Age of Freedom

[✡]

"How long?" Drake snarled in sheer frustration at his situation, "how am I able to tell how many bloody days I've been in here when there isn't any LIGHT??" He let out the last word as a roar. Drake shook himself, he didn't mean to sound so arrogant, but it was this place...it was ruining any sense of calm he had.

[Black-Horse]

"I see then.. I just got captured two days ago at midnight.. whats your name dragon? and can you breath fire?

[Gelidus]

The guard notices the handle is being tampered with and that Sarah is now in the small room outside of the cage scratching at the door. "And what the hell are you doing out of your cage!? Get back in there or I will put you in there by force!" He opens the door and swings the baton right at Sarah stomach as light flows into the dark room. "Are you gonna cooperate or do I have to teach you a lesson?" The shock from the painful blow and the light left Sarah dazed a bit, but she quickly overcame it. The panic inside of her was at its worst level now and she wasn't thinking clearly. She just wanted to leave that place. Nothing else mattered to her. She yelled at the top of her lungs "**** YOU!" as she rushed the guard and shoved him out of her way. The guard hit her once more before she managed to get out of his reach. She ran as fast as she could toward the end of the hallway. The window there was the only place she could go. Desperation to get out let her pick up enormous amounts of speed, til finally she reaches the window and launched herself out. Little did she know she was in a castle, several hundred feet in the air. She began to plummet faster and faster. As her wings opened up in an attempt to save herself, an excruciating pain comes through her. All of her old scars from the whippings began to open up. She closed her eyes from the pain and the fear of knowing if she was flying or if she was just going to die here and now.

[✡]

"Can I breathe fire?" Drake sniggered and let out a tongue of flame, "who can't breathe fire?"

[tangletail]

Olaris took a look back up to the sky, only to have something capture his interest. He looked at a certain window, thinking he saw something coming from it. He paused where he was before continuing on with a frown. "Feh, my sanity is now beyond question" he thought to himself. He glanced to a dragon, a man in armor for some unknown reason, both who are standing by the prince "Good day master king, and young prince~" he greeted as required by all slaves as he stopped and bowed to them.

[Daemon]

Balzhamest looks up at the dragon. "Who can't breathe fire? Everyone but dragons and torches." Balzhamest's hand brushed along the floor of his cage, and he felt what he was looking for; a small broken piece of metal. "Raise your hand if you want to be free." He said more to himself than anyone else. He closed his mouth and looked around; the guard has fallen asleep. He jammed the metal into the keyhole, and after a minute of wiggling it, he heard a loud snap, and the lock fell to the floor with a loud clang. The guard jumped up just as Balzhamest retreated to the back of his cage. "What was that?! Are we under attack?" He pulled his helmet on and sprinted out the door, not bothering to lock it behind him. " Balzhamest pushed his cage door open, then ran to the cage with the dragon. In what seemed like an eternity, he unlocked his cage, and it took even longer to get his bonds. As he undid the horse's cage, he asked. "What is your rteason to continue striving? Why do you believe to go on? Revenge? Love, hate, anger, sadness? Mine, I am for protection. To protect the one who needs me; the one who saw me as what I am: a person"

[Gelidus]

The pain was unbearable, but Sarah was flying. When she finally opened her eyes, the ground was only about 10 feet away. With everything she had, she managed to pull up gain altitude. It was hard to focus with everything that was going on in her mind and with the pain in her body, but she new she had to get out of the castle walls. All of her energy and effort was put into gaining enough height to do so. When the walls were finally passed, she fell back down quickly. The ground came up and she had no idea how to land. She hit the dirt hard and rolled a few times before she finally stopped.

Sarah cried hard and long. So much emotion was going through her: The pain, the fear of whats to come, the joy of being free, and most of all the happiness of knowing that she just flew...

[✡]

Drake kicked open the unlocked cage door. No door could hold one of his clan for long, and now he had to find out two things: where he was, and the date. He had no idea where or when he was, but he was determined to return to his homeland before he got sucked into business that wasn't his own. "Thanks for springing me," he said to the other dragon who rescued him, "and now what do we do?"

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Mavelli smirked at Tiamat, almost letting out a laugh as he untied his coin purse and tossed it at the prince. "There, I just bought her freedom from you, now go get yourself a nice stallion or mare." He looked back up at Tiamat, and bowed in a gentlemanly way before standing upright again. "Will m'lady or Tia suffice?"

[tangletail]

Olaris had calmly looked up thinking he saw something else. He squinted his eyes some to shield them from the sunlight as he saw a silhouette the shape of a human with wings flying over the castle walls. “...That did not just happen” he thought to himself, only to be proved wrong by the guards who were escorting him taking notice. They jerked the chain snapping  his attention back to them and gave him an order to stay put before dropping it and sprinted off to investigate.

“Yes sir.” he responded as he watched them go. “...I want my rock...” he thought to himself solemnly as he found himself next to what looks like an argument between cousins.

[Daemon]

"It'll be hard to disguise you... but I think that Dominic and I can hide you as a worker...  if that is okay with you, Great One." Dragons were revered by the Lizard anthros, who looked up to Dragons as though they were gods. "I normally wouldn't ask this, but we'll have to strap you to one of those..." Balzhamest indicated a full mine cart that was equipped with a dragon harness.

[Gelidus]

The guards ran up towards the strange figure in the sky to investigate. When they got there, they found Sarah passed out on the ground. She had fainted from blood lose, dehydration, and exhaustion quickly after she landed. The guards looked over her and they found blood crusted all over her wings and scars on her back. "What do you make of this?" one of the guards asked "I don't know. She is definitely a slave, but why she is out here is beyond me." They pick her up and take her back to where they were.

When they return to the royalty, one of the guards asks the price, "Your majesty, we found this hawk anthro outside the castle walls. She may have escaped from your castle but we can't be sure. What would you have us to with her your grace?"

Sarah then began to come to. Her eyes opened slowly as she tried to figure out where she was and what was going on.

[✡]

Drake accepted the harness reluctantly. Once he was out of here he would be treated like an animal no more. He would not try to gain revenge for his capture, he had much bigger problems to ponder.
He strapped himself into the harness and turned to his companion, "this had better work, or else we're both doomed".

[Daemon]

Balzhamest nodded. What else was he to do? "Just head through that door, and we'll follow" He said, indicating the gaping hole; just big enough for Drake. They started down it, working their way down... they were nearly out when. "Sir, are you authorized to-" around the other side of Drake came a human, who seemed as surprised about Balzhamest as he was fort eh human. "RUN NOW!" Balzhamest shouted as he talked the human to the ground. Bazlhamest ran after Drake and Dominic, and heard the guard run the opposite way screaming "Prisoner escape! They have a Dragon!"

[Gelidus]

The king wasn't too concerned when the guards first bothered him, thinking he would only shoo them away and tell them to take her to the castle and lock her up. However, when he glanced at her he noticed what horrible shape she was in, "My god what has happened to this hawk? She looks like she has cheated death itself!" The king had seem many slaves before, even after getting beaten for misbehaving, but Sarah's condition was so gruesome that he was taken aback.

Now Sarah had finally woken up. Her eyes were wide with amazement and fear. Standing around her was a king, a prince, and a dragon. She was too emotionally drained to panic, and she knew she had to behave to get out of this situation. Running would do her no good. The king spoke, "Good she is awake. Small hawk, state your name and how you came to be in this condition" Sarah did the best she could to maintain her composure, despite the fact that she had just gone through much and she was in the hands of humans again. She spoke as officially as she could, but the fear, pain, and exhaustion were clear in her voice, "My...my name is Sarah. I escaped from a castle...I think...I took a few hits from a guard before I jumped out the window and flew away. I...I managed to get out of the castle walls but I have never flown before today. My old scars from being whipped must have opened up when I did so and I had to hit the ground and tumble a few times in order to land...What is...what is to become of me?"