Jun was moving through the forest South of his home, looking up into the trees, searching for more interesting creatures to try to chase, maybe some herbs for his mother, or if he was really lucky a Froglop which had become his most favorite animal of late. Every since one of them caused his mother to squeak and fall over from shock he couldn't help but to love them that much much. The very last thing that he expected to run into was the thing that was currently in one of those trees, starring down at the oblivious hybrid. It seemed that he wasn't alone in the forest today and it wasn't a creature that he was used to dealing with, it wasn't something small that he was able to hold in his hands, it was something big, predatory, and a bit on the scary side. The first thing to alert him that something was wrong was that all of the birds in the area seemed to have gone silent, "Eh?" That was odd... everything had gone quiet, meaning that something big and hungry was nearby he thought to himself, looking from side to side, not really seeing anything.
From above him though he heard a low, deep, rumbling side. At the sound Junjie froze in place, a shiver going up his spine, before he slowly lifted his head to look up into the trees once more and watched as a part of the tree seemed to break away from the rest, revealing itself to be not a part of the tree trunk but instead a... dragon...? He'd heard about them, seen them in some of his mother's books, but he'd never seen one of them in real life. For a moment he was completely fascinated... until he saw the way that it barred its teeth at him, "Oh... ah..." Crud, that thing looked a bit angry, didn't it? Not to mention maybe a little on the hungry side? Giving a squeak Jun's wings popped out, opening up wide as though he were doing his best to look really big... before he whirled around on his heel and ran away from the creature. The moment he started to run the Ysali was diving down out of the tree and ran along after him, "Oh, come on! I don't want to be eaten!" He cried over his shoulder at the Ysali, dodging around the trees to try to keep ahead of the swift beast. This just wasn't fair at all! He wasn't doing anything! He was just trying to find Froglops, not dragons! Geez... these things seemed to have no sense of humor at all.
Catching hold of the trunk of a small tree he swung himself around it and hurried off at a ninty degree angle from the way that he'd been running, hurrying forward blindly through the underbrush, and suddenly found himself face to face with a massive stone wall. Lifting his gaze slowly he took in the look of the smooth, flat surface, eyes going wide, "Ahhh...?" Uh-oh? No way over it, maybe to one side or the other? It seemed to go on a ways, indicating that it was a fairly good sized rock, or series of rocks, maybe the start of a big, steep hill or a mountain? He had no idea he'd never been to this part of the forest before. Giving a squeal he spun around hearing the big dragon coming charging through the underbrush after him, bursting through it mouth open, ready to snap him up and Jun threw himself to one side, rolling out of the way, and to the side of him there was a loud, sickening CRACK sound, followed by a heavy THUD. The boy slowly picked himself up, shivering from head to toe, as he peeked over the brush he'd fallen into at the dragon that was laying in a heap in front of the rock wall, taking in the red splash against it, and guessed that the big creature had run into it while trying to snap him up. Blinking a couple times he crept closer to it, scooping up a stick as he went, lifting it up to give the thing a poke... but there was no response.
"Umm..." Was it dead?! That wasn't exactly what he'd meant to do, he'd only meant to outrun the beast, but it seemed as though it hadn't ended in that manner. Keeping his stick in hand he set about circling around the thing a few times, poking it from time to time to make sure that it wasn't faking it, before his wings seemed to wilt a little, "Ahhh... phew... Well... I guess Mom doesn't have to know about this." He murmured to himself, not wanting to tell her that he had almost been eaten by another large, scaly creature. First the Drakein and now a dragon? It just seemed as though he had no luck at all when it came to upsetting such creatures he thought to himself. It was then that something even more surprising happened, the dragon started to fallen apart! Jun gave a squeak, shuffling back a few steps, and watched as the thing seemed to break down before his very eyes leaving behind a skeleton and a glittering orb, this one a mossy green instead of the blue one that Mister Arick had given him, "So that is where those come from." They came from dragons! How neat he thought to himself, wings giving a little flutter.
A moment later though he heard something moving around over head, glancing up he spotted something watching him from up there, some scavenger beasts from the looks of them, that were already starting to gather. It seemed as though they had been drawn by the scent of blood but there really wasn't anything left behind save for bones... no matter, he wasn't going to fight them for those. Instead he hurried to scoop up the orb, "This is mine!" He said, pointing the stick at them, clutched the orb to his chest, and started to back away from the bones of the fallen Ysali while the scavengers started to move in on them, "Umm... e-enjoy I guess...?" He said to them, so sure what they would do with the left overs but he supposed he really didn't care. They wanted them, they could have them he decided before he turned on his heel and hurried off as quickly as he could so as not to become a prospective meal for the lot them.
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