The Stars That Don't Shine

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-[The Stars That Don’t Shine]-
== -Prologue- ==
Daynight swept the balcony with her tail as she watched
Sahara and her daughter Eclipse. Sahara was bringing water buckets, while Eclipse
used wet sheep wool to scrub the walls and rid it of dirt. Sahara stopped
mid-way collecting water. 
              “Sahara?
What is it?” Daynight called to the SandWing. She was looking into the river. “There
is something in here,” one of her arms reached into the water and pulled out a
shiny black scale. Sahara flew up to Daynight and Eclipse followed. What in the three moons is that? Daynight
wondered as she took the scale.
She rolled open a scroll labeled ‘The many
tribes of Pyrrhia’. As she finished scrolling through the various paragraphs
she found the tribe with black, shiny scales. Upon taking the smallest glance
at the name of the sub-tribe, she knew trouble was coming. “Pack your bags!” Daynight called. “We need to evacuate!”
== -Chapter 1- ==
Dragons talons were thumping,
dragons were screaming. A band of corrupt black NovaWings were breathing molten
fire into the Middle Star and the bridge was collapsing. Eclipse was evacuating
the area with Sahara.
“This way!” called the SandWing,
flying west towards the kingdom of sand. Eclipse followed, not wanting to be
left behind.
They reached the Scorpion Den in
what seemed like forever. Wings sore, they landed. “HALT!”. A guard was in
front of the entrance. The dragon gasped, “Corrupted NovaWing!”. He lunged to
attack. Sahara pushed Eclipse out of the way and shouted, “ECLIPSE IS NOT
CORRUPTED!”. The guard froze, then peered at Eclipse for a short period of
time. “Sorry…” he said, embarrassed.
The two dragons walked in cautiously,
in case a dragon jumped out of the wall, aiming for the nearest NovaWing. “Anyone
you want to assassinate little lady?” spoke a random SandWing who popped out of
a dark alleyway, “Here, take my card!”. He shoved the card into Sahara’s
talons.
This happened for a while, until
they saw the Queen. Eclipse approached first. “Um, your majesty-?”
“Yes, I know, one of the guards thought you were a
Corrupted.” She interrupted, “Now off you go!”
They were
shoved out of the tent. “Rude,” Exclaimed Sahara as she and Eclipse strode down
the narrow streets. Suddenly, a black shadow appeared before them, and before
Sahara could say ‘Corrupted’, took Eclipse and disappeared without a sound.
== -Chapter 2- ==
Sahara ran, even though she didn’t
want to, Sahara ran. She turned a corner and bumped into an IceWing. “HEY!” he
yelped.
“Sorry!” she replied, bowing her
head.
“Hey, are you ok?” a feminine
voice called from behind the IceWing. She poked her head past him and saw that
the voice was a MistWing. She blushed when he turned around and replied, “I’m
ok,”
“Let’s introduce ourselves, I’m Coldspike.”
the IceWing said when he turned back to Sahara. “I’m Dreary, we were just on
our way to a library.”. The MistWing nudged Coldspike “And I think we should go
there now.”.
“I’m Sahara, my friend just got
captured by NovaWings and I’m scared for my life.”. The dragons in front of her
exchanged looks. “Our friend got captured by a group of NovaWings too…”
muttered Dreary. “Do you think there is a connection?” Coldspike asked.
“The only connection I can think
of, is that we have very bad luck.” Sahara interrupted. “I guess we will get
going then.” the IceWing said, laughing nervously. The two dragons took off
down an alleyway, arguing about which direction is the library, and Sahara
decided to find food.
There was a main marketplace full
of stalls, tents, and thieves. She walked up to a stall selling camel meat, “Can
I get a camel hide?” Sahara pointed to a medium sized chunk of meat. The owner
gave it to her for 2 gold. Sahara retreated to the fountain in the middle where
she sat on a bench and ate her camel.
She had just finished when she saw
smoke coming from behind a stall, knocking out SandWings selling water bottles
and NovaWings selling jewelry. A blur darted out of the commotion with some
roasted chicken and turned a corner. What
in the three moons was that?
Sahara decidedly left, she left
the Scorpion Den, It’s not safe here.
She thought. Maybe I’ll go to the Sky
Kingdom.
== -Chapter 3- ==
The Sky Kingdom was lovely. Tall
spires, wide fields, the Diamond Spray Delta, enormous royal library. ENORMOUS ROYAL LIBRARY?! Sahara was in
the SkyWing queen’s royal library, her majesty was reading six different
scrolls and taking notes.
“Excuse-”
Sahara tried, but she was interrupted by the queen. “Silent. I cannot research
when little dragonets waltz into my library.”. After a while, she put down her
six scrolls, “What?”.
“I just-
how much- do you know about a Corrupted NovaWing organization or something?”
Sahara asked. The queen looked up at her. “What?”. “I just wanted to know…” she
muttered.
The queen
started up and went through all the scrolls, “What are you doing?” Sahara scratched
at the floor with a talon nervously. “Looking for a scroll about NovaWing organizations-
ah here we are.” She’d pulled out a scroll and unrolled it. Sahara poked her
head above the queen’s shoulder, so she could see.              
"About
2000 years ago, a NovaWing army appeared, but not normal NovaWings. A massive
amount of Corrupted NovaWings stormed the NovaWing tribe. Luckily, the tribe
held them off and they had failed, but that day shall be known as the First
Corruption." It had read.
Sahara
shivered, she gave thanks to her majesty and exited the palace. If the First Corruption had a massive amount
of Corrupted, does that mean… that it might happen again?
== -Chapter 4- ==
She
didn’t know what to do, she didn’t know a cure, she just was extremely
confused. How am I supposed to even find
Eclipse? She shook off the thought.
              “Hey,” A
random voice behind her asked, making her jump. The dragon stepped out, he was a pale plum purple with a sky-blue underbelly, sand yellow frill, and he
had… antennae? “S-sorry, I was just wondering what a SandWing was wandering
around for… I guess I’ll just… leave…” the dragon inched away towards the
forest.
              Sahara
grabbed the strange hybrid’s talons, “Have you seen any black dragons anywhere?”
she asked. “O-oh… well my NightWing friends were flying around earlier… wait…
should I say friends?” the dragon inched back slightly as Sahara smacked her
tail against the dirt frustratedly. “Have you seen any NOVAWINGS then?!”.
              “Oh,” he
perked, “A trio flew by earlier, two of them were weirdly black and flying
towards Possibility-” by the time he had finished his sentence, Sahara was
already in the air. “My names Fig by the way!” he called, “Just… If you
wanted to know!”.
***
              Possibility
was unsettlingly quiet, stalls empty and few lamps still flickering, the
streets were covered in junk and scraped desperate talon-marks. “Psst!” a voice
startled her, it was inside a crumbling building. “Get inside!” the dark voice
latched onto Sahara and pulled her into the building, they shut the door.
              She blew
a flame to see her surroundings: stairs leading up, two doorways leading into separate
rooms, and… a NightWing? “Haven’t you heard the prophecy? The fact that
Possibility was rampaged?” the NightWing demanded, yet her voice was less scolding
but worried. “W-what prophecy?” Sahara asked. The NightWing sighed, then after
a while spoke in a voice not her own.
“Turn your eyes to the lost tribe
The dragons are broken in two;
Where half the tribe is evil,
and the rest wonder what to do.
Please help these dragons find their way,
please help to find a cure;
Or else darkness will rule the day,
and sorrow will endure.”
== -Chapter 5- ==
“Stop
staring!” the dragon swatted her tail at Sahara. “Ack! Sorry!” she backed up to
the stairs. The NightWing scoffed, “What are you doing here anyway?”.
“L-looking
for my friend?”
“If
your ‘friend’ was here, they’d be dead.” she motioned her talons like claws
scraping a dragon’s neck.
“I’m
Sahara.”
“I’m
Talonfate, keeping fate at my ta-”
              Someone knocked on the door,
knock-knock, knock, knock-knock. Talonfate peered out the window and let the
dragon in. They blew a plume of flame and- it was Fig? 
              “Man, it’s dark in here,” he said.
“Shut up shrimp, it’s because we don’t want to be spotted.” Talonfate scolded,
but she lit a candle far into the hallway anyways, Fig sat by it. Sahara tilted her head curiously, why’d she do that? 
              She didn’t
think for very long though, a loud banging knocked on the door. “YOU WERE
FOLLOWED?!” Talonfate shouted at Fig. “Probably!?” he retreated to a back room just
as the door burst open.
              A SandWing
roared, “I FOUND SOME DRAGONS!”, and a group of Corrupted landed beside him. He
grabbed Sahara by the neck and she made a choked noise. Talonfate was trying to
fight them off, but they overcame her.
              Suddenly
Fig barreled into the NovaWings. “You IDIOT! Don’t turn yourself in for
nothing!”. Talon cried.
“YOU’RE NOT NOTHING!”
              Talonfate’s
face turned strawberry red. And the last thing Sahara thought before getting
knocked out was: She likes him?
***
Sahara woke up just as she was thrown into a stone prison
cell, she didn’t even have time to react before Talonfate was thrown on top of
her, “GAH!”. Sahara rolled out of the way before Fig slammed into Talonfate.
              “GET OFF
ME YOU PURPLE LUMP OF FRUIT!” She roared, knocking him off her back. Sahara
heard a click and she turned around. The door is locked.
              “This is
YOUR FAULT!” Talonfate snarled, jabbing Fig with her claw. “Sorry! I’m so- OW-ACK!”
but Sahara was distracted by the door. There was no bars on the door, no things
to see into, so how would the guards know that they are in there? Unless there is no guards. In that case it
should be easy to escape right? 
              Wrong,
the prison was all stone on all sides, no window, just a stone door in a stone
room. Sahara checked every nook and cranny, but there was nothing. She
collapsed onto the ground. It’s over.                                                   
== -Chapter 6- ==
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