Morning Situations

Yellow rays stretched across the small town, reflecting or seeping through the glass that adorned many of the buildings. Inside the lookout point of one of the tower was Estrella, her blue feathers brightened under the available sunlight. Her back laid against the stone wall, the entrance to the stairs that led outside to the top of the walls was to the right of her. Deep, calm breaths escaped her nose every few seconds, a peaceful expression sat on her face. A few blocks away from the tower was a large wooden building, possibly three stories high and filled with dozens of rooms that were to be occupied by guest. Currently, ten guests were staying there, but only nine were occupying a room. The tenth guest, a large green dragon, lay asleep in the backyard of the building, its green scales and brown horns almost making the dragon blend in with the surrounding. Light danced among the scales as they gave it a glossy and shiny look to it. Snores erupted out the creature's muzzle as mumbling followed with every other exhale he did. All the inhabitants were asleep, all except for one. Walking amongst the deserted streets of the town was a large, red rooster carrying what looked like a bull horn. Its gray dress-like tunic swayed slightly in the small breeze, giving glimpses of the gray leggings it wore underneath. Humming was heard from the rooster as it continued it stroll toward the town's walls. Reaching the top of the tower in the northwest portion of the tow, it pulled up the bull horn to its yellow beak as it leaned slightly out the open window, and open its mouth wide as one word escaped the beaks, loud and clear across the town.

"COCK-A-DOODLE-DO!"

Estrella jumped slightly at the sound, causing her to stumble down the stairs backwards, a soft thud echoing throughout the stairway until she landed outside, the breath forced out her lungs as she landed. Starkage too had jumped in surprise, almost knocking down a few buildings as he looked around, brown eyes in slit, as to catch any signs of attacks, or to see who was the one that had decided to interrupt his sleep was.

"COCK-A-DOODLE-Wah!" the rooster screeched as a brown spear hurtled its way toward the tower right where the morning bird stood. Ducking quickly, the spear grazed harmlessly across the top feathers that stood up atop the rooster's head. "Hey, who's the wise guy?" An angry expression appeared on its face before it changed to something between shock and fear.

"I'm the guy, and unless you want your head to still be attached to your neck, I suggest you shut up and go back to sleep." The green dragon shouted as he stood up on his hind legs to get a better visual on the rooster, a smirk appeared on his scaly face as he was slightly pleased at the expression the rooster had. The smirk disappeared as a large object struck the side of the dragon's head, which caused him to jerk his head downward to see who had done the action.

"Hey hothead, why don't you do the same, and zip it. It's too early to be arguing." Lamorak shouted as he glared up at the dragon, which had let out an angry snort in reply, but said nothing more.

"S-sorry t-to t-trouble y-y-you, b-but its m-my job to w-wake p-people up." The rooster stuttered out, hoping to avoid causing any more trouble for itself.

"Oh don't worry about those two, Rafter " Estrella shouted as she arrived at the hotel, glad that the journey was only a short flight since almost every part of her body was aching from the tumbling she had recently received, "they aren't really the 'morning' people as you can say. And you two, I suggest you stay up since your companions are going to be awake now." Groggy moans escaped the hawk and the dragon mouths, the hawk shutting the window to the room while the dragon encased himself in a mountain of dirt. The dirt shrunk in size before falling apart to reveal the green dragon now the size of a regular citizen again. Yawning, the dragon stretched before heading toward the front of the building, picking off any dirt that was stuck to his scales.

"Can you go one day without causing an argument?" Gawain growled as he stepped out of the building, purple eyes glaring at the dragon.

"What, I want my sleep as much as you do. I wouldn't have caused it if that rooster didn't start cock-a-doodle-doing. He should be lucky I was being nice." Starkage replied as the others came out. Everyone except for Nightmare seemed to have just recently gotten up.

"I would have done the same thing so there is no need to continue this argument." Nightmare said. The red echidna growled slightly, his arms crossing against his chest, but said nothing else.

"Well, since everyone is up, I guess we get some supplies and head out." Sonic said after he yawned, stretching his arms over his head before asking, "Hey, Estrella, is anyone else here beside you?"

"Yeah, Victoria is here, too. She has been doing a good job after here tutoring with Merlina. After those battles we recently went through, she accepted the job of being the town's doctor. She's about to pick out an apprentice soon so when she's not around, he or she could take over for her until her return. How about we go visit her before we head out."

"Alright, but will she be awake?" Lancelot asked in wonder. It was clear that it was still dawn, a time where few people would get out a bed and start a new day. The blue owl nodded.

"Of course, she has been waking up around this time to attend to her patients." Estrella turned around and was about to walk off in the direction of the doctor's home, but stopped as a shout bellowed throughout the empty roads.

"Estrella!" Harlan shouted as he came to a stop in front of the owl. Heavy breaths escaped his muzzle, trying to calm the pounding heart rate after a strained run the wolf pulled off.

"What is it, Harlan?" Estrella asked. A slight sound of irritation heard as she cocked an eyebrow at the wolf which was bent over, hands on knees as he recovered.

"There is a dire situation."

"Alright spill it we don't have all day." Nate said with impatience, earning a sigh from his twin brother. The wolf didn't heed any attention to them, clearly putting his focus on the task at hand.

"The Black Knight, he has sent another army this way." The owl shrugged, clearly seeing this as no real problem.

"So, we handled their attacks before and easily repelled them. What could be so difficult this time, unless the Black Knight is leading them on his black steed?"

"No, far worse. It seems that they have dragons on their sides."

"What!" Everyone slightly jumped as the black hedgehog and green dragon shouted out loud at the same time, disbelief clearly rang in their voice.

Me: Alright, I will try to get this story completed before the last week in February, but there is still a lot more chapters to be made.

Lamorak: (looks through the notes for a story) Dang, how many chapters do you need in the story.

Me: (snatches the notes away) You idiot, those are note for the sequel. You should be lucky you're reappearing in that story.

Lamorak: And what about you. I didn't see your name in the story except for the author spot.

Me: You just have to read and find out.