[CC] FotD - 2019-2020

Manta shifted his weight, eyes looking around the decorated lab, trying once again to get a feel for whoever had dared to take some of wires and coils, Hazel was been deliberately elusive on that front, though she had admitted to giving some to another dragon as payment for helping to decorate… there… a very faint earthy static energy. “Got you.” He hissed, slipping down onto the ground and towards the exit. Once outside, the energy faded to a mere trickle, and it took annoying seconds to find it once more, flaring his wings he took off, homing in on the intruder, powerful wings sweeping over the brightly lit city, and thunder currents surged through it.

Zia sprawled out, a half eaten ginger biscuit in her claw, she’d asked Meiron for some, but the baker, trying to offload all his extra stock had given the cat a very good bargain… the downside was that Meiron didn’t like it and with the other supplies he’d bought was loathe to take it home, an extra weight that he didn’t need. So she’d eaten as many as she could… maybe she should pop back up into the lab and see if Hazel wanted any… maybe a trade for some wires. Before she could move something bigger than her (not hard to do) and full of irritated thunder energy landed all but on top of her, sticking the half biscuit into her maw she looked up at the checkered dragon, literally thrumming with energy, and grabbed another biscuit. “Cookie?” She asked, whiskers twitching, offering the gingerbread to him… she had an idea who this male was, she’d sensed him briefly before her exit from the lab.

Manta had found her, the tiny semi-thunder dragon sprawled out without a care in the world, landing heavily he stood imposingly over her… only to blink as she held out a biscuit. “No thanks, I want those wires and coils you took.” He said pushing his snout next to hers as he hissed, the small female only blinked, her pupil vanishing for a moment underneath her artificial snout. Then she giggled, moving so she was resting her claws on his snout. “I can’t help you there, and they were payment for helping out; they are long since gone.” She purred, she let go before Manta could shake her off. He took a step when she moved, only to have a huge basket of gingerbread thrust under his nose. “See look at all this gingerbread, i mean weight to weight its more than a trade for the few wires and coils that were given as payment. So in theory, you’re actually coming out of this with more than you lost… they aren’t wires and coils, but they are edible.” The small thunder dragon purred, picking another up and eating it.

Zia watched as the male glared at her, and she smiled innocently back, he didn’t need to know just how much of a bargain Meiron had go it for; and this way she could get rid of it without feeling guilty. “Or you could trade them to someone else?” She said, gently raking the ground below, feeling the thrum of electrical energy that was covering the entire area.

Manta tried to figure out what the small thunder dragon was getting from giving away the huge bulk of biscuits, other than to get him of her tail; but he couldn’t argue with her logic, even if he gave the biscuits to liam to give to jungle dragons, and then got Liam to acquire more coils and wires, it would mean he was getting what he wanted. “Fine.” He snapped, gripping the basket of gingerbread and taking off, ignoring the small dragon as she waved at him. Hopefully she would think twice about entering his domain again.

WC: 636 Dragons: Manta and Ziathiel

Many thanks to Cosmonstars on DA for lerring me use Manta