Chapter 3: Flight

Hello again, I'm back with another chapter; in this one the hatchlings learn how to fly. Also you learn a little bit more about Mason's element, Nature. Whelp time for the disclaimers.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Spyro characters or the story, only my own characters and story.

And if you don't like my story then don't read it.

Silvus' POV:

"I'm gonna fly!" I yelled jumping around. "I'mgonnaflyI'mgonnaflyI'mgonnafly!" I kept jumping around avoiding my parent's grasp. Everyone was trying to calm me down.

"Silvus!" My sister yelled, grabbing me then leading me to the outside of the cave. "You have to be taught first!"

"Okay okay, sorry!" Still shivering from excitement. I can't believe I'm going to fly! Then after that, I'm gonna go exploring! To top it off we're going to a village! Whatever that is. I hope there are other dragons. Then I can meet other dragons and make friends! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

"-Then after that you flap your wings and...Silvus? Are you paying attention?" My father said interrupting my thoughts.

"Huh, what..yeah I am." I said blushing.

"Uh huh, sure. Then what do you have to do?" Rose asked suspiciously. Wait, what does that even mean?

"Ummmmmmmmm." I said looking back towards my wings, then at my parents wings. The thing I noticed was, that my wings were pressed against my back and that my father's wings were open and spread out. Hmmmmm, I think I got it!

"Ummmm...first you-ahem-spread out your wings." I said. I looked at mom and saw her nodding her head. Indicating that I was right. So I spread my wings. Wait, what in the dragon realm does indicating mean?

"Then you start to flap them!" I said flapping them, but I barely got off the ground.

"You are actually right!" Said my father. My sister's jaw dropped in surprise, I lifted my head up proudly. "Well partially right." He added.

"Hah!" Laughed Rose. I shot her a dirty look. At that she just stuck her tongue out at me. "Not appropriate Rose." My mother said sternly. I smirked at that. "Same goes for you Silvus."

"Sorry." I said innocently. "So what else is there to flying?" I really want to fly right now!

"Okay, Silvus you got the first part right but you were missing the second part." Our father spread out his wings then started to flap them slowly. "When you spread your wings, you have to flap them at the same time. Don't think about flying, just follow your instincts." He said, then started to flap his wings and he slowly lifted off the ground. "Now you two try."

Both me and Rose attempted and failed. Then Rose closed her eyes and started to flap her wings, slowly she lifted off the ground. Then she flapped them faster than she was steadily floating in the air. She opened her eyes and they grew wide.

"I'm flying!" She yelled. Then she looked at me. "Your turn." She said as she goes higher, getting used to being in the air.

I looked at the ground and attempted again, I flapped my wings; but I was too excited about flying that my wings weren't flapping at the same time. So I didn't even get an inch off the ground. "Ugh!" I yelled.

My mother walked up to me. "Don't think about flying, just feel it. Follow your instincts." She said gently. I tried again, this time the thought of flying left me. I closed my eyes and imagined me flying in the air. I spread then flapped my wings. I could feel my feet leave the ground. My eyes shot open and I saw that I was a couple inches off the ground. I began to flap them faster and I went farther off the ground. "I'm flying!" I yelled, somehow not breaking my concentration. Our parents took off too and got to the same level as us pretty quickly.

"Now comes the hard part." Our father said. "Maneuverability." What?

"Ummmmmm...what?" I said.

"How you move around in the air." Our mother said.

"Ohhh. Okay." I said.

"Now, to move forward, you tilt a little bit forward, like so." Father showed us how to fly straight, we both tested and succeeded. "Now to move left or right, you have to angle your wings to the direction you want to go." He flew forward then angled his wings to the left and turned left and same for turning right. We tried but we had a little trouble with this; but we eventually got it down. "The hardest part for hatchlings is landing for the first time." My eyes grew wide. Oh...I forgot about landing.

"Honey you want to take this part." Our dad said to our mother.

"Sure!" She said happily. I bet you anything she has been really wanting to train us. "Okay so first, you have to look for the place you want to land and make sure it's safe." We looked around for a place to land and saw a clearing at the base of the mountain we are living at. "When you are older you can fold your wings and dive towards the ground; then at the last second you can spread your wings and catch yourself." She nodded towards our father. Immediately he folded his wings and dived towards the ground. Rose gasped, but I had faith that our father knew what he was doing. He dived towards the ground quickly, and seconds before he hit the ground; he opened his wings, flapped once and then landed on the ground with grace.

"Yeah! Go dad!" I yelled.

"Now I don't want either of you to try that until you have a lot of flying experience, okay?" Our mother said.

"Yes mom." We both said.

"Good. I don't want to see you guys getting hurt." She said caringly. "Now to land, you gradually slow your wing flapping down. Then when you get close to the ground, you can fold your wings, like this." The three of us slowly began to descend to the ground. Once we were at a safe height we folded our wings and landed gracefully, well Rose didn't. She yelped, it looked like she hurt her paw a little bit.

"Rose!" Mother said, walking up to her. "Are you okay sweetie?" Rose looked at her with tears in her eyes. "My paw hurts." She said. Mom looked at dad and said. "I think she sprained it."

Father walked up to her and took her paw in his and said something quietly. The pain in Rose's face went away quickly. "How do you feel?" He asked.

"Better! Thanks daddy!" She said.

"That's. So. Cool!" I yelled. "I can't wait to find out my element!" I yelled then took off flying.

"Silvus!" My parents yelled.

And there we have it! They learned how to fly! Yay! It seems that Silvus is extremely energetic, not much from Rose though. Also, Mason coming in with the healing. Yes healing comes with the Nature element, but people can also learn how to heal. With Nature, it comes naturally (cough-no pun indented-cough). Anyways I'll be having another chapter up soon!