Tvaylin watched the matriarch carry the goldlings away before she talked to the steel dragon and walked back.
"Tvaylin you are also part of this, but she did antagonize you using the words I used yesterday so I will let you off this time, but this time only," said the matriarch.
She started to instruct Tvaylin of the rules of this training area such as "nights out" it meant go inside their cave for the matriarch to put the stone slabs up blocking entryways.
It wasn't smart to let a whole school of nest champions have freetime unsupervised as a group or even pairs, nest champions hardly got along because everything is a competition too them, making fights easy to start and even blood to spill if not death itself, more than one nest champion wyrmling has found itself dead in the pit or in the gathering area.
Tvaylin was mad for getting scolded because he defended his family name! It wasnt fair in his eyes but he couldn't do much about it, it isn't like he could fight the matriarch.
Other rules were explained to him, no maiming or serious injuries while sparing with his fellow nest mates, no unsupervised fights of any kind, listen to the matriarch or suffer punishment, she sounded ominous as she hinted at how much the goldlings are going to be hating life during their punishment.
Tvaylin learned the rules quickly because he wanted to fight more and only if he followed the rules would he be able to fight.
He listened and acted proper up until he had to fight again. This time he was sparing against a young copper wyrmling.
The copper was a little joyful thing, full of energy and insults. "Hey tvaylin, im Gretz! Ready to loose this spar, I saw you fight the lady and can't wait to thrash you!" He said while taunting Tvaylin.
Tvaylin ignored the comments and insults, and prepared to pounce on the copper. As soon as the matriarch called for them to start Tvaylin pounced but missed the lightning fast copper wyrmling as Gretz jumped back and away all while taunting tvaylin more.
"Oh, you almost got me that time!" Gretz said after the fourth missed pounce by tvaylin. He didn't strike back at all but was trying to exhaust the silver enough so he could get in close and not have to worry as much about Tvaylins super sharp claws.
Tvaylin was frustrated at the nimble coppers antics, he knew what was happening and so he stopped pouncing and he just crouched low and waited for the copper to come in close.
Gretz laughed at tvaylin as he crouched down and stopped chasing the fast wyrmling. He soon noticed that no matter what harmless insult he hurled tvaylin wouldnt budge, he would only turn when the copper tried to run to the side of or behind tvaylin.
Finally the copper was done fooling around, he charged quickly towards tvaylins side in an effort to end the battle.
Tvaylin saw the incoming wyrmling and braced himself for impact, as the copper crashed into him he flung out his claws and grabbed the coppers tiny and unimpressive horn crest before jumping back all in one motion bringing a startled copper with him.
He didn't worry about the coppers claws as his forearms were much stronger and thicker scaled then his opponent's and he easily smashed the coppers chin into the ground with the full weight of his jump and the coppers charge.
It was a brutal and devastating crash as tvaylin let go and rolled backwards with surprising agility landing on his feet. The copper wyrmling wasn't so lucky, when he landed on the stone with his chin it knocked him out instantly making the other wyrmling's cringed in sympathetic pain.
Tvaylin jumped to his feet and pounced on the other wyrmling and pinned his chest to the ground so that even if he woke up he would still have a solid grip on the little troublemaker.
The matriarch watched the fight for any rule breaking and was impressed at the agility,strength and cunning that tvaylin showed. He had the makings of a great frontline fighter, it was like he instinctually knew the quickest and most brutal way to win a fight.
The matriarch had to wonder just what he learned during his short period in his nest cave he spent with his mother.
Tvaylin roared in triumph as Gretz didn't wake up before the matriarch called tvaylin the winner and got distracted up the other spars going on.
After tvaylin walked off the small circle l fighting area that was marked into the rock by what looked like an adult dragons claw. It was over so tvaylin waited for his next turn to fight that day but surprisingly he didn't have anymore immediate challengers so he walked back to his den and started eating once again. He used a lot of energy during that fight and felt famished.
He finished the rest of his breakfast and promptly fell asleep in the blood soaked ground pooled around him.
Tvaylin started dreaming once again, he was in a massive wave of steel wyrmling's. Tvaylin could see all the way to the opposite side of the battle field. Broken bodies of dragons, fledglings and wyrmling's were everywhere. "RUSH FORWARD MY YOUNG FRIENDS!" A massive steel dragon on his side roared out as he too charged at large male dragon from the other clan reaching him with 4 beats of his wings flying past the wyrmling's and fledglings to engage in mortal combat against his counterpart.
Tvaylin watch as his hosts body surged forward with a tide of other wyrmling's. Poison breath was everywhere but it did little to the steel dragon's or their young due to natural resistances of having a poison breath themselfs. Tvaylin watched as wyrmling's were savaged by older fledglings who were then crushed by the fighting adult dragons, it was chaos and he loved it! He wanted nothing more than to be fight the other wyrmling's.
Each side had distinctively different crests so friendly fire was minimal but still happened. Tvaylin's host jumped an the back of one of the other clans wyrmling before grabbing its neck and twisting in a sudden motion killing the wyrmling instantly.