Chapter 33
The Floating island of the Wind Tribe
With each shackle clanking and churning, their ears were getting slightly irritated, and they stepped gracefully trying not to step on anything that would make them roar loudly right behind the spearman. The brown dragon carrying Thrask, who was currently almost not having to have chains was happily walking his way through the fortress itself. On each tile, there was at least one crack or speck of blood from the sudden speeding and the sudden stop. The guards were exhausted, while others were almost dead, bleeding out from being impaled by a sharp harpoon that happened to be on the wall. The one next to the blue dragon was whispering for help, but his words were almost as faint as the rocks, standing still.
"Infernal defects..." He said. "This is just sad, how all of you are almost down, and if someone attacked right now, all of you, and all of us would be dead."
From above, a woman-ish voice shouted out: "You are quite correct my Ripper." As a arcane Golem dove from the sky. The Golem landed in a puff of smoke, and soon, it was blown away with a ferocious swing of it's energy. It stood up being almost black, but its head was almost like a wedge of rock, being connected by electricity crackling and sizzling with each impact that forcefully strikes it. It began putting itself back together though, and they still knew its base form, but when she was finished transforming, she still looked like a Golem, but this time, more well put together.
"Mother? is that really you!?" Ripper reacted.
"Why the sudden rush of emotions? I thought you said you were a tough boy."
"I missed you so much." Ripper said.
"Ripper, That little business trip was a bit, well, lets just say that my head is a victim of a bunch of targets."
"Oh no.." Ripper sadly said. "Did they hurt you at all?"
"Not at all, You father protected all of us. Although, the curse that is cast over him is still a huge problem, and he would like it if he was alone right now." Ripper's Mother explained. "You already know this, one moment he sees us, the people that he loves the most, and the next moment he will take action like we were just friends. Not to mention the burning in his limbs."
"Still there huh?" Ripper scoffed.
"Last time I heard he was going to war, and I never got back to him again, and he is a strong man I know it." Ripper's mother said. "We can forget about this, and we might be lucky, mind if you come back home?"
"I would love to.." Ripper answered back. "But I cannot. I still got to lead all of these dragons back to Erilious, thier first settlement in this universe."
"Alright. Well, My offer is still up on the table if you want it." She said while jumping up into the sky.
The force almost broke the ground itself, as the jump left behind a huge crater that consisted of cracked rocks and broken ground. Ripper was up in his mood for how he just saw his mother standing there with him, and it not being a dream, but he had a task to do, and now he had to do it. When he led them by his spear, Ripper was still wondering why she was still a Golem, as she was not always it. He guessed that she just liked to use that form a lot, since she was an Arcane and a subterranean.
After Thrask saw what she done, he thought that she was a very bad person that had abilities of a shape-shifter. If so, that would of been the first time he ever saw one, since back in that dimension, there were no shape-shifters or shifting. Then the dragon carrying Thrask was noticing that Thrask was shivering in fear, even when it was not even cold outside. "Do not worry, she comes here every once and a while to say hi to her son, Ripper, who is currently leading us." He said with a reassuring tone.
Ripper sighed, and slowly turned around head first, handling his spear as if he were ready to fight somebody at that moment. "Shut up!" He said while recharging his spear with the light of the sun. Each second, energy was drained, as Ripper would benefit himself from absorbing the life force from nearby plants. He began to emit a deadly orange aura, that showed his allegiance to the Erilious. The brown and blue dragon stepped back as Ripper threatened to call Nesc and make them like his servants, or he simply threatened to kill them himself.
"I apologize, I did not know you had a nerve for whoever says your parent's name." The brown dragon said. "But, the young was afraid of her, and I just had to, alright?"
"Whatever, if you had to, then I guess I have to do the same thing that I did to the blue one over there." Ripper regarded. The blue one stepped back even further, as he knew what was going to happen to the brown one and Thrask. He reached into his pocket and quickly threw a stasis pod to the brown dragon, trapping both the carrier and Thrask. "Next time, you will not be so lucky. Good night." Ripper said while pressing the button that was supposed to send a powerful shock to knock them out.
-Xelur'Mar-
We woke up both being in a cave, with our shackles unlocked, and now things were really beginning to interest me. Ripper is a cruel man, but I know he has feelings. To be honest, his mother is not all that bad, but his father on the other hand is a way different story. The red one that was resting on my back began snoring, and it was quite loud for a young dragon at his age. For him, he was more scared than willing, and I cannot blame him. When some of us first saw Ripper's mother, myself almost passed out as she stared straight into my eyes, others were already feeling lightheaded.
He was beginning to open his eyes, as his gaze first laid onto my face, which was angrily looking at him with fury. His hind legs began struggling to lift his small body off of the ground. Within seconds, he began talking a different language, which I was not used to, and the young one probably does not know that I do not know what he is talking about. Then I had an idea, as I tried to switch to our natural language. My sounds, as best as myself could remember, would be saying; "I do not understand what you are saying." The little one proceeded in the conversation and tried once again to speak it's unusual language, as anger spread through my mind. On the outside, others would see me as the cheerful adult, thinking that if they do anything to try and anger me, they would fail. Although, this little guy needs to stop trying to speak this otherworldly language, and start speaking like us dragons are meant to be.
I grunted out, "Please speak Draconian. I know you were born with it.", being sincere, and at the same time begging. If he does not know this, the thought was just sad how a species does not know its own words. He tried to roar the same thing, as my claw slowly went toward his arm. I was trying hard to be gentle to him, like I would with my son, but with him not being like the others, it is a bit more difficult. Finally, he spoke out in a Draconian language, asking me to protect him. I replied promising that me and the others in the pack would try their best. "We are your family now, but I was meaning to ask you this but, your name please?" I asked the young one. He then answered back to me, saying his name was Thrask, and I replied back my name, Xelur Marius. Others either called me Xelur'Mar, or just Xelur, due to the fact that my name is kind of long. I kind of liked the little guy's name, especially since it had kind of a foreign type of accent we have.
I started by picking him up by my snout, by sliding it under his underbelly and lifting my head to let him go off the ground. Then, something sizzled and cracked into the entrance of this Paradise. He came in as the bird we all know, being almost like a walking sun, and he came in as Gught. I could feel Thrask backing up on my head, as he accidentally stepped on my eye and almost touched my eyeball with his claws. The sight of them, were quite terrifying to say at the most, but knowing Thrask, he would not want to try and hurt anybody unless he really needed to. I felt him curling up on my back, shivering again like the cave itself was cold. The truth of the matter is, that this is one of our friends we are talking about here, and a new person seeing a new guy that looks different could strike a sword through somebody's courage instantly. "Thrask.. It is alright, Gught is our friend and family. There is no need to worry. Why dont you go down and greet him as he walks into the huge space, wouldn't that be fun?" I said to Thrask, who was still cowering behind my neck. First, he stopped shivering, and then hopped off my back as he walked towards the phoenix himself. As he got closer, he slowed down, up to the point where he would be a snail as he got about ten feet closer to him. He was extremely close in contact range, but Gught ran up to him and frightened the child. Thrask backed up with haste, as Gught immediately looked at me like I had to do something to him.
He coughed, and then added; "What is the big deal?" As he walked straight towards me.
"There is no deal, you just startled him, that is all." I replied to Gught. I then quickly swapped how I talked and changed my tone to a stern voice. "Thrask, get up here!" I said to the red child. He then quickly faced me and ran up to me, using his wings to try and get a extra lift while climbing. I also called Gught up, and he came up flying as a flaming bird, as if he just came from the sun.
"Yes?" Gught asked.
"Gught, meet Thrask." I answered.
Thrask looked at him and spoke the foreign language again to Gught.
"No Thrask! We all can speak Draconian, not that!" I complained.
"Xelur, it is alright. I know that language as well, but the one that Thrask speaks is from the dimension of the Second moon, which I know myself."
"Alright then, You go talk to each other while I convince the others to be kind to Thrask." I said. "They are not the happiest bunch angels that you all know and love, you know?"
"Okay Xelur, do your thing." Gught blurted out. "I never knew there was such a young dragon on the Second moon. I bet you have quite a story to tell."
"Long story short, I have been kidnapped and taken here with them." Thrask said while sliding his left claws down his right arm. "You also?"
"Say, I am beginning to feel a intense warmth... its almost like-" Gught said as something crashed onto the nearby opening.
I ran back, looking for both of them, but they were already outside, trying to find out what crashed. When I finally reached them, I came upon a sight that was horrible. First, there were multiple islands that were probably millions of miles off the surface of the planet, and there were tons of gaps, making it look like some sections were peninsulas. The Cedran is trying to defend, but it looks like they are losing instead of successfully defending us like they always do. There were multiple Cedran ships against a big Acron mothership, but it was sad that a whole fleet could not take down a Acron. None of us could blame them for that, Acrons have the mostly industrial edge in thousands of years straight. They would be able to take other planets while still developing. Soon a drop ship shot straight down at the ground, tearing the ground beneath and sprouting up Acron acolytes. I dashed in and breathed a heavy stream of fire, but their armor was resistant to that, so instead, my claws swiped towards them as they were trying to aim for my head, but my body was moving like a snake, while being faster than a whip. My tail tripped both of them, and I let it fall on them with a huge crash, as one of the acolytes were broken from the inside, and Gught finished off the other, using his sharp but flexible feathers.
"What are they doing here?" I asked.
"I do not know, but I am most certain they are trying to steal the Erilian Anophyst." Gught blindly answered.
"What is a Anophyst?" Thrask questioned. "I am new to this. Please tell me."
"Well, a Anophyst is very hard to explain." Gught said. "In terms of simplifying though, It is a source of power to the seven Tribes."
"And if they manage to steal it, this island is going to plummet to the ground, or the ocean, I am not really that sure. Either way, it will kill us all." I said.
"Well then, Gught." Thrask said with a cocky grin.
"What is it?" Gught asked.
"Remember how you heard the tank was destroying everything?" Thrask tried to remind him.
"Yes, and why are you asking?" Gught responded.
"You want to see a superweapon? I will show you, a superweapon." Thrask bluffed.
"Oh god no..." I said under my breath.
Thrask immediately inhaled, and I looked as he opened his mouth, emitting a red orb outside of it. Soon his scales started to illuminate orange light, as he charged up. Once he was ready, he made the red orb turn into a huge laser that shot at the mothership, and when it hit, it fell down towards the mainland on Erilious.
"Oh my god." Gught said.
"Impressive... Just when I thought a young runt like you could not protect himself." I congratulated him. "Good job Thrask, but maybe we should start worrying about the invasion. Sadly, your laser beam was not large enough to eradicate the whole ship, therefore we got a horde coming our way."
Behind me, I heard two people talking. Gught and someone else.
"Ah good news, The Erilious guard is going to help us fend off this threat, and so is the Cedran empire." Gught happily informed.
"Awesome!" I cheered. "Although we might have a war on our hands."
"Oooooh... impossible odds, huge crew? Oh maybe a mothership? Blast all of that, We can take them!" Thrask yelled.
"We need a plan first." I stated. "And based on what the Acron have, We need a Good plan, and quick."
Sorry for the delay everybody, I am getting slower paced with fanfic writing. Anyways, the War within came out, and on my youtube, I broadcasted it, and I am soon going to do a No OC/FC fanfiction with Warframe, Destiny, and Wings of fire. So, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and I look forward to you reading the next one, as soon as I write it. Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
