A group of four are walking the countryside on a mission for their queen to capture all the dragons with in Feria's borders. After having suffered three devastating town fires with in the last month caused by frenzied dragons the queen had picked her best team to to take care of them.
As they make their way at an easy pace a sudden shriek peirces the air and they look up to see a blue and green dragon weaving through the clouds. They jump from the cart and ready there positions when they notice the dragon's foot is closed tightly together.
"The dragons got something in it's claws", a man yells to his traveling companions as he draws back his bow preparing to fire an arrow at the gigantic beast.
"Anything in the beasts claws is long dead", a female voice replies coldly as she uses her magic to create a shield around her group. The archer looses his arrow and it sinks itself into the dragons leg causing it to release its prey with a growl while in the sky.
"Catch is Lara, catch it", the archer yells watching the dot begin to take the form of a person. The sorceress grumbles at the command before yelling a spell and a vine shoots from the ground catching the falling body but not slowing it down quite enough for it not to take some damage
The dragon flys back around and focuses on the group of four that had injured it. A fierce growl from the beast shakes the ground and a stream of fire is released along both sides of the group.
The protective bubble the woman had cast keeps her and her friends safe from the dragons fire which further angers the beast causing it to spray even more flames around the group. The bubble holds up to the attack but disappears shortly after.
"Torin if you're going to do something its about time you do it", the woman named Lara yells annoyed. A tall muscular man jumps from the bubble and whistles as he runs. The sound of a large bird can be heard as a large griffin darts from the sky landing gracefully in front of the man. With movements like that of a giant cat the man jumps on its back with a heavy sword slung around his back. The griffin begins to run and then starts to flap its long wings taking off into the air.
The man named Torin steers the griffin towards the dragon just getting within its wing span. In a split second the man leaps from the griffin to the back of the dragon with an insane fearlessness that could be labeled as stupidity. The dragons flying becomes frenzied with panic but can not shake off the crazed man. He releases his heavy sword from behind him and whispers an encantation in elvish that coats the sword with a temporary paralyzing agent and then stabs it into the back of the dragon. The dragon let's out a shriek and crashes to the ground.
Lara the sorceress uses her magic to strap the dragon down and put it to sleep quickly preventing more injuries and damage to her team and the terrain.
"The queen wants me to revert it back to an egg so I'm going to need about an hour for this spell. She wants to train them from hatchlings that way there will be less attacks on towns and dragons won't be hunted till extinction. I can handle it from here if you guys want to check and see what was in it's claws", Lara tells her friends as she begins her work.
Torin the wood elf and the Tarrow the archer walk towards where the body fell followed closely by the warlock Ezra. They make there way to the body and stare in shock at the sight before them. A beautiful young woman dressed in what was once probably an expensive silk dress. A small patch of dried blood matted in her black hair at the side of her head. Amazingly her chest rose and fell evenly with gentle breaths
"She's alive", Torin shouted excitedly before scooping her up bridle style carrying her to their wagon that held their supplies.
"Lay her down on the cot and I can see to her wounds", Ezra says rolling up his sleeves getting prepared to start. Torin and Tarrow go to help Lara who is focused on the rewinding spell. Ezra cleans the wound with alcohol and wraps a clean bandage around her head. The woman stays unconscious the entire time. He sees her teeth chattering and feels her forehead to discover she is running a fever most likely due to the concussion. He dips a clothe in water and lays it on the woman's forehead which seems to cause her a small discomfort because she scrunches her nose.
Ezra smiles at her scrunched nose thinking she looks adorable. "Just who are you", he asks as he brings a calloused hand to her cheek tenderly. Its at the point when he notices a golden lily pendent hanging from her neck.
Finally the rewinding spell is complete and Torin packs a large dragon egg that weighs nearly a hundred pounds into the cart. Ezra sits with his eyes closed by their mysterious patient trying to dig into her subconscious but is unsuccessful. Opening his eyes he sees his team all look at the young woman curiously.
"How is she", Lara asks her brother. Her brother feels of the woman's forehead again and the fever has almost subsided.
"She seems to be ok it will be difficult to say for certain though until she regains consciousness", he tells his sibling. "Her hands and feet are smooth so she is probably from a noble family. It's honestly a miracle that the dragons claws didn't tear into her".
"Are we going to bring her with us on our search", Ezra asks Lara. She nods her head in confirmation.
"We don't have time to make a special trip to a village to just drop her off. She can stay with us till she is able to leave on her own or we make it to a village. Whichever comes first", she tells the group.