Of Feathers And Flames- A Wings of Fire AU RP

[-Shade-]

*Me reading every Sunspot sass sentence like-*

Aw but we love herrrr

Sunspot has made a permanent home in my brain fr

Sunspot's definitely her own vibe, lol. I absolutely love her's and Eclipse's dynamic too.

 

[-Kiwi-]

Eclipse rolled her eyes and then closed them again, curling her head in closer to her chest, closer to Shard. The cool seeping off the dragonet's scales was achingly familiar and the gentle chill helped with the horrible stuffy heat from the desert.
Eclipse wondered vaguely what life would be like if she decided to keep Shard around after all. It was hard to see her sending the dragonet off somewhere with strange dragons, worrying that if Eclipse herself wasn't there to supervise or be the one taking care of the Icewing, no one could do it properly. And she seldom admit she was beginning to grow fond of the little ice dragon. It felt wrong to part with her now.
These thoughts continued flitting through her mind, along with other less coordinated ones of Icewings and the unbearable wait for freedom again. This was the tide of subconscious thought that followed Eclipse as she slowly slipped deeper and deeper into sleep.

@-Kiwi-

Sunspots tail flicked. She thought about telling Eclipse about her little spat with the SeaWing, but something stopped her. She had the feeling that Eclipse would get mad at her for it, for whatever reason. Or that she would take the SeaWing and Sol’s side, and decide she liked them better than Sunspot or something.

The SolarWing sighed. Why were dragons so complicated?

@-Shade-

 

[_-Captain BRM-_]

Spoiler: Of Heart and Sol - Part 5

They came that afternoon.
I was not prepared. Technically, I still had another 24 hours in the lot. But, really, what did rules matter here? No one obliged the laws set in place- and they got away with it, which defeated the whole purpose of a 'law', and which thoroughly confused me. What was the point? Even the Patrol didn't acknowledge the 48 hour eviction notice, and they barged into my lot, weapons at the ready, as if I was a criminal.
I had been resting in the lab cage beside the SolarWing, massaging the tight muscles in the dragon's neck and shoulders. The Patro brokel in with no warning, practically kicking down my door, a good dozen officers flowed into the room, guns raised.
My hands were in the air the moment they entered, and I stumbled to my feet, trying to obey shouted orders.
"Out of the cage!" Someone said it- I don't know who, and I rushed through the white doorway, straight into the arms of a pair of burly men, who spun me around, pushed me against the cage, pinned my arms behind my back.
"What is this!" I half shouted, my heart racing with both terror and confusion.
The SolarWing had yet to hide, or make any attempt to flee from the guards, though every gun in the room was trained on his head, so I couldn't exactly judge his behavior.
"What is this!" I repeated as I was swung back around and shoved towards a small crowd of officers, who gripped me as though they thought of me as a threat. I was 5' 6" and weighed 130 pounds. I couldn't do anything remotely harmful. Yet they still held me like their lives depended on it.
"Enough yelling." One of the men hissed, his voice heavily accented. He had moved directly in front of me, but I was too lost in the confusion to register much. The man blocked my view of the SolarWing, and my arms were wrenched apart, exposing my chest as the officer before me pushed a gun against my throat.
"W-way- wait, wait!" I screamed, half formed pleas escaping my throat as I gave a half-hearted struggle.
"Where did you get the SolarWing?" His words were gruff, harsh, his expression cold, hard.
My chest heaved with every desperate breath, feeling the officers grips tighten at my hesitation. "I- oh, gosh, the dragon?" I dropped his gaze, too panicked to say anything remotely intelligent.
"The SolarWing." Someone snarled from behind me, and a hand closed around the back of my neck.
I flinched away, wincing as I shook my head. "I- I was given. Given- him." It was all I could manage to say, swallowing hard.
"By. Whom." The man before me hissed, shoving his gun harder against my neck, and I gagged, repulsed by the cold metal afflicting each suffocating breath.
"Who gave you the dragon!"
His voice echoed through the lot, and I closed my eyes, letting silent tears roll. Not a body stirred, not a sound was made, save my own ragged breaths.
"I- was given him-... By a man in the Truck Yard." I let that sit for a moment, trying to collect my spiking emotions.
"Who was he?" The man growled.
"I- I don't know."
He hit me.
Right across the face.
My heart plummeted, spiraling into an endless cavern of terror, and I jerked back, tempted to cry out for help, but a silencing hand muffled the start of a plea, bruising fingers held me in place.
Was I to be tortured for information I did not possess? Or killed if I didn't have their answers? What else could I do? Make.. make something up. Perhaps I should lie. I needed a name, a name, a name… any name. Make it up. Come up- come up with something believable now, and lead them on as best I could…
But as it turned out, none of the split-second thoughts were necessary. Because, as I opened my eyes to watch as the man raised his hand to strike me a second time, a piercing roar deafened my ears.
I was immediately shoved back, helpless to watch as the SolarWing charged from the cage, his mouth open in mid-roar.
Someone pushed me to the ground, and I fell back, pulling myself free from the officers, as the SolarWing let loose a mighty plume of fire, engulfing the first two men in the blazing inferno.
That's when they opened fire.
An incredible, blasting noise, shredding the nerves in my ears, leaving them to ring and screech in pain as I fled to the corner of the lot, ducking between the wall and the lab cage.
I felt my panicked mind scream as gunshots echoed duly in my deafened ears, and I covered my head as a pulsing heat suddenly filled the room.
We were going to die.
The SolarWing was being killed.
There was nothing I could do, there was nothing I could do.
Screams and shouts reached my dull ears, and I hid behind my forearms, feeling more blasts of searing heat. But I was not being burned. It was in the air. Something was creating the heat, and it had to be the SolarWing, but every round of bullets fired only made me think how impossible this situation was.
My brain churned, desperate to cling to any source of reality, desperate to make sense of chaos.
The air grew hotter, and I released a panicked moan, dropping to the ground, pushing myself against the wall.
Every breath conjured whizzing stars over my eyes, every sound forcing me to wince.
The heat was stifling.
But then the noise stopped.
And a horrid stench filled the room.
I looked, still shielding my head, blinking dry eyes.
A smoking haze greeted my vision, burning bodies scattered across bloodstained ground.
I coughed, then threw up.
Something approached me, and I could barely make our his form in my perefreial vision. On hands and knees, I looked up at him, sucking in a hesitant, stifling breath. I could feel the smoke drying out my tongue and throat, burning into gasping lungs.
He lowered his head to look me in the eye. "We have to go."
The blood drained from my face.
"Ohh, my- oh, God, help us, you killed them!" I looked away, listening to my ragged scream echo. I spat up more vomit. "You killed them all!" My voice cracked. Panicked tears welled.
The stench was hideous. So horrid, so overwhelming.
"August Tobias, I ask you find reason within yourself. Please. We must leave."
He was talking. Oh, how was he- why was he talking…
"Go?" I screamed, struggling to my feet. "Go where! Where do we-" My eyes wandered back to the smoldering bodies. "Ohh.."
The SolarWing made a jerky move to catch me, then pulled away as I fell against the wall. I could feel the heat radiating off his scales. The slightest touch would sear right through my unprotected skin.
Cradling my head in shaking hands, I leaned against the wall, trying to comprehend the stakes of the situation, racking my brain for a solution.
"Do you know-" I started, my voice muffled by my own hands. "Do you know what will happen to me?"
"Tobias, please. We must go."
I shuddered at the sound of his voice.
"You're- you are my-.. I- I," releasing a hysterical breath, I pulled my hands back from my head. "I take full responsibility for your actions! Can't you understand that? I- I.. they're going to- I will be- killed, they will kill me for this."
The dragon stared back at me, his expression calm, and compassionate. "I will protect you."
"They'll kill you, too!"
My shredded throat burned from the smoke and the shouting. Impulsively, I pushed away from the wall, stumbling around bodies, coughing up more vomit, my gaze on the doorway.
The hall was empty, but smoke still wafted through the air, tinting the pristine white walls grey.
I could hear the SolarWing's talons clicking behind me as I tripped blindly down the hall, my panicked mind searching for a solution. My teeth chattered, my body shook. My ears rung, my vision spasmed.
"Where are we going?"
I whirled around, tripping as my wild eyes locked on the SolarWing. "You shouldn't have killed them," I have whispered, half whimpered. The dragon approached me, and I did not move, my gaze on the spotless floor.
"Look at me."
I swallowed bile, slowly moving my hands forward so that I could see them tremble.
"Tobias, look at me."
I blinked tears onto my hands, then slowly lifted my gaze. Finding a unique empathy in the dragon's expression, I bit back a sob.
"I need you to show me a way out of here. I will protect you."
I looked down, flinching badly when the dragon nudged my chin back up with a heated wing. His left wing.

"Have you- deceived me this entire time?"
The SolarWing did not respond, shaking his head when I glanced back at him. "August Tobias, I swear to you all will be explained in due time, when we are in a position where your life is no longer threatened. But from what I am see at the moment, I find it difficult to believe you are safe in this… transport cave."
"Truck Yard." I corrected slowly, taking a deep breath as I guided us alongside the rows of empty cages lining the enormous garage. The Yard was fortunately empty, the wide door spanning the exit left open. I was too shaken to be suspicious. "What do you plan to do out there?" I whispered, motioning to the parking garage, which the Truck Yard emptied in to.
The SolarWing appeared surprised. "Well, Tobias, I plan to escape."
I released a bitter scoff. "They are looking for us. They're- they're going to be out there waiting for us to come out. The guards you killed in the lot? There are hundreds more. And they can communicate with each other from- from miles away. They know we are here."
"No matter. You forget my position."
"You're- what? You don't- you don't have a position."
"I am Prince Sol of the SolarWings, human. I most definitely bear a position of great importance. They will show me respect."
I took a deep breath, nodding as I learned his name. It was fitting. I was glad to have something to call him by, even if was only for the next few minutes.
Something clanged through the garage, and we froze.
"They will not show mercy, nor respect." I whispered, turning towards the dragon. "They want to kill us." I spoke in a low, slow tone. "Because you just killed fifteen of them."
"It was only eleven." The SolarWing correct, motioning for me to keep moving. "If they plan to kill us, then so be it. I will simply end them before the opportunity presents itself."
"No, they have guns!" I hissed. "Guns that will never run out, or grow tired, unlike your fire scales."
"My scales can withstand any of these… guns." The SolarWing nudged me along, and I quickened my pace, my eyes on the open parking garage ahead, where we would have no place to hide, save behind the few forgotten trucks and cars. We would be exposed to whoever was most certainly waiting out there to kill us.
"Look, S-Sol, you were captured, right?"
He gave me a confused look. "You could never capture me."
"Nono," I sighed. "You. You were captured by them."
He looked utterly lost, blinking in confusion. "The guns, then? You believe the guns have captured me? Never. I can never be caught, nor out witted. I will get us out of here safely, August Tobias, you have no cause for worry."
I stopped, ducking behind an empty cage as a vehicle rolled though the parking garage, throwing up dust in its wake.
The SolarWing leveled his gaze, snarling.
"No- stop." I whispered, motioning him over.
He glanced up for a moment, and I followed his gaze around the massive garage door above. How could he understand? It was as if something within him had suddenly clicked- he had regained some sort of memory, yes, but he was so incredibly confused, though he refused to show any hint of the emotion as his eyes scanned our surroundings.
"I see the sky." He muttered, and I nodded slowly, catching the forlorn look in his eye. With purposeful steps, the dragon strode out into the open air, his scales glowing in the sun. "We must fly."
"Are you crazy?" I yelped, trying to motion him back towards me. The parking lot was quite empty, but security patrol was still undoubtedly roaming, searching for us.
"One might not think it wise to call his savior such names." The SolarWing warned, not bothering to look at me as moved further into the parking lot, his gaze on the sky above.
"I did not mean to insult you," I half growled, slowly wandering out, leaving the comfort of the Truck Yard, now standing in the open. "But you can't just charge into the sky, they will see you, they are waiting for you, and they will shoot you down with bigger weapons, bigger gu-"
"Be silent."
My words died in my throat at the command, and I glanced around, feeling quite uneasy at the strange quiet of the Yard.
The SolarWing's ears twitched.
Then he whirled around, his eyes narrowed, scanning the garage with a jerking gaze.
"Reveal yourself, cowered." He hissed, leveling his gaze.
I tried to follow his eye movement, feeling too exposed out in the open. Something clicked behind us, and the SolarWing moved quickly, shielding me with a wing as he snapped his head to the side, squinting down at something lodged in his neck.
"Is this a gun?" He questioned as I swore.
Another tranq dart smacked below the first, and the SolarWing sidestepped, whipping his head back and forth, a snarling roar escaping his throat. "Come out, cowered!"
Five more darts sprouted from his neck.
I raised my hands, shielding my head.
"Your guns cannot stop me!!" The SolarWing roared, though I could hear his words slurring.
I glanced up, watching him stumble, a series of darts lodged up his neck. He took another step, but tripped, falling tensely against the concrete.
"What magic is this.." he snarled, his muscles spasming in protest. "Who daresss-" he inhaled a sharp breath. "Who… dares to- to.. defy.." his head cracked against the concrete.
I winced, dropping to my knees, and lowering my head as the patrol officers closed in, slowly raising my hands. Something thwacked into my neck, and I instinctively reached up to remove the dart, but even then I could feel my body begin to fade. I dropped to my side, not wishing to wound my head on the way out. Something grabbed my shoulder, lifting me half way off the ground, tipping my head back with forceful hands. My head lolled, vision gone. I wasn't even sure I was awake.
"Please… don't hurt him. He can't do it again. He won't.. survive… P-please. Don't hurt him-"
It was my voice, I realized, I was speaking.
But then I forced my eyes open, feeling the horrid taste of bile stain my tounge and lips. I fixed my gaze of the glint of red scales, duly fascinated as the bright lights swallowed my vision.

Bruh, pRiNcE sOl oF tHe SoLaRwInGs gives off some hardcore Thor (the dark world) vibes, ngl.
Things are getting exciiiitiiiing

 

[_-Captain BRM-_]

Spoiler: Of Heart and Sol - Part 5

They came that afternoon.
I was not prepared. Technically, I still had another 24 hours in the lot. But, really, what did rules matter here? No one obliged the laws set in place- and they got away with it, which defeated the whole purpose of a 'law', and which thoroughly confused me. What was the point? Even the Patrol didn't acknowledge the 48 hour eviction notice, and they barged into my lot, weapons at the ready, as if I was a criminal.
I had been resting in the lab cage beside the SolarWing, massaging the tight muscles in the dragon's neck and shoulders. The Patro brokel in with no warning, practically kicking down my door, a good dozen officers flowed into the room, guns raised.
My hands were in the air the moment they entered, and I stumbled to my feet, trying to obey shouted orders.
"Out of the cage!" Someone said it- I don't know who, and I rushed through the white doorway, straight into the arms of a pair of burly men, who spun me around, pushed me against the cage, pinned my arms behind my back.
"What is this!" I half shouted, my heart racing with both terror and confusion.
The SolarWing had yet to hide, or make any attempt to flee from the guards, though every gun in the room was trained on his head, so I couldn't exactly judge his behavior.
"What is this!" I repeated as I was swung back around and shoved towards a small crowd of officers, who gripped me as though they thought of me as a threat. I was 5' 6" and weighed 130 pounds. I couldn't do anything remotely harmful. Yet they still held me like their lives depended on it.
"Enough yelling." One of the men hissed, his voice heavily accented. He had moved directly in front of me, but I was too lost in the confusion to register much. The man blocked my view of the SolarWing, and my arms were wrenched apart, exposing my chest as the officer before me pushed a gun against my throat.
"W-way- wait, wait!" I screamed, half formed pleas escaping my throat as I gave a half-hearted struggle.
"Where did you get the SolarWing?" His words were gruff, harsh, his expression cold, hard.
My chest heaved with every desperate breath, feeling the officers grips tighten at my hesitation. "I- oh, gosh, the dragon?" I dropped his gaze, too panicked to say anything remotely intelligent.
"The SolarWing." Someone snarled from behind me, and a hand closed around the back of my neck.
I flinched away, wincing as I shook my head. "I- I was given. Given- him." It was all I could manage to say, swallowing hard.
"By. Whom." The man before me hissed, shoving his gun harder against my neck, and I gagged, repulsed by the cold metal afflicting each suffocating breath.
"Who gave you the dragon!"
His voice echoed through the lot, and I closed my eyes, letting silent tears roll. Not a body stirred, not a sound was made, save my own ragged breaths.
"I- was given him-... By a man in the Truck Yard." I let that sit for a moment, trying to collect my spiking emotions.
"Who was he?" The man growled.
"I- I don't know."
He hit me.
Right across the face.
My heart plummeted, spiraling into an endless cavern of terror, and I jerked back, tempted to cry out for help, but a silencing hand muffled the start of a plea, bruising fingers held me in place.
Was I to be tortured for information I did not possess? Or killed if I didn't have their answers? What else could I do? Make.. make something up. Perhaps I should lie. I needed a name, a name, a name… any name. Make it up. Come up- come up with something believable now, and lead them on as best I could…
But as it turned out, none of the split-second thoughts were necessary. Because, as I opened my eyes to watch as the man raised his hand to strike me a second time, a piercing roar deafened my ears.
I was immediately shoved back, helpless to watch as the SolarWing charged from the cage, his mouth open in mid-roar.
Someone pushed me to the ground, and I fell back, pulling myself free from the officers, as the SolarWing let loose a mighty plume of fire, engulfing the first two men in the blazing inferno.
That's when they opened fire.
An incredible, blasting noise, shredding the nerves in my ears, leaving them to ring and screech in pain as I fled to the corner of the lot, ducking between the wall and the lab cage.
I felt my panicked mind scream as gunshots echoed duly in my deafened ears, and I covered my head as a pulsing heat suddenly filled the room.
We were going to die.
The SolarWing was being killed.
There was nothing I could do, there was nothing I could do.
Screams and shouts reached my dull ears, and I hid behind my forearms, feeling more blasts of searing heat. But I was not being burned. It was in the air. Something was creating the heat, and it had to be the SolarWing, but every round of bullets fired only made me think how impossible this situation was.
My brain churned, desperate to cling to any source of reality, desperate to make sense of chaos.
The air grew hotter, and I released a panicked moan, dropping to the ground, pushing myself against the wall.
Every breath conjured whizzing stars over my eyes, every sound forcing me to wince.
The heat was stifling.
But then the noise stopped.
And a horrid stench filled the room.
I looked, still shielding my head, blinking dry eyes.
A smoking haze greeted my vision, burning bodies scattered across bloodstained ground.
I coughed, then threw up.
Something approached me, and I could barely make our his form in my perefreial vision. On hands and knees, I looked up at him, sucking in a hesitant, stifling breath. I could feel the smoke drying out my tongue and throat, burning into gasping lungs.
He lowered his head to look me in the eye. "We have to go."
The blood drained from my face.
"Ohh, my- oh, God, help us, you killed them!" I looked away, listening to my ragged scream echo. I spat up more vomit. "You killed them all!" My voice cracked. Panicked tears welled.
The stench was hideous. So horrid, so overwhelming.
"August Tobias, I ask you find reason within yourself. Please. We must leave."
He was talking. Oh, how was he- why was he talking…
"Go?" I screamed, struggling to my feet. "Go where! Where do we-" My eyes wandered back to the smoldering bodies. "Ohh.."
The SolarWing made a jerky move to catch me, then pulled away as I fell against the wall. I could feel the heat radiating off his scales. The slightest touch would sear right through my unprotected skin.
Cradling my head in shaking hands, I leaned against the wall, trying to comprehend the stakes of the situation, racking my brain for a solution.
"Do you know-" I started, my voice muffled by my own hands. "Do you know what will happen to me?"
"Tobias, please. We must go."
I shuddered at the sound of his voice.
"You're- you are my-.. I- I," releasing a hysterical breath, I pulled my hands back from my head. "I take full responsibility for your actions! Can't you understand that? I- I.. they're going to- I will be- killed, they will kill me for this."
The dragon stared back at me, his expression calm, and compassionate. "I will protect you."
"They'll kill you, too!"
My shredded throat burned from the smoke and the shouting. Impulsively, I pushed away from the wall, stumbling around bodies, coughing up more vomit, my gaze on the doorway.
The hall was empty, but smoke still wafted through the air, tinting the pristine white walls grey.
I could hear the SolarWing's talons clicking behind me as I tripped blindly down the hall, my panicked mind searching for a solution. My teeth chattered, my body shook. My ears rung, my vision spasmed.
"Where are we going?"
I whirled around, tripping as my wild eyes locked on the SolarWing. "You shouldn't have killed them," I have whispered, half whimpered. The dragon approached me, and I did not move, my gaze on the spotless floor.
"Look at me."
I swallowed bile, slowly moving my hands forward so that I could see them tremble.
"Tobias, look at me."
I blinked tears onto my hands, then slowly lifted my gaze. Finding a unique empathy in the dragon's expression, I bit back a sob.
"I need you to show me a way out of here. I will protect you."
I looked down, flinching badly when the dragon nudged my chin back up with a heated wing. His left wing.

"Have you- deceived me this entire time?"
The SolarWing did not respond, shaking his head when I glanced back at him. "August Tobias, I swear to you all will be explained in due time, when we are in a position where your life is no longer threatened. But from what I am see at the moment, I find it difficult to believe you are safe in this… transport cave."
"Truck Yard." I corrected slowly, taking a deep breath as I guided us alongside the rows of empty cages lining the enormous garage. The Yard was fortunately empty, the wide door spanning the exit left open. I was too shaken to be suspicious. "What do you plan to do out there?" I whispered, motioning to the parking garage, which the Truck Yard emptied in to.
The SolarWing appeared surprised. "Well, Tobias, I plan to escape."
I released a bitter scoff. "They are looking for us. They're- they're going to be out there waiting for us to come out. The guards you killed in the lot? There are hundreds more. And they can communicate with each other from- from miles away. They know we are here."
"No matter. You forget my position."
"You're- what? You don't- you don't have a position."
"I am Prince Sol of the SolarWings, human. I most definitely bear a position of great importance. They will show me respect."
I took a deep breath, nodding as I learned his name. It was fitting. I was glad to have something to call him by, even if was only for the next few minutes.
Something clanged through the garage, and we froze.
"They will not show mercy, nor respect." I whispered, turning towards the dragon. "They want to kill us." I spoke in a low, slow tone. "Because you just killed fifteen of them."
"It was only eleven." The SolarWing correct, motioning for me to keep moving. "If they plan to kill us, then so be it. I will simply end them before the opportunity presents itself."
"No, they have guns!" I hissed. "Guns that will never run out, or grow tired, unlike your fire scales."
"My scales can withstand any of these… guns." The SolarWing nudged me along, and I quickened my pace, my eyes on the open parking garage ahead, where we would have no place to hide, save behind the few forgotten trucks and cars. We would be exposed to whoever was most certainly waiting out there to kill us.
"Look, S-Sol, you were captured, right?"
He gave me a confused look. "You could never capture me."
"Nono," I sighed. "You. You were captured by them."
He looked utterly lost, blinking in confusion. "The guns, then? You believe the guns have captured me? Never. I can never be caught, nor out witted. I will get us out of here safely, August Tobias, you have no cause for worry."
I stopped, ducking behind an empty cage as a vehicle rolled though the parking garage, throwing up dust in its wake.
The SolarWing leveled his gaze, snarling.
"No- stop." I whispered, motioning him over.
He glanced up for a moment, and I followed his gaze around the massive garage door above. How could he understand? It was as if something within him had suddenly clicked- he had regained some sort of memory, yes, but he was so incredibly confused, though he refused to show any hint of the emotion as his eyes scanned our surroundings.
"I see the sky." He muttered, and I nodded slowly, catching the forlorn look in his eye. With purposeful steps, the dragon strode out into the open air, his scales glowing in the sun. "We must fly."
"Are you crazy?" I yelped, trying to motion him back towards me. The parking lot was quite empty, but security patrol was still undoubtedly roaming, searching for us.
"One might not think it wise to call his savior such names." The SolarWing warned, not bothering to look at me as moved further into the parking lot, his gaze on the sky above.
"I did not mean to insult you," I half growled, slowly wandering out, leaving the comfort of the Truck Yard, now standing in the open. "But you can't just charge into the sky, they will see you, they are waiting for you, and they will shoot you down with bigger weapons, bigger gu-"
"Be silent."
My words died in my throat at the command, and I glanced around, feeling quite uneasy at the strange quiet of the Yard.
The SolarWing's ears twitched.
Then he whirled around, his eyes narrowed, scanning the garage with a jerking gaze.
"Reveal yourself, cowered." He hissed, leveling his gaze.
I tried to follow his eye movement, feeling too exposed out in the open. Something clicked behind us, and the SolarWing moved quickly, shielding me with a wing as he snapped his head to the side, squinting down at something lodged in his neck.
"Is this a gun?" He questioned as I swore.
Another tranq dart smacked below the first, and the SolarWing sidestepped, whipping his head back and forth, a snarling roar escaping his throat. "Come out, cowered!"
Five more darts sprouted from his neck.
I raised my hands, shielding my head.
"Your guns cannot stop me!!" The SolarWing roared, though I could hear his words slurring.
I glanced up, watching him stumble, a series of darts lodged up his neck. He took another step, but tripped, falling tensely against the concrete.
"What magic is this.." he snarled, his muscles spasming in protest. "Who daresss-" he inhaled a sharp breath. "Who… dares to- to.. defy.." his head cracked against the concrete.
I winced, dropping to my knees, and lowering my head as the patrol officers closed in, slowly raising my hands. Something thwacked into my neck, and I instinctively reached up to remove the dart, but even then I could feel my body begin to fade. I dropped to my side, not wishing to wound my head on the way out. Something grabbed my shoulder, lifting me half way off the ground, tipping my head back with forceful hands. My head lolled, vision gone. I wasn't even sure I was awake.
"Please… don't hurt him. He can't do it again. He won't.. survive… P-please. Don't hurt him-"
It was my voice, I realized, I was speaking.
But then I forced my eyes open, feeling the horrid taste of bile stain my tounge and lips. I fixed my gaze of the glint of red scales, duly fascinated as the bright lights swallowed my vision.

Bruh, pRiNcE sOl oF tHe SoLaRwInGs gives off some hardcore Thor (the dark world) vibes, ngl.
Things are getting exciiiitiiiing

Shoot.
Okay, here-
@-Shade-
@-Kiwi-
@Crestcrazy2

 

[-Kiwi-]

Oh man I missed part four-

 

[-Shade-]

Spoiler: Of Heart and Sol - Part 5

They came that afternoon.
I was not prepared. Technically, I still had another 24 hours in the lot. But, really, what did rules matter here? No one obliged the laws set in place- and they got away with it, which defeated the whole purpose of a 'law', and which thoroughly confused me. What was the point? Even the Patrol didn't acknowledge the 48 hour eviction notice, and they barged into my lot, weapons at the ready, as if I was a criminal.
I had been resting in the lab cage beside the SolarWing, massaging the tight muscles in the dragon's neck and shoulders. The Patro brokel in with no warning, practically kicking down my door, a good dozen officers flowed into the room, guns raised.
My hands were in the air the moment they entered, and I stumbled to my feet, trying to obey shouted orders.
"Out of the cage!" Someone said it- I don't know who, and I rushed through the white doorway, straight into the arms of a pair of burly men, who spun me around, pushed me against the cage, pinned my arms behind my back.
"What is this!" I half shouted, my heart racing with both terror and confusion.
The SolarWing had yet to hide, or make any attempt to flee from the guards, though every gun in the room was trained on his head, so I couldn't exactly judge his behavior.
"What is this!" I repeated as I was swung back around and shoved towards a small crowd of officers, who gripped me as though they thought of me as a threat. I was 5' 6" and weighed 130 pounds. I couldn't do anything remotely harmful. Yet they still held me like their lives depended on it.
"Enough yelling." One of the men hissed, his voice heavily accented. He had moved directly in front of me, but I was too lost in the confusion to register much. The man blocked my view of the SolarWing, and my arms were wrenched apart, exposing my chest as the officer before me pushed a gun against my throat.
"W-way- wait, wait!" I screamed, half formed pleas escaping my throat as I gave a half-hearted struggle.
"Where did you get the SolarWing?" His words were gruff, harsh, his expression cold, hard.
My chest heaved with every desperate breath, feeling the officers grips tighten at my hesitation. "I- oh, gosh, the dragon?" I dropped his gaze, too panicked to say anything remotely intelligent.
"The SolarWing." Someone snarled from behind me, and a hand closed around the back of my neck.
I flinched away, wincing as I shook my head. "I- I was given. Given- him." It was all I could manage to say, swallowing hard.
"By. Whom." The man before me hissed, shoving his gun harder against my neck, and I gagged, repulsed by the cold metal afflicting each suffocating breath.
"Who gave you the dragon!"
His voice echoed through the lot, and I closed my eyes, letting silent tears roll. Not a body stirred, not a sound was made, save my own ragged breaths.
"I- was given him-... By a man in the Truck Yard." I let that sit for a moment, trying to collect my spiking emotions.
"Who was he?" The man growled.
"I- I don't know."
He hit me.
Right across the face.
My heart plummeted, spiraling into an endless cavern of terror, and I jerked back, tempted to cry out for help, but a silencing hand muffled the start of a plea, bruising fingers held me in place.
Was I to be tortured for information I did not possess? Or killed if I didn't have their answers? What else could I do? Make.. make something up. Perhaps I should lie. I needed a name, a name, a name… any name. Make it up. Come up- come up with something believable now, and lead them on as best I could…
But as it turned out, none of the split-second thoughts were necessary. Because, as I opened my eyes to watch as the man raised his hand to strike me a second time, a piercing roar deafened my ears.
I was immediately shoved back, helpless to watch as the SolarWing charged from the cage, his mouth open in mid-roar.
Someone pushed me to the ground, and I fell back, pulling myself free from the officers, as the SolarWing let loose a mighty plume of fire, engulfing the first two men in the blazing inferno.
That's when they opened fire.
An incredible, blasting noise, shredding the nerves in my ears, leaving them to ring and screech in pain as I fled to the corner of the lot, ducking between the wall and the lab cage.
I felt my panicked mind scream as gunshots echoed duly in my deafened ears, and I covered my head as a pulsing heat suddenly filled the room.
We were going to die.
The SolarWing was being killed.
There was nothing I could do, there was nothing I could do.
Screams and shouts reached my dull ears, and I hid behind my forearms, feeling more blasts of searing heat. But I was not being burned. It was in the air. Something was creating the heat, and it had to be the SolarWing, but every round of bullets fired only made me think how impossible this situation was.
My brain churned, desperate to cling to any source of reality, desperate to make sense of chaos.
The air grew hotter, and I released a panicked moan, dropping to the ground, pushing myself against the wall.
Every breath conjured whizzing stars over my eyes, every sound forcing me to wince.
The heat was stifling.
But then the noise stopped.
And a horrid stench filled the room.
I looked, still shielding my head, blinking dry eyes.
A smoking haze greeted my vision, burning bodies scattered across bloodstained ground.
I coughed, then threw up.
Something approached me, and I could barely make our his form in my perefreial vision. On hands and knees, I looked up at him, sucking in a hesitant, stifling breath. I could feel the smoke drying out my tongue and throat, burning into gasping lungs.
He lowered his head to look me in the eye. "We have to go."
The blood drained from my face.
"Ohh, my- oh, God, help us, you killed them!" I looked away, listening to my ragged scream echo. I spat up more vomit. "You killed them all!" My voice cracked. Panicked tears welled.
The stench was hideous. So horrid, so overwhelming.
"August Tobias, I ask you find reason within yourself. Please. We must leave."
He was talking. Oh, how was he- why was he talking…
"Go?" I screamed, struggling to my feet. "Go where! Where do we-" My eyes wandered back to the smoldering bodies. "Ohh.."
The SolarWing made a jerky move to catch me, then pulled away as I fell against the wall. I could feel the heat radiating off his scales. The slightest touch would sear right through my unprotected skin.
Cradling my head in shaking hands, I leaned against the wall, trying to comprehend the stakes of the situation, racking my brain for a solution.
"Do you know-" I started, my voice muffled by my own hands. "Do you know what will happen to me?"
"Tobias, please. We must go."
I shuddered at the sound of his voice.
"You're- you are my-.. I- I," releasing a hysterical breath, I pulled my hands back from my head. "I take full responsibility for your actions! Can't you understand that? I- I.. they're going to- I will be- killed, they will kill me for this."
The dragon stared back at me, his expression calm, and compassionate. "I will protect you."
"They'll kill you, too!"
My shredded throat burned from the smoke and the shouting. Impulsively, I pushed away from the wall, stumbling around bodies, coughing up more vomit, my gaze on the doorway.
The hall was empty, but smoke still wafted through the air, tinting the pristine white walls grey.
I could hear the SolarWing's talons clicking behind me as I tripped blindly down the hall, my panicked mind searching for a solution. My teeth chattered, my body shook. My ears rung, my vision spasmed.
"Where are we going?"
I whirled around, tripping as my wild eyes locked on the SolarWing. "You shouldn't have killed them," I have whispered, half whimpered. The dragon approached me, and I did not move, my gaze on the spotless floor.
"Look at me."
I swallowed bile, slowly moving my hands forward so that I could see them tremble.
"Tobias, look at me."
I blinked tears onto my hands, then slowly lifted my gaze. Finding a unique empathy in the dragon's expression, I bit back a sob.
"I need you to show me a way out of here. I will protect you."
I looked down, flinching badly when the dragon nudged my chin back up with a heated wing. His left wing.

"Have you- deceived me this entire time?"
The SolarWing did not respond, shaking his head when I glanced back at him. "August Tobias, I swear to you all will be explained in due time, when we are in a position where your life is no longer threatened. But from what I am see at the moment, I find it difficult to believe you are safe in this… transport cave."
"Truck Yard." I corrected slowly, taking a deep breath as I guided us alongside the rows of empty cages lining the enormous garage. The Yard was fortunately empty, the wide door spanning the exit left open. I was too shaken to be suspicious. "What do you plan to do out there?" I whispered, motioning to the parking garage, which the Truck Yard emptied in to.
The SolarWing appeared surprised. "Well, Tobias, I plan to escape."
I released a bitter scoff. "They are looking for us. They're- they're going to be out there waiting for us to come out. The guards you killed in the lot? There are hundreds more. And they can communicate with each other from- from miles away. They know we are here."
"No matter. You forget my position."
"You're- what? You don't- you don't have a position."
"I am Prince Sol of the SolarWings, human. I most definitely bear a position of great importance. They will show me respect."
I took a deep breath, nodding as I learned his name. It was fitting. I was glad to have something to call him by, even if was only for the next few minutes.
Something clanged through the garage, and we froze.
"They will not show mercy, nor respect." I whispered, turning towards the dragon. "They want to kill us." I spoke in a low, slow tone. "Because you just killed fifteen of them."
"It was only eleven." The SolarWing correct, motioning for me to keep moving. "If they plan to kill us, then so be it. I will simply end them before the opportunity presents itself."
"No, they have guns!" I hissed. "Guns that will never run out, or grow tired, unlike your fire scales."
"My scales can withstand any of these… guns." The SolarWing nudged me along, and I quickened my pace, my eyes on the open parking garage ahead, where we would have no place to hide, save behind the few forgotten trucks and cars. We would be exposed to whoever was most certainly waiting out there to kill us.
"Look, S-Sol, you were captured, right?"
He gave me a confused look. "You could never capture me."
"Nono," I sighed. "You. You were captured by them."
He looked utterly lost, blinking in confusion. "The guns, then? You believe the guns have captured me? Never. I can never be caught, nor out witted. I will get us out of here safely, August Tobias, you have no cause for worry."
I stopped, ducking behind an empty cage as a vehicle rolled though the parking garage, throwing up dust in its wake.
The SolarWing leveled his gaze, snarling.
"No- stop." I whispered, motioning him over.
He glanced up for a moment, and I followed his gaze around the massive garage door above. How could he understand? It was as if something within him had suddenly clicked- he had regained some sort of memory, yes, but he was so incredibly confused, though he refused to show any hint of the emotion as his eyes scanned our surroundings.
"I see the sky." He muttered, and I nodded slowly, catching the forlorn look in his eye. With purposeful steps, the dragon strode out into the open air, his scales glowing in the sun. "We must fly."
"Are you crazy?" I yelped, trying to motion him back towards me. The parking lot was quite empty, but security patrol was still undoubtedly roaming, searching for us.
"One might not think it wise to call his savior such names." The SolarWing warned, not bothering to look at me as moved further into the parking lot, his gaze on the sky above.
"I did not mean to insult you," I half growled, slowly wandering out, leaving the comfort of the Truck Yard, now standing in the open. "But you can't just charge into the sky, they will see you, they are waiting for you, and they will shoot you down with bigger weapons, bigger gu-"
"Be silent."
My words died in my throat at the command, and I glanced around, feeling quite uneasy at the strange quiet of the Yard.
The SolarWing's ears twitched.
Then he whirled around, his eyes narrowed, scanning the garage with a jerking gaze.
"Reveal yourself, cowered." He hissed, leveling his gaze.
I tried to follow his eye movement, feeling too exposed out in the open. Something clicked behind us, and the SolarWing moved quickly, shielding me with a wing as he snapped his head to the side, squinting down at something lodged in his neck.
"Is this a gun?" He questioned as I swore.
Another tranq dart smacked below the first, and the SolarWing sidestepped, whipping his head back and forth, a snarling roar escaping his throat. "Come out, cowered!"
Five more darts sprouted from his neck.
I raised my hands, shielding my head.
"Your guns cannot stop me!!" The SolarWing roared, though I could hear his words slurring.
I glanced up, watching him stumble, a series of darts lodged up his neck. He took another step, but tripped, falling tensely against the concrete.
"What magic is this.." he snarled, his muscles spasming in protest. "Who daresss-" he inhaled a sharp breath. "Who… dares to- to.. defy.." his head cracked against the concrete.
I winced, dropping to my knees, and lowering my head as the patrol officers closed in, slowly raising my hands. Something thwacked into my neck, and I instinctively reached up to remove the dart, but even then I could feel my body begin to fade. I dropped to my side, not wishing to wound my head on the way out. Something grabbed my shoulder, lifting me half way off the ground, tipping my head back with forceful hands. My head lolled, vision gone. I wasn't even sure I was awake.
"Please… don't hurt him. He can't do it again. He won't.. survive… P-please. Don't hurt him-"
It was my voice, I realized, I was speaking.
But then I forced my eyes open, feeling the horrid taste of bile stain my tounge and lips. I fixed my gaze of the glint of red scales, duly fascinated as the bright lights swallowed my vision.

Bruh, pRiNcE sOl oF tHe SoLaRwInGs gives off some hardcore Thor (the dark world) vibes, ngl.
Things are getting exciiiitiiiing

Did... Not... see that coming

 

[_-Captain BRM-_]

Did... Not... see that coming

Why, thank you

 

[-Shade-]

Vel looked away, squinting as the sun bore down on her eyes. She groaned, long and hard. Very dramatic.
"Does he have, like, a name?" She asked, not bothering to look at the SkyWing. "Or do you idiots just call him CloudWing all day?"

@Little Baby Bean

 

[Little Baby Bean]

Vel looked away, squinting as the sun bore down on her eyes. She groaned, long and hard. Very dramatic.
"Does he have, like, a name?" She asked, not bothering to look at the SkyWing. "Or do you idiots just call him CloudWing all day?"

Ajax stood close by the two others, lost in thought. When Vel addressed him, he snapped out of it, looking up at her.
“He told me and the hybrid, I forget his name, that his name is Alicanto. I assume it’s true, but you never know.” Ajax said lazily.
His wings, as well as his mouth, were aching. It made it especially hard to keep going without any motivation.

 

[_-Captain BRM-_]

Ajax stood close by the two others, lost in thought. When Vel addressed him, he snapped out of it, looking up at her.
“He told me and the hybrid, I forget his name, that his name is Alicanto. I assume it’s true, but you never know.” Ajax said lazily.
His wings, as well as his mouth, were aching. It made it especially hard to keep going without any motivation.

"Mouth still torched?" Vel snapped. "We need to find water." She growled.

@Little Baby Bean