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Hey everyone, this is going to be my first story, so if you see anything wrong I do apologize. Also I am unsure what rules must be met before gaining an approval, but I will try my best. If anyone knows where I could go to look them up or simply tell me, I would be grateful! I have read a lot of stories and I can kinda grasp how it needs to be done. With that aside, I would like to inform everyone of the reason I'm here. I am doing this because it makes me feel relaxed and it's something that I enjoy doing! Also, a friend has inspired me to be a part of this community! Finally, If you have anything you would like to say about the story or to me just leave a comment, don't be shy. ^.^

DRAGON STORM

Chapter 1: Enter Rio and Lazz!

"Check your gear." Lazz said calmly as he did the same.

" Huh? Sure." Rio replied back.

He wondered if Lazz sometimes forgot that he doesn't have that much to check when it came to gear. In fact Rio only had one thing to check and that was his Smith & Wesson 9mm semi-automatic handgun. It was his favorite kind of handgun for many reasons. One reason being larger ammo capacity. Another reason being better combat reloading, and because of it's light-weight materials. However, as Lazz suggested, Rio checked his handgun, then checking the rest of his belongings while swaying his tail back and forth with excitement. Digging deep into his bag of equipment with his sharp claws and tossing them all over the place in order to dig deeper into his backpack, which was stuffed to the point where it could not be zipped all the way.

"Hey!" Lazz said firmly ."Are you trying to get us caught? Have you completely forgotten that we are on enemy territory? " Lazz questioned while slowly decreasing his tone of voice.

Rio stopped what he was doing and looked at Lazz. He stared for a little and then looked to the mess he had made then returned his gaze to Lazz who was now holding up a picture. Rio stared at the picture that Lazz was holding cluelessly. He noticed that Lazz was taking this mission very seriously. Lazz was wearing both a melee protection vest and a bullet proof vest both of which hid most of his green scales on his body. Lazz also wore army pants with many pockets, each pocket filled with equipment. Even his tail that was dead-still had a 7in. Combat Knife strapped to it for close quarters combat. It was in it's sheath, but even so it wasn't hard to tell that it was a KM2000.The entire assembly consists of only two components: the laser cut 172 mm Black Kalgard coated, forged 440A stainless steel Westernized tanto blade, and the ergonomic ambidextrous polyamide handle. The entire knife weighs approximately 320 grams. Lazz also specializes in heavy weapons and/or equipment. That really made Rio feel small and not because Rio was only 5'5 in height, but because his friend Lazz knew what he was doing and could always get the job done. Rio often felt like "dead-weight" or a "waste of space" when he was around Lazz.

"Well?" Lazz asked.

"Well, um no I have not forgotten where we are or why we are here Lazz." Rio stated calmly, then asked. "What is that a picture of exactly? "

Lazz placed his free hand on his head and sighed. Then he began to explain what his drawing was. Lazz was one of those kinds of Dragons that liked to draw whatever came to mind regardless of where he was at or what he was supposed to be doing.

"You see....... " Lazz stated quietly as to not alert the enemy. " We just got out of a mid-range battle and there was gunfire coming from every direction. So when I took lead I wanted to prep for the next up coming battles by checking our gear so we don't have any problems, and also I wanted us to rest up a little, but I never said be loud while doing it!"

Lazz changed the picture that showed Rio and Lazz in their earlier battle, then by using his free hand he switched the picture to a new picture that showed them walking into a room to rest up and check their gear. Lazz's evil looking brown eyes glared into Rio's sparkling yellow eyes to get the point across. He then switched to a new picture, one that showed them getting caught by making too much noise. The picture showed Rio throwing his stuff everywhere in the current room they both were in.

"Is that supposed to be me? I'm not fat you bastard!! And your drawings need a lot of work, I can't even tell what that thing in that picture is!! It looks like it's alive or something!"Rio said loudly.

Just then, Lazz threw the drawings at Rio to shut him up. Lazz was insulted that his picture's did not help the current lesson he was trying to get across to Rio and a little annoyed that Rio said that about his pictures. Lazz did not feel like explaining it because he knew that Rio knew what he was trying to get at. Lazz just ignored Rio and proceeded to check his equipment.

"Ouch! You bastard! What the hell was that for? " Rio whispered.

Rio just pretended like that, as embarrassing as it was, never happened. Then decided to pick up his mess and look for the thing he was looking for in his backpack later. He waited for what seemed like a half an hour before looking over to see if Lazz was done yet. Rio had lost track of time because he had a bad habit of twirling his handgun by the loop right where the trigger is to see how fast he could spin the gun. Rio was actually pretty good at spinning it too. He could spin it quickly without even looking and just for show tossed it into the air and caught it again with out ever dropping it or stopping it's spin.

"Hey Lazz. Are you done yet? I think you have checked enough gear to last you a week!" Rio said sarcastically.

"I really wouldn't say a week" Lazz said calmly. "But to answer your question, I guess so. Remember I was doing this to buy us some time as well, so we could rest a little before moving on." Lazz stated wisely.

Rio stopped spinning his handgun and placed it in it's holster on his waist belt and swung his hand beside the wall and used his sharp black claws to scratch the wall to get Lazz's attention. Rio hated when Lazz never answered his questions with a straight answer. It annoyed him greatly, and in some cases made him a little upset. As he scratched the metallic wall, sparks flew and gave the dimly lit room more lighting. The sparks hit the ground and then bounced twice before fading out.

"‘I guess so.'" Rio said mocking Lazz.

Lazz was about to respond to Rio's actions when all-of-a-sudden a voice came from outside the only door that led to the room. The voice sounded like it belonged to a male because of how deep it was. Judging by how close the voice was, they had about 12 seconds to do something quickly. However Lazz was already on top of the situation. First he gave Rio various hand signals to alert Rio of the best Course Of Action (COA). Second, Lazz laid motionlessly on the ground naked as if dead. Last, Rio hid and waited while taking aim with his Smith & Wesson 9mm semi-automatic handgun for a clean shot.

When the enemy walked in the room Rio was shocked. He had never been this close to a gryphon before. For a griffin stronghold this place was huge, so the odds of actually getting this close to one was rare. Especially since the griffins enjoyed fighting at mid-range distances. The two griffins that walked into the room were wearing their combat uniforms which was a dark-greenish color and black. Their skin was so dark it looked black, but was actually a dark-navy blue. They smelled awful, it was making Rio's yellow eyes water.

The two griffins walked up to the body that was on the ground near the metallic wall where Rio clawed earlier. The two griffins looked in confusion as they viewed Lazz's motionlessly body on the ground. As one of the two griffins kneeled down to examine the body the other stood alert for whatever did this. They showed a decent amount of intelligence and worked well together on a team, but unfortunately not well enough. Rio was hanging upside-down by his tail from the ventilation shaft on the ceiling taking aim on one of the griffin's head. Just then the griffin standing up threw a throwing knife at Rio.

"What the-" Rio shouted.

Rio let go of the ventilation shaft in order to dodge the throwing knife. Rio then landed on the ground and pointed his handgun at one of the griffins. Rio was nervous and confused. Lazz's plans had never let him down before so he wondered what went wrong while keeping his aim. Suddenly the griffin that threw the knife laughed.

"What's so funny?" Rio asked.

"You're a complete idiot," The griffin said. "You think we didn't notice you hanging up there? A dragon with red scales and yellow eyes hanging upside-down in some sort of attempt to ambush us!" the griffin yelled.

The griffin on the ground stood up and turned around to face Rio. Rio was shocked that they were just playing along the whole time. Rio watched as they both pulled out handguns and took steady aim at him.

"What did you do to that dragon on the ground?" the gryphon asked.

"What do you mean?" Rio asked back.

"I just checked the body and it's not alive" the griffin said.

Rio was thinking of what to do next when suddenly he realized something. Rio grinned and then laughed. Suddenly it all made sense. Rio was happy that Lazz didn't let him down after all.

"What body?" Rio asked the griffins.

"Huh? It's gone! But where did-" The griffin said.

The griffin was interrupted because of what happened next. His partner was suspended in midair a little and green blood ran down his face. The first griffin jumped back in horror as the second griffin dropped to the floor. The remaining griffin was beginning to panic and looking around to see how his partner died. Just then, Rio shot the remaining griffin in the head and watched as it fell to the ground with the green blood that followed. Rio took a deep breath as he was relieved that the confrontation was over. Suddenly Lazz appeared, seemingly from nowhere. Rio forgot that Lazz could camouflage himself with any kind of environment using his scales. Lazz now stood in front of Rio naked which made Rio raise a brow. Then finally Rio burst out in rage.

"Put some freaking clothes on!!" Rio screamed.

"You too, here put these on." Lazz said calmly.

Lazz passed Rio one of the griffin's uniforms. After Lazz put the griffin uniform on top of his own uniform, he geared up and looked at Rio who had still not put the uniform on yet.

"If you don't hurry I'll leave your ass behind." Lazz said.

Rio put his handgun away and put the griffin uniform on. Rio then checked the handguns that the griffins were carrying and took the ammo for them. Lazz hid the bodies in the corner of the room farthest from the door. Then together they left the room and walked down the long metallic hallway in hopes of not getting caught a second time.

To be continued.........