Dragontale

Fury wanted more than anything to be a dragon for a big heroic destiny. She just didn't think she had any heroic traits. She liked reading and studying more than hunting, and she was terrible when it came to claw to claw combat. Fury and the other dragonlets learned they were in some sort of prophecy, but they didn't know any of the details except they were supposed to save the tribes from a war that had lasted for 20 years. She and the other dragonlets got along fine, but she wasn't sure she could handle saving all the tribes from a war that had lasted for 20 years. “How will i do this? How can i-” her thoughts were interrupted by a fierce pain in her tail, near the tip. She whirled around with a hiss of anger, teeth barred. Behind her was one of the other dragonlets, Nightshade, a dark scarlet scale between his teeth. “What was that for?!” Fury yowled.

“You were in your scroll world again.”

“SO YOU BIT ME?!”

“Yea.”

“YOU TOOK OUT A SCALE!”

“So?”

“IT HURT.”

“I bet it did.” Fury was about to come back with a sharp retort when suddenly Nightshade said “Wait. Do you hear that? Coral brought dinner!” Faint fearful mooing and clucking could be heard from the biggest cave. Before Fury could reply, Nightshade swiftly whirled around and ran up the the gently sloping snow tunnel. The dragonlets lived in a snow cave, but only their three caretakers knew where it was. The other dragonlets, Penguin, Desert, and Bolder were supposed to be a part of the prophecy to save the tribes, but they mostly got yelled at by their 3 minders, Mountain, Scarlet, and Coral. Coral was a rivertalon, one of the only ones to escape the drought. Mountain was a desertalon, but his claws didn't have the poison that the rest of his tribe did. Scarlet was the meanest of the minders, as all of the cloudtalons that Fury knew where all very grumpy. Then again, she only knew 1 cloudtalon, other than herself, so she could be wrong. As Fury followed Nightshade up the tunnel, she got lost in her own thoughts on how only 5 dragons were going to stop a full-fledged war, let alone the fact they were dragonlets.

Suddenly, a silver-white shape slammed into her, knocking her into the underground river. She gasped in surprise as the cold water rushed around her. For a second she thought she was going to drown, when she remembered that the river was shallow enough to stand in. She yowled in rage and was about to spit fire at the thing that had knocked her in when she realized that is was Penguin, the glacertalon dragonet from the prophecy. “Really?” She asked him.

“YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN YOUR FACE!” He said, roaring with laughter.

As she walked by him, she kicked him in the underbelly as hard as she could, sending him rolling into the river.

“Worth it.” He said through chattering teeth.

“Great Startalons.” She muttered under her breath.

***

Fury watched Boulder sweep the bones from dinner into the river, watching the small white shapes bounce in the current. “AH HA!” Said a voice from behind her. She looked over her shoulder in surprise, but calmed down quickly when she saw it was Nightshade.

“What was that dude?” She asked him.

“Did i surprise you?” He asked hopefully.

“Don't sound so happy about it.” She said sternly. She hated the fact that the other dragonlets played so many pranks on her. They did about the same amount on each other, but she hated being trolled. She sighed and walked to the study room, and Boulder ran ahead. Suddenly she heard a loud thud and she heard faint growling. As she and Nightshade walked in, they saw Penguin sitting in the corner, a look of laughter in his eyes. as Fury went to see what was so funny, she saw Boulder on the ground face first, a look of surprise and anger on his face. Suddenly he Leaped up, whirling around to face the other dragonlet, Desert, who was in the opposite corner on penguin, a smug look on his pale yellow face. “WHY DID YOU TRIP ME DUDE?” Boulder Howled in rage.

“You were walking around, and your talon got near me so i ‘accidentally’ tripped you.” He said, moving to of his front claws up and down, making a faking motion. Boulder had smoke coming out of his nose and ears, curling around his horns. Fury thought she saw a few sparks in the smoke, meaning he was really, really, REALLY angry, and Fury didn't blame him.

During all this, Penguin had gotten up and was walking between them. “Ladies , ladies, let's just calm down.” Now there was definitely sparks in boulders smoke, and now desert was flexing his claws on the hard rock below him. Boulder yowled in rage and blasted a fireball at Penguin first, the desert. Quick as a flash, Fury was on his back, pinning him down. “Let's not resort to fireballs for this, ok?” Boulder struggled under her, but nightshade and lept on top of him to, making the weight on top of him to great, the light of battle fading from his eyes. When Desert walked up eyes wide with shock, but luckily dodged the fireball. Penguin however, was not so lucky and the fireballed had grazed his tail, leaving a red mark.

“Dude what was that?” He asked, a little scared for the rest of his tail.

“Penguin you might want to go take a dive in the river to help your tail.” Fury suggested.

“WHAT?... wait.. That actually sound nice..” Penguin said, wandering towards the main cave. A moment went by and Fury heard a loud splash.

“Good job dumbo, you actually got penguin into the river.” Fury hissed to the brown dragon under him. Penguin was the most used to the cold from his galcertalon instinct, but he HATED getting in the river more than any of the other dragonlets.

“Sorry… but he was asking for it!”said the brown lump definitely.

“That doesn't mean you fireball him!” Said fury, clawing the brown dragonlets back.

“Owwww….” Said Boulder. Suddenly he erupted upward, launching fury and nightshade off his back. Fury frantically flapped her wings, hoping she wouldn't hit the high ceiling above her. Nightshade had the same idea and was flapping his wings, his eyes wide with shock.

"SURPRISE!!” Boulder yelled gleefully.

“Great StarTalons bolder! You scared the living daylight out of us!” Hissed fury angrily. “If anyone deserves a fireball, it's you!”

Desert was sneaking up behind bolder, his mouth ajar, with penguin, who had silently wandered into the cave with his claws raised, about to double team Boulder when Scarlet, one of there caretakers, charged in. “WHAT IS ALL THE NOISE?!” Silence. Then at the same time Fury, Nightshade, Penguin, and Desert all pointed at boulder, and said “He started it.”

“No didn't!” Desert tripped me!” Boulder yowled.

“YOU FIREBALLED ME AND PENGUIN!” Desert roared back at him.

“That explains why penguin was in the river..” Scarlet mused.

Fury said “when we walked in, boulder was on his face on the ground, and from what is heard desert tripped him, then penguin told them to calm down, but bolder fireballed at everyone, then me and-”

“SILENCE!” scarlet Yowled at boulder who was arguing with the deserttalon.

Fury continued, “ me and nightshade pinned boulder down so he wouldn't hurt desert and penguin.”

“Alright then, in that case, you and desert are sleeping on the ledges, not the hammocks.” Scarlet said to Boulder. They both looked him angrily but slunk off to the ledge cave.

“Harsh.” Nightshade said.

There were 2 sleeping caves, one with comfortable hammocks, the other with rock ledges. All the dragonlets hated sleeping on the ledges, which is why it was scarlet's favorite punishment.

“How are we going to stop a war when we are always pulling pranks and then fighting?”