8 Chapter 7: Leave (Jangras POV)

I continued walking but what seemed like around every turn I made sure that she was still following me. I had heard money stories about black dragons, none of them were up to any good. I shivered knowing that any second this black dragon could attack me from behind and take advantage of me.

She did not seem like a mean or evil dragon but I still could not forget all the stories I had heard. She was much larger than me as well. In a close range combat she would destroy me. And we were not in an open area, maybe when I was fully grown I would stand some sort of a chance in a fight with this dragon.

I shivered just thinking about it. She had told me that she wanted to see our leader, my leader was also my father. Although sometimes it seemed like he did not care about me I knew that he cared for all of the dragons in our community.

I kept thinking about it over and over again, maybe she was here and maybe she was going to try and assasinate him. I shivered once again and turned around looking at her. This time she looked a bit frustrated and I was a bit taken aback by it.

"Why do you keep looking at me like Im trying to kill you? I just want to see your leader there is important stuff I need to tell you. The black dragons arent as bad as you think... At least, when my grandfather was alive, my father not so much." She said to me. I was quiet bit confused but I also felt a bit bad that I was just staring at her like that. I should have known that she was going to notice it.

"Im sorry, Ive just heard terrible stories about you guys. I cant help but think that any second you are going to attack me." I told her, I was going to be honest with her, my mother told me to always be honest even when it might hurt someone. In some situations I agreed with her on that, like in this situation, but if I knew it was going to truly hurt someone then I would make up some sort of lie.

"Its okay, Ive grown up hearing plenty of stories about red dragons, mainly from my father. He says red dragons pretend like they own everything and- well never mind, thats something for your leader only." She said to me. I was a little bit disappointed because I truly wanted to here what she had to say.

If it was important and only for my fathers ears then I probably did not need to here it. But maybe I did, there were some issues my mother had told me about that she said my father did not tell the rest of the dragons that she thought everyone should know about.

I figured that I should at least try to trick her into going ahead and telling me. If it was truly something important like a potential attack then I think I should probably know in the first place. If there was a potential attack, which it sure seemed like that was the case based on the way she was talking then all of the group would have to find out anyways.

I had I good idea to try to trick her into telling me though, I figured that I would at least try it before we got back to the camp. To be fair, my father was the leader, I always thought that I should always be able to here the news and the rumors the were spreading around camp.

"You know my father is the leader right? I'm going to be the next leader, that's what my brother, sister, and mother always tell me." I said to her. It haulted her to a stop and then she began to laugh. I looked at her slightly confused as to what was so funny to her.

"You had me on the leader part, but when you said you would be the next leader I knew you were trying to trick me... You know just because we are bigger and stronger than you doesn't mean we are stupid." She said to me. I started to get mad, but I held in my anger, I would be the next leader and she didn't know what she was talking about.

"My father is the leader! I am Jangra son of Himla! You do not know who you are talking to clearly." I told her. I was pretty mad but I was not going to fall into a pit of rage like the dragon I had liked for a long time had done. I wasn't like her and I was going to be bigger and better than her and I would prove it. I would prove to be bigger and stronger than her. I knew that she had liked my friend but I did not expect that sort of reaction from her.

"Yes I know of Himla, him and his father were so brave in the original war against the black dragons... Well that's not the story I had heard. They always told me he was a coward. He attacked the black dragons young children and old ones." She said to me. For second I questioned my father and what I had just heard was terrible. But I doubt it was true, that was probably just some scary story she had heard when she was really young.

"Yes so, you can tell me before I stop you, you could be lying and this could be a plot to try and assassinate him." I said to her. She smiled and then began to laugh again. It was not funny at all to me, I had heard there were some black dragon's that really wanted to kill my father.

"You're funny, I'm not going to tell you, I am not nearly strong enough to kill your father... I could not get near his soft spot." A cut would not be good enough to hurt him. She said to me. I held her to a stop, I was being stupid about it, I just really wanted to know what she was trying to tell him.

"Look, I can easily push through you... But here is what I'm going to do... Since you are being annoying I am going to yell for a guard or a warrior to here me and then they will bring me into the camp..." She said to me. I realized how dumb I was and began to say sorry.

I was a little bit too late as she began yelling loudly, so loudly you could probably here from miles out, after a few moments of silence I heard yelling and then dragon's flying over to my location.

I felt bad for trying to get info from her but I just really wanted to know what it was, I was tired of not hearing the full truth of things that were happening around the camp. With my stupid decision that would probably continue trending down that path.

Maybe if I hadn't annoyed her so much my father would have let me in on what was going on and maybe let me listen since my training was tomorrow. Every child of a leader usually got a pretty important job. Now I was not going to here any of it after she told my father of what I was doing.

Which she surely would I thought as the red dragons came stumbling through the clearing staring at me and the black dragon. One of the red dragons looked at the black dragon angrily and I knew what he was thinking instantly.

"That wasn't me yelling it was her... Sorry I was being annoying... She is here to tell my father some news about something." I said to them. They nodded and then looked at her still being cautious and not fully believing her. I could not blame them, with all the stories all of the older dragons had told all of us younger ones.

"Yes he was... I'm here to talk to your leader, not to attack him like this dragon right here was thinking, you can surround me and all there is some real important stuff I must tell him." She said to us. One of the dragons moved towards her, it was one of my old friends Kip.

"How can we trust you? Why don't you just tell us right now?" He said to her. I could tell he wanted to know the news that she was trying to tell my father as well. The dragon with us moaned and just rolled her eyes at Kip.

"Seriously, this is important to your leader, I'm not trying to scare every dragon that you have at your camp." She said to him. I made a mental note to myself that it was clearly something bad. I could tell that Kip thought the same thing in his mind as he backed up.

"Alright we will take you back to camp, our leader is out right now. You can wait for him from there but do note that we will me watching every single thing that you are doing." One of the female dragons said to her. The black dragon just sat there and stared at her getting even more antsy.

"Fine, just please take me there... I'm tired of sitting there waiting, you guys are wasting so much of my time." She said to us. I don't think we are, we just really wanted to know why there was a black dragon in our territory there was no harm in asking a bunch of questions wondering what was going on.

The few dragons that were with us nodded and then formed a small little circle around us. I wondered why they were circling around me but I didn't ask any questions. I continued walking all of the red dragons with us were just sitting there staring as if they were confused and thought that somehow she would attack us and kill all of us.

Suddenly I heard some more dragons flying towards us and yelling a little bit, I noticed it was Plok and my mother Liyta. She looked at me a bit confused but then she looked at the black dragon that was with us and then she looked back at me angrily. Which I was confused on, because it was not my fault she had got into our territory.

"Really Jangra! You've been hanging out with a black dragon? Wait to I tell your father about this..." She said to me. My friend Kip laughed and then Plok looked at her a little bit confused.

"Mom... I just told you about Penta?! You really think he found a black dragon that fast and decided he was going to marry her?" He said to her. She moved back a little bit just still staring at me a bit angrily. I was just as confused as Plok.

She knew I had liked Penta for a while, how would I even be able to get in contact with a black dragon in the first place? Besides... What was so wrong with a black dragon in the first place? Sure we had our differences and had waged war on each other before. But that had nothing to do with anything.

"Mom I just found her out there, I was trying to do the hunting moves that Plok had taught me and she walked up on me..." I said to her. She looked a bit confused but she did not look like she fully trusted what I was saying. She was always so worried about her children and she always wanted us to succeed.

"Yes... We are going to go talk to your leader, or your husband I suppose..." The black dragon said to my mother. She still did not look like she trusted her at all and I could not say that I blamed her in the least bit. She had been there with my father when the war was going on.

"Hmmmm... Okay... If you attack him, I pray for your survival..." She said back to her. I felt bad for any dragon that got into a fight with my mother, my father said she was nearly as fierce as a warrior as he was. And I believed him, there was a big strong dragon that challenged him to a fight for leadership years ago.

The dragon leader can accept the challenge or deny it, but if you deny it then you will lose a lot of respect from your group, and you probably will not be leader for much longer.

I remember being so young, the fight did not last long, it was a fight to the death, my mother had not wanted me to go but my brother Plok had sneaked me in, he had told me "you need to see this... If you want a shot at being leader some day. It isn't as easy as it seems."

The fight had not lasted long, all it took was a fight cuts and slashes and then a big strike to that dragons soft spot to take him out. The dragon thought that being bigger and stronger meant that you were a better fighter, but in that instance that was not the case.

I remember my mother getting so mad at Plok and Himla had to get in between them and tell her that it was okay, and she was upset at both of them for a few days. She refused to sleep with my father for a short time. She was always so cautious about me and making sure I did not see the evil in this world.

My father had told her that he had to learn that there was evil at some point. That was just the beginning for me, I'm sure that there was more to come. I wanted to hear so badly what this black dragon was going to say.

Once we were at camp the dragons around us stopped us and then moved back a little for some space. My mother walked towards her cave but she stared at me the whole time making sure that I was okay and that I was not getting attacked.

My brother Plok stayed back for a little bit and just stared at the black dragon for a few moments as if he was trying to stare into her soul and see what she was really up to. I felt like she was being honest but you never know when it comes to black dragons in the end.

"Our father should be back soon... You take care of her and make sure she doesn't sneak out until then... I will talk to our father later and try to get info about what is going on, if it is something really important that might hurt us then he will tell the group." He said to me. He then nodded and looked at the black dragon one last time before finally heading off.

"Geesh, maybe they weren't wrong when they told me your father murdered children, your family seemed a bit on the strange side." She said to me. I looked at her a little bit angry but then turned back away not really blaming her too much. I'm sure growing up with black dragons they had their fair share of stories to tell as well.

"There's no such thing as taking too much caution when it comes to a black dragon trying to sneak into our camp..." I told her. She looked at me and then shrugged. She then sat down and began to try and get a little rest.

I could not blame her, she certainly looked tired and I wondered how long she had been out here looking for our community. I knew we were only near one other base and it was a red dragon base. Sometimes they would come and see us to try and catch up on some news with each other.

Once again I sadly was not able to listen to any of the news that they told each other. I figured if it was anything really important though than my father would tell the group. Im sure he didn't want the community to get to startled and freak out all that much.

I could not really blame him if I was going to be perfectly honest... I sat there and just watched the black dragon as she fell to sleep, she was a sweet and good looking dragon, not as much as Penta, I really was not attracted all that much to black dragons as I had seen a few a couple of times.

This one seemed a little bit special though. I remembered what she had said earlier, it had to be some sort of attack that the black dragons were planning on doing... If she was the daughter of the leader of her black dragon group.

I had heard that my father said there were 6 black dragon groups as well, but it seemed like they were lying when they said there were just 6. There really could not be, there were always 6 tribes of each dragons and if there were more than they would have surely helped the black dragons in the last war.

I sat there and then noticed my father heading towards us from not too far away. He did not look surprised to see a black dragon at all. But he was probably already told about it and he did not want to look scared around the other dragons. Or else there would be a lot more than just that one dragon fighting for that spot for leadership.

Once he was close to me he nodded to me and then he shoved into the black dragon a little bit to wake her up, which I thought seemed a little bit mean of him to do, he could've just yelled or something.

"Yikla, daughter of Plyma, what are you doing here on a day like today?" My father said to her. She looked up and I could tell she was still in sleep mode and had not fully heard what he had told her.

"I have something I need to tell you... In private, unless you seem fit to tell your whole group..." She said to him. She was a bit fiesty, it was something I liked from a female dragon, just not as quiet as fiesty as Pinta was to me earlier. Still something about this dragon seemed special.

I knew that relationships with a different breed of dragons were frowned upon, I had heard there was one a while ago, and the leader of that group had kicked out that dragon and his son. I closed my eyes not trying to think about it all that much.

"Of course not... Come here to the leader's cave and I will talk to you in there..." He said to her showing her the way to the leaders cave, I had been in there once before. My father had gotten mad when a guard found me in there and I was messing around.

Himla then went back to our sleeping cave and pulled out my mother as they then walked over to the leadership cave. I continued just sitting there, I hope that I would get to find out what it was, I also hoped that it would not be anything too bad.

I looked around at the clearing I was in, there was no one around, everyone that was surprised to see a black dragon had all left when they saw her going into the leadership cave. I sat there for a few seconds realizing my chance and then a quickly ran over the the cave right next to the entrance.

Making sure that they could not hear or see me. I listened to the conversation that was going on.

"There's something you must know, my father won't tell me much, but they are planning on something on you guys. I have a feeling, they have been overpopulating for a while now... There's so many of them now, so many groups..." Yikla said to my father from not too far away so that I could just slightly hear it.

I looked around making sure no one could see me. Then I got a little bit closer so that I could hear more. But that was my downfall, I heard some rustling in the cave and then some walked out.

It was the deputy of our group, and I had been caught redhanded... I knew what happened when you snuck into your leader's conversations. I knew my father had no choice but to banish me. I was done for, she was staring at me angrily.

"Jangra! If you know what is best for you... Leave!"