Cold Hearted

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==Prologue==
Queen Windchill sat down and sighed. The day had not gone well. The interrogations with queen Ember of the skywings always seemed to make tension higher between the two tribes. All of the contracts and compromises had gotten them nowhere. And the stress of ruling and entire tribe was not helping her. Almost every day someone had a complaint that she couldn't ignore.
"Verglass has gone missing me and my son have been looking for three days and we can't find him!" or
"Princess Blizzard has gotten into my room again!"
It was always something. Well life isn't perfect. She though with a dry laugh. At that moment there was a knock at her door.
"Who is it!" She replied, with a sharp impatient edge to her voice.
"Mother, its me, Snowy" said a muffled voice from outside."We have some things to discuss"
"Well come in and be quick about it!" Windchill said "I want to hear what you have to say." She said with a softer edge. Snowfox had always proven to be a perfect daughter to Windchill. She never argued but wasn't overly soft either. The door opened and Snowy walked in, tripping a bit over the frame.
She bowed "Thank you mother, I know how busy you are, but I promise you want to hear what I have to say" I hope so, thought Windchill. Snowy shifted uncomfortably.
"Go on, you may speak" She said with obvious impatience.
"Well" Said snowy standing up straighter "Ive heard about you, um, problems with Queen Ember and I propose a solution." She grinned with a strange twinkle in her eye.
"Really" Said Windchill seeing her daughters sly grin. "And what is this proposed solution" She asked a bit warily.
"There are six of us, your daughters I mean" She said smoothly "Sooner or later one of us will challenge you for the throne, but I propose a different solution." Snowy paused
"Queen ember has five sons, all of them have no mate, if you were to propose an arranged marriage between my sisters and the skywing princes, I would let you keep the throne for however long you wanted. Snowy sweetly smiled, but there was poison in her gaze.
"If not, then I suppose I am old enough to rule the Icewings, you wouldn't stand much of a chance Im afraid" Snowy menacingly scraped her claws against the hard ice floor.
Windchill stood up straighter and lowered her gave to her daughter "You dare come here to threaten me, you've trapped me between a spike and a sharp thing with only one way out!"
"But I must ask, how does this deal benefit me?!" She snarled, but had a sad look in her eyes. Windchill loved Snowy, as a first born daughter Snowy was always important to her. But no longer, she decided.
"Well, you would get to live of course" Snowy said with a gleeful look "And your problems with Queen Ember would be solved"
"Marriage strengthens bonds you know" Snowy added
Windchill sighed, suddenly tired "I will propose this to Ember at our next meeting"
'Until then I will rest" She concluded, and watched her daughter walk out.
==Chapter One==
Crystal truly hated Snowfox.
Truly loathed her.
Her mother, always insisting they call her Snowy, or mother or something personal. And here she was signing them up for marriages with Skywings! All accept for Aurora, who was supposed to marry another icewing and become queen.
But Crystal and her eight siblings didn't have any choice. She would be fine if she was marrying an Icewing, but Skywings! It wasn't right that she had to marry some fire breather when anyone else, save for her sibling, could marry a normal ordinary Icewing!
Crystal sighed, maybe she should run away the rainwings would accept her for sure... she trailed off as she strode down the hall. Bumping her talon on a glittering statue, she walked briskly into the courtyard and sat down under the moonglobe tree.
As she sat, thoughts of her mother came to her, how messed up it was that someone could have so much power over so many dragons. The more she sat the the more sad she became, and self pity welled up inside her. Live wan't fair, and she shouldn't have to deal with it! But as soon as she though it the feeling past, suddenly she felt angry, that wan't her! She was strong, like an Icewing.
"Thats not me!" She suddenly blurted then quickly looked around to make sure no other Icewings were there.
"Whats not you?" Said a smooth voice coming from a corner of the courtyard.
And then, a dark shape emerged from the shadows, a Nightwing. His scales were soft black and had bits of deep sapphire blue as well as rich dark green. His eyes were soft gold and shone in the arctic sun. A silver tear like scale reflected the evening light. Smooth but not small, his slim build made him look regal and proud.
"Wh-Who are you!" Crystal stuttered as she raised her tail spikes and prepared her frostbreath. A nightwing! How could a nightwing have gotten into the ice kingdom, and breached the royal palace un-noticed?
"Someone who watches" The black dragon replied taking a step foreward. His dark scales stood out against the pure snow.
Crystal stumbled back wards and hissed "Don't come near me!" She snarled trying to sound imposing. She was the icewing princess! He wouldn't hurt her, he couldn't. Not that she mattered much to her family anyways...
He chuckled "I wont hurt you, but you never answered my question." He paused "Are you alright" The black dragon added, obviously trying not to be creepy.
Not taking her eyes off him Crystal said "Im perfectly fine, I was just talking to my self!" She internaly pinched herself for admitting that to a nightwing. She needed a way to escape, if he could just slip into the hallway to her left she could find a guard... or one of her siblings.
"But I have a question for you, why is there a nightwing in my kingdom!"Crystal retorted trying not to notice how handsome his scales were. And the silver bracelet curled around his right forearm, beaded with jewelry and enchanted by an animus that lived over a thousand years ago: Penguin
He laughed again "lets just say Im not overly fond of my family" Another pause "Oh, my aplogies I haven't introduced myself yet." He bowed
"My name is Ebony" He smiled and curled his tail around his feet. There was a long silver scar that stood out against the rest of his midnight scales.
"Ebony" Said Crystal, feeling the word on her tounge "You could get killed here, I could shout and in a matter of minuets you would be either imprisoned or dead. But the words felt false, Crystal ad never had a death of her talons and didn't plan to.
"Obviously I know the risks of going into my mortal enemies territory." He said with a dry laugh
"It was a pleasure to meet you Crystal" Said Ebony and he strode back into the shadow. As his thin tail faded into the darkness, Crystal had the time to realize he knew her name even though she never mentioned it.
==Chapter Two==
Crystal woke up to the loud bang on her frozen door. She sighed and stepped away from the window she was staring out of and and tried not to think of Ebony. Of how she hadn't told the guard who came by, of her not-so-minor betrayal. But there was other things to worry about today, the skywings were coming. One of them her future mate. Donning her finest jewelry she stepped outside and went to find her mother.
Fixating her bracelets so they looked more pleasing Crystal strode down the hallway to the diplomacy room and found her brother Crevasse waiting. Crevasse had always been an outcast, Snowfox had never liked him. Maybe it was because of his kind heart he was seen as different, or not royal enough.
"Hey" Crystal said as she walked in the room "This is larger than I remembered it being" Crystal looked around, trying to ignore it uncomfortable warm feeling clogging the room. it was indeed larger than she remembered.
Crevasse turned around to face her "Hey, Crystal ive been waiting." He said with with a small smile.
"Yeah, guess were here early" Crystal said, walking over to sit down next to him. She smiled, Crevasse had always been kind to her, and understanding. He felt the same way about their mother.
"So today is the day we meet the skywings" Crystal sighed it was bad thinking about skywings, but meeting them! It wasn't something she was ready for, meeting her soulmate that she would have to live with. Forever...
Crevasse dryly laughed "Yeah, im not really eager to meet them either." He said this with a sad hint to his voice and put his talons in his lap.
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