A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry 'bout the wait!
Happy readin'!
My eyes widened with the name underneath.
I've been told many stories of this family when I was younger, and the village elders looked out for me when my parents had died. Apparently, our old chief was known all through out the Archipelago. "Surprising isn't it? That's why Chief Snotlout's in charge now; he's their only relative left." Aesa explained; she knew much about the town's history.
Runa scanned the page. When she was finished, her eyes widened as well. "Wow...so no trace of them huh? That doesn't mean their dead." she suggested. I nodded, "But what else can the village believe?" It's not like they can dream and hope about some old village hero... I thought to myself. I read the rest of the page, "It says here that they were a pretty clever family. They probably aren't dead..."
Why am I so confident on that one family not being dead?
I closed the book, and put it in the sack near Magi, who was attempting to sleep. "Wait." Runa said, holding out a palm in signal. She suddenly looked down, and twiddled with her fingers, as if ashamed. "I know you all know about them...but my father never let me know about them...I don't know why. But never the less, can I read the page?" she asked. I smiled and handed her the book.
She flipped the pages, trying to find the spot. "What so special about this Haddock family anyway?" she questioned. Me and Aesa looked at each other surprised. "You don't know?" Aesa questioned.
Runa shook her head.
"Just...read the page's description." I said, pointing to the book.
Runa's eyes flittered across the page, her eyes widening with each paragraph. "Wow." She said when she was finally done. "thanks to them, You've got Drake, Aesa's got Hog, and I've got Magi." I said with a smile, patting my poor Nadder's head, who gently cooed in response. Runa still looked surprised.
"What now?" Aesa asked, Hog lying down next to her. "Well," Runa started, getting up and putting her hands on her hips, "we are going to go and find that wicked dragon and see what's become of this mystery family. Two goals to accomplish; I'll say we'll be heros in the end." she said with a smirk.
Dead ones... I thought to myself.
"Well, if we really are going to do any 'questing', we'll need to get a lot of sleep in before we do anything." Aesa explained, laying her head against her Gronckle's side. Hog put his wing over her as if it was a blanket, and in a matter of seconds, both she and the Gronckle were snoring. I yawned, "She's right, Runa. If we sleep now we'll have just enough energy to do any 'questing' tomorrow." With that I nestled up against Magi, who covered me with her wing.
I heard Runa grumble some, and I opened an eye to see her flipping through the rest of the page. I sighed, and let my tired self slip into the dream world.
We woke with the sound of screeching overhead.
It had to be about 3 in the morning, and our dragons were causing a fit. Mainly Magi. "What's wrong girl?" I asked, trying to put a hand on her snout, but she backed away cowering, taking her wing off of me and hiding under one of the trees around us. I noticed she kept her tail as close to her as possible.
The other dragons were acting up as well, and they both hid under the trees. "What's going on?" Runa asked. I looked up to see a figure fly over us, hovering for a second. "Hide!" I whispered/shouted, and dove for a bush. Aesa and Runa did the same. I saw Aesa mouth the words 'what's going on?' to me, but I shook my head and put a finger to my lips, telling both her and Runa not to make a sound.
It was a dragon, The Dragon, I was sure of it.
I could hear its breath coming out in hot and angry waves, as it hovered over our small camp, as if trying to find us without it getting seen. Suddenly its wings flapped away, and a piercing scream echoed through the night as it flew away.
We all crawled out of our hiding spots. I looked up at the sky, and saw that it really was gone. I let out a breath, shaking, I brought myself over to Magi. She let me put my hand on her, but she was shaking and wheezing with fear. "It's ok girl. It's gone now." I reassured her.
Magi came out from under the tree slowly, then looked back up at the night sky. "Well," I heard Runa say, "I think we have a dragon to track down."
A/N: I'm sorry about the wait, and I'm sorry about how short this ended up..