The Call of Mary Suethulu

This is a sort of metafiction humor fanfic by Butterfly. Do not take any of the jabs at the WoF fandom completely seriously; I've confessedly used many of the tropes myself, and you aren't a horrible writer if you make moodboards for your OCs or something.
This is also a partial reboot of Operation: P.I.D.A.Y. Expect for several of the same themes, and even some of the same characters from that fanfiction to pop up here. However, I plan on executing them better, since looking back on it P.I.D.A.Y. was not very well written.
As an important sidenote, this story takes place about 30 years after canon, in the future Moonwatcher saw during Moon Rising.
The Story
Prologue - Irrational Decisions
Flashflood just couldn't sleep.
He'd tried everything, really. First he tried to bury his head into the leaves the school so lovingly provided him, but he could still hear whatever gaudy new piece of jewelry Firefly had found clinking and hear the loud screech of Sunny's son's (Flashflood still hadn't gotten his name) shrill singing from the other cave. He then put on the earring he'd especially enchanted to turn the wearer deaf in case of situations like this, but that didn't block out the fact that some moonblasted clawmate of his kept tapping their talons on his scales. He could always enchant something to block out the annoying sensation, but he couldn't find any accessories to enchant and he knew from last time not to enchant himself over something petty like that.
Perhaps he was too used to the Kingdom of the Sea to get any used to Jade Mountain Academy. Back there, the water would always muffle any background noise that could prevent from sleeping, and the beds were made of super-soft seaweed, kelp and foam. But here, there was no water to keep you comfortably cool or block out the annoying chattering of dragonets, and you had to actually talk with other people instead of using Aquatic signals. And instead of the soft and comfortable beds he knew, all they had were crunchy, scratchy, and dry leaves. How did other students live with this?
Flashflood was shaken out of his musings by the tapper, who was now only tapping him with their talons but smacking him with their tail. Groaning, Flashfood ripped out his earrings and turned to face the clawmate that was bothering him.
Said clawmate was no other then Princess Firefly of the RainWings and NightWings herself, with her pretty little nebula patterned scales and her impractical jewelry. To be honest, Flashflood didn't know why he was surprised. For the past few nights, the hybrid had constantly forced him to enchant things for the sake of art. Although, waking him up in the middle of the night was a new low for her.
"What do you want?" groaned Flashflood.
Firefly preceded to bounce around the room, the tacky mess of ribbons, flowers, gemstones, and precious metals she called fashion clanking together in their signature nails-on-chalkboard way.
Flashflood noticed a new item among the assemble; a strange pendant, with a rainbow gemstone cut into the shape of an octopus embedded in it. It wasn't much better looking then Firefly's usual affair, but something seemed... off about the pendant. The gemstone was a little too smooth and finely cut, and far too sparkly to be natural. It was almost unworldly looking.
He was snapped out of his musings by Firefly's signature "Can you help me with a moodboard?", before she flashed him with the puppy dog eyes.
The puppy dog eyes never worked, and he'd usually turn down her requests until she played the "I'm a princess!" card, but as silly as it sounds, that pendant unsettled him enough to listen. "Uh.. sure."
Firefly grinned like the Cheshire Cat. "Excellent!" And with that, Firefly scampered off to her corner of the room. A mix of sleepiness and fear made it take a while for Flashflood to follow suit, but eventually he did.
While Firefly constantly dragging him away to make pretty pictures was annoying, Flashflood had to admit that the "moodboards" they created were very pretty. Firefly's section of the room was decorated by pastel images of the sky, butterflies that came in colors impossible normally, beautifully colored roses that never wilted, and glowing engravings of inspirational quotes and lyrics from songs Firefly liked; all created thanks to Flashflood's magic.
The newest thing that Firefly had presented to him to enchant was a rather unusual statuette. Made of the same smooth, rainbowy, and super-sparkly gemstone Firefly's pendant was made out of, the statuette depicted... a family of dragon-octopus-scavenger hybrids? That's what Flashflood was pretty sure it was, anyway. Despite how bizarre the imagery was, the statuette was beautiful... so beautiful, in fact, that it slid right into the uncanny valley.
Before Flashflood could even mutter a single enchantment, Firefly suddenly yelled "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Mary Suethulu Write'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Petulus merengo mi kremicli romacio imo noto okayo!"
Flashflood mentally noted that he'd found a new record for "dumbest thing Firefly had ever done." Was she trying to be scary? If she was, it wasn't working, given the fact that the first thing she said was just a series of random gibberish while the second thing she said was My Chemical Romance lyrics very poorly disguised as a chant.
Flashflood's amusement and confusion quickly turned to horror when the statuette, without warning, began glowing bright enough to illuminate the entire room.
Flashflood began to feel as if all the energy and motivation in his body was being slowly and painfully drained from him, accompanied by a sharp, burning pain. First he thought Firefly spat acid on him, but then he noticed the pulsating blue light being drawn out of his body and into the statuette. It then clicked; Firefly, whatever she had did, was somehow drawing the animus magic out of his body!
Eventually, the draining stopped. Flashflood collapsed to the floor, feeling far too weak to move. The statuette burst into a black flame and levitated into the air, at which it slowly began to take form.
(More flying in soon.)
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