Turquoise Mountain Academy: The Venom Sands

==Turquoise Mountain Academy: The Venom Sands==
By Fennecthesandwing21.
(This is my entry for a writing competition between me and Wolfcallerthedriftwing)
This is the first fan fiction in my  Turquoise Mountain Academy series.
The second one is Jagged Peaks.
==Winglets==
The Fire Winglet:
SeaWing: Tetra
IceWing: Freeze
RainWing: Aniseed
SandWing: Krait
NightWing: Silverthought
MudWing: Beaver
SkyWing: Cloud
Water Winglet:
Seawing: Anchovy 
Icewing: Frost
Rainwing: Toucan 
Sandwing: Cobra 
Nightwing: Novadust 
Mudwing: Coot
Skywing: Hawk
Wind Winglet:
SeaWing: Algae 
IceWing: Tempest 
RainWing: Kiwi
SandWing: Dust
NightWing: Black-talons
MudWing: Egret
SkyWing: Ginger
Earth Winglet:
Seawing: Porpoise
Icewing: Glaciate 
Rainwing: Bamboo
Sandwing: Singe
Nightwing: Forbidden 
Mudwing: Otter
Skywing: Finch
Teachers:
Head: Hopecaller 
Nurse: Pomegranate
Hunting: Eagle 
Combat: Salt 
History: Negative 
Tribe customs and festivals: Tumbleweed
Cook: Kingfisher 
Additional character information Here
==Prologue==
The SandWing laughed. A cold, cruel laugh that echoed over the stone.
A NightWing stood beside him, silent.
"Don't you think she would have been useful? If we had tried harder?" She said quietly, tilting her head to look up at the other dragon.
"She couldn't cope. To become what we train these dragonets for, she had to be strong. She was weak."
The NightWing sighed and turned her head away, looking into the dark valley below. Suddenly, the SandWing stiffened and raised his tail barb.
"They have come." He hissed, then leaped off the cliff edge and spread his wings wide as a group of dragons darted out of the darkness.
A big SeaWing, who was clearly in the lead, swiped his tail at the NightWing but she ducked beneath it, breathing a reluctant burst of fire at it as she did so. Growling, the SeaWing aimed again and a battle ensued.
At last, the SandWing managed to slash a small, russet SkyWing with his tail, who spiraled out of control and into the shadowy forest far below. The rest of the attackers dived down after him, all except the SeaWing.
"We will be back. We will be stronger. We will not let you destroy everything the tribes hold dear. No matter how hard you try, you cannot win. We will make sure of that." He snarled, panting, then turned and followed the rest of the group.
Flicking his tail smugly, the SandWing sauntered back into the caves in the mountainside.
The nightwing stood there, alone, for a moment, thinking with a worried frown on her face. Slowly she spread her wings and took flight, following the setting sun and the Seawing.
Because whatever her parents had taught her, whatever she had grown up as, she knew she had to change. She knew she couldn't return to the dark caves and the spiteful sandwing.
She knew she had to make up for everything she had done.
Even if that would mean giving up everything she had.
==Chapter 1==
Krait shuffled her wings nervously, huddled under a gently swaying willow tree.
Dragonets rushed by, chattering and laughing, but she stood alone and silent.
it was the first day at Turquoise Mountain Academy, and the air fizzed with excitement and wonder. Krait watched as the other students ran around, laughing and chatting, and imagined what things would be like.
Would it be good? She had no idea if the others would like her, and barely knew anything about making friends. It had never really been on her to-do list before.
She  spotted a SeaWing across the courtyard talking happily to his mother, and sighed. Krait had no parent with her. They had given up on her long ago. 
After a few minutes, the older dragons began to leave, and the courtyard was left with just dragonets, awaiting eagerly to enter the academy.
A sudden hush fell over the crowd as a beautiful shimmering black nightwing came out of the entrance to the mountain. She smiled delicately at the dragonets, her blue eyes sparkling with interest and intelligence. Even Krait was awed by her. 
"Welcome, young dragonets, to your new home. This, as I am sure you all know, is Turquoise Mountain Academy. I am Hopecaller, and I am in charge of the Academy and all of you brilliant, talented dragonets."
Krait listened, but was slightly distracted by a glistening, pale blue icewing. The rock beneath him was shimmering slightly, and as Krait looked closer, she realised a faint layer of ice was spreading from his talons.  She stared at it for a while, completely entranced and curious. What was it?
"... And now you may enter the academy and begin your journey to fulfilling your destiny." Hopecaller finished off.
The dragonets began to chatter again and rushed in, each being given a booklet upon entering. Krait waited a little, then filed in at the end. She took a booklet and saw it had a map on it, as well as a list of winglets. She saw she was in the Fire Winglet and began to make her way to her dorm, slipping quietly through the bustling throng of dragons.
==Chapter 2==
Looking down at the map in her neatly folded leaflet, Krait entered her cave.
It was quite small, but more cosy than cramped, with a large enough decorated ledge on either side of the cavern. She looked up and crossed the stone floor to the ledge sprinkled with sand, covered in camel hair blankets and pillows and beneath a small heat lamp, and couldn't help laughing at the unexpected luxury.
"Nice ledges, aren't they?" Came an amused voice from the other ledge. Krait jumped and turned around to see a small Seawing perched on the edge of a woven mat of seaweed. Her silverish blue scales glistened and she grinned at Krait's startled face. "I'm Tetra." She chuckled." I'm guessing you're Krait. "
"Yes... How did you know that?" Krait stuttered, a little worried about the other dragonet's knowledge.
" It pays to read the clawmate lists. " Tetra held up her booklet to show a page of winglets and clawmates. Krait smiled a little.
"So, I wonder who the other dragonets in our Winglet are. Apparently there are Winglet 'common caves' at the end of each corridor of dorms." Tetra chattered away.
" Um... cool. Are we going there then? " Krait said, thinking about the icewing. That strange ice spreading from his claws... What if he was in her winglet? Maybe she could ask him about the frost. No, that would be too... Weird.
But she wanted to know what it was. It wasn't that she was scared.... She was more fascinated.
"Well, or course!" Tetra exclaimed, marching out of the cave and flicking her tail in a motion that told Krait to follow.
Krait did so, trying not to think about the last Winglet she had been in, at her last school, and just how awful that had been. 
==Chapter 3==
"Hey! That's not fair!" 
A bright purple rainwing giggled from a table at the edge of the common room as Krait entered. She immediately felt a sense of security, and safety, like it was a place she could go when she was trying to hide from everything bad. The rainwing giggled again and the Mudwing next to threw a mouse into the air and caught it in his mouth. " Wow! It's pretty busy in here. " Terra exclaimed, heading over to a ledge padded with palm leaves. Krait followed her and sat down, watching the other dragonets. They all looked so happy, as if everything in their lives was fun and games... Suddenly, Krait's eye was caught by a nightwing, huddled alone in the corner of the room. Krait looked round at Tetra, who had engrossed herself in some scrolls, and went over to the nightwing. She looked up with big, bright blue eyes and her silver scales shimmered. 
"Are you ok?" Asked Krait, settling into a slightly uncomfortable position on the floor next to the dragonet.
" I suppose... " the nightwing sighed. "It's hard to be alright after going what I've been through."
Krait peered closer at the nightwing and her silver scales. The eyes seemed. .. Familiar.
"I know what you mean." Krait murmured. They sat there in silence for a moment. " I'm Krait. What's your name? " Krait asked, trying to take her mind away from the haunting visions of her past.
"I'm Silverthought." The nightwing sighed, then twitched and narrowed her eyes, turning her head at an angle to squint up at Krait. " Krait... It feels like I know that name... " she murmured.
Krait tried to think, but she was tired... Maybe she was just imagining things. "I don't know where you would know me from..." She stuttered. 
Then it clicked.
There was only one place that any dragon could possibly know her from.
A place she had tried so hard to forget, had left behind on mainland Pyrrhia, had swapped for the paradise of Turquoise Mountain Academy. .. And now her past was coming back to haunt her.
"I have to go." She stuttered, flicking a glance quickly at Silverthought, who was suddenly staring down at her talons in horror as though they were covered in blood, then raced out of the cave and into her dorm.
==Chapter 4==
Krait threw herself down on her ledge, wrapping her wings around her head and curling herself into a tight ball. 
"I can't escape... I can never escape.... I have to escape... But I cant..." She murmured tearfully, then unfurled and scraped her talons down her arm, causing a long gash to appear on her sandy scales. 
"You shouldn't do that. You'll hurt yourself." 
Krait looked up at the door, instantly backing away into the stone wall. The Icewing was standing in the entrance to the cave, his brow furrowed and dark blue eyes watching her sadly. "Why are you here?" Krait choked out. Her throat was raw and stung when she spoke.
" I saw you come in here. You looked upset. " he said quietly.
"You don't know what I'm feeling. No one does." Krait whispered, narrowing her eyes. 
That was when she noticed the ice again. Creeping from his talons towards her, across the stone, almost on her ledge...
It bit into her like a knife and she yelped in pain. "Get out! GET OUT! " She screeched at him, pressing herself against the wall in a desperate attempt to get away from the frost.
The icewing's eyes filled with regret and horror and he cried out as if in pain, then whirled around and ran away down the corridor. 
Krait slumped down onto her ledge, breathing heavily, as the ice receded and slowly melted into Tetra's pool. Once she had calmed down, a feeling of guilt flooded her. She tentatively walked out of the dorm and followed the trail of ice down the corridor to a small cave at the very end of the passage. She stepped in cautiously, and caught sight of the glistening white scales of the icewing.
"Don't come near me. Stay away. I'll hurt you." he whispered, a haunted look in his eyes. 
"You're a frostscales, aren't you?" Krait murmured gently.
"Yes. And that's why you should leave this place and stay away from me. I'll hurt you." He repeated.
" No... I'm sorry. It's not your fault... I'm the one who hurts dragons. " Krait let out a small sob and a tear trickled down her cheek. 
It fell from her scales, but just before it hit the ground, the icewing reached out and caught it on his talon. It crystallized into a beautiful teardrop shaped piece of ice and the icewing lay it on the ground in front of Krait, then took a step back. 
Krait picked it up carefully. It felt solid, and not as cold as the other ice. "Enchant this teardrop to never melt. " she murmured, and it hardened.
"Keep it." The Icewing said quietly. 
Krait looked up at him, and suddenly felt a spark of something inside her... Perhaps it was pity. Or... Something else entirely.
"What's your name?" She asked.
" Freeze. " answered the icewing, then laughed a little.
Krait laughed as well. "Nice name. I'm Krait." 
"That's a pretty name. " Freeze said, the corner of his mouth curving into a smile.
A bell rang outside the room. Krait looked down at her booklet for the schedule, then noticed that Freeze's booklet had crusted over with ice. 
"oh..." She exclaimed, then moved a little closer. She rested one talon on the booklet. " Make this booklet resist ice, frost, and frostscales. " she murmured, and the ice melted away.
Freeze stared at her. "you're.... An animus?" He muttered in awe.
" yes... " Krait sighed, then the bell rang again and they both looked down at their schedule.
"Dinner." Krait said, then stepped back out of the room and began to follow the map to the prey centre, while Freeze followed quietly behind her.
==Chapter 5==
Krait found that the prey centre could only be described as chaotic. The teachers had clearly tried to create an orderly dining hall, with a table for each Winglet and a section of the ball for each food, but had mostly failed. Krait headed over to the Sandwing prey area, which had a selection of scorpions, lizards, camels, and other desert animals. She  reached forward for a scorpion, but it was snatched up almost as soon as her talon touched it. A male Sandwing glared down at her, then whirled around and marched back to his table, the earth winglet's table. Krait growled and took another scorpion, glaring at a reddish coloured Sandwing who was just reaching for a lizard, then stalking over to the Fire Winglet table.
She sat down next to Tetra and looked around for Freeze. He hadn't sat down yet, and was at the icewing food section trying to avoid freezing everyone's food. At last he took a seal and sat down at the far end of the Fire table, away from the others. Krait smiled at him encouragingly but he kept his head down and ate, obviously discouraged by the fuss over the food. The small purple rainwing from earlier on sat down next to Krait, grinning and slipping a pomegranate and a jar of honey onto the table.
"Hi!" she said to Krait happily. " I'm Aniseed! Who are you? "
"Um... Krait."
"Oh! Cool name! I like your scales! They look pretty!" Aniseed. chattered. 
The dark brown Mudwing Krait had seen playing with Aniseed earlier in the common room sat on the other side of the bouncy dragonet and smiled warmly at Krait.
"Hi Beaver! Krait, this is Beaver! Beaver, this is Krait!" Aniseed exclaimed, flicking her slightly glowing tail from each dragon to indicate who she was talking about. 
"Hi." Krait said to Beaver.
"Hello Krait." Beaver replied, then glanced over at a Mudwing on the Water table, who was messing about with some strips of bacon, throwing them in the air and catching them in his mouth. 
Krait noticed the fond disapproval in Beaver's gaze. " Your sibling? "
"Yep." Beaver chuckled, shaking his head, then began to eat his stew.
The silver nightwing sat down quietly on the opposite side of the table. Krait fell silent, paying no attention to Aniseed introducing each dragon again. She already knew the dragon. Silverthought. Oh yes, she knew her well. Much too well.
She ate her scorpion quickly, then got up and left the hall, returning to the empty common room and beginning to read a scroll.
==Chapter 6==
She sat alone on a ledge, focusing on the scroll, trying to clear her mind of the dark thoughts that were crowding into it. The ink words swam in Krait's vision and eventually she gave up and threw the scroll across the common room, where it landed forlornly on the floor. She stayed there for a while, trying to calm her fluttering heartbeat and tagged breath. She closed her eyes and sucked in the air, feeling it fill her lungs before flowing out through her mouth. When she opened her eyes again, the nightwing was there.
Standing in front of her, mouth open slightly, groping for words.
And suddenly, Krait was filled with rage.
She leaped off the ledge and caught Silverthought's shoulders with her talons, shoving the squealing nightwing against the wall and holding her there as her fury subsided.
"Why are you here?" Krait snarled.
Silverthought gasped for breath and gulped, shaking her head desperately.
"I said, WHY ARE YOU HERE?" Krait repeated, digging her claws into Silverthought's scales until she cried out.
" I can't go back! I can't do it anymore! They're bad! It was too horrible! and... and... " Silverthought choked on a sob and looked up at Krait with wild eyes.
Krait narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean?" She loosened her grip and stepped back a bit.
Silverthought gulped again.  "I'm not going back. The dragons there do bad things." 
Krait let out a small sigh of relief. Then suspicion clouded over her mind again and she frowned. "But... You were powerful. Scorpion and Nyra favoured you."
Silverthought gazed into Krait's golden eyes. "Nyra is my mother." She whispered. It was so quiet that you could barely hear it , but it rang in Krait's ears like a clap of thunder.
She began to pace back and forth across the room as Silverthought watched with baited breath.
"She'll follow you... They'll find me... This can't be happening... I thought I would be safe here!" Krait cried in anguish, turning back to Silverthought desperately.
" No. She never cared about me. All She cared about was power... We can both leave it all behind now. We can begin again... " Silverthought murmured. 
Krait gazed at the nightwing, who gazed back with pleading eyes. 
"Tell no one about it. Live life here like normal dragonets." Krait said quietly, then went back to her ledge and began to read the scroll again. 
The other dragonets came in soon after, and Krait spent the evening playing with them and chatting. It was only once she had returned to her dorm and settled down to sleep that she realised that she had not seen Freeze since she left the prey centre, but she drifted into sleep before she even had time to think about him. 
==Chapter 7==
Krait dreamed. Unimportant dreams at first, but soon dark memories flooded her mind. She tossed and turned, crying out occasionally, but still the visions of the past flowed behind her eyes.
She was a young dragonet, eager and ready. He mother stood beside her.
"Be strong. Be vigilant. Strike first. Learn the ways of your family, and you will be truly great." She told her.
"I will." Krait said, looking her mother in the eye. Then her mother left and everything swirled into darkness. The next part of the dream began, and Krait was being marched to her winglet. There were no dorms, just a huge empty stone hall with no roof, that was flooded with moonlight on a full moon. The dragonets were ordered into lines, each line, or winglet, consisting of ten dragonets from the same tribe. They made a circle of lines around a main column of stone in the centre of the hall, and every ten minutes they had to march forward a few paces, so that each line of dragonets would at some point be under the direct beam of the moon's light. 
The light of dawn seeped into the hall after a while, and the older dragons began to harm orders. Each dragonet filed off to their duty. Most had assassination and combat lessons, but some were treated like slaves, cooking and cleaning and, the most important duty of all, looking after the hatchery. 
A huge room full of eggs from all different tribes. Krait walked in slowly and headed to her designated nest, where a few eggs were huddled in a bundle of moss. Her job, as a sandwing, was to keep them warm.
Other dragons were busting themselves all around the hatchery. Some brought new, fresh moss to line the nests, others brought more eggs, others transported any hatched dragonets to the nursery.
Soon Krait's shift was up, and she joined the majority of the dragonets, training in weapons, combat, killing, and destruction. 
Her dreams carried on, melting into each other, fading then coming back strong like a burning flame. Each dream was much like the last, the same routine that had been her life for so many days.
Krait woke hot and sweaty in the morning, breathing heavily and tired. As the room grew brighter and brighter and the day began, all Krait could think of was the light of the rising sun painfully sliding into the dark, chilling hall, a sign of yet another day of the same old work and gruelling fighting in the dark caves of the Venom Sands.
==Chapter 8==
The bell clanged loudly and Krait woke with a start. 
"You’re finally awake!" Tetra laughed from her pool, swishing her tail in the water.
"I doubt anyone could sleep through that racket." Krait answered back, smiling.
Her mind wandered back to the old same up call at the Venom sands. The screech of a tortured prisoner... Her wings started to shudder and she quickly stilled them before Tetra noticed anything was wrong.
"At least today looks like a sunny day!" Tetra exclaimed, waving a wing in the direction of a hole slanting across the roof of the cavern. 
A beam of sunlight slid into the cave, giving the walls a strange golden tinge that lit of the stone. 
Krait yawned and slid off her ledge, stretching out her wings and flicking her tail. A second bell rang for breakfast.
"Breakfast! Race ya there! " Tetra called to Krait, then dashed out of the dorm. 
Krait followed, bounding down the corridor until she caught up with the seawing. 
The smell of fresh, delicious food wafted out of the prey centre. 
The two dragonets entered the hall, smelling the air and looking around wonderously.
There were warm, oily pieces of bacon, bowls of cream, pomegranates, mangos, passionfruit, smoked salmon, honey, and a huge stack of enormous, thick pancakes. 
Tetra gasped in delight and immediately rushed to fill a plate with smoked salmon draped with fried and caramalised kelp.
Krait gazed around at all of the food, then went over slowly to the stack of bacon and syrup, as if in a daze. 
A plump sea/mud hybrid came out of what looked like a kitchen and came over to the food table.
"Good morning!" He exclaimed happily, smiling at Krait and the other dragonets. " Please, take anything you like from the buffet! I hope you enjoy it! Oh, would you like some help with that?" He rushed away to help a young Seawing scoop some anchovies onto her plate.
After loading her plate with thick, syrupy pancakes and large, crispy slices of oily bacon, Krait made her way back to the Fire Winglet table and slid into her seat.
The other dragonets didn't pay her much attention, too busy scoffing down their mouth watering food, although Aniseed did look up momentarily to flash Krait a friendly grin.
Krait gulped down the pancakes and looked up, at last, to see the rest of the hall. Dragonets milled about in groups around the large, stone cavern. 
Suddenly, the room fell silent and a trail of frost appeared at the entrance. Freeze walked in slowly and warily, clearly conscious of the gaze of every dragonet trained on him and his scales.
A skywing dragonet stepped forward quickly and tapped his long, jagged talons in the stone ground as he walked towards Freeze. The others in the hall watched with baited breath as the skywing stopped a metre or two in front of the Frostscales and looked him directly in the eye 
"You're not welcome here. We don't want you. You're a danger to us all." the dragonet said briskly after a moment.
"Hawk!" a small, dark green Seawing dragonet with algae green eyes cried out with a shocked expression on his father found face.
"Anchovi, stay out of this. And stay away from this creep, he's a danger to the whole academy!" The skywing, Hawk, snapped at the seawing, then turned back to Freeze and glared at him.
The Icewing took a step back and flexed the talons on his front feet, looking around desperately for some other dragonet that might help him.
He caught Krait's eye and for a moment their gaze locked. A terrible feeling of guilt flooded through Krait. She was just standing there, doing nothing, as Freeze was bullied by that toxic skywing.
But what could she do?
Hawk laughed coldly. "The freak's scared!" He announced loudly.
"Shut up!" 
A small but ferocious voice came from behind Krait.
She turned in wonder and watched as Aniseed marched up to Freeze and stood next to him, glaring at the skywing and baring her teeth in a defiant snarl.
"Ooh! The freak has a girlfriend! What a surprise!" Hawk guffawed, and Aniseed turned slightly pink, but regained her fierce attitude almost immediatelyy.
"Leave him alone, you're the only freak around here!" Krait hissed, stepping forward to stand on Freeze's other side before she knew what she was doing. 
Hawk made to open his mouth again and make another cruel remark, but a large, slimy fish suddenly rose from one of the tables and slammed itself into his face, sending him reeling backwards. 
Krait murmured something under her breath, and it continued to slap him as he ran round the hall, desperately trying to escape it. 
Aniseed's has dropped and her scales flushed golden with laughter. But Freeze just turned to Krait with wide blue eyes. 
"You...!" He began to laugh as well,  and soon the hall was filled with the sound of laughing dragonets, though Anchovi remained silent, with a worried frown creasing his pale green face. 
Suddenly, his kelp green eyes flickered to the entrance of the hall and widened.
Krait whirled around and stopped in dismay.
Hopecaller was standing beneath the stone arch, surveying the dragonets coldly with her shining violet eyes. Her gaze came to rest on Hawk, and the battered salmon lying on the floor next to him.
The skywing trembled with rage and plumes of smoke billowed from his flaring nostrils. 
"Who did this?" He hissed, so quietly that any other time, no one would have heard, though his voice echoed loudly in the silence of the stunned dragonets. " I said, WHO DID THIS? " Hawk roared.
"Pomegranate, please see that Hawk is alright." Hopecaller murmured gently to a light pink rainwing behind her. Pomegranate nodded and hurried over to soothe the fuming skywing.
"Dragonets of the Fire Winglet. I would like to see you in my office. Everyone else, please carry on with your breakfast, then make your way to history class." Hopecaller announced smoothly, without any hint of anger.
Krait glanced at the others nervously, then began to follow the tranquil nightwing out of the hall.
==Chapter 9==
They arrived at a large, smooth walled cave with a dark mahogany desk in the centre. Lit torches burned calmly, giving the cave an eerie glow. 
Hopecaller swept through the doorway ahead of them and settled down behind the desk, waving at them to sit on the other side.
Krait gulped and wondered what her punishment would be.
"Now, dragonets... I have something very important to discuss with you." Hopecaller said cooly.
Aniseed shot Krait a puzzled glance, which the confused Sandwing returned. 
"No, it is not the incident with the... Unfortunate skywing dragonet." Hopecaller confirmed with a sigh as a large Seawing strode in, closely followed by a smaller, russet skywing, who was limping.
Krait breathed a sigh of relief, though a guilty look flickered across her face at Hopecaller's stern, serious expression. 
"This is a much more Important matter, one that we -" she gestured to the Seawing and skywing, "believe you will play a major part in."
A silence descended over the cave and the dragonets stared at Hopecaller with wide eyes.
"What does that mean?" Asked Tetra at last, her silver edged glow scales shining slightly.
" There is... A dangerous group of dragons. I'm afraid we cannot tell you much, but I can tell you this: they want to hurt dragonets and they want power. Recently, they have begun to... Target the academy. We have reason to believe they have sent a spy into our midst. " Hopecaller frowned anxiously.
Aniseed's eyes widened and Beaver tensed his muscles.
Krait stood still, terror coursing through her like electricity through a wire. 
Did they think she was a spy? Or..... Silverthought?
But why would they be telling her about it if they thought it was her? Were they trying to scare her into revealing herself?
"We would like you to keep an eye out for any strange behaviour, and any strange dragons within the academy. Please, be careful though. " Hopecaller gazed at them with a worry creased face. "Now, you may return to your lessons: I think you will be just on time for history. Apart from Krait and Silverthought... I would like to talk to you about something."       
The others backed out of the cave slowly, Freeze casting a concerned glance over his shoulder at Krait, whose hazel eyes were darting nervously around the room.
"I'll save you a seat!" Aniseed told her happily, though a hint of unsureness crept into her voice and the tip of her tail was subtly turning a shade of panicked pale blue mottled lichen green. 
At last, they had all left, and Krait and Silverthought turned to face Hopecaller. "Don't even say it." Krait whispered, head bowed in despair. " I'll get my stuff and leave..." she trailed off and headed for the door.   
"I wasn't going to." Hopecaller murmured in a silky, quiet voice that, for some reason, sent shivers up Krait's spine. "Come with me." She added, rising from her seat and beginning the head out of the door. The Seawing and skywing, who Krait had almost forgot were there, followed, leaving the two dragonets to trail after them in bewilderment.
==Chapter 10==
As Krait followed the older dragons along the stone corridors, the little skywing fell behind and began to walk next to her. His walk was unsteady, lurching every step, and Krait realised there was a long, black scar down his back leg.
”What happened?” She asked bluntly, gesturing curiously to the scar.
Oops. That sounded rude... She thought, then added “Not to be rude or anything.”
The skywing sighed heavily. “A battle. If you really must know...”
Krait nodded.
”... We were fighting some dragons that wanted to harm the academy. They were from another academy, the Venom Sands Academy. Except... the Venom Sands doesnt deserve to be called an academy at all. It’s a monstrous place full of dragons who just want to harm others...” He stopped and stared worriedly at her appalled expression. “I’ve said too much, haven’t I...” he trailed off and they continued walking in silence.
"Do you know who I am?" Krait asked at last in a whisper as soft as falling Autumn leaves.
" I know who you are.... yes... "
"A monster. And soon, everyone will know. " her feelings began to leak out into her tone, a desperate, lonely rage breaking through the surface.     
"Krait, that's what everyone will keep telling you. But you're not a monster. Why would you be here if you were a monster? If you truly were, if you truly believed what they were doing was right, you would have stayed with them. You would have kept on hurting others. But you chose to leave. You're a strong dragon, Krait. Don't let the past drag you down. " The SkyWing gazed down at her with a faraway expression. "Many dragons have done bad things... You've done far better than them to have made it this far." He sighed and sped up towards the others, leaving Krait alone in the tunnel watching them walk away. 
Krait followed them out into the top of the academy. From where they stood, they could see the sea spread out all around the island the academy had been built on. Krait could even see the mainland, or at least a jagged line of land that must have been Pyrrhia.
"Of I assume you know what we are talking about when we mention a spy. Am I correct?" Hopecallers looked  Krait and Silverthought with darkened eyes.
"Hopecaller, please! We're not spies! well, she might be-" Krait gestured to Silverthought, who looked taken aback " But I'm not a spy! " 
"I never said you were. I only said I believed you might know about one." 
"They would never have shared their plans with me. I know nothing." Krait snapped angrily and lashed her tail.
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