[Once he's killed and eaten the second fish, he dares to steal a peek over at the young dragons across the way. They do look pretty hype. This is new. EVERYTHING IS NEW TODAY.]
[Suddenly, that idea is really appealing to JW. He waves to the young dragons with his tail and plunges his head back into the clear water. It feels good on his scales. Everything about this place feels good. Like finally getting a splinter of bone out from between your teeth that's been there for days.]
[GAZE UPON HIM, YOUNGLINGS, HE IS THE BEST FISHER DRAGON! WATCH HIM HEROICALLY BASH THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF KARP AND EEL]
[And they do. Their eyes are huge, as they watch him go. And then just like that, they're squealing and diving themselves. Snapping at smaller fish and wrestling around in the water.]
[... even Sideswipe half-heartedly splashes one who paddles too close.]
[They're having a ball, clearly. Much to the chagrin of a massive, mottled red and blue and black dragon curled nearby, alongside a pile of animal bones.]
[They just glare. Angry yellow eyes and dour expression.]
[A grin works its way up the sides of JW's long snout when the younger dragons join in. He ferret-hops closer to them and tosses a few smaller fish their way so that they can chase them through the shallows.]
[It's so mind-blowing. Other dragons. And they like him. They're playing with him.]
Watch this!
[JW flaps out across the water, able to glide close to its surface with his mild wind magic. A great, dark shape circles near the middle of the lake. The cliff dragon readies his long neck and in a flash, like an arrow from a bow, he snatches a whopper from the depths. The size of it jerks him out of the air and he puts on a huge show of 'fighting' it for the hatchlings.]
[With his mighty foe defeated, he triumphantly wades back to the shallows, holding it aloft in his jaws. He feels like a GOD.]
[Sideswipe, meanwhile, has imitated a cat yet again, hiking up his feet to hop-walk out of the water until he's barely in up to his ankles. Because ew gross fish. Or something equally juvenile.]
[He does sit and watch, though, tilting his head from side to side. All right. So... he's good with kids. That's interesting. He'd have thought the weird noodle hermit was cranky to everyone he met.]
[... he'd probably have watched for longer if the older dragons didn't start looking between the two of them speculatively. Which cues a lot of upset wing flapping.]
[James parades the fish around for a good few minutes, basking in the appreciative squawks and roars of his ADORING FANS. Finally he crouches to gnaw on it, unable to swallow it whole like his other catches. He gives the smallest dragon who dares to approach him a single rib (to sell when he is dragon famous.) Finally he flops onto his back with a satisfied puff of smoke.]
[Why would ANYONE ever want to leave this place? You could roll in grass and stuff yourself silly and everyone was so nice. Even the big black dragon had been nice enough not to snap his head off.]
Oh. Good. Now they'll never leave you alone. Looks like you have a talent.
[What was that? A genuine compliment?? It was, despite the fact Sideswipe is pretty backhanded about it. He's even padded up out of the water to sit in the sand, with his tail coiled around him in a neat circle.]
[Glancing around at the elder dragons watching them. Almost warily.]
... also go easy on the meat-eating or I'm going to have to answer a lot of stupid questions.
Maybe you can eat grass... Or -- [Oh god.] -- Or literally anything but that. Ew. Why would you do that.
[His lip curls back at the... needle teeth. Geez. These outsiders are weird and creepy. Even if they do know how to hoard well.]
[The little ones have mostly cleared out, leaving room for the big mottled dragon from earlier to heave up and wade into the lake. Sending a wave their way. Probably on purpose.]
With so many men fighting, all the prey ran away and they ruin the earth and made the river run low. I didn't have a choice.
[He watches the big blotchy dragon make their way into the water and remembers what one of the other dragons said about eating mixed metals. Looks like THEY weren't a picky eater like some dragons.]
You could have moved. Like a normal person. There's always more treasure, right?
[As he huffs further, flicking his forefeet to clear the water off his scales. There's an important problem here -- there's grit between his toes that must be cleaned.]
It's not like they were trying to kill you or you had anyone there. Right?
[Said blotchy dragon bats idly at the water, scowling furiously. Up until a much smaller, grey shape pops up next to them, proceeding to climb their shoulder like they're a rock wall. The big one just looks mildly affronted at the whole process, expression only turning more mollified when the small one offers up a fish about as big as JW's huge one had been.]
I mean, we can't leave. We'd all die. You would've been fine.
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[None of the adults appear to have noticed, but the kids are shouting again. Splashing excitedly. So he pads up a little closer.]
... You do know they're cheering you on, right?
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They don't even know me...
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[SHRUG.]
Their parents might hate you later for it though. When they start copying you.
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[Suddenly, that idea is really appealing to JW. He waves to the young dragons with his tail and plunges his head back into the clear water. It feels good on his scales. Everything about this place feels good. Like finally getting a splinter of bone out from between your teeth that's been there for days.]
[GAZE UPON HIM, YOUNGLINGS, HE IS THE BEST FISHER DRAGON! WATCH HIM HEROICALLY BASH THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF KARP AND EEL]
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[... even Sideswipe half-heartedly splashes one who paddles too close.]
[They're having a ball, clearly. Much to the chagrin of a massive, mottled red and blue and black dragon curled nearby, alongside a pile of animal bones.]
[They just glare. Angry yellow eyes and dour expression.]
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[It's so mind-blowing. Other dragons. And they like him. They're playing with him.]
Watch this!
[JW flaps out across the water, able to glide close to its surface with his mild wind magic. A great, dark shape circles near the middle of the lake. The cliff dragon readies his long neck and in a flash, like an arrow from a bow, he snatches a whopper from the depths. The size of it jerks him out of the air and he puts on a huge show of 'fighting' it for the hatchlings.]
[With his mighty foe defeated, he triumphantly wades back to the shallows, holding it aloft in his jaws. He feels like a GOD.]
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[He does sit and watch, though, tilting his head from side to side. All right. So... he's good with kids. That's interesting. He'd have thought the weird noodle hermit was cranky to everyone he met.]
[... he'd probably have watched for longer if the older dragons didn't start looking between the two of them speculatively. Which cues a lot of upset wing flapping.]
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[Why would ANYONE ever want to leave this place? You could roll in grass and stuff yourself silly and everyone was so nice. Even the big black dragon had been nice enough not to snap his head off.]
Whoof.
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[What was that? A genuine compliment?? It was, despite the fact Sideswipe is pretty backhanded about it. He's even padded up out of the water to sit in the sand, with his tail coiled around him in a neat circle.]
[Glancing around at the elder dragons watching them. Almost warily.]
... also go easy on the meat-eating or I'm going to have to answer a lot of stupid questions.
[GEEZ SIDESWIPE.]
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Poor you.
[He lets out a fishy belch and stretches.]
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[HUFF HUFF.]
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Well I can't do anything about it, look at my teeth.
[JW spreads his jaws wide to show off his little prey-snatching needles. He doesn't even have molars.]
If I can have fish, I'm not going back to picking rotting human flesh out of armor!
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[His lip curls back at the... needle teeth. Geez. These outsiders are weird and creepy. Even if they do know how to hoard well.]
[The little ones have mostly cleared out, leaving room for the big mottled dragon from earlier to heave up and wade into the lake. Sending a wave their way. Probably on purpose.]
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[He watches the big blotchy dragon make their way into the water and remembers what one of the other dragons said about eating mixed metals. Looks like THEY weren't a picky eater like some dragons.]
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[As he huffs further, flicking his forefeet to clear the water off his scales. There's an important problem here -- there's grit between his toes that must be cleaned.]
It's not like they were trying to kill you or you had anyone there. Right?
[Said blotchy dragon bats idly at the water, scowling furiously. Up until a much smaller, grey shape pops up next to them, proceeding to climb their shoulder like they're a rock wall. The big one just looks mildly affronted at the whole process, expression only turning more mollified when the small one offers up a fish about as big as JW's huge one had been.]
I mean, we can't leave. We'd all die. You would've been fine.
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Well, I'll be out of your hair once the rains pass anyway. You can just tell the other dragons I don't have any rock teeth.
[He pointedly rolls over and away from Sideswipe.]
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[As he indignantly pounces on the tip of the other dragon's tail. And ends up batting at it like a cat with string.]
Besides! Dad and Jetfire will probably want to interview you nonstop. You're probably stuck here.
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[He swats Sideswipe on the snout with the end of his tail as the other dragon plays with it.]
I've never been interviewed before...
[JW is slowly warming up to the idea of this 'being popular' thing.]