Chapter 16 (Jangras POV) Important Meeting

I walked out of the cave a bit sadly. I missed Ipse and Penta. Mainly Ipse, because Penta had hurt me so badly, it was hard to remember when she was a good, and a nice dragon to me at any point. There was a time like that however, though it was a distant memory in the past at this point.

I shook my head, and looked around, wondering I should do something, or if I should just go back into the cave and get a little bit of rest for the night. The camp seemed fairy in good shape, so I was not sure what I should, or could be doing to help them.

Socra had told me that the tribe always needed help, so I should never try to think like that. Right now, I was not sure if even if they did need help right now or not, if I was the one that could help them in the first place. I looked at the ground a bit sadly for just a few moments as well.

I was quite a useless dragon for me being the next deputy. I was going to be the youngest deputy alive as well. That would not be a very good look for the rest of the dragons in our tribe, or any other tribe. Hell... I might be the youngest leader to take over.

My father had that on him, he had to take over for our tribe before he had reached the age of 50. The way things were looking, I might break that record as well. My father was not the first dragon to hand over the reigns of leader to another dragon.

Socra was getting very old as well, and if she did not die to her old age, than she might pass down the reigns of leader to me as well. I shivered thinking about a leader of our tribe so soon. I hardly knew any of the dragons in our tribe in the first place.

I was not ready for all of that, and I was not sure if I ever would be. I suppose that was the whole point of Socra training me in the first place though. I still shivered thinking about when my name came, and what dragon would I even choose as my deputy for our tribe in the first place.

Kota had said that he never wanted to be the deputy of the tribe, he had said it was way to stressful, and he was for sure very right as well. Maybe I would choose a good soldier, after this war was over of course... If we even did win this war... If we lost this war, we might not even exist in the first place.

I had said that to Socra once, and her response, she had was with her eyes squinted at me, it scared me quite a bit as well, "That is the whole point of being the dragon of destiny." When she said things like that it just got me even more stressed out as well.

I knew that she was not the only dragon in the tribe that was thinking like that at the same time too. I was a bit smaller than most other red dragons, I was fast and strong though. A lot stronger than most other dragons, and I thought to myself at the same time, that maybe I should not be putting myself down like that all of the time.

I knew I was smarter than most, stronger than most, and faster than most. But was that enough to be the next leader of the tribe? I shook my head, just trying to clear those thoughts from my head at the same time as well, as it seemed to be that those thoughts never wanted to go away.

I walked into the large clearing of the camp, and walked past a few dragons, as I heard a couple of them talking to each other while I walked past, as I heard a couple of the words that they spoke to each other at the same time as well.

"Lipson I heard has a crush on you! Isn't that hilarious? That pathetic dragon, he is so ugly and he is so stupid too!" I heard a female dragon say to another female dragon. Each of them began to laugh at each other. I shook my head as I walked past, though I knew that they were not paying me any attention clearly.

I never understood why dragons could be so addicted to drama at the same time as well, it was one of my least favorite things to be around. I never understood why other dragons had to be all up in each others business all of the time.

I suppose I should not worry about all of that as I walked past, and I saw my friend Kip speaking to a soldier dragon. I was not sure if I remembered his name or not, which would have to be my job when I became deputy, and the next leader of the tribe.

I had seen his face for sure a couple of times, and I knew that he was a friend of Kip as well. I walked up on them and both of them nodded to me, as they continued on with their conversation at the same time, which made me feel a lot better to see friends not freak out when they saw the deputy of the tribe come up to them.

Well... I suppose that they did not know that I was the deputy yet though. I am sure they would talk to me normal still, though I could not say the same to all of the other dragons that were in our tribe. I shook my head, and listened in to what it was that the very big soldier dragon was saying.

They let me in on the conversation as well, as neither or them seemed to have an sort of upset look on their faces at all at the exact moment. The big dragon just nodded to me, noticing that I was there, but he did not say anything about it, as he continued on with what he was saying.

"Personally me, though I might be a soldier dragon, I do not want this war to happen. Soldier dragons are here to bring peace, but when war comes, we know pur job... We have to preserve our land, and our tribe." The dragon was saying to Kip. Kip looked at him for a few moments, and then he nodded.

I was actually quite happy that today, there were not dragons speaking about my father, or giving me ugly looks like there usually were. Though I did not like to hear drama like what I had heard a few moments ago, it was better than the ugly looks and the dragons talking down on my father as well.

That might be a lot more drama than what those dragons were talking about. I shook my head to myself, and I saw that Kip had nodded to me, happy to see my face, which was a rare thing to say about any dragon nowadays. I nodded back to him, and then I let him continue where they had left off in their conversation.

They sat there for a few moments, and they looked at each other. I wondered what was going on, but then suddenly Kip began to talk and I realized that it was nothing, and they were just going back to what it was that they were talking about in the first place, as I listened in on Kips voice.

"We don't have our lands any more. We should have seen this war coming in the first place any ways. We don't even know if we are the last tribe that is still standing... The humans have done nothing to help us yet Lunk." He said to the soldier dragon. The soldier dragon looked at him for a few moments, as I could tell he was thinking about what Kip had just said.

I thought about it for just a few moments as well. I then remembered the other night when I had seen the nearly invisible human speaking to me as well. I had embarrassed myself quite a bit as well. I remembered he had said some things, but I was not sure if the humans were going to help us.

From what I had heard from him though, it seemed as though, just like us, the humans were hiding from the black dragons. It was absolute chaos, and it did not seem like we were making any sort of move, or plans to stop them either.

I hoped that at some point we would at least try. Maybe that was Socras plan for us once she took the reigns of leader for my father for our whole tribe. I knew that Socra too was hurt quite a bit to see my father like this all of them time now.

He had not even spoken to my mother for months, as she had said to me. It was as if he was not alive any more, and he had beaten himself down too much from the death of my brother. It had surprised me quite a bit to see him like this as well.

I never thought he was that close to any of us like that. It seemed as though a dragon always shares a special connection with his kin though. I knew it hurt me quite a bit to see that happen as well, but I got over it fast, after I knew that he was in a safer, and a far better place now.

I wish that my father could see it like that as well, but it did not seem like he ever would. I was pretty sure by now, that it was too late for him, and that there was no saving him anymore. Now we just had to get over that, and once Socra took over as leader, it would be time for us to look at the future.

I looked back over to Lunk as he looked at Kip and then nodded after the long period of time of silence. He then began to speak back to my friend at the exact same instance as well. I focused in on what it was that he had to say back to Kip.

It was also good to get my mind off of all of that at the same time as well, I was beginning to realize that too. As he began to speak, I closed my eyes trying to drown out all of the thoughts in my head. I then opened them as I listened to the first words that he said.

"We will get it back some day... The black dragons did not win last time, so they will not win this time either." He said back over to Kip. Kip looked at him for a few moments, and then he leaned bis head down to the ground. I could tell that he was not so sure, and he was not ready to believe that quite yet either.

I felt a bit bad for my friend, he had lost a lot in that attack, but then again, I think nearly every dragon in the tribe had lost someone that they deeply cared about. Hell... We had lost our own leader, and my father at the exact same time as well.

I looked at my friend Kip, as I tried to think of something that might make him feel a slight bit better, but no words seemed to come in to my mind in the exact moment. I shook my head, and then I also turned around as I heard loud footsteps of a dragon, that was walking over to us.

I spun around and I saw that it was Socra. She had her eyes squinted on me as well, and I looked down at the ground not really wanting to look at her at the exact moment. We had not spoken to each other in a few days, and I did not know quite what to say to her just yet.

She did not have those same thoughts, as it seemed like she had gotten over it now. Which was a bit of a surprise to me, because dragons tended to hang on to stuff like that for quite some time. I heard her begin to speak, but I then realized that it was only halfway aimed towards me.

"You are right... They will not win... But there are a lot more of them than you think, so it will take same time to plan on how we will fight back... I need all of you to be ready, because tonight we will have an important meeting...