"Gryphons." Vyshena shot up from her bed. "Pack your stuff, we gotta go." Vyshena didn't bother to keep things clean as her blood raced fast through her veins. "Scá?" She asked and waited to hear from him. "I don't know." She turned around quickly, "get out of here as fast as you can." Telling Rhiannon. Before the girl could question anything, Vyshena was gone and next to Xaden.

"Get Rio and get out of here." Xaden said quickly as he half jogged beside Vyshena. "Where is everyone?" She asked and he sighed. "Find Liam and get to the roof, please." Xaden said and Vyshena took off to find her friend.

Liam climbed up, getting a good position before he leaned over and grabbed Vyshena's wrist, tugging her body up as she saw her squad. They left one by one, when their dragons arrived. Violet was last, screaming at Xaden as she pleaded to be brought back to her sister. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, and Vyshena wanted to tell her it'd be fine, stop overreacting. But she couldn't.

"Xaden," Vyshena said while she turned to the north. The winds stopped, everything stopped for a moment before the wind picked up in the opposite direction. Vyshena slowly turned her head to her lifelong friend, and her eyes were wide. "Is she coming?" The language was foreign to Violet whose hands gripped Xaden's forearms tightly. "Too many eyes. If she does, find her in a secluded spot then go. You can meet them before they get to us. I'll be on Sgaeyl when I get Violet to Tairn." Vyshena released a breath while shaking out her hands.

"Don't let Scá free, Vyshena." Violet understood it this time, still entranced by the language and how fluent Xaden was in it. "No promises." Before she went to climb down, she looked at Xaden again while nodding. Her eyes were erratic, and hand movements trembling.

"What do we say to death?" Xaden asked, hearing Tairn's wingbeats in the distance. "Tubī daor -not today" Vyshena replied, and she took a step back. Xaden nodded his head in response.

"Avy jorrāelan. - I love you." She said, and Xaden's heart beat quicker in his chest. "Avy jorrāelan." Xaden replied, and when Tairn arrived Vyshena had slid down what she climbed up before.

"What did that mean?" Violet asked Xaden, who was still visibly distraught when he went to throw her on the back of Tairn.

"She said she loved me. Get on."

Violet was on Tairn's back, and at last second a roar that rattled her bones screeched through the black sky. Violet felt Tairn move faster as she turned her head, watching a shooting star fly from the forest surrounding Montserrat. But it shot up, and up, and up until floating in the sky. It was a white dragon.

Xaden jumped on Sgaeyl's back as soon as he heard Scá's cry's. "Follow her." Xaden didn't need to tell that to Sgaeyl, but he did and they shot through the air to meet up with the dragon.

Mira was on Teine, as well as a few other riders. "Whose dragon is that?" One shouted as Mira focused hard on the beast. She didn't have an answer.

Mira was shouting orders the closer they got, with Sgaeyl catching up, close to Scá's feather tail. Mira gasped when feet in front of them blew into orange and white flames, but also purple, blue and gold. "What is it burning?" Mira screamed as Sgaeyl copied the dragon, igniting the woods into fire so hot Teine had slowed the beats of her wings.

The venin below them screamed in a pitch that made both, Scá and Sgaeyl snap their jaws and twists their necks. Xaden tried to calm down Sgaeyl as Vyshena dived down to the earth. "No! Not the ground!" Xaden screamed as Sgaeyl followed.

Mira and the others landed a few feet away, Sorrengail walking quickly through the woods where the two dragons disappeared. The men heard a low growl in the darkness, as one tripped over a fallen over tree. Climbing over it, he noticed how the tree seemed scaly.

It bubbled in his throat before he could scream, "dragon!" It echoed through the forest, as did Rio's flames that lit the men on fire. Mira stumbled backwards as Rio came above the trees, her legs the length of the trunks at Mira's sides that she swore reached the stars. The girl pushed up onto her feet, sprinting through the trees. Thirty steps for Mira was one step for Rio, and the ground shook at every violet stomp. Mira's heart was in her stomach, her ears ringing violently and sweat poured as she got closer to the vibrant fires.

She threw herself forward to stop running, landing on her knees as she saw the white dragon, with Sgaeyl and Xaden. The trees were uprooted and broken over; flames seemed to burn everything. The white dragon thrashed quickly once Mira noticed someone on her back. They were wearing robes and had a staff, they weren't familiar.

She gasped when Xaden jumped from Sgaeyl onto the white dragon, throwing a dagger and the man had fallen off the side. Landing in a section of flames.

Xaden got back to Sgaeyl just when the dragon hit the ground. He slid down her leg, and walked to where the white one was standing. It's chest was heaving and steam came from it's body. A hum from it's throat, almost delicate. She was the size of Sgaeyl, an almost match.

Her eyes widened when she leaned her neck down, gagging while Xaden took a step back from her. Her golden eyes were shut. When Xaden passed the middle of the dragons snout, it disappeared. Mira pushed herself to her feet, eyes wide while searching for the beast.

She saw Xaden kneel down, rubbing something as Sgaeyl snaked her head toward Mira. She somehow forgot about Rio, and where was she?

The hair on the back of her neck was blown forward, and the girl screamed before running into the open. Sgaeyl snapped her jaw at the woman, "no! Sgaeyl, no." Xaden shouted as Rio stalked forward. "Fuck," Xaden breathed heavy as he stared at Mira. "Where did it go?" Mira's voice shook. She stood with her feet wide and knees bent, hands outstretched. "Mira," he tilted his head to the side while blinking slowly.

He turned around, walking to whatever he was petting before and Mira side-eyed the two dragons at her sides. Teine knew better than to interrupt whatever was happening. Especially with Rio there.

"Why did you follow us?" Xaden asked Mira, almost with a hint of sadness. "Because there were gryphons!" She shouted, "they aren't gryphons." Vyshena. Who stepped from behind Xaden and looked at the woman. "Venin and Wyvern." Mira scoffed, shaking her head.

"Where is the beast?" She asked, "you're looking at her." Vyshena took a step forward and Mira a step back. "It's for your own good." Vyshena spoke calmly as Xaden noticed the girls fingertips were glowing. A quick step to the left and Mira was on her back on the grass. That golden finger tip came to Mira's forehead as she sobbed. "Good luck, Sorrengail. You'll be the first to go for my parents execution and I'll see that Violet watches." She tapped her finger on Mira's forehead and the girls eyes shut slowly.

"Let's go." Xaden said, grabbing Vyshena who ran for Rio. Xaden was shot into the air on Sgaeyl's back, seeing Teine fly past them and to her rider.

"That was too reckless." Vyshena's heart still beat the rhythm of a dragons as she laid on Rio's back. "You told me to." She argued back.

"Did you mean it?" Xaden asked, "mean what?"

"Avy jorrāelan." He answered and Vyshena sighed. "To the Gods, I thought I was going to combust into flames the second Scá arrived. I didn't want to die with out telling you one last time."