The trio of power book 1: (TBD)

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Information:this takes place like three generations after the third arc and has three main characters howler, a rainwing who is an animus, swampfly a mudwing/ very distantly nightwing who can read minds, and gillfjord a seawing/icewing hybrid who can see the future and breathe ice or water breathe, and can see in the dark. The main villain is Bugwing who you will learn about mostly in the prologues and epilogues, he is a silkwing who is very smart and has abnormally long claws.
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=== Prophecy: ===
There is a threat arising
It will catch all unaware
Except the three who
Know about the violet threat
When they see what they need
They will use the power of the monkey
The mind of the fly
And the vision of the fish
Together they will find
The totem that is guarded
By the forgotten prisoner whose
Only companion is hidden but controlling.”
=== Prologue: ===
Bugwing was going to his history class at pantalan university when he heard someone call out “hey bug freak where you going?” Bugwing turned around and saw caterpillar a hivewing he thought was a friend and replied “history, why?” Caterpillar said “oh no reason goodbye.” Bugwing answered “bye.” And thought well that was very weird I wonder why they wanted to know. He got to his history class and nothing weird happened and then when class was over he notified that he was the only one moving towards the door. He asked the closet dragon to him “why aren’t you all moving towards the door? Class is done.” She replied “oh, uh I am waiting for my friends to finish up their work.” Bugwing thought, well that sounds reasonable enough for me, and walked out the door. As soon as he was fully out he saw a dragon throw a bucket of tree sap on him and then caterpillar stood in front of him and threw feathers all over him. Caterpillar said, “hey birdie did you get lost?” Bugwing looked around and saw everyone laughing at him he asked caterpillar, “why are you doing this, I thought we were friends?” Caterpillar replied, “why would I every friends with you, you’re a freak.” Bugwing got mad and leapt at caterpillar without thinking and slashed caterpillars cheek. Just then the headmaster, cricket the third, walked by and shouted, “what is happening here!?” Caterpillar replied, “he attacked me.” Bugwing said, “no I didn’t.” Cricket said “follow me.” And led them to her office where she said, “I will talk to Bugwing first.” Caterpillar sat outside and Bugwing went inside and saw that crickets office was very plain with only a few pictures of her dragonets on her desk and two portraits of cricket the first and second. Cricket asked, “what happened.” Bugwing replied,” well when I went out of my history class they dumped tree sap and feathers on me and insulted me and were starting to advance towards me so I leapt past them to try and escape.” Cricket asked, “so where did the scratch on caterpillars cheek come from?” Bugwing, replied, “I’m not sure I think I heard two students arguing and one of them sounded like beetle the hivewing that can shoot stingers from her tail. I think she just got angry and accidentally launched a stinger. I mean I would never want to harm another student I mean your grandmother made it so that dragons can learn together and not hurt each other.” Cricket said, “and how do you know it was caterpillars fault.” Bugwing replied, “because while I was walking to class he stopped me and asked what my next class was.”  Cricket said, “okay, you can head to class and send caterpillar in.” Bugwing walked out and said, “caterpillar your turn.” Caterpillar walked in and Bugwing continued to his next class. After school finished and Bugwing was walking home caterpillar landed beside him and said, “sorry about that I was just trying to fit in with my new friends and needed to prove myself to them.” Bugwing said, “no worries.” While thinking, yes believe me if I can bring you close to me it will be easier to revenge on you. Caterpillar said, “sweet do you want to hang out with me.” Bugwing replied, “okay.” And they headed to the closest park.
=== Part one: The Island of Lava ===
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Howler was reading a scroll her mother had brought from the library she worked at. Howler loved to learn and was almost always in a scroll and had been trying to convince her mom to let her go to jade mountain academy for the past four weeks. While she was reading she heard her mother walk in and looked up. Leopard was a lean rainwing and her face usually had a tired look to it. Howler asked, “how was work.” Leopard replied, “tiring there was a lot of scrolls to put back on their shelves.” Howler replied, “that sucks but did you bring home any scrolls.” Leopard said, “yes there was a scroll titled all you need to know about jade mountain academy.” And pulled out a scroll from her satchel around her neck and handed it to howler. Howler said, “you know on the topic of jade mountain academy I would love to go and it starts soon so if you could read this paper I wrote about why I should be allowed to go an get back to me as soon as possible that would be great.” Leopard replied “okay I will read it but I can’t make any promises.” Howler said, “great and also can I go out and play with Tegu.” Leopard replied, “okay I am going to go take my nap bye.” Howler replied, “goodbye and don’t forget to read my paper.” And left to go find Tegu. Howler loved being in the rainforest and knew she would miss it if her mother allowed her to go to jade mountain academy. Howler went to the treehouse three down from hers and knocked on the front door and Tegu opened the door and asked “why are you here Howler?” She replied “because I want to hang of course.” He responded, “I have to ask my parents first.” He turned around and shouted, “hey mom and dad can I go and hang out with Howler?” They both shouted back, “sure.” Tegu asked, “so what do you want to do?” Howler replied, “we should continue our exploration of the forest.” He replied, “sounds cool, let’s go.” Howler said ,”okay.” And flew off the platform and towards the rainforest and took a route that took them towards the waterfall that most rainwings seemed to want to avoid. Tegu said, “whoah we’re going here but I heard my parents say it is haunted.” Howler replied, “I doubt it is, it seems pretty normal to me.” Tegu said, “okay, but if something bad happens I am going to blame you okay.” Howler said, “fine.” And then howler jumped into the area and started looking around and glanced around and said, “doesn’t something feel off around to you?” Tegu replied, “yeah it does feel like there’s something like maybe a ghost so maybe we should go elsewhere.” Howler said, “calm down.” Tegu replied, “I will not cal, down I will freak out however I want to.” Howler shook her head and looked back and saw a curtain of vines that looked weird howler pointed them out to Tegu and said, “don’t those vines seem weird to you?” Tegu replied, “oh yeah they do I think we should avoid them.” Howler said, “let’s go check them out and started walking towards them. Tegu said, “did you not just hear me.” And jumped at howler and pinned her tail. Howler said, “come on let me go you go hide and watch from a distance.” Tegu replied, “no I don’t want you going towards it by yourself.” And got off of Howlers tail. Howler said, “thank you.” And got up and walked upped to the curtain of vines, she tapped them and Tegu flinched back, howler thought, wow Tegu that scared you somehow, and then reached out with a claw and pushed them aside and saw that there was some kind of a hole or cave in the stone. Tegu said, “that is wrong it feels so, so wrong.” Howler agreed, “yeah something does seem off here doesn’t it. Let’s go in.” Tegu yelped, “no we shouldn’t go in it is probably very dangerous and we can’t trust it.” Howler replied, “don’t worry it’s not going to hurt us.” Tegu responded with, “you don’t know that I say we should head off and go explore elsewhere.” Howler sighed and said, “I am going to go into this hole you can climb that tree while you wait.” Tegu said, “fine I know you are going in no matter what.” And with that howler said, “wish me luck.” Tegu said, “I hope you don’t die.” Howler thought, I hope this is safe I probably shouldn’t even do this, and continued on and after a while she slammed into a wall and exclaimed, “ow that hurt.” And found that it turned right and then continued on eventually she saw a light and wondered, “where is that light coming from?” She eventually reached the end of the tunnel and saw that there was sand half covering the hole and started digging until she could push herself through and saw that she must be in the kingdom of sand since there was sand everywhere she looked, then she turned around and saw that the sandwing palace was behind her. She thought, how did I cross all the way to the sand kingdom the tunnel was not long enough to reach here, she decided to go back and tell Tegu, when she got back She found Tegu standing at the base of the tree and told him, “Tegu, you won’t believe this but the tunnel somehow goes to the sand kingdom.” Tegu replied, “well while I was climbing the tree I found another hole.” And Tegu pointed to a higher part on the tree and Howler saw that there was another hole but this one was more hidden and harder to spot but still felt wrong. Howler said, “well we have to go into this.” Tegu exclaimed, “no that is the opposite of what we should do.” Howler said, “come on I have to know what’s there and the first tunnel was dangerous so this probably is also safe.” Tegu said, that is terrible reasoning.” And the howler jumped into the tunnel and started into it, Tegu chased after her telling her to stop and think about things rationally, but howler just ignored him.
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Tegu shouted, “stop Howler!” Howler replied, “no I have to know what’s on the other side, you don’t have to come with me.” Tegu said, “no I’ll come just so you have backup.” Howler replied, “cool.” And continued down the tunnel after a while Howler fell off a cliff and shouted back to Tegu, “watch out there is a cliff.” And then she waited for him to catch up and heard him ask, “what?” And then Howler got crushed by him as he fell of the cliff. Howler said, “I warned you about that.” Tegu said, “I couldn’t hear you.” Howler said, “whatever let’s continue” Tegu said, “I hope there isn’t any more cliffs.” Howler replied, “yeah I hope there aren’t anymore but if there is hopefully they aren’t super tall.” Tegu nodded and they continued forward. After awhile they smelt smoke and Howler thought, where is that smoky smell coming from. Tegu asked, “what do you think that smell is?” Howler replied, “well it smells like smoke but I don’t know where it would be coming from.” Then howler saw a light and stepped out into a not very bright super smoky place. It was mostly black with the grey smoke and it looked as though there might’ve been something like a palace on a mountain nearby. Tegu asked, “what is that?” Howler replied, “well it looks like a mountain but because of how smoky it is I would say it might be a volcano.” Tegu asked, “what is a volcano?” Howler replied, “do you not pay attention I have told you all about them.” Tegu replied, “you tell me a lot of stuff most of it doesn’t stick in my brain.” Howler replied, “ugh fine, a volcano is like a mountain but the inside of it is dug out and there is lots of magma which is lava that when enough force builds up eventually erupts and spews lava everywhere.” Tegu turned green with fear and said, “that volcanoes not going to erupt on is right?” Howler said, “I have no idea I can’t tell if it is dormant or active.” And after she said that the ground shook pretty violently. Tegu screamed, “what was that!?” Howler replied, “it’s fine it was just a little earthquake.” And thought, I don’t know what to do I want to explore but also it isn’t super safe here. Tegu asked, “should we get out of here?” Howler replied, “it will be fine we can go explore.” Tegu said, “fine but if you die, it’s not my fault.” Howler replied, “don’t be so scared, aren’t you interested in exploring this place.” Tegu replied, “not really but let’s just get this over with.” Howler said, “cool.” And then flew up and took off towards some cave she saw. She swooped down and then flew into the caves and stopped on the first ledge she saw. Tegu said, “these are pretty cool.” Howler replied, “aren’t glad we went exploring.” Tegu said, “yeah yeah okay you win it was a good idea to explore.” Howler looked around and the noticed that were something like chains on a wall. She went up to them and saw that they had locks on them and they were made of steel. Tegu asked, “what are those?” Howler replied, “it seems they are chains of some kind, maybe this was a prison or dungeon at some point.” Tegu said, “oh, we should continue on to somewhere else.” Howler replied, “okay.” And they exited the cave and Howler led the way towards the building in the center of the island near the volcano. Tegu asked, “is it safe to go into?” Howler replied, “it will be fine stop worrying .” Tegu said, “okay.” And they went inside and for the most part it was just all black and Howler was having difficulty seeing everything. They came upon a room that had a little island surrounded by lava and a throne, the wall behind the throne had a few holes poked into it. Tegu asked, “is this a throne room?” Howler replied, “it would seem like it but what tribe lived here?” Tegu responded with, “maybe it is a secret tribe.” Howler replied, “no it is probably a tribe we know, and because of the tunnel it is probably a tribe with an animus dragon.” Tegu asked, “what is an animus dragon?” Howler said, “it is a dragon that can enchant objects and other dragons to do whatever they want, but it comes with cost which is losing some of your soul.” Tegu asked, “what happens if they lose all of their soul?” Howler replied, “well then you get a massacre like albatross of the seawings who murdered most of the royal family including the queen.” Tegu said, “yikes scary.” Howler replied, “yes it is pretty scary. Let’s go explore other parts of the castle.” Tegu said, “okay.” And they continued walking and then they found another room and Howler looked around and saw that there was lots of tall racks and cubbies and realized that they were the perfect size for scrolls and said, “this was the library I think.” Tegu responded with, “well you would love this library because it is huge.” Howler replied, “yeah.” She could just imagine how many scrolls would have been here and what she could have learned from them. She then spotted a hole in the wall that looked like a passageway and asked Tegu, “what do you think is through that hole?” Tegu replied, “I don’t know but it seems more natural than the other two holes.” Howler replied, “yeah it seems like maybe it was made by hand.” Tegu said, “let me guess you want to go in it.” Howler said, “obviously.” Tegu said, “fine let’s get it over with.” And they both crawled into the hole and climbed through until they reached a small room that had a large empty cauldron in it. Tegu asked, “what do you think this room is?” Howler replied, “it must be some kind of kitchen or something because of that cauldron.” Tegu said, “that cauldron is huge you could fit like three dragons in there.” Howler said, “yeah it is pretty big, it was probably used for feasts.” Tegu said, “let’s leave and continue on elsewhere.” Howler replied, “okay let’s go.” They back up and went back through the tunnel and into the library. Howler walked out of the library and continued exploring, and after awhile they passed a wall that looked weird. Howler asked, “what do you think is going on here?” Tegu replied, “well it looks like there used to be a doorway here.” Howler thought, I wonder what’s down there I really want to break through it, and asked, “do you think that there is any way we could break it down without bringing down this whole area?” Tegu replied, “I don’t think there is and anyway we should just leave it alone.” Howler replied, “okay.” And continued on past it. Then as they turned a corner they saw another huge dragon at the other end and they quickly backed up. Tegu whispered, “I told you this wasn’t safe.” Howler said, “yeah yeah, let’s get out of here.” Then heard a sound that was super close by. Howler instinctively grabbed a rock and said, “hide me and Tegu from that dragon.” And the dragon rounded the corner.
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Howler slammed her eyes shut preparing for the worst, she thought, I’m so sorry I brought you into this Tegu I should have listened to you and not gone exploring, and then after a few heartbeats of nothing happening she opened her eyes. Howler saw that the dragon had passed by them and was heading towards the library. After he was out of sight, Tegu asked, “what just happened? How didn’t he see us?” Howler replied, “well I grabbed this rock and told it to hide us from him.” Tegu asked, “does that mean you are an animus dragon?” Howler replied, “I guess so.” Tegu asked, “so should we go home now?” Howler replied, “soon, I want to get a look at what tribe that dragon was from.” Tegu said, “fine.” They went back towards the library as quietly as they could and looked inside. Howler saw that the dragon had pulled out a map and was examining it very intently. Howler saw that his scales were pure black but she barely saw the glimmer of silver scales on his wings. Howler thought, what is a Nightwing doing here, Howler beckoned towards Tegu to follow her out and as they were backing up she accidentally stepped on Tegu’s tail and he yelped loud enough for the dragon to hear them. The Nightwing yelled, “who’s out there?!” And stormed out and looked around fiercely he said, “hiding like wimps, I’ll find you.” And started swinging his tail around and around and then knocked the rock out of Howlers hand revealing them to the Nightwing. He saw them materialize out of thin air and jumped back in surprise. Then he asked, “what are you two Rainwings doing here?” Howler replied, “just exploring.” And before the Nightwing could respond, Howler shouted at Tegu, “run!” And they both took off as fast as they could. Howler heard the Nightwing chasing after them and Howler glanced back and saw that he was catching up since he was a full grown dragon. After only a few moments the Nightwing caught up and managed to grab Howler and Tegu and knock them out. Howler opened her eyes and thought, where am I?” She glanced around and saw that they were in a cell and Tegu was still unconscious. Howler went over and started shaking him, she said, “come on wake up sleepyhead.” Tegu eventually opened his eyes and asked, “what happened?” Howler replied, “well we got knocked unconscious and put into a prison of some kind.” Tegu looked around and said, “well I told you that we shouldn’t have explored here.” Howler said, “yeah yeah, come help me find a way to escape.” Then a voice said, “you won’t be escaping anytime soon.” Howler looked around and saw that the Nightwing was standing right outside of the cell. Howler asked, “why do you have us captive?” The Nightwing replied, “I need to keep you away.” Howler asked, “away from what? And who are you? And what are you doing here?” The Nightwing replied, “that’s a lot of questions but I am Smokeclaw, I live here, and I have to keep you away from my treasure, duh.” Howler asked, “what is your treasure?” Smokeclaw replied, “like I would tell you.” Tegu asked, “can we go home?” Smokeclaw replied, “nope you will have to stay here until I decide to kill you.” Howler said, “sounds pleasant.” Smokeclaw replied, “don’t worry you have until you really bug me.” Howler said, “oh great.” Smokeclaw replied, “anyway I have to go back to patrolling. See ya.” Howler replied, “bye.” And then Smokeclaw walked out. Tegu asked, “what are we going to do?” Howler replied, “we will explore every inch of this cell and see if we can find a way to escape.” Tegu asked, “why not just use your animus powers?” Howler thought, I could it would be so easy and then I could steal Smokeclaws treasure, wait where did that thought come from I don’t care about treasure, Howler replied, “because I don’t want to lose any more soul then I have to.” Tegu asked, “so it’s like a last resort sort of thing?” Howler replied, “yes, I will only use it when absolutely necessary.” Tegu replied, “well I suppose that is a smart idea, I mean I don’t want you to go massacring all our friends and family.” Howler said, “yeah I would also not like to kill lots of dragons.” Tegu said, “well I guess let’s look around.” Howler nodded and then turned and ran her claws along the bars seeing if they were loose at all. Howler checked each one and none of them were loose, Howler thought, I have no idea how we are going to escape I don’t see any weaknesses. But she checked all around the cell and couldn’t find anything. She flopped down on the ground and gave up. Tegu asked, “what are you doing?” Howler replied, “giving up.” Tegu said, “the Howler I know would never give up.” Howler replied, “what use is it we’ve checked everywhere and there isn’t any weakness that we can use to escape.” Tegu replied, “well we’ll just have to wait until the cell door gets opened and then run away.” Howler replied, “I don’t think it is ever going to open except for when we are going to get killed.” Just then Smokeclaw came back and unlocked the door and tossed in some food for them and then close the door and walked away. Tegu said, “see I told you that the door would open.” Howler said, “fine you win.” Tegu said, “well let’s eat so we have energy.” Howler looked at the food and saw that it was cooked fish. Howler said, “looks gross but I guess I will try it.” Howler picked up a piece of fish and tossed it into her mouth, she thought, this is so gross but I will pretend it is good so that hopefully Tegu eats,. Tegu asked, “how is it?” Howler said, “it’s good.” Tegu grabbed a chunk and started eating it then quickly swallowed and said, “it’s not good it is quite bad.” Howler replied, “I know but we should eat.” Tegu said, “yeah you are right.” And they finished off the food and then Howler said, “well that was gross.” Tegu replied, “yep.” Then they just sat in silence for awhile, until Tegu said, “well I’m tired, I’m going to head to bed.” Howler replied, “yeah I’ll also go to bed and rest up.” Tegu said, “good night.” Howler replied, “good night.” And they laid down to go to bed. Howler thought, I can’t wait till we escape. And then fell asleep.
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When Howler woke up she saw that Smokeclaw was just staring at them and Howler asked, “what are you doing?” Smokeclaw replied, “just keeping an eye on you, because I don’t trust you.” Howler said, “what have we done to not deserve your trust.” Smokeclaw replied, “well I figure you are a curious dragon and so you will want to try and take my treasure to figure out what it is.” Howler replied, “while I am curious as to what your treasure is, I wouldn’t try to steal or take it in any way because I don’t want to be a thief.” Smokeclaw said, “you’re just lying so that I feel safe and will let you out but that’s not happening.” Then he said, “so do you want anything to eat so you can get comfortable.” Howler replied, “well we would like some fruit.” He replied, “well we can get you…” froze shook his head and said, “no we can’t make them comfortable or they will never fess up that they are trying to steal our treasure.” He then yelled, “you never listen to me, we should get them comfortable so then they feel safe. And will tell us what their plans are.” He said, “let’s take this somewhere else.” Then replied in his other voice, “okay.” And he walked out arguing with himself. Tegu said, “that was weird.” Howler replied, “yeah.” And thought, I wonder why he is like that maybe it is because he is all by himself and needs to make himself company. Tegu asked, “so when are we going to try escaping?” Howler replied, “next time he comes to feed us we will charge out.” Tegu said, “but he’ll chase us and probably catch us again.” Howler said, “well we are Rainwings we can make ourselves go invisible.” Tegu said, “I guess but what if he hears us.” Howler replied, “we will go as silently as possible.” Tegu said, “okay, I guess we should try.” Howler said, “it’ll be fine I mean I still have so much to learn.” Tegu said, “seriously you are just concerned with being able to learn.” Howler replied, “well yeah, what else would I be concerned about.” Tegu said, “I don’t know maybe our families who are probably wondering where we are.” Howler thought, oh no I completely forgot I hope my mom isn’t freaking out too much, Howler said, “well that is pretty important we’ll get out and make them feel happy that we are safe.” Tegu said, “we better, hopefully we get fed soon.” Howler replied, “yeah, when we get back I am going to find as many scrolls as I can on history to try and figure out more about the Nightwings and animus dragons.” Tegu replied, “I am pretty curious as to how Rainwings got animus magic.” Howler said, “yeah I didn’t know any other tribe besides Seawings had animus dragons.” Tegu asked, “the Seawings have an animus dragon?” Howler replied, “of course their queen is one right now.” Tegu asked, “isn’t that kind of unfair for challenges.” Howler replied, “well it is but I think most queens would avoid using animus magic to make it a fair a fight, I mean only a bad queen would make it so they are constantly in rule, right?” Tegu replied, “well I suppose but also I think any queen with animus magic as soon as they start losing the battle would use it so they don’t die.” Howler said, “yeah that’s a good thought, I mean will only try and use my animus powers when absolutely necessary.” Tegu replied, “good.” Howler said, “I hope we get a chance to escape soon.” Just then Smokeclaw walked back in with food and said, “okay it is feeding time and you get your way of having fruit.” And unlocked the cell door. As soon as he opened it Howler nodded at Tegu and they both turned their scales the color of the rocks beneath them and jumped out of the cell. Smokeclaw roared, “where did you go?” Howler barely change one of her scales so that hopefully Tegu could follow her. And started slowly making her way away from Smokeclaw. Smokeclaw ran right by her shouted, “this never would’ve happened if you hadn’t suggest giving them fruit and keeping them well fed.” And then replied to himself, “I’m sorry I’m a caring dragon unlike you.” And then turned a corner and Howler couldn’t here him anymore. Tegu whispered, “do you know where to go?” Howler quietly replied, “no every hallway looks the same.” Tegu said, “well let’s just try going up those stairs.” Howler replied, “okay.” And they started making their way forward when Smokeclaw charged out from a hallway perpendicular to the one they were in. Smokeclaw scanned the hallways and then growled, “where did those stupid Rainwings go?” Then he said, “well how could you lose Rainwings they are the weakest tribe to exist.” Howler thought, well if only they knew I had animus powers that might change his view on Rainwings, then thought, wait who cares what a stupid Nightwing has to think about Rainwings. Smokeclaw shouted, “I didn’t lose them you did.” And stormed off across the hallway. Howler continued forward and made it to the stairs. As they were climbing up they heard him coming up the stairs too and pressed themselves as close to the wall as possible. Luckily the passage way was just big enough that as Smokeclaw climbed up he missed bunking into either of them. Then after waiting to make sure he was gone, Howler continued forward and then looked around and saw that to the left she could see the outside. She crawled over there and then whispered, “Tegu are you still there?” He replied, “yep I am.” Then Howler said, “ready to fly.” Tegu said, “enough talk let’s just go.” Howler said, “okay.” And then pushed out into the air making sure to change her scales as soon as she was in the air. Then when Tegu got into the air Smokeclaw had turned back into the hallway and turned his head towards them as Tegu was changing his scales. Howler thought, please say he didn’t see Tegu changing his scales, and Smokeclaw shouted, “come back here, you can’t escape!” And started chasing towards them.
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Howler tried her hardest to not blast off, and she managed to stay quiet and move upwards out of Smokeclaws way. Smokeclaw hovered in the air a few claw lengths from Howler and said, “we can cut them off at the tunnel.” He replied, “yes let’s block their only way out.” And he flew off and to the tunnel. Howler landed down on the palace and then saw Tegu materialize next to her. She asked, “are you okay?” Tegu replied, “yeah, but now how are we going to escape?” Howler said, “I have no idea.” Tegu asked, “could we fly to the mainland?” Howler answered, “I have no idea.” She thought, I wonder where this island is compared to the mainland, when I get home I will have to examine maps to see if I can find it. Tegu asked, “do you even have any idea where this island could be?” Howler replied, “it is at least off the coast, somewhere in the ocean.” Tegu said, “wow thanks, I could never have guessed that an island would be in the ocean.” Howler said, “yeah yeah whatever let’s go find the tunnel and see if we can get past Smokeclaw.” Tegu agreed and they flew to the edge of the island making sure they weren’t visible and started quietly going around the beach. After a while Howler heard, “where do you think they are?” Then a reply of, “I don’t know, but they haven’t gone past me.”, “Well what if they decided to try and cross the ocean.” “They don’t even know where this island is, also since they are Rainwings they wouldn’t be able to make it that far.” Howler thought, wow he really thinks Rainwings are super inferior,. She crept towards his voice and saw him standing in front of the tunnel. Tegu whispered, “how are we going to get past him, he’s blocking the whole tunnel.” Howler replied, “we will have to cause a distraction of some sort.” Tegu asked, “like what?” Howler replied, “well if we could make something that makes a loud noise and can make it look like us, he might go and chase it.” Tegu asked, “how are we going to that?” Howler said, “well I could use my magic.” And thought, using it this little bit shouldn’t hurt anything right, Tegu asked, “but I thought you were going to avoid using?” Howler replied, “well I don’t see any other way of doing it.” Tegu said, “what if I just throw something.” Howler replied, “you can try that.” Tegu looked around and grabbed some sticks that had been washed up on the beach and chucked them as hard as he could away from the tunnel. Smokeclaw snapped his head up and looked towards the sound and then asked, “what was that?” He replied, “I think they are just trying to trick us.” He said, “ha they think we will be tricked by something like that.” He continued talking to himself but Howler went back to thinking of ideas. Tegu said, “well that didn’t work.” Howler said, “like I said.” Tegu said, “whatever. What else could we do?” Howler replied, “let me think for a moment.” Tegu said, “okay.” Howler could feel words starting to form on her mind for a spell that could work. Howler said, “okay I think I have the perfect spell worded to help us.” Tegu said, “if there isn’t anything else we can do, I guess try it.” Howler picked up a pebble from the beach and spoke, “I enchant this rock so when I throw it, it will make Smokeclaw think he sees us and will lead him to the other side of this island and then let him catch it and then freeze him until we are safely through the tunnel leading to the rainforest from this island.” Tegu asked, “did it work?” Howler replied, “I still have to throw it.” And then Howler thought, please let this work, and hurled the rock as far as she could. Tegu asked again, “did it work?” Howler replied, “I can’t tell.” But then Smokeclaw glanced up and shouted, “there you are!” And started chasing the rock around to the other side of the island. Tegu asked, “why aren’t we going now?” Howler said, “I want to wait until I can’t see him.” Tegu replied, “okay.” And they waited until Howler saw Smokeclaw go behind the volcano and then said, “okay now we can go.” And they both ran towards the tunnel. They reached the tunnel and they ran through it until they finally touched the rainforest ground. As soon as they landed they both just breathed in the fresh air, after a while Tegu said, “finally we are back in a good environment.” Howler replied, “yeah I forgot how good the air was here.” And they just both stopped taking again to regain their breathe and cleanse out the smoke from their lungs. Howler went to the waterfall and began to drink some water and clean off all the dust and rocks that had stuck to her scales. Tegu also joined so that they could be clean. Then Tegu said, “this feels so much better I haven’t felt clean in so long.” Howler replied, “yeah I wish I could always stay this clean.” Tegu said, “well I guess it’s time to go back to the tribe and our families.” Howler replied, “yeah I can’t wait to see my mom and start my research.” Tegu said “well let’s get heading back.” Howler replied, “yeah.” They both started forward and Howler thought, I hope I never have to deal with that tunnel or island ever again. She also thought, I wonder how Smokeclaw is going react. Howler and Tegu then jumped into the trees and started their return journey to the village and finally to be reunited with their parents. As they neared the village Howler thought, my mom is going to be so mad. And then they reached the center of the village and she got ambushed by a dragon.
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Howler thought, oh no, and tried pushing off the attacker wondering, did Smokeclaw get through and to the Rainwing village. Then she heard the voice of the attacker say, “stop struggling Howler.” Howler asked, “mom.” And they replied, “yeah who else would I be?” Howler said, “I don’t know.” Leopard let her go and started inspecting her for injuries. She asked, “where were you Howler? I’ve been worried sick.” Howler replied, “well I went exploring with Tegu.” Leopard said, “what else.” Howler said, “well we went to the place that’s rumored to be haunted.” Leopard exclaimed, “why would you go there?” Howler replied, “because I was curious to see what was there, and by all my research something can’t be haunted.” Leopard said, “you curiosity is going to get you into so much trouble.” Howler said, “well we did find two animus crafted tunnels.” Leopard said, “really two animus tunnels in the rainforest. Well you left them alone though right?” Howler replied, “well I went through both of them.” Leopard asked, “why would you go into them?” Howler said, “well Tegu tried to stop me but I had to know what was in them.” Leopard sighed and said, “of course you did.” Howler said, “well through the first one I went into it led to the kingdom of sand.” Leopard said, “really, I wonder why that’s there.” Howler said, “I have no idea, but the second one was more interesting because it led to some volcanic island for some reason.” Leopard wondered, “why would there be a passage to a volcanic island that seems weird.” Howler said, “that’s what I thought, but anyway we were exploring there when we came across a Nightwing.” Leopard asked, “why was there a Nightwing there?” Howler replied, “I have no idea, but he was very crazy and talked to himself.” Leopard said, “so you avoided him right, because he was crazy.” Howler said, “well we followed him for a bit and then I accidentally stepped on Tegu’s tail and he yelped and the Nightwing heard that and then caught us.” Leopard asked, “what did he do?” Howler replied, “well he locked us up in a prison cell, but then we escaped.” Leopard asked, “how did you escape?” Howler replied, “well we tricked him so that we could sneak past him.” Howler thought, I’ll keep the animus powers a secret so that she doesn’t worry about me even more. Leopard said, “well I guess all that matters is you got back here safe and sound.” Howler replied, “yeah.” Then Tegus mother stormed over to them with furious red scales and said, “I don’t want Howler to hang out with Tegu anymore.” Howler asked, “why?” She glanced at Tegu and saw him looked down at the ground with blue scales. Howler thought, his mom shouldn’t get to decide who he hangs out with. Tegus mom replied, “because you almost got him killed.” Howler complained, “no I didn’t and he doesn’t want this.” Tegus mom said, “it doesn’t matter I am his mom, and I am going to send him to Jade Mountain Academy so he is far away from you.” Howler said, “that’s unfair, I still want to hang out with him.” Tegu looked up and asked his mom, “can’t I stay friends with Howler?” His mom replied, “no now come along Tegu, we have to get you prepared for school.” Tegu said, “bye Howler.” Howler said, “don’t worry I’ll see you again.” Tegu said, “my mom is pretty serious about this and will do anything she thinks is good for me.” Howler said, “that’s not right, but hey look on the bright side you get to go to Jade Mountain Academy.” Tegu said, “yeah that’ll be pretty cool. Well bye.” Howler said, “bye.” And watched him walk off. Howler turned to her mother and said, “on the topic of school, what did you think of my paper.” Leopard replied, “well it was very long and informative, but I don’t think I can trust you to go and not get into trouble.” Howler said, “what I would behave really well at school because I would be able to read all my scrolls and do lots of research.” Leopard said, “I’ll think about it, now come along for dinner.” Howler replied, “okay.” And they flew back to their treehouse and went inside and Leopard walked to their kitchen and grabbed a few mangoes. As soon as she set them on the table Howler grabbed two and ate them very quickly. Leopard said, “calm down didn’t you get food?” Howler replied, “the only food we got was cooked fish and it was really bad.” Leopard said, “well I guess I should get you some more food then huh.” Howler said, “yeah I am very hungry.” And then Leopard got lots of food and Howler thought, I’m really lucky to have a mom like her I should tell her about my secret. Howler said, “oh yeah I discovered something else on the island.” Leopard asked, “what was it?” Howler replied, “well when we first saw the Nightwing I used animus powers to hide us.” Leopard stared at her in shock and asked, “you figured out about the animus powers, I was hoping to keep that a secret from you.? Howler said, “you knew.” Leopard said, “yeah it’s been passed down in our family and we try to not tell anyone about it so that we can’t be used and lose our souls.” Howler said, “well don’t worry I only used it when absolutely necessary.” Leopard said, “that’s good.” Howler asked, “so any other secrets I should know about?” Leopard replied, “well there is one.” Then stopped for dramatic effect and Howler thought, I wonder what it is. Then Leopard said, “I enrolled you into Jade Mountain Academy.” Howler turned bright pink with joy and shouted, “yes!” And thought, yes all my life goals coming true right now, oh this also means I get to see Tegu more. Howler said, “thank you, thank you.” And then said it a handful more times. Leopard said, “well let’s get you packed.” Howler said, “okay.” And they went to get her packed.
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After two days of flying Howler and her mom had finally made it to Jade Mountain Academy. Howler looked around and saw lots of different types of dragons and exclaimed, “look at all the different tribes, I’ve never seen most of them up close.” Leopard said, “well just make sure you don’t invade anyones personal space.” Howler said, “I won’t don’t worry.” Leopard said, “well that’s going to be a struggle you worry me plenty.” Howler asked, “what do you mean? Name one time I worried you.” Leopard pretend to think hard and replied, “well let’s see there was that one time you disappeared for a few days and came back and told me you had gotten kidnapped.” Howler said, “that won’t happen again.” Leopard shook her head and said, “whatever, let’s get you checked in.” Howler said, “okay.” And they walked into the entrance and then before they walked even three steps a Nightwing who had a Sandwings venomous barb said, “hi, I’m Sandspeaker, or just Sand for short.” Howler thought, they look very happy I mean I don’t know who wouldn’t be happy to be here but they seem to really enjoy their job, Howler replied, “hi I’m Howler.” Sand replied, “ah, I have just what you need, just stay still.” And Sand rushed off to the counter that took up most of the back wall and started looking through pouches that were on it. Leopard said, “well I think I’m going to start heading back.” Howler replied, “okay, goodbye.” Leopard hugged her tightly and said, “goodbye, and make sure to keep your animus magic a secret.” Howler said, “I will.” And with that Leopard flew off. When Howler turned around Sand was standing there and said, “here you go.” And handed Howler a pouch that had her name on it. Howler asked, “what is this?” Sand replied, “it has a map, a welcome scroll, and your library stamp so you can check out book, but we won’t replace so don’t lose it.” Howler said, “don’t worry I won’t lose it.” And asked, “so what do I do today?” Sand replied, “just follow your map to your room, it’s already marked on there, and then read your welcome scroll, it’ll tell you everything you need to know.” Howler said, “cool.” And then Sand said, “well go find your room, hope you have fun.” Howler said, “I will.” And then walked off and opened up her pouch. She saw the welcome scroll, and a stone thing she assumed was the stamp and then found the map and took it out. She opened it up and saw that her room was in the middle tunnel on the left side and she was in the tenth cave on the right. She walked through the halls until she reached her room and walked in. She notified that there was three beds, one was a little mud pit, one was a water pool with some ice covering too, and then the one she assumed was hers was a leaf hammock. She thought, I wonder who my roommates are going to be, I would guess a Mudwing based on the mud, then either a Seawing or Icewing because of the water and ice. Howler set her pouch down by her hammock and then opened up the welcome scroll and it read, “welcome to Jade Mountain Academy, this first day will be just an exploring day figuring out where everything is, and then tomorrow you will hear the bell which signals that you need to get to your class which is going to be meeting with your winglet, head to the library today so you can get your schedule and figure out what winglet you are part of.” Howler thought, I guess I should head to the library, I wonder what kind of scrolls they have? She heard talon steps going into her room and she looked around and saw that it was the Mudwing. Howler asked, “what’s your name?” They replied, “I am Swampfly.” Howler looked her over and saw that under her wings were star patterns like you would find on a Nightwing. Howler asked, “why do you have a Nightwing pattern of silver scales on your wings?” Swampfly looked very uncomfortable to be in this conversation and just quickly replied, “I’m distantly related to Nightwings.” Howler thought, well they look like they’re not enjoying this conversation so I will just go to the library now. Howler said, “well I’m going to go to the library, see ya.” Swampfly nodded goodbye and went to her bed. Howler walked out and thought, by the end of tomorrow I’m gonna get Swampfly talking comfortably to me. She pulled out her map and walked to the library. When she got in she stared around and gawked at all the scrolls in it. She looked around and saw the librarian who was a Silkwing and went up and said, “I’m Howler and I am here to get my schedule.” The librarian looked through a stack of scrolls and then looked up and said, “here it is.” Howler said, “thank you.” The librarian said, “no problem.” Howler looked at her scroll and saw that she was in the copper winglet. She looked at the other winglets and saw that Tegu was in the jade winglet. Howler decided to head back to her cave to drop off her other stuff. She walked back and when she walked in she realized that Swampfly was gone. She thought, I wonder who my other roommate is. She decided to check her sheet to see who was in her winglet and saw that Swampfly was in there. She also saw that it said that the teacher that was the lead of the copper winglet was Sand and that their meeting room was the music room. She looked at her map and she found the band room quickly on it. She then compared her winglet to the other winglets and saw that her winglet had one less dragon in it. She thought, I wonder what tribe we don’t have someone from. She decided to take a quick rest on her hammock and let herself take a nap because she was tired from the flying and just needed to calm down from all the excitement. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.
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She was back on the Nightwing island with Tegu being chased by Smokeclaw. Howler shouted, “run, quickly!” Tegu said, “I can’t keep up.” And then Smokeclaw started getting closer and closer. But then they turned a corner and they were able to hide in a hole in the wall. Smokeclaw asked, “where did you go? I don’t want to harm you.” Howler thought, oh no what are we going to do?, Tegu peeked out so see where Smokeclaw was and then Smokeclaw jumped out and grabbed Tegu. Howler shouted, “No!” And saw Smokeclaw snap Tegus neck. Howler started crying and as Smokeclaw started to advance toward her she said, “I enchant all this fortress to collapse on Smokeclaw killing him but letting me live.” Smokeclaw laughed and said, “you don’t have animus magic.” As the fortress collapsed and killed him. Howler thought, ha take that, and then thought, I will just revive Tegu. And then she heard a voice asked, “hey are you okay?” Howler looked around but didn’t see anyone, she heard it again, “come on wake up it seems you are having a nightmare.” Howler thought, oh this is a dream, and felt claws shaking her awake. She opened her eyes and saw a dark blue green dragon staring at her. She sat up and asked, “who are you?” They replied, “well I am Gillfjord.” Howler thought, that’s a weird name, then looked more carefully at them and saw that they had pure white wings and had the Icewing horns on their head, and that they also had Seawing gills. Gillfjord asked, “are you okay?” Howler replied, “yeah, are you a hybrid?” He replied, “yes I am, my father was an Icewing and my mother was a Seawing. But anyway you were whimpering in your sleep and muttering some things.” Howler asked, “did you hear anything I was muttering.” Gillfjord replied, “well I think I heard you say something about enchanting something.” Howler said, “huh that’s interesting.” And thought, hopefully he doesn’t suspect anything. Gillfjord asked, “are you an animus dragon?” Howler replied, “No I don’t think Rainwings have had any animus dragons ever.” Gillfjord asked, “so were you dreaming that you were an animus?” Howler replied, “yeah it was weird I was also being chased by a dragon it was weird.” Gillfjord said, “well anyway, are you excited for school?” Howler thought, good the subject is off of animus dragons, and replied, “yes I am very excited.” She asked, “which winglet are you in?” He replied, “the copper winglet.” Howler replied, “so it looks like all of us are in the same winglet, oh by the way have you met Swampfly yet.” Gillfjord said, “no, who’s that?” Howler replied, “she’s the other dragon in our room.” Gillfjord asked, “is she nice.” Howler replied, “I think, she is very shy so I didn’t talk too much to her.” Gillfjord asked, “I’m assuming with that name that she is a Mudwing.” Howler replied, “yes, but she is also very distantly related to Nightwings.” Gillfjord replied, “well I am also very distantly related to Nightwings, I mean it is very distant.” Howler said, “I mean I would never guess you have any relations to Nightwings because there is no sign of it on you.” Gillfjord said, “well it comes from Darkstalkers little sister Whiteout so it has the Icewing from Arctic and Nightwing from Foeslayer.” Howler replied, “you’re related to Darkstalker.” Gillfjord replied, “yep but very distantly.” Howler thought, that’s kind of crazy, and said, “so did you get any cool Nightwing powers?” He replied, “well I did get the future seeing powers.” Howler replied, “that’s really cool.” He said, “it can get kind of annoying.” Just then Swampfly walked in avoided eye contact with Howler and Gillfjord and sat on her bed. Gillfjord walked over and greeted her with, “hi, my name is Gillfjord.” Swampfly looked up and said, “I’m Swampfly.” Gillfjord said, “nice to meet you.” She quickly replied, “yeah.” Howler noticed that Swampfly seemed to be very confused by Gillfjord. Gillfjord looked over to Howler and asked , “do you two want to go find the music to see we’re our first class is.” Howler replied, “sure.” Swampfly said, “okay.” Howler thought, I hope she gets more comfortable with us, I mean I don’t want to overwhelm her but I also want her to have a friend. Swampfly looked towards her and then glanced away when she noticed that Howler was also looking towards her. Gillfjord said, “well come on let’s go.” Howler said, “calm down.” Gillfjord said, “let’s just get going.” Howler looked towards Swampfly and said, “well let’s not keep him waiting any longer or else he might drag us with him.” Swampfly let out a little laugh and said, “okay.” Howler thought, yes I got her to laugh. Gillfjord said, “are we going now, come on.” Howler sighed and asked, “why are you so impatient?” Gillfjord said, “I just want to get going I am so excited to meet lots of new dragons.” They got up and followed Gillfjord out of the room as they were walking Gillfjord was in the lead and Howler was walking by Swampfly. Howler said to Swampfly, “do you think Gillfjords parents sent him here because he was too impatient and they wanted some quiet.” Swampfly laughed and replied, “maybe.” Howler thought, yes I go her to laugh again, I am so going to be her best friend. Howler asked, “so being slightly Nightwing did you get any of their cool powers.” Swampfly looked slightly startled and replied, “nope.” Howler thought, that was suspicious I wonder if she’s hiding a power like me. Swampfly looked curiously at Howler and asked, “do you have any powers, I don’t know much Rainwings.” Howler replied, “no.” And thought, wow a full sentence, but as long as I don’t tell her I am an, and then Swampfly abruptly said, “stop thinking, I don’t want to know your secret.” Howler asked, “did you just read my mind?” Swampfly looked worried and said, “no.”
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Howler replied, “you are not very believable.” Swampfly replied, “why not?” Howler replied, “you looked worried while you said it and also you seemed to be reading my mind to tell me to stop thinking.” Swampfly said, “well I guess I did.” Howler thought, I wonder she lied to me about this and said she had no powers. Swampfly looked down at her talons and said, “well I haven’t met much dragons and I usually don’t tell dragons right away.” Howler said, “well why didn’t you tell me you had this Nightwing power, what can you also see the future.” Swampfly replied, “it’s not from the Nightwing side of me.” Howler asked, “then where is it from?” And thought, I hope she doesn’t lie to me again, I will find it very hard to forgive her if she does. Swampfly quickly replied, “well it’s from my ring it is animus touched to let me read minds.” Howler asked, “are you an animus?” Swampfly replied, “no, I just found this ring.” Howler said, “cool.” And thought, at least she was honest I guess I should also avoid thinking about my secret. Gillfjord looked back announced, “found it.” Howler said, “cool let’s check it out.” And thought, we will talk about this later, okay Swampfly. Swampfly nodded slightly and followed Gillfjord into the room. Howler followed behind and saw that the music cave was full of all kinds of instruments. Gillfjord said, “we should play some music.” Howler replied, “okay, but I don’t know how to play anything.” Gillfjord said, “no worries, I am pretty musical myself.” Swampfly said, “well I can play the bassire.” And Swampfly pointed to a tall wooden instrument that had strings running across it. Gillfjord said, “well I can play the drums pretty well, and Howler you can take gratimba.” And showed Howler to an instrument that looked like a long row of wood panel type things with tubes connect to the bottom of them. Gillfjord said, “you just have to tap the wood parts and it will create a note.” And demonstrated by tapping one that was about in the middle of it and it produced a nice tone. Howler said, “I guess I’ll try it.” Gillfjord replied, “don’t worry we will do jazz you can’t really mess up jazz.” Howler said, “okay.” And thought, I will figure this out. Gillfjord walked over to the drums and started to play a beat and then Swampfly picked up the bassire and started to play along with a baseline and then Howler started tapping a few notes and then after a while Howler started to get the hang of it and started making it more complicated. Gillfjord shouted, “okay I’m going to do a solo, so that means you quiet down okay!” Howler nodded and tapped with less force to make it quiet down. Then Gillfjord started his solo and Howler wondered, how does he move his legs and tail that fast. Gillfjord was just flailing around hitting almost all the drums on the kit and then he stopped and said, “Howler take it away.” Howler thought, oh no, and played louder and just played a fairly basic rhythm and then tried hitting two at once and liked how it sounded so she kept on doing it. And then Gillfjord shouted, “Swampfly’s turn!” Howler quieted down and then Swampfly started playing a groovy pattern on the bassire and after a while Gillfjord shouted, “okay now to end this song off!” And then he started slowing down his beat and then he signaled for the last note and they ended with a loud crash from Gillfjord. Then Howler heard applauding and saw that a crowd of dragons had formed in the cave near the entrance. Gillfjord said, “thank you.” Swampfly looked like she wanted to get out of there and Howler thought, how did I not notice anyone gathering there? Then one of the dragons said, “that sounded really cool.” Gillfjord said, “thanks we were just messing around.” Then after a while the crowd dissipated and then it was just them three left. Gillfjord said, “well seems like we were pretty successful.” Howler replied, “yeah, I also somehow didn’t notice the crowd forming.” Gillfjord said, “that’s a good thing that means you got distracted in the music.” Howler replied, “oh okay.” Then Gillfjord said, “well I’m hungry, you want to go get something to eat?” Howler replied, “okay.” Swampfly said, “sure.” Howler followed Gillfjord out of the room and looked back to see Swampfly hadn’t started to move. Howler asked, “are you coming?” Swampfly looked up and replied, “oh yeah, I’m going to stop by our cave first though and drop off my ring so that I can’t read your mind.” Howler said, “thank you.” Swampfly nodded and walked out of the cave. Howler ran to catch up to Gillfjord and he asked, “where were you?” Howler replied, “oh I was talking to Swampfly, she is going to quick drop something off at our cave and then come join us.” Gillfjord shrugged and said, “okay.” And they continued on towards the food hall. When they got there Howler looked around and saw that it was a fairly large room with prey running around, with some instructors giving hunting tips. Howler noticed that there was also a fruit pile and instantly walked over there. Gillfjord followed and said, “I’m going to go get some food okay.” Howler replied, “okay.” And thought, I don’t know what other food you could want besides fruit. Howler sat down and picked out a mango from the pile and sliced it open. Then she heard a voice say, “Howler is that you?” Howler looked up and saw Tegu, she replied, “yep, I guess I never told you my mom enrolled into here.” Tegu said, “cool, which winglet are you in?” Howler replied, “the Copper winglet.” Tegu replied, “cool, I am in the Jade winglet.” Howler asked, “so how do you enjoy school so far?” Tegu replied, “well not much has happened so it’s just been kind of boring.” And then Howler heard someone yelp in pain and Howler looked around and saw that Gillfjord was crouched on the ground and looked like he had a major headache.
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Howler ran over to Gillfjord and asked, “what happened?” Gillfjord said, “I just have a headache.” Howler thought, I bet it is coming from his powers, and said, “do you need to go to the nurses?” He replied, “no I’ll be fine, but if you could take me to our room that would be cool.” Another dragon asked, “is he okay?” Howler glanced up and saw an old Mudwing staring at them. Howler replied, “yes.” They replied, “good, I don’t want any dragon to be harmed on the first day of school.” Howler just realized who this was and thought, how did it take this long I know like everything about the Academy, it was one of the headmasters and was a descendant of Clay, from the prophecy. Howler said, “I just have to tell you, I am enjoying school so much.” Umber replied, “good, I try to keep it like how Clay had it.” Howler said, “well anyway, I’m going to take Gillfjord to our room.” Umber said, “okay.” Howler turned to Gillfjord and said, “let’s get going.” Gillfjord said, “okay.” And they walked out of the prey center, when they turned the first corner they ran into Swampfly. Howler jumped back because she got startled and Swampfly asked, “are you already done eating?” Howler replied, “well we started but then Gillfjord got a headache that seemed really bad and he wanted to go to our room.” Swampfly said, “well I guess we can eat later.” Howler said, “if you want to go eat now you can.” Swampfly replied, “and have to be near that many dragons with no friends, no thank you.” Howler thought, I wish I could help Swampfly be less nervous and shy, and then thought, wait she said friend she views me as a friend, let’s go one goal already accomplished at school. Howler replied, “well then I guess you can come with us.” Swampfly said, “cool.” And they walked back to their room, as soon as they got in there Gillfjord went and laid on his bed. Howler looked out of their room and checked to see if any dragons were nearby them and saw no dragons. Howler went back in and asked Gillfjord, “was that because of your future seeing?” Gillfjord looked startled and asked, “how did you know about that?” Howler thought, he has a really bad memory doesn’t he? And replied, “well you told us.” He replied, “oh yeah I forgot I told you because we were going to be sleeping in the same room and I didn’t want you to be confused if I talked in my sleep.” Howler asked, “so does that mean that you haven’t told anyone else.” Gillfjord replied, “well I told my parents.” Howler asked, “what did you see?” Gillfjord replied, “I don’t know, I just saw flash of bright violet eyes and an army of Silkwings.” Howler thought, an army of Silkwings, but aren’t they a more passive tribe, and replied, “why would there be an army of Silkwings?” Gillfjord replied, “I don’t know.” Swampfly asked, “should we be worried?” Howler replied, “probably not until we get more information.” Gillfjord said, “well what should we do until then?” Howler replied, “well do you want to go back to the prey center to eat?” Swampfly said, “I would like to eat.” Gillfjord replied, “yeah, just give me a little more time and then we can go.” Howler said, “okay.” And then looked over at Swampfly and saw that she had taken off her ring and then asked Swampfly, “what do you like to eat?” Swampfly replied, “well I like cows and pigs a lot but I’m not super picky.” Howler asked, “what about fruit?” Swampfly replied, “it’s okay, but I much prefer meat.” Howler said, “I will never get meat eaters.” Swampfly laughed and asked, “why?” Howler replied, “well I just find meat so disgusting.” Then Gillfjord got up and said, “all this talking about food is getting me hungry let’s go back to the prey center.” Howler said, “okay.” And they walked out of their cave and back to the prey center. When they got there Howler noticed that most of the dragons had left there. Howler said, “well have fun trying to catch something, I’m going to go eat some fruit.” Swampfly said, “okay.” And Gillfjord said, “see ya, Swampfly follow me.” And they went off to get some prey. Howler went back to the pile of fruit and saw that Tegu was still there. Tegu saw her approach and asked, “so what was that all about?” Howler replied, “oh he just got a headache.” And thought, I really want to tell him but that’s Gillfjords secret to share. Tegu asked, “so is he good now?” Howler replied, “yep he feels good now.” Tegu asked, “are you ready to meet your winglet tomorrow?” Howler replied, “of course I am.” Tegu asked, “did you notice that you have one less dragon in your winglet?” Howler replied, “yeah, I think it is because of Gillfjord who is half Seawing half Icewing.” Tegu said, “yeah, that would make sense.” Just then an announcement went on that said, “everyone to the main hall, we have a visitor who wants to talk to you.” Tegu said, “well let’s get going.” Howler nodded and looked back and shouted at Swampfly and Gillfjord, “come on, we have to go to the main hall!” Gillfjord and Swampfly ran over to them and they made their way to the main hall. They arrived and had to get a spot near the back and then Umber was at the front with the other two headmasters, Orca and Dune. Orca said, “okay, so we have a special visitor who came from Pantalon.” Dune continued, “and we have to ask you to be respectful to him.” Umber said, “well enough waiting, come on out Bugwing.” Then out came a Silkwing who was a dark green with some browns and then Howler looked at his face and he had bright violet eyes.
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Howler quickly looked at Gillfjord and saw Swampfly also staring, Gillfjord whispered, “pay attention, don’t draw attention here.” Howler thought, yeah I suppose we can talk about it later, and nodded. Bugwing announced, “thanks for having me here, I am an assistant to queen Cocoon of the Silkwings.” Howler thought, is that why he is with a Silkwing army. He continued, “and I am just here to kind of observe because the queen wants to try and make a school like this but set up in Pantala.” Howler was very suspicious and then Dune said, “okay, well you can go now just remember that tomorrow morning you have class.” Orca added, “and there will be a warning bell to tell you that class is about to start.” Umber said, “okay, gathering adjourned.” And with that everyone started to split and the main hall cleared out pretty quickly. Howler asked, “do we want to go to our cave and talk.” Gillfjord replied, “yes let’s go.” And they quickly rushed to their cave and Howler was checking to see if there was anyone nearby. Howler saw a dragon sleeping in the cave next to theirs so when they got into their cave Howler said, “let’s keep our voices down there was a dragon right next us in their cave.” Swampfly said, “sounds good to me.” Gillfjord said, “well this is bad.” Howler thought, that’s a huge understatement, and replied, “well what should we do?” Swampfly replied, “I have no idea.” Howler suggested, “we could tell the headmasters, couldn’t we?” Gillfjord replied, “but I don’t want to tell them about my powers.” Howler said, “okay, any other ideas?” And thought, I could just tell them myself couldn’t I, just tell them even if Gillfjord doesn’t want to it would help us wouldn’t it? She saw Swampfly staring at her and asked, “what?” Swampfly replied, “nothing, I was just thinking.” Gillfjord looked like he was having another headache and Howler asked, “what are you seeing this time?” Gillfjord just groaned in pain and Swampfly said, “oh no.” Howler asked, “what?” Swampfly seemed to realize she said something out loud and replied, “nothing.” Then after a while Gillfjords headache seemed to go away and then Swampfly asked Gillfjord, “can that be avoided?” Gillfjord looked at her curiously and replied, “I don’t know, but did you just read my mind?” Howler thought, but I thought that Swampfly didn’t have mind reader without her ring. Howler quick looked over Swampfly and saw that she wasn’t wearing her ring. Swampfly said, “maybe.” Howler thought, I really wish she would be honest with us, I want to be her friend but if she keeps keeping secrets from us, I might have to stop listening to her. Swampfly looked torn and said, “please stay my friend, I do have mind reading without anything.” Howler said, “thanks for being honest.” And thought, I wonder if she’s hiding anything else. Swampfly looked hurt and said, “I would never hide anything else from you.” Gillfjord asked, “then why did you hide your mind reading from us?” Swampfly replied, “well, I haven’t met many dragons, and I just don’t introduce myself that way, since I can’t control my mind reading.” Howler didn’t know what to think of this and instead asked, “so what was the vision about?” Gillfjord looked to Swampfly and asked, “should we tell her?” Swampfly replied, “yes to show I’m not going to keep another secret.” Gillfjord said, “okay” turned to Howler and continued, “so what I saw was the army of Silkwings marching into the rainforest and burning everything down, then I saw you crying over a body of an adult dragon.” Howler said, “not the rainforest.” And thought, but who would I be crying over, it would probably be my mother. Swampfly said, “don’t worry we will stop Bugwing and the Silkwings.” Howler said, “I know we will.” And thought, we have to right, there is no way that I will let them burn down the rainforest. Gillfjord said, “well, I think there might be a way to stop him.” Howler asked, “what?” Gillfjord said, “well I have seen some visions while sleeping of me and a Mudwing and Rainwing, who I now realize is you two, sneaking into some ruined palace and stealing a treasure from some dragon.” Howler thought, a ruined palace, could it be, and images of the palace on the island that her and Tegu got trapped at flashed through her mind. Swampfly looked over and asked, “do you know where the palace is?” Howler replied, “well I have a guess.” And thought, I really hope we don’t have to go there. Gillfjord asked, “why do you have a guess?” Howler replied, “well like a week before I came here I was exploring this island and there was a destroyed palace there, and we explored it but then got caught by a dragon who seemed like they were crazy and was always telling me and Tegu to not take their treasure and they seemed really concerned about it.” Gillfjord asked, “whose Tegu?” Howler replied, “oh, he is one of my friends, he is the Rainwing in the Jade winglet.” Gillfjord replied, “okay, anyway who was the dragon on the island?” Howler replied, “his name was Smokeclaw but he was always talking to himself like there was another dragon in him.” Swampfly said, “that sounds weird.” Howler thought, that’s an understatement, and replied, “it was pretty weird.” Gillfjord asked, “so how would we get to this island?” Howler replied, “there is a tunnel in the rainforest that goes to the island.” Gillfjord asked, “why is that there?” Howler replied, “I don’t know.” Gillfjord replied, “well it sounds like we should go there.” Howler thought, oh no I really don’t want to go back there. Swampfly looked at her and said, “you don’t have to go back if you really don’t want to.” Howler said, “no we can go.” Then they heard a voice ask, “hey, could I ask you some questions?” Howler turned around and saw that Bugwing was standing in the doorway of their room.
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Howler froze in fear and felt Swampfly also freeze, Gillfjord stepped forward and asked, “what do you want?” Bugwing smiled and replied, “well, queen Cocoon wanted me to ask students some questions about the academy, to see if there is anything we should know.” Gillfjord said, “well, ask away.” Bugwing nodded and asked, “first of all, how are you liking school?” Gillfjord replied, “I am enjoying it.” Bugwing nodded and turned to Howler and Swampfly, “and you two?” Gillfjord quietly hissed, “stop being so suspicious.” Howler snapped back and said, “I am liking school so far.” Swampfly just nodded. Bugwing said, “okay good, now are you happy with winglets?” Gillfjord replied, “I think they are good.” Bugwing added, “could you also say why?” Gillfjord said, “well I like them because then you can get to know different tribes one at a time instead of meeting lots of dragons from that tribe.” Howler went second and said, “I like them because I get to meet dragons and will get to know them well, and I can then ask the, lots of questions and get to know everything about their tribes.” Then went Swampfly who said, “I like them because they are good.” Bugwing waited a bit to see if she would elaborate further than asked, “how safe do you feel here?” Howler thought, why does he want to know about our safety? Gillfjord replied, “well there isn’t much to be scared of, but I imagine the headmasters could protect us.” Then Howler said, “I agree with Gillfjord, but I think that the students would also help fight for the academy, I know I would.” Gillfjord nodded to agree and Swampfly just quickly said, “I agree.” Bugwing nodded and said, “well thanks for your answers I’ll make sure to tell queen Cocoon and see you.” Gillfjord waved a bye and so did Howler. Then Bugwing turned and left their room Howler thought, thanks goodness that is over. Gillfjord turned towards them and asked, “why did you two act so suspicious?” Howler replied, “well I was terrified.” Swampfly replied, “I don’t like talking to other dragons.” Gillfjord said, “I suppose you do seem very shy.” Swampfly said, “yeah.” Howler asked, “so what should we do now?” Gillfjord replied, “well I don’t think we want to look suspicious and leave right after he asked us those questions.” Howler asked, “so should we wait a bit and then leave?” Gillfjord replied, “yeah we should get through at least tomorrow and then maybe we can leave.” Swampfly asked, “what if we wait until Bugwing leaves?” Howler asked, “how would that work?” Swampfly replied, “well if we let him leave it will take him a few days to get there gather an army and bring it back so we should have time to go through the tunnel and get the treasure.” Howler tried to think of any flaws but couldn’t think of any, and said, “well that sounds good to me.” Gillfjord replied, “yeah it looks good to me too.” Howler then thought, wait couldn’t Swampfly have read his mind, and asked Swampfly, “what did you see in his mind?” Swampfly replied, “nothing he somehow blocks my mind reading.” Howler asked, “what do you see instead?” Swampfly replied, “it just sounded like a swarm of bugs in there, like he has bugs protecting his thoughts.” Howler asked, “has anyone else been able to block their minds from you at all?” Swampfly replied, “no.” Howler thought, I wonder how he does it, Gillfjord asked, “well what do you want to do now?” Howler said, “well I am kind of tired.” And thought, with all of this excitement I am exhausted. Swampfly said, “yeah hearing all of the minds of the students has been making me tired.” Gillfjord announced, “well it is pretty late, so I say we are going to go to bed.” Howler rolled her eyes and said, “I would be going to bed no matter what you said, you know that right?” Gillfjord replied, “of course, I was just pretending to be the leader so I could have the illusion of control.” Howler asked, “why would you want to have the illusion of control?” Gillfjord replied, “well my parents always seemed to control what I did, so I was just assuming leadership.” Swampfly said, “that’s fine by me, I definitely don’t want to be in control.” Howler replied, “well that sounds like good reasoning, but I say we are all leaders and just work together.” Gillfjord said, “fine, I’ll get you to let me be fully in command later. Just you wait.” Howler rolled her eyes and said, “sure.” And thought, I don’t really even care about being leader I just don’t think one person should be in control. Gillfjord thought for a bit and then looked like he had an idea and asked, “what if instead I am just our spokesdragon? That way we all get a say in decisions but if we have to say something to groups of dragons I’ll talk.” Howler laughed and said, “that sounds fine to me, I don’t really care.” Swampfly asked, “when would we need a spokesdragon?” Gillfjord replied, “well…. I don’t know but if for some reason we do I’m the dragon who will speak.” Swampfly replied, “ok.” Howler thought, it’s fine, as long as he feels important. Swampfly nodded towards Howler and then asked, “so what happened to going to bed?” Howler thought, I am pretty tired, and said, “I don’t know.” Gillfjord said, “well let’s get going to bed now.” Swampfly said, “cool.” And walked over to her bed and almost instantly started snoring. Gillfjord joked, “hopefully we can sleep through this.” Howler shook her head and sarcastically replied, “great joke.” Gillfjord smiled and said, “yeah, I know it was pretty good.” Howler thought, he really is trying to be funny, and said, “good night.” Gillfjord replied, “good night.” And walked over to his bed and rested his body in the water and used the ice as a pillow. Howler went over to her bed and got settled in and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.
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When she opened her eyes she saw that she was back in the cell on the Nightwing island. Tegu asked, “so what do you want to do, to escape?” Howler replied, “I will just use animus magic.” Tegu replied, “isn’t that bad for your soul?” Howler replied, “that doesn’t matter.” And said, “I enchant this door to open.” Tegu said, “well I guess let’s get going.” Howler nodded and they left the room and they climbed up the stairs. When they got to the top and turned the first corner they ran into Smokeclaw. Smokeclaw looked surprised and exclaimed, “how did you get out?!” Howler said, “animus magic, and I enchant this dragon to do whatever I say.” Tegu looked worried and asked, “won’t this have a huge effect on your soul?” Howler replied, “my soul is fine.” And turned back to Smokeclaw and said, “slit open your stomach.” Smokeclaw looked terrified and lifted his claws and slashed himself. Howler turned back to Tegu and said, “well let’s get going.” Tegu looking worried asked, “are you okay Howler?” Howler got annoyed and said, “stop being so annoying.” Tegu said, “I am just trying to make sure you don’t go crazy and homicidal.” Howler rolled her eyes and thought, this dragon is so annoying, and said, “I enchant this dragon to shut up.” Tegu tried speaking but couldn’t, he tried stopping Howler and was able to get some sounds out. Howler said, “I enchant this dragon to just follow me and not be annoying.” Tegu stopped struggling and just followed her to the rainforest. Howler thought, if I am so powerful I should just become queen. Howler went to the queens treehouse and went inside. Queen Pineapple asked, “what are you doing here?” Howler replied, “I am here to kill you and take the throne.” Pineapple said, “only members of the royal family can challenge for the throne.” Howler said, “well that doesn’t matter, I’ll just kill you anyway.” There was a small part of her that thought, this isn’t you, you don’t want to kill other dragons, and then thought back, don’t be so weak brain. And then said, “I enchant this dragon to die.” Pineapple just fell to the ground and died, Howler went over to the dead queen grabbed her crown and said, “I enchant this crown so that when I am wearing it all dragons will listen to my every command.” Howler looked towards Tegu and said, “oh you’re still here, well just go ahead and snap your neck.” Tegu looked terrified as he brought his talons to his head and snapped it. Then it all disappeared as Howler woke up in a sweat, she thought, what was that all about? She tried to shake it off but couldn’t get rid of that feeling of power. Howler scanned the room and saw that Gillfjord and Swampfly were still sleeping. She decided to get up and go to the library, as she was walking she saw very few dragons up and about. She wondered if the library would even be open right now, but as she neared the library she saw that there was some light coming from it. She walked in and the librarian looked up and asked, “what do you need?” Howler said, “well I want a book on animus dragons.” The librarian put their claw to their chin and then said, “wait right there, I’ll be right back.” And walked into the aisles of the library. After at least three minutes the librarian came back and said, “these are the most helpful books on animus dragons we have.” Howler said, “thanks.” And went to grab them, but the librarian stopped her and said, “wait I need to check them out to you.” Howler said, “oh okay.” And then took out her stamp and handed it to the librarian, they took it and took out a separate scroll and wrote the titles of the books and then stamped her stamp on it. The librarian handed Howler the stamp and the books and said, “just make sure you return them by the end of the semester.” Howler nodded and said, “I will.” And then grabbed the books and curled up on one of the reading spots to start checking them out. The first one was called ‘Animus Objects and what they do’, the second one was called ‘history of the royal Icewing and Seawing animus dragons’, and the last one was called ‘every animus magic that is known and their story’. Howler thought, well that last one sounds the most promising out of these three, and started to unroll it. Howler read, ‘This scroll talks about every animus dragon ever known to dragon kind, and based on my research only five tribes have had animus dragons those tribes being, Nightwings, Icewings, Seawings, Sandwings, and Rainwings’ Howler thought, well I guess there has been at least one recorded Rainwing animus, and skimmed through the scroll until she got to a section labeled Rainwing, it read, ‘from the Rainwings there has only been one recorded Rainwing that I could find, and it was from over two thousand years ago and it is about Jaguar, Howler quickly skimmed through the introduction and then came upon a picture of a Rainwing who looked very cunning and powerful, but also very beautiful. Howler thought, this must be Jaguar, Howler examined the picture closer and saw that she kind of saw her mom in Jaguar and thought, are we descended from Jaguar, she read the paragraph underneath the picture and read, ‘Jaguar [pictured above] was the only recorded animus Rainwing I could find and she was the daughter of queen Tegu of the Rainwings, one day she decided to challenge her mother for the throne but she almost lost and used her animus magic to control the queen and then went on to seize control of the rest of the queens and citizens, but there was hope as there was a prophecy that said that five dragons would stop her, those five dragons were, Palm a Sandwing princess, Diamond an Icewing princess, Marsh a brother to the Mudwing queen, Dragonkiller a Nightwing, and Monkey a Rainwing [read more about these five in my scroll, Dragons Involved in Prophecies.], after a long battle they eventually were able to defeat Jaguar, but no one knows what actually happened, they said that they killed her but there is some rumors that she never got fully killed and enchanted herself to live forever and never die.’ Howler thought, well I might be related to a terrible dragon.
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Howler decided to head back to her cave so she gathered up her scrolls and headed back. When she went inside she saw that Swampfly was still sleeping but Gillfjord was awake. Howler put her scrolls into open spots on the scroll racks. Gillfjord asked, “what are those scrolls?” Howler replied, “oh just some scrolls on animus dragons because I was interested in them.” Gillfjord asked, “did you find anything interesting?” Howler replied, “well it seems there has been at least one Rainwing animus dragon.” Gillfjord looked surprised and asked, “who?” Howler replied, “well it seems it was the princess from thousands of years ago who took control of the continents but got stopped by five dragons.” Gillfjord replied, “well, I didn’t know Rainwings had animus dragons.” Howler said, “well I guess there was at least one.” Gillfjord replied, “well do you think there is any today?” Howler replied, “well, I would have to check scrolls to see if the queen at that time had any more dragonets.” Gillfjord said, “well let’s go to the library.” Then Swampfly woke up and asked, “where are we going?” Gillfjord replied, “the library.” Swampfly replied, “why?” Howler replied, “because we need to see if an old Rainwing queen had any dragonets.” Swampfly just kept looking more confused and asked, “why do we care if some old dragon had any dragonets?” Howler replied, “so we can see if there could be any animus Rainwings today.” Swampfly asked, “the Rainwings had an animus?” Howler replied, “yes, there was an animus named Jaguar who was a pretty bad dragon.” Swampfly just said, “okay, let’s go I guess.” Then all of a sudden there was three bongs that echoed throughout the caves. Howler jumped and asked, “what is that?” Gillfjord replied, “I’m pretty sure it is the warning bell, that says that class is about to start.” Howler said, “well I guess we should head to class.” And thought, we can just go to the library later,. Gillfjord jumped up and just started going, Swampfly and Howler hurried up to follow him. After a while they got there and when they walked in Howler noticed everyone else was already there and Sun was waiting for everyone. Sun saw them walk in and then announced, “now that everyone is here, we will start class.” Howler thought, I can’t wait to meet these other dragons. Sun continued, “first we will introduce ourselves by saying our name and our favorite color, I’ll start, my name is Sun and my favorite color is yellow. Now we will just go to my right and continue on until we get back to me.” Next was a Silkwing who said, “my name is Swordtail and my favorite color is green.” Then a Hivewing who said, “my name is Cicada and my favorite color is orange.” Then it was a Leafwing who said, “my name is poison ivy and my favorite color is purple.” Then it was a Sandwing who said, “my name is Palm and my favorite color is brown.” Then it was a Nightwing who said, “my name is Peacebreaker and my favorite color is white.” Howler thought, what a pleasant name, then a Skywing who said, “my name is vermillion, and my favorite color is vermillion.” Howler thought, that’s pretty funny, then it was Gillfjord who said, “my name is Gillfjord and my favorite color is light blue.” Then it was Swampfly who quickly said, “I’m Swampfly, and I like amber.” Then it was Howler who said, “my name is Howler and my favorite color would have to be all of them, and also I can’t wait to get to know you all.” Sun said, “well now that that’s done with we will now talk about what you guys want to talk about, so someone choose a subject to talk about.” Howler said, “I want to talk about tribal powers that you have.” Vermillion said, “well I just have faster flying than most dragons.” Palm said, “well I just have my tail barb sadly.” Howler asked, “why sadly?” Palm replied, “well I know that at least one of my relatives was an animus.” Howler asked, “was their name also Palm?” Palm looked surprised and replied, “yes, how did you know?” Howler explained, “well I picked up a scroll in the library about animus dragons and saw in one section that it mentioned a Palm.” Palm replied, “yeah it was probably the one I’m related to.” Peacebreaker said, “well I have no powers because I didn’t hatch under any moons, but I am a pretty skilled fighter.” Poison ivy said, “well I have weak leafspeak and that’s it.” Swordtail said, “well I have silk but that’s it.” Howler looked closer and saw that Swordtail didn’t have any wings and asked, “why don’t you have wings?” He replied, “well they are just in wingbuds which when I get old enough I will go through metamorphosis and will grow my wings in that time.” Howler said, “cool.” And thought, I wonder what metamorphosis would be like, also I wonder what it would be like to not be able to fly, also would Silkwings be weaker flyers because they have less time flying. Then Cicada said, “well I have a stinger in my wrist.” Howler thought, that sounds cool.” Then Gillfjord said, “well I have all the regular Seawing powers and the Icewing ones but I can also shoot out water from my mouth.” Howler thought, keeping his future seeing a secret I see. Howler heard claws scraping on the stone and looked around and saw that Bugwing was coming in. Sun asked, “can I help you?” Bugwing replied, “I just want to listen in on your conversations just take some notes.” Then Swordtail asked Bugwing, “why are your claws so long?” Bugwing said, “I don’t know.” Swordtail said, “it looks weird.” Bugwing frowned for a split second before smiling and saying, “it’s not weird, just a helpful evolutionary trait, let’s say.” Howler thought, how is it helpful, well I guess if you are going to attack dragons it is a good natural weapon. Sun said, “well let’s not bother him anymore.” Bugwing said, “it’s fine, I have an idea of what to talk of if you need ideas.” Sun replied, “well I guess you can suggest a topic.” Bugwing looked at Howler and said, “I think we should talk about animus dragons.”
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Howler felt her scales start to turn a lime green from fear and quickly fought it back and replaced it with a boring brown and thought, does he know I am an animus? If I just don’t act suspicious he shouldn’t know right? Gillfjord looked over at Howler and then said, “well what is there to talk about?” Bugwing said, “well I am curious if any of you know any animus dragons.” Gillfjord said, “no, I don’t think so.” All the other dragonets shook their head and Bugwing looked at Howler and asked, “and what about you?” Howler stuttered, “n-n-no, I don’t think there are any animus dragons in the Rainwing tribe anymore.” And thought, that was too suspicious other dragons might catch on. Peacebreaker asked, “what do you mean anymore?” Howler replied, “well I was reading a scroll on animus dragons and it said that there was one thousands of years ago.” Bugwing asked, “and this dragon didn’t have any dragonets?” Howler replied, “not that I know of.” Bugwing smirked and said, “well that’s all I have time for so see you later.” Sun waved a bye and then Bugwing turned around and left. Sun announced, “well I think that is enough for today, I say it is time to go eat and then prepare for your next class, which is history,” the winglet left and each went their own ways. Gillfjord said, “lets stop by our cave first.” Howler nodded and Swampfly followed when they got inside of their cave Gillfjord whipped around and asked Howler, “what was that?” Howler asked, “what was what?” Gillfjord sighed and said, “you know what.” Howler said, “no I don’t.” Gillfjord said, “you started turning bright green and you were stuttering when you spoke about animus dragons.” Howler thought, I don’t know what to say, and replied, “I don’t know I was just nervous about Bugwing.” Swampfly said, “I heard your thoughts be all worried and you wondered how did he know.” Howler said, “I don’t remember thinking that at all.” Gillfjord said, “come on be honest with us, are you an animus?” Howler thought, I better listen to what my mom said, and replied, “nope.” And felt her scales start turning a dark purple with guilt with some lighter blues because she was worried about them figuring out her secret. Gillfjord asked, “what do those colors mean?” Howler replied, “well they mean confusion and being worried.” Gillfjord asked, “what are you worried about?” Howler replied, “that you might stop being friends with me because you think I am lying to you.” And thought, just lie about what they mean and the reasons for them, Swampfly looked slightly hurt and asked, “why can’t you be honest with us?” Howler said, “I am.” And Gillfjord asked, “what did you see in her mind?” Swampfly replied, “well she lied to us about what the colors mean and the reason she is worried.” Gillfjord said, “well we will just go to the library to figure out what the colors mean on a Rainwing.” Howler said, “you don’t need to, I can tell you.” Gillfjord asked, “then why don’t you tell us what the colors really mean?” Howler sighed and thought, sorry mom but I want to keep my friends, and replied, “well the purple really indicates guilt because I lied to you and the blue is me being worried but it is that you will figure out my secret, but also partly because you might stop being my friend.” Gillfjord smiled and said, “well that wasn’t so difficult now was it?” Howler said, “it was pretty difficult.” Swampfly asked, “what is your secret?” Howler replied, “do I have to answer that?” Gillfjord thought and then said, “no I won’t pressure you to reveal a secret you obviously want to keep a secret.” Howler sighed a sigh of relief and turned herself to a more calm color. Howler said, “thank you for letting me keep my secret.” Gillfjord nodded and said, “no problem.” Howler asked, “so what do you want to do now?” Gillfjord replied, “let’s go get food.” Swampfly said, “I could go for food.” Howler nodded and said, “I am going to go to the library first to try and find a scroll to read while eating.” Gillfjord said, “okay, don’t take too long.” Howler said, “bye.” Swampfly nodded goodbye and Gillfjord said, “bye.” Howler walked out and to the library, and when she got there she asked the librarian, “do you have any books on the ancestry of Rainwings?” The librarian replied, “we just recently had a scroll come in title ‘the history of the royal Rainwings.” Howler asked, “can I check it out?” The librarian nodded and grabbed the scroll and checked it out to Howler. The librarian said, “happy reading.” Howler nodded and walked to the prey center and stopped by the fruit pile. She saw Tegu there and asked, “how is it going?” Tegu replied, “good, what are you reading?” Howler replied, “oh it is just on the history of royal Rainwings.” Tegu asked, “why are you reading it?” Howler replied, “because the animus Rainwing I read about was a princess so I want to see if they had any kids.” Tegu asked, “you aren’t the first animus Rainwing?” Howler said, “don’t talk about so loud, and no I’m not.” Tegu asked, “so what does it say?” Howler said, “I don’t know.” And rolled open the scrolls and started reading out loud, “the earliest record that we could find of a royal Rainwing family was queen Tegu who had a dangerous animus daughter princess Jaguar, however Jaguar did have two brothers, one was Monkey part of the prophecy of the five and adopted three dragonets and the other was Chameleon who had one dragonet before being killed by Jaguar, you can find the rest of the family tree below.” Howler looked down at the family tree and Tegu asked, “so do you recognize any dragons on there?” Howler waited and then saw that her great grandmother was on it and said, “well my great grandmother is on it.” Tegu said, “so you are related to Jaguar.” Howler said, “I guess so.” And thought, I wonder if my mom knew. Tegu asked, “why does it stop after your great grandmother?” Howler quickly skimmed the text and replied, “well it looks like they just stopped taking track of their dragonets.” Tegu asked, “so have you told anyone else that you are an animus?” Howler replied, “no, and I don’t plan on it.” Then she heard two dragons walk up and she turned around and saw Gillfjord and Swampfly come and sit next to them. Gillfjord asked, “what is that scroll about?” Howler replied, “the history of royal Rainwings.” Gillfjord said, “okay. Who are you?” Tegu replied, “I am Tegu, Howlers friend. Who are you?” Gillfjord replied, “well I am Gillfjord.” Swampfly muttered, “I’m Swampfly.” Tegu said, “nice to meet you.” Gillfjord said, “you too. Also do you know about Howlers secret.” Tegu said, “yes.” Gillfjord asked, “can you tell us?” Tegu opened his mouth and Howler stared in fear ready for Tegu to say what her secret was.
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The first time Howler met Tegu was when Howler was only two. She had been exploring the city when she accidentally ran into him, his mother instantly pulled Tegu into her and asked, “are you okay my little baby?” Tegu looked slightly annoyed and said, “yes.” He then looked over towards her and asked, “who are you?” Howler replied, “I’m Howler, who are you?” His mother replied, “his name is Tegu. What do you want?” Howler thought, why is his mother answering for him, and said, “I just wanted to know who he was.” His mom replied, “well move along.” And grabbed Tegus wrist and said, “come along baby.” Tegu held his ground and said, “no, I want to talk to Howler.” His mother turned red with rage and hissed, “no you don’t.” Tegu fought back and said, “you aren’t the boss of me.” His mother looked even angrier somehow and yelled, “yes I am!” Tegu finally got out of his moms grip and yelled to Howler, “follow me!” And he started running, Howler froze for a moment and thought, why would I follow him, but also where is he going I have to know, and with that she ran after him. His mom shouted, “get back here!” But they were faster and more nimble than her and after awhile Tegu took an abrupt turn and dived underneath a fallen tree, Howler without thinking followed him in there. Howler asked, “where are we?” Tegu said, “shhh.” And Howler wondered, why does he want me to be quiet, then she heard footsteps nearby and heard his mom say, “come on out wherever you are Tegu I just want to take you home.” Tegu and Howler stayed silent and after what felt like an hour the footsteps receded. Tegu said, “okay, now we can talk.” Howler asked again, “where are we?” Tegu replied, “oh it’s just a little place I found while exploring the outskirts of the town.” Howler thought, I wish I could explore more, and said, “it’s pretty cool.” Tegu said, “you haven’t seen the best part.” And with that he crawled further in and Howler followed after awhile they came out into a large area. Howler asked, “what is this?” Tegu replied, “it is the base of the tree, because this kind of tree has a huge hollow base so it makes for a pretty cool area.” Howler said, “well, I think it is really cool. So why does your mom seem to want to control you?” Tegu sighed and replied, “well she is super protective, because I am her only dragonet.” Howler said, “I am my moms only dragonet too, but she lets me be pretty much free and isn’t super strict.” Tegu said, “I wish my mom was like that.” Howler replied, “well I will try and get my mom to talk to your mom about letting you hang out with me and we can explore.” Tegu scoffed and replied, “well I doubt my mom would let that happen and, what would we explore? I have pretty much explored the whole outskirts of the town.” Howler replied, “well we will sneak you out if your mom disagrees and we could explore the rest of the rainforest.” Tegu replied, “well it’ll be difficult to escape from my mother but, exploring the rainforest sounds cool, but also dangerous and kind of scary.” Howler rolled her eyes and said, “come on, the rainforest isn’t that scary.” Tegu said, “well first of all there are lots of big cats, bugs that could be carrying diseases, and also I barely know you what if you leave me stranded out in the rainforest.” Howler replied, “well we can easily stop any big cat with our venom and there haven’t been any records of a bug spreading a disease in years. Plus I wouldn’t want to leave you stranded because I am a good dragon.” Tegu said, “well those are all good reasons except I don’t know if you are a good dragon.” Howler thought, what would I need to tell him in order for him to believe me? And said, “well how about we start by getting to know each other, like what is your favorite color?” Tegu replied, “well my favorite color would be, pink.” Howler said, “nice, I don’t have one I like all colors equally.” Tegu snorted and said, “surely there is one you like better.” Howler replied, “nope, next question, what is your favorite hobby?” Tegu replied, “exploring.” Howler replied, “well mine is reading.” Tegu looked surprised and asked, “you already know how to read?” Howler replied, “yeah my mom works at the library, so she likes books and taught me to read one I was one.” Tegu said, “well that is impressive.” Howler said, “sure, anyway final question, do you know who your dad is? because I have only heard you mention your mother.” Tegu replied, “no my dad died shortly before I was born.” Howler said, “that sucks, my dad just left my mother after I was born.” Tegu said, “so we both have no dad essentially.” Howler said, “yeah, we have that in common.” Tegu asked, “what time is it?” Howler quick squeezed out and saw that it was almost sundown she came back and replied, “it is almost sundown.” Tegu looked worried and said, “I should probably go back.” Howler replied, “I probably should too, it was nice to meet you.” Tegu said, “same here, also when can we hang out?” Howler replied, “how about tomorrow during sun time?” Tegu replied, “that works out for me, I usually can’t fall asleep anyway.” Howler replied, “me too! So see ya.” Tegu said, “see ya.” And they started walking back home and they were going the same way. Howler asked, “is your home this way?” Tegu replied, “yeah.” Howler said, “well I guess we get to walk with each other for a while.” Tegu said, “yep.” And they continued on then when they got to Howlers house, Howler said, “well I guess see you for real now.” Tegu asked, “how did you know where my house was?” Howler replied, “what no, my house is here.” Tegu asked, “which one is yours?” Howler replied, “mine is the one second down from the top.” Tegu replied, “mine is three down from that one.” Howler asked, “how have we not seen each other before?” Tegu responded, “I have no idea but I should probably head inside and face my mother.” Howler said, “good luck and good bye.” Tegu said, “goodbye.” And they went to their respective treehouses and Howler thought, I can’t wait to get to know him, I’m going get to be best friends and we’ll share secrets that no one else will know.
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Howler thought, please don’t say my secret, and Tegu just said, “I am not going to tell you because I would never reveal my best friends secret.” Howler sighed with relief and Gillfjord said, “oh well I was just wonder if you would say it, but I guess you’re a pretty good friend.” Tegu said, “yeah, I like to think I am.” Howler said, “don’t worry you are a very good friend.” Gillfjord asked, “so what did that scroll tell you?” Howler replied, “well it seems like the mother of the animus Rainwing did have dragonets so, there might be a Rainwing right now who is an animus.” Gillfjord asked, “do you think they even know?” Howler replied, “well I think they must, right?” Tegu rolled his eyes and Gillfjord replied, “well I guess there is just some animus Rainwing out there.” Howler said, “yeah there probably is.” Gillfjord asked, “do you know when our next class starts?” Howler replied, “I have no idea.” Tegu asked, “what is your next class?” Howler replied, “history.” Tegu said, “hey, my next class is history too.” Howler said, “cool, we will get to learn together.” Tegu said, “yeah, but you probably know most of it anyway.” Howler said, “no there is still some things I don’t understand.” Tegu scoffed and asked, “what do you not understand?” Howler said, “well I haven’t read much up on dates closer to the scorching, and there are a few wars I don’t know much about.” Tegu said, “yeah, I don’t know like anything about history.” Gillfjord said, “I wonder what we are going to talk about in history today.” Howler said, “probably something relating to history.” Gillfjord laughed and said in a sarcastic voice, “really, I never would have thought of that.” Howler rolled her eyes and replied, “I wonder how close we are to class starting.” And as if answering her the bell rung three times. Gillfjord said, “well there is your answer.” Tegu said, “well I am going to head there.” Gillfjord said, “well follow you.” Howler asked, “do you know where it is?” Tegu replied, “yeah, I found on the first day.” Howler said, “well I guess we should follow you, let’s go.” Tegu said, “okay.” And they followed him to the history cave, when they walked in Howler saw that there was a lot of maps lining the walls. She thought, this is so cool, I can’t wait to study these maps. Gillfjord said, “that’s a lot of maps.” Howler said, “I know isn’t it great, I can’t wait to find out what all of them are about.” Then some more dragons filed in and a much older dragon walked in and said, “hello I am your teacher, Orca.” Howler thought, I can’t wait to learn more about history, Swampfly looked over at Howler seeming somewhat amused. Howler thought, I wonder she finds so amusing, and then Orca said, “today we are going to talk about the Rainwings, because it is an easier topic than most other tribes, because we don’t know as much about them.” Howler thought, I can’t wait to learn about Rainwings, Orca continued on talking about some possible origins of Rainwings and then said, “we don’t much about the history of the royal family as the earliest Rainwing queen that is royalty that we know of is Queen Grandeur.” Howler raised one of her talons and Orca asked, “what is it?” Howler replied, “well I was reading a scroll and it mentioned a Queen Tegu, and there was another scroll that had a royal family tree starting from Tegu all the way down to Grandeur.” Orca looked slightly annoyed and said, “well I have never heard of Tegu so I wouldn’t know, maybe it is new information.” Howler said, “okay, also I read that Tegu had a daughter Princess Jaguar, who was an animus.” Orca looked surprised and said, “I don’t the Rainwings ever had an animus dragon, you must be mistaken.” Howler said, “but I read it from a scroll from this schools library.” Orca replied, “okay after this class you can show me these scrolls and I will see if you are telling the truth.” Howler said, “okay.” And then Orca continued on with the lesson ending with, “right now Rainwings are still slightly secluded but they have come a long way since Glory was queen and now have one of the biggest libraries in Pyrrhia. Class adjourned.” Howler thought, really our library is one of the largest, and asked, “what is the largest library?” Orca smiled and replied, “the one here is the largest of both the continents.” Howler said, “cool, now let’s go to my cave so I can show you the scrolls.” Orca said, “okay, lead the way.” Howler led Orca to her cave and said, “here are the scrolls.” And took them out of their shelf and handed them to Orca. Howler waited while Orca read the scrolls and then a shocked expression crossed her face and she said, “no it can’t be true, how could I have never known this.” Howler asked, “so this is all real?” Orca replied, “yes, the author is very trusted and is also my brother.” Howler asked, “you have a brother?” Orca replied, “yes, yes, he is a very famous historian and author.” Howler asked, “so what do you think about the scrolls?” Orca replied, “well they are obviously real, and it just leaves me to wonder if there is any animus dragons amongst the Rainwings right now.” Orcas’ eyes lit up and she turned to Howler and said, “you must know, is there any animus dragons in the Rainwing tribe right now?” Howler replied, “I have no idea, if there is they haven’t told me about it.” And thought, hopefully that was believable, Orca replied, “I wonder if there is going to be any animus Rainwings in the near future, do you know any of the dragons on this family tree?” Howler replied, “none except for queen Pineapple.” Orca said, “I will do more research on this and see if I can figure some things out then I might talk about them in class.” Howler said, “so are you gonna go do that now?” Orca nodded and asked, “can I borrow these scrolls?” Howler replied, “sure, I was pretty much done with them anyway.” And Orca holding the scrolls left the room and Howler thought, I wonder what she will figure out. Gillfjord walked in and asked, “so what did she think?” Howler replied, “well she thought they were real and factually because they were written by her brother.” Gillfjord said, “well that sounds as good a reason as any.” Howler asked, “where is Swampfly?” Gillfjord replied, “oh she wanted to go out flying so she couldn’t hear any minds.” Howler said, “okay.” Then they heard a dragon announce, “I am going to leave now, I have gathered enough information.” Howler and Gillfjord looked at each other and sneaked to the entrance hall where Bugwing was standing at the entrance. Umber was there too and he said, “well I hope you got some good information and your queen will be happy with you.” Bugwing said, “I think we got good information, and goodbye.” Umber said, “goodbye.” And Bugwing flew off, Gillfjord whisper, “now it is time to go and get the item.” Howler nodded and said, “let’s go back to our cave and start coming up with a plan.” Gillfjord nodded and they started walking back to their cave. Howler thought, hopefully we can stop Bugwing from doing any damage, and if we can’t come up with a plan then we will just have to hope that Gillfjord saw the future wrong, don’t worry mom I won’t let anything bad happen to you. Gillfjord looked back and whispered, “Howler you coming.” Howler didn’t realize she had stopped and continued to follow him to their cave.
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Howler and Gillfjord were discussing plans to stop Bugwing. Howler asked, “do you think we should tell one of the heads of school.” Gillfjord replied, “no because then we would have to explain my powers and then we would need them to believe us and that would just take longer than it needs to.” Howler nodded and replied, “that makes sense.” Then Swampfly walked in and asked, “what are we talking about?” Howler replied, “plans for stopping Bugwing.” Swampfly replied, “well don’t we just have to go to the island and get a treasure?” Howler replied, “it won’t be that simple.” And thought, also I really don’t think it is very safe at the island, Gillfjord asked, “so when do we want to go?” Howler replied, “let’s leave like early tomorrow morning so then hopefully no one will see us leave, and then we will also get some sleep.” Swampfly agreed and Gillfjord said, “well I guess I can deal with not getting my full amount of sleep.” Howler rolled her eyes and said, “you’ll be fine.” Gillfjord said, “well I am going to head to bed early so I can get more sleep.” Swampfly said, “sounds good to me.” And she went to her bed and so did Gillfjord. Howler went to the scroll rack and grabbed a scroll to read before she went to bed. She picked one at random and saw that it was about animus touched objects. She laid down and started reading until she was tired and then she quickly put it away and laid down and fell asleep. She was back in the dream of being on the island but this time all of her friends and family were also in the castle. She realized that she was the one trapping them and her mom pleaded, “please let us go Howler.” Howler replied, “no, stop annoying me.” But then her mom kept on talking so Howler said, “I enchant this dragon to follow my every command, now shut up.” Her mom looked scared and tried talking but couldn’t she then tried throwing rocks at Howler to get her attention. Howler roared, “stop doing that! or else.” Her mom looked worried but still did it Howler got really angry and shouted, “slit your throat!” Then her mom looked terrified as her claw came up and slit her own throat, the other prisoners gasped and she saw Tegu leap forward and say, “come on Howler, save her, this isn’t you.” Howler replied, “yes it is.” And then she cast a spell to calm down the prisoners and then heard, “Howler wake up.” Howler woke and was panting. She looked around and saw Gillfjord standing over her and said, “it is time to go.” Howler nodded and got herself up and asked, “how did you sleep?” Gillfjord replied, “pretty well, I am guessing you didn’t because you looked like you were having a pretty aggressive dream.” Howler replied, “it was just a nightmare.” Gillfjord asked, “about what?” Howler replied, “oh just about the island, I guess I am worried about going back there.” Gillfjord said, “you don’t have to come.” Howler replied, “yes I do, now go wake up Swampfly.” Gillfjord nodded and moved over to Swampfly, Howler thought, I hope I can prevent anything bad from happening to my tribe and hopefully I don’t have to use my animus magic that much so then I don’t do something I will regret. Swampfly and Gillfjord walked up to her and asked, “well you ready to go?” Howler nodded and said, “let’s go.” They walked out of their cave and quietly walked to the exit. Gillfjord motioned for Howler to take the lead and she nodded and leapt into the air and started flying to the rainforest. After awhile of flying the sun started to rise up and Howler could see the rainforest in the distance. Gillfjord flew up to her and asked, “do you think they realized we are gone yet?” Howler replied, “probably I assume the next class has started by now.” Gillfjord nodded and asked, “how do you think they are going to react?” Howler replied, “I haven’t really thought about it.” And thought, hopefully they don’t tell my mom I don’t need her to worry about me, also I hope they will not like kick us out of the school for this. Swampfly said, “I don’t think they would kick us out of the school because of what we are doing.” Howler asked, “how can you be sure?” Swampfly replied, “I’ve seen inside their heads they are pretty much willing to give any dragon a second chance so we will probably just get like a warning or something.” Howler replied, “I hope that is all that happens.” Gillfjord replied, “if I get kicked out my parents are going to be so disappointed.” Howler replied, “I just don’t want to worry my mom again.” Gillfjord asked, “how have you worried your mom before?” Howler replied, “well there was the first time I was on the island and she didn’t know where I was for like two days.” Gillfjord replied, “I suppose it makes sense to worry about you, I mean I am not surprised that you would worry someone.” Howler was confused and asked, “what’s that supposed to mean?” Gillfjord replied, “well it just seems that you tend to put your curiosity before your own safety.” Howler replied, “no I don’t you don’t have any proof.” Gillfjord replied, “well, I assume you went into the island knowing it wasn’t safe but you really wanted to know what was on the other side so you went through.” Howler replied, “okay, maybe I should have been more cautious, but at least that means that we know where it is now.” Gillfjord said, “I suppose that is a good thing.” Howler said, “yeah.” Gillfjord said, “well, at least I am a better flyer than you.” Howler said, “sure you are.” Gillfjord laughed and said, “race you to the rainforest.” Howler narrowed her eyes and said, “your on.” They both out on a burst of speed and raced to the trees, Howler heard Gillfjord make a noise but assumed it was nothing important and when she reach the trees she looked back and saw that Gillfjord was nowhere to be seen. She looked around the trees and couldn’t see any sign of a dragon coming crashing through the leaves. She called back to Swampfly, “did you see where Gillfjord went?” Swampfly was flying toward with a worried expression and shouted back, “come over here! Gillfjord fell out of the sky!” Howler thought, oh no I hope nothing bad happened to him, and she raced over to Swampfly and looked down and saw Gillfjord on the ground and not moving. Howler thought, you better not be dead Gillfjord, and flew down onto the ground.
=== Part three: The Prophecy ===
==== Chapter 19: ====
Howler landed down and saw that Gillfjord was crouched down on the ground looking like he had a huge headache. Howler asked, “are you alright?” Gillfjord just groaned in pain and Howler turned towards Swampfly and asked, “what is he thinking?” Swampfly replied, “I can’t tell it looks like green and violet eyes.” Howler said, “so it’s about Bugwing.” Gillfjord finally got enough strength to look up and said, “I think we should hurry.” Howler asked, “do you need to rest for awhile?” Gillfjord replied, “no I will be fine.” Howler asked, “are you okay? You fell from a pretty high distance.” Gillfjord nodded and replied, “as long as another vision doesn’t hit me I should be fine.” Howler said, “okay, I guess we should get going.” Gillfjord got up and prepared to fly up again when he looked like he was in pain. Howler asked, “are you alright?” Gillfjord crouched down and rubbed his temples as if trying to massage the headache away. Howler tried again and asked, “are you alright?” This time Gillfjord stopped and then shook his head and said, “yes, let’s get going.” Howler said, “okay.” And thought, I will just fly right by him so then I can slow him down if he falls again. Gillfjord launched back into the air and Howler followed besides him, Howler noticed that Swampfly flew up by his other side and thought, well now if he falls he should be fine. After awhile of flying Howler said, “let’s head down to the ground, because it is easier to travel the Rainforest that way.” Gillfjord said, “okay.” And they flew down to the ground and started to walk into the Rainforest. After a while Gillfjord asked, “how can you Rainwings survive this place?” Howler replied, “because it is the best place on both continents.” And thought, I wonder what it would be like for the other tribes, maybe I could ask the other dragons in my winglet. Gillfjord replied, “I don’t I think the best place is either in the sea or in the ice kingdom.” Howler replied, “gross who would want to be cold or wet all the time, being in the rainforest is the best.” Gillfjord replied, “well I think it is too humid and there is too many bugs.” Howler said, “that’s only down here on the ground, I just figured you would like it better to swinging through trees.” Gillfjord said, “let’s try going into the trees.” Swampfly said, “well I don’t think it is too bad down here, there could be more mud though.” Howler laughed and said, “who would want mud?” And then answered herself almost instantly after she said it, “oh wait I somehow managed to forget that Mudwings would like mud.” Swampfly looked confused for a bit as if she was about to answer before Howler answered herself. Then Swampfly just shook herself and said, “but we can try going into the trees.” Howler said, “I don’t think it really matters we are pretty close to tunnels anyway.” Gillfjord said, “really, how can you tell everything looks the same.” Howler said, “no it doesn’t every tree looks different and I know this tree was pretty close to the tunnels.” Gillfjord looked surprised and said, “it must some sort of Rainwing skill to know where things are in the forest.” Howler said, “well you would probably be able to, to if you grew up in the rainforest.” Gillfjord said, “sure.” Howler replied, “well it would just make sense because of some basic evolutionary principles.” Gillfjord said, “sure, yeah, basic, to a bookworm.” Howler said, “I am bookworm and I’m proud of it, it just means I am really smart.” Gillfjord nodded, “yeah I guess it does mean that, but I know it also makes you a very curious dragon.” Howler said, “yeah so what, I like learning stuff, but I will be smart I know when not to be super curious.” Gillfjord said, “oh yeah like when?” Howler replied, “I purely focused on escaping when me and Tegu were imprisoned on the island.” Gillfjord said, “oh good, you be carefully after you have been captured.” Howler said, “I was careful, sure I also waited longer than I should have to at least try to leave the island.” Gillfjord asked, “what do you mean you waited longer?” Howler replied, “well when we first ran into Smokeclaw I hid me and Tegu and then I decided to get a better look at him and then he eventually caught us because I wanted to follow him.” Gillfjord replied, “well just make sure you are more cautious this time.” Howler said, “don’t worry I will be.” And thought, how much do I have to tell him before he listens to me?, Gillfjord said, “sure you will.” Howler said, “of course I will, now shut up and just follow me.” Howler sped ahead and hurried to the holes. After a little bit more of moving she finally burst into the clearing with the little waterfall. Gillfjord popped out next and asked, “what is that weird feeling?” Howler replied, “I am pretty sure it is the tunnels.” Swampfly came out next and then looked disturbed and asked, “what is this feeling of wrongness.” Howler replied, “it is the tunnels.” Swampfly asked, “where are they?” Howler pointed to the tunnel that was in a boulder and said, “there is one there that leads to the kingdom of sand, for some reason.” And then pointed to the one in the tree and said, “that is the one that leads to the island.” Swampfly asked, “why would these tunnels exist?” Howler replied, “I have no idea.” Gillfjord asked, “is there any reason for Rainwings to want to go to either of those places.” Howler replied, “well I don’t think there is any reason why we would go to the kingdom of sand and also it doesn’t explain why there would be a Nightwing on the island, especially since no dragon would want to live on it.” Gillfjord suggested, “maybe it is supposed to be a prison.” Howler said, “I have no clue why the Rainwings would imprison a dragon in there but anyway whatever the reason lets get moving.” Gillfjord said, “okay, lead the way.” Howler took a deep breath and thought, well I hoped I never would have to go back here and it feels especially scary based on the dreams I have had, but here goes nothing, and walked into the tunnel hoping everything would turn out alright.
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After a while they reached the little cliff in the tunnel and Howler said, “go slow there is a cliff.” Gillfjord said, “okay.” And she slowly went down and then started forward a bit to get out of the way then asked, “are both of you here?” Gillfjord said, “yes.” And Howler heard Swampfly murmur something. Howler thought, well I guess that’s good enough, and continued on. After awhile she started smelling the smoke and ash filled air of the island and said, “okay we are almost there.” And slowed down and peeked out of the tunnel. She glanced around to try and see if she could find Smokeclaw but didn’t see him anywhere. Howler whispered, “okay I don’t see Smokeclaw so let’s try and move quickly.” Gillfjord came out next to Howler and nodded. Gillfjord whispered, “where do we check first?” Howler replied, “I have no clue.” Gillfjord asked, “so where do you think we should check first?” Howler replied, “well it has to be somewhere in the fortress so I guess let’s check there first.” Gillfjord said, “oh good, that really narrows it down.” Howler said, “shut up.” Gillfjord rolled his eyes and said, “okay, lead the way.” Howler nodded and pushed off into the air and flew to the first opening she could see. Howler dropped onto the ground and started quietly and carefully walking around. They came upon the library first and Howler peeked inside and didn’t see Smokeclaw in the library. So she walked in and said, “well search around here first, I’ll take the right side, Swampfly can take the middle, and Gillfjord can take the left side.” They nodded and moved to their respectful places. Howler looked around but wasn’t seeing anything and gave up and asked, “did you guys find anything?” Swampfly replied, “no.” And after a few seconds there still wasn’t a response from Gillfjord so Howler walked over to his area and saw him crouched on the ground. Howler asked, “are you okay?” Gillfjord looked up and said in a weird voice,
“There is a threat arising
It will catch all unaware
Except the three who
Know about the violet threat
When they see what they need
They will use the power of the monkey
The mind of the fly
And the vision of the fish
Together they will find
The totem that is guarded
By the forgotten prisoner whose
Only companion is hidden but controlling.”
And after the last line came out there was silence, Howler thought, what does all that mean, and asked, “was that a prophecy?” Gillfjord muttered, “I think so, I’ve never had anything come out like that before.” Swampfly asked, “who are the three?” Howler said, “well I would assume that would be us three because we are the only ones who know about Bugwing, however I have no idea what the power of the monkey, vision of the fish, and mind of the fly, thing means.” Swampfly said, “maybe it has something to do with the treasure we are going to take.” Howler said, “maybe I think we should try and find it as quickly as possibly, as it seems it might be the only way to stop Bugwing.” And thought, hopefully it isn’t that well guarded, Gillfjord said, “okay, I think I am ready to continue moving again.” Just then Howler heard a voice say, “hello, I wasn’t expecting anymore dragons.” Howler whipped around and said, “please, don’t capture us.” Smokeclaw replied, “well I supposed we could let them go.” Then responded to himself, “no we can’t let them go, didn’t you hear them talking about stealing our treasure?” He replied, “I suppose, well I am sorry but we do have to capture you.” Gillfjord shouted, “split up and run!” Howler bolted to Smokeclaws right while Swampfly and Gillfjord went to his left. Howler managed to get past Smokeclaw but he was able to grab Swampfly and Gillfjord and knock them out. Howler change her scales to disappear and thought, what do I do, I can’t try and attack that would just end up in me being captured. Then an image flashed in her head of her attacked Smokeclaw with her magic, she thought, no I definitely can’t do that. Then Smokeclaw asked, “where did you go? I need your help to help your friends.” He said, “that’s not convincing if she is smart she will stay hidden and not come out.” He growled, “you don’t know that.” And then he just started argue with himself as he dragged Swampfly and Gillfjord away. Howler thought, I have to follow them, and followed Smokeclaw to the dungeons and quickly hid in a corner and waited until he locked them up and left. After Smokeclaw was gone Howler asked, “are you two okay?” She saw Gillfjord start to get up and he said, “no my head hurts really bad.” Howler said, “don’t worry it doesn’t look like he hurt you too bad.” Gillfjord asked, “who attacked us?” Howler replied, “Smokeclaw, the Nightwing that is on this island for some reason.” Gillfjord asked, “why do you know his name?” Howler said, “seriously, just think about it for a while.” Gillfjord scrunched his head and thought and then his eyes widened and he said, “I got it it’s because you were on this island before.” Howler said, “good job.” Gillfjord asked, “so how are we going to escape?” Howler said, “I can go look for a key, just sit still.” Gillfjord asked, “couldn’t you just try talking to him.” Howler said, “oh yeah, I’m sure that would work, just walking up and saying, ‘hey could you let my friends go, we just want your treasure to stop some evil,’ do you think he would believe that?” Gillfjord said, “well I think it could be worth a shot.” Howler said, “well I think it is idiotic and instead I will just use my stealth skills to steal the key.” Gillfjord said, “but you aren’t very stealthy.” Howler said, “excuse me, I am a Rainwing so that means that I can camouflage my scales.” Gillfjord said, “yeah and that worked so well the last time.” Howler replied, “well I can be stealthy, just watch me.” She turned her scales to match the ground and walked out of the room and thought, hopefully I can get the key without attracting the attention of Smokeclaw. And started looking for the key.
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Howler walked around the fortress trying to spot where Smokeclaw was so she could see if he had the key on him. After a few minutes of searching Howler saw Smokeclaw patrolling outside of a room. Howler thought, I wonder if that is where his treasure is, and walked close to him as quietly as she could. She scanned Smokeclaw and saw the key attached to a string around his neck. She thought, how am I supposed to get that without alerting him,. She waited until he turned around and snuck up to see how it was connected in the back. She saw that it was just knotted together and that she could probably just yank on the key and break the knot, but she would have to do it quickly. She carefully walked in front of Smokeclaw and carefully reached up to the key and wrapped her talons around it and yanked down. Just like she thought the rope snapped and she had the key. She ran away and heard Smokeclaw yell, “where are you!?” Howler thought, please don’t find me, and ran off into a room and hid by the doorway. She saw Smokeclaw run past and shout, “you won’t get to free your friends!” Howler waited until she saw him turn the corner and quietly started to sneak back to the dungeons. After a while of walking she finally reached the dungeons, she looked inside and saw Smokeclaw sitting in front of the door. She thought, how am I supposed to get it past him, maybe if I can get Gillfjord or Swampfly’s attention then they can distract him and get him away from the door. While she was thinking Gillfjord asked Smokeclaw, “what are you going to do to us?” Smokeclaw said, “well as soon as your friend comes over here I plan to lock her up and then keep you prisoner for life or until I decide to kill you.” Howler thought, I can’t let that happen, and grabbed a loose rock from the wall and flung it down the hallway and quickly got out of the doorway. Smokeclaw just laughed and said, “I won’t move from this spot because I know you aren’t down the hallway.” Howler thought, well I don’t have a plan, and decided to try and get a better view of how much space was between the cell door and Smokeclaw. She walked as quietly as she could and saw that there was just a little bit of space in between the door and Smokeclaw. Howler was ready to give up because she could t see any way out, since she couldn’t talk to either Gillfjord or Swampfly without Smokeclaw noticing, and there was no way to sneak behind Smokeclaw without touching him. As Howler was building up the courage to reveal herself Gillfjord poked one of his talons through the door and jammed it at Smokeclaw. Smokeclaw jumped up in surprise and whipped around to face Gillfjord. Howler thought, oh no how is Gillfjord going to survive this he probably annoyed Smokeclaw too much, and then saw that there was now barely enough room for Howler to get in between and unlock the door. She snuck up to the door and very carefully inserted the key and twisted it. Smokeclaw was shouting too loud at Gillfjord to hear the lock click and Howler slammed open the door and hit Smokeclaw with it. Howler shouted, “run!” And Gillfjord and Swampfly ran out and bolted out of the dungeons. Howler took the turn away from the entrance to go and get the treasure. Gillfjord asked, “what are you doing? We need to get out of here.” Howler replied, “his treasure is this way, and I think we need it to stop Bugwing from destroying Pyrrhia.” Gillfjord sighed and said, “lead the way.” Howler didn’t hesitate and ran off towards the room she saw Smokeclaw patrolling. She didn’t hear Smokeclaw the whole way there and ran into the room. Howler saw an item of some sort up on a podium and was obviously the treasure. Gillfjord jokingly asked, “which one do you think is his treasure?” Howler replied, “I have no idea.” And went up and grabbed it she felt something snap off of it but didn’t see anything fall to the ground. She wondered what it was but thought, it probably isn’t important, and we should focus more on getting out of here. Howler said, “well let’s get going.” Howler looked back and saw that the exit to the room was starting to shrink and realized that there must have been a string that when snapped activated a system to trap the thieves who were trying to steal Smokeclaws treasure. Howler shouted, “quick get out of here!” Gillfjord ran and made it to the exit first and jumped through, then Swampfly made it, then Howler made it and as she jumped through the treasure fell and hit the ground. Howler reached through as the exit was almost closed and just barely had enough time to grab out the treasure and didn’t lose her arm. Howler sighed and said, “that was close, but we should probably get out of here as quickly as possible.” Gillfjord and Swampfly nodded and they ran outside and somehow didn’t see Smokeclaw, they didn’t stop until they were back in the rainforest. Howler said, “well I think that was pretty successful.” Gillfjord said, “yeah, up until the part we’re we got captured.” Howler said, “whatever.” Swampfly said, “his mind was so strange.” Howler asked, “what do you mean?” Swampfly said, “well it seemed like there was a dragon talking to him.” Howler asked, “what did you hear?” Swampfly replied, “well I heard them say something about the treasure being the only thing that could bring them back, and also, how if you had known what tribe they were you would probably have wanted to help Smokeclaw.” Howler said, “well they must be a Rainwing because there would be no reason for any other tribe. I wonder who they are, and what they need to be freed from.” Swampfly said, “well I think I caught that they were trapped in the ocean by some group of five, but they seemed especially angry at a dragon named Palm.” Howler thought, I know that name from somewhere, she thought back to everything she had read and then it hit her. She said, “I know who it is, it must be Jaguar.” And thought, that is very bad if Jaguar gets freed then she will cause chaos and harm lots of dragons, I will make sure no one gets their hands on this to free her.
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Swampfly looked confused and asked, “who is Jaguar?” Howler replied, “Jaguar was that one Rainwing animus I found out about.” Swampfly asked, “how do you know it is Jaguar?” Howler replied, “well, she was in a scroll I read which mentioned that she was supposedly killed according to Palm.” Swampfly replied, “well if she was killed then it can’t be her, right?” Howler replied, “well the scroll also said that there were rumors that Jaguar made herself live forever and not be able to be hurt.” Swampfly said, “so basically there is a super powerful dragon hiding somewhere.” Howler replied, “well it certainly sounds like that.” Gillfjord asked, “how is that going to help us?” Howler replied, “I have no idea, maybe it just makes it so that Jaguar doesn’t get freed.” Swampfly replied, “well I am all for keeping the scary dragon trapped.” Gillfjord said, “yeah it must be the reason we have to take it so then we only have to worry about Bugwing instead of Bugwing and Jaguar.” Howler said, “well, what should we do with it?” Gillfjord said, “uh, we could hide it somewhere in the rainforest.” Howler said, “well we should probably go into the village and see if we can find anything out about Jaguar that is in our library.” Swampfly asked, “what does the item look like.” Howler held it up and looked closely at it and saw that it was some kind of totem, Howler replied, “well it is some kind of totem with a monkey head, fly head, and fish head.” Gillfjord said, “that’s like the prophecy.” Howler said, “It is but, why do we need it?” Gillfjord replied, “I have no clue, but it should help us stop Bugwing.” Swampfly said, “well if we listen to the prophecy apparently the monkey has power, the fly has a mind, and the fish has a vision.” Howler stared at the totem and thought, how does this relate to that, she tried poking at it some and then said, “we should bring this to someone to examine.” Gillfjord asked, “who would we bring it to?” Howler replied, “we could try bringing it to my mom, since she is pretty smart.” Gillfjord asked, “where is your mom?” Howler replied, “she is probably in the library.” Gillfjord said, “well lead the way.” Howler started walking towards the Rainwing village and thought, I hope my mom isn’t too mad about me coming home early from school. After a few minutes of traveling the rainforest they reached the village. Swampfly said, “woah, these houses look cool, how long do they take to build?” Howler replied, “well they don’t take too long since we have been building them for ages.” Gillfjord asked, “which building is the library?” Howler said, “follow me.” And led them to the center of the village where there was the town hall and off to the side of it was a massive building, that was the library. Howler walked into the building and heard both Gillfjord and Swampfly gasp. Gillfjord said, “I didn’t realize that the Rainwings were such big readers.” Howler said, “well only a small portion of us are big readers but most Rainwings at least read a little.” Swampfly asked, “so where would your mom be?” Howler replied, “we will check the main office first then we will just have to walk around the library.” Gillfjord said, “well hopefully she is in her office.” Howler nodded and walked through the halls of the library until she reached the center where there was an oval room which was the office. She knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer. She heard rustling in the room and then the door opened and Howler saw that it was her moms assistant, Forest. Forest looked startled to see Howler and asked, “why are you here?” Howler said, “well we are looking for my mom.” Forest replied, “but you should be at school.” Howler said, “we are here on prophecy business.” Forest looked nervous and she replied, “what prophecy?” Howler said, “a new one.” Forest asked, “what does it say?” And howler recited the prophecy to forest and when she finished. Forest said, “okay, so do you have any idea what it means?” Howler pulled out the totem and said, “I think it has something to do with this.” Forest asked, “what is it?” Howler replied, “I have no clue I was hoping that maybe my mom could help us.” Forest asked, “do you know who the violet threat is?” Howler replied, “well I believe it to be a Silkwing named Bugwing.” Forest replied, “I don’t think it is.” Howler asked, “what do you mean?” Forest replied, “well he visited not too long ago to check out our library and he seemed like he was just trying to bring back valuable information to help improve his tribe.” Howler asked, “how long ago is, ‘not too long ago’” forest replied, “well he came in like an hour ago, so he might still be here.” Gillfjord whispered into Howlers ear, “we should leave now.” Howler batted him away and said, “well we are going to go look for my mom now, bye.” Forest waved bye and went back into the office. Gillfjord asked, “are we going to leave?” Howler replied, “no, we need to see if Bugwing is in here and protect my tribe.” Gillfjord said, “fine let’s go.” And they started walking around the library. After a little while Howler heard her moms voice and said, “follow me.” And followed her moms voice until they were really close. She strained her ears to listen and heard mom explaining the cataloguing system to someone. Howler slowly peeked her head around the shelves and saw that Bugwing was right there talking to her mom. Howler quickly backed up and said, “well Bugwing is right on the other side of this shelf.” Swampfly asked, “what are we going to do?” Gillfjord replied, “we should try to wait until he leaves and then we can ask your mom about the to-” but he abruptly cut off and started to back away quickly and was waving for Howler and Swampfly to follow him. But Howler was confused and then she heard footsteps behind her and turned around.
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