Photuris

Note from Siren: Pollywog has left the wiki for an undetermined amount of time. Because of this, Photuris will not be continued until she gets back.
Characters (in order of appearance):
Sky General Ursa Major - Main Character 
Reef General Halley - Main Character 
Solar - Side Character 
Sea General Orion - Side Character 
Messenger Aquila - Side Character 
Vega - Side Character 
Captain Polaris - Side Character 
== Prologue ==
The grass blew in the soft breeze, hiding chirping crickets, worms surfacing for the first time after the heavy rainstorm, delicate seeds, and the spy. This spy wasn’t dangerous though, the kind that carried sharp daggers or deadly poisons to assassinate targets. This spy would be utterly incapable of doing those things, both morally and physically. This spy was only trying to do what a lot of young dragonets did at his age. Spy on a cute girl. 
The grass ticked Ursa Major’s nose, but he did his best not to sneeze. He didn’t want to get caught by the girl he was spying on, for fear of being punished, or worse, the girl thinking that he was a creepy guy. He sort of was, but not really. He was just too shy to go up to talk to her. 
Ursa Major sighed, watching her. Halley’s perfect, he thought, and he wasn’t wrong. Halley was beautiful, with her odd teal-colored scales. She was kind, and could be seen helping someone even now, giving a talonful of berries to a poor old dragon on the side of the road. And she was brave, strong, and smart, the perfect candidate for the Reef General that she knew she was going to become. 
Ursa Major thought that she was far too good for him, but in reality, they were a perfect match. Ursa Major was handsome too, and kind, and strong and brave. But there was one problem, besides them only being six-year-old dragonets.
Halley didn’t know he existed. 
If Ursa Major left flowers at her door, she thanked Solar, the buff, full-of-himself dragon that lived next door to Halley, and also happened to have a crush on her. If Ursa Major told Halley’s sister, Aquila to tell Halley that he liked her, it would somehow get jumbled into Aquila telling Halley that Solar liked her.
Ursa Major had the feeling that Aquila liked Solar for her sister a lot better than Ursa Major.
Which he respected, which is why he stopped sending Halley flowers and telling Aquila to talk to Halley. He really was too young for romance, anyway.
Ursa Major sighed again, watching Halley bound off, arm-in-arm with Aquila. Just then, a talon tapped him on the shoulder, and he jumped about a mile, whirling around with a guilty expression on his face before he sighed in relief. “You scared me half to death, Orion.” Orion was his best friend, and the top candidate for Sky General, something that Ursa Major supported entirely. He wanted to be a General too, but knew that it was a huge responsibility that very few dragons ever got. He’d just be happy to be a soldier, maybe even a captain. 
Orion rolled his eyes. “Were you seriously spying on Halley again? That’s creepy, you know that, right?”
Ursa Major’s cheeks reddened. “I--it is not! And I wasn’t spying on her anyway, I--i was looking for a--a piece of skyfire that I’d dropped. But I think it’s lost forever and ever now, so let’s go home and forget this ever happened, okay?”
Orion smirked. “Okay. I’ll forget that you were SPYING ON HALLEY!” he shouted the last part at the top of his lungs, and all over the town, dragons’ heads popped up and turned to look at them. 
Ursa Major immediately dropped to the ground, covering his head from dragon eyes. “Orion,” he moaned. “Why would you do that to me?”
Orion shrugged. “Because you deserved it.” He reached an arm down and hauled Ursa Major up. “Now come on, you need to get home. Don’t you have your first DIVE tournament tomorrow?” 
“Right,” Ursa Major said. He started walking home, Orion by his side. 
When they passed Halley on the path, he kept his head down so she wouldn’t see him. Orion rolled his eyes at this, and when she was behind them, he said, “Don’t you want her to notice you?”
“Yes. . .no. . .I don’t know,” Ursa Major said sullenly.
Orion chuckled. “You’re going to have a lot of trouble finding a mate with that attitude.”
Ursa Major’s cheeks turned so red they looked like they were on fire. “We’re only six! That thought should not be in your head for at least another ten years!” 
Orion smirked, but said nothing. They walked on in silence for a few more minutes, until they came to Ursa Major’s house, the largest one on the block. Ursa Major was immediately suspicious, and worried. The door was askew, and there were crashing and shouting noises coming from inside the building.
Ursa Major stepped towards the open door. “Mother?” he asked tentatively. 
Just then, a large, black-clad dragon carrying tons of jewelry ran out of the house, followed swiftly by Ursa Major’s mother, shouting “Thief! Thief!”
She tackled the thief, pinning him to the ground. “Are you okay, mother?” Ursa Major asked. His mother turned towards him, just in time for the thief to raise an enormous iron platter studded with skyfire and hit Ursa Major’s mother on the head with it. She collapsed to the ground with a stunned expression, and the thief ran away, escaping into the forest.
Ursa Major ran over to his mother. Her eyes were open wide and glassy, and there was a small trickle of blood running down her forehead. She wasn’t breathing.
Ursa Major turned to the disappearing tail of the thief. In that moment, everything burned away. His love for Halley, his friendship with Orion, everything. Except for a burning desire for revenge, to save other dragons from this same fate. 
I will become the Sky General, he swore. And I will be the greatest Sky General of all time, so no one, no one, ever dies the way Mother did.
Eight years later, he fulfilled his dream. He was the greatest Sky General Photuris had ever seen. And all it had cost him was Halley. 
At least, that’s what he thought. . .
== Chapter One: Halley's Day ==
A thrush chirped their 3-beat call loudly in response to his mate. Other birds joined in. The sun rose, shining a small beam through Halley's window. "Good morning my Dive competitors," The female Cometwing announced comically. She got up off her rock slate, flaring in and out her back plates. "Gennnnnneral Halley is up! She's ready for the act, the run, the spinning day!" Halley spread her wings, hitting the sides of her house. Bouncing up and down, she pretended to be pumping up the crowd. "Here she is, coming over into a dust-spin," The teal-gray dragon shivered all over, shaking the dust off. "And spinning over to a jaw cleanser," She continued making fake moves for the 'Dive competition', grooming herself. She picked her claws clean, washed her wings with saltwater, then stretched her different limbs. "Seems like that's all for today folks ... her time is ticking down ..." 
"What's this?" Halley slipped on her Reef General vest. "A brand-new move ..." The bubbly dragon pinned on her coral-shaped badge. "The eternal ice badge! Look at that! All these points add up to a hundred trillion gajillion," She looked down proudly at her badge. "And for her final act, the horn ring dance," Halley trotted over to her grooming drawer, and whipped her tail in a circle. Her talons carefully plucked out a moonstone horn ring. She slipped it on her horn, fitting a bit too tight. "TIME! Her performance was OUTSTANDING!" 
"Halley." A gray-blue Cometwing appeared in the doorway of Halley's small home. She looked like the same dragon as Halley, only ocean blue instead of teal and smaller wings. "It's your fifth day from the break. You shouldn't be this late-"
"Aquila!" Halley cheered, walking over to her sister. "I'm so sorry. I normally wake up before the sun, but this time I was thinking, If I've seen my sister every day in the morning, can I just sleep in a bit more and not go for once? Come on, do I need to check on you every day little sister?" Halley tilted her head, glaring at her sibling.
"Halley. You at least need to tell us if you wont come- but this is sudden. It took forever to keep Vega in-" Out hopped a creamy-gray Cometwing with sky blue tints. Her face brightened up. 
"Aunt Halley! You forgot to check on me. You really missed out- a bat flew in last night! Can you imagine that? Right through the window when I was curling up and reading a book. Crazy!"
"Crazy indeed," Halley replied before her sister could scorn Vega. "Now, I couldn't come to your AWESOME den, but I do have to get busy. Why don't you come with me so I can take you to school?" Halley looked back up at her sister, Aquila. My captain, who is under me, is waiting for breakfast. I need to grab that freaky hawk before it flies to it's nest this morning. She hoped that Aquila could understand what she was thinking without hearing it. Halley stayed still, waiting for permission. 
"Okay, but you have to get there soon. Her teacher says she has morning flight class this week-" The dragonet was hopping up and down. "Vega, we will have a talk about you following me later." 
"Thank you, thank you! UP UP AND AWAY," Halley scooped up Vega, cheering as they ran off to the trail. Both of their tails were swaying back and forth excitedly.
"You are both dragonets!" Aquila called out as they left. 
"CAN'T HEAR YOU," Halley yelled back to her sister - from the same hatching 18 years ago. Halley and Vega glided over the lagoon and landed on Eye Island. She dug her claws in the moist sand. A wingbeats ahead of them was a tall building. "We are here," Halley said, nudging her niece forward. "Go learn Geography,"
"Nooooo. I want to hunt with YOU. Please please please Aunt Halley, can't I go with you to work?" Vega batted her eyes.
"Nope. Maybe tomorrow," Halley suggested, half lying. I really wish I could, but I should be there soon. I barely have time to even hunt, let alone meet my captain! She thought, lifting off. "See you this afternoon!" The 18-year-old yelled back to her buddy. 
"See you soon, Auntie!" Vega hopped up, flying over to the school. Adrenaline hit Halley: She was supposed to have met Captain Polaris with food at the reef right now!
"Oh no!" Halley murmured, speeding up to the east. Finally, she reached her watch tower. Grasping a falcon in her claws, she sat down at the table. "Polaris, sorry I kept you waiting. Your top soldiers will be taking the loop patrol," The very light cream dragon glared at her. "I know, I'm late for the meeting. Tomorrow I think I'm supposed to have a dawn meeting with the other officer," Ripping up the falcon evenly, she felt his stare beat down at her. 
"You have been doing this job for two years," he began, picking up a leg of the falcon. "And yet a meeting, or rather any change in schedule, throws you off by a whole morning flight. I may not be your boss, but it is obvious you need some counseling." Polaris had a soft voice for a 42-year-old. It was calming, barely scratchy. 
"What, uh, sir," she said, chuckling nervously. "I love my job. My life fits into everyday perfectly. I get to watch my niece grow up, I can see my sister everyday, work always keeps me busy ..." The 42-year-old titled his head down. Flicking his tail impatiently, he began to speak. 
"Seeing as I cannot help you with this topic, let's continue with the meeting. My north-sea patrol took the stretch at midnight, with only report being bull sharks trying to enter the lagoon at high tide." Polaris picked out a few feathers from the falcons wing, and swallowed the rest. "They stopped them, of course. Southern patrol states that a strong western gust is blowing down reef huts ..." The two Cometwings continued catching up with each others work. Normal events, nothing new came up. "So, as your captain, I can say that nothing worrying has happened in the past month." Noticing the sun at it's highest, General Halley got up and began to leave. Before she could open her wings, Captain Polaris quickly added, "You have met General Ursa Major, yes?" Recognizing his name, Halley's ear perked up. 
"I believe I have briefly met him, yes," General Halley said, remembering a very short introduction with him once she got the job. "However, I haven't had a big enough problem to have to report to him, no." 
Captain Polaris got up, leaving on his own. "Well. I shall see you soon," He pumped his wings heavily once he got in the sky, soaring off. Halley looked down at her talons. Great meeting! It went well, right? Yep. Yep. Now let's just go to my afternoon-check up, and I'll be fine. No problems- just-just a normal Halley day. Right? 
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File:Cometwing 20210427192309.png|Cometwing Base by Pollywog
This is a WIP fanfiction that will be updated often! Siren and Pollywog both hope you enjoy.
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