Fast Food Furries Book 1

Chapter 10a: The Truth Part 1

This was gonna be a double feature (The Truth Part 1 and 2) but part 2 has turned into an absolute doozy and I definitely need the extra time. It might even be delayed a week or two idk it's not like anybody cares

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Dorothy

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The city rushed by below us as we clung to the dragon's mane. It was too surreal of an experience to properly articulate. Its body bobbed underneath us like one of those floating bridges that moves with the waves.

I leaned to the side so your hair would stop blowing in my face and spoke to break the weirdly awkward silence. "So... where are you from?"

The beast's voice was slow, deep, and ethereal. The air buzzed when it spoke. "I suppose there no longer remains any advantage in secrecy," it said. "I am from a world many thousands of light-years away."

"You're from outer space?" you asked.

"In the sense that I am from a place other than Planet Earth, yes, although my homeworld is a terrestrial planet much like this one."

"Why are you here?" I asked.

"It is a complicated series of events which has brought me here. I will explain in detail once the situation has calmed, but in short I am searching for another."

"Another dragon?" I clarified. "There are more here?"

"To my knowledge, only three dragons have ever set foot on Earth, including myself. Although, recent events have led me to believe there may be a fourth. At least two remain here."

"You and... the one you're after?" you asked.

The dragon took a dramatic second to respond. "Yes."

I glanced down, admiring the dragon's shimmering scales. They were white overall, but ripples of every colour imaginable danced across its body like refracted light on the floor of a clear lake. Its mane was a little more familiar, but it was impossibly soft. It made for a great seat cushion.

"Why are you helping us?" I asked. "It sounds like you have your own little quest going on."

"The two objectives are more similar than you realize."

"And why did you let Ned come along?"

"She wanted to."

"Yeah," you said. "I wasn't going to let it—sorry—her? Them?—"

" 'Him,' please."

"Right, thanks," you said. "I wasn't going to let him go save Mach without me."

I rolled my eyes and returned focus to the city below. Watchtower stood proud in the distance. "That spire over there," I said before realizing that the dragon probably couldn't see where I was pointing. He seemed to understand what I meant. "We were there a few days ago. There was a... I don't know, a dungeon? It looked like it was made for, well, someone like you. It had been busted open."

"Someone like me, yes."

"But not you?"

"No," the dragon explained. "The being who was once contained there is a supremely dangerous individual. I orchestrated that dungeon's construction and surveillance in order to entrap her."

"She's the one you're after?" you asked.

"No," said the dragon. "And she may be long-gone into the cosmos already. She will need to be stopped, but not today."