The ocean beneath me spurs up behind me as I fly quickly over it.

I need to find him. He needs to leave.

I see a dragon a ways ahead of me. Hopefully this will be the right dragon this time.

" You can't bring me back this time Darkflame! I need to go!" Firebird's voice reaches my ears.

I slow down so I can glide next to him. " Firebird, Either way the queen would lure you back. Come on. I need to bring you somewhere."

" Where?"

I don't answer.

He pesters me, in a continuously panicky attitude to the point where I full me ears are bleeding.

" Firebird!" I yell at him.

" W-what?"

" Shut. Up. Or ill bring you back."

" You're taking me away? Really? How? Isn't the queen just going to bring me back? Where will you bring me?"

" Firebird. Just, I don't know. I'll get you out. I'll get protect you okay. I'll pay back your father by setting his children free." This silences him for a while.

After a long time flying a notice Firebird start to wobble as he flies. I stare back at him carefully. By blood turns cold as I notice his slitted eyes. We are almost to the border of the queens territory. Flying back through the fog. " Firebird, look over here. You're almost free. Come on you can make it."

By this time he had slowed almost to a hover. He's fighting so hard against her control, but he's not strong enough.

" Firebird. Come." I say in the most calm, demanding voice I can muster.

To my surprise He starts to fly in my direction. He starts to seem to become more sure as I continue to call him forward. The fog becomes thinner, Sunlight starts to stream into the clouds.

" Just Wing beats away is our freedom. We can leave,"

He passes the invisible barrier. I slows to loop around and face me, his pupils returned to normal. " Im free?"

I nod. I haven't passes the barrier. I can't or the queen will be sure to know what i've done. " Go back to the old territory where we grew up. You remember where it is right. Where We first lived."

" Yeah I remember. Why do there? Another dragon is sure to have taken it as their own. I don't know if i'll be able to drive them away."

" You make sure to take back the territory. I'm going to tell Moon to go there when I set her free. You need to go. Just start over, forget about what's happened here. Forget about the queen, about the nest. Forget about me. Just please take care of Moon. I don't think I'll ever see either of you again after you leave,"

" N-no. I can't just forget someone that I grew up with, You're my best friend."

" I know Firebird. Maybe someday i'll come back." I give one last look at my light fire scales friend before turning away.

Half way back I realize that I never really said goodbye.

I search the rest of the day for a corpse of a night mare. I needed to bring back a tail for the queen. I don't need to be killed before I can save Moon too.

I finally do find a seeming unlucky dragon with a deep cut along his whole side and organs spilled on the ground, just covered in flys. I make my way around the heap and start clawing away at the base of the tail.

It takes an hour to disconnect the flesh and bones from the rest of the body. It is awkward trying to carry back but I manage. I soon land on my normal ledge where I'm in eye view of the queen. She rises to look at my first offering.

I push away my feelings of anxiety that she could find out what I've done. I can't let her smell fear or she will know for sure.

" Very good Night Fury. Your progress had gone far. You are a loyal servant. Drop your offering with the others when they come back. Show them even the most powerful of my servants has to give me gifts." And with that she sucks back down into her hole.

I glare at the tail and as send virtually into the air with it in my claws. I fly through One of the exits. I deep hatred for the queen fills me as I fly faster and faster over the ocean. Away from the dreadful island.

I find myself back by the bloated corpse. I set the dragons tail down when it should be. I look at the shore around me and the dead dragon, and the flies coating it.

I push sand over the lump of insides laying next to him, burying many flies. I start on the rest of him. Covering his red scales with sand.

Normally you don't really bury dragons. But I don't want these worthless flies to eat his flesh. This dragon really looks too much like Firebird or Hookedclaw to let them fall apart.

When the job was done I leave the shore. I need to find Moon. Before the next raid. I can save her by then.
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