Home once again

I am waking up Moonlight and basically ready for another day. I am a little worried about home and troubled by my dream. Thoughts on the whole matter of war and slaughter are basically a negative one million.

" No need to be so rude about waking me up!" He says and I laugh a little.

" We need to get an early start or it will take two days. Maybe Three!" I say and punch his soft tender scales. He hisses playfully at me. I smile at him as I start to pack my sleeping supplies up.

" So we are really going back."Moonlight says as I roll up my sleeping bag.

"Yes. I know it's been a long time. Like last time you where there you where six months old. And now your five years old. Last time I was there I was sixteen now I'm twenty-one. " I say wrapping my bag up.

" I also understand that the thought of war is a bad thought. It worries you. " Moonlight says. Our connection had always been a little odd. We can feel each others feeling. At some times even read each others thoughts to the exact word. We think it has something to do with the venom. Who really knows.

" Yes. I had a dream about home it was all weird and... " I trail off.

"War-bound. " He finishes with a concerned look in his eye. I nod a little.

"Don't be to worried. I doubt that our home would be so wrecked. " He assures me. I smile a little.

" I know. But I always worry. I have been flying around, helping farmers, making  pretty good money and now I have to go into a mature stage. Be a really adult. " I say. Maybe I never really wanted to grow up but now I am. And I am also dealing with the threat of my while town being whipped out by a war. Not to mention the fact about the Moon Lilly dragons. I have yet to see one in the wild.

" You are a good person thou. So who cares if your an adult. " Moonlight says. He bumbs his head on my shoulder.

" I do. I have to be brave. Stop chasing the sunset. Stop being a rider. What happens if they force me to go to war. There's no way you'd go. " I say a little angry. Moonlight frowns. He begins to strap the saddle on his back.

" You care so much about me. I could go to war. " He says looking a little hurt.

" Hey, I didn't mean it like that. Your strong and amazing and could probably win the war single clawed. But what if you didn't win. What if you lost. What if I lost you?" I ask him. He looks away. The thought ways us both down. We need each other. We are two half's to a big whole. We also love each other like crazy.

" I under stand. I am just saying. But you have a good point. Maybe we just sneak in and see father. " He says. I shake my head he gives me a confused look.

" I don't want to look like a coward. We'll fly into the town like its the best thing ever. " I say. We smile at each other. I quickly dash up Moonlights leg and he takes flight swiftly. I whoop on happiness.

This is where I belong. In the sky up here where freedom is all around you. Expectations fall a million feet and brake. Where you can fly and smell the fresh air. Where you feel so big in this small world. I do not belong on a war I belong on a dragon flying and exploring. I whoop again.

2

After a few hours of flight I lay back and relax. I let the wind massage my temple. I hum a little.

" How far are we?" I ask Moonlight and he moves his big neck to smile at me.

" A few more hours then we can land. " He says. I nod. I stare at the highest whispy clouds. I make up shapes in my head and pretend to be flying. I sigh. This was a long flight. About to go home and see what was up with the war. It had been a year and now she got the courage to do so. Why now? Why not when she first heard? Who knows her mind didn't think it was a good idea. She smiled, her mind got her in some big trouble sometimes.

I must have drifted off because when I wake up Moonlight is swooping down to a familiar town. Wow. My home. It dose not loom different at all. The buildings that is from my view up here I see slaves and dragons begin whipped. I see people yelling for help as they get mugged. The whole war has made the town corrupt.

" Moonlight let's go help that woman! " I yelled and he swoops faster towards the thief. We both stop and knock the thief out with a drop of golden venom. The woman runs over and snatches her purse she runs away with out a thank you. I don't blame her thou. The whole place is so...  Horrible. Moonlight is cringing.

" Why would they whip dragons. Our scales aren't that strong. " He winces as the dragon that was being whipped walks past. Moonlight chirps at her in dragon- tongue. She replies.

" What did she say?" I ask.

" She says that the town has been like this for about six months." Moonlight replies. I gasp. Six months! I thought it would have been at least a year or two. Imagine how that would be if it had been a year or two.

" HEY! WHO ARE YOU AND WHY DO YOU HAVE A UNSLAVED DRAGON!" Someone yells at me.

" Oh,...  What? " I ask as a huge man comes over to us.

" I don't know what he means. " Moonlight says through the mind link. I tell him.

" YOU HEARD ME!" He shouts in my face.

" Well. I am just a traveler. You see my father lives here. " I explain. The man glared at me.

" Any  man alive in this town is at the battle ground fighting for the peace. " He says and spits in my face. I feel my eyes bulge.

" He would be sixty. Way to old to fight. " I exclaimed. The man laughed bitterly at me.

" THEN I GUESS HES DEAD!!!!" He laughs and I cover my mouth with my hands in horror.