SOLO III
Demon World
Part 032
Gail is watching the wind brush the island.
The three of you are hovering just under the clouds. Above looks
like a foggy morning, but down below is an island made from an erroded
volcano. It is ringed by white sandy beaches and boardered by the
begining of various trees that have creeped across the whole
island. The island is much bigger than the volcano and it's
entire cone. It is old and the jungle climbs all the way up the
ouside of the crator. Up to the edge. Inside is a tiny pond
of smoke. It immediately streaks off to the north west.
This is to Gails right. She has watched the
smoke long enough to notice the wind pushing on the trees along the
beach from every direction, but leaving the volcano's plume going
straight off toward the lead island. This one is the third in a
chain of islands. The second being the largest, and the fourth
the lake of fire.
Gail is drifting around in a circle. Changing
her orientation to the left. The three of you glide as one till
north is up and the smoke trail from the island below you is flowing to
your north west. And there along the beaches the wind is
steady. Tickling the trees all the way around. From every
approach, shore, and cove the surface breeze is flowing inland from the
water.
Concentration on her face. The three of you
float lower, so you can actually see Uncle and Ada's physical bodies in
a clearing. They are on the north east side of the island, not to
far from a stream. But south west of them along the volcano's
cone a dragon has just emerged from a cave. It's nose in the air,
it's toung tasting the air. The air coming in from the coast must
move along the canopy, dips into the clearing, and flows up the ouside
of the crator. The cave falls right on this path and it has
gotten whiff of Uncle's glove and the dragon heart it holds. The
stream also leads up near the cave.
It launches off the cave ledge and plunges into
flight. It is covered with dark green feathers making it barely
visible along the canopy top. Just like the others. Beneath
its head are a pair of talons. That is the only part of it's legs
or arms visible from above.
But from Uncle's view he will be able to see it's
underside when it finally reaches the clearing. He will be able
to see the pair of fore legs folded in and tucked elbows against it's
side. The hind legs trailing flat along the underbelly.
Pale, and without feathers. The view from above looks fluffy and
light. Diffused, with the colors of the tree tops, it's burning a
wicked fast serpintine path through the air, like a sidewinder zipping
across the sand.
Gail says "Here we go." Uncle's dragon grows
more tired and hangs its head a little lower, as his human physical
form draws enough work into the hamer touch to stike a metric ton and
knock it back. Ada's human form steps closer to Uncle.
Down on the island a dragon is skimming along the
top of the jungle. Glistening feathers extended, the length of
its lithe body doing the side winder pattern so distinctive to serpents
moving at high speed. It swoops down on Uncles human body
sideways. It intends to wrap its body around him like a
constrictor, and bite his head off at the same time.
Uncle's dragon speaks "It can smell the dragon heart
in my hand, and it looks quite wrathfull." He holds his right
hand up, over his head. The dragon, drops the middle of his body
on him. Uncle drops his hand faster and slaps it. The force
of the slap knocking the dragon's entire body back and into the trees
where it lays barely alive.
"Your turn Gail." He says.
Gail drifts down. The dragon lays crumpled in
a simi-circle at the edge of the clearing along the base of several
trees. One of the trees is cracked and bent over from the force
of the impact. Gail crouches down and looks into the Dragons
eye. She fades out and then reappears, just like Ada did.
Her new dragon form starts coiling up on
itself. It fades astral and is replaced by her physical human
form. Sitting there crosslegged just like she left it on the
carpet. She stands up with her eyes closed and says "Ours is to
keep and tend."
She walks around on the balls of her feet.
Light and springy. She pulls up the length of the gown she is
wearing a little to give her legs more freedom of movement. She
runs in circles in long light strides and shouts one long note
"Whooooooooo, weee." At the same instance her astra dragon
wispers "And at the same time I can quietly say something to you
two. And no one else will know." She stops running in
circles. "What now."
Uncle says "We need time for your dragons to
heal. About half a year for nature to do it. So keep your
dragons hidden, and behave as humble mortals. We are going to
become pirates. We will attach ourselves to a captain and be
traded up to more important captains. Until we come to the Lord
of pirates. And then..." Uncle smiles for the second time
in his life. "We will teach them to capture iron ships on the
rivers of fire.
"First, Ada, use your earing and tell Laura that we
can not come back. The dwarf and his body guard know us now and
could follow us to the lab. Tell her that Rebecca is in
charge. And that we will be back."
Uncle turns into a dragon and rears up to several
palm trees, gingerly picking coconuts with his mouth. He collects
twelve of them in his claws and slithers down to the stream where Ada
first saw the claw print. He drops them on the bank and becomes
human again. Two at a time he wades out into the stream and
pushes them under the water. When he lets go they don't pop up on
the surface, but dissappear. "This is a gate I made ages
ago." He comes back for two more coconuts. "It only allows
food and water to pass through." He repeats the process pushing
the coconuts under and releasing. When they float up they
dissappear as they near the surface. "The kids will have fresh
coconut milk for a couple of days." He continues pushing all the
coconuts down. "They will find these coconuts in the fresh water
sink in the kitchen."
Gail says "I had no idea."
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