The Stars Disappear

Characters: Starstreak, Shadow, Summer
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|-| Prologue =
The two dragons waited. At the top of the Banyan Tree, there was a sheltered hollow. The dragons sat and stared at the egg, with a lilac shell and cloud of ice blue, sitting quietly in its nest, soft trailing tendrils of leaves brushing their heads.
"Will it hatch?" asked the first one, a wiry black dragon. His breath shone in the cold night air, as white as the underside of his wings.
"Of course it will," said the second one, a female with her scales dappled the colors of summer. "Now, shh."
She twined her tail around his and they sat quietly, waiting. The moons inched higher into the sky, and even the cicadas were starting to sleep.
Just as the black dragon was starting to close his eyes, leaning his head on the branch beside him, the egg wobbled a little.
The summer-colored dragon gasped, and stood up. A tiny crack appeared in the shell, and a small white claw poked out. The dragonet inside wiggled some more, and the crack grew wide enough so that a tiny little head could look out at the dragons watching her.
The summer dragon let out an 'oh!' of surprise, and picked up the little dragon, shaking off the pieces of shell still clinging to her scales.
The dragonet was beautiful.
She had ice blue, yellow, and green splotches on her perfect shining scales, and her horns and claws glowed a perfect white in the moonlight, like they were made of moonlight.
As the little dragon unfurled her wings, the two dragons saw that they were with the silver star scales of a NightWing, but instead of black, there was deep purples and greens.
"Hello, little one," the summer dragon whispered. "I'm Summer, your mother, and this is Shadow, your father." the baby dragonet stared at them, and then in wonder at the stars that twinkled overhead.
Summer gave the tiny dragonet to Shadow, and she squeaked and prodded her father's snout with her beautiful, crescent-moon claws. He chuckled, and touched her snout to his for a long moment, and then put her down in her nest.
As she stumbled around, picking up the pieces of her eggshell and putting them on her head, and taking out the feathers woven into the nest to try to put in her mouth, Summer leaned against Shadow and twined her tail with his.
"What will her name be?" he asked, looking at his beautiful mate.
Summer looked at the night sky through the leaves overhead, and looked down at her daughter with a smile on her face.
"What about Starstreak?" she said.
"Perfect," he answered as the night sky shone down on the happy family, enjoying the company of each other as they were with their new daughter for the entirety of the night.
|-| Part One =
== Chapter 1 ==
As Starstreak ran through the forest, she picked flowers. They were for her mother.
She picked every kind that was along her path; heliconias, orchids, passion flowers, you name it. 
Mother loves flowers, and she especially loves bromeliads. I wonder why. Lotus flowers are much prettier. 
She unconsciously touched the necklace of roses that her mother had woven for her. Red, to symbolize her love for her daughter, and thornless, so Starstreak wouldn't get pricked.
I'll make her some herbal tea tomorrow as well, with some yellow rose petals. She'll like those.
Tomorrow was her mother's hatching day. Starstreak was determined to give her mother the best hatching day possible.
She sped up, her feet barely touching the grass-covered ground now. She knew this part of the Rainforest by heart.
She sped toward a cliff that she knew overlooked a waterfall and leaped off, opening her wings at the last second to skin over the lake.
She scanned the wide expanse of water, spotting some beautiful white lotuses at the center of the lake, near Shrike Island.
She pumped her wings and soared over to the island, well known throughout the Rainforest for its golden flowers, native to only this island.
She knew some of the gardeners that worked there, Hummingbird and Dolphin.
As Starstreak whirled through the treetops of Shrike Island, Dolphin looked up.
"Hey, Starstreak!" she called. "Do you want to help me with these marigolds?"
"Hey," Hummingbird said shyly as she landed. They had just met only a month ago, and Hummingbird was still a little shy with her.
"Sorry, I can't," Starstreak said to Dolphin. "But I have some orchid seeds," she added, seeing the crestfallen look on Dolphin's face. "I know how much you and Hummingbird like breeding the Gold Talon flowers with other types."
Hummingbird's face lit up. "Oh, thank you, Starstreak!" she exclaimed. "We've been looking for those vanilla orchids for ages!"
Starstreak gave some of the seeds to her. "Anyway," she said, "I hear that you have a new delivery of ferns and coca plants coming in next week. I'll help you plant those when they come, I promise!"
Dolphin looked at her with a raised brow. "Really? I seem to remember a time that you said that and then got stuck in some vines on the way here. We had to abandon all of our work to save you."
"Come on!" Starstreak protested as Hummingbird collapsed in giggles. "Those strangler figs and lianas can really ensnare you if you fly into them!"
"Well, I'll take your word on it that you'll come," Dolphin said. "But if you get caught by a rattan vine, I'm not dropping some poor Cat's Claw to go and rescue you."
Starstreak snorted and said, "I'm going to get some of those lotus flowers. See you tomorrow."
As she soared into the trees, she heard voices yelling in a clearing near the waters' edge.
She flew down into the bushes and peeked out at the dragons.
There was Cacao, a dragon that went to her school, and...
She groaned inwardly. She knew who it was before even looking at the dragon bullying poor Cacao.
It's Azeriel... and his gang.
== Chapter 2 ==
Ugh. why did it have to be Azeriel? He was so negative. And arrogant.
Cacao needed help though. She could see that.
Azeriel was using his nimbleness to jump at Cacao, call an insult, and then slash a part of his body with his sharp claws. As Starstreak watched, Azeriel jumped in and clawed Cacao's face.
Cacao howled in pain, and Azeriel's claws left a bleeding red gash.
Cacao tried to bolt out of the clearing, but three dragons threw him back into the open space so Azeriel could get another slash at his snout.
Starstreak gasped.
She knew these dragons.
There was Dahlia, who went to school with her; Venus, who she met one day in the Rainforest and they got to know each other; and Daisy, who she ran into one day while taking a walk through the Rainforest.
But she noticed the same thing on all of their faces: a look of terror.
Starstreak facepalmed. She should've known. Azeriel was a jerk, and so the only way to get dragons to do his bidding was to threaten them.
As Azeriel scratched Cacao near his eyes and he howled in pain, Starstreak made her choice.
She set down her flowers, and leaped at Azeriel just as he was about to scratch Cacao's snout again.
She rammed into him with her talons out, driving him to the ground, and then smacking him in the face with her tail while he was still dazed.
"Cacao!" she cried. "Are you alright?"
"Oh, uh," he stuttered. "Yeah, I'm fine."
"Good," she said with a growl, turning her gaze onto the LeafWing still lying on the ground.
"Why're you picking on an innocent LeafWing?" she snarled at Azeriel. "He's even from your own tribe!"
"He might be," Azeriel said, shaking his head as he got up. "But you aren't!"
And with that, he lunged toward Starstreak, knocking her to to ground and standing over her with his claws raised.
"Stop meddling in my business!" he roared, slashing for her snout.
As Starstreak closed her eyes, waiting for the blow to land, she felt Azeriel be knocked off of her, than heard a scuffle.
She opened her eyes and saw Venus grappling with Azeriel. Venus ripped one swift claw across his snout, and then jumped away.
She stood in the stance that Starstreak knew was when she called n her leafspeak.
Vines burst out of the ground and went for Azeriel, trying t bind him. But Azeriel was swift with his claws, and slashed the vines to shreds before leaping for Venus, who was desperately trying to make the vines grow again.
Sudddenly, a tree branch hit him in the mouth, and he tumbled into the trees.
He crawled back into the clearing, and Starstreak saw that his mouth was bleeding.
She looked up to see where the tree branch had come, and saw Dahlia. Daisy was jumping up beside her to join the fight.
Both of them had incredibly strong leafspeak, and were cousins, so they worked together in a way that Starstreak had never seen before.
Dahlia sent a warm smile toward Starstreak, as well as a silent apology for being on Azeriel's side in the first place.
Azeriel swung his head toward Starstreak, and rasped, "This is all your fault! I could have been having a little fun if it wasn't for you!"
He leaped toward her, and then everything happened at once.
== Chapter 3 ==
A dragon's blood tree exploded from the ground as Venus raised her talons.
Dahlia grew a wolf's peach tomato plant as Daisy made a vine pluck off the little olive-like fruits and toss them at Azeriel, momentarily stopping him in place to shield his eyes.
With this hesitation, the dragon's blood tree wrapped its leafy arms around Azeriel, and he was trapped in a cage of branches and leaves.
He snarled at them through the branches, and tried shredding them. But Daisy kept making them grow back, thicker and stronger than ever.
"You can't leave me like this!" he roared.
"Oh, yes we can," said Dahlia.
"In fact, we should keep you like this," added Venus.
"I'll kill you all once I'm out of here," hissed Azeriel.
"Stop threatening other dragons and get on with your life," retorted Daisy. "Don't you have better things to do than bully dragons younger than you?"
Starstreak showed her venomous teeth to him. "One bite from these will get the wound seriously poisoned," she snapped. "So don't get near me or Cacao ever again."
And with that, she nodded a goodbye to Cacao, Dahlia, Venus, and Daisy, grabbed her flowers, and flew off to collect some lotuses.
== Chapter 4==
As Starstreak collected some of the flowers that floated on the surface of the lake, she heard wingbeats behind her.
She whirled around with her claws out, but realized that it was only Cacao.
She relaxed, and waved at him.
"Uh, hey," he said. "I just want to say... thank you for stopping Azeriel."
"Oh," Starstreak said, blushing. "Venus, Dahlia, and Daisy helped too."
"But you were the one who actually stood up to Azeriel," he said, wringing his claws together.
Starstreak had never noticed how cute Cacao was when he was worried. He was actually really cute all the time, she realized.
Cacao hesitated, the twined her tail with his. "Thank you," he whispered. "For everything."
Starstreak's heart seemed to be pounding out of her chest. She had never known that Cacao felt this way about her.
She realized that she liked him too, even though she had never admitted it to herself.
Things were getting awkward, so she plucked him out of the sky and threw him into the lake.
As he resurfaced, he coughed and sputtered, "What was that for?"
She deposited her flowers in a little hollow on the beach and leaped after him, laughing.
== Chapter 5 ==
They played in the lake all day, and when it started to get dark, Starstreak felt half-SeaWing.
"Oh, no!" she cried. "I have to get home to prepare my mother's present!"
She grabbed her flowers, picked a few more water lilies, and jumped into the air.
"Okay. See you tomorrow, Starstreak!" he shouted as she flapped away, back to her home.
Her house was beautiful.
It was a treehouse, but not any ordinary treehouse.
Just outside of the main village, Adwesch, there was a tree with a thick trunk and branches.
Every different room in the house was practically its own place.
Vine bridges connected all of the little buildings, and jars of glowworms, fireflies, and bioluminescent fungi were strategically places so that the complex could be lit up, even at night.
The biggest building in the complex was the library. 
It had all kinds of stories, and dragons from Adwesch came all the time to read.
It originally been a gift from her mother to her father before she had been hatched.
Starstreak didn't know how her mother had gotten half the books in there.
There were books, like Rumors of Death and Mystery at Twilight that were nearly impossible to get now, and books like The Drowned Sea and The Decoration that had stopped being published years ago.
Shadow's most prized book was one that he kept inside a glass case: Last Argument of Queens, written by Queen Fuchsia of the IceWings, the first IceWing queen who had died before Starstreak had hatched. This was the only copy of a book that was practically the queen's diary.
How her mother had gotten the queen's diary, Starstreak would never know.
As she thought of her mother, she saw her.
Green scales flashed in one of the windows like summer's grass waving in a field. Wings caught the light like a mosaic of a thousand butterflies, all in shades of turquoise, yellow, and pink.
Starstreak ducked into her room, hid the flowers, then burst out of her door into her mother's wings.
|-| Part Two =
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|-| Part Three =
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|-| Epilogue =
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