This is sort of two parts in one -- it's just that Part 4 was reaally short.
Everyone was asleep, except me and Natalie. The lights were turned off, but I could see two blue eyes shining in the dark.
“We really need to make Ali mad,” I grumbled, beating my tail against the cracked bit of glass.
“The question is, how?” replied Natalie. I turned a backflip in the water and sighed. Then a thought hit me like a bolt of lightning.
“What if you pretended to hear him coming, and thinking of selling Prim to someone? That’d probably do it,” I wondered. Natalie considered for a moment.
“I could say he was thinking of selling Prim to Fluffy?” she mused
“Fluffy or Kaysey, whichever,” I replied, arching an eyebrow.
“When she wakes up?” she asked. I nodded, knowing she could see me. We settled on our… ‘beds’ and drifted off to sleep.
We were all awoken by the lights flipping on. Footsteps sounded outside, and I heard Natalie’s voice, sharp with panic.
“Oh no. No. This cannot be happening,” Ali sat up faster than lightning striking a tree.
“What?” she demanded. Natalie turned to look at Prim.
“He wants to sell Prim… to Kaysey.” She spat the last word with a snarl. Prim hissed and pressed herself back into the corner. Ali started to tremble.
“We’ll never see her again… she’ll be Kaysey’s pet!” growled Cass, apparently catching on. Ali’s trembling became more violent.
Taho came into view and Ali exploded out of her skin.
Her cage burst open as a gigantic cyan dragon expanded from her, roaring and stomping her feet. Taho’s terrified shriek was lost is the crackling roar of white-hot fire, dancing in waves of surging blue death. He fled back down the corridor and Ali ripped the tanks and cages open with her claws. Then she scooped us up; me Sami, Cass, Natalie and Prim, and placed us delicately between the spines on her broad blue back. She clawed her way out of the secret room, and unfurled her wings in the morning sunlight, before flapping strongly away, carrying us home. It took very little time for me to regain two legs, but Ali couldn’t carry on forever. She started to tremble, and suddenly we were no longer riding a dragon, but falling headlong towards the ground, the unconscious Ali having transformed back into a human. Sami twisted in mid-air, and our terrifying plummet slowed to a gentle glide. The warm breeze carried us along and we landed lightly on our feet at home. Ali floated in mid-air, carried by winds, still completely out of it. Prim and Cass summoned their horses, and Sami gently manoeuvred Ali onto Amirite, draped over his neck in front of Prim, and they headed for their own home.
“I guess that proved one thing,” smiled Sami.
“Trouble will always come to us?” suggested Natalie, and we all laughed, heading into our house for what would hopefully be a nice, quiet day.