GEARS AND FRIENDS

The night before the race Sakura was secretly watching Moordryd and Cain stealing dragons from a level above them, she didn't like what they were doing but she needed more informations on Moordryd's life and what his father was forcing him to do.

Suddenly she saw them move frantically, she looked better and saw someone familiar, it was Stewardd.

"What is he doing here?" she wondered.

She observed his moves, he made the two psi dragons ran away frightened, the two dragon eyes attacked him and he escaped, not before he hit them with a dumpster.

"I think it's better if I follow him" she reasoned.

Hopping on Moonlight she followed him from the shadows, she was lucky that her dragon had dark scales, so they wouldn't be noticed.

They arrived at Penn Stables, she wondered what he had to do here and why.

"Stay here" she said to her dragon, it was better to leave her hidden.

She followed him again and discovered that under the stable there were the ancient Dragon Temple, she saw a priest with the Penn Racing Crew.

That idiot of Artha Penn was training for the race, the same way as her at the Dragon Sanctuary, only she was much more better than him, and she trained for much more time.

She saw Stewardd giving him a Light Green Deflection Armor, she wondered why, she decided to ask him later, now was time to leave before they'll find her.

Sakura escaped as fast as possible but not before seeing Moordryd and Cain from a level above planning something, she hoped they didn't see her.

The next day, 10 minutes before the race, Sakura was preparing Moonlight for the race, she made her mag her Thrusters, she decided to keep her own Deflection Armor hidden, to use just in case the gauntlet will be too difficult for her.

She noticed some movement at the Penn Racing tent, she saw the young Penn with Stewardd entering.

"What is he still doing here?" she had no time to ask him, the race was starting and she needed to go.

She went to the start line where almost every racer was.

"Welcome competitors to the gauntlet!" Budge announced and the crowd cheered.

"You have three race periods to survive, and a rest period of five minutes between each one, best time win! Good luck!" he explained.

They started, Artha was in the first position immediately passed by Moordryd, Sakura was right behind them.

They ran dodging an obstacle after another, Artha surpassed again Moordryd and then he reached him again, Sakura accelerated and reached them too, now Beau was in the middle with Moonlight at his right and Decepshun at his left.

There was a hole on the track, they jumped at the same time, then Moordryd and Sakura activated their Thrusters, the heat made Beau fall, Artha quickly activated the Aero Gear, they rose only to meet one of the metallic balls which broke their right wing, making them fall again at the edge of the hole, fortunately Beau was able to climb up.

The first period ended with the victory of Moordryd and Sakura came in second, Artha arrived later with his Aero Gear broken.

"Looks like I win the first part of the gauntlet stable brat, you don't have the skills or the gear for this race" he said and laughed, hearing him Sakura sensed that he was up to something.

Returning to her tent she saw some movement at the Dragon Eye tent, and she saw a young boy spying, she approached him silently.

"What are you doing little man?" she asked sweetly.

"My friend is in trouble" he said "Cain stole our gear and we came to take it back and then he captured him" he explained.

They looked in the tent once again, they saw Stewardd hanging from a mag-rack.

"If you don't want to tell me where the rest of your crew is, fine, after the race we'll pay a little visit to my father, I'm sure you'll both be very happy to see each other" Moordryd said to him.

"Ok little man after the race I'll help you rescue him, they won't go away until the race is finished, now I have to go" she said leaving Lance confused.

Again she was at the start line, this time there were less than half racers than before.

"Remaining racers prepare for the second period, same track, same obstacles, but twice the danger" Marshall announced.

They started and Moordryd was already attacking someone with his Energy Drain Whip, making them fall, Sakura and Moonlight jumped over.

Again they dodged all the obstacles but with a lot more difficulty than before but they made it finishing 10 seconds after Moordryd, even Artha made it despite his stupid fall, finishing a lot more after her.

Returning to the tent again she didn't saw the red haired boy form before, she wondered where he was and how her friend was doing, she hoped that Cain didn't do anything bad to him, but now she had a race to finish.

The three racers prepared for the last period, Sakura observed the boys, both of them had a Deflection Armor on his dragon head, she knew that only one was the original one, the other was a fake, she was sure of it because hers hadn't been stolen, fortunately.

"You have to finish 31 seconds ahead of me or you lose" Moordryd said to Artha.

"I think I can manage" he indicated his gear with his eyes, the white haired teen smiled thinking that it was his decoy.

Sakura cleared her throat capturing their attention "Guys I'm still in the race, remember?" she said feeling ignored by them.

They started for the last time, they raced side by side, the same way they were in the first period.

Moordryd activated his Ramming Gear and made his dragon push Beau and Moonlight to the right, Sakura's dragon hit a wall, hard and fell, meanwhile her rider hit her right shoulder and fell of her saddle, this race was finished for them.

Then the Dragon Eyes leader activated his Deflection Armor, but not knowing that actually was his decoy it exploded and he flew into the air, he activated his glider pack to cushion his fall, instead he was knocked down by one of the swinging obstacles.

Moordryd laid still on the ground as Sakura approached him.

"Are you ok?" she asked concerned, it pained her to see him like this.

"Oh It's you, yeah I'm fine, and you?" he didn't expected to see her, he wondered why she was so concerned for him, even in the last race she shoved concern for him.

"Yes, it doesn't hurt so much" she replied holding her shoulder.

The race finished with Artha's victory, now was time for Stewardd rescue, she didn't wanted to hurt Moordryd, so she thought for a moment, since he wanted so much the Deflection Armor she was going to give him hers, trading it for Stewardd.

Sorry I'm late, I've been busy lately and I forgot to tell that the story takes place after the episode 13 "The Chromatic Dragon"

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