The Night's Stars

Credits to Nightstar the Nightwing Animus for her dragonsona, Nightstar! Comments are greatly appreciated! :D Don't forget to go to the comic version for Night's drawings, which you can find here!
Also, any space that doesn't have a name next to it for Winglets means it's open for OCs! Just comment their name, tribe(s), gender, what winglet, and a ref/description!
=== Small Announcement: ===
It might take me a little while to post this because I'm writing this on my iPad. I'm emailing it to my other email, putting it on a Google Docs, and then posting it.
Thank you for your patience!
Blythe
=== Character List as of Now ===
Nightstar - Main
Starlight - Main
Nephthys - Main
Mango - Main, will be more involved later
Brightseer - Not yet introduced, but main
Firefly - Will have a bigger role later
Cloverlight - Supporting
Panther - Supporting
=== The Twin Prophecy ===
Deep in the forest, in the dark
Lays a secret that needs heart
All that's missing lovers and friends
To where you might never see them again
From an egg that holds two
Includes a power that no one knew
Because in the battle between evil and good
You must do something that you never could
The twins are coming…
=== Winglets ===
==== Jade Winglet ====
HiveWing: Nematode
IceWing: Opalline
MudWing: Mahogany
LeafWing: Olive
NightWing: Nightstar
RainWing: Starlight
SandWing: Nephthys
SeaWing: Seashell
SilkWing: Angelic
SkyWing: Cloud
==== Gold Winglet ====
Hivewing: Ladybug
IceWing: Open
MudWing: Murk
LeafWing: Pecan
NightWing: Brightseer
RainWing: Mango
SandWing: Ash
SeaWing: Open
SilkWing: Apefly
SkyWing: Firework
==== Silver Winglet ====
HiveWing: Sand Wasp
IceWing: Adelie
MudWing: Open
LeafWing: Open
NightWing: Cloverlight
RainWing: Panther
SandWing: Open
SeaWing: Open
SilkWing: Lycaenidae
SkyWing: Open
==== Copper Winglet ====
Not applicable currently.
=== Prologue ===
Five years ago in the rainforest…
A dragonet awoke trapped in a hard shell. She felt the two full moons calling her, wanting to fill her with their power. As she shifted, she sensed a faint heartbeat next to her. Her sister. The other dragonet curled into her sister’s warmth, in no hurry to hatch. But the first did. She tapped the shell, and her sister recoiled as a small crack appeared. She redoubled her attempts to come out of her small, oval haven. She tapped one more time—
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
The walls fell away. The moonlight shone too brightly in the newhatched dragonet’s eyes. 
“Rrrble.” she declared.
Then she noticed the two dragons, staring openmouthed at her. One was purple, obsidian-black, and yellow, and the dragonet decided that this was Mother. The other was a dark cyan, navy, and silver. The dragonet decided this was Father. Mother gasped. 
“Look at her, Mindshifter,” she said softly. “Isn’t she beautiful?”
“Yes,” Father replied, “She is. But…wasn’t there supposed to be two? What happened to the other one?”
“Mindshifter!” Mother sighed. “Just enjoy the fact we have a dragonet now!”
She picked up her dragonet.
“Her name will be Nightstar.” Mother decided. “And…if her twin hatches…her name will be Starlight. Or Starnight. Which do you like more, Shifter?”
“I like Starlight.”
“But that’s if she hatches.” Mother said sternly. “If she doesn’t…we’ll mourn her. But if she does…”
She never finished the sentence. She wouldn’t. If Starlight didn’t hatch now, she wouldn’t ever. And visions of the future already baraged Nightstar. If Starlight didn’t hatch, Nightstar died. If she didn’t hatch today, she killed Nightstar. But if she hatched now…the two would be inseparable. Together forever. And Nightstar would never live with the guilt of letting her sister die.
So she leaped out of her mother’s arms and started to crack the egg.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
A small, purple dragonet tumbled out of the pieces. She was asleep…or dead. Nightstar was starting to worry. Did she not get Starlight out of the egg on time? Did she accidentally kill her?
But Starlight simply rolled over and yawned, opening her eyes to the moons, two large silver eyes in the sky.
Nightstar was filled with glee. She had a sister. A twin of all things. Life was going to be great.
Words that she didn't know she knew flooded out of her head.
Hello Starlight. It’s nice to meet you.
My name's Nightstar.
***
One year later…
It was stupid, everything was stupid. Nothing about this was right. How could her mother have more dragonets, let alone twins? They were all fine as one big happy family.
Except the whole kingdom was cheering that their Queen now had another child.
But what if the other child is a girl? asked her doubts. She could get in the way of the plan for getting the throne.
Nightstar shook off these thoughts and peeked into the hatchery where the egg lay. She nodded to herself trying not to lose hope. 
Don’t worry.
It will be you on the throne.
And none else.
== Part One: Far From Home... ==
=== Chapter One ===
Rainforest five years later…
Ugh, Nightstar grumbled in her mind, why do we even have to do this?
Starlight giggled. Her giggle was a happy sound, kind of like a chiming bell. It was impossible to be mad at Starlight. She was lucky. She was Firefly’s favorite dragonet. Cloverlight and Panther were close second, but Firefly hated Nightstar. But she knew why. The twin’s father, Mindshifter, had become a monster. He hated Starlight and Panther because they were RainWing dominant, like Firefly and abused Firefly’s power. Nightstar had been his favorite, with Cloverlight second because Nightstar and Cloverlight were NightWing dominant, like him. Mindshifter controlled everyone until Firefly had him banished. Nightstar reminded Firefly of her ex-mate. 
Even though he was a monster, Nightstar sometimes missed her father. She hated what he did to her twin and little brother, but it was nice to be loved. Sure, Starlight, Panther, and Cloverlight loved her, but that was sibling love. Nightstar just wanted a parent’s love. Her mother’s, in fact.
Starlight tilted her head at her twin and winced. 
“Nightstar… we’re here… also, you’re kinda giving me a headache.”
Nightstar smacked herself on the snout.
That was worrying. Starlight was an…average mindreader, so if she had a headache, every mindreader on Pyrrhia and Pantala probably knew her bitter thoughts.
Starlight sighed, rubbing her temples.
Now Nightstar winced.
Sorry! she said telepathically.
Now she waited. Dragons usually thought her twin was just a lazy, happy RainWing. How wrong they were! Starlight simply didn’t waste her time on them. But she had a temper like fire. Nightstar’d once heard Starlight cursing a dragon—Froststar, Nightstar remembered, an IceWing-NightWing hybrid—with her powers because she’d called her lazy. Next day, Froststar had food poisoning from a bad boar. No one suspected Starlight—except Froststar, but no one believed her—who acted as surprised as everyone else, as well as her natural innocence and charm. Froststar nearly died, and never said anything mean to Starlight ever again.
Starlight nodded and put on her ‘queen face’, tilting her chin and wings up.
“I accept your apology.” she said regally.
Nightstar internally chuckled. Then the two hybrids swooped down to the (rather large) pavilion that the twins’ mother, Queen Firefly, had built. Starlight pushed past the vines that she’d hung as a door and the two stepped in.
=== Chapter Two ===
Nightstar supposed the pavilion could be called ‘pretty’. But she didn’t think of it that way. ‘Pretty’ implied something was beautiful. ‘Pretty’ implied that the dragon who called it pretty thought it was beautiful. Firefly had built it (along with Starlight’s magic), prompting Nightstar to think it wasn’t beautiful.
Starlight took a deep breath and scanned the pavilion. Nightstar knew who her twin was looking for; Firefly.
“Alright,” Starlight whispered, “I found her. Come on, Nightstar.” She rubbed her temples again. “Moons, these dragons really should have worn their skyfire.”
Nightstar knew what she meant and nodded. Here at the royal pavilion, dragons were (quite strongly) encouraged to wear skyfire, but some dragons were stubborn and wouldn’t wear it (namely the NightWings, claiming Firefly wasn’t their queen). Nightstar wished it was because she had very strong mindreading, but no; it was because of Starlight and Panther. 
Starlight tilted her head to the right. “It’s not like you’re helping either, Nightstar! I have to filter out my entire brain  so I can’t hear your thoughts!” she muttered. Then she brightened. “Anyways, like I told you already, I found Mother. Come on, grumpyclaws!” 
And that was how Nightstar ended up getting dragged towards a mother who hated her.
* * *
Firefly had been talking with Queen Auklet, one of Firefly’s many “friends”. She gave Starlight a small smile, although she gave Nightstar a smaller, forced one. Nightstar wondered if Auklet noticed. If she did, she didn’t say anything.
“These are two of my dragonets, Starlight and,” Firefly paused, and Nightstar knew her mother was disgusted to even say Nightstar’s name. “Nightstar.  Both animi and born under two moons! Starlight’s future-seeing rivals even Clearsight’s!” Firefly gushed. Auklet raised her eyebrows at the two dragonets, scrutinizing them with a sharp glare. Nightstar felt kind of self conscious. She then decided she didn’t like Auklet. Nightstar looked over at Starlight, who was keeping her cool, watching Auklet pleasantly even though her thoughts turned over the idea of throwing Auklet out of the royal pavilion. Starlight had her normally purple-gradient scales in a pretty, glowing, wisteria-like purple. They sparkled in the sunlight and were nearly blinding, meaning Starlight definitely hadn’t missed suntime. Starlight had two (slightly bigger than average, although not significantly larger) golden teardrop scales next to her eyes, showing she was a mindreader, regardless of color. She wore two flower earrings, a flower crown, and a flower bracelet (all gold and purple, of course). The only real pieces of jewelry Starlight wore were a small, warm, golden necklace with pieces of onyx and amethyst and a matching crown to Nightstar’s. When Firefly loved Starlight and Nightstar, she’d bought them matching necklaces and crowns. But that time was over. 
Now Nightstar looked at herself (figuratively of course, she couldn’t see herself without looking in a mirror). She had dull, silver and black scales, due to the fact that she’d missed suntime yelling at some RainWings who dropped some fruit on her (moreover a reason why most RainWings hated her—when they annoyed her, she’d yell at them at suntime—when it would annoy them). She had two (larger than average) silver teardrop scales next to her eyes, signifying her mind reading powers. She wore a cold, silver crown that (other than the color and stones) matched Starlight’s. Nightstar’s just had turquoise instead of amethyst. She also had a matching bracelet, necklace (again, matching Starlight’s), and two turquoise earrings. Starlight had insisted that Nightstar wear some flowers as well and weaved a cyan and silver flower crown for her twin that she wore (Nightstar had protested but couldn’t win—both Cloverlight and Panther took Starlight’s side, saying flowers would be a nice addition. Although everyone except Starlight was mystified about how she got the exact shade of flowers as Nightstar’s scales. Everyone knew enough not to ask). 
Auklet snorted, reminding Nightstar she existed. She obviously thought neither dragonet could hear her and whispered to Firefly.
“They look weak. I don’t think they’ll challenge you anytime soon, if they ever do!”
Nightstar and Starlight tensed at the same time, Nightstar’s underbelly and wings tinted scarlet red. Starlight, Nightstar heard, was now seriously debating whether to throw Auklet out. Nightstar couldn’t blame her, although Starlight really did an excellent job keeping her rage hidden.
“Mother, is it okay if Nightstar and I look for Aunt Moonrose, Cloverlight and Panther?” Starlight asked, sweetly. Firefly nodded, slightly disgusted at the mention of her little sister. 
"Of course, moonbeam.”
Nightstar and Starlight turned around, and as soon as Firefly looked away (and Auklet hadn’t), both shot Auklet twin looks of venom and hatred. She looked scared as the two scampered away, content with their glares.
=== Chapter Three ===
Starlight skipped ahead of Nightstar, heading straight for the buffet table. Nightstar raced to try and keep up, but Starlight was too fast. As soon as Nightstar got to the buffet, she looked around for her twin, spotting her expertly peeling a mango. Nightstar rolled her eyes.
“Let’s go,” she hissed, “We really should find Aunt Moonrose. Then we’ll have an alibi.”
There was a soft sigh behind her and Nightstar spun around, hissing and preparing her venomous fire. Starlight giggled.
“Oh, wow, Nightstar, are you planning to attack our aunt? The very same aunt you wanted to look for? And siblings? Hi, Aunt Moonrose! Hey Cloverlight, hey Panther!”
Nightstar inwardly slapped herself. Princess Moonrose, Firefly’s sister who had ABSOLUTELY NO ambition  to challenge her, had a habit of sneaking up on dragons from the shadows. Cloverlight and Panther just adored their aunt and stayed close to her. Moonrose smiled at her nieces.
“It’s alright, Nightstar. Starlight, stop teasing your sister. Anyways, we need to go to the stage. My sister—sorry, Queen Firefly—wants us there because she has an announcement.”
Nightstar raised an eyebrow. Firefly wanted them? Firefly never wanted them. Or Nightstar, at least. She sighed and the five dragons left the buffet.
Moonrose looked over at Nightstar and smiled. “I know my sister isn’t your biggest fan, but she does love you, I promise. Anyways, are you four excited about your surprise?”
Panther shrugged, Cloverlight nodded, and Nightstar rolled her eyes. But, surprisingly, Starlight shook her head.
“I don’t want a new crown, I don’t want a new tiara. I don’t want a golden bracelet, necklace, tail band, earring— or else anything that’s jewelry. I have enough, Aunt Moonrose. I want to go to school.” Starlight whispered, her breath barely rustling the purple and gold flower crown she was wearing. Even though they had been to school before, Firefly took them out when they turned three. Nightstar really didn’t want to go to school. She’d heard all kinds of stories, and was perfectly fine with her tutors—a plump, light pink and white RainWing named Magnolia (the —former—healer who had figured out that there were twins in Starlight and Nightstar’s egg and Cloverlight and Panther’s) and a green and black LeafWing-NightWing hybrid, whose name was Nightleaf. Both were amazing and the four dragonets loved their tutors. But Starlight wanted to meet new dragons, not just Nightleaf’s daughter (Starflower—Nightstar’s friend) and Magnolia’s son (Nightstar thought his name was Macaw or Mango or something, but she didn’t know. She always found him so suspicious. Whenever she came near him, Mango or Macaw or whatever, he’d mutter an excuse to Starlight, saying he had to go). Starlight herself was friends with both but wanted to be around new dragons. Cloverlight clasped her talons together.
“Aunt Moonrose says we might actually be going to school! She says Mother is actually considering it!”
Nightstar tensed. She hoped Moonrose was wrong. She hoped Firefly had listened when Nightstar told her she didn’t want to go to school. She knew neither would happen, but Nightstar could hope.
The five dragons stepped up onto the stage, lining up next to Firefly in order of how much she liked them. Starlight first,  Panther second, Cloverlight third, Nightstar fourth, and Moonrose fifth. Nightstar couldn’t understand why Firefly hated her younger sister so much but never said anything. Now, when Firefly said the word ‘surprise’, Nightstar tuned into what her mother was saying.
“Now, as an early hatching day surprise, because all of my dragonets have been wanting to go to school—”
Nightstar’s blood ran cold.
“—I’ll be sending them to Jade Mountain Academy!” Firefly finished, smiling.
=== Chapter Four ===
Nightstar couldn’t believe it—and not in a good way. Nightstar knew, she knew, that Firefly knew she didn’t want to go to school. Nightstar stood like a statue, listening to the rest of Firefly’s speech.
“I will visit them every month. The other dragons going as the RainWings and NightWings in the other winglets are: Amaryllis, Amazon, Brightseer, Starflower, Rosewater…”
Nightstar stopped listening. After all that begging, after all that worrying, Firefly did it. She did it. Why? Nightstar didn’t care why. She cared how. How dare Firefly. How dare she. Did she really hate Nightstar that much? 
“Nightstar?”
Nightstar flinched as Firefly called her name, smiling falsely. 
“Is there anything you’d like to say about the surprise?”
Nightstar knew what she was doing and nodded. Two could play at this game. She walked up to the microphone, passing Firefly and whispering.
“I absolutely hate this ‘surprise’ and you as well.”
When she walked up to the microphone, she plastered on a fake smile.
“Oh my moons! I can’t believe it! I’m really going to school! Not that my tutors were bad—I just want to meet new dragons!” Nightstar said cheerfully. She looked down at the crowd of dragons and saw Magnolia and Nightleaf standing next to each other, blinking confusedly. She smiled down at them. Then Nightstar left the microphone and went back to her spot next to Panther and Moonrose. Moonrose smirked at her niece. “I know everything you just said was false but I won’t tell.” she informed Nightstar. Shows how good mindreaders are at finding stuff out, Nightstar thought. Firefly declared the party over and Cloverlight hugged Nightstar.
“Starlight told Panther to tell me to give you a hug. She said it was because she knew your entire speech was fake and she honestly felt bad for you and she was mad at Mother for putting you on the spot like that.” she whispered. Starlight leaned her head over.
“Clover missed a couple parts. Like the fact that your smile was maniacal, so I made it look like a trick of the light and made your smile happy and light. And that your tone of voice was screaming ‘I hate this surprise and everyone in the world!’ So I fixed that for you too!”
Suddenly, Starlight’s head popped back out of view. 
“When will you ever stop leaning over me to talk to your twin, Starlight? Do I even exist?” Cloverlight asked, being totally dramatic. Starlight rolled her eyes.
“Of course you do, Clover.”
Cloverlight nodded approvingly and Firefly cleared her throat and spread her wings.
Aloft, she said “I’m glad you’re excited, you guys, but we have to get home.” 
Nightstar nodded and she and Starlight lifted up in the air. Cloverlight and Panther looked at each other and then lifted up into the air next to their sisters. Moonrose soared up too.
“Bye Firefly. Bye Nightstar, bye Starlight, bye Cloverlight, bye Panther.” she said loftily. “See you tomorrow, I think. I don’t know what time you leave.”
And then she was gone, her black and pinkish-red scales winging away to her treehouse. Moonrose was a princess, whether Firefly or anyone liked it or not. She could have lived in the palace with the rest of the royal family. Maybe Firefly would love Nightstar more if she had someone else to hate everyday instead. Nightstar shook off the what-ifs and flew after her mother and twin, little sister and little brother right behind her.
=== Chapter Five ===
Nightstar soared through the sky, her mother and siblings behind her but not by far. She shifted one of her wings to look like a cheetah, sure to attract Starlight’s attention, who was the farthest behind. Sure enough, she was right. Starlight immediately flew towards the cheetah wing, not stopping until she reached it. Nightstar saw slight disappointment on her twin’s face when she realized the cheetah-spotted thing was just Nightstar’s wing. Nevertheless, for the rest of the trip (which was a short one—Firefly made sure the royal pavilion was close to the palace), Starlight never lagged behind—she flew right next to her twin. Nightstar saw a faint outline of a palace ahead and doubled her speed. Starlight looked up at the sky pleadingly but tripled her speed to keep up. Soon, that faint outline became a huge, lavender, crystal blue, and white palace. It shined like crystals even in the faint light of the moon, and to the royal family, the Crystal Palace was home. Nightstar and Starlight swooped down to the entrance. Six guards stood in front of the palace, three RainWings and three NightWings, spears held in their front talons. They radiated menace and danger. Nightstar tilted her head up patronizingly and all the guards bowed simultaneously.
“Welcome home, Princesses Nightstar and Starlight.” they murmured together. Starlight smiled at them and bowed as well.
“And thank you for guarding the palace from intruders.” she said, gesturing for the guards to get up. They complied and stepped aside for the two princesses. Starlight spread her wings and glided inside. Nightstar sniffed at the guards and they immediately went back into formation. Then she went after her twin, who was halfway down the main hallway. 
“Starlight! Why…are…you…so…MOONS-FORSAKEN-FAST?! Wait for me!”
Starlight rolled her eyes and made a face at Nightstar. But she waited. Nightstar kept panting. Then Starlight narrowed her eyes. 
“I’m not waiting next time, so you’d better hurry up.”
Nightstar sighed and rolled her eyes. Starlight was so stubborn.
“Whatever.”
Starlight grinned. “Goodbye, sister.”
She flew off, down the hallway and turned right. Nightstar beat her wings and flew after her twin, again. When she nearly caught up, Starlight gave her an L and turned right again, into her room. Nightstar sighed and turned left, into hers. She picked up her satchel, the one she’d been saving for a diplomatic trip to the Ice Kingdom. She placed the crown in there and the necklace as well. Then she put in an updated scroll about animus dragons, including her and her sister, her bracelet, her earrings, an extra goat, three mangos, a chicken, five apples, two dragonfruits, one starfruit, a cow, a paintbrush and some paints, her pet jaguar in a small cage,  all of the animals sun-dried, except the jaguar. Nightstar had asked the chefs for some food late the night before, and they went overboard. Then, she went over to Starlight’s room to help her twin pack. Starlight had packed her favorite scroll, a couple mangos, her golden crown and necklace, her flower crown, flower necklace, flower bracelet and a goat for her sister. Nightstar raised her eyebrows. Starlight had actually packed responsibly! Starlight stuck out her tongue at Nightstar.
"I am so responsible, I can kick your tail off with my responsibleness!”
“Sure, Starlight. Sure you can.”
Starlight turned her head away from Nightstar and sniffed haughtily. She then snapped her claws and the ceiling above her became transparent. Starlight stared up at the starry night sky. 
“Goodnight, Nightstar.” she said, climbing up onto her bed of leaves and flowers.
“Night, Starry.”
As soon as Nightstar said these words, Starlight conked out, her soft snores becoming part of the symphony of the wind whistling and the rain pitter-pattering. Nightstar smiled at her sleeping twin and walked out, to her bedroom and to sleep.
=== Chapter Six ===
When Nightstar woke up at about dawn, she was startled to see a shadowy black and maroon figure pacing back and forth in her room. She jumped out of bed and hissed. Nightstar really should have called the guards, but how did the intruder get in? The guards were guarding the—the intruder must have been working with the guards! Nightstar made a mental note to fire the guards. Maybe she’s here to kill me? An assassin, maybe? Nightstar wondered as the intruder giggled.
“You really must like making up stories, Nightstar!” Starlight said, her scales shimmering butter-yellow before turning back to purple. 
Nightstar took a breath of relief.
Wait a minute, she’s laughing at me! Internally, yes, but still!
“Oh, it’s just you, Starlight.”
“See, that makes me think you’re not very happy to see me.”
“Nah, I am, I just thought you were an intruder.”
“Moons, I know. Your mind was screaming ‘Intruder!!! Kill her!!! Call the guards!!! Wait no, she’s working with the guards!!! She’s here to kill me!!!’”
Nightstar rolled her eyes. “Highly oversimplified, but fine. Anyways, what do you want from me?”
Starlight looked offended.
“My dear twin, why would you think I want something from you?” she asked.
“Because I know you.”
“Valid.” Starlight sighed. “You’re going to help me wake Clover and Panther up.”
“OH MOONS NO!”
“Oh moons yes.”
“PLEASE NO.”
“Sorry, Nightstar.”
And with that, Starlight snapped her claws and Nightstar was lifted up in the air, tossed out of her room, and into Panther’s. Cloverlight was there, and with an ‘oof’, Nightstar landed on her younger sister.
“NIGHTSTAR! GET OFF ME!” 
Nightstar quickly hopped off of the big lump that was her sister and helped her up.
“Sorry Clover, don’t blame me, blame Starlight! She—basically—teleported me here to wake up Panther!”
“Then I won’t blame her, I’ll thank her!” Clover snapped. “I asked her to help me wake up Panther and she said she’d get you!”
“Fine!” Nightstar muttered, surveying the room. This had to be the messiest room she’d ever been in. Panther was the sweetest dragonet, but he had the messiest room you’d ever see.
Nightstar sighed. How had she ever been dragged into this? So Nightstar did the logical thing. She looked into the future to see the best way to wake Panther up. She saw why Starlight wanted her to do it; there was one future where Starlight woke their little brother up, although most were where she just gave up and let him sleep. But if Nightstar timed it just right… She exhaled the slightest bit of smoke into the air. She had timed it perfectly, and a chilly draft came in, blowing the smoke around until Panther breathed it in. He coughed, sitting upright in his hammock. There was a hiss, and Sunshine, Panther’s adorable panther cub, leaped off onto Nightstar’s head. “Hello to you too, Sunshine!” she teased the little panther cub, who meowed in response. Her royal collar’s bell jingled happily around her neck. “Panther, are you bringing Sunshine to Jade Mountain?” Starlight questioned her little brother.
Marigold was Starlight’s leopard cub. She was small and lithe and even more adorable than Sunshine. She and Sunshine were friends, play-wrestling all the time. Starlight thought for a moment. 
“I think I will. Mother’ll be flying with us, she’s outside. You guys go wait for me with Mother, I’ll get Marigold!” 
Starlight rushed to her room, diagonal to Panther’s. Nightstar rolled her eyes.
“You heard the boss!” she joked, “Get moving!”
Clover rolled her eyes, but left Panther’s room. Panther took a second to collect Sunshine, who was still on Nightstar’s head. Nightstar followed behind them, seething internally from having to see her mother and knowing that Firefly had sent them to school even when Nightstar explicitly told her she didn’t want to go. Now that was rude.
=== Chapter Seven ===
Nightstar stood in front of the Crystal Palace.
Firefly had given her a smirk disguised as a normal smile, causing Nightstar to hiss, disgusted, at her. Firefly acted like nothing had happened, and Starlight came out carrying Marigold. “Come on, let’s go!” she said cheerfully.
Firefly scowled. “We can’t. I, very stupidly, promised that if we didn’t leave at dawn, we would go see her.”
There were only two people who Firefly talked about with that much disgust and disdain, Nightstar and Moonrose. So, using process of elimination, Nightstar decided the ‘her’ that Firefly was talking about was most definitely Moonrose.
Clover brightened. “We’re going to see Aunt Moonrose?”
“Regrettably,” Firefly muttered. “Yes.”
Oh. So it was Moonrose. Nightstar’s deductive reasoning was correct. “Oh,” Starlight said. “Okay!”
“Not okay,” Firefly grumbled. Nightstar rolled her eyes. Marigold meowed. Starlight, who had a way with animals,  somehow understood her. She petted Marigold on the head, of whom purred loudly. Nightstar rolled her eyes again. She and Sunflower, her pet jaguar, had a good conection with each other, but they were both prone to snap. If you have two things doing that, it doesn't end well. Just the tiniest bit. Sunflower hissed in Nightstar’s bag, reminding her that the jaguar was there.
“Well? Let’s go, people! I want to get to JMA already!” Clover threw her arms up into the air and beat her wings as fast as she could. Come on come on come on!
Nightstar rolled her eyes. “Fine then, let’s go.”
She beat her wings as well, Starlight and Panther hesitating before flapping their wings, as well.
***
They flew nonstop to Moonrose’s treehouse that she shared with her mate, Shadowdancer. Shadowdancer stood at the door of the treehouse.
“Firefly,” he said softly, nodding to each one, “Nightstar. Starlight. Cloverlight. Panther. Moonrose told me you’d be coming. She said that it takes a miracle to wake Panther up.” Shadowdancer chuckled. “It takes more to wake Moonrose up, especially after she’s been with Moonbloom. Seriously, that dragonet exhausts everyone.”
“Moonbloom?” Firefly asked, loaded with enough venom to kill 30 dragons in flight. 
“Yes, Moonbloom, my and Moonrose’s dragonet.” Shadowdancer replied, unbothered. “We were planning to tell you, but we never go around to it, sorry.”
Firefly forced a smile, gritting her teeth so loudly that Nightstar bet Shadowdancer could hear her. How dare she. How dare Moonrose. “What amazing news.”
Starlight clasped her talons together. “That’s wonderful! Congratulations!” 
“Excuse me,” Cloverlight said, “Uncle Shadowdancer, can you tell us where Aunt Moonrose is?”
Shadowdancer nodded. 
“Yes of course. She’s in the living room.”
Clover nodded, and she and Panther retreated into the treehouse, Shadowdancer leaving as well. Starlight started to go, before turning back to her mother and twin.
“Please don’t fight,” she whispered softly, her words caught on the breeze and lifted into the two dragons’ ears.
Nightstar tilted her head at Starlight. “We won’t unless Firefly—sorry, the dragon I’m supposed to call Mother—starts one.” she said firmly.
Firefly rolled her eyes. “I don’t start fights.”
Starlight gave them both searching looks, but went inside.
=== Chapter Eight ===
The trip to see Moonrose basically ended after that, and off they flew to Jade Mountain. They stayed with Queen Sunrise for a night before continuing from the Claws of the Clouds Mountains. Sunrise was sending her daughters and son to the Academy as well.
When they landed, they saw a bright pink and yellow RainWing waving at them.
“Moon and Kinkajou better be nice to you, honey. I’m the queen of both their tribes, I think I can make an acceptable punishment.” Firefly told Starlight, hugging her daughter lovingly. Starlight nodded, squirming to get out of her mother’s tight embrace. As soon as Firefly let go, Starlight bolted to the RainWing. Nightstar gave her mother a brisk nod before leaving, sticking her tongue out. She ran after her twin.
“Hi!” Starlight was saying to the brightly colored RainWing, “I’m—”
“Princess Starlight, I know.” the RainWing bowed, folding her wings over her head. “Your mother will pluck out every single one of my scales if anything happens to you.” she shuddered, scales going mint green. “I’m Kinkajou, the Headmistress of Recruiting here at Jade Mountain Academy. Here’s your scroll. It’ll tell you your winglet, clawmates, classes tomorrow and your cave. Bye!” Kinkajou took a deep breath, scales going back to normal, and getting up as Kinkajou waved while Starlight bounded off inside. Nightstar tried to hurry after her, but Kinkajou snagged Nightstar by the tail.
Moons blast these stupid long tails! Nightstar thought.
“Whoa there. You’re Princess Nightstar, right? Princess Starlight’s twin?” Kinkajou asked. Nightstar stayed silent.
“Yep, you are. I’m Kinkajou, Headmistress of Recruiting here at Jade Mountain. Here is your scroll! It’ll tell you your winglet, clawmates, classes for tomorrow and your cave!” Kinkajou continued, scales becoming a warm lilac.
“Have a great day, and can you do me a favor? Two, actually? Can you make sure Starlight doesn’t get into any trouble? And not fight with Nephthys? I know you two both have strong personalities. Please try to get along.” Now Kinkajou waved, signaling it was time for Nightstar to go. She rushed inside the Great Hall to try and find Starlight. She quickly checked her scroll to see her clawmates, knowing she would probably hate them.
Princess Nightstar of the NightWings!
Your clawmates are:
Princess Starlight of the RainWings
and
Nephthys of the SandWings.
Your cave is Cave Eight and your Winglet is the Jade Winglet!
Nightstar blinked. Starlight was Nightstar’s clawmate? WHAT IS GOING ON..?
She spotted Starlight talking to a slightly taller RainWing. Mango. He spotted her and smiled sheepishly. Then he said something softly to Starlight along the lines of “Sorry, your sister scares me, so I have to go.” and walked away, quickly. Starlight looked over at Nightstar, with a look that said ‘I knew you were right there and Mango leaving proves it.’
Nightstar ran over to her twin before Starlight could turn away. “How are you my clawmate!”
“…why should I tell you?” Starlight sniped, obviously annoyed at her for some reason.
“Because…oh, I don’t know… I’M YOUR MOONS-FORSAKEN TWIN AND I WANT TO KNOW?”
Starlight rolled her eyes. 
“A good reason not to,” she muttered. “But fine, it’s because I knew and I asked Mother, she told me in advance. Please don’t be mad—” she hurried to say, her scales shifting to a very dark purple, even darker than her normal dark violet underbelly.
“WHY SHOULDN’T I BE MAD! YOU KNEW—”
“Look, I’m sorry, okay? I wanted to come, and so did Panther and Cloverlight! So—”
“So WHAT! I’m just supposed to deal with it, RIGHT?”
“—stop being so selfish!” Starlight snapped, scales turning scarlet red. “It was three against one! I’m leaving! You can literally go home if you want, so just go! I don’t need you here!”
Nightstar paused, tears glistening in her eyes and Starlight’s. Her’s sad and angry tears, and Starlight’s pure anger. Firefly’s favorite dragonet turned, and left, her twin’s wings slowly sinking to the floor.
=== Chapter Nine ===
Nightstar felt something she hadn’t felt in a long time—guilt. She knew it wasn’t right for her to go off on Starlight like that, but she decided that she wouldn’t apologize. 
Not until Starlight did. Nightstar knew this was petty, but she didn’t care, squishing the tiny voice telling her that what she did was wrong. She also decided Starlight was probably in the library, and so Nightstar tried to find her cave.
* * *
Turns out, that was a very bad decision, thought Nightstar.
She’d already spent half an hour trying to find her cave before she stumbled across a lithe little NightWing with a SandWing sail. She was obviously younger than Nightstar, looking around two. She was too young to go here…so why was she?
“Hello,” the dragonet said in a soft, musical voice. “What are you looking for?”
Nightstar shook out of her thoughts.
“Oh. Cave eight.” 
The dragonet nodded, leading the way.
“So you must be Princess Nightstar.” she said.
Another princess! I can’t believe Nephthys has two princess clawmates! the dragonet thought excitedly.
“What’s your name?” Nightstar asked, as gently as possible.
“A princess asked me my name!” the NightWing dragonet squealed.  Keep it together, Stoney! she scolded herself internally. “I’m Moonstone, Your Highness!”
“Moonstone. What a beautiful name.”
“Thank you, Your Majesty! Here we are! Cave Eight! My sister’s cave.”
Nightstar was officially confused. “But Nephthys…isn’t she a SandWing?”
“A SandWing-NightWing hybrid! Like me!”
“Oh! Cool! Thank you for helping me, Moonstone!”
Moonstone squeaked happily. “You’re welcome, Your Royal Highness!” she said, as she flew off. Nightstar stepped into the cave, seeing a golden and black figure arranging scrolls. It had to be Nephthys. Nephthys paused her vigorous organization for a second to talk to Nightstar, the princess of one of her very tribes.
“Hello,” she said slowly.
Nightstar sniffed. It would take a lot more than a single hello for this day to get better.
“What do you want!” she snapped back.
Nephthys rolled her eyes. She might just be the opposite of her sister. If that’s true, she’s not lazy, not a vegetarian, not very happy, and rude. Really, really rude.
Chapter Ten flying in soon!
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