"Crona! Crona come here!" Cyprus yelled

"What mom?" Crona asked with an annoyed tone

"Come here right now!" Cyprus yelled again

"Fine." Crona responded with a sigh as she dramatically dragged her talons across the stone, making a scraping noise that aggravated her mother's ears slits

"How many times do I have to tell you not to leave the remains of your dinner laying outside?! If the Ith Clan finds us they are certain to kill us! Now, go bury your leftovers!"

"Ugh. Yes mom." Crona replied as she continued to drag her talons across the stone

"And stop dragging your talons on the rock!"

The Ith Clan is a secret clan of Wyverns with an evil scheme to exterminate all of the dragons. Their last attempt was five millennia ago, beginning the War of the Dark Forest, but because of their small numbers at the time they were eradicated during the first year of battle, or so it was thought. It turned out to be that there were a handful of Wyvern survivors who regrouped and rebuilt their numbers until they outmatched the dragons, making the Ith Clan an ominous threat once again.

Wyverns are a subspecies of dragons, like drakes and other subspecies they are not dragons. Wyverns are two legged draconic creatures that are bipedal and they have two very large wings where their front legs would be. Wyverns cannot harness any elements or special abilities, though they have two long fangs like a cobra's that can deliver deadly venom, the venom supply is limited and replenishes itself during sleep. Their coloration ranges from pale sickly green to muddy tan, they have two sharp blood red horns, and multiple rows of blood red spines, they have no crest and no tail spade. Their eye color is blood red and they have slitted pupils instead of round pupils like a dragon, their talons are also blood red, they have two finger-like appendages on each of their wings, each appendage dons a large blood red talon.

"Mom, why do we have to take so many precautions?" Zena asked "I mean, we haven't seen any trace of the Ith Clan since we have been here, and we have been here for months!"

"These are necessary precautions Zena." Cyprus said "Unless you want to be ripped limb from limb and eaten alive by a group of Wyverns that is."

"Do they really do that to their captives mom?" Bane asked

"Yes dear, they do. It is a horrendous ritual that they preform thinking they are 'cleansing the world of the imposting race'."

"How do you know that mom?" Zena asked

"Because I have seen it, Zena."

"Where did you see it?"

"On the battlefield at the Caves of Zarron while I was looking for you so we could escape."

"It wasn't daddy, was it mom?" Bane asked

"No Bane, it wasn't, thankfully."

"Mom how do you know about the 'cleansing' thing?"

"Because while they were performing their hideous ritual I heard them chanting. They were chanting about 'appeasing their gods' and 'cleansing the world' and the like."

"Oh" Bane said

"Wyverns are so weird!" Exclaimed Zena

"Yes, you are quite right, Zena." Cyprus agreed