Ice and Fire

By: Freezerburn The SkyWing
== Author's note ==
So, this is 3/3, huh? Got three fanfics up, and will probably not write more. Unless you guys want me to. Anyways, this fanfic is the story of my main OC; Freezerburn The SkyWing/IceWing hybrid. This fanfic will explain her backstory and how her life has been, from birth to present. Also Ruby and Tourmaline are their own characters, and Ruby isn't an animus enchantment. 
I have lost inspiration to continue writing, and have thought of a better plot. This will stay on the wiki, however, will get a rewrite. 
== Prologue: Two Dragonets Are Born ==
Ruby's POV
=== Part 1: Wings of Fire ===
It was midnight. Me and my husband; Cyclone just had two eggs together. Although I knew my mother, Queen Scarlet, would be mad at me for marrying someone who wasn't pure SkyWing, but I knew how to counter that. The fact that my father, King Crimson, was slightly less than half RainWing. So of course I was a quarter RainWing, but horrible fact was, that Cyclone was half IceWing, and in a world where a battle for the throne became a war, SkyWings and IceWings were against each other.
It's just that, Cyclone may have been half IceWing but, he was just different. He wasn't mean or crazy like most IceWings I've fought before. He wasn't bloodthirsty or grumpy all the time. He was just, friendly and doesn't try to act tougher than he is.
I met him in the arena. He was put in the arena due to being half IceWing, so my mother thought it would be "thrilling" to have him fight in the arena. Not only that, but Mother felt he was corrupted, and she wanted to get rid of him. With help from my sister, Tourmaline, we convinced Mother to let him out of the arena.
After awhile of hanging out together, I guess we kinda fell for each other. My sister teased us saying that we looked adorable together. Although we denied it, we eventually gave in and agreed with her.
"Dear, there's a crack on the shell." A voice said.
I snapped back into consciousness, realized that one of the eggs had a large crack on it's smooth sunset orange shell.
"Oh, thank you Cyclone. What do you think they'll look like?" I asked.
"I don't know, but what ever they'll look like, I hope they don't have Scarlet's personality." Cyclone whispered.
I bit my tongue to prevent myself from laughing. Cyclone tends to joke about my mother even though he knew the consequences. Either way, he knows when to joke about her, and that time is at night. When we are watching our eggs. I would sit closest to them, to keep them warm, Cyclone would sit a little further away, since the IceWing part of him, would make it so some of his scales would produce a cold chill.
As the egg shell began to shatter, small hints of smoke was rising from the cracks.
Might just be the dragonet's fire, I thought.
The crack on the egg suddenly shattered and the egg shattered. Revealing the red dragonet. She looked more SkyWing then IceWing. Her top scales being orange, below them were red IceWing scales, and her underbelly was a light blue.
She was lying down, with her wings covering her head. Her wing membranes were a mix of sky blue and ice blue. I saw the ends of her horns, which seemed to be SkyWing horns. She had large sky blue IceWing spikes running down her spine.
The dragonet lifted her wings from her head and her golden eyes met mine. She smiled at me with all her teeth, and I couldn't help but smile back. Cyclone walked over and smiled at the newly hatched dragonet. I put one talon on her head, and she closed her eyes. I felt my talon heat up, and lifted it slowly, so I wouldn't scare her.
Smoke began rising from her scales, and she looked at me, seemingly confused. I began rubbing my talon, and Cyclone reached for our dragonet. I grabbed his talon, and he looked at me.
"Does she have firescales?" He whispered.
"She does, I think." I responded.
We spoke quietly so then my mother wouldn't hear. If she did, she would grab my dragonet and throw her off a cliff. Then I heard the sound of rustling in the other room. The sound of footsteps made my heart pound.
"What's going on here?!" The voice of my father, Crimson, asked angrily.
Oh no. I thought
"What's with all the smoke?!" Crimson asked, "Who's this?!"
Crimson walked over to us and glared at our dragonet. She glared back at him, and he bared his teeth at her. Crimson's eyes then had a flare of anger flicker in his eyes. He turned his glare to me.
"This dragonet has firescales. You know what that means." He snarled.
I knew what it meant, and I wasn't going to let him do that. So I tried to buy my dragonet some time.
"I wouldn't suggest doing so. It's midnight and Mother likes her sleep." I said, reaching one wing so it was hovering over the dragonet.
Crimson growled, "Fine. The dragonet lives a day, but tomorrow it's to the cliff."
He stomped out the room, and I could hear my dragonet growling quietly. She stopped and looked at me with large eyes.
"What should we name her?" Cyclone asked.
I thought for awhile and a name stuck out in my mind.
"How about Freezerburn?"
"I like it." He responded, "let's hope she lives after tomorrow."
"Please don't remind me." I said, looking our dragonet in the eyes
Cyclone nodded, and I beckoned Freezerburn to sleep on a rock platform. She came up to the platform and leaped on top of it. She curled up and closed her eyes, her back raising with each breath. Cyclone had his spot near our unhatched egg.
I curled around the egg, and looked at Freezerburn. I noticed that her back raised and lower more then the other dragonets I've seen.
"Cyclone, is it just me, or does it look like Freezerburn is having trouble breathing?" I wondered aloud.
Cyclone looked at her as well. "She is. Do you think it's the smoke?"
"I don't think so. Maybe she has lung deformity or just has weak lungs." I assumed.
"Maybe, but for now we need to focus on how to save her tomorrow." He said, closing his eyes, drifting off.
I did the same, and put one wing around our remaining unhatched egg.
I would say that I told you not to say that again, but you have a very good point. I will think up a way to save her. I promise Freezerburn. I promise, I thought, drifting off to sleep.
The next day, I made sure I woke up early so I could wake up Freezerburn. Cyclone was reluctant to get up, but he forced himself to get up to save our dragonet. I woke up Freezerburn and we quietly made our way out of the palace.
She was very quiet as we walked through the halls. Freezerburn would look at me every so often, probably to make sure that I was there. She would also look behind her every now and then and I assumed that she was wondering what the footsteps were.
While we were walking and I clutched the egg strapped to my chest. This would be Freezerburn's younger sibling, if they live the day until hatch.
"Where do you think you're going, Ruby?" a voice said from behind us
I knew that voice. It wasn't Cyclone, and Freezerburn couldn't talk yet. Her eyes were wide with fear, and her wings were trembling. Cyclone walked next to me, and took the egg out of the strap. He unbuckled the strap and put it on himself, strapping the egg to his chest.
He gave me a look and shifted his wings. Quite awhile ago, we talked about speechless signals. The signal he just gave me meant "I'll take the egg and meet you on the outskirts of the Sky Kingdom". I nodded, and he walked away. I heard his wing beats shortly after. I flipped my wing in a way that told Freezerburn to turned around. We turned around and confronted whoever was behind us.
"Mother." I said
"Ruby. Where are you going with that cursed dragonet?" Mother said, glaring at Freezerburn
I didn't know what to do. Then Freezerburn began backing up while spreading her wings. I backed up to stay next to her. Freezerburn didn't know how to fly yet so I wasn't sure what she was doing. Mother began advancing towards us, and we were right next to a window. Then, Freezerburn stopped and turned her back to the window.
Her back spines started glowing a blue-purple, and she had the same colored smoke rising from the cracks of her mouth. She opened her mouth and aimed it at the ground. Then she shot out a blue-purple fire.
The fire itself wasn't hot, it was cold, and as the flames hit the floor, she slowly lifted off the ground. Freezerburn flew out the window, and I saw Mother lunge at me. I quickly took off out the window following Freezerburn.
I flew in front of Freezerburn and shot my own fire at her burst of flames, to push her forward. I turned around and didn't see Mother following us. Either way, I looked back at Freezerburn and saw she was losing hight in the air, so I shot a burst of fire at her stream of flames.
Then I found a clearing below us, I looked at my daughter and her strange way of flying. I dove down to the clearing and just as I landed, I saw Freezerburn fall out of the sky. As much as I knew it would burn, I had to save her. I held out my front talons, and caught Freezerburn in my talons.
It burned so badly, but I resisted the pain and put my daughter down, carefully. I looked at my talons, burnt, and with slight hints of ashes. I could feel slight tears running down my face. I wiped the tears off my face and winced at the pain of my tears hitting my burned talons.
I looked at Freezerburn and realized that she was lying down on the ground, breathing heavily. 1 of her front talons were weakling clawing at the ground, burning the grass underneath. I painfully walked up to my dragonet's side.
I knew I had to do something, but I didn't know what. After scavenging through thoughts of what to do, something stood out in my mind. I grabbed the necklace around my neck; a ruby encased in gold, with a silver chain,. I cupped it around my burned front talons, it hurt, but I had to pull through.
"Enchant this necklace to make the scales of the wearer to be impervious to fire and ice." I whispered, "And for the necklace itself to be impervious to fire and ice."
The necklace glowed for a moment, then slowly faded back to normal. I picked up Freezerburn and began to run to the outskirts of the Sky Kingdom. I ran on my hind legs for a long period of time, until I finally reach the spot that Cyclone and I chose for a situation like this.
Cyclone was standing outside the forest, looking around. When I came into his line of view, he began to walk up to me. I saw the ice blue egg still strapped to his chest. When he walked close enough to me to the point where our snouts could touch, I stopped running. I was breathing hard, and I saw Cyclone reach for Freezerburn, who had passed out, I quickly walked out of his reached.
"Did you..." He said
"Yes I did." I filled in, "I had to! I wasn't going to leave her there!"
We walked outside the forest, and I put Freezerburn down. I stared down at her for a long period of time, then I lifted my head and met Cyclone's eyes. He smiled at me, and I smiled back. I looked down at Freezerburn, then at the ice blue egg strapped to my husband's chest.
"I'll go hunt. You stay here and guard the egg and dragonet." I said
"No. You stay here and rest." He said, lightly grabbing one of my front talons, "I'll go hunt and get food."
I winced with pain, when his cold talons met my burned talons. Cyclone noticed and let go, then he smiled at me with all his teeth. I smiled back, and took he egg out of the strap, then put it on the ground. I pointed at the ground and pointed at the forest with one wing.
I picked up Freezerburn and Cyclone picked up our egg. We then moved to hide in a part of the forest where we couldn't be spotted, and wouldn't light anything on fire. We put down our egg and daughter. Then I then lifted one talon and flicked my tail.
He nodded and walked up to the egg, and stood there, guarding it. I left and grabbed a stack leaves from a nearby tree, and brought them to the egg. I put the leaves down and put the egg in the middle of the nest of leaves.
I looked at my passed out daughter, and moved the egg, then setting all the leaves on fire. I started stomping on the leaves to put out the fire. Then I place the egg in the middle of the ashes, I looked at my daughter and picked her up and placed her on the right side of the egg, placing a few ashes in between them.
I lay down next to my daughter, and put one wing over both her and the egg. I nose bumped my daughter, and I could feel her breathing. I looked at Cyclone and he smiled, then left to go hunting. I could see one of the moons through the cracks of the leaves above.
I waited for a long time and began to get worried. I had my daughter's head lying on my front talons and her breathing was starting to level out. After a few more minutes, I saw movement in the distances. I tighten my hold on the egg and my daughter as whatever was out there approached.
When creature out there entered my peripheral vision, I let out a sigh of relief. It was just Cyclone, coming back with a large goat in his mouth. As he came closer, he dropped the goat in front of me. I looked at Freezerburn and saw her starting to move. She opened her eyes, and yawned, sending out smoke. Freezerburn looked up at me and smiled with all her teeth. I smiled back, and ripped a peice of the goat off, putting it in front of Freezerburn. 
Freezerburn looked at it, at me, then back. I picked up the piece of meat and tore a small piece of it, setting it down in front of Freezerburn again. I ripped another piece of goat and ate it. She looked at me, and ate the piece that was in front of her. I smiled and gave her another piece. Cyclone came over and lay down next to me. 
We ate the goat, and I felt better after not eating for a day. After eating, Freezerburn fell asleep, and Cyclone volunteered to guard first, so I slept. Eventually, I was woken up and guarded, so he could sleep. Staying down with my wing still on top of my dragonet and egg. Looking around, making sure no one was around. 
I could feel Freezerburn's short breaths underneath my wing, and was still trying to figure out why her breathing was done in short breaths. 
Maybe her lungs really are just weak. I thought, looking at Freezerburn sleeping, It can't be the smoke, and her nose isn't covered. 
As the night went on, the moons got higher in the sky. Cyclone woke up and told me to sleep. That he would take guard. I tried to argue but he didn't take any of it, so I slept. He woke me up the next morning, and I had a feeling that the remaining egg would hatch in the next month or so.
"Hey. Can I name the next dragonet?" Cyclone asked
"Sure. I got to name the first one. You name the other." I responded
I hope we don't get caught in the mean time. I thought gloomily
=== Part 2: Wings of Ice ===
Cyclone's POV
About 2 months passed, and Ruby and I were still hiding from the SkyWing. I was out hunting as Ruby stayed back guarding the egg, and teaching Freezerburn. Hunting and finding water was what I would do when we needed to.
I returned to our hiding spot with a two goats, and set them down in front of Ruby, whom was lying down, one wing over the egg, watching Freezerburn. Our daughter was curiously poking at a rock, leaving burn marks on it.
"Freezerburn." I called
"Hmm." She said, " Oh. Is it time to eat already?"
I nodded and she walked over to the goats, and ripped a chunk out of one. She walked away from the goats, and set her chunk down, starting to munch on it. I lay down and pulled out a chunk myself and started eating, as Ruby did the same.
"Well, anything happen while I was hunting?" I asked, trying to start a conversation
"Nothing really." Ruby responded, "Although the egg started shaking."
"Not much is an understatement." Freezerburn said, swallowing a piece of goat, "Mother, you forgot to tell Father that, we saw a SkyWing patrol pass by."
"What?" I said, my eyes widening, "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I'm sorry." Ruby responded, "I was still shaken from the event. They almost spotted us. I heard them say to kill me on sight."
"Well, next time tell me if something like this happens." I said sharply, and Ruby's head drooped and she shitfed her wings, looking hurt
I said that a little too harshly. I thought, She said that they would kill her on sight. I can't let that happen.
I stood up and walked up to Ruby, lying down next to her. I put one wing on her back, and she leaned into me, frowning. Freezerburn looked at us and looked worried, finishing her chunk of cooked goat meat. Ruby ripped another piece of goat off, and began to eat it.
"I'm sorry. Ruby, are you alright?" I asked, trying to make her feel happy
"Yes. I'm ok." Ruby responded, closing her eyes, "Thank you for coming back, as soon as you could."
"Anything for you Fire Plume." I said, smiling
Ruby smiled, keeping her eyes closed. Freezerburn was watching us with her golden eyes, until I saw her ears twitch. She looked up, and sighed of relief. I looked up and no one was there. Ruby's eyes suddenly opened, and she got up, looking at the egg.
Freezerburn and I walked up to the egg, looking curiously. The egg was shaking vigorously and cracks were appearing on the ice blue surface. Slowly, an ice blue IceWing head popped out. He bursted the egg revealing his ice blue scales. He looked more IceWing then SkyWing.
He had two rows of ice blue IceWing scales, then the rest of him had slightly lighter colored SkyWing scales. He had dark red IceWing spikes on his neck, and running down his spine. His underbelly was a dark red-orange, and his horns were straight then curled upwards.
His wing membrane was orange gradating into red. He looked at me with his dark blue eyes, and smiled. I picked him up and he nose bumped me. Freezerburn smiled and sat down. I was quite happy to see him. I was think about names for him and I thought of one that was perfect.
"How about Frostfire?" I asked, giving Frostfire to Ruby
"It's perfect." Ruby responded
Ruby put Frostfire down, and Freezerburn smiled at him. He walked up to his sister, and opened his wings. I tried to stop him, but when he wrapped his wings around Freezerburn, nothing happened. Freezerburn looked extremely uncomfortable, as if she didn't like hugs. I looked at Ruby and she looked just as confused.
"Do you think. I mean. Do you-" I stammered
"Yes. He seems impervious to her firescales." Ruby said, tapping both our dragonets on the head
Frostfire let go of his sister, and Freezerburn grabbed a piece of goat meat and gave it to her brother. He looked at it, and I ate a piece and then Frostfire began to eat his piece. We all finished both goats, as the sun started to set.
5 months
=== Ruby's POV ===
The sun was setting and that made me feel afraid. Cyclone had left to get more food and water. I lay there with our dragonets lying under my wing. I heard wing beats above me, then they suddenly stopped. I didn't hear much anymore, then heard dragons descending.
They're coming this way. I thought worryingly
I picked up our dragonets, and left to hide beneath the trees. A SkyWing patrol was looking around in the area where me and Cyclone had been hiding for the past few months. The SkyWings were looking around, studying every inch of the area.
Where's Cyclone? I thought, keeping my dragonets close
"This is the only place we didn't check. Look every single spot here." An orange SkyWing commanded, "Her Majesty wasn't happy when we came back empty handed." He continued, "You 4, check in the forest."
Oh no. I thought starting to back up
The SkyWings nodded, and 2 were walking in my direction. My heart began pounding very hard that I could have sworn one of my dragonets' head twitched. One of the SkyWings looked in my direction and stared at me for a long period of time. Then she yelled, "There she is!"
I turned around and started running but I wasn't fast enough. The SkyWings caught up to me and grabbed my forelegs, and pulled me back, making me drop my dragonets. I tried to shoot a burst of flames at them but, they clamped my snout shut with their talons.
Frostfire and Freezerburn got up and stared at the dragons dragging me away from them. Freezernurn took a step towards me, but I shook my head vigorously, trying to make it look like I was trying to escape. She stopped and looked at me with a worried expression.
They stood there in the shadows and it seemed the SkyWings didn't notice them. I tried to escape their grip, but their grip was tough. I was dragged out of the forest, and threw me to the ground. I tried to get up, but a SkyWing pinned me to the ground.
I felt something heavy clamp my wings, and I realized that they had clamped my wings together. I tried getting up again, but the SkyWing was heavy and pinned me down harder.
"Princess Ruby." the SkyWing said, " You shouldn't have escaped like that. Your mother was furious with you."
I didn't say anything, and I saw movement in the distance.
Oh no, Cyclone no. I thought, I need help but, don't get hurt.
Cyclone walked into the moonlight and dropped the mountain goat that was hanging in his mouth when he saw me being pinned to the ground.
"Get off her, Cloud." He said menacingly
Cloud? That's why he sounded so familiar. I thought, trying to look up at him
He added more weight onto me making me wince with pain. Cyclone started growling, and Cloud shot a burst of flames dangerously close to my face. The heat crackled near my eye, and felt like passing out. Cyclone took a menacing step towards Cloud but SkyWings that were about his size, blocked him.
"What do you want with her, Cloud?" He asked, sending out hints of frostbreath
"Her Majesty has been searching for a long time." Cloud explained, adding more weight to my head, "My group just happen to find her. With an added bonus of you."
I tried hitting Cloud with my back talons, but he seemed to notice, "Pin her legs down." He commanded. Two SkyWings, one dark orange, the other blood red, grabbed my back talons, pinning them to the ground.
Feeling frustrated, I succeeded on hitting Cloud with my tail. He staggered forward, crushing my head. "Get her tail!" He told a SkyWing. The SkyWing pounced on my tail, and I yelped with pain, as she dug her claws into it.
"Hey! Watch it-" Cyclone started
"Oh please. " Cloud said mockingly, "You care so much about her, but I was the one that was meant for her." Cloud dug his claw into my snout and dragged them upwards, ripping my snout and forehead. His back talons' claws were practically in my back. He brought one of his front talons below my wing.
I screamed with pain, as he tore that part of my underbelly apart. Blood spilled onto the grass, and my underbelly looked more blood red than, fiery yellow. It was torturous the way he did it. Slowly ripping my underbelly to almost nothing.
I felt like I was going to pass out, from blood lose, but I pulled through once again, trying to get up. Cloud raised his talons, pushing me back down. His talons were covered in my blood, and I saw Cyclone's face, twisted with fury and worry.
"Ok. I have a question for you Cloud." He said sitting down.
"What is it then?" Cloud responded
"What do you want from us?" Cyclone said, closing his eyes, "I'm asking this so then you can let Ruby go."
Cloud smiled, "Well. We want both of you. The both of you come back with us, unharmed." Cloud looked at his blood covered talons, smiling again, "Well, more or less."
Cyclone now just looked worried. He probably knew how much blood I must have lost now, but now I had a question. "Hey Cloud." I said, pushing back how much pain I was in, "How did you find us?"
Now he looked smug as ever. "Well, it was honestly one of the best ideas Her Majesty has ever had." He said, smugly smiling, "We got Princess Tourmaline and put her in a cage, in the imprisonment tower. Chaining her inside it."
"But how did you find us? You didn't-" I trailed off,
Cloud started laughing, "We tortured her, making her spill all the info we needed."
"She would never reveal anything to you!" I said, smoking rising from my nostrils
"Oh, the torture was not letting her eat ever since you left."
I felt horrible. These crazy SkyWings didn't let my sister eat since I left which was about 7 months. She had to be hungry, or she could be dead.
"And if you agree to come with us, I'll make sure to put you in cages where you can see each other." Cloud continued
"Alright fine. We'll go with you." I said, feeling less crushed when Cloud got off of me
Cyclone immediately rushed over to me, wrapping his wings around me. "Well let's go" Cloud said gathering his SkyWing patrol. Cyclone put me on his back, and followed Cloud to the imprisonment tower.
We entered the tower and I immediately saw Tourmaline in one of the cages. Heavy chains were clamped to her, front and back talons, tail, wings, and mouth. She was insanely skinny, to the point where most of her bones where seen under her scales.
I ran to her, and she weakly raised her head. I saw that the chains had rubbed her scales raw, and her scales were very pale. I put one of my front talons out and she weakly put out her's to rest on my own.
"Can you at least take the clamp around her mouth off?" I asked, " I mean it's not like she can use her fire."
Cloud shrugged and removed the clamp from Tourmaline's mouth. I wanted to hug her but couldn't through the bars. Cloud put me in the cage right across from her, and Cyclone the cage next to me. The SkyWings put chains on us as well, but didn't chain our mouths.
They all left afterwards, leaving us alone. I looked Tourmaline's horrible condition, and felt a stab of guilt that she held out this long for me.
"I'm glad you're back Ruby." She said, her voice extremely raspy
I nodded, "Tourmaline. How did you survive 7 months without food?"
She coughed hoarsely, "They gave me water every now and then, but never any food."
"I can tell." I said, looking at her skinny body, "Don't worry. I'll get you out of there, and some food for you."
"Oh, don't worry about me." She said, "They'll bring food for you guys, but will forbid any food for me."
"No Tourmaline." I responded sharply, "I'll wait for them to leave and give you some of mine."
Tourmaline smiled weakly, "Thanks you, Ruby. I really appreciate it."
I nodded, and my sister rested her head on her talons. She closed her eyes, and seemed to be sleeping. Her breathing rattled her ribs every time she took a breath. I could hear Cyclone's snoring, so I decided to sleep as well.
I hope Freezerburn and Frostfire are ok. I thought as I drifted off
I woke up the next morning to Cloud, whom had 2 goats, hanging from his mouth.
"Here." He said, handing one goat for me and Cyclone, "Don't get your hopes up on any food. You already had your ration of water" He said sternly to Tourmaline, making her wilt.
Arg. Cloud you make it so hard to like you. I thought growling
Cloud left and when he was out of earshot, I ripped a large piece of goat and gave it to Tourmaline. She looked so happy. Well, the happiest she'd been since I got here. She immediately started eating, and I could tell it made her feel better.
"Thank you so much Ruby." She said after swallowing a piece
I smiled and gave her more. Even after eating a bit, her voice was still super hoarse but, I hopped that this would at least help her survive. She happily ate her pieces, and she looked so happy.
"Ruby. If Cloud comes back a sees me different. As in. You know. Less skinny. He might clamp my mouth shut again." Tourmaline said, finishing another piece of goat, "And he'll probably light a fire in front of me, forcing me to breath in the smoke."
"What?!" I exclaimed. I knew Cloud wasn't the nicest SkyWing but I never thought he would do something that horrible. "Why would he do such a thing?!"
"He likes seeing me suffer. Oh no. He's coming." Tourmaline said, looking depressed again
"Alright, I know you have guest, but you didn't give the best info." Cloud said, roughly. He entered her cage and put down a load of wood in front of her. I was getting worried, when Cloud opened his mouth. He shot a burst of flames out, and it started a fire, on the wood.
"You know what that means." He said, hitting my sister hard on her back.
She looked so worried, and glanced at Cloud with worried eyes. He looked irritated, and shoved her head into the smoke. She instantly started coughing, and I could tell she was struggling for air. Her eyes were watering, and her tail was lashing behind her.
Cloud lifted her head from the smoke, letting her cough for a bit, only to shove her head back into the smoke. Her claws were trying to push Cloud away but she wasn't strong enough, due to her lack of nutrience. This was hard to watch, Cloud, torturing my sister, as she struggled to make him stop.
"Stop that, Cloud!" I screamed, leaping forward, grabbing the bars
"Are you kidding?" He said, pushing my sister's head deep in the fire, "I barely get to do this."
"Please stop, Cloud." my sister pleaded, coughing
Cloud looked so angry, he shoved Tourmaline's head even deeper into the fire. She was weakly clawing at Cloud's arm, but he didn't seem to notice. Tourmaline was coughing horribly, and after a long torturous time, the fire was out, and Tourmaline looked like she was going to pass out.
"Look ok. If you do become queen, I'll be your king no matter what, got it?!" Cloud growled at her
Tourmaline looked at him and nodded, coughing. Cloud left the imprisonment tower, growling, and it worried me about why he wanted to be king.
"Tourmaline. Are you ok?" I asked her, giving her a piece of goat
"Yeah. I'm fine." She said, coughing, "He does this very often."
I arched my brow. I never liked Cloud, but I never thought he was that cruel. I had to get Tourmaline out of here. I wasn't sure how much more she could take until she died. Inhaling that much smoke couldn't be good. Especially if he does it as often as she says.
"What does he mean by, 'I'll be your king no matter what'?" I asked
Tourmaline sighed, "Mother likes him a lot. She says that she would had over the throne for a while just to have Cloud rule for a bit." She started coughing again, "But what will he do to me if he has access to Mother's tools?"
I shook my head and Tourmaline, lie down resting her head on her talons.
"Don't worry Tourmaline. I'll get you out of here." I said to her
She shook her head. "You don't need to. Mother's stepping out tomorrow, so I become queen for a bit. But honestly, I think it's just so then Cloud can lead."
"No Tourmaline! He's getting you out just so then the torture hurts you more!" I yelled, and her eyes looked at me, "I'm getting you out of here, if it's the last thing I do! You need to become healthy again, and the only way to do that, is to not let Cloud anywhere near you!"
"Ruby." Tourmaline said, meeting my eyes
I nodded, and shot fire and the bars.
"You know Ruby. The fire wasn't the worst." She said, "He sometimes freezes me. The fire warmed me up a little."
I stopped burning the bars and looked at her. "Tourmaline." I said, "You can't trust him."
"I know, but he forces everything." she said, starting to cry, "He doesn't care about how I feel, only uses me as a way to become a part of royalty. I have had enough of this but he doesn't care!"
Seeing my older sister cry like that was painful. So I focused on burning the bars. I heard something that sounding like metal breaking. Cyclone came out of his cage and helped me out with his frostbreath in combination with my fire.
I got out the helped my brokenly depressed sister out. Her bars and chains were stronger than the ones me and Cyclone had, but after a few tries we broke her out. She was crying hard, and when I got close to her, I could tell how cold she really was. Her cage was designed to keep her cold and never warm her up.
I wrapped my wings around her, trying to share heat with her. I didn't want to put her on Cyclone's back because then she would be even colder. So I put her on my back, even if she was larger than me, I pulled through and we slowly made our way to the same clearing where we left our dragonets.
=== Freezerburn's POV ===
Me and my brother, Frostfire were left there. Hidden in the forest, as she was dragged away from us.
"What do we do?" Frostfire asked
I thought for a moment, as the moons rose higher in the sky. "We wait the night out." I snuck out of the forest, grabbed the goat, and flew back to our hiding spot. I put the goat down, and went to a more secure spot.
We both ate in silence, making sure not to cause a commotion. We ate half the goat, and the moons were very high in the sky.
"Hey Frostfire. You sleep first. I'll stand guard." I said, flicking my tail
He shrugged and fell asleep. Staying awake was quite difficult, since I was really tired. After a long time, I lay down next to Frostfire, putting one wing on his back.
Hope Mother comes back. I thought as I fell asleep
The next morning I woke up, seeing Frostfire's dark blue eyes. He raised his head, and met my eyes. I smiled, and he smiled back. I heard the sound of rustling in the clearing. We lay there, as still as ever. Two dragons walked into the sunlight and we recognized them right away.
"Freezeruburn! Frostfire!" Mother called
We ran out of our hiding spot, and I hugged Mother right away.
"Freezerburn!" She exclaimed
Mother wrapped her wings around me, in a fierce hug. She put me down, and Frostfire rushed over to Father. He gave him a fierce hug as well. We sat there smiling at our parents. I realized that Mother had someone on her back.
"Who's on your back Mother?" I asked
"This is your aunt, Tourmaline." Mother said
Aunt Tourmaline was very skinny and her snout was horribly burned. The scales on her ankles, wrists, wings, snout, and tail seemed like they were rubbed raw. Mother slid Tourmaline off her back, and Tourmaline looked like she passed out.
"Tourmaline?" Mother said, leaning towards Tourmaline
Tourmaline groaned, "Ruby?" Our aunt looked like she's been through a lot, and just wants to go back to how she used to be.
"Cyclone. She needs food, and water." Mother said, lying down, and putting one wing on Tourmaline
Father nodded, and Frostfire lead him to half of a goat from out hiding spot, dragging it out to be placed in front of Aunt Tourmaline. She looked at it, but didn't eat.
"Tourmaline? You ok?" Mother asked
Tourmaline coughed out smoke, and looked sick. "I'm sorry, but I just feel like my stomach's doing flips." She looked at the goat, and took a piece anyways. She began to eat it, but looked like she was going to throw up.
I knew she was sad, so I tried to cheer her up, but something was stopping me from talking. I wrapped one talon around my throat, opening and closing my mouth. Mother looked at me with large worried eyes.
"Can you talk, Freezerburn?" She asked, grabbing my front talons
I tried talking again, but nothing came out. Mother let go of my talons, pacing around me, quietly muttering to herself. I couldn't tell what was happening, Mother suddenly grabbed my head, " Please, open your mouth, Freezerburn."
I did as I was told and opened my mouth. Mother look in my throat. She walked away shaking her head. She looked at a rock and ran her head into it, making me flinch.
"Ruby. Don't do that." Father said to Mother, putting a talon on her shoulder
"I know but.... I don't know what to do." She said, rubbing her head, "Wow. That was painful."
Father lightly punched Mother's shoulder. Frostfire walked over to me. I looked at him, not knowing what he was thinking. He grabbed my head, staring me in the eyes, then hit me hard on my snout. I opened my mouth, to yelp with pain, but nothing came out.
"Hmph." He said, letting go of me, "I could have sworn that would have worked."
I glared at him, rubbing my snout.
"Maybe I could..." Aunt Tourmaline hesitated, reaching out to me, "Just...." Aunt Tourmaline grabbed my talons, and I saw her wince with pain from the burning feeling from my scales. She muttered something through the pain, and let go of my talons.
She started blowing on her talons, shaking off ashes. I felt horrible, that it had happened.
"Sorry. I can't control it." I said, shutting my mouth
Did I just... Talk? I thought
"What... Happened?" I said, my eyes wide as caves
Mother looked at me, then Tourmaline, and back. "Tourmaline.... How did you do that?"
"I uh... Well..." She stammered, rubbing her front talons together, "Um... Ruby. You remember when Mother said one of us, as in, us and our siblings, had a genetic defect?"
Mother nodded.
"Well. That defected dragonet was me." Tourmaline continued, "I born animus, like you , but there's a catch for me. Every time I use my animus magic, I lose a certain part of my over all lifespan."
Mother gasped, "You... You don't mean..."
"Yes. The bigger the enchantment, the more years I lose."
I held my talons to my chest. My Aunt had sacrificed about a year of her lifespan for me. I wanted to hug her, but that would only burn her.
"You didn't have to do that." Mother said quietly, "I could have done it myself."
Tourmaline shook her head, "No You can become queen, so save your sanity."
"What about you?" Father asked
"Are you kidding?" She said, "With Cloud, it would be impossible to last a day as queen."
Mother and Father both nodded, realizing about the terrible truth. Me and Frostfire were very confused. I wondered what they were talking about.
"Mother." I asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Oh right." Mother said, "I'll tell you both now."
=== Few weeks later ===
Tourmaline's POV
How much longer can we hide for? I thought, fiddling with a piece of grass between my talons
Few weeks had passed, and we were hiding fairly well. We saw very few SkyWing patrols, but none of them spotted us. Although, I had a feeling that we would be spotted soon.
"You going to eat?" Ruby asked
"Oh. Yeah sure." I responded
After a few weeks of eating, I was almost back to full health. My voice was less raspy, my scales, were a bit less pale, I was breathing properly, and I had gain quite a bit of body fat, so then my bones weren't visible through my scales.
We all ate and finished 3 goats. To be honest, I never thought that the SkyWing patrols didn't check this area. I never saw Cloud in any of the patrols, but now that I thought about it, I had a feeling he was just taking Mother's place, since me and Ruby are the only heirs left.
And we're both gone, I thought looking up
Freezerburn suddenly perked up, her ears twitching, "SkyWings. Coming here. Now." She whispered. We reacted instantly.
"Ruby, Cyclone. Take your dragonets and hide. I'll hold them off." I told them
"Are you sure?" Ruby said, picking up her dragonets
"Just go!" I yelled, flaring my wings
I'm sorry if that was rough, but that's one of the only ways I can get you to be safe from them, I thought, seeing Ruby flinch back
She hesitated, looking at me with a worried expression. I kept a fierce look on my face, to show how serious I was about it. Ruby then turned around running into the forest, with Cyclone not to far behind. I saw her stop where she was very well hidden, so I let out a relieved sigh.
I might not live to tomorrow, but at least she will, I thought, smiling
The SkyWings descended in the area, I recognized that Cloud and he was smiling smugly at me. I just arched my brow at him.
"Seems like you're back to good health, Tourmaline." He said, landing in front of me. He reached out to grab my talon, but I pulled away. "How did you escape? Why would you escape from me?"
"For too many reason to count." I responded, roughly
He barked a laugh, "You are very funny, Tourmaline." He tackled me to the ground, pinning my shoulders to the ground with is front talons. "And we'll take you back to the Sky Kingdom, making sure you can't escape."
He dug his claws into my shoulder, making me wince. Cloud took his front talons off my shoulders and pressed them on my chest, making me cough.
"I... Have had.... Enough..... Of coughing." I said, between coughs
He looked at me confused, and pressed his talons harder on my chest. I tried pushing him off, but he was very heavy. He notice me struggling, and smiled smugly. I wanted to do this without bloodshed, but I had to get him off me.
I dug my claws into his shoulders, making him yelp with pain. I pushed his chest and used my back talons to pull him off. I felt like I could breath again, I got up quickly and ran to the forest. I saw Cloud struggling to his feet. When he got up, he started looking around with vicious eyes.
"Where are you?" He snarled
I backed up, keeping myself in the shadows.
We should be fighting other tribes, I thought, almost tripping on a root, Not each other.
Cloud spotted me and slowly made his way towards me. He started running, and I turned around, opening my wings to fly, but he was faster than I expected. He pounced on my back, ripping my wing membrane.
I kept my mouth shut, keeping myself from screaming out with pain. If I did, it would concern Ruby, and she would put herself in danger, to help me.
I can't let that happen, I thought
"Tourmaline!" Ruby's voice screamed,
Don't come here, Ruby, I thought, my eyes going wide
"Help!" She screamed
Then, a very familiar roar. Cloud smiled smugly down at me. "Seems like someone has arrived."
I abruptly got up, making him fall over, yelping with surprise. I grabbed his tail, slamming him into a tree, then quickly ran to where Ruby's screams came from. I got there and saw Mother, Queen Scarlet, with her claws wrapped around Ruby's throat.
I shot a bust of flames at Mother, making her let go of Ruby with a yelp of pain. I barrelled into Mother, making her crash into a boulder, shattering it. I picked up Ruby, hugging her tightly.
"Thanks for coming." She said, when I put her down
"Always." I said, nudging her side
Cyclone was in a tree, and slowly came down. I noticed that he had a large slash across his side, that was bleeding horribly. Frostfire and Freezerburn slipped off of Cyclone's back. Frostfire had a very small cut on his chest, that was bleeding dark blue. Freezerburn had multiple small bleeding cuts on her. Her claws had a small amount of blood on them, and I assumed that she had tried to protect her brother from her grandmother.
"You all ok?" I asked
"Yeah. Not to bad." Cyclone said, shrugging
"Not to bad?!" Ruby said, punching Cyclone's shoulder, "Look at you side. Bleeding really badly, and you say it's not so bad?!"
He looked down at her, "Sorry, but I really didn't think it was that bad."
Ruby shook her head. We heard movement and noticed that Mother had gotten up, making her way towards us with Cloud right next to her. Mother and Cloud approached us, and now were right in front of us.
"Why did you run away... Again?' Mother snarled
Freezerburn reach out for something, and darted towards Scarlet. I saw a flash of light, and in a swift movement, a large red gash went across Mother's chest. Mother yelped with pain, stepping back multiple steps, clutching her wound.
I looked at my niece and saw she was holding a bloody knife. The knife wasn't melting, not even burning. Cloud was glaring at her, but didn't jump at her, probably noticing the smoke rising from her scales.
"Wretched dragonet..." Cloud growled
Both Scarlet, and Cloud, attack us, and pushed my nephew and niece away from us.
"No!" Ruby yelled
Cyclone tried to fight Cloud but, I knew as good as a fighter Cyclone was, Cloud was more experienced. Cloud grabbed Cyclone's head, slamming it against a rock. Cyclone's eyes went white, and he fell to the ground, motionless.
I saw tears run down Ruby's face, and I tackled her, saving her from a burst of flames. Ruby got up and growled at Cloud. I didn't see Freezerburn or Frostfire anywhere.
"Where are my dragonets?" Ruby hissed
Cloud snorted, "Why do you care?"
Ruby's eyes were wide with rage. I grabbed her, before she could lunge at him. I looked at her in the eyes, and she calmed down a small amount. Mother stood next to Cloud, her wound bleeding less.
"Your dragonet?" Mother said, wiping blood off her talons, "You wont need to worry about them."
Mother pulled something out, and a sharp pain went through my head. I yelped with pain, and all went dark. Just before things went dark, I heard Ruby scream with pain.
== Chapter 1: Burning Murder ==
Freezerburn's POV
*** 
4 years later
Another day, another murder, I thought, sighing
"Come on sis," My brother, Frostfire said, tugging on my wing, "Grandmother is getting angry."
How is that different from how she always is? I thought, 
"Come on!" He said, almost pulling me off my sleeping platform,
"Ugh. Bother Fang instead." I said, covering my head with my wings
"Fine." He responded, hitting me with his tail
I unwrapped my wings from my head, and watched him tugging on Fang's tail, trying to get her up. I smiled and knew Fang would blame me for it.
"Oh three moons!" Fang yelled, getting up, "This is your fault Freezerburn!"
I bursted into laughter, rolling off my sleeping platform, and landing on top of my brother.
"Get off me!" He yelled
"You should try and stop laughing too, or else you're gonna have the biggest troubles breathing." Fang informed
I nodded, recovering from the laugh attack, coughing a bit. "Ok, ok. What do we need to do?" 
"Well, first you get off me, then we go to the dining hall. Probably to get scolded by Grandmother, and you guys go to the arena." Frostfire said, smacking me with one of his talons
Fang barked a laugh, "Well, the arena part sounds like fun, but being scolded? No way!"
Not the arena... I thought, but instead I said, "Yeah. The arena. What fun! Being scolded by my grandmother? Oh like that's different."
We all laughed, and I got off of my brother. I picked up my knife, that was sitting on a rock, near a giant picture of my Grandmother, and sharpened it.
"You really need to bring that?" Fang asked, twining her tail with mine
"Well, I might need it." I said, brushing her wing
She shrugged, and untwined her tail. Frostfire had already left and was probably half way to the dining hall. Fang looked at me, and we both made our way to the dining hall. Entering the dining hall was always stressful. 
There was always so many dragons there. So many dragons to accidentally burn, but after awhile SkyWings knew when I was coming, and knew to get out of the way, or get burned.
"Ah. It took you way to long." Grandmother said, flicking her tail
"Sorry." We all said, bowing
She shook her head, and flicked her tail at plates of food, left for us. We all sat down in front of the plates of food. Fang had a slab of meat, Frostfire had a few fish, and I had a chicken. We bowed to my Grandmother, and she let us eat. We ate all the food that was there, which was never enough to fill us.
"Now you two!" Scarlet yelled, pointing at me and Fang, "Go to the arena and prepare for battle! I see you holding that knife, granddaughter, don't you try using that on me. You'd both better make this interesting, because the both of you might be a little surprised on what I'm trying out this time."
We both nodded, "And you!" Grandmother yelled, pointing at Frostfire, making him flinch, "Make sure that things stay interesting." 
He nodded and we all bowed, then left to get ready for our new orders. Fang and I prepared for the arena. I sharpened my knife, and Fang was sharpening her claws. Frostfire had left earlier than us, since he had to go with Grandmother. He told us that Burn was coming this time, so we had to make it super interesting.
We were then called into the arena, and my uncle, Vermillion, called both of us. Usually, only one of us gets called, but this time both of us got called. We stepped behind the bars, ready for battle.
"Dragons!" I heard Vermillion announce, "Today, we have a special battle! It will be a tag team battle!"
All the dragons started to cheer. We looked through the bars, and saw Vermillion spread his wings, signalling everyone to be quiet. "Today, our two champions, Fang and Freezerburn, will be facing off against 2 IceWing Princes!"
The crowd started to cheer. IceWing Princes? Cold cold cold. Not happy. I thought, a shiver going down my spine. Fang put one wing on my back, and I calmed down, warming up. She took her wing off, and we walked into the arena, when our names were called.
The crowd started cheering. "And for there opponents, Prince Icywind and Prince Iceshard!"
SlyWings flew up to unchain the IceWing Princes, and placed them into the arena. "Claws up! Tails ready! Fight" Vermillion yelled, flying out of the arena, sitting on his perched.
The IceWing Princes weren't new here. They had 2 wins each, and defeated the dragons they did, without any wounds. Which, too be honest, is pretty impressive. In this arena that is. After what Grandmother had told me, these IceWings had a necklace with a single circle on it.
I did research about IceWing government with Fang, and it said that, depending on how many circles on the necklace would tell other dragons what circle they were in. Since these IceWings had one circle, it meant that they were in the highest rank, but that didn't mean they could beat me or Fang. And we were tag teaming so it would be even harder for them.
But Grandmother said make it interesting, I thought, looking at Burn whom was sitting next to Grandmother, Or else we suffer something really bad.
"Come on. Why are we fighting a low level cursed SkyWing, and a strange RainWing." Prince Icywind said, looking unamused
Prince Iceshard nodded, and Fang and I growled deep in our throats.
"Let's get this over with." Prince Iceshard said, waving his talons
"Yeah. We kill the champions, and go back to the Ice Kingdom." Icywing responded, flexing his talons
"We'll see about that." Fang growled
Icywind and Iceshard snorted, "Yeah sure. Have you ever felt frostbreath in your eyes? Or seeing one of your limbs fall off?"
I rolled my eyes. "Look ok. I get it. You're terrifying."
The IceWings started growling. "You shouldn't talk to an IceWing prince like that." Iceshard snarled, standing in what was called "The IceWing Warrior Pose".
Urh. IceWings. I thought, rolling my eyes
Fang and I sighed. "Hey. Since this fight is supposed to be interesting, we'll break the bindings on your wings, as long as you don't escape."
The IceWings looked at each other, then at the bindings. "Why should we trust you?" Icywind asked, arching his brow
Fang shook her head. "We want to give you a fair chance." she said, pressing one of her talons to her head.
"Even if you try to escape, all these dragons will stop you." I said, scratching my ear
The dragons in the stadium started roaring, yelling at us to make thing interesting. I ran up to the IceWings, burning the bindings off, making them flinch, then ran back to Fang's side. The crowd cheered, and yelled for more blood, and death.
The IceWings flexed their wings, then crouched into a poise looking like they were ready to fight. Fang flexed out her talons and wings, and I did the same.
"Ready?" I asked Fang
She nodded, and we darted at the IceWings. They yelped with surprise, and Fang bit down hard on IcyWind's neck. I grabbed Iceshard's neck and threw his across the arena, leaving burns on his neck. Fang threw Icywind to the ground, grabbing his tail, and swinging him around and around and around. Finally letting go of his tail, slamming him into his cousin, Iceshard.
"Am I a low level SkyWing now?" I said, walking towards them
"And am I just a weird looking RainWing?" Fang said, walking next to me
The IceWings groaned, and got up to their feet.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Icywind snarled
Icywind darted at us, and at the moment of panic, I pulled out my knife and stabbed him straight in the abdomen. I dragged the knife upwards, making Icywind scream in agony. Fang was grappling with Iceshard, a face of pure rage and anger splintered across his face.
I quickly pulled the knife out of Icywind's side, leaving a mark that looked like half a capital T in his underbelly. Royal blue blood covered my front talons, and knife. I saw Fang get thrown to the ground. I took my knife and stabbed Icywind in the heart, to make sure his torturous life was over. 
I heard Fang scream with pain, and saw Iceshard ripping his claws through her neck. Her screams where piercing my heart, and I darted at the IceWing prince, tearing him off of Fang. She screamed with pain again, and I noticed that his claws tore out of her previous wounds.
I stabbed Iceshard multiple times in the back, as he roared with agony. Iceshard tore my forearms apart, and I bit my tongue to prevent myself from screaming. Iceshard took a deep breath in, and I knew what he was going to do, but didn't react fast enough.
He hissed out frostbreath straight at me, freezing my neck, forearms, and chest.
Cold. Cold Cold. So very cold. I thought, feeling the heat seep out of my body
Iceshard grabbed my forearms, and kicked me hard in the underbelly, his serrated claws, ripping my underbelly. I coughed up smoke, and Iceshard threw me across the arena. My head was dazzled from everything that had just happened.
All I could hear was roaring, and the sound of talons walking on sand. I saw the blurred versions of Fang and Iceshard. She brought his eyes to line up with her fangs, and shot venom straight into them. He yelped with pain, but then fell to the ground. Dead.
Fang walked over to me helping me up.
"And that concludes the battle!" Vermillion said, flying down to the arena, "Our champions, Fang and Freezerburn, after a tough, thrilling battle, took the IceWing princes down!"
The crowd started to cheer loudly. "Thanks for coming, and get ready for the battle tomorrow!" Vermillion finished, and SkyWings came down to clean up the bodies of the IceWing princes. All the dragons in the arena left, flying to the dining hall, for dinner.
Grandmother had the expression that meant 'it was thrilling, but could have been better'. Burn on the other talon looked like she just wanted more blood in the battle. Or maybe she just wanted one of their heads.
"Come on Freeze. We should get out of here." Fang said, starting to leave the arena
I nodded, and we both left the arena, as my brother flew down with us. We were never allowed to eat with a guest around. Even if not, we never ate dinner in the dining hall. SkyWings would bring us food, and water so we would have dinner.
We entered our room, and Frostfire went to his bucket of stuff, searching for something. I sat down, and Fang left to get a roll of cloth, that was hidden in a crevice. She took it out, and wrapped some of it around my forearms. I took it, then wrapped some around her neck.
"What about you underbelly?" She asked
"Nothing bad. It's alright." I responded
"Hey. The enchantment you put on that roll of cloth was genius." Frostfire said, walking up to us
I shrugged.
"It really was." Fang said, bumping my side, "Enchanting this roll, to heal wounds at a slightly faster rate, for it not to be able to burn, and whenever it runs out, it will slowly make more of itself, with the same enchantment."
"I guess it was pretty cool, but it's not like it was so big that I'm going crazy or anything." I said, washing my knife and talons
Fang and I washed our talons of blood, and lit a fire to warm up. The SkyWings came and brought us food. We ate dinner, and had our own little conversation around the fire.
"So, just a random question. Who do you think our parents are?" Fang asked
"I don't know. Maybe our parents are weird looking. You know what I mean?" Frostfire said, poking me with his tail
"Maybe, but Grandmother said their gone. So should we even think about them?" I asked
"Yeah, but be optimistic! They could just be wandering the world." Frostfire said happily
I shook my head. "Frostfire. Our parents are mostly likely dead. Grandmother told us their gone." I said, raising my front talons, "What about your thoughts on your parents, Fang?"
"Um.... Well.... Her Majesty says that my mother tried to kill me, and Queen Scarlet saved me from her. Killing her as a punishment." Fang said, looking really sad, "But... I have these super blurry memories of some other dragon that looked like me, but metallic orange. But I doubt it's anything special."
"Probably. It's probably just your imagination." Frostfire said
"Well, I can relate." I said, tapping one claw against my jaw, "I have extremely blurry memories of a red dragon, that had similar features to me, but I think it is just imagination."
Fang and Frostfire nodded. My brother looked down at his talons. "I have a similar extremely blurry memory. Except, I remember a large orange SkyWing, with hints of blue. The SkyWing also had large spikes, but since it's so blurry, it's probably just a memory from a dream."
We all nodded, and sighed, letting out all our sadness. The SkyWings came in a gave us food and water. We ate and drank the water, still feeling hungry. The SkyWings came back and took the plates and bowls. It was very late at night, and we were all very tired.
Fang had already fallen asleep, along with my brother. Fang would wince with pain with every breath. I, on the other talon, was still awake. I was tired, but couldn't fall asleep. The sounds of dragons, and my thoughts kept me awake. I was confused about many things.
Who are our parents? Are they still alive? But one question that Grandmother never mentions, but I always ask; why can't any of us go to the other side of the palace, or in that general area? We would try to go there sometimes but, Grandmother would always stop us. We could never go to that area.
I, in particular, would get yelled at for trying to go there. Sometimes, Grandmother would hit me with a metal pole, and it hurt a lot. My jaw always felt dislocated, but it never was. Sometimes, Grandmother would hit me for no apparent reason. 
I looked over at Fang, Her belly must hurt. Grandmother can actually hit her, but mostly just kicks her in the belly. 
I got up and decided to take a small walk around the palace. I went right passed the dining hall, without anyone noticing, and continued to the door where I wasn't allowed to go to. No one was there, and I had an urge to go through, but if I did, I would leave burn marks on the door.
I let out a sigh of sadness, and walked away. I came back to our room, and set myself down on my sleeping platform. After a very long time, I fell asleep.
The next day, was the same, but without any battling. Fang, Frostfire and I had a little performance for the remaining prisoners. Fang played a large instrument that had multiple keys on it. My brother played drums, and I played a guitar.
The day went by, and Grandmother had Burn stay the night. Burn would be staying for another day, which made me feel strangely scared. I hoped that things wouldn't get to bad. That Burn wouldn't try to hurt any of us. Even if not, she made me feel weary.
Don't be afraid. You can protect them. I thought, walking back into our room, after a long performance.
== Chapter 2: Purple ==
Frostfire's POV
Days had passed since my sister and Fang had murdered those IceWing princes. I didn't take it to badly. Things weren't so bad, but my sister found an axe, and it didn't burn in her talons. She never used it, but kept it around. Sometimes she would reach for it, to look at it, but never use it.
Today, we were in our room, waiting for our food. My sister was holding the axe the whole time. The food finally came and we all ate it, still not full. My sister was looking at her axe, creepily. I was really worried, and Fang seemed that way too.
She stood up, and walked to the doorway, not turning her face to us. 
"Um... You ok, Freeze?" Fang asked, walking to my sisters side, "Um... Freeze?"
She didn't say anything. Instead, she wrapped the axe around Fang's neck. Fang's eyes went wide with fear. I ran up to my sister, and realized, all her scales were different shades of purple. Her eyes were white glowing and lifeless. A creepy smile stretched across her face, pulling the axe harder against Fang's neck, making her wince.
My sister let Fang go, and walked towards the dining hall.
Oh no. She's going to kill everyone there. I thought, helping Fang up
She was clutching her neck breathing heavily.
"We need to stop her." Fang said, looking me in the eyes
I nodded, "You stay here. I'm afraid she might kill you." she twinned her tail with mine, and I felt my face heat up. Signalling that I was blushing. She untwined her tail and went to her sleeping platform.
I bumped her nose with my own, and left to go chase after my sister. She was standing at the doorway of the dining hall, holding the axe in a creepy, possessed way. She then darted into the room, slashing at SkyWings.
The entire hall blew up. Dragons screaming, running, and trying to fly away. Grandmother and Grandfather weren't there. All the SkyWings were trying to fly away, but some weren't so lucky. 3 SkyWing corpses lay dead on the floor, and my sister wasn't done yet.
She turned to watch all the panicking SkyWings, and entered the dining hall. All the SkyWings screamed, flying out the doorway, right past my sister. I ducked to avoid getting hit.
"Run!" yelled multiple SkyWings
"Kill her!" yelled others
"We need to get out of here!" others screamed
SkyWings bursted out of the dining hall, and into the sky, but some didn't make it out. 5 more SkyWings lay dead on the floor, pools of blood around their bodies. There were no more SkyWings left in the hall, and my sister, turned to the doorway, and exited the hall.
I hid in the shadows, and she walked right pass me. I let out a sigh of relief, and quietly followed her. She made her way to the place where we were forbidden to go. The large metal door came into view, and she slashed the door multiple times with her axe, and broke it open.
Freezerburn began to walk into the hall, past the doors. I hesitated and followed her. She stopped at a large window, and flew out. I followed, and saw multiple SkyWings fall out of the sky.
This is insane. I thought, flying towards my sister
She continued to murder SkyWings, and it lasted for so long. After a long while, my sister stood in the middle of SkyWing corpses, breathing heavily. She then collapsed, passing out. I flew down to her, picking her up. Her colors slowly shifted back to normal. Her breathing leveled out, and I brought her back to our room.
She was still clutching the axe, and it made me feel anxious. I arrived back in our room, and Fang ran up to us. I put my sister down and cleaned off blood from her scales. She had no wounds, only blood from her victims. Fang hugged her tightly,
She's going to be alright. I thought, The SkyWing Massacre is over.
== Chapter 3: Flaming Friend ==
Freezerburn's POV
What did I do? Why is everyone afraid of me? I thought, sighing with sadness
1 month pasted and I was feeling really neglected from the members of my tribe. I spent most of my day, lying down on my sleeping platform, only to go out for the occasional walk around the palace. Only to have SkyWings glare at me, some shoot fire at me, others grabbing something metal to hit me with.
It was painful. I hated it, but there was nothing I could do about it. Today, I was lying down on my sleeping platform, I wasn't even called out for the arena anymore. Fang always got called, and I stayed here, only getting a glare from Vermilion. 
I got up and decided to take a walk. I went to the arena and scanned the imprisoned dragons. Blue, greens of SeaWings, pale yellows of SandWings, and a single orange SkyWing. I was super confused, and flew up to the SkyWing.
He was pacing around his platform. I landed on his platform, and he didn't scream, faint, or try to fly away. Instead, he looked at me and smiled.
"Hi, how are you?" He asked me
I stared into yellow eyes. "I'm doing fine. What about you?" I asked sitting down.
He sat down and smiled. "I've been doing alright. Just...." He trailed off, lifting his wings, and talons. Showing the bindings.
"What happened?" I asked
He shifted his talons, "Well.... I'm kinda a meh subject, but during The SkyWing Massacre, I did nothing to stop the killer, and Her Majesty wants me to be a soldier. My father does as well."
Oh not the massacre. I thought
"Well, my father told me that I was a strong dragon, and would make a great soldier." He continued, "But was heavily disappointed when I didn't stop the killer. So due to that, I was put in the arena, left to die in this horrendous place."
He put hid head on his front talons. I looked at my front talons, and saw the scars on my forearms, and rubbed them.
"You know we haven't introduced ourselves yet." I said, lying down, "So, uh. The name's Freezerburn."
He lifted his head, "Nice to meet you, Freezerburn, name is Hurricane."
Interesting. He seems like someone I could trust. I thought, smiling
"You not tired?" He asked
I realized how tired I was feeling, "Kinda. Not much though."
"You can leave and sleep if you want." He said
"No. It's fine. I think you need company." 
He sighed, and started gnawing on the binding around his wrist. 
"You want to get out?" I asked
Hurricane stopped gnawing, "Yeah, but my father and Her Majesty would notice."
"Even if they do. I will defend you." I said, reaching out to one of the bindings
He shrugged, and let me burn the bindings off. When he was free, Hurricane stretched his wings. He then picked up the wires and tied them to the small hooks on the platform. I nodded at him, and he nodded back. We quietly flew back to my room.
== Chapter 4: Friend or Bro? ==
Frostfire's POV
I was lying down on my sleeping platform. Fang was asleep, and I didn't know where my sister was. I heard footsteps outside, and thought it was my sister but it sound like more than one dragonet. My sister entered the room, with another SkyWing.
He seemed to be pure SkyWing. He was one head taller than my sister, and he was quite handsome. Freezerburn entered the room with the SkyWing, and presented him an open spot. The SkyWing lay down in that spot, and my sister suddenly shivered. The SkyWing put one wing over her, and she smiled at him.
He looks familiar. I feel like I've seen him before. I thought, arching my brow, with curiosity
My sister rolled to the side, and grabbed a necklace; an emerald encased in gold, with a silver chain.
Hmm. Her scales are too cold to burn, I thought
Freezerburn whispered something to the necklace and it glowed for a bit. She then gave it to the SkyWing. He put it on, and smiled at her. She smiled back, and punched his shoulder.
Enchanted to make him impervious to fire, I thought, Why would she do that for him?
She lay down, and he put one wing on her back. Freezerburn put her head on her talons, and slowly closed her eyes.
"Frostfire." She said, making me jump, "This is Hurricane, a new friend of mine."
"Hi." Hurricane said
"Hi." I responded, "We'll get to know each other tomorrow. Get some sleep."
He nodded, and put his head on his front talons, drifting off. I went to my sleeping platform and lay down. I flipped my tail on to my snout, and closed my eyes, drifting off.
The next day I woke up, and say Fang right in front of me.
"Ah!" I yelled falling off my sleeping platform
"Got ya!" She exclaimed, jumping around me, stepping on my tail a few times
I sighed and got up. My sister was awake, and Hurricane was sharpening his claws.
He sharpens his claws? I thought, Ah. That's where I remember him from. He is one of the SkyWing dragonets chosen to become soldiers.
Vermillion came in and called both my sister and Fang. Which I found a little weird since, for the past few days, my sister was restricted from anything related to fighting.
"Burn is here and liked the double battle a lot, so we need both of you." our uncle said, "You ready, niece?"
My sister nodded, and waved to Hurricane, then left with Fang to the arena. Now, it was just me and Hurricane in my room. I sat down and he finished sharpening his claws. He then sat down in front of me.
"So. How was your sleep?" I asked, trying to start a conversation
"It was nice." Hurricane said, "How about you?"
"Same as you." I responded, 
There was a short pause, "Are you going to become a soldier?" I asked
"Yeah." He said, letting out a sigh, "My father, and Her Majesty wants me to."
My grandmother? She wants him to be soldier? I wonder why. I thought
"They think of me as a strong dragon." He continued, "But I think it's only because my father is the general of the army."
"Oh." I said, my eyes going wide with surprise, "So you don't want to be a soldier at all?"
He nodded, "I just want to be a regular SkyWing. I don't want to go out into battle, putting my life on the line."
Our conversation lasted quite a while. We learned a lot about each other, and became great friends. We had a strong relationship now, we felt like brothers. 
My sister and Fang came back. They had very small scratches, but both had large wounds. Fang had a large slash mark on her left back leg, along with a huge claw mark on her right front forearm. My sister had a large claw mark on her snout, and a slash on the side of her tail.
"Wow. Who'd you fight this time?" I asked, grabbing the special roll of cloth
Freezerburn winced with pain, when she reached for her snout, "A SeaWing."
"And a SandWing." Fang continued, "That tail, hurts."
My sister winced again, "Yeah. Very painful."
"Did that scratch on your tail come from the SandWing?" I asked
She nodded, and Hurricane grabbed the roll of cloth from my talons. Then wrapped some around her snout.
"I'm not sure how to heal SandWing venom." He said, looking sad
"It's fine." Freezerburn said, looking at her tail, "It isn't close to my heart. It will take awhile to kill me."
Hurricane gave her a worried look. I looked at her tail, then took the roll of cloth, and wrapped Fang's back leg, and forearm. She smiled at me, and I smiled back. They said the smaller scratches weren't serious, so we didn't wrap them.
We heard the SkyWings arriving with our food, and Hurricane hid in a shadowy spot. The SkyWings left, and we all gave Hurricane a bit of our food. We all finished, and the SkyWings took our dishes. The moons were high in the sky, and Fang and I were very tired.
"I think I'm going to bed." she yawned, "You coming, Frostfire?"
"Yeah." I said, my eyes drooping, "What about you guys?"
I looked and saw Hurricane was already asleep. He snored quietly, and sometimes muttered words.
"I'm going to walk around the palace for a bit." she responded, grabbing her sharpened knife
She shot a glare at her axe. "And I'm sure as the moons won't be taking the axe." 
I nodded, and she left our room. I went to my sleeping platform, and closed my eyes.
== Chapter 5: Beyond The Doors ==
Freezerburn's POV
I just left my room. My knife, sitting in a pouch, slung around my neck. It sat right over my necklace; a ruby, with a silver chain. I didn't enchant the necklace at all, since I couldn't really think of a good enchantment.
I could enchant it to recover my soul, but I just didn't feel like doing it, even if it would save my sanity. I already did a few enchantments and I don't feel the least bit homicidal. I had finally arrived at the large metal doors.
They were open, and had giant slash marks on it. I pulled out my knife, and moved the doors open. Then slid beyond them. The halls were dark for a while, then I saw light from torches. I was walking for quite a while, then reach a split in the paths. I didn't know which one to choose.
I heard footsteps, and froze in place. I went and stood against the wall.
"I swear I heard footsteps." an angry voice said
"Just a month ago, we heard screams, and the doors getting broken open." another voice said
"But just now, I heard footsteps, and I know what I heard." the first voice said
The voices got louder, and now I saw the two dragons. One was a red female dragon, and the other was an orange dragon with a blue hue to his scales. They looked around, and the red female dragon spotted me.
The female dragon had volcano red scales, and a fiery yellow underbelly. She had a claw mark scar on her snout and forehead. A long with some smaller scars a long her body. I noticed that her front talons and half her forelegs were completely black. Half way up her forelegs were black, and slowly gradated to her regular volcano red scales.
She looked so familiar, but I couldn't put my talon down on why. The female dragon walked towards me, and the male one tried to pulled her back, but she pushed him away. The dragon kept approaching me. I knew I should run, but couldn't. Something about this dragon made me want to stay.
She slowly made her way towards me, and was now one forearm away from me. She looked me dead in the eyes, and I advanced to the middle of the room. The red dragon then started to circle me, inspecting my wings, horns, talons and tail. As she circled me, I noticed the left side of her underbelly, right under her wing, was heavily scarred and only had a few marks of the original colour. Then came back, and looked me in the eyes again.
"Freezerburn?" The red dragon said
"How do you know my name?" I asked, squinting at her
"Ruby." The other dragon said,
That's her name. Ruby. Never seen her before. I thought
"How are you so sure?" He continued
"Cyclone. How could I not be?" Ruby said, turning to the other dragon
I took a step back, "Who are you?"
Ruby flinched back, then took several steps back. An extremely depressed and surprised expression shattered on her face. She was about to say something, but we heard footsteps, and she rushed behind me, Cyclone following close behind her. Ruby looked at me in the eyes.
"Please come back here tomorrow. I would talk more, but... Someone's coming." She said
I listened for a bit, and heard footsteps. I turned around and took a step, then looking back at Ruby. She smiled at me.
"I will come back. Just wait." I said, bolting out of the room
"Bring your brother if you can!" I heard her yelled, 
My brother? How did she know? I thought as I ran
"Oh wait!" her voice said again, getting closer
I came to a stop, and felt like collapsing.
"Don't run. You'll override your heart, and lungs." Ruby said, holding me up
I looked at her, "How did you know? This is the first time we've ever met."
Ruby looked extremely sad look spread across her face again. The footsteps got louder.
"Just go." She said, pushing me forward, "Don't run and please come back."
I nodded, and Ruby ran back through the dark hallways until I couldn't see her. I continued my walk towards the footsteps. I was then confronted by my grandmother, both of us standing in the dark hallway.
Grandmother's face was light up by slight hints of fire that were shooting out of her nostrils.
"I told you multiple times not to go here." she hissed, pulling something out, "I should kill you here, but you are quite useful for entertainment." She paused, "And to torture."
I looked at her with wide eyes, and Grandmother hit me hard on my head with a metal pole. I yelped with pain, falling on to my back. She continued to hit me multiple times, and I felt like some of my bones were broken.
"Cut it out, Scarlet." a voice behind Grandmother snarled
Grandmother turned around, and I saw someone I never thought would have come. At first, I assumed my brother but instead, Hurricane stood there.
"You." Grandmother growled, "Who are you to talk to me like that?"
Hurricane pulled out a sharp spear, "I am a SkyWing, that will not serve a queen like you."
Grandmother started to growl, she then put the metal pole behind her, wrapping her tail around it. It seemed like Hurricane didn't notice. Grandmother then hit me hard on my back, with the metal pole, making me scream with agony.
Hurricane then darted at Grandmother, jabbing his spear at her, making her spin around, so then he was in between me and Grandmother.
"You crazy SkyWing." Grandmother said, stepping away, "I will make sure to punish you."
She then left us, muttering something to herself. Hurricane was sitting on his haunches, his spear in hand. 
"You ok?" He asked after a while
I nodded and winced with pain. He looked at me, worried. 
"Come on. I'll carry you back." He said, offering me to climb on his back
I looked at him for a while, "Thanks." I said, trying to stand up, only to collapse to the ground, in extreme pain
This is so painful. I might not be able to come back here. I thought, opening my eyes through the pain
"Here." Hurricane said, picking me up, and placing me on his back
When he picked me up, I winced with pain.
"Uhh." I said in pain, when he put me down on his back
"Don't worry. I'll tend your wounds." He said, reaching out for my talon
"Thank you." I said, putting one of my front talons on his
He smiled, and began running to my room. When we got there, he put my on the ground, and lit a fire right under me. It felt great, and I started to feel better. Hurricane lay down next to me and twinned his tail with mine. I leaned into his side, and saw he was blushing.
"Hurri." I said, "First, is it ok if I call you that? Second, thank you for helping me."
"One, yes you can call me that. Second, always. I will always help you." He said, tapping my head
I closed my eyes, and heard Hurricane snoring. After a while of lying in a fire, I fell asleep.
== Chapter 6: Reunion ==
Still Freezerburn's POV (sorry)
The sun started to rise, and I was just waking up from my peaceful sleep. Hurricane was still next to me, and he was awake.
"Good morning, Freeze." He said, smiling
"Good morning to you too." I said, smiling back
He lightly punched me, and I tapped his nose.
I need to go back to that place again. I thought
I tried to get up, but fell and screamed with pain. My bones were broken from last night, and I smelled a herbal sent. I assumed that Hurricane had waited until I fell asleep, to put an herbal cream over my broken bones.
"Don't get up." Hurricane said, holding one of my front talons tightly, "Your bones are still broken. If you need to go somewhere, I'll take you."
I looked at him, "You'd do that for me?"
He looked surprised, "Are you kidding? I would help you no matter what. Even if you've killed so many dragons, I could care less."
I stared at him for a long time, Is that what he really thinks?
"Alright Hurri. I need to go back to that place." I said, looking at my brother as he rolled off his platform
"Are you sure?" he asked
I nodded, "Hey Frostfire, I need you to come with us."
"Huh. But.... We aren't allowed to go there." My brother responded
"I know, but we need to go." I said,
Frostfire looked at me weirdly, then he shrugged and went out into the hall. Hurricane picked me up and placed me on his back, making me moan in pain. Hurricane tapped my nose, and I weakly smiled at him.
He smiled, and started running towards the hallway, we're in last night. Frostfire followed close behind us, and when we reached the large metal doors, I noticed that the doors were still open. Hurricane continued to run until we reached the room where I met Ruby and Cyclone.
I tapped Hurricane's chest, and he set me down, making me wince with pain. Frostfire stood next to me, and we waited for Ruby and Cyclone. After a short while, I saw Ruby and Cyclone walk into the room. Cyclone looked the same, and seemed like he didn't like me. Ruby, on the other talon, looked sick.
"Thank you for coming back." Ruby said, walking towards me, "I heard you screaming last night, and I'm sorry I didn't come to help you. Cyclone wouldn't let me."
"Well if I did, that dragon would have killed you." Cyclone said, waving one talon around
Ruby arched her brow at him, and he didn't seem to notice. Ruby tapped my head, and I looked at her, confused. Why did that feel so familiar? She then started coughing, and almost fell over.
"Are you ok, Freezerburn?" Ruby asked, circling me
"Just a little broken." I said, raising and lowering my wings
Hurricane shifted weirdly, "A little broken? Freeze, you can't even walk, or move much for that matter."
I looked straight into his yellow eyes. Honesty and worry flared in his eyes. He did care about me. He cared if I lived or died. No one else might, but he does. I blinked at him, and he rubbed my back.
"Not able to walk or move?" Ruby said, looking me in the eyes, "Freezerburn. What happened last night when you left us?"
I shifted my talons, "Well. I got.... Attacked? I guess. By my grandmother."
Ruby's eyes went wide, "How did your grandmother hit you? How did she break your bones?"
"She hit me with a metal pole multiple times." I explained, closing my eyes, "She hit me much harder than she usually does."
Ruby looked at me, her eyes still wide. Even Cyclone, had a terrified expression. I sighed, and winced with pain, when I tried to move my neck and back. Ruby grabbed the necklace hanging around my neck, and began to mutter something.
I felt the pain slowly go away, but didn't feel confident to stand up. Ruby let go of my necklace, and beckoned me to stand up. I tried to stand up, wincing with pain, but continued to try. I stood up, and staggered forward, Ruby catching me.
Ruby put me down, and I shifted from talon to talon, and stretched my back. Then looked into Ruby's fiery yellow eyes. Hope swirling through them.
"Are you animus?" I asked quietly, so then no one else could hear
Ruby nodded. "It shall be a secret between, you, me, Cyclone, and your brother." 
I shrugged and backed away, sitting down in between Frostfire and Hurricane. "So, what was it you wanted to tell us?"
Ruby coughed a bit, "Well. Who are your parents?"
Hurricane pointed at himself, and Ruby smiled, shaking her head. He let out a sigh of relief, and relaxed his wings. I looked at Frostfire.
"Well we don't know who our parents are. Grandmother told us their gone, and we have no more relatives except her and each other." Frostfire said, twinning the tip of his tail with my own
Ruby flinched back, coughing into her wing. Cyclone had a very suspicious look on his face. He advanced towards us. 
"Who is your Grandmother?" he snarled, shooting out small bits of frostbreath 
I shivered from the chill that produced from his scales. Ruby stopped coughing and pushed Cyclone away from me. 
"Our grandmother?" I said, still shivering, 
"She is Queen Scarlet. " Frostfire said, stepping away from me, 
I rubbed my forearms, looking at the scars. 
Darn IceWings, I thought, I already have scars, but these remind me of my hatred for IceWings. 
I looked at my brother. Even if we're both presumably part IceWing, we're also part SkyWing. I wasn't biased about SkyWings being the 'best tribe' it's just. The IceWings I've met, were all full of themselves, and always saying things like 'you should respect us,' or 'you're just a cursed SkyWing. Nothing like a great IceWing'. 
That was the reason I despised IceWings. They always acted like they were superior to everyone, but they didn't have any special abilities like what the NightWings, claim to have. 
"Queen Scarlet?" Ruby said, astonished 
I nodded, and Ruby walked closer to me, her fiery yellow eyes, looking straight into mine. She then picked up one of my front talons, flipping it over to look at my palm. She let go of my talon, and looked at my left eye. There was a small scar above it, and Ruby's eyes went wide with surprise. 
She let go of me, and she began to circle me again. Cyclone was inspecting my brother, and was looking at his right foreleg. Frostfire had small scars on his foreleg, and he never knew where they came from. 
Cyclone stepped back, and for once, he didn't look angry or suspicious. He looked astonished. Cyclone and Ruby exchanged glances for a while. Then Ruby grabbed my front talons, while Cyclone stood in front of Frostfire, his head close to Forfire's. 
"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you." Ruby said, tears starting to run down her face, "I should have done something to protect you." 
"It was our fault that you've lived under Queen Scarlet for so long." Cyclone said, closing his eyes, "I shouldn't have been so reckless." 
Ruby tighten her grip on my talons, and Cyclone took Frostfire's talons. "I should have known better than to stay in this part of the palace. I should have gone out and tried to find you." 
Everything was around me was going blurry. All those fuzzy memories. It wasn't our imagination. It was something from our past. 
"Freezerburn." Ruby said, her eyes full of tears, 
"Frostfire." Cyclone said, at the same time Ruby said my name, 
"You are our dragonets." 
== Chapter 7: Tears of a Firescaled, Betrayal of a Friend ==
Everything. Those words. I never, ever thought I would hear. I threw my wings around Ruby, and she wrapped her own around me. Frostfire did the same, and Cyclone wrapped his wings around him. Tears fell down my face, and I knew, that it's been so long, since last I've seen my mom. 
"You were here all this time?" I said, in gasped
Ruby nodded, and wrapped her wings tighter around me. "I only wish I could have had you for all those years."
Mother let me go, and Frostfire tackled me. He sat on my back, and I smiled, whipping tears from my eyes.
"I'm so glad that you found them." Hurricane said, obviously keeping himself from laughing
I nodded, and got up abruplty, throwing Frostfire off
"Ah!" he yelled, falling off
I shook out my wings, and smiled at Hurricane. He smiled at me, and I bumped his side.
"I wonder how my parents are doing." Hurricane said, scratching his ear
We then heard footsteps behind us, I pulled out my knife as Hurricane pulled out his spear. I stepped forward, covering my brother. The footsteps got closer, my brother started to growl.
"You little betraying dragon." a cold voice of daggers hissed
Hurricane backed up, lowering his spear, a face of guilt spilled across his face. 
"I'm sorry." Hurricane said
He whispered something. I tilted my ear closer to him. "I'm sorry, Freezerburn." I heard him whisper. 
My eyes went wide. Why are you apologizing? I thought I could trust you.
"You are a disappointment. I should kill you all while I still can." the voice said, again, getting much closer
The dragon came into the light. A large orange SkyWing, with multiple small scars. He seemed very angry, and had brought a large sword with him. Mother took a few steps back, and Father started to growl. The SkyWing smiled.
"Remember me? Excellent." the SkyWing hissed, "Come on Hurricane, aren't you going to give your Father a hug?"
== Chapter 8: Big Brawl, Big Fall ==
Father?!
 "This is your son?" Father hissed
"Of course." the SkyWing said, pulling Hurricane close to him, "And he will help me kill all of you."
Hurricane closed his eyes and sighed. Then darted at me, his spear in hand. I shoved Frostfire aside, and ducked, making Hurricane miss, but he then spun the spear around, stabbing me in the back. I screamed with agony, as he wrenched it between my vertebrae. I grabbed my knife, and stabbed him in the leg, making sure not to hit large vessels.
He pulled the spear out, and I took my knife out, the stab wound bleeding all over his leg. Hurricane gave me an apologetic look, only to be hit by the blunt side of the sword his father was holding. Mother then suddenly wrapped her wings around me, blocking a burst of flames.
Mother started to back up, as Father grabbed Frostfire, dragging him away from another burst of flames. 
"What do you want, Cloud?" Mother yelled, putting one of her front talons on my wound
Cloud. Seen him before but never talked to him or seen him much. I thought squinting with pain
Cloud barked a laugh, "I want you to die, and my son will help me."
Cloud darted at Mother, and I took my axe out of the sling around my back, blocking Cloud's sword. Cloud was a strong dragon, and I was struggling to keep him from slashing me. Mother disappeared from my vision, and I saw her tackle Cloud, only to be stabbed in the back multiple times, making her scream with agony.
I got up, and slashed Cloud across his back, multiple times. An evil sensation went through me when I stopped slashing. I pushed it back, feeling my scales changing to purple, and my vision going blurry. Cloud spun around grabbing my talons, and ramming me into a wall, making me drop my axe.
I yelped with pain, and crumpled to the ground. Cloud was quite the fighter, but could he take all of us out? 
"Well then. For the daughter of Ruby, I wouldn't expect more." Cloud said, smugly, "Hurricane, I'll let you kill this one."
Anger and fear bursted through me. Hurricane began to walk towards me, and I could barley move. He was now right in front of me, his spear in hand. Cloud was holding off my family, as Hurricane grabbed my neck, pressing me against the wall. His eyes were shadowed out, and he kept a straight face. Hurricane pulled the spear up to line up to my heart.
He then suddenly dropped his spear, pulling me in for a fierce hug. Tears began to run down his face.
"I'm sorry." He said, tears rushing down his face, "This is my fault. I'm sorry I hurt you."
"It's alright." I said, patting his neck, "I forgive you."
I glared at Cloud, as Hurricane let me go. I slowly walked towards him, picking up axe in the process. 
"I hope you die in a fire!" I yelled, shooting a burst of flames at Cloud, 
The burst hit him dead in the chest, then started to slash vigorously at him.
"Hope you'll be stabbed in the heart, hope you'll get shot and expire!" I yelled, seeing my vision go blurry
All I see is purple, I thought, almost loosing control
I pushed on and kept the purple spirit from possessing me. Cloud threw me off, and Hurricane caught me, wrapping a wing around me. I calmed down, and my vision restored to normal. 
"You ok?" Hurricane asked, letting me go
I nodded and continued to glare at Cloud. He now had multiple bleeding wounds, and I was almost covered in his blood. 
"You are a disappointment." Cloud snarled at Hurricane, "You are no son of mine."
Cloud then back away in front of a window. He shot a final glare at all of us. Then fell out the window, flying back to the other side of the palace. I got up, and staggered forward. I spread my wings, to try and keep my balance, then made my way towards Mother.
She was lying on the ground, with Father right next to her. Frostfire was struggling to his feet, and I noticed he had a large cut on his underbelly. I ran up to him, peering at his wound.
"It's nothing." he said, "You don't have to worry."
"You sure?" I asked
He nodded, and I picked up my axe, studying it, then smiled.
"What a lethal weapon." I said, flipping the axe around in my talons, "Mother? Are you alright?"
Mother groaned, "I'm alright."
She got up then nearly fell over clutching her head. Father caught her, helping her to her up. Mother groaned again.
"Ruby? Are you feeling ok?" Father asked
Mother coughed, clutching her head tighter. "I'm fine. You don't need to worry."
Father looked very worried, and I couldn't lie, I did too. 
I hope she's going to be ok. I thought, with a shiver
== Chapter 9: Save her Part 1 ==
"Mother?" I asked
Two days passed, and Mother's condition was just getting worse. Before, she would cough, but now, she could barley walk and was wheezing a lot. Fang made a machine that would be able to read heartbeats.
Mother's heart was always beating at the same pass, but sometimes, it would either suddenly jump or slow down. When that happens, Father always freaks out. Although he calms down after her heart beat returns to normal.
I made my way to the the room where Mother lay. My brother, Fang, and Hurricane were following close behind, but didn't meet any of each others eyes. We entered the room, and I looked at the heart monitor, and saw that it was beeping at a consistent rate.
Mother opened her eyes, and smiled at me. I smiled back, and walked towards her, my brother, Fang, and Hurricane following. I nudged Mother's shoulder, and she patted my head. She then covered her head with her wing, coughing into it.
"Mother?" I asked
She lifted her wing, "Yes, Freezerburn?"
"Where's Father?"
Mother sighed, "Your aunt, Tourmaline asked him to leave. Like, I understand that he's worried, but... It's just..."
"A little stressful?" My brother filled in
Mother smiled, then nodded. A face of agony splintered across her face, and she gripped her chest, right above her heart. She then screamed with pain, the heart monitor speeding up. Mother screamed again, and fell off her bed.
Aunt Tourmaline rushed into the room, and saw Ruby screaming on the ground. Tourmaline bolted over to her, picking her up. Father didn't rush into the room, which, I had mixed feelings about. I was worried about where he was, but I knew that if he rushed in, it would surprise Mother and make her heart go insane.
Aunt Tourmaline started whispering into Mother's ear. Then slowly, her heart monitor returned to normal, and Mother stopped screaming, breathing heavily. Her breathing then levelled out, and she closed her eyes, as Tourmaline put her back on the bed.
I let out a sigh of relief, and Mother opened her eyes, smiling at me. I smiled back, and she put one of her wings on my back.
"Are you ok, Mother?" I asked, Frostfire walking to my side
"Yes." Mother responded, "Some SkyWing nurses told me I had a slight heart condition, but it's only because of this illness."
I nudged Mother's shoulder with my snout, "You'll be ok though, right?"
Mother nodded. She suddenly looked surprised, and grabbed my head. She ran one of her talons over the scar left from the SeaWing.
"Please. If there are any other wounds, please show me." She said
I looked at her, then turned around, showing the SandWing tail barb wound. I looked at it,and realized how much worse it had gotten. It was right above the IceWing tail spikes. All around the wound, was black, and the scales around it were completely raw.
It will probably kill me in a few days, or even hours. I thought, feeling like vomiting
Mother flipped my tail around in her talons, "When did this happen?"
I thought for a moment, "About a week ago."
Mother pulled me in close, "Listen. I know you know that this wound will kill you soon. I could ask one of the SkyWing soldiers how to heal SandWing venom."
"Mother." I said, with my last breath, "Please ask quickly."
I then passed out. Everything going dark. I felt the pain of falling on to the floor, and everyone screaming my name.
== Chapter 10: Save Her Part 2 ==
"Freeze?" Fang's voice asked
I groaned with pain, and rubbed my head.
"Freezerburn?" Mother's voice asked
I opened my eyes, and saw Mother's face. She petted my head, and hugged me. There was another SkyWing there, and she had a cactus. She slit it open and poured the juice from it into my wound. I gripped the underside of the bed, to keep myself from screaming.
Mother grabbed one of my talons, squeezing hit hard. The SkyWing nurse stopped, backing away.
"Just put some in a few time every day and her sound should heal up." The Nurse informed, "Although it will leave a scar."
Mother nodded and the SkyWing left. I looked at Mother's heart monitor and saw that it was fine. I flipped my tail over my snout, and looked at the wound.
Getting better. I thought, letting out a sigh
"Hey." Fang said, walking up to me, "You better?"
I smiled, "Yeah. I'll be back soon though."
She put her front talons on the bed, and almost fell over backwards.
"Fang." Frostfire said, holding her up, "You know your back talons don't have the best support."
"Yes. I know." She said, standing on all fours, "Is this better?"
She lifted her back talons, standing on her front talons. I smiled making sure I didn't laugh. My brother jumped back, startled. Fang smiled, and flipped back on to all fours. She then twinned her tail with Frostfire's. He started blushing but she didn't seem to notice.
Aw. How adorable. Frostfire likes Fang but she's completely oblivious to it. I thought,
Fang got up and started jumping around the room. "Sorry. I feel happy right now."
I nodded, as she calmed down, "How has no one found us?"
Mother looked out a nearby window, then closed it, "We welded the doors shut. I enchanted them so then no one can open them. Unless they're related to the heirs."
"Very interesting enchantment." Frostfire said, 
Mother nodded, and I decided to get out of bed. I walked towards the window, feeling the small amount of sunlight. Mother put one wing around me. The warmth from her wings, spreading across my scales.
"I know." She said, "I haven't been in the sun for awhile either."
"You haven't?" I asked,
"That isn't very healthy. SkyWings, similar to SandWings need the sun to stay healthy." Hurricane informed, "Our scales need enough heat. We're not MudWings, so we could be in the Ice Kingdom and still use fire, but it will help our scales stay the vibrant colour we usually are."
Probably spends most of his time studying, I thought, looking at him
Mother shrugged, "I know, and it will probably help my illness as well. But if I were to be spotted, I would be killed instantly."
"Fair point, Your Highness." Hurricane said, with a small bow
Mother looked back at him, "You don't need to call me that."
"My mother always told me to be polite when with royalty." He responded
She smiled and turned to me, "He is very polite isn't he?"
I nodded, "He is."
Mother then hid her head behind her wings, "I have never been called that ever since I went into hiding."
I lightly bumped her side, and she beamed at me, "Well I was never called that."
We turned around and Fang tackled me, almost making Mother fall over. 
"Fang." I said, poking her with my tail, 
"Yes?" She said, pinning me, 
I smiled, then pushed her off. She made an 'oof' sound when she landed. Tourmaline suddenly jumped over to Ruby and gave her a nuggie.
"Aha. Tourmaline!" Mother yelled
Our Aunt stopped, "Yes Ruby?"
"Never. Do that. Again." Mother said, rubbing her head
Tourmaline barked a laugh, and twinned her tail with Mother's. I looked at the heart monitor again. It was fine and Hurricane walked up next to me. I flipped my tail over his, and he twinned it with mine. Frostfire helped Fang up, and she brushed his wing, making him blush.
I sighed ending it with a smile, Oh Fang. You're so oblivious to any form of love.
"Hey Tourmaline." Mother said, "Do you remember our other 11 sisters and 3 aunts?"
Tourmaline thought for a bit. "I think the dragonets should leave for this."
Ruby shrugged, "Frostfire spent most of the day memorizing the layout of this place, so he knows where the smaller room is."
Frostfire nodded, and lead all of us to that smaller room. I looked back at Mother and smiled. Then leaving the room to take a small nap.
== Chapter 11: Past and New Sib ==
Ruby's POV
My dragonets and their friends had just left to sleep, and Cyclone had left to get some form of food. I wouldn't say we were malnourished but Tourmaline definitely looked like she was. She always stayed here when Cyclone and I would head out to get some sun. Her scales were pale, and her breathing was very wheezy. 
"So Ruby." Tourmaline said, "You asked me about our sisters and aunts?"
I nodded, "Well, I have heavily faint memories of them."
"How old was I during that time?" I asked
She thought for awhile, then beckoned me to lie down, "I think when our first few died, 1 or 2 years."
My eyes widened, "I was already 1 or 2 years old?" 
"Yeah. I protect you from them and Mother." Tourmaline said, pulling me close, "They were heartless, and for some reason thought they could win. So just before the challenge, they would try to kill us." 
"Our sisters were really that heartless. Was there at least one that was friendly?" 
"There was one. She was one of the last to die, but the thing is, she died protecting us. She was our one remaining sister." 
I couldn't process that, "Our last sister died protecting us?" 
Tourmaline sighed closing her eyes, "Sadly. Yes. Our remaining aunt was ready to challenge Mother, and was expecting to win. So, she was ready to kill the heirs or, us." 
I shifted my wings, "Now we know that all but 1 got Grandmother's personality." 
Tourmaline lightly punched me, "But we're still alive, right?" 
I nodded, lifting my wing. 
"What do you think? Will it look like the other 2?" Tourmaline asked 
"Maybe. Unless our SkyWing genetics pull through more than our other tribe." I responded, pulling the egg out from under my wing 
It was pure red with spirals of orange. I remembered Freezerburn's egg. It was sunset orange, like a normal SkyWing egg, but it had hints of blue in it. So I assumed that the dragonet would be almost entirely SkyWing, with very minimal traits of RainWing and IceWing. 
I then had the feeling of vomiting, but only had a very painful dry cough. I shivered, and Tourmaline shot a burst of flames at the ground, warming me up. She lifted her wing from my back, and looked at the multiple stab wounds on my back. 
"You feeling ok with these?" she asked 
I winced with pain, "No. They are very painful. Just another reason for me to hate Cloud." 
Tourmaline shuddered, "Cloud. The night he came here. I saw him, and backed away from the fight." 
"I know you have a bad history with him." I said, looking at her 
She smiled, "But at least during those 4 years, I found someone." 
"That is nice huh? But. Does he know you're here?" I asked 
She shook her head, "I don't think so. Ever since we went into hiding, I've been sending him letters." 
I bumped her with my snout, "Hey. At least your egg should hatch." 
Tourmaline opened her eyes, "Yes, but I doubt the dragonet will be able to ever see me. They'll live their life with Infernova." 
"That's pretty sad. Be happy that your dragonet can still read the letters that you send." 
She nodded, and grabbed something, placing it over the wounds on my back. Tourmaline then put her wing on my back, resting her head on her talons. She smiled at me, shifting her other wing, telling me that I could rest on her neck. 
I rested my head on her neck, and saw Cyclone come back. He place a goat in a corner and blew frostbreath all over it. He then lay down near the heart monitor and fell asleep. I closed my eyes, falling asleep to Tourmaline's wheezing. 
== Chapter 12: The Return of The Purple Spirit Part 1 ==
Frostfire's POV
Things are getting a little weird here. I thought, tapping my claws on the table
I was still a little baffled by the fact that our parents were living in the same palace we were for 4 years, and we didn't notice. Fang was feeling sick, and would tell me that her stomach was in so much pain. My sister was feeling better, and her SandWing tail wound was healing very well. 
Mother was getting better as well. She could walk now, and was getting a good amount of sun. We were as well, but our aunt always stayed behind. I was always worrying about Fang though. She vomited and refused to eat sometimes. She also told me that she also had extremely painful headaches on top of all the pain she's already in.
I stayed with her, and she overall didn't feel good, but I still stayed to keep her company. We all worried about her, and at first thought it was just that she wasn't getting enough sun, but that was proven wrong. She told us that she felt better, but the pain didn't minimize. 
Today, I was staying behind, as everyone else went to get some sun. Freezerburn offered to stay behind, but I told her that she was more SkyWing so she should go. She hesitated, then left. I heard Fang moan with pain, and the sound of her talons scrapping against the stone. 
I put one wing on her back, and grabbed one of her talons. "It's ok. I'm right here." 
Fang let out a painful, shaky exhale, "Thank you." 
"Your stomach still hurt?" I asked 
She groaned with pain, squeezing her eyes shut, "Yes. I...Can't....Handle it." 
"It's ok." I said, "I'm here for you." I paused, "I'll always be here for you." 
Fang opened her eyes, looking me in the eyes, "Really?" 
"Always." I said, wrapping the end of my tail around the base of her tail 
She smiled, and pushed her head against the bottom of my chin. I looked behind me, the heart monitor wire was now attached to Fang. I saw that her tail was coiled around the heart monitor's stand, and unwrapped my tail from her's. Fang rubbed her stomach. 
"I wish I knew what was making me feel so horrible." Fang groaned 
I bumped her head with my snout, "I wish I knew too." 
Fang cupped her talons around one of mine, then looked me in the eyes, "Thank you for being there for me." 
Her eyes then closed, and her head fell. I caught her, and noticed she fell unconscious. I pulled her close. 
"I will always be there for you." I whispered close to her ear 
My sister, Hurricane, our Aunt and Mother came back. Mother convinced Tourmaline to go outside, since Father stayed behind to keep us safe. She looked a lot better, and seem happier. Father was asleep in the corner of the room, and I had grabbed a pillow and placed it underneath Fang's head, resting her head on it. 
"How is she doing?" Freezerburn asked, walking up to me 
"She's doing alright." I responded, brushing the scars along Fang's neck, "Although she just passed out." 
My sister was about to say something, but nothing came out. Instead, her pupils got small and her eyes widened. She quickly backed up against the wall, breathing heavily.Then, she gripped her head, screaming with agony, and ran out the doorway. Just before her tail disappeared, I saw her scales shift to purple. 
Mother was just about to dart after her, but I jumped in her way. 
"Don't go!" I yelled, grabbing her burn scarred forelegs, "She'll kill you." 
Mother looked me in the eyes, "What do you mean?" 
A loud roar echoed through the halls, and I pulled Mother into the room, "Freezerburn has gone insane. If you go out there, she's going to kill you without hesitation." 
She inhaled sharply, "If that's the case, I can't let you go. Alone for that matter." 
"No. I know how to stop her." I responded, still hanging on to her foreleg 
She shook her head, "At best, I'm going with you." 
"Ruby," Father's voice said, "I will not let you go alone. At best, I'm going with you." 
"Cyclone." Mother said, looking up at him, 
"I refuse to let you go alone with just our dragonet." he said, grabbing Mother's front talons, "I could never forgive myself if you got hurt." 
Mother's eyes widened, "Alright. Frostfire, lead the way." 
I nodded. 
"Tourmaline. Watch Fang please." Mother told Tourmaline 
She nodded, and I left the room, with my parents following close behind me. 
"Hold on." Hurricane's voice said. I turned around to meet him, "I would like to come along." 
"How come?" I asked, 
A very light blush appeared under his eyes, "To make sure Freezerburn stays alright." 
He grabbed his spear from the corner of the room, putting it in a sling around his neck. I looked at Fang. then back at him. 
"Ok. you can come along." I responded, turning around 
Hurricane smiled, closing his eyes. I started to head out of the room, and just as I left, I heard Fang mutter quietly. 
"Please be alright, Frostfire." she muttered 
I stopped walking, looking back at her, I promise you'll see me again, Fang. 
== Chapter 13: The Return of The Purple Spirit Part 2 ==
Running through the halls, chasing after my sister. Mother and Father followed close behind me. Hurricane was looking around. I thought we could follow burning footprints that my sister would leave, but there were none.
"Where could she be?" Mother muttered,
"I'm not sure." I responded, skidding to a stop, "She should have left burn marks on the ground. Unless."
"She looses her firescales when crazy." Father said with a slight growl
"And possibly. Her animus magic." Hurricane remarked
I tried to think about where my sister was, but I couldn't stop thinking about Fang. A scream of agony broke my thoughts. We all looked at each other, then bolted to where the scream came from. We kept running and skidded to a stop when we saw a dying SkyWing on the ground. He had large slash marks all over his back, chest, and underbelly. At first, I thought it was Cloud, until I heard Mother inhale sharply.
"Hawk!" She cried, running up to him
He groaned with agony, "Ruby?"
Mother grabbed his front talon, inspecting all his wounds, "What happened?"
I knew by the sound of Mother's voice, that she was hoping for him not to say what I knew he would say.
"Your daughter." he said, grabbing her shoulders hard, making her wince, "She has gone insane."
Hawk winced with pain, and Ruby brushed blood off his wounds.
"Don't move." she responded,
I heard footsteps, saw the white glowing eyes of my insane sister.
"It's been so long since the 'incident'." She hissed from the shadows
Cyclone picked up Hawk and placed him behind us, pulling Ruby along with him. Freezerburn melted out of the shadows, covered in blood.
"How many dragons have you murdered?" Cyclone snarled
Freezerburn snorted, "Does it matter? Getting away with murder. 5 whole times."
We all took a step back. She's gone insane when we were asleep. We've only seen her like this twice, but we missed 3 other times. She pulled out the bloody axe along with a knife.
"You wouldn't believe how easy it is." she said, walking towards us
I saw Hawk start to freak out. Thrashing and trying to get away. She continued to walked towards us. I didn't know what to do, and couldn't move. Mother grabbed my foreleg and pulled me back. Hurricane pulled out his spear. I noticed he made it similar to barb wire, having many jagged edges to it. If he were to stab someone with it, it would be painful to pull out.
Freezerburn started running towards us, and tackled Mother to the ground. She held up the knife and used her free talon to keep Mother pinned down. Then began to stab Mother multiple times in the neck and chest. Mother screamed with agony, as blood shot out of her wounds.
I noticed that each stab on Mother's chest was always put near her heart. None ever went to the spot where her heart was.
Maybe she's still in there. I thought, pushing Freezerburn's wing aside
She was using her wings as a way to keep us away, and would shoot fire at us when we got close. Hurricane approached Freezerburn, jabbing his spear at her. I took that opportunity to tackle Freeze off Mother. I pinned her shoulder down to the ground, keeping her talons from stabbing me.
I stomped one of my back talons on her tail, and used my own to hold down her back talons. Looking behind me, Father was standing next to Mother, helping her stand. Hurricane stood next to me, his spear pointing at Freezerburn's head.
She snapped her jaws at me, and as much as I knew that this side of her wanted nothing but murder, I couldn't bring myself to hurt her. I looked at Hurricane, and saw in his eyes that he had too many reasons to not stab her.
"Freezerburn. Why? Why are you doing this?" I said loudly, in her face
She glared at me with lifeless white eyes, then bit me hard on my snout. I saw Hurricane flinch but stop himself from killing Freezerburn. I jumped off, rubbing my wound.
"Hurricane! Stab her!" Father bellowed
He gasped backing away. Tears and a blush went through his face. Hurricane blinked, sending more tears down his face, then stabbed her straight in her underbelly. Her eyes went black and I saw white pupils go as small as a grain of ash. She didn't scream, just collapsed into Hurricane's arms, her colours shifting back to normal. Hurricane's talon was still hanging on to his spear.
He then walked towards us, with my sister still lying limply in his arms.
"What about the spear?" I asked, brushing Freezerburn's head, "It's going to hurt when you pull it out."
"I know." he said, gripping the spear tighter, "I wasn't expecting to have to stab her."
"I wasn't expecting her to attack Ruby." Father snarled
Mother groaned in agony, making more blood poor out of her wounds. Hawk got up, and dragged himself to his sister.
"Ruby?" he said, close to her ear
She groaned, "I'm fine. Don't worry." then started to cough blood.
"No. No Ruby. You're not fine." Father scolded
"No stop. You don't need to worry. I'm fine." Mother responded, coughing more blood
Mother groaned and passed out, due to blood lose. Father hugged her close. 
"How do think you're going to pull the spear out?" I asked Hurricane
"Not sure. I don't want to hurt her more than I already have." he said, looking at the stab wound
At least half the spear was imbedded in her abdomen. My sister was still breathing, but it seemed that every breath made her wince with pain, due to the spear in her abdomen. Hurricane grabbed the spear.
"You study dragon anatomy right?" he asked, looking at me
I nodded.
"What's worse? A barbed spear being quickly ripped out, or slowly ripped out?"
I thought for a minute. Both would cause a lot of pain and damage. "It's either get it over with, and make more damage, or have them slowly suffer through the pain and cause less damage."
"That's a tough dilemma." he responded
Hurricane thought for awhile, keeping one of his talons on his spear, while his other talon held my sister. Mother and Father had left back to the room, and Hurricane was still thinking. He then shot out smoke from his nostrils out of frustration.
"I think. Maybe you should pull it out slowly. It will cause her more pain, but at least you won't damage her internal organs as much."
"Fair point." he said, removing blood from the spear
Tightening his grip, and tapped my sister, to warn her about it. He then slowly started pulling the spear out. Freezerburn started to scream with agony. Blood started to poor out of her wound, as she continued to scream. I twinned my tail with her's.
"It's ok. He's helping you." I whispered to her
But it sound like she didn't hear through all the pain she was in. Everything but the end of the spear was out. Hurricane added a bit more speed to it, making her scream more. He was able to get the spear out, and dropped his spear, using his free talon to put pressure on her wound. I picked up the spear, and regretted it. Nothing but blood covered it, and small fragments of my sister's flesh.
She had passed out from the shock and pain, and I ripped a piece of the curtain, giving it to Hurricane. He took it and applied pressure to Freezerburn's bleeding wound. He got up, and we made out way back to the room where my parents were waiting.
== Chapter 14: Surprise From The Inside ==
Hurricane and I rushed our way back to the room. We ran silently and quickly, to make sure my sister didn't lose too much blood. We skidded up to a stop at the door way, and I grabbed the roll of cloth, tearing a piece of if off. Then gave it to Hurricane and he removed the other piece of cloth, whom was now covered in blood. He then used the new cloth and pressed it against her wound.
It was still bleeding, but a little less. Mother got up and had trouble walking towards us. She kept her wings open as a use of balance, and to keep Father away. She took Freezerburn out of Hurricane's talons, pulling her close.
"You'll be aright. I'm right here." Mother whispered in her ear
Freezerburn groaned, shooting out smoke and Mother hugged her closer. 
"Listen. I don't care what others think. I still love her." Mother said, slowly walking towards a spot next to a fire, "Even is she almost killed me. She's still my daughter."
Mother shot flames all of my sister, keeping her warm. Then put one of her wings on Freezerburn's back. Mother rested her head on her front talons, falling asleep. Father was lightly glaring at her, but he closed his eyes and smiled.
"Whatever you say Ruby. I can't disagree. She is our dragonet." Father said, lying down in a corner, not too far from Mother
I saw our aunt sleeping very close to a fire. I looked at Fang, and walked towards her.
"Hey. If you don't mind I'll be sleeping." Hurricane said, sleeping across from my sister
I nodded, continuing to walk to Fang. Her breathing was still very shaky and sounded painful.
"Fang?" I asked, hovering one of my wings over her
"Frost....Fire?" she responded
I hugged her, "Yes. It's me, and I'm fine."
She slowly opened her eyes, looking at me, "Oh thank the moons."
"You doing alright?"
"I wish I was."
I heard the sound of metal rolling across the floor and looked behind me. Fang's tail was still wrapped around the heart monitor's stand, and she was pulling it close. She groaned with agony, and I hugged her close.
"Don't worry. The nurse should arrive tomorrow. She'll figure out what's wrong." I said, close to her ear
Fang nodded, her eyes shut with pain. I watched her for a long time, and her breathing levelled out. So I decided to sleep. The night passed by, with nightmares of that Purple Spirit.
The next morning, Mother told us about 6 nurses would be arriving soon. One was to check on Fang, another was to check on Freezerburn, while the other would check on our aunt, while the others were there to help out. I was confused about why our aunt needed to be checked up on by nurses, until I heard Tourmaline scream and groan in pain.
The nurses arrived and split up. Mother was inspecting both, my sister, and Tourmaline, while I checked on Fang.
"Her abdominal muscles are completely bruised. That is the reason for all her pain." the nurse responded, "Here."
He lifted Fang up, to expose her underbelly. He then applied pressure to her underbelly, She groaned with agony, her back talons scrapping against the stone platform. Her groans shifted into screams, when the nurse applied more pressure.
"Stop!" I cried grabbing the nurses forearm
He stopped, and slowly set Fang down. I hugged her, as she breathed slowly and painfully.
"How long will it take to heal?" I asked the nurse
"About 2 more weeks. If not, it might be permanent damage. At best, she would still be painful in that area." He responded
"Is there anyway to speed up the healing process?" I asked, grabbing Fang's talon
The nurse thought for a bit, "I don't think so. I think we need to let it heal on it's own."
I sighed, and the nurses went to check on my aunt. 
"Fang?" I asked
"Frostfire?" she responded
"I... I uh...."
I wish I could tell you how I feel, but can't, I thought blushing hard
She looked at me confused, and I saw the spots running down her neck, turn pink then quickly turned back to her normal green. I hugged her close.
"I'm glad you're ok." I said, smiling
Fang smiled, slowly uncoiling her tail from the heart monitor stand. I stepped away from her, and she bumped her nose with my own. I smiled and walked towards my sister. Hurricane was standing next to the nurse who was tending her wounds. 
Freezerburn was lying down on the ground, still unconscious. Her wings were constantly twitching, along with her talons. Her wound had stopped bleeding, and had a cloth pasted over top of it. It had two small tubes on each side, and the nurse explained that it's to let fluids out so then it wouldn't blister, and clog up. 
The nurses then left, and my sister finally came back into consciousness. Hurricane gave her a small hug, when she did. 
"Three moons. What happened? I feel so sore." she groaned 
Hurricane wilted a little. 
Poor guy. He must feel super guilty about stabbing her, I thought, brushing his wing 
Mother walked over to her, as she tried to get up, "Stay on your side. There's a large wound on your underbelly." 
Freezerburn shrugged and stayed on her side.Hurricane walked over to her side, lying down next to her. 
"You ok?" he asked, running one of his talons along her underbelly 
Her pupils went into slits and she started to cough up a little blood, "Mostly. It's just... Kinda painful to breath." 
"I know it does, but just give it some time, and you'll feel better." Mother told her, lying down on her other side 
The moons started to rise up in the sky, and Tourmaline came back. The nurses who were inspecting her, asked to be in a private room. 
"Ruby." Tourmaline said, looking like she was struggling to walk 
"Tourmaline? What did they say?" Mother asked, standing up 
She shifted her talons weirdly and rubber her stomach, "They asked Infernova to come along, and told him to bring the egg." 
"That is a little strange." Father said, 
Tourmaline nodded, "I thought it was a little strange myself, until I realized, that the questions they were asking me. All had a connection." 
"What is it?" Mother asked, walking up to her 
"Ruby. I'm with egg." 
== Chapter 15: One Big Lose ==
Days passed by and our aunt was able to lay the egg successfully, despite her horrible condition. After it though, her condition just started to plummet. The words that came out of the doctor's mouth haunt me every second of the day.
"I'm sorry. We can't save her."
Tourmaline was spending her final days in her bed, because she was too weak to walk. We all spent our days with her so then she can spend her final days with us. Infernova would always be at her side, and refused to leave her.
He was taking care of both their eggs, but soon, he would have to do that alone. Mother was extremely worried, and constantly depressed. I thought if I was in her talons. If my sister was dying and spending her final days, I would be depressed as well.
Those words. The words that the doctor said. I can't help but think about them. It killed me. I wish I could do something, but I couldn't. So instead, we all spend our day with our aunt. She was just such a happy dragon, that I never. Ever. Would have thought to see her so flat out.
"Mother?" I asked
"Yes, Frostfire." Mother said, sadly
I walked over to her and saw my sister standing next to her, "Tourmaline?"
She shifted around a bit, "Nephew?"
I nudged her shoulder with my snout, "Yes. It's me."
"And me." Freezerburn said, hovering one of her wings over Tourmaline
"Tourmaline. Please. Please stay strong." Mother said, tears starting to rush down her face
Tourmaline turned her head to look at Mother, and weakly lifted her wing to wrap around Ruby.
"I will, Ruby. I will." Tourmaline responded, "There have been no sign of Cloud, right?"
Infernova growled, "Cloud. The wretched dragon that put you through so much torture."
"It's alright, Infernova. It's all in the past." Tourmaline told him,
He sighed, ending in a smile, "I love you darling."
"I love you too."
I couldn't help but smile. Infernova was so much better than Cloud. From what Mother told us, Cloud is a horrible. Infernova was a dark red, with a yellow underbelly. What I found kinda cool and kinda unique about him was, that he had pieces of metal embedded into his scull. He was missing an eye, and had a piece of cloth to cover it.
I wish they could be together forever, I thought, remembering that our Aunt didn't really have much time left
Tears ran down Infernova's face but he was still smiling, happy that he could at least still spend time with her. Tourmaline shifted around a bit, putting her front talons on her stomach. Her head rested on a pillow behind her.
Infernova put one of his front talons on her head, and his other to rest on her front talons. He then lightly pressed his head against Tourmaline, and they both closed their eyes, tears running down both their faces.
Tears started running down my face, and I saw my sister crying as well, If only they could stay together
"The egg?" Tourmaline asked
Infernova nodded, holding up both eggs, "They're fine. One should hatch soon."
"I hope it hatches when I'm still around." she responded
Infernova hit her lightly, "As much as I should be mad at you for that, but I can't because, I knew it is true."
Father came back with 3 mountain goats, and we all had diner. During that time, the doctor arrived to check on Tourmaline. She said that Tourmaline only had a few more days. The doctor left after she finished the check up. After that, Tourmaline let a shaky painful sigh, hugging both her eggs close.
"Infernova. What am I supposed to do?" she gasped
Infernova put one wing on her, "Stay strong dear. Stay strong."
"You need to. Don't let the pain engulf you." Freezerburn said, with a determined face
"She's right. You need to stay strong." I responded, bumping my sister's side
"Don't give in. The sun will help your condition." Hurricane said, lighting a small fire
Tourmaline smiled, "Thank you."
We all smiled, then went to our room, to sleep away the night. Two days passed, and the doctor told us that Tourmaline's condition has gotten so bad, that she would die within the hour. Either way, the nurses and doctors tried there best to extend her remaining time, but knew that if they did, she would have to suffer through the pain.
It also seemed like she was going a bit insane. Tourmaline once said 'Just kill me' and we were all startled by it. She then apologized for it, saying that she didn't know why she said that. The night of that day. my sister told me that she had a feeling that it was that Purple Spirit.
She told me that no matter how happy she felt, there was always a sickening feeling going through her veins. When our aunt just snapped there, Freezerburn told me that the sick feeling went away, but came back shortly after.
I thought that she might be correct and remembered when I had that sickening feeling once. It was terrible. The feeling of death and destruction pumping through your veins. Feeling sick to your stomach, and just having thoughts of wanting to murder the dragons around you.
Today, we knew that there was nothing we could do. Our aunt was dying, and there was no way for us to save her now. Tear rushed down all our faces, as Mother, me and my sister's scales became duller and pale. Fang's RainWing spots, turned dark blue, and grey.
Infernova was crying hard, his tail, twinned with Tourmaline's. She was still breathing but, her eyes were closed. The heart monitor was normal right now, and it was beeping at a consistent rate. Then, the beeps from the heart monitor started to come less. 
Tears waterfalled out of our eyes, as the heart monitor slowed down.
Tourmaline shifted a little, "Infernova."
He perked up grabbing her front talons.
"I... Wish I.... I could live...To see you... Everyday..."
Then, the heart monitor, flatlined.
== Chapter 16: Depression ==
Days passed and none of us had done anything. We were still morning the death of Tourmaline, wishing that we could have done something. Infernova was extremely depressed. He loved her, and she loved him, but now. She's gone.
Mother was depressed as well, and Father was always there to make her feel better. Infernova had gone back to the rest of the Sky palace, and I miss him. He was a friendly dragon with heavy facial scars, that tends to make other dragons fear him.
I was scared of him when I first saw him, but as I got to know him, I realized he wasn't a bad dragon. Then again. If he was Tourmaline's love, then I should have known he was a good dragon. Freezerburn was somehow able to bring Fang outside. Fang.
She was a little strange. Strange looking. Grandmother didn't accept her for what she was, but I did, and still do. My sister would defend Fang, but almost always got injured during it. I barely had any scars, since all my wounds always healed properly.
I heard the sounds of footsteps behind me. I lifted my head from the table, and Fang smiled at me. Her tired eyes met mine, and I gave her a hug. She hadn't gotten much sleep recently, and the reason for that was unknown.
"Hey." I said,
"Hey." Fang responded
"You tired?" I asked, brushing one of my claws under her eye
"Yeah." she yawned,
Fang collapsed into my talons, falling asleep.
It's just a micro sleep. I thought, stroking her neck
Freezerburn walked up to me, and with the expression on her face, I had a feeling she had some bad news. Mother had returned and gave me a small hug.
"Ok, so you remember when Cloud found us right?" she asked
I nodded, "Well. I have a feeling he told Grandmother that we're here." she continued, "So we need to head back, or else she'll most likely assassinate us all."
My eyes went wide. She was right. "But. What about our parents?" I stuttered,
Mother looked a me, "Just go. I'd rather have you alive and away from me, then dead and with me."
Fang, my sister and I looked at her. She smiled, and Father walked up to her, smiling.
"Go on. You heard her." Father said, flicking his head in the direction of the door,
Mother gave us a fierce hug, and let us go. we walked out the doorway, towards a window.
"I hope we see you again." Freezerburn said
Mother nodded, and Father gave her a hug. We flew out the window and in the direction of our room. We dove right through our window, and I set Fang down on her sleeping platform. It had been so long since the last time we've been in here.
I heard footsteps behind us, and saw a dragon standing at the door way. All the candles were blown out, and someone had shut the window behind me. The dragon pulled a large weapon out and slammed it hard on my sister's head, knocking her out cold.
I stared at her for a small eternity, not realizing that the other dragon was right in front of me. He slammed the weapon hard on my head. I yelped with pain, and fell to the ground.
== Chapter 17: Kidnapping ==
Freezerburn's POV
Urh. What happened? I thought through a massive headache
"Freeze! You woke up!" Fang's voice yelled
I winced with pain, "Fang. What happened?"
"I don't know!" she yelled pacing around the room, "I woke up and you were on the ground, knocked out. And Frostfire wasn't anywhere!"
"What!?" I exclaimed standing up, "Where could he be?!"
"I don't know!" she cried, grabbing my shoulders to line up her tired eyes with mine, "We need to go find him!"
I nodded and opened the window. I looked out, but didn't see anything. No signs of him anywhere.
"Wait. Where's Hurricane?" I asked,
"I don't know." Fang responded, panic pure in her voice, 
She's extremely worried, I thought, going to Frostfire's chest of stuff
"What are you doing?" Fang asked, her voice shaking
I didn't respond to her. I found a blunt dagger and smiled. I set it down on the ground, and found a spin wheel of some sort in his chest. I attached the dagger on top of the spin wheel, and made sure it could spin.
"Enchant this item to find Frostfire." I enchanted,
It glowed for a bit the started spinning. It pointed north-east of here, and Fang immediately leaped out the window, flying in the direction the dagger was pointing in.
"Fang! Wait!" I called
I flew out the window, holding the detector in my talon. It spun around a bit more, and adjusted a bit more to the left. I saw Fang hovering looking around frantically.
"Fang!" I called, and she turned her head to me, "Come this way!"
We flew in the direction the dagger was pointing, and flew for quite awhile.
"Where could he be?" Fang muttered threw out the flight
Where did Hurricane go? I wondered
The dagger spun again, almost stabbing me in the chest, and it pointed to the left. We adjusted our path and saw a large mountain with a cave inside it.
There, 
== Chapter 18: Love Birds ==
Frostfire's POV
I woke up with a terrible pain in my head.
"Ah. So you're awake." A voice sneered
"Huh?" I said
I tried moving but my arms, wings and tail were bound with something.
"Don't move." the voice said, "I've placed multiple sharp items around you. If you move, they'll quickly jut right into you."
I stiffened my muscles. I did not want to be stabbed by multiple sharp items around me. The other dragon lit a small fire, it produced enough light to see his face. I gasped stiffly when I saw him. He was a NightWing with ragged scars all over him. A very noticeable claw mark destroying his face. There was a crescent moon-like scar on the side his neck, which was mirrored on the opposing side.
I noticed that all his scars were mirrored on the opposing side.
Why? Why are there the same scars on each side of his body? I thought, keeping my muscles stiff
The NightWing smiled, stood on his hind legs, spread his wings, and slowly spun around. Showing his entire body, from almost all angles. I was right. All his scars, were mirrored. His wings were slightly torn, and claws were all sharper than normal.
He had odd grey eyes, and his scales were different shades of purple. His eyes gaze pierced my heart, and my muscles started to hurt from being stiff for so long.
"So. Who are you?" he asked, and paused, "Oh. My name?"
I wanted to nod, but was afraid that it would trigger the strange suit.
"My name's Execution." he responded,
Execution? He sounds scary. I thought, stiffening a shiver
"I asked who you are!" he roared, "But don't move too much."
"I-i-i'm. My n-n-names F-frostfire. Prince Frostfire." I said, stiffly
Execution smiled, "A prince? So... If you were to say... Die... Dragons would notice?"
It wasn't exactly a question, but I responded anyway, "I guess? I mean... My parents would care."
"Well then. Listen up, dragonet." He growled, "You wont tell anyone about this event, no matter how much you care about them, or how much they badger you for it, alright?"
"I-i-i promise." I gulped, nodding slightly, "I w-will never t-tell anyone a-about this."
He smiled grimly, "Good."
Execution walked to lean on the wall to the left of me. I felt some kind of liquid slowly run down my back, and I wasn't sure if it was blood, or some other bodily fluid. Execution took out a knife, and started sharpening it, and his unusually sharp claws. We sat there silently for a very long while. I wanted to ask him a few questions but, was too afraid.
I shifted around a little, "So... Why did you kidnap-"
"Don't move." he cut me off,
I stopped, and stiffened my tired muscles. He continued sharpening his knife, and when he was satisfied, he set it down. We were silent for a while, then he turned his dead eyes to me.
"Well. You're a prince right?"
I nodded. "I want to see how your tribe or in this case, parents, will react if they find you missing. Or rather. Dead."
His words wrapped around my ear canal. I was terrified. This dragon. This crazed dragon wanted to kill me.
"You will never get away with it." I growled, trying not to move too much
"I've gotten away with murder, twenty-five whole times." he said, holding up one of his talons
I flinched, then fearing that I might have triggered the suit. He was a murderer. The fear seeped through from under my scales, and he smiled grimly. As if my fear made him happy. He picked up his knife, and seemed ready to brutally murder the ones I care about, right in front of me.
We sat in complete silence, until I heard distant footsteps from outside. Execution looked out the tunnel in the wall in front of me. It most likely lead outside. The footsteps got closer and Execution gave me a grim smile.
"Seems like you really are worth killing." he said, standing up on his hind talons, and walking to the tunnel
I noticed he had his knife with him, and scared me even more. Execution smiled darkly at me, and I saw my sister, and Fang's silhouettes appear. Freeze exited first, Fang trailing behind a little. Fang spotted me, and Freeze tackled her to the ground, avoiding Execution's ambush.
It was only now that I realized how big Execution was. He was almost three times bigger than my sister, and grabbed her by the neck, throwing her into the tunnel roughly. I became heavily terrified. If Execution was able to get away with murder twenty-five times, them how brutal was he going to hurt Fang.
"Fang, look out!" I yelled, making sure not to move too much
She looked up, as Execution tried to pounce on her. She yelped with surprise and quickly rolled to the side. Execution wrapped his tail around her throat, strangling her. She yelped out in pain, as the spikes on his tail dug into her neck, threatening to draw blood.
Suddenly, Freezerburn tackled Execution, leaving heavy burn marks. He cried out in pain, and threw Fang across the room, slamming her hard into a wall. She crumpled to the ground, her eyes shut with pain. I turned my head to my sister battling Execution. He grabbed my sister and threw her hard against the wall.
Fang had gotten up, rubbing her stomach. Execution darted right at her, grabbing her neck, and pinning her against the wall. Then, he dragged her along the wall, cutting open the scars on her neck. He brought up his claws, and dug them deeply into her stomach.
She scream in pure agony, as he destroyed her bruised belly. I wanted to go and help her, but if I moved I would die.
My brain told me to stay still and not to move. While my heart screamed to go help her, even if it meant that I was going to die. Fang was going crazy, driven mad with pain. She was thrashing around, only making his claw dig deeper.
There was so much blood everywhere, from Fang's giant open wound. Execution stopped, when Fang's entire underbelly was covered with blood. Small parts of her rib cage was visible, with muscle tissue still desperately hanging on. He dropped her roughly, and she landed with a loud thud. Nothing. No movement from her. She was only shivering.
Fang... I thought, fearing her potential death
I saw my sister get up, and she was holding a boulder. She walked up behind Execution, and hit him hard on the head. He looked back at her, and fell to the ground. Knocked out cold. She walked over to me and burned the suit to ashes. I stretched my limbs, and saw Fang had gotten up, despite her terrible condition.
She wrapped around me like a snake, wrapping her neck around mine and resting her head on my shoulder. She started to cry, coughing up a little blood.
"I'm so glad you're ok." she said, in gasps
I hugged her tightly, "I'm glad you're ok too."
"Well. Mostly." Freezerburn said, pulling out a large roll of cloth, "Come on you two love bird, let's get Fang wrapped up."
I started to blush hard, and saw Fang turn pink. I helped her get up, and let her back rest on me, as my sister wrapped up her bloody wound. Fang grabbed my talon, squeezing it tightly, squealing with pain. I picked her up, still hanging on to her talon, I stroked her neck, and lightly ran one on my talons over the bandage. She winced heavily, and I stopped.
"Sorry." I apologized,
"It's fine." She said, "Sorry about making you bloody."
I looked down at my underbelly, and noticed there was a lot of her blood, all over it.
"It's fine. It'll wash off."
She booped my nose, and I nodded to my sister. We quickly got out of the cave and flew back to our room. I set Fang back on her bed, adding extra pillows under her belly to soften it up. I washed up, and sat with my sister.
"Thanks for coming to get me." I thanked
"I would always come looking for you." she said
"Really?" I asked
"Of course." she responded
"You're quite calm after knocking someone out cold." I said, after a while
"Well. I guess." she said, shifting around, "Do you think he'll come find us?"
I shook my head, "Let's hope he doesn't. But he most likely will."
"In that case. We should prepare."
"Yeah." I yawned, "We should sleep. It's late."
Freezerburn nodded, and went to her sleeping platform.
"Night bro."
"Goodnight."
I walked over to Fang.
Love birds? Does she feel the same? I thought, booping her nose with my own
She whimpered with pain, and I stroked her neck. I got on her sleeping platform and put a wing on her back. Falling asleep. Happy that Fang could finally have a goodnights sleep.
What could happen if she fights in the arena now? I wondered, drifting off
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