Hatchlings of War

This was his chance. Wiggling violently out of the Bloodwraith's claws, he feel flat to the ground along with Aves landing besides him. Aplala made his hatchling like purr noise as he nudged Aves to awaken now. But not seeing the eyes open, he stood protectively over her, hissing lowly at the Bloodwraith's that surrounded them. "Grab them!" hissed one of them. Another from behind picked Aplala by the tail, making him dangle helplessly in the air as he swiped his tiny claws at the scouts. He could see Eldvestia trying to find an exit out of this place but having no luck at all.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!" boomed an powerful voice that made everyone froze in their tracks. Even Aplala froze by the loud and powerful voice. Zepar was standing by the door. The blue, gloomy mist was surrounding him and his coal black eyes narrowed onto the him then Eldvestia. "I come down here, and find all of this chaos going on and you dragons couldn't even catch an newborn to save your own lives!"
Some of the Bloodwraiths stared down at the floor, bowing their heads to him in respect. "Never mind now. Come my children," he walked out of the doors. Aplala was carefully placed on the floor and felt the urgent to go after him as the blue Bloodwraith commanded him to. Standing closely to Zepar as he caught the outraged faces of the other torturers glaring at him with annoyance and hate.

Scath's ears pricked up. She heard the master's voice rise up over all of the comotion. SHe pulled herself to her feet and scampered after the noise.

"Hey don't-" Eldvestia stopped herself. Don't follow Zepar? Don't miss out on whatever cool stuff that might happen? Nuuh uh. "Coming!" Eldvestia bounded after Aplala, half-excited and half-afraid. If Zepar ended up blowing them to bits, then... Not cool. 

Zepar paused in his tracks, not waiting for Eldvestia to come but to whisper into one of the other Bloodwraith's ear whom was wearing fancy amour. This was his second control of the Tainted Blood. "Find out which dragon hurt the silver hatchlings and whip them. Once the silver dragon wakes up, send her to me," he spoke icy to the elite looking guard. The guard nodded and went down back to the torturing room.

Aplala followed Zepar up the stairs, the blue Bloodwraith seemed to know where he was going cause Aplala was getting annoyed with these doors that all looked the same and lead to somewhere that he wanted to know where they lead. "I am Zepar, your step-father," he hissed as he didn't turn back to face the hatchlings whom were following him. "As you should see, you are all my children. Born to serve the Tainted Blood and win this war against the Guardians of Ra'Gaw. You aren't sisters or brothers though, powerful dragons gave birth to you while I'm the one looking after to you two and the other silver Hatchling."

There was an wave of disappointment that when he discovered that he and Eldvestia weren't sisters or brothers. Zepar carried on, "Each of you have an different power. Something that we must find out about you before we go into training. If you ever have any questions or need to talk to someone, you know who to talk to." He mean't himself that time. It didn't take too long for them to reach this huge room with all sorts of training equipment everywhere with torches hanging on the wall, giving off the only light in this room. "Now...Lets begin."

Scath paded after Zepar. She wanted with all her heart, to join him. The Tainted Blood clan was the clan she had grown to love. No matter how annoying some of the new arivvals were. She glared at the silver hatchling's back.

Aplala could see Scath following after them. The grumpy female Bloodwraith whom got annoyed at him before for licking her dinner. It didn't take too long for him to snap out of looking at her so he could study this huge room filled up with wooden dummies, courses, climbing towers, and an fighting arena. Skulls of all sorts of animals hang on the wall, he did an impressive job on not looking at them for too long to find out what they were.

"Ahh, my favourite servant is here," Zepar spoke icy as he turned around to see Scath. He glared at Aplala and Eldvestia. "Run along, you two. Go crazy here and don't leave the room." Aplala ran off towards the climbing tower first excitedly. Viewing it as some kind of playground or something. "Any information from the Fairy dragon yet, Scath?" Zepar questioned her once the hatchlings weren't listening to their talk anymore, but busy with exploring and playing around in the Training room.

Aplala first thought it was going to be easy to climb this tower. It got much steeper and steeper later on and it was becoming difficult for him to go any higher then an meter. He soon gave up and decided to test his strength on the fake dummy which looks like an long eared dragon made from wood. He attacked at it's leg first, knocking it over as he clawed at it's chest. He only left an few scratch marks on it and already felt proud of himself.
"Hey Eldvestia! Watch me breath lighting bolts at the enemy!" he called out for her. Backing away from the dummy before unleashing an wave of small sparks at it, it bounced off the dummy harmlessly.

No, Master, nothing yet. The other Blood Wraiths became obsessed with these hatchlings. The fairy draogn is not telling anything yet. Inside Scath felt proud. The master had spoken to her. Just to... her!

Zepar didn't look so surprised when she told him her answers. The icy cool mist blew around him, biting bitterly at his scales and dragons around him, giving off an cold shiver of winter. "That's no surprise," he says sadly. He knew that Guardians were trained to resist telling answers to their enemies. He'll one day try and get his men to do the same. "I'm sure you can think up of something to get her to tell all of the answers. Those torturers aren't doing their jobs properly but making the Fairy dragon die more quickly. I want their location on where they are hiding and how to get there. Also I want to know if we got any spies along with us and if they know yet that we took their hatchlings...I'm counting on you, Scath. Dismissed."

Scath bowed down onto her forelegs. The walked calmly over to one of the training dummies. Before she did anything else, she should train. But, training was getting boreing now. That's all there ever was to do. Train, train, train. All day long. That's all she ever got to do. She lunged at the dummy, using her wings to propell herself into the air. She went straight for the neck, digging her teeth into the wood.

Eldvestia watched as Aplala tried out the obstacles one by one. Although the lightning didn't exactly do much damage to the dummy, Eldvestia was relatively impressed.

"Cool, I don't think I can do that. But I can do this," Eldvestia breathed out gently, and a wisp of blue flame curled lazily out of her mouth. She breathed a little harder, and the flames blazed brighter. 

Oops. Apparently, Zepar's tail was too close and too long, and a little bob of flame jumped to land a few inches beside the bloodwraith's tail. Lucky for Eldvestia, Zepar's attention was fixated on Scath. Taking the opportunity, Eldvestia trotted quickly to the little winding stairs that Aplala had attempted to climb earlier.

Pretty soon, she reached the spot where Aplala had stopped ascending. Maybe her clumsy big wings could be useful here. Eldvestia flexed them wide open and jumped, giving her wings a gentle flap. She didn't really fly, but the little boost allowed her to reach one step above. The routine continued for another ten more steps before Eldvestia finally managed to scrabble up the top. 

Scath hovered in the air, her wings making the slighteset of movements. She blew out a puff of fire, scorching the dummy.

(Don't really know what to post XD)

"Well done!" Aplala says impressively as he watched her reach the top of the climbing tower. What was even more impressive was that it was designed for short adults, not hatchlings and the silver dragon still made it to the top. In his eye corner was Zepar putting out the blue flames with an flick of his strong tail. He could tell that the Blue Bloodwraith dragon is watching them but he didn't care at all. Also he could see Scath taking down an dummy and mauling it with ease. He was hoping soon enough that he will be able to be strong like Scath and take down anything in his path just like Scath destroyed the dummy.
Trying to use his powers again, he sprayed the sparks at the dummy whom he tackled over before, setting it on fire. He hissed in excitement as he finally managed to cause something huge and destructive at least!

Scath landed again. She decided to get on with her task. She wandered out of the training room and made her way to the fairy.

Eldvestia felt rather pleased with herself as she smiled at Aplala below. Now the question was, to jump or not to jump? Eldvestia studied the dizzying height from where she stood. It wasnt really that high up, but to a young hatchling, it was enough for a tumble to end up with more than just bruises. Eldvestia's rash and adventurous character didn't exactly help in that situation as she readied herself. 

"Fun," Eldvestia giggled before hurling herself over the top. 

Flap flap. She spread her wings as wide as it could go, and the ends fluttered as she descended. Eldvestia didn't bother trying to fly, but instead, let herself glide down slowly. 

Yep, and crash head-first into Zepar.

Mmm, soft landing.

(^^ XD LOL)

When Aves awoke, the next few moments were a blur. Before she knew it, she was in some room containing dummy dragons, that Blood Wraith hatchling, the other hatchlings, and a blue BloodWraith. Not that she cared. Aves felt horrible all over and she had no will to move or do anything for fear she would feel that terrible pain again. Was anything broken?

She moaned softly, and willed the warmth to return and cloak her body. It did. Aves sighed happily and curled on the stone floor and quietly did what she did best: observe.

Zepar looked down to the hatchling in surprise when he just noticed it crashed into his shoulder head first and went flat to the floor. He wasn't so used for others to touch him unless he was in combat, he was so used for attacking people whom touched him that he had an sudden urgent to end her life just with an lazy swipe of his razor sharp claws. But he managed to push it away and force an low fake smile.

"What an funny hatchling you are, Eldvestia," he says coldly as he helped it back up onto it's claws. He wanted to go down and see if Scath is doing her job on the Fairy dragon yet. Zepar noticed the sleeping Silver hatchling, not too far away from him. Nudging Eldvestia away, he gone over to Aves and sat down besides her. Studying her looks before hissing an low curse. "Damaged back, hmm? Lucky I know just the thing for it. I'm not going to allow you to train in till you are fit enough to fight." He raised back onto his claws, walking out of the room along with elite looking body guards following after him. "Send our healer down to the fix up the hatchling, I want to know more about her and sore backs aren't helping me discover what her powers are." One of the guards walked off without an question, he knew that he was fetching the healer.

"Are you okay?" Aplala ran up to Eldvestia, worried that she might be hurt from crashing into the blue Bloodwraith. In his eye corner was the sleeping silver dragon.

Eldvestia wrapped her wings around her and shivered. When her body had came into contact with Zepar, an icy, cold feeling half-shocked her, leaving a sickening feeling in her gut. Somehow, Zepar's presence didn't feel right. Not at all.

Smiling feebly, she nodded at Aplala. "Yea, I think..." Eldvestia trailed off, noticing the still unconscious Aves. She shook herself and trotted lightly over to the silver hatchling.

"PSSST. Knock knock, anyone home?" Eldvestia prodded her with a snow-white paw, then turned to Aplala. "Maybe you could zap her with your lightning."

He giggled when Eldvestia tried to wake up the hatchling.

"It might set her on fire though," he frowned when she asked him to zap her. Remembering what happened when he blew sparks on the dummy and it caught on fire and got destroyed not too much longer later. Since he was an hatchling, he wouldn't that the hatchling isn't flammable or anything, nor that the dummy was made from wood and an hatchling was made by flesh, blood and other dragon-ish things.

"Let's see what happen if I just do it at the tail..." he kneel down and breathed an small wave of harmless sparks at the silver dragon's tail. Hoping that she isn't going to catch on fire or anything.

Scath creeped into the room with the fairy dragon. She had such a good plan... No one was here. Just her and the fairy. She ran up, looking into it's muzzle.

Aves felt a sharp pain on her tail and she sprang forward in shock. The original pain stung at her sudden movement, and Aves fell to the floor with a smack. Ouch! "What was that for?" she hissed indignantly, but cringing when her tail lashed out.

"Sorry," he tried to explain that he didn't mean to hurt her. "I didn't that you were sleeping, I thought you wanted help on snapping out of being unconscious."

Zepar raised an eyebrow as an Bloodwraith dragon was being dragged by Zepar's own personal guards and brought the traitor to him. The guards forced the Bloodwraith onto it's knees and held it's head in an death lock.
"We caught him trying to sell information to the Guardians!" hissed one of the guards.
Zepar smirked. "You know what happens to traitors?"
The traitor didn't say anything but stared to the ground, trying to avoid contact with his coal black eyes that were frightening enough to scare the heck out of anyone.
"Gustav, you know what to do with traitors," Zepar grinned as he leaned back on his throne made of stone with skulls surrounding it.
"With pressure, master," muttered the guard as he gripped his claws around it's neck.
"No please-" but it was cut off with an scream as his head was torn off.

Aves turned her head when she heard the scream. It wasn't like the screams of the Fairy Dragon in pain, though. It was a mortal scream, a scream of true terror that made Aves's blood run cold. "What was that?" she whispered to the other two dragons, trembling with fright.

"That was someone whom broke the rules," grinned an guard standing by the door. Aplala didn't notice him till now. "Some idiot was selling information to the Guardians. And look! They killed him and now he pays the price!" He chuckled lowly as he turned away, going back to the boring world of guarding the door for the next 10 hours.

Aplala was almost afraid to ask what they done to this 'idiot'. Properly something really horrible and quick cause the scream was only cut off in an few seconds. He was disliking this place now, this was somewhere were he doesn't want to be. Somewhere where he doesn't want to be raised in. There was an chilly shiver feeling crawling down his small spine as he thought of ways on how the dragon died. But later on he tried to push them away but they kept on coming back to nag him.

"Now it's time for you 3 to get back to sleep. Master wouldn't want you to be um...Tired tomorrow."

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The Fairy dragon looked up weakly from her spot, glaring lowly at the new Bloodwraith whom entered the room where she is chained up to an metal table. "You don't have to do this..." she whispered as Scath ran over. "You know that I'm not going to give away anything. Just end this."

Scath made her eyes look innocent and fearful. Who said I wanted to kill you? Please, I want to run away from this... place, this... torture. Anywhere but here! All my life, sleeping, eating, training. over and over again. Please? Help?