The Hue of Dawn

Chapter-8 Rising Black

Deathbringer desperately scanned the trees in front of him, searching for his lost daughter.

"AURORA!"

His voice was pleading for her to come back. To be safe with her family.

His fear outgrew his sense of rationality, and he couldn't help but call out again, "AURORA! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Glory came up behind him, completely out of breath she said, "I...swear," she gasped, "one of these days," she paused again for air, "you and the dragonets are going to...agh. Never mind."

Deathbringer turned around to help his queen steady herself. Unlike her, he was completely fine and could run for another hour at his max speed.

"Glory, you're going to have to stay here."

She looked at him baffled.

"Are you out of your mind? My daughter is out there, by herself, lost! I'm not staying here doing nothing," she stopped briefly to inhale more air, "even if it means that I'll pass out from exhaustion," she declared with the voice she used when being a strict queen.

Deathbringer sighed and gave her the cutest look he could give her, a technique that he had learned from Hunter.

"Please?"

Glory sat down and gave in, "Fine. But don't pull that look on me again. It's worse than your smug face."

The Nightwing kissed her briefly and set out by himself, but then he looked back and he suddenly felt stupid.

Glory was nowhere to be seen. The place where she had last been was empty, and the trees around them showed no movement.

"Oh...come on!"

Idiot, since when does Glory give in with a look? Now that I remember, she only gave in to Hunter when he did what she wanted him to do first. Ugh, idiot!

Now I have to find two dragons. Great, just great.

Deathbringer kept walking forward and simply hoped to be able to find some kind of tracks Aurora could have left behind.

He missed her so much. Even if she had only been missing for fifteen minutes.
His family was his whole world. Before Glory, Deathbringer had just been a dragon roaming around the world with nothing to do but kill. And his sense of purpose had gone even lower after his mother's death. Every single day he thought about how his life would have been without meeting the Dragonets of Destiny. How all the hardships and suffering led up to this moment.

Aurora...

Tears began to form in his eyes as the thought of never seeing his precious daughter again crossed his mind.

No, I have to find her. I have to.

Deathbringer wiped the moisture from his eyes and kept moving forward. After a minute he finally caught the scent of his daughter.

But, there was another scent mixed in with hers as well. A strange, young male scent.

The assassin growled and the thought of his daughter being taken away came to his head.

Deathbringer climbed a nearby tree halfway and used his vision to try and find either Glory and Aurora. And he finally did.

To his far right he saw familiar, beetle green scales belonging to the one and only Rainwing queen.

He jumped down from the tree and at the last second used his wings to ease the fall. Once all his talons hit the ground, he dashed to the place where he had seen her.