Wings of Fire | The Half-Breed Tales

Chapter 7

The picture you see above is a picture that I (Leafspots) drew of Leopard ;)

Leopard opened her eyes. Warm, golden sunlight was pouring into the cave, and blinked. She wasn't used to having sunlight directly in her face. She sighed in annoyance, and got up. She looked around the cave. Everyone was gone except for Mango, who was still sleeping. Leopard didn't know where they had went—but one thing for sure. They wouldn't leave Mango behind, though Leopard wasn't so sure why, she found the RainWing to be pretty annoying.

She walked outside, and stretching out her wings. She yawned, looking up. She saw the faint silhouette of a dragon, hiding above the cave, in a tree, trying to camouflage, but failing pathetically at it. Who is that? Oh. It's just Quill. What in three moons is he doing up there?

"Quill," she called out, curiosity getting the better of her. "What are you doing up in that tree?"

Quill let out a small yelp, he turned to stare directly at her, his eyes were wide. "SHHH!" He hissed at her. "I'm trying to hide from Sobek. Crimson pushed him into the lake and this time he really wants to get everyone back."

Leopard's mouth quirked. What was that obnoxious SandWing going to do now? "Well," she said. "It's not like you did anything, right?"

Quill laughed nervously. "Well, you see, uh, I kinda encouraged Crimson and laughed at him when he fell in. But you should have seen his expression. He was not happy."

"I can imagine," Leopard said. "But that wasn't too smart on your part."

"Hey!" Quill protested, "You're my big sister, you're suppose to help me."

"I am," Leopard said matter-of-factly. "I'm telling you what a bad idea that was."

"Arrrg," Quill said, "I hate siblings."

"Already?" Leopard gasped, not offended at all. She honestly already had a whole list of pranks she was going to pull on Quill. "I'm so sorry to hear that. I thought things were going well. But I can't do everything for you. If the crazy SandWing gets out of hand, I will stop it, since apparently you're too scared to do anything for yourself."

Quill huffed. He mumbled something under his breath about Leopard, but he was cut off by Sobek's yell.

"WHEN I FIND YOU QUILL, I SWEAR I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! I HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN REVENGE ON CRIMSON!!!!" In the distance, Leopard could see a gray cloud of smoke, and a yellow dragon flapping madly through the clear blue sky.

"I better get Mango out of here. See ya, Quill!" She winked at him. Quill looked outraged. She knew she would never heard the end of it, but she was having too much fun right now to even care one bit.

"QUILL COME OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!" A fuming Sobek landed on the ground next to Leopard. "WHERE IS THAT LIZARD OF A SEAWING????" He bellowed. "PRINCE OR NOT, I WILL FIND HIM, AND PUSH HIM INTO A LAKE."

"Can't tell ya where he is. But he's a SeaWing," Leopard pointed out.

Sobek paused in his fuming to ponder this. "Well, I mean... I hate it when dragons make smart comments like that," He said in disgust.

Leopard grinned at him playfully. "I know just how to annoy you now."

Sobek stared at her in disbelief. "Why this, Leopard?! Just, why?"

Leopard shrugged. "Well, look over there. It's a SeaWing flying in the sky. You'd better go catch him—he might get away. Unlike the fish you supposedly caught."

Sobek gave her one last glare, and flew off towards Quill's retreating silhouette. Leopard walked back into the cave. She saw Mango, who was now pretending to sleep—Leopard could tell, she didn't know exactly how she knew, but she just did. She was good at this; but it didn't fool her for a second. Maybe that RainWing was smarter than she'd first thought.. "I know you aren't sleeping, Mango," Leopard said, sitting down next to her. Wait, why next to the crazy RainWing? Oh, I don't even know why anymore.