Frozen Wastes

EVEN MORE! EVEN MORE FANFICTIONS TO NOT FINISH! WHY DO I DO THIS!
== Prologue ==
She was surrounded by darkness. Nothing but dark. Not that she knew anything else. But something called her with a pulling tug. She wanted to see what it was, so she kicked. Hard. A satisfying crack sounded, and she kicked again. This time, she felt a cool breeze across her back talons as a shaft of light split through the darkness. She kept kicking and pushing, until finally, the darkness broke away, and she was looking into a pair of eyes. Gentle blue, like the night sky above them. Around the eyes, white scales seemed to stretch forever, as the dragon curled around her. "Hello, little one." she purred, but the dragonet didn't understand. She batted at the hooked claw held above her as the older dragon laughed. "I'll bet Answerer wishes he could see you." she said. "But I'll just have to name you myself." The dragonet looked up into the blue eyes as a sudden image hit her. The white dragon (Mother, the dragonet thought without the words) yelling at a strange black dragon. Then, she was back with Mother and it was all good and there were no bitey black dragons. "I'll name you Eclipse." Mother said, wrapping her cool tail around the dragonet. Eclipse. she thought, testing the sound out. I'm Eclipse. And the world better watch out. Because it's got a storm coming.
== Part One: Ice and Night ==
=== Chapter One ===
~Five years later...~
Eclipse felt the wet of snow against her black talons as she landed, drops of white spattering up her arms like the ink-like markings she bore. "Scared?" a cool, mocking voice called. Eclipse turned to glare at Khione, another dragonet, but a full IceWing. Not like Eclipse, who, with the black of her talons and face, stood out clearly as a hybrid. "Nope." Eclipse lied, trudging forward. "Just a little cold."
"Wimp." Khione hissed, just as mockingly as before. "Shame your father gave you such a disadvantage. Such a shame you didn't even receive fire."
"Kindly shut up." Eclipse muttered as she flapped her wings, stirring up a small flurry of snow. She didn't like snow. It was cold and wet and stuck to her and made her really cold. "Pipe down, you two!" the head of their hunting trip called, a tall, muscular IceWing named Boreal. "Alright, pair up! I want to see everyone with at least something by noon!" Eclipse drifted away from Khione and towards a slightly older dragonet, Verglas. He was Boreal's son, and while Verglas wasn't Eclipse's friend, per se, he wasn't an active bully of hers. "Do you mind if I pair up with you?" Eclipse asked, annoyed at how soft her voice went. Verglas flicked his green-tinted eyes to her curiously. "Sure." he muttered. "Come on." Eclipse followed him into the pine trees that filled this part of the Ice Kingdom. The spiky branches poked at Eclipse's scales as they walked. Eclipse began to look around, slightly bored. Suddenly, as she looked ahead, she couldn't see Verglas. Panic gripping her, Eclipse flicked her head around, searching. She couldn't have gotten lost that fast! As she listened and looked for Verglas, she heard a quiet moan. Eclipse hurried through the trees. Was Verglas hurt? As she neared the sound, a glint of sunlight illuminated the forest floor, bouncing off of scales. Good, she wasn't as lost as she'd thought, then. But when Eclipse saw the dragon who'd moaned, she instantly knew it wasn't Verglas. The blood that poured from a wound indistinguishable from it was red, and the wings that obscured most of the dragon were a dark blue. Eclipse circled around the injured dragon. Then she spotted it. The spine of webbing along their back. The hint of fiery red and orange.
This dragon was another hybrid.
=== Chapter Two ===
Eclipse felt panic even more than when she'd lost Verglas. Why was a hybrid, especially not a part SeaWing one like this one appeared to be, here? In the IceWing Kingdom? You're a hybrid, and you're in the Ice Kingdom. the rational part of Eclipse's brain muttered. Nope. That was different. Eclipse was at least part IceWing. This dragon definitely wasn't. "H-h-hello?" Eclipse stammered, as she further neared the blue dragon. They turned weakly towards her, revealing amber eyes that shone like two miniature jewels. "Hi." they said, their voice hoarse, but husky with an unfamiliar accent. "You- you aren't an IceWing, are you?"
"Wh-What's it to you?" Eclipse tried to make her voice sound more like the guards at the Frozen City walls and failed.
"Well, they're the ones who did this to me." the blue dragon said. "I'm Thunderstorm, by the way. But call me Thunder, please."
"E-Eclipse." Eclipse said, hating the stammer that always showed up when she was nervous, scared, angry or when it was most inconvenient. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm a travelling merchant." Thunder said, trying to pull himself up. "I sell fish, seabirds, the like. I thought I'd try my luck in the Ice Kingdom. SandWings just don't appreciate sushi."
"What's sushi?" Eclipse asked, confusion overriding her fear.
"It's like seaweed wrapped around fish." Thunder answered. "Really nice. Salty. But, anyway, IceWings fish, right? So I came over- and was immediately attacked for trespassing. And left to get out." Eclipse tilted her head in confusion. The soldiers she knew were cold, but not ruthless. Attacking an innocent dragon for trespassing? Thunder smiled, wincing. "You wouldn't happen to have bandages or anything, would you?" he asked. Eclipse rummaged in the sealskin pouch almost all dragonets wore around their neck. Sure enough, they'd been provided with a small roll of more hide. Eclipse wordlessly wrapped the bandages around the wound in Thunder's underscales. "What about you?" Thunder asked.
"What about me?" Eclipse was beginning to feel comfortable with this relaxed dragon.
"How'd you get here, what's your story, did you stand in a bucket of ink?" Eclipse laughed, something she hadn't done in a while. 
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