Moonseed

Moonseed is July 17 2020 09:37:00 old in real time at the moment.
She was adopted at Scroll's Hatchery by Queen Dusk
The History is click to read.
History
Moonseed's egg had a strange aura. No wonder her parents left her at a hatchery and put her up for adoption.
Her egg looked like a normal LeafWing egg.
Apart from the colours.
A dragon came along in the dead of night and adopted her egg. Shortly afterwards...
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===1 year old===
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|-|Hatching=
She's hatching...
The egg rocked, a starburst of cracks appearing on the eerily coloured eggshell.
The little blue dragonet hatched in the warm arms of her adoptive parent.
Her parent cradled her, looking at her beautifully curved talons. Her wings were the shape of leaves, but had an eerie light blue tint. The dragonet's breath was cold, and the parent drew the conclusion that this dragonet was a hybrid of Ice and Leaf. The dragonet's eyes were a cold blue, and her scales were only slightly paler - a mixture of pale green and blue. The tip of the tail was round, not leaf-shaped.
Her parent though about calling her Midwinter, but decided against it. The dragonet's claws were the same shape as her horns, curling up like crescent moons. As the full moons lit her path, the parent taught the dragonet how to walk, one word appearing in her mind.
Moonseed.
|-|Two days old=
Moonseed squealed as her mother entered her house. The door creaked open and the warmth hit her. She curled into her mother's arm and cooed, snuggling her. Her mother placed her on the floor, patting her on the head. The adult dragon smiled, and pointed over to a woven hammock which Moonseed guessed was made for her before her mother left to get her. She opened her talons, clasping one of her mother's claws.
Her mother grinned, and gently detachedd Moonseed from her claw. She picked the dragonet up, and placed her gently in the soft leafy hammock. The dragonet watched her move, and her mother lifted a scroll from a rack by a window. She opened it and began to read to her. Moonseed didn't understand -words were confusing, but the dragon with the scroll seemed confident - and protective (but was it of her or the scroll?), and she felt her eyelids drooping. "Snurblefloof." she said. "Meeshesleeee...eee?". That is the last thing she heard before falling asleep, apart from her mother gently rocking the hammock and her talonsteps departing.
|-|1 month old=
Moonseed poked the scroll rack, looking up at her mother "Remeeee stoooeryy." she warbled, attempting to pull a scroll out and failing. Her mother sighed, a smile creeping across her face. "Alright, little one." she said. "I can read you a story." Moonseed squealed as her mother tickled her. "Nolittle. Big scaerey Mooooseee." she protested. 
Her mother grinned, and stroked her head. "Yes you are." she opened the scroll. "Have you heard of the Lost Continent?" she asked softly.
"Yuuu meee there odder coninient? No jusa Piereeaa?" Moonseed yelped, eyes going wide. "Wowowowow!"
"Yes, there's another continent. It's called Pantala." she said calmly, and began to read, Moonseed watching her with sleepy eyes.
"I's gonna go deeerrr wun dayy." she mumbled.
"I'm sure you will." her mother said, and tucked her in. She continued to read until Moonseed drifted off.
|-|2 months old=
"I don wanna gooo." she yelled. "I tooo yung. Jay mouninninny too big tooo scayry." she flopped on her mother's feet in a dramatic fashion.
"Oh three moons, we'll wait until you're two then." her mother said, rolling her eyes. "They think you're really clever and that's why they want you." 
"Ju becuuu I clever don mean I go to schooo." she said, opening her eyes wide and looking up. "How bou me never go to schooo."
"No, you will go to school when you can speak properly. You can't speak like a dragonet when you're twenty." her mother scolded.
"I too smarr for schooo, Amamamaori." Moonseed said, a slight glint in her eyes.
"Cheeky!" her mother said. "And call me Mother."
Yess muttttttttter." Moonseed squealed and leapt away to evade a swipe from her mother.
"You might as well go outside and play with your friends," her mother said. She squinted, and a droplet of water hit her on the snout. "It's beginning to rain."
"YAY! RAIN!" Moonseed yelled, sprinting out the door.
Her mother watched her from the doorway. "Finally I can get some peace and quiet," she said, and went inside.
|-|3 months old=
She laughed, dodging away. "Mother, PLEASE." she said putting her talons up. "I do NOT want to go to Aunt whatever's house where she can tell me I'm too smart and why aren't I at school and well if only her sister was as smart as me. Get that bracelet away from me!"
Her mother sighed. "Since when did you want to miss an opportunity for dragons to tell you you're smart."
"I have grown up." Moonseed pulled the most elegant pose, snout curling into a drippy expression. "I am no longer so childish as to do such a frivolous thing. How very dare you for suggesting such a thing in the first place."
"You have NOT grown up." her mother said. "Three moons, you are only three months old."
"Butbutbutbutbutbut I can play violin, I have written three stories so far, I can draw your face so it looks like you're looking in a mirror, I can-" she stopped counting on her claws. Her mother's grin was spreading. "Don't smile at me!" she protested. "Your face looks weird when you do that." Moonseed was only joking around, and she was fairly sure her mother knew that, but just in case that flicker of sadness across her face was about what she'd said, she leapt forward and hugged her. "I will always be your dragonet." she whispers.
Her mother laughed, opening her wings. "You won't be a dragonet any more with a brain and ego that size."
Moonseed gasped in mock horror. "Me? I don't have a big eggo." and then she huffed. "I suppose we're late for the trip to Auntie's house. Oh well."
"You are still going, little monster." her mother said, putting a talon on her head. "Whether you want to or not."
Moonseed rolled her eyes. "Should I pretend I'm still a dragonet with a dopey mind?"
"I think it's best."
|-|4 months old=
She opened her wings. "Try and catch me!" she called at her best friend - Pond, who gots warily to his feet.
"Uuuualways dragging me into dese sort of things." he grumbled. Her plodded over to her and reached for her tail. She leaped into the air, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Come dow and pway it faiir!" the MudWing whined.
"Nah." she shrugged, beating her wings so she was just out of his reach.
"I meana fair fo you." her best friend sighed. "I coo catch uuu wiv my I's clozzd."
She looked at him disbelievingly. "Are you joking?"
He sighed. "Yez."
"Ah well. Hide and seek?" she asked. "Maybe you'll win this time."
He huffed a plume of smoke. "I don thinnk I woll."
"You're right, come on!" she dragged him over to a tree out of sight from their parents. "We're not going to play hide and seek. That's for dragonets."
"Bu aren't we-" he began but Moonseed shushed him. He sat on his tail.
"There's a secret guild I heard Mother talk about when she thought I wasn't listening." she said, under her breath. Pond's eyes went wide. "It's for older dragons who want to fix the world the way it should be. All in harmony. No wars over territory. Dragons can live anywhere they want without worrying about fights breaking out."
Pond shook his head. "Sounds like I'm too young! Pity."
Moonseed thought sadly, I just hope he doesn't tell anyone I told him. I knew he wouldn't want to go.
"But I'll keep it a secret." Pond said, looking Moonseed in the eyes. "I promise you. You join if you want to." He touched her talons one with one claw, and then dashed back to his parents.
Did he just speak normally? Moonseed thought, watching him as he went home. I think he just did.
|-|5 months old=
She folded her wings. FLY FASTER! she yelled at herself THEY'LL CATCH YOU!
She weaved in between the trees. A blast of fire heated up her right flank and she growled. Flying through the waterfall and into the secret place where the Unity always met, she twisted round and to see the silhouettes of the dragons chasing her through the tumbling water. Thinking quickly, she reached out with her mind for some underwater vines. She grew them up and covered the entrance with them. She frosted them over using her frostbreath and the plants recoiled from her mind in discomfort. She apologised and winced.
The dragons on the other side growled at each other, and then, over the rush of the waterfall, she heard their wingbeats fade.
She sighed with relief, and then heard a growl by her ear. "Come with me." Amber said.
She swallowed. "Am... Am I in trouble?"
"Shush." he muttered.
She followed him in silence, all the way to the separate cave that Amber liked to call his office. "Sit." he said.
Moonseed trembled, eyes darting around categorising things into escape routes and possible weapons and mugs of herbal tea.
Amber looked at her for a long moment. "You're 5 months old, yes?"
She nodded but she knows it isn't a proper question.
"You're a LeafWing-IceWing hybrid, right?"
She nodded again, uncertainly.
"Well, you're the smartest dragonet ever, that's for sure." he said, suddenly beaming. "That's why I'm promoting you to be my second-in-command."
Moonseed looked at him in confusion. "I'm your second in command? I've only been here for half a month. That's one tenth of my life!"
Amber grinned. "I can tell you have potential! I'm a mind-reader, see?" he tapped the teardrop scales by the sides of his eyes. "From the moment you stepped in here, I could hear you categorising everything in here. You're a genius." He held his hand out for her to shake, and Moonseed shook it, still incredibly confused. Wasn't he angry and aggressive before? Was that an act to scare me or to find me out?
"Indeed, yes. I do that to all of my fellow group members, when I've got good news. They know to expect it." he smiled. "Unless they actually did something wrong but usually I'd be angrier than that."
Moonseed's wings relaxed. "You may leave now, second-in-command." he said. "But if you don't want to, you can talk to me over tea?"
"That would be great." she said, smiling. "Thank you so much."
|-|9 months old=
She took one long deep breath. Her wings shivered in anticipation.
Moonseed looked over to Amber. He nodded, giving her the go-ahead.
She lookde down the hole, and then thought I've been training for almost half my life, for this mission. I think I'm ready.
She leapt down, arms and wings spread wide to soften her landing on the floor.
She followed the faintest glow of firelight down the narrow passageway. She kept to the walls, hugging the black shawl closer. She stayed as small as possible, sticking to the shadows like a bug on a sundew's tentacles. Her claws treaded softly on the harshly cold floor.
Finally she heard angry voices, and the firelight got brighter.
There were five dragons in the centre of the cavern, all arguing. She crept closer. A NightWing, a RainWing, a SeaWing, two SandWings and a SilkWing. What are they doing here?
Edging closer, her sharp ears picked up the sentences.
"We need to act quickly to start them."
"The rebellion? Or the war?" the SilkWing growled. "You need to be clearer on that."
"Both, you imbecile! You're an absolute-"
Moonseed quickly covered her ears. She did not care for this sort of language.
She uncovered them when she heard another dragon speak. It was the RainWing this time. "Listen." she said in a curling tone. "The more you keep shouting the less likely the rebellion is to happen, do you understand?"
The other dragons nodded, reluctantly.
"Good. As leader of this operation, I would hope that I hadn't hired some idiots to do my work for me. I'm the brains, you see? I don't have time to waste doing the fighting. All I wish is for my brawn to do what they need to do." her tongue flicked out. "What a shame. I guess we'll have to knock five thugs down to three." she bared her teeth.
Moonseed whimpered softly. She doesn't like this at all.
She should have known better than to make a noise.
The SandWings' heads shot up. "Someone's here, listening." one growled. He spat a flame at the rocks. Moonseed's trembling shape was illuminated against the stone. "It's a... dragonet?"
Moonseed's face went slightly rounder and she tried to slur her thoughts as she'd been taught by Amber. "This get's your mind into the right 'shape' if you ever get spotted. It also helps if there are mindreaders nearby. Just pretend you're a dragonet and you should get out of anywhere." He'd said.
She staggered. "Florblunumph? Waggawaggawagga?" she squeaked, looking up at the NightWing, whose face was softening. "She must be lost!" the NightWing whispered. "We should get her out of the cave."
The RainWing simply grabbed Moonseed by the scruff of her neck, shifting her scales into camouflage without a word. She carried her to the mouth of the cave. A different way to the way I came in. I'll fly to them when the RainWing is gone. Listen, dragonet." the RainWing growled. One talon became visible and pointed to Moonseed. "If I catch you anywhere near these caves again, you will die. No matter who your parents are. No matter whether you get lost again, you. Will. Die. Understand?" the talon vanished again.
"Florplenoop." Moonseed gibbered, cheerfully. "Flabdabdabhaaaahaaa!" she cried at the RainWing's back (or so she assumes, as she couldn't see her). The talonsteps slowly faded, and she got a gentle tap on the shoulder. "How did it go?" Amber asked. Moonseed closed her eyes and thought about everything she'd heard. Amber's eyes widened. "We'll report back to base." He said. "This should be interesting."
|-|11 months old=
Her claws clutched the knife in her talons in anger, she could see her knuckles through her green scales. Why did woodcarving have to be so hard?
She lodged the knife in the block of wood and lost her grip. The knife flew out of her claws and thunked into the door. She winced, and pulled it out.
Growling in frustration, she tried again, digging the blade into the annoyingly thick lump of wood. She was rewarded by the block splitting in half, and both sides falling to the floor.
She screamed in anger. "If only I had fire, then I would burn you to ash!". Her tail flipped the table over and she stormed out.
She walked right into Amber, and looked up at him. He raised an eyebrow at her. "Is anything the matter?" he asked.
Huffing, she explained how the wood almost killed her and no, she was not being melodramatic. 
Amber followed her into the room and looked at the two halves of wood, then at the flipped over table.
"Oh wow." he said. "Where is the knife?" Moonseed looked down at her feet and saw the knife. "Here." she picked it up, but fumbled it. The knife seems to fall in slow motion, point first. It embeds itself in the wooden floor, and Moonseed's tail.
Moonseed screamed, and Amber did too. He stared at it in terror, and then ran out of the room, calling for help. Moonseed bent over, she couldn't feel anything apart from intense pain. That's what I get for using a knife at my age. She thought.
Her head began to feel woozy, and she collapsed to the floor, head spinning. She wasn't unconscious as far as she knew, but she hardly felt the warm talons touching her shoulder.
Her eyes darted over to the knife. It was currently in the strange dragon's hands, and her tail has gone completely numb, and wet. She passed out.
When she woke, she felt a slight lull in her tail where the knife went in. "It didn't go all the way through." Someone said to Amber. "But she won't be able to move the tip anymore. I've put stitches in and it should heal but all of the nerves were severed so that will be immobilised for the rest of her life. Dragonets shouldn't use knifes. I though you were more responsible, Amber."
Moonseed blinked up at the two dragons. "I won't be able to move the tip of my tail?" she said softly.
"I'm afraid so." the stranger said. "But it's not so big to prevent you from flying or your stability."
Moonseed closed her eyes, nodding slightly. "That's good." she said faintly."
"Rest up, and you'll be as good as new." Amber says.
Moonseed drifted into an uneasy slumber.
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|-| 2 years old=
She wakes up with a grin on her face. Today is her hatchday!
She bounds out of bed, straight into her mother who laughs and hugs her.
"My daughter is 2!" she cries. "You're so grown up!"
Moonseed laughs. "Really?"
Her mother takes Moonseed's bag off the hook on the door, and hands it to her. "How does it feel to be going to school?"
"AMAZING I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE FRIENDS. Oooh maybe Pond has applied?"
She hadn't spoken to Pond in forever. She wasn't even sure he remembered her. They hadn't even seen each other since she'd met Amber ages ago, which was when his parents moved.
Giving her mother the biggest smile ever, she goes downstairs to eat breakfast. She places her bag by the door, and sits by the table. Her mother sighs, suddenly. "Typical. The sunflowers are drooping outside."
Moonseed reaches out with her leafspeak, and the plants look way happier.
WIP
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==Appearance==
She is a stocky green LeafWing, with blue tints to her scales. The blue on her wings are especially noticeable, and her horns have white tips. Her eyes are a light blue, while her claws are serrated. The tip of her tail is round not leaf-shaped and is pure white.
The end of her tail droops a little, and there is a scar that goes around 2/3rds of the way around.
==Powers and Abilities==
Moonseed is strong in a muscular sense, due to training with the Unity. She has powerful leafspeak and a steel mind. Her eyes are sharp, able to pick up the tiniest of movements in facial expressions. Her intelligence is well known, she learned to speak properly at the age of 2 and a half months. She can read and write and her clawwriting is incredibly neat.
She also has frostbreath, which is like a normal IceWing's but she can influence it with her mouth to go certain distances and widths. She can hit a pinhead without affecting anything else around it.
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