Heron

== Authors Note ==
Heron belongs to me, Apollo8756. Feel free to edit out any small grammar or spelling issues, but don't change anything major.
== Description ==
Heron's main color is a tawny brown. Her underbelly is a dark orange, and her horns and talons are the color of Mahogany wood. Her wings have dark brown square-ish scales running up them, growing smaller as they get farther up.
Heron has dark brown blunt spikes running down her spine, and light orange/cream wing membranes. Heron has warm chocolate brown eyes, and is almost always smiling. She always wears a blue sapphire teardrop earring on her left ear.
== Personality ==
Heron is the nicest dragon that you will probably ever meet. She always puts her friends and family first, except when it comes to war. She is beautiful in heart and in spirit. Heron's absolute favorite things are toads, because they remind her of Toad, her best friend. Heron loves to learn, but unfortunately can't get scrolls and books to her island as often as she would have liked.
She is clumsy, and often bumps into things. She is constantly stubbing her talons on roots and rocks. Heron is shy around other dragons, and doesn't talk much. She also and is often slightly guarded, she gets startled often, and it takes a while for her to get over it, a remnant of her time in Queen Moorhens troops.
== Backstory ==
Heron was born under 2 full moons, and a crescent. She was the second born, after her brother, Mangrove. She was followed by her other brother Peat, and Moss, her little sister. She never knew her mother's name, and no-one knows who her father is.
A week before Heron was to be drafted for the war, she received news that he mother had been killed by a surprise SkyWing attack. Instead of being angry at the SkyWings, like the messenger hoped, she sunk into grief, and didn't care when she had to go to war. As she was packing up to leave, she decided to take her mothers favorite earring with her, the one she always wore. Heron and her siblings went peacefully into a death trap.
On the first attack, Heron got clawed along the snout, and it closed up soon after. She suspected it was something to do with the earring. That night, in her tent that she shared with her siblings, and a MudWing about her age who had lost his siblings, Toad, she healed everyone by telling them to put it on, and they watched in fascination as their wounds closed up. Even Toad got to try it. While they were healing, Heron explained that she had taken it as a souvenir from their mothers room.
Over the next month, they were completely healed physically, but their mental strength was rapidly deteriorating. Everyone was sick of war. Then the final straw came. Marsh, Heron's close friend was killed. That night, Heron and her tent mates decided to leave the MudWing army, and live on a remote island.
They flew off around midnight, guiding themselves by the moons and stars. From then on, they flew by night, until after about a week they reached the sea. In one of the small sea coast MudWing villages, they bought a map of the Bay of a Thousand Scales, and used Moss's gold armband to pay for a night at an inn, where they found the perfect island.
It took them two weeks to reach it, but it was worth the wait. The island was large, big enough for 5 dragons, and had plenty of prey. It was muddy and swampy, with lots of big tall trees, and a nice little hill. It also had a beautiful crystal clear freshwater spring.
The dragons immediately got to work early the next day, building some nice mud huts, four of them. They were finished by the third day, and the fourth was dedicated to killing any predators on the island that might eat the remaining prey. They went on like that for about a month, making the island more hospitable, until everything was done. By now it was creeping into fall, and the MudWings immediately began preparing food for the long winter.
They all survived, and soon after spring came, a SeaWing showed up, exhausted, on the beach. They cared for him, and gave him food and water. He stayed with the MudWings for two weeks, regaining his strength and sharing his life stories. His name was Porpoise, and he left in search of a better life. He is the one that taught Heron a neat tail smack move, which she uses, lightly, when her family (including Toad) is being annoying. After the SeaWing traveler left, life slowed down for everyone and it became a normal thing, living on the island. Heron is now 8 dragon years old, and excited for what's to come.
== Relationships ==
Mangrove: Bigwings brother
Moss: Little sister
Peat: Little brother
Toad: Best friend
Marsh: Deceased friend
Porpoise: Acquaintance
== Trivia ==
* Heron is kind, clumsy, loyal and shy.
* She lives on a deserted island in the Bay of a Thousand Scales.
* Herons current age is 8.
* Her mother was killed by a SkyWing.
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Category:MudWings
Category:Females
Category:Dragonets
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