This is Veneatus Curatrix Furia (Venomous Guardian Fury). He was adopted from Duckei.

This is Solis Occasus Furia (Sunset Fury). She was adopted from Duckei.

This is Nox Anima Furia (Dark Soul Furia). He was adopted from Duckei.

This is Purus Anima, a Terrible Terror adopted from 1flower.

This is Sitrlyx, an Unversed Fury based off of Kingdom Hearts. He was adopted from NightmareRebuff.

I trotted almost silently along the stony pathway of the many forests surrounding the mountain I stayed at, my purple claws breaking the boring silence with quiet ticking noises. I wasn't too fond of the odd silence- I preferred being around other dragons, but I guessed that was just me, considering most other dragons were really grumpy. I shrugged slightly, my wings jutting upwards at the motion. Okay, I didn't really mind, since if other dragons were happy when they were by themselves, then I was happy that they were happy. Simple, really. I shrugged again, picking up my speed into a full-on sprint down the rock-lined path. I'd never questioned why this specific path had rocks and the others didn't, and I'd never gone done this way, so I figured I should today.

I paused slightly once I'd- finally- reached the end of the long path, my tail and wings going stiff with curiousity when I heard voices. Definitely not dragon voices, since these ones sounded nicer and sort of quieter. Most of them sounded quieter, anyway. I peered curiously around, trying to catch sight of whatever was making the voices before catching sight of what I believed was called 'humans'. I'd heard of them, I'd never interacted with them, though. Quietly creeping closer to get a better look, I stared curiously at the three humans standing there. The first was rather boring look, with black hair, pale skin and completely black clothing, the second being shorter than the others with pale, blonde, shoulder-length hair and what looked like a mock-dragon suit. The third had very short blonde-red hair with black, grey and red dragon gear, and what I thought was a bow and arrow over her shoulder, though I couldn't tell, seeing as I couldn't see her back. She was taller than the other two by a few inches, though I didn't notice much. I quickly backed up, tilting my head to the side slightly. Judging from the last human's weapon, they most likely would be hostile. I definitely didn't want to deal with them. 

After a good thirty minutes or so- I couldn't tell or care- the first two humans wandered off in separate directions while the third bid them farewell, remaining in the same area and turning towards my hiding spot, which was behind a bush. A really bad hiding spot for a dragon, mind you. I had to keep myself from jumping when I heard her call out, "Hey. You. Dragon. Stop hiding, I know you're there. I'm suprised the others couldn't hear you over there. Get over here so I can see you." I paused, wondering whether or not I should listen to the human or just run for my freaking life. Shrugging, I hopped out from behind the bush and headed over towards the human, immediately cheerful. The human seemed to frown at my sudden happiness, folding her arms and scowling. "What're you so happy about now?" I watched her blankly, not sure how I was supposed to respond. As far as I knew, I couldn't communicate with her since humans couldn't understand dragons like dragons could understand humans or something. As I was trying to figure this out, the human shook her head slightly, quickly saying, "Whatever. Forget that." 

I nodded, actually trying to forget what she'd said and failing quite a lot. I gave up after a few seconds, looking up to see her staring at me as though she thought I was crazy. The human continued to stare before she shook her head again, turned, and walked away, grumbling in annoyance. I frowned, confused. Where was she going? I thought she was going to stay and be my friend. Puzzled, I hopped after the human, puzzled.

~~A little while later because I'm lazy and need to go to sleep in like half an hour...~~

I almost stopped and fell straight over when the human I was still following turned abruptly to glare at me, annoyed. "Why are you still following me!? Don't you have stuff to do?" I tilted my head at the human, confusedly shaking my head. I didn't really have anything to do in paticular, other than... well, actually, nothing, really. I quickly perked back up, once again happy at my brief state of confusion. The human groaned aloud, clearly irritated. "Really? Can you stop being happy?" I blinked at that question. Huh. I'd never actually tried.. not being happy, now that I thought about it. I stared at the ground, puzzled. What would it be like if I wasn't happy, anyways? Really odd, I supposed. Looking back up, I was actually momentarily disappointed to see the human already disappearing around a bend in the path she'd been following. I froze, honestly feeling as though I could jump from happiness. So that was what it was like to not be happy. Odd and strange. Just like that human. I was about to turn in the opposite direction and walk away when I heard the human call out suddenly. "Hey! Sitrlyx!" I glanced around, looking for any other humans, although there was nobody else there but me on the pathway. I tilted my head again. Why was she calling me Sitrlyx? Before I could attempt to question, the human had sprinted off again. I twitched my tail, happy curiousity bubbling up inside of me. Sitrlyx. I would go by Sitrlyx from now on. Turning, I headed in the opposite direction of the human before I glanced back in the direction of the human.

I nodded to myself, making a silent vow to see that human again. 

This is Soieux, a Nightmare Fury based off of Kingdom Hearts. He was adopted from NightmareRebuff.

I scowled as I trudged down a worn pathway. I was basically in what humans would call 'the middle of nowhere'. I could easily see I was in a forest from the mass of trees scattered about, though most were seemingly held together with extending bushes, vines and needle patches. I snarled under my breath in annoyance, trying to remember how I even ended up here. Really, I couldn't even understand what had happened to make me wind up in the middle of a desolate forest.

I shook my head slightly, clenching my lower green jaw in irritation as I whipped around and stomped back down the way I'd come- hopefully, I wouldn't run back into that Monstrous Nightmare with the Speed Stinger and lunatic Nadder that had a human on it. Ugh. I glared around, scowling, as if I was silently daring anything to cross me. Thank the nonexistant dragon gods nothing did- I probably would have flipped the heck out if anything did and turned the whole dang forest upside down then.

Of course, right when I figured things were starting to go my way, the universe just had to prove me wrong and screw me over once more. Wonderful. I ducked and rolled out of the way as a long burst of fire blazed past me, skimming my left foreleg and leaving a slightly visible burn mark. Well, dang. I tilted my head backwards, hissing furiously, and went deadpan immediately. Seriously? It was that lunatic Deadly Nadder again-- wait. Lunatic Nadder = Monstrous Nightmare, too. And that Monstrous Nightmare = Speed Stinger, too. 

I irritably healed the burn mark on my foreleg via curaga ((I think it can do that? Idk, I had to look at the wiki)) and glared up at the Deadly Nadder as it landed. I raised my wings slightly, not sure whether or not I wanted to fly away or stay and fight when a flash of orange caught my eye. At first, I suspected it to be a Dream Eater Fury before recognizing it as a Speed Stinger. Red eyes widening, I did the first thing that came to mind and lunged forward to avoid the Speed Stinger's poisonous tail-tip. And crashed into the lunatic Nadder who started flailing hysterically under my weight while the human on his back tumbled off. 

I quickly hopped off the Nadder, even more annoyed at this point. Seriously, were these lame excuses of dragons just trying to get killed now? Before I could attack and possibly kill either the Deadly Nadder, Speed Stinger, or Monstrous Nightmare- who had landed behind the Speed Stinger after I dodged it- a loud and very annoyed voice piped up from behind the lunatic Nadder, who twisted its head around in attempt to stare at the source.

"Really, can you NOT be crushing me?!" The tall human spat, as she was currently stuck underneath the Nadder- he'd fallen backwards when I'd jumped on him, as had the human. Thorn shifted upright, making a pitiful squawking noise. "Yeah, tell that to Nexia when you explain to her why you're apologizing for almost suffocating me," the human hissed back. I blinked slightly as the Speed Stinger walked right past me and began making annoying squawking noises at the human as well. If I had actual hands and not claws, I was sure I would do what humans call 'face-palming' right now.

Then the Monstrous Nightmare wandered past the peer down at the apparent dragon-and-human argument. I glanced between the four, noticing that none of them were paying attention to me anymore. I lunged forward slightly, slamming my claws into the back of the Nadder's neck and breaking it easily. Well, that's what the lunatic Nadder got for being... well, a lunatic.

Darting away from the dead small-winged dragon, I dug my fangs into the Speed Stinger's neck, breaking its neck also- whenever I fought without using powers, I aimed for the neck. At this point, the human had gotten onto the Nightmare's back while I could see fire building up in the Nightmare's mouth as he quickly took into the air. I scowled, reversing gravity ((the wiki barely had anything on graviga so I'm assuming he can do that)), the Nightmare flew up easier before I reversed gravity again, forcing the Nightmare back to the ground.

The Nightmare looked confused, as did the human, though that was to be expected now, I guessed, considering they were going to be killed in their own joint nightmare- which was odd. Jumping up, i dug my claws into the back of the Nightmare's neck, just behind its horns and shoved harshly, hearing a weird and loud cracking noise as the Nightmare slumped over. I paused slightly, cast the human a death glare, before lunging and stabbing my claws through its stomach. I quickly spun around and took into the air, tearing my claws from the human's stomach and flying away as quickly as possible with one final thought.

 'Letting your guard down was your worst mistake, human.'

~~Not Soieux's P.O.V anymore. Nexia's P.O.V (oc)~~

I twitched my head upwards, my upwards horns bumping against Thorn, Scarlet's Deadly Nadder. I pulled myself to my feet, careful not to scratch him with my upwards or downwards horns. My cyan glowing patterns illuminated the room as I stood up, the axe-like blades on my tail scraping against the floor-boards as I turned and shoved Thorn with one paw. 'Get up, dummy,' I hissed telepathically. 'You're supposed to be teaching me about titan form Deadly Nadders, now wake up.' 

I jabbed him with my claw this time, scowling when he didn't move at all. I paused, narrowing my eyes slightly. Actually, forget not moving at all- he wasn't breathing at all. Tilting my head slightly, I twisted around and slipped easily over to Scarlet, who was in the same state of not breathing. I glanced between Thorn and Scarlet, hissing under my breath. 

'I warned you about Nightmare Furies and you didn't listen. Now look where you've both gotten.'

The following dragon was adopted from Siren-Spirit.

____ the light Celestial Star Caller, a species created by Siren-Spirit.

The following dragons were adopted from StellaMontague.

 This is Mel, a Coraline Fury.

This is Puppet, a Coraline Fury.

The following dragons were adopted from MidnightMare.

 This is Arzet.

Unlike Zalet and Xelev, I didn't find Arzet - it was more like she found me. I'd been hanging around my stables after a day of being at the academy, which had been seriously boring, so now I was just staying around my stables, feeding and playing the dragons and all.

It was pretty good and normal and boring, when I noticed a flash of blue vanishing around the corner of one of the stable tunnels. I didn't think anything of it at the time; I just figured it was Midnight Gleam, one of my FlightMares.

Of course, when I turned around and noticed Midnight Gleam sleeping in her respective stable, I just stood there for a good thirty minutes staring blankly at the wall. Now that I thought of it, the tail of the dragon - which was the only part of the dragon I could see - looked way too much like a Sand Wraith's tail for me to have logically thought it was a FlightMare. It couldn't have been a Sand Wraith though, since neither of my own Sand Wraiths had that pretty blue colored tail.

Vaguely interested now, I wandered off in the direction where the tail had dissapeared. A few of my dragons glanced curiously at me, but other than that, they paid no heed to whatever is was I was doing. When I rouned the corner, I saw flash of blue and white to the left of me, down another tunnel branching off of the main tunnel. I huffed irritably; couldn't whatever I was following slow down so I could get a good look at it. Then again, I did stare at a wall for thirty minutes, so whatever it was couldn't be moving too fast. I must've been walking around for several hours looking for that dragon, considering it was suprisingly dark outside - I was on the entrance floor of my stables where there were windows. Geez, this dragon was stubborn. Almost the moment I thought that, something happened to tap on my back - 'tap on my back' meaning slamming it's forehead forehead into my back - and, because it was what anyone would do, I turned around. This time, thank Thor, the dragon didn't dart off.

Instead, it sat straight in front of me and stared at me. I blinked for a couple seconds, before recongizing the dragon to be a Sand Wraith. The Sand Wraith blinked back at me, leaned down slightly, and bumped it's forehead against my hand a few times. I continued to blink pathetically at the dragon before getting the hint, and raised my hand up to the Sand Wraith's forehead. I stared for a few more seconds before smiling. "Your name can be.. Arzet? How about Arzet?"

 This is Xelev, one of my first few adopted Sand Wraiths.

Much like Zalet, I found Xelev 3 years ago, just four months after I'd met Zalet - I'd been flying on Zalet, heading towards a large jungle not that far away from where I'd found Zalet - it was just on the other side of the water, which hadn't been that much larger than Berk. I'd figured since Zalet had been living near there, why couldn't other Sand Wraiths live near that area? From what little knowledge I had of Sand Wraiths, they weren't extremely territorial. 

"Alright," I called over the wind, patting Zalet's neck. "Head down, towards the sand. Y'see it? Right there." I leaned to the side of Zalet's saddle so he could see me, and pointed down towards the sandy beach. Zalet nodded and dived down towards the beach, tugging his wings close to his sides. Once he was close enough, he flung open his wings, sending sand everywhere, and landly gracefully on his feet. "Great landing," I coughed. "Just don't do that that dive thing and then opening your wings 'n all when we're landing on a place with sand. Sand gets in my eyes when you do that, y'know?" Zalet twitched his wings in the form of a shrug and nodded. I wasn't really sure whether or not he understood what I just said, but I just took that as a 'yes, now please shut up.' That just seemed like something Zalet would say.

I hopped off Zalet's saddle, and rubbed his forehead. "You can either rest here, or come with me if you want," I said, smiling down at Zalet. Zalet huffed, stuck his nose in the air, stomped off towards the forest, stopped, turned towards me, and waved his tail, beckoning me to follow him. "I did not say I was going to come with you. I said you could come with me," I complained, sprinting over to Zalet and pointedly standing in front him.

Zalet shrugged his wings again, and I nodded, pleased, and headed into the jungle.

At first, it was hard to navigate through, with all the trees, plants, and vines blocking the way. Of course, what I was looking for - some caves - would be easy to spot with all the bright green plants and lovely brown trees everywhere. It only took about, eh, not even an hour to find a cave. It looked like something and put leaves and flowers on the top of the cave and then covered the entrance with vines in order to try and hide the cave. It was a rather smart idea; maybe a viking was living here for at moment? I walked over towards the cave, brushing the vines aside with my arm. Zalet wandered in after me, though a few vines caught on his wings and were being dragged behind him. At first, I thought nothing was there, which wasn't suprising since there was basically no light source in the cave. I walked over to Zalet's side and pulled a stick that I had picked up on the way here - hey, it was a cool-looking stick! - Out of one of the attached to Zalet's saddle. I knelt down and felt around on the cave floor for a moment, eventually grabbing to rocks, and clicked them together on the tip of the stick. After a second or so, the end of the stick caught fire, and I carefully grabbed the unlit end of the stick and got back up to my feet. Now that I could actually see, I noticed that the cave was leading downwards, with sand scattered around the slope of the cave. I brushed that little detail off almost immediately; after all, anything could have tracked the sand into the cave. Zalet - well, I thought it was Zalet - let out a low whine, and I pressed a finger to my mouth and shushed him. If someone was in the cave and they heard us, then they would most likely attack us to make us go away. 

Turning my attention back to the cave, I wandered down the slope carefully; if I slipped, then I would probably accidently kill myself with the makeshift torch.

Once I'd got down the slope, Zalet now standing beside me, I could hear another low whine. Now that Zalet was right beside me, I could tell that it hadn't been him.

I stepped further into the cave and noticed something that was dark purple and black quickly being yanked across the floor. I moved the torch in the direction of the dark purple and black thing, and stared blankly for a few seconds. Okay. So, I found another Sand Wraith, one that was most likely scared of me. While my mind was slowly processing things, Zalet hopped over to the other Sand Wraith and nudged its shoulder with his wing. The other Sand Wraith - who I guessed was female - shrank further back against the wall. Zalet sat down, pulled his tail tightly around his feet - or paws, I always thought of his feet as paws - and tucked his wings close to his sides. The other Sand Wraith must've known Zalet wasn't a threat, since she hid behind Zalet, where I could only see the ends of her wings and her tail, and tried to make herself as small as possible. I'd already figured the other stuff out, and now my mind, again, was slowly trying to process the fact that the Sand Wraith really was scared of me. While I stood there looking stupid, Zalet patted the other Sand Wraith's forehead with his left foreleg, before standing up and walking back over to me. Zalet patted my hand with his left foreleg, went back over to the other Sand Wraith and patted her forehead again. Zalet continued this pattern a couple times until the other Sand Wraith started following him every time he headed over to him. When Zalet walked over to me, the other Sand Wraith followed behind him, stopped he came back over to her, and followed him again when he came to me. This went on until the other Sand Wraith was within reach of me, while Zalet sat beside me pleasantly. When nothing happened, however, Zalet stood up, grabbed my hand in my mouth, careful enough not to scratch me, and pulled my hand towards the other Sand Wraith. Thankfully, my mind immediately knew what this meant, and I reached my hand out, and slightly slid it against the other Sand Wraith's forehead. At first she didn't react, before she pressed her forehead into my hand, pulled back, and licked my hand, before darting behind Zalet again. Rather than trying to hide as best she could this time, however, she poked her head around Zalet's shoulder and gave me an awkward dragon smile. I smiled back at the Sand Wraith. "Your name.. Your name will be Xelev."

 This is Zalet, my first and all-time favorite Sand Wraith.

Backstory: 3 years back, I'd found Zalet - a Sand Wraith - on a beach. He'd been tucked under the sand, far enough that I couldn't see where he was. I had one of my Deadly Nadders, Thorn, with me at the time, and he'd been running further down the beach. More specifically, on top of where the Sand Wraith was hidden. Five minutes of having a Deadly Nadder running back and forth over you would probably be severely irritating, and the Sand Wraith seemed to agree to that when he sharply lunged out of the sand and clamped his fangs down on Thorn's ankle. Needless to say, the Sand Wraith was almost immediately met with spikes to the face. 

At this point, I was running over to get the Sand Wraith away from Thorn who was trying - and failing - to kick the Sand Wraith off of his ankle. Now, running towards to fighting dragons is a really bad idea. Now that I was within range of Thorn's spikes and fire and the Sand Wraith's claws, they probably could have killed me if they didn't notice me, which was a good thing that the Sand Wraith noticed me before Thorn did, since the Sand Wraith yanked Thorn backwards by the ankle, knocking the Deadly Nadder onto his stomach. 

"Hey!" I yelled, leaning down to pick up one Thorn's spikes that had missed the Sand Wraith. "Let go! Now." The Sand Wraith just rolled his eyes at me. "Alright then- fine. You have the count until three to let go of Thorn." I hissed. "One." The Sand Wraith took a step backwards and I stepped forwards. "Two." Another step backwards, another step forwards. "Three." I threw Thorn's spike and the Sand Wraith, and he quickly dropped Thorn, and tried to take to the sky. Too bad that he moved too slow and the spike stabbed into the middle of his tail.

Thorn, at this point, had ran behind me and was trying to hide behind me. I blinked at the Sand Wraith, who was currently writhing unhappily on the sand, trying to claw out the spike.

I warily stepped towards the Sand Wraith, who wasn't paying any more attention to me or Thorn. Once I was close enough to touch him, I grabbed the end of his tail and grabbed the spike. The Sand Wraith was now glaring daggers at me, though he didn't do anything, most likely because he didn't want me to push the spike further through his tail, I guessed. I pulled out the spike, turned around towards the water, and threw the spike as far as I could. The spike landed with a small splash, floating on the water. The Sand Wraith peered closely at the spike, as though he was trying to figure whether or not it was going to come back and attack me. While he was distracted with staring - and hissing - at the spike, I was taking a closer look at his tail. I couldn't really see the stab mark, since it was covered with blood and sand. I took a couple steps away from the Sand Wraith, and turned to Thorn. "Go get water," I ordered, and Thorn immediately darted over to the sea, sucked some water into his mouth - I grimaced at the thought of having salt water in my mouth - and came back over it. "Spit it on his tail." I grabbed the end of the Sand Wraith's tail again, causing the dragon in question to turn, and I pointed at where I thought the wound was. Thorn twitched his wings up in the form of a shrug, and spat it out on the Sand Wraith's tail. I knelt down by the Sand Wraith's tail and started rubbing the blood and sand away, which was pretty easy now since it was also coated with salt water.

I stood up, and quickly sprinted off towards the edge of the beach, where some of those plants - the ones with the really big, smooth leaves - and tore two of them off, as well as a stray vine that was draped over the plant. 

I headed back over to the Sand Wraith, who I think was begininning to lose consiousness from blood loss, and knelt down by his tail again. I wrapped the leaves around the wound as best I could, and tied it with the vine.

The Sand Wraith, who had woken back up and was staring at me, flicked his gaze from me to his tail to Thorn and back to me. He pushed himself to his feet, turned, and bumped his forehead against my stomach before laying down, flicking his tail towards me. I blinked down at him and stroked his neck.

"Zalet. Your name will be Zalet."

This is Axeaz, Valvezea's mate.

I'd found Valvezea and Axeaz a few mere days ago- I'd been flying with Zalet (correction: Zalet bit my arm dragged me out of bed by the arm and took off flying) and now we were headed towards the area where I'd found him. I partially expected him to stop when we passed the beach where I found Zalet, but he continued flying past it, headed towards a snowy mountainous biome, a lot farther off. 

Once we'd reached wherever the heck it was Zalet was going, he very politely dropped me into the snow, looking bored. Rude dragon. I popped my head out of the snow, and glared at Zalet, who just laughed at me. Either dragons didn't have manners, or Zalet was just being freakin' rude. Now ignoring me, Zalet turned towards the cave he was sitting by - how I didn't notice that in the first place was beyond me - and whacked his tail against the side off the cave entrance, and peered inside of it, while I just basically stood there thinking about how out of place Zalet's bright-ish colored scales were against the white snow. 

After a couple seconds, a icey blue head poked out of the cave, blinked at Zalet for a few moments, and ducked back into the cave for a moment, before bouncing out of the cave. I stared blankly at the pretty blue Sand Wraith, who was currently bouncing in circles around Zalet, pulling at his wings and his tail.

I turned my gaze towards the cave entrance, and stopped and stared. Another Sand Wraith was peering it's head out of the cave entrance, it's white eyes flicking around before pausing on me. It turned towards me fully, it's pale grey-silver head seemingly glowing, with the sun reflecting off the snow onto it's scales. I stared slightly, glancing between the blue Sand Wraith, who was bouncing happily around Zalet, to the grey Sand Wraith, who had moved to stand curiously beside me, before I grinned at both of them. I turned towards the blue one, who noticing that the grey Sand Wraith had gone over to me, had ran over with Zalet trailing behind him. "You.. Your name can be.. Axeaz? How about Axeaz?" The blue Sand Wraith - Axeaz - grinned an awkward dragon smile at me. I turned towards the grey Sand Wraith. "Your name.. Your name will be Valvezea."

 This is Valvezea, Axeaz's mate.

I'd found Valvezea and Axeaz a few mere days ago- I'd been flying with Zalet (correction: Zalet bit my arm dragged me out of bed by the arm and took off flying) and now we were headed towards the area where I'd found him. I partially expected him to stop when we passed the beach where I found Zalet, but he continued flying past it, headed towards a snowy mountainous biome, a lot farther off. 

Once we'd reached wherever the heck it was Zalet was going, he very politely dropped me into the snow, looking bored. Rude dragon. I popped my head out of the snow, and glared at Zalet, who just laughed at me. Either dragons didn't have manners, or Zalet was just being freakin' rude. Now ignoring me, Zalet turned towards the cave he was sitting by - how I didn't notice that in the first place was beyond me - and whacked his tail against the side off the cave entrance, and peered inside of it, while I just basically stood there thinking about how out of place Zalet's bright-ish colored scales were against the white snow. 

After a couple seconds, a icey blue head poked out of the cave, blinked at Zalet for a few moments, and ducked back into the cave for a moment, before bouncing out of the cave. I stared blankly at the pretty blue Sand Wraith, who was currently bouncing in circles around Zalet, pulling at his wings and his tail.

I turned my gaze towards the cave entrance, and stopped and stared. Another Sand Wraith was peering it's head out of the cave entrance, it's white eyes flicking around before pausing on me. It turned towards me fully, it's pale grey-silver head seemingly glowing, with the sun reflecting off the snow onto it's scales. I stared slightly, glancing between the blue Sand Wraith, who was bouncing happily around Zalet, to the grey Sand Wraith, who had moved to stand curiously beside me, before I grinned at both of them. I turned towards the blue one, who noticing that the grey Sand Wraith had gone over to me, had ran over with Zalet trailing behind him. "You.. Your name can be.. Axeaz? How about Axeaz?" The blue Sand Wraith - Axeaz - grinned an awkward dragon smile at me. I turned towards the grey Sand Wraith. "Your name.. Your name will be Valvezea."

This is Balaur.

I huffed, kicking at some random unfortunate rock that happened to be in my way. Needless to say, I wasn't very happy at the moment. Axeaz woke me up by jumping on me and knocked me out of bed - that was the last time he was ever coming into my room -, Zalet was being grumpy all morning, Scorch, my Monstrous Nightmare, got into a fight with Thorn, my Deadly Nadder, SnotLout was being annoying so I punched him, and then I got in trouble with Hiccup for punching SnotLout, had to apologize to SnotLout, and now I somehow wound up in a desert which didn't even make sense to me. I blamed SnotLout for all this.

  I huffed again, kicked at another rock, and continued on to wherever I was going in this random desert. While I was basically just kicking every inanimate object that got in my, I noticed a pink and red-ish thing out of the corner of my eye. I turned to get a closer look at it, almost immediately indentifying it as a Sand Wraith. This was quickly shoved to the back of my mind when I noticed that it was fighting something - more specifically, a Monstrous Nightmare. Strangely, the Monstrous Nightmare looked way more beat up than the Sand Wraith did. It then registered in my mind that if the fight didn't stop soon, the Monstrous Nightmare was going to die, and it's death would most likely be very painful and slow as well.

  Sure, getting involved would probably get me killed too, but hey, screw it. I was still mad about this morning, so why take it out on someone that was hurting somebody else? Sounded like a pretty good idea in my head. I was either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid to do what I did next - I pulled the knife I always kept in my boot out, cut off a part of a nearby cactus, and threw it, successfully hitting the Sand Wraith in the shoulder, the needles of the cactus causing it to stick to it's shoulder. While the Sand Wraith was distracted with this, the Monstrous Nightmare whipped around, spread it's wings, and sped off into the sky as fast as it possibly could to get away from the Sand Wraith. The Sand Wraith had torn the cactus off it's shoulder, and was currently glaring around for anyone who possibly could have thrown that. At this point, I still wasn't sure whether or not I was being brave or stupid, since I cut off another bit of the poor, innocent cactus and threw it at the Sand Wraith again, missing this time.

  The Sand Wraith spun towards me, it's eyes wide in fury, before it took to the skies. I wasn't sure if it was fleeing or if it was going to come flying back at me, so I merely braced myself and gripped the the knife tighter. I blinked, before hearing a weird noise, almost like wingbeats. Like any sane person would do, I turned towards the source of the noise and promptly got hit in the stomach by the Sand Wraith's wing in response. Almost completely unphased by this, I stabbed the knife down at the Sand Wraith's back as it attempted to land, knocking it to the ground, although in my mind, the Sand Wraith completely deserved it. The Sand Wraith spat angrily at me, and lunged forwards to bite me. Unbothered, I darted off to the side and hit the knife as hard as possible into the Sand Wraith's right shoulder, where the cactus had previously hit him.

  The Sand Wraith cringed backwards, it's wings stiffening at it's sides, most likely in shock now. I popped the knife back out and forced it through it's lower right foreleg, causing it to lose it's footing and slip onto it's right side, the knife being pressed further into it's leg. The Sand Wraith roared at me, probably in a feeble attempt to intimidate me, though it had absolutely no effect. The Sand Wraith most likely knew that it was already beaten, it just didn't want to accept it. I glared down at the Sand Wraith for a few moments, before my unphazed façade faded when I noticed the pain in the Sand Wraith's eyes, and the blood slowly soaking the sand around the Sand Wraith's foreleg. 

  I knelt down, pushing the Sand Wraith onto it's left side, and pulled the knife from it's leg. The Sand Wraith blinked slightly, the pain in it's fading - either thhe Sand Wraith was going into shock causing the pain to leave, or the knife had just been the ultimate source of pain. It flicked it's gaze towards me warily, most likely expecting me to just stab the knife at him again. I regarded the bloodied knife in my hand boredly, tossing it off the side. The Sand Wraith, who had probably figured out that I wasn't trying to hurt him anymore, flicked his eyes from me to the knife, a scowl making it's way onto his face. 

  I stared down at the Sand Wraith, and held my hand out towards him. He narrowed his eyes slightly, before he sharply bit my hand and pulled back, scowling at me. I stared blankly down at him, unphazed - hey, Zalet does that all the time, I'm used to it, - and continued holding my hand out towards him. He blinked again, before warily shifting forwards to press his nose into the palm of my hand. He glanced back up at me, then at my hand, before pulling away, his eyes narrowing again as I dropped my hand back down. I rubbed the blood off my hand, and held my hand out again, and the Sand Wraith pressed his nose against my hand again. I smiled slightly as the Sand Wraith slowly shifted onto his feet, his balance unsteady from the wounds still bleeding on his right foreleg. He blinked at me, unmoving. I blinked back at him, a smile growing on my face.

  "I'll name you.. Balaur."

This following dragons shown below were adopted from Fleetwing, with the final one having been custom made for me.

 This is Feathered Flare, a Plumed Dragid, which is a species created by Fleetwing.

Scorch, my Monstrous Nightmare, beat his wings quickly, flying as fast as he could to where a dragon rider, Fleetwing, had such Plumed Dragids up for adoption. They were rather interesting dragons, and I was determined to bring one of them into my dragon family today. I patted Scorch's neck as Fleetwing and the Plumed Dragid's came into view, along with a large crowd, each of the vikings in the crowd wanting to adopt as well. "Fly down, and try to land in front of the crowd if you can. Just don't hurt anybody landing!" I commanded, reaching up to take hold of Scorch's horns.

Scorch nodded, dipping his wings downwards. The crowd frantically backed up in suprise when they noticed Scorch diving down, allowing Scorch to land easily. I hopped up Scorch's sleek saddle quickly, noticing another viking already adopting one of the Plumed Dragids. I could see two other Plumed Dragids, though the pink one with red eyes, white wings, black legs, tail and head-feather and a crooked beak caught my attention immediately. She was stalking around, head held high, her wings outstretched in defiance. She seemed to glare down every viking, raising her head even higher when a viking backed away from her slightly.

She swung her head around, scowling deeply, when she noticed me and Scorch. Her scowl deepened when neither me or Scorch backed down. She huffily began to stomp over to Scorch while I walked over to Fleetwing. "Hi, Fleetwing! Uhh, these Plumed Dragids are up for adoption, correct?" I asked, simply to confirm my thoughts. "Yep! I found them not to long ago. Are you going to adopt one? There are two left." Fleetwing responded, smiling. "Yeah, I'd like to have one of them in my family- I'm sure my dragons would, too." I explained. "That's great! You can have a look at them before you adopt; they won't hurt you, don't worry." I nodded, and turned back towards Scorch to see which one he liked (if I was going to get a new dragon, my main dragon had to like them, too). I stopped, blinking, when I noticed the pink Plumed Dragid from before irritably pulling at Scorch's left wing, looking highly annoyed. 

Scorch glanced from me to the Plumed Dragid before laying his head down in defeat. I quickly walked on over, folding my arms defiantly. "Hey, hey! Stop it; that isn't nice. Leave Scorch alone now," I commanded, staring her down. She turned towards me, frowning, and folded her wings, trying to mock me. "Okay, so you're now being a copy-cat, huh? Well! That is not going to work." I declared. The Plumed Dragid wavered slightly, frowning a little bit, before she tilted her head to one side, clearly confused as to why I wasn't respecting her. She held up a wing towards me curiously. I blinked slightly, and took her wing in my head and shook it slightly, sort of like shaking someone's hands. She pulled her wing back and nodded descively, as though she'd made up her mind about something.

I curiously followed the Plumed Dragid as she strode up to Fleetwing, and poked her with one leg. Fleetwing turned to look down at the Plumed Dragid and smiled, patting the Plumed Dragid's head. "Hey there. What'd you need?" The Plumed Dragid stuck her beak in the air, pointing one wing towards me and then at herself. I blinked slightly before speaking up, "I'd like to adopt this Plumed Dragid, Fleetwing." I said, smiling. Fleetwing smiled back. "Alright! What'll you name her?"

I thought for a few moments, frowning; I hadn't even thought of a name. "I'll name her.. Feathered Flare." I decided, nodding. 

This is Waterfall, my Water Element Deadly Nadder. 

This is Indigo, a Plumed Dragid made by Fleetwing.

The following dragons- Mianrai Oiche Furies- were adopted from rasvim1313.

Bloodstone

Stellinetia

Chrysitis Venustus

Zedexi

Tiger

Soulflare

???

Fading Skies (Sky)

Valuni

Emerald

Ari

Bloodsky

I went a retrieved their names; the pictures weren't put in alignment to when I got them, so I guessed on which was which as I don't have their names saved with their files on this computer.

The following creatures shown below, until stated otherwise, were adopted from ThunderRider19.

 This is Pyrozentic, also known as Pyro. He is a Mystic Wolf, being the Fire one.

I stalked through the many tunnels of the dormant volcano I lived in, my flaming paws scorching the already blackened ground more. I was feared by the other wolves and animals that lived around here, the flame marking on my forehead proving my status as a mystic wolf.

Around here, mystic wolves were both respected, feared and worshiped. Many humans came to this place, determined to defeat me and become stronger than a mystic wolf. Those humans were very foolish, thinking they could win against me, the mystic wolf of flames. They all died quickly, burning to death. I'd never had any remorse towards any of those humans; after all, they were simply worthless beings that disrespected me and all other mystic wolves. For a wolf, disrespecting a mystic was considered a crime against nature, and whoever had done so was to be sentenced with death.

I sighed slightly, my almost angel-like wings waving lightly. I'd never grieved for a human, not until now. A human had tried to defeat me earlier that day- while I was used to this, it had still been very odd. That human hadn't been like the bulky, bearded figures always attack me. It'd been a lot smaller and far less bulky, and had long fur on it's head rather than the short, uncomfortable looking fur that the others had. No human with an appearance like that had ever attacked me. It'd had what looked like a medium-sized circular thing around it's waist that had no closing at the bottom, long black things covering it's legs, a pitch black thing covering it's arms, chest and stomach, and bright scarlet hair with golden streaks. 

I'd easily won, per usual, but this time I felt oddly bad about it. Like that human had been important somehow. I hissed to myself, shaking my head sharply. This was not right! I shouldn't be upset over a mere human. And yet, the feeling of remorse remained, driving me to return to the dead human and return its body to where it had come from, for the other humans to mourn over its wounds. I finally gave into the horrid feeling, turning around, and flying back through the tunnels as I re-traced my path back to the dead, or dying, human.

I landed beside the human, frowning down at it. It was hardly half my size, and was surprisingly still breathing. I lowered my head and sniffed it's neck warily, eyeing it's face uneasily. I pressed my nose to its cheek, narrowing my eyes in confusion. If it was still alive, why wouldn't it wake up? I hadn't set fire to this human like I did to all the rest, I'd simply left countless, deep claw marks scattered over it's body. I pulled backwards, growling defensively immediately, when the human opened it's startlingly bright green eyes, and glanced up at me. I very much expected it to scream, attempt to run, or try and attack me again.

Confusingly, the human merely remained in place, watching me, before coughing out the word, "Hello." I stared at the human, baffled. What? Was this human no longer afraid of me? Did it not understand what I could do to it, how much pain I could inflict upon it? I narrowed my eyes, telepathically snarling, 'You are very lucky I had not killed you, small human. If you explain to me your intent, I will return to where you came from.' The human stared at me for a few seconds and finally said, "Hello. You must be the Mystic." I frowned, confused. Of course I was the mystic here; it should have known that when I attacked it!
I looked down, sharply yanked from my thoughts, as the human spoke again, smiling very slightly now. "So you are a Mystic. I apologize for attacking you." The human stared up at me, unblinking, clearly awaiting a response. 'Why are you apologizing, small human? I did far greater damage to you than you could have ever done to me.' The human smiled again, though it didn't answer my question. "I.. would like to be friends with you, Mystic wolf." The human coughed slightly, flinching from the wounds. 

I tilted my head to one side, vaguely interested in this human. Really? A human willing to befriend a mystic wolf who attacked and nearly killed them? It was bizarre on so many levels. 'I would be okay with that,' I said slowly, my telepathy beginning to become louder in the human's mind as I leaned down closer to it. 'You may have the honor of being a friend of a Mystic wolf. However, I'd appreciate a true name rather than simply being called Mystic.' 

The human nodded, slowly beginning to pull itself up into a sitting position. "How about Pyro...zentic?" It asked, staring up at me. 'Hmm. Odd.. but interesting... Very well. I am Pyrozentic then.' I declared. The human smiled, hesitantly reaching over at stroking my left ear softly. I calmly nodded in acceptance of the human, and stood up. I stepped over to it carefully, leaning down and licked the small human's forehead. 'You may stay with me until you are fit to leave. Until then, you will be accepted by all the other creatures living here, small human.'

~~~

 This is Electrineziac, also known as Neziac. He is a Mystic Wolf, being the Electric one.

I grinned wickedly, launching myself across a gap in the mountain I lived upon. The mountain was larged, the tip of the mountain hidden in the clouds, it was so high up. I spread open my wings on the next jump, letting out a loud howl as I did.

Not many creatures lived here- only two dragons that I knew lived here and a clawful of wolves that usually stayed hidden around the area. I stopped flying, landing gracefully near the middle of the mountain, and sat down on a ledge, watching the quiet mountain. I considered flying further through the island to hang around with the two dragons I knew, before deciding against it. They were both nocturnal anyway, so they'd be asleep right now - it was the middle of the day.

I pawed boredly at a nearby pebble, swiping my paw at it and watching it soar down the mountain. I smirked slightly, sending a quick wave of electricity after the pebble, making it look like a glowing yellow star. I snickered slightly to myself before I heard frantic paw steps behind me. I turned and scowled at the wolf approaching me. I knew who she was, no doubt- she was known as Sacred. She thought highly of Mystic wolves, which included me, although I was basically at the top of her mind considering I was a rare Mystic wolf.

I nodded slightly, telepathically speaking to her. 'Sacred. What do you want?' Sacred made a low, barking/growling noise; normal wolves like her lacked the telepathic abilities us Mystics had. 'Another Mystic?!' I practically roared, jumping to my feet and shoving my face into hers, my lips pulled back in the beginnings of a snarl. 'Where is this Mystic?! Take me to him- now!' Sacred nodded frantically, letting out a high-pitched yelp of momentary terror as she spun around and took off towards where this other Mystic was.

I flew after Sacred, staying just above her, my forelegs and the tips of my wings crackling erratically with electricity. I kept my pale silver eyes fixed on Sacred, my eyes narrowing furiously. Of course, that fool would anger me by so recklessly saying there was another Mystic on this mountain- on MY mountain. I quickly hovered in place as Sacred slowed to a stop, panting at the long run, and looked up towards me, gesturing towards the Mystic winged fire wolf on the edge of the mountain, a human standing beside him.

I silently flew to and stood next to Sacred, who quickly took a few steps away from me to avoid getting shocked by the thousands of sparks flying from my legs and wings. I glared at her, scowling. 'Go find the other wolves here. If it becomes far too dire for me to handle- which it won't- I'll need you and the others as back-up, Sacred,' I growled telepathically. Sacred nodded, but before she could run off again, I leaned down and licked her forehead lightly. 'Stay safe, Sacred.' Sacred nodded, licking my muzzle, and sped off to find the other wolves. I flew towards the other Mystic and the human once I was sure Sacred was far enough away to be safe from this possibly threatening Mystic.

The fire Mystic's head snapped up sharply and he snarled the second he saw me, forcing the human behind him and stretching his wings to protect it. I frowned slightly. Why would a Mystic protect a human? I shrugged it off quickly, snarling back at him. 'Fire Mystic. What are you doing on my mountain? Return to your volcano at once!' I shouted telepathically, lowering my upper body to the ground, prepared to jump at the fire Mystic if I needed to.

He growled back at me. 'You have no control over where I go.' He replied coolly, scowling. I spat furiously at him. 'THIS IS MY MOUNTAIN! LEAVE AT ONCE!' I screeched, furious now. I lunged at the fire Mystic, quickly knocking him backwards while to human behind him quickly darted to the side to avoid getting hit. I scored my claws twice down the fire Mystic's muzzle while he lashed his flaming paw at me, the long claws barely missing my chest. I whipped my head around, kicking the other Mystic away, as I stalked towards the human. Having a Mystic here was bad enough, but a human? They had to be killed, no exceptions.

I started to jump at the human, who made an almost wolf-like shrieking noise, only to be knocked back by the fire Mystic, who had darted in front of the human and struck me backwards with his left wing. 'What are you doing?! Why are you protecting a mere human?!' I shrieked furiously, forcing myself back to my paws. The fire Mystic's eyes blazed in rage, but he somehow remained calm as he slowly hissed, 'Do not lay a claw on this small human, or I swear to the Mystic heavens, I will tear you apart, limb by limb, and then leave you to bleed to an agonizingly painful death.' I shuddered slightly at the deadly threat.

When a Mystic made a threat, they always followed through. I knew from doing this myself; I'd nearly killed Sacred when she doubted my threats and went against me. 'Why are you protecting this human?' I hissed again, trying to force myself to calm down. The fire Mystic telepathically hissed back, 'this small human is mine. It is a.. odd human. This small human is a friend of mine. Dare hurt it, and you'll regret it for all eternity.' 

I stared in surprise. I'd never heard of a Mystic befriending a human. I slowly padded closer, my eyes narrowing in curiosity. The fire Mystic snarled, about to lunge at me before I raised a paw and lowered my head and wings as a sign of submission and the fire Mystic froze immediately, glaring down at me. I walked closer, slipping quickly around the fire Mystic and poked my nose against the human's shoulder. The human, who I guessed was very weak since it almost fell when I did that, squeaked indignantly and darted to the fire Mystic's other side, away from me, trying to hide itself under his wing. The fire Mystic smiled lightly at the human, licking it's cheek gently.

I frowned, stalking over to the human again and shoved my face into its own face. The human made another shrieking noise, clutching at the fire Mystic's wing frantically. The fire Mystic growled slightly at me. 'Cool off, Pyromaniac,' I growled telepathically. 'I just want to take a look at it.' The fire Mystic looked skeptical before he reluctantly nudged the human's side softly, nudging it towards me. I frowned at, staring at its eyes in surprise. Its eyes were the brightest color green I'd ever seen, with hints of blue in the pupil.

I tilted my head at the human, confused. For a human, it was very odd- I'd never seen one that looked like it, let alone one that was special enough to receive the great honor of befriending a Mystic wolf. 'Who are you?' I demanded, frowning at the human. The human stared, still clinging to the fire Mystic, who had gone back to licking it's cheek. It looked up at the fire Mystic, confused, before looking back at me. I frowned. 'Do you lack a name?' I asked, puzzled. The human looked more confused before she pointed at the fire Mystic.

"What about him?' I growled gruffly, giving him a death glare. He returned my glare. The human blinked again, and then pointed at the fire Mystic again, shaking his shoulder slightly as it looked up at him, eyes wide. 'Fine, does that Mystic have a name?' I asked, changing to question. The human nodded quickly, before speaking. "He is Pyrozentic." I nodded slightly. 'Okay then. What is your name?" The human shook its head. 'It lacks a name,' Pyrozentic explained. 'So I simply call it "small human".' I glared at him. 'That isn't even a proper name. Give it a name!' I snapped, frowning.

He glared at me before pushing the human's shoulder with his nose. 'Small human, I will call you Scarlet.' He grunted, pressing his nose to the side of Scarlet's neck.

I watched them intently. The other Mystic hadn't once tried to attack the human- he'd just been nudging the human and licking its face. The human turned towards me, sharply running forwards and burying its face into my fluffy chest. I stumbled backwards in shock, growling immediately. The human turned its head and rubbed the side of its head against my chest, like the fire Mystic had done to the human. 'What are you doing now?! Get off of me! Have you completely lost your tiny mind?!' I howled, frantically trying to force the human off of me.

"If you be friends with me and Pyrozentic, I'll stop." I froze, staring at the human. Me? Friends with a human and another Mystic? That was odd on so many levels. But.. maybe for now, odd was for the best. I slowly nodded. The human smiled, "Your name'll be Electrineziac then." I nodded hesitantly again.

'Very well. But I will not leave with you and Pyrozentic. I must remain here,' I explained. The human nodded slightly, looking a bit crestfallen. '...You and Pyrozentic may visit whenever you desire.' I added, pushing the human over to Pyrozentic, who quickly nuzzled his forehead against her chin. The human smiled at me over its shoulder, climbing up onto Pyrozentic's back. Pyrozentic stared at me for a moment before dipping his head in respect.

I returned the gesture and Pyrozentic quickly the flew off, the human holding onto it's back. I stared silently for a few moments. I nodded slightly again, turned and flew off to find Sacred.

~~~

 This is Cyr, a Mystic Wyvern. He is the Fire one of the Mystic Wyverns.

I stalked almost silently through the forest, the still air broken only by the crackling flames on my spikes. I was backed up with fifteen other Wyverns- granted, they weren't a Mystic Wyvern like me, but they were strong and could definitely bring down an entire forest by themselves. I turned around slightly, my eerie red eyes narrowing, when one of the Wyverns- Divine- spoke up, her alarmingly bright blue eyes flashing. 'Why are we doing this? There is no reason to attack a human's village- you don't even know if the one who killed off the Wyverns are even going to be there." Divine was the only Wyvern who wasn't a Mystic who had telepathy, a power I'd given to her.

I snarled, drawing myself up to full height as I glared down at her. 'That doesn't matter. Humans are worthless beings, so why should any of us even care about what will happen to them?' Divine frowned at me, but didn't argue any farther. I spun away from her, lashing the end of my tail at her and nearly catching her left wing on the blades. I beat my wings twice as I took to the air- not that high up, still hidden by the trees. 'Now hurry up and follow me, all of you," I growled, speeding off through the trees. The Wyverns quickly headed after me, while Divine merely stood still were she was, before she turned and stalked off in the direction we'd come from. I hissed furiously, smoke lashing from my snout now. 'Continue on until you find the human village. When you find it, no mercy is to be shown for those pathetic beings.' I turned around and flew as fast as possible back towards Divine- if she wanted to be annoying, fine. If she wanted to leave and turn against me, then she could die for all I cared.

I caught up to her easily- Mystic Wyverns were known for their incredibly fast flying- and landed in front of her. Divine just stopped and scowled, trying to step around me. I stretched out both my wings to the furthest point, blocking any means of escape for her. She started to open her own wings, and I quickly lashed my claws at her, pinning her down easily. It was a well known fact among Wyverns that Divine was the weakest- she'd been assigned solely to watching over Mystics, and had never gotten battle training, like a normal Wyvern, because of that. I leaned down dangerously close to her face, my red eyes glittering in fury. 'Tell me- what did you think you were doing, turning away from me?' I hissed telepathically, lashing my bladed tail behind me. Divine scowled, not even trying to get away from. 'What you were doing was wrong, Cyr, and I refuse to go along with it.'

I glared down at her for several moments more before I reluctantly released my hold on her. Divine pushed one wing down, propping herself up uneasily as she scowled at me. As defiant as she was trying to be, I could easily see it in her eyes that she was petrified of me. I leaned towards here again, pressing the side of my snout against Divine's before I turned away, growling over my shoulder, 'Never cross me again, Divine. If you do, there is very little chance you will receive sympathy from me again.' I flew off before she got a chance to respond, headed towards where I'd left the other Wyverns. I glanced back warily Divine, who was quickly darting back down the path we'd come from.

I, very quickly, made it the human village, where the Wyverns already were. I was about to fly down and join them when something caught my eye. I turned my head upwards in confusing to see a red shape flying away from the village quickly. It definitely wasn't a Wyvern since it was far too small to be one. I narrowed my eyes a bit and flew after the creature. 

By now, I was close enough to identify the figure as the Mystic fire wolf, myself being the Mystic fire Wyvern. I sped up slightly. Mystics were actually friends with each other, but only with those of the same element. 'Mystic wolf!' I roared sharply, catching the other Mystic's attention easily. He turned, confused, and took one look at me and frantically took off flying as fast as his wings would allow him.

I frowned, puzzled, but shrugged it off anyways- he probably thought I was a normal Wyvern about to attack him. I turned and started flying towards the village when Divine popped back into my mind. I hovered in the air, frowning- attack a human village, or make sure Divine was safe?

I internally sighed as I flew towards where I'd seen Divine last. It wasn't hard to find her, since her sheer white scales stood out against the brown and green forest floor. I lunged down quickly, landing beside her. Divine jumped slightly, stumbling away from me in surprise before she hunched her wings down, scowling. 'What now?' Divine hissed, frowning. 'What, I'm not allowed to see if one of my Wyverns is safe?' I spat, annoyed, pressing my muzzle against her neck. Divine blinked. 'Oh.' She muttered, lowering her head uneasily. 'Sorry then.' I nodded slightly, draping one wing over her back. 'Well? Where are we going now?' I demanded, pulling myself up to full height. 'You're coming with me now? What about the other Wyverns?'

I scowled. 'Those Wyverns can take care of themselves- you can't. You need me.' I growled, rubbing my forehead against her cheek. Divine nodded quickly, intertwining her tail with me. 'Umm.. So, I wanted to go to this volcano that's close to our-- uhm, your land...' Divine replied, quickly correcting herself before she could say 'our land'. I glanced down at her, my head tilting to the side very slightly before I said, 'You're right. It's not mine land- it's ours. It's my land as much as it is yours, and it's only ours.' The tiniest of smiles flicked across my face as I licked her forehead. 'Never forget that, Divine.'

~~~

This is Azutien, a griffon. He was a coward and a traitor, having left his griffon tribe during a battle. He has since been killed for such sins.

I sprinted as fast as I possibly could from the mass of fighting griffons. I knew I looked like a coward, fleeing from battle without even looking to see if my fellow griffons were okay. I ran even faster when I heard an ear-splitting shriek from a dying griffon, the gash on my stomach bleeding even more. I didn't care about that, though. All I cared about right now was running- running as far as I could from the fighting, from the dying griffons, from my friends and from everything I'd ever known.

Once I was certain I was far enough from the fighting, I slowly stumbled to a stop and slumped over, light-headed from blood loss. I longed to fly away, to get out of here and go somewhere else, but both my wings were damaged from an opposing griffon biting down on them and trying to pull them out of joint. I scowled slightly, rubbing my silver-tipped, dark grey beak with my very dark, yet pale blue talons. 

I slowly pushed myself to my feet, my back paws feeling shaky and unsteady. I still didn't care, though. And I wouldn't care, not until I was finally taking my last, dying breaths. I pushed myself forwards, my deep blue eyes narrowed to slits. I was sure I was completely in the safe when I heard something. Specifically, wing beats. Griffon wing beats.

I spun around, confused, only to have talons slam into my neck and me backwards. I roared furiously, lashing at the griffon in panic. Two of the other seven griffons quickly pinned my talons down, however, preventing me from doing anything. "Azutien... You sick traitor," the griffon above me roared, her side heavily bleeding, and half of her tail torn off entirely. I glared defiantly up at her. At the leader of the tribe of griffons I came from. "I'm not a traitor," I spluttered, coughing, as she tightened her grip on my neck. "I did what I had to do to live, Ryiu!"

Ryiu screeched furiously, the remaining portion of her tail lashing violently as she stabbed her other talons in my chest. "YOU BETRAYED ME AND THE REST OF THE GRIFFONS- YOU LEFT US TO DIE, YOU COWARD!" I flinched as she roared in my face, her talons clutching my neck in a death grip now- tight enough that I could barely breath. I stared up at her silently as her words settled in. A coward. I truly was a coward, wasn't I?

I frowned to myself. No. No. I wasn't a coward, I refused to be. I screeched as loud as I could, kicking my hind paws into Ryiu's stomach, knocking the griffon backwards. The two other griffons holding my talons down frantically darted over to her, worry evident in their eyes. Infuriated, I lunged at Ryiu, who barely had time to look up at the incoming attack, before a flash of silver passed in front of me. I frowned slightly, confused, as my claws stabbed into a different griffon's neck. I stared at the griffon, confused, before I recognized her. Purity. My mate; the only one who'd never thought I was a coward.

I frantically yanked my talons back and Purity, no longer held up by anything, fell immediately, her once bright green eyes dull, blank and sightless. Ryiu had returned to her senses at this point and, taking a single look at Purity's dead body, roared in front and flew at me at an amazing speed, smashing her talons in my neck, pressing my lower body down with her powerful hind legs. "YOU.. YOU.. HOW DARE YOU?!" She screeched at the top of her lungs. She tightened her grip on my neck, quickly cutting off any air. She dug her claws into my stomach, and suddenly released my neck, only to have her stab her own talons through my neck. Just like I did to purity. She snarled in triumph at the blazing pain in my eyes. "Hurts when it happens you, doesn't it, coward?" She spat, her eyes alight with fury. She twisted her claws slightly, and I froze slightly in surprise, choking up blood.

Ryiu grinned wickedly, a cruel gleam in her eye as she pulled her talons from my neck and released her claws from my stomach. I collapsed onto my side almost immediately, blood quickly pooling around my neck, chest and head. "I hope you bleed yourself out in a painful death," Ryiu snarled as she took to the skies, followed quickly by the other griffons, leaving me to bleed to death as I stared mournfully at Purity's dead figure.