This is war

When we were back to base, Sanira saw immediately Heather on my back, she was mad as a wild boar :

"you must be kidding now right ?"

"no, roared Korak, she saved me for humans dragon's killer, she was a dragonrider for the first war, she's with us !"

"the riders are all dead due to their treachery, they lead to our first beloved queen !"

our first beloved queen ? What is going on here ? I joined Korak and gave him a paw

"she told me we got a traitor in our rank, Sulfuris !"

"impossible ! a dragon will never deal with stupid two legs !"

"Sanira ! For the love of...I sweared to protect this young woman and Sulfuris is not reliable...he choosed you because he can't find a better choice and looked who he is now ? he's not on your side, he's not even here !"

Sanira pinned him down, I put her down and stopped the fight

"STOP ! We need proofs and I think that Heather gave me some...so we calm down...I took all responsabilities !"

"we're all wrong ! Be sure of that !"

Sanira left madless, I stayed near Heather, scared to death and Korak asked to Trogan to assemble the all team

"thanks for the paw !"

"you're welcome Korak...I...I thought you're going to hate me as much as the others ! "

"you maybe got the heart of a Blood Klaw, you got the soul of a Tribal Scale, we are brave and we also got smart and respect of each others, I will follow you in each battle brother !"

"ok...I suppose you want to tell us how you met her ?"

"yes !"

Korak turned back when Krya and Tyrok came in, she was carrying Goryak on her back andd when he saw Heather, he was like frightened...no surprise when some elves tried to sell you as slaves or worst

"you all maybe want to know how I can be with a human girl ?"

"yes, we all answered."

It is how Korak began his story.

It was at the beginning of the invasion, I ran to join my island when I heard some metal noises behind me, I turned back and saw dragon hunters, they can shot me in a few seconds whatever my plans were but before I could react against them, a young woman behind them killing them all, I was surprised at first, a human girl defending me against people like her...then I saw her medalion around her neck, an pobsidian dragon's head, symbol of the dragonriders, so I trusted her but she helped me with them to fall in an elven trap both between here and my island, since she saved my life, I owed her eternally, as dicted by our laws. When he finished, he others seemed convince, but a problem stayed, my father got rid of this collars when the riders died, how can we be sure she's one of them

"Heather, is that true ? I asked."

When I saw Krya, her head down, just when I talked to Heather, I just thought to yself I awoke a ghost from the past

"Heather was a rider, she took care of my lost sis...when Sulfuris killed her thinking that the crash will kill Heather too, I swore to myself he will pay for that !"

Me and my big mouth, some times, I'll must shut it down, then I saw than Goryak was not on his mother's back but on the ground , really close to Heather

"hello you !"

He stayed a bit scared but Heather kneeled and took out two pieces of dry meat, she put one on the ground and eat the second, maybe to prove it's not drugged, Goryak grabbed the other and ate it, his eyes fixed on Heather, his fear disapearing more and more :

"what is she doing ? Is she a witch ?"

"no, it's just a way a frriend of mine told me, Harald, to befriend with a wild dragon."

When he finished his meat for both, Goryak became curious and sniffed in Heather's way , me and Krya were more than just focused on that scene then Goryak finally climbed on Heather's lap and took a nap, trustfully

"I think I know where she can stay, giggled Korak."

Great...it's always better to say she was a dragonrider than a deserter.

Afetr the way back to our cave, I stayed besides of Krya while Goryak was napping in Heather's arms and I dunno why but...I was worried sick

"calm down Tolryk, whispered Krya to me, you look tensed !"

"Goryak is in human woman's arms in the middle of the war between us and them !"

"she's on our side Tolryk, she tooks care of me as well as my sis', Goryak is safe in her arms !"

"dunno for sure..."

Suddenly, Goryak looked at me put his head on the left, I felt far from just worst with that :

"can I talk to you in private ? Asked me Heather gently."

I nodded and took her in my room. When I was laying on my rock bed, I didn't even dare to look at you, I felt so dumb right now, I hid my face below my front paws

"Tolryk...what's going on ?"

"Goryak is my adoptive son...I don't want to loose him !"

"I understand...he didn't risk anything with me...you can chill out !"

"chill out ? I gto a son who hates his father and me as a full dad who's not capable of showing him I can be different type of father of his own one !"

"I think he will know it now !"

When Heather said that, I lifted my paws and saw Goryak in font of me, his little paws on my muzzle

"ada ?"

"you...you want to see me ?"

He nodded and nuzzled himself against my face, he sat in front of me and looked Heather, I lifted my head and put him between my paws happilly

"I'm happy to be your dad my boy !"

He looked at me with a big smile then I felt something weird going along my neck, when I saw Ingrid rubbing my neck, I didn't know what to say. Following to that tender moment, Krya called us and I found Goryak on my back, so happy and watched by Heather

"what a gang you are you three all together...we can say the kiddo wanted to meet his daddy !"

"yes...I just hope it could last like that !"

"you are a better dad than your own...you see...let's eat something, Goryak must be starving !"

He nodded and we left for an other room to eat, Krya cooked us some superb brased yak ribs with her flames, she's as hot as her own flames I'll assure you...well, not the subject, Goryak got a meat porridge like that his young fangs can swallowed it all without any problem and by all respect of the old time, Krya served a pretty more adapted and more nutritve portion as a meal for our new friend Heather

"thank you for the welcome...few dragons today will welcomes an ex dragonrider like me !"

"you're always part of my clan Heather, answered Krya, you were with my sister, we will avenged her death together !"

I ate my part without a noise, watching Goryak with an eye, he swallowed with envy all his porridge and even licked his bowl when it goes empty with a few minutes, this hatcling will always surprise me. Heather got a full meal, Krya gave to her a piece of meat for humans, as big as a chicken wing or leg with some potatoes dragon's cooked like, so soft they'll melted in your mouth, Hetaher looked satisfied by it, for me and Krya, half a yak each is our usual meal, when we were all done, a small nap followed to relax and get our digest system to work easily, sadly, it was a short one, Sanira did a so loud roar than all the caverns got into a small earthquake, we all ran toward the meeting room, not knowing why for

"red alert, the two legs let us a note...you got a meeting on Dead Island !"

We were all silent and got a cold shivering, Dead Island is the island reserved to the dead, all living beeing are forbidden to enter except funerals, this invitation is a death sentence for all of us, unless they got a more vicious plan

"Sanira...do we got some signs of life of the actuals chiefs ?"

"Tolryk...it's not the time, we got a trap to avoid !"

"it's not a trap, they wanted to show us something...something linked to Dead Island !"

"don't even make me think, weakling, that..."

"shut your fucking mouth Laryka ! I answered brutally."

"CUT THAT CRAP ! cut Sanira."

Korak was a bit like me, the Tribal Scales got the weird tendacies of exposing the corpse of your famillies on a particular place to demolarized you, I thought he's feared the same thing as me, Trogan and Tyrok were torned, Krya and Marifala got so many question in their minds on that case

"the only way to be sure, I said, it's to go there !"

"well Tolryk, but if you fall on a trap, you will be the one and only responsible !"

"like if it can change my life...all mistakes were always put on my back !"

I growled lightly and ends up going on first, if you want my point of view, I'm not really far from the truth.

During the flight to Dead Island, I was in the lead, Laryka behind us and the others followed in diamond formation, from my thoughts, we will found Zilla, the last missing heir from our group, the Frozen Fangz, those frozen breathing dragons, their breath ars so cold you can be frozen cold before you know they were here :

"Tolryk, said Korak, I feraed the worst for tonight, this trip to Dead Island must have a sens !"

"I know Korak, when we're landed, I'll asked for access to Mola, goddess of the dead and warden of souls, our right of get in and out all alive, no one says anything, ok ?"

"why you ?answered Tyrok."

"because it's me the leader of this wicked journey...it is my duty to take the responsabilities in front of the Gods."

they were all in shock, asked something from our Gods has always a price to pay, more or less hight, but for Mola, the only thing she asked for is souls, the one of the guy asking...of course :

"you do know where you're going with that ? asked Krya to me."

"yes...I know...but to vanquish our ennemies, no sacrificesare not big enought !"

"you're crazy, said Trogan, I like that !"

The only one who stayed silent was of course my dear sister. When we arrived on an island protected by a magic shield and surrounded by a mystical mist, we knew we were finally on the good place, the trees were all dead, no lights, natural or none, can be here, a stone cold got you right in the guts and only the sinister crow's cawing can be heard, the others stayed on group on the dark sand beach, I walked to a shrine in a really bad shape and called Mola by praying...I know...when does the dragons pray, well here, we got our gods, if you're not happy, stop reading and do something else, for us, each elements linked to Life got its god, death included, after a short instant, a light green dragoness covered with a torn kinda frock thingy (my dad burnt down a human cult place and talked about their sad to death outfits , that's why I know that word) she looked at me and sat down :

"why are you here ? Tolryk, son of Arkorn, no funerals are booked for today ?"

"I called you because our ennemies told us to walk on this land, I know what we risked and I wanted to go in and out with my friends !

"you know the price to pay Tolryk son...

"yes ! I said, a bit angry, sorry to cut you off but I think we had to identify our parent's corpses there !

"if it's real, call me again and I'll judged the price you'll pay, as you're actually at war, I elt you go in and out, if your ennemies soiled my land and disrespect my rules, you will be rewarded !"

She dissapeared in a cloud of ash and we walked in, of course, the dark atmosphere of this island and the fact that I can lost my own soul...yes we got souls too...did not enjoy the situation. We were close to the shrine for the funerals when suddenly, Tyrok started to freak out :

"there is a strong scent of fresh blood here !"

"impossible Tyrok, said Trogan to calm it down, we didn't got funerals for days here !"

"I'll assure you, they're was some liters of blood, all around us..."

I was ready to cut them off when my right front paw hit something, maybe a root, my head felt in a puddle of a sticky liquid, I growled and was ready to stand up when I hear some scream of terror of Marifala :

"DADDDDDDDDDDDDDY ! she screamed, you tripped on my dad."

By touching my face, I saw that puddle I talked about earlier was blood, I feared that nightmare and...I was not wrong, finally. I'd prefer something better and nicer than that thought :

"they killed him ! I said, while cleaning my face from the blood, and even here ! anyone explore the island to seek for survivors and hope not worst thing."

All followed my advice and during that night, a scream was heard, then an other and an other...this night will be the beginning of a war, me, Laryka and Krya went to the main shrine and we found Zilla in a cage, in front of her parent's corpse, in shock

_"they...they're...they're all dead ! repeated Zilla crying."

She looked at me and Laryka and pointed a grove not far, Krya stayed near her and we went to see this grove. Laryka was the first one to scream, at a cave's entrance, I saw her near our dad's corpse surrounded by torn human armour down, badly hit, burnt...some even kinda eaten, he gave up his last breath after a massacre, his corpse was cover with huge wounds due to their axes and swords, the final blow was a mace it who crushed his skull...on the contrary that I could think of, he really got a brain inside it...well now it's look like a bad melted ice cream but...it was kinda a huge one, my sister cries his death while my only thought about that was to spit on his cold body

"you don't even any respect for your father ! yelled Laryka."

"he wanted me dead ! you can't even think I will cry like a baby ...nope ! he always prefered you over me...I'm even happy to know he's dead, I don't even have to support his insufficent and his total disrespect for his only son, I want to show you what I can do now..."

I was cut by a scream of terror, I ran to the origin and saw Krya, lating against her mother's corpse, her father was tied up and disembolwed until his got his last breath, the worst of all death sentences and seeing Krya so depressed make me enraged, I roared and called everyone else...it was the worst place ever for my first speech but this time they're gone too far, when we incinerated all bodies with our flames and gathered all clues on what was going on before here, I decided, before the debrief with Mola, to declare a merciless war against them

"tonight, we were all the witness of the honorless and merciless of our today's ennemies du jour, I declare on this sad day where all our chiefs were brutally murdered in a place where wars and battles have no places, I Tolryk, member of the Blood Klaws and new leader of this clan decide that now, we will form a one army to push back this vile adversary of our lands and avenged their insults they just did in the resting place of our dead."

they all roared after my words, except one, Laryka, still upset by my attitude towards our father

"how dare you speak about revenge while you spit on your own father !"

"for the love of...Laryka stop...you didn't live the things like I do, he was always proud of his daughter but never of me, he listnen to you, he tucked you...all I got was his angry black look on me and his bloody habit of calling me weakling...well you know what...I piss on his ashes and he will what the weakling can really do...I will kill all these bitches for two reasons ...the blasphemy of hunting our parents down in a sacred land and two...because Krya had for the first time cried...I don't care if you're joining or not, I just want to do what we have done in the past...hunt this weak creatures down and if we had to crumble their town to the ground...I'll do it."

Laryka was silent, she fixed me in a silly and dumb way and was like stone...until Tyrok said to me

"you look like your old daddy bud !"

I flinched hearing these words, mme looking like my father ? what's that insult ? my father hated me since I was born and because I was talking bout death and desolation on our ennemies I'm like...fuck...I'm like him and Krya's sadness has awoken this part of me...I can't believe it

"I...I must talk to Mola now...you...you can all go !"

I was in shock, I waited that all the team went away to call Mola, we had try to get back her sanctuary back to normal by cleaning the mess but of course, she immediately smellt the bad news

"so Tolryk ? she asked me after appearing behind me."

I jumped scare and felt on my ass before facing her

"what the...warn before that !"

"I'm a goddess, not a messenger...so !"

"the two legs have hunted and killed our parents here !"

"the unholy...dirty blasphemer !"

She sweared and walked around me several time, I put my head down thinking that I will lost my soul and I will leave this place as an empty shell but with a huge surprise, Mola sat down in front of me and cut a bit her right wrist with a claxw before drawing a rune on my forehead with her own blood

"on this day I, Mola, warden of souls and goddess of the dead, declare that Tolryk, son of Arkorn, will be my champion and decimate all blasphemer of Dead Island who hunt and kill dragons on my sanctuary, this title will protected you of all prices to pay towards other gods and goddess including the mother goddess, Drakya."

"I'm...I'm your champion...how...I..."

"calm down...I'm gonna explain it all, if nothing were so dramatic here, for the disturbance, I will took your soul, but in that case where blasphemers profane my sanctuary, this place where souls of the fallen rest in peace , I can name the one who called me mychampion, I can't act directly on the mortal world, but I can help you when you need it...before you cut me off in my speech, you are not immortal, you can die...I'll took an other champion...but I'm sure you'll accomplish that task really good."

"but...this rune will go ? it's blood, from you !

"divine blood will go only with divine magic...when I'll decide it, this mark will go."

"so...I must kill those blasphemers ?"

"yes Tolryk, all linked to this massacre."

I smiled lightly and ended up roaring happilly, I can finally achieve the dragon's bloodthirst they all waited for

"before you go Tolryk...one last thing, Sulfuris has a dark soul...so dark than hell itself looks like a holyday camp, if he dies, call me, I must punish him for all the crime he had commit, I only can do it if i got call for a non plan death."

"I'll do it !"

"good...I'll do my farewell Tolryk."

Once again, she dissapeared in a cloud of ashes while I left...lil' explication for the non plan death thingy, normally, our lives got a beginning and an end, Mola got on her a list wher a name appeared only when the death happened the time planned by the Gods...I know, it sucks, when it's an unplanned death, like war, suicide...Mola is not warned and the dead's soul stay on earth until the death planned date...if someone calls her, the price is not counted, she took the dead's soul and decided his fate. it's the Spirit's plain, the equivalent of human's heaven or else...if he was the worst of them all, it's the Plain of Despair, where he is comdamned to live day after day the worst calamities possibles...just like your Hell. I hope I was clear for you. I'll found my friends back...I think...On Bloodearth's beach, the Blood Klaw's island, I was just on the ground when they alls saw my blood rune on my forehead

"that's it...he is cursed !"

"no Korak, I'm Mola's champion to eliminate the blasphemers !"

"WHAT ! they all screamed."

"yes, they hunted our parents down on her land as I called her, she let me my soul and I must kill all our ennemies to purify her land !"

"great...my bro is a divine warrior."

"no...I just want to kill some two legs !"

they all looked at my like surprised and I ended to ask them why

"you never got the pleasure to kill anything or anyone since they're invaded us...why now !"

"because I got Krya and Goryak...I'm not alone !"

"you're weird, said Marifala."

Zilla was still shocked, we must go back to base before this two legs dumbasses felt on us. To be honest with you, I can't stand the idea that Krya had lost her family, to see her cry was the last drop, I must avenged her losts and obliterated our foes in a joyfull fire. Kryais a nice dragoness, she didn't got an easy life either and I know how to fix this. We arrived at the base, Marifala took Zilla to Yrana for a bit of rest and some moral supportwhile we all see Sanira, all more or less shaken by what we saw...Sanira looked at us from above and I was the one who got the worst look

"I see you are all here...except Marifala."

"Sanira, I said, she's safe and sound and with Zilla, we also got a bad news, all the chiefs are dead !"

"how dare you ? Growled Sanira."

before the white dragonness can just thinking of hitting me, Korak and Trogan went in between us

"we were all witnessing, Zilla saw the execution of her own parents in a cage, said Korak."

"they hunted them down on Dead Island, all executed on a a really sad way !"

"watch your tongue while you're around your new chiefs ! roared Tyrok."

Sanira eyeballed us all and just said

"by your new importance here, you're all dispensed of all fields missions !"

"IN YOUR DREAMS ! I yelled, our people needs hope and saw thei new leaders kicking some two legs asses will do, they must see we are not weakened, on the contrary, we are more stronger...we must...

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH TOLRYK ! yelled Sanira, you must stay silent and listen...

She didn't have time to finish, Krya roared and stared at her

"you didn't saw your mother turned into a bloody edgehog and your fater tied up and disboweled from neck to tailjust like a fucking fish. Tolryk is ight, it's not as beeing hidden like mice than our moral will be better, we must lead the troups and Tolryk is also right on how to do it, we will form what we should do it for a while ago, a only one dragon army facing these invaders, we must hunt and exterminate them all, if our warrior saw us ready to get our paws dirty on the field...they will understand how deep the pile of shit is !"

She went close to Sanira and growled, her scales ready to hurt her if it needs to, I'll never saw her as pissed as she is right now, Sanira put her head down and shut her mouth, Krya calmed her down and joined us, she went beside me and Sanira finally said

"ok...but beware, you are our most importants assets and...what's that mark on your forehead Tolryk ?"

"I'm Mola's champion, I said."

"are you kidding me !"

"it's true, answered Mola, who appeared behind Sanira."

"for the love of...I hate the gods for that !"

Mola looked at me and told to Sanira what just happened on Dead Islands, the hunt that two legs commited on our weakened chief by captivity and feedless treatments. Their horrible and always different deat sentences, more and more horrible, non forgetting Zilla's parents execution in frotn of her young eyes. Sanira was disgusted...but she was far less than all of us. We ended that conversation and we all left for our rooms.

When we arrived, I saw Goryak sleeping in Heather's arms, he's so cute like that, what a shame he was born on this perilous time. Hetaher woke up when she heard us comming in

"are you ok ?she asked us."

"let's say the trip was...hard to live."

"oh gosh !"

Krya took Goryak with her and I laid close to Heather, I told her everything not forgetting any little detail but when I was finished. I felt Heather's hand scratching my neck

"oh my god, that's some bad luck !

"whu...what's you're doing ?"

"I...I pet you, the...the animals feel kinda better with that normally."

"not me !"

She took her hand back and Krya joined us

"woaw, it's cold in here !"

"I...I got the impression that Tolryk is..."

"the only one who love him was is mother and she's..."

When I heard Krya saying that, I felt even worst...why she had to remind me that, my mom did everything to keep me alive and I saw her dying, without her I'm nothing...just an empty shell, I was going to a corner I found during my first try of escape when the two legs invasion, I saw a rock peak far way for all enemies structures but before I go away, Krya took my tail in her paws and dragged me towards her, she grabed me, putting my back against her, I felt her paws on my belly and she licked my neck

"I know what you're feeling big boy, I'm here for you, take a deep breath and enjoy it !"

I blushed lightly and looked at her, only one dragoness did that for me and it was my mom, ever since I barely walked on my paws, she smiled at me, complimenting each of my efforts and keeping me warm against her, I felt so good...Krya started even to massages me, I closed my eyes and thought about all my memories from my childhood, one day, my dad, furious of seeing me resting, began to treat me like the weakling he always hated, I wanted to hide below my little wings to crack and cry when my mom, a real alpha, kicked his butt out and took me between her paws to comfort me, I looked at her and smiled, she cuddles me against her chest and she slowly feed me, when I opened my eyes and saw Krya looking at me with kindness while she lost everything, I knew what I should have to do, all these invaders will pay for their hatefull crime against us...dad, watch over Dralya, the weakling will do a really good bloodbath just for fun.