Bleeding Gills

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Prologue
Snapper looked at the eggs in front of her. The princesses were due to hatch soon, and she would give her life to save them. Gill would be at the hatchery soon to check on them, Snapper remembered. She was pretty sure Gill was at the Summer Palace, so she expected a bit of a wait.
A faint groaning sound came from behind her. When she turned, she saw Abalone entering the hatchery, hunched over. Abalone? Snapper flashed, coming over to him. What’s wrong? She noticed that Abalone had a strange red growth on the side of his neck. Snapper reached out to touch it, and it was burning hot. I’ll get Gill. Abalone gave a small nod as Snapper rushed towards the Summer Palace.
Snapper swam as fast as she could, panic going through her. She shouldn’t have left Abalone alone, unable to defend himself in case the assassin came back. She saw the entrance to the palace in the distance and caught a current.
After a bit of searching, Gill was nowhere to be seen. Snapper couldn’t find Coral either, which meant that they were both in the Deep Palace. Where Snapper was just at. She growled and turned, only to find soldiers surrounding her. What?
One of them, dark grey-blue with black armor, stepped forward. “Snapper of the SeaWings, yes?” Snapper nodded. “Good.” Without any more conversation, she leaped forward and pinned Snapper. She yelped before the soldier put a muzzle on her, then wrapped chains around her neck and talons. What are you doing? She flashed. The soldier didn’t have any expression on her face. “Orders from the queen. You should have stayed at your post and the princesses would still be alive.”
Snapper wanted to curl up and scream. She had failed. She had failed Gill, the queen, the princesses, and Abalone. The guards dragged her to the prisons and threw her in a cell. Water fell from the top, ugly electric eels at the bottom. Snapper growled and paced the cell before tripping on the chains and nearly touching the water, which wouldn’t be very good. It would probably be a more pleasant death than getting executed by Coral, though.
. . .
The water shut off and Snapper looked around. Only one guard, the one that had done the talking earlier, stood outside of the cell. She grabbed the chains and led Snapper outside, where Coral was hissing with a furious expression. Gill was behind her, looking gloomy. Coral had killed Abalone by now, with blood on her talons. No. Snapper growled and hung her head as Coral approached her, a crowd gathering and whispering.
“What were you thinking? Why did you leave your post? WHY ARE MY DAUGHTERS DEAD?!” Snapper flinched and Coral smacked her across the head with her narwhal tail tip. Snapper crumpled and Coral started ripping out her teeth, one by one, piece by piece. Snapper pushed ineffectively sat her claws.
When Coral finished, she started flashing things that Snapper couldn’t process with the pain. Coral raked her claws across Snapper’s stomach, then stabbed her with her tail again. Snapper let out a muffled shriek. Coral seized Snapper’s head, flashed something again, and slammed it into the floor.
Chapter One
Lumi attended the Talons of Power Ceremony. She looked at the dragonets gathered, wondering if any of them had deadly magic in their claws. She was sixteen now and knew for certain she wasn’t an animus. Not that she wanted to be, of course, as animus dragons went crazy eventually. Queen Coral landed on the beach, holding Princess Anemone. 
“What’s she here for?” a voice muttered.
“They’re here to watch the ceremony,” another said,”like everyone else.”
That wasn’t the case, however. The queen decided to have Anemone tested with the other dragonets, and she earned a protest from Moray.
“She’s not even two years old yet!” Moray hissed.
Lumi didn’t hear what Coral responded with, but she was pretty sure she said something like ‘precocious.’ Whirlpool passed out coconuts, one per dragonet. He stood in front of three of them and told them to enchant the coconut to float and return to their claws. The dragonets spoke in unison but nothing happened. Whirlpool dismissed them and went to the next group, telling them the same thing. One looked like he was having a mental argument. 
“Turtle. Turtle. TURTLE!” Whirlpool barked in his ear. The dragonet, Turtle, jumped. 
“What?”
“Hurry up. Cerulean and Fin are waiting.” Turtle hesitated, as though saying one more thing in his mind before enchanting the coconut. The hairy fruit trembled a bit, and Turtle made a face. A scream tore through the air and everyone whipped towards the pink princess. Moray was the one who screamed, pointing at the flying coconut. Coral gasped and Lumi left instantly. She did not want to be near an animus dragon that could go crazy at any moment. 
Her head went underwater and she swam away from the Island Palace, towards the Deep Palace. A green and blue dragon swam straight into her and she flashed her scales furiously.
WATCH IT, YOU- what even are you? She studied him. This dragon’s tail ended in a leaf-shaped tip, and he had green scales flecked all over his body. Probably some hybrid. She thought.
I’m Lotus. He flashed.
I’m Lumi. Watch where you’re going.
Sorry. He flashed as he sped away. Strange dragon. Lumi thought. She arrived at the Deep Palace and went to her room, closing the door. She looked at her promotion necklace, a pearl necklace given to her when she was promoted to be a council member. She was the War member. Lumi put it on and left her room, heading towards an old friend’s house. As she knocked on the door, she remembered that Abyss had left the kingdom for a while. Lumi lashed her tail and swam towards the surface, where she was surrounded by SandWings.
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