A Little Blackbird

(Disclaimer: This fanfiction does contain a unofficial fantribe) Created by StarryOcelot, Edits will be irregular and chapters will have differing length
Two sets of talons walked on the forest floor, one thudded harshly and the other soft and dainty.
"Ugh, who cares about these stupid patrols!"
"I care because we are the ones who are keeping the other LeafWings safe"
"Do you really think the HiveWings will find us? The jungle is impenetrable!"
"Well, Waterwheel," The LeafWing snickered slightly at the name, "When HiveWings come and are killing us i'll ask you if you care then."
The other LeafWing growled slightly, about to make a remark, when he saw something in a bush.
"Hey, whats that?"
"Probably nothing."
The male LeafWing, Waterwheel, moved aside the leaves of the bush and stared at it in wonder
"Hey, what'd you go all moony-eyes about?"
"It's... an egg"
"What?" The female LeafWing jogged up to Waterwheel's side to have a look
"Huh, i'm impressed, you're actually right for once" The female LeafWing paused after she said this, looking at the egg. It definitely wasn't a LeafWing egg, for it was a pale, slightly off-color white. She thought she saw a shimmer of scales move underneath the surface.
She leaned down to sniff the egg, it smelled slightly of the ocean and lightning, as if was tossed out in a storm. But who would abandon their egg? And... How did it get this far into the jungle? She looked at it again. It looks like a dragon egg, but it's not any Pantalan dragon's, so what and who's is it? She noticed a note lying in the grass nearby, she went to pick it up.
"Take care of Blackbird" She read, "So, I guess this is Blackbird....Well, we might as well take it back to Queen Sequoia"
== Chapter 1 ==
I eagerly flicked my wings, I was going to see one of the Hives next week! I perked my ears up as i heard scrabbling, I quickly turned around to see a LeafWing quickly fly away from me. I sighed, I was used to this kind of treatment. Ever since Venus brought back my egg, I've always been the odd one out. I knew i wasn't a LeafWing, I didn't even know what i was! I looked down at my claws and then up at my wings. Why are my claws so tiny, why are my scales red and black, and why do i have four wings? I wasn't paying attention to my surrounding and then smacked into something. I quickly looked up to see who it was and gasped in horror, it was Queen Sequoia!
"I'm so so so so sorry!" I said, quickly bowing.
Queen Sequoia sighed, "It's okay it was an accident" She was quiet for a moment, lost in thought. Then she said, "Why don't you go hunting? We could always use more food"
"Yes, your Majesty!" And I ran off.
Queen Sequoia shook her head before continuing on her stroll.
Hmm... who should I bring with me? I need someone else who knows the jungle a bit better than me. Oh! I perked up, Maple! that's who i'll bring, now where is she?
I swung my head around, looking for Maple. I didn't spot her, Well, her house is a good place to try then. I swung towards a leaf house in the high reaches of the canopy. I land softly inside and spotted Maple's father, Elm.
"Do you happen to know where Maple is?"
Elm turned around a look of surprise on his face quickly replace by gentleness. "Ah, Blackbird, Yes, Maple is in her room"
"Ok, thank you!" I walked hurriedly over to Maple's room and knocked on the wall, since her door was a curtains of vines.
"Come in... And don't mess anything up!" Maple said
"Huge overreaction" I said, walking in
"Yeah, that one time you almost set the village on fire, that was a huge overreaction" Maple rolled her eyes
"It was only once, I've learned to control my fire now" I said, exasperated.
"Hmmph, fine, anyways... What did you want?" Maple asked curiously.
"Well, I'm going hunting and would like you to come along!" After a few moments of silence i added:
"I need some one who know the jungle"
"Nonsense, You know the jungle better than anyone else i know" Maple replied
"Sooo, Will you come?" I asked, accidentally stepping on her tail
"Ow!" Maple looked at her tail with a disgruntled expression, "I will come, only if you don't do that"
== Chapter 2 ==
"How many times do i have to say it? I'm sorry!" Blackbird cried
As Maple looked away, her shoulders started shaking, giving away her laughter.
"Stop laughing at me!" Blackbird cried, outraged. But she couldn't stay mad for long, and soon, she began laughing too. After a few moments, Maple managed to cease her laughter and flopped down on a tree branch.
Blackbird hopped over to Maple and poked her shoulder, "Come on, we're supposed to be hunting!"
Maple rolled over and got up, "Okay, come on, I know a great spot!" Maple leaped into the air with Blackbird close behind. Blackbird quickly caught up to Maple and did a backflip, while avoiding stray tree branches.
"Stop showing off..."
"Why?" Blackbird asked with a grin, "You jealous? I'm good at flying, you're good at everything else"
"Oh come on! We both know you're smarter than, like, everyone! You just don't want to be lonely"
"Watch this!" Blackbird yelled as she flew through a cluster of dragontraps, one nearly snapping her tail.
"Blackbird! Don't do that! You scared me!" Maple has a worried expression.
"Alright, fine, I admit that was bad" Blackbird flew back up beside Maple and started scanning the trees. Suddenly Maple stopped, staring at a tree.
"Panther" Maple whispered, pointing to a huge ebony panther a couple trees over. "You go that side, I'll take this side"
Blackbird nodded and flew silently north of the panther and settled on a tree. She slowly crept up on it, and Maple came from the other side. The panther hadn't seen them yet, but it would soon. Maple nodded at Blackbird, and Blackbird leaped at the panther. She slammed her claws into the panthers neck, and Maple leaped on the panther haunches, successfully pinning it. The panther wiggled for a bit before Blackbird bit it's throat, successfully killing it.
About an hour later, Blackbird flopped onto the jungle floor, and whined at Maple.
"My wings are tired, let's rest!"
Maple landed softly next to Blackbird, exasperated, "Oh i know your lying, you have the strongest wings I've ever seen, so if i can fly with this panther, so can you" Maple then tried to make Blackbird get up, but she rolled over, away from Maple.
"Nooo" Blackbird mumbled "Panther too big, want to sleep!"
"Blackbird, stop throwing a tantrum! You sound like whiny dragonet!" Maple glanced at the sky but only saw the trees swaying leaves "It's getting dark, if we hurry, we can get back to the village before nightfall. Besides, didn't the Queen send you?"
"Huh? How'd you know that?"
"I know you Blackbird, when you go hunting, there's a fair chance that Queen Sequoia sent you, so that's an even better reason to get moving"
"The Queen only does that so i don't make her subjects too uncomfortable"
Maple sighed, but her expression grew soft, "Oh, come on, the Queen is fair and just, i'm sure that's not the case."
"Yeah it is" Blackbird mumbled, looking away from Maple, "I checked the food storage recently, it's nearly overflowing"
"Well i'm sure that there is another reason. Hey, are you falling asleep on me?!"
"Noo..." Blackbird said unconvincingly, lazily swatting at Maple
"Yes, you are!" Maple said accusingly and tried to push Blackbird up "Get your lazy rear up and moving, i don't care how tired you are!" Blackbird turned and dragged Maple to the ground, pinning her with her wing.
"Come on Maple, i know you haven't been sleeping recently"
Maple struggled for a little bit, but soon gave up and sighed, "I guess your right..." Her eyelids began to droop
"As usual"
== Chapter 3 ==
Blackbird slowly opened her eyes to see the jungle around her. Yesterday she hadn't been able to see it well because it had been night. She got up and turned slowly in a full circle to survery her surroundings, there was a cluster of dragontraps to her left, probably the same ones she flew threw earlier. She looked to her right and saw a small waterfall with some manicheel trees in the distance. She went over to inspect the pond at the base of the waterfall, sure enough, there was waterwheels and other dangerous plants in the water. Looking back at the dragontraps, she saw a huge spiderweb as well. Blackbird sat down to figure out where the village would be.
So, it took about 30 minutes to reach the fallen cranberry tree, that was northeast of the village, then we took a right and 20 minutes later we found came across an unusually big cluster of dragontraps, the ones that i flew threw, then we flew past that old decaying tree with yellowed leaves and found the panther. After we caught it, we flew south for about an hour, so those dragontraps are not the same, so... with how slow we were flying, we are probably an hours flight south of the village.
After figuring out where they were, Blackbird yawned and stretched her wings to their fullest extent, even flapping them a few times. She then reached under her wing to itch her scales, but felt something soft and feathery. Blackbird whipped her head around to see what it was and saw four long ebony feathers stuck in between her scales. 
Oh, did a crow rub against my scales? There aren't many birds that brave in the Poison Jungle, or birds, for that matter.
She reached down to grab the feather, but it stayed firmly attached. With a quick, sudden, pull, she managed to rip the feather out. Ow, that hurts. Blackbird looked at the feather, it didn't seem to be any different from a birds, apart from being larger of course, it was about as long as her wrist to her claw tip, black in color, with greenish blue showing when the sun struck it, the shaft was grey and ended in a drop of maroon blood, her blood. She swiftly pulled out the other three feathers and puzzled over them for a minute. 
The only explanation is that the feathers are a part of me, just like my scales. But dragons aren't supposed to have feathers! Well, i can't do anything right now, i'll have to wait until i get home. For now, it's just another thing to add to the list of why i'm weird, but i should stop the blood before i pass out or Maple wakes up.
Blackbird trotted over to the pond and dropped the feathers in. She then took some of the moss growing on the rocks and carefully dipped it into the water. After that, she flew up to the spiderweb and grabbed some strands of the web. Once she landed, she thoroughly mixed the web and moss together and stuck it over the bleeding spots in between her scales.
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