Enthrall

Enthrall is a bright young dragon. She was raised in a nature clan and taught to care for all living things, but she has always had a love for adventure and the risk of death. When a traveling circus decided to rest in her home clan for a while, she was enthralled. There were talented dragons of all forms and colours, performing tricks that she had never thought possible. Of course she had to sneak away from her parents the night they were leaving and go join them.

She had a grand time in that circus, she learned all the tricks she was so impressed by, and more. She learned to swallow fire without getting hurt, balance on high places without falling, and how to please the audience. It was the life she had always hoped for. It was a life she had never wanted to leave. It was a life that all came crashing down around her when she made one small mistake.

She had never been to the plaguelands before, and her circus had traveled everywhere else by that time. Her friends thought it was a good idea, so they changed course and traveled to the disease-ridden territory of the Plaguebringer. They had fun, performing tricks for all the other clans that lived there. So many dragons had forgotten how to have fun and just knew how to survive. That's why, when a shiny black wildclaw named Spring wanted to join their circus, Enthrall didn't see any reason not to let him. She could never see the malice behind his intentions until it was too late.

They traveled a bit more, Spring was learning fast, the circus was gaining a lot of treasure. Everything was going fantastically. The circus was in high spirits, their performance that morning was great, many dragons enjoyed it and nothing went wrong. Of course, they earned a lot of money. That night was a dark one, a storm had been brewing all afternoon and you could only see a faint glow of where the moon was supposed to be. A cliche night for something bad to happen, and happen it did.

A group of bandits had snuck in to watch the performance, and they definitely took notice of how much money the dragon letting people enter collected, and how much the clothes and equipment of the performers cost.
They waited for the performance to be over, and all day for night to fall. Then they decided to attack. It happened that Spring, an old friend of theirs was on guard that night.

(wip)