581 This Is An Order! (1/2)
Rastraz nodded, her eyes narrowed in suspicion at Saphia's sudden excitement. ”Yes! With that... thing!”
”Really?” Saphia suddenly reached out and grabbed both Rastraz hands making the red dragon rear back in surprise. ”That's wonderful!”
Rastraz tried to back away from Saphia but Saphia seemed determined to stick with her. Saphia's eyes glowed with adoration as she stared with adulation at Rastraz, ”This is marvellous! There hasn't been an egg for many years after my birth!”
Rastraz was confused and frightened by the sparkling intense eyes of the strange black dragon, ”What?”
Blue Thunder poked his head over and tried to explain, ”She is from the Old World... And from what we know, dragons are almost gone there...”
Saphia bobbed her head excitedly as she stared with adoration at Rastraz, ”Yes! And to have two eggs! Can... Can I see them?”
Rastraz's anger seemed to be forgotten by the infatuation given off by the black dragon as she did not know how to respond. In the end, she stammered, ”O- Of course... They... are here...”
She led Saphia into the hangar which she had earlier stormed out of and inside, a large crate previously used to store ship killer rockets was padded thickly with Navy issued blankets where two eggs as large as an Orekin's head poked out from more blankets.
Saphia oohed and ahhed the moment she saw the eggs and she as gently as she could for her size and weight, came up to the eggs that were being warmed by a heat lamp hooked up to the hangar beams. She curled around the crate and stared with wide eyes at the eggs and she sighed in wonder. ”This is the first time I have seen eggs of our kind!”
Blue Thunder followed into the hangar and looked over the shoulder of Rastraz and whispered, ”How are the kids?”
”They are fine!” Rastraz growled as she shifted away from Blue Thunder. ”Better if their father is dead!”
”Don't be like that...” Blue Thunder sighed. ”I'm back!”
”I thought you don't ever want to come back any more!” Rastraz growled. ”And when you come back... You bring back another... female?”
”Ahh...” Blue Thunder gave an embarrassed cough as he tried to explain, ”We... erm... saved her from slavery!”
”She... is actually a very poor thing!” Blue Thunder quickly added. ”We... erm... destroyed her... friends and family... and later she was captured by those barbaric Foralians who tried to sold her off in an auction!”
”And... since she has no home now and no way to return to the Old World...” Blue Thunder gave his best apologetic smile at Rastraz who was glaring at him all the time. ”She erm... will be staying with... us for now... until we... er... go to... the Old World?”
”Er... er...” Blue Thunder scratched his head and replied, ”Technically... She is a girl and we are friends?”
”OUT!” Rastraz roared as she shoved Blue Thunder out of the hangar. ”You shall sleep outside!”
”Waa?” Blue Thunder blinked his eyes in confusion as the sliding doors of the hangar were slammed shut before his face. The ground crew hanging around laughed at his predicament and they returned to work, leaving Blue Thunder gently tapping against the hangar doors with his claw and asking in a small voice. ”Hello? Ras? Let me in?”
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United Nations, Hope Naval Station, Docks
Grand Lord Hammerfall was feeling awe at his surroundings as they were led down a bridge onto land. The size of the docks was staggering and at the same time excited his mind. When they were transferred on board the giant ship, he didn't even feel that it was that impressive as anyone with skills could build a large ship.
Lord Copperstone had expressed his opinions but the ship when they were aboard with praises in regards to the structure by examining their surroundings as the ship sailed off to somewhere with them inside a massive hold. Lord Copperstone was impressed with the quality of work done by the Un An's metal wrights while Hammerfall felt that only their combat magic was what won the battle.
If the Un An does not possess such powerful magic, the Cartel would not have lost the battle! But now, coming to this strange land, Hammerfall saw the massive base and in the distance, a sprawling city that was filled with towers that he could not even count!
As he and the rest of his people had all disembarked the ship, he saw more of the swift magic wagons that moved here and there on wide black paved roads. The Un An guards herded them towards a row of long wagons and they boarded the wagons to find the insides were wide enough for two people to sit on the benches placed on both sides that faced forward.
Once the wagon was filled up, the door on the side of the wagon magically closed by itself by folding outwards in such a way that made Lord Copperstone excited at the sight. ”What sorcery is that?”
”Ingenious!” Lord Copperstone excited, his face bright with excitement, nearly matching the startling orange of their clothes that they were forced to wear. The material was thick yet comfortable which Hammerfall had first assumed would be rough and coarse by his first impressions. Lord Copperstone rapped his knuckles against the side of the wagon before banging his sandaled feet against the floorboards. ”Metal! All metal!”
”How much metal is there?” Hammerfall was surprised as he looked out of the barred windows that covered the sides of the wagon. ”First... that giant ship... And now these...”
”The Un An must have highly skilled metal wrights to produce all these metals!” Copperstone replied as he gave a lick at the metal walls trying to taste the iron. ”Could be why they want more miners...”
”If they spend so much iron at everything,” Hammerfall shook his head. ”It's no wonder they need more miners.”
As he finished his sentence, the wagon seemed to shudder and a strange demonic growl came from beneath their feet, making the prisoners nervous. ”What was that?”
”A monster?” A dwarvan in the front yelled out in panic. The wagon made another shudder with more growling sounds and suddenly started moving. The prisoners looked around in panic and realized that other than moving, there was no monsters or demons appearing.
Hammerfall looked at Copperstone and whispered, ”Are they using some kind of monster to run the wagons?”