Salty's story

= Jade mountain summer camp list of students =
Icewing: Princess Walrus, Blitz | Queen Leopard
Seawing: Salty, Hammerhead | Queen Urchin
Skywing: Falcon, Eagle | Queen Condor
Sandwing: Scorpion, Shrew | Queen Xerocole
Rainwing: Papaya, Birdy | Queen Passion-flower | King Lifeshow
Mudwing: Heron, Anaconda | Queen alligator
Nightwing: Starstruck, Twilight-comet | Queen Passion-flower | King Lifeshow
Hivewing: Beetle, Ladybug | Queen Snakefly | King Bristletail
Silkwing: Damselfly, Truebug | Queen Magenta
Leafwing: Magnolia,Prince Hogweed | Queen Hazel
= The Silverwing prophecy =
When summer hails,
Life will fail,
A dragon of special ancestors,
A dragon of many colors,
A dragon hatched to share light,
A dragon hatched to be so bright,
A traitor comes in summer heat,
When destiny comes they shall meet,
He will come forth to bring the night,
She will arise to bring light,
Darkness is secretly bright,
A Silverwing will be stolen.
== Part one | the summer of change. ==
== Salty’s story | chapter one | Last day home ==
=== Takes place 50 years after the sandwing succession or 49 years after book 15 ===
Salty’s daily life was like this,
Wake up
Eat breakfast,
Go to jade mountain academy,
Go home,
Eat dinner,
Go to bed.
I’m perfectly happy with his life and wouldn’t change it or the world. BUT NOW I HAS TO GO TO SUMMER CAMP! And I'm just thinking “HOW UNFAIR! I WAS ALWAYS BULLIED AT SUMMER CAMP TWO YEARS AGO JUST CAUSE I’M A HYBRID!
Salty lashed his two barbed tails just thinking about it. His mother is a Sandwing, his father is a Seawing, and they are perfectly fine with the fact they are polar opposites of each other. She read in a scroll that hybrids often have a unique ability or something like that. It happened for her sister Stormy that she has gills, for her, an extra barbed tail.
She thought that all the campers were pure-tribes and did not question their loyalty to their tribe. He thought of his first time at JMA, all the questions about, “if there was a war between your tribes, who would you fight for?” And “can I touch your tails?”. UGH, I’m sick of the diversion Between the tribes! Can’t I be loyal to both and not have any embarrassing questions asked?
Worst part, TOMORROW IT BEGINS.
How will I survive with a big group of nose picking, sloth eating, Shrew brained bag of scales like them! The only good part about camp is that my only friend is coming, my Icewing cousin, Blitz. She comes over from our street at Possibility. We would always go and get roasted Scorpion kabobs over at the gazebo at the all-year-market not far from our street. Now we will never eat a scorpion until autumn WHICH IS THE WORST SEASON IN THE FIRST PLACE!
↵Salty walked over to her bed, she probably had the best room ever! Her artwork on the walls, a hanging bed made of Silk ropes and sheets, and so many pillows you can hardly tell where the end of the bed is, a large desk containing all the things she could possibly do with her talons. she heard a loud “SQUEAK! CHIRP ABLE DIPPY!” It was her little human pet. The humans name was Dahlia, AND SHE IS SO CUTE! Whenever she said “Able Dippy” that was basically her way of saying “HEY I WANNA GO OUTSIDE!” “Alright, Alright I will take you outside you little artist!”. Dahlia had once gotten into Salty’s paint and she made a dragon with two tails and is blue, green and dusty yellow!
She put her talon in front of Dahlia. That is her invite to hop on top and ride with her outside. Dahlia hopped on and Salty felt Dahlia’s paw appendages grasp tightly around her talon and she began trotting to the patio in her front yard. She put down Dahlia in the grass and Salty sighed, knowing this will be one of the last times she will see her home until fall. Dahlia started chirping in a weird way, she went to see if Dahlia was ok and what it was made her gasp. A MASSIVE copperhead snake was inching slowly towards Dahlia! Salty quickly ran towards the snake and bit the deadly snake's head. It quickly died and she grabbed the snake by the head and violently threw it in the compost bin at the side of the house.
↵She grabbed Dahlia and briskly walked inside her house, it was almost like a weaver's nest that fell down with silk and wooden logs to support it. She put Dahlia inside her terrarium and went to get a salad snack. She grabbed the lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers from the icebox and a bowl from the cupboard. After she finished, she went to make sure she packed everything she needed for Jade Mountain Summer Camp. After finished packing her bag, she headed off to bed.
== Salty’s story | Chapter 2 | The first day ==
Salty and her mother Cactus finally reached Jade Mountain after a day-long journey from the countryside north of the township Possibility. They landed in a grassy prairie side West of Jade Mountain. She immediately saw 2 cabins and at least 15 dragons of different tribes. Cactus grabbed Salty’s talons and began pulling her to one of the teachers, she recognized him as Clay. Clay is around fifty years old and had a limp in his leg from a snake bite, he was also one of the founding dragons of Jade Mountain Academy. “Hello, I’m Clay, I’m pretty sure I was one of your teachers last year.” Clay said. “Yes, I’m Salty” “Oh yes, now I remember!” Clay said his tail twitching with remembrance. “Putting that aside, It’s time to assign your cabin.” He took her talons and led her to the left cabin on the left.
The cabin was pretty big and had different kinds of beds in there, a silk hammock in one corner, a moss mat next to it, another hammock made of leaves, a square bale of hay in the corner, and a metal tub of mud,a rock ledge, and few more beds around the room. Clay led Salty to the hay bale and said to her “I will be right back, I have a surprise for you!” Clay limped out of the room and a moment later he returned with a bag in his talons. “Here you are,” he said smiling, “We have some welcome to camp gifts for you.” Salty grabbed it and put it on the hay bale bed. She would check it out later.
“Today and tomorrow are orientation days, so there are no classes, well sort of, there is a mandatory group to introduce yourself once everyone is here.”Clay explained “Is anyone else from my cabin here yet?” Salty asked. “Beetle and Starstruck.” Clay said. Not many HiveWings lived in Possibility, so the thought of one excited Salty. “Anywho, I have to help the other campers,” Clay said happily. “I will see you in a few hours for the introduction group.”. He limped out of the room, still smiling. Cactus walked in the room, her slightly longer than average tail hanging above her head in pride.
“Here's your bag, my little sandfox!” Salty said“Hello mum!”  “Almost lost you there when you headed off with Clay there.”.Cactus continued “I will write letters every week and if you feel homesick tell the counselors how you are feeling.” Salty replied to her mother “OK mom, I will, and don’t you worry, I got Blitz for help if I need it.” Cactus wrapped her tail around one of Salty’s and said “If this is like it was when you were three let me know and I will come and get you.”. Cactus left the room, glancing at Salty before finally leaving the room. Salty looked into her gift bag and saw that she got a pamphlet scroll titled ‘schedule and other things you need to know about your cabin’.
She looked inside the bag for more and found a few scrolls, a cream colored jug for water, and a small orange tin box. Suddenly a dragon walked through the door, The male Silkwing was cyan and turquoise. His wing buds were a very dark blue and his dark purple eyes were looking like he was either trying to shoot butterflies out of his eyes or he had no eyelids. Salty said to the blue Silkwing “Hi, I’m Salty! Have you got your gift bag yet?” the Dragon said “I’m Damselfly, and A Seawing named Riptide is getting one for me.”. “He’s a great teacher!” Salty said. Damselfly said “I thought this was a summer camp, not summer school!” Salty laughed, “No No, He’s the history teacher at the school that is usually here.”.
Riptide entered the room, with a gift bag in his talons. “Here you go Damselfly, here is your bag.” Riptide looked at her with the look she gets even from her parents sometimes, a look of puzzlement, not quite judgment but close to it. “Hello Riptide, do you remember me from last year, I’m Salty.” she said. “Oh yeah, the only one took my lessons seriously and did not interrupt me!” Riptide said “I will see both in a few hours.”
A hivewing entered the room, she had mostly black scales and red stripes that reminded her of a zebra. She had an orange bandana made of silk that looked expensive. She looked around the room as if she didn’t know what it was. Another dragon burst through the door, a Nightwing with a relieved look on her face. The Nightwing must have noticed the confused look on Salty’s face because she said, “This is Beetle, she’s deaf, we are your roommates. Starflight told me I was her special partner because for the summer. I’m Starstruck, Who are you guys? Have you gone to school here? I haven’t but it would be SO COOL! Sorry, My dad says I need to learn to breathe and not talk occasionally, he says it's good to know how to talk but- ""OK WE GET IT, YOU TALK TOO MUCH!” Salty shouted. “Oh my moons I’m so sorry I said that!”Salty said with remorse. 
Starstruck said the Salty, “My grandma tells me that all the time, it Ok” For the moment of pause that followed Salty took a look at her, Salty noticed that she had a white foot, which is very odd as Nightwings are normally completely black with star like scales underneath. Salty noticed that Starstruck was staring at her tails, she felt a pang of embarrassment as she remembered two years ago when everyone's face was like that when she was at summer camp.
== Salty’s story | Chapter 3 | The group ==
Salty heard a very loud “BONG BONG BONG!!!!!!” Starstruck grabbed Beetle and led her outside, Damselfly and Salty followed her as they left the cabin and exited the room. When Salty left the cabin and took a look around she saw a few small Rainwing dragonites banging a massive gong with a stick and a Seawing shooing them away.
“False alarm everyone, just a few hatchlings messing where they shouldn’t.” Salty reconised the Seawing as Princess Tsunami, another founding dragon, she was dragonnaped as a egg and forced to stay under a mountain until she escaped with help with her friends, including Clay. Salty saw a Leafwing walking towards the cabin and she went in as well. Salty decided that she would start unpacking her bag, she had brought a small snack, roasted scorpion and veggie kabobs, just like the ones in Possibility. A few scrolls, and plenty of blank paper and stamps for writing to her parents. The leafwing entered the room. she had a hazel face, dark brown tail, and a suitcase in her talons. " Hello, I'm Magnolia."
Another “BANG BANG” came from outside and Salty went outside again.
Salty went outside to see if it was a real meeting or the dragonites got back to the gong. Tsunami was near the gong and a large crowd of dragonites has already formed in front of the gong. Salty sat down not far from the gong, the brass gong was as big as a four year old dragonite and probably twice as loud. Tsunami announced to everyone “If you are, Princess Walrus, Salty, Falcon, Scorpion, Papaya, Heron, Starstruck, Beetle, Damselfly, and Magnolia, follow me. Everyone else, you may unpack.”
Tsunami began walking towards a nearby stream, everyone followed her. Tsunami sat down in the stream which was bigger than Salty expected, it was more of a small river than anything. Salty sat down in the river next to her.
Tsunami explained “Ok I will explain the game, I will tell my name and a fact about me and then the dragon next to me will go next, Salty, you go first.” “Ok I’m Salty, I’m a Seawing, Sandwing hybrid and I’m here as a Seawing. Ok Damselfly, you go next.”.
Damselfly said “I’m Damselfly, I was named after the damselfly that landed on my nose only an hour after I hatched. I was almost named Dragonfly, that's my sister's name now. Damselfly moved his talons in different ways, Salty thought "Oh, sign language, right!" 
Beetle, did some sign language for a few seconds and Damselfly said "I am Beetle. I moved from Pantala one month before going here. Rainwing."
Papaya was a small Rainwing with big wings and His color-of-the-moment is amber, with thin blue stripes like a savanna river. “I am Papaya, and I really hate mangoes and papayas! How odd is that?” The Sandwing started to laugh. “Oh and I choose Scorpion!” Papaya finished.
The laughing Sandwing said “I’m Scorpion, and my friend once joked that Imma canibal because my favorite food is scorpion kabobs-” Salty interrupted “Those are my favorite food too!”  Scorpion continued, “-And I pick the Icewing!”
“I’m Princess Walrus, and I am technically royalty, my grandfather is the exiled Prince Winter and my mothers princess puffin. I pick Falcon!” The princess looked at a Skywing with eyes that no one could fail at guessing she was in love.
Falcon was a mainly red skywing with odd yellow stripes. “I’m Falcon, I have six older sisters and no brothers, my life is filled with girls! I pick the Mudwing!
a big hazel mudwing said “I’m Heron, and I think icebreaker games are really just an invasion of privacy, and the Leafwing, cause she’s the last one!”
“I’m Magnolia, and I am really descended from a leafwing general named General Spruce from the tree wars!” Everyone unanimously said “‘AWESOME!”
Starstruck said “It must be cool being descended from a war hero. I’ve never met a pantalan dragon with a cool ancestry from the Tree Wars " Scorpion and Damselfly both nodded. Salty noticed that Starstruck looked a little pale, but it's hard to tell when she’s as dark as night, hence Nightwing. Tsunami must've noticed as well because she said, “Starstruck, are you ok?” “Yeah… just a little dizzy… I’m okay.” Starstruck answered slowly. Tsunami said “Do you need to go to the infirmary?“ “No…” Starstruck said.
== Salty's Story | Chapter 4 | The Tour ==
Tsunami stood up slowly, saying it as if she said for many years"Time for a tour, as you can see this is the stream, this is going to be our main fishing spot, to conserve fish populations please only catch two fish before allowing someone else so that it's fair." she began moving towards the cabins,Tsunami said, "Ok the left cabin is yours. The cabin is called the unity cabin.The right cabin is the friendship cabin." Falcon asked "Why are the cabins named unity and friendship?"
Tsunami said with a look that practically said "Ah this question again..." "We named the cabin Unity and Friendship because as my dear friend former queen Glory once said 'those ideals are the bedrock of which I want this camp to be based on' " Salty noticed that she had a bad headache and thought "am I catching something from Starstruck?" Salty said" Tsunami, I think I'm getting sick too." Tsunami sighed,then said, "Ok we will move a little faster so Starstruck and Salty can go to the infirmary."
She began walking briskly toward the bronze gong, and Tsunami said "This is the gong or as the students call it 'the bong bong gong' " "Falcon and Scorpion both began laughing their heads off. and Salty giggled, her tails twitching like mad. Damselfly, who was right behind her, took a step to the side to avoid her deadly tails. Salty noticed and said "Whoops, Sorry." Damselfly said " It's alright, I bet it's hard with two tails" She said, she forced a smile but it was more of a grimace.
"You don't know half of it." finally Falcon and Scorpion stopped laughing and Tsunami began to open her wings and began to do a flap to start flying but closed them again and called "RIPTIDE YOU SQUID BRAIN CAN YOU GET ME A SILKWING HARNESS?". Salty heard Riptide shout "ONE, RUDE, TWO, GIVE ME A QUICK SECOND! "We are going a bit far away toward the mess hall, which I think is a weird name because we try to keep all the buildings as clean as possible." Salty snickered. Riptide showed the red harness in front of Damselfly, "Okay got the harness!"
Damselfly unbuckled the harness and adjusted the harness so the holes for his buds would be comfortable. then fastened them. Riptide gave Tsunami a thick silk rope and she tied it to the steel nub. then she tied it to her waist. "Starstruck, Salty, go find Clay to go to the infirmary. The rest, are you ready? " she said to everyone except beetle unanimously said "Yes." she started flying and everyone followed her while.
Once everyone took off, Starstruck began craning her head to look for Clay. suddenly, the world turned red, blood red, then pitch black and fell unconscious.
== Salty's story | Chapter five | The Silverwing prophecy ==
"WAKE UP! PLEASE WAKE UP!" It was Starstruck. "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING! WAKE UP!" Salty grumbled "Ughh...... I have a terrible headache...." Starstruck screamed "GOOD YOU ARE AWAKE, I JUST LOST FIFTY YEARS BECAUSE OF YOU!" Salty whispered "And you just made me lose my hearing because you were yelling so loud." Starstruck said " YOU SAID THE WEIRDEST THING:
"When summer hails, "
"Life will fail."
"A dragon of special ancestors"
"A dragon of special colors"
"A dragon hatched to share light"
"A dragon hatched to be so bright"
"A traitor comes in summer heat"
"When Destiny comes"
"They shall meet"
"He will come to bring the night"
"She will arise to bring light"
"Darkness is secretly bright"
"A Silverwing will be stolen."
Salty said,Who was very dizzy, " What? I said that?" "Also, I think I had a vision. A silver egg, then fizzled into nothing, and then a silver Dragonite with a curly tail, gills, Icewing claws, Really big wings like skywing's, phosphorescent scales, Icewing spikes, a big mudwing head, white Nightwing spots like stars all over her, and finally a poisonous barb at the end of her tail, and then a shape came over and she was gone! then I woke up! then I heard you say that!" Salty said "That's... all the pyrrhian tribes... ouch, my head, go get Clay." Starstruck ran away, her eyes wild, and her tail high. and she slipped back into darkness.
When she woke up, she was in a cave, Salty Groaned loudly, and fell back unconscious.
She woke up again. still in the cave, she heaved herself up into a sitting position and felt terribly dizzy. Clay walked into the room, and he said " Oh, how long have you been up?" "Just... a second. How long have I been out?" Clay said "A hour or so, Starstruck told me, I think you had a prophecy, if I'm to be honest, I hate them, but then again, one saved my school." "A.. prophecy? But only Nightwings get them! How is this possible?" Clay said "I don't know, but that's a prophecy if anything."
== Part two | The prophecy begins ==
== Chapter 6 | The questions ==
Clay handed Salty a bowl of fruit included apples, guavas and bananas,and a few cooked meats like capybara, squirrel, and goat. after eating some of the guava and goat, Clay peeked into the room and had a worried look on his face, and yet a face like deja Vu. She remembered that Clay was in a prophecy about fifty years ago. "yeesh! That would be so annoying, being in the hands of fate and only being the puppet of it. at least I'm the prophet and not the one the prophecy is about, what's the 'Silverwing', and who's the traitor?" 
"Clay, I think I'm better now, can I go back?" Salty asked. her left tail twitched, she could barely go to sleep because she needed to move. Clay said "Alright, just take it easy, just.. tell us if it happens again, I have had my fair share of prophecy in my life and I thought it was all over BUT NO! Whoops off topic, but yeah, tell us." "Alright" Salty said. 
Salty exited the cave, which was carved from Made Mountain. Damselfly came straight for her, "Salty! The rumor spread like wildfire! Everyone knows what happened!" Salty said in a worried tone, "No! this cannot happen again!" Salty instantly began running towards Unity cabin, her tails figuratively flying behind her. Damselfly said in distress, him running as well,"I'd be embarrassed too but not at this level!" Salty said "You don't understand! I thought this would be different from Marines Seawing Summer Camp but I was so wrong! Instead of people spreading rumors that I'm a hybrid, now they are gossiping about something so much worse!" Damselfly said "I'm still so confused." Salty said impatiently,
"Two years ago my parents sent me to Marines Seawing Summer Camp. My bunkmates were cruel and terrible, When I picked my bunk, everyone picked the beds farther from me, they said 'We don't want to get hurt from you.' they never called me by my name, they called me, 'Tails' and didn't call me anything else. and then, this really mean kid threw me in the sea to see if I could breath underwater, she held me down for like two minutes, I almost died! I never wanted to go to summer camp ever again. After camp I was quiet for two weeks before my mom made me tell her what happened, Seahorse the cruel Seawing who almost drowned me never got into any trouble, instead my dad grounded me for a month because I didn't tell them." Damselfly said, with a tone of pure horror on his face "That... is terrible..." 
A flash of blue and white began running towards Salty and the flash said , "SALTY I KNOW! BUT I'M STILL SO CONFUSED PLEASE EXPLAIN! TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Salty said with an amused expression on her face "I don't know..." Blitz was a silver Icewing and her adopted cousin with a slightly deformed tail, she also had thin icey blue stripes and swirls on her underside. Damselfly said "About the story thing or about the whole 'I am a prophet' thing" Blitz said, "The whole 'I am a prophet' thing."
A loud bong from the 'Bong Bong Gong' radiated over the camp, and the large figure of Clay said "DINNER!" and everyone in the plains began to fly but Damselfly and some other figure in the distance that Salty guessed was probably the other Silkwing. Salty said "Need a lift? Haha get it?" Damselfly laughed for a second then said "Thanks!" Salty asked Blitz "Can you please go get Damselfly a harness?" Blitz nodded and ran over to the gong get one. 'I wonder how old Damselfly is, he looks at most five and a half, maybe older.' and then Salty realized something, 'Blitz is REALLY fast, like, Skywing flying fast, no Icewing can be that fast!' Blitz returned with the harness and a rope. Damselfly grabbed the harness and put the carrier on with ease. Blitz began tying the rope to the bit and it fell off, she tried again and failed, Blitz growled and cursed "Blasted rope.." Salty said "Let me." and Blitz snapped with anger "I got it!" Salty's tails drooped and she sighed, Salty knew that Blitz was a bit of a hothead sometimes.
When Blitz finally got the knot right, they were the last dragons in the plains. Blitz began flying with the rope in her talons, barely grunting! ' OK now I know something weird is going on, she is as fast as a cheetah, and she can carry a dragon almost as big as her without struggle, THAT'S FISHY! How have I never noticed that?' Oh, Our mothers never told us to do chores whenever we were together!' Salty flew into the air as well and followed Blitz toward the the mess hall.
== Chapter 7 | the first dinner of summer. ==
Tsunami was right when she said that the mess hall was clean unlike the name. orderly tables made of wood and wooden chairs with Dragonites sprawling all around them, with plates of food all over the tables and bowls of fruit and meat and vegetables on one longer table. Damselfly eyed the fruit and walked over only to grab a grapefruit. Damselfly must have seen the sceptical look on Salty's face because he said "My dad says I must have a small stomach cause after eating only a little food I'm already stuffed. Salty nodded, only half listening, because THEY HAVE ROASTED SCORPION!
Salty walked up and grabbed two handfuls and looked for a place to eat. she saw an empty spot right next to Scorpion and Falcon. she walked up and sat down in-between them. Falcon smiled when she sat down, she grouped her tails and curled them to her right being careful of Scorpion, who was right next to her. 
Falcon asked "Where did you live Salty?" Salty answered with a smile "I lived just out of the city Possibility. It's really fun there because there are, ALL sorts of different dragons there, all selling or buying different things and it does not feel weird if you're a Seawing buying from a Skywing or a mudwing selling a Icewing product. It's not weird at all!" Scorpion said with a frown " I lived in the bad part of the scorpion den, mostly poor immigrants with no where left to go, I'm one of the 'rich ones' in the neighborhood, but we still are a bit poor." Salty put one of her tails on his for his comfort. Falcon said proudly "My mom is Queen Condor's chef so we live near her palace." Salty said "My parents are librarians! They talk about big scrolls, little scrolls, SCROLLS! So BORING! Salty threw a few scorpions in her mouth and chewed. Blitz was across the room and had a Talonful of snowberries. Blitz had her favorite earrings on, a grey pearl stud, which she touched lightly. Suddenly an idea appeared in her head
'What if she is an Animus and didn't tell me? could she have enchanted that earring to give her super strength and super speed? but that's.. impossible, there hasn't been an Icewing Animus in two thousand years! Or could that be...? Her thoughts got interrupted when a Nightwing who Salty recognised as Starflight said "Finish up everyone because lights out for everyone!" 'Isn't Starflight blind, something about the Nightwing exodus from fifty one years ago? Maybe, Ugh, this is why Sunny told you to read more during the summer!' 
Salty threw the remaining Scorpions in her mouth and said to Scorpion and Falcon "I'll meet you at our cabin later, Ok?" Scorpion and Falcon nodded at her and resumed eating. She walked up to Blitz, who was talking to some Mudwing. Blitz said, walking away from the Mudwing,"How are you?" Salty said "Can we meet outside once you're done?" Blitz said, bored, "Sure." and resumed talking to her Mudwing friend.
Salty waited outside for a few minutes and then Blitz came out with the Mudwing, Blitz parted from the Mudwing and she said, "Soooo.... what was it that you wanted to talk about?" Salty said in a whisper " This may sound insane but, are you an Animus?" Blitz sighed and said, "What gave me away?" Salty said, with a hint of surprise in her voice, "Oh I don't know, maybe that you run faster than a Skywing and fly and can carry a Dragonite almost as big as you are!" Blitz sighed again, and then said with a sense of defeat, "That's my subtle super-strength spell on my earrings." Salty said with a sense of anger in her voice "you call that subtle!" 
Salty realized that her tails were lashing dangerously fast. Salty slowed her tails. Blitz said, "Are we still best friends?" Salty sighed and said, "I wish you told me but I can understand, you don't just go to your cousin and say, 'Oh I'm the rarest dragon on earth!' But this doesn't mean we can just go back to buddy buddy again. You betrayed me, friends don't do that." Salty's tails were lashing crazy fast, and she took a deep breath. Salty was thinking 'This is too crazy, my own cousin is an Animus!" Salty began flying toward Unity cabin. Salty flew with a head full of confusion, 'did she enchant something for me that I would never guess about? What if she turns into Albatross! How did she get Animus magic when Icewing Animus magic was stolen by Foeslayer two thousand years ago?' By the time the questions stopped bombarding her, she arrived at her cabin. When she was in her stack of hay, she closed her eyes and fell asleep almost instantly.
== Part 3 | A traitor comes in summer heat. ==
== Chapter 8 | Pains in the scales. ==
When Salty woke up ￼, she realized that she slept on her right tail wrong and it ached. She sighed and sat up. Salty began rubbing her aching tail and thought of the day before, a whirlwind of confusion and mystery. suddenly, A loud bump came from the door. A loud moan came from some of the mats and hammocks and a voice that sounded like Scorpion said "urghhhhhh.....Not it..." Salty and several other moaning voices repeated. Papaya grumbled something like "Terrible game" and he lumbered over to the door. 
A golden dragon walked into the rooms. and Salty felt a sense of joy creep into her heart, she felt a small smile on her face 'It's Sunny! Why is she here? Doesn't she have a special princess business elsewhere?' Sunny said with a smile "Salty, I see you!" Salty turned her gaze over to Sunny and her tails twitched with happiness. Heron said, his voice is groggy, "Wait, how do you know Sunny?" Sunny and Salty said at the same time "We met at Jade Mountain Academy, at the hybrid meet and greet." They both laughed loudly. A grumpy Magnolia said "Yay, now Friendship cabin will also be awake and confused ON WHY THERE IS A PRINCESS IN OUR CABIN WHEN SHE IS A PRINCESS AND SHE HAS PRINCESS-Y THINGS TO DO!" Giggles swept the room and the Walrus grunted. Sunny said "Hmm... I actually have very few princess-y things to do because I am one of the head counselors of this camp and a teacher at Jade Mountain Academy and I think very few people call me princess, on the other talon, my half sister, Diamondback, gets called that all the time."
Salty said "You never told me you had a half sister!" Sunny said surprised, "Oh,... I didn't? she is eleven years younger than me and is so nice!" Starstruck interrupted, "Sunny, is there a reason you came to our cabin?" Sunny said, Surprised "It's time for breakfast in twenty minutes, now fifteen." Falcon said grumpy "All that for 'It's time for breakfast ' ?"
Everyone began moving, everyone but ￼ ￼ ￼ Damselfly, who was curled close to his hammock. Salty said, worried, " Damselfly, youuuu ok?" A loud moan followed and Damselfly began scratching his arm. Salty turned him over and what she saw was horrifying.
"Poison Ivy!" Salty said "That's awful!" they were in the infirmary cave. Damselfly's blue scales were almost purple with redness. Clay sighed and said "Worst case I have ever seen, and I knew someone who ate poison oak salad! She had to eat small bits of sandpaper to scratch her insides." Salty said "One, that's disgusting. Two, does sandpaper taste good?" Clay said with a chuckle "I don't know, her tongue was so swollen I couldn't get a definite answer." Another loud moan came from Damselfly. he began scratching his neck and Clay moved it so he could put lotion on it.Clay said "You should go get some breakfast while it lasts." Salty sighed, and said "I guess I should, Bye!" Salty began walking out of the cave and began flying.
one hour later
She returned to the infirmary to find that Damselfly was sitting up, still purple-ish, eating an apple. Salty said "￼ ￼ that looks like some serious ouch!" Damselfly grimaced and said "I feel like ten thousand wasps are stinging me." Salty asked "How did this happen?" "Heron, Magnolia, and I were rolling down a hill. Magnolia told me that there was poison ivy somewhere but I didn't listen." Salty thought 'Magnolia has leafspeak? She must!' Salty nodded. Damselfly viciously itched his shoulders and sighed. "I will never roll down a hill without a Leafwing ever again!" Salty said "When did you do this?" Damselfly said "While you were becoming a prophet." Salty said sarcastically "How could I forget! oh wait.. I DIDN'T!" Clay burst through the door and said "PRAIRIE FIRE! STAY IN HERE! EVERYONE ELSE WILL BE IN HERE." 'Prairie fire! But it wasn't even that hot!' Salty said "I'll help!" Clay didn't respond but instead ran outside. 
Everyone was running havoc outside, screaming of fury and fear, cries of pain and sadness. Clay was stomping out fires and calming screaming Dragonites. she heard a terrible scream and saw Beetle on the ground, holding her tail and crying. Salty ran toward Beetle and took a look at Beetle's tail. Her tail was bleeding and blackened at parts. "Don't worry Beetle, you will be Ok." Beetle was still crying and clutching her bleeding tail. Salty helped Beetle up and slowly carried her to the Infirmary. Beetle laid down. Salty noticed that there were several other wounded dragons, including, Heron, a Seawing, another Sandwing, Silkwing, and Papaya. there were also other dragons in the room which were uninjured.
Salty ran back out and began flying. Salty caught something in the corner of her eye, an unconscious Skywing. 'FALCON!' Salty dived to Falcon and she thought of all the things that were wrong right now. Falcon wasn't unconscious but his wings were scorched. Salty began digging a hole next to him. when she was done digging it was about two feet deep and she carefully pushed Falcon inside. "There, don't move out, the hole will protect you." Falcon moaned as Salty flew off but something hit her in the back and she fell, into a massive flaming bush.
== Chapter 9 | mystery clues ==
Her back hurt, her wings hurt, her legs hurt, everything hurt when Salty woke up. 'In the Infirmary?' Salty groaned and the figure of Tsunami was beside her. She tried to say something but Tsunami beat her to it. "You got frostbreathed in your back when Walrus was trying to put out the fires. Why didn't your cousin help, she was just hiding." Salty said " She doesn't have Frostbreath or cold scales... I thought you would have known that."
Tsunami said with a new understanding " Oh.. we really need to update our applications for the camp registration." ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ Salty said "SHE BEEN AT THE SCHOOL FOR TWO YEARS!". Tsunami said embarrassed "I guess we also need to update the school registration as well." Salty tried to sit up but her back felt numb. she put her talons on her back and she jumped in pain. Salty sighed and said "At this rate I will be here from some crazy scenario every day." Tsunami sighed but didn't respond. 
the next day 
Salty's back still was numb, but not painful as it was yesterday. "Tsunami?" Salty asked. "I think I'm better." But instead of Tsunami who spoke next, it was Riptide. "Sure, just keep your back warm, Ok?" Salty began to stand up but then someone came through the door. It was Blitz. then something from the prophecy made her shiver. ￼ A traitor comes in summer heat. is the traitor Blitz? she betrayed me about being an Animus, what else is she hiding? Blitz said with a smile "I got something for your back. a.. extra special blanket" the blanket was a black and red checker pattern. Salty grabbed it and put it across her back and sighed with happiness. IT WAS THE WARMEST BLANKET SHE EVER PUT ON HER BODY! 
"This... is... perfect..." Salty said with happiness ￼ "I will never take this off..." Blitz smiled and whispered in her ear, "I made this two years ago so that it will be the perfect temperature for whoever wears it. Salty tied it on and smiled. "Yay I can feel my back again." Salty's tails were slowly moving side to side with pleasure. Blitz said "Come on, let's get out of here." Salty said, still smiling "I want to sleep for ten years." 
Blitz said with a smile " too bad for you, we have a scheduled fishing trip in the lake a little ways away. I'll let you keep the blanket until you're better." Salty nodded. Blitz began flying and Salty followed. A few small fires were still burning and a few dragons were putting them out. Salty's back was already getting better from the Frostbreath blast. Blitz said with sorrow "This is weird, fires starting with no detected path. wait..... what if someone purposely started the fire?" Salty gasped. "You have a good theory!" Salty murmured the prophecy line "A traitor comes in summer heat, when destiny comes they shall meet." Who will Blitz (If she's the traitor) meet? 
Suddenly, someone from behind poked her. Her tails shot up scared then a loud thump and a scream followed "Ahh!" "NO!" Blitz screamed as well,"STARSTRUCK!" "It's ok." Said Starstruck passive-aggresively "She didn't venom me, just bonked me!" Salty sighed with happiness, and said, "I'm so sorry Starstruck!"Starstruck flew up to Salty's left side and she was holding her cheek, she was mumbling something about "Blasted scorpion dragon blood." Salty made a rueful face at Starstruck and frowned. 
Her tails were flying loose in the wind. Starstruck flew a few feet ahead of her and was glancing at her tails with a somewhat hurt expression on her face. Salty said "Is Falcon and Beetle alright?" Starstruck smiled and said "Beetle's injury isn't as bad as you think," Then Starstruck said with a grimace, "but Falcon's is the real worry, one of his wings got really torn up... It's not pretty."I'll have to visit him! That sounds really bad!" By the time they were done talking, Blitz led them towards a large lake. 
Fishing poles were lying around the beach. It looked like all the camp was there but Falcon. Falcon, poor him! I wonder if the hole I dug saved his life, or did I waste my time and I could have saved someone else. When she landed, her back jolted with pain. She seethed through her teeth and touched her back. "Ughh it hurts so bad......" Blitz stepped closer to Salty and their wings brushed. 
Salty wings shifted around uncomforted. She saw Walrus in the corner of her eye squint at her with envy. What's her problem? She has been acting odd ever since Sunny came to visit. "Hey Salty!" It was Damselfly. "Glad your back is better!" Salty sighed "I wish!" Salty grumbled "My back feels like you probably felt with poison ivy but colder." Damselfly shuddered and said "Ughhhh..... way too soon!" 
== Chapter 10 | Fishes and more clues. ==
Damselfly grabbed two fishing poles and gave it to Blitz and Salty. Salty took one out of Damselfly's claws. "Thanks... uhh..." Blitz said "Damselfly right?" Damselfly nodded and smiled "Who are you?" Damselfly said "You're not Walrus so you must be Blitz." Blitz smiled and took the fishing pole. Salty took off her blanket.
"TIME TO FISH EVERYONE!" Tsunami said. "UGHH.......... FISHING IS TERRIBLE!" It was Papaya, who had a bandage on his arms, "Meat is disgusting............" Tsunami said grumpy "fine, don't fish, just mope then." Beetle, whose tail was wrapped in a bloody bandage signed some things and Damselfly said "She said 'I can't tell what she said but she looked like she is tired and wants to go home.'" Damselfly signed and said "I told her what Tsunami really said." 
Does Tsunami want to go home? Does she want to go back to the sea? Does she miss her brothers and sisters? Salty splashed in the lake, dropping her rod as she felt the slimey cold scales of a fish as she dug her talons into the floor of the lake rocks. "Ugh! Not on me!" Heron said. "Those tails almost hit me too!" Salty winced, just because she was half SandWing, that didn't mean she didn't like the water. "Sorry Heron." Salty said. "At least they didn't hit you for real!"
Heron still growled softly and Salty winced again. She absolutely hated it when dragons judged her just because of an extra limb. A fish began tickling her leg. Salty grabbed it and killed the fish with ease. Papaya looked like he was about to throw up. Magnolia dived in the lake and surged up with a giant catfish. Salty bit her fish and sighed. "Salty?" A dark green Seawing with light purple underscales a long tail said "Clay wants you in the infirmary now." 
What? Is this a note about Falcon? Is he alright? What was it about his wing again? "Alright." Salty said a little faster than necessary. "I'm coming. Who are you?" The long tailed Seawing said "I'm Hammerhead, you're the hybrid everyone in my cabin is talking about." ￼ WHAT THE MOONS! RUMORS? ME? I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE TWO DAYS! 
"Sorry." Hammerhead said "Don't be surprised if my sisters tell you that half the words they say to me are 'TMI HAMMERHEAD'" Blitz looked like she was holding back a laugh. Salty began walking out of the water and on the beach, where sand was clumping on Salty's claws and sticking. Hammerhead began flying toward the mountains and Salty followed. 
half an hour later
It turns out that Hammerhead is a really slow flyer. By the time they got to the infirmary, it would have been ten minutes shorter if she was by herself. They went into the infirmary cave and Falcon was laying down with his head down and something on his wing. "Falcon?" Salty said with worry. "Are you ok?" "Thank you for what you did, with the hole and everything." She got closer so she could get a better look at the thing on his wing. it was like a normal bandage but it clasped on only a part of his wing.
Hammerhead looked so confused. Falcon held his head up and looked at his broken wing, grimaced, and put his head down again. "Ughh why?..." Falcon said. Her back was starting to feel cold again. She twisted over to see her back, and it's usual yellow and blue and green was covered in super small cuts. "I feel you." Salty said. "Or should I say my back feels you." Falcon smiled, his wings rustling, it must have hurt because he jumped and let his wings droop.
Salty realized that Hammerhead was gone. Must have business elsewhere. "Oh Salty!" Clay's voice said "Riptide told me that you left before I could check out your back." "It's alright." Salty said reasuringly "It's nothing to worry about." "Fine." said Clay. "If you're so sure about it." 
20 minutes later 
Salty found her way back to the lake by herself. It looked like everyone was finishing up. "HEY BLITZ!" Salty shouted. "I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS" She gracefully glided downward and on the beach, the wet sand sticking to her claws. "She left ten minutes ago!" It was Heron, the Mudwing who Damselfly was playing with when he got poison ivy. "Do you know where she went?" Heron shrugged and grabbed his fishing rod. "Son of a carp!" Salty grumbled, flying back up toward the mountains. 
￼ ￼ ￼ Salty's black Sandwing eyes saw Magnolia staring at Heron. Bleh, she doesn't even try to make it inconspicuous. "Salty!" It was a rather grumpy looking Tsunami. "Why are you back so early?" Salty grimaced/smiled and said "I'm alright, a prophet, but alright!" Tsunami growled deep and said "Prophecies are one of the worst things that have ever happened to me." 
Salty felt angry about that, watch who you're talking to Tsunami! You are a Dragonite of destiny! you're famous for your prophecy! But you hate mine? I had no choice I fainted and didn't even know what I said until Starstruck told me! 
"I got to take a shift at the infirmary, ￼ it's only been like.. two or three days? and we have three seriously maimed Dragonites." Salty thought of poor Falcon, with his giant rip in his wing. Salty continued to fly toward the camp, thinking of all the strange and bizarre things that happened these few days. Salty sighed and shook her head, wondering what she will do now. 
Maybe back to the Infirmary to visit Falcon, or maybe I can go meet the other cabin. Yeah! I only know.. Blitz, Hammerhead, and.. wait that's all. Yes! I'm going to the other cabin and say hi! 
Salty was back at the mountain and sat down near a tall semi-burned tree. Suddenly, something came in her vision, and she was yammering and mumbling: 
"When summer hails,  life will fail. 
A dragon of special colors, A dragon of special ancestors. 
A dragon hatched to share light, A dragon hatched to be so bright 
A traitor comes in summer heat, when destiny comes, they shall meet. 
He will come forth to bring the night, She will arise to bring light, darkness is secretly bright 
A Silverwing will be stolen." 
Salty fell down and groaned. "Brain... hurts... ouch.." Salty closed her eyes and heard someone beside her. 
"SALTY! WHAT HAPPENED" It sounded like Scorpion, but her ears were ringing and her face felt like it was burning off. Salty opened her eyes and Scorpions tail was dangerously close to Salty's neck. "....Scorpion... Get help... it happened again." Scorpion's face was now filled with fear and he ran away, his eyes looking wild. 
== Chapter 11 | Waking up to silk. ==
Salty must have fallen unconscious while Scorpion was getting help because she woke up to Tsunami growling in the corner of the infirmary, bent over a table with paper and ink on it. Someone's warm back was touching hers and Salty glanced over to them. It was Falcon, his injured wing spread on the rough rock and him groaning softly. "Hey Salty." Said Falcon quietly, "You were practically screaming the prophecy all night." 
"How long was I out?" Salty mumbled. "Two days." Falcon said. WHAT! TWO DAYS! Falcon's wing bandage was as red as his red scales and Falcon's face was in agony. Salty said "Well, what happened during those days." Falcon grunted and said "What do I know, I've been stuck here for like, four days."
Tsunami, who was still in the corner, stood up and grabbed a bowl filled with fruit and handed it to Salty. Salty grabbed an apple and an orange. Salty absentmindedly peeled the orange and sighed in displeasure. Falcon's giant wing brushed her dark green and dusty yellowish brown wing. Tsunami mumbled something like: "Wonder what their Dragonites would look like?".
Do I have a crush on him? GAH! When was the last time you thought of complicated emotions? This is probably a good time to think about that prophecy the universe so greatly gave me. What does the "When summer hails, life will fail" mean? And what is a SilverWing? 
"AHHHH!" An unfamiliar lavender Silkwing who looked like Damselfly said. "Dragonfly?" Tsunami asked, then she shook her head and signed. Is that Damselfly's sister? Is that why Damselfly can sign? Because his sister deaf as well as Beetle.
Falcon looked so confused it took a lot of skill to keep a straight face. Salty stood up and her legs seemed to disagree with standing up. Dragonfly signed to Tsunami and Tsunami ran out the infirmary. Salty stood up as fast as she could and helped Falcon up and they dashed outside.
"AHHHHH!" Dragonfly screamed and Salty saw what was wrong. Orange flaming silk was spiraling out of Damselfly's wrists and he was running away from himself as well as a dragon could. "YOUR PARENTS SAID YOUR METAMORPHASIS WAS A WEEK FROM NOW!" Tsunami shouted at him. Salty ran over to him and glanced back at Falcon, who was clearly shaking, even from a small distance.
Damselfly said, he paused, and let the silk spiral around his arms and his wing buds were churning. "I guess my parents messed up my Hatching day." Tsunami scooped him up in her arms and ran back to the infirmary. Salty remembered a line from the prophecy "A dragon hatched to share light. A dragon hatched to be so bright." Does, "Bright" and "Light" mean Flamesilk?
Was that Damselfly? Dragonfly walked up to Salty and she whimpered. Salty put her wings around the smallish SilkWing in a hug and the Salty realized that Dragonfly was mostly purple and had blue stripes in the shade of Damselfly's wing buds and had orange spots that reminded her of paint splatters. 
Salty remembered a saying she read in a book once: "Don't let your fear control your fate." It seemed very fitting for the moment. "Lets find Starstruck." She said, then remembered that Dragonfly was deaf. She put her wings back and held Dragonfly's claws.
She looked back at the infirmary cave and she shuddered, knowing that her friend was spinning his silk and she wouldn't be able to wish him luck for his Metamorphisis. "STARSTRUCK! I NEED YOU!" She shouted at her cabin. "WHAT IS IT?" Starstruck said, her head sticking out of the cabin door. "COME HERE! I'LL TELL YOU!" 
A few small fires were burning where Damselfly was running. Clay was stomping them out. Starstruck walked quickly on the slightly charred grass. A result from the recent prairie fire. Starstruck looked around and said, "Where's Damselfly, he was playing with Dragonfly just a second ago and then I went inside the cabin." 
"Yeah..." Salty said, trying to find a way to put it in understandable words. "His hatching day was wrong and... he kinda went into his metamorphisis a moment ago." "HE WHAT!" Starstruck said, sitting down. Dragonfly walked away toward the infirmary. "Umm... yeah... don't panic?" 
"MY BEST FRIEND WHO ISN'T MY SISTER WENT INTO HIS METAMORPHISIS AND I COMPLETELY MISSED IT?" Salty squirmed and her wings rubbed together nervously and her tail barbs dug into the ground. "I guess so?" "Ughh... Beetle will be so upset!" 
"Why?" Salty asked. "You haven't noticed?" Starstruck asked. Salty growled quietly and said "I've been in the infirmary ledge more than my own bed." Starstruck laid down and said "Oh yeah, how could I forget. And Beetle has a massive crush on him." Salty nodded and said "Huh...noted. Hey, do you know who Damselfly's parents are?"
"Silver and Swallowtail, they're really nice!" Salty said, a few questions peeking in her mind. "How do you know them? Are one of them Flamesilk's?" Starstruck said, "I think Swallowtail is one, or not, I barely know him. I know Damselfly's brother but I barely talked to Damselfly himself when I lived in Pantala." Salty perked up "Who's Damselfly's brother? And you lived in Pantala?"
"Lavender is his brother's name, he's eight. I live in Pantala, in the Leaf-Silk kingdom." Salty nodded and glanced back at the infirmary, thinking about poor Damselfly, taken by surprise when he couldn't even stop it. "A long way just for a two month summer camp." Salty said. Starstruck rolled her eyes and said "You have no idea, but the school is where my parents first met and I was thinking 'Are you expecting me to fall in love as well?'"
Salty smiled at that one. "Let's go check on Damselfly." Starstruck nodded and they both stood up and walked briskly toward the infirmary. The glow of the Flamesilk illuminated the room brightly as Salty saw the mound of silk. Starstruck's wings shifted and they brushed Salty's. Starstruck sighed as she traced the silk lines on Damselfly's cocoon. Salty said "Do you think it's a coincidence that Damselfly's metamorphosis was wrong and a line from the prophecy was "A dragon hatched to share light?"
Starstruck froze and said "Makes sense, but why?" Salty shook her head and said "I don't know. That's why I'm asking." Starstruck said "Maybe, once he gets out of his cocoon, he needs to do something with his silk." Salty sat down murmuring the prophecy and covering her head with her claws. Starstruck suddenly crumpled forward and Salty helped her stay upright.
A moment later she stood up and said "The vision. It happened again!" Salty felt the fear rising in her chest as she said "Tell me every detail." Starstruck closed her eyes and said "The same as last time but the dragon who stole the weird Dragonite was a NightWing!" Salty's brain went into hyperdrive as she thought:
All NightWings here are Starflight, Starstruck, and Firefly. All are unlikely suspects but Firefly and she's a hybrid as well. Anyone else? No... towns nearby are Possibility about a day and a half away and the school. Also unlikely. Is it possible that a NightWing will visit in the near future? Most likely out of all the other possibilities I've thought of.
A familiar voice said "SHUT UP ABOUT STUPID PROPHECIES ALREADY! THEY'LL RUIN YOUR LIFE!" Starstruck and Salty both rolled their eyes at the exact same time. Then they gave each other a smirk as Tsunami walked through the caves toward them. The glow from Damselfly made Tsunami look like her bioluminescent scales look as if they were dimly lit. Salty only had a few bioluminescent scales under her wings that only dimly lit, making her unable to communicate underwater.
"You got to get lunch now." Tsunami said, sitting down. Salty realized she was extremely thirsty. Salty had an ability to go some time without food but due to her Seawing side she didn't have the same adaptation for water. Starstruck flicked her tail at Damselfly and sighed. Starstruck nodded and said "Alright. I guess I could eat." Salty nodded and nodded at the flaming cocoon, holding her good friend. 
Salty lapped up some water from the nearby stream and caught a fish. Starstruck was at the mess hall. 
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