Seven Shadows, Seven Lights

Characters: MudWing: Caiman(Male), SandWing: Aardwolf(Male), SkyWing: Olympus(Male), SeaWing: Jellyfish(Female), RainWing: Hibiscus(Female), IceWing: Verglas(Female), NightWing: Darkflame(Male).
=== The Seven Thieves Prophecy ===
Seven Dragons to enter the shadows, Seven dragons to fight with their past. Seven dragons who though are thieves forsaken, Shall enter the light at long last. 
The Wings of Sky shall bring the Rain, Sea and Sand shall find love in pain. The Wings of Ice shall deal a card, and Night shall shatter at her word. The Wings of Mud shall seek to find, a peace that shortly lies behind. 
Seven dragons to enter the shadows, Seven dragons to find a light. They must fight with honer and talons united, or surrender and lose the fight. 
== Prologue: ==
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Several jarring thuds that happened to be the sound of seven dragons crash landing into the beach of an island that was largely uninhabited sounded, the seven sending up tidal waves of wet sand as they landed. "MMMPH!!" growled one, a SkyWing, who happened to have his head stuck in the sand, and not finding it very enjoyable.
The other six dragons, a NightWing, a MudWing, a SandWing, a SeaWing, an IceWing and a RainWing, were practically coated with sand, but didn't land head-first, so they were able to dig themselves out quicker. "Hey, Caiman, you great hulking lump of meat!" the NightWing, known as Darkflame, shouted. "Help me pull Olympus out of the sand, would you?" "Sure thing!" Caiman called back, shaking wet sand off of his back talons and running over.
While the two of them were pulling Olympus' head out of the ground, the RainWing, also known as Hibiscus, growled, and grumbled rather loudly. "Ugh, what is this horribly awful scratchy stuff called? Sand? It stuck in between my scales and its driving me crazy!" She shook a month's worth of sand off of her scales, which happened to land on Aardwolf, the SandWing, who hissed and said, "Hey, stop!" Hibiscus said nothing, but glared at the SandWing, her scales orange, green, and black with displeasure.
The SeaWing, Jellyfish, growled at the IceWing, Verglas, who growled right back and proceeded to try and freeze Jellyfish's tail. Jellyfish bit Verglas on the IceWing's right forearm, to which Verglas roared and shot Frostbreath at Caiman, a tiny bit brushing his wing. "Ow!" he yelped.
Darkflame and Caiman got Olympus' head out of the sand a few minutes later, and the seven dragons turned to face the forbidding forest that was looming up behind them.
== Part 1: Seven Shadows ==
== Chapter 1: POV: Olympus ==
Five months later... 
Olympus walked through the jungle, swatting flies and other irritating insects away from his ears as he headed towards the beach to get some water. Him and the others had crashed on this island five moths ago after being banished from their kingdoms. Ironically, they had been captured after stealing something, every one of them, even that lazy stupid RainWing with sass and a bad attitude. Oh, sure, maybe he had tried to steal the queen's roasted pheasant out from under her nose, but only because he was hungry!
They had been brought to the Sky Kingdom, and all seven of them together were tried in the old Arena. The seven queens had all ultimately decided to banish them from the face of Pyrrhia, instead of giving them the death penalty, which is what most of them would have done. Of course, they couldn't have exiled them all to different islands, so that they didn't have to be together, but nooo. They just had to crash land together and stay together like a giant soppy disgusting pile of MudWing siblings.
Olympus swatted several more flies out of his ears. Three moons, even the Sky Kingdom didn't have this many horrible insects and noises and whatnot invading his ears! He finally broke free of the jungle, and ran towards the ocean. Olympus couldn't swim, but he could fly for long periods of time, like any self-respecting SkyWing.
Olympus gripped the crude wooden bucket that he had brought with his teeth, launched himself into the air, and dove towards the ocean. He filled the bucket up to the top, and launched himself over the trees, landing near the jungle and taking a breath of the salty sea air before walking back into the jungle to deliver the water.
It was a shame that they were the only ones on the island, aside from jungle birds and animals. The seven of them could have used some more help. Over the course of five months, the seven of them had slowly built a small settlement in the treetops, getting tips from that RainWing, oh, what was her name again? Olympus could never remember, and even if he did, he didn't care. SkyWings were much more superior than RainWings, anyhow. Oh, yes, Hibiscus.
Now that he thought about it, maybe RainWings were useful after all. He was nearing the settlement they had made. Olympus could sort of hear the sound of six different dragon voices shouting at each other over the noise of the jungle. He flew up, smacking into vines and other things, but managed to get up to the trees without spilling most of it. He dumped the water in the desalinazationater that Darkflame, the NightWing had made two months ago.
Then he walked over to his ramshackle hut and flopped onto a bed of leaves. Olympus stood up, growled, and kicked the leaves out of the way with disgust. He was a soldier. By now, he was used to sleeping on hard surfaces without anything between the floor and his scales. The others could sleep on the leaves, but that was not for him. Olympus may have been in exile, forced off the continent of Pyrrhia and sleeping in a hut that was 70 meters up in the air on some random island, but he would never put anything in between the ground and his scales. He liked it that way. And that's how he would keep it.
== Chapter 2: POV: Jellyfish ==
Jellyfish hated the jungle and where Queen Tidal had banished her to. She hadn't stolen anything. It was all Deep's fault. Her older sister, Deep, was a secret member of a group of thieves in the Kingdom of the Sea. A couple of months ago, Deep had told Jellyfish and their parents, Kelp and Hammerhead, that she was meeting with some friends of hers.
Deep asked if Jellyfish wanted to come, and she said she wasn't sure, to which Deep had replied with, "Oh, you'll love it." Her sister had an unsettling glint in her eyes that morning. Deep asked their parents if Jellyfish could come with her to meet Deep's friends. Kelp and Hammerhead gave their permission, but made Deep promise to look after Jellyfish. Soon after Deep and Jellyfish met up with a SeaWing by the name of Koi. The three of them swam through the Kingdom of the Sea, and eventually came to a low lying building made of rocky coral.
The building was the headquarters of the Royal Map-makers for the Kingdom of the Sea. Koi and Deep started whispering to each other, and then when Deep told her what they were going to do, Jellyfish didn't want to do it. Deep called her a scaredy-salamander, and told her that they would get in and get out as fast as they could. The three of them had swam in through a back entrance that only Koi knew about, and snuck through the halls, finding the maps that they needed.
But when one of the map-makers had caught Jellyfish sneaking the maps into her satchel, the SeaWing raised the alarm. Jellyfish saw that Koi and Deep had disappeared into the shadows. She was held in a back room under lock and key while the guards arrived. When they did, Jellyfish was taken to the palace before Queen Tidal, who threw her in prison. Ironically, that exact same day, six other dragons were arrested for stealing, too. One from each of the seven tribes.
Jellyfish was knocked out and taken to the Sky Kingdom, where she woke up to find herself chained to the Arena floor with a clamp around her neck. There were six other dragons there, from all the seven tribes, as well as the seven queens. The queens had voted to exile them, and the next thing Jellyfish knew, the guards were dragging them to the island where they would be exiled to.
Now, she was trapped on the island, under strict orders not to leave, and stuck with the other six dragons, including that irritating IceWing, Verglas, who had tried to freeze her tail off! Jellyfish heard the MudWing, Caiman, shout "Lunch Break!" She growled, as she wanted to smash that lazy dragon's head in daily. The settlement had seven ramshackle huts built in a circle, with windows in the walls and large entryways. The roofs were made of overlapping jungle leaves, giving the huts a calming, light green tint. The huts were connected by long wooden bridges that were held together by a lot of rope. In the center was a pavilion that was built similarly to the huts, but on a much bigger scale.
Jellyfish got up off her leaf bed, where she had been laying for the past several minutes, and stomped down the wooden bridge to the pavilion. There was a table that Aardwolf, the SandWing, had carved with his own claws. Jellyfish thought that was pretty impressive. Out of all of the six dragons at the table, Jellyfish liked Aardwolf the best, probably because the SandWing had been the only one who tried to talk to her when she woke up in the Arena.  
On the table were many different kinds of food, from small jungle birds for Caiman, Olympus, Verglas, and Darkflame, to different jungle fruits for Hibiscus, to fish for her. There were even some small lizards for Aardwolf. Jellyfish looked around the table and noticed that Darkflame and Caiman, across from her, were talking about the desalinazationater, how it worked and how Darkflame made it. Hibiscus and Verglas were telling jokes to one another, and Jellyfish noticed that Hibiscus' scales were a galaxy of golden yellow, neon pink, and navy blue, which suprised her, as she didn't think that Hibiscus was capable of showing any emotions besides annoyance and anger. 
Olympus was ripping the head off a jungle bird, not talking to anyone, and he had smoke pouring from his nose. 'Is he angry about something?' Jellyfish thought. Olympus' eyes were like burning coals through the smoke. He caught her eye, and growled deeply, before saying, "What are you looking at, huh, SeaWing?" "Nothing." Jellyfish shot back. "Good. Keep it that way." the SkyWing growled. Jellyfish flicked her gaze over to Aardwolf, watching as the SandWing skewered a lizard with his claws and popped it into his mouth. 
The SandWing caught her eye and asked, "Yes, Jellyfish? What's wrong?" "Oh, nothing." she replied, holding his obsidian black gaze. She noticed that he seemed to have a hint of gold-amber deep in all the obsidian black. She studied him. Jellyfish hadn't been able to get a good look at Aardwolf in the Sky Kingdom Arena, because a neck clamp restricted her movement. 
Aardwolf was a pale gold color over all, with a tan snout under his nose horn. The scales on his neck were overall the same pale gold color as most of his face, but the scales right next to his frill were a dark yellow-gold color. His frill was a dark tan color, and his horns and underbelly were pale pale gold, almost white. His claws were black like his eyes, and the under side of his wings were the same color as his frill. His barb was black like his claws and his horns. 
The seven of them finished eating, and then Jellyfish shouted, "Going back to my hut!" She ran out, and went back to the hut, then squeezed through a window when no one was watching, and flew towards the sea.
==Chapter 3: POV: Caiman==
Caiman lumbered across the wooden bridge to his hut, and flopped onto his back when he got in, shaking the hut with a thud. He had enjoyed talking to Darkflame, although he secretly found what they were talking about super boring. Besides, he bet Darkflame could send everyone but himself to sleep by talking about that because it was probably the most boring thing on the island. 
Caiman was once the bigwings of a troop of MudWings, back before he had become a thief. What he had stolen was nothing humongous. It was just a quail for himself, since his troop was all dead, killed in the SandWing War several years back. He missed his siblings, all of them.
'Quail, Frog, Mire, Pebble, Mushroom, I failed you all. I wasn't the bigwings you expected me to be that day. And now you're all gone, and it's all my fault. All my fault. All my fault. It's my fault you're dead. Because of me. Because I was trying to save my own scales instead of protecting you. I'm a coward and a failure. It's all my fault, and you're dead because of me.' 
Caiman thought he could feel his sibling's disapproval even though they were dead. 'I'm sorry.' he thought miserably. Then, he thought he heard the oldest besides himself, Quail growl, 'Sorry doesn't cut it!' "I didn't mean for you all to die, I just-" Quail's voice interrupted Caiman, then Caiman saw his brother, along with his other siblings, all looking at him, with disappointment in their eyes. 
 'You were a coward that day, Caiman. You got us all killed. You disappointed us that day. You disappointed me.' Quail's voice hissed, even though he was dead. Caiman thought, 'how am I supposed to make him happy? He's disappointed in me. I'm a failure.' Caiman began to cry. 'You failed us. Now, act like a true bigwings, and not like a coward!' Quail roared. Caiman began to cry harder. 'Lay off, Quail. Take a break.' Pebble admonished him. 
Then she stepped forward and said, 'It's all right to cry, Caiman. I think only Quail is disappointed in you, because he expected you to be able to lead us better than you did. He had... very high expectations, and when you didn't meet up to them, he... got angry. It's all right to cry. That doesn't mean you aren't truly a bigwings. You're a bigwings at heart, and you can do this. You can make friends with the other six. You have to get up the courage to try.' "Yeah. Thanks, Pebble." Caiman said, with a small smile. 'That's the Caiman I know and love. By the way, I want to sing something to you that I came up with on the day that you lost us all. Here it goes:
Sing your way home, At the close of the day. Sing your way home, Drive the shadows away. It'll lighten your way, It'll brighten your day, If you sing your way home. 
Well, how do you think?' "It's really pretty, Pebble. Thanks." 'No problem, Caiman. I'll be here for you when you need me. We all will. We know you need us. Now: GROUP HUG!!' Pebble's ghost shouted, and all of them, including Quail, fell on top of him and practically buried him under a pile of shimmering, translucent bodies. "Thanks, guys." Caiman said, with a laugh. 'No problem!' all of his siblings said together. They smiled at Caiman, and for the first time since he had lost them, he truly smiled back. 
== Chapter 4: POV: Verglas ==
Verglas, being an IceWing, the most superior of all of the dragon tribes, was much to dignified to walk across that dirty, wet, shoddy, ugly wooden bridge that that NightWing had made. She was a 2nd Circle IceWing! Her parents, Snowstorm and Yukon, were upper ranking nobles! She should be treated better than this! But when she complained about it at the trial, Queen Bobcat said no, and told her to be quiet. 
Verglas also hated the dragons she was now stuck with. She was much too important to her tribe to be left here for long. Any day now, Queen Bobcat would send a troop of her soldiers to escort Verglas back to the Ice Kingdom, she just knew it. And yet... as the days wore on and turned into months, Verglas had a sinking feeling that perhaps this wasn't temporary. Perhaps this was permanent. 
Besides, even if it was permanent, Verglas would find a way to escape this island and these dragons she was with. They were inferior, and if they were to come with her, they would just slow her down. However, she might let the RainWing come along, as long as Hibiscus didn't get in the way. 
Verglas enjoyed the RainWing's company, and found the jokes that Hibiscus told hilarious. Maybe she would like it here after all... NO, she couldn't, she wouldn't lean down to the other dragon's level, even if all the others were doing it. Out of all six dragons, she hated that SeaWing, Jellyfish, the most. 
True, that particular SeaWing hadn't killed her older brother, Puffin, but ever since her family had received news from a messenger that Puffin was killed while exploring the culture and etiquette in the Kingdom of the Sea(Puffin wasn't swimming, but he had reportedly been seen with a knife through his heart when soldiers found him), every SeaWing looked the same in Verglas' mind: Deserving of death, slowly, horribly, preferably by getting desembowled. 
Verglas was bored, so she walked out of the hut. She flew over the bridge, and asked Hibiscus, "So, what are we doing today, 'Biscus?" "Well," the RainWing replied, her scales shimmering with gold, indigo, and sky blue, not unlike the color of that disgusting SeaWing's scales, Verglas noticed. "Olympus is getting water, Caiman, I'm not sure what he's doing, Darkflame is checking the desalinizationater, Aardwolf is carving the leftover wood scraps into something for each of us, and I'm looking for Jellyfish." the RainWing said, her scales turning pale green with purplish orange and a very dark green mixed in, before the sky blue from before swept back over her scales. 
"You, my friend, can help me look for Jellyfish, or you can go hunting. That's what I should probably have Caiman do. Most of the time, he seems so stressed and sad, that I think that sending him hunting so that he's not sitting in his hut moping would be good for him. I wonder what caused it..." Hibiscus trailed off, and stared into the distance, the end of her tail turning gray and green. 
"I don't know. But I'm going hunting, 'Biscus. See you soon." "Have a good hunt, Verglas!" the RainWing called after her as she lifted off into the sky. Verglas landed in a clearing, with tall, leafy trees all around her, her ears flicking at the slightest noise. Everything, it seemed, was crowding into her ears, and Verglas realized that her hunting skills that she used in the Ice Kingdom would be practically useless in the middle of a rainforest. 
Verglas hissed irritatedly, and narrowed her eyes, crouching down in the grass and not moving, waiting for the slightest movement in the grass. After a couple of seconds, there! Off to the right! Verglas shot a blast of frostbreath at the creature, who squeaked once and went silent. Verglas walked over, and saw that she had caught a tiny toucan chick, which was just coming out of its egg. Well, so much of a life for this one. Verglas sliced the little bird's neck, and stuffed the body in a small bag made of the fur of an arctic hare that she had brought with her. 
She caught several more birds, some small lizards over by a pile of boulders near a stream, and climbed up the trees to pick some fruit. She also caught several monkeys who were stupid enough to think that she wouldn't be able to catch them if they climbed high enough. After she finished hunting, she brought it all back to the settlement, and dumped it on a back table in a heap, leaving Darkflame and the others to sort the prey out. Then she decided to fly towards the ocean when Olympus, that low-born SkyWing, got back. 
Olymus came back with a bucket of water, dumped it in the desalinizationater and got Darkflame all wet. Then the SkyWing stomped the bridge, complaining the entire time about how he hated having to do that particular job. Verglas smirked as she watched him go, and launched herself towards the direction of the sea. 
== Chapter 5: POV: Aardwolf ==
Aardwolf finished the 5th carving that he had made that day, a little statue of a SeaWing. He set it aside, next to 4 other statues, a SkyWing, a MudWing, a RainWing, and an IceWing. Now all he would have to do was carve a NightWing and a SandWing. He started on the body, shaping the statue's little talons and carving the tail into a point. As he started on the head, Darkflame came in and asked, "Hey Aardwolf. Have you seen Jellyfish lately? Hibiscus is looking for her." 
"No. The last I saw of her was when she was walking back to her hut. I've been sitting here since lunch. 'Kay?" "Okay, thanks, Aardwolf." The NightWing left, the orange scales on his face and sides flashing slightly in the afternoon light. 
Aardwolf turned his attention back to the statue, picking it up and beginning to chip out the teeth and a ferocious expression. He finished it sometime later, and set it aside with the other statues. Then he started on the SandWing. Several hours later, he finished the SandWing statue, and took it to his hut. A couple of minutes later, he heard Darkflame shout, "Dinner Break!" Aardwolf walked down the bridge and took his place at the table. The prey was passed around, and since there were no lizards, Aardwolf just settled for a jungle bird. 
After dinner was over, Aardwolf asked Hibiscus to pass around the statues he had made, seeing the happy looks on their faces as they received theirs, Verglas seeming particuraly smug, with a small smirk on her snout, but turning into a real smile as she received hers and Hibiscus gave it to her. Aardwolf kept Jellyfish's statue so he could give it to her when she got back. He missed her, and he liked the way her blue scales flashed in the sunlight. Oh, he could just see her now, splashing in the ocean, shooting up into the air and diving back in again, her scales shining all the while... 
"Aardwolf!" Aardwolf snapped back out of his daydream to see Hibiscus shaking him, and saying, "Um, did you fall asleep or something? Because you just got a very soppy expression on your face and started staring off into space, and sighing a lot." "Oh, no, I didn't fall asleep, just... missing Jellyfish, wherever she's run off to." "You're in love with her, aren't you?" "What, no! I just miss her being here, but it's not like I like, like her. No! It's nothing like that!" 
"Ooookay... Well, you can act all soppy and whatnot to the water bucket and bring some back. 'Kay?" "Okay..." "Good." Hibiscus said, handing him a crude wooden bucket. "Now get going!" The RainWing practically pushed him off the pavilion, and he flew towards the sea. 
He got to the beach, swooped low over the waves and scooped up some water, planning to fly back immediately after because he hated being wet, and the ocean was all together way too wet. As he started flying back, he heard a familiar voice say, "Hey Aardwolf. What are you doing here?" "Nothing." he mumbled, staring at his reflection in the water bucket, feeling miserable, knowing that the speaker couldn't, and wouldn't ever deserve him. And all because he was a thief. A dirty, rotten, no good, lying, stinking thief! 
Aardwolf wanted to roar his anger to the skies, make all the SandWings in the Kingdom of Sand feel his anger and self hatred, because of what he did. "Why did it have to be me?" he wanted to scream, to howl, to do anything, anything to make another dragon feel what he felt. "Aardwolf, I asked what you were doing here. Now please answer me." 
"Nothing." Aardwolf said again, clenching his talons in frustration. "I know you're doing something. After all, why else do you have the water bucket?" Aardwolf gritted his teeth. "Fine. I was just gathering water for Hibiscus." he said without turning around. "You sound angry, with a little bit of sadness mixed in. Who or what are you mad at? If you don't want to talk, I understand. I've felt the same way, Aardie." "Thanks, Jellyfish." Aardwolf said, turning around and smiling. 
"The others think I like you. Like, like, like you. It's embarrassing, and I don't want to admit it, but I think what they said is true. I-I do like you, like, like, like you." "Me too. I like, like you, too, Aardwolf." "Thanks, Jellyfish." "Stay with me?" the SeaWing whispered. "Stay with you. I'll stay." "Don't worry so much, Aardwolf. We'll be together, here, and anywhere. Together, forever. Us against the world." 
== Chapter 6: POV: Darkflame ==
Darkflame headed over to check the desalizationater one more time before going to bed. As he started it up, his mind wandered over to his family. He wondered how they were doing. Soon, though, his mind turned toward his secret, which he had told no one about but his family. He had future sight, and he hated it. It gave him headaches when a vision would come on, and nothing would help for a few minutes afterwards. 
After he finished checking the desalizationater,(which he checked about 15 times per day), he walked along bridge to his hut, seeing Verglas and Hibiscus talking by the area where the bridges split and went towards the different huts. Caiman and Olympus were asleep, Aardwolf still hadn't come back with water, and Jellyfish was still nowhere to be found. Darkflame walked over to the two dragons, who were talking in low voices. "Hi." he said, the strange orange scales along his sides and face glowing in the soft nodding light of the torches nearby. 
"Hey, Darkflame. How are you doing tonight?" Hibiscus said, her scales deep blue, green, and purple. "Tired. I'm planning on going to-to-" "To what, Darkflame?" He didn't answer. One of his awful vision headaches had started again, making him barely hear the RainWing's question and making their faces sort of blurry. His head felt like he had a swarm of angry bees in it, and like someone was trying to pry off the top. Darkflame clutched his horns, unable to hear anything but a low grating, humming sound, like the bees had just turned up the volume. Then words started pouring out of his mouth in a voice that he barely recognized. 
Seven Dragons to enter the shadows, Seven dragons to fight with their past. Seven dragons who though are thieves forsaken, Shall enter the light at long last. 
The Wings of Sky shall bring the Rain, Sea and Sand shall find love in pain. The Wings of Ice shall deal a card, and Night shall shatter at her word. The Wings of Mud shall seek to find, a peace that shortly lies behind. 
Seven dragons to enter the shadows, Seven dragons to find a light. They must fight with honer and talons united, or surrender and lose the fight. 
The voice lurched to a stop, and the bees went away, but the headache still lingered. "Darkflame!" Hibiscus shouted, slapping him across the face several times. "What?" he asked. Hibiscus stared at him in shock, her scales pale green with orange and purple mixed in. Verglas didn't speak, but Darkflame could see that her face was paler then normal. "What happened?"
"Um, well, I asked you where you were going, and you didn't reply. You just sort of looked at us, then the sky, and collapsed. I was shouting your name the entire time. You had your eyes shut for a few minutes, but when you opened them and talked, your eyed were blank, like you had gone blind or something." 
"Oh. Um, yeah. I was having one of my vision headaches. They aren't pleasant." "You can see the future?! Why didn't you tell us?!" Hibiscus growled, outraged, her scales turning orange, red, black, and green. "Um, well, I-I..." Darkflame paused for a moment. "It was a secret, okay? My secret, that I didn't want anyone to find out about. I hoped I could hide it, and I did, but now you two have found out..." With a sigh, Darkflame said, "Please don't tell the others. It's still my secret, and I don't intend to share it unintentionally with anyone else." 
"Fine, I won't tell. Verglas?" The IceWing had been silent the entire time, but finally spoke. "That sounded like a prophecy, but it can't be. NightWings don't have those moons rotted powers anymore! I-I thought that NightWings had lost those powers, and now... you have them?" "Y-yeah. I've kind of had them my entire life." "Wonderful." the IceWing hissed, anger clouding her eyes. "You... you... lied to us! You acted like you weren't anything special, but now, apparently, you are! You fatheaded son of a moons forsaken seal! I hope you choke on a whale carcass and die!" 
With a snarl, the IceWing lept toward him, but landed with a thump on the wooden floor of the bridge and Hibiscus grabbed her tail. "Verglas! Stop! I won't allow this! None of us, not even if we did something to another of our group, is allowed to physically, or verbally harm another!" Hibiscus shouted, pouncing on Verglas's left hind leg right as the IceWing swung her tail towards Darkflame. The spikes on Verglas' tail were cold as they sliced across Darkflame's chest. "Ow!" he yelled, lashing out with his claws, and slicing Verglas' snout, earning a pair of frostbreathed talons. "AAAHHH!!" Darkflame roared, his talons going numb and feeling like they were being trapped in freezing cold arctic water at the same time. 
BOTH OF YOU!!! STOP!!!!!" Hibiscus roared, shooting several splatters of venom at the floor as a warning. Darkflame couldn't stand on his front talons without them hurting. "Aaaahhh..." he whimpered. "Stop it! Both of you! I order you to stop fighting and make peace!" the RainWing growled, her scales blood red and orange with anger. "Fine. NightWing here is gonna have trouble walking." Verglas growled, shaking one of Darkflame's frozen talons. "Thank you. Darkflame?" "Sorry." "Good. Verglas, go back to your hut. Darkflame, come with me." 
The RainWing carefully stuck some coals in bags, which she put on Darkflame's talons, and stuck a bandage made out of leaves on his chest. "You are staying here tonight. No objections." Hibiscus said firmly, a wave of yellow and blue cascading over her scales. "Thanks, Hibiscus." Darkflame said. "Don't thank me. Thank some RainWing and SandWing healers that I learned that from." "Oh. Okay." "Go to sleep, Darkflame. I'll keep watch." 
As the NightWing drifted off to sleep, he remembered a very faint memory: Darkness and a voice, female, saying, "I won't let them take you. Ever. You are mine, Crimsontail. Always mine."
== Chapter 7: POV: Hibiscus ==
Hibiscus watched Darkflame sleep, wondering, if what he had said was true, then she was in a prophecy. If that jumble of words and cryptic stuff was a prophecy, for the moons' sakes, she would personally run around the island screaming three times without stopping. 
As the night wore on, Hibiscus wanted to sleep, but couldn't. Instead, she just got up and decided to write down some rules for the others. She finished as dawn was starting to creep over the trees. She walked out, posted the list on the center pillar of the pavilion, and walked back into her hut just as Darkflame woke up. "Hello, Hibiscus." the NightWing mumbled sleepily, rubbing his eyes and wincing. 
The NightWing started to get up, but Hibiscus firmly said, "Darkflame, you're not going anywhere. Not today. No, I don't care if you want to go check the desalinaztinater or whatever it is. You are staying right here and not moving. Doctor's orders." "Okay. But the desalinazationater needs to be checked often. Who's gonna do it?" "I will." "Okay. Can I at least go and get some breakfast?" "Fine. I will allow you to get up to join us at the table and to go to the bathroom, etc., but you are not, under any circumstances to go check the desalinater." "Okay." Darkflame grumbled. He carefully put his frostbreathed talons onto the floor and winced. 
"I'm going to try walking on my hind legs." Darkflame said, leaning against the wall for support as he pushed himself up, walked two steps, then fell on his face. "Ow." he whimpered. "I have a better idea." Hibiscus grabbed several bags, stuck some live coals in them, and tied them to Darkflame's front legs. As an extra precaution, Hibiscus also tied some smaller bags, filled with small embers, to the NightWing's talons. "How does that work?" she asked. Darkflame stood up, wincing a little, but not as much, and walked to the pavilion, where the others were seated and waiting. 
"Hello, all. Darkflame here had a little bit of an accident with Verglas last night, so I had to tie some bags with coals inside them to his legs and talons." "Frostbreath?" Caiman asked with a smile. "Yeah." Darkflame said, laughing nervously and glancing at Verglas. The IceWing hissed, and drew one of her claws across her throat, sending a very obvious message: 'If you tell, you're dead.' Hibiscus shot Verglas a glare, and said, "Are we going to eat?" "Yes." Verglas growled, sounding annoyed. Olympus narrowed his eyes, but didn't say anything, smoke pouring out of his nose. 
As they dug into the prey, there were two thumps, and Hibiscus looked out of the pavilion to see two very familiar dragons, a SandWing and a SeaWing, and Hibiscus decided to not even try controlling the emotions that had started rolling through her scales. "Where were you two?!" she screeched, sending the two of them death glares, her scales turning blood red and black with anger. "Um, hi, Hibiscus." Aardwolf said, with a small smile in Jellyfish's direction. 
Hibiscus growled low in her throat. Was that look... a challenge? One of knowing something she didn't? One that said that Aardwolf loved Jellyfish? She spat two streams of venom from her fangs and hissed, "You are not welcome here." "What do you mean?" Jellyfish asked, confused. "You two disappeared for the whole day, pretty much. So, as punishment, you are not welcome in this pavilion for a month." "Hibiscus!" Darkflame shouted, stumbling over to her and reaching out his frostbreathed talons desperately. "Please don't banish them! We need them!" "No, we don't! If they're willing to disappear for hours and leave me worried out of my mind, then they can disappear off the face of the planet, for all I care!" 
"You don't really mean that!" Aardwolf said, stepping toward her. "Back off." she hissed. "And yes, I do mean it." "Fine. Let's go." Jellyfish said, looking hurt. "No, Jellyfish. Hibiscus, I'm sorry I didn't come back. I ran into Jellyfish on the beach and-" "Shut it, Aardwolf." Hibiscus snarled, shooting venom at him as a warning. The SandWing kept talking, and coming dangerously close to her shooting range. Then, she couldn't take it any longer, and she aimed, straight at Aardwolf's face. 
The two streams of venom hit the SandWing on the side of his face, but not in his eye, and immediately, Aardwolf started screaming, a bloodcurdling sound of agony that hurt Hibiscus' ears, and caused Jellyfish to start screaming as well, like she was the one who had been hit. The SeaWing launched herself at Hibiscus, screaming in anger. Jellyfish slammed her tail into Hibiscus' side, knocking her to the ground, and Hibiscus lashed out with her claws and teeth, not wanting to use her venom again. 
Jellyfish relented a few moments later, and ran over to Aardwolf's side, covered in claw and bite marks. Aardwolf was still screaming, thrashing around on the floor of the pavilion. Jellyfish clutched his talon in hers, and was whispering something to him. A few moments later, Aardwolf fell into unconsciousness, one side of his face melted from Hibiscus' venom. Caiman came over, and flew the unconscious SandWing to Jellyfish's hut, with the SeaWing flying closely behind him. 
Hibiscus remembered the words of the prophecy: 'Sea and Sand shall find love in pain.' A few moments afterwards, guilt washed over her, and Hibiscus was horrified. 'What was I thinking? He'll never forgive me. I just acted on instinct, like normal, and now someone's paid for it, like always, every single time. What have I done?' 
== Part 2: Seven Lights ==
== Chapter 8: Jellyfish ==
Jellyfish stayed by Aardwolf's side, watching the SandWing closely to see if he would wake up. He didn't, and Jellyfish went down to the beach and grabbed some sand, which she promptly dumped on his face. It didn't help. So, basically, not the most brilliant solution in the world. A few weeks after the incident, something landed with a thud on the wooden platform that Jellyfish's hut was on. 
"Who goes there?" Jellyfish growled, ready to attack if it was Hibiscus again. "Just an exiled dragon, looking for a place to stay." a strange voice said, poking its head through the door. "If that's you, Hibiscus, I will personally break your ribs! If you haven't noticed, I have a sign by my door that says, 'You take my space, I break your face'!" "Um, yes. I've noticed." the voice said. 
Then Jellyfish noticed that the stranger wasn't Hibiscus at all, but a RainWing that she hadn't ever seen before. "Who are you? Have you come to ruin the other side of my mate's face, too?" "What? No! I would never do that!" "You're a RainWing. I don't trust RainWings. Or IceWings, for that matter." "I'm not an IceWing. Just a regular old RainWing, me." "I don't trust you. What's your name?" "M'name's Panther. Yours?" "Jellyfish." "Interesting. SeaWing, I suppose?" "Yes. My-My mate, ok, I guess he's technically my friend, got splatted on the side of his face by another RainWing named Hibiscus. Can you help?" "Did it get your friend in the eye or in his bloodstream?" "No." "I can help him. Get me a leaf." 
Jellyfish grabbed a leaf, and gave it to Panther, who was a dark purplish blue color, almost black, with hints of dark green, like a NightWing, or a black panther. He had orange eyes, which seemed to be the only bright thing about him. Panther took the leaf, splatted a little bit of venom on it, and pressed it to the side of Aardwolf's face gently. Aardwolf flinched, but otherwise didn't move or make a sound. Jellyfish noticed something odd about the RainWing that she hadn't noticed on Hibiscus. Panther appeared to be wearing something that looked like a choker, but seemed to be more like a clamp, like one that you'd put on prisoners. 
The RainWing also had various scars lining his sides, neck, tail, and wings. He had small raw spots on his ankles that looked like the shape of shackles that had been taken off after several years or so. "What're you looking at, Jellyfish?" Panther asked. "Oh, just your accessories." "Ah, these. If you must know, I was a captive on the NightWing Volcanic Island several years back, and all the scars, as well as this clamp I have on my neck, are, I suppose you could say, reminders." 
"Oh. Will he be alright?" Jellyfish asked anxiously. "Yes. He'll be fine. Just gotta give him some air now and then, but keep checking on him so he doesn't wake up one day, try going for a stroll, and fall off the edge of that platform." The RainWing smiled, his ruff turning a muted yellow with equally muted splotches of pink, that quickly faded back to his dark color. 
Panther walked out to the platform, and Jellyfish accompanied him, saying, "Could you stay here for a few moments? I'd like you to meet my friends." Panther didn't reply. Jellyfish ran and got the others, they all ran towards where Panther was. But when they got there, there was no sign of the darkly colored RainWing. Panther was gone. 
== Chapter 9: Olympus ==
Olympus stared at the SeaWing before him, feeling a growl edge it's way up into his throat. "Liar." he growled, not believing that some darkly colored RainWing had actually been there. It was a trick. A dirty, rotten, no good, lying trick! "You brought us out here for nothing, SeaWing. You lied." 
"I really saw him! Honest! And I'm not making this up! Panther... he helped Aardwolf. See?" Jellyfish moved to the side, so the others could peer into the hut, where Aardwolf lay, still unconscious. 
Olympus looked inside for a moment, then looked away, remembering a distant, but painfully sharp memory that seemed to stab him in the chest like a SandWing tail barb. 'Olympus' mate, Summer, getting stabbed in the leg by a SandWing tail barb during a fight. Summer crumpling, and Olympus rushing forward, and burning the SandWing to death, before grabbing his mate and running into the palace, yelling for help. The healers came, but said that the cactus that they needed was located in the Kingdom of Sand, several days away.' 
'Olympus flew to the Kingdom of Sand, carrying Summer, and getting to a field of cacti too late, just as Summer passed away, only five feet from the cacti that could've saved her. Olympus howled his anger and sadness to the sky, burning the entire field of cacti. He flew back to the Sky Kingdom, and buried Summer there.' 
Olympus hissed, and launched himself off the platform, unable to stay there any longer, with the memories of Summer's death pressing down on him, like a weight that he had carried since the beginning of time. Olympus flew and flew, reaching the ocean, and landing on the beach, clawing at the sand and howling his anger and grief towards the sky, exactly like when Summer died, only this time, Summer wasn't with him. 
This time, he was on a beach instead of a desert, without a mate or anything with him, there was no cacti to burn, and he was alone. Utterly, completely, alone. Always alone. 
No matter what he did, no matter how many errands Hibiscus sent him on, or however many tasks, or battles he did for his Queen, he was always lonely. He missed Summer, the way her golden scales would shine in the sunlight, and her laugh would make him laugh, too. 
He missed her voice, and her scales pressing against his, her talons in his, telling him that everything would be alright, because she was there. She had been with egg when she was attacked by that SandWing, and she died without leaving Olympus with their dragonet. Their dragonet never even hatched, and now Summer was gone, and they wouldn't ever be able to see each other again. 
Olympus roared, and looked towards the sky, seeing a constellation that looked suspiciously like two SkyWings, a big one, and a dragonet sized one. He growled, and continued ripping his talons through the sand. 'Summer, my little Summer... I'm sorry you had to die... I'm sorry I couldn't save you... I'll try harder this time, Summer... I'll try harder, give it all I've got... I can't lose someone else again... Not after what happened to you... I'm sorry, Summer... I'm so, so, sorry... I miss you... Why'd you have to leave me, Summer? Why? I-I can't lose anyone again... And I won't... Summer... I'll be better... for you. Just for you...'
== Chapter 10: Verglas ==
Verglas watched as Olympus flew off in a fit of temper, but she didn't really care. There was no darkly colored RainWing on the platform, so she was about to lift off when Caiman stopped her. "Hey," he said. "You seem upset about something- a lot. Is something wrong?" "No!" she hissed, stomping away from the MudWing. "When you say that, there is usually something wrong." Caiman said, squinting at her as if he could see into her thoughts and what she was always thinking about in the back of her mind. 
'Puffin...' Verglas thought with a growl, and lifted off the platform not looking back at the other dragons, pretending not to hear Caiman's wingbeats coming after her. Verglas flew towards a cave she had discovered while following a river upstream a few weeks back. She entered the cave, and drank from the freezing cold water that flowed through the cave. 
'Peace and quiet... Far away from those low-born dragons. Soon, Puffin... I'll have my vengeance. I'll avenge you. I'll rip that SeaWing to shreds so that no one will be able to tell what she is after that. That's what Snowstorm and Yukon would want me to do. That's what any high-ranking IceWing noble would do... obtain vengeance. Soon, Puffin... You will be avenged, and that SeaWing will be no more.'
"Verglas? What are you doing in here?" a voice asked, startling Verglas out of her thoughts. "What does it look like I'm doing, MudWing?" "Standing here and being angry when I never did anything?" "Shut your giant fat headed mouth, MudWing." "Verglas, please tell me what's bothering you. I would like to hear what happened, or what's going on with you. Please tell me." "No." "Verglas... if you don't want to tell me about your problem, can I... can I at least tell you mine?" "I'm not in the mood, MudWing." 
She turned away from Caiman, and clenched her talons with a hiss, then stared at them and thought, 'Soon, Puffin... Very soon now...' "Can I tell you?" Caiman asked again, sounding sad. Verglas heard him walking over to her, and felt his talon on her shoulder. "Fine. Go ahead." 
"I was the bigwings of my troop, which consisted of me, Quail, Frog, Mire, Pebble, and Mushroom, who were my siblings. We grew up together, fought together, hunted together... We did everything together... And then one day, Queen Fern called us to battle against the SandWings... We fought, and fought, and one by one, my siblings were killed. I was the only member of my troop that survived. I f-failed to pr-protect them, and I have to live with that every day. The grim fact that I couldn't... that I couldn't save them." Caiman looked at Verglas with tears in his eyes, and asked, "Tell me yours?" 
"I was second dragonet of two upper ranking nobles named Snowstorm and Yukon. Me and my brother, Puffin were Mother and Father's pride and joy, as they showed us their true feelings more often than most IceWing parents. When I was two and Puffin was five, my brother headed to the Kingdom of the Sea with Father and a few Royal IceWings to try to form an alliance with the SeaWings. We were in the Second Circle of the Rankings then. Father and the delegation returned, but Puffin didn't. Father said that Puffin had been asked by the SeaWing queen herself to stay for two years so that he could have enough time to study the culture and etiquette of the SeaWing Kingdom. Two years later, a week after my fourth hatching day, a messenger came with a message addressed to Father. It said that Puffin had been found dead with a knife through his heart on a cliff in the Kingdom of the Sea by a patrol of SeaWing soldiers. Father reported it to Queen Bobcat, and she sent a delegation telling Queen Tidal that the alliance was off. Father and Mother were very, very angry, and swore to slaughter any SeaWing they came across from that day forward, teaching me to hate SeaWings as well. I-I can't even look at Jellyfish without wanting to rip her apart. That's what I plan to do... I plan to rip Jellyfish apart from one side to the other, as vengeance for what her tribe did to Puffin." 
Verglas broke down and started crying, and Caiman said, "Oh, Verglas. I understand. But is killing Jellyfish something you really want to live with for the rest of your life, with her blood on your talons?" "I don't know!" Verglas growled in the back of her throat, and whirled around, slamming her tail into the cave wall with a CRACK. "I don't know, Caiman... I don't know what I want to do anymore..." Verglas buried her head in Caiman's shoulder, crying softly. The big MudWing didn't try and push her away, or move away from her. He just sat with her quietly, not saying anything, and together, the two of them cried in a lonely cave that no one knew about but them. 
== Chapter 11: Caiman ==
Caiman sat with Verglas as the IceWing cried on his shoulder. "Are you all right, Verglas?" he asked, putting his talon on hers and smiling. "Yeah, I'm fine, MudW-Caiman. I'm fine." Verglas pulled her talon out from underneath Caiman's, and scratched the stone floor, looking at Caiman expectantly, like she was waiting for him to say something. 
"Um... Want to go hunting with me?" "Sure." The two of them walked out of the cave and Caiman noticed that Verglas seemed to shine like thousands of diamonds in the evening sunlight. "Oh, wow..." he mumbled, staring at her. "What're you staring at?" Verglas said sharply, snapping him out of whatever that was. "Nothing." "Good. Come on, and let's hunt!" 
The two of them hunted all night, and Caiman found that Verglas' technique of crouching and breathing frostbreath in the direction of a movement or sound worked pretty well. He wasn't as good as Verglas was, but he was pretty decent. The two of them returned to the settlement at dawn, and headed to the Pavilion. Caiman saw that Jellyfish was poking at her fish, and glaring at it. She was also crying. Hibiscus' scales were gray and purple, and she was staring blankly at the table, her mango untouched, her claws digging gouges into the wood. Darkflame was yawning and rubbing his eyes, then wincing about his talons. 
Olympus wasn't at the table, and neither was Aardwolf. Caiman and Verglas took their places at the table, but no one said a word the whole time, until Hibiscus cleared her throat shakily and said the breakfast was over. Jellyfish ran across the bridge to where Aardwolf was, and didn't come out again. Darkflame headed to check the desalizationater, and Hibiscus didn't move, her claws still gouging marks in the wood. Verglas looked worriedly at the RainWing, then walked over the bridge into her own hut, leaving Caiman by himself with Hibiscus. 
== Chapter 12: Aardwolf ==
"Aardwolf! Nooo!!!" Aardwolf woke up, gasping as the memory, which seemed more like a nightmare, faded. He coughed several times, and noticed that Jellyfish was sitting by the door, looking out at the sky, which was dark and full of stars. Jellyfish heard him, and turned, hardly believing that he was awake. "Aardwolf!" she shrieked, running toward him and bowling him over. 
"Ow, Jellyfish. The face. Watch the face." "Oh, yeah. Sorry." "No problem." 
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