(this is NOT plajarism) The Last Dragon..... dun dun dun (Eldar + Star onexone)

Zorina bowed her head sorrowfully. "Acually, that is why I have come here. I've been travelling- looking for more of my kind, or a reason as to why they're dissapearing."
She turned to Selene. "It is true, this is why I came when I sensed your magic...... I thought you may be another...." She looked away yet again.
Aura bit her lip. "So the dragons don't have any more idea what's going on than we do?"
"Sadly, no," Zorina replied, raising her head again in forced dignity.

She swung her head to look at the questioning girl. "That is all what I am trying to figure out," she answered drily.
Aura couldn't say she wasn't a little dissapointed. She had hoped that perhaps the dragons knew something about it..... but it seemed that they were as in the dark as the humans. "So you haven't found anything out yet?"
"Well......" Zorina hesitated. She was aware that these were complete strangers. And humans, at that. Or so they said...... (*coughs on Selene*)
Either way she didn't need to be telling people that she didn't have the first thing to do with about the dragons. Most likely they'd just go back to their village and turn it into rumors, which to most of the people, will be just as much dismissed as the others. What good would it do?

Aura looked a little caught off guard by the demand the girl had made. "Oh..." she said distantly, as if having to think of her own name.
Now, aside from her confusion, she was in a moderately good mood today, so she wasn't about to snap at the girl, but she still wasn't the one to apologize about manners or anything. "My name is Aura Glen, if that tells you anything, but I doubt it does. I'm.... er, somewhat of an explorer."
Zorina laid down in exhuasted confusion, her head swimming with newly aroused frusturation. She was barely listening to Selene as she began to talk again.
"People need something to blame inexplicable disasters on, no?" Zorina challanged dismissively.
The truth was, a companion of hers..... had been acting pretty aggressively before they disappeared themselves. That was the only time she had witnessed another dragon anytime near when they disappeared, and quite frankly, those rumors had been going on long before this had been happening.
She wasn't quite ready to call that a clue.

((.... we need something to happen soon. Any ideas? ))

(( Um.... yeah, I think you should bring another dragon in. Perhaps he could be being chased by my boy. Great way to introduce him. ))

"Mmmhhmmmm....." was all Aura had to say.
Zorina and Aura both looked toward the sky as Selene pointed at.... whatever it was.
Aura squinted and sheilded her eyes with her hand. She couldn't see a thing......
Zorina studied it long and hard. "I can't make it out....." But there was something familiar about it. She sensed magic. Wild magic, but magic all the same.
Never taking her eyes off the thing, she said to the two girls, "Get on my back. Quickly. I wan't to go see what that is...."
But she wasn't going to leave them there. Something wasn't right.....

(( Hahaha. Acually, I was thinking slayer. I've already got a male slayer in another rp and I could steal him.....
And saying that, his motovation should be obvious.... ))

Zorina chuckled. "Just do your best to stay balanced as I take off, and I'll do the rest."
Aura didn't give the offer a second thought. She was never the one for 'can't's or 'never done's.
So she merely nodded and climbed onto Zorina's back obediently. She turned back to Selene, raising an eyebrow. "Don't you want to see what that thing is?"

(( Will introduce my little slayer dude next post. Kind of busy. :/ ))

(( Hahahaha. So true. ))

Aura just shook her head impatiently. "Alright...." she said, turning to face the front.
Zorina waited until Selene was sitting stably on her back. Well, at least as stably as she was going to get. Once she was on, Zorina's limbs tensed. "Alright," she growled, "Hold on!"
With that, she sprang into the air, her wings outstretched.
It was honestly a very bad place to take off from when you had inexperienced riders on her back. Being in a sparse wood, she had to menuever to dodge branches and trunks, and finally, canopies. Which required a lot of movement that was almost definately uncomfortable for them.
Once they had cleared the trees, she turned to her to the side, making sure she still had both her riders with her perifial vision. "You two alright?"
Aura had held on well, but was quite shaken from the ride. "I'm fine," she offered hoarsely.

Alec, a lean boy with auburn hair, green eyes, and protective breastplate and arm bracers over his simple attire, appeared behind Abraxas on the ground, panting lightly. He was fit, no doubt, but he had just chased that horse-dragon quite a ways. Despite the fact that is was noticably slower and clumsier than he had first expected, he was caught by a mild fatigue. Not so much though, that he didn't unleash a malicious grin when he had found he had cornered the beast. He drew his sword in an instant, getting into a fighting position. He didn't want to kill the dragon. Not this time. He wanted to capture it.
Dragons were getting rarer and rarer. If he got the chance to sell this little one to some pompous royal, he was sure to make a mint off it.
Did he care that he might very well be selling off one of the last freeroaming dragons? Mmm.... not so much.
"C'mon you beast," he taunted, "You're not getting away. Come down and fight me."

(( XXXDDD Sure, it's short, Eldar. ))

Zorina, mildly releived, chuckled. "Alright. I guess that would be a yes."
Noting mentally how easily she adapted to flying. That was certainly a strength on her part.
And seeing as they could obviously hold on, she sped up, flying full speed toward where whatever it was had dissapeared.

Alec's eyes narrowed in frusturation. "Fine," he growled. He was about to come onto the rather stubborn dragon-horse, until he noticed something in the distance coming toward them.

Ugh.... please. Not company....

Instinctively, his eyes flashed toward the oncoming figure, letting his guard down for just seconds. But seconds should be enough to give Abraxas an advantage.

Zorina neared the scene, and horror struck her eyes. She immediately recognized the boy as a slayer. She knew that if he succeeded in his task, that would be very /very/ bad under the circumstances. That was enough to overlap the elation of seeing another dragon, and to make her completely unaware of the strange thing clinging to her back. She haulted mid-flight, hovering in the air and watching the battle unfold. Something made her uneasy about the whole situation. Her senses were going wild. What was wrong with this dragon?

Aura noticed that Zorina, strangely enough, refused to move forward. Leaning forward, she asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's... it's that dragon. Something just isn't right. It's making me nervous," she replied quietly.

Alec didn't have time to react as Abraxas rammed into him. His eyes flickered back to her as his perifial vision caught her moving, and next thing he knew, he was on the ground. Being preoccupied with trying to free his sword of the jumbled mess, he didn't even see what had struck her. But she was on the ground- alive- but barely concious. He got to his feet, grinning down at the fallen prey. He couldn't imagine how his luck could be any better as he approached her, slowly. He was a bit shaken from being knocked to the ground.

Zorina watched, horrified, as the creature fell to the ground. She felt like she was going to be sick watching the slayer kill her, and she was so dazed she couldn't even get herself to move. But the moment Selene brought her out of her trance with her kicking and screaming, (xD) she instinctively shot forward like a dart, not even listening to what Selene was actually saying.

Aura just struggled to hold on, despite the jolt as Zorina shot toward the ground.

In one sweeping motion, Zorina skidded onto the ground between Alec and the unconcious Abraxas, lifting a cloud of dirt in the process. She drew her lips back in a threatening snarl.
"Back. Away. Now." she ordered bluntly.

Alec, so surprised by the sudden appearance of the larger dragon, acidentally dropped his sword at his feet. He cursed himself over and over in his head for the numbskulled action, but there was little he could do now. Zorina was close enough to him that one false move would most likely result in him dieing.

(( [sarcasm]Ah.... I feel the connection already.[/sarcasm] xD ))

Alec backed away, his eyes flitting from the girl to the dragon. When they finally stopped, they were on the girl, whom he gave a harsh glare in return to her comment.
But then he seemed to relax, or force himself to relax, and shrugged. "Hey, somebody has to do it," he replied defensively.
What? What was he even doing? He needed to get out of here... or get his sword back.... or something other sit and make conversation with this girl.

Aura, glaring at the boy the whole time, slid off of Zorina as well and came beside Selene, ready to back her up if the need came. But the boy didn't seem to be interested in fighting. Not at the moment, at least. His attention appeared to be turned elsewhere.

Zorina, keeping a watch on the slayer out of the corner of her eye, turned to the smaller dragon a nudged her, trying to tell whether she was dead or just unconcious. Seeing as she was still breathing, she came to the conclusion that she was not yet deceased.

(( Lol. This should be fun.
How are we going to make Alec go with them?
Perhaps the spell could take could take Abraxas over and she go crazy and attack everyone and.... yeah.... ))

Alec wrinkled his nose. "I wasn't trying to kill her," he explained drily, also moving around Zorina to see the state of his prey. But Zorina saw him out of the corner of her eye. Turning her head quickly in a sepentine movement, she lashed out, snapping her jaw loudly a hair's breadth from his chest.
"Stay away from her," she growled.
"Alright, alright...." Alec relented, backing away with his arms raised. Looking over without turning his head, he could barely see the gleam of his sword. If he could just get to it..... But it would still be a small match compared to the large dragon.
Aura shrugged, ignoring the boy. She walked over and knelt beside Abraxas. Stooping down, she put a hand in her horse-like mane. If it was to comfort her, or to figure something out was unclear. "Well, she's definately alive. I couldn't see what happened very well, but she doesn't have any wounds.... and the boy just said he wasn't trying to kill her. I'd say whatever's wrong with her, she'll live....." she noted that her breathing got heavier. She was about to say that she was coming to, but another question ligured in her mind still. The other question won.
"But what is that thing on her back?

(( Lol.
'He is not that bad looking,'~ xDDDDD ROFLMAO!
'though his attitude stinks.'~ Hypocrit. ))

Zorina looked sadly at the dragon. "I have only seen this once before...." she said quietly, remembering her companion. This must prove that that had something to do with them disappearing.... That also meant that what was most likely going to happen next wouldn't be pleasant....
Now worried, she kept a close eye on the dragon.
Alec didn't see Selene the first time she looked at him. But as he inched slowly toward his weapon, he heard one of them say 'the boy'. Only able to assume that was him, he looked up to see Selene giving him a sharp looking, and he glared right back at her. "HEY! I didn't do anything. I just said I wasn't trying to kill her. She attatcked me!"

"She's coming to," Aura announced, backing away as the dragon began to kick.
Then she got up and started backing away, apparently puzzled as to where all these people came from. "Don't worry," Aura said softly, "we're not going to hurt you."

Alec just rolled his eyes, diverting his concentration to his sword competely.
Zorina forgot about the boy, looking at the other dragon with great concern and sympathy. Unlike Abraxas, who had looked hopeful, if not only for a minute, Zorina's epression was heavy and expecting the whole time.
Aura let out a surprised yelp, as she was pounced on, and knocked down. She struggled to get to her dagger, but by the time she had managed to wriggle her arm the the strap around her waist, the dragon had jumped off her and gone after the boy. She jumped to her feet, hands still on the sheath. But she didn't make a move to do anything.
Alec, seeing the obvious danger, lunged for his sword, grabbing onto the hilt and trying to reorient himself as quickly as possible as the horse dragon charged him. But there was no guarantee he would've been alive if he had gotten the chance. Thankfully, Zorina took off the ground, swooping down at the last minute and knocking Abraxas to the side with her hind legs. "Come on!" she roared. "You want a fight? Get up here!"