Flyers of the Mysterious Beyond

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #380 on:** June 21, 2011, 12:56:01 AM

"What happened next, Pterano?" Artie asked as she suddenly felt guilty about hitting him and scolding him the way she did.

"Well, the next morning, my cronies and I headed towards Threehorn Peak and there is where we met Petrie and his friends. As happy as I was to see them safe and unharmed, I marched straight to the stone and did exactly what my Uncle Peter taught me to do: spoke to the stone. And you know what happened next, Chomper?"

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #381 on:** June 21, 2011, 01:04:43 AM

Fury honestly didn't want to let go of Harper, something about her reminded him of everything he'd lost. But he did eventually let her go, but shortly after he did he growled again and began to once again pull the feathers out of his body and makes new shallow wounds with his claws. He wasn't sure what the others would think when they saw him cut and missing so many feathers, but in his anger he really didn't care, he just wanted to cause something pain and in the past his own body was the only thing he knew he could attack while in his angered state.

Allicloud · **Reply #382 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:53:43 AM

Redback and Zin watched as Chomper got aquainted with the other flyers. It was nice to see him making so many friends so quickly, but it still made them feel a little left out.

Redback looked to the sky and saw the bright circle beginning to sink. Stretching his limbs, he yawned loudly and headed towards the foot of the mountain. As he huddled down, he flinched as somthing bounced off his nose, followed by another. He looked up and watched as skywater began to rain down upon him.

"Great... Ontop of everything else, it's raining."

He closed his eyes, trying to get to sleep, and after a few moments, suddenly he felt the rain stop. Opening his eyes, he saw Zin lying beside him, one hand shielding him from the rain. Zin had cleverly used large palm leaves that had blown over from the grove, placing them inbetween his massive claws, to form a shelter of sorts.

"Here, we'll take care of that. You try to get some shuteye."

Redback smiled and snuggled down in his makeshift tent. He opened his eyes again as he saw a tiny lizard skitter over his arm. He grabbed it as it entered his hand, and popped it into his mouth. Just a quick bednight snack.

Zin sighed as he watched Redback begin to drop off. Gazing up to the cave, he heard the chatter of the flyers, no doubt telling great stories and having a fine time. But he looked even higher, up to the top of the ridge, and there, still as ever, was Tero.

The dark flyer looked down on the cave of flyers from his perch, no doubt keeping eachother warm, as a gentle, if cold, downpour of skywater began. He began to shiver, and drew his wings around him again. Stooping his head, he covered it with a wing, to keep the rain out. He wanted to go down, but he couldn't. First of all, where would he go? He hated hanging about in large groups, always having been a lone flyer. He only hung round with Redback and Zin because they provided food. And second, his twisted leg was acting up again. This always happened when it started to rain. Just a bit of moisture in the air, and his leg would be out of action for the night.

Huddling down against the rocks, he sat and waited.

bushwacked · **Reply #383 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:15:23 AM

Picking himself up, Luke looked warily at Roger, and decided he seemed friendly, though a little unusual. "I'm Luke" he said, returning the salute uncertainly. "At least you didn't land on Fury - you'd probably be missing a few limbs by now." Smirking at Roger, he asked; "Do you make a habit of, ah... landing like that?"

Redtooth101 · **Reply #384 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:50:31 AM

Roger chuckled embarrassingly "An unintentional habit, flying and all is great bit harder with one eye. But I got used to it...sorta" he said before looking at Fury. "Fury huh? Name fits. Who put buzzers in his beak?" he said to Luke, pointing at Fury.

vonboy · **Reply #385 on:** June 21, 2011, 08:39:27 AM

"It gave you some kind of power? Or it hurt you? Ooh, it blew up!"

Chomper was just being silly, playing along with Pterano.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #386 on:** June 21, 2011, 11:01:19 AM

Petrie had to smile at Chomer's guess, especially the last one. After all the horrible stuff being brought back up, it helped to ease the tensions a bit.

Harper just frowned again as Fury seemed to turn on himself again. Why did he feel he had to do that anyway? She gently took one of his wrists, frowning concern. She tried to think of something to say and as she noticed the sky water coming down she found one thing.

"Getting kind of late and starting to rain, maybe we should head in?" she turned to Luke and Roger as well.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #387 on:** June 21, 2011, 01:37:51 PM

Pterano chuckled at the young sharptooth. "Actually it did young one. Luckily we weren't there to see it. My cronies were." He chuckled at the thought, he would have told Chomper what happened to Rinkus and Sierra, but with them in the cave, he didn't even bother knowing it could hurt them too much. He turned to his nephew and smiled. "Petrie, would you mind telling the rest of the story?" He figured it would've been less painful for Petrie, now that he was at the time he redeemed himself.

Pterano · **Reply #388 on:** June 21, 2011, 01:58:38 PM

"Yes, I noticed him as well." Rinkus stated with a nod. "It seems our little cabal is growing then, isn't it?" he asked, admring the tasty looking fish with his eyes. "I might just have to excuse myeslf to get some of that." he commented, watching as Jared gulped them down.

Sierra, who had been at the mouth of the cave for a bit (largely ignored), rolled his eyes at Pterano's story. "Is that all you ever do, Pterano?" he asked. "Brag about yourself?" He quieted down after that though, as Pterano had asked Petrie to finish the story.

The brown flyer ambled over to Devon, not wanting to get too close just yet. He was cautious, as if he was afraid of closing the distance. "So uh... you have dinner yet?" he asked, keeping his voice low so that the conversation would stay between the blue flyer and himself.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #389 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:03:49 PM

"No, not yet." Pterano turned over to Rinkus. "Hey Mr. Rinkus? Could you go grab us some breakfast, please? We'd really appreciate it." He then looked at Sierra. "So welcome back, Mr. Sierra. We missed you!" Not really...but he did seem a litte depressed earlier. "Where have you been?"

Pterano · **Reply #390 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:09:38 PM

"Eheheheheh." Rinkus half chuckled, and gave Pterano a sarcastic look. "Well, why don't we all go out if you're hungry? Jared just did that." he pointed at the fish Jared was eating. "I don't have enough room in my beak to carry all that."

Sierra only looked up at Pterano, blinking. "Around. Flying. I was asking Devon here if he'd had dinner yet..." he pointed at the blue flyer before lowering his eyes again to his son. "Just... wanted to know if he wanted to maybe get something to eat." his words were slow, and hesitant, as he sounded uncertain of himself, but tried to speak clearly all the same.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #391 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:21:44 PM

Pterano stared at Sierra wierd. What the heck has gotten into him? But Devon just smiled at him and nodded. "I would love to go with you, Dad." Devon replied.

Pterano's eyes went wide as he gave them both a confused look. What has gotten into Devon? Since when do they get along? Who am I talking to? He got up on his feet, for he had a fishy feeling about this...and not the kind of fishy feeling when you eat fish. I mean the kind of fishy feeling that something was not right. "Alright, but I'm going with you two."

"Naw, it's okay, Dad." Devon placed a hand on his adopted father's shoulder. "You can stay and finish the story if you want. And besides, Petrie and Chomper need someone to watch over them, right?"

"Oh! Right," Pterano turned to Artie. "Could you be so kind watch over my nephew and his friend for me?"

Artie wanted to refuse, for she was never good at watching kids for long. But she could tell by Pterano's face this was an emergency so she nodded.

"Oh, thank you, Artie. You're the best." Pterano told her, spreading his wings. "I'm kind of hungry, now that Mr. Sierra mentions it. I'll bring you some food, I promise."

Pterano · **Reply #392 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:34:30 PM

Sierra froze, and felt like he was going to choke. Devon said YES? He almost fainted. He not only said YES, but he said he'd LOVE to? His knees were quavering, though he tried not to show that as his woozy feeling refused to leave him.

But even MORE than that, Devon had called him "dad", and also offered to go alone with him. Now he was dizzy, and wobbled a little. Pterano of course managed to talk his way into going along, and Sierra had to snap himself out of his little daze before he could continue with his thoughts.

"Uh... well Pterano... I was wondering if maybe it could just be... me and him?" he asked, shaking his head to try and clear it. "I mean... I know you'd want to go, and you have every right to... but I'm just... asking that maybe this one time..." he fiddled with this claws, rubbing them together in a distracted fashion.

vonboy · **Reply #393 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:41:53 PM

Chomper had gotten up for a moment at all the talk of breakfast. He overheard fish. He pointed this at anyone who would listen

"So, you flyers having fish for dinner? Could someone bring me back some too please? I'm really hungry!"

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #394 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:52:21 PM

Pterano thought this long and hard. Sierra was sure acting strange...better yet, he was acting...dare he say it...POLITE???? As much as Pterano wanted to trust Sierra, he couldn't help but think this could all be a trick to beat up Devon again.

"Dad, it's okay." Devon told him, wrapping his arms around Pterano's neck to comfort him. "Nothing's going to happen to me, I promise."

Pterano hugged his adopted son back, never wanting to let go of him, for the second he does, it could be, "Bye bye, Devon" for good. He tightened his arms around the boy, pulling him close, still too worried to say anything.

As much as Devon wanted this to hurry up so he can go with his biological dad, he rubbed Pterano's crest. "I'll be fine, Dad...I promise." He kissed him on the cheek.

Pterano took a deep breath. If this was what Devon wanted, then Pterano would be more than happy to respect his wishes and support him. He finally let go of him, whispering the words, "Be careful."

"I will," Devon gave him another kiss to the cheek before spreading his wings.

"You be good to him, Sierra." Pterano told the brown flyer suspiciously.

Pterano · **Reply #395 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:04:54 PM

"As careful as I can be." Sierra said, about to roll his eyes, but stopping himself from doing so. "I ain't out to harm him... I just... thought about what he said... and how he wanted to give me another chance... if I don't at least try... for my son's sake... then what sort of flyer am I anyway?" he asked.

He wasn't about to let on at just how excited he felt over this, and kept it well contained for the moment. Spreading his wings out, he looked down at Chomper. "Sure... after we eat, we'll bring ya something back. I'm sure between the two of us it won't be too hard." he commented. "You uh... ready then... Devon?" he asked, looking over at him expectantly.

Allicloud · **Reply #396 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:05:30 PM

Tero watched as the group of flyers took off from the ledge below. Wingbrains. Don't they know how dangerous it is to fly during skywater?! Especially at night.

He simply shrugged as he got up, shook the drops of water from his wings, and slowly clambered down to the ledge. There, he took his usual seat on the edge of the cliff, wrapped his wings around himself and sat in silence.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #397 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:08:31 PM

"Oh yeah! Bring it on!" Devon told him, taking off ahead of his father. (Let the father son bonding begin!

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This left Pterano deep in his thoughts as he still tried to figure this out. Wait a minute! Devon gave him a second chance?

Pterano · **Reply #398 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:12:43 PM

"Hmph." Sierra gave out a puff of air from his nostrils, but in more of a game fashion than contempt. "Alright... let's do this!" and he too launched himself off of the cave's edge. It was raining, but he didn't mind it. It actually felt sort of good. "I bet you know all sorts of tricks from flying with Pterano, huh? Well why don't you show me some of your stuff?" he asked, giving his son a smug but confident look.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #399 on:** June 21, 2011, 03:16:35 PM

"ALRIGHTY DAD!!!" With that the young flyer flipped backwards and took a dive for the water, head first and body straight, free falling for a little bit until he was ten feet from the water. He shot himself into the air and caught up with his father. "Take that!"