Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-34320391-20181119131046/@comment-34572969-20181126191601

Katina

Of course. The first Trial is trust. AKA jumping off of a dragon that is actually capable of carrying my bodyweight and landing back on it without breaking said dragon's neck. I sighed and looked down to Flame, who I was surprised to find looking up at me with concern glittering in his eyes.

At that point I only really had two options: ask Freyfair what the heck I was supposed to do for this Trial, or somehow get an entire flock of Terrible Terrors to carry me. And although I knew a group of them would be perfectly capable of that, there was absolutely no way I was going with that choice.

I walked up to Freygair nervously. He didn't even notice me as he watched to other candidates successfully jump off threir dragons and- holy heck did that girl just do a backflip?!

Clearing my throat to get Freygair's attention, I finally spoke. "Uh, excuse me...?"

He turned me, and seemed to realize my predicament straight away.

"Right, you're the one with the Terror, huh?" he laughed. "Um...right, so you're gonna have a bit of a different challenge than the others."

Freygair handed me a blindfold and gestured towards an array of trees, rocks and other stuff that resembled an obstacle course. I looked between the blindfold, Flame and somewhat crudely arranged obstacle course and immediately understood.

''Oh Thor..."

(A few minutes later)

"Alright Flame, remember: two is left, one is right. And a loud one is slow down. Got that?"

Flame looked up at me and squawked in affirmation. I slowly breathed in and out, tied the blindfold around my head and began to walk forward.

I'm not gonna lie, I felt like an idiot. I was walking around aimlessly with a blindfold over my head and nothing but my Terrible Terror that I barely knew to guide me.

I heard a squawk from beside me, and obligingly moved to the right in order to dodge whatever rock or tree trunk I was about to walk into. Another two and I moved to the left.

A few minutes and a sound that resembled a, "FOR THOR'S SAKE KAT SLOW DOWN YOU'RE ABOUT TO RUN INTO A VERY SHARP-LOOKING TREE," I was finally able to take of the blindfold and turn around to see that I had sucessfully cleared the course. I crouched down and gave Flame a well-deserved scratch behind the horns.

"Good boy," I muttered to the dragon. He responded with a lick to my hand.

Now that that was done, I decided to go and watch the other Initiates. Or more specifically, Jack. Unfortunately for me, he seemed to be doing pretty well, leaping off of Shockwave successfully and, whilst a bit haphazardly, landed back in the saddle of his Skrill. He even did a few somersaults just for show. Typical.

Aside from that, I spotted a bit of drama going on at the bottom of the cliffsides that Initiates were meant to ride off of. Three riders were gathered around, neither of them looking particularly friendly. I recognized them all-  Garmal, Barny and that Larson kid, Aidan.

Words were exchanged, and there was a point where the dragons even started sitting fire at each other. Some more stuff was going on but I couldn't seem to see what was happening.

I tried to ignore it. I really did. But who do you expect me to be, a mature teenager?

"Flame! C'mon, I wanna get closer!"