Chapter 3 "The escape "

The escape

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Amara woke with a sudden jolt, sending burning pain through her skull. It had felt like she'd been trampled by the mother of all dragons, but she got up anyway. When on her feet she felt herself swaying just to see Trax in her sight, everything around her was black and fuzzy. Jupiter looked from the corner as the fight happened. Should I stop them or not…

He honestly had no idea why guards were chasing them, why not just let them go? The only reason why they aren't letting Traxxas getaway is that she had killed someone. As the smaller blue frilled dragon started to awaken he stepped out instantly getting a doomed glare from Traxxas. "Hello… again." A red glint in his eyes appeared again his tone and voice changed slightly. His voice changed to be almost glitched. He twitched and the glint in his eyes faded a bit but still remained slightly red. "Who's the stranger…" his voice scratchy and almost hostile, not like Jupiter at all.

Trax stared at him, her face contorting as she snarled, as her muscles bunched below her. "Speak as normal or die filth demon." Things like this had happened on her planet, though those were corruptions not just random things happening, the corrupted were always killed, unless a ceremony could be held, Trax was there for every one of the killings, only three ceremonies. Trax's white glowing eyes stared him down, though a red light echoed from the corners. She was processing points of attack and leap angles.

Jupiter suddenly lunged at Trax bringing down his magical sword down of her chest. The metal plates on Trax's chest bore most of the impact, yet the sound of metal on metal still rang throughout the stone hall. He jumped back dodging one of Trax's blows. His eyes faded a bit and he saw the blue stranger slipping away. He zapped her with a laser teleporting to her side glaring down at her. His eyes suddenly reddened more. His sword appeared in his paw. Trax Tackled him, flinging the sword, making it dissipate. He jumped out of Trax's tackle drawing his attention back to her. His claws glowed red and he charged at her, clawing the side of her neck. The claws scraped her neck, though it melted, didn't do any damage to her. Jupiter jumped back again. Suddenly gaining his control as the red went down a bit but still remained. He grimaced holding his head. Trax roared at him, the metal sounds echoed through the corridor. The red left his eyes he collapsed on the ground as the demon still remained in his body just not in control no more.

Trax then ran away from the scene following Amara's scent trail, upon finding her tail which was sticking out of a corner. Trax promptly leaped on it, causing a shriek of pain. Amara leapt up clawing behind her, though Trax was literally on the ceiling, as soon as Amara looked up, Trax was on her back clawing and biting, delicate blue scales and blood covering her claws. Trax grabbed her tail and pulled her foot by foot towards the scene. All the while Amara was roaring and clawing at Trax's metal legs. Amara awkwardly clawed at the wall and ground, trying to get a hold, she found one. Trax pulled again and Amara slipped out of her grasp, Amara roared back at Trax, which was stopped abruptly as Trax sat down licking her front left paw. Covered in blood, her blood. Amara looked at her tail, and sure enough there were gruesome claw marks in them. Trax's eyes watched her reaction, horrified. Possibly. Then Amara leapt onto her pushing her onto her back, Trax's wings sprawled out as she hissed. Amara roared back in her face but Trax grabbed both of her jaws with her paws, Amara starting trying to bite her paws but her jaw was held firmly open, and will be apart if she waited. So, Amara trashed her entire body, once again smacking her head into the wall, granted she stopped only momentarily, Trax slammed her jaws shut, knocking her out from the sheer force.

Trax dragged Amara along, back to where Jupiter was laying. He seemed to have moved, about a foot from where he was seen last. Trax set Amara down, and poked Jupiters snout. "Hey, doofus. You gonna get up? I'm not looking after this." She said pointing at Amara.

Jupiter groaned loudly, as he sat up. His eyes were dilated, and he was dazed. Jupiter finally spotted Trax and giggled self consciously, while wobbling sideways. He suddenly shook himself out of his daze. "... What happened…? Black Hole… Oh, no." Trax stared at him. Before turning away and running out the door to the outside world. Jupiter walks over to Amara "What a sad creature…" Why is my life so complicated? He wondered silently, still sitting in the same spot.

Trax ran back to the forest, she had teleported back, by some complicated force. She needed to find a flat space to teleport back to Odyssey. She ran past a few of the terrible guards from the kingdom, and ran to a clearing. Black hole.. Echoed in her mind before: They're going to kill me, I'm so dead. I'm going to be demoted, thrown into a cellar and never able to see the sunshine again. Trax thought as she began circling, mumbling a spell. She vanished from the forest appearing in dark green/blue thick grass. She was surrounded in glowing plants, till she looked ahead. A huge white building seemingly sprouted from the rocky ground it was buried in. She approached it, and two silver guards stared her down, their dark eyes tracking her to the door, which was opening slowly. The guards stood perfectly still as she passed into the room, guards on the other side closed the heavy metal door.

She followed a guard silently down a hall to another door, the guard opened it just enough for her to slip in, and then shut it behind her. Dragon heads swiveled slightly to look at her, at least a dozen.

Trax looked at the shiny floor as she spoke. She talked about how a dragon came through a portal he had made, blew up a meteor and left. Then how she was trying to assassinate the queen, but she was the dragons mother. Then she tried to flee, and was caught by two guards. She escaped only to try to kill her target one last time, but it had been another dragon instead. Then she got to the part, now being here.

"You were given you one day, and twenty-two hours. To do this assignment." A white and teal dragon spoke, his black tongue flicked out as he spoke. "And it's still incomplete." A dragon at the side watched with a blank expression, her dark stormy scales shifted slightly, Trax realized just then the dragon was missing her neck. Glitch!

The eleven dragons bowed their heads In dismissal, and Trax bowed her head to glitch and got a smirk in return.

Trax left the room and a guard trotted up to her and whispered "There's an intruder, he's been wandering through the halls, the west wing." The guards nostrils flared. "You smell of him." He hissed. Trax growled at the guard, and his eyes narrowed, before going back to his post.

Trax trotted through the west wing, and sped up her pace as his scent got stronger. Jupiter? She thought silently. She ended up turning a corner and running into what seemed was a fluffy wall. She immediately jumped back, and was swept off her paws by a tail and Jupiter was above her pinning her paws to her side, and wings underneath her.

Jupiter looked down Oh-no..this is bad. His brain stated as fact. He felt steam rise up and caress his snout. He looked at her face and her face was steaming, metal melted down her cheeks onto the shiny once-white floors. Under what was metal only midnight colored scales remained. Traxs throat tightened to the point of a metal screech, seemingly in fright as she wiggled out from underneath him.

Jupiter was slightly freaked out, star scales under his eyes glowed and glittered. He jumped away from Traxaas eyes wide in embarrassment.

Trax looked at the white floor, of which was now covered in bronze. Trax looked at him, stars sparkled below his golden eyes. Trax picked up the now hardened metal and disappeared from his view, Jupiter stood there suddenly another dragon launched out of the colored grass, Amara scraping her claws across his face including his eye suddenly his spiked shoulders flared up and sharpened. His paw shot forward scrapping all the way from her face down her neck. And chucked her light body at a boulder nearby knocking her out once again.

Trax looked at her face in her room's mirror, below her eyes all the bronze had melted and she stared at the midnight scales. Jupiter you rat. She silently vowed to try not to blush again, at the thought of the dragon. She held up the bronze in her paw and blow-torched the metal, melting it in seconds. She layered it back on her snout, and her paws again. Trax turned around and looked at her nest. Jupiter was sleeping beside it. She stared at him blankly, noticing the claw mark beside his eye. The side of her mouth twitched up, and went blank again, she walked to her nest and laid down, her spiked back faced him, her wings covered most of her as she fell asleep listening to the endless silence, along with his heartbeat.

Jupiter woke up to Trax's metal face inches away from his. Her face was peaceful, surprisingly. He snorted, and her eyelids shot open revealing bright green eyes, though the left eye had a dark blue zigzag going through the pupil. She growled at him and whipped her head back around her body. Her wings covering her face and neck. Jupiter got up slowly I wonder where Amara is…and what was up with Traxass' eyes. Amara jumped into the den she looked like she had been searching for our scent the whole night. He glared at her as she stepped in without attacking someone for once. She approached sitting against the wall and guiltily looking up at Jupiters scratch on his face. He huffed at her guilty look.

Trax glared at them both. "Get out of my room. It's not even midnight." she said curling back into a ball. The bright light of Jupiter's portal appeared and he stepped inside and as he disappeared his paw popped out urging Amara to follow him. She followed him now that he earned her respect. Both disappeared with the fading light of the portal. Amara and Jupiter appeared on the far side of the forest the castle could be seen from where they were. Jupiter just didn't want to be inside the structure at the moment. He casually curled up on top of some soft dew covered brush.

Trax got back up, and walked out of her room door. She really needed to get some stuff done here, such as blast metal in one of the three forges, or clean the floor. She sighed and walked through the silent halls, well despite quiet huffs from the guards. Trax growled at a guard who was nodding off, near the hatchery. She walked in after the guard acknowledged the scolding. The nursery and hatchery sections were completely empty, except this one. It had three dragonets and an egg of which wasn't even close to hatching. The three dragons were viciously battling one another, their still sharp teeth bounced off each other's scales, followed by whimpers and growling. She snarled at a dragonet, and it growled right back, before bowing its head in respect.

"Hello, ma'am." the dragonets stood beside each other in an almost straight line one was too far forward. "Piper. Position check." The dark purple dragon looked down at the paws behind her own, and moved them to line up, and smiled sheepishly. Trax smiled back showing off her silver teeth. The dragon's jaw dropped, its small sharp teeth shined in the darkness, from her glowing eyes. "Are your eyes always like that, like glowing brightly..?" the dragonet asked, poking her snout with a wing claw. Trax growled at the dragonet, and it put its wings to its side. "...Perhaps." She said her eyes narrowing dangerously. The dragonet made a sound like a growl before smiling. Trax turned around and left, the dragonets were doing good.

She continued through the halls, the moon at its peak. She growled at a guard who was zoning out, and hadn't even seen her walk past. The guard straightened and showed its bright white teeth in a snarl, it's dark eyes uneventful. She just stared at the dark eyes, a bored expression. Then its deadly smile faltered as if realizing she could have killed him right there.

She continued to the Forge, which dragons were still melting metal, as well as shaping the metal into claw slots, armor, spikes, and extra teeth casings. She melted a block of iron for them, and shouted out orders of what to do with the molten metal, before leaving to take her post, which was right outside the council. She was called into the council suddenly, possibly for her punishment. She walked into the council room, and Glitch was sitting there just her. The room was static. "The punishment is more for me, then you I would think. Ruining a dragon whose perfect guard, fighter and escapist. They told me just to mess with you, don't worry, also you may fight back." she finished with a smile. The static sounds got louder, the room seemed to be absorbed in darkness. Right to it, I suppose. But a glitchy illusionist..? She thought, as she seemed to be everywhere, she waited till she felt something coil around her neck and back leg. She jumped up and clawed at it with her free claws, but it bounced off and made a scree sound, like her own metal layer of scales. She roared in agony as her head felt like it was going to explode. The pain subsided, by her own adrenaline. She clawed at the darkness, she felt a presence behind her and to the side all at once, and she spun in a small circle her tail like a whip in the air. Glitch smiled from the corner of her vision, and she twirled, her talons scratching at a smooth surface. Everything went white momentarily. Then she saw glitch back where she originally was ash literally falling from her smooth snout. "Congrats you're not dead." Glitch said, excusing her. Trax immediately ran out the doors, she felt as if her entire body would fall apart any second.

Jupiter woke up suddenly. Amara was shaking him "What..." he said glaring at her. She pointed to the sky ah... daylight. He got up out of the bundled up brush and walked with Amara. "Stay here I need to go and check with Trax." Amara made a frown "Alright you can come with me… No fighting!" he hissed. She nodded, the bright blue light of his magic flowed out of his paw as he drew a circle in the air, the portal flickered with magic, Jupiter stepped inside Amara followed. They appeared inside Traxxas's supposedly den. Amara popped out whining about her dizziness. Jupiter suddenly felt light headed, his eyes glinted a slight red. He yelped in pain and placed a paw on his head. He got up to face a frightened Amara "I'm fine… uh let's wait for Traxxas..yeah." he said, not as a question but a statement. Amara shook her head at him, disbelieving "Your sure? " she asked. "Yeah" he responded, playing around with blue glowing symbols making them float around the room lighting up the room. So their vision was a bit better.

Trax walked back to her den, only to hear voices in it. She groaned in annoyance as she walked in to find Jupiter and Amara chilling in her now glowing room. "Why, now. Of all possible times..?" she questioned them before shooing them away from her nest of which she sat down in.

Jupiter eyes flashed red again. He forced his eyes closed and opened them again and glanced at Amara, her face showing concern. His neck fur was puffed up, he looked at Traxxas smiling oddly.

Trax growled at him before running out of the door of her room. Hopefully he'll follow me. She thought.

Jupiter screeched in pain, his eyes burned bright red, Amara's eyes went wide as she didn't have any time to scream before being thrown into the den's wall. Trax heard the dull thud. Jupiter looked down, now in the attack position near Amara. Trax teleported to Amara and muttered another spell which sent her back after grabbing hold of Amara. Jupiter flashed behind Trax knocking his tail underneath her. She roared at him, and jumped back up, Amara was literally in the ceiling from being thrown. "Rat! Follow me!" She snarled at him. She knew Glitch and Shadow were having another meeting in the council since they always did around midnight or after.

Jupiter ran after Trax blasting lasers at her feet. Some lasers hit the walls causing dust and material to fly. A guard jumped in front of him just to be knocked away by Jupiter's large wing; the guard sliced his reinforced talons down Jupiters shoulder. Jupiter's shoulder spikes went through the guards paw making the dragon screech in pain as he ran past him. He knocked Trax's foot with a laser, as she tripped and stumbled and landed right where Jupiter was. Jupiter bit her calf, his jaws now covered in blood. Trax screeched, shoving her back leg into Jupiter's stomach causing a deep cut in Jupiter's softer abdomen. Jupiter pushed Trax into the ground. His weight and size kept her onto the ground as she struggled. His claws reached for her neck when suddenly the red in his eyes faded and Jupiter fell sideways off of Trax, hitting the floor. Guards starred in their direction eyes wide.

Trax jumped up, her back leg giving out. She hissed and Jex helped her up and steadied her. She thanked him, and he slowly went back to his post. Trax looked at Jupiter, thinking before suddenly hissing out. "Get shadow, Glitch, and skull here. A ceremony is to be held, perhaps the dragon will release his hold of him after it." Jex nodded and ran off to the council room. He returned moments later with Glitch following him, Shadow seemed to not be there, till she looked Above her, she was up on the ceiling staring down at Jupiter and Trax arms and claws stretched out above him. Shadow stared at Trax before seemingly slithering off the ceiling beside the unconscious dragon. "Friend?" Shadow's silk like voice asked. "Sorta, I mean I was trying to kill his queen so perhaps not.." Shadow's sharp claws went straight towards Jupiter's throat. "No, no! He's a friend, yes.�� Shadow hadn't touched him but his black feathers were dull and grey, they looked like rotting branches, but grey. They slowly returned to their normal color. Shadows dark body curled in on itself, her joints bent the wrong way as she messed with her claws and arm. Trax almost vomited when Shadow twisted her head on her neck round and round. "She runs round and round, where she'll drop dead no one knows!" Shadow repeated like a broken record. Glitch kinda just sat there for a moment her scales shined with a teal color. A stray dragonet poked what should have been Glitch's tail, but it was the floor instead as it flicked away.

"Ceremony after..or miracle before..?" Glitch asked Trax, staring into her bright white eyes. "Never mind, Shadow mind getting into the dragon's body. You should be able to literally push the dragon out of his head. If he doesn't release the dragon, fight them." Shadow laid down beside Jupiter folding her wing around the dragon as a safety net, and closed her bright blue eyes.