LOSC chapter 13
yep more chapters enjoy
LOSC: The New Guardians Part 13
The sun shined in the afternoon as it settled in its noon position over the field, with some clouds hovering in the sky giving spots of shade here and there. All was peaceful until a massive gust of wind sliced through shattering the peaceful afternoon tearing up strips or grass and shattering a few trees as the wind blasted Shadowheart through them before dissipating, leaving the shadow dragon to skip like a stone on water only to smash into a boulder with a grunt. The weak sand stone splintering outward from the dent Shadow made from the impact.
The young dragon extracted himself from the sandstone boulder, "stay down shadow geesh...I honestly don't like hurting you" Slipstream says to him. It was just the two of them right now along with arrow and a couple of other guardians. It had been a week and the shadow dragon already was showing improvement allowing Arrow to lessen Shadow's training as he started to approach the skill level of the other apprentices, "heh but now I've got you into the shade." Shadow says grinning ferociously, eyes glinting confidently as Slip pales and immediately tries to launch into the air to get over the trees only to be met by Shadow who warped through the tree's shadow above the wind dragon. Back flapping with his wings Slipstream tried to avoid the shadow dragon making the tree shake from the gusts his wings were making.
Shadowheart took advantage of Slipstream's predicament and exhaled a wave of shadow fire into the wind dragon knocking him down into the ground roughly, causing some splintering and shaking a nearby tree. Quickly slipping through the shadow to stand beside Slipstream Shadow leveled his scythe tail blades near slipstream's chest just before touching them to it, "dead." He states with a smirk, "bravo young dragon bravo. You've improved greatly these past few days." Arrow says nodding approvingly while ruffling his scared wings and body, "now go rest up and have fun Shadow you've earned it." The elder wind dragon informed shadow making the young dragon grin and run towards the academy cheering. "So slipstream how would you rate him now?" Arrow asked his student as he stood up and shook dirt off his scales, "he's ready teach, but I doubt he could be Night any day of the week." Slip spoke honestly before trotting over to tsunami with a grin on his muzzle her off for their date night after tricking Nightstream into babysitting their kids.
As he left the academy Shadowheart was thinking of getting a ham from one of the vendors when he noticed Teza about four yards in front of him. Forcing himself not to gasp the shadow dragon dove into a bush shadow to hide fearing she'd think he was stalking her. Teza on the other paw hadn't been paying attention to the shy shadow dragon, she was just enjoying the free time away from the mounds of paper work volteer saddles her and tezla with. Some distance ahead of Teza shadow came sliding out of a shadow created by a cart on the road quickly looking around he didn't see her, "whew." Shadow thought to himself before turning to head home only to come face to face with none other than Teza, "OH shit, oh shit, OH SHIT, GOOOD DAMN IT!" He thought yelling at himself, "well hi, fancy running into you Shadowheart." She says in a playful tone, grinning a shit eating grin to match that mischievous glint in her eyes. Though some dragons ignored Shadow due to his element, while others couldn't help but chuckle at Shadow's predicament with Teza, "h-h-hi Teza, yeah what are the chances of that." He said stuttering a bit clearly shy in tone of voice, and how his fore paws and tail couldn't sit still.
On the roof behind the two lover birds was none other than Marshal chuckling his tail off, "ahh to be young again." He mutters before heading for the barracks. Shadow couldn't stop shaking making his fore paws dig into the dirt a little, while a light blush was starting to brighten on his muzzle, "so shadow I hear you've got something of a crush on me." She says still grinning at him tone playful as she stood before Shadow, tail lashing behind her like a cat getting ready to pounce on its prey. Shadow's eyes widened while a cold sweat started to form on the back of his neck backing away a little out of reflex, allowing Teza to walk forward enjoy their game of cat and mouse, "w-w-well...y-y-you see..." He stammered confirming his crush on the older lightning dragoness making her giggle, while walking past him carefully dragging her tail blade along his back teasingly, "Eastern bloc, lightning district, building twenty at nine." She told him before trotting off to clean up leaving Shadowheart stunned, as he stood there for a good ten minutes, "yahoo! " He shout before running to his home at the temple tossing his school stuff aside in his room making a thunderous 'THUD!' Causing Moonstride to snort awake and fall off his dragon chair onto the ground making his own thud, "dah hell is going on?" He asks confused as all hell eyes wide in surprise, before hearing a loud splash in the bath room, "oh Shadow's home." He says to himself settling back into his chair to continue his nap.
After another ten minutes Shadow burst out of the bathroom almost knocking the door off its hinges, again causing Moonstride snort awake and fall out of his chair and smacked into the floor again almost missing shadow's statement, "goingoutmoonstridegottadatebye!" When the door shut behind shadow Moonstride laid there in confusion, "what did he just say?" moon asked himself, just before falling asleep where he was lying.
Shadowheart quickly made his way over to where Teza lived, his scales, horns and talons shone like polished steel in the moonlight. Walking to the market Shadow picked up a bouquet of flowers for her, carrying them carefully in his mouth. It took him a bit to find her home, but once he did Shadow knocked on the door five minutes before nine...right on time. Tezla opened the door and gave Shadow his version of a fatherly glare causing Shadow's vein's to run cold and his muscles spaz like he was being mentally shocked. Gulping the shadow dragon kept his cool....somewhat as he bowed his head to Tezla, "hello Tezla I'm here to pick up your sister." He says forcing himself to keep from stuttering, "Then come in and be welcome Shadowheart she'll be down soon." Tezla says grinning in a friendly manner, stepping aside to allow shadow to enter the twin's home. As shadow entered he couldn't help but stare wide eyed at the interior of the home. The walls were a lovely yellow lime stone that brightened up every room of the house not in that obnoxious way, but in a subtle way. The floors were polished oak in perfect condition thanks to the sturdiness of the oak, while also keeping the twin's talons from dulling out. After shutting the door behind Shadow Tezla lead the shadow dragon into a sitting room reminiscent to a Japanese dining room.
Once seated the pair got to know each other in better detail hitting it right off the bat as fast friends, stopping at Teza entered the room. Turning to greet her shadow's jaw would try to drop when he saw her. Her scales shimmered in the light like lightning in a thunderstorm, with her horns adorned with rings and topaz gem decorations hanging from silver links. On her neck and forepaws was a silver choker with an onyx at the center, with a head band sporting a ruby. Giggling at Shadow's reaction she walks up to her brother and nuzzled him, "be back after a while Brother." She says breaking Shadow out of his trance and quickly stood back up scooting the flowers towards her, "you look gorgeous...more than these flowers ever could be." He says in his shy tone, with a hint of confidence, "awww thank you Shadow." She says smiling in a gentle manner she sniffs them and looked to her brother who nodded, "I'll get them into a vase have fun you two." Tezla says shooing them out the door. After leaving Teza's home the pair had dinner at one of the best restaurants in the city, before Teza drug shadow into a club forcing him to dance with her. As they danced Shadow came out of his shell and showed who he really was instead of the shy and timid dragon she had met.
They danced well into the night, before shadow walked her home. Once there they said their goodnights and teza gave shadow a gift for showing her a good time, a kiss on the lips. After the kiss she went inside leaving Shadow to stand there in a trance for bit before recovering and heading home happily dancing and singing to himself.
The next year and a half would pass rather quickly for everyone. Shadowheart and Teza still dated, though Shadow was having trouble popping a certain question to her. Spyro, Cynder, slipstream and Tsunami's kids would become prodigies for their ages. While Nightstream seemed to become distant from the others, prone to fits of violence when someone insulted his family.
The hidden darkness has yet to resurface....still waiting for the perfect time to...show themselves...