Deceptive Harmonies(discontinued)

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Ok, quick update, Austa and Ailith are fighting hunters left and right, Dagur and Ryker are on the stern watching with raised eyebrows, wondering what they're hiring because they're all failing beating the girls miserably, Viggo's in his study retrieving a few bits for when they ditch the slowly sinking boat, oh and Astra is swimming towards the other ship.

Once the red headed lass was just at the side of the ship, she went under and kicked herself off the floor as it was quite shallow but not enough to stand. She used this as a hoist to bring herself upon the ship. She drained her hair as she walked towards the entrance to below the deck. The ship was at an angle so she had to walk up slightly to get to the place, she did it so casually too.

She cautiously slides into the cages area and walks through the cages...she nearly screams however at the sight of sculls and blood all over the walls, her breath hitches and she grabs her chest and looks away, she positively hates the sight of blood, and seeing a nadder's bones made her chest tighten up... but then a growl was heard from the end of the dark corridor.

Astra tilted her head and narrowed her eyes and let herself slide along the ground to get closer, but then she hears something like a gargle of sorts, she picks up a bone shard and tossed it down the slope and into the pitch darkness of the end...and hears a splash. She stands and runs up above deck, she snatched flint and steel, spits on a rag she tied to the top of a stick and lights it aflame before returning, she sees the water starting to fill up, which could only mean one thing.

Seen from the ocean, was the ship starting to slip down the drop off, which dropped off to the depths unseeable.

Astra's breath hitched and she gulped before hanging the torch up on one of the holsters next to a cage and lights another few, the water was too dark to see anything, but the roar and gargle was evident that a dragon was beneath there, and needed saving. She holds her breath and dives under, the four lights she hung up made things easier to see and she swim down towards where there was only one locked cage.

She froze and hovered with puffed cheeks outside it, as a dragon uncovered itself from its dark wings, showing only its head, his slits for eyes went more narrow as he growls and returned his head within the safety of his wings. Astra looks at the lock, it was firmly put, she tugged at it, earning a snap from the dragon, thinking she's bad, two talons at the end of his wings hooked around the bars as Astra now got a good look at him, she's never seen a dragon like this before, wyvern body type, two horns at the top of his head, bright yellow eyes with dark indigo scales that get brighter for the belly.

Above all, he was beautiful, but he didn't trust her. Astra, desperate for breath returns up, but the swim upwards was longer, signalling the boat is getting deeper. She takes a few breaths and looks around for a key of sorts, but there's nothing. Then she remembers her necklace, the three girls did what was suggested and made necklaces from shards of their dragons spines. Her shard, was shaped like a diamond. She takes a final deep breath and swims back downwards.

She removes her necklace and holds eye contact with the dragon as he growls through gritted teeth. She doesn't flinch or anything and wiggles the spine shard within the lock, then hearing the click made the dragon lunges forward, the metal of the bars being thrown open and knocking into Astra's head, making her become still, her necklace shard falling from her hands as she loses consciousness.

She floats there for a few seconds, nothing around her, her arms out next to her and her legs slight parted for her to float. Then the boat slips off the edge of the rocks. Astra's life is close to an end, but a shadow goes around her, then talons lift up her floating necklace as well as a tail wrapping itself around Astra's waist.