“How much further do we have to fly through this forsaken weather?” whined Fireball.

“Hopefully not much longer.” I say scanning the sea for an island that we can land on and let this hurricane pass.

“There.” says Fireball pointing to an island before veering to the right to go land on it.

We land on the island and after searching the island a bit we find a cave that we can escape the storm in. We start a fire but all there really is to do is study each other, so that’s what I do. I study the dragons around me before noticing a wicked scar running along the side of Torque.

“Actually that’s a funny story, do you remember it, Tidal?” he asks. I do remember it. “Why don’t we tell them what happened? You wanna start or should I?” he asks.

“You start, then I’ll give them my recollection of events.” I tell him.

“Alright, storytime! So me and Tidal have history together, and this history ain’t the prettiest. So me and Tidal used to be friends, he found me weak and on the verge of death but he nursed me back to health, only to betray me for money.” he said angrily.

“You forgot the part where you were a wanted criminal and there were soldiers searching for you. By the way you never actually told me what you did.” I say.

“I accidentally dismembered someone.” he says.

“How the fuck do you accidentally dismember someone? Accidental murder I see, but accidental dismemberment how?” Fireball asks.

“I was training to be an assassin and someone really pissed me off one day and before I knew what I was doing I was ripping them apart.” he says defensively. “Turns out no one wants to live by or hire anyone who violently dismembered a member of their own tribe during peacetime.”

“Wow, ok. So what did Tidal do?” Fireball asks.

“I told the soldiers searching for him where he was and got a huge reward for it. I only knew because I saw a wanted poster for him.” I saw.

“Holy fuck, anyone else have some amazing history to tell us?” Fireball asks.

“We fought in the war and specialized in guerrilla tactics” Fox says, talking about him and his siblings.

“We found Beaver on the streets and took her in, so in a way she is kinda like a sibling to us, but once she grew independent enough she left us and shortly after that we found Fireball, and the war ended two or so years later. Fireball is like a brother but not at the same time.” Canyon says.

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“I rule a kingdom in the Northern Lands and by the way these lands are called Hailaxia.” Sulfur says. This surprises everyone.

“Well we’re surprising people'' says Gull, “I’m an animus.” This surprises everyone even more but me and Sulfur.

“Uhh…, what’s an animus?” asks Sulfur.

“They have magic.” Gull replies. Sulfur looks surprised now.

“What can they do?” he asks.

“Really anything, besides bring a dragon back from the dead.” Gull tells him.

“That’s insane, you must be the most powerful one out of us here.” he says in awe.

“Probably” Gull says, shrugging off the compliment.

“We grew up on our own in the forest.” says Turkey, pointing to his brother Chicken.

“I didn’t. I was raised and trained as an elite assassin and helped teach these two what they know.” said the weird dragon,

“Who are you?” I ask.

“Oh did I not say? The name’s Kakapo.” he says.

“Huh. Interesting.” I say. “Kakapo, why did you come on this mission?” I ask him.

“Gotta make sure these two don’t get themselves killed.” He says pointing to both Torque and Beaver.

“Rude.” Beaver says.

“I’d be fine” remarks Torque.

“Why did you come Tidal?” he asks me.

“My friend delivered the prophecy and this guy showed up on my doorstep.” I say pointing to Sulfur.

“How did you get there Sulfur?” asks Torque.

“Followed Gull there because he wronged me.” he replies.

“How?” Torque asks.

“Broke off one of my back spines and was probably planning on selling it thinking it was gold.”

“So that’s why Gull is coming along, he has a debt that he’s got to repay you.” Torque says.

“Plus I gotta protect my bro.” Gull says pointing to me.

“Fireball just asked if we wanted to go on an adventure and we were bored and had nothing to do so we said yes.” Turkey says, talking about him and his brother.

“Yep, that sure is true.” quips in Chicken.

“Canyon was going because Fireball was going, so we all had to go.” explains Fox.

“Well we’re all going now because I have no idea how to get back.” I say.

“Great.” Beaver says sarcastically.

“Don’t worry we’ll figure it out once we stop this Northern Wind.” I say reassuringly.

“Speaking of The Northern Wind, what do you guys think it is?” I ask.

“Maybe a storm or lots of wind?” Fireball says.

“Doubtful, probably some dragon trying to conquer the world because they’ve been wronged or whatever and blah blah blah.” Beaver says. Her humor actually helps a bit.

“We should probably get some sleep. Then we can fly out of here in the morning, hopefully the storm has cleared by then.” I say. They agree with me and once I’m asleep I dream about what tomorrow holds. It’s a nightmare more than a dream actually, there’s a battle and death and fire and more death, lots of death and among that death are my friends, Canyon, Fireball, Turkey, Chicken, Fox, Gopher, Mint, Beaver, and even Torque, and hovering over there burning bodies is Kakapo and Gull, laughing. Hopefully that was just a dream.