Firebreather: Flames of the uprising

Three Found

Fenn was heading south with drage to where he decided was the safest and most viable spot for training. Fenn decided to start their training on the road, he started explaining the method firebreathers used to become one with their dragons, he explained that one had to use their mind to connect with the tattoo they got from their dragon, that way it would open a psychic link to their dragon's mind but one had to be careful not to go in too deep as it had dire consequences. Fenn watched as drage tried opening the link and was very surprised to find that it had worked almost immediately, one had to know it had taken fenn three hours of trying before he could link up with his dragon and he was one of the talented ones among the fire breathers in his batch.

Drage had never felt so comfortable as he was now, it was as if nothing in the world existed apart from him and Shriller, the roaring winds and the biting cold had vanished all he felt now was warmth . Shriller seemed to have noticed that he had succeeded, she let out a roar of pleasure as she increased her speed once more. This was the fastest he had ever seen her go, in a burst of excitement making Drags unknowingly focused too much on the link and as he did so, he seemed to have melded into her body. Their combined emotions seemed to have been heightened to a frightening level and was volatile so when they saw an immature dragon about to be killed by a village, they went berserk.

Fenn noticed something had gone wrong when Drage had gone quiet and his dragon was diving towards a village below at alarming speeds, Fenn had never seen a dragon move so fast before and from the way Drage had become like a piece of stone on his dragons back, fenn could guess what had happened, he knew if he didn't get Drage out of that state soon he would undobtedly die. Fenn dived after them cutting in from an angle that his experience told him would get him down faster, he jumped down from burt and used the friction generated from the fall to create flames on the surface of his fist and hit the silver dragons eye. Both The dragon and drage gave a painful scream as they plummeted to the ground below.

Drage woke in an empty cavern with a raging headache, as he tried to get his bearings and soon he saw Fenn walking in with logs to feed the fire that was in the center of the cave. Drage looked at Fenn and opened his mouth speaking

"What happened to me? Where are we? Where is Shriller?"

Fenn was surprised as he saw Drage was already up when he got back to the cave, he had thought with the backlash he had received it would take him at least a day to get up but it had taken him less than twelve hours before he had gotten up again, a glimmer of admiration flashed through his eyes as he tended to the fire. When drage asked what happened he paused before he continued tending to the fire making the cave lapse into silence before he opened his mouth to talk. "You made a mistake when you were connecting to shriller, you went in too deep in her mind, firebreathers call that state "runaway". It's a suicidal move that is only used when one wants to perish with their enemy, the emotions are heightened and for a few minutes if you get it right one will possess his dragons' body but the resulting price is death. You were lucky that you failed to penetrate too deep in her mind or you would be dead now". Fenn looked at the boy's horrified gaze when he had finished talking. The sound of dragon wings seemed to bring the boy out of his fear as he saw the two dragons coming into the carven with prey. Fenn took the two cows they had caught and started preparing them. Fenn seemed to feel drages amazed gaze, he was probably wondering why they got so much food. Fenn explained that it was because he had used too much strength earlier and was injured, the only way to heal faster was to eat a lot and use a special herb to quickly digest the food and turn it into energy that would be used for healing. He advised the boy too eat as much as he could cause their training starts tomorrow morning.

Fenn was up immediately the first rays of the sun descended into the cavern, he saw drage was already up and playing with Shriller. Fenn had never been so close to his dragon and he doubted anyone else was that close to their dragon's, after all they were essentially two different species, and to him and others their dragons where either an ally or a weapon made to obey all instructions. Getting rid of his thoughts Fenn informed Drage that they would be starting their first lesson by commanding fire, Fenn asked Burt to burn a nearby bush, while it was burning high Fenn stretched his palm in the direction of the burning bush and in drages astonished gaze the flame leapt from the bush to settle on Fenn's outstretched palm.

Drage was amazed at the way Fenn was moving the flames from his hand into the various shrubbery around them. Drage tried to copy Fenn's movement and move the flames but nothing worked, after various futile attempts he was reminded by Fenn that he needed to use his tattoo as a focus point before trying again. Drage spent the whole morning practicing but it was all in vain, he decided to take a break before trying once again, he decided to go for a flight on shriller, he was most relaxed when they were flying in the air soaring through the skies. After a while of flying back and forth drage felt something wrong, he subconsciously looked below and was shocked to find fenn creating a forest fire that was headed towards a nearby village in the valley below.

Fenn looked at the boy and his dragon flying through the sky and decided the boy might need a little bit of pressure to get started. Fenn commanded his dragon to spew flames while he redirected them in the direction of a village a few miles away. Fenn looked up to find the boy jumping down from the dragon with an icy glow in his eyes. Fenn watched with satisfaction as the boy raised his arm while he fell from the dragon and commanded the flames to flood him.

As soon as Drage saw the fire he already guessed what Fenn was planning, he was forcing him to control flames or watch the village get destroyed, in the past day Drage had met Fenn he already knew Fenn was someone who did whatever he could to achieve his goals. Drage jumped down from shriller, focused his icy rage on his tattoo and felt his mind spread to the direction of the flames and commanded them to attack fenn. Drage watched disappointed as Fenn just smiled waving his palm to dissipate the flames.

Fenn was proud of Drage, his actions right now had just basically reconfirmed that he would be the key to Ra-Aghul's death. Fenn didn't fully understand why Drage would still be so mad at him even after his plan worked and nobody died. Fenn remembered the first time Ra-aghul had instructed him to command fire, Ra-Aghul had captured a young boy from a nearby village and set him on a big bed of dry leaves and bushes, he had set fire on the bushes and fenn was to stop the flames from killing the boy, although there was no way possible to stop the flames at the speed they were eating the dried leaves, Ra-Aghul still gave him that mission to instill obedience to orders and to crush his hope. Fenn watched the boy get burnt alive it was the first time he commanded flames, even if it was only to end boys suffering. Subsequent trainings later Fenn was the one tied to a bed of bushes, he got burnt so many times he had given up counting but he still persevered, compared to the way he was trained, Drage really didn't have any legitimate reason to be mad he had it easy.

Drage was still outside trying to quell the desire to wipe the smug grin Fenn had on his face, h had started practicing again when he felt Shriller being attacked, he looked up to see a firebreather descending from a dragon that was currently attacking Shriller.

Fenn felt the battle outside from the cavern, he rushed outside speedily with Burt intending to help Drage when he noticed another firebreather closing in on them, Fenn had to hope Drage was strong enough to not die before he had finished dealing with the other firebreather that was coming thier way. Fenn rushed to meet the firebreather, he and his opponents started shooting fireballs at each other via their dragons, they kept dodging and attacking each other twisting in the air attacking with claws and tails whenever they came close. Fenn was urgent and was trying to solve thos fight quickly not only because he had to save Drage but also because they had to leave here fast before their battle attracted other firebreathers.