The Return of the Dragons

Part 31 The Nightlight - Zephyr POV

Credit to TanChiKit for the artwork

I put my brow to the scaly face in front of me. The dragon gurgled and purred as I scratched his chin. I can't believe it! This is real. I am nose to no we with my Daddy's dragon again.

I hold his chin out from me and look into his eyes. Those green orbs glow in the light in the most gorgeous way. His black pupils swelling in such a tame way looked deep into my eyes.

"I promise," I said," I will bring you guys home."

Toothless gurgles but suddenly getting excited he picks me up and flings me onto his back.

"Toothless what are you doing??" I cry as I try to balance myself on his back while he moves wildly. Everything is a blur as the huge dragon bounces around excitedly with me on his back.

"AHHHHH I'M GONNA DIE!" My brother screams. I see him fly through the air practically like a bird only one that doesn't know how to fly. He lands on Toothless's back behind me with a thump.

With a loud and madgestic roar Toothless takes off. "Toothless where are we going?!" I cry.

"What have you done sis!?" My brother cries with his arms cinched tightly around my waist and his face burried in my neck. I can feel he is shaking in fear and I can feel a tear drip on my neck.

I put my hand on his and grip it trying to comfort him. It's all right. Toothless would never hurt us.

My heart soars as the wind flies in my face. My heart is beating wildly as Toothless dives into a cavern. It looks like an ordinary cavern for any it the first hundred feet or so but at one point which ai am certain that I will never forget seeing this, it b comes very different.

My heart is beating so fast I feel like I am going to get a heart attack. I have never actually been in the hidden world only on the edge of it. But now, I am surrounded by wonders I have never seen. The cavern's donations are now alive with some sort of almost mystical glow. All sorts of colors dance about us playing on rainbow colors on any object they can. Below me I see all kinds of shubbery the likes of which I have never seen. Lush flora lines the floor in the strange and wonderful colors of their unique leaves, leaflets and flowers. There were dragons everywhere, all of various types, all of which but furies and deadly nadders I have only ever heard of. Monstrous nightmares, flightmares, razorwhips, gronckles, zipplebacks, deathsongs and many more fly everywhere around us.

I am thoroughly amazed at everything I see from the back of this wonderful dragon and I think Nuffink is amazed too because he has stopped shaking and his head is no longer buried in my neck. I look behind me and he is looking around at our amazing surroundings. His mouth is gaping open and his eyes are shifting from wonder to wonder. His hold on me has loosened.

We fly into a huge chamber. All around there are dragons zooming by us and others landimg on the various tiers of rock all around the sides. In the middle of the chamber there is a huge rock glowing a soft yellow color. My heart skips a beat. It is the seat of the alpha.

At the base of the rock I see something that makes me even more jittery. There, playing and tumbling with each other are a group of furies. Three "nightlight furies" as my daddy named them. Beside them, sitting calmly is their mother, the light fury. With her head turned down she watches her not so young young tumble with each other as she licks herself. Toothless lands us there and lets us off. He grunts and his offspring immediately give him their full attention. Three fully grown nightlights sit in a neat row of three as if they are standing at attention.

They are so beautiful! I have seen them before but that was a long time ago. They were little then. Now they are fully grown like their parents but more youthful. One is white like her mother but bears a little of her father's black in a few various places like the tops of her ears and th edges of her tail. Another is black like his father, but sporting a little white on his feet and tail. Another is mostly black also but with more white on his long robust legs and cute little nose. He also posesses white intertwined beautifully into his tail. His blue eyes are the most gorgeous things I have ever seen and I feel something special as I gaze into them.

We lock eyes. He is staring at me. I can't move. I am astounded as this beauty of a creature crawls forward out of line towards me. What can I do? He is coming closer.

"Let him come to you." Rings in my ears. I close my eyes and I put my hand out.