Let the Games Begin

[Midnightmoon]

The next RP in the World of Dragon Essence. This is a year after the ravaging disease and everyone is now well enough to participate in the yearly gathering at The Ancient Tree. Here there will be various tournaments and story telling to be done. This annual event is a relief to the old and a joy to the young. The sun is just past the horizon and already the large burly branches of the largest tree in all of Dragon Essence was full of dragons of all ages. Same thing was true for the air and ground. The noise of the gathering population could be heard for miles...

(OT: Please refrain from creating any huge climax in this rp (unless it has been approved by a admin or moderator). This rp, is meant to still hold action (through the tournaments) and yet yield nothing drastic (like the previous rp's). Thank you.)

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"Wooaaah..." Zephyr said aloud. He and his mom were at the base of the giant tree, The Ancient Tree. He canned his neck back to stare strait up into the low hanging branches, leaves flittering down everywhere from all the dragon movement above them. The young dragon saw so many different colours. In his awe and attempt to see Zephyr tipped over and fell. With a groan he rolled back up onto his feet and looked over to his mom out of the corner of his eye. She was looking off into the surrounding setting at the dragons on the ground. "Hey mom, can I go play now?" Zephyr asked, looking her full in the face now. His mom looked down at him from a tilted head, a second later responder, "Ok, stay close to the tree though. And be back here before nightfall.

[Nohiki]

"What'a lot of charcoal." whistled Phoenicia, looking up to the branches, "Ya sure we don't need firewood? One log from this and we can fire up the fortress indefinitely." Sol'Lux silenced her: "Cut it out, this place is meant to be here for all. You alone give off enough hot air to fire up the fortress indefinitely." Phoenicia stuck her tongue out and they took off. "I heard that on the top branches there is snow all the time. I wonder if Starlight's already there." she smiled, "It's a weird feeling, you know, being safe and have nothing to care about. I don't quite remember having any such time since i came here." Phoenicia nodded and turned around, gliding on her back: "Welcome to my world." she said and dropped some altitude, catching an eagle for lunch. After a while they landed on one branch. "Looks like we're among the first." "Gee, what was yer first clue?" said Phoenicia looking at empty wood. They listened and went towards the noise. "Dear gods!" breathed out Phoenicia. The fire fortress was well populated but it couldn't measure with this. "Dragons, EVERYWHERE!" "Told you so." said Sol'Lux and went along the branch. It was the end of spring and the huge tree was blossoming, making the air smell great. "I can't decide which sports to sign on." complained Phoenicia, looking at various rings and fields. "Air performance, notaway. Surfing on tree's leaves is interesting but air dragons will have significant advantage. Combat was never my way so i am staying out of the ring. All the intelligence contests are giving me a headache, i am street smart, not book smart. Wait, what is?" she looked at a smoke coming out of the end of one branch. "Art smithing. Don't wait for me!" she said and vanished in the crowd. Sol'Lux shrugged and gone her way to another branch where elders were sharing knowledge and teaching.

[Morty]

Iskander lowered his eye to the ground, frowning. "The Hell is this?" he asked, picking a dandelion off it's stalk.
"It's a dandelion." said Asmodeus, floating alongside. "They're like a weed here."
Iskander snorted. "I can see why." he said, stuffing it in his satchel. Or rather, the alchemist they'd earlier ambushed's satchel. "Are we in Russia yet?" sighed Iskander, looking at the mountains in the distance. "I wanted to see the rocket ships."
Asmodeus facepalmed. "For the last time, Iskander, we're not on Earth."
Iskander muttered something and subsided into silence as they walked across the grassy field, stuffing all sorts of unfortunate specimens into the bag, including several rabbits.

[Awesomoman]

"Still freaking out over the dandelions eh?" Gorn walked up behind Iskander. Gorn had met Iskander when he first came to DE, during that time Isk accidentally spilled something he found on Gorn's face. This was a miracle, what ever it was healed Gorn's eyes. After that he and Isk became good friends. Now that he can see, Gorn started using his brain more. With his great control on energy, Gorn was now able to build and power random inventions of his. Gorn now keeps a bag filled with metal parts for last minute builds, he also has a pair of goggles on his head. keeps his eyes protected while he welds. "And why would you want to go to earth anyway? Place is constantly ruining its atmosphere."

[Morty]

Asmodeus floated above the treeline for a while.
"Earth has humans. I want to see one. They walk on two legs! Do you have humans here?" asked Iskander hopefully, chewing on a dandelion stalk. "These don't taste very good. I don't know why you have them."
"There's a very big tree over there." said Asmodeus, floating down to ground level.
"There are lots of big trees here." muttered Iskander, regarding a grove of birches suspiciously.
"And it's crawling with dragons." added Asmodeus, grinning. "Looks like a party!"

[Awesomoman]

"You know what, that sounds like a good idea, lets go. And for the record, that big tree is called The Ancient tree, oldest one in all of Dragon Essence." Gorn walked past the two, then put his hand over his eyes and looked farther on. "They're probably starting to do that celebration thing they do every year. They stopped having it when the disease was around so that people could stay away from each other."

[Morty]

Iskander didn't seem to hear the part about the disease. "A celebration? These are my kind of people!" said Iskander, spitting out the stalk, running ahead and taking flight. "I don't think I want to walk through another creepy forest. Let's fly!"
Asmodeus floated up, a party hat appearing on his head. "I suppose I could stick around a little longer!"

[Awesomoman]

"Alright." Gorn charged and flew up right next to Isk. "Man this is gonna be fun, i wonder if some of my old friends will be there?" Didn't take long for them to reach the ancient tree. "Holy Camoly there are a lot of dragons here! Its like everyone from everywhere is here!"

[Morty]

Iskander whistled, landing on a branch next to Gorn. "I've never seen so many dragons! And that's saying something; Hell is a popular place." he said, looking around at the many festivities. "Food... Drink... Contests... Do you know what's missing?" he asked, drawing a bundle of firecrackers from his bag.

[Awesomoman]

Gorn smirked. "You hide here ill hide over there, they'll go for you then see them come from where i am and they'll chase me. Then we come from that direction and pretend we had nothing to do with this got it? Oh, and your welcome for letting you hold those."

[Morty]

"You're welcome? I'm only holding these cause the other material in your back would have set them off." said Iskander, laying down the firecrackers. "And... Why would I hide if I want them to see me?" he said, somewhat confused.

[Awesomoman]

"You DONT want them to see you. The best part about a trick is confusing them, if they know you did this then they wont be AS confused. Plus when i set mine off, they wont know if more will shoot off or not. Get my point?" Gorn said picking up a few fire works.

[Morty]

Iskander blinked. "Sort of." He said, hiding in a cluster of branches. "Will this do?"

[Awesomoman]

"Um....sssuuuuuuuurrrrrrrre. Ill gonna go to my post, wait for my signal before you start using them, this is gonna be EPIC!" Gorn took what he had and jumped off, opening his wings so he could glide down. When he landed, he hid the firecrackers in his wing and then started running. When he go to where he wanted to be he took the firecrackers in one hand and flew up to an empty branch. Setting them off to the side he go into a position where he couldn't be seen. Putting his goggles on he pulled the bag on his back off and pulled out a few scraps of metal. A bend there, a zap here, and he had made a small bird. With one quick charge it's wings started flapping rapidly, he looked for where Isk was and thew it in that direction, it flew straight towards him.

[Morty]

"Ow!" Iskander yelped as the bird struck him in the face. "Oh, right." he said, taking out a match and lighting the fuse. Once he was sure the charge was set he folded his wings around himself and blocked his ears, peering through a gap in his wings for the hilarity that would ensue.