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"Like me? it's been a while since someone liked me," Anya suddenly didn't feel very tired any more, she sighed, "I feel rather inadequate compared to you dragons, the whole huge and powerful godlike thing and all."

Grael slowed even further as she neared the settlement. She angled herself to fly slightly lower until she was just above the treetops, she swapped over to her human form before landing neatly in the treetop. She looked up at Sa-ar.

"I'm sorry to keep putting you off, but I must avenge someone I once held very dear. In order to do it correctly it may take quite some time."

Grael seemed to have regained her prior calm by this time. She gave Sa-ar a quick smile. "I will make sure that your patience is rewarded."

When Grael shifted into her human form, Sa-ar had to circle around her so tightly that after a while his tail was touching his snout. "It is odd. You, and other dragons, use your sapien form so often. I suppose with this... strange paranoia of humans it would be understandable." He didn't really have much to say about delaying their battle as he continued to circle around her. Being inconspicuous was clearly not one of Sa-ar's strong points.

Sa-ar continued to circle above almost like a vulture - although his intentions were far from scavenging. He was silent for a moment as he regarded his own form. "...Indeed, the lack of appendages in your primal form would make a human form more suitable for movement upon the earth." Of course, Sa-ar just usually slithered like a very large snake, ploughing aside his onbstacles in the process. He touched his tail to a sturdy branch on a tree, and shrunk down into his human form. Even doing this he was needlessly flashy as his form turned into a flickering silhouette of light before shrinking down into a smaller form, and then dimming until a pale but muscular human body was left behind, with wild locks of blonde and crimson tresses that would make an eighties hair band pale in jealousy. He sat, completely naked, upon a branch and looked down at his arms and feet as if it was new to him. "It has been a very long time since I condescended to use this form." He narrowed his eyes and looked across at Grael who was seated in an adjacent tree. "What, pray tell, is a 'lab'?"

Maximillion had not even heard the dragon enter the cave, nore the conversation that went on between him and the human who rode in on his back. This was because he was still working out his plan to form a campaign against the scientists who'd captured the dragons, and prevent them form ever doing so again... "Man this is not going to be easy..." He thought, giving a small sigh, his head falling a little bit as his gaze fell between his legs. His left sude wa facing Kai, so he could not see his replacement parts.
Time had all but become unnoticed to the lad, he had no clue how long he'd been in that cave, but it really didn't matter, he didn't have anyone on the island that would worry about him if he disappeared for a few days. All of his frinds and family were on the mainland, most having a negative view of the boy's liking of dragons, as they oll believed in the old tales that dragons were nothing but giant, scaled beasts whom feasted on villagrs and livestock. Max never believed these tales from the frist time he saw a picture of a dragon.
After a short while, he gave another sigh, leaned back and tilted his head up towards the ceiling, rubbing the back of his head with his left hand, muttering a little bit. "I wonder if Eclipse and Achiu would help..." He said, before seeing something out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head just enough to see a human a little ways away with his left eye. Max was still for a few moments, before his own words passed in his mind, "They'd have to go through me first!" At remembering those words, he stoos up quickly, spinning around and faced Kai dead on, the metal of his right arm glinting bits of light that hit it, and his right eye mostly covered by his hair that swirled around when he turned. "Who are you and what are you doing here?!" He asked, looking ready to attack if he saught to take or harm the green dragon.

Sa-ar listened attentively, his face now fully capacitated to show expression. Yet, he still wore none. After nodding his head, he bounded down a few branches before landing gracefully, albeit in a crouched position, on the ground below. Slowly he rose to his towering height, furrowing his eyebrows. "So... you say humans have captured and desecrated the bodies of dragons? That is ludicrous. How could they capture a dragon?" He spat at the ground. "The gentleness and strange notions of human sentimentality of these other dragons must have been their downfall..." Sa-ar said, remembering a certain other dragon crying out angrily that a mate ought to be chosen for her heart, not her strength. Fool. Of course, Sa-ar was reluctant to admit he had been bested by humans himself. Sa-ar crossed his arms over his sculpted chest and regarded Grael for a quiet moment, as if she looked entirely different through the eyes of his new form, but said nothing more.

"The humans use horrid weapons that explode in the sea and on the sky as well as the land. They use these to penetrate the mighty scales of the dragons. Most of the times they have to kill them. When they come across weak-minded dragons like the ones on this island they are able to take them alive. It took a vast army of humans to take down my brother. He was able to kill many of them before being killed himself despite the fact they found him sleeping." This was the first time Grael had spoken of her brother's death.

She looked at the ground for a moment before her face hardened into a scowl. She began moving towards the human settlement. She would avenge her brother if it was the last thing she did.