Of Ashes and Blood

Prologue
Hurricane couldn't think of a moment he ever flew faster then he is right now. He grips the pink-red egg, trying to not let it slip from his grasp. He feels a blaze of heat as a skywing barely misses him with its fire. Almost there... Please don't hatch now.. Just wait a little longer... He finally makes it to the cave, and dives into the river dividing it. Its muffled, but he thinks he hears one of the skywings say "Moons.. She is gonna kill me for this.." But it isnt important.
It wasn't even a hour of swimming before he reaches the end of the tunnel. He climbs his way to the surface, while Borealis and Recluse help him up.
"Where is the egg!? Please don't tell me you lost it!" Recluse hissed
"Recluse, give him a minute.." Borealis puts her talons on Recluse's shoulder, then turns to look at Hurricane
"Dont worry, Recluse. Its safe." Hurricane reassures Recluse, holding the egg in his claws. "It should hatch any minute now."
"Good, I'll put it with the others." Borealis takes the egg from Hurricane, and walks over to the nest-like area. She places it with the others eggs, but in doing so, awakes the seawing and sandwing hatchlings. The seawing hides behind the sandwing, while the sandwing sniffs the new egg, before lying back down.
"Those two already get along so well.." Hurricane sits down next to the eggs and hatchlings. "Recluse, did you think of a name for the sandwing yet?"
"I think Mesa fits her well, though I had to convince Snail that its better than Grain, as if he knows anything about sandwings."
"Mesa, huh? I like it. I think its a better name than Sardine." Borealis jokes
"Ha-ha, very funny, Bor" Hurricane smiles back.
The conversation is interrupted by what sounds like a soft scraping coming from the skywing egg. The young seawing squeaks before running behind Hurricane 
"Looks like I came just in time!" Snail lands, holding a silver egg.
"You did! The skywing is hatching, I'm so excited." Recluse says
Snail places the nightwing egg with the others before watching as a small red-pink snout pokes out of the egg. It isn't long until the hatchling pulls itself out of its shell, opening its eyes too the world for the first time.
"She is so cute!" Snail remarks
"Well of course she is, she is a dragonet! They are all cute!" Bor replies.
"i beg to differ." Recluse adds.
"Shhh, lets think of a name. I'm thinking maybe some type of bird?" Hurricane interrupts
"What about seagull? Or sparrow?" Snail suggests
"Im thinking.. Robin!" Recluse also suggests
"Oh Robin is just perfect!" Bor responds with a smile while she watches the hatchling
"Robin it is, then." Hurricane decides.
Chapter one Part one: Different
Robin opened her eyes. She didn't want to get up yet, she was comfy right here, on her little wooden bed that was slightly too big for her. That was until Cranberry creeped up on her, camouflaged, and whispered in her ear "i know you are awake~" which made her jump.
"Cranberry, let me lay doooown!" Robin groans
"No way! I am not letting you sleep all day on your own hatching day! I've never heard of such a thing!" Cranberry says in protest
"Well I have." Robin pulls her wool blanket over her head, but cranberry just pulls it back down
Robin sighs, knowing she can't win. So she gets up and stretches her wings and back, before following cranberry to the beach. When she got there, the others wave to her. Cranberry goes to join Lacewing in watching sardine do a diving competition with Shard, while Robin just sits in the sand. 
"Happy 7th hatching day, Robin!" Mesa sits next to her.
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it 6 other times before. Its nothing special." 
"So have I, but I at least pretend to be happy." Mesa teases. "So, what's bugging you?"
Robin sighs again "I dunno, its just... Something I've been wondering about the past few weeks."
"What is it?"
" Well, I've been thinking, what if things were different? What if we lived with our actual families? Would things be better or worse? "
"Oh come on, we've talked about this! You sound like Star. Stop worrying about what could've happened, just think about whats going on now!"
"I know, I know, I just can't help it."
"I think I know what will cheer you up! I wasn't supposed to tell you, but Hurricane and Recluse are gonna get your favorite food."
"What? But deer are so hard to find... How would they be to?"
" They have their ways, I guess."
A few hours go by, and nothing much happened. 
Robin was kinda bored, so she went back up to the cave. She sits down on one of the ledges in it, and looks up. They need to replace the leaf covers on the cracks.. she notices. Cranberry suddenly appears next to her again.
"You gotta stop that, you'll scare me to death doing that one day." Robin smiles at her
"Oh reeeaaally? Well I think being such a grumpy tail is gonna kill you first. What's wrong, grumpy tail?" 
"Why do you care so much anyways?" 
"its just.. You know.. We are basically siblings! Siblings care for each other. I don't care if we are different tribes. We are sisters, and there's nothing you can do about it!"
Robin laughs, which seems to be Cranberry's goal.
"Robiiiiin!" Hurricanes voice seems to echo throughout the cave, despite the fact the cave is to exposed to have a echo.
"We got your favorite!" Hurricane and Recluse land, and Robin sees Recluse carrying a deer. "Don't worry, I didn't sting it." Recluse adds
Robin smiles "i believe you." She floats down to the floor, where Recluse drops the deer. The others soon come in too.
"Ok, go on, give the little speech." Sardine quietly says
"Dont rush her!" Mesa shoves Sardine a little
"Well, i just wanted to say.. Even if we are all so different, even if we are supposed to be enemies.. I wouldn't wish for better friends." Robin says, awkwardly but sincerely
Everyone does a sort of cheer, until wing flaps are heard above them
Chapter one part two: Run
Robin looks up. A wing of SkyWing guards fly up ahead, luckily they don't notice as everyone ducks under the hiding spot, A mini cave under the normal cave. Its not big enough to fit everyone, unfortunately, but they make it work. Robin felt especially cramped, in the middle of everyone else, except Cranberry, who is outside and camouflaged to help keep watch.
Suddenly, from the shore, a wing of SeaWings jumps put and attacks the SkyWings. Robin didn't watch, she never liked fighting, but she heard the roars as the battle continues. Instead, Robin focuses on her surroundings. Cave, Recluse in the front, Star hidden under everyone, Firebrat watching the fight.
The fighting stopped, the SeaWings had driven the SkyWings out. It was almost like a routine, SkyWings and SeaWings and sometimes other tribes fight nearby and they all hid there. But this time would be different.
"No, no, its wrong, we are fine... We are going to be fine..."
Robin hears star whisper under her. As if on cue, one of the SeaWings say they heard something nearby, and Robin sees them walk over through the dark silhouette of the others.
Recluse jumps put from the cave, getting a good shot on one of the SeaWings, stabbing them on the arm with her tail. Everyone including robin runs out. Hurricane leads them as they retreat to the nearby forest.
"Ok, ok, listen guys, Bor and Snail should probably be here soon. They can help, But for now I need thou guys to run. Run anywhere, but stay together, ok? I need to help Recluse."
Robin looks at everyone. Firebrat seems disappointed, Star is worried, Shard is on guard, Sardine is sticking close to Mesa, and Caiman is trying to seem smaller. Robin notices something...
"Where's cranberry and Lacewing??" Robin blurts, and Hurricane looks around hurriedly.
"I don't know, but.. I just- "
Recluse roars in pain nearby 
"Ok, you guys just need to go! Hurry!" Hurricane runs off to help recluse. Robin is flying away, but.. A few guards follow them all. They end up splitting into groups, but Robin can't process who is tailng behind her and who got split from her. She lands, followed by who she thinks is Firebrat, Shard, and Sardine but she only looks behind her for a few seconds before running. Luckily, they lose the SeaWing following them.
Cranberry comes into view, no longer camouflaged. 
"Wait, where.. Where is everyone else??" Cranberry exclaims
"We lost them, the SeaWings must have split us up. Possibly on purpose, maybe to make us easier to catch" Firebrat replies, not sounding too shaken and more fascinated, while looking around
"You say that as if it was a good thing!" Shard retorts
"It may as well be. I'm not sure where we are, or how far away we are from home, but in smaller groups we aren't as.. Find..able... GAH! YOU ARE RIGHT! WHAT AM I SAYING! OUR FRIENDS ARE GONE!" Firebrat hisses
"Fire, shut up for a second. They might still be following us. Lets focus on who's here, we can try to find the others and regroup later." Robin says, putting a talon of Firebrats shoulder. "Cranberry is here, There's shard, Me, You, Firebrat, and Sardine."
"Wheres Mesa???" Sardine panics, looking around
"I saw her go around the mountain over there." Cranberry's scales swirl a number of colors, mostly light greens and various shades of grey and grey-blues.
"I saw Mesa with Caiman and Star. I think we got split up into two groups. I didn't see Lacewing, though" Shard reassures sardine "Besides, she is the best fighter of all of us, she is definitely fine."
Sardine nods, then gets back into panic. "What about Lacewing??"
Cranberry's scales get hints of a dark purple, which Robin is pretty sure means shame or guilt. "I saw him go help recluse, at first, but then he ran away and was chased. I could've helped, I was nearby but... I just.. Followed you guys. I'm sorry.."
Firebrat growls at Cranberry "Say that to Lacewing, not us. Oh wait, you can't!"
Robin pushes in between the two "now is not the time for fighting! We need to.. I- I don't know, organize I guess? Plan out what we need to do next."
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