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Hyrra Lardsen: A Narrative Fiction

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Hyrra woke up to Calder looming over her, poking her forehead, “What?” Why is he in my room? Then she looked around, oh, I must have fallen asleep in the stables… gross. Stormbreaker abruptly woke up with her stirring and stared at Calder distrustfully. Three days of ‘quality time’ and he’s not getting better.
“Sleeping in the stables now? What’s next eating raw fish?” Calder joked.
“Haha,” She laughed dryly “… what time is it?” She yawned, stretching her arms overhead.
“Almost noon.”
She gaped at him, “Ah! I missed class!” Korinta’s going to be angry.
Calder chuckled, “You’ll be fine it was an obstacle course from what I heard, which we all know you two are good enough at.”
“Still… Korinta’s going to chew me out.” She sighed, leaning back …show more content…

She saw Korinta’s massive dragon, along with Dr. Lardsen and his goggle-wearing Whispering Death, looming over the caldera, “What’s happening?”
“Scouts reported three scouting ships flying the Dragon Slayers’ crest. Korinta and Dr. Lardsen are leading a team out to, hopefully, apprehend them.” Ase informed her as they stepped into the stables. Hyrra saw Calder, Brey, Bjorn, Axel, and Thrain among the others that had been collected for the job, Storm immediately came to her side and she mounted up, “We’re taking as many dragons as possible… thanks to you and Thrain we know just how dangerous these Dragon Slayers can be.” Hyrra felt Stormbreaker shift at the words, I don’t know if he’s ready for this… but we have to do it!
They took off to catch up to Korinta and Dr. Lardsen. And very quickly Storm wasn’t himself. Instead of flying at the front, he was flying very slowly, even Bjorn’s Snafflefang was flying faster than them. They caught up to the teachers and began to fly over the western training grounds, Hyrra was too worried about the fight to come to realize that Storm began to slow even more. Until he suddenly banked …show more content…

His eyes seemed panicked and his wings were tucked close to his body, very reminiscent of the dragon she had met in the cage. Hyrra ignored him and went to move around him, and he lit up. She jumped back, “Woah!” He’s using his lightning against me?! “What is wrong with you?! Stop that!” The lightning along his spine fizzled out, maybe it was just an accident? This time, instead of walking around him, she walked at him, hoping he would move. He didn’t. He stood fast in one spot, snarling. She snorted back at him and went to push his nose out of the way with her right hand. She saw the flash of blue too

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