Silver and Red were working on replacing the railing near the dragonet nursery, Bristle was keeping the dragonets away from the edges of the cave so they didn't fall. Red slammed part of the railing into the ground embedding it deep into the ground, Silver couldn't help but watch with awe as Red was so strong that he could easily slam the new railing in.
Red grabbed another piece of railing and quickly slamming in into the ground to and then looking at Silver, saying, "Hey Silver, you alright? You look quite feverish." Silver nodded, he hadn't realized how hard he was blushing before Red had mentioned it.
"Oh, by the way, I see a few familiar dragons flying this way." Red said with a smile as he put in the last of the railing, Silver quickly went to look and saw it was Gradient and Peacock, they were carrying two unfamiliar dragons. Silver so desperately wanted to see who those dragons were but he needed to add the silk to the railings.
As Silver slowly added his safe flamesilk and froatsilk to the rails to keep them together, Red walked off towards the main entrance, "I'm going to see if those two need any help." Red said before quickly leaving. Silver was getting close to finishing connecting half the railing when suddenly he felt a force pulling from the outside of the railing.
He quickly looked over and say Gradient on the outside shaking the railing a bit, he had an overly excited smile on his face and he was clearly super happy about something, "Um... Gradient are you ok?" Silver asked, Gradient nodded and said, "Yeah, I just had a pretty good journey, besides the carrying another dragon for nearly half a day thing."
Nodding Silver then asked, "Well, you never told me what you were doing, so what happened?" Gradient got very close to Silver before quietly saying, "We caught him." Gradient's smile told Silver that this had to have been a high priority to be caught as Silver then said, "Who is it?"
The moment of silence was unbearable before Gradient then said, "We caught Darktalon." A jolt of shock hit Silver, Darktalon was one of the most wanted dragons in all of the tribes and the fact that he was here now made Silver both excited and panicked.
Gradient had a very proud look on his face as he then said, "Oh, by the way, did anything happen while I was gone?" Silver couldn't help but wince at this question as something bad had happened while he was gone, "Well... Some unknown dragons freed Swiftclaws and we don't know who it was..." Silver paused slightly.
"Ok, that's not that bad, Swiftclaws definitely wasn't the worse dragon to be freed, still pretty bad though..." Gradient said with a strained voice, Silver then said, "They also broke several railings and stole several emblems." Gradient sighed, "That's still not that bad... At least now we have reason to replace the old railing..."
It was clear by Gradients voice that he was quite upset about the escape, the stolen emblems and the broken railing but was trying to keep it under wraps. Silver finished with the last railing and said, "So, should we go check on the new prisoners?"
Gradient nodded with a smile back on his face as he then said, "Yeah, I'll let you do the talking." Silver smiled and said, "Or we could do some good guard, bad guard to see if he has any info on anyone else." Gradient laughed a bit as they began to walk toward then cell area.
As they walked Gradient said, "I think we should probably get two non-hybrids to talk to him... Maybe Red and Pathfinder?" Silver nodded, "Yeah, although neither of them have talked much, Pathfinder would make a good good guard and Red is quite used to being aggressive so bad guard would be perfect."
Silver then asked, "Although, who was that other dragon?" Gradient then said, "Apparently he was Darktalon's assistant or something like that, his name is Spike." Silver nodded, neither he nor Gradient were aware of this dragon before he had been captured.
Soon, they were at the cells were Red was throwing Darktalon in, slight aggression in his powerful throw made Darktalon bounce as he hit the cell floor. Meanwhile, Peacock simply dragged Spike into a cell, his eyes were filled with tiredness, Gradient suddenly quickly approached Peacock.
"Hey Peacock, you can go to bed if you want." Gradient said kindly, Peacock then said, "No I'm fine, you've been up way-" he was interrupted by a wide yawn before continuing, "-Way longer than I have." Gradient nodded and said, "Yeah, but I'm used to staying up for long hours, you should sleep, in fact take the sunlight spot in my room, I know sunlight must be good for your scales."
Peacock seemed to turn bright red before nodding and saying, "Oh um, sure, th-thanks Gradient." He then quickly ran off, Gradient then said, "I hope he has a good sleep, he was acting a little odd."
Silver could help but internally sigh, it was quite obvious that Peacock liked Gradient and Gradient had quite literally invited him to sleep in his room. Red's voice suddenly interrupted Silver's thinking, "So what should we do about these two once they awaken?"
"Oh, me and Gradient have a plan, but we'll need you and Pathfinder, so we'll get you once we're ready." Silver said, Red nodded then said, "Alright, but lets hope this doesn't take too long, I actually have become quite accustomed to seeing you" Silver couldn't help but blush as Red left, he followed soon after, in all truth he wanted to be around Red too.
