Chex's Pov
When my sister hatched, I panicked so much I started kicking and rolling until I, too, was free from my egg.
Then, a shadow engulfed me and I looked up, up, to a dragon so big I scuffled back but tripped over a broken shell of either egg.
My sister snorted at me, then wobbled to the dragon's talon to start nipping at it.
-Fiesty Golden One,- a deep voice mused, -Born not even for an hour.-
Finally, I'd managed to stand on my feet and snapped at my tail, that flicked away.
How did it dare?
I stretched out my neck, but it inched a breath away from my fangs. With a warble, I stomped on it my talons but howled when pain shot from it all throughout my body.
Stupid tail!
Under the golden eyes of the giant beast, my sister jumped on me and we started scuffling, her wings beating my snout and my teeth snapping at her neck, until a growl had us scrambling back up.
A blue dragon, smaller than the first, yet still huge, narrowed her eyes at us.
-Enough now, hatchlings.-
My sister huffed at her, then wagged her tail and went on sniffing her, just like she'd done with the other.
The blue dragon blew a puff of smoke at her and rumbled a chuckle at her snort.
In the meantime, the black one had circled his large, spiked tail around me and let me flop on it to resume my sleeping.
Being born had been tiring enough.
Two and a half years later, when I could feel in my bones getting nearer to my Dreamless Sleep, my sister decided to flee.
-To go where?-
-Up, up, to my human!-
I groaned and placed my wing over my snout, -Tairn will be angry.-
-I don't care! My human will protect me.-
-I heard... Feathertails should stay here. In the Vale. Until they go to Sleep.-
-If I Sleep now, I'll miss her!-
I heaved a sigh, -Don't know, go ask Tairn-
She flicked me with her tail, -No! Let's go, we must go now!-
I growled from under my wing, -You go. I stay.-
-No, because then you'll spoil everything!-
-I won't, I'll be Sleeping! I can feel it.-
-But you'll be awake long enough. Come on!- She snapped her teeth at me and I bared mine.
If only I could spit fire.
We were squabbling (again) when the ground trembled beneath our talons. Her tail was between my teeth and the edge of my wing between her dirty claws.
-Let me go! I must fly!-
-Ggghhhnnrrr.-
Tairn's voice was stern, -Fly where to, Golden One?-
When she got distracted to answer, I kicked her hard in the guts and shuffled away. She flashed her teeth at me, but before I could throttle her, Tairn slammed his Morningstartail between us and leveled us a glare.
-It's quite enough. Andarna, tell me the truth.-
-She was going to fly to human lands!-
She growled at me, -You snake eater, smoke breather, snoring sleeper\-
Tairn's growl shook the floor as he swiveled his head snake like and narrowed one of his eyes to my sister.
-Were you indeed?-
She puffed out her chest and flicked her tail, -My human's there. I can feel her!-
-You gon' die there! Sgaeyl will find you and you'll be Wivern food!-
-Eat your tail and shut up!-
-You eat your tail and shut up!-
-Go Sleep already!-
-I would if you stopped annoying me!-
Tairn snapped his teeth and snorted smoke towards Andarna.
-You won't go there. You do as I say.-
She only bared her teeth.
-I am the oldest of my den. I only follow orders when I want to.-
Tairn's eye was so slitted the gold was almost gone.
-Then I won't catch you when you fall.-
Tairn did follow her to human lands, in the end. I was already deep into my Dreamless Sleep, but somehow I watched Tairn sweeping under Andarna to catch her mid-flight, the human's construction called Basgiath looming in the horizon.
Then, the wind grappled my wings. It pushed me through the whole Continent and the whole ocean (where I almost felt like throwing up, the only thing surrounding me was the blue of both sea and sky) until it halted on an island.
Only half of it seemed to be abitated; the rest of it was littered with old ruins.
I was trying to catch my breath, when something touched my mind. It was peaceful, blissfully so, and in it swarmed such a quantity of voices and feelings my mind swam.
With that brush, I felt as if I was Nature and Nature was me; I was the ant that scrabbled to hunt down food; I was the plant stretching out to reach the sun; I was their teacher who was currently organizing a couple of scrolls; I was their dragon, felt his scales getting warmed by the sun, recognised his heartbeats, felt the rough scales patching up his scars; in the end, deep down beneath all this, I was the young dark-skinned Rider too, their curls slightly damp for the recent bath, their breaths even.
Then, this peace shattered, for their mind untangled itself from mine and tipped itself out of balance. Their dragon snapped his head up and roamed the sky with his eyes, looking for what disturbed his Rider.
I projected all my efforts to be heard by both of their minds.
-Come find me.-
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Redemption
Fanfiction"With that brush, I felt as if I was Nature and Nature was me; I was the ant that scrabbled to hunt down food; I was the plant stretching out to reach the sun; I was their teacher who was currently organizing a couple of scrolls; I was their dragon...
