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"...Beat those vermin to it!" the Duke finished his speech. The crowd roared and began to surge in all directions.

'Vermin! Excuse me!?' the large black dragon crouching on top of a few tall buildings near the man reared his head after the man finished speaking.

'Pay him no mind Alatheus. you know just from those words that he's not worth it.' replied the man riding riding on the back of the dragon. With the sun shining right behind him, he surely would have presented quite the impressive figure, were he able to be seen. The last time Drogyn and Alatheus were apart, bad things happened, so they had decided to stick together when they went into town. Only doing so because they had heard that an announcement concerning Saturn was being made. However, though the people of Dergon, humans and dragons alike, generally had good opinions of the pair, a dragon walking right into a human town would create some problems. So Drogyn used his magic to conceal the two of them from sight, though they wouldn't have even bothered had they known what the announcement was really going to be like.

'Yeah yeah, sure, but it still PISSES ME OFF!' Alatheus barely managed to restrain a massive roar of indignant anger. Though he let one out in his mind, causing Drogyn to groan as he massaged his now pounding head.

Drogyn sighed at the rampant enthusiasm his brother showed. 'You're giving me a migraine.' he had been thinking it over, and it didn't make sense to make such a large declaration. After all, not only are you drawing attention to yourself by publicly declaring that you're trying to become the most powerful man in the world, but you're trying to bribe people who are also being given that chance now that you've sent them out. It made so much more sense to simply send out a group of loyal people in secret to search for the egg. What was the royal doing? Was he just stupid? 'No, I can't afford to underestimate this man, not when I don't know what he's capable of, hmm...'

'Maybe you're just overthinking it, maybe he's just an idiot. He sounds like one!' Alatheus thought with a snort, which drew the attention of some people on the ground. Looking over at Drogyn, Alatheus was about to ask if they should go now. He froze when he saw his brother. His skin pale as a sheet, breathing raggedly and covered in sweat. Alatheus didn't hesitate to ask at that point, he launched himself into the air as quickly and quietly as he could, of course, he was a dragon though, so he ended up breaking parts of the roof and making a lot of noise. Soon a small crowd gathered around to see what happened, but other than a sudden appearing and disappearing strong wind, there appeared to be nothing there. 'You stupid idiot' Alatheus roared out loud as he leveled out far above the city, heading out of it. 'Why didn't you say something sooner, you know what using magic does to you don't you? So why didn't you wait to talk until after we didn't need to be invisible anymore?! I swear, you're so stupid, you could've died idiot!' during this long tirade about Drogyn's stupidity, he slowly recovered after releasing the magic he'd casted.

'Well actually, I was going to have you try and read his mind, to see if you could find something about his plans, but you know, whatever. It's not like he just became a dangerous person we have to watch out for! We need to know what he's planning, and we can't just interrogate him. Having another royal family hate our guts might be a bit annoying, don't you think?' Drogyn may have sounded angry, but he was really just frustrated with himself for having been so weak.

'Oh...well, you know I'm not really that good at mind stuff like that. Though I could have given it a try, but I don't think it would've worked.' Alatheus said in a matter-of-fact tone. All anger instantly gone from his 'voice'. 'But the last time we made a royal family mad at us was pretty fun don't you think? Oh, remember when- oh, uh, nevermind, that's a story for another time. Right now I think I should say that we might have trouble. Alatheus finished worriedly. Drogyn turned to him with a questioning look on his face. He had been looking down, trying to see where the duke had went, though he wasn't having much luck. With how quickly the man had disappeared, it seemed like he might not have been an idiot after all. When he heard his brother suddenly sound serious though, he gave him all his attention.

'What is it?' quick and to the point, if something was happening, he wanted to get there now, and so he started to look around, hoping to see the problem before Alatheus would have to tell him about it. Feeling a nudging in his mind, he turned his head in a certain direction, and looked a bit downwards. Then he saw a green dragon starting to crawl out of a nearby forest and fly towards a large red dragon with a rider. Drogyn's eyes narrowed. He may not have known the entire situation, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Alatheus understood his brother's thoughts and wheeled around to start towards the other dragons. If the green dragon was an attacker, they'd make sure he got a bit more than he bargained for.