The Magic Show!

== WARNING ==
This short story fanfiction belongs to TheIceWingPopsicle and is about Ascend! If you edit this without her permission, she will have no choice but to freeze you in a Popsicle mold in her freezer. Oh, and you’ll receive a warning from moderators probably. So yea! 
OH and this page contains mature content such as death, violence and some eeriness. So if that bugs you, you shall leave right now.
I also used some common OC names like starfish, please know I’m not trying to steal anyone’s characters, it’s just for this story.
Let me know if I missed any warnings!
= The Magic Begins… =
I walked along the path with my brother and sister. We were surrounded by dragons. 
At first, I didn’t understand why so many dragons loved magic shows. It’s just a bunch of full-grown war lizards sitting down to watch something designed for children. Don’t get me wrong, I like stuff aimed at older dragonets like scrolls and those oh-so-boring lectures on dragon anatomy, but when you see the magic, and all the tricks the magicians do… it’s like being sucked into a whirlpool, except the water is soothing and calm and entrancing, and you want to stay in it forever.
However, like whirlpools, my siblings and I have been warned to not get too sucked in, because you’ll never be able to get out. You’ll be stuck with the magicians, and their well-played magic, forever.
Whatever that means.
My sister Starfish, the rebellious one in the group, leapt over me, spreading her wings out to avoid landing on me. Still, I instinctively ducked. “How can none of you like Ascend?” She asked, pounding on an adult SkyWing’s tail, then trailing back to the others and acting nice and behaved so the SkyWing would blame it on someone else. “I know it has to use magic to fly, and picking up members of the audience to take them on a ride through the air is a little nerve racking, but that’s not its only magic.”
”Their name is literally Ascend,” Cuttlefish, the youngest brother, pointed out, rolling his eyes. “How can they have other magic, Genius?”
”I know you two fell asleep so you couldn’t see their amazing light magic.” Starfish whacked Cuttle over the head. “But it was there. You’ll love it.”
I looked ahead. My two other siblings were arguing, so they didn’t see that we were almost about to enter our tickets to head in. “GUYS.” I hissed. “ACT LIKE YOU LOVE EACH OTHER.”
They both groaned and pasted on fake smiles. A SilkWing was looking down at us. “A couple of SeaWings, coming out of the sea!” She laughed. “Names?”
”Im Starfish and those two losers are my brothers,” she said. “Their names are Oyster and Cuttlefish. Here’s our tickets.”
The SilkWing chuckled and took our tickets. “Your seats are in the second row.” She said, gesturing to the dirt path that lead through the forest. I smiled back gratefully. “Thank you.” I said. 
We walked along a muddy path that made Cuttlefish shake out his talons every five steps. “Oh come on you snail,” Starfish said, whacking Cuttlefish gently with her tail. “The mud isn’t that bad.”
”Yes, it is, and if you even try to argue with me I will force Oyster to agree that mud is awful and gross and that nobody likes you.” My brother hissed back.
I sighed and walked a little faster. If these two ever disagree, they drag me into the mess. It’s basically a competition of “Who can drag Oyster down with them first? Who will succeed in making the poor oldest brother disappointed in his siblings?” 
Sometimes they succeed. Sometimes they don’t.
Starfish was shooting back a retort about how she would save me and then proceed to stuff Cuttlefish with seaweed. But I had noticed a bright light leading down the path. I lifted my head up above all the other dragons and saw a huge, long glass arch, with spruce pillars stabilizing the glass. In the arch were rows of seats and lanterns lining the sides of the glass. Finally, if you walked all the way to the end of the glass arches, you’d notice it lead up to a stage with red curtains blocking off any view behind the stage.
“Guys!” I called out. “We made it!” The others were busy fighting about something behind me, so they didn’t hear what I said. Eventually, when we were just outside the archways, Starfish looked away from Cuttlefish and shouted “HEY I THINK WE MADE IT!”
We all went into the glass archway, Starfish bounding ahead to sit in the front row of seats to our left. When we all sat down, the lights went out, except for two of them behind the velvet curtains.
I never really liked Ascend, but I felt anticipation, even excitement, crawl across my scales when they popped out on stage with a puppet. 
“Oh yeah!” Starfish said, Shaking Cuttlefish’s shoulder excitedly. “This is the year where everyone does puppet shows!” 
“Yay…” our brother whispered.
I blocked out their voices to listen to the magicians speak. “Welcome, Welcome!” Said a NightWing. “My name is scratches, and today, we will have a magic show along with a puppet show!”
Everyone clapped. I did too.
But I wish I didn’t.
Scratches shot a blast of magic from her palm, and suddenly the stage had about a hundred butterflies flapping around, swirling up in the air, landing on dragon snouts, causing the whole audience to immediately cheer. And I was sucked in. So were my siblings-Starfish was reaching out to one so it would land on her outstretched index talon, and cuttlefish was staring at the flapping wings.
The butterflies poofed into pink smoke, which shimmered in the light. The audience coughed for a bit, but then the smoke went up to the stage and formed the shape of…a dragon? I squinted. Who was that? But it didn’t matter. In an instant the smoke dragons head was sliced off, causing it to disappear. A dragon with two heads stood, holding an axe. Everyone gasped and clapped. I didn’t know what we were clapping for, but it didn’t matter. These dragons were amazing! They deserved everything! They were GODS!
”why…why are we cheering? That dragon didn’t do anything besides slice some smoke in half and look freakish.” Cuttlefish whispered.
”SHUT UP!” Starfish hissed.
as the night went on, more magicians came. More and more, until I was wondering if they ever ended. And then it happened.
Green light came from behind the curtains. And an electric blue dragon with magenta tendrils stepped out. “Hello everyone, it’s the one, the only…ASCEND!” 
the audience erupted with cheers, praise, and whistles. We jumped out of our seats and hollered and laughed and congratulated Ascend on being a great magician. 
what had they done? What was their plan? We didn’t care. We just loved the magic show.
Cuttlefish shook me. “YOUR FALLING INTO THEIR MAGIC!” He snapped at me.
I pushed him away, then realized something. He was right. I was falling into their magic. I was getting sucked in like a whirlpool. But it was…, fun, and comforting. I felt like a toddler dragonet again.
”do you want to leave?” I asked. “Starfish can stay here. We don’t need to—“
”Yes, let’s go,” Cuttlefish said. “And bring Starfish. I have a feeling we might lose her if we keep her here.” He sat up and started to walk away.”
”leaving already, SeaWing?” A voice cut in. I looked over. Ascend was staring directly at cuttlefish. “Perhaps you’re bored. Well, let me take you on a ride!” Ascend shot green-glowing tendril like blasts of magic towards Cuttlefish. It enveloped him, and suddenly, my brother was flying through the air in graceful movements without his wings.
Ascend set him down with us.
”CUTTLEFISH ARE YOU OKAY?!” Starfish gasped.
For a moment, it was silent. Cuttlefish looked at us, his eyes gleaming. “That was the best experience…I’ve ever had. It’s even better than being around you guys!”
Me and Starfish looked at each other. Cuttlefish would never admit that.
”WE ALL LOVE ASCEND!” He cried out, flapping up in the air. He repeated it, until half the audience was cheering the same thing.
WE ALL LOVE ASCEND! WE ALL LOVE ASCEND! WE ALL LOVE ASCEND!
”is that so?” Ascend asked. They chuckled. “Well, we have our puppet show to wrap up this performance.”
small, wooden dragons that looked like replicas of the magicians stepped out from behind the curtain. Ascend smiled, and everyone’s eyes glowed yellow. The puppets danced and sang and flew, without using any strings. Are they using mind control? I wondered.
finally, everyone clapped. AGAIN. But I didn't this time. I knew my brother couldn’t have changed that fast. He was hard as stone, now he was acting as frivolous as a RainWing.
I watched as ascend made little swirls of blue light, around and around. I watched as their puppets tripped on a wooden floorboard and crash into them.
and then I watched the unthinkable happen.
As their puppet made contact with their scales, Ascends light magic got out of control. It shot up onto a wooden beam, setting it on fire. I smelled smoke, and I instantly felt more hot. There was a fire?
before I could even think about running to the exit, the fire had spread all around. Glass was melting. Dragons were getting caught on fire and crying. That evil, EVIL magician tried to use more magic to put it out. It didn’t work—the fire only got brighter and brighter. 
I was yelling, grabbing my siblings hand. Starfish yelled something about escaping through the magicians stage. She ran for it, but I could only watch. I was frozen. Cuttlefish followed her. I didn’t know what to do—in the bright blue light, I could barely see, but I knew there had to be another way out. I called for them to come back. They turned around for a moment, and then started calling me over to them.
The people I loved the most, my only family, were frozen still beckoning me to come closer. As soon as I took the first step toward them, I heard a crack and looked up.
a wooden beam was just above them, ready to fall.
”RUN, RUN—“ I yelled.
but it happened so quickly I couldn’t do anything.
the beam fell. Their bodies were crushed underneath.
Their scales began to burn. Blood began to leak out. 
I stood there in disbelief. I remember thinking, I didn’t lose them. They’re underneath, but still alive. I ran over, grabbed a part of the wooden beam that wasn’t on fire, and lifted it up.
They were dead.
They were dead.
They were dead.
And the one who had murdered them…RAN AWAY.
i stared at the fire. I stared at the stage. Shards of glass pierced my scales. Fire started to scorch my talons.
But I couldn’t feel it. I couldn’t hear myself crying, I couldn’t hear the yelling, the screaming.
And now I look out of the glass as everyone runs, but I don’t see the killer of my siblings. Ascend is gone, and I can’t save Starfish or Cuttlefish.
But I can’t, I WONT sit back and cry and mope about this.
I will kill ascend one day, and smile at the taste of revenge.
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