When the New Moons Rise

Character links:
Shadowclaw the NightWing
Set (Ninjadragon53)
Stratus (Ninjadragon53)
Arachne (Jae)
Jae (Ninjadragon53)
Windra
== The New Moons Prophecy ==
Written upon the walls of an ancient human temple predating the Scorching by a few hundred years according to archeologists Anubis and Truthseeker
When darkness falls and the moons are new,
Of three eggs, the first to hatch will be under a comet of blue.
Behold, on the Darkest Night, the shadowed taloned one will arrive.
The two remaining, though close the three will be,
they will have the smallest chance to thrive.
Beware the taloned one of shadows
== Prolouge: ==
=== The Mother... ===
Starreacher curled her tail around the eggs. She knew that one would hatch tonight. Lies they all said. Well HA! I'll show them... SHE will show them...
She glanced up at the sky. It was pitch black except for the twinkling stars. No moons showed their celestial silver upon the dragon planet.
A cracking sound. Starreacher dipped her head toward the sound. A snout was cracking the shell.
It was less than a second! An explosion sound and the egg's shell burst open. Starreacher gasped. The dragonet standing there was different. She had gold scales on the underside of her wings and on either side of her face outside her eyes in place of the silver. What was different was the fact that her front talons and forearms were jet black, with not a single defining shape to them. The dragonet looked around her face blank but, could it be? She was listening.
What are you? The dragonet looked at her mother. "Grrrfred?"
Starreacher gently reached out to the dragonet and picked her up, avoiding her front talons. "Your name is Shadowclaw. When your siblings hatch, you all will bring about a new era to this pitiful world."
The Dragonet tipped her head and yawned a small puff of smoke at her mother, then giggled.
Shadowclaw reached her dark talons up to the sky, relishing the small stars. She knew that big things would come her way.
== Chapter 1: ==
=== Eclipse ===
"Fight, Fight, Fight!!!!"
Eclipse wiped the blood from her snout, snorting at the challenger. "Seems as though the champion of this ring is about to find her reign at its end~." The challenger happened to be a classmate of Eclipse's, and a very annoying one at that...
She focused her thoughts and cleared her head, knowing full well that Moonreader could sense her thoughts. Well, I knew it was only a matter of time before you came after me. 
Moonreader gave a malicious smile, flexing her talons. "Don't worry, 'Clipsey!! I'll take good care of your title!"
That was the last straw for Eclipse. She launched herself at Moonreader while at the same time slamming a wall down on her thoughts. The mental action jarred the opposing NightWing who stumbled, trying to block her own thoughts. Eclipse flared her wings out as a distraction, successfully disorienting Moonreader. Eclipse grabbed the smaller NightWing and flipped her, letting out a hiss.
"Never challenge me again, pathetic worm..." Moonreader nodded, fear growing in her eyes, before scrambling up and bolting away.
"Worthless..." Eclipse muttered as she left the ring amid the cheers from the bloodthirsty and war-hungry nightwings. She collected her money for winning the past few fights.
She followed the tunnels to the outside, breathing in the fresh air. she took off towards her home.
These underground fight rings were just about the only way for her to make her own cash. Not that her mom and siblings didn't provide for the family. but she just enjoyed fighting and doing her own thing.
She got home, walked past Shadowclaw and her Mother's daily staring match and Truthseeker's studying, into her room and, exhausted fell into a deep sleep.
== Chapter 2: ==
=== Shadowclaw: The lights that sparkle ===
Shadow buried her head in her pillow, groaning as the chorus of moon larks began to sing. I hate those birds...
She yawns and rolls out of bed, stretching her wings and arms. "So, what's the plan for today, hmm?" Shadowclaw grabs her bag and moves through the house quickly. Her mother is gone on yet another military mission for the queen. No surprise there. "OI! Eclipse! Truthseeker! Breakfast is ready! Eat when you want I'm going out!" She moves towards the door when her brother steps out.
"Have a nice day Shadow. If you need me you know where to find me," he says grabbing his breakfast and disappearing into this room again. Eclipse doesn't make an appearance which wasn't unusual.
Shadowclaw nods to her brother before jumping off their cliff door, diving a few feet down, and spreading her wings to catch the crisp air currents. The wind whispers beneath her movements, flowing between her scales and over her wings.
She decides to take her sweet time, before flying over the mountains that mark the end of the NightWing Kingdom and the start of the Kingdom of Sand. She would be gone for the next couple of days, looking for curiosities that might be a good addition to her project.
The gold flecks under her wings and on either side of her face send sparkles dancing through the air.
A few hours of flying later, she makes her way toward the Scorpion Den. She had a meeting to attend to...
== Chapter 3: ==
==== Truthseeker: ====
He was in the library. 
As always. 
Truthseeker barely glanced up at the dragon who sat down across from him. The dragonet huffed her obvious annoyance then said, "Let me guess. You already have half the research done?"
He looks up. "Three-fourths actually, but who's counting. As long as you do your part then we won't have any problems, Streaktail." He stares at her as if challenging her to make a comment. 
She simply glared at him, then slammed her part of the project down on the table. "Since you're so opposed to having any help, here! Do what this you will!!" With that she turns around and leaves. 
Truthseeker rolls his eyes, not too worried about it and goes back to doing his own research. He grew curious, and against his better judgement, pulled her findings closer and looked through them. He was surprised to find that they were actually really good facts, some of them even lining up with his own. 
"Fine..." he said, and proceeded to merge each part of the project. When he was finished, her flew past her home, leaving an apology with her parents and returned to his cliff-faced house. 
Upon entering, Eclipse was lying on the floor in front of the fire, blood staining her scales and talons. This wasn't unusual actually... He gave her a second glance, but then disappeared into his room, awaiting his other sister's return. 
== Chapter 4: ==
=== Eclipse: ===
The door slammed open. 
Eclipse raised her head, eyes bleary as a sand covered Shadowclaw entered, scattering little grains of minerals all over the floor as she stepped inside. Eclipse took one look at the floor and said bluntly, "Mom's going to kill you." 
Shadowclaw followed her gaze, then simple shrugged, "She won't. She's still at the front." Eclipse rolled her eyes and gestured to Truthseeker's shut door. 
"He's back from what seemed to be another failed 'partner' project."
Shadowclaw sighed. "When he fails the advanced literature class because he can't work in partners, he's going to shut himself up in the library even more.."
Eclipse rolls her eyes. She huffs and lowers her head back to the floor, "You go deal with him... I'm to exhausted..." she mumbles as she hears the fading footsteps of her sister leaving to check on her brother. 
Why did she have to be the only one who had a sense of self preservation? And where did Shadowclaw ever go? Why in the name of the New Moon's Goddess did she always bring sand back with her?
Eclipse doesn't actually care as long as whatever her siblings did didn't interfere with her fighting. Speaking of which... she looks down at the letter in her talons. Her payment from the last months ring fights. Enough to cover her own living expenses. 
Her mother wouldn't be back till the next day, and even then, she would have to report to Queen Vigilance...
She yawns and decides to disappear for a bit, slipping into her own room silently.
== Chapter 5: ==
=== Unknown: ===
He stares longingly out over the open sand dunes, scales dark and dusty, waiting for her ink-black wings to be drifting down to him even though he knows it's the right day. She wouldn't come for another week atleast.
He sighs, sadly looking down, his black eyes sorrowful. "I mean...she did say that it would be a bit with the war and everything, but....still.."
He clenches his blood-stained talons, "I just go kill something to feel better."
He spreads his sand color wings and takes off.
----The dragonet watches the clouds out over the jagged cliffs, bulky body curled against the body of the scavenger he considered his big sister. She was older than him bye only a few years, yet he was twice the size of her at five years old.
She sleeps for now, head on his shoulder, glasses ascew on her face. He was nervous, his big wings tented against her. She had found him and taken him in. Cared for him and everything. He would never want to be a burden on her.
But something tells this massive, silent, antler-horned dragonet that the future was going to take a turn in her plans.
----The BeetleWing silently sits in her tent, viewing the mirror and the dragons in it, her mate asleep beside her. 
These pawns of her's were going to play a game for her.
== Chapter 6: ==
=== Truthseeker: ===
As Truthseeker entered into his classroom, his sister's leaving him as the three siblings split off for the locations each needed to be at, Streaktail approached him with an odd look on her snout.
"You stopped by to apologize to me after the library?" she askes as if confused.
He blinks, "Yeah. Your work was actually amazing. Sorry I sold you short. I merged both projects...here. Look yourself."
Streaktail silently opens the scroll, checking the facts he had cross-referenced for just a little bit of an add on.
"You just need to put your name and then we can turn it in..." He says awkwardly..
She remains silent before... "Got an ink pot?" signing her name and handing it to the teacher.
As the day progresses, Truthseeker takes his notes like always, but doesn't really pay attention. He's only ever skipped out on one class, but that's because it proved to be too boring for him. History rolls around. This is what he's interested in. Seeing the future came easily enough for him, but the past fascinated the dragonet.
Professor Discovery, well named, was an archeologist during the school's off season. The queen had hired him to teach all the history classes in exchange for funding some of the digs. But, this also meant that the professor was gone for a max of two weeks a time fairly often. In his own words, "Those at the digs aren't delicate enough. Gotta handle it myself..." Truthseeker absolutely loved him for that mentality.
As he takes a his seat and arranges his notes, Discovery is writing on the whiteboard. 
The History and Potentiality of there being a Past Tribe on Pyhrria
This is intruiging.
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