Caught in the Crossfire

Ra hated Outclaws. He hated them because they killed his family. He could remember the day well, remember the screams of the dying dragons. Ra's father wasn't a Talon, but he did do business with them. Ra never knew the Talons where evil, He still didn't think that they were. The Talons were always kind to him and his sister Scorpion, kind to his whole family. Sobek was a merchant, he just got stuck with the wrong crowed. The Talons offered him money and Sobek took it, it's what any dragon would do. Sobek would smuggle goods and dragons for the Talons, and he would be kept safe and paid well. 
It was early evening when the Outclaws came. Ra and his family were sitting down for dinner when a red and yellow SandWing flanked by two others showed up at their door. It was his coloring that Ra would never forget, no SandWing ever had been that color red naturally. He had to have been a hybrid. 
"What do you want?" Sobek had asked the hybrid. The red SandWing brushed past him into the house. He was bigger than any SandWing Ra had ever seen too with huge red wings and pale sand colored chin, throat and underbelly. He had little pale flecks scattered all long his body, the underside of his wings where sand colored too. Around his neck he wore a brown torn cloak or scarf around his neck and Ra could barely see the glitter of golden earrings in his ears. "I asked you what you wanted." Ra's father said again. The Outclaw turned and glared at Sobek. 
"Your name is Sobek correct." It wasn't really a question. Sobek nodded. "You’re a merchant by trade, but you're also a smuggler working for the Talons." The color drained from Sobek's face. 
"That's not true!" Sobek said his voice trembling. The Outclaw shrugged. 
"Deny it all you want, but I think you know what’s coming next." A scream split the night, then more. "We can't let you or your family live. You chose your side, you all did." The red SandWing turned and stabbed Sobek in the heart killing him instantly. He then turned upon Ra's mother. She tried to back away, but the Outclaw was too fast. He tore her throat out in one flued motion then he dragged her corpse over to Sobek's. Ra who'd been too terrified to move during the whole ordeal snapped out of his stupor. The only thing he could think about was getting his little sister away from the Outclaw. The red SandWing set the bodies on fire and stepped back, he would be coming for them next. Ra did the only thing he could he leapt up and stabbed the Outclaw in the back, feeling his barb passing through the Outclaw's spine. The red SandWing's whole body spasmed and he collapsed forward into the fire that he'd stared, dead before he hit the floor. Ra stepped back horrified at what he'd done, but there wasn't any time left. He grabbed Scorpion's arm and pulled her up. Ra felt hot tears falling from his eyes as he dragged his sister from their now burring house. As the ran out into the street Ra saw dragons everywhere. The Outclaws had set many of the houses on the street on fire, houses that Talons or Talon collaborators lived in. There where Outclaws standing outside of the burning buildings making sure that nobody could get out. Ra and his sister ran down an ally and threw side streets until they were far away from the carnage. They stopped at the end of a dead-end alleyway and huddled together weary of anyone and anything. Ra held his sister close hugging her. "Everything's going to be ok." he whispered to her. Scorpion didn't say anything, she just shook in his arms.
The next day they left the Scorpion den and showed up at their aunt and Uncle's home in the next town. They took Ra and Scorpion in and treated them like the dragonets they never had, Ra tried to be happy, but it wasn't easy. A few months later Scorpion died from a heart attack. The doctors said that it was because of stress or shock. Ra knew that it must have been because of the Outclaw attack, it had been too much for her to watch her parents die in front of her. This made Ra fear more for his health wondering if the same thing would happen to him. 
Ra was adamant about never returning to the Scorpion den for fear of the Outclaws killing him, he still needed and education though. So, his aunt and uncle scraped together enough money to send him to the Jade Mountain Academy. Even though he still felt afraid Ra agreed to go. He liked the old librarian Starflight and he thought that his biology teacher, a LeafWing named Thistle was very interesting. It didn't erase all of his fears, just made them fade away. He even made some friends; a SkyWing named Tremor and a SilkWing named Argus. While he was at the Academy Ra learned the name of the hybrid who'd had killed his family. His name was Falcon, and he was the son of an important Outclaw. What Ra didn't know was that Falcon's younger brother Hawk had sworn revenge on Falcon's killer. Hawk didn’t know who Ra was or where he was, but he was going to find him and if he could kill him. Hawk had traced Ra's path to his aunt and uncle where he learned Ra's name, but not where to find him. In a fit of rage, the hybrid killed Ra's aunt and uncle. Later he came to regret doing it. "They hadn't needed to die and killing them put me at a dead end anyways." Unaware of any of this Ra continued to live his life, continued to hate and fear the Outclaws.
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