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Chapter 9 - All or Nothing

Tvaylin's body relaxed and his intelligence flashed in his eyes before he slowly backed a few wyrmling lengths backward before he pressed himself into a pouncing position before he exploded into forward motion. He dragon dashed as fast as he could towards his sister's lineup, every time his front claws met the stone they shown faintly and gouged deep marks into the hard stone under his claws. After every step, his speed increased rapidly before he came to just in front of his sister he took off to the side where Selentia was bracing for the sudden impact of her brother.

Selentia became startled when Tvaylin flashed to her side and swiped his claws along her side leaving bloody furrows across multiple ribs. She screeched out in pain and tried to bite Tvaylin before she fell to the ground to protect her badly damaged side but missed him as he dodged to the side just as her jaws snapped shut on where his shoulder was seconds before.

Tvaylin jumped towards the food now that he had taken care of the biggest threat, he had a clear chance at getting some food!

This surprised his other sisters who were only now seeing how bad he had hurt the biggest and strongest of them, if he could do that to the biggest what could he do to the smallest, they all thought as they looked at Drestia who was even now glaring in surprise at the male dragon as he jumped towards the food instead of towards them.

Once Tvaylin knew that he had no choice of getting all the food from his sisters but he could grab a chunk of it before his sisters could get him off it, so that's what he did he gave his all and grabbed the haunch of one of the animals before using his claws to sever it from the body.

Tvaylins sisters wouldn't let him get away with his attempted theft of precious food and started to claw and bite his thickly scaled shoulders and back muscles in an attempt to get him to drop his precious cargo.

Blood started to well up in the furrows his sisters had managed to mark on his scales, his scales may have been thicker then his sisters but he was outnumbered and was taking a considerable beating as claws and teeth made him bleed after much effort, Tvaylin managed to remove the hunk of meat as his skin was flayed by his enraged sisters.

Tvaylin fled with his prize in his jaw with blood slpashing down his back and from a large scratch that one of his sisters managed to make on his hind quarters. The sisters gave up the chase as they couldn't leave the food and to make sure Selentia wasn't gravly injured.

Tvaylin fled into the darkness as Lady SilverFang watched the fight with great interest as she though about how Tvaylin immediately knew that he couldn't win this time around and so made a plan to at least get food even though it cost him some of his own flesh, he made a decision and weighed the cons, he knew that he would be injured but his plan was for the future. He had severely injured his big sister with his first swipe with his claws, he had made a choice to only get a piece of the food instead of all of it.

Tvaylin was currently in small crevasse with his prize that he had drug inside to a small cave that Tvaylin had found on one of his many mini adventures. He was taking great big bites out of the flesh as the blood on his back cloted over and the cuts no longer bled his precious life force.

He his incase he was attacked by his sister when he was sleeping, sisncew his mother had declared that they would have to fight over the food he became increasingly concerned about what he was to do, sure he had injured his sister but that would only help him for so long before she recovered on her own.

While Tvaylin was in his small cave his sites where nussling their sister with concern as they brought over chuncks of meat for the injured dragonette to eat as she wined whenever one of her movements stretched the skin on her ribs when she ate before she passed out due to pain and to help in the healing process.

Lady SilverFang watched her son drag his prize inside the small cave and snorted at his behaviour, he was clearly the winner of the confrontation yet he was the one to retreat, she could understand why he did that but she didn't think he was that smart as to scheme already! So when he retreated she though her son was being overly cautious by hiding so far away from where she would drop the food off.

Tvaylin had eaten his fill and immediately fell asleep clutching what was left of the meat he had managed to flee with while vivid dreams once again took over his consciousness. This time he was a might Iron Dragon fighting in a line with his fellow clansmen, Iron dragons of all sizes from great powerful Lords to the fiesty adolescent wyrmlings that had just come into their own wings were fighting to the death against a wave of red dragons and their kin, dragon blood was flowing in great rivers on the burnt and destroyed plane as both sides engaged in slaughter, large Red adult dragons were snapping at a horde of smaller Iron Drakes as they used swarming tactics to kill their larger cousin.

The smaller Dragons died after a single swipe from the large dragons but they were enraged and gave no care to the loss of so many young dragons as they did all they could to kill or maim the attacking dragons. Even if it cost 10 adolescent Iron dragons to kill a single adult their rage was so great that they never stopped biting and clawing until their last breath and even then they would clamp their jaws down in a death lock to hinder their enemies even in death.

The scenes of dragons fighting to the death covered what was left of the plane and a wave of sadness swept towards Tvaylin as he saw saw the senseless death of so many dragons. In this war there were no winners only losers as the deathcount of both sides surpassed the thousands and still the war raged on with no end in sight.