Dragonvale Story

Chapter 9: The Fire Element

Sapling drags the bag towards Isabella who sat there, staring off in the distance.
*dragon questioning noise*
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine Sapling. Now let's see how much we got in here." Isabella states as she takes the coins out. Sapling takes the coins from one pile to start another one while Isabella counts then aloud.
"Twelve-five, Twelve-six, Twelve-seven, Twelve-eight," Isabella counted. Sapling just shoved the counted coins back into the bag once they were counted by Isabella.
"Twelve-twenty!" Isabella cried as she clapped her hands together. Sapling cheered slightly to celebrate. Isabella smiled and pats their head.
"I should be worrying about food now. All of the few Dragon Snaps have been eaten and now I have to skip breakfast or dinner just to spare some of it for the next day." Isabella spoke out loud as she looks towards the sky. Sapling tilts their head but listens as Isabella continued.
"Y'know Sapling, I'm glad you saved me from him. I wouldn't know what I would've done if I was in the hands of that guy." Isabella comments as she palms herself,"Nevermind. Anyways, let's get started with these 'chores'."
Sapling agreed happily as they walked towards the structure of what seems like a dragon nursery. Isabella began laying out the blue prints of the building and points out to what they'll be working on for the day. "We'll need some straw here and some of those stones over there." Isabella explains as she points out at the model. 'This is the model for a dragon nursery. It still needs some....' Isabella read as she scans through the words. Straw was then thrown at the blue print as Isabella averted her eyes to Sapling, who was carrying straw in her claws. "Alright, let's get to it!" Isabella cheers as she and Sapling laid the straw to the side of the next pillar. Pushing boulders together, creating a base and  sticking them together. When the sun was setting, Isabella sat down, laying her back against the stone pillar that stood up straight. Isabella sighs as her eyes starts to droop. Yawning, Isabella stretches and began to stumble back to the farmhouse. Sapling, who was smoothing out the straw on the top flew down and perched upon Isabella's shoulder. Sleepily, Isabella gently nudged Sapling off her shoulders but the little dragon stayed put upon her. "Y...you win this... round girl..."Isabella yawned as she walks into the room,"I'll... g..get you later..." Soon enough, both of them fell into slumber as the moonlight dimly shines upon the wooden walls of their shelter. Holding Sapling in her arms, Isabella smiles and lays her head against Sapling's soft feathers. Once the dawn light reached Isabella, she sits up and rubs her eyes awake. "Another day with something new to do." Isabella chimes as she walks out of the room. Before long, Sapling comes whizzing out of the doorway and flies around Isabella. "Yeah yeah, here ya go." Isabella spoke as she hands Sapling a few Dragon snaps. Sapling happily gulps them down as she sat on Isabella's shoulder. "C'mon, we need to complete this." Isabella says and walks towards the pillars. Suddenly, a small, shadowy figure flew overhead of the two and landed a few feet away. Sapling flies down to the ground and starts to speak to the dragon.
~Dragon Translator on~
"What are you doing back here?"
*What's wrong with just me just stopping by?*
"That isn't the point I was trying to make."
*But it was the point that I gave.*
"Just get outta here. We have some work to do."
*Yeah yeah, you guys just fool around picking up sticks and stones, creating pointless structures.*
"We have our reasons."
*Yup, stupid ones if you ask me.*
"grumbles"
~Dragon Translator off~
Sapling scoffs at the dragon and catches up with Isabella, who, is reviewing the blueprints. "Don't tell me.... ugh. Yup, I knew it wasn't suppose to be there," Isabella mumbles to herself as she compares the structure and blue prints to eachother. Isabella knocks herself on the head but stops as she spots Sapling flying near. "So, is it gonna leave any time soon?" Isabella asks the dragon who shakes her head. "I see... well tell it that it can stay if it wants to."
Not that I want it to because it's kinda freaking me out.
Sapling nods and starts picking up the straw and making the nest. While doing that, she happens to glance at one of the finished nest on the towers and notices that something is in the nest. Sighing, Sapling flew up to check it out and to her dismay, laying on the nest was the dragon.
~Dragon Translator on~
"Get out."
*........*
"Didn't you hear me? I said GET OUT!"
*.........*
"Please?"
*......you're pathetic.*
"Excuse me? I'm not the one whose lying around doing nothing."
*Well you are standing around and doing nothing.*
"• • •"
*Exactly my point.*
"I don't have time for this!"
*Then leaf.*
". . . Just. Go."
*Make me. You're just arguing and not even using force. Like I said, Pathetic*
". . . . . . . . "
~Dragon Translator off~
Sapling just lands on the ground and continues with the nest building. Looking at her progress, she smiles and flies to go grab more materials. "Sapling! I need your help for a minute!" Isabella shouts, waving to get Sapling's attention. Sapling glides over and looks to where Isabella is pointing. Over at the top of their temporary house, is a shimmering, pink stone. Shining because of the sunlight, Isabella tells Sapling to grab it for her. "Thanks a lot Sapling!" Isabella said as she watches Sapling fly over to the rooftop before focusing back on stacking the stones on top of eachother. Sapling grabs the stone gently in it's mouth before returning to Isabella's side.
*What a weird duo, collecting and building pointless things without a reason*
"Nice work Sapling. I knew that would be easy for you." Isabella compliments as she pets Sapling's head. Sapling happily chirps a small, short dragon cry and perches on Isabella's shoulder. Isabella only then notices that thr dragon was watching them,"Hey dragon! Wanna join us? You don't have to be lonely anymore."
Please? Because I don't want the feeling of your piercing gaze whenever I realise you're here.
The dragon only then ignores her and fly off. Sapling pouts in annoyance while Isabella laughs it off. "Time to take a break. You can work if you want, I'm just gonna stay here, under the tree." Isabella explains to Sapling as she laid down.
Am I ever gonna be able to be a wizard if I continue this way? Only having one dragon so far, it's kinda disappointing since I want to gather them all.
Isabella thought as she drifts off into slumber.