Dragons Rising: My Mistake Changed My Kingdom {Book One}

Chapter Three: Escape

     That's how I'll get out. But what if it doesn't work? What if the guards are smarter than that? I stared at the door where the guards had been positioned, no doubt about it. You know what? I have to believe in myself. Come on . . . Orca! I took a little to remember my name; it had been given to me not long ago, so of course I had trouble remembering it.
     Okay, plan starts . . . now.
     I swam to the door, constantly checking behind me to make sure that mother and father were asleep. When I saw that they were, I swam quickly to the door, peeking out. There were indeed two guards positioned at the outside of the doors. One of them was asleep, while the other was taking watch. Smart move, guards. I thought. I looked at mom and back at the door, searching for a distraction.
     The fourth time I looked at mother, I stopped. Smiled. There was a necklace of pearls that mother had woven around her snout so she could sleep. I swam quietly towards her, until it was just in reach . . .
     Gill yawned. Quick as a shark, I dove into the nook in between mother and father and pretended to sleep. Cracking one eyelid open, I saw that father had just turned over and was now facing the wall . . . even better.
     I snuck over to mother again, this time carefully (and successfully) lifting it off of her. Coral stirred but did not wake. I swam over to the door again, glancing behind me as I reached it. My heart raced at the sudden realization how careful I had to be for this plan to work. I just had to hide when the guards opened the door, and . . .
     This is never going work . . . I groaned inwardly. But I have to try. I cracked the door open and threw out the pearl necklace. The guard that was awake snapped to attention, nudging the sleeping SeaWing. That SeaWing woke up, and the first guard flashed something in Aquatic. She pointed to the pearl necklace. Immediately, the other guard snapped to attention. He and the first guard swam over to examine the necklace, soon realizing it was mother's. So far, so good. I thought. Next came the hard bit.
     As the guards started swimming toward the room, I hid behind where the doors would open.
     The guards threw open the doors. I could sense their eyes searching the room. All I had to do was wait . . .
     When the guards saw nothing, they turned and made to close the doors . . .
     I swam behind them, making sure they didn't see. As they closed the doors, I swiveled around, avoiding their line of sight.
     I swam out of the palace, hiding from all the guards that were at the palace. Soon I was on my way to the surface.

     A while later, I got caught in a current, but it was too strong to battle. So I let myself get pulled along, hoping it wouldn't take me too far. Along the way, I memorized where I was so I might find my way back home.
     Eventually, not long after I got caught, actually, I saw an island. The current started getting weaker, so I started a ferocious battle; The Ocean VS Orca.
     I won in the end.
     Swimming free of the current's grasp, I swam over to the island. Looking up from the waters, I saw the moon high in the sky and the stars shimmering around it. It was around midnight, however since I had never heard those words, baby Orca didn't know what they were called, she only knew that it meant her parents were sleeping.
     I pulled myself onto the sandy beach of the island and flopped down onto the sand, breathing heavily. For a one day old dragonet, that is a hard journey.
     A while later, when the moon had not visibly moved, I got up and shook myself. Time to see what this tingling is. I tried everything I could think of. Hitting my talons against a tree, digging them into the sand, holding them up until I couldn't hold them up anymore, clapping my talons together, rubbing them. Nothing worked.
     I was about to go back into the ocean when I realized something. There was a coconut sitting down on the ground. Maybe I could do something with it?
     I cut open the coconut (how, I have no idea), and rubbed the oil on my talons. It didn't work.
     With a sigh, I dove back into the water and swam back home.