DR: The First War (WWotS's character story 2)

((Author's Note: This story is not canon to the RP and it takes place during chapter 28.))


Astyn prowled through the alleys, looking for a tasty snack that she can eat. Whether it was in form of a city pest like a rat or a human's pet like a dog, the dragoness was eager to eat one and she wouldn't care what the humans thought about the loss of their beloved companions to her. These were just lowly animals after all and the humans can just buy another at the pet store. Astyn's path eventually took her to the distant smell of a cat. She licked her chops hungrily and smirked. She was glad to have found her prey, but for whether there were humans near it to stop her, she would have to check and see for herself. The massive smells of humans in this city from all around made it difficult to pinpoint the exact locations of each of these individuals. The mirror dragoness would just have to hope that wherever the cat was, there weren't too many humans in her way of her prey. If there were, then she'll just attack them to scare them away. Astyn tracked down the scent through the alleyways until she finally saw the feline creature in sight walking. The dragoness froze herself still before camouflaging herself against the stony wall of the building behind a garbage bin and waited for the cat to get closer. The cat stopped to lick its paw, but it was now close enough for Astyn to strike it down. Just then, she smelled two more scents approaching and they belonged to two dragons. They came into the alleyway and the young dragonet told his aria dragoness friend to stay where she was at, so that she could keep the animal trapped between her and him. Astyn made a disgruntled frown. Oh no they don't, these two were not going to take away her snack. She was going to beat them first before they even touched her prey. The dragonet flew up above the building and went to the other side from the cat. He made a U-turn and swooped down towards the feline with his claws aiming to grab hold of the animal. But just before he could reach it, the mirror dragoness cast a lightning spell at the cat and electrocuted it to death as it let out a loud shrieking yowl. The cat's body flashed, showing its skeleton between blinks, and its fur strands stood straight up like a hedgehog's spikes. The dragonet stopped in his place and hovered as he watched the prey's death in surprise. He asked, "What the heck?!"

When it was over, the cat fell over stiff and lifeless. The fur of its body was scorched dark with bits of smoke coming from it. Astyn walked over to the dead cat as her movement returned her body colors back to normal, thus revealing herself to the other dragons. She placed a talon down over the cat and then she looked up at the dragonet as she sneered, "Sorry, baby boy, but this prey is mine now."

The dragonet looked a bit mad at the insult as he said, "What? No it isn't. I saw it first!"

"Oh really?" asked the mirror. She decided to heckle this brat for fun, since she was bored at the moment. "Surely you must have smelled me here while you were going after this thing here. Unless maybe that pitiful nose of yours is too dull to smell even a dead body." She grinned mockingly at him. That had to be it, since dragons usually have a strong sense of smell. Either his nostrils might as well be defective or he, and maybe that aria, was just dumb not to notice her.

The dragonet got defensive and said, "Hey, I can smell just fine, lady! I just wasn't paying attention."

Seeing as how her first guess was denied, Astyn decided to go for the other one. She said, "Ah, so you're just an idiot, then. That is so typical of you young males. Also rushing into ahead into things without a second thought. No wonder everyone likes to use you as their jokes in comedy."

Her words had angered the dragonet even more and he bared his teeth and tried to insult her back, "Oh yeah? Well... well... You old hags are senile and ugly!"

Now Astyn was the one on edge. No one calls her ugly and gets away with it. And worse, the snot-nosed brat had dared to call her a hag, when she is only 15 years old. She will teach him a lesson for that. She growled, "Ugly? Hag? You little brat, I'll teach you to disrespect your elders!" Then she cast a lightning bolt spell at the dragonet and zapped him as he let out a pained yell.

The aria dragoness behind him gasped in fright for her companion's well-being. After his shock treatment was over, she worriedly asked, "Kakoli, are you okay?"

Seeing as how the dragonet was lying on the ground and too much in pain to answer as he could only let out a groan, the mirror dragoness decided to answer for him, "No he's not. The little brat had it coming to him, so I gave him a little shock therapy to put him in place."

The aria shot her an angry look and scolded, "You could have killed him!"

Astyn scoffed unsympathetically, "Hah! Like I care! If he dies, it's his fault for calling me an ugly hag."

The aria growled, "You're heartless!"

That was very much true about Astyn herself. As a mirror dragoness, her breed was known for their barbaric tendencies in both action and personality. So the aria's words didn't affect Astyn much as she already knew herself to be cruel. The mirror retorted, "And you're a bleeding-heart twit who can't keep a hatchling under control." She smiled sneeringly and continued, "I'm sure the public would look up to you as the number #1 worst mother in this city." Grabbing onto the cat with her claw, she continued, "Now if you'll excuse me, I got a snack to eat. Now take that little bastard home with you and sing him a lullaby like a "good" little mommy that you are."

The aria growled bitterly as Astyn flapped her wings and started to hover up off the ground with the cat in her claw. Kakoli forced himself to get up as he grunted in pain from his still-hurting body. He growled at the mirror, "Don't you dare make fun of Shiba."

The mirror cooed in faux impression, "Oooh, it looks like the precious little infant is standing up for mommy." Sneering at Shiba, she asked, "Shouldn't it be the other way around, Ms. Bimbo?"

The aria just simply glared at the other dragoness in response. Kakoli, however, decided enough was enough and snarled, "That's it! Now you're going down and I'm taking back my cat, too!" He flew up to the mirror and tried to tackle her, but Astyn quickly evaded him as she flew up out of the way.

The mirror scoffed at him, "You're going to have to try to catch me first!" Then she flew away to let the chase begin. As she soared over the buildings, she could still smell Kakoli's scent, which means that he was following her. Astyn, who was always being determined to win, was not going to make this little game of hers easy for him. She planned to use every dirty trick she could think of when the moment's right to throw this dragonet off her tail and get away. The dragoness flew down towards the streets and soared over the roads, flying close to the people, who each ducked their heads or move out of the way, just in case they might get hit by her and Kakoli. The chase went on with the two dragons going through the streets and in between buildings. After going through the next street, Astyn saw two men holding a large slide of glass and thought to use one of her tricks. She leaned to the right, trying to fool her pursuer that she was about to make the right turn. Just as she got really close to the right corner of the intersection where the men were, she made a quick sharp turn to the left.

Within the next few seconds, the dragonet had found himself in trouble as he was heard shouting, "Whoa!" Then there was the sound of glass breaking.

As Astyn stopped for a bit to land and see the commotion for her own amusement, one of the men, who were carrying the glass pane, was heard yelling angrily, "Stupid dragon! Look what you just did! Now we have to go order a new one!" The mirror dragoness went behind a building and poked her head out over the edge as she made herself still to become invisible and hide from their view.

Kakoli defensively apologized, "I'm sorry! I was just trying to chase after that dragoness and she made me hit the glass."

The other man yelled, "Well next time, watch where you're going or we'll sue you!"

"What's sue?" asked the dragonet.

The other man answered, "It means we're going to take what you own in payment for that pane you broke."

The first man told the other guy, "Forget it, Bobby. He probably doesn't have any money on him. We'll just get the cops to throw him in the animal shelter."

Bobby asked, "Who throws hatchlings in animal shelter anymore? They made humans and dragons equal, remember? They'll probably just make him do community service, well unless we get his parents to pay."

The first man looked back to the dragonet and asked, "Hey dragon, where's your parents?"

Kakoli answered, "Dead! Now let me go, so I can get that dragoness." He took off and flew away from the men who tried to catch him and told him to get back here. Astyn waited in silence for the dragonet to get close, so that she can give him a little surprise. She channeled up her magic energy in preparation for one of her spells. Once he was right close to her, the mirror looked up at him and zapped his tail with a small voltage of her lightning spell. Kakoli let out a shriek as he came tumbling down from the air and hit the cobblestone ground. Astyn laughed at his misfortune before he got up and glared at her. Immediately, it was time to flee again. The dragoness flew away and the chase was resumed as Kakoli yelled, "Get back here!"

Astyn looked down for anything she could pick up and fling back at the dragonet. What caught her eye was a flower pot purchased by a middle-age woman who was riding a horse-drawn taxi. The dragoness put the cat in her mouth to carry before swooping down to the carriage and snatching the pot right off, much to the woman's annoyance. The human tried to take it back, but her hands missed as she yelled, "Hey!"

Astyn ascended back up and looked behind to see where Kakoli's position was at. She found him flying just a little above her level. She couldn't throw the pot at him like this without totally missing, so she flew up to try to get higher than him. Kakoli had also followed her up as well. After going high enough for another attack on him, Astyn turned around and looked down at her pursuer. Raising the flower pot up, she said to him telepathically, 'Eat dirt, pipsqueak!' Then she threw down the pot at him. The rich dark brown soil poured out of the pot, taking the flower that was rooted in and its label sign with the substance. By a perfect shot, the pot's hole fell right onto Kakoli's head, covering him like a paper bag would. The dragonet tried to shake the pot off as he flew past the dragoness, probably without knowing. But apparently, it was stuck as his attempts were unsuccessful. Then he flew down towards the streets as he tried to use his talons to take the pot off. Having gotten Kakoli off her tail, Astyn has won this game of cat and mouse. As a reward, she would get to eat her catch. Though first, she needed some ground to feast on her prey, lest she wanted to exhaust her wings while eating. So she flew to find a spot where she can stay hidden and eat without disturbance. She found the Golden Pony Inn and landed on the ground behind the building.