Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-36570662-20190114194829/@comment-34572969-20190117191753

Katina

The game of Truth or Dare was possibly one of the most fun I'd had in my life...which makes sense, seeing as I didn't have many games to compare it to. Everyone managed to get some bruises from Aud and Isla's insane dares, I got payback for that by making Isla flustered and asking about Michael, and we all had a pretty good time. Even Kate, who was sitting on the sidelines watching.

It was the next day. I woke up to Flame licking my face and purring in satisfaction once my eyes finally fluttered open. I brushed the dark brown hair out of my eyes and sat up slowly, looking out the window.

The sun wasn't even visible above the horizon, with nothing but a faint glow through my window. I glanced down to Flame, who was now sitting on my lap.

"Flame! What the heck? It's so frickin' early!" I exclaimed, bolting upright in shock. I whinced as my head hit the shelf above the bed. "Why on earth would someone put that there?!"

I groaned and lay back down, pulling the covers over 9myself. "Five more minutes."

Flame squawked disapprovingly into my ear, then procceeded to continue that for a full minute acting as some sort of alarm clock until I finally sat up. He licked my cheek as I shot him a playful glare.

"For Thor's sake, Flame, how early do I have to wake up for you? I don't even have patrol today!" I said, now walking out of my hut and rubbing the sleep from my eyes. Flame nudged my cheek and made me face the training grounds. I raised an eyebrow.

"For real?"

I took one look at Flame's expression and was ready to object (granted, it was to a dragon that couldn't speak, but I couldn't care less at the time), until I heard some shuffling around. I looked down and found Devil scampering along the ground, wandering around aimlessly. He looked up to me curiously as I crouched down to meet his level.

"Hey, little guy. Whatcha doing here? Actually, how did you even get here? Wait, never mind, not important, shouldn't you be with Kate?" I asked him. Then immediately cringed at myself. No matter how much I loved dragons and enjoyed their presence, I still felt like an idiot for talking to one.

Devil looked at me and tilted his head, confused. I sighed.

"Figures. You don't understand me, do you? Well, might as well get you back where you belong," I said, reaching forwards to pick him up. He opened up his jaws and snapped them in front of my hand threateningly. I drew it towards my chest protectively.

"Sheesh, no wonder where you get your name from," I mumbled to myself. I sat down, cross-legged, in front of Devil. Sure, I probably wasn't going to be spending too much time with Devil since he technically belonged to Kate and Aidan, I still at least wanted him to trust me.

I reached out my palm slowly, allowing the baby Woolly Howl to familiarise himself with my scent. He sniffed cautiously at it for a bit as I intinctively closed my eyes. Don't ask why, I just felt like it.

A few seconds passed, and I was ready to give up hope, when I felt a sensation against my hand. My eyes opened and I found Devil pressing his nose against my palm. A smile graced my lips.

Fast forward to later that day, I was out training. Nothing too interesting happened there, I tried my hand at some archery (and, admittedly, failed) and attempted every activity. I visited the Bewilderbeast, even taking the liberty of making a sketch of him, and kept training. It was only later that afternoon when I remebered that I still had some stuff to get from my house to move into my new hut.

Me and Flame walked back to the village, a few people recognising me or looking shocked at the fact that there was a Guardian walking around there instead of flying around on patrol or whatever. I eventually reached my house and entered.

Imediately I saw Nick on the couch, doing what seemed like writing a Terror Mail to someone. He barely even noticed my presence.

"Nice to know I'm not even noticed in my own home."

Nick jumped, his pen drawing an unclean, jagged line across the page. He looked up to me and his face immediately brightened.

"Hey Tina! How come you're here? Thought you were done moving," he said.

"Nah, still got stuff I need to get done. Whatcha doing?"

Nick coughed and he looked away from me. "You know, writing a TMail to a...uh, a friend."

"You have friends?" I joked. He didn't laugh. I eyed him suspiciously.

"Okay...well, I'll be getting my stuff from my room. Call me if you need me." I looked around. "Hey, actually, where's mum?"

"Work," Nick replied simply, not even turning to face me. At that moment, Flame decided to seat himself on Nick's head, peering over it to see what he was writing. The explorer looked up, humored by the situation.

"A Terrible Terror, huh? If anything, you're the terror."

After I'd got everything sorted out, I went back downstairs. Nick was still writing the letter as Flame played around with his light blonde hair. I whistled for the dragon to come over and, after saying goodbye to Nick, we set off.

I entered the Guardian clubhouse where basically everyone else that wasn't on patrol was. I looked around, and I could see one person missing.

"Hey, where's Ari?" I asked.

"It's actually Ar," Aidan corrected me. I shrugged it off.

"I'm a nickname-y person. Anyways, that doesn't answer my question. Where is she? Haven't seen her in a while."

My question was simply met with shrugs and murmurs as everyone looked around at each other. I was curious too, but reassured myself it was probably nothing.

"Meh, she'll turn up tomorrow."