Kumandra and The Lost Dragon (A Raya and The Last Dragon Fanfic)

Bothersome

Underneath the scorching hot sun of Tail, a small village was seen as the people who live within it lived a peaceful life, nothing interesting or anything life changing, till the sight of a dark purple wall was seen at a distance, and as soon as the populace of the village saw what this dark purple was, when it comes a bit more closer, they all ran out from their village with their precious possessions and family, yet there are many who survived this frightful and unexpecting encounter of the Druun.
Chatri is amongst the Druun, marching alongside them and attacking villages and turning anything living into stone. While travelling around with the Druun, Chatri has become obsessed with the power of Tarmos's sword as he thought out plans on how to defeat him and claim his weapon, while ignoring the warning that his mysterious master had told him.
'That sword is nothing but trouble and that I wish it wasn't made. His sword will only lead to your downfall, Chatri.'

All the while, Tarmos and the Datu family are now flying towards Heart, who are oblivious of the invasion. One more thing that I need to point out is that Tarmos can't fly, yet how could he travel up there beyond the blue skies of Kumandra? The answer is simple, as Pengu, who is behind the flightless dragon, wrapped his arms around him, while the others siblings are holding Tarmos's other end. If anyone sees him like this, his treacherous second in command, L'Inferno for example, he would be giggling next to him and would say.
"I dunno, seems kinda gay to me, hahahahaha!"
"Grr, how annoying his high pitched laugh is." Tarmos said, bearing his teeth.
"What was that, Tarmos?" Pengu asked, while looking down at him.
"N-Nothing, Pengu, it's just an embarrassing memory." Tarmos replied.
The very reason that they are having a trip to Heart is because of Tarmos Rime's heroic deeds. At the last chapter, some humans were told about the news of Tarmos defeating an army of Druuns with his magic sword by dragons, who were travelling around Kumandra. Yet, spreading the news in this world is quite slow. Other than that, Chief Benju has arranged a party, where every clan across Kumandra are there to commemorate Tarmos's deeds.
"Why another party? Haven't I had a party a month ago?" Tarmos said, who didn't want to go to the party, yet he has to anyways.
"Come on, Tarmos, you should be feeling awesome about yourself, and, to have a party literally dedicated to you driving the Druuns away is such an honor." Sisu said, who is holding onto lower torso. 
"It kind of feels like you haven't have a party like the one Sisu planned and the party we're having right now." Jagan said, who is flying underneath Tarmos, not even helping his siblings carrying the flightless dragon.
"I would be lying if I said I had, but in reality, I haven't anything like that is close being a party about me." 
"What! But what about on your birthday, you haven't got nothing!?" Amba asked as she flew next to Tarmos, and like her brother, Jagan, she too didn't assist their older siblings.
"Uh... Then, what am I suppose to do in these kind of situations?" Tarmos asked.
"Well, how about you behave when you were at your welcoming party." Pengu suggested. "But this time, don't be be angry, it scares me and the others."
"I obey." Tarmos said, saluting the water dragon up above, who doesn't understand what a salute is, yet he didn't ask.
Once at the entrance of Heart, there are people who are expecting them as the Datu family slowly flies down and gently put Tarmos down to the ground. 
Before these people speak, they bow their heads and made a circular symbol with their hands above their heads. 
"Welcome, dragons, we are sent here by Chief Benja to escort you to the castle." Says a woman in her mid 40's.
Before anyone was about to do anything, every thing slowed down for Tarmos when notices that there is someone next to this woman as there is a little boy, holding her hand, and jumping up and down with excitement and he was directly looking at Tarmos and, all of a sudden, he runs towards Tarmos and begins to wrap his arms around the dragon's legs, which spooked Tarmos.
"Tarmos!" The little boy shouted with glee, while the others giggled and aw at the sight.
"M-Me, no, I'm not Tarmos." Tarmos lied, looking away from the child, hoping they would go away.
The woman in her mid 40's calmly walks towards the scared dragon and the little boy with a smile, and when she's close to them, she kneels down to the little boy and gently grabs him away.
"I'm so sorry for my son's sudden behavior, Tarmos Rime, it's just because of your heroic story had made you my son's favorite hero." She said.
"Oh, well, that explains it." Tarmos said, giving the woman a crooked smile. "But please, shall we move on to Heart? We don't want our host to wait any longer."
And so they did, with the woman's son clinging on to Tarmos's leg.
Once at the entrance of the castle of Heart, the dragons and the escorts, were met with Chief Benja and her daughter, Raya, and when Raya saw Sisu, she rushes towards her bestfriend as they both gave each other a hug.
"It's good to see you, Sisu." Raya said, getting out from the hug and turns her head to see Tarmos, who is standing next to her friend. "And I see you've brought Tarmos Rime." 
"N-No, It's pronounced Rime, you have to roll the r in Rime, Rrrrrime, got it?" Tarmos corrected her.
"Okay then, Tarmos Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrime." Raya replied, with a smirk as Sisu is trying to suppress her laughter.
Oh gee willikers, there's a bloody Sisu-like human in this castle! Tarmos thought as he turns his head away, not letting anyone see him bearing his sharp teeth in annoyance.
"Raya, that's disrespectful." Chief Benja said, crossing arms and, shaking his head while giving Raya a stern look. "Greeting the hero of Draagun by joking around with Tarmos's last name."
"That is correct, Chief Benja." Says Pengu, who is now beside Sisu and glaring at his sister. "And laughing at one's last name is disrespectful too." 
The two girls sighs and feel guilty at what they've done.
"Yeah, you're right, Pengu."
"Yeah, you're right, dad."
They then turn to Tarmos, who isn't hiding his face from the people around him anymore, now looking at them with a blank expression and they said in unison. "Sorry Tarmos." 
"*Sigh* It's alright, just don't do it again." Tarmos replied.
"And other than that, welcome guests of Draagun and welcome Tarmos Rime, Hero of Draagun." Chief Benja said as he and his daughter bow down to them.
Afterwards, the guards, who are guarding the entrance of the castle, opens its large doors and let everyone inside as everyone from each clan are waiting for their guest star, Tarmos Rime, but there is one clan who did not appear.
"Wait, where's Boun?" Sisu asked, who peered her head out from behind Tarmos.
"We don't know, but they're late for some reason and it seems fishy." Raya said.
Next, Chief Benja walks and stands in front of Tarmos as he gains the attention of each clan by calling out their clan names.
"Dear friends, the hero of Draagun is here with us, Tarmos Rime." Chief Benja said, presenting Tarmos Rime to the clans of Kumandra. Then, the whole crowd within the castle began to cheer for Tarmos and their cheers were deafening to him and he gulps nervously as this grabs the attention of Sisu.
"Tarmos?" Tarmos did not reply.
"Tarmos?" Tarmos slowly turns around to look at her, giving Sisu his full attention.
"Hey, are you alright?" She asked. "You seem to be in another world or something." She said, giving Tarmos a worried look.
"I-I'm alright, it's just flashbacks." Tarmos replied, reassuring Sisu with his crooked smile.
Night falls upon Heart as the real party begins. Musicians from across Kumandra performing songs, both original compositions and cultural and native songs, as the people of Kumandra dance to and fro and jump to the music. Sisu was having fun within the dance floor, but her fun ended when she sees Tarmos at the corner of the room, who is giving the woman's (who was one of the escorts) son, who was clinging onto Tarmos's leg for a long time, back to her. Afterwards, he proceeds to do nothing as he stands there feeling alone and don't know what to do.
"Tarmos." Sisu said, walking towards her friend who moves his head to face her. "Why aren't at the dance floor? Come on, you're missing out the fun!" 
"I know, but please do remember that I never had anything like this." Tarmos replied, crossing his arms together and looking at the group of dancing people and dragons. "Plus, I'm nervous, overwhelmed and afraid."
Afraid, a word which made Sisu confused and curious.
"Afraid of what?" Sisu asked, tilting her head.
Tarmos looks left and right, checking if anyone's is watching them, till he spoke. "Can we go somewhere in private, please?"
"Oh... Alright." 
Sisu follows Tarmos through a thin curtain, which leads to a balcony, where the moon shines upon, and as Tarmos stops in front of the marble railings of the balcony, Sisu begins to speak.
"So, is it about the party? Was it not perfect?"
"No no, it's not about the party, it was... the people in there." Tarmos spoke when he faces Sisu, yet immediately turns away from her as he continues to speak more. "No no, not the people in the party, well... Sort of, it wasn't their fault, I assure you."
Tarmos sighs and looks down from the balcony, looking down at the city below, and Sisu slowly walks to him and put a paw on his shoulder.
"We can... Talk about this later if you want." Sisu said, with a concerned face.
"It's just these flashbacks I'm having, unwanted memories of the past." Tarmos spoke. "You know I told stories of me being a proud mighty warrior, being the greatest leader in my homeworld, and lived the most greatest life, of which I thought I had when you first asked about me months ago. I lied, it wasn't. I lied because I was proud and worn a narcissistic mask, I lied because I wanted to hide the horrid things I've done!"
"Well, in life, not everyone are all goody two shoes." Sisu said, trying comfort the dragon, who is breathing deeply.
"I have done things that no one in this world should witness!" Tarmos now faces Sisu, who walked back due Tarmos's outburst, and the blue water dragon notices something truly shocking and she is the first one to see it (and the first time Tarmos truly opens up to her). Tarmos is looking at her, and by looking at her, I mean that he is now looking at her with a pair of wide yellow glowing eyes, that each have pitch black pupils. Now, Sisu sees Tarmos tearing up a little bit.
"*Sniff* Sorry. I must've scared you, it's alright if you leave." Tarmos said, now looking away.
"No, I won't leave and I'm not scared, just shocked to see you... Open your eyes. I thought you were born without them, but you have the power of sight, but besides from that-." Afterwards, Sisu gently turns Tarmos around to face her and she then picks up his paws and holds them and proceeds to say. "-I'm your friend, I'm here to listen to you and your problems and I 'might' probably fix them."
"Hehe, you're too kind to me, dear Sisu, yet my problems are not easy to fix." Tarmos replied with a less crooked smile, while letting go of Sisu's soft grip.
"How come?" She asked.
"Remember that I had mentioned the guests of the party? And I will say it again that it is not their fault..."
Tarmos begins to explain Susi at the time when they cheer for him, acknowledging him as a hero.
"And when I heard those cheers, everything around me change, and those cheers, there weren't cheers of joy but the screams... Of terror." After Tarmos had spoke, he begin to look far off of the distance, staring at something that Sisu couldn't see, but what Tarmos could see is a great city, set ablaze by the fires of war, materializing right in front of his eyes as the joyful screaming and yelling inside the castle are replaced by the screams of confused and terrified civilians within the great city of New Kaenach, a place where Tarmos Rime rule and where he and his men began the slaughter of dragons, in hopes to lessen their numbers and driving them away, away from his proud kingdom.
"I've done things, horrible and cruel things to your kind, who reside amongst the stars, which led me turning into something I... once hate." After his explanation, he places his arms on the railing, still looking at the distance. 
Without a warning, Tarmos tensed up, for a while, when a blue furry arm wraps around his waist and a head leaning on his shoulder.
"Sorry, I thought that you need some comfort, if you want, I could go away." Sisu said.
"N-No... L-L-Let's just stay like this for a while." Tarmos said, leaning his body, a little bit, near Sisu.
Behind the two dragons, the thin curtain opened up a little bit and, behind the thin curtain, Raya and Sisu's siblings had witness what happened.
"I think we should leave them be." Raya said in a quiet tone, while feeling a bit bad for spying on her friend and her friend's friend.
"I couldn't agree more, Princess Raya, as I don't know what will happen when Tarmos found out if he ever caught us spying." Jagan said, thinking about the possible, yet horrible ways of how Tarmos would punish them for spying on him and Sisu.
Pranee, who thought the same thing as Jagan, then said. "Well, he will punish us if we stay here a bit more longer, so why don't we go away and be a bother somewhere else?"
So then, they left, leaving Tarmos and Sisu, who both are enjoying each other's company.
All of a sudden, the big doors of the castle violently swung open as it spooked everyone else in the room, also, Tarmos and Sisu are oblivious by this. Everyone stops what they were doing and stare at a shadowy figure of a child, that stands in middle of the entrance, and as all of the guests are now giving their attention to this 'child', Chief Benja, her daughter and the other chiefs all go through the crowd, seeing what's going on.
"Who dares to rudely disrupt the party?" Chief Benja asked in a stern, yet loud voice, but his stern attitude disappears when he sees the child. 
Raya, who walks out from behind her father, went past her father to see what he sees, until she gasps.
"Boun?"
The missing guest has finally come, but they are not the person Raya knew, instead, she sees him now as... A spawn of stone and dark energy, bent on destruction.
 "Crafaluuk, muuluutuk!"