Prologue to the final arc of Stardust’s time in the Wings Of Fire universe

(Blueberry is a 5 yr old female rainwing& seawing hybrid with bright light blue scales and Little splashes of green dots around her body. Her eyes are yellow. Also, you gotta help me out, I've only finished the 6th book)

Blueberry- *hiding in the trees* I wonder what is going on...who is that dragon?

Heya… I was wondering if you wanted to do a continuation of this or wait for me to start the rp it’s leading up to.

*some of the rainwings who were still awake look down and spotted the two of you. The dragon you were chasing kept running, jumping over any objects that might be in the way. She occasionally looked up to see if there was a break in the tree line she could fly out from, but was unsuccessful. She muttered something in human as she was running.*

Blueberry- *appears in front of her, her scales going back to the usual blue. She grabs the dragons arm* Who are you?

*she grunts before yelling something in human or something close to it. After realizing she spoke in the wrong language out of panic, some of her scales begin to turn lime green, just like a rainwing would if they were afraid. However, it was barely noticeable.*

???: *now speaking in dragon* let me go! *trying to pull her arm away*

Blueberry- of tell me who you are!!! And then I might let you go

*she looked back, more rainwings were coming*

???: … *her entire time shifted from panicked and terrified to serious* let me go, last chance. *she pulled on her arm a bit tighter, she seemed to be trying to test how strong your grip was*

(Just read the text in parentheses in your first comment, don’t worry, information from the books later than book 6 will not appear in this role play, despite the time being much later)

Blueberry- sorry, I can’t let you go.

*While you were holding her arm, you could see she had this weird wrist cuff on. It didn’t look like any armor you’ve seen before. There wasn’t much time to comment on it anyways. The dragonet turned around to look at the approaching squad and then back to you, she looked afraid.*

???: well I warned you.. sorry about this.

*the dragonet charged right into you. She clearly didn’t want to hurt you, too badly at least, just enough to make you let go. As soon as she was free she continued running*

A- ack-

*You both were well passed the village now.*

???: just a little further… come on..

*the dragon finally tripped, whatever she was carrying went flying out in front of her, it landed in a pond in front of her. You realize you were at the tunnel entrance that used to lead to the Nightwing fortress island. She crawled over to the pond as fast as she could to pull whatever she was carrying out to use it as a shield, she hadn’t gotten up yet*

Blueberry- alright..it’s now or never. *gets out a dart and shoots it at her*

*Stardust doesn’t talk. She takes a look at the window again. Before turning back to you both. She waits, unsure of whether to speak again or stay quiet. She begins reading the strange writing on the piece of metal to occupy herself. She must have gotten cold feet because suddenly she turned invisible and dived through the open window with both the starfighter and the piece of metal Cascade collected. She knocked anything close to it out of the way.*

Cascade: huh.? Hey come back!

*no answer*

Cascade: … I’m going to have to go find her. *she sighs* I’ll be back. I have a pretty good idea of where she’s going. *she leaves the hut*

[End]

Epilogue: *somewhere across space and time* (note these characters are not dragons.)

Aanvi: all preparations are nearly complete. Are you ready?

Sky; *nodding*

Aanvi: are you sure you want to do this?

Sky: someone needs to save her.

Aanvi: I’ll run the final tests then on the starfighter. Hopefully the corrupted sentinels will be too busy with the free ones.

*the two walked into a large hanger bay where the new starfighter was being modified. It was currently suspended above the landing pad by several cables. Another prototype fighter was also in development on the factory in the near by space station, Aanvi’s own design.*

Sky: looks good.

Aanvi: yeah, I’m surprised how quickly it’s come along.

Sky: … hang in there Stardust, we’re coming…

———

*Somewhere in another world*

“Do you have her?”

“No, we’re having some difficulties. She’s been taught how to fight by someone. 9 of the 12 Titan models have already been destroyed. Most of them in the crash, and three to Stardust and her friends.”

“Ugh… the boss really needs her, we can’t afford to let her slip again. I’m gonna hear another earful of how much we need her power again.”

“We know where she is. She’s currently on a world inhabited by other dragons that have organized themselves into countries, or ‘tribes’ if this file is correct.”

“Where is Pyrrhia?”

“In another universe entirely, just like the first one Stardust ended up in initially. It will be extremely difficult to get to her if we piss those tribes off. We need to do it discreetly without the other tribes knowing Stardust exists and how powerful is. Luckily she seems to be avoiding them, probably for the same reason.”

“I hope her capture really does lead to the creation of a perfect world.”

*you successfully pull it out, you can see the weird writing on it that clearly isn’t dragon. Somehow Stardust was able to read it.. why and how did she understand it? It’s also the only part of the metal dragon that hasn’t been completely destroyed*

Cascade: wait, we need a doctor! She’s not looking too well. *for some reason she isn’t using Stardust’s name*

*it was harder to see, but she was already bleeding through the leaves, or that could just be from the oil that spilled on to her from inside the metal dragon.*

Cascade: *now looking at Deathbringer* I forgot to mention this dragonet is very afraid of other dragons and may run if she becomes too afraid. You might want to tell Glory that.

D.b- I got it. *flies after glory*

Blue- alright..we need healers. I’ll go fetch some?

Cascade; *finally using Stardust name again* at this point I just need help getting Stardust to the village. We’ll just end up taking her to the healers hut anyways.

Blue- Alright.

*you both walk back to the village, Cascade stares up at the platforms realizing she’s going to need help carrying Stardust and the Starfighter*

Cascade: maybe now you should get the healers.. I don’t know how I’m going to get her up there with just the two of us. I don’t want to risk leaving her here either. I don’t want a ton of dragons surrounding her when she wakes up. She’ll probably be scared off.

Blue- On it! *she flies away. A few moments later, she comes back with two healers* there

Cascade: thank you guys so much! *her scales turned a mixture of pink and gold*

*Cascade sets Stardust down so everyone can help lift her. Once everyone can hold her, you all lift her up and fly her directly to the healer’s hut and set her down on the ground to examine her. Some of the cuts looked worse than you thought.*

Cascade: … does anyone know how to treat wounds that came from an explosion?

*both of the healers look at each other and shrugs*

healer #1- nope, ever had that happen before. *starts petting a nearby sloth*

healer#2- yeah *yawns* ill be taking a nap if you need me.

Blue- *sighs*

Cascade: *she begins to turn bright red, she tries to hide it as best she can* so you’re just going to do nothing?

*Cascade is thinking: “I knew this would happen, they don’t know how to treat any serious injuries. Why did I expect them to at least try to treat this? And I can’t just leave Stardust here alone with them while I go find a doctor.”*

Healer 1- *plucks a banana from a nearby tree and starts eating it* never had this problem before. Sorry.

Cascade: I know that, but I figured you would at least try. *she face palms* *to Herself* Calm down Cascade… *back to talking to everyone else, her scales begin to change back* Sorry, I know it’s scary, I thought I wouldn’t have time to get her anywhere else. Do you maybe have some bandages so we can stop the bleeding?

Healer 1- *nods, and grabs some leaves and starts bandaging*

*Cascade helps the healer apply the bandages.*

Cascade: … we’ll have to wait until she wakes up to ask questions… I’ll stay with her, or at least nearby if I can’t stay in the hut incase something happens. I would imagine Glory and Deathbringer want answers.

*the starship was at a good enough angle now. Cascade could pull it out from Stardust’s talons now. Cascade removed the starship from her talons.*

Cascade: I better hang on to this incase something happens and she starts fighting when she wakes up… thanks for helping me tonight Blueberry.

Blue- hey, no problem *yawns* I’ll be sleeping now. Wake me up if anything happens?

Cascade: I’ll try. *nervous laugh*

*Cascade only managed to stay up for another hour before falling asleep in the Healer’s hut clutching the starship. Most dragons were interested in it because they’ve never seen something like it before, so sometimes a few visited the healers hut just to see what the meteorite was.*

Blue- *flies in next morning* is she okay?

*Cascade is sleeping. She looks like she tried to stay up as long as she could, it’s only been a few hours. However, Stardust is still asleep as well, which is lucky but she should have woken up earlier, there’s another healer now that one of the other ones was taking a nap in a hammock*

Healer A: is who okay? Oh wait, do you mean those two? Cascade fell asleep about 30 minutes after I came in. She couldn’t stay awake any longer. The dragonet I had to use another sleeping dart on, she woke up and tried to leave even though she was badly hurt. Did someone want to talk to her? I’ve got a feeling she’s going to try to leave as soon as she can.

Blue- *sighs* yeah, we do. But if she wakes up, I think it’s best for someone to tell cascade.

Healer A: *nodding* I see. Well if somethings happens, you’ll be the first to know. If Glory isn’t busy, I guess it would probably be good to let her know.

Blue- right! Right. *flies away to see glory*

Cascade: I wouldn’t try it, but if you see a way—

*the metallic dragon charged at the dragonet, who dived out of the way. At the same time she grabbed the strange meteorite from the crash site, she held it like a shield*

Cascade: well.. never mind. QUICK MOVE! *pushing you away from the impending fight*

???: *neither you or Cascade could hear what the dragonet said* what is the Titan Project?

Metallic dragon: *turning around and charging again* Titan-D and Titan-H are produced primarily for combat use. Titan ID: 006. Further information requires authorization from level 2 personnel.

*the dragonet attempted to dodge again but was struck on their side by the metal dragon’s tail. They were sent flying into a tree. The dragonet got up, wincing a little from the pain. She to a quick glance at both you and Cascade before the metallic dragon turned around again. Light sword in one talon and the strange metal meteorite in the other, she prepared for the third assault. The metallic ran towards her one more time, this time the dragonet met it with a block somehow, her wings were blocking the arms of the metal dragon from coming down, the metal dragon’s light sword was sticking high up in the air. She ended up pushing the metal dragon back, despite her size. She managed to slice the under belly of the opposing machine with her light sword as she pushed it back, but it was not enough to kill it. They once again stood facing each other.*

Metallic Dragon: TARGET ENGAGED.

*both dragons ran toward each other, meeting in front of where the cave to the Nightwing island would be and begun the real fight. Their swords struck each other like lightning bolts striking the ground, and both dragons were moving pretty fast. Their swords spun around, always ready to meet the next blow. The dueling dragons were pushing each other back and forth across the clearing*

Cascade: *looking up at the trees* we’ll be safer up there!

Blueberry- *sighs* alright. *flys up to the tree* Should I try and see if I can hit it with poison?

Cascade: you need to wait for them to be locked up or slowly circling each other again. And aim for the eyes, anywhere else will no affect. The only reason I know this much is Stardust and I have run into this thing once before…

*Stardust must have been the name of the dragonet. She ducked under the machine dragon and sliced a portion of its underbelly open with what seemed like unnatural speed. The fight was still far from over as the metallic dragon’s claw twisted at a weird angle to strike the dragonet. They were sent flying out towards the pond again with a few new cuts on her side. She landed on her back two legs, somehow the strange meteorite didn’t receive much damage.*

Stardust: … *speaking in what appeared to be the scavenger language* You mind telling me what Galactic Laboratories is?

Metallic dragon: *also in scavenger* you will know soon enough, after I bring you to my creator.

*the two charged at each other to continue their deadly dance. Their swords clashed in an explosion of light and they remained locked in that position for several seconds, which Cascade prepared to user her venom in an attempt to blind the machine. However, before either of you could get a clear shot, the dueling dragons began to move again at a faster pace. Their swords clashed at a rapid rate, every half a second there would be a strike immediately met with a block by the opposing dragon. Finally the dragonet was tripped and pinned. She yelped in pain, on the way down she had been cut with the metallic dragons light sword, it left not only a cut, but burns on her leg as well. She blocked the strike when the sword came down again*

Metallic dragon: *speaking in dragon again* do you seriously believe you still have a chance?

*there was no reply, the dragonet seemed to be breathing heavily*

Metallic Dragon: the odds of you winning this fight are 4336 to 1.

Stardust: *the dragonet laughed weakly* I like those odds.

*the Metallic Dragon surprisingly swung around to strike Stardust with his tail, and she was sent flying for a third time. She landed on her back and rolled into a sitting position. She was trying to catch her breath while the metallic dragon approached. She slowly got back up, ready to fight again*

Blue- *eyeing the metallic dragon, waiting for a moment to strike*

*Cascade used her venom too early, and it struck the metal dragon in it’s about. It just looked up at the two of you*

Metal dragon: …

*Stardust charged and struck the metal dragon where their stomach would be, they weren’t pushed back or anything, but the result cuts on its underbelly allowed the steel plate to fall off, exposing a ton of wiring. You could see it more clearly when Stardust was kicked back again. You could see sparks flying out from some broken strings. The metal dragon only roared in fury, it showed no sign of stopping. The two clashed again and held up for a moment, the metal dragon seemed to be charging something in it’s mouth, you’re only indication of that was some light escaped from the gap in it’s plates. Stardust’s arm with the strange “meteorite” began to have bolts of lightning run down it towards the meteorite. They weren’t noticeable initially*

Blue- Cascade, do you think if I hit the part with the wires exposed with my venom, it will melt?

Cascade: don’t know, I’ve never seen the inside. You could try but I’m not sure it will work.

*the metal dragon opened it’s mouth to reveal a glowing red bubble, it imploded and fired a beam of light directly at Stardust, she barely got out of the way. The short ranged beam hit a large tree, leaving a large hole cut on half the trunk, all of the sides looked like they were burnt. Stardust’s arm began to glow with lighting bolts running down her arm towards the meteorite. The remaining glass flickered red, like the dragon’s eyes and light beam. One small section of each wing rose up slightly, revealing a tiny barrel. They began to fire smaller bolts of light at the metal dragon in rapid succession, the metal dragon began deflecting them with it’s light sword, but it couldn’t move due to the rate at which the bolts of light were fired from the meteorite, this was your chance to hit it with your venom*

Cascade: hit the eyes. Hopefully we’ll blind it long enough so that Stardust be able to take it down. *she prepared to use her venom*

Blue- on it. *she starts flying from branch to branch, looking for the perfect opportunity

*Stardust is advancing forward slowly. Some shots get through the metal dragon’s defense, but still get deflected anyway. Occasionally one of the shots that were deflected would sail over your horns and wings, they usually hit the surrounding trees and rocks. Eventually you found a perfect branch with both a clear shot to the eyes and the black strings of the metallic dragon*

Blue- *shoots the venom, hoping that itll hit its target

(Sorry for the late replies)

*the healer checked the leaf banadages again, and changed any that had too much blood soaked into them*

Blue- *comes back a moment later with glory* her majesty wanted to see her herself.

Glory- don’t call me that, blueberry. But yes, how is she doing?

Healer A: I’ll check. She looked like she was making a good recovery last time I looked at her.

*he was right. Most of the cuts that weren’t bad were nearly gone, the worst lacerations were still there but were no longer as deep, save for the one with burn marks on her leg. Both of her back legs appeared to be a normal scale color now. Most of her tail was still white, including the forked end which she tried to keep hidden when running. It’s also easier to see what she was wearing on her wrist, they appeared to be some lengthened wrist cuffs of some sort, but they don’t appeared to be in the style of a particular tribe, nor does it look like it would be forged anywhere on Pyrrhia. What armor plating or would have buttons anyway?*

Healer A: I’ve never seen anything nearly as bad before though. I don’t know if what I’m seeing is exactly normal either.

Glory- *examining the wrist cuffs* this is..interesting. I’ve never seen anything like this.

Healer A: I didn’t want to touch those incase something happened. They look weird. Anyways she seems to—

*Stardust’s ears twitched, she seemed to be waking up now. She held her head with one talon. She didn’t talk at all, but her scales began to change to a pale green. She opened her eyes to find Glory studying her wrist cuffs and immediately jumped back. Her scales were already turning lime green. Stardust looked a little confused and didn’t seem to recognize where she was or any dragons in the room except for Cascade*

Healer A: oh hey, she’s awake now.

*Cascade woke up when Stardust landed next to her*

Cascade: Stardust, are you— … oh your majesty, you’re here. Sorry you caught us asleep. *getting up holding the starship*

Stardust: *in a low voice, only dragons near her could hear her* where are we?

Cascade: *realizing Stardust is going to need some time to readjust and get her bearings* the healers hut.

Stardust: *she looks like she wants to leave and is already looking for a possible escape route, she looked somewhat afraid*

Glory- calm down! I was just examining your wrist cuffs! They seem..interesting.

*Stardust took another step backward without saying anything, if anyone was watching from outside, she would be partially hidden by Cascade when looking in from the entrance’s side*

Cascade: … give her a few minutes, she’s a little afraid of other dragons. Blueberry, do you still have the sheet of metal I told you to grab?

Blue- uhm….i think I left it somewhere. I’ll be back. *flies away*

Glory- *deep in thought*

*Stardust looks a little calmer now, at least her scales (except for the wines on her tail) were changing colors again , but they weren’t based on her emotion

Cascade: *facing Stardust now, seeing that she’s calmer now. She speaks in a soft, comforting voice* Do you think you can tell us more about this?

Stardust: *low voice so only Cascade could hear. She was nervous.* again?

Cascade: Queen Glory doesn’t know what this is yet, and I don’t know exactly how dangerous this is by itself.

Stardust: ..

Cascade: I know you’re nervous, just try to stay calm.

*Stardust nodded and took a step forward again*

Glory- well?

(I’m so sorry I’m late to starting the role play, I’ve just had a lot of schoolwork recently and I haven’t had a chance to actually start it)

*the dragon’s ear’s twitched, they stood staring at the mass of metal that’s currently on the ground, and a massive trail the meteorite caused. There was just one small issue, meteorites cause craters, not a short trail like this. Looking closer at the dragon, they definitely seemed to only be a dragonet. They walked towards the object buried in ground and carefully lifted it up. The strange object was actually smooth on its “wings.” The body rose up towards the middle, and there was this strange shattered red glass at the front of the mass of metal. Part of the “wings” appeared to be painted orange. The dragonet was now standing like a scavenger while holding whatever the object was. She looked around before making her way back to the tree line where she was more hidden.*

Blueberry-.. * she camouflages herself, blending in into the the rainforest. She moves closer to the dragonet, and prepares a dart*

*This dragonet shouldn’t be moving very fast through the rainforest with that thing. They’ll only have a limited amount if travel options, unless they ditch whatever it is they’re holding. Hopefully they’ll be an easy target.*

Blueberry-*shoots the dart at the dragonet*

(Sorry I couldn’t respond, this weekend was pretty bad for me.)

*The dragonet caught the dart out of the air with her free talon and inspected it. Almost immediately she began to run, still standing on two legs like a scavenger would. You didn’t see if she kept the dart or not.*

Blueberry- Crap! Um…*she stays in the trees for a second, deciding wether or not she should follow the dragon. She decides to follow the mysterious dragon, and flies out from the trees to f fly up to them*

*she’s still dashing through the forest. She’s more agile than you expect, vaulting over fallen trees and occasionally jumping up to branches. She seems to be looking for a clearing while heading northeast.*

Blueberry- IM SORRY! *pounces onto the dragon*

*you cause her to trip an roll. Whatever she was carrying banged into your chest, leaving you winded for a moment. The other dragonet quickly scrambles to her feet, picks up the object and begins dashing through the rain forest again. She looks up to find you’re passing under a village, she continues running despite the village.*

Blueberry- *continues flying after her, making. After a while, you realize that you can’t see her anymore*

(Oof, I hope you get better)

(Sorry for the late response again, I felt asleep when typing it and had to go to school)

*Stardust took a deep breath and gestured for Cascade to hand her the starship. Stardust stood up on her back legs to hold the Starship, kind of like how a scavenger would stand.*

Stardust: … *her nervousness seemed to be getting the better of her at first, she still looked like she wanted to flee the hut* I’m not sure how much either of you will understand, but I’ll do my best to explain. This is a starfighter, a type of starship that’s extremely small. They were initially made for military combat outside of a planet’s atmosphere. They’re meant to be … piloted *unsure of what she said was correct for some reason* by creatures as small as hu— I mean scavengers. This one however is piloted by… Artificial Intelligence *she seemed unsure if she said that correctly again* and leaves no room for an occupant. There can usually be up to four occupants given the size, though most can be operated by just one person. In its current state of disrepair, there’s no need to be worried about it as long as no one plans to shoot something that can explode at it. The other thing starfighters do is allow people to survive outside of a planet’s atmosphere in space, where there is no breathable air and the pressures are extreme.

*she stopped talking, hoping that would be enough and she explained it simply enough*

Glory- *looking at her* so youre telling me scavengers have that kind of advanced knowledge?

Stardust: *shaking her head, getting more nervous* … not on Pyrrhia.

Cascade: um… wait I thought you said scavengers could pilot these.

Stardust: … the ones here would probably — *she started getting so nervous she was speaking in another language*

Cascade: *interrupting her* woah, woah, slow down. Stardust, can you please speak in dragon?

Stardust: t-that wasn’t d-dragon?

Cascade: no.. take a second and calm down.

*Stardust nodded and took a deep breath, it clearly wasn’t working though, she continued anyways*

Stardust: where did I-I lose you?

Cascade: you said something about “the scavengers here would probably” and then you stopped speaking in dragon.

Stardust: ok… scavengers here would probably crash them too quickly if they got a hold of any, they would probably kill themselves.

Glory-…someone go fetch mastermind. Or starflight.

Cascade: I’m pretty sure not even they would understand what’s going on or what this is.

Stardust: *quickly retreating within herself again at the thought of more dragons joining them, and also returning to somewhat hiding behind Cascade, she eyed the nearest window, wondering if she could get through without anyone noticing*

Cascade: *facepalming* I think we may have pushed her too hard.

Stardust: *mumbling something, only Cascade seemed to hear*

Cascade: it’s alright, you tried your best. Is Blueberry back yet? I told her to get the last bit of the metal dragon we had. I thought she still had it.

Stardust: *she looked even more surprised and worried now* wait you didn’t—

Cascade: I wasn’t the first to tell her, if I was I would have tried to get you out of this. I know how much you’re afraid of other dragons, but fight near this village doesn’t exactly go unnoticed.

*Stardust hides her face, almost half her tail now match’s the rest of her scales at least.*

Glory- but Starflight might be able to understand this a bit better then I do. We need to write it down.

Blue- *comes back with the hunk of metal* here.

Cascade: thank you. *she takes it and hands it to Stardust* I saved this for you since you were reading it earlier.. it looks important.

*Stardust took it cautiously*

Stardust: thank you…

Cascade; are you sure he’ll be able to—

Stardust: unlikely.

Cascade: huh?

Stardust: *mostly to Cascade but Glory and Blueberry could probably hear her. She definitely seems afraid of having to talk to more dragons.* look.. I’m not going to even attempt to explain the how a pulse engine works or how electricity works to these dragons, or any dragon on this planet. I’ll explain it poorly and the information is almost useless until they industrialize, which opens up a new can of worms I don’t want to have to explain either.

Glory- so what now?

Stardust: *she seemed calm enough to talk to everyone again* if you guys really want to know, I can give you a barebones explanation on what some parts do…

Cascade: you’ve already told us what it does.

Stardust: I’ve told you the whole purpose of the craft itself, not what some of the parts do.

Cascade: … *cracking a smile* who are you and what have you done with Stardust?

Stardust: *quietly, intended for Cascade but anyone close enough can hear (you can chose if anyone hear’s this)* I’m still scared, just a little less scared. Kind of like how I was with you and when I first met you guys. I’m still going to stop if I get too nervous.

Glory- *she seems like her minds somewhere else*
Blue- *looking around, but her eyes keep darting back to Stardust*

*she blocked it with what she was holding, the dart was stuck in the metal, her scales turned lime green*

???: …

*the dragonet was now cornered and almost too scared to talk. Even if she tried flying out of there, there were now a few rainwings on tree branches waiting. She slowly got up and backed towards the cave, like it was an attempt of trying to show you she wasn’t a threat*

Blueberry- calm down! I just want to know who you are!

???: t-then why are you s-shooting sleeping d-darts at m-me?

*some of the rainwings that came to see what was going on began to leave.*

Blueberry- it’s not every day you see a dragon on two legs examining a piece of rock on

Rainwing territory.

???: … *she shrugged, it was starting to look like she was not comfortable around dragons she did not know, especially when studying something that did not appear to be natural or made by any tribe. Then again, your first thought was to shoot a sleeping dart at her, but she probably would have bolted anyways given the state she is currently in* I g-guess that’s—

*a dragon made of the same metal as the device the dragonet was holding landed right in front of you, and if it landed any closer it’s tail would have whacked your snout.*

Metallic dragon: *in a robotic voice that did not sound like any normal dragon, they turned to stand, it turned sideways to stand on two legs, it some metal stick and it ignited into a fire sword, which looked more like it was just a beam of light. It illuminated the surrounding area, and unfortunately for you, this was pointed directly in front of your snout, barely stopping short of burning your nose.* THE ANOMALY IS MINE!

???: *you heard the dragonet scream* NOW OF ALL TIMES?

Blue- What the- *looks at the dragonet* WHAT IN THREE MOONS IS THIS

???: *she stopped stuttering, maybe her fear of whatever this was outweighed her anxiety for talking with other dragons* I uh… this is going to be difficult to explain..

*looks like the rest of the rainwings ran to get help, although one came gliding and landed on one of the branches above you*

The robotic dragon: we can do this the easy way, or the hard way.

Cascade (the rainwing above): oh moons.

???; the easy way?

The robotic dragon: you come quietly, and no one else gets injured. The alternative is I’ll rip your limbs out one by one and I’ll drag your carcass back to the lord. Your choice, anomaly.

*the two stared at each other, the metal dragon whacked you with it’s tail to try to get the dragonet to react. You got knocked into a tree, you could only guessed that seemed like a weak strike from the metal dragon. The robotic dragon seemed to be twice as large as the dragonet you chased, yet it looked like she was going to fight anyways. You can see on one of the metal plates there was some writing and a logo, but of course it was written in a language you didn’t understand. She gave one look to Cascade, the rainwing nodded and flew down to you*

Cascade; *helping you up* we need to take cover. Come on let’s go.

Blue- b-but-

Cascade: you’re going to get more injured if we—

*you heard the sound of electricity cackling, the area got much brighter. The dragonet brought out and ignited her own light sword. The two dragons sword’s clashed in the, they were both fighting each other now. The item the had retrieved from the crash site was now a little behind them*

Metallic dragon: *their robotic/metallic voice sounded much more menacing now, if it wasn’t already menacing* can’t you see that your resistance is futile? You are struggling more now than with my previous iterations.

???: *the dragonet only answered with a question* what in the infinite are you?

Metallic dragon: *it answered as if were a machine rather than a living dragon* Project Titan-D, iteration Charlie. Project Intent: special assignments.

*the metallic dragon struck again, the resulting block caused another bright but brief flash of light as the the swords collided and rebounded off each other. The dragonet you followed appeared to take a defensive stance, the metallic dragon looked like it was about to attack again.*

Cascade: … we need to get out of the way.

Blue- but there’s the rock, right there! If I can just go grab it…

*your venom landed in the wires dead on (assuming that’s what you were aiming for) but it didn’t seem to do much damage. Nothing organic seemed to be in there. Cascade landed in the branch next to you and used her venom immediately, aiming for the eyes. Cascade hit’s directly this time and she blinds the machine dragon. Stardust charges while using the meteorite’s own fire to weaken the metal dragon a little more. Every shot that hit the dragon at least somewhat burned through it’s armor plates*

Cascade: nice shot.

*Stardust jumped on its back, the fire from the meteor stopped. Stardust began tearing through the back armor plates with both her sword and claws, exposing more black strings and bolts of lighting and sparks on the inside. She used her forked tail as a hook, stabbing it into the armor plates behind her. As soon as enough of the plating was pulled away she tried to rip something out of it while dropping something in. The metal dragon backed up until it was able to slam Stardust into a tree. Stardust fell off more from the shock rather than the pain. From there, Stardust was kicked near the pond next to the animus made cave. Stardust was still breathing, although it was more ragged. The metal dragon only wiped the venom off its eyes and stared her down. The venom hissed as it hit a nearby plant.*

Metal Dragon: DO YOU SURRENDER?

*Cascade was about to jump down to help, but the metal dragon looked up at the two of you, as if it was a warning to not get involved any further.*

Blue- *holds Cascade back* ..its their fight.

Cascade: but she’s my—

Metal dragon: *looking directly at the 2 of you* you are lucky that I’m in a hurry, otherwise protocol dictates I would deal with—

Stardust: *half smirking* not anymore.

*the metal dragon just stared at her*

Metal dragon: DOES NOT COMPUTE. What do you—

*a faint beeping could be heard coming from within the metal dragon. Cascade’s eyes went wide, and the metal dragon’s orange polygon wings flickered*

Cascade: GET DOWN! *pushing you behind the tree*

Metal dragon: *dashing towards Stardust at an alarming speed, reaching out to grab her* YOU LITTLE SHI—

*the metal dragon exploded in a blue ball of fire, sending shrapnel everywhere most of which disintegrated somehow before it hit anything. The head and a small part of the neck landed beside the tree you and Cascade hid behind. The glow of the red eyes began to fade. The flames died down within seconds, none of the forest was actually burned except for the area where the metal dragon was standing. You could probably see if Stardust was okay now*

Blue- HOLY 3 MOONS! I- *flies down to the ground, looking for Stardust*

*Cascade picks up the dragon head and follows close behind you*

*when the smoke cleared you could see Stardust was impaled by some of the shrapnel. Several pieces of metal were sticking out of her left arm, and a metal pole had gone through her right shoulder and had kept her stuck to the wall. She managed to rip it out on her own. Looks like she tried to roll into cover. She also had some kind of black oil or fluid in some areas that came from the explosion. Most of the metal was disintegrating because of some blue liquid on ends that weren’t stabbing stardust she started picking out the pieces. Most of her normal injuries were several cuts and slashes along her arms and legs, the slash and burn on her leg, several gashes on her right leg, and many lacerations on her back and underbelly, and tail. Most of these were probably from the explosion. Miraculously her wings were okay. She also managed to get her tail and back legs behind cover before the explosion. Most of those cuts weren’t too large and would probably heal the quickest. However, the burn cut on her leg would definitely end up being a scar.*

Stardust: *coughing up some blood* I’ve been worse… it’s probably not as bad as it looks. The adrenaline s-still hasn’t worn off yet.

Cascade; we need to get you to a.. oh who am I kidding, the healers won’t know what to do. We need an actual doctor.

Stardust: I’ll be fine as long as *coughing* as long as nothing gets infected. *she began to pull out the other chunks of metal, which is typically a bad idea. However those were disintegrating as well, they had some corrosive blue liquid on it. A few of the pieces weren’t even drawing blood*

Cascade: if you’re trying to downplay your injuries, that’s not going to work on me.

Stardust: yes it will. *meanwhile, her tail was completely white, and so were her legs, she was hiding it better with the rest of her body, most of which was a mixture of dark purple and red.*

Cascade: *sighing* alright fine, but you still need help. *she picked up the meteor Stardust had been carrying* Blueberry, do you have anything that can stop the bleeding while we get her back to the village?

Stardust: please don’t take me there. *she shivered*

Cascade: I don’t think we have a choice given how much you’ve been hurt.

Blue- I...uhm..*she looks around, and sees some big leaves from a plant* Yeah! *grabs some and starts wrapping them around some wounds*

*Stardust finally pulls the last chunk of metal out of her thigh, the rest have disintegrated but this one doesn’t have the blue liquid on it. She takes a closer look at it, you realize at least part of the logo that was on the machine dragon was on that metal piece*

Cascade: *coming to help you now* Stardust what’s this? *pointing to the meteor*

Stardust: I’ll tell you *cough* *cough* in a second, can I see the head of the dragon? Just want to make sure there isn’t an *cough* extra power source keeping that thing running and *heavy cough* and logging everything we say.

*Cascade nods and hands it over, Stardust quickly tore open the skull with her talons to reveal more black strings. Some were red and gold too. There was a big silver box on the inside that was glowing a faint blue*

Stardust: knew it. *cough* Stand back, I don’t want either of you getting electrocuted. *her claw plunges into the skull, you could see lightning bolts travel up her arm again, leaching power from whatever was inside the skull* figured there would be in extra battery, just let me drain the excess electricity.

Cascade: so that wasn’t a real dragon?

Stardust: nope *cough*, just wires, batteries, cameras, electricity, *heavy cough* and armor plating. *she seemed to be feeling slightly better already*

Blue- you need some rest.

Stardust: I’m *cough* fine… I’ve had worse injuries before.

Cascade: Blueberry’s right. You need rest.

Stardust: … *tossing the mechanical dragon head into the last bits of the body still disintegrating, causing the head to disintegrate as well, soon the only trace of it’s existence was just the chunk of metal Sterdust was currently holding.*

Cascade: *sigh* at least tell us what this thing is. *holding the meteorite with both her talons now*

Stardust; *she seemed to forget about you for a second* the short answer is, where I’m from, they’re called starfighters. *cough* Space capable machines built for combat *cough* and protection beyond the planet’s atmosphere. *realizing you’re there again* I can tell you more later. You’re currently holding an old Sentinel SF-342, a *coughing* sentinel fighter from a long time ago. I was going to use for parts.

Blue-...

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Sorry for making the prologue so long.

*Stardust attempts to get up and walk off her injuries, she’s able to move her front legs, but her backs would barely move at all. The result was her falling immediately. All the while she’s still coughing, but it seems to be getting better already*

Cascade: Stardust, stop, you’re paralyzed.

Stardust: … *attempt two, at least she made it up this time. You can see her tail is completely limp, and her back legs can’t actually move either, she flops on the ground again and just attempts to drag herself, despite her current injuries and being only partially bandaged in leaves. Even then, she’s still surprisingly strong, she makes it all the way to the edge of the pond before Cascade just decides she’s going to carry her*

Cascade: that better?

Stardust: *just coughing*

Cascade: it’s ok you can admit it.

Stardust: ok… I might *cough* need some help.

Cascade: ok, you need to work on accepting when you need help, but in this case I’ll take that as an answer. We’re taking you back to the village, I don’t think I can get you anywhere else in time.

Stardust: … I really don’t want to.

Cascade: again, that’s not a choice. Now I believe you wanted this. *she hands Stardust the meteorite, which you now know is a small “starfighter” or “starship” from the crash site. Stardust holds on to it tightly*

Stardust: *much more sincere this time* thank you.

*this would be your chance to hit her with a sleeping dart so she doesn’t sneak off, her wings still appear to be ok*

Blue- Listen, this is nothing personal. *shoots her with the dart*

Stardust: *she doesn’t fall asleep right away* … knew that was coming next. You would have shot me out of the air anyways. *yawning* please tell me.. this won’t kill me.

Cascade: it won’t, it’ll just knock you out for a little while. *she began walking to exit the clearing to go towards the nearest village*

*Stardust’s wings began to droop down.*

Stardust: Cascade, listen, I might not get a chance to tell you later… something might happen soon.

Cascade: what do you mean?

Stardust: *words becoming slurred* theressmore of themmm… theyon’t loolike dragons mosoftheime. Suming big is *completely incomprehensible. It took another minute before she was completely knocked out.*

Cascade: I’m going to be honest, she hung in there longer than I thought she would. I’ve never used a dart on her before. … Blueberry, how many dragons saw the big metal one? We’re probably going to have to deal with Glory or Deathbringer, or anyone else who asks us something.

(You could RP using Glory or Deathbringer if you want. I’m not great at imitating the main character’s personalities so I try to avoid using them.)

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Blue- uhm....*glances at the many dragons perched up on the trees* half of the tribe?

*Cascade glances up as well. Due to Stardust being on her back, she was walking slower. The starfighter seemed to be making it worse.*

Cascade: *much quieter so only you could hear* hopefully they didn’t see the fight then. *she sighs* This is going to be tougher to explain than Stormbringer escaping from the Nightwing island literally the day before we attempted to storm the fortress.*it’s unlikely anyone was there to see the fight besides you and Cascade. This group seems to be heading in the direction you guys were coming from*

*Stardust’s breathing seemed to be getting that she was completely knocked out. She was still clutching the starfighter with both talons*

Cascade: I’m surprised she was able to run with that thing, it’s heavier than I expected.

Blue- yeah, but-

*suddenly, 2 figures fly down and land in front of them. They were Glory and Deathbringer*

Glory- Okay, explain everything. The others told me that you guys were here.

D.B- Woah, cool stone! Can I touch it?

Cascade: *turning green, she give’s Deathbringer a pretty straightforward response* you’re going to have to ask the dragonet that’s currently unconscious for it, unless you want to prying it from her talons. As for an explanation… yeah.. *pretty straightforward, telling the truth assuming they heard about the metal dragon* no idea why it showed up. And before you ask, yes the dart was completely necessary.

Glory- *sighs, hubbing her temples* Great. Metal dragon, mysterious rock. Unconscious dragonet. Joy. How am I going to explain this?

D.B- *taps on Stardust's shoulder* Hey there, dragonet who definitly cant hear me. Can I touch that rock?

*rubbing

Cascade: given what I’ve seen, it’s probably best if we wait until she wakes up. I still don’t understand why this happened and I WAS there. *looks like Cascade’s trying to give you two as much leeway for an explanation as possible, it’s also probably because Stardust knows the most about this situation than the two of you.* Wait hang on. *she’s trying to pull something out from Stardust’s talons* Blueberry can you help? I think you’ve got a better angle. Just the one bar of metal that she picked up. *she’s referring to the one piece of the dragon that hadn’t disintegrated. Stardust saved it and currently has it underneath her right talon.*

Blue- yeah. *starts tugging on the metal; and pulls it out*

Glory- well, when she wakes up, let me know. *sighs* time to calm down everyone else. *she flies away*