" Darkflame, Your going to be okay. Come on, wake up. Just wake up"
I slowly open my eyes again. Mother?
She was here. Father! There alive!
I open my eyes excited besides the painful pounding in my head.
Where ever I am it's dark, stone walls surrounding me. I glance around expecting to see my mother, but all I who I see I front of me is Moon. " Moon?" I croak. " W-where's Mother and Father?"
" Lightflame is on the other side of the cave," she says quietly.
" No, no where are my parents? Dad, he- he killed the dragon pinning Firebird and. And Mother was there, she protected my from the Dark one." I say trying to sit up to look around.
" Darkflame, don't do that! Your wound is still fresh. You might make it start bleeding again." Moon days pushing me back down.
" B-but my parents, where's they go? They where with us. They saved us. Are they getting more help? Where are we?"
" Darkflame... Your parents... They, they where never there. It was Firebird who had killed that dragon. And Lightflame got the other dragon off of you but not before you passed out from all you deep injuries."
I stay silent trying to comprehend what she is saying. " So my parents," I say quietly
" They where never there," Moon finished, tears in her eyes.
I settle limply on the hard ground. You hopes crushed and dead. For a long time I stare at nothing while Moon lays beside me comforting.
After a while she speakers again though her voice throws her statement off. " Thank you for saving me the first time," she says tears flooding down her eyes.
I look at her quietly. " I had too," This statement seems to make her even more upset.
I lift my head confused. But the answer comes quickly to me as I look at her scales. Bite marks are clear at the base of her neck along claw marks on her shoulders and hips. Tue scent of the Dark scaled dragon thick on her. The evil ritual that I had tried to prevent from happening had been forced on her anyway when I was unable to come to her rescue.
" Moon," I say in a new shocked by sorrowful Voice as I wrapping one of my wings around her.
" You shouldn't have come to save me. Not for what it cost you. You, you could be free right now, not trapped here. " she cries curling close to me.
From another dragons perspective this probably looks odd. Out size difference from my slow growth rate and her quick would be the equivalent of a Viking curling around a cat with huge wings for comfort.
" It's ok Moon, I'll make them pay."
" But what If I'm with egg?" She cries out, " I'll never be able to love the hatchlings. I don't want them!"
" Moon you don't know yet if that's true. "
" In a short while it will be time for me to migrate to find a mate, I could very well be with egg. Firebird and Hookedfang should be leaving too to find their own, but instead we're stuck here."
I open my mouth to say that I would never have acted differently but some walks in before I can answer.
" Night Fury," The dark dragon spits.
My scales prickle with disgust and hatred towards the dragon. For the first time I actually take a good look at this dragon and how they are built.
Their scales at a dark almost black, lighter than mine, his face was similar to my own in shape and placement of they eyes and ears, only he lacked the side horns behind the jaw that I seemed to have not figured out their propose. He instead had two ivory horns sticking from I front of his ears. His body build is similar to mine, his wings, secondary wings at the base of the tail. But his tail fins where shaped differently. Not with smooth curves and points to Mach the back edge of his wings but more of smooth triangular shape. All in all, he looked like a close relative to the Night fury breed. Only he is smaller than my father was. But maybe my father was larger, or he is just a smaller dragon of his breed.
" Come!" He demands. " Or maybe I'll choose someone to inflict a punishment on," he says glance at my adoptive sister.
A growl forms in my throat as I stand and walk over to him.
" What are you," I hiss as I come close to him.
" The alpha wants to see you," he says ignoring me.
I follow for a while keeping alert. After a long time of walking in the labyrinth of tunnels we finally come to a large cavern. In the center is a large dragon sitting royally. He too was of this dark dragons breed, and wasn't late like the queens and alpha types Lightflame had thought me about.
The dark dragon leaves to sit and behind me a ways while o stand before the his alpha.
The alpha looks me up and down carefully.
" This is the last one? This hatchling?" He says not seeming necessarily impressed with me. " Is he not a pure? Why is he so small, he is of the age of two full four seasons."
" Alpha, remember the pures' grow and mature much slower than other dragons, though their minds mature long before any others. He ages at the pace of a human."
" You would know best thunder." The alpha nods in agreement. He directs his attention back to me. " Now, is your mind is as wise as they say, then what are your questions? Prove your worth."
I stay quiet and just glare at this alpha. He stares back, seeming to think.
" Can he not speak?"
" Oh he speaks, you just have to force it out of him," Thunder says walk towards me.
I growl, when he gets to close I use my tail to trip him and take my claws over his wing shoulder like he had painfully done to me. He yelps in surprise and pain. But I'm off of him and standing my ground in front of the alpha baring my teeth at Thunder.
" Next time I'll rip your ugly throat out!" I snarl.
" Thunder, go find something to do," The alpha says in a commanding tone. " You should be getting ready to display," Thunder walks out of the chamber folding his injured wing in close. " Now, Night Fury. What is your name?" The alpha says in his wise sounding voice.
Lightflame said never keep away what an alpha wants, they will kill. " Darkflame" I answer coldly.
I noticed how the king had seemed to tense at the start of my name but after the second letter in flame he relaxed. " I'm sure your wondering what you are doing here, what I we are. I'll tell you. You are here because your the last pure, the last Night Fury we know of. Your supposed to be dead. Mud was supposed to make sure of that, that dragon that Monstrous nightmare killed. But some how you survived. We have been searching for you sense the day you left your father's side, we-"
" Your the one that killed my family!?" I yell standing up.
Cast has been the Alpha of his tribe for a many years. He has met many dragons and knows most expressions. But never in his life had he ever seen such hate filled eyes. They craved for death. And for this look to be coming from this small hatchling. It was easily the most terrifying thing Cast had ever seen in his long life.
When he first thought this hatchlings name was that of Darkfang he was scared for his safety and the lives of his tribe. But now, he wasn't sure he was scared for that anymore. Now he was scared of this youngling in front of him, he was afraid for is own life. Because Darkflame, could easily be Darkfang's father someday.
The alpha looks down at me staring. Finally he speaks. " Yes, we are the reason for your family's death. We are the cause of the extinction of the pures.
We are the Shade-Lights. We are the few Pures who are touched by the evil one and remade new. Only the one who can defeat the evil one will ever defeat me." He says, is voice replaced with a pride.
I scowl. " Your a killer, of innocent dragons!"
He looks at me amused. " we kill those who are weak,"
" You kill those who you can defeat you." I snap.
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