Scales to Skin

This is a story taken from the Inspiration box, feel free to check it out!
== Prologue ==
Battlefinder carefully cradled her egg, its deep maroon sheen reflecting in her eyes. “Oh my little egg, once you hatch I have so much to share with you.” She sat atop a large peak somewhere in between the Ice Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sand. Her eyes carefully scanned the horizon for other dragons. Battlefinder was a famous NightWing general, and had more than one bounty on her head. This didn’t stop her from trying to settle down, though. 
She had found a lovely dragon named Thoughtchaser and the two of them had a clutch of eggs, but only this one seemed to have had the will to make it through the harsh nights up in the mountains. Battlefinder always looked for possible intruders, forever afraid that the IceWings would attack her for all those she slayed during the war. She wasn’t looking behind her, though. A deep and menacing voice sounded from somewhere behind. “NightWing swine, you and your egg shall pay for all you have done to the IceWings.” The voice became a cold, threatening snarl. “I enchant your egg so that the dragon who hatches will become a scavenger at the age of 5. Nothing before before then will kill the dragonet, including other animi. This dragonet will have all the powers of an animus in scavenger form, except they will be unable to return to being a dragon until all NightWings have paid for their misdeeds. Should the dragonet encounter a NightWing as a scavenger, they will have the irresistible urge to kill the dragon.” The strange IceWing let out a deep breath, chilly air surrounding the startled dragoness from behind. Battlefinder gently placed her egg down during the incantation, and silently lunged at the mysterious animus. A tangle of fire and claws. 
By the time she had her claws around the IceWing's neck, it was too late. Her precious egg had been cursed. And so was she. “I enchant this dragoness to slay all scavengers on sight.” They wheezed. The IceWing had no fear in their eyes. No animus should, Battlefinder supposed. Then she saw it. A bracelet on the IceWing's wrist. Two taps on the ground later, and the IceWing had vanished. Moved somewhere safe, likely. Battlefinder let out a loud and pained roar. Who ever that dragon was, she would track them down. She thought it best to leave her egg here anyways, she was cursed to kill her egg, and her egg was cursed to kill her. 
Starfinder was hatched that very night, up on the mountain, all alone. Her mother Battlefinder had recklessly flown into the Ice Kingdom, getting shot down by the Gift of Defense. Thoughtchaser found her, though. The dead IceWing laying next to her was a giveaway that Battlefinder had been attacked. Where she was, he would never know. As the dragonet emerged from her egg, the sky lit up with the tails of stars falling from the sky. The little dragonet looked up and seemed to jump and those falling stars, wanting to take them for herself. Thus, Thoughtchaser named her Starfinder, in honor of her lost mother. 
== Chapter 1 ==
Starfinder grew up over the next moons, learning to fly and hunt and going to school like all other NightWings. She had an outgoing personality, so it didn’t take long for her to become one of the most popular dragonets her age. Thoughtchaser soon found it too much to raise Starfinder on his own, and found a new partner in Moonwinner. Starfinder never once missed her mother, the supposedly strong dragoness would have likely butted heads with her quite a lot. They all moved to the rainforest, and under Queen Glory’s rule lived fairly comfortably. Fate would have it that Starfinder discovered a small village of scavengers in the outskirts of the rainforest, right outside of the MudWing kingdom. Starfinder was curious about them at first, but decided that such puny little things weren’t worth her time. 
the deep maroon dragonet groaned “A whole scroll worth?!? That’s way too much for an assignment about a bunch of royals fighting.” 
“The war of SandWing Succession was an important part of history, Starfinder. Studying it to its fullest is important for understanding why the nightwings live in the rainforest today.” Moonwinner patiently reminded her. Don’t get her wrong, Starfinder loved her stepdad, but he was just so annoying to her some times. Don’t forget to do your chores this, watch your attitude that. Most rainwing dragonets her age didn’t even know about the details of the war, just that it was over and that queen glory was ruling the kingdom well now. Why did she have to learn more than that? But Moonfinder was insistent that she learn boring things like that. He gave her one last warning glare before stalking off into the other room. 
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