Amethyst is a nine year old female, RainWing. Everything's good but there's just two minor problems. 1. She's an animus, a dragon capable of magical powers 2. She's a criminal.
What if there was more to the story than that? What if there was someth...
I drop five of my coins on the counter. The dragon who runs the place, a female SkyWing, takes the coins and gives me a drink.
"We don't get many RainWings here." She said.
"Yeah, I see." I say.
"Hey." Someone whispered into my ear.
"Wha-ahh! ugh!" I fall off of the stool I was sitting on in surprise. "Hey! How 'bout a warning before do that and have your guts spilled on the floor." I say to the mystery dragon.
I look up at the dragon and it was the strange tribrid that I saw before.
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A/n I hate physical descriptions so pictures it is.
"Well not if my arrow finds your heart first." The tribrid said. "Anyway I heard through a certain grape vine that you were trying to hide from someone? Is that right?"
"You're a stalker." I say as a get up from the floor. The hybrid looked at me unfazed by my comment.
"No I would like to think that I'm observing not stalking you. Like protection" The tribrid said examining her claws.
"I don't need any protection." I said.
"But then again I did say that I could help you not that I would."
"Fine, what is it?" I ask. "I mean the thing you were talking about?"
"Its a mask." The tribrid said.
"A mask. You're joking." I say.
"Why would I be joking?"
"It's....just you seem like the kind of dragon that would try and scam me."
"Hmmmm....Yes that could be possible but believe me on this." The tribrid said.
"But, how can I trust you when I know nothing about you, not even your name."
"Ok now lets start with that, my name is Rune." The hybrid said.
"Amethyst. " I say.
* * *
I guess it's about one in the morning when Rune and I get the supposed "site of the ruins". The ruins are suppose to be an old vault to keep away anything inherently "too powerful for this world". Well I think I'm willing to take that chance.
We get to the ruins and there's another dragon already there. This one look like a SandWing. Great. I think, Another dragon I need to speak to. Another dragon that might turn me in.
The SandWing waves his arms to get Rune's attention. Then I realize that this dragon might be as peculiar as Rune is. He has strange marks on his arms and his frill is black.
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"Hey! Rune get over here." The SandWing yelled.
"Hold your horses, Cipher we're getting there." Rune yelled back.
It takes two minutes to meet up with Cipher. All three of us stand on top of a mound of dirt.
"So you're the famous trouble hunter that wants this mask." Cipher says to me.
I'm pretty sure he meant that as a joke but I sure as hell didn't think of it like that. "I wouldn't say that I look for trouble." I say nervously.
"Anyway what I found about this place is really interesting-" Cipher was interrupted by Rune.
"Just tell us if there's any traps: normal or otherwise." She said.
"No, Just a lot of puzzles maybe even spells depending on how old it is and who created it." He said looking a little bit sad.
"Wait." I said putting the pieces together, "You're not going into the ruin?"
"That right I'm just a decipher of old runes not a ruin explorer. I learn my lesson years ago."
"But, That's not gonna stop us from getting that mask." Rune said stepping in between Cipher and me.
"Right." I say, "Ok let's do it." I drop down to the entrance of the ruin.
