Starflight, Moon Born (An Empowered Dragonet of Destiny)

=== Alternate Universe If Starflight was born under the moons ===
This story is based off the first 5 wings of fire books. Also, Sunnyflight/ Sunny X Starflight! This story contains a Sunny and Starflight ship, so don't be mad if you like Starspeaker.
Do not steal this idea. No editing unless grammar. All new characters in this story are owned by PowerTheNightwing577 and Pringles123458766
==== Prologue: ====
Kestrel
Kestrel watched as the Mudwing dragonet clawed its way out of the blood red egg. Things weren’t going the best, especially with the Skywing. The Idiot Seawing Webs had thought it was a good idea to replace the Skywing, with a Rainwing! But that wasn’t important now. Kestrel watched as the small brown Mudwing toddled over to the black Nightwing egg and started clawing it. The egg rolled to the sky hole, and with one more touch, the egg turned silver. “Is that normal?” Webs asked. Before anyone could respond, the Mudwing continued to claw at the silver egg.
With one more scratch, the egg split open. Kestrel leaned forward, and picked up the Mudwing dragonet, who was still growling. “That’s the fighter we need. We need a name, a Mudwing name.” Webs stared at the brown dragonet. “How about Clay?” Webs responded as he picked up the blood red eggshell. “Clay is fine. And he is just the monster we need.”
“What about the Nightwing?” Dune picked up the small black dragon examining the odd silver teardrop scales near the eyes. “Look at the stars on his wings. They look like mini dragons flying.” Webs responded slowly as he took the dragon from Dune’s reproachful claws. “What about Starflight?” Kestrel said. “Yes, and he looks special.”
==== The Dragonet Prophecy: ====
Starflight hated the whispers. The Nightwing powers were not all they were cracked up to be. The voices in his head (Or everyone’s thoughts) overwhelmed him. Not to mention the times he was trapped in his visions. It was just the worst. The only upside was when he could see his guardian’s next move in battle training. That meant he didn’t have many burns, unlike poor Sunny. One of his guardian’s called Kestrel was always thinking about queen Scarlet, Webs was thinking about a dragon called Riptide, and Dune always thought about someone he knew as a friend, called Six-claws.
When the giant Nightwing Morrowseer found his way into the tiny caves where he and the other dragonets of destiny, he only thought about two things. How stupid Glory was, and a dragonet called Moonwatcher, that Starflight suspected to be his.
Everything down in the caves were fine, as in enjoyable enough to survive, although he would have liked it more if the other dragonets of destiny studied a bit harder. Aurgh! Studying sucks! I can’t believe Starflight likes it, I mean WHAT IS THERE TO LIKE?! Oh wait. Starflight is staring at me. If he is reading my mind, theeeeeeeeeeeen sorry. Starflight walked over to Tsunami. “You were reading my thoughts, weren’t you.” Starflight smiled. This was the only reason he was respected. His Nightwing powers. “Yeah. Is Clay, ok?” He is still healing from battle training. “He is still healing from battle training.” Tsunami mimicked, wait, I heard her thoughts before she spoke.
Starflight hatted when this happened. Whenever he heard a thought and thought someone said it, and he responded, it because super awkward. But still, everything in the caves where fine. That was until Morrowseers next visit. It was Starflight’s powers that alerted them. The guardians were preparing to kill Glory, so they had to plan to save her. “If we escape, we can save her. Me and Clay will swim down the river and see if that lead out of here. You guys will hide Glory and burn the scrolls in the history cave. The smoke will make us able to come back. Just do it at day, so we can see you.”
Before they even started putting their plan into action, Kestrel and Dune trapped Tsunami. It was all up to Clay.
As day turned to night, he could hear the sad thoughts of his fellow dragonets. Poor Clay. How are we going to fulfill the prophecy without him? I need to get out of these chains! Starflight ran over to river cave and saw where Tsunami was all chained up. “Sunny! Help me get these chains off Tsunami!” Starflight yelled. A second before the golden dragonet came, he was knocked to the ground by a sudden vision.
Everyone was in prison. There was an arena. Sunny was taken by Burn. Sunny was killed. “NOOOOO!” Starflight bellowed, suddenly thrown from the vision. Starflight gasped for breath, and saw Sunny right behind him, lending a claw to help him up. “Are you ok?” Sunny’s calm voice asked. “I’m fine. Let’s go free Tsunami.”
The chains were off, and Tsunami was swimming rapidly down the narrow river, and after a second, she was gone. “Glory, are you there?” Sunny whispered. “I’m all right. You go to the history cave and gather some scrolls in a pile. I’ll be fine.”
Together with Sunny, Starflight flew to the history cave, and picked up some of his precious scrolls. He found his satchel and picked up the most important scrolls. He picked up his favourite scroll, tales of Nightwings too. Starflight wiped a small tear from his eye, as he piled up the rest of the scroll, and used his fire, to burn them.
Not even a second after he escaped the caves, and he was captured again. Queen Scarlet, one of the most dangerous dragons to ever live, had them in prison. Not just prison, but an arena. He was shipped to one of the tallest towers, waiting to be put in the arena to die.
The moment the first round started; Starflight was knocked to the floor in agony. Voices everywhere bombarded him, making him clap his talons over his ears. That didn’t work in the slightest. How I love seeing fresh death in the morning. Yes! More death! Please help me Starflight. Starflight turned his head directly at another prison below his, and saw the brown dragonet, Clay. Starflight wanted to help him, but he couldn’t.
The prison lasted two days, before he too was thrown in its bloody depth. He was forced to fight. Forced to kill. And yet. He couldn’t. I must kill this dragon. I can’t lose my family! The Icewing he was fighting thought. Starflight stopped moving and stared directly into their eyes. “You will see your family again.” Starflight said softly. The Icewing’s eyes flooded with tears. “Really?” At that moment, seven more Nightwings appeared out of the sky, and quickly killed the Icewing. “No! What is wrong with you! He had a family!” Starflight protested as Morrowseer picked him up. Stupid idiot Nightwing. Who cares about a few Icewings? “I care, so does Glory, and Sunny, and Clay, maybe not Tsunami you evil monster!” Morrowseer stared at him, gripping him stronger. “If you are going to save me, save my friends too!” Morrowseer ignored him and lifted into the sky.
“You convince you so called friends to choose blister, or you and that stupid Rainwing will die. Understand.” Starflight nodded, wiping a tear from his eye. Maybe Glory was already dead, or Clay, or Tsunami, or Sunny.” He wiped another tear from his eye as he thought this. He would do anything to go to Sunny and press his cold scales against her warm ones. It was time to be back to his friends.
“Starflight!” Clay yelped as he saw him. Clay was standing with the others and a dragon who looked like she was on fire. “Clay! Glory! Tsunami! Sunny!!” Starflight ran to them and hugged them fiercely. “I thought you were dead.” Starflight whispered in Sunny’s ear. “we are fine, thanks to Peril.” Clay smiled then turned his head to the flaming dragon. “Goodbye Clay. I hope I can see you again.” Clay’s smile vanished. “You can come with us; you can be our wings of sky!” Clay said hopefully, grabbing Peril’s talons. “I hatched a few months before the brightest night. Goodbye.” Peril said once more. “Come on guys, let’s go see Clay’s family.” Starflight shook his head. “I had a vision about them. Aaaaand, you might not like them.” Clay’s face scrunched up. “Why?” Clay responded holding his chin. “Well. It might upset you.” Clay moved once more. “Please tell me.” Starflight sighed. “Your mom sold you for two cows.” Clay’s jaw dropped. “She WHAT?!” Starflight sighed once more. “Your mom sold you for two cows. You shouldn’t see her. Your brothers and sisters are nice though. One of them is Umber, and another one is called Sora.”
Clay looked in the direction of the mud kingdom. “Meet us at the diamond spray delta. After I find my brothers and sisters, we’ll be off to see Tsunami’s.
==== The Lost Princes: ====
Clay had finally found his way back to the diamond spray delta, and they were finally not playing charades. Half the time Starflight worried he would never see Clay again, but his visions said otherwise. The longer he was out in the moons, the more control he gained over his power. He could now force visions and shut down unpleasant thoughts.
“Hi guys. You ready to find Tsunami’s family?” Clay asked the moment he found his way back to them. “Yeah, I’d love too.” Tsunami replied. “I know the way.” Starflight said. His visions had become more and more useful. “Ok, we follow Starflight.” And so, they did. He flew with his friends away from a fight scene, and right to the Seawing summer palace. “Clay. Don’t go in there. The guards hate Mudwings and might kill you if you come, so stay here.” Clay nodded, and Tsunami vanished past the waves.
A day later, and a massive Seawing with a pearl necklace around her neck and a harness holding a dragonet in her talons came out to them, with Tsunami following close behind. “Uh, mother, meet the dragonets of destiny.” Starflight slammed his talon over his face. In all the visions he had about queen Coral, ever one that started with Tsunami introducing them as the dragonets of destiny, ended up with all of them in prison, and in some, Clay drowned. “What’s wrong with your Nightwing friend?” Coral asked. “I don’t know. Maybe he had a vision or something. Aaaaanyway, mother said we could meet Blister in a few days’ time.” Coral nodded vigorously. Starlight’s heart dropped. He would have to convince his friends that Blister was the best queen, or did he? Starflight forced another vision and saw that even if he was quiet and didn’t convince the others, nothing would happen. “What’s happening to you Nightwing friend. He looks like he just laid an egg.” Coral said eyeing him. “He’s having a vision. Anyway, could you escort us to somewhere to stay for the next few days?” Glory asked. “Is that a Rainwing? What happened to the Skywing?” Clay sighed. “Our Rainwing is fine. Burn killed the Skywing, and Webs found her, so we are all happy. Win, win.” Glory’s scales turned red, then as she saw it, she forced them back to a pleasant purple-pinkish colour. “I shall take you to the guest island. Everyone, follow me.”
Queen Coral and the other dragonets of destiny flew to a small island with a chain in the ground, and no cover. “Tsunami, you can go. I will come with you back to the deep palace. Shark, make them comfortable.” The queen of the Seawings, and Tsunami flew into the distance, leaving only a mean eyed Seawing in their place. “You, Mudwing. Put this on, or we kill the Rainwing.” Clay turned around in shock, to see Shark holding the chain, and another Seawing guard holding a talon over Glory’s neck. Clay looked fearful, clutching Sunny’s talon. Clay picked up the chain and strapped it to his own leg. “Good. Now you stay until the storm drowns you.” Shard gave the key to one of the other guards and flew away.
This couldn’t be happening. Clay couldn’t die. Tsunami hadn’t come back for days. They might even miss their chance to see Blister, but Tsunami found out what Shark had done. Tsunami burst into the place Clay was trapped which was flooding ever higher with every minute of the rain. “What the-” Tsunami stared at the totem pole of dragons. Clay was at the bottom, then Glory, then him, and Sunny on top, warming his scales. “Can you free us now?” Glory asked impatiently. “Clay is dying here, and you are busy with your mum, so a little help please?” Glory said. “The idiot Shark! He could have destroyed the prophecy!” Tsunami shouted. “Clay is trapped by a chain that will only open with a key that one of the guards have. Find the key, and save Clay, then I can murder you for leaving us for dead.” Glory said yawning intentionally to show her fangs. “I’ll get you guys out of here.”
Tsunami returned a few minutes later, holding a small stone key. She placed the key in the lock and turned until she heard a faint click, then brought them to a small dry cave. “Let’s go talk to my mother.”
Tsunami left once more to the summer palace, and when she returned, a Sandwing was following close behind. “WHAT IS THAT SANDWING DOING WITH MY EGG?!” Coral shouted at Sunny who was holding a deep blue egg Tsunami had given them. “Keeping it warm until the murderer is found.” Sunny replied, stroking the egg slowly. “All of my heirs have hatched in the royal hatchery, this one will too-” Tsunami interrupted. “And be squashed like the others. Nuh uh.” Sunny didn’t seem to have noticed the other Sandwing following Tsunami and jumped when she saw her. “Hello dragonets of destiny. I am Blister, and I would love to meet you all.”
After talking with Blister and Tsunami arguing with Coral for a few minutes, Blister left, and Tsunami took the egg from Sunny’s disapproving claws, and once again, swam off into the sea.
The next time he saw Tsunami again, she had a lot to explain. “So, your telling me, that the assassin was a stone statue created by an animus who was Coral’s first daughter?” Tsunami nodded. “I think we should go see Glory’s parents.” Queen Coral walked into the cave. “I can’t let you do that. I have to keep you safe.” And with that, they were thrown into yet another prison.
“Why does this keep happening to us?!” Tsunami complained as she and the others were thrown onto a small island surrounded by water, but with closer inspection, you could see electric eels. “Maybe next time you shouldn’t shout we are the dragonets of destiny, and we make wonderful prisoners.” Glory said as she slapped Tsunami’s face. “Guys, I just had a vision, and I know how to get out of here. So, stop arguing, and listen to me. A dragon named Whirlpool will come in here and try to kill Tsunami, but in all the futures, a dragonet named Anemone hits Whirlpool into the water which kills him but allows us to escape.” Tsunami’s eyes widened in terror. “Anemone kills Whirlpool?” In all the futures? Clay thought. “So, we wait for a dragon to kill someone, then we escape. Sounds fun.” Glory joked.
A few minutes later Starflight could hear footsteps, and the thoughts of a dragon. Starflight blocked out the other thoughts and focused on the dragon walking towards him. Finally, I won’t have to marry that brute Tsunami. And then a blue dragon with webbed talons appeared in front of them. “Whirlpool? What are you doing here?” Tsunami acted. “To-” A spear flew out of nowhere and hit Whirlpool in the snout repeatedly. “Ow! Anemone- Ow. Wow your magic training is going well- ow. I’d be surprised if you- ow, weren’t hitting me.” Anemone stared at Whirlpool. “What are you doing with that knife?” She asked. “Using it to kill Tsunami. To be honest I don’t want to marry her.” Whirlpool raised the knife. “I don’t want to marry you!” Anemone shouted, her face inching with dislike. “You will have to. Once I tell Coral Tsunami died while she tried to escape, she will feal bad for me, and make me king.” With that, Anemone wacked Whirlpool with the spear with such force, that where he was hit, started to blead. Whirlpool was just about to throw the knife at Tsunami when he lost his balance and landed in the water. With one blinding ‘Shock!’ The dragon was still. Anemone’s face was pure terror. She fell to her knees and dropped the spear into the water. “NOW!” All the dragonets jumped through the water and landed on the solid stone on the other side. “Anemone, are you all, right?” Anemone stayed silent. “Let’s get out of here.” ‘BOOM’ The roof above exploded in a ball of flames. “RUN!” Starflight screamed. “FOLOW ME!” Starflight dogged another bomb before it even came. He ducked before a talon ripped his throat and turned before the pavilion fell. His friends were following close behind, and thanks to him, in all his vision, they were all safe. For now, at least.
We have to go to the Rainforest.” Starflight said as they landed on the beach. “We can go see my family!” Glory yelled happily. “Good. Because the Rainwings need a queen.”
==== The Hidden Kingdom/ The Dark Secret: ====
“Me? You’re joking. They already have a queen. Queen Dazzling.” Glory said in a shocked tone. “You are right, and also wrong. They have many queens. Dazzling is one of them. They need a real queen, not a rotating circle of one.” Glory didn’t say a word. “You can’t argue with someone that can see the future.” Clay chimed in. “In most of my visions you do win, but before you challenge the queens for the role of queen, you need to follow me. My visions say that if I do this with you, good things will happen.” Glory agreed silently, the started to follow him.
Starflight walked directly into the forest and waited. He knew that the others would follow, and would be shot by the sleeping dart, but Glory and he would find the boulder. A boulder was the thing that made glory queen. Kind of… The boulder would make Glory see there were missing Rainwings, and she would eventually find them. She would fight to be queen so she could save her future subjects, and once she won, everything would change.
Starflight saw multiple visions. A vision where he met a dragon named Fatespeaker and at the end, everything was black. Maybe he died in that path. He didn’t want that. He wanted to be with Sunny. There were few, but if he followed the path the vision set out, eventually Sunny would love him the way he loved her, and they would get married.
“Guys! I hear screaming!” Clay yelped. “Where is Clay!” Tsunami shouted. “Three MOONS WHERE IS TSUNAMI” Glory yelled so loud that the tree next to them shook. Or did Glory do that. Starflight stared at Sunny, and like he predicted, she too disappeared into the trees. “Who’s here!” Glory shouted. “Calm down little Rainwing. You are safe with us.”
Everything was going as planned. Everyone else was gone, and now it was time to go to the boulder. “Where are you going Starflight?” Glory asked as he started to walk away. “I told you follow me.” Glory looked confused. “I thought-” Glory started. “I said follow me. Do you want to help free your fellow Rainwings or what?” Glory looked rath startled. “You never said some Rainwings are prisoners.” Starflight took a step back thinking about what he said. “Some things need to happen in order for better things to happen. Right now, you need to follow me to a boulder, so something good happens, then you need to wait until the others wake up, then you need to follow me with the others to the Ice kingdom to meat Blaze then come back, free the Rainwings, you become queen, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Sunny stops the war.” Glory froze. “Sunny stops the war? And why the Ice Kingdom?” Starflight sighed once more. If only Glory had his power too. Then she would understand. “Sunny stops the war somehow, and when you go to the Ice Kingdom you kind of meet your soulmate.” Glory smiled. “My soulmate an Icewing. Really.” She said quickly. “Not an Icewing. Either a Rainwing or a Nightwing. In some it is and Icewing though.” Glory laughed. “Let’s go to that boulder then.”
“We are here, I feal the same, has anything changed? Do I marry a fish now?” Starflight giggled. “No fish in your life.” Glory smiled. “Something is different though. Now when you go to the Ice kingdom, your soulmate is for sure a Nightwing.” Glory’s smile vanished. “Let’s go get the others.”
After a quick walking session with Glory, they found themselves facing the sleeping dragonets of destiny. “My visions say we’re going to be here about an hour. Find a way to entertain yourself, and I’ll practice my mindreading.
Starflight thought with all his might. Close out the other voice. Focus on Clay. Starflight closed his eyes and thought as hard as he could. Suddenly he was thrown onto a table. “Oh noooooo. Starflight is here in my dream, again. Spare me your lecturers.” Starflight stared at the brown dragon, then something black and white caught his eye. A cow. “Hang on. I’m in your dream.” Starflight said out loud. “You are here to lecture me. Spare meeeeeeeeeeeee!” Starflight was taken aback. Clay dreams about me and my so-called lectures. “You don’t understand. I am reading your mind, and you are asleep, so I am in your dream. That is so cool!” Clay turned his head to the cows. “I have never heard the real Starflight say those 4 words about a dream. A scroll is normal, but a dream?” Starflight thought for a second, even though he was already thinking. Is that what he thinks about me? Just a nerd who likes scrolls. No. In the future I ask if he thinks that, and he says no, so does his thoughts. Thanks Clay. I am not a scroll loving nerd, good. “I’m going to go now. Bye!” Starflight hopped out of Clays dreams.
“Finally, your awake!” Glory moaned. “You have been asleep for hours. “Hey Clay, I don’t force you to listen to my so-called boring lectures.” Clay stared at him. “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It was you in my dream.” Tsunami mouthed what. “Guys. Starflight said that in a vision, something great will happen if we follow him to the Ice kingdom.” Glory finished, and everyone stared. “The ice kingdom is on the other side of the continent. It will take days to fly there.” Clay blurted. “If you follow me, we can get there in like, two seconds.” Tsunami looked disbelieving but followed him anyway.
Starflight and the others walked back to the boulder, made a right turn, and found a small tunnel. “Ice kingdom is on the other side of this tunnel.” Sunny’s jaw dropped. “But- how?” Starflight smiled. “Animus magic. Off we go!”
Starflight, Clay, Glory, Tsunami and Sunny followed him out the other end of the tunnel, and as soon as they breathed, they all started shivering violently, except Sunny who shivered slightly in a small breeze. “H-head f-for that c-cave!” Glory yelled. All of them ran to the small cave Glory was pointing at, and once they got inside the cave, the cold died down a little. “W-we have to sleep. T-the night it t-t-t-too cold. We’ll ch-check outside in the m-morning.” Glory shivered violently again. “Dibs sleeping next to Sunny.” Clay yelled out of the blue.
What ended up happening that night, was everyone was positioned around Sunny so they wouldn’t freeze to death in the sub-zero temperatures. In the morning Starflight realised he had fire and could have warmed them up. Stupid me. Starflight thought.
“Glory, you have to make your scales white, and go to the little ice palace ahead. Blaze is there. Tell her the Dragonets of destiny are here to speak with her, if she comes to us.” Glory nodded, and Starflight waited once more.
In the meantime, he could practise his visions. Not that long ago, his visions where just glimpses of the future he saw through the perspective of himself without knowing anything. Nowadays, his visions were like one big book. A book he could turn the page and see all the futures. It was his choice. He could stay looking at the real world, or turn the page, and pick a future to follow. There were no instructions, or things telling him what to do; all he could do was look how one specific future played out, and did what he had to do, to make the vision of that future come true.
Glory returned to them with a Sandwing with every inch of her scales covered in jewellery. “Your majesty, the dragonets of destiny.” Glory changed her scales to a pale green and walked in front of blaze. “Wow! You look so pretty!” Blaze called to Sunny. Her face turned a violent shade of red, and she turned her head away. “Hello. My name is Blaze. Are you here to tell me you chose me? Can I go now?” Blaze said hopefully. “We’re still deciding.” Clay interjected. Everyone nodded in agreement. “Well, if you make me queen, I can give you all a palace of your own.” Tsunami’s face lit up. “Stop giving away your land. Its hard to survive in the desert, and you need an oasis. But then, how will the other Sandwings get water?” Blaze turned to Glory angrily. “Don’t tell me how to be a queen Rainwing.” Blaze growled. “You are not queen yet.” Sunny said, her face back to its calm golden colour. “I will be-” Glory interrupted again. “If we make you queen.”
Suddenly (To everyone else at least), a massive Nightwing threw himself out of a pile of snow he was hiding in and threw a silver disk at Blaze’s neck. The disk cut the neck sending pools of blood out of the fresh cut. “Starflight! Help!” Starflight ran towards the bleeding Sandwing and threw his satchel over the wound. In the background, he could hear Glory and the Nightwing arguing, their thoughts pounding in his head. Starflight said this is my soulmate?! A Rainwing that fights back. Awesome. Then he watched as the black dragon flew into the sky and disappeared. “Queen Glacier! She is here to save me!” Blaze yelled. Starflight looked to the future. Almost in every future, when Glacier found them, they became prisoners again. “Let’s go.” Clay said. And they flew back to the tunnel.
“What now?” Glory asked when they entered the rainforest once more. “I think you have to get to know the Rainwings first, then you have to go to a certain area, then once you come back, you must become queen of the Rainwings.” Glory grinned. “Why her? Why aren’t kingdoms falling into my lap?” Clay chuckled. “This is the Rainwing tribe, and last I check, you aren’t a Rainwing.” Sunny giggled, so did Starflight. “Guys? What are you going to do while I meet the Rainwings?” Glory asked. “Don’t worry. We will lie down in hammocks and eat papayas.” Clay joked as he rubbed his stomach hopefully.
Starflight watched as Glory flew into the distance to greet her fellow Rainwings, then he turned his head to Clay who was shoving pineapples up his mouth. Starflight proceeded to climb one of the trees and when he arrived at the top, the view was breathtaking. Colourful flowers and fruits littered the emerald, green grass, while rainbow dragons lay in hammocks above. “Wow.” Starflight turned his head to see Sunny standing right next to him. “Hi Sunny.” Starflight said staring at the dragons in hammocks. “Hi Starflight. You were right. The scrolls couldn’t capture the beauty of this place.” Starflight smiled. “You were right about the trees in this place. They are massive.” Starflight replied. “I’m going to look around. Do you want me to stay?” Sunny asked now looking at him. “You can go if you want.” Starflight said softly.
As Sunny left, her wing brushed his, sending waves of heat up his wing. Starflight then flew over to some other Rainwings who were lying in a hammock together out in the sun. “Uhm, what are you doing? It’s the middle of the day.” One of the Rainwings lifted their heads and opened their eyes. “Shh. It’s sun time. Don’t wake up the others.” The Rainwing said tiredly. “Oh, ok.” Starflight whispered, and he walked over to Clay. “Hi Starflight. Did you know these Rainwings have something called sun time. It’s where they sleep in the day to restore energy.” Clay added. “Yeah, I just had one tell me what it is.” Clay looked at one of the hammocks and sighed. That looks so nice. Clay thought. “Have you tried the mangos here? They are amazing.” Clay passed the orange fruit to him. “No, I haven’t.” Starflight took the fruit and bit into it. Starflight chewed, then swallowed. The flavour was nice. Not as nice as a cow, but still pretty good. Starflight took another bite and finished the small fruit. “Pretty good.” Starflight said after he finished. “I know right? Anyway, Ima go to the hammocks. They look comfy.” Clay flew over to a hammock that wasn’t occupied, then asked a Rainwing if he could use it. From what he saw, the Rainwing said yes, because Clay hopped in.
Starlight spent the rest of the day trying new fruits and vegetables and practicing him mindreading and future telling. Soon the day turned to night, and Starflight felt tired. On his way to an unoccupied hammock, he found Sunny. “H-hi Starflight.” Sunny yawned. “Hi Sunny. Where are you going?” He asked. Sunny pointed at the hammock Starflight was walking to. Sunny must have seen his face when she pointed, because of what she said. “You can have it.” Sunny turned her head to another hammock which was full of dragons. “No, you can have it.” Starflight said once more. Sunny stared at the dragons in the hammock. “What if we share it? Other Rainwings are doing that. That way we both have it.” Sunny said. “Sure.” He said softly after a short pause.
Starflight flew to the platform next to the hammock, and climbed in. A few wingbeats later, and he felt warm scales press against his. “Goodnight Starflight.” Sunny yawned. “Goodnight Sunny.” And with that, he fell asleep.
Is that Sunny and Starflight? Hold up, wait a minute. Starflight and Sunny are together? Starflight opened his well-rested eyes to see Clay, Tsunami and Glory looking at him. Starflight crawled out of the hammock slowly, trying not to wake Sunny who was still sound asleep. “Hi Starflight.” Clay said. “Are you well?” Glory asked. “Don’t try and fool me. Your thoughts revealed everything.” He said softly. “I didn’t say anything.” Tsunami protested quietly. “Don’t make fun of me please. I see a lot of futures that if you make fun of me, I slash your snout shut.” Tsunami made an ok, ok look at him, while Clay and Glory nodded.
“Have you got to know the others?” Starflight asked softly. Sunny stirred but didn’t wake up. “Yeah. I met my brother Jambu, and I met a really smart Rainwing called Firefly. Turns out, all other Rainwings are pretty lazy and dumb, but at least I got to know them, right?” Glory asked. “When you’re queen you can’t call them dumb or lazy, or they might fight back.” Glory smiled. “By fight back you mean say boo, throw a banana at me, then roll over and go to sleep.” Everyone laughed, causing Sunny to jerk upwards.
Sunny crawled out of the hammock and looked at them. “Whatyoulaughingat?” Sunny said quickly. “Glory said something funny about the Rainwings. Sorry for waking you up.” Clay said to Sunny. “I-it’s ok.” Sunny yawned. “Aaaaanyway, Glory, it’s time to go to the spot.” Glory nodded then walked off to the tree Starflight had said she needed to stay at once he said go to the spot.
The group disbanded, and walked separate ways, once Glory was out of sight, and not even ten minutes later, and Clay rushed to him. “Starflight! Glory’s missing! What do we do?!” Clay shouted at his face. Starflight lay down and sighted, full of relief. “Why are you ok with this?!” Clay yelled. “Because it’s what’s meant to happen. Glory is going to the night kingdom, and she is going to free the Rainwings.” Clay stared at him. “S-should I tell the others?” Clay asked after a pause. “Tell them Glory is freeing the Rainwings. And if they ask any questions, say Glory is safe and will come out in half a days’ time.” Clay gasped in relief. “Soooo, today?” Clay asked. “Yeah, today. Meet her at the town central.”
Half a day passed, and it was turning night. Starflight and Clay gathered all the Rainwings to town central and waited for the arrival of Glory. A few minutes passed, and still Glory wasn’t there. Then, Glory and a small Rainwing ran from the east, and looked at the crowd of dragons. Through the crowd, he could see Firefly squeezing to the front and looking at the small Rainwing. What should I say? Oh wait. Kinkajou has something to say. Glory thought as the small Rainwing called Kinkajou opened her mouth. “My fellow Rainwings! It is time that we have a proper queen! My friend Glory rescued me from the talons of the Nightwings, and cares about our missing friends! She is the only one here who is brave and smart enough to rescue the others!” I am too. Firefly thought. “Three of our Rainwing friends died in that Nightwing prison! Orangutan, Tapir and Bright died awful deaths in a smoky volcano with no sun!” At these words Starflight was bombarded by thoughts. No sun? Tapir, NO! Something else caught his eye. A silver teardrop. Many silver teardrops were falling from Firefly’s eyes. His thoughts louder than the others. Bright NO! NO!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Firefly flew away from the crowd, tears falling as he flew, his emotions sadder than anything he had ever felt before. “Glory should be our queen! Glory can help free the others! And it is Glory that can help our tribe better than any others could, so join me, and make Glory our queen!” Kinkajou shouted to the crowd. The crowd thought for a minute, then disbanded. Only Glory and the other queens remained.
Starflight flew back to the hammock he slept in last night. He found Sunny there too. “Starflight, are you ok?” Sunny asked. “I’m fine. Why do you ask?” Starflight asked Sunny. “You’re crying.” Starflight looked in a small puddle of water to see little silver tears leaking from his eyes. Completely unaware of them. Starflight brushed them off and thought for a moment. Why am I crying. Oh wait. Maybe when I felt Firefly’s emotions, I started crying, because he was in so much pain, and I felt it. “Did you see the Rainwing flying away from the crowd during the speech?” Starflight asked. Sunny nodded. “His name is Firefly, and I felt his pain. Did you see his tears?” Sunny shook her head. “From what I heard in his thoughts, he either loved one of the people that died, or they were his family.” Sunny was taken aback. “Should we make sure he’s ok?” Sunny asked. Starflight shook his head. “In all the futures where we do, he gets more upset, and, and… We have to wait it out if we want him to live.” Sunny too started to cry. “Let’s get some sleep first.” Sunny nodded, and they flew together to the hammock. Starflight climbed in, and soon did Sunny. “Goodnight.” Sunny said. “Goodnight Sunny.”
Starflight found it hard to get to sleep that night. He was warm, and very sleepy, but the thought of Firefly kept him awake. Eventually he closed his eyes and drifted into an uneasy sleep.
The morning came, and Sunny crawled out. Starflight felt the warmth leave him, and he too woke up. Starflight crawled out and flew to the palace where the games would take place. “Glory, pick me instead of Tarmin, and pick me for the flower hunt. Also put Clay and Tsunami only to guard the tunnel.” Glory nodded. The reason behind Clay and Tsunami staying to guard the tunnel was a choice that was necessary. In all the futures that he guarded the tunnel, he was taking in, and met Fatespeaker, and by the end, it was black. So, he died if he met Fatespeaker. However, if Clay and Tsunami guarded the tunnel and Tsunami was sucked in, she fought her way out, and wasn’t harmed. Clay made friends with the others, and escaped when the other Mudwing Ochre helped him. It was safer than him guarding him.
“Welcome everyone to the flower games! Today we will see if we get a new queen or not. Choose your teams! Dazzling, you pick first.” Dazzling thought for a moment then spoke. “I choose Fruit bat, Grandeur, Magnificent and Splendor.” Dazzling said in a tone that was impossible loud and soft at the same time. “Now, Glory, choose your team.” Glory waited, then spoke. “I choose Kinkajou, Jambu, Mangrove and Starflight.” Some in the crowd gasped as Glory chose him, then their voices died down, and the games began. “We will have five games; flower hunt, fruit gathering, tree gliding, venom aim, and hide and seek. We will start when the queens decide who does what.” There was whispering amongst the queens, and Glory started to pick. “Mangrove, can you do fruit gathering?” Mangrove nodded his head quickly. “Jambu, you can do tree gliding, Starflight will do flower hunt, and Kinkajou can do venom aim. I’ll do hide and seek.” Everyone nodded. “Now that everyone has chosen, let the games begin! Let’s start with fruit gathering. 3, 2, 1 begin!” Mangrove sped off, and Magnificent stayed still, looking at some trees in the distance, then sped off towards them. A few minutes later, and Mangrove and Magnificent came back with a basket full of fruit. The judge started to count, then spoke. “Mangrove 17 and Magnificent 16, winner is Mangrove.” At these words Dazzling shouted. “You had 19! You ate some!” Magnificent shrugged. “I thought 16 was enough.”
“Now for tree gliding! 3, 2, 1 go!” Jambu shot off at full speed, only a second behind Splendor. His swings were fast and graceful, and he moved with utmost precision. As they were approaching the final platform, a vine appeared in front of Jambu who was in the lead and started to choke him. Starflight could just see out of the corner of his eye, three sloths. “Cheater! Splendor must have asked her sloths to do that!” Glory yelled. “My sloths are right here. They didn’t move, did they?” Splendor asked as she landed on the platform. The other queens shook their heads. “You have many more at home!” Glory yelled. “Now, now. The judge will decide.” Grandeur said. A moment later, and Jambu was back on the platform. “The winner is Splendor.” The judge said after a small pause.
“Now for flower hunt. We have hidden a rare pineapple flower somewhere in the rainforest. First to find it wins! Let the hunt begin.” Starflight turned the page to the future. He scanned the futures where he won and follow the path. The path led him to a small patch of flowers. Fruit bat was staring at him intently, as Starflight put a talon the patch of flowers and once, he took his hand out, a small yellow flower. “Starflight has found the flower. He wins.” Dazzling’s jaw dropped. “That’s not fair! He can see the future!” The judge shrugged. “Rules are rules, and one of the rules is you can choose any person to be on your team.” Dazzling turned away angrily, and the next game started.
“Now for hide and seek! We begin in 3, 2, 1, hide!” Glory took off her sloth, and Kinkajou picked it up. “Come on Glory!” Kinkajou yelled. “Dazzling, time to seek!” Dazzling looked around some trees near glory, then turned to a small flower patch, a minute passed, and Dazzling looked worried. At that moment, Splendor rushed at Kinkajou and roared. The sloth jumped back in fright and sped towards Glory. Dazzling followed the sloth, then waved up a talon. “Found you!” The judge smiled. “Time for Glory to look for Dazzling. 3, 2, 1, hide!” Dazzling leapt up on a tree branch near the ground and disappeared.
“3, 2, 1 seek!” Glory stood still and looked at every tree in sight, thinking. Rainwings are lazy, so Dazzling is near me, and she wouldn’t like to climb very high either. Glory looked at the branch where Dazzling was sitting, and she walked towards it, hope in her eyes. Then, the branch behind them swung. Glory sped to the moving branch, to see a sloth wiggling the leaves. After a few more minutes of searching, Glory looked as though she might give up. That moment, there was a crunch sound, then a few more, and more. Glory looked at the same branch Dazzling was on and watched as one mango at a time disappeared. Glory reached forwards, and the same swinging noise came again. Glory didn’t care and grabbed Dazzling’s camouflaged horns. “Found you!” Glory yelled happily. “The score is in, and Dazzling wins this round. Now for out final one, venom aim!” The judge boomed. 
Kinkajou bounced forwards and looked into the eyes of Grandeur. “We will have three venom splats. The closest to the dot wins!” Grandeur went first. She shot one elegant drop of venom on the dot perfectly and Dazzling cheered. Kinkajou went next, and made three drops of venom land near, but not on the dot. Grandeur took a step forward and Dazzling almost bounced with happiness. One more perfect shot, and I am queen! Dazzling thought. Grandeur opened her mouth to show her venom coated fangs, and right before she shot her venom, Dazzling bumped into her. Grandeur’s venom shot away from the target, and three dots of black venom landed on Kinkajou’s wing. “ARGH!” Kinkajou screamed in pain. Grandeur looked horrified and watched as Glory then spat some venom on the three dots. Kinkajou passed out, but the melting stopped. Three moons. She is related to me. Glory is royalty. “I resign, Kinkajou wins.” Grandeur said to the disappointment of Dazzling. “What! No!” Dazzling shouted. “Glory’s team wins the games. Glory is our new queen.” The judge said happily. “All hail queen Glory! All hail queen Glory!” The crowd chanted in rhythm.
“Glory! Tsunami is missing!” Clay yelled as he ran to the new queen of the Rainwings. “We need to save her! I will make an army! Clay, you teach the Rainwings to fight, Starflight, go find Sunny.” He and Clay nodded, and Starflight bolted off to the Rainwing village, where Sunny lay sleeping.
“Sunny. Sunny. Wake up. We need you.” Sunny stirred. “What’s happening?” Sunny asked with worry all over her golden face. “Tsunami is missing, and we need to train the Rainwings to fight. We’re going to free Tsunami and the other trapped Rainwings.” Sunny stood up in destress. “Tsunami is missing?! What missing Rainwings?! What do we do! You have the answer, right? Right?!” Starflight didn’t answer. He did have an answer, but it wasn’t nice. “The only thing we can do is wait.” Starflight said after a long pause. “Sunny. Right now, Glory needs you.” Sunny nodded and flew off into the distance.
The day Tsunami went missing was one of the longest days of his life. Starflight kept looking at the future seeing if there was any timeline where Tsunami never came out. There was only one. Whilst fighting a guard to get out, she runs into a spear. The thought of this hurt. Hurt like he was impaled. In the back of his mind, he thought Tsunami will never come out alive, and a few days later, Tsunami found her way out.
Hold up, wait a minute. Let’s not skip ahead. What did Starflight do in those days? Quick answer, studied his visions to see if he could get Tsunami out earlier, tried a papaya for the first time, drank some water, practiced his powers, and slept with Sunny next to him. Anyway, let’s get back to the story.
“Tsunami!” Clay yelled as the Seawing crawled out of the hole. “Clay, Starflight, tell Glory the Nightwings are planning to attack at midnight, also, TELL ME WHERE THE NEAREST POOL IS! I AM LITERALY GONNA DIE WITHOUT SOME WATER! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HOT IT WAS, so, where is the pool?” Clay burst out laughing. “Follow me.” Clay said, and Tsunami followed.
Starflight flew to Glory’s platform that was bathed in light. “Glory, the Nightwings are planning to attack at midnight, and Tsunami’s back.” Glory shot upwards. “Where?!” Starflight started to fly, and Glory followed. Starflight and Glory landed next to a pool of water where Tsunami was doing laps. “Tsunami, what in the moons is wrong with you?” Glory jumped in the water and hugged her, then climbed out and dried her scales. “Glory, the Nightwings are-” “Planning to attack, I know.” Glory finished Tsunami’s sentence. “I have my army ready to defend the tunnel. We are preparing to attack.” At that moment Sunny landed next to Starflight. “We shouldn’t kill dragons. What if they’re under orders? What if they have a family?” Sunny asked. “Sunny is right. What if we use the tranquiliser darts? I bet the Rainwings have a lot of them. That way they live.” Starflight said. Sunny smiled and Glory spoke. “I will have my Rainwings mass produce them. Starflight, Tsunami, Clay and Sunny. I’m happy I was taken for the prophecy I’m not in, cause you guys are the best.” And with that, Glory hugged them.
“Starflight, Clay and I will go down to the Nightwings and stop them from the inside. Tsunami and Sunny will guard the opening.” Glory said. “No! I mean, if I go down there, I die, but if only you and Clay go down there, you both live.” Glory nodded. “Starflight can work with Sunny. Tsunami, change of plans, you train the other Rainwings to fight. Hopefully me and Clay will be out by daylight, stay put until then.” Everyone nodded, and Starflight watched the visions of the future where everything was black pop out one by one, until he was safe.
Hours passed after Clay and Glory went down the tunnel. Long hours where Nightwings crawled out of the tunnel, just to get knocked out by darts, and pulled out of the battlefield. Not long before daylight, the rest of the Nightwings scrambled out of the tunnel, their thoughts rushing out with them. Battlewinner dead? A Rainwing as our queen. FRESH AIR!!!!! A minute later, and all of the trapped Rainwings came out, including Glory, but Clay was still down there. A loud rumbling sound came from the tunnel, and Starflight could finally see Clay’s outline. And behind the Brown outline lay a black one. A giant black one. Morrowseer. Clay and Morrowseer were arguing about something Starflight couldn’t hear, and their thoughts were invisible to him. ‘BOOM!’ A giant fireball larger than the tunnel started rushing towards Clay and Morrowseer. Oh no! Clay is gonna die! But in all the visions of the future, only Morrowseer died. Did Clay forget to tell me something? The giant fireball crashed into Morrowseer, illuminating his outline, before the black scales darkened, and disappeared beyond the flames. Clay rushed out of the tunnel a second before the fireball too came out and vanished into the cold night sky.
Starflight and the others ran to Clay, to see tears flooding out his eyes. “Clay, what’s wrong?” Glory asked. “Morrowseer told me, t-that the prophecy is-is fake.” More tears fell before Sunny began to talk. “Clay, Morrowseer is evil, he would say something like that to hurt us, you know it.” Clay tried to smile but couldn’t. “Prophecy or not, we will stop this war.” Tsunami said out of the blue.
==== The Brightest Night: ====
Starflight looked into the future and saw something horrible. The only way to stop the war, is to let Sunny be taken for a month. A bit after the month, he could finally confess his love to her. Starflight new what Sunny would do now. Sunny would want to take care of some of the injured Rainwings, and this would get her caught. Caught and taken from him. “Guys, we need to go back to the Nightwings, we need to take care of them.” Everyone nodded and started to fly with him, but Sunny. “You guys go.” Starflight said to the others once they saw he didn’t take off. They obeyed and flew back towards the Rainwing town. “Sunny? You coming?” Sunny shook her head. I need to stay and help the Rainwings. I’ll meet you at the Rainwing village.” Starflight nodded, then flew away from her. Away from her. Away from the possibility of seeing her for a month. Away from the dragon he loved.
“Starflight, are you all right?” Clay asked as Starflight appeared with tears falling off his snout. “The only way we can stop the war, is if Sunny goes missing for a month. I had to let her go, but this is to stop the war. She will be fine, but we won’t see her for a long time. Please don’t panic and tell the others what I said. Right now, I need some sleep.
Starflight flew to the hammock he slept in last night. A painful reminder of Sunny. Starflight lay on the platform next to it and closed his eyes. After a cold long night, he finally drifted off to sleep.
The days when Sunny wasn’t there slid past like minutes. Do this, done, do that, done, fix this house, done, practice powers, done, eat a strawberry for the first time, done. The time slid by, that was until one day.
Starflight lay on the platform his eyes closed and drifted into sleep. Starflight was dreaming his powers vanished one day, and he was left powerless and alone. “Starflight.” He heard a voice whisper. Starflight turned around to see Sunny standing in front of him. “Sunny?” He choked. “Starflight!” Sunny yelled. Maybe this is just a dream Sunny. Maybe she isn’t here. “Starflight. I am using a Dreamvisitor. You know. The animus touched object?” Starflight nodded. Maybe this was her. Sunny ran to him and hugged him, the warmth of her scales matching the warmth in his heart. “Starflight, a scavenger gave me a Dreamvisitor, I know how to stop the war. I’m coming back to the rainforest now. I can’t wait to see you.” Sunny said smiling. “Wait. Next time its dark, please come back into my dreams. I miss you.” Sunny smiled. “I promise.” Starflight hugged her fiercely. “I’m waking up now. I hope I see you tomorrow.” Starflight said. Sunny nodded, and Starflight woke up, on a cold wooden platform holding a stick instead of Sunny’s warm talons. Starflight wiped the tear from his eye and went back to the village.
“You wanted to see me?” Starflight asked Glory. “Uhm, no. I was about to ask for you to see me. Stupid future telling. Thwarting my plans to call you.” Glory whispered under her breath. “But yes. I need to know. Who does Clay and Tsunami end up with?” Starflight took a step back. Surprised while also not being surprised. “Uh, let me see.” Starflight turned the page and looked far into the future. This time there were many timelines where he married Sunny, but ignoring that, he saw a fiery copper dragon he suspected to be Peril and saw a blue dragon that told him his name after Tsunami got married. His name was Riptide. “Clay, I think marries Peril, you know, fire dragon and has a son named Muddy and a daughter named Saphire. Saphire has firescales and Muddy is immune to fire.” Glory did a motion with her head that symbolised and, so he continued. “And Tsunami marries someone called Riptide, and they have a daughter named Current.” Starflight finished. “What about you and Sunny. Who do you marry. Who does Sunny marry?” Starflight sighed. Being used once again as a scroll his friends could read. “Me and Sunny get married. We have three dragonets, and one is a boy. Their names are Sandstone for the boy, and Galaxy and Sandfly are the girls.” Glory started to giggle. “You marry Sunny? No wonder you like her so much. Ima go tell the others.” Glory started to fly. “No! Don’t. Please. I’ll tell you who you marry if you don’t.” Glory thought for a moment. “Fine. I won’t tell the others, but who do I marry?” Starflight patted his own back. He got himself out of a sticky situation. “The Nightwing you marry is… drum roll please… Deathbringer!” Glory stared at him. “Yeah?” The Nightwing assassin said as he popped his head in. “You go.” Glory said pointing at the sky. Deathbringer bowed and flew away. “Continue.” Glory said. “You have two dragonets. A boy and a girl. The boy is Nightsky, and the girl is Rainbowbringer who likes to be called Rain.” Glory smiled. “Now I know exactly what not to name my dragonets.” Starflight smiled. Then flew away.
Starflight waited until night, waiting for Sunny. As the sun set, he thought about his future life. What was going to happen after he died. What would Sunny do? The thoughts made getting to sleep easier, and once asleep, the gold dragon was waiting for him.
“Starflight, I just met my father, he’s the animus who built the tunnels. Also, I am so close to the Rainforest. I’ll be there tomorrow.” Starflight smiled. “I have one question. Did you see in the future that I would be captured?” Starflight’s heart sank. If he told her the truth, she would hate him and destroy all chances of friendship, but he had the perfect line. “I wasn’t looking into the future at that time.” This wasn’t a lie, and this kept their friendship alive. “Oh. Ok. Well. I met my mother too. Did you meet yours?” Starflight shook his head. “She died. In one future Morrowseer told me she died while fighting two Skywings to save an Icewing.” Sunny frowned. “I’m sorry.” Starflight shook her off. “It’s ok. Oh, and my father, he kidnapped Rainwings for science, and 3 died where he kept them. It’s best if I don’t meet him.” The frown on Sunny’s golden face vanished, leaving a warm smile. “I’ll be back soon. Hopefully by morning. And… I have some plans. I think we can stop the war. Even thought my dad proved the prophecy isn’t real, we can still stop this horrid, horrid war.” Starflight nodded. “We’ll be waiting for you.” Sunny grinned harder, her thoughts trying desperately to pierce the skin of the dream, failing. “I know you will.” And with that, Sunny disappeared.
Starflight woke up cold, breathing heavily, sweat pouring off his scales. His nightmare had finished. Sunny, Glory, Clay or anyone else he cared about, didn’t die, they were safe. Starflight got up slowly and started to fly near the Jade mountains. His visions said that Sunny was coming here now.
Just as Starflight predicted, Sunny found him flying her way. “Starflight!” Sunny ran to him and hugged him. I missed you so much. Thoughts! Don’t reveal anything! Sunny’s tail entwined with his, then she let go, and looked at him, her face red. “You said you have plans to stop the war?” Starflight asked, trying to hide the red in his face too. “Oh, uhm, well, if Blister, Blaze and Burn all meet up and let the Sandwings decide who they want as queen, maybe that will work? What do your visions say about that plan?” Sunny asked curiously. Starflight flicked the page and looked carefully into the distant future, examining the futures where the war ended. “Yes… I mean the plan works. Anyway, lets go see the others!”
Starflight and Sunny flew together to the queen’s platform and waited for Glory. “Sunny? You scared us! Let me get my executioners real quick so I can execute you for scaring me HALF TO DEATH! STARFLIGHT! What is our policy for executing?” Glory bellowed. “No executing Sunny.” Starflight replied laughing. “Sunny! You’re back! Want a mango?” Clay asked as he flew in from bellow. Sunny nodded quickly and caught the mango Clay thew at her. Sunny took one bite in and smiled satisfactorily. “This is better than fried scorpion, way better.” Sunny joked, her mouth full of mango. “Guys, I have a plan to stop the war!” Sunny yelled after she swallowed the last bit of mango. “Maybe we should choose the queen now and kill the others?” Tsunami chimed in as she too appeared on the platform. “No! We have to-” “Hire Deathbringer to kill Burn and Blaze?” Glory guessed. “No! Guys listen!” Everyone stopped talking after Starflight said this. “Sunny wants to say, we get all the queens together, and let the Sandwings decide. This does work. In every future where we do this, the war ends. Understand?” Everyone nodded. “I’ll use the Dreamvisitor to contact Blaze.” Sunny said after a pause. “I’ll get my mother to contact Blister.” Tsunami said shortly after Sunny. “And I’ll get the message to Burn.” Starflight said a second after Tsunami.
Starflight flapped his wings and flew right through the tunnel to the sand kingdom. Starflight flapped as hard and as fast as he could, directly to the scorpion den. Once inside, he turned left, and found himself standing right next to a massive female Sandwing. “What are you doing in the scorpion den Nightwing?!” Thorn yelled. “Don’t worry. I’m a friend of Sunny’s. You know, Starflight. Sunny said I existed, right?” Thorn looked less weary. “Sunny did mumble something that sounded like Starflight in her sleep, so I think you might be safe.” Starflight took a step back, Shocked. Sunny really says my name in her sleep. Does she like me more than a friend? Starflight thought. “Well, can you contact Burn?” Starflight asked. Why Burn? What does he need with her? “Yes, I can. Why though?” Thorn asked curiously. “We are going to stop the war, but first, we need Burn to come to the Sandwing stronghold next full moon. Can you do that?” Thorn nodded. “It was nice to meet you, and tell Sunny, I miss her.” Thorn said softly. “I will.” Starflight replied.
Starflight flew back to the others, while one of the moons rose. “I sent the message.” Starflight said. “Me too!” Tsunami added. “And me.” Sunny said.  “Let’s hope that in two days’ time, we can stop the war.” Glory said.
“Starflight. Starflight!” Sunny yelled as he flew back to the platform next to the hammock. Starflight turned around. “I need to talk to you.” Sunny said quickly in his ear. “Ok.” Starflight and Sunny flew to a small cave. “Starflight, there’s something I need to tell you.” Sunny said. Starflight nodded. “I-I-I love you. Not like a brother, more than that. I can’t live without you. That month where to were away from me hurt beyond anything I have ever felt before. I have to tell you now, because I fear that I might go missing again, that I might die, or be separated from you. I wanted you to know in case anything happens.” Starflight stared at her. “I feel the same way. I have been meaning to tell you for a long time. I know some things happen in the future I can’t prevent, so I’m happy you told me. If these are my last days, I want to spend them with you.” Sunny looked surprised. Starflight looked Sunny in the eyes. The dragon he cared about, the dragon he loved.  Sunny closed her eyes and leaned forward. Starflight too closed his eyes, and then…
Sunny came out of the cave very red. “Sh-should we tell the others?” Sunny asked, hear usually golden head now ruby red. “I-I’m not sure. If we tell them or now, they will find out eventually.” Sunny nodded slowly. “I need some sleep.” Sunny said after a long pause. Starflight nodded and flew to the wooden platform he slept on for the past month. Starflight lay down on the wooden platform, realising how cold he was. A few wingbeats later, and he felt a calming warmth drop next to him. Starflight turned his head to see Sunny lying down next to him, her face back to its beautiful gold colour. 
Starflight’s eyes were becoming so heavy, so he shut them, and felt the warm talons of sleep pressing down upon his wing, bringing an easy sleep upon him.
The warm talons of sleep started poking him on his wing. Harder and harder they pressed until his sense of hearing came back to him. “Starflight? Starflight?” Starflight opened his well-rested eyes to see Sunny looming over him. “Starflight. We have to go. We need to get to the Sanding stronghold in time.” Sunny whispered in his ear. “Need… sleep… tunnel get there… instantly.” Starflight said. “Oh.” Sunny walked away, to the others, Starflight presumed.
Starflight closed his eyes, and tried to get back to sleep, only to stay awake. Starflight yawned, then got up. Better explain tunnel get there instantly to Sunny. Starflight flapped his heavy wings in the direction of a shimmering gold dragon, and realised she wasn’t moving. “S-sunny. What I meant was, there is another tunnel that leads directly into the stronghold.” Starflight yawned. “Ohhh. Ok. I thought the ice kingdom tunnel changes somehow.” Sunny shrugged. “We have all day. What should we do?” Starflight asked. Sunny shrugged once more. “You see the future, what do we do in it?” Sunny responded. That’s smart. Starflight thought quietly, even though no one could read his mind. Starflight turned the page and tried something he hadn’t tried before. To study multiple visions at once. Surprisingly, it worked. In the three visions he studied, they tried some new foods, played truth or dare, or (to Starflight’s sorrow) told the others what he and Sunny did in the cave. “We play truth or dare or try some new foods.” Starflight told Sunny. Sunny thought for a moment, then answered. “Truth or dare sounds fun.” Sunny said. Starflight nodded. “Sunny, truth or dare?” He asked. “Dare.” Sunny replied smiling. “Hm… slap Clay.” Sunny’s jaw dropped, as she flew over to Clay. Starflight watched in satisfaction as Sunny lifted one of her talons, and slapped Clay across the face. Starflight burst out laughing, as Clay’s thoughts finally reached him. What’s Sunny doing here. She said she’d be with Starflight, who is for some reason staring at me. OW! SUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sunny came back looking very guilty, while also happy at the same time. “Starflight, truth or dare?” Sunny asked. “Truth.” Starflight replied. “How about, who would you slap? Glory or Tsunami?” Starflight thought for a moment then replied. “Tsunami. She’s bossier than Glory, and a little ruder than Glory.” Sunny paused for a moment thinking. Ima go get Tsunami and tell her what Starflight said. “HEY!” Sunny jumped back startled. “Yes?” Sunny said, after a second of recovering. “Don’t, you, dare.” Starflight said slowly. “Oh, you can read my mind. No point hiding it. TSUNAMI! TSUNAMI! COME HERE!” Sunny bellowed. The blue Seawing came flying overhead and landed next to them. “What.” Tsunami said. “Me and Starflight were playing truth or dare, and in Starflight’s truth, he said he would slap you over Glory.” Tsunami looked at Starflight angrily. “You, played truth or dare WITHOUT ME?!” Tsunami yelled. “You can join.” Sunny pleaded. “Aurgh. Sunny, truth or dare.” Tsunami asked. “Dare.” Tsunami smiled. “I dare you, to tell me what you were doing with Starflight in the cave last night.” Sunny looked horrified. “I-I can’t.” Sunny said in a worried tone of voice. “You have to. It’s a dare.” Tsunami said smiling. “You can tell her, if Tsunami promises not to tell anyone else.” Starflight said into Sunny’s ear. “Do you promise not to tell anyone.” Sunny said to Tsunami who was smirking. “Fine. I promise not to tell anyone.” Sunny got up and stood next to Tsunami’s ear and whispered loud enough for Starflight to hear. “In the cave, m-me and St-Starflight, kissed.” Tsunami stared at him as he was making a not that big of a deal look. “Are my ears working?” Glory appeared right next to Tsunami and Sunny. “Don’t tell Clay.” Sunny said. “Tell me what?” Clay asked as he landed next to Starflight. “Three moons. The moment we tell someone, it all falls apart.” Sunny said. “Someone fill me in. What’s going on? What secret?” Glory whispered something in Clay’s ear, and he smiled. “Come on Glory!” Glory shrugged and made herself invisible once more. “The secrets out, so why even keep it a secret?" Sunny asked. Sunny then lunged forward and kissed him passionately on the lips, while everyone stared. “So, you’re a couple now?” Clay asked. “I think I should go.” Starflight said after they broke apart. Sunny was blushing red, and Clay was smiling. I knew Sunny liked Starflight, but this much? Eh. Clay thought.
Starflight flew back to the wooden platform. Every one of his friends knew about him and Sunny, so what was the point of hiding it? Starflight found a soft silk pillow near the platform and buried his head into it. He was confused and happy, yet sad and exited. Confused because of what Clay thought. Eh was a thought Starflight barely ever herd. It was like I don’t care. Starflight had always thought Clay liked Sunny, but hearing Eh come from his thoughts after what Sunny did was just confusing. He was happy because he liked Sunny, and they were finally together in a romantic relationship. Starflight was sad because of his visions. The first time he and Sunny kissed made all the visions of other families, other mates, other children vanished. Starflight had loved some of those people, and now they were gone. It hurt to think of all the people that may have lived, if he didn’t kiss Sunny. And exited to go down this new branch of futures with the one that he truly loved. In the line of futures with Sunny, he had some children he loved. Sandstone and Sandfly outlived him, while Galaxy died in a terrible accident. An accident that no amount of future telling could prevent. An accident that was all his fault. By not talking to a certain Sandwing called Desert, who had been ignored his entire life, they would think they were useless, and to prove they weren’t, they started killing all dragons they could get their claws on. One of those dragons was Galaxy. No matter where they hid her, Desert always found a way to kill Galaxy.
Starflight lifted his head off the pillow and focused on his surroundings. The wooden platform was dripping with rain. Starlight got up and stared at the clouds, looking for a sign of the sun illuminating the clouds. The sun seamed to be near the horizon, so they had a little longer before the full moon rose, and the war ended.
Starflight lifted his wings and flew towards Sunny who was sleeping soundly on another wooden platform. “Sunny, we have to go now. The moons are rising. The war will be over soon, just wake up.” Sunny stirred then lifted her head and opened her eyes. “Already?” Sunny yawned. “You go to the tunnel; I’ll get the others.”
Starflight came back with Tsunami, Clay, and Glory and led them to the tunnel, where Sunny was waiting. Everyone came though the tunnel with him leading the way. “This way.” Starflight whispered as he led everyone to a crowd of waiting Sandwings. “Blister.” A sinister voice rang through the crowd, sending waves of chills up his spine. “Burn, you got the message. It seems you got my present too.” Blister said as she entered the grounds near the Oasis monument. “You think I don’t recognize the hiss of a Dragonbite viper?” Burn said as she opened the box and pinned the snake to the box, as Blaze and the Icewing queen landed next to Blister. “You will find that there is another snake in that box.” Blister said. Burn looked at the snake trapped in her talons and crushed it. At that moment, the other snake jumped out of the box, and bit Burn on the leg. Burn fell to the ground, screaming as black venom poured out of the bite. Blaze screamed as well as like she was bitten by the snake. The place where Burn was bitten, the venom seamed to spread. The black venom spread up the leg and Burn screamed harder. The screaming died down until the screaming was gone, and Burn moved no more. The snake then jumped off Burn and sped towards them. The crowd screamed in panic and flew away leaving only the dragonets of destiny, Blister and Blaze.
The snake sped towards Sunny who was standing still in horror. The second before the snake jumped, the second before the snake bit her, something as heavy as a boulder knocked into them, saving their lives. The boulder was a dragon. A brown Mudwing in fact. The boulder who had knocked into them, the dragon who had saved their lives, was Clay.
“CLAY!” Sunny yelled. “No! Clay! Stop dying! I order you to stop dying! STOP IT NOW!” Tsunami said. “I’d like another option.” Clay joked weakly. “EVERYONE OUT OF THE WAY!” A fiery dragon yelled as she landed next to them. “Peril!” Tsunami yelled as Peril landed. “Out of the way! I’m gonna burn the venom out!” Peril yelled. The snake let go of Clay and sprinted towards Peril. Peril slammed a claw down upon it and watched as the snake turned to ash. Peril then stabbed the wound on Clay that was filling with black venom. Clay screamed with pain, then fainted on the spot.
Peril stood over Clay, her claw stuck in the wound, until all the venom was burnt out, leaving a gaping hole in his leg. Starflight watched as Clay’s scales tried to nit over the hole but were unsuccessful. Clay would limp for the rest of his life, but at least he was alive he was alive.
“Would have been better if all my enemies died by one snake.” Blister sighed. “Blaze, I challenge you to a battle. Whoever survives becomes queen.” Blaze looked horror-struck, then turned to queen Glacier who looked worried. “Please fight for me. I don’t want to die.” Glacier shook her head. “This is royal Sandwing business. I’m sorry.” Blaze looked as though she was going to cry. “I forfeit, just let me live.” Blaze’s worried voice rang though the cold desert night. “No. I need you dead.” Blister then pounced at Blaze, sending a rushing wave of air onto Starflight’s snout.
Starflight then turned his attention to Sunny. Sunny was looking at the scavenger that was Smoulder’s pet. The scavenger that Starflight would later find out was called Flower was yipping at the Oasis monument and pretending she was digging. Sunny took notice of this and started digging up the former Queen, Oasis’s skeleton. Starflight ran to Sunny and started digging as well. Starflight had a very good feeling about this.
The cold sand hurt his stiff claws, but he continued to dig. The sound of Blaze screaming as Blister drew her blood, and the sound of wingbeats as dragons came back filled his ears and hurt them too. At long last, the skull of Oasis was dug up. Considering how large it was, Oasis must have been massive, maybe even larger then Morrowseer. “YIP FROBLE YIP!” Flower yelled as she stuck her paw in the skull and wiggled it. A moment later and a dark brown sack was pulled out. The sack was full of holes and moss, and a glowing aura came from it.
Sunny stuck one of her talons on the holes and turned the sack upside down. All kinds of jewels and gold came out, and with a ‘plunk’ A black orb fell out onto the cold sand. Sunny picked up the orb and studied it, before shouting to the crowd. “Our choice is Thorn!” Thorn gasped as Sunny thrust the black orb in Thorns talons. The orb glowed green, then turned back to its black state. “Four moons and fireballs! Me?!” Sunny nodded and so did he. Glory and Tsunami nodded shortly after he did. “No!” Blister yelled abandoning the fight. Blaze sighed in relief. “That is not yours to choose! It has to be royalty! We have to fight for it!” Blister yelled. “Then fight me. I’m not afraid of you.” Thorn replied, without the slightest trace of fear in her voice. Blister calculated for a moment then grinned evilly. “The orb will choose me. I am royalty unlike her. I was smart enough to send mother to her death! I was smart enough to turn my fight with Burn into a war! I am the smartest dragon in all of Pyrrhia and THAT IS MY ORB!” Blister snatched the black orb from Thorn’s talons, and purple lightning shot out from the place Blister touched it. The purple lightning scrambled up Blister’s arm sending waves of heat to the crowd. Blister looked as though she wanted to let go but couldn’t as the lightning flickered up her face. Blister stopped moving and didn’t even scream as one of her talons turned to dust. And then, Blister, the dragon of their nightmares, the dragon who started the horrid war, exploded into a pile of black dust in front of them.
“All hail Queen Thorn!” The crowd chanted. Starflight turned to Sunny who looked overjoyed and terrified at the same time. “WhatdidImiss?” Clay asked as he woke up, examining the hole in his leg. Sunny then ran up to Starflight and kissed him so passionately on the lips, that Starflight was raised off the ground. The crowd started to cheer, and many clapped, sending waves of noise at them.
Starflight and Sunny broke apart and held each other’s talons, gazing up at the moons, together at last. There were no more worries, no more death, and no more sorrow. They were together and happy, that’s all that mattered to him. Starflight then looked at Clay who was smiling. There was nothing to worry about. All was well.
==== Epilogue: ====
==== 3 years later ====
*Sunny*
Sunny looked into the eyes of her mate, Starflight. Sunny had agreed to take over Jade mountain academy while Tsunami started her family with Riptide. New students had come along. Saphire, who was Clay’s daughter was in the copper winglet alongside Rainbowbringer, Glory’s daughter. It had been three years since the war ended. Her mother, Queen Thorn caught the scavenger/human eater Dragonbite and sent him to the dungeons. Sunny had always thought she was abnormal. A weird Sandwing without a tail barb. Not anymore. Starflight helped her realise that being a hybrid wasn’t so bad. She could do many things normal Sandwings couldn’t, and one of those things, was being able to be with a Nightwing. Sunny had always wanted a family. Thorn and Stonemover weren’t there half her life, but they came along. Starflight was the best dragon Sunny had ever met. He was kind, caring, smart, the list goes on and on. Sunny was relieved that Thorn and Stonemover accepted him when he asked for permission to marry her, and since that day on, Starflight had been her mate.
Sunny always wanted a child. A child she could take care of. A child she could stay with. A child to share her love. The day when Sunny had her first egg was the second-best day of her life. The first being when she married Starflight. Their first dragonet had been a boy, and they decided to call him Sandstone. 4 weeks later and Galaxy had been born. The day Galaxy took her first breath, Starflight looked rather sad. Starflight told her the heart-breaking news of what would happen to her, so Sunny contacted Thorn. Thorn made sure Desert was killed, and though another dragon died, many more were safe. One year after Galaxy was born Sandfly entered the world.
“Yirple?” Sandfly asked as she stuck her head out of the egg. “Mama? Is this my sister?” Galaxy asked. Sunny nodded. “Dad? I want to know. How did the war end?” Sandstone asked pulling on Starflight's wings. “You will find out at school, ok? The school mommy owns.” Sandstone nodded sadly. “I know what will make you happy. Do you want to go flying with your sisters?” Sandstone’s face lit up.  “Ok. Let’s go flying.”
THE END!
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