Wings of Peace

Chapter 2: Flying

Jay woke Storm up the next morning and brought her to the forest where they started with flying.

"Now Storm if you want to win this competition, you need to boost your speed and your endurance."Storm stared at Jay, why is he telling me that I need to boost my speed? I am already fast enough? "Storm open your winds and act like you are to take off."

She nodded and opened her wings, crouching down to be ready to leap into the air. She taught herself to fly because Blue thought you would do things better if you taught yourself.

Jay shook his head,"you are positioned wrong if that is how you take off from the ground, then you would have a hard time flying to Phyrria or the flying the race."He grabbed her wings and angled them slightly upwards, then went to her crotch."Storm don't lean on your front legs to much and get your back legs under you to get more of a lift."

As he moved around her moving her legs, head and tail, wing beats sounded overhead,"Jay are we not seeing the other challenges?"

Jay nodded then came infront of her,"now try to take off, see how much easier it is."He also got in the same stance she was in.

Storm nodded then took to the sky, noticing how much easier it was to take off. Wow Jay is a amazing teacher. She looked at him, armor still on and shining in the sun. Then he looked at her grinning and her heart fluttered, no, no Storm do not fall for him or get attached to him, it will just end like with Blue.

As they flew around the island Jay made her go faster then they started racing each other and soon Storm grew tired and it was harder to go as fast as Jay,"Jay.....wait.....up,"she said through gasps trying to catch up.

Jay turned back to her,"I told you, you needed to boost your endurance. We can rest here."He gestured to the south beach of the island.

"Okay,"she landed on the beach and laid down, grateful for the rest.

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Once Storm got back she went to her scroll rack and grabbed her favorite scroll. It was about a tribe that could turn into scavengers and back into dragons. Getting onto her bed she laid down and started to read.

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Storm woke the next morning, scroll on her bed and she was.....on the floor? Getting up she stuck her head out of the window feeling the wind. She climbed onto the window sill then jumped out, freefalling and opening her wings at the last moment. Gliding above the trees, she ran into a dragon. Both of them tumbled out of the sky and crashed into the forest below.

While Storm was caught by something, the other dragon fell to the ground with a thud. She looked around and noticed she had been caught by a tree Storm tried to move out of the tree, but ended up losing her secure position and falling through more branches.

It was then that she looked to the ground and saw the weird looking RainWing, "sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention."

Storm smiled trying to look friendly, instead the dragon screamed,"AHHH! SeaWing!"And attempted to get up, only to fall back down with a cry of pain.

"You okay?"Storm called down, attempting once again to get out of the tree. While she was trying to get out the dragon screamed again and tried to run away, again."Stop! I can help--" She got cut off thanks to leaning out.

When she landed next to the dragon, she screamed again, but this time smacked Storm and tried to fly away.

"Wait, I can help you, and I won't hurt you."Storm reached out a talon, only to have it bitten."Hey, I am trying to help!"