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Chapter 16 - Learning Curve

He was flying high in the sky with white mountain tops in a wing of a few other youths, they were currently watching a red drake with an eleven rider in polished dragon scale armour fight against a big gold dragon, fire was spat from both dragons in An attempt to injure thin parts of scales or wing membranes. The gold dragon had the advantage as it was bigger but the Elven rider was using its giant bastard sword to cleave wounds into whatever he could reach of the gold dragon.

Tvaylin's host grew angry at seeing the rider on the red drake, "Traitor!!!" His host roared as he dove followed closely by his wing of silvers, he breathed his cold Icey breath onto the back of the fire drake before latching on and biting at the elf.

Tvaylin felt the bite of the blade into the side of his face as his host fought the blade wielder before his brethren crashed into the giant red drake that was still latched onto the bigger gold dragon, one silver dragon went for the big red's shoulder and the other went in claws first grabbing the small elf from the red's back and throwing the puny insect into open air.

Tvaylin awoke adruptly from his dream as fresh kill was dropped from a stone hole in the roof as it landed right next to him. He quickly finished what was left of his previous meal before ripping the deer's belly and going for the heart and kidneys. He was covered from snout to tail in guys and entrails by the time he got all the goodies inside.

Shortly after his meal the stone slab at his door was pulled away and he heard his name called by a melodic voice, not unlike his mother, "Tvaylin come on out".

Tvaylin strutted out still covered in flesh and gore as his curiosity got the better of him. When he came out he saw a giant female gold dragon sitting in the center of the depression as she removed slabs and called out the wyrmlings inside.

When he emerged the gold dragon quickly swivelled her head over in shock at just how much blood coated him. She sighed as she figured she had another barbaric wyrmling to train.

Tvaylin marched right up to her and the other wyrmlings that were clean moved out of his way, "Yes? You wanted me?" He asked in a polite voice contrary to how he looked once again stunning the gold dragon.

She shook her head before replying, "Y…yes I did call you out but why are you so bloody?!"

Tvaylin cocked his head sideways before asking, "How else do you get the yummy bits inside?" He was utterly stumped by how they could be so stupid.

"HOLY SHIT! Do you honestly believe that you have to crawl into the body to get at those parts! Lord Bahamut please grant me the strength to deal with the latest little bastard that was forced upon me to look after!" She complained in an almost nasal voice.

Tvaylin's anger spiked at being called a bastard, He charged at the matriarch that was complaining, she noticed just before tvaylin attacked with all four claws out and into one of her front wrists he started ripping with his back legs but even their great strength they couldn't lifteven one scale from her flesh but as soon as he tried ripping his front claws in he slowly started to sink them THROUGH the scale and it melted like butter in waves.

The matriarch quickly pried the wyrmling off her wrist and much to her surprise the scale went with his arms as his hands were still embedded half way through.

This new wyrmling can't be more then a few months old! What in the World Mana was going on! How could he rip off one of her little scales like that!

Tvaylin struggled to free himself after being put down while angry hissing at the matriarch, "I AM NO BASTARD YOU…you…" he stumbled over his words trying to remember any names he heard his mother say but instead just hissed in anger!

The matriarch just sighed before apologizing to the tiny dragon, "You are right tvaylin, and I'm sorry for calling you a bastard but you have a lot to learn and not very long to learn it." She said hinting at what the future would bring for him.

Tvaylin didn't miss what she said and quickly calmed down, he was now more curious than ever before. He was a smart little wyrmling and slowly replayed her words in his head, "Why don't I have long to learn?" He asked

"That's enough questions for now Tvaylin, you will come to Learn more in the future, but for now let me introduce myself and explain why you are here in my care. I am called the nest champion matriarch, I look after all of the nest champions both the males and the very rare female nest champions. First It is my job to teach you the basics of our society and what it means to be a nest champion, after that is done I will train you in Dragon ground combat and a few other things like working together and how we fight at a race!

Tvaylin was suddenly interested in what she was saying and couldn't help but become excited once again.

Seeing as she had calmed down the ball of anger she went about letting by the other wyrmling out into e open and they all politely walked to the group of wyrmlings before sitting down waiting for the matriarch to finish opening slabs.

She called each of them out by name before going to the next one, she was soft spoken as to not scare the wyrmling awake if they were able to sleep over the door being opened.

"Come here my little wyrmling's come and sit, we will be introducing our newest member today, his name is Tvaylin SilverFang,"she said with a kind voice. "He may be a little rough around the edges but we were all their at one point so please try to be patient with him, his father passed away in the war and was raised to be a bit more aggressive than normal by his mother." She was thinking about what Azephail told her after he dropped tvaylin off and closed his door, how he had eaten his brother and was forced to fight against his sisters for food, this was a unique way of encouraging him to grow fast but it was a method from the distant past.