// Apples and the Crescent Moon \\

(Uh... hi! I'm very new to editing on this wiki, and just decided to try making a fanfiction. I write a lot of fanfictions, but only on Google Docs. So... yeah! (Yay for awkward!) I actually have no plan for this fanfiction, so I'm making it up as I go along. If you guys want me to continue... just, uh, say so, okay? )
( Geez, I'm awkward. It isn't even funny anymore, yet it is. ahahahaha- )
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(Quick notice! I don't read many fanfictions on this wiki and I haven't read the first/second arc of Wings of Fire for a while. So most of these characters will be my OCs. If they have the name of your OCs, or the OCs of a popular fanfiction, that's entirely accidental! I'm trying not to reuse the names of the canon characters, but considering that, as previously stated, I haven't read the books in a while (I'll try to read through them again, okay?), so... yeah. Gonna shut up now.)
(This story takes place in an unmentioned time after current events. Because the third arc isn't yet finished, I don't know if I'll add any Pantala tribes. If I do, I just won't mention how or why they're here. I dunno about the fanon tribes... I mean, would they be in Jade Mountain Academy winglets? I have no idea aaaa-)
== Prologue ==
It was night.
...No, that sounded so unoriginal it was disgusting.
It was midnight, two of the three moons floating above in the starry sky.
Yes, that was better. If only a little.
Sunflower sighed, digging her talons into the lush ground beneath her. Even if it were midnight, it didn't change the fact that there were still endless sounds -- mosquitos buzzing about, toads croaking, crickets singing. Every now and then, she caught a sudden movement in the corner of her eye, but there was nothing there.
"Come on, hurry up..." she mumbled to herself nervously. Maybe Raven had no problem disobeying the rules, but Sunflower did. She curled her tail around one hind leg, glancing around. Where was he? It was Raven's idea to meet here, and yet he was nowhere to be found.
What if there were panthers out here? Or carnivorous plants? Or, worse, her father?
Sunflower's scales were a shade of pale green as she began to pace around. She was unnaturally small and weak for her age, and often did her best to follow rules in case someone tried to fight her. It terrified her, really, that she was both breaking her word to her mother and disobeying the strict commands of the queen. With everything happening lately, it was a terrible idea for Raven to ask her to leave the village.
...So why was she here? To most other dragons, they would shake their head at Sunflower, calling her an idiot.
Well, ever since Sunflower's sister disappeared, she was determined to do just about anything to get her back. And thus, it led her to this situation.
On second thought, she probably was an idiot.
Suddenly, a loud cracking noise snapped her out of her reverie instantly. Sunflower whirled around, trying to bare her teeth and look menacing. This approach was foiled by the paler-still green color of her scales.
"Wh-who's there?!" she cried into the dark night, entirely terrified at this point and questioning why she'd even listened to Raven.
There was a long silence.
...
The silence stretched longer.
Sunflower clenched her talons, staring into the abyss.
...
Wait, what was that noi--
Something hard and cold suddenly hit Sunflower on the back of her head. She gave a gasp of pain, but it was cut short as the world around her faded to black.
== Chapter One ==
==== ( Zenith ) ====
"Hey! Zenith! Wake up!"
Zenith growled under his breath, squeezing his eyes shut. "Go away, Celeste."
A claw prodded his wing, and he shifted it away from the slight pain. "No!" said his annoying older sister, uncomfortably close to his ear. "We're leaving for Jade Mountain, and unless you wanna get left behind, you better hurry up!"
Celeste began tugging on Zenith's tail now. Very irritated at this point, he sat up and then opened his eyes. "Okay, fine, just stop."
With a small smirk of triumph, Celeste flicked her own tail while backing off of Zenith's. "To be honest, though, I'm surprised that Mother and Father didn't send us there sooner."
"To where?" asked Zenith. In his defense, he had woken up about thirty seconds ago, and was he supposed to be paying attention to whatever crud Celeste was saying?
"Jade Mountain Academy, you dunce," Celeste replied.
Zenith frowned, sliding off the large rock he'd been sleeping on and walking past her. "Yeah... whatever. I seriously don't care, as long as the idiots there don't touch my tail."
In response to this, Celeste sharply poked Zenith's tail. He snapped at her, and could have very easily bitten her ear off if he tried.
"Well, if you act like that, they'll totally poke your tail to the three moons and back! Why don't you actually try to be polite? I mean, even if I'm seriously annoyed with people, I'll still put on a fake smile!"
Zenith narrowed his eyes at his sister. "Are you sure you're Celeste? You're talking like Cloud."
Celeste made a face. "Ew, Cloud?! Why did you have to bring him up?!"
"Because you hate him," responded Zenith easily.
"Ugh," grumbled Celeste, before a smile returned on her face (most likely the fake smile she mentioned). "Well, come on, let's go! I don't know about you, but I don't want to be late!"
==== ( Sandfox ) ====
Fox sighed, looking from the MudWing to the SeaWing in desperation that she easily disguised as irritation. Both dragons were full-grown, and they would have easily gotten into a physical fight if Fox hadn't stepped in.
"Why don't you two compromise?" she suggested. "Here... Papyrus, give Salmon some of your reeds, and in return, Salmon, give Papyrus some of your fish."
Both dragons snarled, but begrudgingly passed the goods to each other. Fox sat back on her haunches with a triumphant smile.
"See? Wasn't that so much nicer than fighting over it? Now, you two, go in opposite directions so you won't start fighting as soon as I turn away."
Papyrus, the MudWing, snarled at Salmon before stalking away, holding the fish in her mouth, while Salmon, the SeaWing, took the reeds and went his own way.
"Nice job, Fox!" exclaimed a voice from behind her. She stretched her neck and glanced behind her.
"Oh. Hi, Chrysanthemum, Verglas," said Fox, recognizing the two dragons.
Chrysanthemum tilted her head to the side, her grin broad. She was a RainWing -- the most beautiful RainWing who Fox had ever seen, in fact -- but she was actually smarter than half of the dragons in Possibility. Actually, probably smarter than ninety-nine percent of all the dimwitted idiots here.
Verglas, on the other hand, looked at his two talons. He was an IceWing, whose pale blue scales glittered in Possibility's bright sun. He had two navy blue scales next to his eyes, which made him look a bit like a NightWing with inverted colors. He was small and wiry, and had very low confidence.
"That was so cool!" Chrysanthemum said, her scales an explosion of raspberry red and bubblegum pink. She was certainly the dragon who had spoken earlier. "You just-- they never listen to me! Papyrus and Salmon hate each other! I mean, I get you're the SandWing princess and all that, but how are you so good at everything?!"
Fox chuckled slightly, curling her tail around her leg as she fully turned to face her friends. "I'm not good at everything, Chry. I just know what dragons like to hear."
Chrysanthemum shrugged, causing indigo to rocket through her shoulders and wings. "That doesn't change how literally awesome you are!"
Sometimes, Fox wondered if Chrysanthemum's scales actually changed color according to her emotions, or just wanted to be as colorful as possible. She just smiled slightly, and a little awkwardly -- she was used to dragons saying good things about her, but whenever Chrysanthemum complimented her, she always felt a little more special. It was silly, really, considering that Chrysanthemum was just a wonderful dragon who was incredibly nice.
"Well... aren't you guys going to head to Jade Mountain soon?" she asked.
Chrysanthemum shrugged again, lavender creeping up her tail. "I mean, yeah! We came to get you!"
"That's very nice of you, but I'm not going."
With those words, Chrysanthemum's smile dropped. "What do you mean, you're not going? You have to go!"
Fox stared at her. "But my mother-"
"It's education and socializing! Two things you need when you become queen of the SandWings!" Chrysanthemum lashed her tail in the sand below as a diluted, cloudy blue spread through her body. "Come on, didn't we promise that whatever we did, we would do it together?"
With a sigh, Fox's wings dropped. "We did... but I didn't actually tell Mother that I wanted to go."
Verglas, who had remained very silent until this point, finally lifted his head to stare at Fox. "Then why don't you go tell her? She'll probably be fine with it, if you say the right words."
Fox flung her wings open in frustration, and Verglas jumped back, as though afraid she'd attack him. "Like she'll listen?! I can't just go up to the QUEEN OF SANDWINGS and say, 'Hi mom, can I go attend this random academy?'! It'll NEVER WORK!"
Chrysanthemum gave Fox a look -- a look Fox didn't see very often, a look that blatantly stated, "Are you freaking kidding me right now?". "Fox, isn't your professional tutor sick?"
Fox blinked, surprised by both Chrysanthemum's near-emotionless voice and her ingenious answer. "Yeah... but how did you know that?"
Chrysanthemum didn't answer Fox's question. "Tell the queen that you're going to Jade Mountain for further education until your tutor gets better. And when he is better, tell her that you like it more at Jade Mountain."
Fox frowned. "That'll never wor--"
"Just try it, Fox," said Chrysanthemum. "You never know what might happen."
==== ( Swordfish ) ====
"Three moons, whose big bright idea was it to put a school in a cave?" Swordfish grumbled to himself, staring at the vague map in front of him. Was he supposed to read this? He shoved his glasses up on his snout, frustrated. So what if he were far-sighted? That didn't matter underwater, so why wasn't this school underwater?
"Because there are other tribes here," said a voice behind him. He whirled around.
The dragon behind him was a NightWing. Her smooth black scales had a satiny sheen as she tilted her head at him, the silver teardrop scales beside her eyes glinting in the dim light of the cave. "I must admit, though, I've never seen a SeaWing with glasses."
Swordfish bit his tongue before snapping at the dragon. Again, so what if he were far-sighted?
"Oh, I didn't mean anything by it," said the dragon. Swordfish twitched his tail in annoyance -- of all the dragons, why did he have to find one who read minds?
The NightWing rustled her wings, blinking slowly. "Swordfish, right? I'm Silhouette."
"I don't remember giving you permission to go through my brain," snapped Swordfish, giving up on trying to be polite -- why should he? "Especially not to figure out what my name is."
"I don't have to read minds to read the student manual," Silhouette responded. Her tone was sassy yet cold, but Swordfish couldn't exactly blame her, considering that he'd snapped at her first.
Then again, he certainly wasn't going to apologize. He narrowed his eyes at the NightWing, and she stared back in a passive, calm manner.
"That's quite a rough day," remarked Silhouette suddenly. "Maybe you should stop thinking about it so much."
Swordfish bared his teeth. "Maybe you should shut up and quit poking through my brain!"
Silhouette hummed, flicking her tail, as though genuinely considering that. "Actually, that sounds like a good idea, now that you mention it." She reached into the small pouch hanging around her neck and pulled out a ring, which was decorated by a single black rock. She slid it onto her claw and smiled slightly. "Good day, Swordfish," she said with evidently forced politeness, then turned and walked away.
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