Dark Weapon Rising

Chapter 2
An Unexpected Meeting

A/N: This really IS chapter 2 lol :) Explanation at end of the chapter.
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Mal rushed into his new house nearly bursting with joy at the mere site of the place. Large stone pillars worked their way up from the ground clear up to where the roof hung over the outermost front wall. The whole house seemed very elaborate and formal, especially with its solid white finish.

"Some place you've got here isn't it?" Felpar inquired to Helgar who looked the house over approvingly.

"Yeah, a lot better than what I thought I was going to get when I was first elected. You know all too well how hard it is to get a house like this close to the Council Hall."

"Yeah, all too well." Felpar laughed in shrill memory of his house searching experience.

The two younger dragons were nowhere to be found now, and probably were taking in their first tour of the house that they would eventually become so accustomed to that they could walk around it with their eyes closed. Outside, the two adults really couldn't care less though as a larger situation loomed near, and the both of them knew it.

"You think the neighbors will be able to accept such a country family into the neighborhood?"

"Nah, you ain't that country anyhow Helgar." Felpar pointed out.

"I suppose not," he said immediately laughing at his country side coming fourth.

Felpar followed with the same laughter. "Well come on, let's put this all of stuff into the house and rearrange it a bit before we have to go off to our meeting."

The night had fallen upon the city and inside of the new house lights were now lighting up the home. All of the furniture from outside had been moved into the home and looked like it was completely sorted into order.

"Well boys, I guess it's time for us to leave for our meeting, you behave yourselves now while we are gone." Helgar told them in salutation as he and Felpar walked out of the doorway and into the vacant street.

"Well, Terrador," the purple dragon addressed him, "You want to go and look around the outside of the city while they are gone, or go and meet a few of the local dragonesses?"

The two elder dragons walked side-by-side into that night's meeting of the Dragon Council and were met by a host of faces and filled seats.

Only three were left and they were the ones at the direct opposite side of the room. They made their way over there without any real unusual attention and took their seats beside one another leaving only an empty spot to their left.

They both took nervous glances around to room as they tried to remember the names and faces once again. After a few seconds Helgar leaned over to Felpar "Can you remember half of their names?" he whispered to him.

"Not really, you'd think that we'd be able to remember them after two weeks wouldn't you?"

Helgar bobbed his head in reply as the final dragon came into the assembly took his attention.

"Ignitus, late again I see" somebody near to entryway commented.

"Sorry, me and my mate had to see to it that a particular dragon got a proper first day of training." He explained as he continued to hake his way over to the set next to Felpar.

"Maybe your teaching job and council spot are too much for somebody your age." suggested another closer to the opposite side of the room.

"No better suited for me than somebody twice my age." He deflected continuing of his way.

He finally arrived next to Felpar and took his seat. "I understand that you two may not like me so well at this time" he said to Felpar and Helgar, "but I hope you understand that when I'm here I'm not here for me, I'm here for a group of people. This is the only reason that I have proposed this. You can rest assured that I'm voting it down though."

Helgar turned away from him a bit, and failed to address him. Felpar who sat directly next to him at the large circular table gestured a small apology for his friend's actions.

Ignitus returned him a nod "yes" but otherwise acted as though nothing had happened. "I understand, you have every right to be angry right now. I am sorry."

Terrador considered the door from afar knowing that either way they were going to have to go out of it, and somewhere in his mind he felt like he had to stay right here for a while. The peer pressure got to him quickly though and he knew that that was not an option after all that would be pretty boring.

"Well, I don't know, I don't have any idea who lives in this neighborhood to be honest." Terrador replied as he slowly made his way toward the exit.

"How about we walkout here and just look around a bit, and then if nothing exciting shows up we can just go on out into the wilderness." Mal offered.

Something told Terrador to refuse it and to just stay put, but his continuing motion towards the door was an open sign of willingness. "I guess that would work" he finally returned as they reached the door and emerged into the outdoors.

The door nearly brushed into a pure crimson colored dragoness with a lighter red underbelly. "Oh," she exclaimed startled.

"Oh, sorry," Mal replied genuinely while sending her a small smile.

"It's all right, Mal" she replied through a brightly light face. "Hey, Terrador" she offered him.

"Hey,"

She was visually into Mal and either she didn't care to conceal it or she couldn't. For a moment Terrador thought that she was just going to tackle him on the spot, but by her reputation he knew that this would never happen.

Her name was Shandra and she was well known to be the most attractive dragoness in the entire generation of hatchlings. Her entire body seemed to be shaped perfectly and her scales seemed to be flawless. She wasn't open to disrespecting her father's rules either and this pretty much assured that she wouldn't do anything with Mal at this point in time, possibly later in life, but not at this moment.

"You know, Shandra me and Terrador were just about to head out to the outskirts of the city here, you want to tag along?"

Her face light up in excitement, "Sure! You guys going right now? Our parent's meeting probably won't last past midnight you know?"

"If we are going to do guess we'd better get going." Terrador butt in as he allowed his wings to lift him off of the ground.

"All right," Mal replied playfully taking to the sky himself "last one over the city wall has to ask out Jalon!" he chided as he took off at full speed towards the west.

Terrador's face flushed at the mention of the last person to ask him for courtship. "Oh, heck, no way am I even touching that thing! Shandra can mate with that!" he demanded taking off himself with Shandra right behind.

"I'm a dragoness," she stated rather calmly before taking off in hot pursuit of the two males.

A/N: I'm sorry about posting chapter one twice. I copied and pasted the chapter into the manager over top of the first chapter, and I was in a bit of a hurry last night as I was getting to bed right after I finished the chapter. Turns out I posted the chapter before I save the document, then I closed it out (a few months ago that would have meant a story discontinuation as I can't stand to rewrite ANYTHING. Fortunately, this happened now and you still get to see this story through to conclusion.

I've had a few people P.M. me this week asking me if I was finishing this story. Actually I'm finishing all active stories and doing a "Salute to You Tour" before I leave that will be two stories that I have always been asked to write and people love. One will be called "Mating Season" and the other will be a reversion to Spyro's Legacy II with a little different plot and a whole lot better grammar.

I decided today that this will probably be my longest Fan Fiction yet and possably ever. Hopefully I actually post the correct chapter this time. Please post your review for this chapter off of your account or on depending on which you reviewed it on last time.

As always thanks for reading,
Cornys