The Mysterious Dragonman (Chapter XV)

Surprise

"Guys, it's maybe about time to get up ? I've nothing against being lazy, but it's already kinda late..." Sita said from under her flipper.
The sun was now high in the sky, indicating that the four dragons had surely taken more rest than they really needed. But still, no one was really willing to get up.
"Hmm, maybe..." Calemvir grumbled, his wing in front of his face.
"I already was so lazy as a human, but now..." Lông groaned, the sound slightly dulled with his wing covering his head.
"Get up first, I'll follow." Solaria replied, as well from under her wing.
Sita sighed loudly. If every morning was like that, getting up would become a real battle.
"Fine, fine, I got it. I feel I need some water, I'm going to the river." she announced.
She then stood up and, yawning in an impressive way, stretched her muscles.
Solaria also stood up, yawning and stretching like a cat.
"I've never felt that good stretching myself. I'm coming with you, Sita. A bit of swimming will awake me." she chuckled.
Calemvir grumbled something no one heard before removing his wing from his face, blinking under the sun light. He then stood up and suddenly felt the urge to stretch his muscles. Before he could even notice it, he was stretching himself like a cat, making the two girls carefully observe him and his impressive feline silhouette.
Lông simply yawned before standing up, surprised to feel the same urge to stretch. The two girls observed again his more muscular build, before looking at each other with a small smile.
"Eh, what's the problem ?" the red dragon asked, raising an eyebrow. "Seems like we all have that urge to stretch, right ?"
Solaria smiled widely. "Yeah, I felt the same. But we weren't really thinking about that."
Sita nodded. "Yup. I don't know about you, but I prefered Calemvir. That slender build, full of grace and still seeming so powerful..." she teased.
"Hmm. Lông's muscles were quite nice in my opinion. Maybe less graceful, but look at that ! That's a pretty muscular build for sure." Solaria replied.
The two dragoness laughed as the two males blushed, understanding they had been carefully observed during their respective stretching session.
"Erm... That's nice, but today's meal won't come right in our claws like that. What about we begin hunting ?" the black dragon asked.
Lông nodded. "Yes, we should. So, if there's any problems you come back here, okay girls ?"
Solaria and Sita nodded. "Sure. If you need to find us we'll be at the river !" the water dragoness said.
Lông and Calemvir nodded and the two pairs walked outside the cave before taking opposite directions.

Once they got out of view from the two dragons, Solaria and Sita began to chuckle more and more.
"Seriously, you see how they blushed ? That was fun !" Sita laughed.
"Yeah, that's so easy to annoy them... And so fun as well !" Solaria also laughed.
The two dragoness continued to laugh a bit as they were heading toward the river, at their own rhythm as Solaria was annoyed by her wings and Sita by her flippers. Soon they finally managed to stop laughing, simply smiling.
"You know what ? I've to admit I was kinda half-serious on that one..." Sita shyly said.
Solaria smiled at her. "I've to admit as well. Seriously, you saw those muscles ?"
The water dragoness nodded. "Yeah, it was a kinda impressive show. But like I said, I really got impressed by Calemvir's slender and powerful build. He just looks so gracious when he stretches like that..."
"They both got a really nice build as dragon." Solaria confirmed.
"You mean... Sexy ?" Sita grinned.
Solaria grinned as well. "Yeah. I've to admit they're sexy. Though surprises me, I never really looked at boys before..."
"Neither did I." Sita shrugged. "I guess that's linked to our new bodies."
Solaria thought a second before having a slight smile.
"I wonder... What about us ?" she asked.
"What do you mean ?" Sita wondered.
"I mean, the boys got a nice body build, yeah... so what about us ?"
The water dragoness smirked and looked at herself. "I don't think I had that much luck... I don't feel really strong or graceful, and I'm so big..."
"Not really strong ?" Solaria chuckled. "Considering that with your walking cycle you can bear the weight of your whole body on a single of your flippers I wouldn't bet on that !"
Sita smiled. "Yeah, that's right. I need something to slam to test that."
"And plus, you're really impressing when you're in the water !" the pterodragon added.
"But only in the water." Sita pointed.
"Because that's your element. Just put your Calemvir there and you'll see if he's still that graceful !" Solaria joked.
Sita laughed as she remembered how awkwardly Calemvir was swimming.
"Oh yeah, you're right ! If you saw him before I taught him how to swim well..."
"I wished I was there." Solaria smiled.
"Don't wish too fast, today's your turn !" Sita grinned.
The pterodragon smirked. "That's going to be funny to swim with those wings. Unless I just don't care about them ?"
Sita shrugged and smiled. "We'll see in the water if you can make your wings act like fins."

Lông and Calemvir stood silent for a minute, still slightly blushing, before finally looking at each other awkwardly.
"You think they were serious ?" Calemvir asked.
"I don't know. I just don't know. But you know they like to tease us, right ?" Lông slightly smiled.
Calemvir smiled as well. "You must be right. They must have done that only to make us feel awkward."
"And they really managed to. I'm pretty sure that right now, they are laughing hard about the heads we surely made." the red dragon chuckled.
"Surely, yeah." the black one chuckled as well. "Ah those girls..."
"We have to do something anyway. We can't let them continue to harass us like that, eh ?" Lông grinned.
"We can't. But what ? I've absolutely no idea of what we can do to embarrass them..."
"I don't know either." the red dragon sighed. "But we'll have some occasions, I'm sure."
"Sure. Maybe we simply can try to impress them ?" the black dragons suggested.
Lông nodded at his friend. "That's something we can do. If we catch a nice prey they'll be impressed for sure."
"And maybe I'll manage to impress Sita if we can swim again together..." Calemvir said, a smile on his mouth.
Lông raised an eyebrow when he saw that, and Calemvir blinked, seeming surprised.
"What ? Why are you looking at me like that ?" the black dragon asked.
Lông didn't replied immediately.
"No, nothing. You're ready for hunting ? We're arriving near the lake, there should be plenty of preys drinking."
"Sure I'm ready ! Remember what we said yesterday, eh ?" Calemvir widely smiled.
"For sure. Let's begin the hunt !" the red dragon savagely grinned.

"Erm... I really have to jump from here ?" Solaria fearfully asked.
"Yeah, sure !" Sita encouraged her from the water.
The two dragoness had found a nice place on the river to swim. There was also a small rock formation that was easy to climb, culminating at five meters above the water. Solaria was at the top of this rocky formation, water dripping from her wings as she just went out of the water. Sita was in the water under her, a wide smile on her face.
"Come on Solaria ! That's fun !" she shouted to the pterodragon.
"You're sure ? That's pretty high and the river isn't that deep..." Solaria gulped.
The water dragon laughed, rolling on her back and splashing some water with her flippers.
"Don't tell me you're afraid of jumping ? Of all the dragons you're the most airborne ! And I dove right before you, there's absolutely no risk !"
"I don't know, that's pretty high..." the pterodragon slightly stepped backward.
"Solaria, don't be such a party popper ! You dove from nearly as high when we were at the lake yesterday, with Lông !" Sita shouted.
Solaria shook her head and took a deep inspiration. "Okay, okay. Let me some seconds."
She stepped forward and looked at the water under her. That was maybe only five meters but that was high seen from there ! But Sita was right, when she dove with Lông - how stupid that was ! - it was nearly as high.
Solaria closed her eyes and took a deep breath, before reopening her eyes. That times her look narrowed with her determination.
"Here I come !" she shouted before leaping in the air.
For one second she got tempted to open her wings and fly, but she resisted and began to fall toward the water. She only half-opened them when she got vertical, her beak facing the water. After some seconds falling the dragoness finally hit the water, her aerodynamic build making her enter the water smoothly nearly without any splash. Solaria then opened her wings, inclining them to give her trajectory a curve. She reached the water surface and took a deep breath, shaking her head to get rid of the water she had in her eyes.
Sita looked at her and clapped her flippers to applaud Solaria.
"Yeah, you did it ! And quite well, that was a nice curve you made in the water !" she widely smiled.
Solaria slowly grinned. "That was fun, yeah ! But that seems so high when you're there..." she said, looking up at the rocky formation.
"I've to admit, but diving from the Dragonman's castle was far higher and far more terrifying." Sita replied.
"Yeah, even if you weren't supposed to dive." the pterodragon laughed.
"Still !" Sita replied, laughing.
But simply speaking about the Dragonman made them lost their smile.
"I wonder if there were other people in the castle. We didn't even checked the other rooms..." Sita said, lowering her eyes.
Solaria swam toward the plesiosdragon and nuzzled her.
"I know, but we couldn't do anything for them. We had to escape... You perfectly saw, the Dragonman was near to get into the room..."
Sita sadly nodded. "Yes, but still... Maybe we should try to free them when we'll be more used to our bodies."
Solaria slightly smiled. "You're right. Some day, we will go back there and we'll teach the Dragonman a good lesson."
The water dragon slightly chuckled. "Sure we will ! I can't wait to slam his face !"
"Not before having punched the tigers..." Solaria grinned.
The two dragoness laughed, imagining that moment they were dreaming of.

Lông carefully stepped forward, taking care not to walk on the branch in front of him. He knew Calemvir was near him, only some meters on his left, but a bush was hiding him from his view.
Without a single noise, the two dragons prowled toward the lake, trying to get closer from the prey they both could smell. Their two heads carefully popped out from a bush as they looked if their prey was there, but it wasn't. The two dragons now were at the border of the lake, and from there they could see the other side. Lông went past the bush and smelt the ground, quickly finding the deer's sent.
"It's fresh, that deer was there only a few minutes ago." he commented.
"Do you think it spotted us ?" Calemvir asked, going near the red dragon and smelling the ground as well.
"I don't think so. I'm not an expert, but those paw-prints are not deep, so I guess it didn't run away." Lông replied.
Calemvir simply nodded, looking around to try to catch any sign indicating the direction the deer took. His look went over the other side of the lake, and he suddenly froze.
"L...Lông..." the black dragon stuttered.
Lông blinked as he heard his friend, and saw he seemed shocked. Intrigued, he followed his look and froze as well when he saw what Calemvir saw. On the other side of the lake, the twin tigers were prowling together, and one of them was staring at the two dragons.
"Crap." the red dragon simply said.
One second later, the two dragons were running in the opposite direction, along the river. Solaria and Sita must be warned about the tigers.