Well, it’s been a while since anything’s progressed much. Guess the RPG forum is REALLY slowing down. Unfortunately. I hope you all still want to continue, despite the fact that Summer-Winter has a tendency to steer us away from our computers, but none-the-less.

Let’s continue! =^-^=

3rd Person
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The chaos at the sacrificial grounds continued. Forest Dragons fought with Forest Dragons as the Pendant Bearers scattered for their lives.

Saké, Setsuna, and Amal had already been scooped up by the Female Forest Dragons, taken over the tree tops.

Kage, Horus, Sora, Faile, Vared, Seyelin, Elena, Zera, Chamel, and Rika were still scrounging around the ground, trying to avoid the mesh of claws and wings bearing down on them.

Chamel held onto Rika’s hand as he tried to lead her through the buffeting wings and the deafening roars of the Dragon’s squabbling above them.

“Hang on Rika!” Chamel reassured her as he held his left arm up to protect his eyes and head. “We’ll get outta this!”

As that was said, A Green Dragon dropped down in front of Chamel and Rika. This one lacked the leafy fringes of the others and was smaller.

The Dragon lowered his head and roared at Chamel and Rika, causing the small girl to grab onto Chamel’s torso. The Chameleon Demi-Human gritted his teeth and readied himself to defend, but without his Masumoon, it was going to be difficult.

The Dragon reared its long neck back into an s-curve, readying to bite. Chamel spun, picked up the young girl in his arms and jumped off, just as the Dragon’s open maw burst forward, and clamped onto the ground where Chamel once was.

“Heh,” the Chameleon smirked. “Gotta be faster than that!” Rika was still clutching onto Chamel’s shirt as he continued to avoid being snatched up. The Demi-Human turned back to the direction he was running, only to run right into one of the larger Forest Dragons with the leafy fringes. The sudden stop sent Chamel on his butt once again.

The Dragon looked at Chamel and Rika, huddling against him. Then in a soft fluid motion, picked them both up in its clawed hands and took off.

“Let us go you over-grown lizard!” Chamel protested, trying to beat on the dragon’s hands with his own.

Zera was snatched up by another Leaved Dragon, as was Seyelin. Soon the others were snatched as well, all by the Leafy Dragons.

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Saké
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With their mighty wings the Dragons with us in their grasp flew over the forest. The sounds of the fighting behind us soon droned out with the sound of the rushing wind.

I looked over at the other Dragons, each holding my friends. Seyelin had his Naginata, but wasn’t using it to get free, with how high we were I didn’t doubt him. Chamel struggled with all his might as usual, and the others seemed spent.

The forest below us whisked by, faster and faster with each moment. I tried to see where exactly we were being taken. There were no mountains or caves that I could see; the farthest mountain outcrop was miles behind us.

I could feel the Dragon holding me decelerate and start to lower into the canopy of trees. Carefully we dropped into the shade of the forest and slowed down. The rustle of leaves met my ears as I saw where we were.

A large tree stood in the middle of an even larger clearing. Trees and bushes conformed and contorted into recognizable structures of homes. Homes large enough for Dragons. Sunlight beamed in through holes in the canopy, illuminating patches of earth and dirt. Dragons, leafed dragons, flew around through the air as we lowered our decent. Smaller and larger ones walked along the ground, their mighty wings folded close to their bodies.

It wasn’t just Dragons that walked along the ground, there were people! Girls and women walked along with the dragons, some even playing with the smaller ones.

The dragon holding me lowered down even farther and I could fell it make landfall. Gently, it released me from its grasp and turned its head back up to the Dragons following it.

Other Dragons and the humans here ran up to the area as everyone was released from the dragon’s grasp. Chamel, due to his struggling, was actually dropped on his rump.

Setsuna was laid down very carefully, because she was still tied to the stake, the Dragon that had her carefully cut through the ropes with one of its talons.

“Rika!” a voice shouted from the crowd of girls.

“Sister!” the young one responded. Letting go of Chamel, Rika ran right up to someone who was pushing their way through the crowd of women.

The two siblings came to a loving embrace, both close to tears.

“Okay, sibling reunion’s touching, but where are we?” Seyelin stated.

“You are in our home,” said an old feminine voice.

I looked up, and I could tell everyone else did too. A pale Dragon stomped its way towards us. The age of the Dragon showed easily, the skin was pale and the eyes lacked the brightness that I had seen in the other Dragons. Its claws and leaves seemed weathered and worn. The wings might look the same, but they were folded along its body.

“Oh well, if we’re in your home, we’ll just be going then,” Chamel said and started to walk off. He ran right into the fore-arm of the Dragon that had brought him. “On second thought…”

“Fear not, we will not harm you,” the old Dragon said to us.

“Who are you?” Vared asked.

“I am Seria, the eldest of the Northern Forest Dragons,” the age showed on the Dragon. “And it would appear that you are our most recent guests. Veronica,”

The girl who was hugging Rika looked up at Seria.

“See that our guests are made comfortable, for we will need to speak with them soon,” The Dragon looked at us and bowed slightly. “Please, make yourselves at home, for our home, is your home.”

We were lead through the clearing around the large tree and to a set of homes constructed of trees and brush.

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Yay! CoD is back on again…. I hope O.o…..