Let the war begin

I was still frozen until my sister Laryka, with an amazingly speed, caught the bolt in halfway, she threw it back to the war machine who send it, I was dying from my shame

"where's the "thank you" part ?"

"how can you do that ? I asked, no dragon can't..."

"a little practice and everything is possible !"

I was more than just a lil embarrassed, a trap almost got me killed in front of all the warriors I helped to get free, I felt so low I just decided to leave as fast as I can, I just reached the med bay when Korak joined me

"hey where you're goin' ?"

"I just got ashamed in front of everyone Korak, no one will follow me now !"

"calm down bud, anyone could be caught by that, even Arkorn !"

"don't talk to me about that jerk ! I'm ashamed enought."

"I'll be caught by that too, like all the others, a hero can do some mistakes, no one is perfect !"

Korak looked at me with sympathy, the only thing that disturbed me is, no one did that to me before

"you think that..."

"some vets are ready to follow you just for our freedom, some soldier refused to follow Sanira because you were just not there...nobody take care about that !"

I put my head down and replied

"you, you're a hero, my own clan despise me, not yours !"

"why to you send them in their own shitpile, who's the Blood Klaw's chief here ?"

"huh....me ?"

"I DIDN'T HEAR YOU !"

I growled and yelled to him my answer, don't pisses me off today lad, Korak will add something else but Laryka arrived

"can You let us both alone sir ?"

why does she "You" him now ? we work together, Korak waved to my war chief and left, I was expecting some taunting or laughting from her, she sat down in front of me and I immediately closed my eyes

"bro ?"

"I think almost got a good laught now !"

"no, they hate our common ennemies cowardness, they're all looking for you, you stay the leader of our revolt !"

"really ? I asked, but...I almost die !"

"you will never ended up as a martyr, my team will follow you to hell to free Dralya."

I swallowed hard, I never thought she could go this far...furthermore for me

"I got the infos I need to get the girls back, with the five others Igto from here, I could be all good !"

"Laryka...why you're defending me this much...more now !"

"I told ya, I wanna fix my mistakes, and I know that withyou, we will all survive !"

"I..."

I didn't even know what thing I can answer to her now, I just felt confused and totally lost, even more when she cuddled me with tenderness

"believe me, your lieutenant will awlays be there ad you'll got a hell of a team, screw Sanira and her suicidal attacks."

She walks back and kneeled down, a gesture I thought I'll never see from her to me, a dragon kneeling in front of a chief mean it will follow him everywhere

"you're not serious there...that's it, I'm dead !"

"no, you're well alive, don't force me to slap ya!"

I walked back a bit and shivered, she smiled at me to chill the hell out of this

"Tolryk, chill out and come with me, the Blood Klaws got their freedom back thanks to ya !"

I shivered even more, no clan members would like to see me with them for our freedom of Bloodground and Sanira will also be here, she wants me dead, no way I'll be there

"can't do, got a meeting !"

It sounds huge as excuse but frankly, I'd prefer beeing alone in a cave than in a some sort of gala with all peoplke who prefer me dead

"Tolryk, they've changed, you proved them wrong !"

That's it, and I'm the human kind's king, they've always hated me since I was hatched, it's not because I think to take back our lands that I'm one of them

"Laryka...you're great but...I won't test the devil for that, not till they're..."

I was cut by scream of joy, even the other chiefs can't even calm them, I followed Laryka and saw all the Blood Klaws roaring of joy, I even, thought hearing my name between some

"what are they doing ?"

"they're celebrating our victory and most the lives you helped to save, replied Laryka, they're overjoyed."

"even those who called me douche canoey ?"

"hu what bro ?"

I growled and ended up hearing from afar

"HEY GUYS ! CHIEF' HERE ! HAIL TOLRYK !"

I really took that ballista shot, there's no doubt, I'm dead, they hated me, how can they love me now ?

"thanks to you, said Laryka, the loss were divided by four, you're a hero !"

I was speechless, me ? a hero ? they all hates me, it's a great bullshit, no way i'm joining, I'm going to a solo corner. I quickly regretted that idea when I saw Zilla with and injured dragon on a criq I found some years ago, just a bank of sand hidden by cliff,the detah peak as we call it

"Tolryk, glad to see ya."

"yes Zilla, better here than there."

I joined her and saw a young Frozen Fangz not well not far from her, I'm asking myself what was going on now

"humans are looting our magic gems, only located on our island, the ice gem, it can control the weather even for loosers, worst for good mages."

you'we so nice Zilla, but Glacier, Frozen Fangz island is our death, the cold is so freezing we're just touching ground, we froze on sight and died in a few seconds, except our furry dragons

"I got a solution, correctly enchanted and placed on a necklace, those stones let others dragons to live on Glacier, just need to move more."

Great, just a nightmare of us all, just need to move more on a frozen rock covered with snow, it will be great...of course I'm sarcastic, you'll like going to work under rain, no ? well for dragonsand the cold, it's same...at least for the scaly ones, furrys and cold, it's good

"we'll need those stones, I suppose you got some already !"

"yes Tolryk, but...just for the chiefs !"

it's getting better and better, just seven to save an island, including six who can't help a lot,we're not good before it even started

"well...we'll talked to this to the others tonight, to know what we can do, ok Zilla ?"

"thanks Tolryk."

She hugged mebut before passing the night with the others, I went to see Krya by Yrana, since the the attempted murder on her head, bad memories had came to my mind agin to haunt me, I tried my best to think of something else on the way to Yrana's lab, as I arrived, I saw Yrana tidied her things and Krya watching her egg and also the wounded still on bed here

"Krya ! son of a..."

"hi ryk, don't worry, I'm good !"

I growled from insideunitl Yrana cut me out

"here is the hero of the day,you're spared lots of loss my boy."

"thanks Yrana, we...we risk to need your help !"

"you'll said to Zilla to come and see me with her ice gems,I got some wounded frozen Fangz , I think you're here to see Krya ?"

"yes, can we..."

"I put your eggs in a room near, you can both go, I put in an openeing for that room to let her watch her eggs."

I saw Krya making me sign to join her to our egg room, once we were in private, she looked at me all smilling

"can I know what you've done to that pityfull knight ?"

"you really wanna know ? it's not nice you know ?"

I was worried by her potential reaction but she kissed my cheek and looked at me tenderly

"to charm a Razorscales, i's your own defense deeds that did it."

"ok...well, he'd suffered for hours, I made him live all imaginable or possible torture I got in mind and let him die in the bottom of a hole."

At that moment, Krya made a lot of weird sounds, I thought she was doing a some sort of weird crisis, it's her smile that comforted me :

"it feels so good to know you're ready for everything for me !"

"you...you're pleased ?"

She nodded and smiled at me, I immediatelly pursue on Zilla and the mission :

"you'll need to warm up, you'll be all frozen there !"

I immediately speak abou the protection Zilla offered us with the gems comming from Glacier and Krya smirked

"you can walked on with but you'll get cold, ya'll need to run or found warm spots."

"god damn it !"

Just need that shit, my scales will froze on that island, like for all the others, except Zilla,it's Yrana's paw on my shoulders that took me by surprise :

"Bloodground's hero ! what are you doing here ?"

I was talking to her about Zilla's plan and gave her the gmes for the protections medalions , she immediately work on them :

"by the way, a party waits for you for your victory, dragons will wait for you !"

"well shit, really a shit night."

My words seemed to surprise Yrana, she put the gem on her workbench and replied :

"without you, the three quarter of the Blood Klaws will be dead without your help, we will still be under two legs reign, you have saved your clan and your territory during that battle,you are a hero."

Me ? a hero ? wait to see after that war what will going on for me, when you got to be a cast out, you stay it, even by saving the world,I sighed and went outside to join the "festivities".

Of course, Zilla had spoken about the next battleto the others chiefs, the morale was just not there :

"even with those medalions, we will be freezing."

"shut up pussy, said Korak."

"when the Tribales don't even mind the cold now."

"since we kicked your Two Paws butt, Korak."

"WILL YOU BOTH SHUT UP !"

My yell cut the debate, they all looked at me and said

"we will have to pass to it, we'll start by it that's all, we will be rid of that after it !"

I'm so sick of those clan's dispute, we don't have the time for that, we needed to focus on the common ennemy first and wiped them out, not kill each others, I was ready to continue when Laryka hugged me...I can't believe this

"is that a joke ?"

"no, she said to me, you saved my Blood Klaw unit with your plan, without you, they will be dead, me including."

I saved Laryka's life now, that's the cherry on the fucking cake, if it's been an ac tion I was sure never to do in my life, it's that one, I saved my sister :

"you're ok ?"

"I...I think."

Laryka then pursued by her following us with Lux and Zalea as back up for the Frozen Fangz unitalready on site there :

"ok, not too bad, but, it will be cold for you three !"

"we're training under all conditions, even Glacier's coldness, we will be fine, don't worry."

It's not like she was my war chief...wait a minute, she's my fucking war chief and I don't want to re do a vote to get a jerk or a cunt, I'm not feeling great around Laryka but she's the best on that task, at least for my clan :

"be careful Laryka !"

"no one will take my place Tolryk, even a god can't defeat me !"

We'll see thatwhen this day will come, for the moment, I was thinking about my futures strategies, I needed clam and at this moment, I'm far from it.

I'll spared you the party, most of them ended drunk, back on floor saying...nothing at all, not us, the next day, we used the tunels below lands to reach Glacier and started the fight, I was in the leadand we were just reaching it , we immediately felt the coldness of Glacier...even with Yrana's medalion she gave us normally to protect us from it, when we were ou of the under water tunels , we arrived in a lit cavern by blue light torches and six dragonnesses were looking at us with anger, immediately, Laryka, followed by what I supposed to be her lieutenants, Lux and Zalea, I don't know how this trio seemed to handle the cold more than freezing from this island,just to warn you, it's so cold here than even vodka, alcohol I'd love, can frozne entirely just with the bottle reaching the floor :

"thanks for the greetings girls, I know, we're not fully trained for that kind of fight but..."

"why the chiefs and the weakling are here !"

I don't pointed you the "weakling" in the troop, Laryka knew how to convince even her friends how I really am from now on, before I could even say anything, she hit a purple Frozne Fangz in front of the all unit :

"my brother defended Bloodground without any outside help, even from mine, Arynala ,a lil more respect or it's water's punishement for ya."

Arynala gulped and put her head down, I hope it's not link to her role,I sat down and Laryka presented us her Frozne Fangz team :

"you already knew Arynala the unit's chief, good fighter, the blue is Zaryfala, the mage, the purple with red stripes, is Vélyra, the yellow and black is Laryna, the two warriors, the red, is Yalea and the far away one with what who look like a skull on her head, also red, is Zafeera."

All greeted us,but one attracted my curiosity on all this unit, it's Zafeera, Laryka told me she was the strategic mind of the unit, capable to track all path without any issuesand knew the entire island, I left for the Resistance command center, just a bit far from our arrival , of course, we were getting warmer beside a special fire only Frozen Fangz could do, it warm everyone without mmelting the ice all around us, much more usefull when you're surrounded with ices, the others chiefs were staying there while Zafeera waited for me at the middle :

"we made several patrols, chief, she said to Laryka, the humans and dwarves in sight made the mistake to keep their amror on, they froze so fast they sticked on their skins, they only stayed in their fort, but their presence is still a risk for us all, if their mage reached the ice gems, their power could be really destructive !"

"well done Zafeera, what's your thought chief ?"

"mhm, the temperature may be a problem for the chiefs and myself, I don't know how but you and your lieutenant seems acclimated to this !"

"seems the two legs kinda messed up all my plans, my entire unit is working on all islands and without a true base, I had to move to any of them and lived with each cliamte of each ones, it's not my cup of tea but...it's doable !"

"anyway...without the climat, I don't know if the two leg military equipement is still working, we shouldn't launched an offensive if it to get pulverised, I also suppose thaat the two leg chief here is a sorcere or a mage !"

"yes, Abraxnor, for what I know !"

"the mages and their shit names, I can't believe this, these humans are really unbelievable !"

"this mage can also hold hostage sir !"

"ok Zafeera !"

It's getting worst, no way to know if they're ferocious, possibility of hostage to saveand a mage on top of that shit pile, it will not be easy :

"I wished to avoid those kind of first visit , answered me Zilla."

"It's ok, I said, biut I could need your help, I need to look at the island."

"you're serious ?"

"yes Zilla."

She didn't know how to rpely to mebut I need to see the futru battlefield and think of what to do to kick out the intruders. Zilla lead me finally out, the frozne wind made me shivers and the white, mixed with a really pale blue, was almost blinding with a pale sun shining :

"here, we only got snow and ice, careful where you walk Tolryk."

"got it,how can we proceed to fight against our ennemis here ?"

"it's not hard here, the armors will froze on them here, they can't patrol, they must be hidden in theyr base, beside any fire to avoid death by coldness, Zafeera should pulverised a brave one while getting to ourt command center !"

"ok, so, we can easily get the advantage, any prisoners ?"

"no, they prefered to kill us since we'll never talked about the gems here, we prefer to die than cursing the entire dragon kind !"

"brave...but useless, we will change that !"

"how ? asked me Zilla, no one could find the mage !"

"oh don't worry sweetie, mages are usually stupid, his arrogance will do what his brain will never did !"

"huh ?"

"Zilla, normally, his survival instinct will should tell him to be careful, right ?"

She nodded and I pursued

"the only problem is that he could have access to the only thing any other mages or witches could get, he will not protect himself !"

"he will not think about the anti found spell !"

"there! you got it."

I smiled and kept on following the pathwith her, weirdly, the climat seemed to be more comfortable suddenly, then I saw a silver bracelet on her left front paw

"of course, that's it !"

"what ? what is it ?"

"your bracelet,it's the one commanding the main gem of the island, Yrana mad eit for the first chief, it sned your felling to the gem to control the climate as well for allies than ennemies."

"how did you know that ? asked me Zilla."

"I'm studying...I'd like to knwo where I put my paws in, just in case !"

"not dumb, but why it's better for you now and not before ?"

"I'm maybe comforting you now !"

Zilla made a lil smile, I suppose it will be the same for the rest of the team's members for now on, with our each others support now possible here no problems should stop us for kicking their asses out of our lands :

"so if I undertsand clearly, humans started their invasion during a huge blizzard which froze them instantly...including their possibles buildings !"

"yes Tolryk, only our flames can work, the cold was so intense, I'm happy that this stuff get fix...thanks to you !"

"on the possible only working one here, where they could put it here ?"

Zilla pointed at me a pic in the east, far less higher than the one on the middle where the weather control gem was, controlling the weather on Glacier as main defense weapon :

"it's there where our biggest gem carrier is, hidden from the cold, they must have prisonners to keep them warm there."

"ok, we'll warn the others, from the importance of those gems, the faster they get breathless, the better we will get !"

"yeah, I'll go get the others, I let you think about the plan !

Zilla let me alone, the time to get all the others, I looked all around me, seeing two legs getting froze while living while they were walking, I was wondering if they were still living below that ice prison, if we only need to melt the ice to wake them up or if they just fall totally dead becaus eof the sudden cold, for this damn shitty sorcerer , he will regret his journey on Dralya, he will taste what it is to be clawed by animals pretty pissed off.