EarlGrey/Innocence is Dead (Story)

A Short Story done within the universe of U1-GA, written by both EarlGrey and Chao, this isn't a story canon to U1-GA so it's placed here for archival reasons. Not a happy story and there's some death.

A group of dragons had wandered the lands, reaching a small water treatment plant in Elyoria.

Cryll, Glacies, and Salama had reached the area as Shiro was stuck handling a situation with a bridge and a rainbow dragon.

In the treatment plant was a brown wyvern, a spiked ball on her tail and an unpleasant atmosphere about her.

"Is this all? Just a group of tiny bastards?" The wyvern had muttered to herself.

The wyvern had walked over to the Fang Posse, initially glaring at Glacies, the frost dragon staring daggers right back at her.

"What are you looking at..." Glacies had asked with a hostile tone.

The wyvern was about to strike Glacies with her spiked ball when a noise had chimed in her ears.

"Hello." A voice said behind her, the source being a green dragon with spots,a smile on his face and his tongue sticking out.

She turned to the derpy dragon, gaining a maniacal grin as she did so.

"Oh? And who might you be..." She questioned the odd dragon.

"I'm Derpblock, I'm green. You seem like a nice lady." He responded, keeping a cheery deposition.

She's silent for a second, but she suddenly bursts out in a fit of wild laughter. She straightens and clutches her chest with her wings with sadistic glee, Derpblock soon following suite.

"You... don't... know... death..." She says in between gasps for air.

Derpblock responded by blowing bubbles, and then popping them.

Suddenly, Derp finds himself on his back and trapped under one of the wyvern's feet, her snout leering in his face.

"Is this a magic trick?" The derpy dragon asks in curiosity.

"This is great... It's like a game.." She stabs Derp with her tail once on each side of his torso quicker than the eye could see.

Not feeling satisfied, she widens the wound on one side between his chest and his waistand presses lightly on his stomach. If he had organs, they would be coming out slightly.

"That wasn't a fun trick, but I'm sure you'll go on to be a great magician, like Nera!" Derpblock chimed in, even with his injuries, his demeanor never left him.

She grabs Derp's neck without squeezing, looking back to her audience, as the other dragons looked on in horror.

"So... How's the show so far?" She held a sadistic grin on her face.

"You are just psychotic!" Cryll responded in horror, then proceeded to manipulate the water toward the wyvern's direction.

She falls over from the force of it, roaring and stumbling to a standing possition. She looks much more frightening wet. Well... It's either that, or the fact that she's completley impassive except for her eyes.

Her eyes were not disimilar from a pit of pure fury.

Glacies had attempted to freeze the psychotic guardian in ice, but his attempt failed as she charged toward him, launching her spike ball toward him, knocking him to the ground injured.

She grabbed the poor Derpblock again by his neck, as she had let him go from the blast of water, and quickly broke his neck with one clean movement from her tallons. The snap echoes sickly over the grassy plains.

Cryll had whispered to Salama.

"Salama, you go find help, me and Glacies will deal with this beast, okay lil bean?"

The lightning hatchling nodded yes and ran outside, in a search for help.

After traveling for a bit, Salama finds a familar mass of white and electric blue feathers. After hearing what had happened, Nera quickly heads over to Derpblock, Pali, Glacies, and Cryll.

Nera glares at Pali with her ice-like eyes, making Pali quickly leave. She then cups Derpblock in a bed of clouds and brings him near her head.

"A funeral is sad, so how about a birthday party?" Derp cheerily says as Nera carefully twists his neck back into place.

"A deathday party..." She coos quietly to him.

"With cookies! Like when a cloud is sad, but then they become happy!, And Bubbles, So many bubbles! And we can fly a kite! It'll be so fun! :D" Derpblock had chimed, looking up at Nera as he said this.

Nera fights to remain a cheery white and electric blue, although wanting to grow into a more stormy grey. "That sounds like a wonderful idea... But you should get some rest."

"Aw okay, I'm feeling sleepy anyway, Well then tomorrow will be a fun time, with so many clouds, and they are so happy!" Derps responded, sounding happy as he said it.

"Yes, but you need to-" She can't finish the last word at first. "Sleep. You need rest..."

"Okay! :D, Your a nice cloud lady :•3" He tried to move to hug her, he was stuck from his injuries but damn he tried with all his heart to.

Nera moves to hug him instead, soothing any pain.

"Thank you so much! I can't wait for tomorrow, it'll be so fun!" Derpblock had excitedly said, sounding sleepy as he said it, unaware of what was going to happen, he looked up at Nera, looking with the innocent look in his eyes, a look that made Nera feel shaky

She purrs somewhere deep in her chest for him."Goodnight, my bubble prince.."

Derpblock smiled at Nera as he closed his eyes, initially sleeping in her hold but his breathing eventually stopped.

She places him down on top of a grassy hill, making him look like he was simply resting. She then covers him with clouds and flash-freezes those clouds, somehow creating a clear, crystaline mineral encasing him.

She enscribed on a stone beneath him. "Darkness may have smothered this piece of innocence in the world, but we shall find it in ourselves to fight back harder against the darkness."

Salama had wandered over to the stone, she had placed a small marking onto the cobblestone, it was a smiley face, just like what Derpblock would have done.