I could hear Shanti's shrieks and feel her attempts to pull us upwards. "Shanti!" I shouted in her ear, and her terrified eyes turned to me. "Do you trust me?"
"Not entirely!" Shanti's breaths rushed out of her, her eyes focusing back on the ground. I held her talons in a crushing grip as we free fell through the air. "I know what I'm doing, Shanti. You have to trust me, or this won't work!"
Actually, I didn't entirely know what I was doing. But by theory, it should work. I had read stories about Morphers, written by my mother, of course, and it had mentioned this as a training technique for young Morphers.
It hadn't said anything about passengers through. Especially screaming passengers that weren't FlashWings and disrupted your concentration with their wings flapping in your face.
I closed my eyes, forcing myself to breath deeply. We were accelerating by the minute, the air stinging my scales as we shot downward. "Moonsong..." Shanti breathed in my ear, and my eyes shot open. The SkyWings were staring up at us, their snarling faces growing closer by the second.
"Moonsong, you better not be planning to get back home through hell!" Shanti twisted in my grip, struggling to get her wings open. "Shanti you dimwitted...dragon! Shut up!" I barked at her, my eyes pinned on Crow, who watched us with a calm grin. I had the strangest feeling that he knew what I was saying. The guards were gathering, shooting upwards while holding a net between us that we were primed to smash into. "Now!" I shouted, flaring my wings, wrenching my shoulder in the process, but I caught just enough air to get us out of the way of the net. I shivered, feeling the familiar feeling of dissolving and numbness begin to take hold. "Moonsong, what's going on?" Shanti's talons started to slip from my grip, and I grabbed hold of her forelegs. "Relax!"
Shanti's eyes widened, and I could see Crow's dark shadow reflected in her eyes as he tackled us from behind, right as we disappeared, leaving only a pillar of smoke that quickly blew away in the wind.
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The Ghost Crown - FlashWing Chronicles
Fantasy**FlashWings are a closed tribe owned by me, aka LoveArdent (on deviantArt) **Cover created by MoonrisetheMage on deviantArt ------ Moonsong was born different. As the youngest, she was the heir to the FlashWing...
