𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 | 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆

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"Hey, don't wake her up!" Nova glared at his brothers and sisters, standing to the left of his mothers head oblivious to the already awoken dragon.

"We won't!" They yelled before another ran behind him and nudged his bottom with their head. "Come play with us, Nova!"

"But..." Nova glanced back at his mother, the great dragon had a small cold, but seeing his mother in the slightest pain seemed to send a striking pain through the space in his left chest, which he didn't understand but knew he didn't enjoy the feeling.

"Go, my child.: Asterope blew out a gust of wind, pushing all of them away and soaring in the sky, much to Nova's dismay. Yet Nova couldn't help the admiration that shone in his eyes, after all, his mothers mere breath sent them flying!

He wanted to be that strong one day!

"Don't worry about me, i'll rest for today and will be up and about for the night." she smiled "Don't worry, i'll sing a song at night like always."

Nova relaxed at that. He wanted to be able to do that too, make people relax with just little words. This was his mothers way of comforting him, and it worked, as he turned around and ran outside the cave, laughing with his brothers and sisters.

First, they played a game of 'catch and keep!' where one team caught the rolled up hedgehog and tried keeping it until it decided to unroll. The small animal never got hurt, however, and didn't seem to mind when they used it to play.

Nova caught the hedgehog with his arms, uncaring of the way it's pricks made his arm bleed since he was used to it, having played the game far too many times. The other wyrens used their mouths to hold the hedgehog, but seeing as how Nova's mouth didn't...Stretch that far, he was taught to use his arms.

Umbra soon appeared in his vision, a grin plastered on his friends face as his tail slammed up and down against the ground challenge, letting out a small playful growl. The other wyrens roared in excitement, ready to see another one of the best friends fights, they were the strongest after all.

Ready to lose?" Nova snickered while Umbra jumped forwards, narrowly missing his friends who simple swerved to the side. His friend charged at him and sent him a kick that he only blocked and went to bite his friends leg. Fortunately, the older wyren pulled his leg back just in time and kicked the dragons nose.

Umbra immediately backed off and placed his paws on his nose, rubbing it to soothe the pain with light whines while Nova snickered and ran forwards, jumping onto his black scaled friends back and lifting the – Now awake – hedgehog to show his team.

"Team Nova wins!" The dragons that lost growled and punched on him, yet nova didn't panic and only laughed as they whined and licked his face.

"Not fair! It's because Elder Asterope trains you!"

"That is true!" Nova didn't even try to deny it. "But only because mama knows I can handle it. You'll all start training together soon!"

"Wyrens!" One of the mocas yelled, driving all the dragon's attention from Nova, towards the leaf buckets in between one of the father dragon's teeth.

"Time for all of you to work." The Mala moca, Smaug, said as he approached them all and began listing what they needed to do.

"Nova, Umbra, you will collect fish for tonight's dinner." They nodded.

"The rest of you lot will patrol the island and make sure no truces or deals have been broken. Make sure to tell me about everything out of the ordinary."

"Yes Smaug!" The wyrens, including Umbra and Nova, said out loud. Nova sent his friend a deadpan as he grinned at his father. Umbra was the child of Smaug and admired him way too much... Though Nova couldn't really speak, since he boasted about his mother all the time.

But his mother was really cool, so he had the right. Smaug was okay, it's not like he was the second strongest dragon. Nope. Smaug, whooooo?

He was snapped out of his thoughts when Umbra grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt, which was more like a long cloth that he was given at birth by god-knows-who, and began running towards the cliff side.

Instead of getting annoyed, Nova just sighed and allowed Umbra to place him on his back, giving the wyren an easier way to run.

They soon found themselves snatching at fish in the lake, and fooling around even though they weren't supposed to.

When they'd caught enough fish, the two relaxed against the sand a little. Umbra snatched the fish Nova was eating out of his hands, making him glare silently at him he didn't say anything else. His mother would be proud of him.

Though he couldn't help but be mischievous himself as gestured for Umbra to shift his head closer to him, and within a split second, slapped the fish he had grabbed, against his friends face, sending him to the ground and giving Nova enough time to grab a massive basket of fish and run back towards their main grounds, laughing the entire time while Umbra growled and chased him.

Just as he arrived to the grounds and set down the basket, Umbra tackled him to the ground with a glare and the two immediately began to fight until another moca broke up their fight and ordered them to sort the fish.

With one final look too his best friend, Nova snickered and turned away, doing what he was told while the other dragons could only shake their heads at the two's actions.

By the time it was night, Nova was cured up to his mother as they sat outside and began to sleep. Nova refused to sleep until his mother sang for him, though. And Asterope knew this, as she chuckled and lightly licked her sleepy chid.

"Goodnight, goodnight, it's time now to sleep.

The moons watching over, you and your dreams.

Goodnight, goodnight, my sweet little one.

Tomorrow your eyes, they will light up the sun."

"Thank you my little star." Asterope said as quietly and softly as she could. "I am better now, because of you."

"I love you, mama." Nova weakly muttered before finally falling asleep with a smile on his face.

"I love you too, my child."

"Goodnight, goodnight, sweet dreams for now.

Drift off to sleep,on your pillow of clouds.

Goodnight, goodnight, my sweet little friend.

Tomorrow's adventures, will soon begin~."