Luna

Chapter Three

"You have an invisible dragon now? Wow, that's awesome." Her eyes turned bright once more and she started laughing, Fidi and I were both taken aback.

"We don't think it's so funny. We had to run away last night, I'm afraid of what the Iget will do if he finds out what Fidi can do, they already wanted to destroy us both just because he's red." Fidi hung his head, I guess he hadn't thought of that. I'm sorry. I would never put you in danger on purpose. I rested my hand on his shoulder and gave him a reassuring look. "I know you wouldn't" Then turning away from him I looked at Lily and asked, "Can you help us Lily? We are kind of starving."

"Of course, wait right here!" She turned and began to run in the direction she had just come from.

"Lily, wait!" I yelled after her, and she stopped. "Wouldn't flying be faster?" Fidi's eyes began to bore holes into the back of my head. I've never flown with anyone else. I don't even know her. You can't just expect me to... "But you know me, and you trust me, right?" I cut him off. Lily looked at me, puzzled. "And, it will get you to food faster." I turned to look into his black eyes. Okay, you're right. He looked slightly defeated but he helped Lily onto his back and I slid on behind her. I could tell she was nervous. "It's okay Lily, he's a great flyer."

"I've never flown before. Is it scary?" She was shaking and clearly terrified.

"It's way safer to fly with Fidi than when you let me lift you with that sheet. Don't worry, he will take care of us. I trust him." She let out a shaky sigh and nodded, still staring straight ahead. "Alright Fidi, you can still follow her scent to her house right?" and without another word he took off and headed in the direction we had seen Lily come from. Once he disappeared, Lily squealed and her knuckles turned white as she gripped his shoulders even tighter. "It's okay Lily, he's just making sure that no one from below can see us. He isn't gone." Well that didn't help any, maybe talking about something else would. "Hey, Lily, do you think it would be better to go to your house and I give you the money to replace the stuff we took, or should we go straight to a market instead?" I was staring at the back of her head hoping that the distraction would work.

"Um, I think the market would be better." She took in another, slightly less shaky breath, "Can Fidi follow my scent there? I just went there yesterday." she turned her head just barely for a second then quickly looked forward again.

"He can do that easily, right bud?" I looked at him expectantly. You know I can do that. He was being short with me and I knew why. "Sorry buddy, we'll get there soon and get you some food." I ran my hand along where his wing joint should be and gave him a little scratch, just like he liked.

"We aren't too heavy are we? Is that what you guys were talking about?" Lily stiffened up once more, clearly scared we were going to plummet out of the sky at any moment.

"No, Lily. He is just hungry. We are fine, for Fidi is the strongest dragon I know." As I said that I gave him one more scratch just where I thought his wing joint should be. We were now over a tiny town that looked quite dusty and old, almost broken in a way. I was shocked, for all the towns in the Araki borders were well maintained and each building was new.

"Alright, this is it. That building over there is where we should go first." I pinpointed the building she had pointed at and sent an image of it to Fidi. He banked carefully, using only the slightest movements to make sure that Lily and I remained unseen. Fidi landed silently behind the crumbling building.

"Okay Fidi, please stay here and unseen. We'll be back as soon as possible with the food." I turned to join Lily and her deep green eyes were apologetic.

"You cannot come into the store dressed like that, people will know you don't belong." I looked down at my mussed ball gown. I had completely forgotten that I was still wearing it. I just handed her the money and her eyes turned into dinner saucers. "I don't need all of this." She laughed a little and returned all but one coin to me.