The Hidden School

Ayyo! This is This weird Genderfluids Fanfic! I'm really proud of this so far and you can follow the progress of the story here on fannon, while as I will work more slowly and post it more slowly on cannon.
I will most likely have a warning at the beginning and end of a chapter that has gore/Blood/Ext in it.
== Prologue ==
Mild Blood, Gore marked at the end.
“Mr. Yucca-” A Coppery figure rushed into a small, dark room, lit by only a talon full of dim flamesilk lamps. Another figure, with multiple wings, laying on what looked like a kind of bed, maybe a throne… It was decorated with pointy white things sticking out from behind it. Some stained with a pale red color, looking as if it had tried to be scrubbed off but not all that successfully.
“Ah. No, today it’z Ms. As a matter of fact. Do you understand, you useless Skywing?” The dragon's bright green eyes pierced the dark room, almost lighting it from the cruelness in them.
“Ye- yes.” The Skywing stumbled over his words, looking up to her and bowing. “Ms. Yucca, I- I umm…”
“Spit it out.” Yucca snarled disgustedly. “I don’t have all day.”
“Yes..umm..the news right-. We umm got reports from t e e c e…” The Skywing’s words seemed to blur together in a mess of sounds. “About the dragonets. The plan is going perfectly. Your pawns are moving into position.” A smirk washed over her face, a cruel smirk. 
“So more...Objects~ for my collection~” She hissed out the last few words, like a backstabbing snake, tasting the air for rodents to prey on. 
“Y- yes...ma'am.” The dragon at her feet glanced at the sharp collection behind Yucca’s throne for a moment and then looked down at the ground again.
“Some new dragonets this year…” Yucca glared down at the copper Skywing. 
“Skywing~”
“Ye- yes master, my umm name is Leo not Sk-”
“Shut up,” Her posture radiated hostility, looking down at the cowering dragon. “I don’t care about your name.” He shivered below her piercing gaze. “But… I do know I have no use for you anymore… If what you say is true. Then another dragonet will fall into my talons soon enough~. Your protection is over. Kill him.” 
Two guards ran out from the shadows, both having 4 wings and huge venomous fangs. 
Start Of Gore
“NOO000oooooooo~” Leo’s cries rang through the cave system as one of the dragons holding a spear bit his shoulder, venom creeping through her fangs. As the other spat venom at his eyes, raking his talons over Leo’s vocal cords, silencing his screams. He fell to the ground, twitching and enveloped in blood and melting flesh. They both stabbed their claws into his wings at the same time and tore through the membrane. He screeched silently until finally the twitching stopped and he went limp. 
“Now,” Yucca stepped up from her spot on the throne “To take what I have put off for months.” The two hybrids bowed and shifted backwards as she got up and walked over to the dead dragon. She unsheathed a wickedly shard blade out of a sheath on her arm. She raised it and brought it down on the closest part of the claw to the talon.
“More for my Collection~”
End Of Gore
== Chapter 1 ~ Part 1; Secrets Hidden. PoV: Fernleaf ==
Two large figures flew through the low hanging clouds towards a gigantic mountain range. The two dragons were flying from a crevice area between and slighting in the stretching desert of the Sand Kingdom and the tall mountains of the Sky Kingdom. The one flying the lowest was a smallish Mudwing, dark brown freckles dotting her amber scales. The other, flying higher in the air was larger and had pale yellow scales dotted with black scales, warmth radiating off of them. 
Birds flew with the larger one. Attracted to the Sand dragons warmth. 
“So you're sure this is a good idea? I’ve made out well on my own for 3 years already.” 
“Come on Fern. It’ll be a good experience! You can meet dragonets your own age without the pressure of having to stay alive.” The amber dragonet banked down towards the mountains slightly and the Sandwing followed, catching up with her and flying beside her. 
“It won’t be that bad.” She said kindly, brushing her wing with the Mudwings. She didn’t look over, keeping her eyes on her destination. 
“If I have to do it I’m going to do it without acting like a newly hatched dragonet.”
Two Minutes late the two landed on the hard, dark soil of the rough mountain base. A cracked archway entrance. Multiple dragonets, all over the color spectrum were already gathered at the entrance, even though there was still at least an hour left until the school would open. She looked around weirily, assessing the situation and glaring over all the other dragonets. One dragonet, a bluish Silkwing with glasses that glimmered in the sunshine was hugging a bigger Silkwing. She also saw a group of 5 Mudwings hugging and laughing and smiling at each other a little bit closer to the arched entrance. Looking nearer to her she could see a gathering of three Nightwings, one of them looking different from the other two, so maybe adopted? They were saying goodbyes as well.
“I’m sorry Fern but I have to go. I have some things to do before the school opens.” Fernleaf looked at her, only letting a slight bit of her anxiety spill into her words and face. 
“But- There’s still an hour left. You should be able to stay and then go a little later Suna…” The Sand dragon was already smiling and brushing her tail against Fern’s. 
“It's ok little one. I’ll be back. I promise. Just a few little things.” The little Mudwing let out a sigh as she watched her friend fly back off into the clouds. Mother. She’s more like my mother. Fern thought honestly to herself. As she got lost in her train of thought, still slightly outwardly alert she realized a dragonet was approaching her.
He was a tall Skywing, his huge wings tucked into his orange scales. 
“What do you want?” She snapped without a second thought, the dragon looked baffled but with a kind of amused sparkle in his eye. When he didn’t answer Fern glared at him and spat, “What do you want? Answer me.” 
“So that's your way of saying hello to an old friend?” The odd Skywing looked at her, amused. And she studied his face further. 
“Aztec….?” She said cautiously, the dragon really did look like her old friend. 
“Yep!” He smiled at her as Fern grinned as well and brought his talon into her own. 
“So you're saying you're my best friend from the streets of my old... home. If you are. Then say something only you would know.” She hesitated before saying home. She had mixed feelings about Possibility but she wasn’t going to let it show.
“Hmmm.. how about the fact you’ll always choose small, hard to catch lizards over the nice meat that we could steal from other dragons. Or that one time when we both had a crush on that pretty Skywing princess that was visiting with her mother. Or-.” She wacked him with her tail, stopping him and dissolving him into a laughing fit. 
“Shut up already. Ok- your Aztec alright. That's for sure. But how do I know you haven’t changed?”
“Because I still remember what it was like on the streets. And that part of me isn’t changing anytime soon.” He gave her a small smile and twined her tail with his. “Don’t worry. I’m just the amazing Skywing you remember.” She finally let herself smile, even a little bit. 
“So I see you’ve had a reunion.” A voice came from behind them, startling Fern so much that she leaped up and crouched, growling. 
“I’m back! And I have a new dragonet for you all to meet.” Suna grinned down at the two dragonets. Fern relaxed and stood up, looking at the Sandwing. “Meet Gila Monster.” She gently guided a small hybrid dragonet from behind her. 
“H-hi I- uhh n-nice to umm… meet you.”
== Chapter 2 ~ Part 1; Secrets Hidden. PoV: Gila Monster ==
Gila Monster gulped, his anxiety getting the best of him as he looked at the other two dragonets in front of him. His tail sifted over the dirt at his feet, trying to find a place to hide. His eyes darted around, scared and trying to find a place he could east run away and get out of the line of sight of the Mudwing glaring at him and the Skywing looking curiously at him.
“Why haven't I seen him before?” The hostile Mudwing that Suna had said’s name was Fernleaf asked her, still glaring at him. 
“He wandered in a few days after Aztec was adopted, with another hybrid. But then left after a day. I found him again recently when he walked into the library and asked me if he needed a place to stay. He stayed with me and helped me out a bit intel. I offered him a place at the academy and he accepted.” Gila tensed as Suna talked about the hybrid. He had bad memories connecting to his old friend. He slightly toned the rest of the words out as she continued. His tail swished nervously back and forth, he also wasn’t a big fan of her telling them about him. 
“So why are you introducing us? I don’t care about some random dragonet I don’t care about.” Fern snaped, lashing her tail. Gila Monster flinched when she glared at him again, trying to run back behind Suna, but she pushed him back. The Skywing put a tallon on hers and spoke calmly like he had dealt with her temper for years. Maybe he had? Gila didn’t know either of them, how would he know that. 
“Now Fern. Don’t be rude.” He turned to him and smiled. “Sorry about her. She’s kept her temper from the streets.” The Mud dragon turned her glare on him and he laughed a little. “I’m Aztec. This is Fern. Nice to meet you.” Aztec held out a talon for him to shake and he hesitated, only taking his talon and shaking it when the Sandwing behind him nudged him forward.
“Glad you’ve all met.” Suna grinned at them and looked over at the entrance.”Now-” She concentrated for a moment and then waved her wing towards it. 
“The School is open.” Just as she said it, a rock slid aside and a Silkwing stood in the entrance. 
“Welcome to the new and improved Jade Mountain!” She called out for all the gathered dragonets. 
Gila Monster trembled, a shiver going down his spine. Am I sure this is safe? Evergreen told me not to trust odd dragons. Should I trust this school? He unconsciously stood up, his body tensed like he was going to try and run. But he couldn’t do that. Hundreds of dragonets were blocking his way. No not hundreds that's just my over active mind. In all of the time it took him to think these things all the dragonets had started to pour into the huge cave, they were like swarms of the trout that Evergreen showed him swimming up a huge stream in the Sea Kingdom. They had caught and ate a few and he had felt in control. The opposite was true here, he would get swept along with the rest of the students and entangled in the stream forever. He looked back at the Sand dragon behind him and she smiled, waving him forward. He obliged and Aztec got up to walk beside him as well, Fern following looking untrustiningly at the whole mountain and all the dragonets spilling into it. 
“I can’t wait.” The Skywing beside him looked up at the mountain in awe. “I’ve waited so long.”
“It's not that cool. It's just a mountain, nothing special. Besides, who would even want to live in a cramped cave with other dragonets?” 
“Me…” Aztec muttered but Gila couldn’t help thinking that she was right. Who would want that? To live with dragons that could hurt you easily. Maybe The Sky dragon was a little too trusting. The three dragonets walked through the entrance, staying behind all the other dragonets pouring in. Gila was amazed by the sheer size of the entrance-cave, it looked like it could fit 100 dragons or more comfortably standing in it and another 50 hovering and hanging from stalagmites. There were only 36 dragonets and a handful of fully grown teachers in all so they all fit into the cave well, but the noise was deafening. Echoing off of the walls and stabbing back into his ears. 
== Chapter 3 ~ Part 1; Secrets Hidden. PoV: Fernleaf ==
Fernleaf’s eyes widened, she had never seen a cave so big. Come to think of it she had never actually even been in a cave. She tried to stamp down her amazement, she didn’t want everyone else to see her looking like it was cool. Her eyes whent to Aztec. She still couldn’t believe he was here, with her. For real. He looked amazed. He was openly gaping as a matter of fact. Her eyes then darted to the other dragonet, Gila Monster Suna had called him. He didn’t look like much of a threat, in fact he even looked a little bit like her little brother, the way he curled his tail into himself and his eyes were constantly looking for somewhere to hide. Then a voice broke into the chattering. 
“Welcome dragonets. Now, I ask you to please quiet down and look towards the front. Where one of your new teachers will be passing out scrolls with your Winglet, schedule, and clawmates are.” The Skywing finished and smiled, fading off into the hallway behind. As a new dragon appeared, a Seawing this time. Calling names to come forward and get their scroll. Fern waited until her name was called, sitting down next to Aztec. 
“I can’t wait.” He whispered to her, claws tapping excitedly. 
“Fernleaf. Please come get your scroll.” He called, and Fern obliged, walking through crowds of dragonets, that had been slightly reduced in number. The Sea dragon nodded his head at her, egnoliging her. And handed her a curled up scroll, gesturing for her to walk into the hall so she could read it. When she entered the hallway only a few dragonets were there. She read the fine print of Fernleaf on the seal. She opened the scroll in her talon, unrolling it and reading, 
Winglet, 
Staff of this school have decided to put you in Silver Winglet. With eight other dragonets. 
A Seawing, Rainwing, Nightwing, Sandwing, Icewing, Skywing, Hivewinng, and a Hybrid. 
You shall go to group discussions, classes, etc together. 
Schedule,
8:00-9:00am ~ Breakfast
9:00-9:30am ~ Free time
9:30-10:20am ~ Hunting 
10:20-11:10am ~ Music Elective
11:10-12:00pm ~ Flying
12:00-12:50pm ~ Lunch
12:50-1:40pm ~ World studies
1:40-2:30pm ~ Fighting
2:30-3:20pm ~ History
3:20-4:10pm ~ Open Elective
4:10-9:10pm ~ Study-Time, Socialization, Extra activities
9:10-11:45pm ~ Curfew (must stay in caves)
12:00-12:50am ~ Nightwing Elective Class
12:50-5:20am ~ Curfew (must stay in caves)
Clawmates,
These are the other dragonets you shall be sharing a cave with for the next year, at New Jade Mountain. 
You are grouped with,
Turn and Violet, your Icewing and Rainwing.
You are in cave 1. 
She glared at the paper for a moment. 
Really? I have to share a cave with other dragons, Urrg. She very carefully stuffed her annoyance down, rearranging her face until it showed no emotion.
Fern heard a few other dragonets bounding into the hall behind her, so she decided to start finding her Shared cave. Suna had told her there was a library, maybe she could go get a book and read in the corner while her two clawmates, Whoever the Icewing and Rainwing where ignored her. She decided that's what she would do. Walking forwards from in the hallway, ignoring the handful of other dragonets. 
As she came to the end of the hall it looked like it filtered out into another cave, maybe connecting to another hallway? She walked in. It was a huge open space with a few spears and other blunted weapons on the wall. Another dragonet came in behind her and she heard a gasp, like it was impressive. She rolled her eyes to herself and kept walking, the large cave filed out into another hallway, like she had predicted. 
“Fern! Fern, Wait up!” A voice called loudly from behind her. She did a double-take and then looked back at the voice. There was Aztec, bounding up behind her. He bounded up and almost ran head-first into her wing. 
“Three Moons Aztec, don’t run into me.” Fern shoved him away as his wing hit her in the face. He grinned at her as he regained his balance on the stone floor. 
“Yo- your fast. I was trying to c-catch up with you. I h-haven’t read my scroll yet but what did you get?” He panted, still trying to catch his breath. Fern looked at him frowning, she sighed and showed him the scroll. 
“Silver Winglet. Clawmates are Turn and Violet,” The Skywing read out. “I saw a magenta Rainwing out there. Maybe that's Violet? Maybe your other one was one of the Icewings exchanging ‘We’re the best’ expressions. She turned away. 
“Read your’s and let's go find our caves.”
Around five days later by Fernleaf's internal clock Aztec finally figured out his winglet, the same as hers which he seemed excited about and she actually was a little bit happy too. He was in cave three. 
Then they were able to descend downwards into the area where their caves were. She looked through a few halls, looking for her cave. Aztec yelled over from a different cave. 
“Over here!” She filled his voice and walked into the cave he was in. A row of neatly spaced out mini-caves. Each had vines covering the entrance, and a bit of sunlight filtering through them. Numbers were carved into the sides. She walked over, following the numbers backwards. 5,4,3,2...1. There was her cave. She walked through the thin vines. They brushed up against her scales in an irritating, smooth way. Light accosted her as she looked through the cave. A hole, half the size of a dragon was placed in the center of the ceiling. The area was large, much larger than what she had thought. Even her old homes hadn’t been this huge. Her eyes first drifted to the huge pond at the side of the cave. It sparkled in the light, like someone had thrown a talon full of glitter onto it. Next to it on the side was a ledge, it was just kind of rocky and plain, a few leaves dotted the top of it. Looking towards the middle of the area. Her eyes looked up to the hole in the ceiling again, and she saw a hammock, woven out of the huge leaves she had heard that came from the Rainforest. The four things holding it up were attached to around the circle of cut out rock, positioned as a kind of way so it soaked up sunlight. 
The Rainwings sleeping area, she looked back to the pool of water. Maybe the Icewings? I don’t know why a pool would be in here then-. She turned her gaze back to the center. A pile of leaves and grass was piled together, in a wide area. A stack of books were laid down in a smaller side ledge, she walked over to the back, running her talon over the delicate spines. She smiled to herself, Suna had gotten her requested books… She never really had access to books, only scrolls in the Possibility library. Finally she got to see and read an actual book! Before she could turn again to look at the side of the cave she hadn’t yet, When a comotion came from outside. 
“And- That's- when- I- stepped- in- this- stupid- sticky- stuff-.” Said a loud voice, it seemed like the dragon that belonged to that voice was hopping up and down on three talons for some reason. 
“I don’t care about the whole dang story! Why didn’t you just say ‘I was walking here for a random reason and I stepped in this stuff.” The second, annoyed, lower-pitched voice exclaimed. Obviously exasperated. 
“Oh stop it Tern. You love my stories!” The first voice said.
“Your so annoying.” The second snapped. And then Fern heard the rustling of the vines and spun around to face the new dragons. One, infact was hopping on three talons. What Fern presumed to be the first voice, was a dark purple dragonet with specks of gold and orange littered around their body. They came out of it first, hopping maddly and making the vines sway, even after they got through them. Then the second dragonet came through, more gracefully stepping through them. They were a pure white, different areas of them purple, and then alternating to a more bluish color. She narrowed her eyes suspiciously. 
“Ahhhh!” The dark violet dragonet did a double-take when they saw her, crashing into the wall of the cave. The second dragon they had called Turn chuckled and turned to her. 
“Are you our clawmate? The scroll here told us we would be in cave one. I guess it also said our clawmate would be a Mudwing so I think this is the right place.” The dragonet gestured to themself and then to the dark Purple dragonet against the wall. “I’m Turn. I use They/Them today and this is Violet. She uses She/Her.” They smiled again and sighed. The dragonet named Violet started hopping up and down again, trying to get a sticky thing off her tallon.
“Fern. I’m She/Her right now.”
“ACK-” She had hopped to the side of the pool of water and was now tethering on
the side. Fern couldn’t help herself, a small smile crept across her face, and she almost smacked herself before making her face carefully neutral again. Then, with a final teter sideways Violet lost her balance and promptly fell in the lake, making a plop. Noise. A small snort escaped her mouth before she could stop it, and she growed at herself. DON’T SHOW EMOTIONS YOU DUMB MUDWING!! But it was covered up by Tern snickering so loudly they almost looked on the verge of tears. Then an indigent orange dragon's head popped out of the pool and glared at Tern. “It’s cold in here~” She whined, and Fern finally let herself smile a little. “You know what you deserve? A NICE SPLASH!” Violet yelled out the last part as she opened her wings, splaying herself out in the water, and then scooping two huge wingfulls of water and flung them at Turn. They yelped and doged, but not before the ice-cold water hit their scales, making them shimmer. 
“Oh I’ll get you back for that!” They yelled and ran, splashing into the water. The two dragonets flung water at each other, laughing madly. Then Turn managed, through the water being splashed at her. “Fern!”  Why did she have a tugging in her stomach that wanted to join them? Then she heard a bigger splash then before and she felt a cold, freezing blanket of water settle over her. It was so cold, she was shocked. Still and unmoving as an ice statue. Then she felt a tug on her wing and she was pulled into the midst of the splashing pool. Her talons reacted on their own, starting to splash up and down, using her wings as a type of shield. Before she knew it, without her approval her mind decided to have this fluttering feeling inside. Like she was invigorated with some of the sugar Suna would sometimes sneak to her after the library closed. 
Was she actually having fun? With dragonets she didn’t even know? Well no matter what. It seemed like her mind was deciding to like it, so she continued. The feeling was addicting.
== Chapter 4 ~ Part 1; Secrets Hidden. PoV: Gila Monster ==
Gila heard the name, ‘Fernleaf’ called and the glaring Mudwing walked over to the stand. He was getting more anxious every moment he was in the loud cave and couldn’t wait for his own name to get called. He tried to focus on one of the other dragonets, what looked like a Seawing, though a little more bulky than the average Sea Dragons he had seen around the coast of Phyria. Maybe a hybrid just like him? Should he go over and see if the dragon would talk to him?
One of his front talons was slightly lifted, as to try and walk over to the posible hybrid when he felt a searing pain in his tail. Gila felt an instinct tugging in his chest and danger flashed in his mind. Someone was trying to kill him. Defend, Shield, Run. Defend, Shield, Run. flashed through his mind in a matter of seconds. He wiped his head around and his tail followed, lashing the opposite way, away from the dragon on it. He caught a greenish color in the corner of his eye as he quickly wiped his body around as well and flung up his wings to bat away the other dragon. He heard yelling as the dragon fell onto him, discombobulated and alarmed. 
He was being squashed, laying flat on his stomach. One of his legs was squished uncomfortably under him, and the others were spread out uncomfortably. His wings were also squished, one spread out to the side the other crunched under the dragon spread partly on top of him. 
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