Protectors of Pandora

Chapter 42 ~the drill~

The fire wyvern was looking around suspiciously when her mate said, “calm down, nothing ever tries anything up here.” He said. The two were sitting next to their nest, which was situated in a crag near the drill. “I won’t calm down! At any moment my precious egg could get stolen!” She said angrily. “Don’t you mean our egg?” He said. “Yes, our egg… THAT YOU HAVENT DONE ANYTHING FOR! I’m the one keeping watch and trying to make food for the welps! Do you know how hard it is to make milk!? WE’RE REPTILES!” She yelled. “Hey now! I do-” This argument lasted for about ten minutes before they finally noticed the bat flying away with their egg. “I TOLD YOU CHARR!” she said. He just stood there with his jaw dropped for a few seconds then cried, “EVERYONE! egg thief!!!” Every wyvern on the drill and in the crag flew after Jaxz, but just when the mother almost caught up he dropped the egg. It landed in the arms of Oak, he was riding Bones. Bones tore off through the sand, quite easily outrunning the wyverns, but enough about that.

“Jaxz got it!” Caesar said. Caesar, Stainly, and the other gigantopithicus started the climb up to the drill. “Why (panting) did he have to (more panting) build this thing on the side of the volcano!” Birch said. “Says you! I gotta carry the bloke!” The chief said. They eventually reached the platform where the drill was mounted, it was a large boring style drill (idk if any of you have played the game, Frontiers of Pandora. But I imagine it similar to the large mobile mining drill that you take down mid game, Stainly is from the industrial revolution, but a genius for his time, he could’ve invented clean energy if a competitor didn’t hire that assassin, but that’s a long story…)

“Ok, what do we do now?” Caesar asked Stainly. “Why are you here..” a voice said from under the drill. She stepped out into the light, it was a wyvern, a small orange wyvern. “I am queen Cinder, royalty of the wastelands and former heir to the throne of the ashen forest. I repeat, why are you here..” Cinder said. “your highness, we only wish to deactivate this drill to prevent war with the magmasaurs.” Caesar said. “Deactivate? You are here to take away our lifeblood?” Cinder said. “If you mean the lava… yes. But it’s what must be done to stop this catastrophe.” He said. “No, the magmasaur matriarch must learn her place.. I am the new ruler of this desert.. not her.” She said. “Oh can’t ya just go find another lava pool!” The chief said. “You fools aren’t from around here are you? Large amounts of lava with needed cover, (she gestured towards the crag nearby) are hard to find in this place..” she said. “Well go find another hard to find place then.” Caesar said defiantly. “You aren’t from around here.. are you?” She said changing the subject. “Mesopithicus and gigantopithicus aren’t native to this ark, neither are your giganotosaurus or desmodus friends.” She said. “Wait… you know about other arks…” Caesar said confused. “Of course I do, why do you think there’s no natural habitat for us here. I come from an ark far away..” She said. Caesar was very confused now. “How did you get here?” He asked. “That, is a long story.. but you’ll never be alive long enough to hear it!” She blasted fire at them, they leapt out of the way and scattered, she continued torching the place, melting the very metal they stood on, her fire turned blue, it’s embers flew everywhere, Stainly made a mad dash towards the console, “cover me!” He yelled. “Hey! Little wyvern! Over ‘ere!” The chief said. She furiously blasted her blue-hot fire at him, but she missed, he leapt off the back of the drill platform rolling as he hit the ground. Ceasar got up high and jumped down on her neck, grabbing her crystal-like horns, he guided her flame, using it to melt the support beams of the drill, the structure creaked and he could hear a bolts snap off, the whole drill came down crashing to the ground and sliding down the cliff side, where it exploded. Cinder shook Caesar off and stopped fire-breathing, “Nooo! What have you done!” She said furiously. “Well, thats one way to do it..” Stainly said, he was slightly sad his creation just exploded. Cinder roared ferociously and flew away, heading towards the other wyverns for back up. But they were too far by now.

Bones and Oak kept running until they heard the explosion, then Oak tossed the egg down and Bones ran for it, the wyverns looked back at the drill confused, and the mother picked her egg up off the sand. They saw their Queen flying towards them and flew to her, “YOU IDIOTS! What did I say about leaving the nest unguarded!” Cinder said tail whipping a lightning wyvern. “We are sorry master.. won’t happen again.” A poison wyvern said. “WONT HAPPEN AGAIN! There’s nowhere for it to happen again!” Cinder said scolding him. “At least the nests are alright.” Charr said. “Yes Charr. But don’t think we won’t be taking our revenge..” she said.