Dark Beach

Feathercloud479
for this Song OC/Fic contest. Song is Dark Beach by Pastel Ghost
==ONE==
Baiji thought he would never, ever, leave the Kingdom of Sea.
I mean, why would he? He was happy here; nestled in his kelp bed with little rays of the sunlight dancing along his blue scales, the quiet murmur of the sea echoing along the stone walls of his cave. His family and his friends were all here, and he loved them more than the ocean. If an IceWing said their land was better, or a SkyWing asked for a good rating of their palace, or a RainWing said they hated the ocean, Baiji was happy to shove a trout down their mouth.
He twisted around to catch a glimpse of the sky-blue dragon beside him. Minnow, his little sister, curled around her pet otter Mebh and watching him with her blue eyes.
Morning. He flashed to her.
She smiled slightly. Morning to you too! Genting untangling Mebh from her arm, she stood up, though Baiji just closed his eyes and curled deeper into his bed.
A talon poked his snout, and he blinked at his sister, who had her gaze fixated on him and was standing right in front of him.
Get up! She said. It’s a beautiful day, come on! 
Minnow. Baiji grumbled. Let me sleep.
NO
Please?
NO! She flashed again, fiercer. Grabbing Baiji’s face, she shook it wildly. Come on you great big lump of slugs, remember Hammerhead said he had an assignment for you? He told you YESTERDAY to MEET HIM IN HIS QUARTERS. She dropped her talons.
Feeling slightly dizzy, Baiji stood up. I know. He told Minnow. But he said to meet him at noon. I have time.
Like two minutes. She giggled. Silly Baiji; you overslept. It’s-
Baiji didn’t listen to her finish. I OVERSLEPT?! He shouted. He hated the Mud Kingdom it was so brown and ugly, but this was an important mission (so he was told)
He shot out of his cave, flaring his wings as he swam through the waters of his home, Minnow close behind. 
I can’t be late I can’t be late I can’t be late!
He passed his father in the kitchen, who was sitting down at the small dining table munching a trout. His father looked up at them, and Baiji just caught him flash where are you going? and just barely had time to answer before he sped out of the mansion.
It was a pristine day, faint sunlight streaming through the waters and dancing around as he shot through the water. Baiji sped through several clouds of fish watching him with curious expression, flaring their fish gills and fins. He also caught hints of a storm forming on the horizon, he barely noticed it, just sped towards the Deep Palace. It was just a tiny storm.
I CAN’T BE LATE!
Finally, exhaustion pulsing through his veins, he came to a halt at the front gates - just in time, he thought, seeing from the sun’s angle shimmering down through the water he had some time.
Baiji He flashed, panting, looking at two guards standing at the front.
A striped green female narrowed her eyes at him, glazing over his blue scales. She nodded a second later. Okay, clear
A flash of gray-speckled scales caught his eye. Turning around, he realized Minnow was still their, flicking her tail back and forth as she stared at him intently, her blue eyes seemingly glowing with the light of her glow-in-the-dark scales.
I'm going to miss you. She said.
I'm not heading out for the mission today, just debriefing. Baiji responded.
She smiled slightly. I know. Have a good day! Whipping around, she shot off towards home, leaving bubbles drifting like dandelion seeds behind them. He watched her go until she was just a speck swimming amongst other specks.
Who are you seeing? The male guard asked as Baiji turned around.
Hammerhead. He responded.
Hammerhead left for the Summer Palace. the guard told him.
Oh. Okay. Baiji responded. Another flash from his scales glowed, this time telling the guards a thank you, and he turned around to head for the Summer Palace.
As he was swimming away, he thought he caught a small flare of light from the male guard - and if he interpreted it correctly, he was telling Baiji, I would take the sky way - Atolla reported a shark sighting not far by. Large sharks.
Baiji was already on his way and decided not to respond, but took the guard’s advice and changed his direction to the surface.
Flickers of lightning - was it lightning? Crossed his vision, coming from the surface. Baiji frowned, watching the familiar shape the water made when rain plopped down to it, annoyance swirling in his brain at flying through a storm.
He flung himself out of the water and into the air. Shivers ran through his veins, and he felt his wings grow heavier and heavier with each passing moment. Thousands of raindrops battered him, and the wind raged through the sky. Baiji spread his wings, trying to maintain balance.
It kept pushing through, and he felt himself give way slightly. With a sharp cry, he twisted in the air. The urge for him to plunge into the water gave way, yet the wind was whipping around him so fast he didn’t know which way to go.
Panic swelled in him, and he flared all his stripes. The light entered the corner of his sight, and he kept them all lit. 
Someone HELP
Baiji had no sense of where was when. All he heard was the gale, all he saw was rain dropping so hard he closed his eyes. The storm - no, maelstrom, screamed and roared and swept him in it’s rage.
He tried to maintain some order. He whapped his tail through the air, aiming for balance. His wings beat and beat and beat but lost, over and over.
He tried flaring his stripes again, but energy seemed to leave his body like a waterfall flowing down a cliff. Baiji couldn’t summon his voice and yell for help, or flash…he was stuck, being flipped and turned in this maelstrom.
Ideas of thoughts raced like the storm in his brain, though none could really take shape. He was just there…flapping…nothing…working…so…tired…
He opened his eyes, the blue orbs darting around in the fog of gray and blue. Out of the corner of his eye was the ocean, but the maelstrom tilted him up and away. 
Where had he started where could he how could he move how could he fly were any other SeaWings here were they all safe and-
Baiji’s last coherent thought was ROCK! As the shape darted into his vision, standing tall and straight while the waves blew over it - and a blue SeaWing crashed into it, his consciousness slipping away as the sound of a CRACK reverberated in his skull.
==TWO==
Baiji fluttered his eyes open.
The first thing that struck him was a flow from the side, sending him crashing left. What could have been a cry of surprise but was more of a groan left his body. Baiji shut his eyes again, any rivers of hope in his mind flowed out of him. He was still here, tumbling in the air. It wasn't a nightmare after all. He whimpered slightly. Was there anything positive...something good...
The rain and wind had lessened a bit, but the maelstrom was still driving him farther and farther from his home. He had no idea how long he'd been knocked out, if anyone had seen him get caught by the maelstrom and swept away, or where we was going. Or where his home was.
Please be a nightmare, just a nightmare.
Yet the sickening sense of dread just grew and grew with each soothing thought he told himself that rebounded with doubt. This was real, the birds and the sun and the sky and the fact he was here, all the way out here, all alone and lost in a world that just swelled several time more bigger than he thought, encasing him a fog of doubt that stretched along the sea.
Baiji's heart cracked at the sight and sound of the open ocean. Once a layer of protection and security around his family, now screeching lost in every white-capped wave.
No
~
Was it days before Baiji opened his eyes again?
He didn’t know. Time was lost to essence, and held no matter in his heart. What did was the fuel for some kindling he could spark to make hope, or any emotion that didn’t lead to the feeling of the emptiness swarming inside of him.
He risked opening his eyes, catching the glance of
(wip)
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