hey guys Im back yet again with this next chapter I hope you like this next chapter I have an idea for what I wanna happen at the time of writing but we'll see if it comes out like im hoping it will, also I wanted to let you know its my summer break so hopefully I will get more chapters out. Anyway, I'll see ya'll later.
I opened my eyes glancing around I was in the big meeting area right by The Cliff where that dance was. I shuddered at the memory of the explosion that happened. That's when I heard the dark familiar voice. I realized I was in a dream. When I turned around I saw him the NightWing just as he usually looks a completely blank black just the shape of a dragon and blood red blank eyes. It still gave me the creeps. He knew I was staring but he didn't say anything. I didn't wanna break the silence so I just watched for any movement.
After what felt like an eternity I woke up on my ledge my I was pretty sure it was about 9 in the morning. Of course SeaWeed was sprawled out drooling below me Mountain and Rain were gone along with Star. Iceberg was sleeping in her usual spot. I stayed extra quiet because I was actually very scared of Iceberg our last real interaction was when she threatened me and SeaWeed for waking her, so I did not wanna try it again.
I stepped gingerly down I was just out the exit when I heard a loud voice behind me. It was SeaWeed then a louder roar that of course was Iceberg, I bolted quickly not even turning around to see what happened to SeaWeed.
After a few turns dodging dragons I actually bumped into Arctic but I got back up and started running before she could say anything I did flash her a. "I'll tell you later." Glance as I ran then I finally stopped. When I turned I saw SeaWeed barreling into me knocking me to the floor. We lay on the floor breathing heavily luckily this was a less populated hallway though when few dragons there shot us some questioning looks.
I slowly stood looking at SeaWeed who still looked dead on the floor I had too hold in my laugh so I didn't fall over again. "Dude what were you thinking?" I asked SeaWeed I wasn't to happy that it was his fault we were in this mess.
"Man I forgot she was asleep!" He yelled back at me finally getting back up. I face palmed that was obvious sometimes I wondered how he became my first friend but shrugged it off. I was glad he was my first friend.
"Well duh you forgot why would you have yelled so loud!" I yelled back at him. We stared at eachother for a few seconds before breaking down laughing falling back on the floor.
"Well we are dead meat if Iceberg finds us, I think we should lay low for awhile." I said standing back up leaning against the wall. SeaWeed stood up joining me.
"Actually I have a date with Mountain today, so I'm gonna get ready. I'll see ya later though?" SeaWeed said turning to me, I nodded and waved him off. I was starting to get pretty hungry since I ran for so long I probably didn't need to but I was scared.
I walked slowly to the Prey Center I walked about 5 meters before Arctic ran up from behind me.
"Coyote what was that about?" She said calmly walking up beside me. I jumped startled by her.
"What the hell are you doing!?" I yelled at her in shock she looked at me and shrugged. I groaned in response giving up.
"So what were you doing earlier?" She asked questioningly raising an eyebrow. I thought for a moment what was she talking about again? Oh right I ran into her in my fear I'd forgotten it was Arctic I ran into.
"Oh right about that... It's a long story." I said waiting for Arctic to reply I'd rather not have to answer her I hoped she caught the hint.
"Well I got a long time to listen." She said smiling. Either she ignored the hint or she was oblivious to it I was suspecting the former.
"Ugh... Fine, so it started this moring." I started as we walked Arctic stayed quiet listening which I appreciated. "So I was walking to the exit SeaWeed and Iceberg were asleep. Then like always SeaWeed was super loud and woke her up. And last time we did that it did not turn out great." I finished looking at Arctic.
"I thought you said it was a long story?" Arctic said laughing.
"It felt long to me!" I replied giving her annoyed expression. I wasn't actually that annoyed but I thought it might help me out in the long run. Don't ask me how it'll help I got no clue myself. But you might as well try.
"Anyway where are you off to right now?" She said changing the subject glancing around.
"Oh I'm heading to I'm heading to the Prey Center actually." I said to her I could just see the Prey Center.
"I'm heading to the Art Room." She replied pointing down the hall which I knew led to the Art Room.
"Since when do you do art?" I asked, I had never seen her in there and she didn't look like she'd like art. But I guess its true to not judge a book by its cover.
"Star got me into it actually. She's really good!" Arctic replied happily. Now I understood, I thought back to the portrait she made of me and SeaWeed.
"Cool, I'll see ya later" I said shrugging. Arctic nodded and headed down a different hallway. I walked into the Prey Center, I quickly chased down a chicken and also some fruit. I slowly roasted the chicken keeping my flames at a low tempature so I could keep a constant stream, and also to not burn the chicken. I ate quickly on my own it was surprisingly uneventful compared to them last few weeks, but I welcomed the quiet.
As I walked out of the Prey Center I saw no one that intrested me, just the average groups of dragons which I tried to avoid as much as possible, by this time in the year the groups and catogories of dragons have already been formed so I try not to go out of my way to talk to others that I don't already know. I'm not sure what drew to the Cliff but I'm glad I went there.
Stepping out into the cold air was still slighly weird for me, y'know because the top of a mountain is much colder then the middle of a desert. Thats when I noticed the group heading my way, it being lead by a familair face, Tsunami. I ran to the edge of the Cliff wanting to hear the news on the NightWing that has been hunting me. Soon she landed in front of me.
"Well kid looks like your eager." She said walking past me I was a little dissapointed but I knew better then to say something about it, I've heard the stories of Tsunami not being great when being questioned against her choices. Hopefully Sunny or even Clay would let me know I'd expect it if I wasn't just a student here and a dragonet. I'll just ask Sunny about it later. I though standing near the edge of the Cliff. I decieded what I should do next, I knew I'd have to give Tsunami time to tell others so if Sunny would tell me I'd still need to wait.
Since I was already outside I thought I should explore the area since I haven't been that thoughtful when flying around the area around JMA. Lifting off in the air I noted down small ponds and lakes, anything that looked important for land marks or something that looked cool. Closer to the ground I noted... Wait what was that? I thought I swear I just flew over something very very familiar. I stopped and turned around. My heart dropped, yep. The NightWing and some SandWing that had their face covered. They were eyeing me down I didn't know what to do at all.
Most dragons have a phrase. "Fight Or Flight." Well heres one more. "Freeze." And thats what I was doing right now, luckily the other two were also frozen in place eyeing me down from the ground. I had the advantage because I was already in the air around 40 yards up and 20 yards away. They had to make the first move because I was too scared to do anything.
Yep I waited too long, the SandWing launched up at me the NightWing staying where he was that I was confused about. I thought I had got out of the way of the oncoming SandWing I mean I avoided the teeth and claws, maybe it was a bit too easy to dodge.
Yeah I forgot one of the most important parts of a SandWing despite me being one myself. The tail barb stabbed through my scales right in my abdomen under my wing, and oh three moons it hurt incrediby bad.
I had only been stabbed with a tail bard twice in my life, once when I was super young and did it to myself I don't remember much of it. Second was about a year ago when I was 3 my sister thought it would be funny. She didn't think so when she got grounded for 6 months.
Also I quickly fell out of the sky crashing through the branches getting cut up on the way down til I got the wind knocked out of me when I hit the ground. My vision was blury and my whole body ached. I thought I was a goner I was left alone in the middle of the woods. Wait... The middle of the woods! I knew I saw Cobra's outcropping on the way here I wasn't to far, I stood up slowly I stumbled a few feet before crumpling. I tried again yelling for Cobra, I stumbled through the woods the venom in my body only getting worse and made it harder to move.
For what felt like 8 hours but was more likely 5 minutes I somehow made someone hear me as a shape came and caught me as I fell. I couldn't tell who it was but I hoped it was Cobra. Right now I let the shape drag me because I needed to focus on staying awake til I could get some cactus juice if I ever got cactus juice to heal the wound and get the venom out too. I knew if I fell asleep I probably wouldn't wake up, I couldn't let that happen.
The figure brought me to an outcropping from my blurred vision it looked like Cobra's outcropping but at this point I could never know for sure. When the shape spoke all I heard was gibberish. That's when I felt the cool juice of a cactus washing itself across the wound I quickly felt the affects of it my vision returning along with a little strength I still couldn't quite understand the figure which I found to be Cobra.
"Coyote what are you doing out here like this?" Cobra said I finally understood him, I wasn't sure how I wanted to answer that. Should I tell him the truth? It would probably be the best option because I don't think I could come up with a believable story for why I was covered in cuts and had a nasty wound from a SandWing's tail.
Hell the truth is hard to believe. I finally decided to tell him the truth there really was nothing to hide the choice was influenced by him literally saving my life twice.
I quickly told him a little about the NightWing and recapped the story of me meeting him with the SandWing.
"Well that certainly is... Something." He said after a bit he seemed like he believed me but maybe the venom was influencing that, I was about to thank him until he spoke over me . "Listen Coyote we need to move now." He said seriously looking me in the eye.
"Why is something wrong?" I said confused he helped me I was gonna thank him have a chat and get back to JMA.
"The thing is... I don't have enough cactus juice to get rid of all the venom." He said quickly. (BTW that's my headconnon where it kinda depends on a bunch of things like where the stab wound is and things like that which dictates how much cactus juice you need to heal and remove all the SandWing venom.)
Damn what do I do now? I thought I didn't know how I was gonna do things. I was still weak from the initial stab wound if I waited to get it healed any longer I didn't really know what would happen.
"Here let me wrap the wound while I talk to you" Cobra said nodding to the table I was on when I met him and his little sister which was nowhere to be seen. Cobra went over and wrote a quick note on some paper I couldn't see what he wrote. He walked up to me with some bandages and started cleaning the wound and wrapping it.
"So we need to travel somewhere." I waited for him to continue. "It's a small village not to far away it homes about 50 dragons from different tribes it operates kind of on its own. I mean it doesn't get many visitors hell I've only been there twice. But they should have some cactus juice for us.
Well that was great. More traveling. "Okay lets go" I said at this point I'd do anything to get rid of the pain that was slowly returning after Cobra used that little bit of cactus juice.
"Can you fly?" Corbra asked helping me stand. I flapped my wings, it would be hard but I could do it.
"Yeah I think so." I replied flapping my wings a little faster.
"Great we should make it to the village in about an hour and a half then" Cobra said lifting off into the air. I followed suit clumsily but I did do it.
We might have made it quicker to the village if it weren't for me and my wound it took about 2 and a half hours so I added about an hour to the intial estimated time. Cobra was right the village was quite small even more so compared to the RainForest Kingdom.
Me and Cobra landed on the outskirts of the village a few dragons seeing us, from various tribes. Cobra nodded at me and I fell in line behind him. We walked through the main area where many dragons sold things and worked. It seems Cobra saw someone he knew because he perked up and made a bee line to a stall manned by a SandWing.
"Hey Adder how have you been!" He yelled stopping right in front of a table the SandWing looked up at Cobra.
"Oh Cobra its been awhile, who's your friend?" Adder said he made a face when he saw my bandages that had soaked up some blood.
"This is Coyote, anyway we really need some cactus juice." Cobra responded pointing to a jar on his table which I presumed was filled with cactus juice but for all I knew it could be pickle juice. Yeah I was starting to lose it the pain and vision problems were returning. I'm not even sure what happened because I zoned out but when I became aware of my surrounding I was laying on a bed with Cobra and some other RainWing were using the cactus juice on the wound.
It felt really good I almost wanted to stand up. Cobra seemed to sense this and stepped back as I rolled onto the floor and onto my feet.
"Thanks for the help Cobra." I said quickly shaking his talon. Cobra nodded and led me out into the open.
"Lets get you back to JMA." He told me lifting off into the air the sun was just past noon so I was pretty sure it was around 3:00 so about 3 hours since my little accident with the NightWing and SandWing. Anyway I let Cobra take the lead because I was still sore and didn't want to over exert myself.
Me and Cobra flew away back to JMA. Gladly it was super uneventful and nothing happened, Cobra did leave as soon as we came into sight of the Cliff though.
Landing on the smooth stone never felt so welcoming. I thought about going back to my winglet cave but I remembered that while the venom no longer was there the wound and bandages were still on my abdomen so I wasn't sure if I ever wanted to walk into JMA at the moment. But I also remembered how I wanted to talk to Sunny.
I would have been a tough choice but I didn't have to make it because SeaWeed, Trident and Avalanche found me on the Cliff.
"Dude are you okay?!" SeaWeed said running up to me checking out the new bandages which were luckily not bloody like the previous set.
"Uhm long story. Listen can we not talk about this right now? I need to talk to Sunny." I said as the the other two joined SeaWeed in standing beside me. They looked at eachother for a moment and nodded and went back inside and left me on the Cliff. I quickly went to Sunny's office which luckily she was there. She glanced up and said.
"Oh there you are, Coyote." She said nodding to the seat across the desk from her that was until she saw the bandages. "3 moons are you okay?" She remarked looking worried.
"Long story." I said tiredly I was ready to sleep for awhile or forever. Sunny did not look satisfied.
"Here, I'll tell you my news if you tell me what happened to you." She said as I sat in the chair. I quickly retold the story of how I came to be injured. "I knew it, that damn adventure was a distraction." She said looking at some papers holding her chin, I didn't know what she was talking about.
I stayed silent. "Listen there was absolutely nothing when the team got to the end of the map." She finally said. My heart dropped.
They sent us on a goose chase and it seemed they did that so they could attack me easier with less dragons JMA, it also seemed they had a different plan because if the NightWing was planning on attacking me outside JMA he shouldn't have needed to send us on the goose chase to begin with.
"So now what?" I asked quietly I wasn't sure what we could do at all I was scared terrified even.
"Now you're gonna go back to your winglet cave and rest." Sunny said in a tone that left no room for argument. I was about to until I saw the look and Sunnys face so I turned tail and zoomed out of there into the hallways.
I stood there for a few minutes staring off into space I wasn't even thinking. I slowly made my way down the halls in the direction of my winglet cave after a few minutes of passing by dragons I finally got to the winglet cave thank the moons that the cave was empty. I quickly collapsed onto my sleeping mat and passed.
Whats up guys another chapter done, I believe this is my longest chapter ever at almost or exactly 4k words which before it was about 3.5k so its small but still improvement so I'm pretty glad about that. And the chapter did genarally come out the way I wanted it too so that's great, but let me know how you're liking the story so far it'd be very helpful to me and I may be able to make this story even better.
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