Timothy and Gustav were up in the sky with their lovely dragon friends. They were to explore the nano-universe around them, in hopes to find Tim's friends!
“I hope you bastards didn't die on me… we're so close to removing the Mark of Death off of us, it would be sad if you died now.” Tim thought, his anxiety was through the roof.
One shouldn't be depressed or anxious in the sight of such luscious greenery, but his head was steaming. If his friends died on that mountainside back on Valporovus, then the wrath he was to unleash on the city of Runimus was not only expectable, but also continuous! He wouldn't stop until he destroyed the pyramidal church entirely, and hunted down every city official as if they were ravenous, problematic wild dogs that had to be put down. He wouldn't spare anyone, so for the sake of avoiding excessive bloodshed, he hoped that his friends were alive.
The green flat lands were attractive in terms of providing a good spot to land on, but the two of them didn’t want to land just yet. They flew high above the ground, until they got to one of the tiny islands in the sky!
Well, the sky above them was purely superficial, but in this case, they did fly up about a kilometer above the ground. It was a great height, and they hoped to observe the nano-universe better from up here!
“This is the most fantasy-inducing shit I've seen so far,” Tim expressed, and then he asked the other. “Could you have ever imagined that one day, you'd step on an island in the sky?”
“I still haven't gotten over that bug-infested universe that we visited, don't patronize me. Don't make me think too much.” Gustav answered, half of what he said was a joke.
Nevertheless, what they suffered recently helped put things into perspective. Tim and his friends stepped into Valporovus purely to upgrade the quality of their mana, and yet they kept getting dragged into suicidal tasks that they never planned on performing to begin with! Valporovus was as cruel as it was interesting, it didn’t hand over its vigorous mana without a fight.
Anyway, after looking down at the tiny universe in front of them for a few minutes, they decided to explore the tiny island they were on afterwards. They wanted to get off of this island, because admittedly, they underestimated how difficult it would be to spot anything of importance from up here, but first they wanted to see if they could find anything else on this floating island.
“Well, this is a tiny place.” Tim sighed, as they didn't find anything.
The island was only fifteen meters wide, had a small, curved hill, and that was about it, so it didn't take long to explore it thoroughly. The four of them were almost about to quit walking, but then they decided to have a look at the only tree that was on the island.
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It was a birch tree, and it wasn’t so tall, so it wasn’t significant whatsoever. Close to the birch tree, there was a ditch of sorts, and this was where they made an important discovery. The ditch held a great, two-meter wide nest!
“Jesus… What do you think of this, Guss? Maybe it's a gigantic eagle's nest.” Tim theorized, and he was almost convinced of that, because there were a couple of large eggs on the nest as well.
Gustav groaned anxiously, and added. “I don't know, Timothy, but if it's a giant eagle's nest, then we shouldn't be here to begin with.”
Some of the question marks they had in their heads were answered immediately after, as they heard a loud screech that was no different from that of a giant eagle's! The two of them were terrified, they almost defecated in their trousers, and this situation was especially terrifying because they didn't know where the screech came from! They didn't see anything for a moment.
Seconds later, an albino, draconic creature arose from underneath the island, and starred the goblins down, observing them! This creature looked a lot like a dragon, except it only had two limbs (its legs), so by species, this was considered a wyvern, not a dragon!
It was huge nonetheless, with its wingspan being close to thirty meters, and as it fluttered its wings, Tim and his friends were tossed a couple of meters backwards! The eggs remained untouched, though, as the albino wyvern knew how to elegantly maneuver the wind currents that her wings caused.
“Well, that's no eagle.” Tim joked, “It's a female dragon, those eggs have to be hers.”
“That's a wyvern, not a dragon. They're totally different species, but dangerous nonetheless.” Gustav couldn't help himself from correcting his friend. “Let’s get out of here!”
Timothy wanted to fight the wyvern, but he kept reminding himself that she was just protecting her precious eggs, so he backed away slowly. Their dragons followed suit, and kept trying to communicate with the wyvern, as to dispel any form of hostility.
The two sides didn't indulge into battle, thankfully, and once the group of four went to the other side of the island, the albino wyvern landed near its eggs, and protected them as fiercely as any mother would. She was five meters tall, even while she was laying on the ground, so she had it easy to intimidate most creatures, she occupied most of the island. Tim just thanked the gods that she didn't attack, he thanked whatever god kept them safe throughout this encounter.
The two of them got on their dragons, and flew out of there. They were happy to escape with their lives, because they wouldn't have been able to protect themselves if the dragon attacked them at such a close range! They got very lucky.
Anyway, as they strode across the sky, they noticed more creatures flying around in the far distance. They spotted both wyverns, and dragons, so of course they got immediately nervous, because they had their fair share of conflict with such creatures for the day!
Once they were more aware of their circumstances, Tim yelled out. “This universe is full of fucking dragons! Iron Claw sent us to his home universe, so the dragons here can finish us off! Desperate, clever bastard!”