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He peeked around the tree at the deer herd, he was still getting used to his new abilities, hunting was very new to him.

He flipped around the tree, shifting as he did, his metalic copper scales shined in the sun as he dived toward the scattering herd. In a flash they were gone and he was left in the clearing, he hadn't taken to hunting as well as he hoped.

He looked back at his wings, damaged, old wounds healed from them being broken long ago, one of many questions he had no answers to.

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Oriana had decades of experience hunting. She knew how to not be noticed, even with her bulk, by her prey until it was too late. She soared above the clearing, scanning the herd for the fattest deer to take.
With her prey of choice in sight, she diced like a missile towards it. Then the deer scattered.

It was a last minute course correction, but Oriana managed to slam into one of the stragglers, just past the treeline, and break it's spine. It died more or less instantly. Not the one she wanted. Scrawnier, but it would have to do.
Her prey secured in her talons, Oriana cast her crimson eyes on the clearing, at the interloper who had spooked the herd.

He was a small Copper Dragon, barely higher than ten feet. His scales intrigued her though. Was he a child of the dragon Trent? He didn't smell entirely metallic.

Stalking forward, her tail swishing angrily, Oriana dragged the deer carcass into the clearing. Oriana was at least three times his size, and made herself even larger by opening up her wings. She settled down onto the grass and began to eat, watching the dragon youngling closely.
He looked disappointed in himself, and she couldn't blame him. Attacking prey from the ground was a stupid tactic when you were a creature as bulky at they.

When she had finished a portion of her meal, she cleaned up her muzzle a bit, the white stained a grisly red. "Youngling. Who taught you how to hunt? Your technique is, I would say abysmal, but that implies you even have a technique."
 

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He looked up from where he was laying, it was another dragon, one larger and with mostly white scales, "ugh.....welll......" he trailed of for a sec, he hated the awkwardness his bizarre situation caused, "well no one.....or at least..no one I remember."

He rose from where he was lying and looked up at the larger dragon, "it's a long story...but lets just say that I'm not used to my dragon form." Being abld to change into a larger creature was odd to him.

He looked at what was left of her kill back to the elder dragon, "you seem to have hunting down."

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Oriana snorted a bit, but then softened a little bit more as the youngling explained himself. He couldn't remember if anyone had taught him? And he wasn't used to his draconic form? Had he lost his memory, or something to that effect? The questions swam in her mind for a moment, and she closed her eyes to formulate a response.
"Well, I am sorry to hear that, youngling. My advice would be to stick to the sky. A predator above is a predator less likely to be noticed."

A small pang of pity touched Oriana's heart, and she threw the remainder of her kill at the smaller dragon. She could always hunt again in an hour or so.
"Your scales are similar to ones I saw in my own home. Another plane of existence. The Copper Dragons are a noble breed, sharp of mind and strong climbers. Would you happen to be related to the Copper Dragon who goes by Trent?"
 

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He listened as she suggested he he stick to the sky, he sighed a bit and unwolded his wings, revealing the scars and muscle damage, "I...I wish I could..." he looked back at them sadly. "Someone broke them.....don't know who or why...but I can't fly. My mentor is preparing to heal them but....well you know..no gurantees."

He looked up at her, "Trent? No, were not related, he's my mentor though." He glanced at his crippled wings one last time and folded them back, "he's training me to better use my powers, and helping adjust to my dragon form," he'd moved in Trent's lair so that he could have the room to use his form more often.

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Crippled? Who would do such a barbaric thing to a dragon's wings? The hunters who attacked her clan came to mind immediately. She felt a pang of guilt for treating the youngling harshly. And of sympathy for the loss that he must have gone through.
"I apologize profusely. I had no idea about your wings. I can see now though, looking more closely. And you... do not know who did this to you?"

She pondered his statements about Trent and nodded. "He seems like a noble dragon. Impossibly large. I have asked him for help with a matter my clan is attending to. My name is Oriana Whitegold-Yskaandrar, current head of the Yskaandrar clan." She bowed her head in greeting to the youngling as she gave her title.

"But eat. You may have the rest of my kill, as an apology for speaking so harshly to you."
 

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He gave a slight shrug as she apologized, "you had no way of knowing," he chuckled a bit, "and you're right, I'm not the best hunter." He shook his head as she asked if he remembered who broke his wings, "I have no memories from before around five years ago, that's when I was found and taken to the orphanage."

"Yea, Trent has been great, really patient with me, he let me move into his lair so I could use my dragon form more often," while the school had been great it just couldn't afford to house his large draconic form, "and my elemental abilities tend to be a little hard to control, especially my lightning, I even try to use it and everything around me get's electrocuted."

He looked smiled as she introduced herself, "it is an honor to meet a clan leader," he bowed a bit, he was uncertain how to greet such a leader but a bow seemed proper, "I'm Theron, ironically enough that name means hunter," he laughed a bit at the irony, "I gotta keep practicing, live up to my name even if the orphanage gave it to me randomly."

He was a bit surprised when she offered him his kill in apology, "I thank you," he quickly ate the remaining kill, he had gone without food today in hopes the extra incentive my kick his instincts int high gear.

"I'm sorry to hear that your clan is having troubles, hopefully Trent can help you sort it out," Theron knew next to nothing about clans and there iner-workings. "Either way, welcome to Manta Carlos, even though troubles brought you here I hope you still enjoy your stay. Lots to see here, me and my girlfriend have really enjoyed all there is to learn here."

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Oriana merely listened as the young dragon prattled on about this and that. He had no real sense of flow with his topics, and if she could have she would have offered him an amused smile.
"Thank you for the welcome, youngli- Theron. You are very well mannered, if talkative. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing."

Something he said though caught her off guard though. He mentioned elemental abilities. Plural. She had never really heard of dragons, especially metallic dragons, having more than one element.
"You have more than one element? How strange. Every dragon I have met thus far commands a single element. Even myself and my mate, as powerful as he was."
 

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He looked at her oddly and tilted his head as if confused, "I have been talking a lot haven't I?" his voice gave off a sense of confusion, "I'm actually normally pretty quiet, I don't talk to a lot of people," it was true, normally he just talked to Trent or Hazel, he was normally not talkative.

He nodded when asked if he had more than one element, "I have fire, ice and lightning," he was also aware of the rarity of having multiple elements, "I discovered my fire first, followed by my ice, my lightning has been the most unstable. I can't do anything with it," he had more or less electrocuted everything around him when he first tried to use it.

"Trent's training has been really helpful, wasn't that long ago I was randomly bursting into flames," he had burst into flames when he had first first asked Hazel out, "he sorta, reconfigured the bangle that was used to block my powers all those yeas to help me control them instead," he raised his head and shot a small burst of flame into the air, "not impressive like so many dragons, but it's about all I can do for now."

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