Zito felt Serla's tongue play and licked his.
Zito's heart felt like it would burst.
Then he wondered if Seela could do this to him.
His eyes opened and went wide with realization "Wait a minute, what am I doing!" he thought to himself
Zito pulled away quickly.
Serla looked at him confused "What's wrong"
"I feel like I betrayed my mate"
Serla's eyes went completely wide in shock "He has a mate!" she said in her head.
"Why would I let her kiss me, when I have finally got the one I loved my whole life, why?" Zito question himself in his head.
"Who...who is your mate?"
"Seela"
Serla's mind went blank; her head was so dense that she had a small headache.
She put her paws on her eyes and started to cry "I can't do anything right"
Serla knew that she must have broken new boundaries between them.
Zito went up to her "You can if you try and do what you believe is right, even though that was….unnecessary, you can always redeem yourself in time"
Serla looked at him in wonder at his sudden wisdom.
"Now come on, let's go to Warfang"
"But Zito they won't trust me anymore!"
"I won't let them touch you my little half sister" He smiled
Serla glared at him "Actually I am your older half sister, because I was eight years old when you were born"
Zito blinked in shock then grumbled in defeat.
"My father didn't want me known, but I did look out of my little cave that my father tucked me away in and I saw the Destroyer walking to the same volcano it came out of and I barely saw our mother and your father trying to take it down. I knew there was nothing they could do to stop it" said Serla
"You sound like you weren't being controlled by my…" Zito chocked on that word.
Zito blinked at the fact that…Malefor is his family member.
"No he wasn't controlling me yet, but he was never the one to do it, he gave that opportunity to another and I served him with my life and will"
Serla glared at the ground "I hate him, the one that controlled me, he tortured me into a monster, like Gaul did to my mother"
"Well they won't harm you again, I promise you that" Zito reassured her.
Serla looked at him, a tint of hope in her eyes that she was finally free from her corruption but foreshadowed with doubt.
Zito nuzzled her cheek "It's ok, now come on" he took to the air and waited for Serla to join him.
Serla flew up to him "Um was that siblings nuzzle or a couple nuzzle?"
Zito smiled and rolled his eyes "A sibling nuzzle and Serla"
"Yeah?"
"When you turned back, did you start to love me and my siblings?"
Zito and Serla flew off to Warfang
"Yes I did"
Zito smiled as they journeyed home.
Styx suddenly stopped dead in his tracks.
Shella was so lost in thought that she bumped right into him.
She squeaked in surprise.
Styx just looked at her over his shoulder from the corner of his eye with a blank expression.
Shella blushed slightly in embarrassment.
"Don't make a sound" he whispered
Funny thing is that she did make a squeak earlier.
Styx looked forward with content in his eyes.
Shella looked to see what he was looking at; it was a lone deer, grazing on the grass.
Styx got low and went to the edge of the bush line but didn't go past it.
Shella watched closely as if she was being given a lesson.
Styx suddenly pounced faster than the deer could react and landed on top of it.
It squirmed to get away, with yelps of fright.
Styx didn't hesitate to bite its neck and squeezed.
It squealed in pain.
Shella just watched in mild horror.
Styx bit harder until he heard its neck popped.
He let go and let its head hit the ground.
The body twitched with its eyes staring wide eyed at the blue sky, and then relaxed many things started exited its extraction point at a rapid pace.
Shella watched in complete disgust and felt vomit in her mouth.
She went a little ways away and threw up.
Styx came over and dropped the body a little away from her sight.
"Death can be horrifying, but this is a natural way of survival"
"I know, I just never seen a dead body before is all" Shella blushed a little embarrassed.
Styx looked at her and gave a sympathetic smile "You'll get used to it in time"
Shella felt a little better. "Yeah I guess your right"
Zito and Serla landed in Warfang at the central park.
"Ahhh its good to be home" said Zito.
"I don't know Zito, I don't feel welcomed here" Said Serla worried.
"Don't worry Serla, I am there for you"
"Thanks" She said with a smile.
"Did I every tell you how funny your smile looks?"
Serla smacked him in the shoulder.
"Ow..."
"Come on Zity" she walked in the direction where Zito lived.
Zito followed without complaining.
All of a sudden Seela landed right in front of them, and Zito never seen her so much in rage until now.
"What is she doing here!" Seela curled her lips, showing her clenched teeth.
Serla hid behind Zito in fright.
Zito didn't know what to do.
"Well!" yelled Seela
"She's here cause she changed, I got her away from the shadows"
"Liar! She has manipulated you!"
"I didn't-" Serla rejected, but had fear in her voice
"Shut up!"
Serla shrunk.
"And what happened back there when I came to see if you were ok!" Seela got in Zito's face
Zito felt cornered from the infuriated ice dragoness before him.
"You know when that Rat kissed you!"
Zito's eyes went wide, he didn't know how to react to what she said
"Because what I saw sure showed me what a great mate you are!"
Serla's eyes went wide in realization of what is going on.
Seela glared at Serla and Serla knew that things wouldn't get any better any time soon.
"I didn't say I liked it Seela and besides she is my half sister" Said Zito.
"What, do you think I can believe that, that she actually made you think that!"
"You know me Seela; I can easily change heart towards someone"
Seela glared at him, and then tears weld on her eye lids "You don't love me…"
"Seela I do love you"
"Stop lying to yourself!" she tried to chock down her sadness.
"Seela!"
Seela jumped in shock by how his voice sounded, hasn't heard that voice in a long time, it was a voice of sadness and near to breaking his heart….just like when he lost his family after woke up in the med-room.
"I love you too much Seela, please…don't leave me"
Seela looked at him, seeing he was about to collapse…she forgot how sensitive he can be, how easy it is to hurt him.
Seela went up and hugged him "I won't leave you, but just be careful around Serla ok?"
"I don't need to worry about her right now" said Zito
"Oh ok, so is it true that she is your half sister?" asked Seela
"I well her father mated with my mother, so she is my half sister"
Seela blinked with thought at that "weird" she thought to herself.
Then she had another thought "Wait who is her father anyway? Does she have siblings? If so, does one of her siblings have kids?"
"Come on I would like to be in my own house again" Said Zito.
"I don't have anywhere to sleep" Said Serla "I never had a home here…..just lived in the forest"
"With apes?" asked Seela, doing her best to not get angry at her.
"More or less"
"Oh ok" said Seela "Well you can sleep in Zito's room if you want, I know there is a second bed in the room"
"That would be nice, thank you" Serla smiled, feeling happy and content.
Zito smiled and walked up to Serla then gave her a warm hug.
Serla was a bit shocked but hugged back.
Seela realized something "Wait what about Shella?"
"Oh no…" he looked at the forest beyond the wall of Warfang "We should search for her now"
"You two go, Shella won't trust me when she sees me" said Serla, feeling very guilty for what she did to torture Shella.
"Alright Serla" Zito looked at Seela "Come on" he took to the air with Seela behind him.
"Good luck you two" Said Serla below then thought "Now what should I do….this place just doesn't feel like home to me….maybe I should go to Zito's place and take a nap" then she smelled herself "Ugh but a shower first" she walked towards Zito's house at her own pace.
Meanwhile.
Zito and Seela flew over the treetops looking for any signs of the red dragoness, so far none.
"Maybe we should split up?" Asked Seela.
"No, there are apes everywhere, splitting up would be a fool's error" said Zito
"I suppose so" said Seela
Zito continued to look around then spotted something "Look down there!"
Shella and Styx were walking towards Warfang when they heard "Look down there!"
They looked up to see a green and white dragon land in front of them.
"Zito, Seela!" she smiled very widely "You both are alive!"
"Yeah pretty much" Zito said with a small smile.
"So is Serla dead?" asked Shella
"No" said Seela.
"What? But why not?" asked Shella.
"Cause I spared her" Said Zito "Because…she is our half sister"
"Holy shit!" She didn't expect that at all "Are you sure?"
"Yes, she did look a bit like our mother" said Zito
"Oh I see" said Shella "Oh by the way this is Styx" she looked and saw him walking away from them and into the dense forest"
"He must have things to do" said Zito "Right now we should warn the guardians of an attack that may come"
Shella looked at him with determination "Yeah lets go"
They took off and flew to Warfang.
Meanwhile.
A green dragon walked through the big corridor, observing the various arts on the wall with mild interest.
The dragon walked through giant doors leading to a throne and walked to the adult dragon in front of him and bowed.
"You may speak" said the adult dragon before him
"Father" he said with respect. "The troops are getting impatient and uneasy for blood"
"I understand their motives for power son, but we must wait a bit longer, let the dragons in Warfang start tensing up"
"Yes father I understood what you're planning from before, but we had some injuries and misfortune among them, fight's broke out and took a while for my royal guard to bring order again, it's a matter of time before they start making their own orders"
The adult dragon looked at him with dark yellow eyes.
Dark power emanated from the father's scales "The apes are too stupid to make their own assault without making it a suicidal mission"
The father did a raising paw motion for the young dragon to rise in which he stood up and looked at him.
"However, even though Warfang at the moment has no defenses up at the moment, a fool's attack will cost us dearly" The father said.
"Yes but we could bombard them for days on end, it would ease the troops tension and not only that we could hit major targets like food supplies and iron mines for their making of armor" The son suggested.
"Hmmm" The father thought of this deeply.
"Very well, Scablad, You will have your skirmish" The father said.
Scablad suddenly had a look of pleasure on his face "Thank you…Dark Master"
"Please son, just call me Father" The Dark Master said.
"Forgive me Father" Scablad bowed and left the room.
Malefor looked outside of the tower.
They had made their fortress in the Well of Souls after Scablad had brought him back to life.
"Hmmm you have grown much Zito, but too bad that youth will be broken" he thought with somewhat anticipation.
Scablad walked out of the building to see that the legions had started fighting among themselves again.
He grows tired of these skirmishes and roared so loud that the apes had to cover their ears.
"I expected more from all of you" he glared at them "We are attacking at noon today, get the war machines ready, we are doing a sabotage mission.
The apes roared in triumph for a mission they so well deserved.
"However" Scablad continued to speak and they died down "We will only be bombarding specific area's, the troops will be held back in the defensive in case any dragons decide to destroy the war machines, we need to weaken them not destroy them just yet, but you all will get your chance one day, anyone who starts another fight will be executed on the spot"
The apes now seemed to be more obedient at that moment.
"Here are all your orders"
Scablad explained on a map to the general's of the ape army where they should hit and with what they are firing at it with.
"Alpha team will hit the mills and farms will be hit with napalm, and you will be shooting from here and the mills and farms will be here" he pointed a key parts of the map, where they will be shooting is a hill filled by trees, except for the top portion where it is in good striking distance of the strategic targets.
"Beta team will hit the factories in the inner part of the city, I don't care which one it is, any is worth hitting, stop their production of anything, you will fire explosive bombs at those targets from here" it was also an area filled with trees with an open top area but had no hill, even with that Scablad calculated the distance of the Trebuchets from that position and could in fact hit the major targets from there.
"Charlie team will hit the iron mines here" he pointed the iron mining location "You will hit them with acid bombs and explosives, do your best to start cave-ins this is the hardest part of the mission, Charlie team if you fail, then the whole mission failed, even with the factories destroyed they will have a chance to rebuild them before we know it, I have studied their earth dragons, they could make equipment in a matter of hours, but if we cave them in, they won't be able to access their mines for a while" He continued with steel determination "You will fire from here, it's a remote area so be on guard, but you will be in range, make sure you set them up though in four positions to get every mine" he pointed at every possible angle he could find on the map for them.
The Apes listened and studied the map intently.
"However these different positions you will all make, Beta and Alpha team I didn't brief you this yet, Alpha you will also bombard from this angle and this angle" he pointed at the key positions with precise thinking.
"Beta team because there are many different factories in the city you will have the most war machines, which you will also set up here, here, here, and here" he pointed at the other four locations.
"Now for the last and most important team, Death Team you will be put on Warfang's major trading routes here, here, and here, make sure you destroy everything and kill anyone in the trading convoy, even if it's just immigrations, I don't care, make sure nobody gets word out to the other cities what we are up to" he explained to them with a very focused look. "Once you are don't with the ambush clean up the mess and bury the bodies quickly"
"Erie team you will be accompanying Death teams ambush, but whatever doesn't get destroyed in the ambush bring it back to the fortress, we are going to need all the supplies we can get" Scablad looked between the company leaders
"Fire team you will have the most troops, make sure no dragon warriors try to attack on the flank, use any means necessary to stop them, place mines and the newly designed barbed wire for keep them from getting in, also we have another weapon that has been designed, a repeating crossbow, Fire team will be using this, make sure you build up a good defense as I said, place mines, barbwire and trenches, some of you will have the repeating crossbow in case they try to fly, you will have a specific amount of trebuchets to use, two for each small trench only, Fire team will be split into three groups, Fire team 1 will defend from here, Fire team 2 will defend from here, and Fire team 3 will defend from here" he pointed at specific areas that he has studied to be great defensive positions.
"Each Fire team will have twenty trebuchets to defend" he seemed near the end of his briefing.
"Remember teams every assignment I have given you is very important for our future invasion, if it fails, we will have lost our element of surprise and opportunity to have a quick strong attack"
They all nodded.
"Alright, the assignments I have gave you will be written down and also drawn from the map of your specific locations so you can memorize them"
"Now" he said ending his briefing "Get your troops ready, we will be attacking in four hours, I want everything packed and ready, plus I need Fire team to learn to use the new weapon that I have mentioned"
"Dismissed" They left in a real hurry to get everything set up, the whole legion is now in full motion for the attack.
"You all better do this right" he thought to himself with a glare on his face.
The teams packed their needed weapons and equipment, plus food and water for the many days of the siege that are in their written assignments that they will probably be fighting for months on end.
Scablad noticed the lead makers of the gun are showing the troops how to use them, they definitely had some kick to it, but it didn't really seem to bother the very muscular apes.
Scablad walked onto the hill that will soon be full of Trebuchets and looked at Warfang with keen eyes, observing the points of the area, then he noticed a green dragon, and two dragonesses, one white, one red, flying by him without ever noticing him, he know who the green one and white one are, but he is not completely familiar with the red.
He smiled in delight seeing that Zito and Seela will be part of the kill zone.
Zito, Seela, and Shelia flew and landed in Warfang, near the guardian council building.
"Lets go!" Zito said as they raced up the steps and were blocked by guards
"Whoa what's going on?" said one of them.
"Sir it's of great importance, there is word of an attack that we need to warn the guardians about it!" Zito said with a very much a worried voice and look on his face.
Guards looked at each other.
"Very well go in" the guards let them in.
Zito and the others ran in and into the council chambers where they seemed to have a very important meeting.
They looked at the teenagers that ran into the chamber unannounced.
Zito and the other stopped in the center.
The fire guardian got up "What seems to be the problem young dragons?"
Zito is panting "An attack is coming….coming to Warfang"
The electric and Ice guardian looked at each other with a bit of a shocked expression, but disbelief.
"Do you have any proof of this?" said the Earth guardian getting up as well.
Zito showed them a gash on his arm that he had gotten from an ape.
"An ape slash, profitable, but not enough facts" said the Earth dragon.
"I have proof" They all looked at the door to see Serla, she looked like she had a terrible nap
"Serla?" Zito seemed shocked to see her so soon.
Walked up to the center as if she didn't hear him "My brother is in charge of an army, I have seen it before, he is sending it in a few hours, I saw it in a nightmare, just to torture me, but he did give me information of a n attack"
"You are tired miss and I believe that you all had too much alcohol" said the Electric Dragon
:Seela glared "We are not drunk or we would be saying a lot more nonsense of many different subjects!"
"How are we going to believe you?" said the Fire Guardian
"Let me show you Torch" said Serla
Torch looked at her a bit stunned that she knew him even though he didn't say his name.
"This may give you a headache" Serla said
"What are you going to do?" Torch seemed a bit wary of her.
"Show you mental images of what I have seen, ones that you need to know"
Torch black out,
He saw images of war machines, Apes training, strange weapons and material not that he doesn't know what it is and many other things about the attack.
When they stopped Torch woke up to see that the other four guardians are looking down at him with shock.
"That's everything you need to know about the attack, now do you see?" Serla said a bit frustrated.
Torch got up and looked at her with somewhat a suspicious look "Very well, we will negotiate about this, but for now leave the building till we make a decision"
The four adolescent dragons walked out the building and looked at each other with some worry on their face.
Zito suddenly saw in his mind out of nowhere where the Ape army is, the battle that will come, the trenches and everything, he saw it all, he couldn't believe that he is seeing everything, but he is.
They are moving to somewhere he doesn't know, he concentrated harder and read their minds, he saw their battle plans and everything.
"WAKE UP ZIT-BOY!" Serla screamed into his ear obviously annoyed.
"Sorry, it's just that….they are already here! We are about to be siege!"
"How do you know?" Seela question just as an a explosive bomb landed behind them.
"Anymore questions!" yelled Zito
"No!" Seela said suddenly frantic.
Serla who just glared and flew up into the air quickly before anyone could react and blasted a mass gust of wind that shot the flying explosives back at the catapults.
After that Serla felt exhausted, she didn't sleep well in that nap.
She flew back down as more explosives feel, the city is now on high alert and guards are disorganized and running around everywhere.
There is mass confusion everywhere.
Zito looked at his siblings and mate, they are on edge.
"Does anyone want to back out a sabotage mission?"
"You're are crazy" Serla said with a smile "fortunately I like crazy"
They had flown over the trebuchets that are firing the explosives and they had opened fired with arrows, which they in turned dogged.
Shella fired a massive fire ball that scorched the earth and the archers with it.
The other three dragons just stared at her in mild horror
Shella looked back at them "What?" She said having an innocent look on her face.
They didn't say anything and dived down on one of the trebuchets positions
The ape engineers start grab their clubs and shields, but they didn't have much armor to protect them against the adolescent dragons with their teeth, claws, horns, wing claws, and tail blades, not to mention their elements.
Serla dived down and slammed head first into one of the apes cracking his light armor and sending him yards away. She raised her tail blade and blocked the spear end then swings it away then blasted the ape off his feet with her wind ability. Zito clawed at the other one's face then ducked as the ape swung his club at him and Zito bashed him with his horns. Shella spoke of few words that are foreign to him "Neso vasilio!" vines came out of nowhere from the ground and wrapped around the ape "Elesicc shorita" the vines started to squeeze the ape. Zito will never forget that apes agony as he was squeezed to death and heard a pop inside his body.
"Araebcka" The vines disappeared then she spitted fire balls at the other ape who blocked it with its shield but broke it instantly and let a few burns. Shella shot more fireballs instantly frying the ape. Seela looked at the three apes in front of her, she never had a real battle to the death before and she was somewhat scared, but it doesn't stop her from staying alive as they surrounded her in a circle, she remembers this tactic they use. Seela closed her eyes and calmed her mind. It started to snow and the apes were left stupefied by the snow when it is only summer.
Seela took no time to watch their dumb awestruck looks, though she wondered how they even made a military when they are so dumb. She started to charge up her element and the snow started turning into a rain of sharp icicles. The apes now out of their daze use their shields for cover but left them open to Seela's ice cold breath and became frozen solid.
Shella ran to the trebuchets and set them on fire "one down…ten million to go" a little tired but not too bad, they all knew they may have to face a lot more positions with a lot more soldiers protecting them, especially since they know the trebuchet is smoking.
"Why didn't we break it with ice?" Zito thought to himself.
They watched for a brief second of the flaming balls of fire raining on their home then took off to attack the next position.