Joker glared at Riku's back as he left. The man seemed to not believe him. He turned his attention back Delair. "I suppose it's just you and me then?" He sneered. "He stood up straight clasping his hand to his mouth. "I'll let you and your land walker have a head start. It's only fair right?"

Amythist whipped her tailing, knocking the legs out from under Jonan. "You rude boy!" She exclaimed with anger. She let him get away with many things, but mocking her kind was a big no-no.

Delair laughed as Amythist knocked Joker to the floor. We will split up. Surround the dragon and take it down. If I kill it I get the money. He stalked silently into the woods. A few good metres in, he decided on a good tactic. Serrill, You can go around that side and we can hit it with both our might from two angles and make the fight a whole lot easier. I can already see that million. They parted ways and moved in a 'V' formation to surround the green dragon.

"good one fiery, fiery, TAKE TO THE SKIES!!" as soon as she had said skies fiery had Already started to launch herself into the air. In a matter of seconds. After reaching gliding state they were well over the field. She could see delair and serrill splitting up and joker still standing there in the field. "dragons after eating usual have a sleep don't they. You dragons also sleep in lakes and rivers, right....there. Fiery land there in the opening." akira had leant over fires shoulder trying to keep her balance and had pointed to a small river. "dive fiery, DIVE" akira held on with all her might, her wound was hurting. She had to stay strong though. If a human is weak it is known that the dragon will usual leave them for someone else more powerful. "Akira, akira, akira" whenever landing her brother would call his name and his dragon would follow.

Jonan saw Akira and her dragon flying across the air has his vision stopped blurring. He groaned and sat up, glaring at the clearly angry Amythist. He poked out his tongue and stood up. He coughed dramatically and pointed in the opposite direction. "You go that way, scout out, and if you find the dragon yell... well growl, howl... What ever you do." He re-adjusted his clothes and followed after Delair. He narrowed his eyes and licked his lips. Oh good, the party can start now!

Amythist held back her sudden urge to claw off Jonan's tongue. She grudgingly followed his instructions and heaved herself into the thickening woods.

Delair looked up and spotted Fiery and Akira flying across the skies. They dived down quickly and Delair adjusted his path to head in the same general direction. Now way in hell would he let the girl and her dragon beat him to the prize. He quickened his pace and continued the pursuit of the dragon. He shifted his sword in his hands, looked it over half-heartedly and, for not looking up, walked into a tree. He spun and swung, embedding his sword into the tree. He wrenched it out and hurried off, hearing the last of the trunk give way and fall to the ground, quietened by the bed of leaves and the grip of the other tree branches around it.

Jonan laughed silently, watching Delair struggling with the tree. his laughter stopped and panic ensued when the tree start to crash down. He quickly ran under it, the creaking hiding his foot steps. He danced along the foot path, quietly following Delair to where ever he was going. He sped up and was right on Delair's back. He smirked, and pulled out a long thin, bluish blade from inside a pocket in his trench coat. He pulled back a bit, playing with the blade and swinging it around. He dropped his arm low and angled it up, aiming between Delair's back and shoulders. He was about to strike when he realised Delair had noticed him. He quickly slipped the dagger into it's pocket.

Fiery dove like akira had said. She dove into the river like akira had told her too. She could since Akira was hurt but she didn't care. She wouldn't leave her for anything.

Akira, reached the bottom. It was a mud covered lake. She had to make sure not to keep her feet in the same place for too long. As soon as she was at the bottom she started her search just as fiery had as well. She swam the bottom like a fish. She looked over only just able to see fiery. With murcky waters like this it would be hard to find each other again. She swam a bit closer to fiery still with hands still in frout of her so she wouldnt run into a rock or something else, after all she was after a dragon. She was nearly out of breath after a minute of swimming so akira tugged on fierys tail and pointed upwards. Fiery must have known what she meant because fiery had followed her to the top. " this is no good, we can't both be down there at the same time. If someone else comes and looks in the lake then they may find the dragon before us. Stay here and look out for everyone else, I need to talk to the dragon." she dove once again only this time with a trail of blood following close behind her. This may help bring the dragon out if he was in the lake, but it also made akira look like dragon food.

Delair spun to face Joker, looked him up and down and smiled. So you thought you could follow me and beat me to the kill did you? Fine, may the best man win. He spun back to the path he was taking and tried to spy any hint of the dragon's presence. Keep up, Joker. Surely you don't want to lose that million do you?

Akira would feel a strange burning sensation on her skin whenever she dove deeper. Balphagros' venom was tainting the waters. The green dragon was curled up along a sudden drop that descended further below the surface. As Akira swam just by his head, he made his move. The lake bed debris covering his body shook off as draconic eyes opened to see the girl who had saved him, and seemed to be determined to get herself killed for his sake. A clawed hand reached out, closing around her torso. A sort of smile spread across his maw as he darted past Fiery with the girl, if the black dragoness was truly dedicated to her rider, she would follow. As soon as he hit the surface, he acheived enough liftoff to take flight. "Since you refuse to leave me alone, I will take this girl as a bargaining chip!" he roared in triumph, his green wings beating powerfully as he rose higher. Slowly Balphagros circled the group, watching for an aerial attack from below. THe arrogant dragon did not even pay any mind to his captive.

When everybody speed pass Riku he smiled as ran fast as a bullet using he speed powers passing all of them without them seeing him. When he got to the lake he hid up the tree observing the place first. He sees the girl going into the lake. He watches and puts on his hi-tech binocular to see whats going on under the water. When he saw the dragon take off with the girl he leap into the sky and used jet pack wings to follow closely behind the dragon.

"Finally, i need to talk to you. please. i dont wish to hurt you what so ever" How could see prove to him she wasnt going to hurt him. Her arrows on her back. He countiuned to cirlce the skies just above the lake. "look" his face turned to see akira holding her arrows, he looked confused. Akira dropped the arrows. "please, i need to talk to you in private" she groaned for a second. one of his talons had placed around her wound. "please, let me hop on your back and we need to talk. She placed both of her hands on his arm. He was very strong. She did it with ease, she wasnt afraid of this dragon, and he would know that. after all you should never drop your weapon unles you known you dont need it.

Balphagros laughed "Fear!? You think I fear so few of you whelps!?" He could hear something following from behind, turning his neck around he released a torrent of corrosive liquid at the jet-pack using pursuer. He seemed to ignore the puny creature in his grasp, his mind focused on escape and survival. Turning abruptly, he began to head home, which was a deep cavern not too far from where he was flying at the moment. THe green dragon let out another roar, "Follow me if you dare!" he took a short dive towards the ground, his wings folding up quickly as his powerful legs caught the edge of the entrance, ensuring the groups friend was not crushed by the decent or his body. Darkness would envelope the duo as he moved deeper into the long shaft. almost a mile inside, gaps of light could be seen through the darkness, several rooms could be seen lining the tunnel; all of which had been filled with treasure at one time, at least before the angry dragon had been captured.

At the end was the main room, and at the room's entrance, was a long pit filled with what appeared to be filled with the same acidic poison he produced. Balphagros scaled the wall easily, taking care not to drop the creature he held into the deadly trap. Once inside, his visitor would find it to be much like a burrow; besides a makeshift bed in the center, which consisted mainly of tarp and stolen clothing. He stared at her for a long while, trying to think of what he could do next, and noticing the bow strapped to her. a single claws sliced the string [B]"Your an ignorant fool arn't you?"[/B. A confused look spread across his face as he inhaled deeply, he could smell something strange about this little human. Her soul was indeed pure! A rare commodity among most of their kind. Mind you he still would eventually eat the girl, just not for the next couple of days. He kept a line of sight into the tunnel, waiting for them to enter his kill zone above the acidic pool. In a way he hoped her dragon would be the first to enter, she would make a fine mate, if she could be convinced to leave the foolish humans.

As Riku got hit by the dragons attack his jetpack exploded. Riku flew close enough to grab the dragon's tail. He tries to grab it, but he misses and falls to what seemed like his doom. As he fell he saw where the dragon had went down at. He didn't know what to do he was fall and he wasn't even close to the ground yet. He thought about making arm gliders, but he didn't want to lose anything while falling. He is falling faster cause of the 2 big dragon slayer swords. He waits to see what his fate will end up as.

"You are a strong dragon, but where is all your treasure? You should be a least able to collect enought to fill his cave." She looked around. She was placed in the middle of the cave which looked like it was where she would sleep till she was eaten or let go. She contiued to stare at the dragon. His eyes darting everywhere, making sure they would contact the hers. He was different to every dragon she had every meet. His soul was sad and disturbed by something. "What is wrong. Your soul dosen't feel right" she moan slightly and placed her hand around her wound. The poison wasn't fully removed, she though to herself. Delair hadn't gotten it all out. In a few days she would be dead and a easy meal for this dragon.

"Well, it is my parent's fortune after all! I doubt they'd be pleased to find it gone!" Jonan danced along the path way, keeping up with Delair. It seemed he hadn't seen the blade. Jonan felt a sharp pain on his head and looked up to see arrows falling from the sky. "Gyah?!?" He ducked and ran for cover, but a green dragon caught his eye. That must be the dragon we're after... He stood up straight, put his fingers to his lips and whistled in a high pitch. It was his signal to Amythist.

Amythist had met up with Serril and they were talking. He was a very interesting dragon. They were betting on who would find the rogue dragon first, when whistling rang through the forest. It was Jonan calling. She said a quick good bye to Serril and leapt through the trees. She climbed higher into the sky until she spotted where Jonan was. He was in a little clearing and Delair was walking ahead of him. After a pause, she plummeted down to meet them.

Jonan kept an eye on the green dragon as it dived down. He felt a gush of wind and looked behind him to see Amythist landing. She bent low to the ground so that Jonan could ride her. He was riding bare back as the saddle that broke was long gone. He stroked her scales and felt her tendons pull as she crouched, getting ready to take off. He saluted to delair. "Look's like I'll keep the prize! Good luck and have fun." He turned back to Amythist. "Oh, and you have a gigantic spider on your back!" Amythist took off once again and and Jonan directed her to the right direction. We'd make a great team if we got along, Jonan thought. Jonan lean't back, enjoying the short ride before he was likely to get hurt in the landing.

Akira could hear peoples vocie's outside. Everyone must have seen them, but where was fiery? Fiery would be trying with all her might to fins akira though, she would join up with serrill and delair. Delair, she wished he would fins her soon because this dragon looked hungrey.

Everything happened so fast. Fiery had tried to keep up with the dragon that took akira and she had for a bit until they enetered the underground den. She hesitated on for a moment, remembering akira was in there. she carefully climbed down. She could see the acidic pool and climb along the walls trying to find where he had taken akira.

Akira had gotten board waiting for a reply, her head spun. She could hear fiery coming. She had to warn her. So she started to sing. In the song it was about running away and coming back again later. It would warn fiery not to come for a few more days. "And come back again with all of our friends" She finished singing with a sweet sound. She know that she would hear her. "Please talk to me, were you captured a few weeks ago?" she turned back to the llarge green dragon stareing at her

Delair returned the salute as Joker took off and flew away. Stern faced, he grabbed the spider from his back, looked it over and placed it on a tree. Sorty mate, no room here. Try someone else hey? He decided to continue on and kill the dragon. But first he had to pursue it. He whistled and waited. Seconds later, he heard the deep, rumbling footstep of Serrill barrelling through the forest. He stepped aside as Serrill ran past, grabbing Serrill's neck and swing himself up and into an awkward sitting position, surrounded by bags. Onwards they charged making good distance in short time. Though he rarely rode dragons, Delair had an adept grip on his companion's neck and wasn't letting go. The sword was back in the case but it was not fully closed allowing easy access. They burst out of the trees and into a small clearing from which Delair spotted the dragons all flying off in the distance. They continued on, slowly catching up. He didn't want to be late for the party.

As Riku fell down among all the trees the were in the way he could see Fiery going to the place where the dragon was.. He couldn't see Delair or Joker. When he looked down an idea popped into his head. He took out his sword and started spinning like a tornado. The swords glowed as he spin and made a spinning bright light in the sky. It slow he pace of falling so he wouldn't hurt himself. He could see the ground now. He keep spinning so he could get the tree branches out of the way. When he finally got on the ground he sped using his speed powers towards the place where he saw the dragon go to. He stopped from a distance looking at the place and observing.

Jonan braced himself as Amythist landed roughly in front of the cave. With new bumps and bruises he gingerly got off Amythist and staggered over to the cave. He breathed in deeply, breathing in strange fumes that were emitted from the cave. That along with the rough air ride over-ruled Jonan's stomached. After vomiting violently, he wiped his mouth and stood in front of cave again. It was dark and damp, with an unruly smell.

Amythist looked away to give Jonan some privacy. She examined the cave from afar, she could smell poison wafting out through the entrance with her sensitive noise. The poison was fairly strong, if a human was in there for too long, it would be hopeless for them. "We can pretty much bid the girl good bye," Amythist informed Jonan. "There's poisen basically seeping out from the cave. She won't last for very long." Jonan waved away her argument. "We have to rescue her, how else will they gain our trust?" Amythist examined Jonan thoroughly, his face disagreed with his words. He obviously doesn't want to do this. So then why I wonder? She frowned puzzled, but waited for Jonan's orders.

Fiery heard akira's song. She knew she should listen but she wasn't leaving Akira alone. She continued following the sound of akira's voice.

Akira became board waiting for an answer, she had to do something to get the dragon to talk...poison, she could feel the poison entering her body, it was a powerful poison so she would only live fore 2 days tops, and that's with food and lots of sleep, she was getting scared, only by death as everyone is. "please answer me, because if you can't hear it then you must be death, my friends are coming, ARE YOU THAT DRAGON THAT WAS IN A CAGE NOT TO LONG AGO, just off the side of town" she lowered her voice.

(so sorry you guys, Things have been very hecktic lately)
Balphagros was consumed with interest by the scent of the female entering his domain. In a sudden burst of anger he towered over Akira, a low rumbling growl echoeing through the cavern "My treasure is gone because of whelps like you! And so what if I were captured recently, what does it matter? you humans all look the same to me....." Seeing Fiery's approach he backed up slowly, grabbing the girl quickly and holding her close. He could smell his poison still in her vains, the situation could prove problamatic if a deal could not be struck. Balphagros was a product of his enviroment. As a hatchling, savages broe into his family's nest, smashing the eggs of his soon to be born breathren, after taking his parents by supprise and swarming them both. From her vantage point, Akira would be able to see a small scar across his neck. Sitting up against the back wall he held Akira in plain sight of the dragoness, in a calm tone; while holding a claw up to Akira's neck, he said "I suggest you tell your comrades to stay outside, If I have to fight, at least this girl will be taken to the grave with me...."