( So the events I described over the last two or three additions
are set at least a decade before Prince Damon's assassination.
So at best Damon is a 10 year old kid somewhere else and this is all
about Fel'Hiren,Thoren,Alessa and Skyslining.
Slave Island is perhaps 300 miles off the coast where Alessa and Skyslining started their
rocket ride and probably
still several hundred miles
away from
the Island that Blackfire pops up on somewhere in the
future.In Other Words Alessa is off course.The Rocket Saddle perhaps
has a run time of three to four hours so as
Alessa approaches Slave Island
the Rocket Saddle is
about to
run out of fuel.)
Fel 'Hiren had lost his wife and three daughters
in the last slave revolt
and as the Cyclops slave driver
advanced toward the dragons
last child
his son Thoren
Fen Hiren felt he could take no more
and his dragon heart was
finally about to break.
Long long ago
the wyverns had taken their dragon
prisoners
to Slave Island,where
their
Cyclops
partners
had taken over the prisoners.
Fel'Hiren had been born into slavery
as had all the other
dispirited dragons
on Slave Island.
The Cyclops were cruel and Fel Hiren
knew if he did not do anything
his son Thoren
would not live to see
another day.
So Fel Hiren
a black scaled adult male
drooped his wings
in submission
and lowered his belly to the rocky ground.
It was his occasional outbursts
of dragon pride
that had
gotten
Fel Hiren onto the bad books
of the slave drivers.
Other slaves had warned him through their
gossip channels
with more sympathetic Cyclops
that
Master Thugg was planning to teach
all the dragons a lesson
they wouldn't
soon forget
and since he particularly
disliked
Fel Hiren
to be careful.
Alas the adult father
had made his mistake
and now
Master Thugg
was coming over
a evil grin on his
face
the padlock keys jangling
on his belt
to unlock young Thoren
from the rest of the
youth slave
chain gang.
Clikkkk
went the padlock
holding Thoren to the
chain
and the Cyclops towered over the terrified young
dragon
and began
uncoiling
his razor raspy whip
for punishment.
"No please no" screamed
Fel Hirens sister
Aqualaine and Thorens
cousins
also pleaded for
Master Thugg to
reconsider.
"Don't take my son"
"Take me instead if you must"
pleaded a despairing
Fel Hiren to the
evil leering
Cyclops slave driver
Master Thugg held up the set of keys
and jangled them
temptingly
Then the rocks seemed
to vibrate and
hum and a puzzled
Master Thugg
looked at the
keys
Surely his keys hadn't set off the vibrating rocks
Then the sand began to hum
and the waters pulled back and
the slaves and the slave drivers looked
out to see
where they
heard a whining sound
then a approaching speck
and
WHOOSHH
a screaming red scaled dragonnes with a passenger on her back
and wearing some kind of saddle the slaves
had never seen before
nor Master Thugg
thundered out from the
air at fantastic speeds and
rocketed over the assembled
viewers before
she vanished
overland again.
So startled was Master Thugg by
this apparition
from centuries past
that he
dropped the keys.
Quick witted Thoren
his life dependant on what he did in the next few
seconds
dived for the
keys
flung sand into the eye of
Master Thugg
and dashed
to unlock his dad
and the other slaves.
Fel Hiren freed
tossed the keys to his sister
Aqualaine
and fled inland with his son.
The revolt was under way.