Woo next chapter. Thanks for your support guys. And guest, Preyhunter did live with the nightwings, but in book five, he helped kidnap Sunny, and was later stabbed by Thorn when he attacked her. So back on track here we go. Don't forget to guess what I'm basing this off of. Oh wait, it won't help till the action starts, but feel free to guess.
Copper POV:
It's only been two days, and Preyhunter is already a natural. He's managed to best Rattlesnake and Crane, now he was fighting Foliage. The two circled, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Then Foliage jumped first. She swiped at his head, and he ducked. He then used that open space to grab her arms. Then he threw her back, and he pinned her, but Foliage wasn't beaten so easily. She used her long horns to interlock with his, then she threw him off. Rainwings have a surprisingly strong neck it turns out. Unless you're Foliage though, it's pointless. Prey got back on his claws and resumed fighting. To be honest, I think Foliage is going easy on him. Then she camouflaged herself, which she uses a lot. Preyhunter looked around for movement. A clatter was heard behind him, he turned to see what it was, then literally out of nowhere, Foliage jumped out and landed on top of him and put her talon to his neck. Prey froze out of fear, then relaxed remembering this was only training. "I win." Foliage said cheerfully. "No thanks to those horns of yours." Rattlesnake sneered. "They can be useful, like me running you threw with them." She retorted getting off Preyhunter. "Guys calm down." I barged in, "We all have our strengths and weaknesses. There's no need to be at each others throats." "But he's right," We heard Chill say and we jumped a little. "Having bigger horns can help out in a battle."
"So Copper, you want to try me?" "Sounds like a challenge." I said. So we got in our attack stance. "Ready, set, Go!" Then we tackled each other and went tumbling across the floor. I pushed her off and stood up. She was back up in no time as well. I then swiped for her right flank. She blocked it, but I then swept her legs with my tail. She fell on the ground and I but my claw on her head. Then her tail snaked around mine and pulled me off, but then when she tried to pull away, I was dragged with her. "Uh, oh." She said. "What Uh oh?" I asked a little scared. "I forgot the cut medicine was extra sticky." Then I realized what she meant. "So we're stuck?" "We're stuck." Then the others gave a snicker. "Hey it's not like that." I yelled, but truth be told I was blushing, thank goodness for scales. Foliage was turning a little embarrassed pink color. "And to make it better." Rattlesnake teased. "Chill just left. So you two will be spending some time together for the rest of the day." He gave a wink. "Hey, that's not funny Rattlesnake." Foliage yelled. "You're right." He said looking down. "It's hilarious." Then they all fell down on the ground laughing. I motioned Foliage to come with me. We walked to the others, then I put my claw around Rattlesnake's neck choking him. "Will you apologize to Foliage?" "Yes, I'm sorry." He said struggling to breath. "Thank you." I then lifted my claw and he gasped for air. We then went to the bunk room. "Hey, you didn't have to do that." Foliage said. "He made you look bad. I had to." I answered. "Oh hey. I think I have something that may help." She took me to her bed and reached under it. "What is it?" She then came out with a long curved thing. "It's not even sharp." Then she grabbed the top, and pulled out a dragon sized scavenger talon. "Whoa, that's nice." She smiled, "Thanks, I made it myself." She then went over to where our tails were stuck together. I looked at how our tails were suck and I stopped her. "What?" "It's too risky. Our tails are twined too close together." "You make it sound like it's a bad thing." She said poking my snout. "Hey, I'm not the one who blushing here." She looked down in defeat. "I guess you won this fight, but I will get you back." She put thew blade back in it's sheath, and slipped it back under her bed. "You know. If The Winter Hunters Aren't good enough, I think a job at forging would be a good job?" "Hey, I like this job. I get to be with my favorite skywing all the time." She teased. "Three moons." I said. "What?" She looked at me confused. "We look like an actual couple right now." Then we looked away from each other. "This is gonna be a long day." We both said at the same time.
So it was only five minutes, and already, the others were calling us mates. "Oh come on Copper, we all know you like her." Crane said. "As a.." Rattlesnake barged in before I could finish, "Mate?" "We're not mates! We're just humiliatingly stuck together." "Forever." Preyhunter added. I rolled my eyes and motioned for Foliage to run. "Running away with your love I see." Crane said, and they all collapsed of laughter. We went to the munitions area. "So, you thinking of making more of those blades of yours?" I asked as we sat down out of breath. "Maybe. It does seem effective at mid-range combat, but there's the problem of having to deal with aerial battles." I shook my head in agreement. We sat for a minute, and then I couldn't handle myself any more. "Ok, I need to be truthful. It's my fault we're in this mess. I let myself be that wide open to counter." She looked at me. "You were trying to let me win?" I shook my head and looked down. "You know I don't like that. Next time, all out ok?" "I just don't want to hurt you." We looked at each others eyes. Sky blue eyes met leaf green. "Ooo look, they're about to kiss." I heard Rattlesnake whisper at the door. I motioned to the door with my eyes. She understood, and she camouflaged herself and she stood in front of me. "Where'd they go?" Crane asked. "Maybe they didn't want to get caught." Preyhunter gave a chuckle. Then we where right at the door, Foliage on top of me now to hide me. "Let's 'walk in' on them." Crane suggested. They tiptaloned into the room, right by us. We sneaked up right behind them. With my talons I counted: 3, 2, 1. Then we both appeared and roared as loud as we could. The others went flying they were so scared. Now we were the ones laughing. "I guess... it is easier... to work as a... team." I said between gasps cause we were laughing so hard. "Three moons! You two scared us half to death." Rattlesnake complained. "Is what you get for teasing us about being a 'couple'." Foliage said using quotations. "And be glad I didn't use my venom." She added baring her fangs, and the others flinched. "Oh you guys are so gullible. Would you like it if you were in our position?" They shook their heads. "Thank you for understanding." Foliage and I then went to grab a bight to eat.
"I didn't even know you could roar like that." I complimented. "I guess it's one of the wonders of being me." Foliage looked down at her food. I put a wing around her. "Hey Foli, it's ok to be different. Look at me. The first skywing in ages to have no fire." She smiled and snuggled a little closer to me. "Even with no fire, you're still warm and comforting, and I think that's a nice nickname, Foli." She then finished her meal. "I think the rainwings should try at least fish, meat tastes pretty good." "Maybe you could pay the queen a visit." She looked at me. "You know, we don't exist, technically. The only time we are outside is either on a mission, or watching our family, and I think you need to get out more." I tensed a little when she shuffled a little closer. "Don't you have any family?" I sighed. "I do, a twin sister, but I don't care. All I care about is you, and the others here." I gave my smile/smirk. She laughed a little. "Hey Foliage?" "Yes?" I breathed in deep. "They're right." She looked at me odd. "About what?" I looked down in embarrassment. "That I have some feelings for you." I looked away entirely, but she pulled my head back to looking at her. "I share the same thing." We both smiled and lied down next to each other and fell asleep. She likes me Preyhunter, ha.
We were later woken up bye the evilly smiling Rattlesnake, Crane and Preyhunter. Preyhunter though looked a little upset. I got to her first, but she also came to me. "Wake up you two love birds." I looked up sleepily. "Check out what Preyhunter did." He held up a picture. "That almost looks like." I then realized what it was and I tried to grab it, but they ran. I tried to chase them, but I then was held up by a still waking up Foliage. "What is it?" she asked groggily. "They've crossed the line. That's what it is." "What did they do?" "They drew us, in our sleep, together!" She was then up in a second. "Let's get that picture." Then we heard a rock turning throughout the base. "Oh great." We ran to the main room, and saw Chill just coming in with the others waiting. I quickly threw a knife, and it hit it's mark. As Preyhunter lifted up the picture, the knife caught it in it's blade, and ripped it out of his talons. Then Foliage shot some venom at the picture that was currently on the wall, and we all watched it melt in the venom. "I got to admit, it was a good drawing." Foliage whispered. The others looked sad that their picture was ruined. "So what was that all about?" Chill asked. "They drew a picture of us in our sleep." Foliage said before anyone else can answer. "Of you both in your sleep, as in together?" "Yes, but not in the way you think, we were kinda forced to. Our tails got stuck together." I then moved aside to reveal our stuck twined tails. Chill stepped forward to inspect it. "You could've just pored water on it." Then we facetaloned. "Wow we're dumb." I commented.
So later, we got our tails unstuck, and now we were heading to the bunks. We all were asleep, but not me and Foliage. "Hey Copper?" She whispered. "Yeah?" "I was thinking about your remark on jobs, and I think I will take that idea, when we're released of course." "That's good Foli, I think you'll enjoy it." "It'll be better with you around." I couldn't see it, but I'm sure she was smiling. "Good night Cop." I snickered at the new nickname she gave me. "Sure, together. Good night." Then we went to sleep and dreamed of us together. Together forever. Maybe Preyhunter did have prophetic powers.
