Troubled One [Open - For Adoption/Bounty]

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Everything was scary and he wanted OUT.  Waaaay to many hoomans had been near him, and he had just managed to bolt away from them.  It was roughly high noon and he had made quite some distance from the hoomans, and felt generally safe and slowing down under a tree.  Panting, he quickly plopped down in the brush.  It was too hot to be exerting so much effort with no reward.  His chest rose and descended with each forceful exhale of hot breath as he cooled and calmed himself.  After catching his breath, he peered around, not seeing any signs of the hoomans.  Part of him wanted to climb into the tree and hide until night, but his stomach said no.  Luckily for him, there was a berry bush right next to the tree, with the wind blowing at his back.  Happy to get some liquid and food in his gullet, Shudaar got himself up and approached the bush, sniffing it and gently pulling the berries off with teeth retracted.  No one wanted to eat a squished berry, and when not squished, he got all the yummy juice!  Munching on his 8th berry, his snout bumped into something fuzzy and moist.  Blinking and tilting his head, he saw a large fuzzy brown creature rise on its hind legs, sharp black claws on its two limbs.  As it roared at him, Shu managed to half turn to flee before one of the massive claws smashed into his right side, launching him.  The impact sent him spiraling in the air, a tree trunk catching him solidly with a smack and crack.  Sharp pain flared in his side from the swipe and his right wing, which took the tree's impact.  Yowling in pain as he crumpled at the base of the tree, he only had enough time to look up and see the brown creature charging him on all four paws.

Aero was getting to the point where she calmed down enough from the imagination of pain. That poor dragon, she wondered if he had even begun to fly yet. How awful would it be if he never had the chance to fly?

Soon enough the woman spoke again, but the words she said were not the ones that Aero wanted to hear. "You want to take him home now? You're not going to do that," Aero growled. "I can look over him just fine, what are you going to feed him? What about when he's healed, are you going to teach him how to fly?" Her eyes darted down to Shu for a second, a bit of horror and disgust showing on her face. "What did you do to him anyways?"

The dragoness stopped herself from changing and outright attacking the woman- she still had the dragon in her arms and would most likely end up hurting him more if she did attack. Aero decided to be ready in case the woman decided to attack herself, doing what she'd normally do on four legs and crouching down on her two instead, bundling her muscles so she could easily spring away if needed. It might as well look like she was getting ready to attack, only she might as well have attacked already if she was.

Humans were all so annoying. Aero let out a frustrated, unhuman growl. Maybe the woman would end up be reasonable and kindly hand over the baby dragon, but that was a long shot.

Instantly, Nithya reacted. He was a scourge upon Cormere, the pests which would tear apart flocks for food, the ones who would indeed kill to show loyalty. Lexia, having saved the foenix when it was younger, earned its trust, it's loyalty. Nithya's growl turned into a fear striking howl, one that would drive fear even into the most battle hardened soul. His eyes, the friendly little eyes, took a sheen of fury and anger. No one. Threatened. His Lexia. But he wouldn't attack without the order, instead, a dangerous growl coming from him as he began his death circle around Aero. His eyes never left her.

"If you can look after him just fine, then why is his wing broken? If you can do such a wonderful job, then why did you let that bear attack him. How come you couldn't protect him? You claim to be able to, yet you yourself let him become like this. He's better off with someone else taking care of him." Lexia stated, her hands shifting almost invisibly under the dragon to her blood stones. She had it in a position where she could break them and create the abilities, abilities which would put this girl back in her place. However, the aggressive stance that she took was much more animalistic than human, and Lexia allowed herself to be on guard.

And she dared to state that Lexia wouldn't take him somewhere safe? Like hell she would let this asshole stop her.

"As for what to feed him. It's simple. Meats. Probably either fish or smaller birds." Lexia narrowed her eyes, "You were asking because you don't even know how to feed him. How shameful. You really have no clue as to how to look after him. As for flight, I know how to teach him. And I fixed his wing, you ungrateful wretch of a woman. All you have done is sneered at me and been cruel, you are..." Lexia paused for a moment, asking for a forgiveness in her mind.

"You are a filthy bitch, no wonder you dress how you do and sulk in the woods. You probably don't even have friends with your woeful demnour, your arrogant and bitchy ways. Why don't you just fucking leave, turn around and go, so I can take care of him. I'd do a job three hundred times better than you ever could. You are... A Stupid. Arrogant. Piece of shit that doesn't even deserve the air it wastes." Lexia stated, if this bitch wanted to fight, the murderous glare in Lexia's eyes would easily answer her desire to kill this wretch.

"Now kindly fuck off so I can look after the dragon which YOU allowed to become hurt. You sorry excuse for a caretaker. If that's really what you are to him."

Aero glared back as the dog began to threateningly circle her. Did it really think that it could take her on? She just gave it another unhuman growl, barely threatened by it. She had faced worse in the wild, must worse than a puny human and her puny dog.

She snickered aso the human talked. "As if I don't know what he eats, and it isn't just meats. Dragons don't just eat meat. If you were more observant you'd notice he was eating berries, a bit of juice still stains him." Aero had noticed that the dragon was still breathing, but it still infuriated her that the human acted like she knew anything about how to take care of the dragon. She'd like to see her try to teach him to fly, the wingless human.

Most of the woman's insults flew over her head, Aero wasn't too good with everything there was in the strange human language. Over her years she had picked up enough to efficiently communicate, but nothing too advanced, nor did she understand the curses. The bit she did understand she narrowed her eyes to, and for some reason let the woman finish before being ready to shift.

Her scowl turned into a smile, her eyes showing no good intentions. Maybe she could prove herself worthy of taking care of a dragon if she could take on a dragon. She lowly chuckled, willing herself to change. Maybe then she'd see the faults in her ways.

Her arms began to turn scalely and black, hinted with gold, hair shrinking and being replaced with off-yellow spines and two horns. Her face became bigger, a hooked snout forming with a sharp toothy smile. From her shoulders grew wings, large and expanded as much as they could in this forested area until they came to rest on her back. A long tail formed behind her, flicking like an agitated feline. The only thing that didn't change was the color of her eyes, the bright sky-blue that as a human would look unnatural unless it was changed, like a lot of peoples eyes were now days.

Aero laughed, a deep laugh that caused vibrations in the ground. A few trees had fallen with her changing, being 54 feet tall meant that she was at least twice as long. She bent her head down to look at the tiny human better.

"Do you really still want to argue over the dragon? I can assure you that he would be in much better hands with me," she mussed, "I would tell you not to test your luck, but where's the fun in that?" Aero knew the human would be faster at this stage, but she had also easily caught caribou like this. The only thing she didn't like was the trees, she'd barely be able to flap her wings enough to gain lift, but they seemed easy enough to knock over.

The dragoness smiled, watching the human for any movement of attack. She just had to make sure not to harm the baby anymore that it already was.

Lexia was already slightly shifting towards a small soft pile of leaf and twigs as the lady seemed to, once again, become increasingly agitating. Not only to her, but she could sense the anger coming from Nithya. She always felt sorry for the ones who ticked off her little pet. However, she couldn't help a small amount of fear from rising in her throat as she watched the scales on the female slowly begin to form. The skin blackened, before shifting into those scales.

Maybe today was going to be a lucky day for her.

Nithya continued his circles, his growl suddenly becoming silent as he stalked his growing prey.

As the former human reached her full size, great wings spread out behind them. Maybe this thing knew a thing or two about dragons, but there was no way that Lexia would forgive them for allowing such horrible things to happen to the baby thing! Lex allowed the angry demeanour which she had to stay. Her glare locked with the dragon, the bright eyes the exact same as they use to be. As if to intimidate her, the dragon lowered her head, smirking, tormenting Lexia and issuing a challenge. Lexia would smile to Aero. "I don't need to test my luck to know I'll go and win a fight against you." She stated coldly, Aero's face dangerously close to her own.

However, Nithya heard his command. In a split second, the foenix would act. His form dashed up and past a rock, before he hurled himself towards Aero, silently. In a way that only if Aero was watching would she have known. But her gaze was fixed with Lexia. The foenix would hit the back of the dragons head. HARD. The force would, hopefully, be enough to send her head forward.

Upon seeing Nithya coming, Lexia would, quite quickly, lower Shudaar to the ground, her hands grabbing hold of a rather heavy and dense rock. The outcome would be obvious, if she could hit the attack...

(I have permission to do this!)

Nithya's paws landed true, forcing the dragons head down with a yowl of surprise. A sickening crack was heard as the rock slammed into the dragons temple, the force sending stars into her eyes. The dragon would pull back for a few moments, howling in surprise, before the slight rearing back would cause blood to rush to its head, and her form would topple to the side. It rested there, sprawled along the ground.

Lexia shook her hand, which was slightly bloodied from the force that she had hit the dragon with, the uneven surface of the rock shredding her palm. From there, she would set Nithya to guard the fallen dragon as she took out a few spare bandages to bind her hand.

After she tended to the baby dragon, she would then bind Aero the best she could.

Then call the government officials across to claim the bounty on the adult black dragons head.

But when they got there, she would hide Shudaar with Nithya, to ensure they wouldn't find him. And they didn't and Aero was taken.

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I will be putting Shu up for adoption in another topic. If an admin can lock thread, that would be great. Thanks

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