Justice League of the Archipelago

Chapter 17

This story take place in the past, in Spitfire's youth on the Blood Claw (for easier understanding see precedent chapter)

Spitfire's POV

...on a sunny morning, the day I met Warpath for the first time, as the only daughter of chief Gutsburner, he will gave his throne to my younger brother Brutus, I had no friends, everyone feared my dad and they only saw me as a lazy dragoness uncapable of anything on thi land, on the otherside of the forest, we have Dragonscale, the best hunter dock of all the Great Beyond but not so goot at aerial defense, we destroyed the town day after day and no dragon were hurt but it's not our story, I was a young and beautiful dragoness, all the male looked at me with lustful eyes but I know they only want the power, not me...and I know this part will be new for all of you but...I'm into girls, not boys...my father disapprove such behaviour but I don't care, I was never happy with a male but with females...it was gorgeous...anyway, this day, I had to go to the hunters camp, the one and only Great Huntress of my clan accept to help me on my training, Zafeera was her name, a beautiful blu dragoness with blue eyes, she was splendid, all the girls wanted to be like her when she grew up and i'm the first one on the list but when I found her, she told me that the chief want to speak with her, the training was canceled "okay...but I will do what now ?" "I promised, tommorow, we will do it !" "bye then ?"Zaffera was the only adult rady to help not because I'm the chief's daughter but because she likes me...I think. With that cancelled training, I had the all morning for me, I walked around the camp, at day, we lived outsied and at night, we all slept on a cave not far, the warriors watching outside for our safety. In each Fireball Frenzy clan, you have an order, the chief and his children are on top of the list, than, you'll see family close to him, hunter warrior and finally, the cast out, the Outsiders, the dragon banished from their clan, on my walk, I found a lonely dark green dragon with a sad look "eyh...hello there !" "leave me alone !" "hi leave me alone, I'm Spitfire !" "GET OUT !" Without any warning, he took off and go elsewhere, I don't know why but I followed him.

I found him on a secret cove, even I can't find it, I landed behind me and I heard "you're dumb or what ? I said get the fuck out, I want to be alone !" "you know...you can insult me, hit me or else, I'll continue to come and see you, what's your name ?" "I've got none, my parnets were not here when I was born !" "sorry...if I can do anything for you, you can..." "leave me alone, Idon't wnat to talk to ANY ONE !" "no !" "no ?" "I don't know how the others treat you but I'm not going anywhere, I have nothing to do and...and my father didn't care of where I could be or who I talk to !" We were at the same age, close to ten years for dragons and I know what kind of things await us in the near futur "My father will made soon his "adulthood challenge" don't know really the name, do you know what you will be ?" "I can't pass that, I'm not a Blood Claw !" "oh yes you are, my father told me which dragon are in this year and you are, we could train together and help one another ?" "you...you passed that too ?" "he  got a daughter before his son and dragoness can't rule the clan so, I must found a job for me, I wanted to be a Great Huntress, and you ?" "Warrior, I need to be useful for my people !" Why I don't realise at this time he had some problem, maybe he is right, I'm so naive. Anyway, we trained together until the D-Day.

When it was the challenge day, I saw Warpath came with a bad band of dragons, Bloodthirst, Vendetta, Rage and Obliteration, all futur warrior, one of them seems different, Pathfinder, he was with me on the hunt test, I was the last one to pass and I don't know , I failed, I trained so hard for taht, Zaffera was the judge and she said the most hurtful words I could hear "Spitfire, you will not and never be a Great Huntress, you have failed the test !" I got out and saw not far from the entry, Warpath and his gang, without Pathfinder "that's why girls can't rule the clan !" "good one Bloodthirst ! she even can't catch a sick rabbit !" "me me me ! what the difference between Spitfire and a rock ?" "dunno !" "both sucks at hunting !" I was nearly tearful, then I saw a red dragoness I knew so well before that day, Vendetta, my cousin "and one warrior added to the army, BOOYAH !" "yes sweety !" When I heard Warpath saying that and when he looked at me, I hoped he's gonna remember the promise we made from each other "if one of us failed, the other will be here !" Why I trust him, when I was at the bottom of the Hell, he pushed me and I felt on a mud puddle "you found your place anyway !" "what was that noise ?" "it's Zaffera, get out !" I was on ground, sobbing, all my life is ruined and my only friend betray me for this gang of assholes, I was so dumd to trust him "SPITFIRE ! are you okay ?" I didn't move, eyes closed, all these shit talk blocked on my mind, they finally right, even Pathfinder sucessed to be an hunter and I'm nothing. All of a sudden, a soft touch surprised me, I was covered in mud and I saw my mother with Zafeera, the sweet and gentle Kindness, the only one who loved me since I was born "what's goin on sweety, Zafeera told me some things but I can't understand athing, she was so panicked !" "MAMA !" I stood up and she hugged me, I had the worst day of my life, I cried for so long the tears made me suffer "come here." "if I can do anything for you my queen !" "Zafeera, let her be...I think she's suffer enought, thanks to you she is safe !" Zafeera left and I slept against my mother.

From this day, I never get out outside, I stayed in my room with my broken dreams and my misery but suddenly, one day, I heard a scream from my mother's room, she always took a nap during the day, I got out of mine and saw Warpath running, blood on his claw "he can't do that ?" My heart was pounding hard, I almost think it will gonna go out of my chest, I pushed teh door of my mother's bedroom and saw her dead, blood everywhere "MOM !" "what is it Spitfire ? " I was shivering, I pointed with a finger the room and my father saw the criem scene "did you see anything girl ?" "I...I saw the young dragon who laught at me at the test !" "Warpath, I know it will be dangerous this guy !" "Warpath ?" "yes, do you know what you have to do !" "fight him ? but I can't, I never learnt how to fight and he is a..." "think of that when you faced him and you will win, you have our blood on your veins, you will win, for your mother !" I shook my head and went outside, when I found Warpath, I only thought one thing, avnege my mother "you kill my mother you monster !" "a compliment, from a useless dragoness like you, I don't know how to feel ?" "how could you do that ? she was nice to us all ?" "don't you hear the poison your parent gave us, the humans will not harm us, we all lost a family member because of them, they must perish !" "why ? hunters kill your parents, you're playing the same game as them !" "the human race is destined to destroy their own world, we are the only one to stop them !" "NO ! I demand a trial by combat, if I win, you will be banished from the Blood Claw and all dragon clan all over the world, if I loose, I..." "I kill you gladly, useless reptile, I think you will scream like your despised mother !" I was so angry at him, I jumped on him, all teeth out and grabbed his neck on my mouth, theys broke throught the scales and I felt blood on my tongue, then, I turned him around and tossed him, the injury stopped the fight "as the rules are told, you will be healed before your banishement !" "not even a farewell ?" He coughed and the medi was alreday here for him, I never answer him, he was alreday dead to me.

But the nightmare is not done yet, when I was ready to come back home, i saw fire at the entry and hear some battlesound, scream and blood "dad !" I came upstairs and entered, I was so mad I knocked out every bad guy and enter to the "throne" room, I saw Warpath's gang ready to attack my father "it does it !" I charge them from behind and took them down, one by one, Pathfinder was captured by the guards "we saw this one trying to flee !" "you too Pathfinder ?" My father decided to banished them as well and the Guards took care of that, I was tired and sad, I lost my mother because of them, the only dragon on that clan who loves me "Spitfire, it is time I told you how Warpath came here !" "really ?" "my father was the chief as that time and I was at your place, we received a message from an other clan, the humans were ready to attack them but when we arrived, it was too lat, I found Warpath beside his dead mother, butchered by hunters, they broke all her eggs but didn't kill Warpath because he was hide, I decided to tok him with us but I never knew he had this hate for humans, your mother will be with us !" "what we have to do now dad ?" "we just hope Warpath and his gang will be dead soon, if they want to take revenge on you and you lost the fight, thay can do all the things tthey want to you, it's our rule !" I almost fainted how can we lived with this monster I know humans are not nice to the things they don't know or fear but it's not a reason to kill them all...the only good thing I took out from that day is I became a strong dragoness.

But when I was an adult, finally the Great Huntress I always wanted to be, my first, and last, mission as one was to get Zafeera free from the humans, I was with Brutus, my brother, we attacked, hidden, made the humans flee and Brutus broke the cage, but after Zafeera took off, some hunters captured my brother and I was unable to fire, my father took that really bad and decided to banish me, he marked me and when I was ready to go, I saw my brother comming to me "brother ?" "eyh Spit, you will not believe what happen, I was in the arean, ready to be butchered by a young human but he turned his weapon against the hunter and helped me escape !" "really ?" "yes, what with the long sad face ?" "father banished me for not helping you !" "what ! but I'm here ?" "it's too late, fare thee well brother !" "wait...if you can, found Amaury, it's the guy who saved me and thank him for that, I think you could great things with him." "I will !" Brutus hugged me, the first time he did that and I took off...you know the rest !

That was Spitfire's story, I hope you like it, I know there's some violence in it and I hope Warpath's case is much more clear now !