Wings Of Shadows (Deathgripper!Reader)

Chapter 3

When I woke up, I felt a heavy weight on my entire body. I grunted and tried to roll over to get Gruff off me. It was a recurring incident for him to lay his entire body weight on me, but it feels like there is multiple dragons on top of me. "Gruuuuuffff, get off meeeee." I whine in a tired voice, it was too early. Who I assume to be Gruff laughing at my misery is heard from farther away than I imagined. "I'm nowhere near you, Y/N." Gruff says in a proud matter-of-fact voice, hiding his gurgles of laughter.

I try to raise my head to look at what is on top of me, but my head is not built to look up at all. I look to my sides and see what looks to be multiple bodies on top of me. I must of had the most confused and baffled expression on my face, because I hear Gruff speak again. "You know, with how you were the one who brought them here, you would think you would remember." I chuff a bit before the memories of last night come at me like a Monstrous Nightmare who uses their tail to whip their prey to death.

Oh right, I had adopted an entire pack. A pack of entirely different dragons, two species who eat other dragons. I shouldn't be too shocked about the eating other dragons part. After all, I only attacked the ships to cause havock and eat some humans. Then, a revelation comes towards me like a charging boar. "FIREWORM!" With the strength of about 3 Typhoomerangs, I jump up and knock each and every dragon off my body. All of which who groaned from being woken up, or in pain from the sudden impact of hitting the floor when I jumped up.

"Is it morning already?" The Zippleback asks while laying on their back. They struggle on their back a bit before the titan wing Gronckle helps them up. "Why did you roar?" The Sliquifier asks while rubbing his eyes with his claws, seems like none of these dragons are morning dragons. Without answering any of their questions, I rush into the forest like a boar trying to get away from a Speedstinger pack. I totally forgot about Fireworm, what kind of friend am I!? Then suddenly, a small but very hot weight goes over my eyes.

I end up tripping on what I assume was a log and go tumbling forward. I land on my side and growl in pain. What in the three moons? (If anyone gets that reference, you get a cookie.) The small but hot weight lifts itself off my eyes and it is revealed to be a very angry Fireworm, my Fireworm to be exact. He bites my nose and I suppress the urge to sneeze because that will probably make him go flying. "Ow, ow, ow, okay I'm sorry I forgot about you." I whine in pain, no matter how small he is, his bites hurt like hell.

The Nightmare lands infront of me and growls at the Fireworm, which makes him flinch and run to the back on my scales. "Relax, it's a friend." He tilts his head but huffs and puffs out his chest, probably proud he scared Fireworm. "By the way, what is your name, I don't think I got anyone's name." I sheepishly smile and coo at him. "Spitfire." He answers simply, he looks like he wants to sniff me for Fireworm but won't because its indecent to do. "I do not believe I told you my name, it is Y/N." His tail starts wagging and his tongue hangs out of his mouth, a playful gesture but I find it odd he is so relaxed- ah you know what? Screw it.

I uncoil my tail fully and relax my entire body. Gruff is right, I need to relax every once and a while. He seems to take my body language as kind as his tail wags so fast it thumps against the forest floor. "Y/N is a beautiful name." He finally says, his tongue going back into his mouth. "Glad to see you two having fun." I assume that Gruff winked at me and I swipe my sheathed tail him. He knew I was going to do so he ducked his head, sly fishface. The rest of the group walked over, well, flew over, the Speedstingers ran over though.

"Why did you run off so suddenly? We thought something was wrong." One of the Grim Gnashers ask, his voice sort of hoarse. Conveniently, Fireworm crawled from my back scales and onto my face, proudly showing himself off to them. "Is that a Fireworm?" The Zippleback asks as they lower their heads towards my face to look down at Fireworm. "Little bug made them trip, I was about to throw it." The Nightmare grumbled, I growled and turned my head to side eye him. "It was an accident, he didn't mean to trip me, I just happened to fall."