Tide opened his eyes to see two petrified faces from the scavengers. The shorter one had its' arms over its' face. As if that'll protect it. Tide twisted his snout at them.

He got up and realized he was holding the scavengers' in his talons, as if his claws were a cauldron and they were his stew. "Yibble . . ." The short one spoke.

"YIBBLE YOBLE!" The taller one yelped.

"Whoa! Calm down! It's OK it's OK." He set his talons down and opened them, expecting them to bolt right when he let go. But they didn't. They stared with their odd eyes at him, and it made him feel quite uncomfortable.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" Shore roared. He shook his head violently at Tide. "You have NO right to protect these . . . these . . ." He stared at them and they immediately got back their senses. They ran, but back to the long-haired one. "Whale scum!" Shore finally grasped his word. 'They do not belong to you, therefore you have no right to-"

The RainWing Tide had talked to walked in front of him and interrupted.

"But he's new, you wouldn't threaten a new comber, would you?"

"That doesn't stop me." He spoke threating her authority.

"But maybe him being a dragonet will. Unless you want to directly disobey Heatwave's orders, do you really want that?" She spoke with ease, as if she'd done this a thousand times. Tide wondered if she had done this a thousand times. "I wouldn't want to upset Heatwave." She examined her talons. "Would you?"

Then the thought came to Tide. So, I'm not in some random place, I'm in Heatwave's place. Where is this place anyways?! Are Coast and Seabass here!? Where's Drought!? Is she in cahoots with Heatwave? Is everyone here in cahoots with him!?  The thoughts flooded through his mind like a shark through the ocean, prowling at every possibility out there in that wide, open space.

One thought stood out, however.

Am I in serious danger?

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The RainWing started to walk Tide back to the cave. He had some time to ask some questions, so he did.

"So, that happened."

"Yeah."

"So . . . What's your name?"

"Jade. Why do you ask?" Her scales turned the color of a dark red, Tide figured he had only a certain amount of time before she got sick of him.

"Just . . . Wondering. Thanks, for your help back there, Jade." Pretty name, is that because she can change her scales colors?

"What are you prying at, SeaWing?" She turned to him and flicked her tail.

"Prying?" He echoed. "I'm not prying. I'm just simply being nice."

Pink started to slither out under the red color and she immediately pushed it down, back to her original green color.

"Nice, huh? Well, Mr. Nice Guy, why must you know this information? Am I under interrogation?" Tide felt a little nervousness creep out, he never thought of this conversation as an interrogation.

"No, no. Three moons, of course not! I just wanted to find out some stuff, about a dragon that could possibly kill me in my sleep." He joked.

Jade chuckled, and he figured this was a good sign. "Please, killing you in your sleep will be too  easy, a dragon like me would prefer a little challenge." She didn't even frown when she said this. But Tide sure did. "Well . . . Good to know, I guess."

"Yeah." She stopped at the foot of the cave. "Here you are, I've got to gather food to eat. Um, make yourself at home . . . ?"

"That seems like more of a question than a friendly gesture."

She smiled sarcastically and turned away. Tide shrugged and turned into the cave. It seemed a little dark, but he could still see the objects inside. There was a small pond of water at the way left side, water was dripping from the roof of the cave. On the other side, there seemed to be two big heaps of cloth, Tide guessed they were beds. In the center there was a stack of wood, already burnt from a previous fire.

Tide walked over to the beds and lied down in the bigger one, guessing the smaller one was made for more slender dragons, precisely a RainWing.

He curled his body and tucked his tail in. Yawning, he drifted into a dreamless sleep.

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Sorry guys! I never updated in forever! School, has been a llama's butt. And I lost my tablet for a while, sorry, haha . . . Yeaaah, sorryyyy, again.

My sister: GET TO THE POINT, SORRY SAKURA!!

Me: NUUUUUUUHH!!!

LOL, well, anywayys, ill update as soon as I can any time. So, later, alligators! XD

And thank you very much dragonheart812 for the name suggestion of Jade. See you later. ):(