Ferinix the Night Fury

Chapter 11

I aroused to me being in a cave that looked just like the cave that I spent my first 4 winters! It was spacious, well lit, and it didn't have any bars or steel doors at the entrance. I trotted over to the cave opening and looked at the beautiful sea that looked just like the sea where I learned to fish! Without taking the time to question it I leaped into the wind. Oh how I missed the wind on my face and the cold, misty feeling of when you glided through the clouds and I missed the taste of fresh fish and the sound of running water.

I was so happy I frolicked and spun around the forest bouncing over logs and rocks. I ran and ran until I was utterly exhausted. Then I basked in the sun on the beach watching a pod of seashockers come to the surface to rest and let their young play.

I was home.

Right as I settled in and took a deep breath, suddenly the cold stone ground slid beneath me. Then I heard a steel door opening. I spun my head around and I saw that it was my steel door that was opening. With a jolt, I realized that all the nice caves, gorgeous ocean and the white sand beaches, were all a dream. "Let the fight begin!" announced a hunter as the door flung open. In front of me I saw another pair of steel doors open and a purple Deadly Nadder wearing blue colored metal came into view. I slowly slunk out of my cage and the Nadder raised the spikes on her tail and roared aggressively. I stuck to my plan and bowed my head down and lowered my body submissively. "At least let me show you what to be afraid of" she bellowed.

The Nadder whipped her tail in the air and a few spines flew towards me, one of which hit me in the side. I decided she didn't really want peace so I shot a warning blast in front of her. The Nadder shot a magnesium blast that would've hit me if I hadn't hopped out of the way.

I roared loudly to show her that I wasn't the kind of dragon you wanted to mess with. She just smirked at this. I shot a powerful blast the slammed her into the wall as I rushed to her and slapped her with my tail. She snapped her jaws and I dodged it just in time then jumped and flapped my wings.

I looked around me and saw what must be a hundred Vikings, much more than I could see out of the crack in the steel doors. The Nadder shot another blast that narrowly missed. I looked down at her, teeth bared and eyes narrowed. I dived down to her and slapped her again with my tail then spun around and shot a blast at her. I roared again as she stood back up.

The Nadder screeched back and shot more tail spines at me. Some of them bouncing off my armor. I guess that metal on me did have a purpose. While I was distracted looking closer at my armor, she charged towards me and rammed her head into my side. I howled in pain and surprise and I landed on my side.

"Any last words?" she asked intimidatingly.

"Well first of all, that is super unoriginal. And second you forgot something" I stated

"Ha. Like what?"

I wacked her with my tail as hard as I could and jumped to my feet. While she shook off the pain I jumped on top of her and gnawed on her neck. She fell over and started trying to push me off with her feet and wings. I bounced off her and spread my wings to make me look larger.

She pounced on me then I ran out of the way so she caught nothing but my tail. She teared after me roaring in anger. I leaped onto the wall and jumped off. The Nadder was pinned below me and I prepared the final blast. I heard the hunter say something but I wasn't paying much attention to him.

As I was about to shoot my blast I saw deep into her. Saw her body as if she was already dead, I saw her beetle black eyes widening then closing readying for her end. But most of all I saw her face, relaxed yet tense, worried yet mellow, scared yet sure of herself. The face of one who knew they were about to meet their end. I swallowed my blast and climbed off of her. She cautiously stood up and stared at me in disbelief. I purred to her as the crowd booed at us and threw a few objects at us.

I gracefully leaped into the air and started blasting the chains between the apparently unamused hunters and me. They screamed and ran in surprise. Apparently they've never seen what happens when I've been penned up for too long. I flew a few laps around the arena before the Nadder joined me in my vengeance. She shot numerous spines out of her tail. All the Hunters except for a few normally dressed ones all fled in terror

"If we concentrate our fire we might be able to break the center link" she said.

I prepared to fire but it didn't work. I had run out of shots! I tried a few more times but I my fire glands had run out. I will get my shots back soon.

While I was waiting, I zoomed around some more then started blasting the center link with the Nadder. We fired until I ran out of shots again but the center link didn't break. I roared my frustration then I heard the smallest steel door opening and I saw the hunters that weren't scared away come out.

I was done with them. I dove down and shot my only recovered blast and in my blinded rage it missed. The Nadder landed and shot a few fireballs along with many spines. The two steel doors opened that we were once in. I smelled the fish again but ignored it this time. I am not going back I there again.

I charged at the hunters and jumped onto the closest hunter immediately bringing him to the ground. I pounced on the other two and they hammered me with their pointy sticks and branches with a big stone on the end. I grabbed these weapons in my jaws and threw them aside out of their reach.

I didn't notice that a fourth hunter had entered until he threw what looked like a feather with a sharp piece of iron on the end. I felt myself wobbling like I have been flying in tight circles for a while. I felt the strength get drained from my body and into the feather that was still piercing in my side. I fell on the ground and suddenly my eyelids felt so heavy that I couldn't stop myself from falling asleep.