know in the end." he let the siolence stretch even more. "i truely plan on challamging the...how shall daddy put it into words for your eager mind...not smart ruker of us all. she doest have what it takes to properly guide us dragons big or small. shell be the loser and...be the beter for it when your father is in charge." silverwingthefurys rage had abated and that alowed his caculating mind from uttering any further ideas in his mind. not long from now would this dragons mind be altered to a mutch darker devious place. "i suspected but didnt ever ask. i feared what you might do. so what are we going to do?"
silverwings extended teeth tore into his rabbit hed brought back. his eyes once again bored into copperwingthefury. "you arent going to do anything. im going to fight her and siene im far better then her at fighting claw to claw i win." another akwatd silence, then: "what will you do if you become ruler? we have a nice one to begin with. whats wrong with the one we have besides she appears weak to you?" silverwing didnt hear korins question for his mind was already eating his heart away to one obsessive thing; find the leader at nightfall whatever the cost to the rest of the colony. "stay here i have duties i must severely attend to."
he flew off to another area to wait until then and smiled thinly when the full moon rose up that night. it was time. the tan ruler was in conversation with a muddy brown dragon hed disliked the instant hed met her. the tan female was un unkept frail old fool incapable, though sje still remained unchallanged. silverwing clearly intended to change all that. "i should be the rightful ruler not some weak half wit dragoness that doesn't know her left eye from her right claw. foolish dragness. i will be ruler soon." he muttered happily to himself. voices floated easily in the night air betwen the two dragons sitting on thier haunches alone: "and why havent the hunt been as good this time?" the leader was asking with a sigh of supressed anger. the obuekhov hesitantly elaborated that her hunting party had been about to tear into some rabbits but two-legged hunters armed with metal teeth in hands weer seen heading that way as well so the hunt was abated to avoid clashes with them. by her look, silverwingthefury could tell she dudnt want to dissapoint the female ruler. "very well obuekhov you are dismissed. our last few hunts have been susessful at best."
obuekhov nodded and took off gratefully as she wanted to sleep before anything else unhappy ended ip in her paws and she got blamed for it. silverwing snorted at her unneccacairy worry. the dragon could smell her relief. the tan female, her scale patterns shadowed and dulled by the heavy dark accet for the full moon overhead saw him, her features as he approtatched the place where she sat contorting into a grimace. "i know you well and you were not summonned." always observant that female...but it wouldnt matte soon enough, it was time to do what he came to do without the rest of the colony knowing anything about it. the thiught sent him chuckling merrily. "it does not matter. there's no watching kin to witness whats about to happen to you. so you see by remaining here you have already relinquished your power over this nest and no one cares. the nest will be mine."
the tan female suppressed a shudder of wearyness at the unusual expession flitting on silverwings muzzle. she had accepted him and alowed him to be a part of her colony despite all the negitivity surrounding this big powerfully built night fury. he was stronger then most other dragons shed sen too. usually the fury was angry or simply flustrerd by others comments. but tonight he seemed different somehow, like he wanted something more. sure she knew already what he wanted but not in a menacing omnious way as tonight. she had a nasty feeling inside her she hadnt felt before at the sneering confidance on silverwings snout and ralized what that feeling in her abdomen was: weary fear. if she understood this feeling correct then she would regret seeing him tonight. she readied her claws cautiously for a coming fight. it was bound to finally haen after all this time.
"you understand only a fool challenges for rights alone, knowing they cannot be defeated easily. i wont be that hard to defeat, if thats what youve come to do to me" she snapped at silverwingthefury who ruffled his wings in agitation for the coming fight. "and what you do not get is i dont care. you are old and weak: that is all you need to know. the rest youll find out soon enough." he took several aggressive pawsteps tward the unnamed fury as she bared her extended teeth as only night furys could do as a trait. "then you as well have a lot to learn about me because i am full of surprises." silverwing sprang. "haha, you'll find im a fast learner!"
his first onslaught aimed at the females snout, falling heavily so she ried out in pain. her efforts to block his slashing talons with her rather impressive huge wingspan that were far wider then most furys wernt heloing her win. "come out of your scaley shell and fight like a proper ruler would! or are you too mutch of a coward to be defeated with dignity and a tailful of honor? stop cowering!" silverwing cursed as he batted her tan graceful wings aside with his frontal claws. he shot anlkaline fireball in the face. she avoided a swipe by compleately flatening her body and stomch to the stone, rising up delivering a hard series of flames from her maw at his own muzzle. they hit him dead on, causing slight scarring and him howling painfyluy. the snout came whipping back to the ruler abngrily. "youll pay for that becase no one hurts me and gets away with it."
the female was getting tired of silverwings taunts and fired back one of her own laced with as mutch hurt venm as she dared use against a brorher dragon under her guidance. "youre the young upstart who wished to oppose me this day. the fault is yours alone as long as you continue this madness."silverwingthefurys attacks were doing more damage to the leader then any of her assults on his face. abruptly the dragon raced forward to finish her off and be the new leader when a voice cried out behind him. the night furys ravaged hungry mind didnt process someone had shouted until it spoke. "no! father stop! stop this isn't the proper way to get what you would like! you have to stop this fight! you dont kill your challenger! they back down! you can't kill her and you need the whole of the nest observing to rightfully fight a leader for control of the nest!"
silverwing barely saw the yiung dragon as his son, sutch in a haze of victory was he at last. he barely notice copperwingthefury flapping up clumsily to the flat pinnacle to land on it. he looked pleadingly at his father! "it isn't proper." silverwings dark smirking muzzle snapped around to the younger night fury that was his son. wether or not he had seen this look on his snout before, he didnt bother to hide it now. why bother to? and who was this yiung know nothing night fury to tell him what do do, the new self leader of this entire conony? his son begged him again, the sad look making him all the more angrier. then to the side the bloodied tan female was breathing heavily, struggling to rise to her paws, her gaze flickering betwen father and son: how it all began.
"your son is correct, you know. if one happened to be wise i would cease this barbaric insolence and rightfully challenge me for all to see the victor of a proper fight. what do you call this murderous act? this isn't the actions of a civil brother or sister dragon, this is pure destruction. think what your insane actions could do to our family i watch over? it could destable us all." the words seemed to wrentch the posessed silverwing back to his normal self. he threw a glare over her way in answer, his claws twitching open and closed. "wise words for a dragon too cowardly to admit defeat just by glancing at me. cant you tell i beat you already? if it were up to me-" "but it isn't!" the battered female coaked defiantly "this...whatever anger i feel in you, your obsession to see me removed or even killed to get what you want, is it really worth it? can't we all be content? this hate i feel toward me and my position...its all on your side." that was it then, that barb shed hidden in her words, she won and he was a fool and she didnt want him in her colony anymore. fine then. he readied his wings to fly off but not before his next words hissed in a low threatening voice came out his throat for all to hear: "then see how well you do without me!"