Deceptive Harmonies(discontinued)

11)

Astra and Austa were in separate cages, right next to one another below the top deck, they both sat in the corner and had tear stained cheeks.

All Austa could see was the lifeless green eyes fading away from her, she felt as though she could reach out and grab one of his spines and keep it as a memory of sorts, but then she remembered the spine she always kept, the spine that helped her escape many times, the spine in her satchel.

Austa jerked forward, making Astra flinch and look over to see Austa taking a Razorwhip spine from her satchel, then just staring at it, mouth twitching before expressionless tears fall again. "I miss him."

"I know how you feel." Astra comforts, poking her hand through the bars and placing it in Austa's shoulders. "I have a spine of Spike's too, in my satchel which was ripped from me." She states.

"Maybe after all this we should make a necklace with a small shard of the spikes as the hanging chain." Austa suggests with a slight smile before she sniffs.

"I'd like tha..." Astra starts.

"WATCH WHERE YOU PUT THOSE HANDS MISTER!" A voice rings.

"Thor?" Austa asks, not recognising the voice as it was muffled.

"Close enough." Ailith says as she limps in, bent forward with two hunters holding her still, each with one of her arms and one with a hand on the back of her neck.

Astra chuckles slightly which makes Ailith give a sincere smile, that was the first time she saw Astra smile in weeks, but the smile was quickly flattened once she was thrown into a cell opposite Austa and Astra.

"Ryker will be down shortly to ask you a few things." One of the hunter states while he walks passed the cages.

"Will one of them things happen to be asking Austa out? Because he was quick to save her three times!" Ailith asks sarcastically while leaning against the bars.

"What was the third?" Austa asks across to the brunette with a raised eyebrow.

"When you were pushing him out of the way so you could jump back into the water, he held his ground and held you too." Ailith said casually.

"SHUT IT!" The hunter yells, banging his spear agaisnt Ailith's bars, scaring her enough to squeak and jump up...then lean on her bad leg(the one that was hurt under her Nadder) only to fall.

"Well sheesh, the service here is terrible!" The brunette responds, positioning herself back where she was against the bars. The hunters left, leaving the three girls in there alone. "Austa, you holding up ok?" She calls across.

"Yep, you?" Austa replies without much emotion.

"Yuppers, Astra?" Ailith replies, looking to Astra.

"Uh-huh." Astra replies looking around. "Use your spine to pick the..." She starts to Austa only to see her already starting at it.

"Already on it." Austa says casually as she sticks the spine into the lock at the cell door. She hears a click and smiles slightly in triumph, but it's quickly interrupted when Ryker's walks in, she pulls back from the cell door and hides the spine behind a dragon scull on the ground.

"I don't believe we've been properly acquainted." Ailith says as she pokes her hand through the bars. "I'm Ailith Jorgensen." She states.

"Did she seriously just say 'I'm Ailith Jorgensen'?!" Austa asks in a firm whisper to Astra.

"You're quite the chatterbox, aren't you?" Ryker spits to her, leaving her hand hanging from the bars.

"Actually, we all are, they've just been through a lot...oh and FYI, when we get out..."

"You're NOT getting out!" Ryker snaps.

"Well sheesh, fine, who p!ssed in your yakmilk?"

"My brother..." Ryker starts.

"Ew."

"-my brother will be meeting us on our journey." Ryker says in a seriously agitated tone.

"Right, awesome, he just as cold as you?"

"No...he's colder."

"That was very dramatic...and I loved it!" Ailith's laid back attitude was starting to get on Ryker's nerve, his teeth gritted more and his fists clenched, he turned and walked over to the other two girls.

"Identify yourselves." He orders in a firm and robotic sort of tone.

"Wow! That was so precise and functional! How do you speak like that?!" Astra exclaims, seeing how Ailith's attitude irritated him, they're to keep it up.

"Yeah! It was so perfect the way you spoke with such elegance." Austa adds, making that Italian thing with her fingers to say its 'perfect'.

"The two of you best respond to my order with accurate and truthful statements!" Ryker exclaims.

"Oh my gods! Where were you educated?" Astra exclaims with a grin.

"Get me in contact with your tutor!" Ailith exclaims from now right behind Ryker, out of her cell.

Ryker turns only to get kicked my Ailith and pushed into Austa's now open cell. The blonde runs out and pushes the cell shut, locking it with the Razorwhip spine with a smirk.

"Where were you educated? Wherever it was they mustn't of taught you never to underestimate girls!" Austa snaps, pulling the spine out of the lock with aggression while Ryker stands up.

"How did you even get out?" Astra asks while Ailith walks before her cell.

"You both think you're the only one who keeps their sharp class dragon's spines?" Ailith asks with a smirk, taking out Dawn's slightly orange spine and unlocking Astra's door.

The three girls smiled to one another before Ailith embraced Austa. "I'm sorry about Spark!" She says in a pitiful tone. Austa took in a sharp breath and shook the brunette from her.

"It's fine, he's in a better place now." She says, making Ailith give her a sympathetic look while Astra put a hand on her shoulder.

The boat suddenly jerked and Ailith was the first to run above deck, she saw Dawn getting pushed onto a boat next to this, she goes to run and knock out the man who pushed her but is pulled down by the redhead.

"What are you doing?!" Astra snaps.

"They've moved Dawn to another ship!" Ailith snaps.

"That can only mean that Ryker's brother is here." Austa states.

"Terrific! If he's anything like Ryker, she too won't survive the next while." Ailith exclaims in a whisper shout... then smirks as an idea comes into her head. "Ok, I have an idea, but you both need to buy me as much time as I need."

"And how long is that?" Astra asks, receiving a smirk from the Jorgensen sibling.