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Skandar 7.1

This isn't edited cuz there's too much going on. Enjoy! 

Chapter 7

Garrett learned two things in the next few days. One Hatchlings weren't allowed into Fourpoint yet. Two, Ausha was both adamant the quartet should stay together, and mad that the two boys disappeared.

The four were on their way to the unicorn care lesson, their first (not) lesson at the Eyrie. According to the Preds, it wasn't an official lesson that was tomorrow. The lesson tomorrow couldn't be harder than this.

Garrett strained on the leash, "Come on, Cerulean!" The stubborn unicorn still pulled on the lead, the very same the hatchlings used on their first night on the Island.

"Oh is someone having unicor-,"

"Amber, I'm not in the mood." Garrett cut off the girl, "shut up, will you."

Amber's eyes widened, narrowed and she looked around. Anger marred the bully's features, a sickly sweet smile replacing it. "Aww! He's not in the mood. Does the mainlander need to be coddled by Mommy and Daddy?"

Garrett sucked in a breath, fist clenching and anger welling. Garrett swallowed it down, tugging Cerulean again. The unicorn's eyes rolled black and red, fixing the girl with a disturbingly blank stare. Ashish flinched.

"Aww! Ashish clearly still does!" Amber laughed, drawing breath to continue speaking. Her friends glanced at each other, laughing nervously. Lightning crackled before the Air wielder could continue, a flash of light smashing into the tree beyond her. A head of curly hair flew at the girl.

Ausha slapped the girl, sitting on her stomach, "You little bit-!"

"HEY!" Garrett yelled, Noah moving to help his friend. Garrett clutched the girl from where she attacked the bully, but the twin was much stronger than Garrett thought.

"GET OFF ME!" Amber screamed, trying to block the rapid hits.

"What, pray tell, is going on here?" An instructor landed, her hand on her reign crackled with electricity, her air pin put her as the Air instructor. Her unicorn screeched. With a glow of green in her hatchery wound, earth separated the two girls. "What happened," The Instructor turned to Garrett and Noah.

"She attacked me! My mother will not stand for this!" Amber burst out, Garrett and Noah held Ausha back before she could lunge at the girl.

"YOU-" Ausha roared.

"I- I'm not sure!" Garrett strained against the furious girl.

"Ambar, continue to your class," the air instructor waited until the gaggle of girls left, "As far as I was aware this was not a play. Unless someone wants to inform me differently?" A crowd dispersed, riding out on their unicorns or running with a cacophony of ropes and wood clattering above them.

"Ausha," The Instructor sighed, "Come with me. You two, find Ashish, and head to your class."

The two boys turned and wandered in the opposite direction, eager to get away from whatever had just happened. They walked in silence, the crunching of dry leaves and dull thud of shoes against dirt.

"Do you know where we should go?" Noah asked.

"Nope."

"This is gonna be an eventful year."

"Yup."

Ashish sat under a tree, it had stairs leading around it and plaques with names in them, but bare spots littered spaces between it. Garrett swallowed his curiosity. Noah stepped forward, glancing back as Garrett lingered.

Garrett shooed him forward and stepped back. Noah rolled his eyes.

"Ashish?" The blond asked, inching forward. Garrett followed behind Noah and eyed the plaques. Noah sat beside Ashish. His eyes darted to Garrett, who was entranced by the plaques hammered into the tree. Noah rested his hands and head on his knees leaning his head to look at Ashish. "Want to talk about it?"

Garrett read the plaques, 'names' he realized. The ones this far down were faded enough that Garrett couldn't actually read them but for a few letters. Looking up he saw a ladder that wound around the giant trunk and up the tree more continued in some weird memorial. There were many missing even just at Garrett's height.

"No," Ashish murmured. His hands clenched on his knees and breathing heavily.

Noah continued sitting but after a few minutes he got up. "I assume we don't want to be late."

Garrett started hopping, pride, love and excitement welled up in him warring for attention. Pride because he has a unicorn, love because she's his, excitement more than anything rose up because while this wasn't an official lesson it was one step closer to having the real one tomorrow!

Garrett was gonna learn to summon magic!

"Do you always hop?" Ashish asked once the boys had started moving back. Now Garrett wasn't actually hopping forward, he was hopping one foot to another and while he jumped he moved forward the same distance he would while walking.

"Not always. Just sometimes."

"Why?" Ashish asked, "you look like a kangaroo."

Garrett huffed, he was much more dignified than a kangaroo! And when he said as much Noah reminded him that wasn't the question.

Traitor.

"When I was little I had so much energy that my parents made me jump in place so much it became habit." Garrett mumbled.

"Really?" Ashish turned his head, eyes blown wide.

Garrett kicked a stone mid-hop. "Yep," he grumbled, face and neck burning.

"And you still do it," Ashish's eyes sparked with laughter.

Garrett's ears flushed red, "habit."

"Well, on more important matters, anyone know where the unicorns are?" Noah asked. And the three look around and realized that their unicorns had slipped away.

The three groaned.

It was nightfall when the three found their unicorns and had dragged the unicorns to the stables only Ausha was still there rubbing... her unicorn with the brush. Most stalls had a saddle hanging on the outside of the metal and candles lit the space. Like before the smell of blood assaulted Garrett's senses.

The girl looked at them and her eyes fell on Ashish. "Hey." Ausha returned to rubbing her unicorn.

"Hi," Ashish replied, leading... his unicorn to their stable. He leaned on Ausha's and Molten Ash's stable door, moving when the unicorn turned to glare at him. "We missed it?"

"By a while, I figured I should wait here when you guys weren't at the treehouse." Ausha leaned on Molten Ash. The unicorn moved her wing to avoid uncomfortable weight on the thin bone.

Cerulean growled at Garrett and yanked the boy with her to head to her trough. Garrett was thankful for the distraction.

"Well, I could figure it out." Noah offered, "My family has horses."

Ausha motioned to a shelf at the end of the hall. Three saddle sets lined the wall, Noah headed over. Noah looked back at the Unicorns and grabbed the saddle.

"Alright! Ausha tops yours! I call dibs on the green one." Noah huffed as he stumbled over to the rest of the quartet.

"If we're calling dibs I call the water one." Garrett held his hand up.

He was met with three pairs of stares.

"What? If there's a green one then it stands to reason that earth and there's a blue one for water." Garrett shrugged.

"Is he right?" Noah asked, head poking out from behind the saddles.

Ausha shrugged, "probably. They do like to split things by element."

"Nope." Ashish said at the same time. Taking the yellow saddle with a smug grin.

Garrett had choice words for him.