Squeal, Shriek, Yell & Pop

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        *~*~*~* Barnacle *~*~*~*
         "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH OOOHHH MMMMYYYY MMMOOOONNNS! WWWWHHHAAAATT IIIINNN PPPYYYHHHHRRRIIAAAA!!" Barnacle screamed. Shade fell over, and Parakeet had her mouth open and was frozen with a shocked face. She felt a slight push at her bottom , and was about to whip her tail at whoever touched her, but she no longer had a tail.  Oh my moons what am I ! Barnacle thought. Her scales were gone and now she was covered in tan skin. She had no wings, tail, scales, and she didn't even have the same face! She put her hands on her head and felt no horns either , instead she had curly brown hair down to her neck. And covering her oddly shaped body was a scale-ish blue jumpsuit. She turned around to look at the others and saw Squeal the scavenger looking at her moony eyed. He's sorta cute for a scavenger. Barnacle thought, then remembered that she was also a scavenger. " I saw you change into a scavenger." Squeal said softly. Barnacle jumped. " Yyou can talk?!" Barnacle asked. " Of course! You can talk and so can I. It happened to me too you know." Squeal said. Barnacle was very confused, and usually she was the one who knew everything. " What do you mean ' it happened to you too'?" Barnacle asked Squeal. Squeal answered her with," The Mango Trick . Hamada will tell you that the mango makes you able to talk to scavengers, but really it permanently turns you into one. Then he keeps you as a pet, eats you, or sells you." Squeal said shivering. Barnacle shook violently. Was that evil SandWing going to eat her or her friends. Squeal continued," I was lucky and got to be his pet, while my sister..... She got eaten." Squeal hunched over, and Barnacle saw a tear fall from his blue eye. " Do you know what will happen to me and my friends?" Barnacle asked, stumbling over to Squeal. " Hmm... Well the muscly one with black hair will probably be eaten, the one with the blond ponytail with feathers, might be sold. And you... Hopefully will stay here with me." As he said each of the descriptions he had a different expression. When he talked about ShadeClaw he looked a little jealous, when he talked about Parakeet he sounded like he didn't care. When he talked about Barnacle, he blushed and inched a little closer to her. " What is your name?" He asked shyly. Barnacle started to speak," I'm Barnacle, that is Shadeclaw, and that is Parakeet." Squeal smiled as she said her name." Hiya Barnacle, I'm Algae. And ddo yyou lllike the NnightWwing at all?" Algae stuttered quietly, and blushed a lot. Barnacle felt her stomach grow hot and her palms get all sweaty when he talked.  " Nope. Shade is in love with Parakeet anyway." Barnacle said casually, and heard Algae give a deep breath of relief. " Hey! Barnacle!" Shade said , embarrassed . Shade and Parakeet had turned the same pink that she and Algae had .
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       Shade was pretty tall for a scavenger, and was sorta muscly, he was the palest of them all, and he had black hair covering his eyes. Parakeet was a little tan, medium sized and had her blond hair in a ponytail with a few feathers coming out of it. They both had scale-ish clothes covering them. Barnacle had the darkest skin, which was a light brown, and she realized she couldn't see as well. Algae had olive colored skin and a mop of slightly curly golden hair he had a blue scale jumpsuit like Barnacle.
    " Stop picking at your jumpsuit Shade! If you take it off then one: we don't want to see your scavenger parts, and two: if you take your scales off all you will have left is your insides, and I doubt you want to be a pile of guts. " Algae said.  Shade blushed, and no one ever saw him pick at his jumpsuit again.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Barnacle asked. Algae shook his head. " There is no way. We'll be trapped here forever. Unless Hamada sells, or eats us. He usually never even goes into here, and neither do his friends." Algae sighed. " It's hopeless."
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          ------ 2 days later-----
   The group slept peacefully, we'll sort of.  Barnacle was snoring like a truck engine, and Shade was thrashing around like he was a wild pig about to be eaten. Parakeet had pretty much hung herself from the top of the cage and was drooling all over the place, and Algae took up half of the cage since he spread out his limbs in a starfish position. 
    " Come over here Porcupine , do you want  Shriek, or Pop? Or did you want Squeal or Yell?" Hamada's voice rang out . In walked Porcupine, a rather slim looking MudWing, who wore a couple of leafy necklaces.  " Hmm... I'll take Squeal and Pop, I could breed them and give my daughter a baby scavenger!" Porcupine exclaimed happily. " Okay, I'll wake 'em up. WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" Hamada yelled. "What In Pyhrria?!" Barnacle screeched. Parakeet fell and landed on one of Shade's legs and one of Alagae's arms.  Alagae hit his head on a bar , and all of them started shrieking stuff like: oh my moons and  what in Pyhrria? And If you don't shut up I'll stuff a kumquat up your throat. All the while Hamada was laughing at them. Hamada and Porcupine only heard: REEETREAAAOPIUSCAWSCAWSHOOTIIIWWEERRRLLLHH!!!
Hamada put a kiwi in his mouth and sucked on it. " You Squeal and Pop, are going with Porcupine so you can mate then give her a baby scavenger for her dragonet. Got it. Good." Hamada said to red faced Algae and Barnacle. We have to mate? Barnacle mouthed to Algae. They both looked like the sun: burning hot and red. Hamada tugged them out of the cage and handed them to Porcupine, and took the kiwi out of his mouth. " If you want you can buy a kiwi to talk to your scavengers. And don't forget, you owe me . And you know what I want..." Hamada said.
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      Porcupine is horrible. On the way to her den she would often snort and whack Barnacle with her tail, complaining that scavengers are very slow. What an oafish dragon, Barnacle thought. They were long gone from Scorpion Den and Parakeet and ShadeClaw were still with Hamada. What if Hamada ate Shade like Algae guessed he would! What would happen to them.? How would they ever get away from the dragon? And what would Porcupine make them do? It's true, it's hopeless just like Algae said. Barnacle thought.
"HEY!" Barnacle shouted as Porcupine whipped her tail again, this time knocking Barnacle over. This was going to be a very long day. " Hey, Algae do you think we'll be able to outrun her?" Barnacle asked desperately. Algae shook his head and said, " Nope. Remember she can fly, and we can't . Although once we get to her home there will be two many dragons and either we'll be eaten or caught immediately. " Barnacle's face dropped into a frown.
They were nearing some mountains in between Jade Mountain and The Claws of the Clouds Mountains. Porcupine gave a snort then picked up Barnacle and Algae. She started to fly fast getting higher and higher over the peaks of the mountains. Soon Barnacle was having trouble breathing, and she could hear Algae wheezing too. She started to jump on Porcupine's back, Algae did the same. Soon Porcupine was thrashing around, banging her wings into mountains. She reached a claw back to stop them and everyone was screeching . Porcupine made a swift movement with her claw and whipped Barnacle right off her back. " NNNNNOOOOO!!! BARNACLE !! " Algae was screaming. He started to bash Porcupine and managed to kick her in the eye. " AAARRRRROOOO," Porcupine screamed. She started falling at record speeds and had no control what so ever.
     Meanwhile Barnacle was free falling unconscious although she could here Algae screaming. It was like she was a ghost, she could hear everything but she couldn't feel or see anything. A loud bang sounded over the mountains. Porcupine lay dead on the side of a mountain, and Barnacle smashed into a cliff. Algae was screaming is head off now, but to any dragon it was the sound of distant squeaks.

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