Fearia

Party

Holding a glass in my hand I scan the room watching the others dance with each other. I look down at my glass and swirl the red liquid in the glass. I glance up at the cloak and sigh. It's only ten o'clock and I'm bored as heck. I lean against the wall and continue watching the couples dance. I take a deep breath and start walking to the snack bar.

I go and grab a plate full of veggies and fancy food. I walk back to my spot against the wall and chew on a carrot. I glance and spot Ansel and Quinn dancing. She was wearing a pretty pink dress with a laced shoulders. I look down at my ember blue green dress. Lucien picked it out for me. The dress closely resembles the young dragons scale color.

I look back up and loose sight of the couple. I sigh and go back to eating my food. I glance up and see the Captain walking towards me. "What is a beautiful young women doing here standing alone." I shrug my shoulders "I'm not a big partying type of person." I say flashing him a small smile. He returns the smile and holds out a hand. "Well would you do me the honor of dancing?" I smile and nod taking his hand. He leads me out to the dance floor.

We slowly sway to the music "happy birthday by the way" I say trying to fill in the awkward silence. "Thank you Ness." He says spinning me "how old are you now?" I ask. He chuckles "I turned twenty one." He smiles at me. "How old are you?" He asks raising an eyebrow. "I'll be turning eighteen in about two months." I say as he spins me again. The music stops and he releases my hand.

"Thank you for the dance." He says kissing my hand. I smile and nod, I watch him as he makes his way through the crowd. I return to the spot and continue munching on the food. I breath in as I spot Quinn. He was looking at me I returned the glance and he smirks and starts walking toward me.

"Hey Ness." He says leaning against the wall next to me. I give him a small nod looking down at my plate. "I didn't tell Ansel about the incident earlier this morning." I give a sigh of relief "are you gonna?" He looks at me and gives a small smile. "Nah she doesn't need to know." I smile back and glance back at the crowd.

"Well I think I'm gonna call it a night. I have to get up early for my new position anyway." I say as I start walking away. "Ok see ya tomorrow." He calls as I walk away. I slowly walk across the bridge and into my small little hut. I change into my sleeping clothes and jump into bed. I breath in taking in the smell of wood and the sound of crickets. I close my eyes and silently fall into a deep dark sleep.

The next morning I get up and pull on my trousers and top. I walk out and down into the counsel chambers. Once I reached the doors the guards opened them and told me to go in. Roland and few others were sitting in chairs having a small conversation. I walk up to them and sit next to a blond boy named Jake. He gives me a smile and continues talking to Roland.

"Will the young Sparrow even show up?" An old man says folding his arms over his chest. Roland shrugs "we can't start without her so hopefully she does." Everyone talks for about five more minutes when a young girl runs in she was short with blond streaked brown hair. Her eyes where blue and she was covered in smoke and dirt she was wearing a black and white corset with black leather trousers.

"Sorry I'm late everyone, a troll decided to call my Dragon a coward." She says smiling while rubbing the back of her head. "When are you going to learn to control that dragon of yours."the old man says almost yelling. "Hey it's not my fault that Red wanted to rip his head off." She says holding her hands up. The old man gives a huff of frustration and looks at Roland.

"Well at least you made it back in one piece, and that I am grateful." Roland says nodding to the girl. Everyone went quite and listened to what Roland had to say. "Now, who here has seen a man or woman without a Shira?" I slowly raise my hand and look around at the others. Roland smiles "was it an adult?"
"Yes"
"Describe him."
"I don't know...... He looked sad, like half of him was missing. He stood there as if his mind was somewhere else and his body was trapped in this world." Roland slowly nods "Shira's are a life line to sanity. So I want to ask you, do you think you can survive without one?" Everyone shakes their heads side to side. "It's an obvious answer, no one can survive without their other half." Jake says as he shrugs his shoulders.

Everyone nods their heads agreeing until a chuckle comes from the end of the table. Sparrow was laughing, hitting the table over and over again. "You guys don't think you can survive?" Sparrow says as she hits the table once more. Everyone shakes their head "maybe someone can survive without one but they will be in depression, loss of human instinct. They become like animals." Jake says.

Sparrow smiles mischievously "well I survived." There was a moment of silence when the old man stood up all of a sudden "abomination" he spat to her. She stands up quickly and reaches for her sword. "Now now everyone just calm down." Roland says standing as well. "We all have differences and we all have different opinions just don't kill each other please." Roland says slowly sitting down.

Sparrow and the old man slowly sit down as well once she sheathed her blade. "Now the point of this conversation is that we have proof here that people without Shira's are not just mindless walking corpses. Anyways the patrol dragons have spotted a few Kin gathering some people that don't have Shira's." He pauses "what should we name these?" He says putting his hand to his head as if he had a migraine.

"The lost" sparrow says looking him dead in the eye. He shrugs "ok, the lost have been gathered and put into cages for reasons we don't know. I'm splitting you lot up into groups to go there ad rescue the Lost." Everyone nods as Roland pulls out a piece of paper "Taya, Pete, Josh, and Pepper, you guys will be squad A." Roland says "just go to that corner." He says as he points to the right corner of the room.

"Ness, Jake, Will and Sparrow will be squad B. Go to that corner." We all stand up and walk to the left corner of the room. "Now you all leave at once." He says nodding. Everyone turns to leave except Sparrow. I walk out with the others but stay by the door to listen on their conversation. "Why was I left to babysit the nubes?"

"Because they will need you guidance and experience to get through this mission."

"You could have chose Josh or Taya, someone that will actually enjoy being slow."

"Listen, I don't care how you treat them as long as you aren't killing them. Threaten them tell them if they don't keep up then they get left behind."

I hear a growl and then footsteps coming my way. I hurry and step away from the door. When Sparrow comes out. She glares up at me and starts walking towards the dragons cave. We reach the cave "when you said you survived what did that mean." I said trying to break the silence that encrusted our group.

"It means that I was a Lost one, but that is a story for another time." She says as she whistles. Nothing happened and she yelled "Red! Get you ugly butt up here!" She yells her voice echoing off of the walls of the cave. "Who you callin ugly!" I hear a voice say beneath the shadows of the pit. "Are you deaf or are you just stupid." She yells at the voice.

There was a fierce roar when a bright scarlet red dragon comes flying up from the depths below. She raises her head high and stares deep into Sparrows eyes. Steam rises from the beasts nostrils as she releases the most feared roar in all the land.