Unknown Worlds: NewVenture

It was a week ago since the departure of my friends. Their distinctive laughter into my brain as memories began to flow through me and I was left sobbing for them. Raising my head onto the skies and felt the surface of the waters touch my scales. My wings were spread out onto the waters. My tail slashing against it, propelling me forward until it hurts often. I… I do not know where I am going. Just as long as I get away from the place where I had returned my friends. So here I am at the sea. Going into who knows where. I think it was north west north… How do others navigate without a compass? More important, how do I know which direction? Heck, I do not even know where I had put my personal belongs in my room. Making my own room messy as hell that it would be impossible to navigate through without using a compass or anything. And we dragons do not have such a thing, so you know.

Regardless, here I am floating on the water. One week had passed and I am still floating here. How did I survive you may asked? By a healthy diet compose of salt water and fish! Sometimes sharks. Okay never mind me drinking the salt water. It just taste funny on its own. As for the fish, the water was warm so surely then there would be some fish swimming about. Lurking within the deep or shallow waters waiting to be feasted on. I had wondered what was going on through their minds as they were being eaten or haunted for. I like to imagine that their life would flash before their eyes as with most dying animals. So while I was floating on, minding my own business. I sighed lately to myself. Feeling sad and isolated away from my own friends that I was beginning to feel… well, I do not know how to say it into words however. Dark thoughts had entered into chat-… I mean, my mind. Typing out anything that would popped into my mind. Like dirty dark thoughts almost… I think;

I frowned and whimpered when hearing them mentally. While I opened and closed my eyes trying to blink they away into a far away land. Hoping that I do not have to deal with them. They just keep coming back. 'Why?' I asked myself, growling while flapping my wet wings. Creating tidal waves that would washed onto shores and… wait, wait. They are just waves, false alarm animals. Sorry. I shook my head from one side to the next, trying to remove any thoughts that would infest onto my mind. Like a virus to a sick animal! But those thoughts persist and I was losing a battle in my mind. Sighing, I came to a standstill. Almost accepting my fate that I was to die out here into the sea where perhaps I would be famous of becoming an mythical animal like that animal in Scotland. But coming to reality of that, I would not be alive by then. Unless of course, I evolve. Is it possible?

Staring out onto the blue skies above me, I noticed something there. Like a series of black dots flying overhead. They would disappear and appear into the white and dark clouds that came onto them. Head on it seems. Not that commercial mind you. I flapped my wings and shouted whining as loud I could hoping to get their attention. For after about fifty times or so was then I noticed the dots moving downward, decelerating in attitude. I had thought that one of them got shot down by the other dots that lurk within the clouds and I panicked, frantically getting away while I raised one paw over the other which was inside the waters itself. I swam as fast I could; getting far away from them. But they already had caught me by the shoulders and pulled me out of the warm waters into the vast skies where silence soon over took me. I rose up into the clouds. Silence was in my snout as I pouted. Crossing my arms, I muttered something while someone behind me spoke after diving underneath its wingman and said, "Hey man. You the dreg that kept on screaming and whimpering about like a hatchling?" "I was not whimpering and screaming frantically, mind you." I shot back at him, "It's called, 'getting help'" "More like a screaming for help, am I right?" Spoke the dragon who had me in its shoulder. I snorted and said nothing. The pair of dragons laughed among themselves for a short while before turning their attention to me and asked, introducing themselves. "I'm Xenao. This is leonar." "Neriax." I replied in kind. "Neriax huh?" replied Xenao, "You are a long away from land aren't ya?" "Yeah… basically." I hesitated.

"Where ya from?" Xenao asked, I said nothing in reply while I turned my head over to the blue skies on my left. My wings were wet but were beginning to dry off thanks to the cold weather wind that we were having up into the air. Though the yellow sun was somewhere off within the clouds, I sighed again knowing that I was in the mercy of their claws and replied, "Nowhere." "What?" Xenao asked, "You cannot be from nowhere?" "Nowhere from here." I answered completely forbidding them from saying anything more while the rest of the trip was silent and quiet on the way to some island.

Before they landed, they dropped me without special care and onto the sands I got face planting onto it with my face imprint on the sands. I had to say, it really got my personality. I smiled at it before turning my attention towards the pair. Both of which landed behind me and smiled, flapping their wings as they adjusted their feet onto the sands. They threw every harsh wind gust at me however. But as a dragon, I was able to withstand it all! Once they had landed, they walked towards me. A short distance away from one another. As they do, Xenao replied "Well if you are not from around here. Let's have you introduce yourself to the rest of the crew." "You have a crew? What are you a group of workers building something? What's your job? Maintaining the stability of the island?" "No silly." Leonar remarked, giving off a grin upon his mouth, "We're pirates." "Pirates?" I asked, then thought for a while. "er… A baseball team?" "No." Leonar chuckled. "Not the baseball team, pirates. We're dragon pirates. Sailing the seven seas and one vast blue skies. Often times diving into the waters to either play or hun-" "Wait, wait, wait." I interrupted him, "How can you be sailing when you have wings to fly. Do you have a pirate ship or something?" "Well…" Started Leonar who trailed in afterwards before shifting his attention nervously to Xenao who frowned also, "We used to."

"What happened to it?" I asked them and they said nothing afterwards for a while. Feeling concern about them, I tilted my head to one side still staring at them. With my tail flickering demanding an answer, Xenao looked up from the sands and brighten his smile. Waving off to the other dragons that were behind me, I turned around and was surprise to see a legend wind dragon here among my eyes. Three other dragons sits behind me. All of them were looking cheerful and happy amongst each other's presence. It was not until that the wind dragon took notice and blinked, narrowing his eyes meeting mine while I hesitated and stepped back touching the scales of Xenao. "Who… is this guy?" Spoke the wind dragon, "He is Neriax, Shinron. A time dragon, I think." "H… How did you know that about me?" I asked, gasping at him but he smiled in response and raised his claw to his forehead. 'I know.'

"A time wizard huh? Can you rewind and forward time like a DVR?" Shinro asked, I blinked glancing at him then opened my mouth but no words spoke out. I felt stupid having no answer on that while I breathe a sigh hanging my head unable to answer such question, Shinron looked up at Xenao. Tucking his white wings behind his back, he spoke at him "I think he's a defunct." "What does that suppose to mean!" I snarled back at him, having found my clearing confident voice before Xenao hanged something onto my neck. It felt cold to my touch; but I was curious as to what they hang me on. Looking down, I spotted a red sign that bears the meaning of whatever was Shinron was saying. I growled back at them; neither of them laughed as Xenao removed the sign as Shinron asked me calmly, breaking the silence between us. "So… Why are you here? Where are you headed now?"

"One, I do not know. Two, your pals brought me here." I argued back and he nodded in response before turning his back to me, "Join us then and we will fulfill your questions with answers." "And how are you going to do that?" I asked, raising an eye at him. Though no answered, he snapped his paw and the other four dragons stood at his attention before he and the others walked back calmly. Leaving me behind while I shifted around my head, looking at my surroundings, sighing as I ran in after them shouting afterwards, "Hey guys! Wait!"