The Dragon Rider's Chronicles

Kenzo scoffed. His eyes grew hard and he snarled slightly. "Oh no? You're mother committed acts that would make you nautious. The only reason you know that that Soromine's existed is because she failed to finish the job by killing me." He blinked as he realized that he was letting his emotions get the better of him. He pulled the hat's rim over his eyes and bowed deeply. "My humblest apologies, your highness. I mean you no disrespect. I will endeavor to keep my personal feelings in check, and look forward to serving alongside you as a dragon rider for her excellency, the queen." If he was being sarcastic, he didn't show it: he was back to his normal unreadable self.
 
Neera stiffened. "The Ventenadana government handed our messenger's bodies to us after they were attacked. I can show you their graves. You should get all your facts straight before you dare accuse your Queen of lying. You seem to only know one side of the story."


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Ardra sighed. "Kenzo is actually getting underneath her skin? I'm actually a bit surprised. She's normally too dense and hyper to care about things like this."


"....you really hate her, don't you?" Kestus asked.


"....yes, yes I do."


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Eldran was getting severely worried that his rider's emotions were sky-rocketing. He looked to Bane in hopes that maybe she would understand that they needed to get the two to stop.


Bane read the look and sighed. She rose, her huge wings out-stretched, carrying Kenzo far away from Neera.


Eldran took his cue and moved Neera back over to Sanz, Ardra, and Kestus.


Majeir thought it would be better for Kenzo not to be left alone so he quickly flew after Bane. He was truly an extremely friendly dragon at heart.


Dezeld went back to figuring out the secrets of the universe in his head. He was currently trying to figure out if he could fuse the little pyromancers attacks with his and get positive results.


Auntyrmarun's head was hurting from all the tension and emotion; too much emotion tended to make an Emora dragon have issues concentrating on anything.
 
Kenzo sighed as Bane whisked him away from Neera. "My apologies to you, too, Bane," he said. "To have to deal with my ramblings must be aggravating for a dragon such as yourself. It won't happen again." He looked back slightly as he saw Ardra approach, and waited until she was parallel to him before speaking. "That was most unsightly of me, my liege. I usually am more composed than this, I don't know what came over me."
 
"Please Kenzo, stop treating me like I'm...well....stop treating me like I'm a princess." Ardra sighed. "I'm your team mate here, not your princess. I understand why you got upset. It's only natural to get angry when dealing with the Princess of Dracsofar, daughter of the woman who is said to have ordered the deaths of your family. But may I be the voice of reason here? There are too many discrepancies on both sides for you both to be entirely right or wrong."


Bane turned around and looked at Kenzo with a sigh. Her rider had a lot of anger in his system. Hopefully, he understood how to control his anger.
 
Sanz looked between the two women that were now near him.


"Beg apologies, but I believe we haven't been acquainted yet. I am Sanz."
 
Kenzo nodded, raising his head to meet her eyes with his own. "Indeed...there's something neither Neera nor I are aware of going on here." He adjusted himself in his saddle, and gave Ardra a small grin. "Well, while we're out here we should probably practice with our dragons. How about a race to the bottom of the canyon wall?"
 
"....you heard Draconas. We're not allowed down near the bottom. That psychic dragon will give us away as soon as we're halfway down the wall." Ardra was willing to be cautious until she figured out the loop holes of the place.


Majeir's was currently asking Bane why humans were so explosively emotional. He really did not understand what the heck was going on with all the riders. Bane shook her head and in basic terms told him that humans were overly emotional creatures that probably would have died out without the guidance of the legendary dragons. Majeir consented to this and they both looked up to the sky, knowing something that the riders may never know about the truths about the way their world works.


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"Well, I'm Kestus." Kestus finally took the time to look over the elf. Hmmm. Not mysterious like our dear Kenzo but....has potential nonetheless. "Your friendly neighborhood pyromancer, at your service." Dezeld looked back at his rider in confusion; were these feelings of attraction for a member of the same sex? What?


"Neera." Neera stared after Kenzo and Ardra. "I'm more of a hack-and-slash fighter." Eldran reached around, stretching his long neck and bumped his nose affectionately into Neera's shoulder. He did not like that she was feeling....well it was definitely a bad emotion.
 
"Just don't set me on fire and I'm certain that we'll get along just fine."


Sanz offerred a sincere smile at the two beside him.


"And a pleasure to meet you as well Neera."
 
Kenzo sighed. "Yes, of course." Secretly he wanted to test the limits of this place, but he had to admit that, for now at least, it was probably unwise. "We should probably rejoin the others, at least." With that, he motioned to Bane to fly over there.
 
Bane looked at her rider then at Majeir. She asked him if they should re-join the others or go on a joy ride. A dragon's smile covered Majeir's face as he answered joy ride. The two looked back at their riders for a moment before plummeting straight down into the abyss of the canyon.


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"...of course I won't set you on fire." Kestus smiled innocently and whistled while looking away. "Why on earth would I do something like that?" Dezeld was currently trying not to throw up. This attraction was grotesque.


"Nice to meet you as well, Sanz. You currently seem like the sanest one among our group." Neera sighed. Eldran sighed; she was returning to a calmer emotional state.
 
Sanz's eyebrow twitched . . . almost unnoticeably so.


"I . . . would not rush to conclusions. If I am the sanest member of our group then there is quite a bit to worry about."


He was still smiling, but there was some manner of pain behind it
 
It was about that moment when Kenzo and Bane went plummeting past the group, Kenzo barely holding on. He was gritting his teeth and his eyes were squinted as he tried to hang on for dear life.
 
Bane was laughing her rumbling laugh. Majeir followed her dutifully, always the follower and never the leader. The other three looked at each other before joining them in the plummet downwards.


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"Stop!" Ardra screamed. "Please!"


"We're all going to die!" Kestus looked up towards the sky. "I'm too young to die!"


".....wooohoooo!!!!!!!!" Neera was actually enjoying herself. "This is fun!"
 
"What the he~~~~~~~~~~"


Sanz gripped both sides of the saddle tightly. He thought he had gotten used to flying . . . he had thought wrong. This was a totally different feeling . . . and self-defense was going to kick in if it didn't stop soon . . .
 
"Bane! I'm trusting you not to get us all killed!" Kenzo shouted. "Or are you not as good as I think you are?" he said with a grin; it was an obvious taunt, but he hoped she'd fall for it anyway.
 
Meanwhile.


Draconas was resting beneath a giant tree in one of the outer rings with Elise. Elise felt the sudden dive and attempted to get his attention.


"Not now. I'm almost at the end." Draconas waved her way, completely engrossed.


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They were over halfway to the bottom and they showed no signs of slowing down. The light was beginning to fade a bit, creating an eery atmosphere. The dragons, however, were ignoring this fact.


Bane roared to the others to pick up more speed. Her rider was attempting to make her stop but she was not going to fall for it. The others looked to her, almost as if she were their leader, and obeyed, rocketing down.


"....Dragons Above save us....please." Ardra was muttering underneath her breath.


"....now I lay me down to sleep, dragons above my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pray sun dragon my soul to take." Kestus was furiously saying.


"What are you doing?" Ardra shouted at him.


"What does it look like? I'm praying!" Kestus shouted back.


Neera kept whooping and screaming with ecstasy bordering on insanity. She stopped however when she actually saw how close they were to the bottom. "....we need to slow down!!!!"
 
Sanz's senses overloaded. The sight of the ground rushing up at them. The feel of the wind whipping against his skin. The sound of Kestus furiously praying tot he dragons above. His hand went to the hilt of his sword, the only security he'd ever known in an unknown situation.


"Auntyrmarun! This isn't a game anymore!"
 
Kenzo remained silent again for several seconds, and finally grinned; he didn't want to say it, but he was enjoying this. "Bane! At this rate we won't reach the bottom first." He stretched on hand out, pointing his palm straight ahead. "Allow me!" With that, he used his wind magic to more efficiently move the air around them, reducing Kenzo and Bane's wind resistance dramatically.
 
Bane felt the resistance go and roared enthusiastically. But the problem was that the bottom was coming. Each dragon put their wings up stiffly in order to slow down. Of course, when one is going at such speeds, the landing normally isn't...pretty.


The dragons partially crash-landed, sending their rider flying. Ardra managed to dive off before the crash-landing, allowing her to actually decently land properly. Kestus smacked into a giant rock. Neera landed square on her buttocks on sharp rocks.


"...let's not do that again!" Ardra glared at Majeir. Majeir looked away dejectedly, roaring apologetically.


Kestus had the breath knocked out of him and he tried to stand up to no avail. He quickly made sure his wings were okay, knowing that any injury to them would never repair itself.


Neera was laughing and crying at the same time from the pain of the sharp rocks. "That..ow....was....ow...amazing!!!"
 
Sanz, seeing the impact coming, and receiving a mental cue from a certain someone, stood up in the saddle. When they hit the ground, rather than let the impact throw him around, he jumped with it. This caused him to skid across the ground, though he didn't fall . . . The sword on his back was drawn, and had plunged about half its length into the earth, leaving a trial of torn dirt and grass in his wake before he finally stopped.


"That . . . is an experience I do not wish to relive."
 
Kenzo had used his wind magic again to cushion his landing. Even then, he landed fairly hard. As he stood from his crouch he looked around at everyone, and finally at Bane. "Well then. Looks like we won." He said it calmly but he was pretty obviously pleased with the results.
 
Bane roared triumphantly, then fell silent as she looked around. All the dragons surrounding hushed, staring at the scenery. They could see quite a bit better than the riders and what they were seeing was eery and spooky at best.


"What's with them?" Ardra asked.


"....they seem kinda spooked." Kestus looked around worriedly.


Neera stood up and looked around. "...oh...my....dragons...above..." She suddenly understood what was down here. And she knew they actually probably really should not be there in the least.


"What?" Kestus was even more worried now.


"....just....look around...." Neera's eyes were wide, staring specifically at the rock Kestus had landed against.
 
Sanz's senses opened. The darkness clouded his vision, and the sound of the crash had deadened his hearing . . . but his sixth sense told him--no . . . SCREAMED at him, that something was wrong. This was not someplace they should be.


"Auntyrmarun . . . we need to get out of here . . . NOW."
 
Kenzo stared, aghast, at the area around him. He knew that other than the dragons, only himself and Ardra would be able to see clearly for a few minutes.
 
Kestus looked up at the rock, then jumped away. "Is that...a dragon's skull?" It was huge, the same size as his own dragon actually.


Bane suddenly froze and sent a hiss to the other dragons. They all stopped and looked about. There was movement out in the dark. Lots of movement.


"My mother told me once that the bottom of the inner circle's canyon was littered with the bones of ancient dragons. These were dragons that could fuse types and grow to enormous sizes. But they died out or disappeared on this continent." Neera was extremely worried now.


"...we got a problem." Ardra was looking out into the darkness.


"What?" Kestus was nearly frantic now.


"Did your mother mention living things being down here?" Ardra swallowed hard.


".....no. She said she had never been down here; it's off limits for a reason." Neera sighed. "Why?"


"We've got company."


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Meanwhile.


Elise could feel that they had hit the bottom. She could also feel that there were strange minds around them. She nudged him, trying to get him to stop reading.


"Just five more pages Elise. I'm almost done."
 
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