He laughed darkly "wonderful!" He said sarcastically. He sighed and looked out the cave "I dont remember my parents or why I came to this dark organization. I guess I've learned many things I might not have, like using dark magic, but I havent been around anyone else." He said.
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Valkyrie lifted up her head and shot Cerulean a nasty look when he wasn’t looking, but she went about her business.
Frost came over to Lucky and sniffed the dragon boy. Lucky sighed and leaned against her cool body "what's the plan for today?" She asked
"Sorry but I don't really care, everyone's been through crap. Still it doesn't give you the right to go around a murder." Mara hated them all of them. Just because they had a bad past doesn't mean they can do what they are doing.
Oliver and his dragon have been stuck together for a while now and both the dragon and Oliver were getting tired. When Oliver woke up he was in total darkness. "Hello?" No answer. It was weird because he was just in the cave with everyone else. Had he walked off and got lost? His dragon heard the call and hushed everyone.
He grinned "I havent killed anyone darling. I never could." Shadow came over then. "Hey Shadow, what was it like for you before you hatched?" He asked, totally ignoring Mara
"Yeah right." Mara looked away and thought she saw something on her hands, but when she blinked it disappeared. "I'm going crazy." She laid on the concrete ground and sighed.
(…..)
“Why don’t you leave our prisoner be? Don’t you have better things to do?” Valkyrie spat, sitting cross-legged about thirty feet from the cell, “By the gods, aren’t you obnoxious…”
Aurelius kept a close eye on Oliver, trying to make sure that no damage was done to him or the young dragon. Pollux paced a little bit behind the group, trying to logic his way through, but he was drawing a blank. No one had ever seen a dragon like this before.
"No worry, I just heard the boy." The dragon said and closed his eyes hoping to hear him again. Oliver? the dragon said in his head hoping to get a response. "Whose there?" Oliver asked in a panic. Yep he's in here alright.
Cerulean smirked and launched a small dark orb in Valkyrie's direction. It exploded into a small black cloud. He laughed darkly and sauntered over to her "little girl, dont tell me what to do." He glowered
It had been a while since the dragon was in Oliver's body. "Alright I'm tired now." Oliver's body fell to the ground and the dragon left it, he wasn't sure how he did it but he was glad. Oliver just laid there sound asleep.
(….)
Lucky walked over to the sleeping boy and poked him "Oliver?" She said softly. Not hearing a response, she picked the boy up and set him down on a more comfortable place and covered him with a tattered blanket.
Valkyrie was so angry that although she spent a few seconds blind within the cloud, she quickly escaped it with almost no reaction to the magic itself.
"What the hell are you even doing here? We're a cause, for the gods' sakes! And you're here to wreak havoc for no goddamn reason! You… Bastards like you are the ones who give us all a bad name. You call me little girl one more time, you demean me, and you harass people who don't need to be harassed, and I'll make sure that I find someone who likes you even less, see if they won't set you straight. You see, I'm not actually going to fight you, because I have some sense of mercy and remorse," Valkyrie spat, holding her halberd protectively across the front of her body, "Not to mention… you sure can't be part of an organization if you take orders from no one. At least not for long. Besides, when I say to do things, it's out of reason, not authority or for the sake of giving orders. So by not listening to simple reason, you've already proven that you deviate only to be different and chaotic, and you're probably an absolute idiot."
She paced back in front of Mara. and glanced into the cage. She muttered, "I wish there were better means to achieve what I wanted here than killing people and associating with scum."
Nox made her way over to Oliver, his dragon, and everyone else. By now, the two had separated, and Nox had missed most of what was going on. Aurelius was quick to turn his attention once he realized that everything was alright.
"Well, we ought to figure out what to do and where to go. I have a feeling there aren't any villages we can get to that are a safe haven. On the one hand, we could always try going into normal society, but that would mean abandoning our dragons and giving up the cause we've fought for our whole lives," Aurelius said.
"We have time," Pollux reassured him, "This place is pretty secluded, not to mention there are many people who need time to heal their wounds. Only so much can be done by me and the few other healers here. You can help formulate plans in the meantime, and we can eventually act on them. I suggest you find who the higher-ups are around here and talk with them."
"Pollux… they're mostly young people from several different villages. I don't think we have hierarchy anymore here. I'm glad, but… it'll be tough to control."
Zander woke up with all the yelling and rolled his eyes. Fixing his hair and suit he walked out. "What is going on?" He was already frustrated enough as it is and all this fighting wasn't helping.
Oliver slowly started to wake up and saw that there were a group of people around him. "Well, that was a weird experience." He pushed himself up and looked at his dragon the was floating next to him. "We have a lot of things to work on, don't we buddy."
"This guy is being a little bitch," Valkyrie said, gripping onto one of the metal bars of Mara's cage tightly, "Why does anyone bother keeping him around?"
She walked over a little closer to Zander to put distance between herself and Cerulean.
Pollux stood by Oliver. "So you knew that was going to happen? You don't seem surprised at all. You're alright, though?"
"Oh no, I was definitely surprised, but I knew he wasn't an ordinary dragon so I was expecting something weird to happen" Oliver stood and dusted himself off. "But, now that I know what he can do we can start working on it." He went to pet his dragon but his hand went straight through him. "Ah, right, I can't exactly touch you." Oliver was worried how he was going to get around if he could sit on his dragon.
"That's… bizarre…" Pollux remarked, "Well, it seems freaking out didn't help the two of you separate when you were bound., so I think it's just going to take a lot of focus and being calm, plus practice, of course. Hopefully you can start getting used to these things while we're here. Some people seem anxious to leave, but I believe it may be at least a few more days. If there's anything I can help you with, let me know."
"I was just conversing civilly with our captive here and this little girl decided it would be a good idea to speak up in the middle of our conversation, to tell me to back off." He said simply, leaning against a pillar and playing with a stick. "You of all people know that I hate being told what to do without reason." He growled, snapping the stick in half
"It was hardly a conversation…" Valkyrie muttered, "He was just harassing her… And I think common logic is reason enough to not harass people…"
She dramatically flipped her hair over her shoulder and walked past Zander. "Guess I'll go do something more useful than arguing with a brick. Wonder if there are any odd jobs that need doing…"
"I know that very well, but you also should know who's in charge and when to keep things to yourself." Zander snapped. "And the prisoner is mine, so neither of you should be talking to her, keep that in mind." He walked after Valkyrie. "I do have a job for you if you want it?"
"What's the job?" Valkyrie asked, stopping and turning to see Zander again. "I might be up to it."
"Theres a house, far to the west that has some very valuable books that could help out the dragon riders if they find them. I need you to fly out there and burn them all." He pulled a map out from his pocket and handed it to her. "This should be the place." He smiled and patted her on the head. As he walked away he said his thanks and went back to his office to finish some work.
"Yeah I should train a lot, especially if we have to move soon." Oliver decided that learning while they are in one place will be easier than moving around and trying to learn. "I'll start tomorrow though, my body hurts a little."
Valkyrie thanked Zander and unfolded the paper to see where she'd be going.
"Zander, I'm not positive exactly where that group of riders who escaped my village went, but I do know this place you're sending me is in the opposite direction from which they went," Valkyrie said, "Is it worth doing anything about the rest of them? I do know that before we left, Mara here grabbed some books from our library. I think they may be with the rest of the party… and they obviously have a desire to protect books, so they could potentially cause trouble at some point. I can burn these easily, but I figured I should at least give you that bit of information before I go."
"I know that very well, but you also should know who's in charge and when to keep things to yourself." Zander snapped. "And the prisoner is mine, so neither of you should be talking to her, keep that in mind." He walked after Valkyrie. "I do have a job for you if you want it?"
"Ask the prisoner yourself, all I did was ask her some questions about her relationships with her friends. She spat in my direction then I walked away quietly." He growled "this is the exact reason I hate working with people, they never understand what happened and just judge based on what they've seen." He muttered. Cerulean walked over to his dragon and leaned against her, closing his eyes but keeping his ears wide open