Fire and Blood

== Prologue ==
Webs flew onto the ledge, clutching the RainWing egg to his chest. He landed clumsily; not using all four legs to land always ended in crashing. “What is this poor substitution for a SkyWing? I thought we would at least have one competent dragonet!” Kestrel hissed.
“Hvitur died and lost the SkyWing egg, what did you expect to do? Find an IceWing egg?” Webs snapped. “Well, I’m not raising it.” Kestrel snarled. “We’re raising the five of ‘em together, how do you not raise one?” Dune snorted, annoyed.
“Fine, put it in the pile.” Webs laid the RainWing egg down next to the SandWing and NightWing eggs. Suddenly, as the moons reached the highest point in the skies, the NightWing and SandWing egg turned silver. “Dune! Do SandWing eggs turn silver?”
“In what world-“ Dune stopped himself as he saw the now-silver eggs. Staring, Dune called, “Kestrel, come over here!” Kestrel, sighing, said, “What is it n-“ She stared. “Are the eggs defective or something? What’s going on? Webs, have you read about this somewhere?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know, and definitely no.” Webs said, still staring at the eggs. A few hours passed, and the guardians sat there in uncomfortable silence, until the MudWing egg started to crack. “Oh! They’re hatching!” As the blood-red MudWing egg hatched, they could see more and more of the dragonet’s body, until he stuck his head out. 
The hatchling warbled, “Eee.” Looking up at the three guardians and back at the egg clutch, he waddled over to the SeaWing egg that was just starting to hatch. The MudWing then started to claw at the egg. “No no no-“ said Webs, moving to try and stop the dragonet, but then the top of the egg popped off with the help of the hatchling.
“Oh.” Dune said, surprised. “I guess he’s just helping them hatch?” The SeaWing poked her head out of her eggshell, squealing. She jumped out of her egg and landed on the MudWing. The two hatchlings wrestled playfully for a few moments. The MudWing stopped, hearing another egg hatching.
The MudWing walked over to the RainWing egg, helping it hatch. The SeaWing followed, confused. As the egg cracked, the SeaWing tried to help too, biting the eggshell. Finally, the RainWing dragonet waddled out of the egg, accidentally pushing the MudWing into a mud puddle.
The dragonet was shocked for a moment, but then started rolling in the mud, squealing with joy. The other two hatchlings joined him, but quickly got out and shook off the mud. The MudWing walked over to the last two eggs, which were beginning to hatch.
“Let’s hope they hatch.” Kestrel said. The hatchlings, mostly the MudWing, tried to help hatch the other eggs. The SandWing egg hatched first, revealing a weirdly golden-colored SandWing dragonet with no barb and what looked like a silver teardrop next to each eye.
The SandWing looked up at the guardians. “WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT ONE!” Kestrel yelled. “Wait, no…” Dune muttered. “What, Dune!” Kestrel yelled. “Sunny must be a hybrid.” Dune said. “What? A hybrid? Then what’s the second tribe? And did you just name her?” Kestrel questioned. “Yes, I did name her Sunny. Look under her wings.” said Dune.
Indeed, under Sunny’s wings was a night sky. “Then she must be… part NightWing?” Kestrel said, astounded. The NightWing egg finally hatched, revealing a NightWing dragonet with the same teardrop scales. “Huhm.” said Dune. The two dragonets then stared at each other and seemed to… read each other’s minds?
“I guess they both got NightWing mind reading? I wonder if either of them can see the future…” said Webs. “If they did, this will all be a lot easier.” snorted Kestrel. The guardians watched the five play for a bit, then noticed the sun rising. The RainWing dragonet basked in the sun, laying down and closing her eyes.
“See, she’s just a lazy RainWing! Always laying down and napping in the sun!” said Kestrel triumphantly. The hatchling shook her head randomly, then seemed to ruffle her frills. She opened her mouth, exposing two long fangs. The dragonet then shot venom on the stone. 
“Ah! What is that!” shrieked Webs. Kestrel stepped on the venom puddle and let out a shrill scream. “IT HURTS! IT HURTS!” In the chaos, the three fire-breathers discovered their fire. “EVERYONE INSIDE! NOW!” Dune and Webs picked up the dragonets, quickly carrying them inside the caves.
When Kestrel finally walked inside, limping, she pointed at the RainWing and said, “That dragonet… is a monster.”
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