What now? (Sequel to What to Do?)

Chapter 5 They're Gone

      We reached the neighbors house and it turned out the scream belonged to Phlegma. She took care of the fauna around the island and the ones in her personal garden. She, like Gothi, she took care of a wing of Terrible Terrors to help her. Their dung, according to her, made great fertilizers and good company when her son, Comet, was at class.

   Mom knocked on the door urgently.

"Hello, Phlegma, are you there?" She shouted at the door. A moment of silence past before the door slowly creeks open. On the inside a women with brown hair and red cheeks appeared. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying and a line of tears fell off her dirt covered face.

 

" Oh Astrid! Thank Thor your here." She sniffled. She began wiping the tears away from her eyes and seemed to be calming down.

"Phlegma what happened?"Mom asked her. I was not concerned as my mother. Phlegma seemed to cry at the most little things. She once cried over to my mom and dad when on of her flowers wilted.

"My Terrors." She sniffed. "I can't find them and I looked everywhere! They usually don't go beyond the garden, but now they weren't there or in the house. I even looked around the village before giving up." She began to cry again. Well looks like I was wrong not to worry. A dragon has never been lost before. Unless you count the time all the dragons flew away to lay their eggs and no one where they went.

"Don't worry we'll find them." Mom promised.

"Oh thank you Astrid, thank you!" She said.

"What's going on?" A voice from above asked. I looked up and a dark shape was descending to the ground.

"Phlegma's Terrible Terrors are gone." Mom answered.

"Do you have anything of theirs? We could send out some of the tracking dragons to search for them." I suggested.

"Very good idea, honey." Mom praised me. She ruffed up my hair to add to the effect.

"You really are too kind! Thank you. Thank you." She repeated.

"No problem. Astrid you can take Stormfly and I'll get my dad to take Skullcrusher. I'll ask around to see if some vikings with Nadders and Rumblehorns can spare a few hours." Dad ran through the list of things he can do to help Phlegma. Once they all left I panned to go to the Fire Cave just because. Well, at least I was until I noticed how on edge Stormcloud was. She was looking at the ocean and fidgeting her wing and legs. The flaps on the side of her head began to shiver and twitch.

"What up, Stormcloud?" I asked. She only groaned in response and turned back to me. A purr sounded in her throat and she licked my face. A thought occurred in my mind and I completely forgot about something that I was doing ages ago. "Stay here." I gestured to Stormcloud by raising my hands. I ran back to the house and opened the front door. As I began to go upstairs I heard a crashing sound. I looked back and saw Stormcloud clumsily making her way through the house. She bumped into tables and walls as her tail swung back and forth.

"See why I told you to wait outside?" I teased her. She looked up to me and grumbled. 'Shut up' She seemed to say.  "Oh just come on." I waved my hand toward me. She roared in happiness and she 'flew' to the stairs, with the added effect of the bumps on the walls and roof.

"You shouldn't be flying with that hurt wing." I lectured her. Stormcloud didn't seemed to care and trotted up the stairs. "Hey! Get back here." I chased after her as she stuck her fat head into different rooms and holes. I eventually made it to my room. I went straight to my desk and caught eye of what I came up here for. I grabbed my journal and pushed Stormcloud out of my room. She growled  in protest, but eventually went back down the stairs. I grabbed a piece of wood with coal stuck in it so I could use it to write with.  Suddenly a knock came from the door. I hurried down the stairs and up to the door. Stormcloud was already there gnawing at the doorknob.