Seeking Aniel - Erosaf -

Gaelira chuckled as she felt the younger dragon relax in her foot. "Hope i'm not hurting you," she said. "Been a while since I've had hatchlings around your age. My own children are flying now, so they left me."

Ashlere smiled as she walked back with the others into the city once more. "Where exactly is the home?" she asked.

Gem didn't seem to know either. "First time I've dealt with them personally, so I don't actually know."

She chuckled though, knowing there were some things that needed dealing with there. Not to mention there were more than a few humans running about in the city at the moment.

Some of them were being trained now, seeing as they wanted to fight as well.

It took a while for them to get through the trees. She knew that there were some things that were overlooked by many in this city, but these were things that she planned on having seen to herself. This building that he lead them up to was one of those places that needed some seeing to, she knew. It was something she would be able to fix while she was here, magic was one of her strongest points at the moment.

When another lady, a human lady came out and scolded Faeron though, she almost frowned. No human was allowed to tell off an elf, no matter what the age difference. It was something that really embarrassed her people, and now that this woman had done so in front of her was something that she would deal with at a later time. Right now though there was other things that needed seeing to here in the home.

Her eyes ran over the building, taking in the more dangerous parts of it. One of the biggest trees here was empty now, so maybe while this one was being sorted out and rebuilt in places, they would be able to stay there. The occupants of Hariv Orphanage, formerly from Adurna lived there, but there was plenty of room for all these youngsters, she was sure.

“Greetings Willow. I apologise for keeping Faeron from you. Ashlere and I bumped into him, and we've been talking for a while.” She smiled. “We had some rather interesting conversation topics come up, and well, I thought it was time enough that one of the more wealthy, for want of a better word, people came by and took a look around.” For a few moments she was silent.

“I also learned from our conversation that Ashlere and Faeron are becoming quite good freinds as well. It is for that reason, that my other reason for coming here came about.” She looked from Willow to Faeron, and then back to Willow again. “I wish to adopt Faeron into my family, we have more than enough space to have him and he would never be a burden on us. I already discussed this with him, and he seems quite eager to join what remains of my family.”

She waited for a reply, knowing that Willow would likely have one now that her intentions were clear.

***

Gaelira chuckled as she landed gracefully into the dragon area of Ashlere's house. Letting go of Ani, she moved carefully away, folding her wings and rested on her belly. “The first flight of your own is always daunting, but once you can fly, well, there is no greater pleasure, save one, which I will not speak of as you are too young.”

Gaelira chuckled as her mate came soaring down to her. “You'll hear a bit more about Ani when Gem gets back home very shortly. She's nearly finished with what she has to do. Suffice it to say, Ani has a rider, but that rider is not Ashlere.”

She smiled down at the younger dragon. “Don't worry, Ani, Rasjar couldn't hurt even a pest of a fly.”

***

Gem smiled as she listened to the older woman. She already liked her a fair bit. "Sounds like you really do care about them all," she commented. "I have actually a bit of an idea, with regard to how bad this building's starting to look. You'd know of course that there were a lot of orphans with the people who came here from Adurna. They're living in one of the other trees, and I know there is a lot of room to spare."

She paused for a moment.

"While we try and fix this building up a bit, so its not quite looking this bad, maybe you and all the children could stay there? It wouldn't be long until you'd be back in here again."

She smiled.

"Faeron, of course, wouldn't be going with you."

All of a sudden there was a loud roar and another dragon came soaring down from the skies. One that had not been seen by many before. She was a black dragoness with a magneta underbelly, a blade-like tail made of iron and blade claws on her wing thumbs, big magneta wings, and six silver horns on her head. In her adult form, she wore two silver bracelets on her two front paws, and a silver "choker" on her neck and her tail made of iron.

"Ashlere!"

Gaelira laughed. "Only teasing you, Rasjar." She was pretty much the only one who got away with such things at the moment, not that it mattered that she was likely to tease him. He couldn't exactly tell her off, could he? She was the queen of the skies.

Gem smiled as she followed Williow through the building. She didn't take long to read what Willow gave her to sign. It was pretty easy to understand. Nor did it take long for her to sign it either. "I'm sure he'll be happy with us," she said.

Ashlere chuckled, following after Faeron rather easily. Though she was appalled by the state of the building around her, she knew that Willow would love what her cousin was thinking of doing for her. It was in need of that upgrade, that much she knew at the moment.

The black dragon watched her with bright eyes. She knew Ashlere would not be long.

“Only one issue with that. Rasjar turned up, which was unexpected. He's Gaelira's mate at the moment. Luckily he's not pushing her for information as to who happened to make Ani choose them so early in her young life. Gaelira's refusing to answer him. That dragon just can't help himself. At least he knows when to give up on things like that.” she smiled at Faeron.
Gem smiled. “I'll drop you up with Ani and them see you later when Gaelira comes back. Right now I have a lot of other things to see to at the moment. Including finding Julianne again. That won't be easy, she's always so busy with all those children that live in her orphanage.” Her voice was fond as she spoke though to them. She opened the door and lead Faeron up to where Ani and Rasjar were. She smiled, gave Faeron a hug and then hurried off towards her own home.

Gem smiled as she headed up into her house. “Sorry for worrying you, love. There was something I had to deal with, and well, I guess you get to hear about what that was now.”
she moved through the house, searching until she found him in the study. Moving across the room, she hugged him gently from behind and kissed his cheek.

Cynder mewled as Gaelira grabbed onto her tail, even though she growled at the sharp iron biting into the back of her mouth as she did. Cynder tried to blink somewhere else but there was again was Gaelira, she'd blinked with her.
"Let Ashlere go Cynder! I know you lied to me about erh being your rider. There is nothing about you two that is compatible in the slightest."
then a purple beam came at her and she roared before plummeting towards the ground, her wings seemed to be bond together. "MALEFORE! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!"
"Too bad for you!" the dragon laughed. "I have to do what i promised Hycis. She wanted Ashlere, I had Cynder bring her to me." Then he struck at his mother, knocking her into the ground and completely out of it. The two dragons disappeared.

"We still haven't had any more clues as to the whereabouts of my sister have we? I know the green dragon is not with her, so he is not the one who freed her."

"She... fell," Gem remarked... "I remember her feeling scared for the first time in a long time. Something that sounded like Malefore attacked her, he used his own magic to trap her. She couldn't move, he'd bound her wings. He seems to have allied with Hycis.. she wanted Ashlere, and Cynder took her to him. God only knows what he wants..."

Gaelira grunted. She couldn't move, it felt like something was broken. Her spine maybe? "I don't know. I was attacked... Malefore and Cynder... they knocked me out while I was in midair... Malefore trapped me with magic." She coughed. Blood trickled out from her mouth. There was pain in everyword, and she hated it.

Gem winced, as if she could feel her dragon's immense pain. "It feels like he snapped her spine!" Gem gasped. " As well as other things." Very quickly, she sat down where she was, resting her head in her hands. She could certainly feel it, though Gaelira was trying to sheild her from it. "I think they did something so Gaelira can't block me from her so I can't feel what is going on." She winced, shaking. "The pain is tremendous."