The Effect

A Fan-fiction By SundewRAGE46, Please do not steal my work!! The full story will be released in due time, but for now please enjoy! The events in this story contain spoilers to arcs 1,2, and 3 and start around book 12. I'm pretty sure no one has ever read this story so If you have please leave some sort of comment below, otherwise no one reads this and I'm just gonna shut it down. 
==== Characters: ====
* Anemone: Seawing princess/dragonet, main character, She/her
* Kinkajou: Rainwing dragonet, main character, She/her
* Ostrich: Sandwing dragonet, friend/ally, She/her
* Hyacinth: Mudwing dragonet, clawmate/friend, She/her
* Tsunami: Seawing teacher/princess, teacher/family member, She/her
* Changbai: Icewing dragonet, friend, They/them
* Sepia: Mudwing dragonet, friend, She/her
* Sunny: Sand-Night teacher, teacher/mentor?, She/her
* Turtle: Seawing prince/dragonet, friend/idk-what-you-would-call-'dragon-you-like'-in-dragon-terms, He/him
* Lemming: Icewing dragonet, friend-ish, He/they
* Clay, Mudwing teacher, teacher/mentor?, He/him
==== Summary: ====
While Moon, Qibli, Turtle, Tsunami, and Winter are away helping the escaped Pantala dragons Kinkajou and Anemone are left to try and figure out what's happening with their friends and try to work out their differences at the Jade mountain academy.
====Chapter 1; Anemone====
Lemon yellow and sky blue light cheerfully danced across Anemone as the breeze from the entrance cave spun the glass globes hanging on the cave ceiling. She rolled to the other side of her reed mat, moving her face away from the light. Across the room Ostrich was snoring quietly, her head smushed against the top of her small sand bed. The cave looked considerably better after Anemone and Qibli finished her soul spell and she donated her jewelry to the building of sanctuary. Now the only thing besides the loose scrolls, small chest of their things, and small reed mat accompanied by a small sand patch, was the soul reader Anemone kept next to her bed.
The warning gong suddenly sounded, waking the two dragonets up with a start. Anemone opened her eyes blearily and looked around, adjusting to the light. Ostrich jumped with a yelp and landed awkwardly on her face, she grumbled and stood up, stretching her legs and rubbing her face with the palms of her talons. Anemone sat up yawning and went to the trickle of stream outside their cave, taking handfuls of water and dumping them on the dry spots of scales. She sighed as the warning gong rang twice. 
“We better get going or Tsunami’s gonna yell at us.” Ostrich yawned and rolled her eyes. Anemone snorted and followed her towards the prey center. They walked past other caves where dragonets were panicking to get their homework for different classes before they were late. They turned at the end of the tunnel and walked directly into Kinkajou, who was pacing around the tunnel in a towering fit. 
“ACK! Sorry! Sorry! Oh, hey Anemone, hey Ostrich.” She frowned at them. “Aren't you supposed to be at class Ostrich?” She threw a glare at Anemone and resumed her pacing before they could answer. Anemone was used to the glares from Kinkajou. It only made sense that Kinkajou hated her. Anemone understood why and couldn’t blame Kinkajou for scowling at her every time she had the chance. But she couldn’t dwell on that problem right now because the final warning gong sounded and Ostrich pulled Anemone with her as they ran for class.
====Chapter 2; Kinkajou====
Something felt wrong, Kinkajou wasn’t sure how to describe it. Something just felt… out of place. Kinkajou slowly pulled her eyelids apart, ungluing them from each other with enormous effort. She lifted her head and peeked out of her hammock into the rose red, sun yellow, and forest green light. The red glass globe hadn’t been replaced with a mahogany one yet, and it was sad to see it every morning because it was a reminder of Kinkajou and Moon’s dead clawmate, Carnelian. 
Kinkajou heaved herself out of the hammock and turned to see Moon rolling out of her moss bed. Except, she didn’t, because Moon wasn't in her moss bed, nor was she at the scroll rack next to her bed, or outside the cave. The only other dragon in the room aside from Kinkajou was their new mudwing clawmate, Hyacinth. 
Kinkajou took shallow breaths and tried to calm down. She knew Moon went to visit Peacemaker and Qibli, and that it would take her a couple of days to get back. So maybe she just got lost or had something else she needed to do on her way back. Kinkajou calmed down and reviewed some of her homework, trying not to panic. She practiced her reading, did a couple drawings, and in the end, forgot that Moon hadn’t yet returned. 
A small growl brought Kinkajou’s attention to a slender, mahogany brown Mudwing. Hyacinth lived by the Mudwing palace with her sisters, she was a bit older than Moon and Kinkajou, and was one of Queen Moorhen’s messengers. Most of her siblings had died in the war of Sandwing succession so she had applied to go to jade mountain academy along with her remaining sisters. Kinkajou was reminded sadly of Sora and Umber every time she saw Hyacinth. Hyacinth turned over in her sleep and continued snoring. A reed mat had been placed on Carnelian’s old ledge for Hyacinth, And all of Carnelians homework, scrolls, and letters had been brought back with Queen Ruby, whom Kinkajou knew was actually Queen Tourmaline.
Kinkajou waited for a little while longer before packing her things away and returning her thoughts to Moon. She had been gone for a day and a half so far, She had left to try and get Qibli to return to Jade mountain and to check in on Peacemaker. Kinkajou had left to see Winter the day before she left so she hadn't seen Moon since then, But she thought it didn't take THAT long to check up on Qibli and Peacemaker. So where was she? 
Hyacinth yawned and slowly got up, her wing flopped in an odd angle beside her. “Morning Kinkajou. How long have you been up?” She asked in a groggy, sleep filled voice. She blinked slowly and Kinkajou pulled herself out of her thoughts.
“Not long,” She lied, “Did you sleep well?” Hyacinth nodded slowly, and peered over at Moon's ledge, a deep look of confusion pasting itself on her face. “Moon’s still visiting a couple friends.” Kinkajou told Hyacinth, trying to convince herself as much as Hyacinth. The confusion slowly melted from her face as her brain remembered. Kinkajou watched as she took off a couple of reed bandages and replaced them with new fresh ones. Kinkajou saw the infected wounds briefly before hyacinth turned back towards her. 
She gathered up her homework and bid Kinkajou goodbye before heading to the prey center for a small snack to smuggle into history. Kinkajou would not be caught dead going to the history cave early so she started pacing after Hyacinth left. It wasn't long before the first and second gong rang out. Kinkajou kept pacing and thinking about Moon, though she soon realized she was just spiraling off into ‘what if’ questions.
On her 67th pace she walked straight into Anemone and Ostrich. She exchanged a quick apology and glare before continuing the pace and watching them walk away. A couple paces later, around her 75th one, she ran into Sunny. “Sorry Sunny. Sunny? What's going on? What happened?” She asked, seeing the urgency that was etched into every part of her body.
She paused for a moment, checking Kinkajou for injuries. “Kinkajou, can you bring Tsunami to my office please?” 
====Chapter 3; Anemone====
When Anemone and Ostrich entered the prey center Tsunami’s scowl deepened and she signaled them to sit with the rest of the class. Once Anemone and Ostrich sat down and Tsunami opened her mouth to speak again, when Kinkajou entered the prey center with a concerned frown across her face. She had entered at the wrong time and by the looks of it she had bad news. Tsunami’s frown became a deep scowl as she let out a loud breath. “What is it?!” She roared. 
Kinkajou flinched but didn't back away. “Sunny needs you right away. Some news from Moon and Qibli.” Tsunami grumbled and started walking towards the entryway. She stopped mid step and turned back towards the class.
“Free period today, But don't forget those territorial hunting technique scrolls alright?” Tsunami looked around waiting for an answer. She gave the ceiling a look like WHY ARE DRAGONETS SO HARD?! She took a deep breath and looked back at the class. “ALRIGHT?” she shouted in her trying-very-hard-not-to-shout voice. 
Anemone’s winglet looked startled for a moment before collectively mumbling “alright.” Tsunami gave an approving nod and followed Kinkajou out of the prey center. When Tsunami was long gone the silver winglet started chatting and grabbing pieces of fruit and meat to eat before saying their goodbyes and going off to meet with friends who also had free periods or heading to their caves to go back to sleep or to the library to do their essays. 
Anemone sat down with Changbai and Sepia by the fish pile. Anemone and Changbai each grabbed a salmon while sepia caught a stray chicken running by. Anemone found it hard to focus on her fish when Kinkajou seemed so distraught. What news had Kinkajou, of all dragons, got  so worried about? What if Moon had a prophecy?? Should Tsunami get involved if it has something to do with a prophecy? I mean she does hate them the most. Also if this is a prophecy, are we all in danger and need to evacuate the school? Anemone could easily remember the last prophecy that Moon had, it had resulted in the evacuation of the school in the middle of a Icewing-Nightwing war. Anemone was so deep in thought about what could've happened that she jumped when someone tapped her on the shoulder.
“Anemone! Anemone!” She turned to see Changbai shouting her name and Sepia shaking her shoulder. Anemone gently pushed Sepia’s talons off her shoulder and turned to see what they were asking her about. “Oh goodness! What happened to you?” Changbai asked with a crease of worry across their snout.
Anemone pulled the fishtail she had been absentmindedly chewing on, out of her mouth before answering. “Sorry, I just got lost in thought. What's up?” She smiled and shook her head like she had just woken up from a dream. Sepia and Changbai exchanged looks of skepticism but didn't ask anything else.
“We were just about to head to the library to work on our hunting essays. Want to come?” Sepia asked.
“Sure, I just need to grab my homework from my cave first.” This was true, but Anemone was really making an excuse to pass the Health cave, where the gold winglet was. Sepia and Changbai nodded and waved goodbye as they headed towards the library. Anemone pushed the spare bones into the stream running through where they were, and watched as they were pushed outside down the small waterfall. Anemone rinsed her talons and headed towards her cave. 
====Chapter 4; Kinkajou====
Kinkajou hurried with Tsunami towards Sunny’s office. She had explained what was happening when she ran into her, and Kinkajou’s head had turned into an official war zone. Basically, MOON had forgotten to tell Kinkajou some HIGHLY important things before she left. HOW COULD SHE NOT TELL ME?!?! I’M HER BEST FRIEND, RIGHT?? Oh I hope they will be okay. If they aren't I am fully gonna blame sunny for not letting me go. I need to talk to Turtle too. She thought about Turtle and his funny stories and quiet personality, His dark turquoise scales and his warm smile for a little, before shaking off the thoughts and focusing on Tsunami and her towering rage.
Kinkajou stood to the side of the hall next to Sunny’s office, taking up as little space as possible so as not to get trampled. Tsunami Flew past in a whirl of deep sea blue scales lighting up the royal patterns under her wings in fury. Kinkajou’s mind flashed to Turtle's wings, which he lit up when they were hanging out at one of the underground lakes. She exhaled lightly and was also brutally reminded that Anemone had the same patterns and she was the one who had put her under a love spell that made her fall in love with Turtle.
Brushing aside the thoughts, She entered the cave of roaring. She saw three things when she entered; the first was that Sunny was very calmly telling Tsunami the news and that Tsunami’s anger was rising substantially. The second is that Sunny had lots of scattered papers and the dreamvistor was barely visible under a pile of blankets, which were normally neatly stacked in the corner. This was highly unusual for Sunny who was normally very neat and space conscious. 
The third thing was that a scroll was unfurled with a long message under Sunny’s talons. Kinkajou tried to read the scroll from where she was standing but there were too many words that she didn't know how to read. She politely waited for Tsunami and Sunny to stop talking and notice her. When they finally did, Tsunami grunted and sat down in the vast spread of blankets, removing the sapphire as she accidentally sat on it.
“Sorry you had to hear all the fighting, Kinkajou.” Sunny said, returning her voice to its serious state. Tsunami rolled her eyes and muttered something, earning a glare. “Could you please retrieve Turtle from class and tell him to pack some of his things? And please explain the situation to him, I imagine he’ll be very confused.” 
Kinkajou nodded but paused before stepping out. “Sunny, Are you sure I shouldn’t come? I can be helpful.” Sunny gave her a sad and apologetic look. 
“I’ve spoken with Queen Glory and she wants you to stay here. I’m- I’m very sorry.” Sunny looked down when she was done and clasped her claws together. Kinkajou tilted her head upward in a stiff half-nod. She turned out the door keeping the sadness at bay in her heart. She walked towards the history cave slowly, feeling upset that Glory wouldn’t let her leave to help her friend.
====Chapter 5; Anemone====
Anemone looked through the scroll rack next to her bed when she heard Sunny’s voice in the hall. She poked her head out to see Sunny talking to Tsunami as they walked past Anemones cave. “You're serious?! I’ll go, no need to send Turtle as well! Why do they even need him?” Tsunami was having quite a fit as she marched down the hall. Subconsciously Anemone started following them, unsure what they were talking about. Sunny opened her mouth to speak when Tsunami started talking again. “Of course they want him. He’s an Animus! He's their friend AND he will take off his soul spell if it's really necessary!” Tsunami growled at the few faces poking out to see what the commotion was. 
Sunny waited to see if she had anything else to say before speaking, “We have been over this 10 times already. Yes, they REALLY need him for this, and yes they want him for those reasons. ALSO I would like you to accompany them to make sure they are safe.” She stopped at the corner and faced Tsunami with a fierce expression that made Tsunami sigh in defeat. 
“Fine, I guess if he has to go to help them I might as well come along to keep them safe; but, be warned, I won’t like it AND I definitely think it's stupid to go and find a way to cross the ocean because of a dumb PROPHCY.” Tsunami scowled at a nearby stalagmite and stamped her talons. Sunny laughed and smiled.
“Don’t worry, We all know you think it's stupid to follow ‘dumb’ prophecies.” Tsunami and Sunny parted, ending the conversation and leaving Anemone in awe of what she just heard. As she collected herself she hurried to the library forgetting to pass the Health cave. Turtle and Tsunami are leaving to deal with a prophecy?!?! What is the prophecy this time? Will I ever see my siblings again? The last prophecy got Turtle in prison without animus magic and my sister was also captive in a cave! Wait… DID SHE SAY CROSS THE OCEAN? WHAT THE HECK IS THAT ABOUT?! Deep breaths Anemone, I'm sure it's nothing. Maybe she said it wrong. Hang on, they said something about using Turtle's animus magic and him taking off his soul spell. THAT IS TOTALLY 100% BAD 
Anemones thoughts kept swirling around like fish being circled by dolphins. She worried over what would happen to Turtle and Tsunami and finally decided she needed to talk to someone about what was going on. Anemone stopped by Kinkajous cave. It HAD been Kinkajou who had gotten Tsunami in the first place. Her eyes scanned the cave, then she cursed herself. OF COURSE they weren’t there! The jade winglet had History if Anemone recalled correctly. 
She started heading towards the history cave but stopped realizing it would be weird to interrupt the class just to ask a student a couple questions about some odd thing she overheard. Also the teacher, Webs, would strongly dislike it if she came barging in. She could just picture it; “Young dragonet, What in PYRRIA are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be in class?” She thought in Webs’ pinched voice with his snout sticking up a little. 
She snorted, causing a couple heads to poke out of the class down the hall. She abruptly turned and headed towards the library keeping a straight face while the dragonets eyes followed her down the hallway. She stopped around halfway to the library and pricked her ears up, Anemone could hear the trickle of the far off stream and the whispers of dragonet voices, which sounded verrrrrry hushed and frantic. Also, Anemone was sure that one of them was her brother’s.
She turned down a corridor towards her brother's cave. She turned in to find Turtle and Kinkajou talking very hurriedly. Kinkajous scales dappled in deep blues, acid greens, and faint hints of purple and pink. Anemone didn't have time to interpret this, because Turtle was flashing a series of patterns that interpreted as something like Now?-animus slates-SlOW DOWN KINKAJOU-Moon and Qibli-trouble-should i tell them?-Kinkajou…-how should i…-New tribe??-pack sky-fire- Anemone couldn’t understand because he was talking too fast so she cleared her throat slightly and almost immediately regretted it.
====Chapter 6; Kinkajou====
A small cough sounded by the cave entrance and her scales flashed banana yellow一 surprise一 before Kinkajou could get ahold of them. Turtle turned to look and accidentally flashed his scales in a strange pattern, which Kinkajou was pretty sure was an insult, that made Anemone snort and quickly cover her snout. The three of them stood in awkward silence for a while before Kinkajou spoke; “What are you doing here? This is private.”
Anemone frowned slightly, “I was heading to the library, but also I want to know why they're sending my siblings away and why you were in such a panic earlier. Can you stop scowling at me? I'm not here to mess with you.” Kinkajou hadn’t realized she was scowling but stopped nonetheless. She sat down and saw that a bit of pink was snaking its way up her talons and she quickly changed it to red before Anemone or Turtle noticed. 
She snuck a glance at Turtle who was standing awkwardly and fiddling with some things in his pouch finally answered. “Me and Tsunami are going to a beach near the Ice Kingdom and Sand Kingdom to meet up with Moon and Qibli. They need my help to get a dragon from across the sea back home. I am going to use my animus magic to help them.” He hesitated for a second before going on. “Me and Tsunami are going to be gone for a while because, well, Just because.” He finally said and looked at his talons in embarrassment. Kinkajou watched as a passing dragon hurried past the cave entrance and looked back to Anemone.
Anemone stared at him with wide eyes and Kinkajou could tell she had many questions that Turtle might not like. “Dragon from across the sea? Are you sure? Also you cannot take off your soul spell! That would be bad. What if you lost your soul? Lastly, I am MOST CERTAINLY NOT LETTING MY BROTHER GO OFF ON SOME LUNATIC MISSION WITHOUT ME.” She said this last part with such ferocity that she sounded like Tsunami so much that Kinkajou looked down and submitted to her, but only for a second.
Turtle only glared. “YOU are NOT the BOSS of ME! STOP TREATING ME LIKE A LITTLE DRAGONET!! I am older than you and you do not get to control what I do. ALSO you are MOST CERTAINLY NOT GOING. YOU are a little dragonet and mother would be absolutely furious if you came with. SO THERE.” Turtle turned away, with a glowing anger, and continued packing. He had been sharing the space with his Icewing clawmate, Lemming, but Lemming hadn’t unpacked much so it still looked just like Turtle's space.
Anemone looked haughtily at her brother and inhaled deeply, but Turtle took no notice. She growled and flashed a series of patterns which Kinkajou was glad that Turtle didn’t see. She stormed out, her wing accidentally hitting the sea green glass globe, making it spin precariously. Kinkajou carefully lifted her wing, which was currently a shade of reddish purple dotted with hints of sapphire blue, and placed it over Turtle's dark emerald shoulder. He looked up at her and she smiled reassuringly, helping him pack the rest of his belongings.
==== Chapter 7; Anemone ====
Faces poked out of caves as Anemone rushed past, making no effort to stay quiet. She couldn’t believe her brother had spoken to her that way! She was just trying to keep him safe and look out for him and what did she get in return? A yelling at. Turtle is just like mother, throwing a temper tantrum when she has to compromise or doesn't get her way.
Anemone stopped, stunned at how mean her thoughts had just been. She corrected herself fiercely. Imagining two versions of herself hanging over either shoulder, One was darker and had sharper teeth and claws, the other was lighter and smiled more naturally. The happier Anemone replied to the darker Anemone in a silky voice; You cannot say that, Mother has loosened up since the war ended and you shouldn't have treated Turtle like a dragonet. It was rude, and he does not deserve the blame for being angry at you, dark Anemone, you on the other hand, do. The happier Anemone glared at the dark Anemone who was sulking in the crook of Anemones ear. 
Shooing away her internal voices Anemone continued down the light pink and autumn yellow hallway to her den to pick up her homework, making an effort to be quiet. She was upset with herself because she had reminded herself of the dragon she had been when she didn’t have the soul spell, and it had scared her. Anemone sighed as she entered her cave. She picked up the soul reader from where she had placed it, in the corner on a small, fluffy, sturdy reed mat. Anemone pointed the telescope towards herself and held her breath as she watched it spin with raising anxiety. 
The soul reader slowed down and stopped with the top about ⅔ full of black sand and the bottom holding the last ⅓ of white sand. Anemone sighed with relief, her soul had been staying the same, but she checked quite frequently just to be sure. Anemone carefully placed the soul reader back down and picked up her homework before heading to the library. 
She assumed that her next class would be canceled seeing as it was Sunny’s class and she was very busy. However she could assume wrong so Anemone went to Sunny’s office just to check. When Anemone arrived Sunny was concentrating hard with her talons up the her forehead, which normally meant she was dreamvisiting someone. Anemone snuck away before she had the chance to disturb Sunny and hurried to the library, finally, to meet up with Changbai and Sepia. 
She spent the rest of the day working on her homework and struggling through classes, constantly thinking about the dangers of the new prophecy and hoping, with all her heart, that her siblings came out alive. She comforted herself with the thought of Devising a spell to help with Tamarin’s blindness. She finally fell asleep, her last thoughts dwelling on the fact she hadn’t seen Tamarin all day.
==== Chapter 8; Kinkajou ====
Kinkajou had woken up early in the morning, looking sadly at Moon’s empty bed, and carefully getting up without disturbing Hyacinth. She crept out of her room and started heading towards the entrance cave. She was having this weird feeling, like something was off and it had something to do with Turtle. She reached the sunlit entrance cave and noticed that Peril was up and sitting just outside of the cave opening. Her scales matched the sunrise beautifully and she was talking in a low voice with Clay, who was sitting beside her.
Peril’s head turned and she waved sheepishly as she saw Kinkajou, She waved back and turned down the hall that was next to hers on the right. Kinkajou wondered briefly if she wanted to have that sort of connection with Turtle as she walked, but that thought only brought more hate for Anemone so she focused on the weird feeling she had.
Rose pink swirled around Kinkajou’s horns as she walked down the green hallway to Turtle's cave. She couldn’t stop the rising in her heart every time she thought about him but she could stop the color from flooding out onto her scales like a big messy painting. Stopping outside of the cave entrance Kinkajou took a couple deep breaths and stamped out the remaining pink by her ear. Before she could step into the cave, Lemming, the Icewing in the Jade winglet, whirled out of the cave and turned crashing straight into Kinkajou. 
Kinkajou and Lemming both fell in opposite directions and Kinkajou crashed into a stalagmite. Lemming let out a cry of pain and Turtle poked his head out of the cave along with some other dragonets from caves further down. Kinkajou’s eyes filled with water and her scales were changing to a quiet pink of embarrassment and white of pain. Lemming got up and helped Kinkajou up.
“Sorry Kinkajou, are you alright?” Lemming’s voice squeaked out, Lemming was roughly the same height as Turtle but he was around 3 years old, whereas Turtle was 5. Kinkajou rubbed the back of her head then felt Lemmings ice cold scales and winced.
“Yeah, I’m fine Lemming.” Kinkajou’s head disagreed but she pushed through. Lemming nodded thoughtfully and waved a quick goodbye. Kinkajou waved back and turned to Turtle, who was still standing in the cave entrance silently, flashing a series of aquatic patterns that meant Are you okay? Kinkajou smiled and changed her scales to have the luminescent patterns of a seawing, (which was very hard,) and brightened scales in the aquatic patterns for Yeah, I’m fine.
Turtle sighed and led her into the cave. “You’ve been getting good at aquatic, Now let's take a look at the wound you're hiding.” Kinkajou turned around sheepishly and sat down letting Turtle look over the cut by her right ear. Turtle winced and hissed for a second. 
Kinkajou sighed deeply, “is it that bad?” She felt Turtle grimacing and watched the small gold bracelet holding a couple skyfire rocks hovering by the corner of her eye. That was the bracelet that held the soul spell for Turtle. Normally he took it off when he healed some of the worse wounds but this time he just sat there. Kinkajou pulled her head away and faced Turtle, “What’s wrong? Has something happened?”
Turtle opened and closed his snout a few times which was very cute but also very suspicious and scary. Something clicked suddenly in Kinkajou’s brain. “Turtle, where is your animus magic?” She said this in aquatic too so he couldn’t miss it. For some reason this was the only thing that made sense to Kinkajou, Because he would have healed Kinkajou in an instant if he had his magic.
Turtle gaped, surprised, then took a deep breath and began to speak. “My animus magic is gone, yes, and I don’t know where. I only figured it out a couple days ago when I was trying a spell that would have turned all scrolls that Peril touched, fireproof. Me and Peril had been working on it so that we could surprise Starflight when he heard Peril enter the library and check out a scroll without it burning. But I couldn’t do the spell no matter how much I tried. I think that The soul spell has somehow eliminated my animus magic. Which means I have to check with Anemone too.”
Turtle took another deep breath and glanced at Kinkajou with a face that suggested he knew what her reaction would be. •••••••••••• WHAT!? He was making a fireproof-ing spell WITHOUT ME KNOWING??? What if he doesn’t like me anymore? What if I offended him? WHY DIDN”T HE TELL ME?!?!? ••••••••••• This is my main concern right now? ‘‘What if he doesn’t like me anymore?’’ SERIOUSLY KINKAJOU what about the other big revelation?? HUH KINKAJOU? WHAT ABOUT THAT? Animus magic is GONE! GONE! JUST UP AND LEFT!  Hmmm, can we re-circle to the thing about him MAYBE NOT LIKING ME ANYMORE? •••••• No words Kinkajou, No words. Kinkajou rued the thoughts about ‘what if he doesn’t like me anymore?’ because those were the effect of the love spell Anemone put on Kinkajou to make her fall in love with Turtle, though she knew they weren’t real thoughts, it was hard to tell sometimes.
Realizing Turtle was still waiting for a response, Kinkajou carefully thought out her words so as not to offend Turtle. “I am glad you were making a spell for Peril, even if I think you should have told me. I think that it is VERY bad that animus magic has disappeared and you should have told me sooner. I’m glad you have an idea of why animus magic has disappeared, even if it's not a great reason because it means there was a problem with the soul spell. I also think you need to tell Sunny and Tsunami right away because they are sending you to use the nonexistent animus magic to get a dragon across the sea. I will go get Anemone, you go talk to Sunny and Tsunami.” Before Turtle had the chance to reply Kinkajou turned around stoney faced and practically sprinted to get Anemone. At least she knew why she had had the weird feeling this morning.
==== Chapter 9: Anemone ====
Anemone saw talons before she heard them, a result of how fast Kinkajou was sprinting. Anemone dropped her scroll as Kinkajou flew into the room at top speed. The picture held the beginnings of a picture of her 34 siblings. She was quite proud of it and had been working on it since darkstalker went away. She carefully tucked the scroll away, and avoided Kinkajou's eye contact. She sensed Kinkajou was staring at her and sighed, but didn't look up.
"Kinkajou, to what do I owe this pleasure?” She said, exasperated, slowly looking up to see a distraught and rather out-of-breath Kinkajou. She quickly pulled herself up to be more menacing and shot deliberate streaks of red and orange through her dark purple scales. Anemone stared back at her curiously, trying to keep her composure.
Kinkajou hissed faintly before speaking in a low growl. “Turtle needs to see you, it's urgent.”
Anemone rolled her eyes, “Clearly, otherwise you wouldn’t be speaking to me.” She heaved herself up and looked over to Ostrich; she had somehow slept through all of Kinkajou's breathless panting. Her eyes wandered back over to the ledge where she had tucked in her drawing. She took it out again and opened it, studying the faces of her family, before rolling it up and placing it in her own scroll rack. 
“Bring your soulreader.” Kinkajou hissed suddenly, turning away before she could see Anemones face, Which at the moment was quite alarmed and disturbed.
“Kinkajou, why do I一” Anemone started but was very rudely interrupted by Kinkajou, who was using a tone Anemone had never heard the Rainwing use before.
“It doesn’t matter, What MATTERS is that you come with me immediately and don’t ask any questions.” Anemone’s jaw hovered open for a moment as she gaped at Kinkajou in surprise and  even fear, she realized. She nodded slowly, eager for Kinkajous blazingly sharp eyes to not be on her. 
Kinkajou ran out the door, leaving Anemone behind in a swirl of dust. She blinked dazed, for a minute or two before Kinkajou returned, rolling her eyes. She flicked Anemones leg with her tail impatiently and Anemone got up and quickly grabbed the soul reader from its place. Kinkajou nodded and grabbed Anemones wrist, rather reluctantly she noticed, and held her tight as she practically dragged anemone across the floor and out the hallway.
Sprinting, They passed many other dragonets sleeping in their caves or rushing to get some homework done before anyone woke up. Anemone shook Kinkajou off as they passed Tamarin's cave, so that she didn’t rush by. She peeked in and saw Tamarin sleeping peacefully in a suspended hammock with her tail hanging out. Her body was facing Anemone so she could see the blind dragonet’s ragged scars tearing across her body. Her scales were a mixture of light yellow and soft petal pink, making Tamarin glow in the glass globes light. Anemone passed the cave slowly, not wanting to leave and do something that was most certainly going to be stressful, but Kinkajou was waiting and she looked ready to spray venom in Anemones face at a moment's notice, so she carried on.
“What was the hold-up princess? Another rainwing you want to enchant?” Kinkajou spat out as they carried down the hall. Anemones gills flared up in anger and she flashed an angry retort in aquatic: YOU STUPID LAZY RAINWING! WHY CAN’T YOU JUST MOVE ON LIKE A NORMAL DRAGON!! This made Kinkajous eyes widen with anger and almost in slow motion, Anemone watched her scales form the seawing luminescent scales in a shade of blinding red and started speaking AQUATIC!!! You don’t deserve Tamarin, I see that now. You're an inconsiderate lump of swamp muck, and I wish that I didn’t ever have to see you again.
Anemone’s jaw dropped open, and she shut it again quickly. Kinkajou turned on her heel, every inch of her was an unsettlingly bloody red and the luminescent patterns slowly faded into the background. They went the rest of the way in silence, until they arrived outside of Tsunami’s cave and Anemone said softly; “I would never cast a love spell on Tamarin, I’ve changed. Why can’t you accept that?” Kinkajou thought about this for a moment, turning towards Anemone with a slightly thoughtful look, Before heading into the cave, without another word.
==== Chapter 10; Kinkajou ====
Tsunami’s cave was a cluttered mess. She clearly had not bothered picking up her stuff and clearly during the duration of the conversation with Sunny and Turtle she had made her cave even messier by knocking paper weights and scrolls along with her pearl necklace down onto the floor by the chests, blankets, and fallen scroll racks. Tsunami herself was pacing in a towering fit, with her tail lashing around knocking more things off the desk. Sunny and Turtle ushered Kinkajou and Anemone over to where they were standing, on the far side of the room in a small area halfway surrounded by small stalagmites.
Kinkajou entered the sorta-cage-protection area and looked at Turtle questioningly. He tilted his head toward Tsunami and jesturted to the pool of water behind him about the length of a full grown dragon but Kinkajou could see that it was not much deeper than her neck. So this was where she slept. Kinkajou had kinda always assumed she didn’t sleep because she was almost always in a bad mood. Anemone slipped into the pool, placing the soul reader next to the water with a small scroll Kinkajou assumed Tsunami was reading.
Anemone curled up and submerged herself under the water as Tsunami finally acknowledged them. “So, Let me get this straight in my head.” She paused and noticed where they were standing. “First come on out of there, I’m not gonna hurt you and I am most certainly not gonna trample you.” Kinkajou and Sunny walked out while Turtle got Anemone out of the water. They all stood behind her desk sheepishly as she continued, “Moon and Qibli have discovered this new dragon from across the ocean, she had a new PROPHECY about the two continents, and they need to get this dragon back to their continent.” 
Tsunami looked at the others for confirmation before going on. As Sunny nodded slowly she continued. “The only way for them to get this dragon back home is with animus magic, but earlier this morning Turtle revealed to us that animus magic is gone, no one knows where, AND WE STILL NEED ANIMUS MAGIC TO GET THE DRAGON BACK HOME.” No one spoke for several moments as Tsunami’s gills flared in rage and her luminescent scales lit up in no apparent patterns or words. Finally, Turtle spoke up;
“We don’t know if all animus magic is gone, just mine.” he hesitated for a moment, rubbing his talons together, “Anemone might still have animus magic so we need to check because she could give me mine back or she could just figure out why mine is gone.” Everyone turned towards Anemone when he said that and saw the horror struck, mortally surprised, look. 
“Do I have to? Check, if it still works or not, I mean.” Anemones' voice came out cracked and scared. She sounded like a little dragonet hiding from the jungle monsters in the tree. Everyone looked at each other nervously, except Kinkajou, who stared straight into the eyes of Anemone and thought Yes. Anemones face turned blank and if she had camouflage scales she would be pure, sad and terrified green. 
==== Chapter 11; Anemone ====
Anemone gently produced the soul reader from under her wing and pointed it at herself, it churned and churned, in a rhythmic and soothing pattern, like a wave crashing into the beach. It stopped and the top was about a ⅓ of white sand and the bottom was about ⅔ of black sand. Anemone nodded, it was the same as it had been the day before. She hesitated, fear pulsing through her body. What if she resumed her old ways and didn’t put the soul spell back on? What if her soul changed drastically and this is the spell that broke her? What if this was all it took for…
Pushing her fear aside, Anemone began to take off the soul spell. It was enchanted on her single pearl bracelet and it was tightened around her wrist so that it couldn’t come off easily. She carefully undid the knot and looked up uneasily before completely undoing it. She saw that Turtle was anxious and sad, Sunny was worried deeply, Tsunami was also worried but she was also desperate to know, and Kinkajou was maybe worst of all because she was staring at Anemone with ferocity and and without a fleck of worry doting her scales. In fact Kinkajou was a deep shade of orange and red, if Anemone had met her now she would think she was a fierce and angry skywing.
Anemone fully removed the bracelet and felt her magic in the tips of her talons and the corners of her mind. She carefully picked up a fallen stone that looked like a snail shell and said; “I enchant this rock to become a real snail and act like a snail.” Very suddenly Anemones sense of the magic was gone, It was like she was being scrubbed down top to bottom with a rough sea sponge. The rock in her hand stayed a rock and did not change in the slightest. 
Disturbed and frustrated Anemone put the soul spell back on, careful to tie the knot tight. She looked up with a settling feeling of peace but also unease and upset. She was happy that she didn’t have to worry about her soul and her animus magic, at least that much. She was uneasy that it had disappeared that quickly and that it felt so weird not to have her magic, and she was upset because she no longer had her magic meaning she lost her most valuable way to help dragons, her friends, family, and Tamarin. 
“NO!” Kinkajou hissed ferociously. She stomped out of the cave in a flurry of blinding red.  Turtle shot Anemone a worried, grateful look and ran out after her. Tsunami wrapped her wings around Anemone and lit up her scales saying sorry. 
“I’m sorry,” Anemone said, looking up at a worried Sunny.
“It’s not your fault Anemone, and it’s not even that bad of a thing,” She replied, smiling warmly at Anemone.
“But what about that dragon from across the–” Sunny interrupted her, glancing at the hallway.
“There is another way, don’t fret.” Sunny looked back at the hallway, “I should go check on them. Tsunami, can you take Anemone to her joint class?” Tsunami nodded and started pulling Anemone lightly towards the doorway, following Sunny out. They walked in silence for a while and Anemone wondered what Tsunami might be thinking. It would probably be useful to have mind-reading right now, this new ‘silent-Tsunami’ kinda scared Anemone. 
“What did she mean by there is another way?” She asked Tsunami, who kept walking in deathly silence, “Tsunami?” Anemone asked hesitantly. Tsunami shook her head and gave a grave smile to Anemone.
“Nothing, nothing that concerns you.” Anemone looked at her in slight outrage, but quickly nudged it away. She didn’t need to know everything anyways. They kept walking until the outline of the health cave came into view. Clay was teaching the Silver and Copper winglet about how to treat different injuries. He stopped and smiled at the two Seawings before waving his talon enthusiastically towards a seat for Anemone. Tsunami ducked her head and left as Anemone found her spot next to Ostrich and Sepia and Clay continued on with his lesson.
***
“Alright, and don’t forget the ‘tribes natural abilities’ homework!” Clay shouted after the leaving students, sitting down on his claws. Changbai, Sepia, and Ostrich had all gone off to find their other friends, some dragons named Alba, Pronghorn and Arid, and also Newt and Marsh. Anemone didn’t mind, she really just wanted to apologize to Turtle and Kinkajou and then fall into one of the underwater lakes and forget that animus magic was gone. Something nagged at the corner of her mind though, though she couldn’t understand what it was. 
Anemone walked out of the classroom, thanking Clay and wandered over to the prey center, maybe Turtle would be there. He wasn’t, but Kinkajou was. She was storming by the fruit pile talking to some other Rainwings who looked a bit nervous about her sudden outbreak. Anemone hurried over to see what was wrong and was immediately greeted by the growls and roars of Kinkajou. “AUGH! I DON’T UNDERSTAND!	 WHY? WHY DOESN’T IT WORK? WHY? HMMM? HMMMMMMMMMMMMM? IF ONLY MOON HAD TOLD ME ABOUT THIS NEW THING, I COULD’VE HELPED! ARGH. WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING A BEST FRIEND IF YOU DON’T TELL THEM ANYTHING???!?!?!?!?!?” The Rainwings surrounding her backed away slowly, green slowly creeping up their scales, followed by the nothingness that was their camouflage. Kinkajou clearly noticed and gave an indignant cry. “FINE! LEAVE ME LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES, YOU DON’T REALIZE IT YET, BUT I AM NOT JUST SOME ORDINARY RAINWING!!!” Kinkajou screamed, probably not at the Rainwings though, because they definitely could tell she wasn’t ordinary. 
Anemone flinched as Kinkajou’s steaming gaze landed on her. “What do you want you pile of rotten stink flowers? Come to patronize me or cast another spell on me?” Kinkajou asked, but then realization dawned on her face, “OH WAIT, YOU CAN’T. Why? BECAUSE ITS GONE! ALL GONE!” Kinkajou cried out, triumph giving way to anger and defeat. Anemone inhaled deeply and stepped over a pile of smashed up fruit. She could tell that Kinkajou needed to let off steam and she knew the perfect place. She held out her talon for Kinkajou to take, “What is it? I’m not taking your claw if that’s what you want,” She remarked in annoyance.
“Then just follow me, okay?” Anemone replied softly, retracting her claw and whooshing out of the prey center before Kinkajou could ask why. Anemone hoped she was following her, otherwise it would be quite idiotic and embarrassing to have just left like that. She glanced back and was relieved to see the scowling face of Kinkajou jogging to keep up with her. Anemone turned down to the tunnel that had the stream cheerfully splashing underfoot and kept walking down the tunnel until they came to a small tapestry of the ocean. She lifted it gently with her claw revealing another tunnel that was fairly small with a pool of water that was a little deeper lining the bottom. She crawled into the pool of water which went up to her shoulders, and began walking forwards, wings scraping the top of the tunnel.
A small splash sounded from behind, signifying that Kinkajou had followed her in as well. The tapestry fell back down behind them, darkening all of the tunnel except for a small glint of light up ahead. Anemone lit up her scales, illuminating the lichen covered tunnel and the blue-orange-pink constellation on Kinkajou’s scales. They had walked for a few minutes when Anemone’s talon crashed into the small rock that she always forgot was there. They climbed up over it and into a cave with ivy covering the far wall. Kinkajou emerged behind her looking around skeptically, hints of anger and suspicion swirling around her talons. 
Anemone walked to the far wall and pushed the ivy aside, stepping through into a part of the forest that was surrounded by rocks and on all sides except for above, where the sun was cheerfully waving down. This part of the forest was wide open with room for all of the Jade mountain academy students. There was a small pond with frogs and fish in the middle, which Anemone promptly dived into, scattering salamanders and mud. She reamerged and looked at the gaping Kinkajou, standing awestruck in the middle of the cave entrance. “Alright, now you can continue your yelling, WITHOUT scaring anyone.” Anemone smiled cheerfully as Kinkajou snapped her jaw shut and scowled, fighting a smile.
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