Sorry, it’s been a while. This role play will contain some spoilers.

*crash land*

*Most of the dragons around you are staring up at the sky in confusion, aside from the leafwing dragonet that took off towards the Poison Jungle. The leafwings around you now were now focused on you and were trying to help you get treatment for your injuries. Suddenly you hear another dragonet take off. If you looked up, you could see this one is a little older*

???: IVY, COME BACK! *she roared in pursuit of the other dragonet*

*a Hivewing tried to follow her too but her tail got caught by a leafwing adult coming over to help you*

????: you’re not going in the poison jungle, it’s dangerous.

??????: why do Ivy and Maple get to go then?

????: they shouldn’t be going at all.

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(… you know you could just reply to my reply with the story right? It keeps things slightly more organized.)

Windbreaker (My WoF OC. Windbreaker is a Terebrid Dragon, who was born under three full moons, and is an Animus who made herself immune to every other Animus spell when she was younger. Her mother was a pure SkyWing and her father was a NightWing-SandWing Hybrid. She is also an adult.): Woah!

Maple: finding my friend. I only asked because I’m surprised you managed to get here without help.

Windbreaker: *snorts* I know my way around here. Need help finding your friend?

Maple: I’m surprised you do considering you’re not a leafwing, but that’s actually great. Also any help is appreciated. Just don’t get eaten by any plants.. I can’t tell you the amount of trouble I went through to save the last dragon that got caught in a dragon trap. I could use an extra set of eyes though. Thank you..

Windbreaker: *nods*

*you both follow the long trail of pulled up plant roots and fallen trees, a little further to the side you see an even longer trail of dirt*

Maple: “something new?” Yeah I can see that. Careful, there’s some dragon traps that fell there… We’re close, she’s nearby.

Windbreaker: *nods*

Maple: whatever crashed here must have been huge. *you’re following the path from the side in the trees. Maple keeps guiding you away from it, the further you travel down, the side of the path, the safer it becomes and the less plants on the dirt path there are*

*You and maple start to hear waves. After another minute Maple spots her*

Maple: there. I see her. She standing in the middle of it… *she lands in a safe area without coming onto the trail of dirt kicked up from the crash* Ivy?

*no response*

Windbreaker: *lands and nudges Ivy*

*Maple steps out onto the pathway*

Maple: *looking at Ivy first* Ivy, whaa— *she turned her head down the path the way you were following.* What is that? *she tried to get closer to it but Ivy’s arm shot up, blocking her*

Ivy: *quietly* I don’t think that thing is pointing a weirdly shaped and painted metal stick at as for no reason.

*down the trail was a clearing. A large metal object as large as a dragonet was resting half off of the cliff edge, it appeared to be damaged with some metal pieces fallen off and exposing some sort of mess underneath. It looked like different colored string. Some sparks were coming off it, and occasionally different parts moved as if it were repairing itself. Next to it was a strange light emitted by a small metal thing on the ground that looked like a square, it had some text on it that no one could understand and several graphs and other pictures you you three couldn’t make sense of. And finally, there was what looked like to be a scavenger next to it holding something metal, it wasn’t one of those pointy sticks they had, it looked like the end of it had a barrel. The scavenger completely covered in some kind of blue armor, parts of it seemed to be glowing, one part on its chest was even spinning. It also had a metal backpack of some kind.*

Ivy: … I think that’s a scavenger, they have a lot of them in Pyrrhia.. but none are like that. It looks dangerous.

Windbreaker: *walks over to investigate*

(Sorry for not responding for a while, I was busy)

*Most of the dragons around you are staring up at the sky in confusion, aside from the leafwing dragonet that took off towards the Poison Jungle. Suddenly you see another dragonet take off, this one is a little older*

???: IVY, COME BACK! *she roared in pursuit of the other dragonet*

*a Hivewing tried to follow her too but her tail got caught by a leafwing adult*

????: you’re not going in the poison jungle, it’s dangerous.

??????: why do Ivy and Maple get to go then?

????: they shouldn’t be going at all.

(Sorry for responding so late, I’ve wasn’t expecting to be so busy today)

(Tis alright)
Windbreaker: *hides in the bushes*

*the two dragons that just left are racing towards the poison jungle following the fireball. They’re so far you can’t hear Maple screaming at Ivy anymore.*

Windbreaker: *cautiously follows*

*both flew into the Poison Jungle unaware that they were being followed*

Windbreaker: *continues to follow them*

*for a little while, it was just the sounds of the jungle. You could occasionally hear a shout coming from Maple. Twice dragonfly traps tried to snap at you when you got too close to their vines. Suddenly you see Maple ahead of you, and a large dirt path created by the crash was on your left, there lots of fallen trees and dragon eating plants mixed in with the normal ground fauna. Some of them even looked burnt. Maple was looking around, flying cautiously.*

Windbreaker: *purposefully makes a noise*

*she quickly turns around*

Maple: what the heck are you doing here?

Windbreaker: I could be asking you the same thing.

Ivy: what the heck is this?!

Maple: looks like whoever they are, they’re at war with something.

*they’re flying extremely fast. The machine is weaving trying to avoid getting hit, occasionally it spins around. At one point Sky pulled back a lever and the machine completely halted midair. The other machines chasing it fly by extremely fast, Sky pushed back the lever again and “The Challenger” began to accelerate again. Aanvi managed to take out one of the enemy machines that way, destroyed it as it flew past*

Sky: nice shot.

Aanvi: thanks.

*the machine sped up to it’s original speed, though you could see it got hit several times. One time it got hit really bad, the inside of the machine shook*

Sky: shields are down. *somewhat panicked fiddling with the controls.*

Aanvi: hang in there. Almost got another one.

*another couple shots punch through the hill of one of the other machines, it starts smoking before it explodes, the left over sheet metal falls into the ocean. Unfortunately 4 more arrive in flashes of light in the atmosphere*

Aanvi: four more just warped in.

Sky: this is gonna be one hell of a race.

Windbreaker: *is strangely quiet*

*you can see on a graph on the left side, power was being redirected towards the engines, increasing the speed while Sky turned to another panel to attempt to fix the shielding.

Aanvi: Sky, watch the air traffic.

Sky: what?

*the view of outside the machine switched to an angle from above the glass area. 7 dragons were in front of the machine which was approaching them rapidly from behind. Sky barely had the time to switch panels to move out of the way, he nearly hit the seawing’s claws, it was the party that came to destroy the othermind.*

Aanvi: too close. You’re giving me a heart attack just from looking at that.

Sky: a better heads up would have been nice.

Aanvi: I’m doing the best I can.

Ivy: were they who I think they are?

Maple: yeah, that looked like Tsunami.

Aanvi: *loud squeaking, it translated as “WATCH YOUR RIGHT” Ivy had to cover her ears*

*one of the other machines was now flying side ways, cannons pointed directly at Sky’s flying machine*

Sky: I see it.

*Both Sky’s starfighter and the other starfighter fired at each other at the same time. Sky did an aileron roll right to avoid it and the top of The Challenger was now facing the ground, and the sentinel machine below him. Aanvi began firing at it, and most of the shots looked like direct hits, but it wasn’t doing much. The areas being hit were turning a blue light that was slowly turning red*

Aanvi: that bucket of bolts has some tough armor.

Sky: keep the pressure on it.

*eventually the light broke, two shots into the hull and it was smoking, though several shots went through Sky’s wing as well. His right wing was now smoking as well. One shot went into the sentinel’s engine and it blew up, the remains of it crashed into the ocean.*

Aanvi: keep going, we still have more hostiles on our tail.

Sky: I wasn’t planning on stopping.

Windbreaker: *is still quiet*

*The scavenger didn’t have time to reply. Part of the cliff begins to break off, taking the scavenger and the damaged flying machine with it. The scavenger managed to grab the flying object before it went over, the glass window slid open to reveal some kind of control system, Ivy quickly sprinted and leaped over the cliff intending to save them.*

Maple: *running to the cliffside* IVY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

*Ivy couldn’t answer, she was trying to grab a smoking piece of the machine, she ended up getting a hold of it for several seconds. Suddenly a light appeared from the back of the machine as it oriented to point itself out towards the sea. Then it took off, and it was fast. Ivy was forced into the cliff from a gust of wind that appeared to have been produced by the machine. Ivy hit her back on cliff and she was knocked into the water. All that the scavenger and the machine left was a faint blue trail that was quickly fading, the machine was still visible in the distance. It’s definitely much faster than any dragon. Once Ivy could get out of the water, she slowly flew up. She was out of breath, like the wind got knocked out of her. Maple had to catch her and help her up.*

Maple: what were you thinking?!

Ivy: *coughing* I wasn’t… I wanted to save it. *more coughing and wheezing*

Maple: don’t do that again. Especially not when whatever that thing it got into is there.

Windbreaker: *launches herself into the sky, shouting* I'M GOING AFTER THEM!!

Maple: look, none of us are going to catch it. You saw how fast that thing took off?

Ivy: *laying down near a tree, still wheezing and breathing heavily, occasionally coughing, she looks like she’s having more trouble breathing.* she’s.. *coughing* right… I don’t even think the *coughing* skywing could catch it. *more coughing*

…

*the disk the scavenger left on the ground was still there, the graph and other symbols have changed and the diagram of the scavenger’s machine grew larger*

Ivy: hey guys.. *coughing* it left whatever that is..

Windbreaker: *sighs, landing*

Maple: Ivy, are you alright?

Ivy: *more coughing* I’m fine… *finally getting control of her breathing, it’s still heavy* I’ve been in much worse situations. This is nothing. *you could see she was scraped along her back, even bleeding in a few places from some of the cuts. Her wings looked injured too. This was probably from when she was blasted back into the cliffside.*

Maple: seriously, don’t do that again.

Ivy: I don’t *cough* *cough* plan on it.

*suddenly a blue light starts scanning Ivy, it’s coming from the disk on the ground the scavenger left, it made a noise and then it showed the three as large creatures, or maybe it was just from a scavenger’s eye level, in a small box that appeared, more symbols you didn’t recognize were there. After that an alert overlapped the original box, you could read it at first but then the symbols changed into dragon. The new alert said “DATA TRANSFER RECEIVED.” When that alert disappeared, you could see what the small box said “New Creature Detected caution is advised.” The boxes disappeared after a few seconds, leaving you with just the images of yourselves copying whatever any of you three did and displaying it on the screen.*

Ivy: huh..?

Windbreaker: *mutters something at Ivy*

*Ivy stares at you a little confused wondering what you said*

Maple: that’s so weird, it’s like a mirror. *she waved her claw through it.* Wait is this how scavengers see us?! We’re huge! Well, not really, but still! *There was no reaction from the screen other than part of the image was distorted. The text then changed to “New User Detected”, this time the box was under all of you. It appeared to be partially see through.*

Windbreaker: *smiles*

*Ivy was able to get off the ground now*

*another box of light appeared under the one showing the three of you, this time it had a bunch of different symbols all spaced out, none of them were letters in dragon. Ivy waved her claw over it and it disappeared*

Ivy: … ok? That happened…

*both boxes disappeared, in place of the image of the three of you, a see through screen appeared of what the scavenger had before it. There was a map of the surrounding area as the primary screen*

Maple: woah, what did you do?

Windbreaker: Did something to that thing and healed Ivy.

*Ivy went dead silent*

Maple: I was referring to Ivy… wait what do you mean you healed Ivy?

Ivy: *suddenly scared* a-animus…

Windbreaker: *nods* Don't worry though. I'm a good Animus!

*Even with you’re reassurance, Ivy’s brain goes into panic mode*

Maple: … I’ve never seen Ivy freak out like this. Not even when she was exiled from our tribe a few years ago.

Ivy: *she stands there paralyzed, you feel as if her brain is screaming*

Maple: *clueless* Ivy, what’s wrong with being an animus?

Ivy: *thinking: “can’t trust— what if he is Darkstalker in disguise? Was Darkstalker really defeated? Can’t trust her! Don’t trust her!”* …

Maple: … calm down, I’m sure whatever you’re thinking isn’t true.

Ivy: *thinking: “right, calm down. You weren’t this freaked out about animuses before, and there is almost no chance of Darkstalker willingly disguising himself as a tri-hybrid, let alone disguising himself as a regular hybrid.”* ok…

Maple: better? Alright, I’ll ask again, what’s wrong about animuses?

Ivy: nothing… just scared of them.

Windbreaker: *nods*

*Ivy turned back to the weird device that the three of you have in your possession*

*on the side is a picture of what the flying machine used to look like appeared. The glass is black so you can’t see the inside. It has wings that are almost flat. On the backside it has a foil and a the place that emits light, it’s labeled as an “engine.” There is a short description under it which reads:

Challenger of The Void

This starfighter is a one of a kind starfighter designed to cross the spatial anomaly currently known as The Void safely. Unmanned craft have already proven it is possible, but the ongoing battle in The Void has made it impossible to preform reconnaissance necessary for the rescue mission. Avoiding combat is recommended.

The description ends there.*

Ivy: what?

Maple: … something weird must be happening on their end.

Windbreaker: *nods*

Ivy: let’s take this thing back with us, maybe we can learn more from it.

*the light immediately stopped when Ivy picked it up. A couple seconds later it started whirring again and a new light appeared. This time it was a picture of the machine from the top down, listing how badly each part was damaged on the right side of the “move through box”. The right wing was marked in yellow, the left wing was almost all orange and red. However the entire middle section including the labels “cockpit,” “engine,” and “hull” were green. On the left top corner was an image of the scavenger sitting from inside the machine at a 3/4 angle. It was a moving image and no damage could be seen from the inside, it appeared to be controlling the machine. Below that was another moving image from the outside of the machine on the right wing looking back. There were three more of the other flying machine you saw attack the scavenger. It looks like it was measuring something because at the bottom left corner was numbers rapidly changing going both up and down. Below the image showing the damage to each part of the Scavenger’s machine was writing words as the scavenger was speaking them in dragon. Above that it said “Rough Translation to Dragon, still a work in progress.” Anything the scavenger was saying was being translated and they appeared to be contacting someone.*

Scavenger: *after translation* come on...

Ivy: is he trying to contact us?

Maple: one way to find out. Set it back down, let’s see if we can respond.

*Ivy’s claws were large enough to cover all of the disc, but because of the way she’s holding it, only the part that emits light can be seen. Ivy sets it back down*

Windbreaker: Hello?

*the scavenger didn’t answer*

Ivy: maybe we need to push this first. *Ivy goes to tap a flashing button but it looks like someone else answered already*

*another screen appeared below the scavenger it appeared to be coming from within a metal structure. A short feathered creature in similar armor to the scavenger was there sitting at some sort of control panel. More creatures were walking behind them in various different sizes, but most of their faces were either behind helmets and masks or out of frame, they all seemed scavenger like but were covered in similar armor.*

Feathered Scavenger: *after translation* Sky? Never mind I can see what trouble you’re in. Need backup?

Scavenger (Sky from here on out): No, can you reroute power remotely?

Feathered Scavenger: would be more effective if you could do that, I can take control of the cannons and be gunner for you. *she motioned at someone behind her*

Sky: that’s perfect, the longer I keep this thing flying, the better chance I have at pulling this rescue off. *multiple different beams and balls of light were beginning to fire past the scavenger’s flying machine*

Feathered Scavenger: I’ll make sure you keep breathing. Taking control of the guns now. I could use a bit of target practice anyway. How are the shields?

Sky: almost nonexistent. One bad hit and they’re done.

Feathered Scavenger: alright, time to be the best pilot in the galaxy commander. Now we really need you to be. *to the scavenger next to her* prep some drones, better to have some ready to go than to not end up needing them.

*the other scavenger nods and runs out of view*

Sky: good luck, Aanvi.

Feathered Scavenger (Aanvi from here on out): *chuckling* I’m not the one that needs the luck. Just a reminder we packed four proton missiles on that thing. They’re there if you need ‘em.

Sky: *shrugging* just trying to be nice.

Aanvi: seriously, try not to get the Challenger scrapped. Those corrupted sentinels are gonna be calling back up.

Sky: let’s see what I can do with the odds I’ve been given.

*one “cannon” can be seen from the view of the outside of the starfighter, it did a full 180 and began firing back, it was firing at a much faster rate. Maybe it was a different type of weapon than what the “corrupted sentinels” were using.*

Windbreaker: Woah.

*The scavenger turns towards you pointing whatever weapon they have at your head, they still don’t say anything. They gesture the unknown weapon forward and to the side two times.*

Ivy: … I think it wants us to move back.

Maple: are you sure? *looking from you to the scavenger*

Ivy: no, but unless you have a better guess of what it wants us to do, then I think we should back up.

Windbreaker: *mutters something, and the three dragons now can understand the Scavenger and vise versa*

*Ivy pulls you backwards, the scavenger isn’t saying anything, just motioning for all of you to back up*

*Ivy and Maple back up a few feet, the scavenger lowers whatever weapon they were holding, it walks backwards as well, keeping an eye on the three of you. The third eye attached to the backpack seems to help it see behind it.*

Maple: … hey, do you have a lot of these types of scavengers in Pyrrhia?

Ivy: not ones that look like that.

Windbreaker: *shakes her head*

*the scavenger finally squeaks a little, and of course, despite the spell you casted, none of you understand it. Maybe you were too far to hear what it said. The scavenger turns toward the metal object currently hanging over the cliff, the thing that looks like a third eye is now looking at the three of you.*

Maple: any clue what it said?

Ivy: look, just because I’ve spent more time on Pyrrhia than you, doesn’t mean I can understand a scavenger.

*the scavenger picks up a tool it left on the ground and begins rummaging through a hole in the strange object’s wing where some sparks were flying off of it and begins connecting wires back together. The small disk on the ground emitting the strange square light with some symbols on it changes to a map of the current surroundings. There were some more symbols on the side with a picture of what the metal object once used to look like, some of the symbols just under it were large but the rest were small, one of the symbols next to the picture of the object was changing continuously.*

*finally it said something you all could make out*: .. come on, stop getting stuck… there *some clanging occurred, he spliced another two wires together*. *maybe it took a second for the spell to work?*

Windbreaker: What spell?

*the other dragons look at you weirdly*

Maple: what do you mean?

Ivy: *Ivy proceeds to ignore what you said and changes the subject for some reason* … should we try to help the scavenger?

Strange scavenger: *almost at the same time Ivy spoke, you could barely hear them* that should do it.

*the scavenger seems to have finished it’s task and pulls the metal plating back over the hole, it somehow seals itself. Everyone heard some sort of whistling noise. The scavenger looked over the edge of the cliff, then quickly turned around and barked something at the three of you. Seconds later, another metallic object had appeared from behind the cliff and was now hovering above the scavenger’s position.*

Maple: what the—

*the flying object started firing balls of light from barrels attached to the wings, they rose slightly above them. The scavenger jumped backwards, and much higher than it should have been able to, landing on a fallen tree and was using it as cover. Most shots that hit the ground caused the dirt to spray upwards. One hit a tree and burned a hole straight through it.*

Maple: GET DOWN!

*Maple shoved You and Ivy down behind some more fallen trees dove towards the other side of the artificial clearing. It doesn’t appear that any of you three are the targets, just the scavenger is.*

Windbreaker: *snarls*

*the snarling doesn’t help the situation, the fire rate of the lights increased, burning more holes into any plants they hit*

Strange scavenger: I know, I see it.

*the scavenger unholstered something from it’s waist, it looked like a smaller version of the weapon it seemed to be threatening the three of you with. It loaded something onto it, and from behind cover, fired it towards the flying object. It looks like a grappling hook, it latches on to the flying metal object. The scavenger jumps up from behind the tree and swings towards it, it swings under the object and flips back over to land on top of it, from there, the metal flying thing can’t hit it and attempts to shake it off. The scavenger plants severel items on its back and wing and jumps off, landing on the cliff, it presses a button on it’s wrist armor and the flying metal thing explodes, spinning as it descends towards the water. Before it could reach the water, it hits the cliff and the rest of it exploded in a cloud of smoke, the scavenger puts the small weapon back in its holster. The engagement barely lasted 30 seconds.*

Ivy: *poking their head up to make sure it’s safe* … *surprised* did you guys just see what I just saw!?

Maple: *shocked* I don’t believe it either.

Windbreaker: *to the scavenger* Thanks.