Night Fury

=== Dragon's info ===

== Race ==

Night Fury

== Class ==

Strike

Strike Class dragons are characterized by their extreme speed, high jaw strength, and superior intelligence. Some members of this Class possess pinpoint accuracy and unique abilities that allow them to navigate in their respective environment/atmosphere.

== Physical Appearance ==

== Egg ==

A Night Fury egg is round, with a scale-like pattern covering it in its entirety. While black, it has a slight shine that makes the egg look grey in color.

== Adult ==

The Night Fury is one of the fastest, smartest, and rarest of the known species of dragons. It is medium-sized and has a sleek, dark body with black scales. It also has faint lighter patterns similar to that of a manta ray.

The Night Fury somewhat resembles an axolotl, gecko, and black panther in general appearance and has one pair of wings with a shape similar to a bat; two pairs of tail-fins, one at the base of the tail and the other at the tip, used for control in flight; four mobile, ear-like appendages on the back of its head that show its mood and help it hear; as well as other small tendril-like appendages around their jaw depending on their age. Night Furies have a pair of large, cat-like eyes which can range from green, blue, yellow, and purple in rare cases, with heterochromia in the most unusual cases, and sharp retractable teeth. Unlike most dragon species, the Night Fury lacks any kind of horns, only having flaps and aerodynamic fin-like appendages. The tip of the snout is also prominent, resembling the rhinarium of a mammal. The dragon is 26 feet in length and has a 45-foot wingspan on average, 5 feet 9 inches at the shoulder, and weighs 1,776 pounds.

The Night Fury’s aerodynamic jet-like wings and sleek body allow it to fly at supersonic speeds, faster than any other dragon apart from the Light Fury. It uses the fins on its tail to help steer and maneuver, similar to an airplane rudder. However, a Night Fury will be incapable of flying if one of these fins is missing or destroyed, which shows that they are also used for ballast in flight. It is capable of taking flight from a standing start like a pigeon.

=== Personality ===

Night Furies are very intelligent, expressive and very elusive. They seem to be sociable towards other dragons, but highly aggressive towards humans.

Night Furies sleep like a bat hanging from a tree but have also seen sleeping on the ground.

Outdoors, they will hang downwards from near the base of the tail, with the tail fins hanging directly in front of the face, and wings wrapped loosely around the body. They are also able to do so in caves, although it appears the tail is needed differently and does not hang downward. Sometimes when they are getting ready to sleep, they singe the ground with their fiery breath, while walking in a circle

Night Furies are very capable of communicating, and seemingly understanding human speech. They are also fiercely loyal and protective. Night Furies are generally expressive animals. Night Furies pupils dilate when their is in a good mood, and narrow to cat-like slits when startled, aggressive, or controlled. Their ear nubs are also very expressive, constantly perking and dropping to signal their emotions and their opinions.

The Night Fury, unsurprisingly for its rarity, is an enigmatic dragon. The Night Fury is a solitary dragon, never one to steal directly for their Alpha and unwilling to reveal himself.

Though they keep themselves closely guarded when they warm up to others, Night Furies are also curious creatures that attempt to understand new things they observe and are intelligent enough to attempt to recreate the actions that they see. They are also extremely playful and intrigued by the smallest of things like flying sparks. Night Furies seem to be social when it comes to other kinds of dragons. They are also brave and not easily daunted.

The Night Fury is considered to be so mysterious and feared, that it was often called the "unholy offspring of lightning and death itself." Night Furies are generally very aggressive to any form of threat that they find.

Despite being elusive and solitary, female Night Furies have shown strong mothering behavior, so strong that many individuals have even tended to babies not of their own species. Night Furies can also be extremely aggressive and protective if someone were to mess with their nest.

Night Furies are known to mate for life.

=== Abilities and Skills ===

== Firepower ==

Night Furies are capable of firing explosive plasma blasts. Night Furies have an amount of control over when their flame blasts explode in the air. The Night Fury's plasma blast is capable of smashing apart full-grown trees in one shot.

== Dive-bombing ==

The Night Furies' main type of attack is dive-bombing. Night Furies fold their wings to create a streamlined, aerodynamic shape while they dive from the sky, helping them to achieve great speed while they accelerate downwards, and fire a powerful plasma blast. It has been observed that at the last moment, Night Furies open their wings to create the drag, then lift off. The blast can do great amounts of damage. If a Night Fury does this at night, it remains completely camouflaged and blends in with the dark sky so its targets can't see it coming. Furthermore, Night Furies can intentionally fly straight upwards, then diving down before changing directions such that them are parallel to the ground to gain speed for normal flight. The approach of a Night Fury is almost always accompanied by a high-pitched whistling sound.

== Stealth ==

The Night Fury's jet-black color and dark scales make it blend perfectly at night, dark areas, and dark clouds. The only warnings that it gives is the sound of the dive-bombing with a loaded blast, right before it attacks with a powerful plasma blast, as well as the stars disappearing behind it. The only way to spot a Night Fury flying at night is when it passes its flame-engulfed blast.

== Cloaking ==

Much like Light Furies, Night Furies are capable of cloaking. This allows them to blend into their surroundings. They do this in a similar manner to the Skrill, by summoning/absorbing lightning from the sky (i.e. from electric storms or clouds) to encase themselves in lightning to heat up their scales and back flaps and turn them reflective, causing an electric aura to surround them and become temporarily invisible, although it has been shown to use up a lot of their energy. As a Night Fury enters its 'cloaked form', it causes a massive wave of electrical energy that electrocutes everything within a close radius. It is implied that this technique must be taught to a Night Fury by another of its species. But there are alternative methods to perform the cloaking, as seen by the Light Fury disappearing into its own plasma blast.

== Strength and Combat ==

The Night Fury is incredibly strong, being able to fend off Vikings. They can carry heavy objects, including humans and dragons that are larger than themselves. They're also a very capable and persistent fighter on the ground.

== Tail Whipping ==

Despite having a small tail, Night Furies can use their tail to whip other opponents.

== Wing Shield ==

Night Furies are able to use their enormous wings to shield humans from being burned alive or even killed.

== Accuracy ==

Being a Strike Class dragon, Night Furies have pin-point accuracy, so they hardly ever miss. Even when disoriented by other dragon's scream, they are still able to hit their objectives with a plasma blast.

== Speed and Agility ==

The Night Fury is among the fastest known dragons. It is said to be one of the few dragons known to reach speeds that break the sound barrier. The Night Fury's streamlined sleek-shaped body and massive powerful wings help it obtain a speed limit high. Light Furies don't have sharp spikes or spines, thing that prevent greater air resistance. This gives the Night Fury a huge advantage in high-speed flight.

Night Furies are incredibly agile dragons that can dodge many blasts from other dragons, arrows, and catapults. They also have a very quick reaction to an opposing threat. On land, they can outrun and outmaneuver most other dragons and even being able to jump to and leap from various objects like trees or walls.

Many species of dragons are capable of rivaling the speed of Night Furies while in flight. Those that have been seen to do so are the Dramillion, the Deathgripper, the Flightmare, the Light Fury, the Screaming Death, the Singetail, the Skrill, the Small Shadow, the Snow Wraith, the Speed Stinger, and the Night Light. Even giant dragons, due to their longer wingspan, like the Red Death and the Typhoomerang are fast enough to catch up with Night Fury in the air.

== Claws ==

While the claws of Night Furies appear to simply be black extrusions of keratin, in truth they can flex on command and act as rudimentary fingers. Night Furies can climb any terrain such as cave walls, using their long sharp claws to grip the surface. They can even stay on a vertical wall facing downwards without problem.

== Acute Senses ==

Night Furies have an uncanny sense of hearing and they can hear long distances. They also have large eyes that give them excellent vision to see through fog or thick clouds. They cannot see well in complete darkness, thus they will use echolocation. When angry, or under eel influence, Night Furies will see everything in shades of red with their images becoming blurry and contorted. They also have a good sense of smell.

== Stamina and Endurance ==

Night Furies also have high stamina and durability. They can survive falls from the sky with fairly minor injuries. Night Furies also have high stamina and durability. They can survive falls from the sky with fairly minor injuries. They can take attacks from their opponents and still look untouched.

Night Furies are shown to have extremely dense scales, as only a Screaming Death's are shown to be tougher. A Night Fury's scales appear to be much tougher and stronger than the Light Fury's, to the point that Night Furies need something much hotter than just their own fire to cloak.

== Intelligence and Mimicry ==

Night Furies are extremely intelligent, surpassing nearly all known dragon species. They can understand verbal cues and nonverbal cues. Night Furies also displays an impeccable ability to learn, process, and remember various tricks. In daily, casual conversations, Night Furies also appears to be able to grasp human's words and comprehend a number of them.

Night Furies display a high level of emotional and sentimental awareness of both humans and other dragons alike. They can sense emotions by picking up on oral and behavioral signals and act accordingly in response to them. Night Furies also seem to be one of the few dragons to show creativity. However, their emotional awareness is not to be disregarded as mere obedience. Night Furies are wary creatures that are observant and evaluative. The range of their mimicry also includes human facial expressions,

== Echolocation ==

When Night Furies are at locations where their sight is limited, making it hard to fly, they emit a sonic blast that has a special signal. This signal, taking the shape of purple-colored sound waves (likely containing some kind of weak plasma), bounces off of all objects and obstacles nearby and allows the dragon to avoid them, even in mid-flight. Unlike bats, this signal, or at least part of it, is still low enough to be within the human hearing range; humans can hear the dragon using the signal. Night Furies can also use this method when they are trying to find an object in open areas where visibility is low.

== Jaw Strength ==

Night Furies have a high jaw strength. They can also retract their teeth, to avoid chipping, breaking, or burning when not in use. It’s unknown how strong a Night Fury's jaw strength is.

== Swimming ==

Night Furies are shown to be good swimmers. They can swim at high speed and hold their breath for quite a while, but Night Furies do have a limited lung capacity and will drown unless they have access to air. They're able to use their wings and tail to help them swim.

== Retractable teeth ==

They can retract their teeth, to avoid chipping, breaking, or burning when not in use. It’s unknown how strong a Tight Fury's jaw strength is.

== Glowing Body ==

Similar to a Flightmare, Deadly Nadder, and Gronckle, by eating glowing algae, a Night Fury's body will begin to glow. This glow is deep blue, almost indigo. It can turn its glow on bright in order to scare off other dragons who are trying to attack it but does not seem to be able to turn it off until the effect wears off.

== Secondary Spines/Flaps ==

Night Furies have hidden spines on their back. Those spines are flat, leathery fins, placed in 'V' shape and extending from their back to the end of their tail. They gave them more maneuverability and control in flight. Dragons acquire this ability when they reach a certain age.

=== Weaknesses ===

== Strong Winds ==

The Night Furies' large wings make them vulnerable to intense/powerful sheering winds if they were to attempt a prolonged hover in such conditions like a small Sea Stack or rock formations.

== Sensitive Spot ==

Similar to other dragons, Night Furies, when scratched around their neck and chin will be easily calmed and scratching a specific spot under its chin can even make its eyes roll back and cause the dragon to collapse.

== Tail Fin Dependency ==

The Night Furies' dual tail fins on their tails allow them to remain stabilized in flight. If one is damaged or missing, they will be unable to fly. As stated above their tails are one of the main sources of their flying ability, and altering the tail can change its abilities.

==Cold Temperatures ==

Night Furies are unable to survive in consistently cold environments like tundras, snowy mountains, or arctic islands. This means that unlike most dragons, Night Furies cannot live in frigid conditions, icy cold water, and even cannot endure low temperatures, even lower ones.

== Flying Long Distances ==

Night Furies are also unable to fly for long distances without resting. When traveling they need to take breaks in some islands before they can continue on. When Night Furies are tired/sleepy, they are easy prey to catch or hunt down.

==Dive Bombing in Confined Areas ==

Even though dive bombing is the Night Furies greatest strength, it has one major weakness: it can't be done in confined or small areas when in flight such as in tunnels or caves despite having enough room to fly, they can't access their full dive-bombing speed.

=== Extra info ===

As a dragon, The Night Fury DOES NOT TALK. They will never, NEVER, talk, it's absolutely forbidden, the Night Furies can only growl, purr, grumble, warble, hum, roar, and do other sounds, but don't talk.