Journeys of Time 27: The Moon of Ebolema
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The days following the experience from the wyvern-riding training had been gentle towards Kin, Juna, and Solan, as each of them had learned to master the wyverns in their ways.
After merely a week of training, Solan had improved the use of her subzero cryomancy, with the help of Jermayn, Jigo, and Leicna, to the point of allowing her to use Grapha's wings like a base for dropping ice armaments.
Juna had gotten even more comfortable with riding and during the projectile dodging, she had begun to do more daredevil maneuvers like flying upside down for periods of time, as well as having picked up on some training from Janch and Hildegaard without anyone knowing.
Kin had made the most progress, as she had become more familiar with her powers, becoming closer to the wyverns and soon even taking to sleeping in one of the wyvern pens at night like she was part of their family.
Every member of the Frostclaw Tribe had been proud of the news of their continued improvements, but what was coming for them next would be truly testing them to the extreme.
One evening after having helped Chaldoa to feed the wyverns a final time before deciding to retire back to their rooms, they would fail to notice the moon slowly darkening with the shadow of leathery wings from the swarm of bats approaching their home.
"You gonna sleep with the wyverns again, Kin?" Chaldoa asked the younger dragoness, who nodded in response, "Yes, I still got a few pens to sleep in. Can't make them feel left out, right?" Chaldoa smiled and petted her head, "That's kind of you. Well, goodnight then."
With the door closing, Kin was heading to the Heartwing pen, slowly climbing in before walking over to one of the wyverns, letting it sniff her hand before leaning against her. Kin had learned that Heartwing wyverns were blind from birth and gained their sight after having their first hatchling.
Looking up at the moon, she could see the dark spots that were the bats approaching, but thinking it was just her groggy mind causing it, Kin slowly fell asleep with more Heartwings joining the pile, unknowing with her about the guest that had arrived, announcing herself to Tenchi by knocking on the window.
And without missing a beat when the morning came, Kin awoke from her sleep, only for her first sight to be Arashi's snout nuzzling into her, a telltale warning about what was about to happen, causing her to quickly get up. "I am awake!"
Arashi was growling proudly before biting onto her tail gently, tugging Kin towards the main building where Tenchi stood, holding a massive bowl of soup for her, "Morning, sis. Here's your breakfast. After that, you got some special training to do." Kin sighed before taking the bowl and slurping it all down quickly, "Morning, sis, and thanks. How much training does it remain before it ends?" Tenchi smirked, "Oh, today will be very exciting, so you don't wanna miss it."
Kin never understood how Tenchi could be so excited about training. She had already gotten down to the most important stuff. The rest could come with time, right? All Kin could do was sigh before making her way to the training grounds, where Grapha and Fullera stood ready, making her confused. "Wait, where is Diamant?"
Tenchi walked over to her and patted her back, "She is sadly sick, so you will be flying with Juna today on Fullera." Kin fought back the blush before she nodded, "Okay, no worries. Hope she is feeling better soon." Tenchi smiled as Kin made her way over to Fullera, who lowered a wing quickly for her, allowing Kin and Juna to climb on board, with Juna taking the reins while Kin held around her waistline, resulting in Juna blushing gently before they followed Solan and Grapha into the air.
When in the air, they were ready for everything that would get thrown at them, which started like all the previous times of snowballs, fireballs, and even a few claps of thunder raging down on them, but they dodged them all well enough to not notice that something or someone was approaching as the sky suddenly grew dark like the night and bats swarmed all around them, making Kin and Juna try to push them away while Solan prepared a quick spell, only for the bats to dodge it and disappearing with the night as Solan called out loudly, "What was that?!"
Juna looked around, "No idea, but it looked like something that the Vampire Queen Violetta did when she visited us a few times." Solan nodded before gasping as someone appeared on Fullera's back, right behind Kin, very gently tracing a claw on the side of her neck, "My, my, what a delicious-looking one you are."
Juna began to smirk before laughing, much to Solan's and Kin's surprise, "I think I know who that is. Get off the wyvern's back." The person slowly disappeared in a swarm of bats that gathered in midair in front of them, revealing a regally-dressed bat that everyone knew well in the family, excluding the ones who had never met her. "My apologies, I need to introduce myself. I am Vampire Archduchess Maria Redfeather, her bloody highness' younger sister." she introduced herself while bowing, her wings keeping her still before she looked up at them. "And I am your opponent today, Solan the Lunarfreezer!"
Solan looked at Maria before lifting a hand to try and send a cold snowball at her, but the sudden screech vibrated the snowball into powder, shocking Solan a little before Maria flew right at her and with a practiced action hooked her across the chest, diving right towards the ground while Kin jumped over to take Grapha's reins as they followed them, just in time to witness an impact with the ground that left snow being scattered around the area.
Solan lay in the middle of the crater they had created as Maria got up with just a minor scratch on her cheek from a shard of ice going past her, "Hmm, impressive. You used powdered snow to lessen the impact enough." Maria moved back quickly before Solan got onto her feet and looked at her adversary, quickly preparing walls of ice around her, which Maria shattered with a single screech, proving a true challenge for her.
Solan quickly formed six ice javelins around her before binding them together into a serpentine ice dragon that she rode around Maria, who tried to screech out, but missed her mark completely, forcing her to take flight, something that was denied by Solan quickly freezing her wings, grounding the bat to force her to run from her, "Not so tough now, are you?"
Maria thought she was having this under control, but Solan was being way beyond what she was used to dealing with after becoming a vampire herself. But with Solan having left her wings unable to use, Maria had to switch to using another weapon, which got exposed when her cape got thrown in the wind and Maria drew her two pistols, aiming them at Solan. "Fine, let us dance!"
Solan had only heard of these manaless spell projectile launchers, or guns as they were called, but seeing them up close was a completely new experience and when the bullets rained against her dragon, she had to abandon the previous plan in favor of a new one, which forced her to quickly raise another wall of ice, a lot thicker than the previous ones, her focus being tested before she made a clone that came running out from behind the wall, heading straight for Maria, who shot it in the knee. "Got you now... huh?!"
Tenchi and the others had followed them and gathered to see the fight between Solan and Maria, each pushing the other one to the breaking point. Maria's quick tactical switch caught Solan by surprise, only for her to return the surprise as Maria realized that both her guns were out of ammunition in the magazines, allowing Solan to come out and make a gesture with one hand in a silly mockery, "Bang. Bang. Bang."
Maria screeched slightly in annoyance before realizing that she had not brought any magazines with her, but her eyes widened as Solan placed her other hand on the wall, turning it extremely cold. "Try and shatter this, I dare you!"
The mocking from Solan had reached the point where Maria's usually calm nature finally broke and she screeched loudly enough to crack the wall before fragments fell forward, giving Maria time to realize her mistake when she dodged fragments being fired out of the wall, each one of them becoming faster before an ice javelin went past her with the last fragment following, causing a silence to occur as Peridot and Hildegaard stood with their mouths open in shock while Tenchi stood with the javelin going through her cybernetic eye, looking over at her wives, "Can't say I am surprised, it was going to happen sooner or later." The words came out before she fell forward and Maria rushed over, "Tenchi!"
Kin's hair fell over her face before she looked up towards Solan, "What have you done?" Solan looked over at Kin, who was looking at her with eyes filled with anger, both Peridot and Hildegaard grabbed her to quickly pull her back, "Kin Shimo, calm down, she didn't mean to do that. It was an accident."
Kin looked at them before pushing them off her, walking over towards Solan with pure anger fueling her. "I asked, what have you done?!" Solan began to move backward before she heard a loud growl, her body freezing in place and for the second time since facing Tenchi's wrath, she was now unable to get away from Tenchi's sister and soon the intensity of the sun itself came down onto the planet as Kin transformed in front of everyone's eyes into an Angelshell wyvern, leaving everyone shocked before Hildegaard shifted into a Bladetail wyvern to try and push Kin away, only for the loud growl to make her cower in fear when Kin took a deep breath, preparing to unleash something.
It was like out of the blue when Maria came up right in front of Kin's muzzle to time it well to force it to shut when Kin unleashed a blast of light. Maria was caught in its discharge as she flew back into a tree, with Kin turning back to normal and hitting a rock, forcing them to end that day's training early.
When the night came rolling in, Kin sat in the pen with the Divinescales, her legs close to her chest as she was crying while two of the wyverns nuzzled her, only for soft footsteps to slowly approach and Maria's soft voice speaking to her. "Hey, you okay there?" Kin looked up at Maria before lowering her head, "Please, just leave me alone." Maria shook her head before taking a seat next to her, "I can't do that. I am the reason after all that you got fake fangs now." Kin had been the first patient to the family surgeon in the aftermath, with two fangs and seven other teeth having been dislodged and buried up in her palate, with Tenchi having lost an eye, but nothing else.
"I said, leave me alone." Kin held her legs closer before feeling herself having to lean against Maria, who sighed, "You know what Tenchi used to call me when she was young?" Kin whimpered, but asked, "What did she call you?" Maria rolled her eyes before answering, "Big sis MarMar." Kin couldn't avoid but giggle at the nickname, causing Maria to begin tickling her, "Oh, you find that funny?!" Maria kept tickling her while Juna stood a bit away without them noticing and smiled, "Those two are so precious together."
Back inside the main building of the grounds, Tenchi was opening the door to the emergency room, holding a hair dryer out to Azura, who quickly grabbed it, "Thank you, now I can begin the treatment of Solan." Tenchi looked at her before sighing, "Okay, tell me how bad it is." Azura turned away from Tenchi to hide a soft smirk, "The patient suffers from hematochezia due to cryogenic cone insertion." Tenchi groaned, "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!" Azura quickly called out the reply Tenchi had not expected, "Yes, I fuck your mother and she is tight!" Tenchi was about to slap her before Azura opened the second door to show Solan laying on her belly with the lower body standing up and an icicle sticking out from under her tail, allowing Tenchi to add two and two together before facepalming, "By Lòeón's big balls, sis!"
The End.