Wild (An Inheritance Fanfiction)

Chapter 3: Dragon

The Green Shrrg flew lazily through the air as he scouted the land below. He had noticed an increasing amount of the two-legged creatures come through here lately. He was getting nervous. It was unusual for them to come in such large movements.

He banked and curled around a mountain. His pack had moved dens since the previous Alpha had been defeated. There was a safer place in mountains, a small cave large enough for him and the pack to live in for a while. Of course, he was still growing. It had been nearly a month since the fight with the Alpha and he had nearly doubled in size. He was growing to the size of one of the feared Urzhad.

Spotting a rather large Feldunost he decided that an early dinner wouldn’t be out of the question. He swooped down and picked it up like a hawk does to a mouse. It bleated in utter fear and tried to kick the scaled wolf but to no avail. He killed the goat with a quick bite to the neck.

He saw his cave and flew down to it, dropping the Feldunost on the floor. The Shrrg cubs instantly went for it, digging in pretty fast. The other Shrrg were lazing around. Life with the green Shrrg as their leader was very lazy. Hunts were easy and the cubs were well fed.  The only thing they really needed to fear was the two-legged creatures that came by every so often, but even they would hardly stand a chance against their leader.

The wolves greeted him with a small nod. The mind connection between the Shrrg’s and their scaled leader was also helping the gain intelligence, some sought of consciousness. This would be the cause of much confusion and surprise in the future.

The green Shrrg sent an image to the rest of the group of a small group of two-legged creatures in the forest. These were taller then the rest and they wore strange sought of clothing. It looked like it was made from metal. Maybe they had something to do with the increased of movement of the smaller two-legged creatures.

He lay down next to them. They stayed like that for a few minutes, just watching the cubs play on the rough surface of the cave. Suddenly one of the Shrrg growled. The green leader looked at it with a tilted head, confused.

He stretched his mind out to the wolf and looked at what she had sensed, and let of his own growl. The humans he had seen before were coming up to there cave. He sent out his mind, trying to find them and scare them away. When he did he sent them fearsome images of some of his mind created monsters. The two-legs didn’t even flinch. In fact, something attacked his mind back in return. He growled in surprise and was instantly on his feet. The presence in his head began to spear through his conscious, causing him to roar out in agony. The Shrrg looked at him worriedly and backed away, trying to find the invisible threat.

The green Shrrg shook his head and tried to get away from the horrible thing in his head, but it just kept on going deeper and deeper. It took control of his mind and suddenly, against his will, he began to move out of the cave. He growled and tried to fight but no matter how hard he physically pushed he couldn’t get rid of the presence.

He struggled out into the open and down the hill. Now he could smell the two-legs, but whatever was in his head was keeping him from attacking with his mind as well. It wasn’t exactly painless either. Every so often a sharp spike of pain jolted down his body, through his very essence.

Eventually he came to a clearing, and was glad that the other Shrrg hadn’t followed him, because there was a group of humans, twenty, all staring at him with wide eyes. Quite a few of them had their mouths open wide in disbelief.