𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚜

Clay x Peril

Someone plz tell me the name of this ship.

Clay meandered through the rather spacious hallways of Jade Mountain Academy, looking into the rooms he passed. What did I say I was supposed to do today? He wondered, trying to get a hint from his surroundings. I guess since I can't remember I'll go hunting in the meantime. With that thought, he continued his pace through the hallways, making his way towards the entrance.

At the wide entrance, Clay quickly picked up on wingbeats coming closer. He looked up to the sky to see the glowing copper-colored shape of Peril flying towards him. Noticing him staring at her, Peril quickened her pace. "Claaay!" She yelled, just before swooping down to land on the platform he was on.

"Hi, Peril!" Clay responded cheerily. Peril moved one of her arms out to hug Clay, but quickly corrected herself before she burnt him. Clay, seeing this, wrapped one of his arms around her in the embrace she wanted. He flinched as her firescales burnt him where he was touching her, but powered through the hug to make her happy. When Peril pulled back, knowing not to stay too long, she was blushing. Clay could guess she was, yes, happy.

"What have you been up to, big guy?" She asked, sitting down next to Clay. Clay did the same, looking over at her as he spoke.

"Well, just tending to the Academy. Making sure it doesn't explode or something." He joked, smiling.

"Doesn't it get lonely around here? There's not many of you teachers compared to students, right?"

"Yeah. Most of the others are off trying to get through their mating seasons, so nobody's really left here except Starflight and Stonemover."

"Ah, scroll-hog and the lump. That's gotta get boring. Well! I figured I'd pay you a visit, and I'm glad I did; we need to get you on your feet!" Peril grabbed one of Clay's hands and pulled him up, careful to let go afterwards.

"I'm really glad you came, Peril, but I'm alright. I was planning to go hunting anyways. We don't need to do anything special."

"Aw, come on you sourpuss! I had a bunch of cool ideas of things we could do together! Like, uh..." She trailed off into her thoughts, and Clay was fairly sure her first idea made her blush, which wasn't a very good sign. "Ah, whatever, we'll do that in a minute. Hey, Clay, when's your mating season? Er, you MudWings' season. Not you in specific. Unless you want me to ask you about-- never mind. Second question."

"Well, it's towards the end of summer, in another month or two. Why do you ask?"

"It's just, um..." She trailed off again. She looked up at clay, and then down at her claws. Her tail swished around a little bit on top of her claws, wrapped around her back and legs. "Do you love me?" Peril asked, looking up at him with a desperate look in her eyes.

"Well, of course! I love all of my friends."

"No, I mean... love-love. Like, that one person you just want to be with forever and hold close... or have them hold you close and just, never let go. That one person you'd do anything for. Y'know?" She asked again.

"Hmm..." Clay thought for a while. He probably would say yes, even if he didn't care for Peril that way to not hurt her feelings, but thinking back he could recognize some times he thought like that. "I guess I've never thought of it before, but yeah. I do feel that way about you, Peril."

Peril squealed happily and grabbed Clay's arm, leading him back into the academy. "Okay, okay, we're gonna do something awesome. I've waited forever for you to say that so just hear me out!" She continued forcing him through the hallways. Eventually she had to let go of his arm so she wouldn't burn him badly, but continued down the halls until the two reached an empty room, about the size of one of the sleeping rooms.