#THISS! let’s remember that they’re humans too!

[aweebwrites]

Move on Dragons Ch17

“Lookss like even this version of Acronix likess tech.” Jay chuckled, the baby dragon staring at the screen of his hand held game with wide, reflective eyes.

“And this version of Krux still hates it.” Kai says drily, holding his phone up high using his tail so the hissing little runt can’t continue trying to chew it to bits. “How much longer until they’d need him?” He asked Jay as he pushed at buttons quickly on his game, the smaller dragon completely enraptured.

“They’ll want him any ssecond now.” Jay spoke quieter, the tip of his long, horned tail thumping the ground as he focused on what appeared to be a hard level. “You sure you can manage to disstract him while they’re gone? He doesn’t like being out of sight of his brother and Cole’s still gone with Lloyd and Nya to New Ninjago City so he can’t use his magic touch with kids- and baby dragons.” He reminded, looking up at Kai with slitted blue eyes and Kai nodded, plucking Rux off of him, the latter trying to dig his claws in his scales to climb him.

“I’ll take him out on a flight. That should keep him distracted until they’re done. It’s not a long process after all.” Kai murmured as he kept his hand out of reach of Rux’s small but sharp teeth. He already learned the hard way that while they can’t bite through his scales, his little teeth were perfect for getting around them. “You’re getting better with your S’s though.” He praised and Jay shot him a fanged grin.

“I just gotta keep working around thesse teeth with thiss tongue.” Jay says as he paused his game to prod at his long, thick fangs then used a slender, forked tongue to lick at one. “I mean, if Pythor figured it out, so can I.” He grinned then laughed once Nix gave a protesting sound, tentatively reaching out to grasp the device Jay yelled.

They were starting to learn how to hold things with their paws now and learning how to sit with just their hind legs and tails as support. With the majority of the company they have being human- or somewhat human-, it was natural for them to begin trying to copy them. Both Kai and Jay sensed as someone approached them then turned around to see both elders as they approached. Looks like it’s time.

“Alright.” Kai grunted as he set Rux down then stood with a stretch. “You me, some air time.” He says, placing both hands on his hips as he set down his phone with his tail.

Before the small gray dragon could dart after the phone, Kai shifted, leaning forward to land on his front paws. Rux stared up at him with large reflective eyes, never seeing Kai shift before. Sure Kai had interacted with the dragons in both forms to make sure they were used to both, but he’s never had a reason or chance to shift before them until now. He scooped Rux up in his paw, the latter barely even taking up much space there. He had to be careful with him. With that, he spread his wings and took off, able to tell with the delighted sound Rux made, that he already enjoyed flying. Looks like distracting him really wasn’t that hard of a task.

On the ground, Jay pocketed the game to Nix’s displeasure and picked the even heavier dragon up as he turned to the elders. Jay hesitated.

“It won’t hurt him, right?” He had to ask, looking down at Nix as he looked up at both elders with large, mirror-like eyes.

“Not at all.” Wu reassured him.

“It is a quick and painless process. He hasn’t awoken his powers as yet so he won’t even feel it.” Garmadad nodded and Jay nodded too, allowing them to escort him to the awaiting dragons. 

_______

“Uh.” Cole says as he blinked at the villain they were supposed to take down for robbing a bank.

“You have got to be kidding me.” Lloyd couldn’t help but say as Nya grimaced.

“How did they let this guy rob a bank?” Nya asked as they looked at the villain Fugi-dove as he attempted to make some nearby pigeons attack them.

“Oh come on! Please? They’re right there! Just- at least fly off!” Fugi-dove begged, using the large wings he had attached to his arms to try and rile them up but the pigeons continued to ignore his existence.

“I put on make-up… for this…” Lloyd says with an undertone of anger in his annoyed voice, all of his visible skin covered in makeup to hide his oni nature.

“We told you there was no need.” Cole reminded. “ No matter how you look, you’re still the green ninja who saved this city more times than we can count.” He told him as Nya gathered water from a nearby fountain and captured the culprit in it, leaving his head out as he fought and squirmed against it.

“Cole’s right you know.” Nya says as she walked over and picked up the bag of money Fugi-dove dropped. “You’ve been telling Jay he should accept the way he looks. Maybe it’s time you take a page out of your own book.” She smiled a little, looking across at him.

“It’s not like that, really.” Lloyd told them as they waited for the police to show up.

Both Nya and Cole rose a brow at him.

“Ok, maybe just a smidgen- but we haven’t even told the city about the dragons- or our appearance change. If we just randomly show up as half dragon and half dragon and oni, we might stir up panic.” He reasoned as Little G poked his head out from under his hood, some of the makeup on his shiny scales.

“He has a point.” Cole shrugged, looking across at Nya.

“We should at least notify the city of the whole half dragon shifting thing, though it’ll be good to know if the change is permanent or not.” Nya says, looking down at her gloved hands.

“What do you mean? Isn’t it?” Cole asked as the sound of sirens grew closer. “Kai’s was permanent.” He pointed out.

“No, that was because of the scales the dragons gave him.” Lloyd reminded them.

“Scales?” Nya blinked but then remembered the colourful necklace of scales Kai had first returned with after spending his first week in their dimension. “What did happen to those scales?” She asked, thoughtfully.

“We’ll ask him when we get back. We’ll figure out what to tell the city then too.” Lloyd told them and they nodded, turning to the chief of police as he came out of his car, a few other police with him too.

_______

Jay played his game again though a bit nervously, the entire Dragon colony watching him as he kept Nix distracted as Garmadon accepted a large, metal construct that looked just like a time blade- but way bigger. He walked forward to Jay and he blinked once he set it down around him, leaving both he and Nix in the middle.

“U-uh, this won’t take my powers… Right?” He asked anxiously, his tail flicking nervously.

“Correct. Kronos Steel is designed to only contain the powers of time.” Wu rumbled quietly as Garmadon stepped back.

Jay blinked once Nix began to glow green, the dragonling’s eyes still glued to the screen of his game even as Jay stopped playing. He watched as the green energy of his time forward powers began leaving him, the metallic blades in the sides of the device beginning to glow with it. The last of Nix’s glow was absorbed by the time blade, leaving the green streak down the right side of his body to go dark. With that, Garmadad removed the blade that fit his paw well.

“There is only one place we can ensure its safety.” Wu says and Garmadad nods, knowing that as well.

“Getting it there will be a dangerous task.” He whispered but knew it had to be done.

“They will be careful. Morro must go with them.” Wu told him and Garmadad gave a slow sigh before he nodded.

Their former home high up on the mountain, once the safest place for dragons, was now the most dangerous. But already, it held and protected the time stop power.

_______

‘You sure like flying, huh?’ Kai rumbled as he glanced down at Rux in his paws the young dragon’s reflective eyes wide open and filled with wonder at the world around him.

It didn’t matter that Kai’s only been looping around a small space above Hiroshi’s Labyrinth. He was enraptured it appears. Kai was sure he could head back now but… He spotted their usual river for fishing before grunting and descending to a hover by its bank, displeasing the dragonling.

‘Calm down. I’m only fetching us a snack.’ Kai huffed through his nose then looked over the water. 

With the sun keeping his shadow behind him, fishing should be easier now. He eyed the river, eyed the fish loitering in a deeper section of it before he marked his prey. He beat his wings, swooping low and extending his hind legs. With a loud splash, he pulled two large fish out of the water, both trapped in his clawed back paws. He dropped them on the shore, far from the river then landed. He then set Rux down before he shifted into his smaller half dragon form, snorting once he watched Rux warily approach the flopping fish. The one closest to him stopped flopping and he reached a paw out to touch it- only to release a startled cry once it flopped towards him. Kai laughed once he dashed towards him, under his wing to hide.

“It’s alright bud. It can’t hurt you.” Kai spoke low, lifting his wing a little so he could look at the wary dragonling. “Come ‘ere.” He says as he pulled him out and Rux squirmed in his arms, wanting to hide again.

“They take a sec to stop flopping around but here’s a faster way.” Kai says, setting him down before dropping on all fours.

He then aimed for the head of the fish and bit into it, sitting back on all fours still as he chewed, the fish half out of his mouth. Rux blinked up at him as he chewed then glanced at the other gasping fish. He mustered up some courage and moved forward slowly, flinching once it started to flop again. Rux growled then and pounced, biting into its side, struggling for a bit as it wiggled in his mouth, Kai laughing around his own snack as he did. It took Rux three limbs to pin the fish down, Kai having a whale of a time watching him.

“Will you eat it with the scales?” Kai asked as he padded over on all fours, spitting out the spiny tail of the fish he ate.

He then face palmed, remembering that he was pretty much a toddler in human standards who had no idea what he was saying. He received his answer anyway once Rux managed to get a bite out of the fish, settling down with both front paws and a hind one on the fish as a just in case as he ate into its soft middle. Kai laid down on his stomach next to him, letting him eat as he kept an eye and an ear out. Dragons may be the new apex predator of the Labyrinth but Rux was still small and snack sized for most of the predators here. After a while, he heard a low but clear call. A familiar one he recalled his dragon father using when he first stumbled into their dimension. Time to head home it seems. Kai shifted again, returning the call before he checked on Rux. He was amused to see him half asleep, still holding down the fish that had almost all of its middle eaten. Looks like a flight and a snack is the key to getting him to sleep. He wished he figured that out before he had to spend several nights awake, trying to get the whiny dragonling to sleep.

He gathered him up in his paws again, huffing in amusement as he perked up again, excited to be flying. He’ll be even more of a handful once he learns to fly on his own...

____________

(Pandemonium hasn’t cooled but I’ve gotten around to ignoring the hysteria and focusing on the important things, which means I'm back on my usual updating this every two days agenda. Story wise, I swear I have a reason for bringing in baby Acronix and Krux, other than the sake of baby dragons. I need em for both Garmadon and Cole's plot line. They also help out with everyone else's. I'm trying not to drag things out too much, because as cute and fun as this all is, it'll lose purpose if I let it do whatever. Also writing Jay's lines with all the extra S's suck so I'm slowly integrating them out. I wanted this fic to be like, 30 chapters max. I know I won't be able to keep it there because the final arc I have planned is gonna be p big so I'm extending it to at least 40. Here's to hopefully finishing this by or in May! Thanks for reading!!!)