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Crona and Nitrus walked back in silence. Neither really knew what to say to the other. Crona had nearly embarrassed herself in front of his colleagues and made a city-wide incident by using magic in front of them. Nitrus, on the other hand, felt like he couldn't ignore what the dragoness had said in their conference chamber. The certainty in her voice had sent his mind into a nervous frenzy and it had taken all his control in order to keep from making his own outburst. As they continued to walk, he looked down at her. Crona felt his eyes on her but refused to say anything. The ice guardian could tell that she knew something but in his mind he felt it would be rude to ask her, especially after such an incident.
"Crona," Nitrus broke the tense silence trying to sound as gentle as possible. "Are you alright?"
Crona continued to stare straight ahead, resisting the urge to snort in spite of him. "I'll be fine," she muttered. She sighed and shook her head to herself. It really wasn't Nitrus' fault. He hadn't said anything to her personally, but part of Crona felt like he had not done anything to help her.
Nitrus' shoulders slumped slightly. He wanted to help her as he would his own daughters but part of him refrained from getting too involved.
The two dragons finally came to Nitrus' home and entered to find the family lying about the main chamber. Thundra sat on her cushion with little Maya curled up between her front legs, sleeping peacefully.
"Hi, Dad." Terra smiled, lifting her head as they entered the front door. She had been curled around Amp, who was fast asleep beside her. "How was the meeting?" Nitrus could only watch as Crona walked across the main chamber towards Terra's room.
"Please excuse me," Crona murmured before walking up the steps and disappearing from their view.
"Everything alright honey?" Thundra asked with a confused look.
"Y-yeah," Nitrus replied, snapping out of a light trance. "Just a bit fatigued." He looked down at his mate as she got up to nuzzle her snout under his chin. Thundra wrapped her wings around his muscular shoulders and licked his cheek. "How's the black dragon doing?" Nitrus' expression grew stern as he looked back at the guest room.
Thundra paused and looked back at the curtain covering the doorway. "Well, he's stable. He has a lot of wounds that are infected but my medicines will remedy that." She looked back at Nitrus with a worried look. "But some of his more severe wounds are extremely deep. They're like no other wounds I've ever seen before."
"Like they were caused by something else?" Nitrus raised a brow skeptically.
"Yes, exactly." Thundra nodded. Then she narrowed her eyes at her mate. "How did you know?" Nitrus shook his head and Thundra stroked his cheek, comfortingly understanding what was going through his head.
Off to the side, Terra watched her parents in nervous anticipation. She leaned down beside Amp and kissed his cheek. The lightning dragon twitched slightly but didn't wake. Terra smiled at his cuteness and breathed a cloud of ice onto his neck. Amp's eyes snapped open and he jolted upright with a startled yelp, clawing at the ice on his neck.
Terra giggled and rose up off the cushion and walked past him, dragging her tail along his hide. Amp shuddered and grinned excitedly and followed after Terra. The ice dragoness led him back to her room and paused outside her curtain. She stopped and locked her eyes with his. Amp cocked his head sideways as he tried to read her expression. Terra jerked her head towards her room and shook her head slightly. Amp blinked once then realized what she was asking.
Terra and Amp ducked under the curtain and walked towards Crona, who was out on the balcony. By now the sun had disappeared over the horizon and the lanterns inside the dragon pavilions were all that lit up the night beneath the stars. The white dragoness stared out at the city before her, lost in her thoughts and feelings. Seeing her like this hurt Terra and she tried to come up with something to say other than asking if she was okay.
"Crona, are you alright?" She asked and squeaked when she realized what she said.
"Huh?" Crona turned and looked at them as if she hadn't noticed them before. "Oh, sorry. I... just... I just wanted some time to think to myself."
"That's alright, I understand." Terra nodded, placing a comforting paw on Crona's back. "But if you need anything at all, just ask me or Amp. We'll be happy to help you. Right?" She glanced at her future life mate over her shoulder.
"Uh! Right!" Amp nodded quickly, still waking up from his nap.
"Thank you, Terra. And you too, Amp." Crona forced a smile to try and convince them that she was fine. "I appreciate the offer more than you know." Terra only smiled and turned back to Amp and motioned for him to follow her. The two of them found Nitrus and Thundra in the guest room looking down at the unconscious black dragon.
"So what did the council say?" Amp asked with a serious tone in his voice. Nitrus turned, surprised to hear from the young trainee.
"It doesn't matter." Nitrus sighed, looking down at the black dragon with a dark expression on his face.
Amp stepped in front of him, demanding his attention. "If I'm going to be a guardian some day, I need to be informed when something is going on, Nitrus. I can't protect others without having as much information as possible."
Nitrus stared down at him and thought for a long moment.
"Dad!" Terra spoke sternly, finally getting him to speak.
"The council is disturbed," Nitrus replied. "They believe that Crona may be deeply troubled or have been traumatized by something in her past and that she may need some help."
"What?" Terra gasped; shocked that she had heard such a thing from her own father.
"But what could have happened to make them think such a thing?" Thundra asked, almost insulted that the council would say such a thing about Crona.
"Look, maybe we should all just get some sleep and we can talk about this in the morning." Nitrus shook his head and breathed a light cloud of frost.
Terra and Amp exchanged disappointed looks. Both dragons hated being left out of anything involving their family. Never the less they turned and walked back to Terra's room. Much to their surprise, Crona was already fast asleep on the balcony. As Terra settled down on their pillow, Amp grabbed an extra blanket and draped it over Crona's back. The white dragoness twitched in her slumber and curled into a tighter coil.
"Arcadia," She whimpered in her sleep, a few tears escaping from her eyelids and running down her snout.
Amp twisted his mouth in sympathy for the dragoness before turning back to his bed.
"Is she okay?" Terra asked looking up at him with sleepy eyes.
"I think we all just need to rest," Amp replied and kissed her forehead. "I'm sure we'll figure this all out once we're refreshed."
"Alright Ampy," Terra smiled and kissed his snout. "I trust you." The two lovers curled close to one another and before long were fast asleep.
Back in the guest room Nitrus continued to stare down at the black dragon. Thundra had ducked out of the room for a few minutes but returned shortly after.
"I just finished putting Maya to bed," she announced softly. "And Terra is with Amp and Crona in her room." Nitrus didn't reply. Thundra sighed and walked up beside her mate and brushed his side with her shoulders. "I know what you're thinking." She started. "And I'm worried too. But let's not dwell on anything until it happens. Promise?"
Nitrus was surprised by his mate's request, but looking into her eyes he couldn't help but give in to her spell. "I promise." He nodded.
Crona lay on the sand for several hours. The white dragoness had been unconscious when her body had washed up on the beach but the sudden overwhelming feeling of nausea brought her back.
Crona opened her eyes and immediately hurled the contents of her stomach out onto the beach; most of it being salt water. The dragoness curled into a ball, trying to get the pain in her stomach to subside as she gasped for air. Her body was physically drained from lack of food but her mind was wide awake now and concentrating on just breathing.
As Crona lay gasping for air she let her eyes scan the area around her. She had washed up on a tiny beach on the edge of a cove. The waves gently lapped at her hind quarters, cooling her off after a harsh wake up. It took the white dragoness a good hour to get the mental strength to order her body onto its feet. Her first two attempts met in failure as the wet sand slid out from under her paws. After getting up for the third time, keeping her body low to the ground and spreading her weight out, Crona was finally able to get a good look at her surroundings. The cove was at the base of some rocky cliffs; a small narrow passageway being the only way down or up from the shoreline.
The white dragoness took an experimental step forward. When she didn't topple over she took another, and then another. Each time she shifted her weight as she moved she inspected her body to make sure no serious injuries had occurred while she was unconscious. Step by step she made her way towards the crevice in the rocks. When she got to the small opening she noticed that there were stairs leading up the cliff-side. Feeling more comfortable walking, she ascended the stairwell. The higher she climbed the more her legs began to tire. Crona paused to test her wings out; they were uncomfortably sore. With a loud sigh she continued climbing; not being able to fly was extremely unpleasant when she was used to doing so.
The passageway was long and narrow. Crona scraped herself several times on the walls but paid little mind to it. She was merely content with getting away from this place. Up ahead she could see a light drawing closer and closer. As she emerged from the crevice in the rocks, her eyes grew wide and her jaw fell open. Before her was a sight that defied all the rules of physics and magic she had ever studied. Masses of rock floated in the stale air like they had been stopped by time in mid-fall. This bizarre place seemed as if it had been untouched by the passage of time itself. Yet, in the back of her mind, Crona felt the nagging sensation of familiarity.
"This place feels like a dreamscape," She said to herself as she continued along the path, staring at the floating rocks the whole time. As she walked on, she came to a large temple that had been carved into the very mountain itself. The design seemed highly dignified, yet among the surrounding rock it seemed rather plain as if humbling itself to the rest of the world. There were no doors and Crona's curiosity was too great to resist entering.
Inside, the temple was honeycombed with long hallways; the designs that were carved into the walls resembling the ones on the exterior. For a long time the only sounds were Crona's breathing and the clicking of her onyx talons on the stone floor. The atmosphere of the temple gave off an eerie feeling and a sense of fear began to linger in her mind. The dragon statues that stood at the end of each corridor seemed like they could come to life at any moment to drive her from this strange place.
She had not realized that she had been wandering around aimlessly for a couple hours when she came to an unexplored hallway. The white dragoness spotted a faint light at the end which opened into an enormous chamber. In the middle of the room was towering hourglass that was emanating the light which she had seen from down the hall. But the hourglass was not what got Crona's attention. She craned her neck back to see rows upon rows of book shelves stacked towards the ceiling, which seemed to fade into darkness beyond the light of the hourglass. Crona could immediately see that these were not just any ordinary books; they had names and places inscribed into their elaborately designed covers. This was a collection of history; dragon history.
Crona gasped in awe, her wide blue eyes taking in the scene for everything it was.
"Wow..."
Crona snapped awake and her head shot up. "That's it!" She exclaimed, suddenly getting an idea in her mind. She jumped to her feet, her wings tossing the blanket Amp had draped over her off. Crona looked back inside to see Amp and Terra sound asleep, curled around each other in a loving embrace with their tails intertwined. The white dragoness crept up to Amp and gave him a slight nudge with her snout.
"Amp? Hey, wake up," She whispered but the lightning dragon didn't budge. Crona tried again to rouse him from his slumber but Amp seemed almost determined to stay where he was. Crona paused and sat on her haunches to think for a moment as she stared down at him. Another idea popped into her head and she grinned almost evilly. She reached out with a paw and grabbed a hold of Amp's sensitive quills and gave them a light squeeze. The lightning dragon jerked away and Crona clapped a paw over his mouth to silence his startled yelp. "Shh..." Crona hissed, releasing him.
Amp groaned and lifted his head to look at the white dragoness sleepily. "Crona? W-what are you doing?" He looked past her and outside the room. It was still dark out with the very beginnings of light coming up over the horizon.
"I need your help with something Amp. Does your city have a library or something where they keep records of our history?"
"Y-yeah." Amp yawned and sat up to rub the sleep from his eyes. "It's in the upper levels of the city towards the main temple. Why do you ask?"
"I need you to take me there. There's something very important I have to find."
"What? Right now?" Amp almost whimpered. He wasn't a stranger to getting up early for training but going to the library was the last thing he wanted to be rising before the crack of dawn for.
"Yes, right now," Crona hissed again, more urgently this time. Amp sighed and his shoulders slumped. Crona realized what she was asking and looked him in the eye. "Please Amp. It's really important to me that I find what I'm looking for. You don't even have to stay. If you just lead me to it I'd be more than grateful."
Amp was silent for a moment before sighing again. "Alright. If it means that much to you then I guess I'll do it just this once."
"Thank you." Crona smiled, her excitement returning to her hushed voice.
Amp leaned back down and nuzzled Terra until she cracked one eye open. "I'll be back soon. I promise." He kissed her on the cheek before getting to his feet.
"Amp? Wh-where are you going? It's so early," Terra mumbled, lifting her head and squinting at him with sleepy eyes.
"I'm taking Crona to the library real quick. I'll be back as soon as we're done there."
"Ok," Terra glanced at Crona before giving Amp a quick peck on his lips. "Be careful Ampy." She lay back down and Amp covered her with their blanket again before turning to Crona.
"Alright let's go," he nodded, stretching his wings and popping his joints.
Crona moved to the side and let him take the lead. The two dragons soared almost silently over the still sleeping city. It took about ten minutes of flying before Amp glided down to a large pavilion shaped like a Greek coliseum but with a domed roof over it. Crona admired the decorations in the torchlight as Amp led her inside. There were only a couple other dragons inside; elders who nodded politely to the young ones as they passed by.
"Here we are," Amp announced, trying to keep his voice from echoing in the great hall. He stopped and turned to the white dragoness who stared up at the stained glass dome with wide eyes. The majesty of this library was almost overwhelming to her. Everywhere she looked she could see stacks, rows and piles of books waiting for her to explore their contents. Crona didn't realize it but she was grinning from ear to ear for the first time in a long time.
"Crona?" Amp grabbed her attention and snapped her out of her transfixed state.
"Huh?" Crona turned and blinked several times. She had almost forgotten that he had been there. "Sorry, did you say something?"
Amp only stifled a yawn to not appear to be rude. "I was just saying that this is the place." He gave one last look around before turning to the front entrance again. "Well, if there's anything else you need. Let me know." He yawned and started to walk away.
Crona was silent for a second as she looked around. There were so many shelves of books she didn't know where to start. Quickly she turned back to Amp.
"Actually, there is something you can do for me."
Amp froze in mid-step. Slowly he turned back to face the white dragoness who had a serious look on her face with a subtle hint of a grin.
The lightning dragon swallowed hard. "Uh oh."
"Crona," Nitrus broke the tense silence trying to sound as gentle as possible. "Are you alright?"
Crona continued to stare straight ahead, resisting the urge to snort in spite of him. "I'll be fine," she muttered. She sighed and shook her head to herself. It really wasn't Nitrus' fault. He hadn't said anything to her personally, but part of Crona felt like he had not done anything to help her.
Nitrus' shoulders slumped slightly. He wanted to help her as he would his own daughters but part of him refrained from getting too involved.
The two dragons finally came to Nitrus' home and entered to find the family lying about the main chamber. Thundra sat on her cushion with little Maya curled up between her front legs, sleeping peacefully.
"Hi, Dad." Terra smiled, lifting her head as they entered the front door. She had been curled around Amp, who was fast asleep beside her. "How was the meeting?" Nitrus could only watch as Crona walked across the main chamber towards Terra's room.
"Please excuse me," Crona murmured before walking up the steps and disappearing from their view.
"Everything alright honey?" Thundra asked with a confused look.
"Y-yeah," Nitrus replied, snapping out of a light trance. "Just a bit fatigued." He looked down at his mate as she got up to nuzzle her snout under his chin. Thundra wrapped her wings around his muscular shoulders and licked his cheek. "How's the black dragon doing?" Nitrus' expression grew stern as he looked back at the guest room.
Thundra paused and looked back at the curtain covering the doorway. "Well, he's stable. He has a lot of wounds that are infected but my medicines will remedy that." She looked back at Nitrus with a worried look. "But some of his more severe wounds are extremely deep. They're like no other wounds I've ever seen before."
"Like they were caused by something else?" Nitrus raised a brow skeptically.
"Yes, exactly." Thundra nodded. Then she narrowed her eyes at her mate. "How did you know?" Nitrus shook his head and Thundra stroked his cheek, comfortingly understanding what was going through his head.
Off to the side, Terra watched her parents in nervous anticipation. She leaned down beside Amp and kissed his cheek. The lightning dragon twitched slightly but didn't wake. Terra smiled at his cuteness and breathed a cloud of ice onto his neck. Amp's eyes snapped open and he jolted upright with a startled yelp, clawing at the ice on his neck.
Terra giggled and rose up off the cushion and walked past him, dragging her tail along his hide. Amp shuddered and grinned excitedly and followed after Terra. The ice dragoness led him back to her room and paused outside her curtain. She stopped and locked her eyes with his. Amp cocked his head sideways as he tried to read her expression. Terra jerked her head towards her room and shook her head slightly. Amp blinked once then realized what she was asking.
Terra and Amp ducked under the curtain and walked towards Crona, who was out on the balcony. By now the sun had disappeared over the horizon and the lanterns inside the dragon pavilions were all that lit up the night beneath the stars. The white dragoness stared out at the city before her, lost in her thoughts and feelings. Seeing her like this hurt Terra and she tried to come up with something to say other than asking if she was okay.
"Crona, are you alright?" She asked and squeaked when she realized what she said.
"Huh?" Crona turned and looked at them as if she hadn't noticed them before. "Oh, sorry. I... just... I just wanted some time to think to myself."
"That's alright, I understand." Terra nodded, placing a comforting paw on Crona's back. "But if you need anything at all, just ask me or Amp. We'll be happy to help you. Right?" She glanced at her future life mate over her shoulder.
"Uh! Right!" Amp nodded quickly, still waking up from his nap.
"Thank you, Terra. And you too, Amp." Crona forced a smile to try and convince them that she was fine. "I appreciate the offer more than you know." Terra only smiled and turned back to Amp and motioned for him to follow her. The two of them found Nitrus and Thundra in the guest room looking down at the unconscious black dragon.
"So what did the council say?" Amp asked with a serious tone in his voice. Nitrus turned, surprised to hear from the young trainee.
"It doesn't matter." Nitrus sighed, looking down at the black dragon with a dark expression on his face.
Amp stepped in front of him, demanding his attention. "If I'm going to be a guardian some day, I need to be informed when something is going on, Nitrus. I can't protect others without having as much information as possible."
Nitrus stared down at him and thought for a long moment.
"Dad!" Terra spoke sternly, finally getting him to speak.
"The council is disturbed," Nitrus replied. "They believe that Crona may be deeply troubled or have been traumatized by something in her past and that she may need some help."
"What?" Terra gasped; shocked that she had heard such a thing from her own father.
"But what could have happened to make them think such a thing?" Thundra asked, almost insulted that the council would say such a thing about Crona.
"Look, maybe we should all just get some sleep and we can talk about this in the morning." Nitrus shook his head and breathed a light cloud of frost.
Terra and Amp exchanged disappointed looks. Both dragons hated being left out of anything involving their family. Never the less they turned and walked back to Terra's room. Much to their surprise, Crona was already fast asleep on the balcony. As Terra settled down on their pillow, Amp grabbed an extra blanket and draped it over Crona's back. The white dragoness twitched in her slumber and curled into a tighter coil.
"Arcadia," She whimpered in her sleep, a few tears escaping from her eyelids and running down her snout.
Amp twisted his mouth in sympathy for the dragoness before turning back to his bed.
"Is she okay?" Terra asked looking up at him with sleepy eyes.
"I think we all just need to rest," Amp replied and kissed her forehead. "I'm sure we'll figure this all out once we're refreshed."
"Alright Ampy," Terra smiled and kissed his snout. "I trust you." The two lovers curled close to one another and before long were fast asleep.
Back in the guest room Nitrus continued to stare down at the black dragon. Thundra had ducked out of the room for a few minutes but returned shortly after.
"I just finished putting Maya to bed," she announced softly. "And Terra is with Amp and Crona in her room." Nitrus didn't reply. Thundra sighed and walked up beside her mate and brushed his side with her shoulders. "I know what you're thinking." She started. "And I'm worried too. But let's not dwell on anything until it happens. Promise?"
Nitrus was surprised by his mate's request, but looking into her eyes he couldn't help but give in to her spell. "I promise." He nodded.
Crona lay on the sand for several hours. The white dragoness had been unconscious when her body had washed up on the beach but the sudden overwhelming feeling of nausea brought her back.
Crona opened her eyes and immediately hurled the contents of her stomach out onto the beach; most of it being salt water. The dragoness curled into a ball, trying to get the pain in her stomach to subside as she gasped for air. Her body was physically drained from lack of food but her mind was wide awake now and concentrating on just breathing.
As Crona lay gasping for air she let her eyes scan the area around her. She had washed up on a tiny beach on the edge of a cove. The waves gently lapped at her hind quarters, cooling her off after a harsh wake up. It took the white dragoness a good hour to get the mental strength to order her body onto its feet. Her first two attempts met in failure as the wet sand slid out from under her paws. After getting up for the third time, keeping her body low to the ground and spreading her weight out, Crona was finally able to get a good look at her surroundings. The cove was at the base of some rocky cliffs; a small narrow passageway being the only way down or up from the shoreline.
The white dragoness took an experimental step forward. When she didn't topple over she took another, and then another. Each time she shifted her weight as she moved she inspected her body to make sure no serious injuries had occurred while she was unconscious. Step by step she made her way towards the crevice in the rocks. When she got to the small opening she noticed that there were stairs leading up the cliff-side. Feeling more comfortable walking, she ascended the stairwell. The higher she climbed the more her legs began to tire. Crona paused to test her wings out; they were uncomfortably sore. With a loud sigh she continued climbing; not being able to fly was extremely unpleasant when she was used to doing so.
The passageway was long and narrow. Crona scraped herself several times on the walls but paid little mind to it. She was merely content with getting away from this place. Up ahead she could see a light drawing closer and closer. As she emerged from the crevice in the rocks, her eyes grew wide and her jaw fell open. Before her was a sight that defied all the rules of physics and magic she had ever studied. Masses of rock floated in the stale air like they had been stopped by time in mid-fall. This bizarre place seemed as if it had been untouched by the passage of time itself. Yet, in the back of her mind, Crona felt the nagging sensation of familiarity.
"This place feels like a dreamscape," She said to herself as she continued along the path, staring at the floating rocks the whole time. As she walked on, she came to a large temple that had been carved into the very mountain itself. The design seemed highly dignified, yet among the surrounding rock it seemed rather plain as if humbling itself to the rest of the world. There were no doors and Crona's curiosity was too great to resist entering.
Inside, the temple was honeycombed with long hallways; the designs that were carved into the walls resembling the ones on the exterior. For a long time the only sounds were Crona's breathing and the clicking of her onyx talons on the stone floor. The atmosphere of the temple gave off an eerie feeling and a sense of fear began to linger in her mind. The dragon statues that stood at the end of each corridor seemed like they could come to life at any moment to drive her from this strange place.
She had not realized that she had been wandering around aimlessly for a couple hours when she came to an unexplored hallway. The white dragoness spotted a faint light at the end which opened into an enormous chamber. In the middle of the room was towering hourglass that was emanating the light which she had seen from down the hall. But the hourglass was not what got Crona's attention. She craned her neck back to see rows upon rows of book shelves stacked towards the ceiling, which seemed to fade into darkness beyond the light of the hourglass. Crona could immediately see that these were not just any ordinary books; they had names and places inscribed into their elaborately designed covers. This was a collection of history; dragon history.
Crona gasped in awe, her wide blue eyes taking in the scene for everything it was.
"Wow..."
Crona snapped awake and her head shot up. "That's it!" She exclaimed, suddenly getting an idea in her mind. She jumped to her feet, her wings tossing the blanket Amp had draped over her off. Crona looked back inside to see Amp and Terra sound asleep, curled around each other in a loving embrace with their tails intertwined. The white dragoness crept up to Amp and gave him a slight nudge with her snout.
"Amp? Hey, wake up," She whispered but the lightning dragon didn't budge. Crona tried again to rouse him from his slumber but Amp seemed almost determined to stay where he was. Crona paused and sat on her haunches to think for a moment as she stared down at him. Another idea popped into her head and she grinned almost evilly. She reached out with a paw and grabbed a hold of Amp's sensitive quills and gave them a light squeeze. The lightning dragon jerked away and Crona clapped a paw over his mouth to silence his startled yelp. "Shh..." Crona hissed, releasing him.
Amp groaned and lifted his head to look at the white dragoness sleepily. "Crona? W-what are you doing?" He looked past her and outside the room. It was still dark out with the very beginnings of light coming up over the horizon.
"I need your help with something Amp. Does your city have a library or something where they keep records of our history?"
"Y-yeah." Amp yawned and sat up to rub the sleep from his eyes. "It's in the upper levels of the city towards the main temple. Why do you ask?"
"I need you to take me there. There's something very important I have to find."
"What? Right now?" Amp almost whimpered. He wasn't a stranger to getting up early for training but going to the library was the last thing he wanted to be rising before the crack of dawn for.
"Yes, right now," Crona hissed again, more urgently this time. Amp sighed and his shoulders slumped. Crona realized what she was asking and looked him in the eye. "Please Amp. It's really important to me that I find what I'm looking for. You don't even have to stay. If you just lead me to it I'd be more than grateful."
Amp was silent for a moment before sighing again. "Alright. If it means that much to you then I guess I'll do it just this once."
"Thank you." Crona smiled, her excitement returning to her hushed voice.
Amp leaned back down and nuzzled Terra until she cracked one eye open. "I'll be back soon. I promise." He kissed her on the cheek before getting to his feet.
"Amp? Wh-where are you going? It's so early," Terra mumbled, lifting her head and squinting at him with sleepy eyes.
"I'm taking Crona to the library real quick. I'll be back as soon as we're done there."
"Ok," Terra glanced at Crona before giving Amp a quick peck on his lips. "Be careful Ampy." She lay back down and Amp covered her with their blanket again before turning to Crona.
"Alright let's go," he nodded, stretching his wings and popping his joints.
Crona moved to the side and let him take the lead. The two dragons soared almost silently over the still sleeping city. It took about ten minutes of flying before Amp glided down to a large pavilion shaped like a Greek coliseum but with a domed roof over it. Crona admired the decorations in the torchlight as Amp led her inside. There were only a couple other dragons inside; elders who nodded politely to the young ones as they passed by.
"Here we are," Amp announced, trying to keep his voice from echoing in the great hall. He stopped and turned to the white dragoness who stared up at the stained glass dome with wide eyes. The majesty of this library was almost overwhelming to her. Everywhere she looked she could see stacks, rows and piles of books waiting for her to explore their contents. Crona didn't realize it but she was grinning from ear to ear for the first time in a long time.
"Crona?" Amp grabbed her attention and snapped her out of her transfixed state.
"Huh?" Crona turned and blinked several times. She had almost forgotten that he had been there. "Sorry, did you say something?"
Amp only stifled a yawn to not appear to be rude. "I was just saying that this is the place." He gave one last look around before turning to the front entrance again. "Well, if there's anything else you need. Let me know." He yawned and started to walk away.
Crona was silent for a second as she looked around. There were so many shelves of books she didn't know where to start. Quickly she turned back to Amp.
"Actually, there is something you can do for me."
Amp froze in mid-step. Slowly he turned back to face the white dragoness who had a serious look on her face with a subtle hint of a grin.
The lightning dragon swallowed hard. "Uh oh."
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