Dark Weapon Rising

Chapter 4
Crushing Pressure
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"I-I can't" Mal denied weakly watching his two friends fly towards him regrettably.

"You know that what I'm telling you is true, Mal. Why can't you simply accept reality and quit living this dream?"

He looked them over as they continued to struggle against the high elevation's wind. Slowly he persuaded himself that they were inferior to him leading him to the voice.

"You see it now don't you? Nothing in this world is as strong as what our kind are, Malefor, and your only purpose in this weak Earth is to strengthen it through the only means possible, a complete monopoly on a generation's breeding. You already have that one's and the others will not be far behind; all that you have to do is remove all of the males."

"No," he denied weekly.

"It is the truth; accept it and the pain shall be much less."

He stewed over the idea quietly losing himself to the world and finding that all that was said was true. No sense of logic could disprove the facts given him allowing him to begin accepting the idea. "It's not right," he whispered.

"What?" Shandra asked him as she landed upon the summit alongside of him.

Mal instantly forgot all that had happened and considered her momentarily. "I didn't say anything, must have been the wind."

"Oh,"

Terrador landed tiredly beside Shandra. "Whew," he sighed in exhaustion. "Why'd you go so far out-in-front of us, Mal?"

"I don't know, I guess I just wanted to get that against-the-wind flying done as quickly as possible. Wasn't really paying attention."

"I can see that you're that fastest flyer," Shandra sighed; "We tried to catch up to you and you just kept getting farther and farther away."

"I'm not fast, you guys are just weak," he joked.

"The results are in," the completely white head of the council announced as he was handed a white envelope and considered it in his hands. He moved his claw beneath the seal and with a quick glance at Felpar he slid out the contents.

Felpar and Helgar glanced at each other anxiously knowing that the painful task of waiting was nearly over, the paper held all the answers that they were looking for.

"Now, should the vote be in favor the act will only be able to be reversed by this board, any further arbitration on the matter is only subject to this board." The white one announced before opening the paper.

"The vote went as follows: For seventeen, against fourteen. The proposal has been accepted and furthermore will be put into effect immediately following this session at which time all involved parties will be gathered together and informed of the matter. Thank you all for coming tonight. Council is released."

Mal and the group were now down from the mountain and walked through a path cut through the thick undergrowth. Mal glanced back at Shandra sinfully and then, noticing her return stare, turned back around forward.

"Couldn't we just fly back home?" Terrador asked from behind.

"I guess we could have, but I figured that you guys' wings were still tired." Mal replied.

"Well, they are, but our parents are going to be getting back anytime soon you know."

"We can if you want to I guess."

"I think we should, if they get home and we aren't there they will kill us, Mal."

Mal looked back and made a quick decision "A'ight, me and Shandra will catch up with ya' in a minute."

"Ok, if I'm home and you're not then you just up and left on your own." Terrador warned.

"Fair enough"

With that Terrador took off and was gone leaving Shandra and Mal alone together in the woods.

The room burst into an over flowing place of emotion immediately after the result was given. Members talked excitedly or angrily between one another in reaction to the news and a few contemplated how to reverse this ruling. Until a couple of dragons started leaving and eventually the room was completely empty for the most part.

"Alright guys, I'm locking the place down for the night. You had better get out of here." threatened a security guard who could seemingly care less about happenings of the night.

Everybody who was left quickly made their way out of the building and took off towards their respective homes.

Helgar and Felpar flew together letting loud exasperations of rage fly into the chill night time air.

"I cannot believe that the council is even able to do this to Mal. He is a dragon just the same as all of the others, he just happens to be better at picking up new things is all, and they are condoning him for that?" Helgar argued.

"I hear, ya', I hear, ya'."

"I know you do; I just don't understand why seventeen of the smartest dragons in the world don't!"

"I think Ignitus hit the nail on the head there when he said that they were all cowards for this; you know that's the only reason why they did this in the first place. They are a big lot of frigging cowards, and you know how you get that eerie feeling in your stomach when you know something bad is going to happen?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, I'm getting it now."

Mal continued to go along the train in the absence of Terrador. "I know what you are looking at." He said suddenly, starling Shandra.

"W-What?"

"If you want all you have to do is ask you know, I'm not guarded or anything, honey"

"I-I just don't kn-know you that well y-yet" she stammered.

"There will be a time for getting to know each other, but I think that now is as good a time as ever to mate, I may change my mind at any time you know?"

Shandra turned her head to the side shyly then returned facing him "There is no better looking anyways." She accepted and gave in.

Only danger would result.

A/N: For further update information check my profile page. Thanks as always for reading and leave any and all comments. Sorry for the lengthy update time.

I knew along that this story was going to be borderline "M" Rated and I have decided to, for safety reasons, go ahead and move it there. I'm sorry for any inconvenience that this causes.

Thanks,
Cornys

(Mating Season, coming soon! :). I think you can guess what it's about.)