*comes out from behind a pile of home work* sorry this took so long... *is hit by more homework* ...sigh...sorry this took so long- school is a BIOTCH anyhoo, heres some Mu Qing for ya

CHAPTER NINE – dragon training?

"Halfling, wake up." For the second day in a row he was awoken by this voice. He looked up at her. The sun shined into the cave with ease, lighting up the entire ice covered room. "I was incorrect; you slept right through the completion of your change." She said as she walked away to the entrance of the cave.

Drayko felt his eyes widen as he ran over to a stalagmite of ice, staring at his surprised expression. He looked exactly like a white Night fury. He was definitely smaller and thinner than Toothless. He liked being in the full form of something rather than halfway through. As he stared at his reflection he had to admit, he looked pretty awesome.

"Halfling, come here." the large dragon commanded. He ran over to her, a sudden burst of energy seemed to have come to him. "You look happy." She stated. He nodded. "I don't know why . . . I shouldn't really." He mumbled. She nodded in thought. "Maybe the pain of the transformation caused a lot more fatigue than you let on. Anyway, I brought you some food." She said as she leaned her large head toward the ground.

Oh please no, thought Drayko, he hated it when Toothless and Greenscale had done this.

Sadly, she did exactly what he didn't want her to do. She gagged up a large sum of fish onto the floor in front of him. He frowned down at it, and then looked up at her. "Uh . . . I . . . Don't think I can eat regurgitated fish . . ."

She looked down at him with a curious eye. "This is what all young dragon's start off with, until they learn how to hunt for themselves. Now eat." She stated as she gestured to the fish. He gulped down what he thought might be vomit before leaning his head down and taking a very hesitant bite of one of the fish.

It wasn't good, but it wasn't bad either, although he had this feeling that if he was still human it would just be gross. He ate as much as his brain would let him without gagging too much and then sat down beside the other Dragon.

"Um . . . do you have a name?" Drayko asked as he looked out into the morning sun.

She sighed. "It's been to long since I've had contact with anything that would call be by anything close to a name. When I lived in China, the human's there called me Yeti, but I guess that's not a name, I believe you might call it the name of my species. I'll think of something for you to call me by, if it bothers you that much." She nodded down at him. "What's your name Halfling, I suppose I can't just call you Halfling for the rest of the time you choose to stay here."

Drayko smiled. "Where I come from people called me Drayko, they named me that because the entire dragon population in the village were so interested in me. Now it's just ironic." She laughed. "So your named Dragon in one of the human's many tongue's, how amusing." she smiled into the slight snow fall. "I've thought of something that you can call me by Drayko, you may call me 'Mu Qing.'"

Drayko looked up at the dragon. "What does that mean?"

"I'll tell you later . . . let's just enjoy the view for a while." As she spoke her eyes became glassy with happiness. Drayko shrugged and rested his head on his claws.

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Mu Qing had decided to teach Drayko the proper ways of being a dragon after observing him attempt to walk straight for nearly half a day.

A week later Drayko had learned the basic etiquette and ways to deal with other dragons, as well as hunting and gathering, and the basics of flying, which he was going to be tested on, on one fateful sunny afternoon.

"Mu Qing . . . I don't think I can do this . . ." Drayko mumbled as he was carried away from the safety of the cave. "Don't be silly Drayko; every dragon can fly almost immediately after they're born."

"Yes, but you seem to forget, I wasn't born a dragon, can't we go back to, say...hunting or...sleeping?" Drayko hissed, trying to hold onto Mu Qing's claws, which were the only things keeping him in the air. She ignored him.

"Ready?"

"No!"

"Go!" Mu Qing dropped him as she spoke. "Open your wings child!" she flew effortlessly below him, in case he did fall.

He screwed his eyes shut and opened his wings as far as he could, he didn't remember being this frightened of flying when he was running away. Immediately his wings caught an updraft caused by the high cliffs in the mountains and started to rise rapidly. He opened his eyes an inch to see where he was going and was bombarded with that happy feeling he always got when in the air. A bubbly laugh fell from his lizard-like jaws.

"See, it's not that hard." Mu Qing said happily as she glided toward him. Drayko smiled down at her, his wings flapping happily. "Now follow me." she drove off to the side, forcing Drayko to struggle to keep up. She twisted and turned around the large rock formations like they were nothing, Drayko however was having a hard time not hitting rock walls or ice caps. It disappointed him a bit to know that such a large dragon had a better time turning around sharp rocks than a much smaller night fury.

She swooped down into an ice cave, Drayko quickly lost her but there was only one way to go. It was much harder than the mountains, stalagmites and stalactites riddled the small cave- now he truly wondered how Mu Qing could manoeuvre in such a small place. Every few seconds he'd fly into something head first, causing black spots in his vision for a few seconds- just long enough to hit something else.

He fly upward where the tunnel ended, seeing the massive furry dragon awaiting him at the entrance.

He flew out of the tiny cave he landed on the ice, unable to lift himself after an exhausting training day. She landed beside him and sniffed his head caringly. "Come now Halfling, get on my back and I'll fly us home." Without another word she picked him up in her mouth, which reminded him of lion mother's with their cubs, and draped him on her massive shoulders. She took off and Drayko closed his eyes. It was a lot harder to lift his new heavier body compared to his more human self.

He couldn't remember how long he'd been asleep but he awoke in what seemed like seconds later to watch their cave home coming closer. "We're here already?" Drayko said with a mixture or relief and sadness, he hadn't even gotten to take in any of the snowy scenery. She chuckled and landed softly on the icy snow covered entrance to the claw made cave.

He slipped off of her back, deciding that where he landed was a good place to sit. She smiled down at him and lay down beside him.

"So, why did you run away?" she asked suddenly. Drayko turned to her in surprise, but then figured it must have been pretty obvious, and then turned to look out into the setting sun.

"I needed to." He explained cryptically. She gave him as much of a sarcastic look as a reptile could give. He sighed and shook his head. "I guess I can give you a few details.

"I came from a village called Berk; my step father had found me in the woods near the village and decided to raise me. I was always kind of different, now I know why but- . . ." he laughed sadly, "so there was this really annoying boy, he always teased me and called me names, said no one really liked me, that they were just pretending or being polite."

"You should have killed him." Mu Qing said simply. Drayko gave another sad laugh.

"Actually, that's why I ran away. He just . . . got me so mad that I . . . tried to rip his throat out. Luckily my brother tackled me before I could actually kill him, but then his mother came in a made a really big scene out of it and my friends wouldn't go near me and," he laughed again, "It was just a big mess."

They were silent for a long time, long enough that the sun finally set over the snowy peaks. Then suddenly Mu Qing broke the silence by licking Drayko's head, causing him to screech in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"You don't seriously think I'll let you bathe in our drinking water, do you?" Mu Qing stated simply as she grabbed him and started to lick his wings. "b-but . . . this is weird!"

"It's only weird if you make it that way, now stop moving." She set her heavy paw down on Drayko's back to halt his movement and continued. Eventually Drayko gave up and let her clean him.

"This reminds me of cats and their children." He pointed out after a while of silence. She just laughed. "What am I learning tomorrow?" asked Drayko. She chuckled again. "I think that I shall teach you how to breathe fire, and then I believe it would be time for you to find your own territory down somewhere in the south." Mu Qing explained.

Drayko looked up at her with surprise. "You want me to leave so soon?" he demanded.

"Every child must leave the nest at some point Drayko, but in this case I do not, it's just that I haven't been the greatest neighbour of a small village of snow people called Inuk. They've finally gotten in contact with a few . . . specialised men, who . . . are called when there is a dragon that the human's don't particularly enjoy the company of." Drayko's eyes widened. "You mean dragon slayers!" he screeched in panic. "Why don't we just fly away now- find a place to live in some other mountain! We can-"

"No." Mu Qing said in a warning voice. "Don't think about that now . . . just . . . sleep."

He frowned but didn't question her. It had only been a few days and already she had become such a large part of his life. He never wanted to lose that, but he feared that, that was exactly what was going to happen.

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