Untitled Fanfic (Drain)

This is WIP! 
== Trigger Warning ==
Some mild/moderate human cursing
Violence
Murder
Blood
proceed with caution. 
== The Great Inter-War ==
Arguments and tensions over territories spiraled over the years. The IceWings, SkyWings, LeafWings, SilkWings, and SandWings are in one alliance, while RainWings, NightWings, HiveWings, SeaWings, MudWings, and a majority of human cities are in the other alliance. With assassinations and intense bloodshed on both sides pyrrhia and pantala are in all out chaos and paranoia. 
Now the war has gone on for almost one hundred years and it is no where close to ending. 
== Cast of Characters ==
=== IceWings ===
* Queen Névé (She/her) 
* Queen Black Ice (she/her)
* Queen Frore (She/her)
* Prince Halycon (He/Vae)
* Prince Blizzard (He/him)
* Prince Algid (He/Him)
* Hiemal (She/her)
=== SeaWings ===
* Queen Bubble (she/her)
=== SandWings ===
* Queen Kit Fox (They/she)
* Limestone (he/him)
=== MudWings ===
* Queen Bowfin (she/her)
* Queen Mahogany (she/her)
=== SkyWings ===
* Queen Cerise (she/her)
=== RainWings ===
=== NightWings ===
=== LeafWings ===
* Enoki (He/him)
=== HiveWings ===
* Enoki (He/him)
=== SilkWings ===
=== Humans ===
== Prologue: Névé ==
Year 8015 after the scorching
It had been a normal day in the IceWing palace, SandWing delegates had come to talk war strategy with Queen Black Ice of the IceWings. Névé knew she wasn't welcome in the war meetings, Black Ice despised her. 
They had hated one another ever since they were dragonets. They were the only princesses in the royal family, most of the royals regardless of gender had gone off to become great generals, and later the heroes and martyrs killed by enemy armies in the eternal great Inter-war. Hence, Névé and Black Ice had always competed during training to see who would challenge the queen first. Black Ice won this competition. 
Black Ice was a spiteful queen. She wanted Névé to never reach the throne she had fought so hard to get. As Black Ice's cousin Névé was forbidden to challenge but as the only princess, once Black Ice died, Névé would become queen. 
Black Ice had worked hard to produce an heir and had only managed to lay one egg with a baby princess inside. However the egg never produced a princess. Only a year ago, Halycon, dragonet of the queen, had come out as transgender. 
Black Ice's spiteful acts had been in vain. Névé was still the only heir, and the soul protector of Halycon. 
Those SandWings won't care that I'm not there either. No one cares what I do. Névé mused to herself. When my cousin does end up dying, I might be a terrible queen because no one questions my mannerisms and absense to any official meetings. She shrugged off these thoughts as she wandered the endless crystalline hallways. 
Névé heard voices down the hallway, a bored SandWing historian had tagged along, and he wasn't welcome in the meeting either so he was currently having a history lecture to the young dragonets living in the IceWing palace. 
Névé peeked her head into the room. The sandWing stood in the middle of the room, dark grey-green claws scratching the perfect icy floor as he paced back and forth during his lecture. 
The SandWing was tall and skinny with bright buttercup colored scales that had a dark grey-green rattlesnake pattern across it. His beady black eyes were warm with compassion and enthusiasm to explain SandWing history and customs. Currently he was explaining how the first non-binary transfemme queen had come to the SandWing throne. 
"Well 3000 years ago when the great age of peace came there was a sandWing queen named Thorn. Her royal line was the family we've had on the throne for the last 3000 years. But however our last queen was corrupt and she helped fuel the great Inter-war. The Eye of Onyx incinerated her and chose Queen Kit Fox as our new queen. Making tribal history as a nonbinary queen takes the throne." He declared with ecstasy, "They are the greatest queen in the history of SandWings." 
Névé was muscularly built with pale frost blue scales. She had long twisted horns a slightly darker shade then her scales. Her ultramarine blue eyes sparkled. She had aqua wings flecked with a sparkling white like pearls with a few yellow flecks at the edges of her wings. Her talons were the same golden shade with freckles around her arms. She didn't know any other IceWings with any strange gold colorings, in fact all of the dragonets in the room were various shades of crystalline blues, greys, and white, except Halycon. 
He looked more like Névé then anyone else in the room. Identical colored scales, similar build. Vaer wings were a paler shade with white and navy freckles all over them. The talons with the same freckles, just in navy. Sharp twisted navy horns with a few white flecks across them. Névé had always felt a connection to Halycon. When he had hatched, vae had followed Névé around as soon as they could waddle on tiny dragonet legs. He clung to her in uncomfortable situations and the two had only grown closer when he finally came out to Névé. 
"How do you know that she is the best queen? Have you compared the rest of the former queens and their achievements? Did you ask the sandwing public on their opinions and combine the stats on everyone's fave queen to come to the answer Kit Fox?" asked Halycon's older brother, Algid. Algid was sarcastic and snarky, but the visiting SandWing looked unperterbed by these questions. 
"well It's in my opinion and my loyalty that Kit Fox is the best Queen," The SandWing shrugged. 
"Well It's in my opinion that bias in history lessons shows lack of skill." Algid quipped. The IceWing dragonets in the room giggled. 
"Algid don't be rude!" yelled one dragonet, Hiemal. She looked very annoyed on the SandWing's behalf, "He is here to teach us important stuff!" 
Algid rolled his periwinkle eyes, "what? Bias ruins information! Everyone knows that except old sandy scales here." 
"Maybe Algid is biased against everyone's opinions but his own." Halycon said, "My brother tends to be thick headed. He's got a skull thicker then the layers of blubber on a walrus." To this comparision yielded more sniggers among the IceWing Dragonets. Algid's face flushed and he opened his mouth to argue when suddenly a scream cut across the castle. 
"What was that!?" Névé's younger brother, Blizzard yelped. 
"A scream." Halycon murmered softly. "That sounded like... my mom." 
"Oh no." Hiemal murmered. 
That was my cousin's scream! Névé thought. Is she dead or injured? Wait- will I be queen now? What happened. 
Névé 
What if she was murdered? What if there is a dragon in those rooms, claws drenched in her blood, ripping her corpse to shreds? What if I die? What would happen to the IceWings? We would have no heir. We'd be weakened and the enemies in the war would take this as a chance to kill off the IceWing tribe so they can weaken our side and win the war! What if I make one wrong step and one mistake kills a tribe? 
Névé froze right outside the doorway. Well one mistake can't end a monarchy and kill a kingdom. That's just my damn anxiety at it again. 
Névé took a deep breath to calm down. Then she looked into the room. 
But now no one was in the diplomatic chambers. 
No one except Queen Black Ice. 
Her large sky blue body lay broken on the floor, neck slashed open and royal blue blood oozing out into a large inky puddle. Her blue eyes stared blankly into the icy walls. She was dead. Brutally murdered.
== Part I ==
===Chapter 1: Halycon===
Year 8015 after the scorching, 
Halycon knew as soon as he heard the scream what had happened. His mother was dead. His spiteful hateful mother who although she never said it aloud, wished that Halycon could have just been a girl so she could have an heir other than Névé. 
Névé ran off down the tunnel, following where the scream had come from. The SandWing historian (He had introduced himself as Limestone or something like that) looked shocked. 
"Was that scream really Queen Black Ice of the IceWings?" He pondered aloud. Halycon saw the SandWing's barbed tail twitch slightly, shifting to be a weapon whenever needed if there was an enemy in the palace. 
"Yes," Halycon answered. 
"It's too early. Mother was such a strong queen who fought her hardest to get this throne. How did she die?" Algid wondered. He chuckled nervously, laughing through the pain of this death, "Maybe royals just don't have as long as a lifespan. I'm only 6 now but how much longer will I live." 
Hiemal managed to roll her eyes at him even though she was still shaken by the scream. "You won't live very long with you're annoying personality." 
"Come on stop flirting you ice brained morons! Our Queen might be dead! Who else wants to come see the corpse!?" Blizzard demanded. 
Limestone looked horrified, "Young prince, please, we should all stay here until the situation is under control-" 
"STAY HERE!? WHAT IF A SANDWING DELEGATE MURDERED THE QUEEN!!!" Algid yelled, "You might kill all of us next!" 
"I certainly would not-" Limestone protested but it was too late. By the time he had yelled that Algid and Blizzard had ran off. 
Hiemal ran after them a few seconds later and then the rest of the dragonets scurried off towards the diplomatic chambers. 
Halycon lagged a few seconds after them to look at Limestone. Did Queen Kit Fox bring her forces to undermine the war? That wouldn't make sense- we're on the same side so it would hurt her troops as much as it hurts us.. Limestone doesn't look like a murderer. He looks as scared as the rest of us and definitly not like someone glad for the death of my mother. 
More shouts emitted from the hallway and Halycon hurried to follow his fellow dragonets. 
When he arrived a bunch of adult IceWing officials were talking with Névé, Kit fox, and SandWing delegates. An IceWing medic was checking the body to see how Queen Black Ice had been murdered. The IceWing dragonets were standing around, annoyed that they had been forbidden access to the room. 
"We're in a war and I'm 6, I've seen plenty of corpses? Why can't I see my own mother's body! Why can't I say goodbye to her!?" Algid demanded. 
"Can't we see our Queen one last time?" Hiemal begged. 
"She's not your queen anymore young one. Queen Névé is," said one of the IceWing officials sternly. "And I don't care what a little servant dragonet has to say about a dead queen. Not even the princes will get to say an official good bye until we are done here." 
Hiemal shrunk, her mint green wings drooping. But Algid bumped her wing encouragingly. "This is bullshit anyways. This idiot here won't budge. Let's go do something else until its time." 
Hiemal shook out her spines and wiped all emotion off her face, "He's right. What do you want to do Algid?" 
"I dunno lets just get out of here. Stinks like death. Blech." Algid said and he led Hiemal and the other dragonets out of the hallway. He bumped into Halycon and frowned at him. "C'mon little bro, didn't you hear him? We need to get out of this stupid hallway." 
Halycon didn't respond. He just looked at Algid, "I think I'll wait." Halycon said finally, "I can be patient." 
"Whatever." Said Algid and he walked off, dragonets following in his wake. 
Halycon didn't let his brother bother him. He stayed and waited patiently as the officials argued about everything. Finally the medic spoke up. 
"Her throat has been torn out by IceWing claws based on the markings. the assassin may still be in the palace," The medic paused only slightly, eyes flickering to the new IceWing queen with a hint of suspicion but the medic didn't act on her suspicions, "She has no other injuries and her death must have been relatively quick based on the amount of damage in her neck. She didn't suffer very long, thankfully. I'll have my other medics come and clean up the body before the dragonets say their goodbyes. Adults can say their goodbyes before then. I just don't want those poor dragonets seeing this horrible image." 
The adult dragons said their goodbyes relatively quickly and emptied the chamber. 
Halycon waited. 
After awhile the Medic came out to welcome him in. 
"Where did your brother go dear?" She asked kindly, pushing him into the room gently with her grey wing. 
"He took my first cousins and Hiemal somewhere else. I don't know where they are." Halycon said. 
The room had clearly been cleaned very quickly, there were still parts of sticky blue blood on the floor that stuck to Halycon's talons as he walked through the room to where his mother lay on the floor. Her neck was wrapped up with a polar bear fur blanket, as if it were just a makeshift bandage, not hiding the brutal injuries on the dead queen's throat. Her eyes had been closed. 
If you ignored the fact that she wasn't breathing she might have looked like she was sleeping, recovering from a small injury on the neck. 
So still and pristine she might have been a statue. A realistic ice carving of a sleeping queen. Dreaming peaceful dreams of her great conquest. She could wake up in a few minutes and snap at me for breathing on her. She could chastise me and tell me to stop being a blithering idiot and dragon up. No true IceWing would cry over a short minutes nap. But she won't. She won't do any of that ever again. She'll rot and turn to pearly bones buried deep below. Atleast her harmful words won't bully me or my siblings ever again. Halycon let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding in. It was hard looking at his mother's corpse. 
"It must be hard to have your mother dead so young." said the medic sympathetically.
"she can't hurt anyone else now." Halycon sighed miserably. "she was so cruel to Névé and I knew she hasn't loved me since I came out." 
"Its good then that you had dragons like Névé to take care of you." the medic noted.
"I guess so." Halycon shrugged. "thanks for letting me see her and um- say good bye. I'll go now." 
The medic smiled slightly. "Good bye Prince Halycon." She said as he left the room.
Halycon walked through the halls. He felt an emptiness yawning inside of him. Not for his mother. But a different feeling. With Black Ice in his life he had always felt like he had a duty to be the perfect son because he couldn't be the perfect daughter. But now she was gone. No one would miss him if he left, except maybe Névé. But Névé would understand. Halycon wasn't happy in the Ice palace. He felt something tugging at him. His emptiness wanting to be filled. And in that moment instead of staying with family as they mourned a queen and crowned a new one, he opened his wings and launched off into the sky. 
===Chapter II: Enoki===
Year 8019 after the scorching,
Caught between two sides of the war, a forbidden romance had bloomed. Enoki wished it hadn't. Here he was 8 years after that romance between a HiveWing artist and a LeafWing assassin. He wouldn't be welcome in the Leafsilk kingdom or in the Hives because he was a hybrid and not to be trusted. To the Leafwings he could be a disgusting HiveWing and an enemy in the war, to the HiveWings his green patches gave away his leafWing blood. 
So Enoki didn't live in pantala where everyone had reason to hate him. He lived in the neutral areas around Pyrrhia's mountain range. 
Enoki stalked through the dusty roads of Possibility. The three moons glowed in the sky above him shining against his pale orange scales. There was a bounty on some IceWing that was hiding out here and Enoki and been hired to get it. 
The IceWing also seemed to glow in the light of the moons. With dark blue spines and brighter pale IceWing scales it was clear where the IceWing was up ahead. 
Enoki moved slowly, slinking into the shadows of trees and buildings as he moved towards the unsuspecting IceWing. He was so close. feet away. Then a stick cracked under his talons. The IceWing whirled around and stared at him shocked for a few seconds before taking off flying into the night. IceWings were fast but Enoki had 4 wings and the IceWing only had 2. 
Enoki launched himself into the air after the dragon and sped into the night. 
He lost sight of the IceWing for a few seconds and then suddenly a blast of frostbreath came from below him. 
Enoki dodged it and dove at the IceWing. The IceWing sent another blast of frost breath, this time hitting Enoki's wing tip. 
It was so cold and painful, it obscured Enoki's flight and he crashlanded onto the IceWing. 
They scuffled. Enoki managed to slash the IceWing across the nose but the dragon raked his claws across Enoki's chest. Enoki beat his wings against the IceWing's head to stop the dragon from clawing at his weak underbelly again. He kicked and clawed. He tried to stab the IceWing with his tail stinger but failed. He tackled the ice dragon again. 
"Who are you?" The IceWing demanded. He rolled out of Enoki's reach and kicked Enoki when Enoki tried to claw at him again. 
"Bounty Hunter. Did you know that theres been a huge bounty on you for the past 4 years?" Enoki asked as he dodged the IceWing's attack. 
"Kinda slips your mind after awhile. They don't want me back anyways. Whats a hiveWing caring about IceWing bounties anyways? It's not for the war or whatever is it?" The IceWing asked and he tackled Enoki, pinning him to the ground, unable to move. 
"No. It was a bounty for your queen." Enoki grunted, struggling, "No name just description. Who in the moons are you?"
The IceWing frowned. "Its not important. Call me whatever dumb nickname you want if you need to know me by a name." Vae growled. 
"Sparkles? Glitter Boy? Shiny Scales? Mr. Very Special Bounty?" Enoki asked. 
"Whatever. Now what am I going to do with you now that I've caught you?" The IceWing mused, "Kill you?"
"Sparkles, I'm damn too special to be killed. The world will cry out my name in sadness when I fall never to stand again." Enoki said in his most solemn voice. He smiled charmingly, "I'm very handsome, a skilled bounty hunter, everyone loves me, you know- I'm just that amazing." 
'Sparkles' smiled slightly. "Well you couldn't even fight me and I'm a terrible warrior. If you're so handsome maybe you should be a model." 
"IF I'm handsome? Look at my scales. I am handsome." Enoki insisted. "And you aren't too bad looking your self Sparkles."
"Gee thanks. But flirting isn't going to win me over to let you go and take my bounty. I'm never going back to the Ice kingdom. I think I'll tie you to a tree and leave you to fend for yourself. How would you like that Handsome?" said Sparkles. 
"I know that, Flirting is just my way of making friends. Sparkles please don't leave a poor old dragon like me tied to a tree. If a terrible fighter like you can beat me then I won't be able to fend for myself. Have some sympathy." Enoki begged. 
Sparkles considered this. "If you betray me I will tie you up to the tree, got it?" 
Enoki felt the pressure on his chest relieve as Sparkles climbed off of him. 
He sat up and grinned at the IceWing. "So What you been up to in possibility?"
"I built myself a home, been living here two years in peace besides a few crazy bounty hunters. You can scurry off now to wherever you came from." Sparkles said. 
"But Sparkles, my bestie, my bro, after these last 5 minutes you don't want to stay friends?" Enoki demanded. 
Sparkles smiled slightly again. "I'd rather we not." 
Enoki sighed. No hope of gaining the IceWing's trust to betray vaer and get the bounty. He should probably give up now, and find another bounty to track. There was some strange nightwing prophet that went rogue and was also worth a lot, not as much as this IceWing, but still a small fortune. 
"Goodbye then Sparkles. I hope I see you again." Enoki smiled. 
"Not if I see you first." The IceWing said and vae flew away into the night. 
Enoki sighed and lay down on the spongy mossy earth. With no where to go he lay down to sleep. 
He was almost asleep when suddenly a loud boom came from the nearby city. Enoki flinched, but he wasn't too scared. Dragonflame cactus and similar weapons were used commonly in war but not usually in neutral territory. It was probably fine. Then another boom. This time Enoki sat up. Another loud noise from possibility. Then the sky erupted in flame.
===Chapter III: Halycon===
Its hard to sleep when the city is being blown up. Halycon heard the first bomb and burst out the door to see what was happening. He was on the outskirts of the town but could see in the distance a wing of attackers throwing dragonflame cactus bombs down on the city. Halycon felt panick grip vaer heart. He burst into flight trying to catch a glance at the amount of attackers. 
It was a group of leafWings and skywings, with a few flamesilks were flying around dropping bombs and weapons. 
A burst of blinding light shot out of the wrists of one of the flamesilks. It blazed brighter then anything Halycon had ever seen and he ducked to shield his eyes. Sunsilk. The strands of pure sunlight made the area over the city shine as bright as day in the middle of the night. The skywings were burning neutral territory to the ground to claim as their own. 
Halycon saw a group of mudwing sibs flying out of their crumbling and burning mud hut. A SandWing mother screamed for her dragonets being boiled in their eggs. A trio of seawings leapt into the river, dragonflame cactus seeds jammed in their blood and burns. Dead bodies littered the streets. Halycon couldn't stay here watching the carnage any longer vae flew off as fast as he could. 
He could smell the smoke. Feel the heat. Vae could see a few other escapees flying in the same direction. Vaer IceWing neighbors, the mudwing sibs he had seen earlier, and a nightwing carrying a silkwing cocoon. 
Then he saw the green and orange HiveWing. That strange bounty hunter. He was a pale creamy orange with stripes of black and green. But the green was a more pale color like spring plants and the black was almost brownish like dark tree bark. He had 4 wings a translucent orange with mismatched lines of the charcoal black and pale green. He had been more slender then most hiveWing's almost like a leafwing. Heck he was probably a hybrid that had been caught between the clashing sides and forced to become a lawless bounty hunter. 
Halycon glanced at the HiveWing. Vae had been calling the HiveWing "handsome" in vaer head, not because he found the hiveWing attractive but because of that weird conversation they had. 
"SPARKLES!!! IS THAT YOU!?!?!" the hiveWing yelled. 
Halycon slowed his pace slightly to match pace with the HiveWing. "Yeah?" Vae called. 
"Bro do you know what the hell those fires were?" demanded Handsome. 
"A LeafWing, SilkWing, and SkyWing group. Flamesilks and Dragonflame cactus lighting the sky on fire. Thousands of years ago the neutral strip of mountains was part of the gigantic sky kingdom. Over time the territory has be disputed, neutral, part of a temporary nightWing kingdom, neutral again... and now One of the Sides of the war is trying to claim it." Halycon explained. 
"Why did this war even start? Wasn't it territory arguments? this is all so stupid. Its been 100 years. We've been fighting so long that no one can remember why or what exactly started it but we just won't stop. It stopped being about some dead queens that had an argument and is now sustained hatred and mistrust. It's so idiotic!" Handsome said. 
"I'm not here to give you a history lesson but I agree." Halycon said. "What's your name?" 
The HiveWing made a face. "Its not important. Call me whatever dumb nickname you want if you need to know me by a name." He said in a mocking tone. 
"I'll tell you my name if you tell me yours." Halycon offered. 
"I don't even care about your name. I'm going to call you Sparkles anyways. It suits you." the HiveWing grinned, "But my name is Enoki." 
"Enoki. Huh. Interesting name. Mine is Halycon." Halycon said. 
"That is a nice name Sparkles. I can see why you were itching to tell me." Enoki grinned. He suddenly glanced back at the city, hovering as his wings buzzed. 
Smoke rose high up into the sky and the fires were spreading from the city into the forest. Halycon could see the leafWings in the sky now trying to douse the flames. They were trying to protect the trees that their comrades had set flame to but it was too late. the fire was large and hungry. It could rip the continent apart if it continued to spread. 
"We should go back and help put out the fire." Halycon said. 
"I think it might be too late." Enoki said softly, "We will just die. We need to fly as far away as possible. Hopefully to the sand kingdom. We're pretty close to that. No fires in the sand. Nope. Nope. Nope." 
Halycons thoughts were conflicting. 
Do I go with my moral compass and try to save those trees and those living in them? Or do I go with my newfound friend who tried to catch me 3 hours ago? I don't want to die for my morals. A Moral compass can only take you so far. 
"Yeah you're right." Halycon decided. There's an Oasis a few miles away called Snake's tail. A mile past that is Snake's Fang. If we go to one of those we should be safe." 
"I vote Snakes tail. My wings are aching. As little exercise as possible please." Enoki said and he took off flying towards the sand. Halycon trailed after Enoki, even though vae doubted that Enoki knew where Snake's tail was. 
The duo flew all night and finally collapsed at the oasis as the rosy dawn overtook the sky. Halycon sunk into the sand. It was harsh and dry here, whipping up the sand into his eyes and sticking it between his scales. It was also hot. Sure it was early in the morning but it was already millions of degrees. Halycon groaned. 
I feel like I'm melting.... from exhaustion and heat. Ughhhhh whyyy. I remember when I first left the Ice kingdom I flew through this broiling heat but I had forgotten just how bad it was.... Blech. Halycon thought miserably. 
Enoki pushed Halycon back to vaer feet. "c'mon we're so close. we can go inside the Oasis, find somewhere nice and cold for you to rest." 
"mkay." Halycon mumbled. Vae stretched out his aching wings and started trudging through the sand with Enoki. 
The duo stumbled into an inn not that far into the oasis. Halycon produded a few bits of silver and used them to rent out two rooms. 
Enoki stalked off to his room and Halycon went to vaer's. The room had thick sandstone walls covered in dents and nicks. A claw mark here. Some mark that looked suspiciously like an IceWing blood stain. Halycon frowned but he was too tired to worry about whomever had stayed in this room last. Vae sunk onto the cot, a camel hair blanket. It was softer then what he was used to. It didn't take long for vaer to fall asleep. But as soon as he had dozed off he opened his eyes to a nightmare. 
=== Chapter IV: Enoki ===
Enoki didn't sleep long. Maybe 4-5 hours tops. But that was all he needed. He got out of the camel hair bed and trudged out to the main room of the inn. Dragons were getting food and drinks at a counter and as Enoki saw them he felt his stomach growl. 
Enoki trod over to the counter. 
Most the dragons there were SandWings but there was a RainWing with a mix of dark grey with flecks of salmon and pale blue with one yellow eye and one purple eye, she had a few dragonflame cactus seeds stuck in her bleeding tail. There was a small MudWing with scorch marks across their body. One of their brown eyes was closed and some disgusting ooze was coming from under the eyelid like a tear. There was also an aqua green seaWing with one wing completely burned, only one blackened nub like a silkWing's wingbud. 
These were other escapees from Possibility. 
Enoki moved in between the RainWing and the SeaWing. 
He inclined his head politely. "Hello."
The RainWing glared at him, her grey scales becoming a dark mahogany red. The seaWing shuddered but inclined his head politely. "Hello." He murmered, "Do you know a place where there is a doctor? A medic?" He flexed his ruined wing stub. 
The irritated rainWing sighed. "No. SandWings don't serve us. No one trusts us. Not for 100 years." 
"I can help with your dragon flame cactus wounds but I dunno about that wing." shrugged Enoki, "I know basic meds stuff but I'm not like a doctor ya know?" 
"Oh. Thanks then." the SeaWing mumbled, "Well I'm just going leave as soon as I can find my partner. We were in possibility-" he stopped as if the words were too painful to utter.
"I know." said Enoki, " I was there too."
"I can't find her. I don't know if she died or what. My wing was burning and I jumped into the river as my house exploded into flame. My wing burned off before I could put out the flames and I don't think I'll ever fly again. But I'm a stupid coward. Wings or no wings I should have looked for her. She would have done the same for me." He moaned. 
"You would have died. Its good that you lived. If she is alive maybe you can find her then. If you had died then she would probably be miserable looking for you," Enoki said reasonably. 
"Oh. I guess that seems logical." the SeaWing sighed, looking slightly relieved, "She probably would have escaped the flames anyways. I hope." He turned to the rainWing, "Did you see her escape?"
The rainWing sighed, "No. I didn't. I would have told you if I had Seaweed Skull." 
"Anyways your injuries?" Enoki interuppted before the rainWing could try to dampen the seaWing's mood again. 
"I have some payment on me. I can pay for both of us if you consider it enough." offered the seaWing, pulling out a slightly burned pouch with a few half-melted bits of gold and silver. 
Enoki grabbed them in his talons. "Yeah this is enough." He said. 
"I don't trust you." the rainWing growled, "we'll find another healer." 
"um why don't you trust me? I mean besides the obvious you met me five minutes ago." Enoki inquired.
"I saw you fly off with some IceWing." The rainWing growled bitterly. "Are you loyal to our alliance or to the IceWings and those who brought hell to the neutral territory?" 
"Oh you think I'm a traitorous hiveWing because I hang around with Sparkles? I'm a hybrid. LeafWing-HiveWing. I'm what one calls Schrödinger's dragon. Whatever do I am always a traitor and a loyalist. If I betray the HiveWings and the alliance your tribes are allied with I'm a traitor and a hero to the leafWings. If I betray the leafWings and those jerks that incinerated Possibility then I'm a traitor and a hero to the HiveWings. I'm neutral. Chaotic neutral if you must. I don't give a damn about what either side is fighting for. They're both idiots and I'm just trying to survive." Enoki said.
"So you side with us for that conflict but not all? Just chose a side. We all know who is correct." The rainWing said and the SeaWing nodded. 
"I also know who attacked the LeafSilk kingdom when I was 3." Enoki growled. "I'm not going to chose a side. I'm team Enoki."
"Team enoki?" the seawing asked.
"Thats me, I'm enoki, Nice to meet you."
"Oh I'm Seafoam. Nice to meet you too. Thats Iridescence. We are neighbors- well... we were neighbors." 
Iridescence's frown deepened. "shut up." 
"More like Irritated." Enoki quipped, "Do you want those dragonflame cacti things out of your tail? I'll stand by my offer to help unless you keep being an annoying jerk."
"we can find another healer," Iridescence insisted.
"Good luck with that. None of the sandWings will help you." Enoki shrugged. 
Iridescence gritted her teeth. "Fine. Please help me and Seafoam if you can."
"Now thats a deal." Enoki grinned. 
=== Chapter V: Halycon ===
Halycon woke up feeling terrified. It was one of vaer reoccuring dreams that had haunted that nightmare. His mother's half-rotting dead body, adorned in her silver helmet-like crown and jewelery had stood, still. She looked like she was carved out of stone and ice but Halycon saw her scales and rotting blue flesh. Her eyes were poked out and most the flesh on her face was picked to the bone. 
"You." She had growled, not moving an inch, "You are an ungrateful worm. Leaving your family for some selfish dreams." 
"I'm not-" 
Then another figure appeared. Névé. She looked carved out of quartz, wearing the same silver jewelry as Black Ice. She looked how she had looked when Halycon last saw her. "Where are you?" came her voice, body not moving. 
"Névé?" He called but the figures didn't listen. More sculptures depicting dragons in vaer life appeared one by one. Finally a new one appeared looking like oxedizing copper and charred wood. Enoki. 
"You're an idiot to chose a new friend over family." Black Ice said, "but he'll betray you and bring you home to us." 
Then all the figures turned to dust and the dust swarmed around Halycon as the dream faded. 
Vae had gotten used to the dream by now but it still hurt. All his doubts and self hate quagulated into one nightmare. 
Halycon got up and stretched out his wings and shook his spines. Vae sighed and looked out the window of the small bedroom. 
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