The Unfading Ones - Breath of Fire

I.1 Signs and Portents, Part 1

Part 1

It is midday now, Cray and Nina still moving through the desert toward Synesta. The place where they are now called The Great Desert, on the west side of Eastern Continent. It was so wide that it is impossible to move around it without using a Sandflier. Being in the middle of the desert and the sun right above, the heat is getting unbearable.

"Whew! It's hot out here!" Nina groans.

Then she quickly flustered and remembered that she already promised herself to not making Cray worried. Cray also looked concerned. This young girl is Nina. She is from Wyndia, a kingdom of winged people that settled on mountains on east side of Eastern Continent.

"Oh...Don't worry, Cray--I'm all right!"

"I was just thinking that it's probably better if we don't move around during the day...Let's find some shade and wait until the sun goes down."

And this muscular man who controlling the sandflier is Cray. He is from Worent, a tribe of tiger people that reside on plains, which also from east side of Eastern Continent

"Really, I'm all right, Cray. Besides, I want to find my sister as soon as possible!"

"Calm down...We've come this far... It won't hurt to rest for a while--not much of a change if we get there today or tomorrow..."

Cray tried to ease Nina's feeling. He know she really want to find Elina as much as he is, but he also doesn't want her to force herself. He doesn't want her to think her slowing him down in this journey.

"Hm?" Cray noticed something.

"Nina, can you feel it? The ground shaking"

"It just the engine vibration, right?"

His ears seems twitched. Suddenly a roar sound heard and once again the ground shaking with more force.

"What the...!?"

"W-what happened, Brother? It's definitely not from our sandflier, right?"

"No there is something nearby..." he paused then "it moving toward us!"

Boom!

An eruption of sand occurred near right side of our moving sandflier. Cray quickly dodge the eruption by maneuvering to left. Sand scattered to them, but doesn't pose a problem. What emerged from sand is leaping above them. They can't see it clearly up there because shadow from the sun, but it is really big.

"Hold on to something!" Cray shouted.

As it crash on the sand, they feel tremor. There are something there, something amazing. A [Dragon] is gliding over the sand still moving to west like our first direction. It was huge, about 10 times of our sandflier.

"A Dragon!?" Cray said as he surprised. "I'd heard there was a Dragon in the desert, but I was hoping we wouldn't be lucky enough to find it!"

"Will it attack us?"

"I don't know, but if something that big hit us, we're finished!"

"We should get out of its path, brother"

Suddenly, the Dragon dive into sand, and then leaped once again toward them from behind.

"Damn it!" Cray panicked. "No use! It's going to ram us!"

"WAAAAAH!" Both Nina and Cray shouted

Boom! The Dragon rams their Sandflier from behind. They are thrown quite far, and sand scattered everywhere. That's the end of their journey. Or that what it seems. They are survived the crash and the sandflier appears to be submerged into the sand.