Claws of betrayal

= Chapter 1 =
Afterstrike was scurrying to meet her new commander,her name was Afterstrike her commander's name was Verdict. Afterstrikes friends names were Tomorrow ,Seerer, Pain, and Horror which were also in her winglet. "Afterstrike your finally here you took forever,”said Tomorrow.
“I’m sorry about what happened to your mother.”said Tomorrow.Afterstrike remembered what happened she started to cry on the inside.She wished she could forget what happened.
“I’m sorry too,”said horror. Afterstrike knew that he thought that she was in love with him but they were just friends.
Then she saw their commander coming, Commander Verdict was huge three times the size of a normal Battleclaw.
Commander Verdict had a lot of scars which made Afterstrike nervous, their commander could crush their skulls at any moment.
“Hello everyone I am commander Verdict ”said commander Verdict with a sinister voice as she landed with a graceful motion in the training area.
Everyone except Afterstrike said something like "woah" or "wow" as they gathered around her, she was so big Afterstrike was frozen with fear and admiration.
”We will begin your training now” Verdict announced, Their training area was mostly blank but then Afterstrike a saw scavenger shaped clawing bags pop out of the ground.
”You will destroy these bags until they are dust.Now this shouldn’t be so hard,” Verdict commanded with a strong voice. Verdict paced around Afterstrike and her friends.
After a little bit she heard a little squeak.The squeak sounded like a human. She said with a panicky voice,”Human.They’re going to escape.” so she faced commander Verdict to wait for instructions.
Hmmm if they escape they could cause problems she thought so without an answer Afterstrike dove at the humans and slashed and clawed. She saw one of them with a cannon pointing at Horror.
The cannon fired and a cannonball hit Horror.She yelled no as she landed on Horror and she started to cry.She didn’t want to lose another dragon in her life.
The ground started to open up and Horror fell in.
For a while nothing happened.Everyone had gone silent.
Then the ground opened up and Horror came out unharmed.”what happened,”said horror with a hoarse voice.He stumbled towards afterstrike
“You were resurrected”said Afterstrike with genuine curiosity if she was actually going crazy or if she was asleep.
She poked herself with her claws,she felt pain.So she wasn’t dreaming and this was actually happening.”what just happened”said Afterstrike.
Commander Verdict spread her wings wide.With strong,powerful wingbeats she flew away.
No one talked for a while on the way .The eerie quietness of the journey calmed her.But the huge commander made her concentration tip off into an abyss.
They landed in front of the royal library.“Why are we at the library?”asked Seerer.They all walked towards the prophecy section.
“Here it is.”commander Verdict took a scroll out of the shelf and started reading it out loud.She was unsure if she would ever be part of a prophecy but apparently she would.
She thought that in her story she would be the sidekick who died first.The hapless sidekick is what she thought she would be.
“When the humans have stolen so many lives and homes.A dragon will rise.The world will finally be free from.”Verdict recited coldly in front of everyone
”It just ends like that.Most of it was lost to the last war,”said commander Verdict.
She looked out the window and then,she saw more scouts trying to go away.”Ugh,humans,”said Afterstrike.She was starting to hate this new job.
“Humans,Where!”said commander Verdict as she looked to the west.There it was,a group of humans trying to get away.They were armed though.There’s nothing more annoying than armed humans.
“Ugh not again”Tomorrow complained.She was getting tired too.Those humans kept on coming.It was like they never learned that if they got close to dragons they’ll die.
“Fly fly fly,”said commander Verdict.Afterstrike flapped her wings hard in the air.Then an arrow whizzed past her head.What was that,thought Afterstrike.
Again,an arrow shot at Afterstrike.”Ow!”,said Afterstrike.Afterstrike tried to turn left to stop from hitting the wall.Why can’t I feel my tail at all.
She turned her head to look at the tail.There was an arrow.If I remember correctly,there’s a nerve in the tail that controls the entire tail.
If she got hit there,She wouldn’t be able to turn.Just then,she hit the wall hard.She started to fall from the sky.The world started to turn pure pitch black.
Afterstrike opened her eyes and groaned.Where am I and why am I here, thought Afterstrike.She was in a cave right now,probably her sleeping cave.Afterstrike walked outside.
She knew where she was.
She decided to sleep for a bit.She was really tired and sore.
She picked out a soft and comfy bed that she thought was perfect.She got on the bed and started sleeping on it.
= Chapter 2 =
Afterstrike woke up.It was the middle of the night.Afterstrike got up and started walking to the cave entrance.
She leaped off from the mountain and glided towards the riverbank.She landed on the ground with a thump.
Horror was there, waiting.Afterstrike started to walk toward Horror.”Horror.Can we talk,”asked Afterstrike.Maybe if i talk to someone i’ll feel better about what happened ,thought Afterstrike.
“Sure.Wait is this about when you revived me.”He was right about that.The more she thought about it the more she questioned her own existence.
“I’ll go get some food for us.We shouldn’t talk on an empty stomach.”Afterstrike nodded at him.He bounded into the woods.A bit later she heard wingbeats but she thought it was Horror.
She looked around just in case and she saw a Nightclaw.A big hulking Nightclaw,with silver scales spiraling around his tail.
The Nightclaw dived strait at Afterstrike.She dogged and got up in the air to fight.She roared loudly.She searched the sky for him.
She flew straight at the Nightclaw and Slashed at his tail.The Nightclaw roared and shot fire at her.Then out of nowhere,Horror bumped into the Nightclaw and they crashed into the riverbank.
Afterstrike flew down to the riverbank and when she landed Horror said ,”Quick get a tree and put it on him.”She went into the woods and tried to pick up a fallen tree.
She tried to pull it out but it didn’t work.Maybe this will work.She opened her mouth to scorch the roots.The tree was loose enough now to take it out.She flew towards the night wing.When she landed she slipped a little but she managed to get the tree on the Nightclaw.
“I’ll watch him, you get commander Verdict”Afterstrike told Horror.He nodded.He started to run and then she flapped her wings to fly away.Please hurry Horror.I don’t like being this close to a Nightclaw.
After a little bit the Nightclaw said”Please, don’t leave me like this.''She didn’t answer him.She turned to look at him.What is a Nightclaw doing here.I thought they were banished from the battle kingdom.
”Now why would a Nightclaw be here?”She said to him.Nightclaws were known to be vicious and cunning so she had to play it safe.
She didn’t get an answer.She remembered that some Nightclaws could mess minds or see glimpses of someone else’s future,not their own.I have to be careful.Nightclaws are dangerous.
Why is it taking Horror taking so long.It had been three cycles since Horror had left.Afterstrike knew that if he didn’t return soon,she would have to kill him herself.
”I’m going to leave now and if you aren’t here when I come back I will make sure to kill you myself.”said Afterstrike.
“Okay but before you go at least let me tell you my name,”asked the Nightclaw.
“No.Quite frankly I am not interested,”said Afterstrike.
“Dreamstalker.My name is Dreamstalker.
What are you doing here dreamstalker,and why?Afterstrike looked around.She found a cave that looked perfect for sleeping.
Afterstrike saw a goat so she dived straight at it.She opened her wings to slow down and landed.She walked forward and grabbed the goat from its neck.
She slit the goat’s throat and opened her wings.She started flapping them and flew towards the cave that she found earlier.I should save some meat for Dreamstalker.
Afterstrike breathed air to get dust off of the cave floor and started sleeping.
= Chapter 3 =
When Afterstrike woke up she was so hungry.She walked towards a lizard and with a quick stab she impaled a lizard and stuffed it in her mouth.
I should wake up Dreamstalker.Afterstrike jumped off from the cave entrance and flew towards where Dreamstalker was.Afterstrike had a goat in her hands.
When she was there, she landed with a thud.Afterstrike tapped on Dreamstalker’s shoulder.I hope he doesn’t somehow kill me here and now.
She took the log off of Dreamstalker so he could eat.I hope I’m not making a mistake doing this.
Dreamstalker woke up mumbling.”Here eat this,”said Afterstrike.She handed him a goat and he happily munched it down.”That was fast”She said.
“Normally I would eat a lot slower but I'm so hungry,”said Dreamstalker.He was stuffing the goat in his mouth.
”Well it might be your last food you’ll ever have so enjoy it.”Poor dragon.About to die alone with no family or friends.
She put the log back on him.They sat there talking about the war and stuff like that.She laid down on the sand.Dreamstalker had already fallen asleep.
She thought about letting him go tomorrow.
She lifted the log up and threw it into the river bank.”thank you”said Dreamstalker.He got up and stretched his wings.He winced as he got up.
“Want me to get something for the wounds,”She said nervously.She felt bad for him.She landed back on the ground.Okay,here I go.
“No need.Nightclaws heal quickly.But moonlight is what helps us to heal even quicker”She thought that was silly.Super Nightclaw healing powers.She thought that Dreamstalker was making it up.
“Where am I supposed to get moonlight?”She said laughing.Maybe the Nightclaws had a magical Nightclaw who grew a plant which had moonlight in it.
“We got these healing powers from a magic dragon who enchanted the whole tribe,so we heal from moonlight now.It’s pretty cool if you ask me.”She wondered who that dragon was.Am I magical like that Nightclaw too?
She softly spoke “Enchant this dragon so that his scales would be impervious to everything.”She felt a little cold after that spell, she shivered.
“Are you okay.You look like Nightrider right before he went insane and almost killed the whole royal Nightclaw family.”Wait Nightrider must be the animus.And murdering almost the whole royal Nightclaw family.This could only mean one thing.Every spell she casts she turns evil.
“I need to tell you something.”Said Afterstrike.Was she going to reveal something that could tear the world apart to a dragon she didn’t know.
“What is it?” Said dreamstalker.He was trying really hard to find out what it was.At least, that’s what she thought.
“I think i’m a magic dragon.”She thought about how evil she might be now.She probably wasn’t evil yet.
“No way.Your too nice,”he said as they walked to the other side of the river.Maybe she was different.
“What is the limit of magic?”she asked as she helped him up from the riverbank.He was heavy,and about as big as her.
“There is only one,”said the dreamstalker.”The mother dragon installed a safeguard so that animus magic could do everything except revive a dragon.”
“But I revived a friend.His name is Horror” Afterstrike said. Dreamstalker had a horrified and curious expression on his face.A voice interrupted her train of thought.
“Halt,stop right there,”said a guard.Well two guards,flying straight at her.They pulled in their wings to go faster.Oh no.If We get found.Me and Dreamstalker will get executed.
“Quick,into the woods.''She pushed him as hard as she could into the tree’s.He struggled as she pushed him out of sight.Now only I will get caught and Dreamstalker won’t.
The bushes rustled and stopped.He got away,thought Afterstrike.She was thankful that he didn’t get found.
“Yes.What do you want.”She said to the guards as they landed in front of her.Did they see Dreamstalker.What if they were going to get him executed.No… no, she wouldn’t let that happen.He was kind of growing on her.
“We were told to bring in a Nightclaw.”They asked her.
“I was watching him.And he escaped in the night when I was asleep.''She told the guards as she glanced at the trees to look for Dreamstalker.He wasn’t there.With a flash ,a spinning disk flew towards the guards.
The disk sliced one of the guards throat.Wait...thats a chakram.The other chakram missed but hit his left wing on the other guard.She lunged at the guard and aimed for his tail but he was big.He swatted her off like a fly.
Then Dreamstalker leaped from the forest and with his claws outstretched and attacked the guard with a chakram in his hands.
Dreamstalker sliced the guard’s throat and the guard fell to the ground.The guard was a bloody mess.
”Let’s get out of here before anyone links us with their death’s.”Said dreamstalker as he took out a cloth to wipe the blood off the chakrams.
“Ok.But where will we go?I mean there aren't many options.”Said Afterstrike.She sat down on a rock.Am I really trusting him?
“We could take an abandoned outpost.”said Dreamstalker.He put the cloth back into a bag.
”Yeah,that would work.Except all of them have been reconstructed as army bases.”Afterstrike explained.
“Or you could use your magic that  you  talked about.”Said Dreamstalker.She wasn’t sure,she didn’t exactly know how to use her power but it was worth a shot.
“Ok,I’ll try.”She touched the ground and closed her eyes to imagined a house growing from the ground.She slowly opened her eyes.It worked,but it was slightly bigger than she wanted it to be,but this would have to do.
“Whoa.How did you do that?”Asked Dreamstalker.She didn’t know.She looked up at the house.It was big,bigger than commander Verdict.She opened the door into the hut.There was a kitchen with a bowl full of fruit and a plate with some cooked boar.It’s a paradise.It’s just like back home in my house.
She missed her sister.Why did you have to die protecting strangers when you had a little sister you had to protect.She didn’t even have time to say goodbye.
There was a bed made of cotton and moss.There were chairs all around the living room.”What.So this is what magic can do.It’s amazing,”said Dreamstalker in awe.
“This is nice.But what if someone sees it.”She forgot.If she was found,she would be executed.Wait,she could enchant the outside of the house to be invisible.
She went outside,touched the walls and just like that she couldn’t see it.Maybe I should make it so that only Dreamstalker and I could see it.
She tried that on the house.Did it work.She wouldn’t know because she would be able to see it.She went back inside the house.Dreamstalker was stuffing his mouth with bananas.”Oh,your back.What were you doing,”Asked Dreamstalker.
“I was cloaking the outside walls,”she answered him.She walked towards Dreamstalker and stopped.He was putting the plates away.
“Wait.Doesn’t that mean we can’t see it,”asked Dreamstalker with a muffled voice.She laughed a little at Dreamstalker but too quietly for him to hear.
“No.I cloaked it so that only you and me could see it,”told Afterstrike.Dreamstalker had a worried expression on her face.She thought about the spell she casted on Dreamstalker on the river.
That night she was dreaming about killing Dreamstalker by stabbing a spear through his heart.She woke up instantly.Dreamstalker was still there.Am I going to do that to him.
When she woke up the next morning,she went outside to find Dreamstalker.he was sharpening his chakrams.She bounded towards him.
“What are you doing,”she asked Dreamstalker.He looked up at Afterstrike.He grinned at her.What’s this feeling.
“Just getting ready if someone finds us.”Us.He said us.She thought that he would tell her to go and they would part ways forever.But that isn’t happening.
“What is it?”He took a glance at her and then looked away.He had a worried look.
“I guess this is it.I’ll have to leave now.”She looked at him.She didn’t want him to leave.She was starting to like him.
“please.Could you stay.I can’t go anywhere.I have no idea where I am.”Dreamstalker had a puzzled look on his face.What was she doing,asking a Nightclaw.
“Why.I’m a Nightclaw so we’re not supposed to help or even talk to each other.Im supposed to kill you on sight,”said Dreamstalker.It’s true but I’ll be alone again and I don’t want that.
He sighed.She wondered what he was feeling.He’s Probably confused.
“Fine.I’ll stay until you’re out of trouble.”She smiled a little.She didn’t want to be alone in the woods.Dreamstalker was kind of growing on her.
“Ok,”said Afterstrike.She walked back towards the house.When she was in she looked around for food.On the kitchen there was some wild boar on a plate to eat so she grabbed it and started eating it.
“We need to move.Eventually this house will be found,”said Dreamstalker startling her.She put the plate down and turned around to face Dreamstalker.
“hmm.What did you say,”said Afterstrike with a mouthful of boar meat in her mouth.She swallowed it with one big gulp.
Dreamstalker scratched himself.
“I was saying that we should probably go.Just in case we get found.”She gently nodded her head and opened her mouth.She couldn’t speak so she closed her mouth and opened her mouth again.Why don’t I have anything to say?
The words came out of her like a tsunami.“Ok.I think that's a good idea.”She wondered why she couldn’t speak then.The rest of the day was just a lot of flying and stopping to rest or eat something.
It was getting dark now so they both decided to sleep in a cave for the night.Afterstrike flew in the cave and then landed on the rough and cold floor.
Afterstrike breathed fire to get rid of the water and make the floor warm.
When Afterstrike looked around the cave she found a tunnel.She walked in and found a room with a library and a desk with a candle on it.
She also found a chair and a bed with a sleeping dragon on it.She cautiously walked back towards Dreamstalker and tapped his shoulder.
“What is it,”said Dreamstalker.She pointed towards the room.Her arm was still hurting after the fight with the guards.
“There’s someone in there,”she said softly so the sleeping dragon wouldn’t hear her.They both slowly and carefully walked toward the dragon.
When they were standing in front of the dragon she saw that the dragon was sick,like dying sick.”We should help her out,”she said softly to Dreamstalker.
She walked towards him and said,”I enchant this dragon to instantly heal right now.”It worked and the dragon woke up.
The dragon jumped up and said,”Who are you and what are you doing here?”The dragon attacked Afterstrike with her claws outstretched and pinned Afterstrike down.
Dreamstalker leaped at the dragon pinning her to the ground now.Dreamstalker took a chakram out of his bag and pressed it down on the dragon's neck.
But the dragon was too big so she threw Dreamstalker and pinned him to the ground.She took a chakram out of Dreamstalker’s bag and said,”you missed the biggest artery on my neck and if I haven’t forgot it’s right here.”
Without thinking she said,”you can’t kill him.He’s invincible and also am I.”The dragon started to float.
Afterstrike’s eyes turn blood red.“Give up now and we’ll let you join us.Fight and you will die.”She let the dragon down and walked to Dreamstalker’s wound and healed it with magic.
Her eyes turned back to normal“What are you and how did you do that.”AfterStrike turned around and found the dragon trying to walk away.
Afterstrike said, plainly as ever”I’m magic.”And with her magic she caved in the exit.Her eyes were now really red.I’d like to see you try to escape now.
= Chapter 4 =
The dragon said,”please don’t kill me.I-I’m waiting for my brother to come back.He was found and taken prisoner but he managed to get me a note that said he could come.”
Afterstrike realized that the dragon wasn’t red but black and red.She walked towards and stopped.
“What’s your name,”asked Dreamstalker.The dragon twitched and went to her bed.
“It's Blood for short.My whole name is bloodreader,”said Bloodreader.
“Is your brother’s name Dreamstalker?”He twitched.
“Y-yes it is,”said Bloodreader.Then Dreamstalker jumped at Bloodreader.He opened his wings and hugged her.
“You're my sister.I’m Dreamstalker.My gosh you’ve grown so much.”He fiercely hugged her.”I’ve been trying to find you for so long.”He let go and came back to Afterstrike.Their wings brushed each other.
“I can’t believe it.You came back.”Her red scales turned to black.She looked at Afterstrike and then bounded towards Dreamstalker and hid behind him.
“Who is she and how did she do that to me?”Afterstrike lowered her head and moved back a bit.She lifted up her hand and put it back down.
She got out of the tunnels and then sat on the cave entrance floor and sighed.Dreamstalker came in and sat next to her.”Are you okay.You look really sad.”
“I am.I don’t know what came over me.My eyes,they turned red.And I enchanted you to be basically invincible.”She turned away from Dreamstalker.
“Why would you do that.I mean i’m a Nightclaw why would you trust me,”said Dreamstalker.She whirled around to face Dreamstalker.
“I don’t care if you're a Nightclaw or not.Your you and the fact that you're a Nightclaw doesn’t change anything.”
She walked towards the corner of the cave and wrapped her wings around herself.
“Well I'm not a Nightclaw.I’m a Nightclaw Battleclaw hybrid.”She looked at him.He didn’t look like a hybrid.He looked like a normal Nightclaw.
He pointed at his wings.She saw that there were actually two wings instead of one.Those wings were used to slow down or hover or to create heat.
“Ok.So you are a hybrid.But how?”She got up and shook herself so she could get water off her wings.She thought about the fact that she could never be with him.
“My mom was a Nightclaw and my dad was a Battleclaw.My brother was full Nightclaw but he died young when he tried to fly at the age of one.”
She felt sorry for him.It must have been similar to when her mom died.She remembered what happened when she found .
She was walking around her house,waiting for her mother.It was evening and one year old Afterstrike didn’t like being left alone.
Her sister,Dreamcurser came in opening the door quietly.”Where’s mother.She’s supposed to back from the war now,”said Dreamcurser
They both went back to their room.”Where were you?”asked Afterstrike with a kiddish voice.They both got in their beds.
“I Had detention in school because I brought meat.I don't understand why it's not allowed.”In school you were only allowed to eat fruit because it was wrong or it doesn't smell good according to the principal or something like that.
Her sister looked outside their bedroom window.”Don’t you want to know what it would be like to be a Nightclaw,”asked Dreamcurser.
She didn’t know.She’d never seen a Nightclaw before and she wasn’t planning on seeing one.The Battleclaws were not allowed to even see a Nightclaw.
The Battleclaws hated the Nightclaws because this one Nightclaw,whose name she didn’t know managed to kill queen Darkplot.
She heard someone knocking on the door.”Let’s see who it is”said her sister.They both got up and went to the door.Dreamcurser opened the door.
There was a dragon standing in front of the door.”I have sad news for you,”said the dragon.Afterstrike frowned at the dragon.
“unfortunately your mother,Morrowever died in a battle.”Afterstrike couldn’t believe what she was hearing.Her funny,nice and caring mother was dead.
From that day onward she wanted to be a soldier just like her mother.She also wanted to have an honorable death,like her mother.
They both walked back to Bloodreaders cave.When they were in Bloodreaders cave,she saw Bloodreader
Asleep.
Afterstrike softly said,”I enchant the cave floor to be made of the softest material in the world.”The floor started shaping and shifting.
When it was done,it was so soft she didn’t want to get out.Dreamstalker said,”wow.That is so soft and comfy.”He hovered in the air for a minute.
Then he stopped and landed on the soft silky floor.Afterstrike laid down on the floor and started sleeping.
She was dreaming about killing Bloodreader in bed  by slitting her throat with a chakram.She was laughing gleefully when she killed Bloodreader.
When she woke up,Dreamstalker and Bloodreader were still asleep.Afterstrike got up and walked towards the cave entrance.
She turned back to look at Dreamstalker.If she was going to stay with Dreamstalker.He would be in danger.
In the middle of the night she had enchanted the whole cave to be soft.She decided she would wake up Dreamstalker.
She touched Dreamstalkers shoulders.He pounced up and looked at Afterstrike.He sighed,”oh.It’s only you.”
Bloodreader woke up mumbling,”is it already morning.”She sat up.Her scales turned blue then back to black.
“Good morning,”said Afterstrike cheerfully.Dreamstalker’s wings brushed her’s.”I’ll go hunting for some food.”
“Couldn’t you just magick up some food,”said Dreamstalker.He looked at her with a curious expression.
“I don’t think i want to use magic.Not after yesterday.It was like I got possessed or something the last time I did magic,”told Afterstrike.
“OK.You should hunt if you really want to,”said Dreamstalker.She walked out of the cave and saw a big Battleclaw.
She looked like commander Verdict and Horror standing near her.She walked slowly back to Dreamstalker.She whispered quietly,”There’s  Nightclaw out there”
“Then just use magic to kill them.”She looked at him.She didn’t want to kill Horror.But she didn’t want to let them kill Dreamstalker.
“I know Them.The small one was my best friend.”He looked at her.He walked out of the cave entrance.She followed Dreamstalker out.I did not think that this would happen to me,thought Afterstrike.
Horror gasped at them.”You can’t and will not hurt him,”said Afterstrike,but not in her normal voice.Her voice was thunderous this time.Why do I feel so powerful.It feels like I could crush the earth at any moment.
Her eyes turned full red.She raised her hand and commander Verdict started floating.Afterstrike turned her wrist and commander Verdict’s neck snapped with a loud crack.
She looked at Horror.Dreamstalker grabbed her arm and said,”let him go.He’s your best friend.”She looked at Dreamstalker and back at Horror.She couldn’t let him go.
She had to.If she doesn’t let him go,they'd be safe.If she let him go,then they would be killed instantly.I guess l’ll choose what Dreamstalker want’s.
“He’s not my friend,you are.”He looked at Afterstrike with a let him go face.She put her hand down and her eye turned back to normal.”Well we can’t let him go.He’ll tell someone about us.”
She looked at Horror.He looked really scared and confused.”you will forget this even happened.You will appear in the middle of the forest not knowing how you got there.”I hope this works.
Horror jumped up from the cave floor and flew away.Dreamstalker looked at her with a confused look.”What’s happening.He was your best friend and you were just about to kill him.”
She looked at her hands and closed her eyes.Bloodreader came out of the cave avoiding the Verdict’s cold ,lifeless body.She felt discussed at herself.
She remembered stabbing a spear through Dreamstalker’s heart in her dream.She thought about killing herself for the greater good of the world.
Dreamstalker shook Afterstrike hard.”Are you okay?”She looked at him.Her wings drooped to touch the ground.She lowered her head.Would she sacrifice herself for the world.
“I-I feel,awful.I feel corrupt.”Bloodreader looked at Afterstrike with a confused expression.”I think it’s the magic that’s doing this.”
She shivered when she said magic.She got up and said,”we need to kill the human king.”They both looked at her.
“But how.If it’s the magic that’s doing this to you.”Dreamstalker looked at her.I have to do this.Mother would have done the same.
“I’ll use my magic to do it.Even if it might corrupt me.”They both looked like they liked that they were fine with that idea.
“Wait which way is the human kingdom,”asked Dreamstalker.Afterstrike pointed west at the river.Bloodreader looked at both of them.Okay.We know where to go so now what.
“How do you plan on getting inside.We’re too big,”asked Bloodreader.Maybe I could make us invisible.
Then she remembered what happened to her when she cast a spell.”I guess we’ll improvise.I mean we’ll have to see them first.''Maybe I should also put a protection spell on Bloodreader.
= Chapter 5 =
Afterstrike was tired of flying.She’d flown for so long she could barely breathe.”Can we rest for a bit,”asked Afterstrike.She was starting to use her hovering wings to fly.
“Okay we’ll land for a bit there,”said Bloodreader.She pointed at a riverbank.She slowly landed on the sandy river bank.Finally.I’m getting a rest,thought Afterstrike.
When her talons touched the ground she collapsed on the ground.She breathed heavily as her tail shifted the sand around.
With a thump, Bloodreader landed beside Afterstrike.After a short breather Afterstrike got up.Her legs were feeling weak.Come on legs.Don’t fail me now,thought Afterstrike.
She walked to the river and started drinking.When she was done she walked back to the sand.Dreamstalker bounded towards Afterstrike with a deer in his mouth.
He dropped the deer in front of her.”Here.Eat it,”said Dreamstalker.She looked at him with starry eyes.I feel like I should give this to him but i'm also starving.
“No you should eat it.You look like your starving,”said Afterstrike.She nudged the deer to Dreamstalker.He nudged it back to Afterstrike.
“No.I-I actually caught four more when I was hunting.”He turned around to go back into the forest.She started eating her deer.
Bloodreader walked towards Afterstrike and sat down.Bloodreader whispered in Afterstrike’s ear,”I see you like Dreamstalker.”Do I,thought After Strike.Maybe
“What no.We’re just helping each other out so we can both go back to our homes.”Bloodreader looked at afterstrike.
“that's not the way I’ve seen it.I see the way you look at him.”Just then,Dreamstalker came out of the forest holding two deer in his hands and one in his mouth.
He dropped the deer in front of them.”You should have two because you caught them.”She gave Dreamstalker another deer.
“Fine by me.I am really hungry anyway.”He started eating his deer.When they were both done after strike said,”Okay.Let's go now.
They all started to rise up to the evening sky.When they were flying, Afterstrike looked down.She didn’t know that the world was this big.
When night had fallen they had found a lovely grass field to sleep in.Afterstrike landed on a soft grassy hill.”We should sleep here,”she said.
They all landed on the grass and layed down.”Are you  sure we won’t be spotted.”She turned her head to face Bloodreader.
“No.I don’t think we will.”She started to run down the hill.When she got to the bottom she laid down to catch her breath.
She remembered the enchantment she put on dreamstalker.Maybe she should upgrade her spell.She flew to Dreamstalker.
She started whispering,”I enchant this dragon to be immortal.”He looked at Afterstrike.
“Race you down that hill,”said Dreamstalker.
“Ok.But just so you know,you're not beating me,”said Afterstrike happily.
“Three,two,one and go,”said Dreamstalker.They both started running down the hill.Afterstrike opened her wings to catch the air to become lighter.
She felt a breeze throw her off,flinging her to the ground.She got back up and started running after Dreamstalker.
In the end he won.”Wow,you are fast,”said Dreamstalker sarcastically when she got to the bottom of the hill.They both started laughing.
“Hey,can I join the fun,”said Bloodreader.She started gliding down the hill to join them.Dreamstalker started to take a box out of his bag.
“Let’s play Dungeons and dragons.Do you know how to play?”He looked at Afterstrike.She wasn’t the best at playing this game, but she was still pretty good at it.
“Oh me.Um, yes I do know how to play Dungeons and dragons,”said Afterstrike.She started setting up the pieces on the board.
After a long game,Afterstrike laid down on the soft grass.”That was fun,”said Afterstrike.
“We should sleep now.We’ll leave at first light,”said Dreamstalker.She nodded up at the sky.
“I think I can agree with that,”said Bloodreader.Afterstrike looked up at the sky.She thought she saw a dragon flying about the same size as Horror.
“We need to go,”said afterstrike.She got up and went to Bloodreader.She started to shake her.Bloodreader got up.
“What is I-.”afterstrike shut Bloodreaders mouth.
“You were right.I think we got spotted,”said Afterstrike.If she didn’t get them out of here fast,They'd all be dead.”I’ll wake up Dreamstalker.You keep watch.”
Bloodreader got up and walked away to keep watch.Afterstrike went to Dreamstalker.She shook him like she did to Bloodreader.
Then, a bright light hit her.Afterstrike woke up panting.”Are you okay.Did you have a bad dream or was it something else”asked Dreamstalker.Afterstrike got up from the ground and faced Dreamstalker.
“It was just a bad dream,”said Afterstrike.The sun was starting to rise.
“Okay.I guess I’ll go back to sleep.I am really tired anyway,”said Dreamstalker.Dreamstalker shivered a bit as he layed back down.
Nightclaws didn’t have fur like Battleclaws.Afterstrike whispered really quietly,”Enchant Dreamstalker and Bloodreader to never be too hot or cold.”
Afterstrike started to slowly back away.She went back to where she was sleeping and layed down.I hope this works or all will be for naught.
= chapter 6 =
it was the next morning.Afterstrike stalked closer and closer to their morning breakfast.The goat looked at Afterstrike.Afterstrike pounced at it and held the goats throat tight.Eventually the goat stopped struggling."Hey.I got breakfast,"said afterstrike as she walked towards the others.Afterstrike ripped the goat in three pieces to share with Dreamstalker and Bloodreader.
It was a two day journey until they would arrive at Teyvat.Why am I dragging them along.It's only going to get them killed.Afterstrike felt like if Dreamstalker died,she would rather be dead too."We should be going now."
Afterstrike nodded at Bloodreader.To her,Bloodreader felt like a little sister.She would make sure to keep her alive.
They started flapping their wings to fly.Afterstrike felt a surge of power fly through her,pulsing through her veins.
Afterstrike looked ahead and there it was,Teyvat.She swooped down to the sewers.Dreamstalker and Bloodreader followed her.They all got in and started walking from the sewers to hopefully the throne room.No one said anything for a while."Okay.I think this is as close as we can get,"said Bloodreader.Afterstrike opened the manhole and climbed out.There were signs that said this way to the throne room."We're almost there."
Dreamstalker to a chakram out of his bag.There was no security here.Afterstrike opened the door and took the chakram out of his hands.She rushed at the king at shoved the chakram she was holding into his neck.Yes,she thought.
A whole bunch of guards stormed at them.They all breathed fire at them and they started burning.Afterstrike tried to use her magic but it didn't work."The whole kingdom must be warded.I can't use my magic,"said Afterstrike.
"What seriously.Magic or no magic we can get out of here."Now most of the castle was on fire and no one could stop it.After all the guards were dead Afterstrike walked to bridge and sighed."I can't believe it.They war is finally over."They all smiled."I'm gonna leave now if thats ok with you,"said Bloodreader.
"Ok.you can leave if you want."Bloodreader opened her wings and flew away from the castle.Afterstrike looked at Dreamstalker.
"i guess we did it Dreamstalker,"said Afterstrike.She sighed."Let's get out of here,"said Afterstrike.They all flew out of the kingdom.when they were almost out something hit them and they were thrown back.she saw dreamstalker falling to the ground.she tried to reach him but it was no use.please don't let him die please please please!when he was on the ground she flew to him and and saw a bloody mess.a broken hovering wing and a bloody tail,he coughed blood and some splattered on her face.
"Hold on dreamstalker.please don't die on me."He started to look up at her.She squeezed his talons and wrapped her wings around him and a tear came out of her eye.She tried a healing spell but it didn't work.she drooped.no wonder the war had been going so long.the dragons weren't able to go through a force field,we got lucky.
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