The Hydra paused, eyes fixed dead ahead, when Skylark asked him a question. Even Sleipnir nodded in curiosity, staring up at the hydra with wondering eyes. After a moment's silence, the hydra began to walk forward again, "It...isn't so easy as you think. They hydra's power always resided in the power of others. When the earth started to rot, we were left to ourselves. No humans, no other dragons we knew of, we didn't even know Re-your Father was around as well. And your Daddy had taken off for...his own time. It was hard to rebuild, even harder...almost impossible to build from nothing. So we left a while too...Noire went over to the humans, I think the rest of us were content to disappear as well to where ever we wanted to go. It was a bad move, but we sort of washed out hands clean of the earth. Waiting for our king to come back and wave his hand to make everything better. Edge always had the power to do that." "But..." He paused and swallowed a breath, "Your Daddy came back changed. And then the dragons suddenly came around to. And we both didn't know what to do. Your Daddy couldn't remember his exacty power and the dragons remembered...everything else. We had planned to rule without the intervention of the dragons. Our whole plan was thrown into disarray. And...it was just hard." He muttered somberly, staring at the horizon ahead of him and continuing on till Skylark halted him with another question. "I suppose...I could try." He murmured, placing the two toddlers down. Sleipnir leaned against Skylark's side and watched as the hydra kneeled down, placing his hands on the ground. Closing his eyes, he flexed and tried to concentrate. A word that didn't go very well with theHydra of sloth. ------ Ferrum wasn't focused on his surroundings, speeding on ahead and making Terra keep up. Ignoring whatever paintings or pretty decoration that they had slapped on the wall. Eyebrows knitting as he listened to Terra tell her story, "They did a lot for us Terra, but they also did a lot against us, you can't forget that. They took everything that they gave in the first place. They are the whole reason that we're here right now. Remember what Regnum told us, they're...just not right. You saw what happened to everyone. Outside, right now. Frozen. You can feel the earth can't you? What they destroyed and left to rot. How are we suppose to forgive them for something like that? How do we just throw away all these years and say 'hey, let's be friends'?" "After everything they did..." He muttered softly, looking away from her, "You think they'd even stop and listen? It's not like the humans are much of a threat to us anyway. We've stopped them once before, what's the difference now? They're all pawns of the Hydras anyway..." He muttered, turning away from her and staring at the long winding path ahead of them. How long had they been walking? ------ The dragon chuckled as the hydra defended himself, "Does it matter? They've survived this long without you. Your kids are in more than capable hands; not yours...Heh, but you want to hear something nice, don't you? Well, I suppose that you would want to hear it from another, don't you Edgey?" The dragon leaned down low to face him, face inches away from the other. Single grey eyes giving way to golden glowing orbs, dirty scales and hair caked with mud fading into a flawless whiteness, wings full and strong flaring up behind him. He stepped forward and came to rest his head against Edge's chest, wrapping his arms around him in a gentle embrace., "And this is how you remember him don't you? Flawless, unbroken, only a little dirty but you like that don't you? But, that can't be right, that is how he was..." "Yes...Once upon a time, when you fell to the earth by accident. You found yourself a handsome white knight and you tricked him into loving you as well. You both lived quite happily until you had two young children. Beautiful children. Much more tempting than your arrogant white knight. You fell in love with the younger and his beautiful eyes like yours. Perhaps there was a touch of vanity. And of course, you found yourself king, your first knight one you craved more, but what would you care? You had a whole harem to fool around with. You ruled happily, defending your kingdom from your enemies....how could it be any better? Oh, your white knight came back for you! Better than ever. Everything you always wanted, sexy...strong. You really enjoyed playing around with him as well. Perhaps a little too roughly, but who cares? When you can have so many others begging at your feet. All sorts of guises. All your fantasies come true. Whoever and whatever you wanted...." He stepped back and the glamor faded away once more, giving rise to the ugly creature, "And off course, everyone lived happily ever after! Even your wonderful knight and beautiful children, but...you wouldn't want to bring him back to this now?" He gestured to the scars and broken wings, "You wouldn't want your children to be brought back under your care when you so carelessly bite off their flesh. Let them hear you fooling around and calling out their names, would you? My king, you are not that cruel. " He stepped back further and brandished the crystal, "My wonderful king...." He stared up at him and those grey eyes blinked and his grin faded. The dragon lumbered forward, reaching up to touch his cheek, "You wish to know how Relin feels. My love, my treasure, my Master. I hate you sincerely."