As Azier and Ivis fly through the skies of Rayhaven with a beautiful sunset behind them, Azier yells, "You need to blah blah something training."
"Yeah, I get it. How hard can flying one of these dumb reptiles be?" responded Ivis.
"Hey, dragons are brilliant animals; they're not dumb! Look at him; he understood that." Shouted Azier as Ivis looked down to see his dragon's head tilted, looking at him with an irritated scowl.
"And they can pull off some amazing aerobatic maneuvers. It can actually be pretty difficult to hold on," Azier said.
"Yeah, sure, whatever." Scoffed Ivis as Azier moved in closer.
"Don't be so mean to them; they can understand you fairly well," Azier said. As Vailstrym slowly barreled over Ivis, Azier said, "And you might want to hold on. I see he's got that look in his eye."
Thornfire smirked as Ivis leaned forward a bit. Then, all of a sudden, Thornfire rolled quickly to the right and dove straight down for a bit before pulling a left corkscrew maneuver. Ivis screamed the whole time as Thornfire performed extreme aerobatic maneuvers. As they came in for a landing, Thornfire stopped abruptly, sending Ivis flying over his head and slamming onto the ground. Azier and Vailstrym let out a chuckle.
"Did you just see him?! Look at him! He's just as rude as I was!" Yelled Ivis. "Oh, I've got a word with you, reptile!" Ivis ran over to berate Thornfire, who had a dismissive look.
As the two were yelling at each other, Azier heard screaming in the distance. When she looked over, she saw Vexx attacking at the city's edge. After a few seconds, Ivis and Thornfire stop arguing and notice the commotion, too. They all saw smoke in the distance and Vexx on his wyvern, Ignistra.
Before Ivis could move, Azier was already on her dragon, taking flight and heading straight for Vexx. Ivis called out to her to wait as he got onto his dragon.
Vailstrym and Azier tried to fly as fast as she could to get to Vexx, and when they were close enough, Vailstrym shot a plasma blast at the wyvern. Ignistra saw this at the last moment and dodged the shot. Vexx turned to see the dragonguard flying at him at full speed, with another one trailing behind. Vailstrym and Azier flew head-on to try and knock them out of the sky, but Ignistra was able to move out of the way. As Vailstrym rolled to the right, Ignistra sent a small volley of sharp hollow dragon quills, one embedded into Vailstrym's side.
Vailstrym let out a cry, and Azier looked down to see the quill lodged just under her dragon's left wing. Thornfire and Ivis stopped dead in the air after seeing what had just happened. Vailstrym couldn't continue flying, as the hollow quill was draining an excessive amount of blood.
"Hey girl, fly sideways a bit so there isn't as much blood coming out of this hallow quill. I'll reposition," Azier said. Vailstrym listed to the right a bit as Azier adjusted her position to keep her balance.
As they came for a landing, Azier leapt off just before Vailstrym landed painfully on her side. Azier then ran over to assess the injury. She could not do anything while out in a field without the medical equipment in Rayhaven. She kneeled by Vailstrym, lying on the ground with labored breathing. Azier wasn't sure if her dragon was going to make it.
Ivis and Thornfire flew above Vailstrym and were about to land, but they saw the quill in her side and immediately knew she needed help. So they kept flying and went into Rayhaven to rally some people for help.
As Vexx saw Vailstrym crash to the ground, he knew he just pissed off the Dragonguard more than he wanted to. Vexx did not intend to take out a dragon that day, but despite its risk, he still counted it as a positive outcome. He was not expecting anyone from the Dragonguard to be there so quickly. But now, angering the Rayhaven Dragonguard even more, he decided to call off the distracting attack before they could retaliate. He and the small attacking group retreated into the dense Forgotten Forest.
