River's odyssey (a wings of fire fanfiction)

River’s odyssey (a wings of fire fanfiction)
a one-off by foxleafWC.
This fanfiction belongs to FoxLeafWC aka FoxLeafTheRainWing
DO NOT STEAL OR EDIT! I spent a long time on this, and do not want it changed! if I did something wrong please tell me in the comments. Thank you in advance.
(sorry its not very good, I am still editing this to make it better)
WIP 
PART ONE. 
River stood in front of the boat. she did not like this. In fact she HATED this. it was one thing to work on a dragon spotting ship, but quite another to go to the dragons continent! she looked up at the ship and, after a moment of deliberation, stepped aboard, She immediately regretted this action.
after she stepped onto the boat, Roger (the captain) spotted her, walked over, and finely told her the ship's mission. She now hated this even more.
The goal of this expedition was to document the internal biology of all the dragon types they knew of.
This meant they had to kill dragons, and not just one either,
no, they would have to kill one dragon of each type.
And as if that wasn't hard enough, they had to do it in one month.
River sighed at the stupidity of the mission, just as the ship’s main MHD drive kicked in, And they started moving out to sea.
Break.
River was mad at the government.
To be fair she had ALWAYS been mad at the government, but this time she had a good reason. Several days earlier, She had received a letter telling her that she had been selected (again) to serve on a dragon spotting ship. This was fine, she had been selected at least 5 times before this to be on a dragon spotting ship. In fact it was one of the few things she enjoyed, but what they HADN'T told her, was that they had to kill dragons.
To be fair to the government they HAD given them taser guns, (normal guns would have damaged the dragons to the point  where they couldn't study it) but STILL, they could have told the crew beforehand!
Down in her quarters, River was supposed to be watching
the informational video provided by the government on killing dragons.
But instead was shouting insults at the wall.
“Hey, calm down,” said Susie, her new roommate.
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN CALM DOWN!” shouted River,
“WERE ALL GONNA DIE! HOW ARE YOU NOT PANICKING!?”
“What makes you think we're gonna die?” asked Susie.
“We're going to the dragons CONTINENT!, of course we're all going to die!”
“Not if we do the job correctly” replied Susie. “They're DRAGONS Susie! How are we going to kill ONE? Let alone 7?” she demanded. 
“They told us in the informational video” said Susie, “Didn't you watch it?” 
“no, I was busy,” she replied.
“Well if you HAD watched it, you would know that it's not actually that hard to kill a dragon”
“What do you mean?! They're like 10 times bigger than us!” shouted River.
“Well yes, but-” Susie started. “And they have FIRE! AND FROSTBREATH! HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT THAT?!”
“But the government gave us-” “THE GOVERNMENT?!?!” she yelled, “they’re the ones who sent on this suicide mission!”
“It's not a suicide mission River, the plan is to come back along with the information we gathered.” said Susie.
“We won't SURVIVE that long Susie! We have to kill 7 dragons! IN A MONTH!” “We DO have tools” said Susie “the government gave us everything we need. We have camouflage so we can kill the dragons without fighting them. maybe we could kill some deer, and use them as bait.” “wait.” said River. “Are you OK with killing animals?”
“Well… yes? It IS for science after all” replied Susie.
“WHAT NO!” shouted River, appalled. “Killing is wrong no matter what!”
“But is it really? All life does it, it’s just survival.”
This argument continued for the next 2 days whenever River and Susie saw each other, until they reached the dragon continent.
Break.
River breathed in the fresh sea air. It was a welcome change from the air back home, which was clogged with smoke and ashes from the coal plant she lived next to. 
She looked out at the rapidly approaching continent in the distance.
she turned back to unpacking the gear with the rest of the crew. it was a long and arduous task. Once it was done, she headed to the watchtower, (her new favorite place on the ship now that she had Susie for a roommate.)
Up in the watchtower, she pulled out her tablet, unfolded it, and started reading. in another hour or two, a dragon flew overhead, (by this time they were only half a mile from shore), eyeing them with black beady eyes. 
She recognized this dragon type from her books, it was a sand dragon, and according to her books, it wouldn't attack without being provoked, or if they acted like prey.
The sand dragon swooped down, landed on the deck of the ship, and began roaring and breathing fire at the crew. “OK”  River thought, “that's not good” 
The dragon was now attempting to eat the closest crew members.
“What do I do?” she thought desperately, just as the dragon spotted her and shot a blast of flame at the watchtower, right before the flames hit, She dove off the watchtower. “Well crap.” she thought, and fell into the ocean. she hit the surface at a good speed, but luckily only went down about 6 feet. After a brief moment of disorientation she swam back to the surface. She came up sputtering and coughing just in time to see the  sand dragon flying away, roaring in fury with dark red blood pouring from its right wing. She swam back to the ship, and in a few seconds, a rope was lowered over the side, she grabbed it , and was promptly pulled back onto the ship. As soon as she was onboard she saw how much damage the sand dragon had done. Half the crew lay dead on the deck, pools of blood slowly forming around them. The watchtower was gone, snapped halfway up, several of the ship's antennae were snapped, and burn marks covered the deck. She was beginning to get light headed from the sight. (and all the seawater she had just inhaled.) “ I need to get to a doctor, or I'll pass out.” she thought. then passed out.
Break.
She regained consciousness in a blank white room. “Why are hospital rooms white?” she wondered “it would be so much less painful to wake up in a black room.” One of the ship's doctors came in holding a tablet.
“Oh good you're awake” he said in a British accent “I didn't think it would be for another hour or two.” she pondered this as the doctor started to type notes on his tablet. “He didn't think I would be awake for another hour or two,” she thought. “That's a pretty large margin of error, how long have I been asleep?”  “How long have I been asleep?” she asked.
“Around 2 days.” the doctor replied. 
“TWO DAYS?” she said. “Have we docked at shore yet?”
“No,” replied the doctor. “We will in a few hours though”
“Oh good” she sighed “I thought i missed it”
“You still might” said the doctor. “You’re still not in very good condition, you should probably stay for at least one more day”
“NO” she shouted, slightly panicked “i-im fine. Can I go now?”
“Um ok, but why? There's nowhere to be right now except your quarters.” 
“I just…uh, want to get some fresh air” River replied, hoping the doctor would accept this explanation. “Ok” the doctor said after a pause. “Just take it easy for a few hours” “thanks!” She said, and walked out the door. she went down to her quarters and collapsed onto her bed.
A few minutes later, she sat up, took out her tablet to call her friend Ivy, to tell her what had happened so far on the trip to the dragons continent. Her tablet was reporting no signal, the sand dragon had broken all the primary antennae two days ago. frustrated, River closed her tablet and set it aside to charge. she lay back on her bed thinking about the sand dragon, And how it had attacked without provocation. “Why did it do that” she wondered, “was it just needlessly aggressive? Or did it have a reason for what it did?” sadly there was no way to tell without more evidence. 
BREAK.
“DOCKING IN FIVE MINUTES!” came a voice over the intercom, jolting River awake. “I'd better get on deck.” she got out of bed, and hurried up the stairs. She got to the deck just in time to watch the ship dock on the shores of the mountains.
“OK!” shouted Roger (the captain), addressing the remaining crew members who stood on the deck . “START UNLOADING!”
small Break.
After hours of unloading, the ship left. Gone back out to open sea, lest the dragons attack it again. In one month the ship would return to bring them, and their findings back to the human continent.
After a few hours of unloading, the ship left. Gone back out to open sea, lest the dragons attack it again. In a month the ship would return to bring them, and their findings back to the human continent.
Until then they were on their own.
The camp had been set up, the taser guns charged, the area monitored by infrared cameras to warn them of dragons flying overhead.
But there was still a feeling of fear in the air, most likely brought on By the sand dragon attack of a few days ago.
According to Rivers books, There were 7 types of dragons: sand dragons, sky dragons, forest dragons, (these were the deadliest.) star dragons, swamp dragons, and two more that hadn't been identified yet. One that was an Icey blue, breathed frost breath instead of fire, and stayed to the north, and another that was a slightly darker blue, and probably lived on islands farther out to sea.
The easiest one to kill was probably going to be the dark blue ones, who apparently had lost the ability to breath fire due to lack of competition from the other dragons on the continent. Still, they would be hard to take down, with or without fire.
River pondered this in her tent, while the rest of the camp was setting up for the night,
“Maybe we could attack a forest dragon first, then we could hide behind the trees?” she thought about this for a moment. “Trees or no trees, it would still be easy for a forest dragon to eat them once it figured out where they were, and the trees would only hinder their escape.”
“Oh come on!” came a voice from the tent door, “THIS is who they put me with?!” Susie walked into the tent, “you'd better be a quiet sleeper!” she said, and sat down on the bunk next to River’s. 
“Of ALL the crew on the ship, I had to be put with HER?” River thought,
Then reflected that, since there were only a few dozen crew members left, the odds were actually pretty high. “And it doesn't help that we had already been paired together before, and no one really had the time to update the crew arrangements” she sighed and tried not to think about the implications of having Susie for a roommate.
Break.
River awoke to screaming. “Oh come on!” she thought, “can ONE THING not go right on this expedition?” she bolted out of her bed and ran out of the tent with her taser gun at the ready. 
The camp was mayhem, people were screaming and running in every direction. A few were trying to pull taser guns, but before they could fire, they were eaten by one of several dark blue dragons. 
“Wait, dragons? There had been no warning from the cameras.”
Not sure what else to do, she aimed her taser gun at the nearest dragon. The dragon turned and lunged toward her with startling speed. Before she could shoot, someone slammed into her knocking her into the trees surrounding the camp. Disoriented, she got up and looked around to see who had saved her, before she could see who it was, they screamed: “RUN!”, grabbed her by the arm, and rushed deeper into the forest.
After a few minutes of running, they stopped to rest behind a large fallen tree. For the first time River saw her rescuer's face, it was Susie.
Break.
“Susie!?” River exclaimed. “Sssssssh!” said Susie, “the dragons will find us!” “Sorry.” River whispered, “But-” “SSH!” said Susie, “something's coming!” 
they sat still, As the sound of heavy footsteps slowly approached.
a dragon slowly creeped through the forest, sniffing the air as it went. After a minute or two, it walked straight to their tree and poked its head over the top, 
Susie punched it in the eye.
“WHY THE (BLEEEP!) DID YOU DO THAT?!” shouted River over the dragons roaring. “So I could do this,” answered Susie, and shot the dragon with her taser gun. The dragon’s roars cut off abruptly as it fell to the ground with a loud thump. “See?” Susie said calmly, “now we have a dragon to study, now all we have to do is-” Susie was cut off, as the dragon she had stunned woke up, and bit down on her left leg. Susie’s scream no doubt alerted all the dragons back at the camp to their presence. 
Without thinking, River pulled out her taser gun, and shot the dragon in the eye. It’s head thumped to the ground, dragging susie down with it, 
Susie screamed louder and wrenched her leg free of the dragon's mouth.
It didn't look good. Her leg was drenched in blood, and appeared to be broken. She probably couldn't walk for at least a month, assuming she could get to a doctor soon. wordlessly, River helped Susie up, and they started back towards the camp.
Brake.
After a half hour of walking, they arrived back at the ruined camp.
(which needless to say was in ruins.) They headed to the medical tent, and grabbed some stuff for Susie’s leg. (anti infectant, bandages for several days, and some crutches so Susie could walk.) then went to the supply tent, (which had been crushed.) They uncrushed the supply tent, and took some food, water, hunting knives, two sleeping bags, a pack of flairs, some lighters, and 2 backpacks to carry all of it.
They then treated Susie’s leg, and set off.
It was after only a few minutes of walking, that River realized that she didn't know where they were going. “Hey.” she said to Susie, “where are we going?” “I don't know, I was following you.” replied Susie.
“Well we should figure that out.” said River, “if we're still going to try to study dragons, we should head for the mountains.” “Why the mountains?”
Asked Susie, “then we can stay in a cave that’s too small for dragons.”
River replied, “and we would have a good view to spot dragons.”
“Ok, let's do that.” said Susie. They walked until dusk, and then set up a small camp at the base of the mountains.
They sat around a fire, eating some of the food rations. 
“Hey, Susie?” said River. “What?” said Susie. “Why did you save me?”
POV switch!
“Why did you save me?” asked river.
Susie didn't know how to answer that, She honestly didn't know why she had saved River, they had been enemies since they met on the ship, (and also River could be REALLY annoying sometimes.) “ I don't know,” she said. “I just did.” oh.” said River, sounding disappointed. “Ok.”
“Is anything wrong?” she asked River. “No.” she said. “Let's get some sleep, we'll have to be up early tomorrow to start climbing the mountain.”
River stood up, pulled out one of the sleeping bags, and lay down in it a good distance from the fire. 
After a few more minutes, Susie got up, put out the fire, and lay down in the other sleeping bag a few feet away from River. As she fell asleep, she thought, “why was River disappointed in my answer? What was she hoping I'd say?”
Break.
Susie awoke to the sound of birds chirping. She was briefly disoriented by this, “there aren't any birds in my town,” She looked at the surrounding trees and she suddenly remembered where she was.
“Oh right, I'm on the dragon's continent.”
She looked over at River, who was still sleeping even though it was already 8AM. She got up and felt a sharp pain in her leg, “oh right, that happened” she thought and started to pack up the camp. After another half hour, River woke up and, seeing that Susie was already done packing up the camp, hastily got up and stuffed her sleeping bag into her backpack.
“Sorry!” She said, “I'm not used to getting up so early!” she finished loading her backpack, slung it over her back, and asked “So are we climbing the mountain today?” “yep!” she replied. “Are you sure?” River asked, “what about your leg?” “oh, It's fine now.” she lied, becoming more aware of the searing pain her leg was in. “oh, then let's go!” River exclaimed, and started towards the mountain.
Break.
POV switch!
“I have to stop him.” thought undauntable as he sprinted down the steps of the indestructible city. He father, (the lord of the indestructible city)
Was going to try to capture wren for her supposed ability to control dragons. “Which is ridiculous!” he thought. How could anyone control dragons? “Then again, she DID have all those weird dragon scales,
AND seemed to know that the sand dragon was going to leave without attacking, could wren control dragons?”
“Well it doesn't matter if she can or not, my father will still chase her to the ends of the continent just on the off chance that she can.”
He reached the bottom of the stairs and ran to the horse's stables.
(he had decided to learn to ride a horse to impress wren the next time she came back.) inside the stables, he ran to his horse and mounted it, taking some fruit from a nearby table and putting it in his satchel. He felt bad for the horses, who would now have to wait for morning to eat instead of this night. “Don’t feel sorry for the horses you idiot.” he scolded himself, “they're just animals, they probably couldn't even feel disappointment.”
With one last look back at the indestructible city, he rode towards the mountains in the distance. Thinking that maybe this wasn't such a good idea.
Brake.
“I was right, This wasn't a good idea.” He thought. 
He was sitting in a cave on one of the mountains, waiting for the dragon outside to leave and stop trying to eat him.
A few minutes earlier he had been on his horse climbing the mountain,
And he had looked up to see a bright red dragon circling overhead.
It saw him looking up and had dived at him.
He had jumped off his horse just as the dragon grabbed it, and ran to the nearest cave. After presumably eating his horse, the dragon had landed outside his cave and looked in at him sitting at the far end.
He sat back and waited for the dragon to leave.
He didn't have to wait long.
After a few minutes, the dragon sat up from where it had been sitting and looked down over a nearby ledge at a path about 50 feet down the mountain. Apparently it had spotted some better prey than him. Because it jumped off the ledge and glided down towards the path below.
“Well good for me then.” he thought, “now that it's distracted i can probably escape without it noticing, and-” he was cut off by a very human sounding scream coming from the path below. “What was that?” He ran to the edge and looked down at the path below. Or at least he tried to, he slipped on the loose pebbles that littered the ground at his feet and skidded over the ledge.
break.
He fell directly onto the dragon's back. This was a mixed blessing. On one hand, he didn't die. But on the other hand, he probably would soon. And much more painfully too. the dragon swung its head around to look at him and opened its mouth, fire building inside it. He scrambled backwards, trying to get off its back, he knew he wouldn't be fast enough. 
Just as it was about to breathe its fire at him, he heard a sharp snap, and the dragon stopped, two metal prongs stuck in its left eye. 
It toppled over sideways, trapping him beneath it. the ground driving the metal prongs deeper into its eye. He expected the dragon to roar in pain or fury and then eat him. but it just lay there,
Apparently dead. “But it can't be dead, those shouldn't have killed it, even if they were poisoned they would still take time to kill.”
He tried to push the dragon off him. It didn't move. “Hey!” someone said.
“Are you alright?” He turned to look at the speaker, but his view was obscured by the body of the dragon. “Who are you?” he asked the voice.
“I might ask you the same question.” They replied, “I thought the blue dragons killed everyone at the camp.” “Can you get this dragon off me?” 
He asked, “and I don't think we come from the same “camp”, I come from the indestructible city.” the voice paused for a second. “What?” it asked.
 “Just get this dragon off me!” he demanded. “Ok, ok.” the voice responded. And came around the corpse of the dragon.
It turned out that two people had been there, they both looked like normal village residents, except one of them held what looked like a small piece of metal connected to two thick strings, which led to the metal prongs in the dragon's eye. And the other held a similar object that had the two (possibly poisoned) metal prongs still in it. “Maybe those are like tiny crossbows?” “Who are you?” the first person asked. “You weren't on the ship with us.” “What ship?” he retorted, “i've never been on a ship in my life! I live in a desert!” The two people looked at each other stunned at what he had just said. (though he couldn't imagine why, lots of people lived in the desert) “are you… from here?” the first person asked tentatively.
“Well no,” he replied, “I'm from about a day's travel that way.” he pointed towards the way he had come. “Where are you from?” 
END OF PART ONE.
PART TWO IN PROGRESS.
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